He looked for something with which to send the boat back to land, but there was no sail in it, and no oars; and, if there had been, the little guinea pig boy couldn't have used them, I don't suppose.
Arriving within sight of his old home, he rested on his oars and surveyed the land cautiously.
For a space they hung there, brushed by the purple loose-strife that fringed the bank; then the clear imperious summons that marched hand-in-hand with the intoxicating melody imposed its will on Mole, and mechanically he bent to his oars again.
" asked the Mole shyly, though he was quite prepared to believe it as he leant back in his seat and surveyed the cushions, the oars, the rowlocks, and all the fascinating fittings, and felt the boat sway lightly under him.
Where were the oars?
" The raft drew beyond the middle of the river; the boys pointed her head right, and then lay on their oars.
Even when she heard the sound of muffled oars, though her heart was in her mouth, she did not waken them.
From time to time their oars are caught in dangling algae, and duckweed float apart the moment their boats are about to move on.
He bade the man get up and take his oars again.
Just about a month from now I'm set adrift, with a diploma for a sail and lots of nerve for oars.
If he would only lend me his boat, I should man her with a hundred oars, and hoist sails, five or six or seven.
At the top of course they looked back, and there was the Dawn Treader shining like a great bright insect and crawling slowly north-westward with her oars.
Oars were used only when wind failed or for getting in and out of harbour and everyone (except Reepicheep whose legs were too short) had often taken a turn.
As the gun is fired, people will see racers in dragon-shaped canoes pulling the oars harmoniously and hurriedly, accompanied by rapid drums, speeding toward their destination.
Later Qu Yuan's sympathizers jumped into boats, beat the water with their oars and made rice dumplings wrapped in reed-leaves (zongzi) and scattered them into the Miluo River in the hope that fish in the river would eat the rice dumplings instead of the body of the deceased poet.
Not having both oars in the water 、 Oar.
As the gun is fired, people will see racers in dragon-shaped canoes pulling the oars harmoniously and hurriedly, accompanied by rapid drums, speeding toward their destination.
Away, near the mouth of the river, a great fire was glowing among the trees, and between that point and the ship one of the gigs kept coming and going, the men, whom I had seen so gloomy, shouting at the oars like children.
I was steering, while he and Redruth, two fresh men, were at the oars.
Joyce and I got out through the stern-port, and we made for shore again as fast as oars could take us.
