They quickly entered the boat with their two important captives and without a word of explanation to any of their people they commanded the oarsmen to start, and were soon out of sight upon the broad expanse of the Nonestic Ocean.
She placed in it several bags of gold and jewels with which to bribe the nomes, and selected forty of the strongest oarsmen in Regos to row the boat.
I just wanted to tell Miss Mary that the two oarsmen that helped us to bury Posin were gone over the river, and were safe.
The decision was final; and seizing the spades, Joe, Sneak, and the oarsmen began to prepare a resting-place for the dead body.
I wanted to tell you that your two oarsmen are forgotten, and to ask you if we hadn't better call to them to come up here, where they'll be out of danger?
The oarsmen in the tender were gazing upward innocently while they rowed, but he perceived that they were hiding grins.
His honest face was working with emotion, and he began to talk before the oarsmen had eased the boat against the overturned hulk.
They had entered this current, and were now carried along with increased velocity, so that the oarsmen suspended operations, and drew their paddles within the canoe.
Having satisfied themselves that they were alone in the middle of the river, the occupants of the boats drew them close together, and began an animated conversation in English, so that the oarsmen could not understand.
The oarsmen slowly swung both boats, so that those in one could obtain a view of the other.
At first the oarsmen did not notice what was happening.
But as her little moccasined feet cleared the bulwarks and Meggs himself leaned out to draw her inboard, he signed the oarsmen to thrust off again.
They turned "The Galleon" toward the levee, and an officer in a boat pulled by four uniformed oarsmen hailed them in Spanish, which none of them understood.
The oarsmen sit on the lower deck, eight at each side.
It was the slaves who did most of the work on the large estates owned by wealthy men, who toiled in the mines and quarries, and who served as oarsmen on the ships.
The banks of the stream were likewise lined with the crowds which had poured in to see the various college oarsmen compete for the supremacy in aquatic sports.
Jerry was a fine scholar and he was also one of the best oarsmen in his class.
When the boat reached the vessel, the traitor was so mean as to hand over the poor oarsmen as prisoners.
Unknown to the boys, he had ordered the three pounder unlimbered, and now sent a shot ricochetting so close to the small boat that the oarsmen were spattered by the spray and the boat rocked violently.
My oarsmen slept or strolled about, but their footprints were at once obliterated by the wind.
The boat moves with weary slowness to its destination, for now, at six o'clock in the morning, my oarsmen are tired and sleepy and quite at an end of their strength.
The roar of the surf on the beach was the only sound in the silence of night, except the splash of the oars and the voices of the oarsmen singing in time with their strokes.
My oarsmen follow the soundings with deep interest, and look forward to the point where the depth will begin to decrease.
The oarsmen lay on their oars, and all in the lifeboat were motionless as we watched her in absolute silence--save some who would not look and buried their heads on each others' shoulders.
The captain-stoker now told the oarsmen to row away as hard as they could.
She saw the tall Malay issue a few commands, the oarsmen bent to their work, the prahu came about, making off toward the harbor's entrance.
At the sight his own dark countenance went ashen, and with trembling lips he ordered his oarsmen to pull for the open sea.
However, the six oarsmen of the patrician craft were rapidly diminishing the distance.
The six oarsmen soon gained the spot where the little boat lay, and took on board Raoul de Pont Brillant, who had fainted.
I am only a half peasant; I am not rich and am not a marquis; I have no bark painted crimson and no oarsmen in livery, nor ancestors to look back to.
Only the king himself could, in case of need, give orders from his own palace to the oarsmen and soldiers, without the knowledge of anybody else.
So Artemisia embarked her own soldiers and oarsmen in the ships of the Rhodians and set forth for Rhodes.
When news of this reached Artemisia, she gave orders that her fleet should be hidden away in that harbour with oarsmen and marines mustered and concealed, but that the rest of the citizens should take their places on the city wall.
But his eyes were always watching most keenly the hatches nearest him, whence a gangway ran down to the lower part of the ship, where the oarsmen sat; for only thence could they make a rush on him.
As the sun touched him, the prow of a black ship stole swiftly round the headland, for the oarsmen drove her well with the oars.
The brawny arms of the oarsmen needed no encouragement.
His oarsmen were two, with a child to steer, and Somali Jack with the rifles in the stern sheets.
He put to sea one morning early with all his fleet of over one hundred and fifty large boats, each containing about twenty oarsmen and warriors, and in three extended lines began slowly pulling towards Googagoo's private island.
The two oarsmen steadied the boat by means of poles which they held against the sides of those dark walls, the steersman with another pole kept her off the newly shut massive wooden door--and then--oh!
In the mist we were almost upon it before we saw our danger; but when the pilot shouted, the oarsmen instantly shipped.
It is a grand and wonderful passage waterway: and one the return boats cannot manage at all, there being no towing path, so that the oarsmen have to put their boats on carts and drive them across the land.
There was a path of rocky boulders, uneven and somewhat primitive, such a towing path being always found beside the rapids, as the oarsmen have to get out and tow at all such places.
He gasped when he saw the galleys rowed about by their oarsmen on the water, and he told his master he had never seen so many feet in his life.
This being done, the boatswain gave orders to weigh anchor, and as he went about on deck signaling with a whistle, he continually lashed and beat the backs of the naked oarsmen with a whip he had in his hand.
Under the straining arms of four oarsmen the little boat moved briskly out of its perilous position.
The oarsmen shipped their oars and took the water.
The dinghy was moving down the middle of the long "S" when a dull noise from the schooner caused both oarsmen to look around.
But others rolled over like logs when the full force of the current struck them, threatening to drag the boat under, as it and the horse raced away down stream with the oarsmen straining their utmost.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oarsmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
