Pepe had stopped poling and was looking closely into the thick grass and vines of the bank.
He was poling with an oar, evidently trying to go up or down--Ken could not tell which.
The duck got onto the current and went round the bend, with Pepe poling in pursuit and George and Hal yelling along the shore.
The rock was so soft that it was frequently necessary to drive poling boards ahead as the face was mined out with picks and shovels.
As the heading advanced the rock grew steadily softer, the difficult conditions in this locality culminating when a slushy disintegrated feldspar was met, requiring poling and breasting.
A little distance above the point, near where the water was deeper and not so swift, I looked back, and to my astonishment I saw Job poling the canoe through the swift water alone.
At the rapid we were but a few minutes poling up to the big water south.
I walked along a bear trail on the flats, while the men brought the canoes up by poling and tracking.
Its occupants did not cease poling while greetings were exchanged, and, though its progress was slow, a half-hour saw it out of sight up river.
On the summer low water, in a poling boat, he left McDougall for Sunrise.
Twenty miles out of Sunrise he and Timothy Brown were poling the boat along the rocky shore.
After that they hung up on a split current, and the canoe passed on one side of an island, the poling boat on the other.
The other dropped into the bottom of the canoe, and then canoe and poling boat went down the stream in a drifting battle.
She took the sails off the Tortoise and, standing on the thwart amidships, began poling the boat back into the open water at the south-eastern end of the passage.
All right, we'll be in in a minute," said Rob; and he began poling the raft toward shore as rapidly as he could.
He explained how, by lashing two canoes together, they could carry quite a load without danger of capsizing; and he explained the laborious process of poling such a craft up this rapid river.
The men had ceased poling now, only giving an occasional push to keep her head straight and prevent her from swinging round.
He was in a boat, poling his way along in the shallow water as close to dry land as the woods allowed him, and sometimes, where the trees were wide apart, sending the boat right between some of their tall trunks.
Then our soldiers werepoling and hooking, with crimson faces and straining arms!
The ship is ours now, lads," said Radisson softly, poling nearer.
Radisson, La Chesnaye, and I poling hard to keep the drift-ice off.
The reaches referred to by Mr. Gore were so long and straight as to afford open passages for wind to blow up them, and these fierce gusts of head winds give the raftsmen much trouble while poling their rafts against them.
Freedmen, poling flats loaded with shingles or frame stuff, roared out their merry songs as they passed.
The act of supporting or of propelling by means of a pole or poles; as, the poling of beans; the poling of a boat.
This, then, was the extent of the cavern river, and it was with disappointment that I went slowly round once more, poling the raft over the troubled waters, to find that there was no likelihood of a discovery here.
And then we pushed off, poling ourselves along under the arch, the rugged wall being easily reached on either side, the stream widening and not being very rapid after we had passed the first dozen yards.
They had taken turns at rowing andpoling the craft along.
For the most part the poling was better than rowing, for the stream was too full of rocks to admit the free use of oars.
When, far to the north, he saw what Johnny said was an Indian canoe with two people poling it, he could scarcely restrain himself from paddling out to meet it.
They called to the captain to cast them loose, and soon Ned was poling the skiff toward the busy porpoises while Dick stood in the bow of the skiff with his harpoon handy.
Johnny waved his hand to the Indians, who stopped poling and waited for the boys to get to them.
They worked until noon and were out of sight of the Indian camp when they saw, a mile north of them, a couple of Indians poling their canoe.
They pushed on until outside of the breakers and among the smooth-rolling waves, where the deepening water made poling difficult and they resumed their sculling.
The Indian girls werepoling past the canoe without appearing to see it, when Johnny spoke to them.
I can say that keelboat poling is a splendid method of developing the muscles of the back and lower limbs, provided the man who attempts it begins with a sufficient stock of strength and endurance to carry him over the first week.
It is not, however, a proceeding I should advise to be undertaken by one who lacks the strength and experience necessary forpoling and cordelling.
The river was in such full flood that the bottom, even alongside the wharf, was beyond poling depth.
A cow moose and her calf sprang up the bank with a splash, frightened by the poling figure in the stern.
He was within a hundred yards of Ray's camp now, but the struggle to reach the lake and the poling across its waters had brought him seemingly to the absolute limit of his strength, clear to the brink of utter exhaustion.
Finding that the sun-dial still only gave the time as half-past twelve, Mark wanted to try spinning again for jack if Bevis was not too tired of poling on the raft.
She got as far as the reed-grass and saw them come up poling the raft.
Poling the raft out to the trimmers they found a jack of about two pounds on one, and the bait on another had been carried off, the third had not been visited.
Poling the raft back to the island, they observed the same precautions in going through the trees to the hut.
A good deal of fishing is done here, and in poling the small craft up stream, a small rudder is used over the outside (in this case starboard) quarter to prevent the boat running round, as also at Luang Prabang and Nongkhai.
It is obvious that more than one melting was practised, but that anything was known of the nature of oxidation by a blast and reduction by poling is uncertain.
Refining of the residual copper from the "drying" furnace by oxidation of impurities and poling in a "refining furnace.
On the upper reaches, where rapids abound, a deck is made by laying split bamboos along the length of the boat upon the benches, and the crew sits upon this deck in paddling, or stands upon it when poling the boat over rapids.
A red-shirted Finn was poling himself about the rapids, with rods trolling over the stern of his canoe.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "poling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
