Sentence example with the word 'oarsman'

oarsman

bargee, bargeman, barger, boat-handler, boater, boatman, boatsman, ferrier, ferryman, galley slave, gondolier, lighterman, oar, punter, rower, waterman, yachter, yachtsman

Definition n. someone who rows a boat

Last update: June 24, 2015


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He would say the most terrific things to his crew, in a tone so strangely compounded of fun and fury, and the fury seemed so calculated merely as a spice to the fun, that no oarsman could hear such queer invocations without pulling for dear life, and yet pulling for the mere joke of the thing.   [Please select]

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But the man behind him was a much greater oarsman than he and gained rapidly.   [Please select]

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A sudden cry from the oarsman at the bow, not of rocks or breakers ahead, but of "A new Jelly-fish astern."   [Please select]

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A poor oarsman may beat a fair swimmer, and she had the start of me.   [Please select]

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He consoled himself, however, by reflecting that he was a better oarsman than Valentine.   [Please select]

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As a matter of fact, he had been the champion oarsman of Penhurst Academy, but this they did not know.   [Please select]

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Before the evening was over he demonstrated the fact that he was a first-class oarsman, much to the satisfaction of his friend.   [Please select]

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The dreamer, the joyous oarsman, lay on his back at the bottom of the boat, his heels in the air.   [Please select]

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He was a fair oarsman, but it would have taken greater skill than his to have kept his boat afloat in the tempestuous river.   [Please select]

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