Some of them have been men once: perhaps one retains his sculling skill, and is occasionally engaged by a gentleman to give him lessons.
Another mile or more; another rest: decidedly sculling against a swift current is work--downright work.
Thus to journey on from place to place would be the great charm of the river--travelling by water, not merely sculling to and fro, but really travelling.
Tom, sculling up the stream past him, as easily as Tom had sculled down.
Sculling was a manoeuvre of which I had heard, and seen practised, but had never practised myself.
The oar upon being fitted in the cavity could be rapidly turned to the right and to the left, with a peculiar motion known to those who have learned the art of successfully sculling a craft in this way.
There's a sculling hole in the back of the stern seat, Shack!
It is a tough and heedless fish, biting from impulse, without nibbling, and from impulse refraining to bite, and sculling indifferently past.
The sampan-men, sculling lazily homeward past the black hull of the brig at anchor, could hear far into the night the drawl of the New England voice escaping through the lifted panes of the cabin skylight.
He made the trunk of a tree apparently stranded on the sand and as he was sculling past he says a man jumped up from behind that log, flung a stick at him and went off running.
He followed the plan of Hilliard and Merriman to the extent of hiring a boat in Hull and sculling gently down towards the wharf as dusk fell.
By eleven-thirty they were again scullingup the river.
They had carefully muffled their oars, and now they turned north and began sculling gently inshore.
The ensuing winter terms are devoted to football and fives, rowing not being allowed; and we may pass on to the next summer, when our Lower Boy will probably enter for both Lower Boy sculling and pulling (i.
Training for scullingrequires more time and practice than training for rowing.
After these come Junior Sculling and Junior Pulling, two races again confined to the Lower Boats.
Otherwise, train as you would for rowing, the only difference being that a little more time should be spent in the actual sculling than is spent in the actual rowing.
Yet you should never sacrifice your wind to obtain the advantage, for recollect that in sculling you can never take a blow or an easy for even a stroke.
That used for the Lower Boy scullingis known as a "whiff," an open clinker boat with outriggers.
Sculling is so entirely an art by itself, that a man might just as well ask a painter how he produces an impression on a canvas as ask a sculler why he can scull, or how it comes that so many good oarsmen cannot scull.
On our informing him it was a double-sculling skiff, he seemed surprised.
This makes it look picturesque; but it irritates you from a towing or sculling point of view, and causes argument between the man who is pulling and the man who is steering.
The Tyne man was the bigger, and had a very long sweep with his sculls; on that day he showed to great advantage, the more so because Kelley was not sculling up to his best form.
Also, in 1867, a Tyne sculler, Percy, tried sliding on a fixed seat in a sculling match against J.
His description of his own sculling at that juncture (modestly penned) was 'now rowing longer and with all his power.
It produced, like the preceding series, fine rowing, and many a subsequent sculling or four-oar match arose out of the regatta contests.
Hanlan a pair of sculls for the occasion, and with them Hanlan won the Open Professional Sculling Prize.
Except a sculling boat, a pair-oar is the fastest starting of all craft; but if it is thus easy to set in motion at the outset of a race, it is plain that it can be spurted later on as suddenly.
Now the writer was known to be an ally of Kelley (who usually accompanied him when training on the tideway for sculling races).
He can clear his knees with a shorter stretcher when sculling than when rowing, as he can easily see for himself.
Just about this date a sculling regatta, open to the world, was organised on the Thames.
Sculling needs more precision and more watermanship than rowing.
The next University race was not rowed with slides, but a couple of minor scullingraces in the spring were rowed with them.
A sculling match from Bramerton to Whitlingham, for 10 pounds a side, between R.
Don't you see, sir, that every minute or two he strikes down, instead of sculling off handsomely and with a wide sweep, as becomes a whale?
The whale to which Roswell was fast continued sculling away to windward for quite two hours, causing the men to entirely lose sight of the other boats, and bringing the topsails of the schooners themselves down to the water's edge.
His earnest sculling of the boat had not made all thought for the morrow impracticable.
In that case," said he, "I should advise you to take the oar to the sculling place in the centre of the stern.
It was forgotten, though, the next moment, for unmistakably there was the sound of an oar whishing about in the water, as if someone had it over the stern and, fisherman fashions was sculling the boat towards the bank.
Then the sculling began again, the rustling was repeated somewhere behind where Nic crouched, and he felt for the muskets to take them up.
I pointed to a dorsal fin that was sculling lazily along half-a-dozen fathoms away.
A sculling match, for 40 pounds, was rowed on the Yare, from Surlingham to Whitlingham (3.
A sculling match from Surlingham to the New Cut at Thorpe took place between Lett, of London, and R.
A sculling match, for 10 pounds a side, was rowed from Postwick Hall to Whitlingham Point, between John Wright and Lancaster.
It is a great pity that some of our instructors in more important matters than scullingwill not take a leaf out of the same book.
I threw an oar over the boat's stern, and, getting her head round for my ship, fell to sculling her with might and main.
I had not been sculling more than three or four minutes when I perceived that Captain Hoste had gathered way upon his ship.
I was away from the ship and sculling furiously for the shore in about the same time that it has taken to write this particular sentence.
She scrambled aft, and unshipping the dinghy, came sculling towards me across the intervening water.
Before he could recover himself I was ten yards from the shore, sculling vigorously for the centre of the stream.
This I firmly fixed to the boat's transom, so that, when necessary, we could use one of the oars to steer with; or forsculling purposes.
From a junk that lay opposite us a large sharp-bowed boat was sculling leisurely shoreward.
I stared out the nearest window, and sighted our guard-boats of the night, scullingalong in our wake, not a biscuit’s throw distant.
As I leaned out of the window I caught a glimpse of one of the guard-boats sculling leisurely across the belt of light between the Sea Flight and Kagoshima.
Of course, I will," replied Cabot; and in another minute the young skipper was sculling ashore in the dinghy, while the schooner drifted more slowly in the same direction.
A second glance disclosed the dinghy half way to the beach, while in her stern, sculling her swiftly along with practised hand, stood the wooden-headed young savage who didn't know how to manage a boat.
One man would do the sculling and the other would lean over the bow with a water glass in one hand--a pail with a pane of glass for a bottom--and a long pole with a hook in the end in the other.
When he spied a sponge on the bottom through the glass he'd have the other stop sculling and he would hook it up with his pole.
Anchor was dropped, sails lowered, and launching a small boat it carried on deck, its crew of two came sculling for the shore.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sculling" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
