The wind was very high, it blew almost a hurricane, and the gondola having only one rower the danger was great.
I took a second rower so as to reach St. Mark's Square more rapidly, and I immediately set to work looking for what I wanted.
Pem was longing uncontrollably for his appearance, also--for the rower whom she had robbed of his oars, while the sufferer seemed to find his only relief in talking about him.
Both climbed into the boat that had brought Frank aboard the submarine and the rower put off for shore with powerful strokes.
Jumping aboard and bidding the rower to wait for him, Frank dashed madly for Lord Hastings' quarters.
He was a couple of hundred yards from the shore when a boat pushed out after him with one rower and three passengers.
In that which had only one rower sat the overseers of the labyrinth, looking diligently at their rivals, as far as was permitted by the darkness, which came soon after sundown.
A boat propelled by three rowers with four oars, the middle rower pulling two.
The rower who pulls the stroke oar; the strokesman.
A narrow crosspiece of the bottom of a boat against which a rower braces his feet.
Directly the tribune caught the view he wished--the rower turned and looked at him.
The chief looked sharply at therower then going forward.
The arrangement gave each rower when at work ample room, if he timed his movements with those of his associates, the principle being that of soldiers marching with cadenced step in close order.
The rower started, withdrew his face from the inquisitor, and, as if personally chidden, dropped the oar half feathered.
When Druilius won the first sea-fight for his country, Romans plied the oars, and the glory was to the rower not less than the marine.
In the cabin, swinging in the great chair, his thought continually reverted to the rower on number sixty.
Lifting his eyes from the solarium set under the aplustre for reference in keeping the course, Arrius beheld the rower approaching.
Once more the boat's head is turned upstream, and for a long spell no further conversation is exchanged--only now and then a word relating to the management of the craft, as between rower and steerer.
Luckily, they lack skill; which, fortunately for herself, the rower of the pleasure-boat possesses.
The young rower should be at once shown how to free his oar in this way, and then he may pull with that freedom from restraint which is necessary to produce a good style.
The rower should, as far as possible, take some good oarsman for his model, and endeavour to imitate him in every respect, which is the only mode of acquiring a good style.
The thowl-pin is for the purpose of pulling the oar against, whilst the stopper prevents the oar from slipping forwards when the rower is pushing it in that direction after the stroke.
THE BLIND ROWER And since he rowed his father home, His hand has never touched an oar.
Defn: A boat propelled by three rowers with four oars, the middle rower pulling two.
The better the beginning of a stroke is caught in the water, the more the fulcrum of water itself solidifies, and by so much more can the rower throw his weight on then, and at just the right time.
The peasant who was my rower and companion had placed nets all along the shore, in which he caught plenty of pike.
On my inquiring what these birds had done to be so served, the rower made me remark, on the most lofty of the fir trees, concave cylinders of wood, closed at top and bottom, and having an aperture on one side.
The rower said he had shot one and nailed it up against the wall, with all its flesh and feathers on.
There was a small piece of plank laid across as a seat, but the rower was obliged to cross his knees from want of room to sit with them apart.
At each dip of the oar into the water, the rower mounts upon a bench before him, and then, during the stroke, throws himself off again with his full force.
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