In all these animals the shape is fishlike, as is required by the fishlike habits; the skin is smooth and usually blackish, or black with white markings; the forelimbs have becomepaddles and the tail a pair of horizontal flukes.
The Crayfish stuck her tail-paddles into the mud, and spread her pinching-claws in front of her family.
With oars apeak, and paddles down, the sheets of their sails adrift, the three boats now stilly floated, awaiting Moby Dick's reappearance.
The mixture was then stirred with long-handled wooden paddles and the tank covers replaced, and the material was ready for sale free of tax.
Braces M extend to the middle of these arms and the arms carry a number of blades orpaddles b, which extend down into the mash.
And so it came that about three in the afternoon of their last day on the Tahquamanon, while they were all plying their paddles briskly, Teddy gave vent to a loud shout and pointed ahead: “Look!
Brave Lee knows his danger, and paddles away for dear life and love of family up in Lyme, eating breakfast quietly now he remembers, not knowing his peril.
In this model Fitch shifted the paddles from the sides to the rear, thus anticipating in principle the modern stern-wheeler.
Fitch's second and third models were practically paddle-wheel models, one having the paddles at the side and the other at the stern.
As early as August, 1785, Fitch launched on a rivulet in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, a boat propelled by an engine which moved an endless chain to which little paddles were attached.
He had experimented with most of the models then in existence--upright paddles at the side, endless-chain paddles, and stern paddle wheels.
The fins of fishes, the webbed feet of amphibious birds, the paddles of the Indian, and the poles and oars of the riverman, were all imitated by the patient inventors struggling with the problem.
With a stroke or two of thepaddles the Long Green arrived gently at the bank beneath that pine, and out would come the box of grub, the gunny sack of pots and frying pans, and the rolls of bedding.
Then, in the distance, there is a muffled sound of the paddles of a steamer; and that becomes fainter and fainter, while the White Dove gradually loses the motion caused by the passing waves.
One of the canoes had only 2 men & as they found poles & paddles ready, they went off in the morning & are yet ahead.
The Indians had also taken nearly all the poles and paddles which will cause us a loss of time and labour to replace them with others.
The latter animal had an extremely long neck and small head, with teeth like those of the crocodile, and paddles analogous to those of the Ichthyosaurus, but larger.
I ordered all the spare poles, paddles and the ballance of our canoe put on the fire as the morning was cold and also that not a particle should be left for the benefit of the indians.
Morning I was detained untill 7 A M makeing Paddles and drawing the nails of the Canoe to be left at this place and the one we had before left here.
I also purchased four paddles and three dogs from them with deerskins.
He liked to cuddle there and hear the rain patter on the canvas close above him, while the waves talked beneath him, and the great paddles whirred and thumped.
Maria and Francisco had heard, also, for they rested on their paddles a moment, to listen.
The bellow of the thunder was terrific--and while the four boatmen heaved with their paddles and encouraged each other with shrill cries, in a solid line down swept the first sheet of rain.
A pair of broad-bladed paddles lay along the gunwales, fore and aft.
By the time they three had eaten a little lunch, Maria and Francisco had climbed aboard, donned their trousers and hats, and resuming their paddles were starting on again, evidently much refreshed.
Our minds cleared with the landscape; our courage rose; our Indians dipped their paddles silently, steering without fear amidst the dangerous masses of ice.
The paddles are five feet long, with a narrow rounded blade, and are very clumsily made.
Both oars andpaddles have lanceolate blades and thick handles, without any attempt at ornament or even neatness of design.
In these large canoes thepaddles are of proportionate size and very clumsy--they are worked as oars with the aid of cane grommets--the sail is of the large oblong shape formerly described.
The paddleswere worked by boys, under the direction of two men, who gave out a song when pulling.
At the same time the paddles drove the canoes forward and what was being done in our line was being done in the opposing line of canoes a mile and more away.
At other times a musical knocking of the paddles against the sides of the canoes marked the accent.
And there they clung, a hundred feet away, black and ominous, crowded with men, holding their canoes with their paddles on the perilous edge of the breaking surf.
The boatmen, however, ceased rowing outside the line of broken water, and lay on their paddles for three or four minutes.
In an instant the rowers struck their paddles into the water, and the boat dashed along, with the speed of a racehorse, on the crest of the wave.
All day long the paddles were never still, the rippling sound continued at the bows.
Their paddles flashed in the reflected light of the furnace overhead; for all that, the canoe came forward without noise except for the gentle rippling sound of the water under the bows.
Moreover, in both hands, he held the paddles which he had taken from the canoe.
The natives plied their paddles with a will, and Crouch, in the vanguard of the pursuit held his rifle ready to fire.
In the meantime, the Arabs so plied their paddles that the canoe shot across the lake like a dart, dividing the water at the prow into two long feathery waves.
The interval of rest coming to an end at this point, the conversation ceased and the paddles were resumed.
Captain Anderson took the helm, the "Caribs" dipped their paddles into the water, and away we glided into a narrow channel amongst long grass and rushes that almost touched us on either side.
We had to use our paddles desperately to reach the shore, and when we had done so, we found our canoe half-full of water, in which our bedding and food were soaked.
This the Indians called the "Island of light," on account of its flashing back the sun's rays as it glided along propelled by the strong paddles in the hands of the well trained crew.
All the noise we made was the dip of our paddles in the water.
It is a very long open traverse, and as lowering clouds threatened us we pulled on as rapidly as our three paddles could propel us.
Our canoe was soon afloat again, and, using our paddles vigorously, we sped rapidly along the river.
The early morning air was invigorating, and so in unison we were plying our paddles vigorously, and rapidly speeding along.
But as the points of the paddles were higher than the ice, of course they rested upon it for an instant.
Even the dipping paddles made no noise, though sometimes there was a gurgle, as though a fish had broken the water behind them; sometimes, in the shining pools ahead, she saw the trout leap out.
The great paddles scattered the brow waters with white foam, and the Judge voiced his thoughts.
Dey have woodenpaddles what us take de food out de dishes with.
Illustration: Yach Stringfellow] "In de long winter days de men sat round de fire and whittle wood and make butterpaddles and troughs for de pigs and sich, and ax handles and hoe handles and box traps and figure-four traps.
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