84 collocations for rowing

He rowed his boat to the other end of the stage, and there saw the boy's hand upright in the water.

Thence the commissary and his companions returned to Savannah, and Oglethorpe, with the speaker, went to Purrysburgh on the 18th in order to row up the river to the Palachocolas Indians, but the floods from the Cherokee mountains had so swelled the freshes, as to make that passage too tedious.

They could not go directly to the ship, but rowed some distance along shore to the north, and then falling into the ice drifted with it back to the ship.

" We left the first chain of ponds, and rowed some ten miles up the deep and sluggish but narrow channel of the river, startling every little way a deer from its propriety by our presence as it was feeding along the shore.

But how fares the world of Venice?and what dost thou among the canals at this season, to keep the flowers of thy jacket from wilting?" "To-day, as yesterday, and to-morrow will be as to-day I row the gondola from the Rialto to the Giudecca; from San Giorgio to San Marco; from San Marco to the Lido, and from the Lido home.

Deacon thanked no coxswain to tell him how to row a race, when to sprint, when to dog along at a steady, swinging thirty; nor did he require advice on the pacing and general condition of a rival crew.

Then, stealing a boat at one of the plantations, he rowed down the stream until he came to the Despair, on board of which was Mrs. Price, her daughter and Ester.

The Turks were compelled to row their galleys against this wind and the heavy sea it raised.

I didn't want to be gliding o'er the smooth waters of Loch Katrine, and have him asking me who the girl was who rowed her shallop to the silver strand, and the end of it was that I made him sit up until a quarter of two o'clock in the morning while I read the "Lady of the Lake" to him.

After three-quarters of an hour's hard rowing the barge approached her side.

From Bound Pond we rowed up the inlet, a broad and sluggish stream, full of grass and lily pads, to Little Tapper's Lake.

"Why do you suppose that Pa-pah is rowing somebody's maid around the bay, and singing that way to her?" "Perhaps it's one of our maids," said Drusilla; "but that would be rather odd, too, wouldn't it, Mr. Yates?" "Alittle," he admitted.

And 'all in the blue unclouded weather' we rowed down the huge stream, the men keeping time and tune to their oars with extemporaneous chaunts of adieu to the rice island and its denizens.

The Adventure carried thirty guns and rowed twenty-six or thirty oars.

IV.Cornelius the Ferryman Fourscore years ago there was a good ferryman named Cornelius, who rowed people between New York and Brooklyn.

He rowed the skiff in which the captain and his wife had embarked, with his own hands; and, previously to starting, he had selected the best sculls from the other boats, had fitted his twhart with the closest attention to his own ease, and had placed a stretcher for his feet, with an intelligence and knowledge of mechanics, that would have done credit to a Whitehall waterman.

Ever try to row feather-stroke, Blakeley?" Gee, I just couldn't help what I didI just couldn't resist that fellow.

In the course of the winter a family came where I was, on a visit from a neighboring island; of course, in a boat with negroes to row themone of these a barber, told me that he ran away about two years before, and joined a company of negroes who had fled to the swamps.

I stopped rowing a few yards from the shore, and swinging the boat round, stared up through the gloom.

I know anyhow that that was my chief sensation as I rowed the dinghy towards the wet slimy causeway, lit by its solitary lamp.

The sailors saw then that all they had to do was to row the bear to the shore.

We rowed the doctor over to see some of his patients on the island, and before his departure a most animated discussion took place upon the subject of the President of the United States, his talents, qualifications, opinions, above all, his views with regard to the slave system.

The eight kings rowed Edgar in a boat (while he acted as steersman) from Chester to St. John's, where they offered prayer and then returned.

At first Donald lookit desperate angry, and judging frae the way he was twisting about his mouth and rowing his een, I opined that he intended some deadly skaith to the monkey.

"That's nothingI'm to row Dora Estabrooke twice around the lake," mourned Louise.

84 collocations for  rowing