Sculling in example sentence

There is more satisfaction in squaring one's back, and fighting against it, and winning one's way forward in spite of it - at least, so I feel, when Harris and George are sculling and I am steering.

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The sailors went back to their sculling, and the coxswain steered the longboat toward the floating barrel.

You are liable to occasionally splash a little when sculling, and it appeared that a drop of water ruined those costumes.

I was sculling, and asked the fellows who were steering if they thought it could be done, and they said, oh, yes, they thought so, if I pulled hard.

This makes it look picturesque; but it irritates you from a towing or sculling point of view, and causes argument between the man who is pulling and the man who is steering.

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