canoemen

One of my canoemen fell off the trail between the two little valleys of Aipio and Luno.

SHIN-BONES 2010

So Blatka told me to hire canoemen to take you out to sea.

Golden State 2010

When modern canoemen go down a river in a wild-water race, covering distance against a clock, the amplitude of what they do is not so immediately apparent as it is when, at a time of leisure, they stop to enjoy a rapid.

Tai Chi, Aikido, and Writing Bruce Schauble 2007

When modern canoemen go down a river in a wild-water race, covering distance against a clock, the amplitude of what they do is not so immediately apparent as it is when, at a time of leisure, they stop to enjoy a rapid.

Archive 2007-11-01 Bruce Schauble 2007

Accordingly, I kept my canoemen on the schooner by an abundant supply of "bitters," and at midnight landed half a dozen, who proceeded to the mulatto's cabin, where he was seized _sans ceremonie_.

Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

Profits of 400 per cent were made on successful fur adventures, under a license to trade to the extent of 10,000 crowns on the merchandize and 600 crowns to each of the canoemen.

The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 Charles Roger

Woodsmen and canoemen, competent to pork and beans, can master also the alternative.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 Various

The poorest working class of Manila -- fishermen, canoemen, day labourers, etc. -- live principally in the ward of Tondo, where dwellings with thatched roofs were allowed to be constructed.

The Philippine Islands John Foreman

When the young canoemen had picked themselves up, righted the canoe, and found the rifle, it was too late to look for the missing alligator, and they plodded slowly home to camp.

Dick in the Everglades A. W. Dimock

Thomas Moore, the Irish poet, heard his canoemen sing it repeatedly, when he travelled down the SaintLawrence, in 1803, from Kingston to Montreal.

Folk Songs of French Canada 1929