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The oar was a lot heavier than she felt it needed to be
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Kaitlyn was more than delighted to be allowed to row, and after some brief instruction, was wielding the oar powerfully and 'shifting' as if the training had been hers as well
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To dream that you are paddling with one oar indicates that you are going around in circles and headed nowhere
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If you lose an oar, then it suggests that you have lost your groove or have taken something for granted
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boat, oar locks, and oars
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All of a sudden one of the sailors who were sat near to me pulling on his oar slumped over looking like a discarded rag doll
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boatsteerer at the bow oar position to stand, turn, and strike
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board and assume the steering oar
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"Halon, give me that oar
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Saldon, on Staron's orders, hoisted the canvas sail and tied it off then helped Staron stow the oar safely against the inside of the hull, in its stowage
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Larkey unhooked the ropes, grabbed the oar, and began rowing for her and Longleaf’s lives, stopping only to tie life vests around the pair of them
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At several intervals we flew up as we hit small but strong waves and in trying to keep my balance and my bum on the seat, I nearly lost my oar several times
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I was all over the place, my oar barely touching the water and John continuously shouted instructions
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“Did I say that you had one oar out of the water?” Mia said holding my hand tightly,
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He stood up with the oar in both hands, and started moving the boat slowly over to their floats, pulling up three empty crab pots
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At this time, there are many, including me, who are putting their oar into the water
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29 And all that handle the oar,
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As it turned out, that statement was the final clincher to what became an interesting evening after a beer-drinking session at the Oar House in Santa Monica
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You need only to use the oar to keep yourself on track, to keep in the main flow of the current and to avoid rocks
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One fellow picked up an oar as if to fend us off
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She shortened her oar and drove it into his knee
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Over coffee he said, "I shouldn't have put my oar in
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And then society sticks in its oar
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They each grabbed an oar and, with a coordinated effort, guided the boat into the river
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“Take a break,” he told her, grabbing her oar, “have a drink
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Ceder took her oar back from Jai and they rowed together for a time
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He collapsed forward off the bench, dropping his oar into the river
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Ceder grabbed her oar and fended off the craggy rocks as they approached, ferrying the boat left or right with no time to think, acting on impulse
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In the final moment before the boat reached the edge Ceder pulled her oar out of the water and knelt beside Jai
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Jai grabbed Ceder’s oar to combat their acceleration toward the center of the whirlpool
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Peter was at the right-hand oar near the stern
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When the boat began to fill with water, he dropped his oar and, rushing over to Jesus, shook him vigorously in order to awaken him, and when he was aroused, Peter said: "Master, don't you know we are in a violent storm? If you do not save us, we will all perish
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5 As Jesus came out in the rain, he looked first at Peter, and then peering into the darkness at the struggling oarsmen, he turned his glance back upon Simon Peter, who, in his agitation, had not yet returned to his oar, and said: "Why are all of you so filled with fear? Where is your faith? Peace, be quiet
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Conan, though the blood thundered in his ears and the world swam red to his gaze, took an oar with the panting sailors
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Conan knew, and as he saw the broad line slip into the waves and stream through the water toward them, without altering its shape or course, he called up his last ounce of reserve strength so fiercely that the oar snapped in his hands
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In an instant a shrieking slave was free, splintering his oar for a bludgeon
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Beats with his oar whoever lags behind
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futuristic subjugation? Are they asleep at the oar and the deviling
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slaving… in the galley! That’s it! Each of my students is a slave, each with an oar in his hand
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One of them raised an oar above his head
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I stood up to jump on him, but Nefer let the handle of his oar swing into the small of my back
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"In the same manner, then, as oar Lord Himself said, ' I am the true bread that came down from heaven' (not meaning thereby that he was a lump of baked dough or manna, but the true means of sustaining the true life of man, which is spiritual, not corporeal), so in the sacrament to the worthy receiver of the consecrated elements, though in their nature mere bread and wine, are yet given truly, really, and effectively, the crucified body and blood of Christ; that body and blood which are the instruments of man's redemption, and upon which our spiritual life and strength solely depend
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The twisted vines began racing off the side of the raft like a long green snake and then the front of the raft suddenly swung around into the current and the raft stopped dead in the water, and then just as suddenly the steering oar handle swung back over the center of the raft with Baby Man still hanging on it like he’d just arrived from another world
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The steering oar handle is much too short
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For a moment, Bright Hands looked like she was going to swat him, and then she simply shrugged and said to Baby Man, “You should lengthen the steering oar handle until it reaches the center platform
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A president should be a row model for an impact of country’s culture and not just ordering, creating hope and may have to grab an oar and row with his men
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Once he has returned to Ithaca he must leave again and begin a new journey, this time short by sea and long on land, and stop only when he meets someone who will mistake his oar for a winnow
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With their backs to her, they grabbed an oar each and whilst they sat side by side took long pulls
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Both boys hauled on each large oar in their hands and swiftly they made progress to get around the point
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It's not bothered when I raise my oar like a gun, and shout "Bang"
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The nearest gnat is an explanation, and a drop or motion of waves key, The maul, the oar, the hand-saw, second my words
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While all these events were occurring, I was labouring at the oar without any hope of freedom; at least I had no hope of obtaining it by ransom, for I was firmly resolved not to write to my father telling him of my misfortunes
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This "scabby one" rowed at the oar as a slave of the Grand Signor's for fourteen years, and when over thirty-four years of age, in resentment at having been struck by a Turk while at the oar, turned renegade and renounced his faith in order to be able to revenge himself; and such was his valour that, without owing his advancement to the base ways and means by which most favourites of the Grand Signor rise to power, he came to be king of Algiers, and afterwards general-on-sea, which is the third place of trust in the realm
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On this point we all agreed; and Zoraida, to whom it was explained, together with the reasons that prevented us from doing at once what she desired, was satisfied likewise; and then in glad silence and with cheerful alacrity each of our stout rowers took his oar, and commending ourselves to God with all our hearts, we began to shape our course for the island of Majorca, the nearest Christian land
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"I'm not tired, but you may take an oar, if you like
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Feeling that she had not mended matters much, Amy took the offered third of a seat, shook her hair over her face, and accepted an oar
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With an oar for a mast and the boat-cover cut down for a sail they started on their dangerous journey, with the boat compass and the stars for their guide
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tingly upon him, to oar stand of view round the couch
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A few strokes of the oar brought the skiff to the sand, where it ran
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The other oar was smashed off, and the raft was littered up with leaves and branches and dirt
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He was in the river under the stern oar, with just his nose out
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as far only for the bones I hate those eels cod yes Ill get a nice piece of cod Im always getting enough for 3 forgetting anyway Im sick of that everlasting butchers meat from Buckleys loin chops and leg beef and rib steak and scrag of mutton and calfs pluck the very name is enough or a picnic suppose we all gave 5/- each and or let him pay it and invite some other woman for him who Mrs Fleming and drove out to the furry glen or the strawberry beds wed have him examining all the horses toenails first like he does with the letters no not with Boylan there yes with some cold veal and ham mixed sandwiches there are little houses down at the bottom of the banks there on purpose but its as hot as blazes he says not a bank holiday anyhow I hate those ruck of Mary Ann coalboxes out for the day Whit Monday is a cursed day too no wonder that bee bit him better the seaside but Id never again in this life get into a boat with him after him at Bray telling the boatman he knew how to row if anyone asked could he ride the steeplechase for the gold cup hed say yes then it came on to get rough the old thing crookeding about and the weight all down my side telling me pull the right reins now pull the left and the tide all swamping in floods in through the bottom and his oar slipping out of the stirrup its a mercy we werent all drowned he can swim of course me no theres no danger whatsoever keep yourself calm in his flannel trousers Id like to have tattered them down off him before all the people and give him what that one calls flagellate till he was black and blue do him all the good in the world only for that longnosed chap I dont know who he is with that other beauty Burke out of the City Arms hotel was there spying around as usual on the slip always where he wasnt wanted if there was a row on youd vomit a better face there was no love lost between us thats 1 consolation I wonder what kind is that book he brought me Sweets of Sin by a gentleman of fashion some other Mr de Kock I suppose the people gave him that nickname going about with his tube from one woman to another I couldnt even change my new white shoes all ruined with the saltwater and the hat I had with that feather all blowy and tossed on me how annoying and provoking because the smell of the sea excited me of course the sardines and the bream in Catalan bay round the back of the rock they were fine all silver in the fishermens baskets old Luigi near a hundred they said came from Genoa and the tall old chap with the earrings I dont like a man you have to climb up to to get at I suppose theyre all dead and rotten long ago besides I dont like being alone in this big barracks of a place at night I suppose Ill have to put up with it I never brought a bit of salt in even when we moved in the confusion musical academy he was going to make on the first floor drawingroom with a brassplate or Blooms private hotel he suggested go and ruin himself altogether the way his father did down in Ennis like all the things he told father he was going to do and me but I saw through him telling me all the lovely places we could go for the honeymoon Venice by moonlight with the gondolas and the lake of Como he had a picture cut out of some paper of and mandolines and lanterns O how nice I said whatever I liked he was going to do immediately if not sooner will you be my man will you carry my can he ought to get a leather medal with a putty rim for all the plans he invents then leaving us here all day youd never know what old beggar at the door for a crust with his long story might be a tramp and put his foot in the way to prevent me shutting it like that picture of that hardened criminal he was called in Lloyds Weekly news 20 years in jail then he comes out and murders an old woman for
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Each stroke of the oar seemed to awaken a new throng of ideas, which sprang up with the flying spray of the sea
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” She raised the oar overhead to stretch for a moment, then dipped the tip into the water again
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He pulled his oar through the water
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Washington’s stroke oar, Dow Walling, one of his legs grotesquely inflamed by three enormous boils, slid forward on his seat, drove both legs sternward, and took the rate up above the furious forty at which the Washington boys were already rowing
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He ignored it, focused instead on the oar in his hands, pulling hard and pulling smoothly, rowing comfortably, almost without pain
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Then in the last quarter of a mile California unleashed the full power of their gigantic, gangly, but enormously strong stroke oar, six-foot-five Dick Burnley
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Right now, he needed them to be thinking about building up their bodies, developing mental discipline, learning how to get an oar in and out of the water without splashing half of Lake Washington into their shell
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In particular, over the next few weeks he seemed to make a point of talking to any reporter he could find about the golden prospects of a potential stroke oar for the varsity, a boy named Broussais C
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Whenever his boat came up alongside Joe and the sophomores, Moch quietly leaned toward his stroke oar and whispered, “Give me twenty really big ones, after five more
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With the bridge and the finish line closing on them, Morry screamed again, “Gimme ten more!” Joe and Shorty and Roger and everyone with an oar in his hands threw everything he had into the last few pulls
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Each held a twelve-foot-long oar upright
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As the tempo accelerates, the penalty of a miscue—an oar touching the water a fraction of a second too early or too late, for instance—becomes ever more severe, the opportunity for disaster ever greater
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The sophomores seemed to get smoother with every pull of the oar, and they had been closing fast at the end of that third mile
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And still worse news, in some ways, was the skinny on Cal’s big stroke oar, Eugene Berkenkamp
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” When Moch resorted to that one, Ulbrickson said, “the boys get so hot they have to wrap asbestos around their oar handles to keep the boat from burning up
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But more than that, his mastery of his oar, his steady reliability, and his rock-solid sureness were so apparent that every other boy in the boat could sense them immediately and thus easily fall into synch with Hume regardless of water conditions or the state of a race
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Moch’s noodle was the best oar in the Washington boat
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And Ran Laurie handled the stroke oar an awful lot like Don Hume
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But like many British strokes in those days, he was wielding an oar with a smaller, narrower blade than the rest of his crew—the idea being that the stroke’s job was to set the pace, not to power the boat
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A moment later, Don Hume pitched forward and collapsed across his oar
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It would be a dangerous move—unheard of really—more likely than not to confuse everyone with an oar in his hand, to throw the rhythm of the boat into utter chaos
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He fully expected to see Don Hume pitch forward over his oar at any moment
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Along the way, each had taken roughly 469,000 strokes with his oar, all in preparation for only 28 miles of actual collegiate racing
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Then the Mole, with a strong pull on one oar, swung the boat round and
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Someone grabbed an oar and hit the shark, and it slid off
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He was barely strong enough to pull the pump handle a few times in a row, but with the oar he kept every shark away
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Louie grabbed an oar and struck the shark in the nose, and it jerked back and slid away
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Louie was recoiling when he saw an oar swing past, sending the animal backward into the ocean
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He beat a kitchen worker with a spoon the size of an oar
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Don Martin's soft hands suffered cruelly, tugging at the thick handle of the enormous oar
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The oar blades dug deep and the cutter went scooting towards one of the waiting schooners
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A dark-blue oar crossed with a cherry-pink one above his mantel-piece spoke of the old Oxonian and Leander man, while the foils and boxing-gloves above and below them were the tools of a man who had won supremacy with each
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SAHNDYRS, MAHRAK—Baron Green Mountain; Queen Sharleyan of Chisholm’s first councilor, OAR; first councilor of Chisholm within Charisian Empire, BSRA; wounded and incapacitated by terrorist attack, HFAF
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YOWANCE, RAYJHIS—Earl of Gray Harbor, King Haarahld’s first councilor and head of the Privy Council, OAR; first councilor to King Cayleb, then to Emperor Cayleb and Empress Sharleyan, BSRA; killed in Gray Lizard Square terrorist attack, HFAF
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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
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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
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They had reached the middle of the river, and Vasudeva pushed the oar with more strength, in order to overcome the current
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He thought, the boy would have thrown away or broken the oar in order to get even and in order to keep them from following him
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Get your oars out of
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I almost split in two but as long as I kept my backbone straight, I could bend my knees - if I didn't, my legs stuck out like oars
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A winch, emergency oars, and the blue and white striped flag of Greece
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Oh it had a mast and rudder, but half the time they were rowing it, and at the oars was the only spot on board wide enough for two to sit abreast
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After that, they had to unship the oars of this rowboat to move any farther
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“How many people live here,” Ava grunted as they strained at the oars
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” They sighted along their mother's arm and they began the steady push and pull on the tandem oars, always keeping the craft headed for the two boulders
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“Let’s use these branches as oars,” Andrew said, and the others did so
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With the twins at the oars in the stern of the larger boat, they set off across the waters of the lake
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In the vision I received, the warriors in the river had oars
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understood the oars to be the disciplines of the Spirit: prayer,
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There were others in the river that floated down without oars
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splashing and saw the wake of a boat and oars glistening
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It had no oars, because they’d been snapped off by an enemy vessel’s pass
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With fifty oars, it would be fast
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Even a triantacontor with thirty oars would do
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But we pulled our oars with all our strength
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Nerissa had Miklos and Eugenia run around extinguishing the fires with water from the buckets, while she and Homer pulled the oars so hard, steam rose up from their handles
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boat, oar locks, and oars
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Up to now however it had been the sailors and Fusiliers who had borne the brunt but we knew this could not last as the boat had lost headway due to the crew being hit some of our lads grabbed the oars and began to row
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The sailors and Fusiliers on the oars pulled like mad and we came up grounding on the sand farther back those that were left jumped into the sea and we started wading ashore as the bullets continued to churn the sea in frenzy
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They had masts, sails, oars, a compass, lanterns, and a hatchet and small chest for pistols and cutlasses
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Sails were full and the oars were working swiftly and almost silently
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Manna looked over his shoulder, hearing a hissing sound of the oars dripping water at the end of their cycle
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The ship drew closer, and the oars were shipped, the sails slackened as it drew parallel to the boat
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The wind filled the sails and the oars made a regular subtle splash as they pounded out their rhythm
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By sail alone this would have been a fast ship, but with the oars as well the acceleration over a short distance must have been phenomenal
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The oars were never allowed to relent the fast pace that was dictated by a drum in the belly of the ship
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It drifted around until it faced the harbour mouth and the soldiers at the oars started to row
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Oars were already onboard, as well as—hopefully—some floating cushions and a jug or two of fresh water
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We moved forward slowly as the boat found the current and followed its path; water lapping at the sides as we dipped our oars in unison, dragging them through and up and out of the water on John’s counts
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The boat gained speed as the current moved faster, rushing us and forcing us to move our oars more rapidly to keep up the pace
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When we were all back in the boat, with our oars and miraculously with no serious injuries other than a few scratches, we tried to figure out what had happened
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“You are truly nuts – one of your oars is clearly out of the water – and that"s a fact
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“You really don"t have your oars in the water do you Joe? What the hell are you talking about? Who is Stanley and what is that sat thing?”
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Maybe my oars really don"t reach the water
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“I was talking about my apartment – your oars Joe – keep them in the water
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“I get it Joe - yadda yadda yadda,” she said with her “your oars are out of the water”
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“Joe, you do know that your oars aren"t touching the water at all anymore?”
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There were also large oars that could be used when the wind failed
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The crew used the huge oars to pull away from the shore; then the sails were raised and we headed west, then south around the end of the island
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Let us once more sincerely pole OARS, white water
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streams; wherein shall go no galley with oars, neither shall gallant ship pass by it
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have they made your oars; the company of the Ashurites have made your benches of ivory, brought out of the isles of Chittim
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The oars were useless against the crushing force of the water, and Lord Robert struggled to pull them into the boat
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A cracking, splintering sound met his efforts, and the remains of the oars came suddenly up out of the water, jagged ends outlined in a flash of lightning
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It seems that galeras were ships propelled by banks of large oars pulled by men chained to their benches
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Both ships were shallow with benches and oars along the sides and a narrow catwalk in the center
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tree line had illuminated the flowers to display lines of rhythmic plants as they moved in unison to form daisy chain oars
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lines of makeshift oars rowed on although the plants had no
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Laura picked up the oars and continued the journey, coming to rest a short
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Laura spoke sharply to the animal, which subsided, then pushed off from the landing stage and sitting on the centre bench, hitched her skirt high over her legs with a practiced movement before taking up the oars and plying them through the still
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Smiling at him, Laura took up the oars and began rowing again, slowly and
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regular strokes of the oars
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’ She noted with approval the knot he had tied, then shipped the oars and stood up, giving a wave to the occupants of another rowing boat which was passing close by
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gave it a little squeeze and smiled at him before taking her place at the oars,
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boating lake, splashing the oars, having fun and drinking
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The wave-rocking of the boat, with the boat's strong smell of fish, made Halfdan sick; twice, he pulled in the oars and leaned over the side, throwing up oatmeal and bits of pig-meat sausage into the moon-reflecting water
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The spear-shaped oars were each longer than three men lying end-to-end
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The oars for the men at the raised front and rear of the ship were the longest, because the water-line was a farther reach
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Sixty oars carved into the swirling water
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Oars were pulled back in and placed onto racks to dry
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When the Norse raiding-fleet had rowed and sailed far enough away, the oars went onto the racks and Halfdan gave tasks to the Norsemen
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Everyone took turns at rowing except Mary, who was not strong enough with the oars to row against the tide
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She pulled steadily at the oars and soon came near to the rocks in which the great wreck rested
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Stephen took the oars again, and they set off once more to the island, getting a perfect shower-bath from Timphothy when he stood up and shook his wet coat
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"And in the meantime we can't get off the island to get help, because they've got our oars," said Stephen
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Their own boat lay there without oars
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Justin and Theo took the oars
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They pushed their boat out on to the water, and Stephen took the oars at once, pulling for all she was worth
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said Stephen, as she pulled hard at her oars
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“We’ll use the oars
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The channel twisted about, forcing continual adjustment of sail and steering, but the wind was always able to help, so we needn't use the oars
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The tentacles surrounding the wooden walkway withdrew below the surface; the last of the prehensile limbs to leave placed a pair of sturdy, white oars inside the boat
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Next to the new oars the children found a small dial made of waveglass
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“Should we use the oars?” asked Ceder
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As they neared the shoreline the influx of the river made each pull on the oars more difficult than the last
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Covered in sweat from the exertion of his double-duty with the oars, he grunted once, indicating that he had not noticed the white fur before, that he had no thoughts on it, and that if she had any questions, he did not have the answers
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The crew of his ship, informed that to touch the red sands with their bare skin would bring instant death, lifted the gold coins into their ship with the flat ends of their oars
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Without oars or a long pole, they had no way to stop the boat, and there was nowhere in the tunnel to set foot if they disembarked
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“Do not rest on your oars
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He had known from tales that abound that Satan, himself, was looking for more men, fresh and strong, to man the oars of his ferryboat
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There was silence for some time, the girl crouching in the bows, the man tugging at the oars
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As for pirates—' He grinned enigmatically, and bent to the oars
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There was no break or falter in the rhythm of his oars; he might have been a fantasmal oarsman, rowing her across the dark lake of Death
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It was a change in the motion of the boat that had roused her; Conan was resting on his oars, gazing beyond her
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'Just before dawn I heard the creak of timbers and the rasp and clack of cordage and oars
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'Come aboard, my bold swashbucklers, and take the oars
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The oars were for use in tacking out of creeks and bays, and during calms
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With twenty men at the oars, three at the sweep, and the shipmaster, the crew was complete
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The bearded rowers grunted, heaved at the oars, while their muscles coiled and knotted, and sweat started out on their hides
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In desperation the sailors abandoned their oars and snatched up their weapons
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Then the grappling-irons were cast off, and as the Argus sank silently into the blood-flecked waters, the Tigress moved off southward to the rhythmic clack of the oars
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The oars dipped into the shining water and came up sheathed in frosty silver
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No more the oars, the windy harp's refrain;
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No hand was at the sweep of the Tigress, no oars drove her through the green water
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The high wind had torn the sail away before the apostles could furl it, and they were now entirely dependent on their oars as they laboriously pulled for the shore, a little more than a mile and a half distant
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Up them she went, flattening herself against the stone as she caught the faint clack of muffled oars
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The muscles of his heavy bronzed arms rippled as he pulled the oars with an almost feline ease of motion
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It was almost half past eight this beautiful morning when this company of twenty-five manned the oars and pulled for the eastern shore of the Sea of Galilee
