Paddles

Examples

• The paddles were placed in the middle of the boat, near the stern; and there was a double rudder, connected together by rods which were moved by a winch at the head of the vessel. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Fitch’s first boat employed a system of paddles suspended by their handles from cranks, which, in revolving, gave the paddles a motion simulating that which the Indian imparts to his paddle. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Bernouilli, Genevois, and the Marquis de Jouffroy used paddles on the duck’s foot principle, which closed when dragged forward, and expanded when pushed to the rear. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The little pleasure-launch was fussing out from the shore, twanging its music, crowded with people, flapping its paddles. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He had rejected the plan of using paddles or oars, and also of forcing water out of the stern of the vessel, and had retained the idea of the paddle-wheel. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The wash of her paddles grew duller. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The next day I sailed to another island, and thence to a third and fourth, sometimes using my sail, and sometimes my paddles. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• To simplify his fishing expeditions he made a model of a boat propelled by paddles, and later he built such a boat and used it on the Conestoga River. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The piston was supported in its position by friction wheels, and communicated motion to the paddles by a crank. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• She hooted and tooted gaily, then her paddles were silent, the ropes were thrown ashore, she drifted in with a little bump. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The paddles smash too easily, and the boat is then disabled. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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