"Rower" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... gave the signal; the swift, almost invisible bark, which was generally used for wild fowl shooting, shot by—Rameri seized one end of an oar that the rower held out to him, and drew the little ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... and the return home ideal; Gilbert steered and relieved each rower in turn, while they sang their Scotch melodies with voices strong and clear, and we all joined in the chorus. When we reached Port Sonachan we heard that our driver had only arrived towards mid-day, and that his horses not being strong enough to stop the ...
— Philip Gilbert Hamerton • Philip Gilbert Hamerton et al
... pressed on, every rower apparently outdoing himself, if not outdoing everything else. If cheers and shouts had inspired them before, the intense silence now was even more inspiring. Could anything have succeeded better? With every show of exertion, the rascals managed to slacken or quicken as the case required, ...
— Donald and Dorothy • Mary Mapes Dodge
... rower drenched with spray, 5 The lemon-seller in the street, And the young girl who keeps her first Wild ...
— Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics • Bliss Carman
... sports and shoneen games the like of lawn tennis and about hurley and putting the stone and racy of the soil and building up a nation once again and all to that. And of course Bloom had to have his say too about if a fellow had a rower's heart violent exercise was bad. I declare to my antimacassar if you took up a straw from the bloody floor and if you said to Bloom: Look at, Bloom. Do you see that straw? That's a straw. Declare to my aunt he'd talk about it for an hour so ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce
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