He felt again some of the old delightful absorption in a far-reaching inquiry, while Rosamond played the quiet music which was as helpful to his meditation as the plash of an oar on the evening lake.
Casaubon now, it was as if he suddenly found himself on the dark river-brink and heard the plash of the oncoming oar, not discerning the forms, but expecting the summons.
When all the things were ready that Peter was to take back, the Doctor said suddenly:— "You'll excuse my shoving my oar in, won't you?
Then the Mole, with a strong pull on one oar, swung the boat round and let the full stream bear them down again whither it would, their quest now happily ended.
"I guess my putting in my oar occasional never did much harm after all.
Matthew decided that he would give her one; that surely could not be objected to as an unwarranted putting in of his oar.
He felt no desire to put his oar in this time.
She might think I was putting my oar in and I promised not to do that.
When I fail it'll be time enough to put your oar in.
They shoved off, presently, Tom in command, Huck at the after oar and Joe at the forward.
The Qinhuai River in the Oar Sound and Lamplight and The Moon of the Lotus Pond were steeped in the feeling of loneliness and emptiness and the sense of loss and pain that came when illusions had vanished after the defeat of Great Revolution.
Lucy shoved her oar in by saying that Reepicheep was longing to go only he was too small.
The Qinhuai River in the Oar Sound and Lamplight and The Moon of the Lotus Pond were steeped in the feeling of loneliness and emptiness and the sense of loss and pain that came when illusions had vanished after the defeat of Great Revolution.
The strange silence, broken only by the measured dip of the oar and the soft plashing of the water against your cleaving prow, and the occasional hoarse cries of the gondoliers as you pass another of these black, funeral barges; the few and feeble lamps, giving you momentary glimpses of balconies and finely carven arches; the sudden intensification of the silence and the darkness as you abruptly leave the Grand Canal and slip along one of the narrower waterways, always with tall houses on both s
Not having both oars in the water 、 Oar.
" she asked "I was fishing for octopi," explained Samphire "I was kidnapped by a huge octopus, whose prisoner I now am," said the king's daughter "Flee before it returns But note that for three hours a day it changes into a red mullet and can be caught But your have to kill the mullet at once, or it will change into a sea gull and fly away" Samphire Starboard hid his boat and waited out of sight on the reef From the sea emerged the octopus, which was so large that it could reach clear a
One of them was an oar.
Silver, though he was almost killed already with fatigue, was set to an oar, like the rest of us, and we were soon skimming swiftly over a smooth sea.
For four or five of them were busy carrying off our stores and wading out with them to one of the gigs that lay close by, pulling an oar or so to hold her steady against the current.
By good fortune Hunter pulled a good oar.
