The first raft-loads were paddled across with muffled oars.

A broken oar was stuck upright in the ground, to which the natives had tied their canoes, whereby we were convinced this was the spot where the attack had been made.

I was expert with a light oar, and we agreed in thinking that this would be a very picturesque, healthful, and economical mode of travel.

The four sailors were going to take their places at the oars, and Howik would hold the stern oar, which serves to guide a boat of this kind.

We seemed to be suspended in mid-air, and only when the dipping oars made rings could we realise that anything sustained us.

Like arms outstretched to bless and pray, Those dusky phantoms downward creep To where, by Lenno's curving bay, The peaceful village seems to sleep; While mirrored peaks of stainless snow Turn crimson 'neath the farther shore, And here and there the sunset glow Threads diamonds on a dripping oar.

Simpson, labouring with the clumsy oars, tried to forget him.

Slow glides the sail along the illumined shore, And steals into the shade the lazy oar; Soft bosoms breathe around contagious sighs, 105 And amorous music on the water dies.

He scoured the seas, and to remotest shores With swelling sails the trembling corsair fled. 10 Rich commerce flourished; and with busy oars Dashed the resounding surge.

It moved on so swiftly,the chime of the oars, tiny oars they were, was so sweetly, softly musical, the very drippling drops fell so like globules of silver, that I forgot my mission.

He asked no useless questions but, realizing that someone was in danger, he pulled a strong, steady oar and let Patsy steer the boat.

In this manner did the gay and shouting cortège sweep on, some darting ahead of the principal bark, and some clinging, like smaller fish swimming around the leviathan, as near to her sides as the fall of the ponderous oars would allow.

Phr. bon voyage; spread the thin oar and catch the driving gale [Pope].

"How could I stand idly looking on," he said to me afterward, "with a tough ash oar in my hand, and a tight little craft at my feet, and hear their cries for help, and see them drowned?"

"How now, old Antonio!" shouted the boldest of the band, "is it not enough that thou hast won the honors of the net, but thou would'st have a golden oar at thy neck?

When it was finished the queen was so delighted that she ran with it in her lap to the king, who ordered it to be put into a cistern full of water, with me in it, by way of trial, where I could not manage my two sculls, or little oars, for want of room.

All began to shout out exclamations and orders, and to give directions how to proceed to recover the lost oar.

What is the vanity of a triumph among the gondoliers, or the bauble of a mimic oar and chain, to one of my years and condition?" "Thou forgettest that the oar and chain are gold?" "Excellent gentlemen, gold cannot heal the wounds which misery has left on a heavy heart.

He worked hard; he was a moderate oar; he did not make many friends, but he was greatly respected for a sort of quiet directness and common-sense.

The masked waterman glanced a look behind as if to calculate his advantage, and then bending again to his pliant oar he spoke, loud enough to be heard only by him who pressed so hard upon his track.

When summer came, Our pastime was, on bright half-holidays, 55 To sweep, along the plain of Windermere With rival oars; [B] and the selected bourne Was now an Island musical with birds That sang and ceased not; now a Sister Isle Beneath the oaks' umbrageous covert, sown 60 With lilies of the valley like a field; [C]

No arch in antiquity, not even that of Constantine, delights us like the arch of a baron of beef, with its soft-flowing sea of gravy, whose silence is only broken by the silver oar announcing that another guest is made happy.

A couple of spare oars from below, and as many water-soaked blankets, sufficed to make a jury-mast and sail.

The slow creaking of the spliced oar, swung in its lashing by a half-naked yellow man, his incomprehensible chatter with some fellow boatman hidden in the bows, were sounds lost in a drowsy silence, rhythms lost in a wide inertia.

"Thou mayest, for the holy books are not more true than my words: yesterday he came down this very canal in triumph, for he bore away the honors of the regatta from the stoutest oars in Venice.