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... of mankind, or of being moved with any compassion for them, that they look upon them as blessings showered down from above, and which the more they improve to their own use, the greater is their gratitude and piety. Thus at Gravesend a sculler requires a shilling for going less way than he would row in London for threepence; and at Deal a boat often brings more profit in a day than it can produce in London in a week, or perhaps in a month; in both places the owner of the boat founds his demand ...

— Journal of A Voyage to Lisbon • Henry Fielding

... in their mouths; but a man cannot imagine that thing so foolish or rude but will find and enjoy an admirer; at least a reader or spectator. The puppets are seen now in despite of the players; Heath's epigrams and the Sculler's poems have their applause. There are never wanting that dare prefer the worst preachers, the worst pleaders, the worst poets; not that the better have left to write or speak better, but that they that hear them judge ...

— Discoveries and Some Poems • Ben Jonson

... SCULLER. A boat rowed by one man with a light kind of oar, called a scull; also a ...

— 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue • Captain Grose et al.

... yielding sand, Till he came to the verge of the haunted land. She was as lovely a pleasure boat As ever fairy had paddled in, For she glowed with purple paint without, And shone with silvery pearl within; A sculler's notch in the stern he made, An oar he shaped of the bootle blade; Then spung to his seat with a lightsome leap, And launched afar ...

— The Culprit Fay - and Other Poems • Joseph Rodman Drake

Words linked to "Sculler" : oarsman, boat, rower, scull