The 187 occurrences of canuck
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native, indigene, aborigines, autochthones[obs3]; Englishman, John Bull; newcomer &c. (stranger) 57. aboriginal, American[obs3], Caledonian, Cambrian, Canadian, Canuck*, downeaster [U.S.], Scot, Scotchman, Hibernian, Irishman, Welshman, Uncle Sam, Yankee, Brother Jonathan.
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The Canadians live over the fence from us, but you mix up a Canuck with a Yank in your remarks and you'll get a bat in the eye ...
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I have held to the opinion heretofore that blood could not be measured by boodle, that the children of the common people were of as much importance in the eye of the law as the progeny of the plutocrat--that the anguish of parents did not depend on the length of the purse; but Justice Van Fleet seems to agree with Kernan's weeping Canuck, that the more siller one has the more deeply he feels the loss of a son.
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Of course due allowance must be made for the fact that he is a Canuck.
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Soon the Canuck boys attacked the Yankee boys, and we were all badly licked.
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Rolf Meets a Canuck The winter might have been considered eventful, had not so many of the events been repetitions of former experience.
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"It's that Canuck chopping in Whitwell's clearing.
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He was that Canuck I had helpin' me clear that piece over on Lion's Head for the pulp-mill; pulp-mill went all to thunder, and I never got a cent.
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Jackson came in presently with the little Canuck, whom Whitwell presented to Westover: "Know Jombateeste?"
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Jackson put his planchette on the table, and sat down before it with a sigh; the Canuck remained standing, and on foot he was scarcely a head higher than the seated Yankees.
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Jackson sat with closed eyes and his head fallen back; Whitwell stared at the painter, with open mouth; the little Canuck began to walk up and down impatiently; Westover felt a reproach, almost an abhorrence, in all of them.
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The Canuck felt perhaps the simpler joy that the average man has in any strange notion that he is able to grasp.
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"Well, I guess you're right there, Jombateeste," said Whitwell, with pleasure in the Canuck's point.
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The little Canuck, as if he had now no further concern in the matter, sat down in a corner and smoked silently.
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Jackson's wasted face gave no token of interest; Whitwell laid half his gaunt length across the table in the endeavor to make out some meaning in them; the Canuck, with his hands crossed on his stomach, smoked on, with the same gleam in his pipe and eye.
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"What's the matter with plantchette?" said Jeff, before he said to his brother, "Hello, Jackson!" and to the Canuck, "Hello, Jombateeste!"
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Whitwell shouted to the Canuck.
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The little Canuck was the only one who suffered himself a contemporaneous consolation.
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Jombateeste himself came to Cynthia with his mending, and her needle kept him tight and firm against the winter which it amused Westover to realize was the Canuck's native element, insomuch that there was now something incongruous in the notion of Jombateeste and any other season.
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The little Canuck paused, as if uncertain whether he was made the object of unfriendly derision or not, and looked at Westover for help.
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The Canuck declined with a dignified bow, and Jeff said: "You don't smoke any more?
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Jeff lighted for himself the cigar the Canuck had refused, and smoked down upon the little man.
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Whitwell called to the Canuck, and he came forward to the edge of the mow, and stood, fork in hand, looking down.
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"Nosseh!" said the Canuck, with a misliking eye on Jeff.
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"Not for you, Jeff Dorrgin," returned the Canuck.
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Jeff could not resist the desire to scoff which always came upon him at sight of the Canuck.
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I'll take your gun home for you," and it was easy for him to detach the piece from the bewildered Canuck's grasp.
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Why, that Canuck didn't seem to have no more head on him than a hen.
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"Come along here, little Canuck," he called.
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"He say 'Give it to little Canuck.'"
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It was large, and filled with savory bits which Paddy must have gleaned here and there from the general mess, robbing freely from many a greater man, all for the sake of the "little Canuck."
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"Short is it, you little Canuck!
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"Little Canuck dear, as I told you before, heaven is a state of eternal peace, and therefore an undesirable abode in these hot times.
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Little Canuck dear, don't ever enlist as a cook.
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Little Canuck?"
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With an almost womanish tenderness, Carew had brought his friend back to the tent, and made him over to the care of Paddy who gave up all things else, for the sake of his little Canuck.
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"Myself, little Canuck, and yourself, too," Paddy answered calmly.
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"To escort the little Canuck with his mounts, and to study the surface of the land, to be sure."
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Little Canuck dear, what would you say, if you was hit?"
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"Remember the fellow who was rejected on account of his teeth, little Canuck?
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Little Canuck dear, this is hot work for a boy."
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"True, little Canuck," he answered loyally.
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"You and your men were sent here to keep things peaceable," he concluded, "and I reckon when a man is too tough for the Canuck police he is tough enough for you to tackle.
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Like me, Kelly was an independent-minded back country Canuck.
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"She caught snatches of conversation: "One main hall"--"walls twenty to forty inches thick"--"and the ice cave has almost a mile of--"--"this Canuck who built it---" They found their way inside, and dazed by the magic of the great crystal walls Sally Carrol found herself repeating over and over two lines from "Kubla Khan": "It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!"
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"She caught snatches of conversation: "One main hall"--"walls twenty to forty inches thick"--"and the ice cave has almost a mile of--"--"this Canuck who built it---" They found their way inside, and dazed by the magic of the great crystal walls Sally Carrol found herself repeating over and over two lines from "Kubla Khan": "It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!"
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"It's that Canuck chopping in Whitwell's clearing.
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He was that Canuck I had helpin' me clear that piece over on Lion's Head for the pulp-mill; pulp-mill went all to thunder, and I never got a cent.
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Jackson came in presently with the little Canuck, whom Whitwell presented to Westover: "Know Jombateeste?"
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Jackson put his planchette on the table, and sat down before it with a sigh; the Canuck remained standing, and on foot he was scarcely a head higher than the seated Yankees.
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Jackson sat with closed eyes and his head fallen back; Whitwell stared at the painter, with open mouth; the little Canuck began to walk up and down impatiently; Westover felt a reproach, almost an abhorrence, in all of them.
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The Canuck felt perhaps the simpler joy that the average man has in any strange notion that he is able to grasp.
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"Well, I guess you're right there, Jombateeste," said Whitwell, with pleasure in the Canuck's point.
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The little Canuck, as if he had now no further concern in the matter, sat down in a corner and smoked silently.
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Jackson's wasted face gave no token of interest; Whitwell laid half his gaunt length across the table in the endeavor to make out some meaning in them; the Canuck, with his hands crossed on his stomach, smoked on, with the same gleam in his pipe and eye.
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"What's the matter with plantchette?" said Jeff, before he said to his brother, "Hello, Jackson!" and to the Canuck, "Hello, Jombateeste!"
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Whitwell shouted to the Canuck.
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The little Canuck was the only one who suffered himself a contemporaneous consolation.
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Jombateeste himself came to Cynthia with his mending, and her needle kept him tight and firm against the winter which it amused Westover to realize was the Canuck's native element, insomuch that there was now something incongruous in the notion of Jombateeste and any other season.
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The little Canuck paused, as if uncertain whether he was made the object of unfriendly derision or not, and looked at Westover for help.
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The Canuck declined with a dignified bow, and Jeff said: "You don't smoke any more?
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Jeff lighted for himself the cigar the Canuck had refused, and smoked down upon the little man.
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Whitwell called to the Canuck, and he came forward to the edge of the mow, and stood, fork in hand, looking down.
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"Nosseh!" said the Canuck, with a misliking eye on Jeff.
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"Not for you, Jeff Dorrgin," returned the Canuck.
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Jeff could not resist the desire to scoff which always came upon him at sight of the Canuck.
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I'll take your gun home for you," and it was easy for him to detach the piece from the bewildered Canuck's grasp.
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Why, that Canuck didn't seem to have no more head on him than a hen.
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"It's that Canuck chopping in Whitwell's clearing.
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He was that Canuck I had helpin' me clear that piece over on Lion's Head for the pulp-mill; pulp- mill went all to thunder, and I never got a cent.
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Jackson came in presently with the little Canuck, whom Whitwell presented to Westover: "Know Jombateeste?"
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Jackson put his planchette on the table, and sat down before it with a sigh; the Canuck remained standing, and on foot he was scarcely a head higher than the seated Yankees.
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Jackson sat with closed eyes and his head fallen back; Whitwell stared at the painter, with open mouth; the little Canuck began to walk up and down impatiently; Westover felt a reproach, almost an abhorrence, in all of them.
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The Canuck felt perhaps the simpler joy that the average man has in any strange notion that he is able to grasp.
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"Well, I guess you're right there, Jombateeste," said Whitwell, with pleasure in the Canuck's point.
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The little Canuck, as if he had now no further concern in the matter, sat down in a corner and smoked silently.
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Jackson's wasted face gave no token of interest; Whitwell laid half his gaunt length across the table in the endeavor to make out some meaning in them; the Canuck, with his hands crossed on his stomach, smoked on, with the same gleam in his pipe and eye.
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"What's the matter with plantchette ?" said Jeff, before he said to his brother, "Hello, Jackson!" and to the Canuck, "Hello, Jombateeste!"
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Whitwell shouted to the Canuck.
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"I want you to understand that I've got a full line on you; you have been chumming with a Canuck rack-tender, you deserted a woman, and she committed suicide, and you took the brat--" Farr's big hand released the elbow and set itself around Mr. Dodd's neck.
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The only man in this city he has been at all intimate with is an old Canuck named Provancher who tends the rack down at Gamonic Mill.
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Pierce had been resting here, at this very spot, when the Canuck had come up into sight, bearing a hundred-pound pack without apparent effort.
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My mother was a Canuck, so I knew some French, and eventually I reached the Continent.
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On the face of the swarthy Canuck guide who sat in the stern there was a weary contempt.
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The big Canuck saw him coming and knew what his visit portended--so he wasn't taken unawares.
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Once as he stood at the carriage door, the rug over his arm, waiting for Miss Connie to descend the steps for her afternoon drive, an impudent little "Canuck" jeered at him in passing.
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It was a stocky little 'Canuck' bugler, whose life seemed almost charmed, so thickly did the Boer bullets pepper about him, leaving him absolutely unhurt."
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"The stocky little Canuck!" as everyone now called Billy Jackson, was almost the last to alight from the train.
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All he can do is to potter at his old Canuck sports of paddling a canoe and swinging a lacrosse stick."
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"I jomped myself," stammered the soldier, a particularly crestfallen Canuck.
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"The only lunatic, up to date, Miss Corson, has been a Canuck who had a knock-down and drag-out with a settee and--" Lana was not finding Wyman's statement especially convincing in the way of establishing faith in his sanity.
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Meantime, Morten, our 'swop' in Canada, keeps the ferocious Canuck humble.
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The Canuck floundered up and rushed like a furious bull.
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"'Lo, Johnnie Canuck.
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aboriginal, American † , Caledonian, Cambrian, Canadian, Canuck [Slang] , downeaster [U.S.] , Scot, Scotchman, Hibernian, Irishman, Welshman, Uncle Sam, Yankee, Brother Jonathan.
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native, indigene, aborigines, autochthones † ; Englishman, John Bull; newcomer &c (stranger) 57. aboriginal, American † , Caledonian, Cambrian, Canadian, Canuck [Slang] , downeaster [U.S.] , Scot, Scotchman, Hibernian, Irishman, Welshman, Uncle Sam, Yankee, Brother Jonathan.
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Canuck: - inhabitant 188 N. canvas: - navigation 267 N. - painting 556 N. - arena 728 N. canvass a subject: - dissertation 595 V. canvass: - inquiry 461 V. - reasoning 476 V. - request 765 N. - request 765 V. canvasser: - petitioner 767 N. canzonet: - poetry 597 N. - music 415 N. caoutchouc: - elasticity 325 N. cap gun: - snap 406 N. cap in hand: - respect 928 Adj.
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Joseph Défago was a French "Canuck," who had strayed from his native Province of Quebec years before, and had got caught in Rat Portage when the Canadian Pacific Railway was a-building; a man who, in addition to his unparalleled knowledge of wood-craft and bush-lore, could also sing the old _voyageur_ songs and tell a capital hunting yarn into the bargain.
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No Canuck in mine, Loo-tenant.
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For the social history of the Loyalist settlements a useful book is A 'Canuck' (M. G. Scherk), _Pen Pictures of Early Pioneer Life in Upper Canada_ (1905).