The Jotun was little glad, as they rowed back, so that the powerful Hymir nothing spake, but the oar moved in another course.
Thor rowed aft with two oars, and with such force that Hymir, who rowed at the prow, saw with surprise, how swiftly the boat was driven forward.
They both rowed out in a boat, with their hooks and lines, to catch small fish; but the wind drove them out to sea.
Muro was surprised to learn that they had found no signs of people, so they rowed back to the ship, and after a hearty meal, retired for the night.
The next morning the same parties rowed to the shore, and Uraso was left with the party to guard the shore boat, while Muro accompanied John and the boys.
They rowed back to land, and told the giant's wife how the "accident" had happened.
So he took an oar and rowed mightily in the stern, while Hymir the giant rowed mightily at the prow; and no one ever saw boat skip over the water so fast as this one did on the day when these two big fellows went fishing together.
A boat party that rowed up the St. Jago river visited a house belonging to a lady of Lima, whose servants traded with the Indians for gold, several ounces of which were found left by them in their calabashes when they fled.
They made themselves paddles, threw away the Indian poles, and rowed with all speed, meeting several boats laden with plantains.
Part of each ship's crew embarked with their colours in their canoes, which were instantly rowedto shore.
Here the men, concealed by the boughs on the banks, lay down flat in their boats, and were rowed back again to their vessels by only two or three sailors.
At break of day they rowed past several islands to the Point St. Laurence, one man incessantly employed in baling.
Half an hour later he was rowed ashore, with a good Havana cigar between his teeth and three good English sovereigns in his pocket.
On the following afternoon White, again wearing his fez and old overcoat and with his moustache darkened, rowed ashore.
Wearing some old clothes belonging to Kulman, the third mate, but with their rank badges removed, I rowed ashore.
But having rowed some distance up the Bosphorus and already passed Dolma Bagche Palace, I found no ship labelled Batoum.
The last we saw of Michael Ivanovitch Titoff was his yellow face leaning over the side of the ship when, with Kulman and Josef, we rowed toward the docks.
The result of a short palaver amongst the akhardash was that they rowed quietly up to this boat, not a rifle showing and all except the four rowers sitting down as quiet as mice.
There were one or two small houses just on our right above the shingle, and we were reconnoitring carefully when a big rowing boat was seen coming along close to the beach, rowed by some eight men.
The night was very dark, the water motionless, the men rowed at a good speed; the two passengers landed at the little home-pier in safety, and the negroes turned back.
He went back to his boat, and was rowed in state again down the shining water.
The old men, without comment either of mind or tongue, patiently rowed her back down the river.
With strong regular strokes the men rowed down the creek, and out on the broad St. John's.
Torres decided that he would go and ask Manuel, and rowed himself across to Patricio for the purpose; this not being a state occasion, it was allowable to ply the oars.
Mr. Moore, standing on the low bank, waved his hand in farewell as the boat, rowed by two old negroes, carried her down the river.
Madame Giron, the aunt of Adolfo Torres, came up the Espiritu in her broad old boat, rowed by four negro boys, to beg them to pass a day with her at her plantation, which was south of East Angels.
Duncan agreed right willingly, and Malcolm, borrowing some lines and taking the Psyche's dinghy, rowed out into the bay.
He rowed swiftly to the Psyche, beached and drew up the dinghy, and climbed the dune.
Out and still out they rowed and drifted till the coast began to open up beyond the headlands on either side.
In a calmer spot I stopped the engine and sketched our island; after which we rowed home.
A calm, blue summer's day,--and on we rowed upon our search.
He rowed about in the harbor for almost two hours returning to bring me home.
We rowed to Seward, Rockwell and I; stopped for the motor that on our last trip we had left by the way, but found the surf too high.
Spartan Lusandros swooped precipitate, Ended Athenai, rowed her sacred bay With oars which brought a hundred triremes back Captive!
No one answered; so the Law rowed to the foot of the thing in question.
The tide was coming up, and the Law--a man with a tall and dewy brow--rowed up to the foot of our little ladder that leads to the sea.
But after being worked as slaves for nine months, a Chinaman, who had been with the missionaries on the mainland, bought us from the Malays, and rowed us out to the first foreign ship he saw, the old Spindrift.
He instantly manned and armed all the boats of his squadron, which rowed ashore as a farther support, while the force that had proceeded against Fort D'Arsic, observing this unexpected success, also pushed on to unite with Brigadier Lambert.
And to be rowed up by a hired guide on a lake to within a few feet of a poor, helpless buck, swimming for dear life, and blow out his brains is almost as bad as shooting pheasants in an English preserve or poultry in a barnyard.
Viola beat it handsomely and then rowed directly across to the island, where she would have a good view of the sailing race, though I think her object was more to escape the crowd.
After remaining stationary for about an hour, theyrowed back again, and, aided by the stream, in a short time reached their destination.
Having bestowed the barrels of powder carefully in the cellar, and fastened the door of the house and the garden-gate after them, the trio returned to the boat, and rowed back to Lambeth, where they arrived without being noticed.
Here the Earl and his companion were allowed to disembark, and they had no sooner set foot on land than Guy Fawkes pushed off the boat, and rowed as swiftly as he could towards the centre of the stream.
But the waterman who had rowed the Earl was not of equal courage with his employer, and refused to take part in the conflict.
When the chase had got to a sufficient distance to be out of hearing, the fugitives rowed swiftly in the contrary direction.
Overcome by emotion, Viviana sank into his arms, and in another moment she was placed in a wherry, which was ordered to be rowed towards Westminster.
At midnight a man rowed silently up to the side of the ship, crept up to the tent, and struck so violent a blow with his axe, that it remained sticking in the wood, while the murderer retired to his boat, and rowed away in the dark.
Bruce, Douglas, and one other were the first to cross, and the third then rowed back for another freight, while throughout this tedious waiting the King made his friends forget their troubles by reciting poems and tales of chivalry.
The king's son took the sword from his hammock, and rowed to the island, without any one having perceived that he had been on board.
Then the prince rushed on the wizard king, and cut off his heads, so that the blood flowed like a great river, and when he had convinced himself that the wizard was dead, he rowed back to the vessel, and again concealed the sword.
Meanwhile the younger prince had rowed to the shore, and soon found in the castle the chest containing the golden crowns, and after a great deal of trouble and fatigue, for it was very heavy, he succeeded in heaving it into the boat.
Meanwhile, he rowed on, with long, leisurely strokes; and the lapping of the water round the oars was the only sound to be heard.
Maurice and Louise had rowed to Connewitz; but so late in the evening that most of the variously shaped boats, with coloured lanterns at their bows, were returning when they started.
There they found land, and rowedalong it in boats, and examined the country, and found there [on the shore] many flat stones so large that two men might easily lie stretched upon them sole to sole.
Then the strangers rowed towards them, and wondered, and came ashore.
The boats terminated in exactly the same way fore and aft, agreeing with what Tacitus says of the boats of the Suiones; and they could be rowed in both directions.
Thither ne'er rowed the oar of Argonaut, The impure Colchian never there had footing.
And they stayed there awhile, and wondered, then rowed away and went south of the headland.
The Skrælings were scared and ran to their boats (keipana) and rowed south along the shore.
For fear of the beast they rowed away without landing.
They were accordingly rowed on shore in the sloop's boat.
All night long they rowed on, till they arrived at a part of the country which the flood had not reached.
After the crew had rowed for some time, an island appeared in view, with dunes, or sandhills, rising over a considerable portion.
The one-eyed mariner rowed slower and slower, and managed to carry on the conversation alternately with the Count and the Baron.
The Count agreed, and theyrowed thus for some time.
The stranger made no reply, but rowed slowly away, and Captain Jan Dunck again dived into the cabin.
Sometimes they rowed one way, and sometimes another, and the boat consequently went round and round.
So Billy Brackett rowed down the creek without a trace of anxiety to mar the pleasure of the adventure into which he had so unexpectedly tumbled.
There had been no oars in it, but they had rowed it to the raft with an extra pair from their own skiff.
If you hadn't taken the oars out I should have rowed into Dubuque and sent some one back to the island with her.
He roweddiagonally up-stream instead, so as to land at some distance above it.
Billy Brackett and Winn rowedin every direction about the raft so long as there was the slightest hope of picking up a struggling swimmer.
Until sunset he rowed steadily and swiftly downstream, hailing the ferrymen as he passed, and stopping at the settlements on both sides of the river to make inquiries.
This refractory criminal must be saved from himself, cost what it might, and responsibility again rested heavy on my client's mind as I rowed him out to the Maria.
Steamers ply up and down the lake, but as none left at an hour early enough to connect with a train that reached Venice the same evening, we took a boat and were rowed to Lecco.
Last April the Emperor made a visit to Venice, and was received by Victor Emmanuel, and was rowed up the Grand Canal with a state which recalled the pomp of her ancient days of glory.
Then the boatman dipped his oar gently, as if fearing to break the charm, and rowed us back to our hotel; but the music continued to a late hour, and lulled us to sleep.
The king gave orders for all these things to be provided, and when the boat was ready, and the maidens who were to row had taken their places, he entered the boat and sat in his little pavilion and was rowed about on the lake.
The motions of the rowers as they rowed the boat about would interest him, and the sight of the depths of the waters, and the pretty fields and gardens round about the lake, would give him great pleasure.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rowed" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
