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Examples

  • Lili and Magnus and Anna were staying in town to await friends, so Danielle and I tried to get a caque to take us back right away.

    The Summer of My Greek Tavérna Tom Stone 2002

  • During the weekdays, Theolgos was usually absent, off in his caque on Important Business Matters, sometimes only to Skla, but on occasion as far as Samos, a four-hour trip to the north, or Piraeus and Athens, gathering provisions.

    The Summer of My Greek Tavérna Tom Stone 2002

  • I am going to have to take people on tours around the island in my new caque.

    The Summer of My Greek Tavérna Tom Stone 2002

  • He had gone to the port with her brothers in the caque.

    The Summer of My Greek Tavérna Tom Stone 2002

  • So I dutifully followed Theolgos and my wife and children around the harbor to his spanking new caque, the Pandra II, and loaded everything aboard.

    The Summer of My Greek Tavérna Tom Stone 2002

  • First of all, he already did get up early, but it was to head into Skala to shop and afterward to hustle customers for excursions on his caque.

    The Summer of My Greek Tavérna Tom Stone 2002

  • One of the legends about his stay, depicted on frescoes in the Monastery of St. John, says that during the voyage from Ephesus nowadays about a six-hour trip by caque and twenty minutes in a hydrofoil, but back then, probably a day or more, a sudden storm swept one of the passengers overboard.

    The Summer of My Greek Tavérna Tom Stone 2002

  • Lili turned to us after Chrstos and Penny had departed for Skla in his tiny, cabined caque.

    The Summer of My Greek Tavérna Tom Stone 2002

  • It was a wonderfully isolated spot that did not yet have a road to it and could therefore be reached only by caque, a twenty-minute trip from Livdi.

    The Summer of My Greek Tavérna Tom Stone 2002

  • His skin was deeply tanned from the days he was spending ferrying tourists around the island on his caque, and his brown hair and mustache were sheened with gold by the sun and salt air.

    The Summer of My Greek Tavérna Tom Stone 2002

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