Those who sells "piraguas" are known as piragüeros. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Vendors sold piraguas to help beat the spring heat. ❋ Unknown (2010)
One other treat which defined my summers was piraguas: shaved ice cones ❋ Unknown (2004)
And now our dark piraguas sped over the surface of a silver stream, and every paddle-blade dripped diamonds. ❋ Annie T. Colcock (N/A)
We were to start in two swift canoes -- piraguas, he styled them -- and, keeping at first under the lee of the shore, follow the river to its mouth, then proceed up the coast along the safe passage afforded by an outlying chain of islands. ❋ Annie T. Colcock (N/A)
Padre Felipe, Barbara, and I, with two Indians, filled the smaller of the two piraguas; the other held five Indians and a store of provisions for the journey. ❋ Annie T. Colcock (N/A)
And there, indeed, went the piraguas on their way back to the ships. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)
He saw that the piraguas towed by each vessel were being warped alongside, and he wondered a little what this manoeuver might portend. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)
There was a daring raid effected by means of several appropriated piraguas upon a Spanish pearl fleet in the Rio de la Hacha, from which they had taken a particularly rich haul of pearls. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)
Awhile those piraguas were hidden from view behind the hulls. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)
Don Miguel could not guess that the men he had beheld in those piraguas were always the same; that on the journeys to the shore they sat and stood upright in full view; and that on the journeys back to the ships, they lay invisible at the bottom of the boats, which were thus made to appear empty. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)
So considerate was he that to assist them he presented them with several of the piraguas which he still had in tow. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)
The fleet stood in during the afternoon to within a mile of the coast, and under cover of darkness three hundred men, of whom two hundred were negroes -- the whole of the negro contingent having been pressed into the undertaking -- were pulled away for the shore in the canoes, piraguas, and ships 'boats. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)
By then the piraguas had made a half-dozen journeys with their loads of men, and they had landed also -- as Don Miguel had clearly observed through his telescope -- at least a dozen guns. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)
"But our landing will be effected in canoes and piraguas and open boats," cried an officer impatiently. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)
Then, all being aboard the three ships, with the treasure safely stowed in their holds and the slaves under hatches, the buccaneers weighed anchor and stood out for the bar, each vessel towing three piraguas astern. ❋ Rafael Sabatini (1912)
Among these are many handsome and proportionable cedars, seven or eight feet about, of which they can build boats and ships, so as to bear only one great sail; such vessels being called piraguas. ❋ George Alfred Williams (1903)
If the waters were too deep for that, they made piraguas -- dug-out canoes, you know -- and rafts of cane. ❋ Mary Hunter Austin (1901)
Cortés then inquired after his queen, to which Guatimotzin replied that in consequence of the compliance of Sandoval with his request, she and her women remained in the _piraguas_ until Cortés should decide as to their fate. ❋ Charles Dudley Warner (1864)
[Yo quiero] un [piragua] de coco, y un de [tamarind]... how much will that be? Dos pesos? Gracias! ❋ Big Manny P (2008)
