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The main course of this river, not over twenty yards at its widest part, usually much narrower, is navigable for canoas for half a mile to a point where the land is dry and from which the town lies yet another mile distant.
American novelist Charles Fleming Embree set his first novel at Lake Chapala 2009
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The main course of this river, not over twenty yards at its widest part, usually much narrower, is navigable for canoas for half a mile to a point where the land is dry and from which the town lies yet another mile distant.
American novelist Charles Fleming Embree set his first novel at Lake Chapala 2009
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May 29, 2010 at 6:56 pm desculpe me eu sou brasileira moro em canoas e amo muito justin bieber y love justin bieber
Justin Bieber & Kim Kardashian! Together! Hopefully Not Like That! 2010
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Then dancers and all got into the boats and canoas, and rowed to the island.
The Plumed Serpent 2003
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In the afternoon, with the wind from the south, the big canoas, sailing-boats with black hulls and one huge sail, had come drifting across the waters, bringing the market-produce and the natives to their gathering ground.
The Plumed Serpent 2003
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The canoas were black and stiff, their masts motionless.
The Plumed Serpent 2003
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Three anchored canoas rode with their black, stiff lines.
The Plumed Serpent 2003
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The lake stretched pale and unreal into nowhere; the motor-boat rode near in, the black canoas stood motionless a little farther out.
The Plumed Serpent 2003
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The remaining 117 men were probably becalmed, in their barques and canoas, some miles from the vanguard.
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922
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"The remainder drew off, still skirmishing," and contrived to reach the canoas "in pretty good order," though they were followed by Spanish sharpshooters for some distance.
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922
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