Sentence Examples

1. I encompassed it almost round before I could find a convenient place to land in which was a small creek, about three times the wideness of my canoe.
2. I got down into the canoe, while the Dutchman, standing upon the deck, loaded me with all the curses and injurious terms his language could afford.
3. The seamen at their landing observed my canoe, and rummaging it all over, easily conjectured that the owner could not be far off.
4. I lay all night in my canoe, and repeating my voyage early in the morning, I arrived in seven hours to the southwest point of New Holland.
5. A man pumps gas at a self-service, a canoe propped up in the cab of his truck.
6. Here I put in my canoe, and climbing a part of the rock, I could plainly discover land to the east extending from south to north.
7. Her travels took her on a canoe trip in Patagonia, followed by a safari in Kenya, Loy Krathong in Thailand, and a torrid love affair in the Greek Islands.
8. As I was looking about for a secure landing place, I saw a sail to the north-north-east, which appearing every minute more visible, I was in some doubt whether I should wait for them or not but at last my detestation of the yahoo race prevailed and turning my canoe, I sailed and paddled together to the south, and got into the same creek whence I set out in the morning, choosing rather to trust myself among these barbarians, than live with European yahoos.
9. I drew up my canoe as close as I could to the shore, and hid myself behind a stone by the little brook, which, as I have already said, was excellent water.
10. I again desired leave to depart, and was gently moving to my canoe but they laid hold of me, desiring to know what country I was of, whence I came, with many other questions.