1
In vain we pushed with the oars; the boat would not budge.
2
The oars were poised in the air as he caught the name.
3
One seized the oars, and the other seated himself in the stern-sheets.
4
They got into the boat; but one of the oars was gone.
5
Not a sound was heard except the oars turning in the row-locks.
6
The only answer was the jerk and dip of the retreating oars.
7
In dead silence, with muffled oars, we pulled in towards the shore.
8
So crowded was the harbor that the oars of the boatmen interlocked.
9
At the poplar they could still hear the sounds of the oars.
10
On the return, the young oarsmen were instructed in feathering their oars.
11
Again his ears were full of the sound of oars in water.
12
It is close by and the oars are out of the water.
13
The men bent to their oars; but they were not quick enough.
14
Both were backing oars, sending up a great churning froth of water.
15
Hollow sounds in the boat were succeeded by a splash of oars.
16
We bent to the oars, and the boat shot through the water.
