Oars

Examples

• He was always first oars with the fine city ladies. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• So, they plied their oars once more, and I looked out for anything like a house. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Finally my hands were so sore I could hardly close them over the oars. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Then a dozen sailors bent to the oars and pulled rapidly toward the point where Tarzan crouched in the branches of a tree. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• Besides, the nights are so still, that the sound of oars can easily be heard a long way off, especially by men trained to hear like my Greeks. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I pulled in the oars, took hold of an iron ring, stepped up on the wet stone and was in Switzerland. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• But suppose Alcibiades uses no oars? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I could see Catherine in the stern but I could not see the water where the blades of the oars dipped. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Sometimes I missed the water with the oars in the dark as a wave lifted the boat. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• I held the oars up and we sailed with them. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• I could take the oars awhile. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• I did not feather the oars because the wind was with us. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• If the crew laughed, the Malays did not, and when the captain of one of the proas was struck by a rocket, both crafts rested oars and came no nearer. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• That room was their boat; that audience were the maidens; and he (Mr. Anthony Humm), however unworthily, was 'first oars' (unbounded applause). Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• 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.
• She started out of her trance, hearing the knocking of oars. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• In that sea, therefore, oars became the characteristic instruments of navigation, and the arrangement of oars the chief problem in shipbuilding. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I stayed well out in the lake, rowing awhile, then resting and holding the oars so that the wind struck the blades. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• I rested on the oars and listened. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Growin' tired of bricklayin', sir, I goes down a bit for a breath of air, and there, sir, as I'm a sinner, I hears the dip of oars. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• She rowed very well but the oars were too long and bothered her. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Leaving just room enough for the play of the oars, she kept alongside, drifting when we drifted, and pulling a stroke or two when we pulled. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• When all six were afloat, the islanders took the oars and commenced to pull outward, so as to skirt the breakwater. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• There they can get in, and row off to the west, without any chance of the dip of their oars being heard by the enemy. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I pulled in the oars and lay back on the seat. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The story takes us back three hundred years, to the reign of James I, of England, when a crude submarine boat was built, to be moved by oars, but one of no value other than as a curiosity. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The oars were long and there were no leathers to keep them from slipping out. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Two men, who pull the oars of a boat, do it by an agreement or convention, though they have never given promises to each other. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• I dug at the water with the oars, then waved one hand. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• It has two oars, and sometimes four, and no rudder. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

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