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Kanuck, began sidlin 'up to her, and I made up my mind to speak -- only I went off after one more pocket, just one more, and when I got back she was Mrs. Somebody Else.
CHAPTER 13 2010
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Besides, up here he doesn't take to heavy timber like this same as he does in Maine and the Kanuck provinces.
The Boy Scouts on the Yukon Ralph Victor
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Even though hitched up with a vicious Missouri Modoc on one side and a raw, half collar-broken Kanuck on the other, he would do his best to steady them down to the work.
Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle Sewell Ford 1907
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The Kanuck shall be willing to lay down his life for the Kansian, and the Kansian for the Kanuck, on due need.
299 1900
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Take notice, you Kanuck woodsand you Lake Huronand all that with you roll toward Niagaraand you Niagara also,
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One was a short, square-built, good-humored Kanuck, always laughing and talking, who interlarded his conversation with a singularly original mixture of the most villainous French and English profanity.
Frontier Types 1896
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Kanuck, began sidlin 'up to her, and I made up my mind to speak -- only I went off after one more pocket, just one more, and when I got back she was Mrs. Somebody Else.
A Daughter of the Snows Jack London 1896
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Kanuck, the writer enlisted the interest of a fellow member of the
Shelters, Shacks and Shanties Daniel Carter Beard 1895
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The perspective drawings (Figs. 242 and 243) show views of the cabin we call the Kanuck.
Shelters, Shacks and Shanties Daniel Carter Beard 1895
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The roof is made of shakes (see Figs. 126 to 130) and the shakes are held in place by poles pegged onto the roof in much the same manner as we have described and called _les péches_ for the Kanuck.
Shelters, Shacks and Shanties Daniel Carter Beard 1895
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