Paddling advocate

Usage examples of canoeist.

Their minds were fully made up to invite the intruder to "shinny on his own side," and not come "moseying" around the camp, when the canoeist beached his bow and sprang lightly ashore.

Yes, it was a great thing to be a boy--a boy whose great pride had always been to excel in typical Canadian sports, to be the "crack" canoeist, and to handle a paddle with the ease of a professional.

It appeared that the champion canoeist of Europe (as well as most other champions) was a Royal Nautical Sportsman.

He instanced, as a cognate matter, the action of the tides, 'which,' said he, 'was altogether designed for the confusion of canoeists, except in so far as it was calculated to minister to a barren vanity on the part of the moon.

Now, on the upper Oise, where nothing sailed as a general thing but fish, a pair of canoeists could not be thus vulgarly explained away.

He is a fearless canoeist, though no longer a strong one, and we are able, now and then, to save time by cutting across a broad inlet in the shore of the Bay to a dim point of land that I might otherwise have supposed to be an island.

For the worst rapids Gaby insisted on an experienced canoeist front and rear.

The entire trip was supposed to take four hours, but the canoeists went missing for almost three days.

Then the dozen Japanese canoeists surprised everybody by turning up alive, unharmed and closemouthed.

Tony had flashed his searchlight but failed to pick out any canoeists or other boatmen in the darkness.

Next to each man, a Protect helmet, the sort canoeists wear, rested on top of a black nylon harness, holding magazines for the 10mm version of the Heckler & Koch MP5.