The rowers seemed to be aware that the boat was vast and beamy.
The pairs of rowers were in their places: Peggy may have had a sage desire to keep them out of mischief.
The rowersdid their best; the boat sped through the water.
The captain grew fierce and restless, and cursed the rowers for their slowness; and the old town of Whitehaven and all her shipping lay sound asleep.
Then it gets so low that nothing can be seen but a golden arc, and the rowers lay down their oars.
And all down the gangway amidships between the rowers stood the armed men who should take their places when their turn came, full sixty warriors, well armed and mail clad as if they had need to guard us across the sea.
The old chief himself was steering in full arms, and all the rowers were in their mail and helms, flashing and sparkling wondrously in the sun as they swung in time to the rowing song as they came.
One boat was capsized, leaving the four rowers underneath.
The rowers had to take their oars once more, and the reaction that followed upon their recent rejoicing was visible in universal gloom and dejection.
Our voyage occupied several joms; but our progress was continuous, for different sets of rowers relieved one another at regular intervals.
The rowerspulled with no life or animation; the officers stood about sighing and lamenting; Almah and I were the only ones that rejoiced over this escape from death.
The rowers wore a coarse tunic, with a girdle of rope.
Destruction was inevitable, and I was expecting to see the usual signs of grief and despair--wondering, too, how these rowers would preserve their subordination.
In the ardor of the fight the rowers dropped their oars and hurried to the scene, to take part in the struggle.
Weakness of eyes seemed common among these people, and therefore the officers had their cabin darkened, while the unfortunate rowers had to labor in the blazing sun.
At his word the galley started, and the rowers pulled out to sea with long, regular strokes.
In the fleet the rowers are the highest class; next come the fighting-men; and lowest of all are the officers.
Their presage was not vain, for the wind rose with such extremity and violence and the sea wrought with such huge billows that the Masters could no more command, nor the rowers obey.
But he managed to catch hold of the chair with one hand and the hair of one of his rowers with the other, and so steadied himself.
The twentyrowers lived on the small end of the island, with the pearl fishers, and seemed not to care whether they ever returned to the Kingdom of Rinkitink or not.
For four days I have lived in that narrow boat," said he, "with no other amusement than to watch the rowers and quarrel with Bilbil; so I am very glad to be on land again with such friendly and agreeable people.
The rowers of the boat were all solemn and silent and certainly no one on the shore had spoken.
The forty rowerswere left with the boat, while Queen Cor and King Cos, with their royal prisoners, who were still chained, began the journey to the Nome King.
The poor people of Gilgad," said Rinkitink cheerfully, "are little likely ever again to behold their King in the flesh, for my boat and my rowers are gone with everything else.
One of the rowersbrought from the boat a saddle made of red velvet and beautifully embroidered with silver thistles, which he fastened upon the goat's back.
King Gos had expected to be pursued by Inga in his magic boat, so he made all the haste possible, urging his forty rowers to their best efforts night and day.
At the first onset, the skill and tactics of the steersmen shone conspicuous, well seconded by zeal on the part of the rowers and by their ready obedience to the voice of the keleustês.
The moment immediately succeeding this farewell—when all the soldiers were already on board, and the keleustês was on the point of beginning his chant to put the rowers in motion—was peculiarly solemn and touching.
Comitre: an officer in the galleys of that epoch, who had charge of the working of the ship, and the punishment of the rowers and convicts.
Every sail was set; the rowers plied their utmost strength, and thus it was with great violence that the ship ran foul of the rocks called the Ras de Catte.
In that boat the brothers Lynn were standing up waving their hats, and the little craft seemed to go faster and faster though the two rowers had not yet lowered their oars.
But two more sprang to their places, seized the great rudder oar, and the rowers toiling hard, the progress of the junk was apparently not checked, and she came steadily on.
One of therowers was a beautiful young woman, named Atalanta, who had been nursed among the mountains by a bear.
One of the rowers in the other boat had "crabbed" his oar and lost it overboard, or the colonel's plan would have succeeded.
The bateau was so crowded with stores that the rowers had but little space to use the oars.
Master Archy, when the boat came up to the steps, and the rowers had tossed their oars.
The men busked on their harness and made them fit for fight, and, when all was ready, Eric mounted the poop, and with him Skallagrim, and bade the rowers give way.
We will have her, at the least," said Eric, and bade the rowers get out their oars.
In these reliefs there are twenty rowers on the boats on the Nile, and thirty on the ships on the Red Sea; but in the earliest reliefs the number varies considerably, and seems dependent on the amount of space at the sculptor's disposal.
Illustration: Rowers in an Athenian warship, about 400 B.
As they started, the rowers set up a yell, as if animated by the prospect of some stirring and adventurous exploit.
It is curious to observe these rafts, on their passage, with their companies of rowers stationed at each end, making the shores ring again to the sound of their immense oars.
My men strained every muscle, but the pace was impossible--it could not last; and the rowers in the French boat hung over their oars also with enthusiasm.
The first are like tortoises; the second like snails; and when a man is able to put a good horse between his knees, that horse is better than rowers or any other means.
Then Rochester, with an ill-dissembled pride, which pierced the heart of the unhappy Buckingham through and through, led the princess across the little bridge which the rowers had cast from the royal boat to the shore.
I could have embarked you on the canal, but the devil take rowersand boat-horses!
At the mate’s orders, the two apprentices and the sailors in the bow took their seats by the rowers and double-banked the oars.
When the canoes were within a quarter of a mile the rowersbroke into a sort of chant, with occasional wild shouts and yells.
Our sturdy rowersaccordingly bent to their oars, and the arrowy caïque shot across the port, and out into the wider sea beyond, like a wild bird.
We gave the Moorish rowers some food, and the renegade comforted them by telling them that they were not held as captives, as we should set them free on the first opportunity.
Ned O'Connor, as the little boat approached the rock, propelled by two active young rowers in Guernsey shirts, white trousers, and straw hats.
Such a preponderance was thus given to the rowerson the opposite side, that when the wave struck the boat, it caught her on the side instead of the bow, and hurled her upon a ledge of shelving rocks, where the water left her.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rowers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
