We pushed off, the Indian taking the oars, and in five minutes James Town was lost in the haze.

The light shimmered on the flowing river as the rowers pulled the oars and sang their songs.

While he was pouring out the words, the steersman sprang from the tiller, and seized Potts' oar just in time to save the boat from capsizing.

The men at the door in the tower were shouting to the patrol-boats, which were nowhere to be seen, calling them to row us down and capture us, but by plying our oars rapidly we shot straight across the lake until we got under the deep shadow of the opposite shore, and then crept gradually along in the direction we had come.

There was a few words of controversy between the two men, but in the end Schmitt held the steering oar and a few minutes later Watkins had slipped down into the boat's bottom and was sound asleep.

And he half rose up, never dropping his oar.

We were a silent, gloomy crew indeed as we thrust the surf boat afloat, clambered in, and shipped the oars.

He pulled a stroke or two nearer, then lifted his oar and brought it down splash; but the reeds broke the blow, and the moccasin slipped into the water, apparently unharmed.

As by a prearranged signal, all four of the Germans threw down their oars and jumped to their feet.

Instead of using him, however, the man was dismissed; the gentlemen preferring to handle the oars themselves.

He moved to the side of the boat where the Germans were approaching and raised the oar aloft.

One of the German soldiers suddenly laid down his oars.

Then, stepping forward, he picked up an oar.

Any idea who it belongs to?" For a minute I just sat there thinking, watching him dip his oars.

He soon met him carrying one oar, followed by a man with a broken one, so they were able to make shift in the boats to the camp, being overtaken on the way by Parea in his canoe bringing Vancouver's cap, which had been lost in the scuffle.

Far away her parent waved a careless greeting to his offspring, then resumed his oars and his song.

Besides their sails, they use oars.

His knees were motionless, his hands still grasped the oar firmly, and he too kept his feet with a steadiness that showed the physical perfection of his frame.

Before the man in the water could realize his purpose, he had brought the oar down with all his force on the hand that grasped the boat.

And thus, having found two or three broken oars, belonging to the boat, and besides the tools which were in the chest, two saws, an axe, and a hammer, with this cargo I put to sea.

Meanwhile a party of men had seized the life-boat, and had pushed it over the sand to the water's edge, where they launched it, and with much difficulty kept it from grounding until four young men, all bathers, jumped in and manned the oars.

The debate hath so long endured, that the lad hath made himself a gondolier by sheer shoving an oar between his master's palace and those of the nobles he moves with interestat least such is Gino's own history of his education.

Giorgio worked his oar with a single hand, looking over his shoulder at Gino, and Gino permitted his blade fairly to trail on the water.

Like nearly every other bayman, he had a one-room shanty, which he called the "shop," and where he played at building boats, and weaving nets, and making oars and tongs.

She ordered the oars to be manned and the sails to be hoisted, and then forcing her way through a portion of the fleet that was engaged in the contest, and throwing the vessels into confusion as she passed, she succeeded in getting to sea, and then pressed on, under full sail, down the coast to the southward.