The technical name, Notonecta, meaning "back-swimmer," alludes to the habit of the insect of swimming upside down, the body being propelled through the water by powerful strokes of the hind legs, which are fringed with hair and, when at rest, are extended laterally like a pair of sculls in a boat. [Please select]
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The sculls bend like wands, the rowlocks creak, the thole-pins crack. [Please select]
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Fareham looked round, without moving his sculls from the rowlocks. [Please select]
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The most expert waterman that sculls his skiff on the Thames or Isis, is but an humble and unskillful imitator of the dabchick. [Please select]
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'You will come back, right enough,' said his friend, as he handed him a pair of sculls. [Please select]
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The rudder-like oar, several feet long, is held by the captain, who sculls and steers at the same time. [Please select]
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"To see them Frenchy hoppers get a jolly hiding," Jem Prater replied, without easing his sculls. [Please select]
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