"Rowboat" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... both together, or I miss my guess," Captain Jack shouted back as he halted at the water's edge, where a rowboat lay hauled up ...
— The Submarine Boys and the Middies • Victor G. Durham
... great mountain-range, it pursued its gleaming way, here lying silent in glassy lakes, there rushing into tinkling little falls, foaming great falls, and thundering cataracts. Scores of bridges spanned its width, but no steamers flurried its crystal depths. Here and there a rough little rowboat, tethered to a willow, rocked to and fro in some quiet bend of the shore. Here the silver gleam of a rising perch, chub, or trout caught the eye; there a pickerel lay rigid in the clear water, a fish carved in stone: here eels coiled ...
— Homespun Tales • Kate Douglas Wiggin
... rowboat had better look out; if he makes a quick turn with the tug he's apt to run the little punkin seed down," George declared, with a note of anxiety in his voice; for he was nervous by nature, as his love for racing and making ...
— Motor Boat Boys Down the Coast - or Through Storm and Stress to Florida • Louis Arundel
... trouble about accomplishing that and when he dropped into the rowboat with a pair of excellent oars in his ...
— Eagles of the Sky - With Jack Ralston Along the Air Lanes • Ambrose Newcomb
... foreman of the gang. Miserable as he was, he would not have been a boy if he had not been interested in his novel surroundings; and no intelligent boy could have failed to take an interest in the construction of a gallivat. It was a large rowboat of from thirty to seventy tons, with two masts, the mizzen being very slight. The mainmast bore one huge sail, triangular in form, its peak extending to a considerable height above the mast. The smaller gallivats were covered with a spar deck made of split bamboos, their ...
— In Clive's Command - A Story of the Fight for India • Herbert Strang
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