"Punting" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Nile, and reproduced all that lay between his own standpoint and the horizon. In the wall-painting (fig. 176) the river flows along the line next the floor, boats come and go, and boatmen fall to blows with punting poles and gaffs. In the division next above, we see the river bank and the adjoining flats, where a party of slaves, hidden in the long grasses, trap and catch birds. Higher still, boat-making, rope-making, and fish-curing are going ...
— Manual Of Egyptian Archaeology And Guide To The Study Of Antiquities In Egypt • Gaston Camille Charles Maspero
... our first stage, comes to an end in about an hour and a half from the time of leaving St. Enimie. We now change boatmen—punters, I should rather call them. The navigation of the Tarn consists in skilful punting, every inch of the passage being rendered difficult by rocks and shoals, to say ...
— The Roof of France • Matilda Betham-Edwards
... be at the station to see you off," I said, for even if they wanted me I did not feel like punting ...
— Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate • Charles Turley |
