Canoa

Um seringueiro vinha descendo o rio numa canoa e eles foram lá e tomaram a borracha. ❋ Unknown (2009)

HOUSE IN THE SUN has more descriptive details about Mexico than the previous book VILLAGE IN THE SUN as Chandos occasionally takes his guests on sightseeing trips such as a pilgrimage to the Virgin of Zapopan and a canoa trip around the lake. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Cercavo di convincermi che non era colpa mia, perché non ero io che avevo fatto fuggire Jim dal suo legittimo proprietario; tutto inutile, la coscienza saltava su e mi diceva: “Ma lo sapevi benissimo che stava scappando, avevi solo da saltare sulla canoa e correre ad avvertire qualcuno”. ❋ Unknown (2008)

An elderly woman in a wide-brimmed straw hat paddled her narrow canoa laden with fifteen or twenty of the diminutive trees out to greet us. ❋ Unknown (2003)

They kneel on the rocks and stones, and in little groups, like water-fowl, they wash their dirty linen in the soft water of the lake, pausing at times as an old canoa sails by with large single sail. ❋ Unknown (2003)

And as the canoa spread her sail to tack back, already a delicate film of shadow was over the chalk-white lake. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The boatman drew away, and pointed across to where a canoa, a native sailing-boat, was lying at an angle. ❋ Unknown (2003)

There was a little line of soldiers on the shore, and three motor-boats with soldiers waited by the big canoa. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The great sail sank, the canoa edged up to the rocky shore, men sprang from her into the water, the images were lowered and slowly carried on to the rocks. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The canoa, unable to make her way across, was sailing for Tuliapan. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The canoa slowly ranged to the small hummock of the island amid the waters, where lived one family of ❋ Unknown (2003)

One after another the images rose over the stern of the boat, against the sky, then descended into the vessel, to be set down on their rests, where they rose above the black sides of the canoa, in view of the throng on the shore. ❋ Unknown (2003)

She died at dawn, before her boys could arrive from Mexico; as a canoa was putting off from the shore with a little breeze, and the passengers were singing the Song of Welcome to Quetzalcoatl, unexpectedly, upon the pale water. ❋ Unknown (2003)

He stood huge and silvery, dappled like the sky, with black snake markings down his haunches, looming massive above the red roof of the canoa. ❋ Unknown (2003)

By the little wall was a large black canoa, sailing boat, with a broad plank gangway up to her stern. ❋ Unknown (2003)

All this while pricking and wounding the whale so much as they could, they made him furiously to striue too and fro, swiftly swimming in the sea, plucking the canoa after him: sometimes tossing it vp and downe, as lightly as if it had been a strawe. ❋ Unknown (2003)

As the canoa sailed back, the side of the lake, through filmy air, looked brownish and changeless. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Evidently _canoa_, written also _guani_, is nothing but this Vei word. ❋ Various (N/A)