Rowing
['rəʊɪŋ] or ['roɪŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Row
Edited by Adrian
Examples
- At these latter words the girl shivered again, and for a moment paused in her rowing, seeming to turn deadly faint. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I saw the lights of the hotel and rowed out, rowing straight out until they were out of sight. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Are you tired from rowing? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- There was a boat with a gaudy Japanese parasol, and a man in white, rowing. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Down the sable flood we glided, I thought of the Styx, and of Charon rowing some solitary soul to the Land of Shades. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The art of rowing can first be discerned upon the Nile. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Augustus, at the word of command, took off his coat and waistcoat and began rowing, while Berkeley was all attention to us. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- I eased up rowing. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- At length, by mere dint of rowing, we reached the French coast. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Rowing is my great sport. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I stayed well out in the lake, rowing awhile, then resting and holding the oars so that the wind struck the blades. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- I was very, very tired of rowing. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- They have evidently been rowing here all the morning, and are tired out. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- But not that--it was the whiteness he seemed to enclose as he bent forwards, rowing. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- It made Gudrun almost helpless at the rowing, this nervous stress. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
Checked by Harlan