I just threw over the anchor, and tumbling into the dinghy sculled ashore as quickly as I could.

He broke out again in his mocking laugh, and, sculling rapidly backward, soon put the distance between him and the improvised barrier.

I was away from the ship and sculling furiously for the shore in about the same time that it has taken to write this particular sentence.

Don't you see, sir, that every minute or two he strikes down, instead of sculling off handsomely and with a wide sweep, as becomes a whale?"

Before he could recover himself I was ten yards from the shore, sculling vigorously for the centre of the stream.