At times he ceased paddling altogether, and sat gazing restlessly around him, at other times he paddled with feverish energy.
When evening came on, the Indian was paddling almost mechanically, when from a branch of a tree above something dropped down.
Knowing that he might only be paddling away from the river, he stretched himself in the bottom of the canoe, and resolutely postponing all thought of his position until daybreak, fell asleep.
There they come,” Wilcox said as two long canoes, paddling abreast, rounded a turn in the river a short distance away.
After paddling for some hours they saw a low island that seemed to be about a quarter of a mile in diameter, and headed towards it.
This comes of thinking while you are paddlinginstead of keeping your eyes on everything.
The paddling ceased again, and a hubbub of voices was heard.
For the first ten days Hurka while paddling generally sung Spanish songs that he had picked up, but gradually he ceased doing so, and became as taciturn as Pita himself.
They had been paddling hard all night and sometimes poling where the maze of streams they followed shallowed to a mere puddle.
The proposal was greeted as a good one and in short time the light craft were overboard and the boys paddling with all their might for the shore.
Soon they were well out to sea, paddling rapidly for the west.
He did indeed observe that there was a current running out to sea past the ledge, but he thought he could by careful paddling keep his boat from striking the rock.
Lieutenant Jackson and myself went to the bank of the river, and soon saw the dugout, two of the Indians in it paddling with all their might.
The Indians had evidently come to the conclusion that they were wasting their powder, and were now paddling down nearer to the raft.
In paddling the dugout the Indians all faced ahead, instead of astern as in rowing.
After breakfast, I walked down to the landing, where I had a boat, as starting from there would save me the labor of paddling a mile against the current.
I cried, when the boat turned a sharp bend in the river, as I discovered the two dugouts paddling up the stream.
They were paddling towards us with all their might; and the soldiers picked up their muskets.
Wood taken in, the Caravan again took her place in the middle of the stream, paddling on as usual.
Seeing that they were now understood, Lawrence took his shot-gun and pistols; the negro also armed himself, and in a few minutes more they found themselves paddling gently down the sluggish current of the river.
I squeezed his hand, thanked him hastily, and was soon paddlingquickly with the current.
I was still half a mile or more away, hidden by a point and paddling silently straight into the wind.
Paddling up under the point in my canoe, I found them all wheeling and diving over a shoal, where I knew the fish were smaller and more nimble, and where there were lily pads for a haven of refuge, whither no hawk could follow them.
I have sometimes been successful in getting near them with an Indian paddling the boat.
Haukemah greeted the two white men cordially, and stopped paddling to light his pipe.
At the end of the briefpaddling the upper pool allowed them, she was first ashore.
About two hours before noon, while the men's squadron was paddling slowly along a flat bank overgrown with grass and bushes, Dick and Sam perceived a sudden excitement in the leading canoes.
The Seraph sat motionless for a moment, and then began paddlingthe boat alongside the barges.
As soon as the congestion was in some measure relieved, the Seraph waved good-bye to me and started paddling up stream towards Henley Bridge.
In another ten seconds they were paddling away from us, leaving the other boat to her fate.
Our canoes were paddling against the current of the narrow and deep River Rembo.
We went gayly up the river, the royal canoe being ahead of all the others, Remandji and his manpaddling as hard as they could.
After three hours' paddling against a strong current we reached the Niembouai River.
I have only one eye, but I saw lights in Abdulla's house and in his campong as we were paddling past.
A few minutes afterwards he saw Bulangi's slave-girl paddling in a small dug-out to the town with her cakes for sale.
He had heard how Rumsey moved his boat by pumping water through the stern, and Fitch by paddlingit along.
Now they were hunting deer in the woods, now fishing orpaddling their bark canoes in the streams, now smoking their pipes in front of their huts, now dancing their war dances or getting ready to fight.
If he had seen them he gave no sign, but continued paddling steadily and strongly toward the city, nor did he increase his speed as the two priests shot out in full view.
Tarzan chancing a shrewd guess that the two he had seen paddling so frantically to avoid a meeting with him had indeed come from the high priest at A-lur.
It was daylight when he passed through the lake which lies next below Jad-ben-lul and paddling strongly passed within sight of the very tree in which his lost mate lay sleeping.
All eyes turned in the direction that he had indicated to see a lone warrior paddling rapidly into Jad-in-lul, the prow of his canoe pointing toward Tu-lur.
Meanwhile, as we drove in silence, I remembered that Richard's rubber boots leaked, and I wondered if Martha Corkle would discover it, or if he was paddling about getting his feet wet and bringing on a sore throat.
I know nothing comparable to paddlingas a lifter of the spirit, and with my arms and head bared and a cool breeze at my back I was soon skimming along as buoyant of heart as the responsive canoe beneath me.
It was clear that in the sorry plight of his arms Gillespie had preferred paddling to rowing.
Viewed in this light, it certainly appeared more prudent to go to Tidore, and after some little discussion the boat's head was turned more to the west, and the lads continued their weary work in paddling the water-logged canoe.
The aspect of this small boat, paddling quietly along and taking no heed of their presence, filled its occupants with surprise.
For a long time none could be seen, each as he came above water keeping on the further side of his canoe, and then paddling with it astern, so that the ship, as she floated on, left them gradually behind.
Paddling round the reef, they came to an opening and, entering this, found themselves in perfectly smooth water, and were soon on shore.
They then shaped their course northwards, and after two hours' paddling were in sight of the low island, which they had first visited.
Here comes a man paddling his kayak past the "Harmony" as she lies at anchor.
Then he steps lightly over the flat top, paddle in hand, sets himself deftly in the man-hole, and in a moment he is afloat, paddling to and fro with quiet powerful strokes.
No heavy, decked, paddling or sailing canoe would have been available for such a trip with a man of ordinary muscle.
The perfect paddling canoe is by no means perfect under canvas and vice versa.
The best cruiser is not a perfect racer, while neither of them is at all perfect as a paddling cruiser where much carrying is to be done.
He, rowing a light skiff and I paddling a still lighter canoe.
This morning, while paddling in the river, I found a purse full of gold, and gave it to the Prince of the Seven Golden Cows, thinking it was his.
It so happened one day that Teenchy Duck was paddling in the water near the river's edge when she saw a fine purse filled with gold.
We had given the Indians some bread and pork, and after paddling about half an hour, they stopped to eat.
We embarked again, and after an hour's paddlinglanded upon a small island, where was the tomb of an Indian chief or warrior.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "paddling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
