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Example sentences for "paddle"

Lexicographically close words:
pada; padded; paddi; paddies; padding; paddled; paddler; paddlers; paddles; paddling
  1. Oh, well, we'll paddle in them in shallow water," promised Ted.

  2. But I want a little boat that we can paddle around in.

  3. Every paddle that I have seen along the coast is made of the light, tough, handsome yellow wood of this tree.

  4. Crouching in their little shell of a boat among the great bergs, with paddle and barbed spear, they formed a picture as arctic and remote from anything to be found in civilization as ever was sketched for us by the explorers of the Far North.

  5. The scoundrel in the canoe dropped his paddle and picked up a spear.

  6. But he did not have it, and all he could do was to paddle off and furtively await the issue.

  7. So long as they brushed their teeth every day they could wear what they liked, he said, and they could paddle and swim as much as they pleased.

  8. The big river was rather muddy, but the little one was nearly always clear, and it was quite easy to paddle across it, though there were some pools in it six feet deep.

  9. He dropped the can and grasped the paddle with a great dip that brought her slowly around.

  10. Then at last he noticed that a deeper stroke of the paddle swung the dugout eastward and kept her headed so.

  11. His paddle struck something, presumably a sunken pile, and snapped at the handle, the blade whirling away in the darkness.

  12. The paddle was not in its usual hiding-place, a niche under the flooring of the nearest dock, and Forrest hurried up to the cook-house.

  13. So, spite of all expostulations and attempts to prove alibis, these luckless paddlers were dragged into the canoes of Dominora, and commanded to paddle home their captors.

  14. The channel was very winding and narrow, so that one could touch with a paddle the bank on either side, and in many places the birches and willows met over the stream, dropping yellow leaves upon our heads as we passed underneath.

  15. As I gained the canoe I noticed a paddle placed across it so as to support his back, and another so braced as to prop up his head.

  16. With each dip of the paddle I expected rifles to crack behind me and canoes to poke their noses through the overhanging foliage and make after us.

  17. She had often longed for a canoe to paddle along the shore and explore the various creeks.

  18. Dane sat astern and drove his paddle into the water with the force of a Titan.

  19. Another bullet sang by as Dane drove his paddle into the water and forced the canoe into the eye of the wind just as a larger wave than usual was about to break.

  20. The idea was horrible, and his paddle bent as the glittering blade carved the water.

  21. Dane smiled as he again dipped his paddle into the water.

  22. They could paddle their canoes across that.

  23. The air was filled with a black pall of smoke from the "Marie's" funnel, the smoke settling over the boat, wholly enveloping her from her stack to the stern paddle wheel.

  24. The machinery started and he could hear the big paddle wheel beating the river into a froth.

  25. All this time the "Fat Marie's" paddle wheel was backing water and the craft, now swung almost broadside to the stream, was working her way over toward the Iowa shore.

  26. At last, after what seemed hours of struggling, he had succeeded in working his way past the stern paddle wheel, and up under the stern of the ship.

  27. I can paddle this canoe much faster than any gig in the fleet.

  28. I have got an Indian canoe, and I just jump into it with my gear, paddle on shore, shoulder it, and carry it to the lakes.

  29. I am going to paddle it across to the cave, anchor it out there in a safe place, and swim back.

  30. Stand up, Jack, and paddle for your life!

  31. Each hunter was provided with a double paddle and harpoon.

  32. It was propelled by two paddles, while an old man sat with another paddle in the stern to steer.

  33. We must either cross it--and it might extend for several miles, besides being covered with hummocks--or we must paddle out seawards and try to get round it.

  34. I attempted to turn the canoe and paddle in that direction, but the current was too strong to enable me to succeed.

  35. We can easily paddle out of their way, and they'll not venture to follow us; though I repeat that I feel nearly sure that those are not Indians.

  36. Let us paddle slowly down, and ten to one we see some.

  37. If we find the river still too rough, we can but put back and spend the night here; but I suspect that in a short time the wind will drop altogether, and we shall be able to paddle on till dark.

  38. Having loaded our canoe, we shoved off and began to paddle back towards the place where Alick and Robin had landed, looking out for them, in case they should appear in any other part of the bank.

  39. We shall have him still," cried Alick; "paddle away!

  40. To leave the canoe and go to their assistance would be dangerous in the extreme, as, should she drift away, Robin would be unable by himself to paddle her back.

  41. Paddle away, Robin and Martin; we shall be soon up to him.

  42. Paddle away as hard as you can go, and we'll land and give chase.

  43. The eight men can paddle her across a lake, in calm weather, at the rate of about four miles an hour; and four can carry her across portages.

  44. I fancied that I should without difficulty, should I find myself near the rapids, paddle to one bank or the other and land, so that I might examine them before attempting their descent.

  45. I held my paddle in the water, my only aim being to keep the canoe with her head straight down the rapid.

  46. When de whuppin' wid de paddle wus over, dey took de cat o' nine tails an' busted de blisters.

  47. Dey had forty holes in' em an' when you wus buckled to a barrel dey hit your naked flesh wid de paddle an' every whur dere wus a hole in de paddle it drawed a blister.

  48. Marster Boone whupped wid de cobbin paddle an' de cat o' nine tails an' used the salt bath an' dat wus 'nough.

  49. It's up to you to jump so fast that the paddle won't find anything to hit.

  50. Sometimes the paddle would catch him and sometimes it wouldn't, but after a few days of that the slowest of them would be off like a flash the instant the ball was snapped back.

  51. He had two canoes,--a big one and a little one; he was going to paddle one, and one of us the other.

  52. The blue and black and gold was loaded into a canoe with an Indian at bow and stern for the three-mile paddle to the club-house.

  53. And with that, after a long paddle down the winding river and across two breezy lakes, we were at the club-house.

  54. The astonished warrior dropped his spear, caught up his paddle and--in a few swift strokes--drove his canoe towards the steamer.

  55. The paddles flashed again, and as the boat came round a curve in the river they were faced by a sight that made every man sit, paddle in hand, motionless with horror.

  56. With sail and paddle they urged the craft on toward the island.

  57. Marcel plied his paddle vigorously, and Iris thought they were heading against the current, since there was a constant swirl of white-tipped waves on both sides of the curved plank, and her dress soon became soaked.

  58. Changing the paddle to the starboard side, he soon corrected this deviation in the route.

  59. Hozier strove with a few desperate strokes of the paddle to reach the shadows of the passage before the catamaran was seen by the boat's occupants.

  60. Nothing like getting off the train somewhere and being met by an Indian with a paddle on his shoulder.

  61. Then suddenly they heard a paddle stroke behind them, and an instant later a canoe's bow brushed their craft as lightly as a hand passing across paper.

  62. The paddle sank noiselessly and rose to the accompaniment of a tinkling drip as the canoe parted the waters.

  63. Finding it impossible to free her canoe, Marian threw down her paddle angrily.

  64. She taught her to ride, to paddle a canoe, and to swim.

  65. As they discussed novels new and old, he drew in his paddle and crept nearer her.

  66. Their discussion of Tolstoy was interrupted by the swift flight of a motor boat that passed near, raising a small sea, and he seized the paddle to steady the canoe.

  67. But paddle as fast as they could the fish kept ahead.

  68. To-morrow we must paddle down to the village where the railroad crosses the river, and hurry back to civilization and work.

  69. The boat and its occupant were an even shade of dark brown, but the paddle gleamed golden in the sunshine.

  70. Soon they could see why it moved; the blade of a broad paddle gleamed in the sunlight.

  71. Bill Saxby's eyes of baby blue were big and round as saucers as he wildly flourished his paddle as the only cudgel at hand.

  72. Left alone with the pirogue, which he could not paddle single-handed, it was folly to think of trying to escape along the coast.

  73. Jack Cockrell hesitated with a brave impulse to dive in search of him although he knew the bottom was a tangle of rotted trees, but just then Bill Saxby yelled to him to follow ashore with a paddle for a weapon.


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