rowed

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"Rowed him ashore?" echoed Red-Cap, with another contemptuous smile under the brown hand; "rowed him ashore?"

From Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses by Cozzens, Frederic S.

And thus as all our Vessels are Rowed from within, these are Paddled from without.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898—Volume 39 of 55 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of The Catholic Missions, As Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century, Volume XXXIX: 1683-1690 by Blair, Emma Helen

Sindbad the SailorWe Rowed as Fast as we Could I climbed the tree next night, and the drums and trumpets returned as before.

From Favorite Fairy Tales by Marshall, Logan

Rowed back to the shore, he starts again with fresh horses and goes swiftly on, through the night, to some other inn, where the noise of his arrival awakens all the sleepers.

From One Year Abroad by Howard, Blanche Willis

Rowed down stream, the young people converse among themselves, gaily now and then giving way to laughter, as though it were any other day than Sunday.

From Gwen Wynn by Reid, Mayne