Soon he yet had turned it, / so rapid was his stroke, Until the mighty oar / beneath his vigor broke.
As strove he his companions / upon the bank to gain, No second oar he found him.
Elly saw how Hertha lost her grasp of the oar and threw it away, how she spread out her arms, and called out some words quite unintelligible, so that she did not know whether they meant triumph or despair.
At that instant her eye caught sight of an oar lying horizontally along the edge of the boat and wedged into it, but the twin oar was missing.
Even when his clumsy oar all but grazed a bastion, or when a jagged promontory seemed about to smash his craft, he refused to cease his frantic labors or to more than lift his eyes.
Urged on byoar and sweep, propelled by favoring breezes, the Argonauts pressed forward exultantly.
I am his, and if he would, even when chained to the oar of the galley, a slave among slaves--he could whistle me to his side like a fawning dog!
The riveted iron girdles about their waists glistened at the part where the back-pull of the oar catches it.
Then he seized his splintered oar and thrashed away home.
Then, taking another oar and thrusting one into Wulfrey's hands, he propelled the clumsy raft along the side of the wreckage till it got clear, and the wind caught their sail and wafted them slowly towards the island.
A few strokes of the oar took us within reach, and this time the coxswain succeeded in hooking his loose cotton jacket, and drawing him to the side.
His methods were somewhat severe, and he did not confine his operations to the junior officers, as is evident from his correspondence with the Adjutant-General of the Army.
Moore's suggestions carried immense weight with the authorities, and a great number of officers who had failed to take their profession seriously found themselves retired on half pay.
Consequently, every regiment in America was ordered to select "the most enterprising officers and the most active of the privates with the appellation of Rangers.
The oar is first reversed in the rowlock, and then it is pushed through the water with as much power as is needed, and pulled through the air.
But there was nothing that he could interpret to mean the movement of an oar or pole on a boat, and his heart began to sink again lower and lower, till wild thoughts arose about his companion's fate.
Just put an oar over the ztarn and keep her head ztraight.
It was forgotten, though, the next moment, for unmistakably there was the sound of an oar whishing about in the water, as if someone had it over the stern and, fisherman fashions was sculling the boat towards the bank.
The boat was run in under the shade of a tree whose boughs hung down and dipped in the running stream; and as Pete laid in his oar he glanced down over the side and saw fish gliding away, deep down in the transparent water.
Nay, nay; you leave that oar alone, and cover your head up with those leaves while you have a good rest.
Then, leaving the oar, the man reached over, and was just in time to get a good hold, as the oar dropped from the bow into the river, and he was almost jerked out of the boat himself.
I zay, Master Nic, get out o' stroke and hit me a good whack or two with your oar and fisties, right in the back.
Reaching down with one hand, he seized the other oarand shoved it along to Captain Barney.
Dan, at the same time digging his own oar deep down on the port side and pulling upon it with all the magnificent strength of his arms until it bent like a reed.
I sat down to my oar again, placing my hat close to me, every now and then eating a limpet.
I had been three days at the oar without any kind of nourishment but the wretched root I mentioned before.
I've not forgotten what he told me, - to put in my oar deep, and to bring it out with a jerk.
As for Lawford Tapp, no member of Cap'n Trainor's crew pulled a better oar than he.
He threw a hand upward in a surprised gesture, still clinging to the steeringoar with his other hand, and shrieked aloud: "The Curlew!
His mate reached for him and the banging broken oarhandle hit him on the head.
Tim Rokens, being the harpooner of that boat, sat at the bow oarwith his harpoons and lances beside him, and the whale-line coiled in a tub in the boat's head.
You said that you pulled the second oar from the bow on the day in which the whale was killed.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "oar" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: boatman; ferryman; gondolier; oar; oarsman; paddle; pole; pull; row; scull; sculler; sweep; yachtsman
