87 examples of rowboat in sentences

We left in a little rowboat, and it seemed at first as if we could not overtake the steamer; but the captain saw us and slackened his speed.

I went and looked over the rail and there I saw a fellow all alone in a rowboat.

I went over to the rail where all of the fellows were watching and there was a rowboat with two men in it, headed straight for us.

A group of pirates was gathered at the rail, staring at the rowboat through their glasses.

they cried in a businesslike kind of way as they laid hold of the bow of the rowboat, "or have your throats cutjust as you like, you know.

The children left them where they lay and climbed Over the side of the Merry Mouser into the little rowboat which Rudolf had brought alongside.

It was nothing but a small rowboat, and would carry only three or four people at a time.

" The man gathered himself up, badly shaken, and holding his hand to his bleeding nose, made off to his rowboat at the float.

The rowboat came abreast of a worm-eaten jetty.

The little cutter still lay where she had anchored, but a rowboat was pulling out to her from the shore.

After reading all that our authorities had to say on the subject (and understanding part of it), we sent our man down stream in a rowboat, confident that he would find the landing at the end of the measured string.

When the string ran out, the rowboat was opposite a point on the marshy edge of the island about one hundred feet below the present-day road.

There was yet a brisk wind; and for some time our rowboat rocked alongside, industriously bumping the paint off the houseboat, while we sat on the windlass box enjoying the fresh breeze in our faces and watching the driftage catch on our anchor chain.

It was good news when the sailor called from his rowboat that he had found a channel for going on around the island.

Later, some of the men from the Kittewan farm came along in a rowboat.

But usually, when a half tide or more was in, a rowboat could be taken up to the landing near the road.

Later, we saw coming down the stream some good after-dinner cheerour rowboat with mail that had been accumulating for days at Westover.

Later, when we were at breakfast, a long rowboat, containing a man and a pile of brush and doubtless some ducks with the fine flavour of the forbidden, came out from a break in the marshes and went hurriedly up the stream.

We ran our rowboat on a sandy point jutting into the mouth of the creek, and took our way along the narrow strip of solid land that lay between river and marsh.

As soon as we saw the giant tamandua we pushed off in a rowboat, and landed only a couple of hundred yards distant from our clumsy quarry.

A dozen miles down-stream a rowboat fitted for a sprit-sail put off from the bank.

We went back to the river, and found our rowboat.

They went in a rowboat to which the motor had been attached, and at night on the way back almost ran over a tapir that was swimming.

Last year women came to it from distant places, women who had never been from home before, who had never seen a "movie," who had never entered a rowboat or an automobile.

By the way, I forgot to speak of itI bought a boat the other day, a mere rowboat.

87 examples of  rowboat  in sentences