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Meanings of heavy oars in английском

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Usage of heavy oars in английском
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They struggled awkwardly at the heavy oars, and slowly worked off shore.
Smoke Bellew
2
They stretched out their lean arms and pulled the heavy oars through the water.
A House of Pomegranates
3
She had made effort to move the heavy oars, so that she was perspiring.
Cosmopolis — Volume 4
4
The six heavy oars plashed into the smooth bay.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
5
They were all bravely tugging at the heavy oars.
Sheila of Big Wreck Cove: A Story of Cape Cod
6
Hour after hour the rain fell; and all the men rowed, taking turns at the heavy oars.
The Boy Scouts on a Submarine
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The more intrepid lady was engaged in lifting one of the heavy oars, when Conyngham called out in French:
In Kedar's Tents
8
They placed the heavy oars between the wooden thole pins and steadied the boat while Una shipped the rudder.
The Northern Iron
9
A broad blunt-ended cargo-boat, rather guided than propelled by its four heavy oars, came drifting down with the current.
The Unwilling Vestal
10
Two of them stood up with their canthooks to fend off the drifting logs; the others plied the heavy oars.
Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp; Or, The Old Lumberman's Secret
11
The effort of pulling at the heavy oars on board the galley had been too much for his weak chest.
A Thorny Path — Volume 10
12
That summer was an exceedingly hot one, yet for weeks together these gallant fellows tugged away at their heavy oars.
By Canoe and Dog Train Among The Cree and Salteaux Indians
13
She soon detached it, and, managing the heavy oars with her delicate hands, she advanced toward the middle of the lake.
Cosmopolis — Volume 4
14
Yet it was hard work, neither of us being accustomed to such exercise, the heavy oars feeling awkward to the hand.
Prisoners of Chance / The Story of What Befell Geoffrey Benteen,...
15
So I sat in the boat, while he allowed it to drift with the current, steering it with the great heavy oars.
The Czar's Spy: The Mystery of a Silent Love
16
Then a ram of stones and brickbats opened upon them, and the watermen struck down men and horses with their heavy oars.
Friends, though divided: A Tale of the Civil War
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