"Rowboat" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... could very well manage, and quite enough to keep us going so soon as we should get outside. My only anxiety was lest we should have trouble with the people before we could pass out clear of the heads into the open ocean. Once there I knew that we could easily run away from any rowboat that they could launch. And that reminded me that we had no less than four boats towing behind us, and that they retarded our speed to a quite perceptible extent. Summoning Fonseca and Jose to my assistance, therefore, ...
— A Middy in Command - A Tale of the Slave Squadron • Harry Collingwood
... to the small deck, casting the rowboat adrift. It was the work of but a moment to open the conning tower. As they started to descend they were met ...
— Tom Swift and his Submarine Boat - or, Under the Ocean for Sunken Treasure • Victor Appleton
... rowboat appeared from behind the white curtain of fog, and the boys and girls saw. that Mr. Carson Blowitz was in ...
— The Motor Boys on the Pacific • Clarence Young
... not far from half an hour after the time appointed in the note, when a rowboat came suddenly out of the night and pulled up to the landing place at the foot of the garden above mentioned, and three or four men came ashore in the darkness. Without saying a word among themselves they chose a near-by table and, sitting down, ordered ...
— Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates • Howard I. Pyle
... beginning to clear itself from the fumes of the chloroform, and he could think more clearly. He wondered more and more what his fate was to be. Evidently the men were taking him somewhere in a rowboat. But whether he was to be taken wherever they were going, in this small craft, or whether it was being used to transport them to a larger boat, he could not, ...
— Baseball Joe in the Big League - or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles • Lester Chadwick
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