Women in a salon swap gossip and a man pushing a "piragua" cart sells icy treats to cut the heat.    From Wordnik.com.  ['In the Heights' brings new beat to Broadway] Reference

And I fled in a piragua, sore wounded, from the fight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys] Reference

I never tasted those flavors as far as Mamey goes … the only thing that I could think of is the “crema” flavor served by the piragua guys around the Bronx … anyone wanna agree? lol.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cooling Off With Tropical Shakes from Margon | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan] Reference

They paid no heed to my appeal save to give a mighty shove to our canoe that sent it out toward midstream; then, seizing their paddles, with swift strokes they sent their own piragua speeding up the river.    From Wordnik.com.  [Margaret Tudor A Romance of Old St. Augustine] Reference

And I fled in a piragua sore wounded from the fight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Buccaneer] Reference

When I came there it was to behold him paddling away in a long piragua.    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Bartlemy's Treasure] Reference

The captain with odier Spaniards immediately leaped into the piragua, to fecure their prize.    From Wordnik.com.  [A new collection of voyages, discoveries and travels : containing whatever is worthy of notice, in Europe, Asia, Africa and America] Reference

The piragua arrived her« fafely with all the paflengers, and fet out for Pa - nama fome months before my coming to this town.    From Wordnik.com.  [The unfortunate Englishmen : or, A faithful narrative of the distresses and adventures of John Cockburn, and five other English mariners, viz. Thomas Bounce, John Holland, Richard Banister, John Balman and Thomas Robinson ; who were taken by a Spanish guarda costa, in the John and Anne, Edward Burt, master, and set on shore at a place call'd Porto-Cavallo, naked and wounded] Reference

In the evening the launch returned, accompanied by a large piragua, and both were completely laden with sheep, hogs, fowls, barley, and green peas and beans.    From Wordnik.com.  [A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 10 Arranged in systematic order: Forming a complete history of the origin and progress of navigation, discovery, and commerce, by sea and land, from the earliest ages to the present time.] Reference

The captain foon came up with the foremoft piragua, which feemed to command the reft, when the Mexi - cans inftantly ceafed rowing, and defined him not to fire, bccaufe the emperor was on board.    From Wordnik.com.  [A new collection of voyages, discoveries and travels : containing whatever is worthy of notice, in Europe, Asia, Africa and America] Reference

American words, now as much in use among the Creoles, as the Arabic words naturalized in the Spanish, do not belong to the Haitian tongue; for example, caiman, piragua, papaja (Carica), aguacate (Persea), tarabita, paramo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America] Reference

Assoone as he came to Apalache presently the Gouernour sent sawed plankes and spikes to the sea side, wherewith was made a piragua or barke, wherein were embarked 30. men well armed; which went out of the Bay to the Sea, looking for the brigandines.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II.] Reference

Within foure daies iournie they came to a great Riuer: and they made a piragua or ferrie bote, and because of the great current, they made a cable with chaines, which they fastened on both sides of the Riuer; and the ferrie bote went along by it; and the horses swam ouer, being drawne with capstans.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II.] Reference

He was once captured by the Spaniards, and taken to Havana, but escaped with a few other prisoners in a canoe, seized a piragua, and with this captured a sloop employed in the turtle trade, and by gradually taking larger and larger prizes, Lewis soon found himself master of a fine ship and a crew of more than fifty men.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pirates' Who's Who Giving Particulars Of The Lives and Deaths Of The Pirates And Buccaneers] Reference

Spanish, do not belong to the Haitian tongue; for example, caiman, piragua, papaja (Carica), aguacate (Persea), tarabita, paramo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1] Reference