The guards were rowing rapidly, the oars sounding in the rowlocks, evidently in the belief that we had made for the river.

Once a cry reached me, thrilling with despair, although I could not catch the words, and again came to me plainly enough the clank of an oar in its rowlock.

Harwood was the first ter hear the clatter ov en oar slippin' in a rowlock.

Come on!" Lying behind the trunk of a tree that had fallen into the water,not much of a boat, to be sure, and without any oars or even rowlocks; but when the water was tipped out of it, and it was shoved in again, it actually floated.

An Aroid {103b} rides parasitic on roots and stems, sending downward long air-roots, and upward brown rat-tails of flower, and broad leaves, four feet by two, which wither into whity-brown paper, and are used, being tough and fibrous, to wrap round the rowlocks of the oars.

He wondered why he had not heard the sound of the oars in the rowlocks.

The falls had been greased, the rowlocks muffled, and the crew took their places in perfect silence.

There were two sets of rowlocks, with oars to match.

In the bows, all huddled in a heap, and with a single paddle still grasped in his hand, there crouched a very small man clad in black, an open book lying across his face, and one stiff leg jutting upwards with the heel of the foot resting between the rowlocks.

For the sculls floated loose again in the rowlocks.

Wrappings of cloth were fastened round the rowlocks to prevent noise, twelve men took the oars, the boat was shoved down into the sea, and they started on their voyage.

There was nothing in the boat but two oars which had not slipped out of their rowlocks, a leather scoop which had been tied to a thwart, and the aforementioned water.

STEELE, PETER. Sound of rowlocks.

Sound of rowlocks.

STEELE, PETER. Sound of rowlocks.

Sound of rowlocks.

Here we heard the beat of rowlocks, the horse-hoofs of a coach thudded on the bank, and a crew of jolly young men went gliding past, with a cox shouting directions, just as I might have been doing thirty years ago!

On approaching the water, I heard their voices,hers in friendly persuasion, his in sentimental entreaty,then the sound of oars in the rowlocks.

I was hunting for it when the sound of rowlocks came to my ears.

The sound made by the rowlocks grew more distinct.

Its length is from seven to ten yards, and as it is only from sixteen to thirty inches wide in its widest part, you understand why you want those "outriggers," or projecting iron frames with the rowlocks in which the oars play.

My rowlocks are five feet apart; double or more than double the greatest width of the boat.

In a curving bight of the shore the creaking of oars in their rowlocks began to be distinctly heard, but the boat itself, although apparently only its length from the sands, was invisible.

The oars clicked sharply and simultaneously in the rowlocks, then more faintly, then still fainter, and then passed out into the darkness.

The way in which the chorus strikes in with the burthen, between each phrase of the melody chanted by a single voice, is very curious and effective, especially with the rhythm of the rowlocks for accompaniment.