How To Use Pirogue In A Sentence
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It is at its best when he is describing natural phenomena, from the insect trill which is "like some great tinnitus", through the "black fists" of bats, swooping and darting, to the beetle which runs along the gunwale of a pirogue, "dense, heavy armoured, a brutal tank on tiny legs".
The Devil's Garden by Edward Docx – review
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For the next three weeks the expedition carried their pirogues and canoes up steep slopes, over jagged ridges and around gullies and ravines.
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An elderly gentleman urged us onto a trajinera (a pirogue) with the improbable name of Clementine (of "Oh, my darlin´" fame, I guess), saying the poler would take really good care of us and get us some ice-cold beer for the journey.
Xochimilco - Up A Lazy River In Mexico City
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They also built European-style luggers and skiffs, and the pirogue, based on Indian dugout canoes.
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They also built European-style luggers and skiffs, and the pirogue, based on Indian dugout canoes.
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He was also charged with tendering a false cheque from First Citizens Bank for the purchase of a pirogue and a Yamaha engine valued at $65,000.
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The pirogue was still quite firmly settled into the Missouri mud, though in fact it was no worse off than the steamer, grounded for the night on what the river men called a riffle, or sandbar.
The Berrybender Narratives
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He ran for his life. He sprinted through the clover fields in front of his mansion toward the water, where he knew a pirogue lay on the levee.
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We jokingly say that the interior of the Pearl is too wet to walk into, yet too shallow for a pirogue [canoe].
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This is Tobago's main fishing town and a great place to charter a pirogue to fish for mahimahi and marlin or to scuba dive at those boulders, known as The Sisters, you spied way out to sea on the trip into town.
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His forty hungry men had just hung the gate on their little stockade on April 17 when the French advance force of 500 men and eighteen cannons debarked from pirogues and canoes, formed ranks, and marched toward the fort.
George Washington’s First War
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And while elsewhere the Missouri has been dammed and reservoired into submission, here it flows beautifully beneath sandstone bluffs, not so different from the river that the Corps traveled in two pirogues and six dugout canoes.
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Equipped with some chilled white wine and a few simple baguettes, we rented an inexpensive pirogue (outrigger canoe) and set off into the lagoon.
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I threw the plastic bag from the pirogue into Marnier's boat and found the spare jerry can of petrol in the cabin of the other launch.
A DARKENING STAIN
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In this region of the isthmus of Panama the rainforest is extremely dense, and the only means of travelling there is to go upriver by pirogue.
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio - Nobel Lecture
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On the blue-gray waters of Lake Edward, where the eastern fringe of Congo blends into Uganda, Byanmongo Matabishi, a fisherman from the Congolese village of Vitshumbi, stands on a pirogue and shakes his head.
As Go the Hippos …
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Trees that towered over prairie rivers were transformed into pirogues (hand-hewn canoes for trappers and traders), stockades for early military forts, and vigas or ceiling beams for adobe homesteads.
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They also built European-style luggers and skiffs, and the pirogue, based on Indian dugout canoes.
