Sentence examples for pair of oars from inspiring English sources

He picks up a pair of oars, so that we can row against the riptides.

I CROUCHED in the cockpit of a recreational scull, pulling on a pair of oars and going nowhere.

One is going to get pair of oars, and start walking inlands, and when he reaches place where people ask, what are those things on your shoulder?

Kewley is, as he at one point says of someone else, "a different pair of oars entirely," and one that makes the book worth reading.

There is one small rowboat and a pair of oars stashed on the near side of the lagoon, and another on the opposite side.

If an accolade for literary merit is to have much meaning, it should be awarded by people capable of discerning literary merit - rather than wielding a pair of oars or sitting in a TV studio.

The early design provided for 14 pairs of oars with four men per oar.

For additional maneuverability, the udema carried 14 to 18 pairs of oars.

It had three masts, two decks and was equipped with 16 22 pairs of oars along with a crew of about 220 260.

A fragment of 6th century BC pottery has been interpreted as Charon sitting in the stern as steersman of a boat fitted with ten pairs of oars and rowed by eidola, shades of the dead.

He started a successful collaboration with shipbuilder and naval architect Fredrik Henrik Chapman (ennobled "af Chapman" in 1772) and together they developed five new vessels: a type of gunboat with a 12-pounder gun, schooner rigging and 7-8 pairs of oars, as well four types of "archipelago frigates" (skärgårdsfregatter): turuma udema, pojama, and hemmema.