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1 This time Betty did drop the oars , and her face was scarlet as she lunged after them.
2 Frank continued to pull, but he was ready to drop the oars and make a leap for Inza the moment the boat was struck.
3 This arrangement permits one to fish alone, and if trolling to drop the oars quickly and take up the rod without danger of losing them.
4 He then dropped the oars , and sprang forward to secure the game.
5 Abner dropped the oars , and the current whirled the craft swiftly down the wasteway.
6 He rowed leisurely back, dropping the oars now and again to light his pipe.
7 The heat returned to his blue gaze and he dropped the oars at once.
8 He dropped the oars and grabbed for her.
9 Suddenly, when we reached the middle of the river, he dropped the oars , and we drifted with the current.
10 He sprang forward impulsively and caught the girl's cold hands in his as she dropped the oars and stood up.
11 The boy dropped the oars and writhed to starboard, his neck askew at an eldritch angle, his eyes glaring upward.
12 She dropped the oars , leaned forward, and looked eagerly at the opening in the woods where the Springton road touched the shore.
13 At last, with her strength utterly gone, she dropped the oars and drifted wherever the wild tide might choose to take her.
14 Gavrilo obediently paused, rubbed the sweat off his face with the sleeve of his shirt, and dropped the oars again into the water.
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