What is "perrot"

Usage examples of "perrot".

In the charge which the New Englander ordered, Iberville and Perrot saw Gering, and they tried hard to reach him.

But Perrot, who was not far from the fallen brothers, suddenly made a dash within easy range of the rifles of the British, and cut Gering and two of his companions off from the main body.

Nicolas Perrot is a fine fellow, and a great coureur du bois, and helps to get the governor out of troubles to-day, the intendant to-morrow.

And yet, through all of it, he was ever better inspired by the grasp of a common soldier, who had served with Carignan-Salieres, or by the greeting and gossip of such woodsmen as Du Lhut, Mantet, La Durantaye, and, most of all, his staunch friend Perrot, chief of the coureurs du bois.

Le Moyne had gone on with these men, while Perrot pushed on to New York, arriving at the very moment of the kidnapping.

Perrot knew certain traits of Iberville of which De Casson was ignorant, and the abbe knew many depths which Perrot never even vaguely plumbed.

Usually a man of few words, Perrot had bursts of eloquence, and this was one of them.

The abbe shook his head musingly at Perrot, took the violin, and gathered it to his chin.

Then he started for Quebec, and arriving there with Perrot and Du Lhut, went to the citadel at night and asked to be admitted to Count Frontenac.

As Iberville, with Sainte-Helene and Perrot, sat watching the canoes that followed, with voyageurs erect in bow and stern, a voice in the next canoe, with a half-chanting modulation, began a song of the wild-life.

A quarter of a mile below there was smoother water, and soon the canoes were ashore, and Perrot, Sainte-Helene, and others were running to the rescue.

They had not known quite what to do, but Perrot had offered to fight the champion, and they, supposing it was to be a fight with weapons, had hastily agreed.

This climbing-party he would himself lead, accompanied by his brother Sainte-Helene, Perrot, and a handful of agile woodsmen.

He divided his men, sending Perrot to take the fort, while himself with a small party moved to the attack of the vessel.

At that moment Perrot touched his arm, and pointed to a man whose shoulder was being bandaged.