Crossword-Solution: CANOEISTS 9 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 11

The last to weary were the three graces and a couple of companions; and just as they too had had enough, the foremost of the three leaped upon a tree-stump and kissed her hand to the canoeists.

Now, on the upper Oise, where nothing sailed as a general thing but fish, a pair of canoeists could not be thus vulgarly explained away; we were strange and picturesque intruders; and out of people’s wonder sprang a sort of light and passing intimacy all along our route.

The breakers were not large enough to be exciting, and the last languid surf-boarders and canoeists had gone in to shore.

Experienced canoeists agree that a canoe of fourteen feet in length, which weighs only seventy pounds, if built of wood, bark, canvas, or paper, when out of the water and resting upon the ground, or even when bedded on some soft material, like grass or rushes, cannot support the sleeping weight of the canoeist for many successive nights without becoming strained.

Canoeists dwell upon the importance of the LIGHT WEIGHT of their canoes, and the ease with which they can be carried.