Vessel with oars

Usage examples of rowboat.

The very words were frightening to Dolley, suggesting a majestic full-rigged ship bearing down on a defenseless little rowboat-she being the rowboat.

Collecting my seabag I said farewell to the surly Captain Griggs and stepped into the small rowboat.

The steamboats skimming along under the stupendous precipices were diminished by distance to the daintiest little toys, the sailboats and rowboats to shallops proper for fairies that keep house in the cups of lilies and ride to court on the backs of bumblebees.

Rowboats ferried out archers and pikemen, the raised pikes making the boats look like gigantic pricklebacks swimming on the surface.

We have a couple of rowboats, and maybe you can hire a little sailing skiff.

There was a little wharf, at which the Seaburys kept a couple of rowboats, and, as six were too many to go into one craft, Nellie and Jerry occupied the smaller, while Bob and Ned, Olivia and Rose, got into the other.

At that moment a shrill whistle sounded just behind the rowboats and the girls turned around to see what it was.

He tied the two rowboats together, the other boys helping him, and then anchored them with a small, spare kedge he carried on his craft.

So in the midst of the attempt to order the steamboats into a convoy for the passage upstream, two big rowboats swung out into the river, with six men pulling at the oars of each and another dozen or so under arms, many of them foolishly standing up and huzzahing their own bravado.

Sure enough, one of the rowboats, with its pilot yelling for a steamboat to get out of the way, tried to insert itself between the big riverboats.

Meanwhile, rowboats threw lines to help draw the limping, smoldering Prosper toward refuge.

Farrell sat in a tree and watched the enemy knights climbing into half a dozen rowboats and being pushed off toward the island by their barelegged squires.

An old wooden rowboat and crab pots were in a yard scattered with oyster shells, and brown hydrangea lined a fence where there was a curious row of white-painted cubbyholes facing the unpaved street.

The door of Roger Pawling's stateroom was missing, and the rowboat which had hung between the davits on the after deck was missing.

Sheriff Amory and two of his deputies, some of the firemen, and a half dozen volunteers got out on the lake in rowboats and dragged nets back and forth, but they only came up with an angry catch of snapping turtles and cottonmouths.