Slowly they could see each opposing oarsman creeping along; and it was discouraging to feel that after all Buck seemed to have the better "stayers" in his crew.
Brad, at which every young oarsman dropped back into his place; for they had been turning half around at the time, desirous of seeing what it all meant.
This was deftly caught by the bow oarsman and a turn taken around the forward thwart.
Fred pointed to the junk, and the oarsman turned his boat toward it.
The next moment the bow oarsman reached down and with a great effort pulled the dripping castaway in over the side.
The oarsman of the wrecked craft was taken tenderly over the gunwale and laid in the bottom of the boat.
The tall man roared orders, and the oarsman made efforts.
The stroke oarsman turned his body so that he could change hands at the handle of the oar, and then resumed pulling.
I'm going to have a professional oarsman coach me," Boswell threw to them over his shoulder as he sculled off.
The Cornell oarsman had paid a visit or two to the lads in their camp, coming from where he was stopping on the mainland, as his friend, whom he expected to visit on the island, had not yet opened his cottage.
They talked a little longer, the oldoarsman giving them some good advice about training.
Churchill mentioned that if we took up this offer, one of the old grads, who was a crackerjack oarsman in his day, might come and give us some pointers," put in Frank.
In trolling, the oarsman has as much to do with the success as the fisherman.
The master oarsman leaped from his seat and crashed his gavel down upon the sounding-board.
At the belt of every oarsman dangled a sword, for boarders’ work was more than likely.
Perkins, snatching up the megaphone, hailed the oarsman and told them that everything was all right.
A boat with a colored oarsman had been lying alongside the steamer waiting to take off the pilot.
No one was disposed to cross the purposes of so formidable a person as Shuffles, and the stroke oarsman did not obey the order of Wilton.
The Average Undergraduate generally takes a respectable position as a College oarsman or cricketer, though he may fail to attain to the University Eight or to the Eleven.
And for as long as the two were in sight it was the ex-oarsman who talked, and the great financier who listened.
Randolph affectionately laid on the broad shoulder of an ex-oarsman and football player.
Each of the fours has at least one seasoned oarsman to steady it, and is coached from the coxswain's seat by a member of the college eight.
In America an oarsman wears socks and trunks which are apt to be the briefest possible.
At New Haven, the first impression anoarsman gets is said to be an odor so unwelcome that it is not to be endeared even by four years of the good-fellowship and companionship of a Yale crew.
The sweater, which, in cold weather, is worn on the river, has a deep V neck, supplemented when the oarsman is not in action by a soft woolen scarf or cloud.
Take, for instance, the case of a certain oarsman who found the dinner forms rather too rigid after his first day on sliding seats.
In the second boat the other oarsman tried to match Hans' pace, and the unwieldy craft spurted away like a frightened deer.
He looked at the oarsman who had spoken and leaped lightly into the boat.
The oarsman was expert; he dipped and raised his oars so that there was no splashing.
When this was done, the oarsman began to pull the boat towards the shore, drawing the log with it.
Noting that the oarsman appeared to be weary, Pierce volunteered to relieve him, an offer which was quickly accepted.
Down the boat came at a galloping gait, threshing over waves and flinging spray head-high; it bucked and it dove, it buried its nose and then lifted it, but the oarsman continued to maintain it on a steady course.
I've got the only canoe in the place, a Peterborough, and hired a goodoarsman to put you through, instructing him to make as fast time as he can, and to board the first steamer that overtakes you.
An hour later the children had again retired, and the colonel and the young oarsman sat in the little kitchen talking.
Thanking her, the young oarsman got out without delay.
His hand touched Jerry's collar, but the young oarsman evaded him and placed the flat-top desk between them.
Another blow and it fell away entirely, and in a second more the young oarsman was clambering out of the opening.
He tried his best to hit Jerry with his fist, but the young oarsman dodged him and took a stand in front of the little girl.
I did the best I could," replied the young oarsman "But I want to ask you a question.
It was locked, but putting his shoulder to it the young oarsman soon burst it open.
Side by side Harry and the young oarsman walked to the Rockpoint Hotel, a large place, now filled to overflowing with Summer boarders.
The young oarsman was certain that Mr. Wakefield Smith had robbed him.
Reaching into a locker, the young oarsmanbrought out his gun.
To hear what further they might have to say the young oarsmankept close to the party.
Silas Peters was considered the best single-shell oarsman on the lower side of the lake, and he had challenged Jerry as a representative from the Lakeview Academy.
Slocum started and winced, and the young oarsmansaw that Crazy Jim had spoken the truth.
The young oarsman did not know what to make of this appeal for assistance, for it seemed to him that the authorities were the very people Mr. Wakefield Smith wished to avoid.
During the day the young oarsman became much better acquainted with his work and began to like it.
The device was as follows:--Across the bow end of the boat was the usual thwart on which an oarsman sat.
Emmeline was dancing the child on her knee, when it suddenly held out its arms to the oarsman and said: "Dick!
As the oarsman pulled the tiny craft towards the beach, neither he nor the children saw away behind the boat, on the water near the bending palm tree at the break in the reef, something that for a moment insulted the day, and was gone.
The stroke oarsman is the one farthest aft, or nearest the starn.
Do it in about the time the stroke oarsman gives you.
Here the coxswain comes to the end of his rope, and the stroke oarsman picks it up.
The bow struck squarely on the obstacle, and such was the momentum of the mass that the oarsman was thrown directly through the flaring bow of the cockpit into the river.
For some minutes neither he nor hisoarsman has eye or ear for aught save securing the fish, and both bend all their energies to "fighting" it.
And on the skiff is sculled up stream for another mile, with little further speech passing between oarsman and steerer; it confined to subjects having no relation to what they have been all the evening occupied with.
For, just below the outlying eyot is where he has met the pleasure-boat, and the old oarsman looked anything but equal to a long pull up stream.
Now they are silent, sitting without stir; only a slight movement in the arms of the oarsman to keep the boat in its place.
There are three of them, two being ladies seated in the stern sheets, the third an oarsman on a thwart well forward, to make better balance.
Though requiring a boat for its execution, and an oarsman of a peculiar kind--adroit at something besides the handling of oars--not a word of it has yet been imparted to the one who is rowing him.
Here the oarsman paused and waited for further orders.
The oarsmanswung into action again as silently and evenly as though Stubbs had pressed an electric button.
Then to his amazement, the latter saw the oarsman calmly shove off and turn the boat's prow back to the wharf.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oarsman" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
