"Rower" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... uncle, with a ring of gladness in his voice, all the more that it was plain that the rower was indeed Gerald, and he began to hail those on shore, while Fergus's head rose up from the bottom of ...
— The Long Vacation • Charlotte M. Yonge
... a maiden fair Accompanies the rower, and the sound Of merriment and laughter on the air Arises, softly echoing around. And all seem bright and happy, and have one To keep ...
— The Song of the Exile—A Canadian Epic • Wilfred S. Skeats
... rower silently pursued his course across the lake; running his boat aground, on a small pebbly strand near ...
— A Love Story • A Bushman
... on account of the shore being so full of weeds and the clearness of the water, fishing from the banks was almost an impossibility, and how they had to accustom themselves to troll from a boat so small as to only accommodate the rower ...
— The Czar's Spy - The Mystery of a Silent Love • William Le Queux
... which had been young when she lighted the lovers in the mud-bank adventure, was now a more experienced orb and shed a useful light. Carnaby intended to cross the river in a small tub which was propelled by a single oar worked at the stern, the rower standing. This craft was intended for pottering about the shore; to cross the river in it was the dangerous feat of a skilled waterman, but Carnaby had a knack of his own with every floating thing. As he balanced himself in the rocking ...
— Robinetta • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... shivering, with wet hair streaming, a wild amazed consciousness in her eyes, as if she had waked up in a world where some judgment was impending, and the beings she saw around were coming to seize her. The first rower who jumped to land was also wet through, and ran off; the sailors, close about the boat, hindered Deronda from advancing, and he could only look on while Gwendolen gave scared glances, and seemed to shrink with terror as she was carefully, tenderly helped ...
— Daniel Deronda • George Eliot
... Taylor had left for him was gone, and he had made up his mind to appropriate the boat of the rower, in ...
— The Dock Rats of New York • "Old Sleuth"
... grew black as night. Down shot a feather from one of the birds. It struck one of the rowers on the left shoulder and he dropped his oar, for the pain was like a spear-thrust. Down sped another arrow feather, so pointed and sharp that another rower who was hit had to drop his oar. Thicker and faster came these arrow feathers upon the bare heads and naked shoulders of the men at ...
— Classic Myths • Retold by Mary Catherine Judd
... her oars and was rowing at a brisk rate toward the ledge. Sometimes a huge, green, glittering wave would arise and roll towards the shell, and the fishermen would close their eyes; but in response to the rower's quick wrist, the little skiff would turn and climb over the roaring crest of the terrible billow. Sometimes the boat was nowhere to be seen, and one of the ...
— Annette, The Metis Spy • Joseph Edmund Collins
... yours must be a fast one indeed, Francisco, for with only one rower she keeps up with almost all the pair oared boats, and your boy is not exerting himself to ...
— The Lion of Saint Mark - A Story of Venice in the Fourteenth Century • G. A. Henty
... named Noah Had made up his mind that he'd go a— Sailing alone In a boat of his own, For he was a champion rower. ...
— Harper's Young People, October 12, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... other they all got up on the waiting ship. It always seemed to Ariston as though a wave had thrown him there. Or had Poseidon carried him? At any rate, the great oars of the galley were flying. He could hear every rower groan as he pulled at his oar. The sails, too, were spread. The master himself stood at the helm. His face was one great frown. The boat was flung up and down like a ball. Then ...
— Buried Cities: Pompeii, Olympia, Mycenae • Jennie Hall |
