Oarswomen

One gentleman should stay in the boat and help to steady it, unless the oarswomen are very expert. ❋ Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood (N/A)

Many a summer afternoon have I rowed joyously with these same maidens beneath these steep and garlanded shores; many a time have they pulled the heavy four-oar, with me as coxswain at the helm, -- the said patient steersman being oft-times insulted by classical allusions from rival boats, satirically comparing him to an indolent Venus drawn by doves, while the oarswomen in turn were likened to Minerva with her feet upon ❋ Various (N/A)

The eight oarswomen picked the light shell up, shoulder high, and marched down the platform to the float. ❋ Alice B. Emerson (N/A)

We have no data upon which to decide the first point, though it is probable that, as the boat belonged to the girls 'household, they would be capable oarswomen. ❋ Henry Ernest Dudeney (1893)

Amidst deafening applause the boat drew up before the landing-stage, and, while the oarswomen stood to attention, the central figure alighted, and moved slowly forward until she stood in front of the semicircle of watchers. ❋ George De Horne Vaizey (1887)

The oarswomen stood at their post, wearing pale green caps over their flowing locks, and loose robes of the same colour. ❋ George De Horne Vaizey (1887)

These were his oarswomen; one that caught a crab, he slew incontinently with the tiller; thus disciplined, they pulled him by night to the scene of his vengeance, which he would then execute alone and return well-pleased with his connubial crew. ❋ Robert Louis Stevenson (1872)

The Seattle native and Oregon State grad will coach novice oarswomen. ❋ Unknown (2011)