The instant her brother and Nigel were on board, she gave it a dexterous turn, and the canoe shot away from the shore, impelled by the strokes of two lads who formed the crew.
As he was nearing the landing-place, he observed a canoe, urged on towards the shore with rapid strokes by an Indian who plied his paddle, now on one side, now on the other.
With these flippers and the eel-like strokes of their flattened tail they swam--some with less, others with greater speed.
Their trot was perfectly grand--great, firm strokes which seemed to fairly fling the bodies onward.
It was a comfort to hear anything in the total darkness, and she tried to amuse herself by counting the strokes up to a hundred and then checking the hundreds by turning in one finger after another.
But she got into trouble with the ciphers when she tried to multiply sixty by sixty in her head, and she began counting the strokes again.
But nice distinctions of outline, even were they ascertainable, are not to be marked on the tiny seal, or easily expressed by the broad strokes of the shield painter.
A bold convention of the earliest shield painters displayed him with spread wing and claw, the feat of a few strokes of the brush, and after this fashion he appears on many scores of shields.
A party of the crew, led by Ralph and other officers, with gleaming axes quickly severed the weather rigging, and a few strokes were sufficient to send the tall masts, with their spars, crashing over to leeward.
She hurried down to meet him, as, standing up, he gave a few more strokes and brought the boat to shore.
It was the last night of the year, and the bell upon the church near by had made many strokes the last time it had been heard; many heavy strokes which throbbed sullenly, mournfully on the air.
Silence again reigns, and the hoof-strokes of the retreating fugitive can be heard through the tranquil calm of the night, stirring them to pursuit.
Next to hear the hoof-strokes of a horse in gallop as if going off; which in a way cheers him: it may be his son escaped.
The intermediate grains participate of the qualities of the two extremes: they are brittle and hard, they break or extend under the strokes of the pestle, and afford a little powder not so black as the first.
By and by comes the miner, and with strong and repeated strokes he drills a hole in its top, and the rock says, 'What does this mean?
He has no time to devote to useless trifling of any kind, but puts in as many strokes of faithful work as possible toward the attainment of some definite good.
The next he emerged, and a few strokes of his broad wing carried him into the air, while a large fish was seen griped in his claws.
He got his body into the water, and, with a few strokes of his webbed feet, jerked the turtle after, and both were now fairly launched.
The canoe was headed for the bulrushes near the point where the trumpeter had been last seen; and a few strokes of the paddles brought the little craft with a whizzing sound among the sedge.
A few strokes of its broad feet propelled it into the open water near the middle of the stream, when, making a half wheel, it turned head down the river, and swam with the current.
Again was heard the wild scream and the maniac laugh; and the next moment an eagle swept out from the timber, and, after a few strokes of its broad wing, poised itself over the spot where the trumpeter had gone down.
Perhaps they had not seen me, but only received warning of my approach by hearing the hoof-strokes of my horse; or they might have seen the steed I was in pursuit of, before mine had made its appearance in the avenue.
One beggar in Saugor said that he would give every one who gave him alms five strokes with his whip, and attracted considerable custom by this novel expedient.
At last he made a few quick strokes on one end of the stone, and I saw the outline of a head appear.
Shee's a Lady So tender of rebukes, that words are stroke; And strokes death to her.
In your bad strokes Brutus, you giue good words Witnesse the hole you made in Caesars heart, Crying long liue, Haile Caesar Cassi.
Good words are better then bad strokes Octauius An.
That spirit's possest with hast, That wounds th' vnsisting Posterne with these strokes Pro.
Had I not three strokesof a ferula given me, two on my right hand, and one on my left, for calling Helena a bitch for it?
Swaying with the pestle, as it rises and falls, the breast and posteriors correspond to the strokes of the dasher in a droll sort of sing-song, which gave to the whole exhibition the drollest effect imaginable.
These, standing up and keeping time with their strokes to the steady beat of a drum, sent the boat like an arrow through the water and made a stirring picture as they dashed up to Stanley's camp.
If, as it were, he saturates his mind with impressions of this kind, of the strokes he would like to play, of the way he would like to play them, he will gradually and almost surely begin to play them just like that.
The two very long holes come together, and though they are virtually bunkerless you may be assured that they take an uncommon amount of playing, and that he who gets them in five strokes each is skilful and fortunate too.
Next to her on the championship list is the Marquesa de Alamoncid de los Oteros, six strokes behind.
Some of these emotions are experienced in a minor key when playing the short game, as we call it, particularly in finely-made pitching strokes with iron clubs.
They come to their conclusions speedily as to what is the proper thing to do, and, having done so, they make their strokes with no further hesitation.
It follows from this that the American players have fewer "scientific" or "fancy" strokes at their disposal, and those who have visited this country have been remarked upon for the plain simplicity of their iron play.
Strokes of this kind were also observable in the hunted life of the murderer in Barnaby Rudge; and his next book, Chuzzlewit, was, as it still remains, one of his greatest achievements.
Dickens, the never-to-be-exhausted fun of Pickwick, and the capital new strokes of Martin Chuzzlewit.
They were swept down to the extreme point of the eddy, but a few powerful strokes of the paddle sent them into it, and next moment they were floating behind the second rock, a few yards higher up the stream.
After a little the strokes became more gentle, and the gallop appeared to be changed to a walk.
About an hour had passed, when the sound of heavy footsteps awakened him once more, and listening a moment, he distinguished them as the hoof-strokes of a horse.
The hoof-strokes each moment were heard more distinctly; and it was evident that a horseman was galloping rapidly in the direction of the huts.
In a few seconds' time a dull sound reached him--the hoof-strokes of a horse that seemed to approach the spot where he lay.
What the motive was for the drum-strokes I cannot guess.
The picture is drawn with firm strokes as well as painted with a full brush.
Hunding is characterised more clearly and with more decisive strokes than Hagen in the last opera of the Ring, partly because there is more genuine inspiration in the Valkyrie, partly, perhaps, because Hunding is a much simpler personage.
And with leisurelystrokes he made for the beach, where he had thoughtfully left a Turkish towel beside his pile of clothes.
With alternate strokes to right and left Ben soon had the canoe back on its course parallel to the shore.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "strokes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
