The 187 occurrences of canuck
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We could see no sign of life on the island or the "Canuck shore" as we turned our bows to the south channel.
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"It is one ver' gran' night," I said in my dialect of the rude Canuck; for I did not wish him, or any one, to know me.
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Nan had seen so many of the former people in the Big Woods of Upper Michigan the summer before, that she was sure this poor woman was a "Canuck."
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"Why, you unimaginative, lumbering, beef-eating Canuck, you can't get me that way!
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Failing any or all of these, it was in vain that the Factor displayed before them the wares of John Bull, Uncle Sam, or Johnny Canuck, or any seductive lure made in Germany.
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My dear Nompy:--Presumably you are by this time sitting by the sad sea waves in that dreary Canuck watering place, drawing sight drafts on the banks of Newfoundland and letting the chill east wind blow through your whiskers.
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She did not expound her opinions of these points to Jombatiste because, in the first place, she despised him for a dirty Canuck, and, secondly, because opinions seemed shadowy and unsubstantial things to her.
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... "Trypheny was crazy ... she'd ought to have a guardeen ... that Canuck shoemaker had addled her brains ... there'd ought to be a law against that kind of newspaper.
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our faith's in friendly freedom, dear; And croakers, Yank, or Canuck, or home-born, we shall not heed 'em, dear!
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"But I shouldn't think you'd want him to associate with this kind of cattle all his life, herding Canuck goats on a logging operation.
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Kyle, get your men and run her across the river into her Canuck country!
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He was the survivor of a rear-guard, the Canuck explained, and had "scrapped like a bag of wild-cats" until knocked out by a rifle butt.
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--_Jack Canuck_.
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We had taken on, as one of our firemen, a Canuck, who, from the first, boasted that he was a "bad man"....
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The Canuck, at the very first meal, terrorised the crew that sat down with him.
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The Canuck was finishing his meal in silence.
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Our Canadian contemporary, _Jack Canuck_, publishes a protest against the invasion of Canada by British temperance reformers, whom it describes as "uplifters."
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Once a young Canuck farmer sitting up all night with me coming down from St. John learned me all about the French Revolution.
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"The Mad Major, Canuck," they answered.
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Johnnie Canuck!" said he.
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Enjoy your deportation hearing, you dumb Canuck boy-scout."
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"It's the little Canuck he wants!
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oh, do look at the little Canuck!" cried a classmate.
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74 AGNES GIBERNE _A question of duty or inclination_ A CHRISTMAS WITH AUSTRALIAN BLACKS 89 J. S. PONDER _An unusual but interesting Christmas party described_ MY MISTRESS ELIZABETH 96 ANNIE ARMITT _A story of self-sacrifice and treachery in Sedgemoor days_ GIRL LIFE IN CANADA 114 JANEY CANUCK _Girl life described by a resident in Alberta_ SUCH A TREASURE!
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317 BUCKLAND, A. R. 247 CANUCK, JANEY 114 CREIGHTON, MRS. 39 DAWSON, H. WILLIAM 310 ELIAS, FRANK 260 GIBERNE, AGNES 74 GIBNEY, SOMERVILLE 148 JACKSON, LUCIE E. 66 JOHNSON, KELSO B.
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Girl Life in Canada BY JANEY CANUCK If you leave out France, Canada is as large as all Europe; which means that the girls of our Dominion live under climatic, domestic, and social conditions that are many and varied.
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A Canuck queen,' say he.
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'And since when has the Canuck queens been usin' stove polish for talcum powder?'
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They used to call him 'The Canuck Brute,'" remarked McGinnis.
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"I'll make it your funeral, ye sneaking half-breed Canuck!
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"I've cooked the last meal this big, dumb Canuck will ever get from me.
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"You'd think that after a year I would have realized that nothing could penetrate that thick Canuck's skull.
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The Cockney Canuck from Toronto, Whom Maple leaves hardly stick on to, Made haste to enlist, To fight the mailed fist, When Canadian born didn't want to.
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=RECRUITING APPEALS= JACK CANUCK October, 1914 "Only forty per cent of the volunteers at Valcartier are Canadian born."
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Our Jack Canuck is active, He plays a pretty goal, But make swift runs to cover When drums begin to roll.
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And Jack Canuck's unselfish, He lets the honors go All to his British brother, When war time bugles blow.
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And Jack Canuck is modest; That's why he chooses rears, And sees the front seats taken By British volunteers.
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Yes, Jack Canuck's a hero Whose glory never fades; He'll lick his weight in wild cats --The day his lodge parades.
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And Jack Canuck's free handed He sends, (Jack's awful wise), His dumpling dust in ship loads; (It pays to advertise).
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For Jack Canuck is thrifty, He wants, when peace is made, To feed the worn out nations, And capture all the trade.
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And Miss Canuck and Mrs., They value so the lives Of husband, son and sweetheart, These daughters, maids and wives.
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Not one from danger blenches, They vie in skill and pluck And when they reach the trenches, We call them all Canuck.
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JACK CANUCK TO UNCLE SAM April, 1916 Take down your old gun, Uncle Sammy, All your pockets with cartridges cram; The war fogs that rise, cold and clammy, Seem to frighten you some, Uncle Sam.
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Abstemious, very, when prices are high, He learns to be merry without any pie; An expert at poker, with money to spare, A down and out broker who plays solitaire; An orator forceful, a whale to invent, O Sammy's resourceful, a versatile gent, Though late in the race, Sam, we wish you good luck, Come on, take your place, Sam, with Johnnie Canuck.
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INDEX TO WAR RHYMES Foreword Page Modern Diplomacy 5 The Allied Forces 6 The Modern Good Samaritan 8 Satan's Soliloquy 9 The Canadian Way 10 The English Woman's Complaint 11 Unemployed 12 The Hate of Hans 13 Hans Begins to Wonder 14 =Recruiting Appeals= Jack Canuck 18 What Owest Thou?
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19 A Call to the Colors 20 Choose Ye 21 The Slacker's Son 22 Blasted Hopes 23 Langemark 24 The Canadian Army 25 Fight or Pay 26 =Rhymes for Children= Hunting the Were-Wolf 30 Johnnie's Grouch 31 The Trench that Fritz Built 32 =Nursery Rhymes--Up-to-Date= Ten Little Slackers 34 Jingles 35 =Miscellaneous= Bedlam 38 The Certainties 39 The Friendly Spies 40 Jack Canuck to Uncle Sam 41 Sammy 42 France to Columbia 43 Jim's Sacrifice 44 The Orgy of Thor 45 Motes and Beams 46 Nurse Cavell 47 'Twas Ever Thus 48 Ego 49 Freedom 50 Twenty Years After 50 Faith 51 Everybody Helping 52 The World's Overdraft 53 Slackers 54 The Loyal Blacks 55 The Troubles of Tino 56 Has the World Gone Mad?
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Possibly he may have regretted his rashness in sticking to the middle of the channel until it was too late to change his course; but apparently the solitary young Canuck was at the time in somewhat of a desperate frame of mind, and recked little what might be the result of his mad act of defiance to the combined powers of tempest and boiling rapids.
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"And I'm Owen Dugdale," said the other, knowing the pause was intended for him to break in with the mention of his name; "a native Canuck, and at home in this timber region--my parents were of Scotch descent I believe.
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The young Canuck guide in the lead did not so much as turn his head after the boats containing the Indians had passed, but continued to dip his paddle in and out with the methodical rhythm so characteristic of the voyager who has spent his life amid these scenes.
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Cuthbert, in an aside, asked Owen if they need fear any danger from the Crees; but the young Canuck shook his head in the negative, answering back: "Not at all.
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So saying, Cuthbert turned to the Canuck and, smiling, said: "Owen, my boy, you promised to tell us something about your troubles when an opportunity came.
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He was constantly thinking of Owen and his fortunes, weaving castles in the air that might be fulfilled, providing the sturdy young Canuck could be convinced that it was right and proper for him to become reconciled with his grandfather, and let bygones be forgotten.
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"You're not a true-blue Canuck, then," Bill observed.
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CHAPTER XI.--"Johnny Canuck" Afloat--The Toronto Naval Brigade--Splendid Service on Board the Gunboats--The Beginning of the Canadian Navy--Arrival of British Tars.
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But "Johnny Canuck" never murmured, and marched cheerfully onward in the shoes in which he usually stood, without provisions and weighted down with heavy padded uniforms (which were designed for winter wear), carrying a heavy rifle and accoutrements, with forty rounds of ball cartridges in his pouch and twenty more in his pockets for ballast.
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JOHNNY CANUCK AFLOAT--SPLENDID SERVICE ON BOARD THE GUNBOATS--THE BEGINNING OF THE CANADIAN NAVY--ARRIVAL OF BRITISH TARS.
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"Den he holler somet'ing Ah ain't hear, honly 'Canuck,' han' Ah begins for get my mads up.
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Of the two wrestlers, one was a veritable giant of a Canuck, swarthy of skin, hairy-chested.
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He, like the big Canuck, circled cautiously about, but the impression he gave was as different from the other as day is from night.
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The Canuck floundered up and rushed like a furious bull.
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B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER, 1912 Contents CHAPTER PAGE I The "Canuck" That Saved Flour Gold 9 II The Humor of the Fate Lachesis 17 III A Mésalliance 31 IV " The Ground Floor " 43 V Another Case in Surgery 56 VI " The Church Racket " 70 VII The Sheep From the Goats 77 VIII " The Chance of a Lifetime " 90 IX The Ways of Polite Society 99 X Essie Tisdale's Enforced Abnegation 110 XI The Opening Wedge 120 XII Their First Clash 127 XIII Essie Tisdale's Colors 139 XIV "The Ethics of the Profession" 147 XV Symes's Authority 165 XVI The Top Wave 172 XVII The Possible Investor 179 XVIII "Her Supreme Moment" 188 XIX "Down And Out" 213 XX An Unfortunate Affair 234 XXI Turning a Corner 248 XXII Crowheart's First Murder Mystery 259 XXIII Symes Meets the Homeseekers 271 XXIV The Dago Duke And Dan Treu Exchange Confidences 280 XXV Crowheart Demands Justice 288 XXVI Latin Methods 294 XXVII Essie Tisdale's Moment 303 XXVIII The Sweetest Thing in the World 312 XXIX "The Bitter End" 325 XXX "Thicker Than Water" 332 THE LADY DOC I The "Canuck" That Saved Flour Gold "A fellow must have something against himself-he certainly must-to live down here year in and year out and never do a lick of work on a trail like this, that he's usin' constant.
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It was all of that since he had seen old "Ed" Dubois betting his gold-dust on an Indian horse race-twenty years since young Dick Kincaid had floundered through the drifts in a mountain pass to see how the Canuck saved flour gold.
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The mail coach was soon at the door of our inn, and after taking leave of my fellow-traveller with the big hat, I engaged a seat on the stage-box beside Jeangros, a French Canadian, or Canuck--one of the best whips on the line.
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At that moment there was a rapid clanging of the gong; the motorman let fly the whirling rod; the over full cars started with a jerk--there was a howl, a shout, followed by a struggle to keep the equilibrium; an undersized Canuck was seen to be running madly alongside with one hand on the guard and endeavoring to get a foothold; he was hauled up unceremoniously by a dozen hands.
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The little Canuck, who by dint of running had caught the car, was working nearby.
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A Canuck swamper named Leduc complained to me that the boss slipped up on him and knocked him insensible with a club.
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"Oh, that Canuck!
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That Canuck won't dare say a word."
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"Pah!" exclaimed Cora Rathmore, "Nelson hasn't a chance with that Canuck.
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And I saw a mascalonge on Georgian Bay that was longer than the Canuck guide who was toting the fish over his shoulder by a stick thrust in the mouth and gills.
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He is a great big red-haired man, and he hangs around that restaurant that is run by a man called Joe Canuck.
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While LeBlanc held Phil, Canuck searched his pockets, taking from him what little money he had, and the automatic revolver.
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That's what I think is the prison room for the Canuck's house," said Ruth.
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"Well, Mister Whimple," he said, "when that bunch was here once last season for a series of five games, my Pa took their stuff from the station up to the hotel in one of his express wagons, and I was with him, so, of course, I helped to lift the stuff off the wagon, and when I'm through the same manager what they have this year slips something into my hand and I thought it was a dime, and he says to me, 'I hate to give a Canuck anything,' he says, 'but you are a bright chap, only don't spend it all at once,' and when he goes into the hotel I opens up my hand, and there's one of them dinky little American cents.
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Soapy, of course, was a good man on the land, but I never took a shine to that hard-eyed Canuck, and we'll get along, in some way or other, without him.
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Tommy La Croix, the French Canuck, a quick, grinning, evil-spoken, tobacco-chewing, rather likeable young thug, stared directly at Carl and said, loudly: "'Nother thing I noticed was that Frazer didn't have his pants pressed.
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Two queens in one afternoon is not bad going for an old Canuck, is it?"
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"He's Johny Canuck, isn't he?" asked Madame, with a feeble attempt at gaiety.
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They were for the most part Morgan grades or "Canuck," with a strain of broncho to give them fire.
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The Canadian, Johnnie Canuck, The American, And The ANZAC.
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[Illustration] The Canadian [Illustration] Johnnie Canuck [Illustration] The American [Illustration] The ANZAC Then came the announcement of the organization of the First Auto Machine Gun Brigade, the generous gift of several of Canada's most prominent citizens, and it was in this unit that I enlisted with my friend Pat, a six-foot, husky Scotchman, with the fighting blood of the kilties very near the surface.
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A forest ranger who is on the job has got to snow-shoe like a Canuck or else go down the valley after the snow begins to fall.
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"Maybe you are a Canuck, Sing, but I'm no blooming Chinaman.
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CANUCK Ca*nuck", n. 1.
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"I donno," said Arsene speculatively, as he and the Bishop took up their tramp behind the sled; "Dat Long Tom Lansing; he don' like Canuck.
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No living creature was in sight but a dappled mare, whose round body and heavy fetlocks spoke of a Canuck strain, hitched in the shade of the magnolia-tree.