yaks

Example Sentences

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The big boats waited until the men had all paddled to the shore and beached their kyaks, then they were drawn carefully up on to the sand, and every one got out.

From The Eskimo Twins by Perkins, Lucy Fitch

The other two he rigged with his pack outfit, storing his varied belongings in two pair of kyaks, and loading kyaks and bedding on the horses with a deft speed that bespoke long practice.

From North of Fifty-Three by Fischer, Anton Otto

Then all the men in the village would rush for their kyaks and set out after the walrus.

From The Eskimo Twins by Perkins, Lucy Fitch

And for ages to the stout-hearted it had meant: Make ready the kyaks and the birch canoes; see that tackle and traps are strong—for plenty or famine wait upon the hour.

From The Magnetic North by Robins, Elizabeth

He is angry, and lo! he hurls down icebergs in his wrath, he tosses them about, upon the streams he tosses the kyaks like feathers and washes the land with the waves of Sitth.

From Kalitan, Our Little Alaskan Cousin by Nixon-Roulet, Mary F.