"Pirogue" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ramures, waving boughs, Montait comme un concert de A rising concert of murmurous chants et de murmures; song upflows, Des vols d'oiseaux marins Of winging sea-fowl lifting s'elevaient des roseaux, from the reeds; Et, pour montrer la route a la Pointing the route to his swift pirogue frele. dripping blade, S'enfuyaient en avant, trainant Then skimming before, tracing leur ombre grele their slender shade Dans le pli lumineux des eaux. In luminous foldings of ...
— Canada • J. G. Bourinot
... his pirogue; but the bayou played with his impatience, maddened his passion, bringing him so near, to meander with him again so far away. There was only a short prairie between him and ——, a prairie thick with lily-roots—one could almost walk over their heads, so close, and gleaming in the ...
— Balcony Stories • Grace E. King
... have hard work," declared Jacques. "I tried. Not a canoe or a pirogue or a flat boat. I wish ...
— A Little Girl in Old Detroit • Amanda Minnie Douglas |
