Having visited the spot some days before, he had hired for his exclusive use throughout the duration of the picnic an old rowboat belonging to a shanty squatter; it was the only rowboat within a mile or two and Albert had his own uses for it.
The young man pulled vigorously, and the little rowboatplowed through the bay.
There was a small float at one end to which a rowboat was made fast.
They all piled into the little rowboat and made their way slowly back across the bay, disappointed and defeated, hardly knowing what to say--what to believe.
In which case a rowboat would be as handy as a pocket on the end of a dog's tail.
On the bay side an old though seaworthy rowboatwas moored, covered with a canvas which had kept out the rain.
The two hurried down to the rowboat with Tania trotting after them.
Both his car and rowboatare there, and there's a cupboard broken open on the houseboat," Arden added excitedly.
Let's take the rowboat and go down the bay a bit," Terry suggested.
I just wanted to see," she explained, "if Dimitri's rowboat was still tied up.
The captain pointed ahead, and Conrad saw a long rowboat cutting the water.
A rowboat grounded on the little beach and a young man sprang out and hailed John Conrad, who stared at him without answering.
The lad looks at me with a question in his eyes," said the Queen.
The trees must be properly barked two years before they are cut and burned.
A short distance away a rowboat was coming rapidly toward the Bismarck--for such was the name of the vessel on which the lads found themselves.
The rowboat approached this craft and the officer motioned his three companions to follow him aboard.
The rowboatdrew closer and Frank discovered it was filled with men.
Behind, the rowboat had given up the chase, but now, from other parts of the harbor, from which the Bismarck was fast speeding, came sounds of confusion.
Von Ludwig was just about to address Jack when he made out anotherrowboat coming toward the Bismarck.
At the edge of the pier their captor pointed to a small rowboat in the water.
One day the colonel and surgeon of the 9th New Jersey Regiment came into the inlet in a rowboat from their ship outside, for orders.
Gifts were made and sufficient funds subscribed to purchase necessary supplies and hospital equipment, and a fine rowboat was donated to replace the Albert's whaleboat which had been smashed during the previous summer.
For a long while a rickety old rowboat had been lying off from the Albert.
And I'll buy a catboat and a rowboat and a shotgun and a yellow dog.
A group of pirates was gathered at the rail, staring at the rowboat through their glasses.
The children left them where they lay and climbed Over the side of the Merry Mouser into the little rowboat which Rudolf had brought alongside.
Jim Preston eased the Liberty alongside the rowboat and Mr. Linder reached down and picked Margaret up.
The little rowboathad been traveling faster than he thought.
Caradoc made no answer, but stared after the rowboat which was just rounding into the tug.
Then a storm came up and they found the old man in a rowboat and the steam yacht missing.
The rowboat contained in addition a keg of water and several small boxes and tins.
Dick led the way to the galley and the crowd from the small boat followed; one sailor stopping long enough to tie the rowboat astern.
Soon the rowboat came tip to the ladder, and one after another those aboard the small craft mounted to the deck of the Mermaid.
The eldest Rover was indeed right, it was a large rowboat and it contained six persons, four of whom were at the oars and the others in the stern.
It was Sack Todd who spoke and he addressed Hans, who had left the pilot house to look over the stern, to see if the rowboat was still safe.
All of the lanterns but one were missing, and the small rowboat resting on the rear deck of the houseboat had its side stove in from an ax-blow.
He offered to go in an open rowboat all the way from Jamaica to Haiti and ask Ovando to send a rescue vessel!
A rowboat went near the mouth of a river to take on fresh water, and the river came out with a gush, upset the boat, and drowned the men in it.
A rowboat was coming from the town to meet the boat.
The rowboat was bringing mail and packages for the large boat, and it would take back to shore the mail, packages, and passengers.
I do hope they will be all right, Ralph," she said a little anxiously, as Father Blossom handed her into the rowboat and took the oars and the four little Blossoms stood on the wharf and waved to them.
He had a rowboat and this they found abandoned on the south shore of Sunset Lake, showing that he must have rowed over to the mainland.
Then the rowboat was fastened to the stern of The Sarah, and, as Captain Jenks remarked, the rescue was complete.
Bobby proudly took the wheel, and Captain Jenks, while the others watched breathlessly, brought the rowboat alongside with a long iron hook and with another drew up the long rope that was tied to an iron ring in the prow.
But it could easily have been towed off by some one in a rowboat and then you would not have heard the motor start.
Just fasten your boat to the other rowboat and I'll tow you.
In another moment the three were in the roomy cockpit and Tom had made the empty rowboat fast to the stern.
Tom had spoken loudly, but even though the men in the rowboat did hear what he said, they would have realized without that that they were about to be pursued, for there was no mistaking the attitude of our hero.
They sneaked up here in a rowboat and towed the ARROW off.
I'll get at it to-morrow," and with that he swung out into the lake, towing his rowboatafter him.
There was no hope of the wind helping them, and the man in the rowboat was pulling strongly for the becalmed Jennie S.
In one of these calms Helen sighted a rowboat some distance away, but pulling toward them from among the little chain of islands beyond the reef on which the lumber schooner had been wrecked.
The rowboat was partly filled with water and on the seats and in the bottom a quantity of mud had been thrown.
They were just finishing their toilet when a rowboat came into view, containing Bob Bangs and several other of the loud boys of Riverport.
It was born in him," said Jack, as he leaped into the rowboat and stowed away his fishing outfit.
Taking what was left of the fish, the two boys hurried back to the rowboat and soon each was seated at an oar and pulling a good stroke in the direction of the town.
Soon he was at the river bank and the lady leaped out of the rowboat and ran to where Randy had placed his dripping burden on the grass.
Then she found her purse, summoned Winona, and they took the rowboat and went forth, Sandy and Puppums in the bottom of it.
There goes the signal--they've given the launch prize, and they are to give the float and rowboat prizes right afterwards, and then the canoes!
Neither of them saw the rowboat till it was quite close, and Florence and Puppums howled together in greeting.
On the dock, when they reached it, was seen to be an elderly native with a pipe, and beside him was moored a rowboat which looked as if it could be rowed.
The reason I want to know is that I have just six dollars, and if I could buy a rowboat that way I would.
Winona and Adelaide took each a corner, and read as follows: For sale, one rowboat in good condition, with oars.
If I could decorate my rowboat it would be all right, but I can't, because they're going to need it to carry properties in.
Busy little side-wheeled ferry steamers spanked the waters noisily and smudged the sunset with dark drifting trails of smoke; and ever and anon a rowboat would slip out of shadow to glide languidly with the current.
On one hand a ladder-like flight of rickety steps descended to a floating stage to which a heavy rowboat lay moored.
His own rowboat enabled them to board the Water Sprite without getting another wetting.
Mr. Morley climbed on board, helped by willing hands, and Walter secured the rowboat by a rope round a cleat in the stern.
It was to keep about two hundred yards from the coast, in order that, should it hear the song of a cuckoo (such was to be our signal) it might send a rowboat to fetch us.
Zannini, in his return flight to our own lines, made use of a small rowboat procured near Caorle.
The girls and boys from the rowboat were landed at the main dock and the motor boys started back for their own shelter.
It was a little craft, hardly more than a rowboat with a small "kicker" gas engine in it.
Look out for that rowboat ahead," cautioned Jerry to Bob.
A little later the tramp proposed that the boys take his rowboat and go fishing on the other side of the island.
The occupants of the rowboat looked up and waved their hands.
So the rowboat was fastened to the stern of the Dartaway and Jerry started the motor up again.
Up the river they went, and about a mile from the float they passed a rowboat containing two boys and two girls.
Jerry with the aid of Ned and Bob was casting off the rowboat from the Dartaway, and tying it to the small dock which extended into the river.
Jerry rapidly spun the wheel around and the Dartaway veered to one side with a swish of water, just grazing a rowboat with a man in it, that loomed up dead ahead.
This plot adjoined one owned by Mr. Nixon, who had a small boathouse where were kept a rowboat and a small sailing craft.
I'll tow your rowboat over to shore and you can tie her up.
When the gent comes we can get him aboard with the help of this rowboat he hired for us.
I wonder if that's what happened to Jared," remarked Nick, as the party made for the landing, where a rowboat could be obtained in which to paddle out to the anchored flotilla.
Then can't we trail a rowboat so Roger can give me a lesson in rowing?
So Roger and the girls went to the water's edge and the girls stood on the narrow beach while Roger untied the rowboat from the stern of the motor-boat and ran it up on the shore.
One day, just as the Doctor had cast anchor between two little islands far out at sea, a little rowboat came to him from a small Welsh brigantine.
It was not clear water, but the "slob ice," probably too heavy for a rowboat to pierce, which lay between the pan and the beach.
A rowboat was manned: in a few minutes its crew came back and reported that the rocks were not more than two hundred yards away.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rowboat" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
