oarsmanship

In competitive oarsmanship there was no place for sneaky or equivocal behavior.

And it's a combination of skilled oarsmanship and sheer endurance that brings victory.

Its subject throughout is competitive oarsmanship at a high level, and it consists of exactly nine paintings, two watercolors and a group of perspective drawings.

Contemporary reports of Kelly's oarsmanship were glowing: 'his natural sense of poise and rhythm made his boat a live thing under him'.

Currently, those wishing to join must have raced competitively for a period of years with their founding club, won enough status points, and displayed sufficient proficiency in oarsmanship to qualify.

An Egyptian funerary inscription of 1430 BC records that the warrior Amenhotep (Amenophis) II was also renowned for his feats of oarsmanship.

Tales of Tongan royal oarsmanship had recently spread as far afield as Hawaii and Tahiti and I reasoned that it could do no harm to mention my interest, albeit one or two decades old.

Muttlebury had a natural aptitude which amounted to a genius for rowing, and, as he was not only massively large and full of courage but herculean in muscular strength, it was inevitable that he should be an outstanding exponent of oarsmanship.

Whether in the topmost ranks of Academe, in the development of surgery, in the prize ring, on the concert platform or in the strenuosities of competitive oarsmanship, Eakins prized the highest standards of performance in others and went on to demand them of himself.