rowing-boat

A good-sized open sailing-boat took me across to the mouth of the Palembang river where, at a fishing village, a rowing-boat was hired to take me up to Palembang — a distance of nearly a hundred miles by water.

The Malay Archipelago 2004

Westminster he took it in a small sailing-boat, so small that it passed much of its time as a rowing-boat.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

Westminster he took it in a small sailing-boat, so small that it passed much of its time as a rowing-boat.

The Complete Father Brown 2003

When Flambeau took his month's holiday from his office in Westminster he took it in a small sailing-boat, so small that it passed much of its time as a rowing-boat.

The Father Brown Omnibus Chesterton, G. K. 2003

One and all had their eyes fixed on a small rowing-boat that was making for the shore from the steamer, which lay at anchor some way out.

Ultima Thule 2003

Mbeki was unable to navigate a political rowing-boat in a swimming pool and would eventually carry the blame for the collapse of the country, the party said.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1997

It is questionable whether Henry Kaiser could have designed a rowing-boat but that was of no matter.

San Andreas MacLean, Alistair 1984

As he had done his swimming for the day, he hailed an old local salt who was reclining in a rowing-boat on the other side.

Salvage for the Saint Charteris, Leslie, 1907- 1983

She handed Dame Beatrice (who needed no such assistance) into the broad-beamed rowing-boat.

My Bones Will Keep Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1977

We walked through the fields in silence, and when we came out on to the sands he pointed at the distant shape of a rowing-boat, lying comfortably on her side, with a frilly skirt of ripples round her stern.

My Family and Other Animals Durrell, Gerald, 1925- 1956