At my command the scullers brought the boat around, bows on, and headed her for the nearest junk.
Without waiting for further words, both bowed, and the older one signed to the scullers with his fan.
And now had Greece been overturn'd, And all their keels and scullers burn'd; But sly Ulysses ran with speed To call his neighbour Diomede: Diom.
This inability to assimilate one's style to that of another man, or body of men, may be the reason why some excellent amateur scullers proved inferior oars, or it may be that they can go at their own pace and not at another man's.
Talking of pace reminds me of how soon even the best scullers tire.
Long before the actual sliding seat had been invented professional oarsmen and scullers had discovered that if they slid on their fixed thwarts they increased the pace of their boats, and even amongst amateurs this practice was not unknown.
In this position nine out of ten scullers fail to get a really quick recovery with the sculls clean out and clear of the water, the hands away like lightning and clear of the knees, and the body at the same time swinging forward.
Churchill, have been good and fast scullers at Eton, but two or three years afterwards are slow, and get slower and slower the longer they continue.
His superiority was manifest, and yet our British (professional) scullers seemed wedded to this vicious trick of premature slide and no swing, and doggedly declined to recognise the maxim Fas est et ab hoste doceri.
At that rate the two best British scullers were, in the writer's opinion, two amateurs--viz.
It was a common practice for Tyne scullers to do this, to save the cost of conveyance back to the Tyne.
So that half-a-dozen oarsmen or scullers of equal class, if they will thus mutually assist each other, can attain between them a higher standard than if each had rowed like a hermit.
He must not try to row too fast a stroke; a quick stroke hides faults, and speed tends to keep a light craft on an even keel so long as her crew are fresh; but style is not learned while oarsmen or scullers are straining their utmost.
The two scullers raced round the point, Lee leading slightly; but the Oxonian caught him and just headed him on the post.
Scullers gain more by slides than oarsmen, because they can work square throughout to the stretcher, whereas the oarsman's handle tends to place the strain at different angles to his body as the stroke progresses.
This signified that there was a native burial ground close by, and all the canoes were stopped, the scullers putting their paddles down, while the Hadji and all his men proceeded to wash their faces in the river.
The lasses with sunshades from far Yokohama, The pretty girl-scullers with pretty brown hands!
Frank, remembering the name as that of one of the best scullers Cornell ever turned out.
With powerful scullers a speed of three miles an hour is attained in a dead calm.
A speed of three miles an hour is the maximum that can be attained with the sua, but the scullers can maintain this speed for a long time without fatigue.
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