wager-boats

Updated: May 10, 2025

Not a day of the intervening week but sundry small cockle-shells things the ladies had already begun to designate as the "wager-boats," each containing a gentleman occupant, exercising his arms on a pair of sculls might be seen any hour passing and repassing on the water; and the green slopes of Hartledon, which here formed the bank of the river, grew to be tenanted with fair occupants.

Mrs. Henry Wood - Elster's Folly : A Novel