batteau
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batteaux
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With a piercing cry, scarcely less anguished than their own, the mad girl bounded to the shore, pushed off a light batteau, seized the oars, and the next moment was dancing over the foaming waves.
From Sharing Her Crime by May Agnes Fleming
While amid loud rejoicings the story of her bloodless capture was told, they went merrily bowling homeward with the clumsy batteau surging along in tow at such speed as she had never known before.
From A Hero of Ticonderoga by Rowland E. Robinson
As the batteau drifted around the point, Monkey Rae, who had been the first to get aboard and conceal himself, rose, and putting his fingers to his nose, shouted back some insulting epithets.
From The Boy Scouts on the Yukon by Rudolf Mencl
Years ago he was in a Hudson Bay Company batteau which capsized in these very rapids, and out of a crew of sixteen men eight perished in the water or on the rocks.
From Down the Columbia by Lewis R. (Lewis Ransome) Freeman
Travellers from Montreal to the west would come by a batteau, or Durham boat, to Kingston.
From The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson
Here he collected a large number of batteaux, and erecting a dam at the foot of the lake, raised the water several feet.
From The Journal of Lieut. John L. Hardenbergh of the Second New York Continental Regiment from May 1 to October 3, 1779, in General Sullivan's Campaign Against the Western Indians With an Introduction, Copious Historical Notes, and Maps of the Battle-field of Newtown and Groveland Ambuscade by John Leonard Hardenbergh
The baggage, stores, and all the artillery that could be got away, embarked on 200 batteaux, set forth for Skenesborough under the convoy of five galleys.
From Vermont A Study of Independence by Rowland E. (Evans) Robinson
Pretense of inspection covering the Johnstown district, and to count the batteaux between Schenectady and the Creek of Askalege!
From The Little Red Foot by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
Several gondolas,—a sort of long, narrow, flat-bottomed craft,—thirty longboats, and 400 batteaux were hauled up the rapids by the amphibious Canadians, with an immense expenditure of toil and vociferous jabber.
From Vermont A Study of Independence by Rowland E. (Evans) Robinson
The batteaux," says the late Sheriff Sherwood, of Brockville, "by which the refugees emigrated were principally built at Lachine, nine miles from Montreal.
From The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816 by Egerton Ryerson
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