"Well, I feel as if I had been doing something," replied Pepper, resting on his oar. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Patrol] Reference
July 15, 2008 at 9:34 am excep teh wyte pantzes……..oar teh wyte shirtz…..oar oar oar. From Wordnik.com. [ur bag has an angry - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?] Reference
The singular form of retrices is rectrix which comes from the Latin word oar used to mean rower. From Wordnik.com. [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]]
A paddle, a sweep, or an oar, is called washee, and washee is also the verb. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 16] Reference
Museum researcher Yoon On-Shik said the oar is a very rare find. From Wordnik.com. [RedOrbit News - Technology] Reference
A sweep, or an oar, is called a washee, and washee is also the verb. From Wordnik.com. ["Too Much" English] Reference
Mr Ross said the three metre long shark must have thought the oar was a seal and went to kill it. From Wordnik.com. [Home] Reference
For San Niccolo was far distant, and he was rowing with but one oar, which is the custom in Venice. From Wordnik.com. [Knights of Art; stories of the Italian painters] Reference
They floated on in silence -- not an oar was pulled. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
The motive power was 20 oar propellers worked by men. From Wordnik.com. [British Airships, Past, Present, and Future] Reference
"Pull a strong oar, boys, or the tide will turn agin us!". From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
We each took an oar and rowed in silence back to Mary's dock. From Wordnik.com. [Heron Lake] Reference
There was not a sign of an oar, or a board, or anything of the kind. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
Mr. POTTS: It was just a gut feeling decision just to stick my oar in. From Wordnik.com. [Car Phone Salesman Captures British Hearts] Reference
Before the gasoline engine, lobster boats were powered by oar and wind. From Wordnik.com. [Nat Hussey: Maine Lobsterman Pulls Traps By Hand For 'Zero-Carbon Lobster Harvesting'] Reference
Tom knew this, but he thought that there might be another oar on board. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
Captain Corbet secured the boat's painter to the stem, and threw the oar on board. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
You can't help but be humbled a bit when you stick your oar in a current that strong. From Wordnik.com. [Back To Basics] Reference
“The gods must be upset with us,” Fayiz said, as he churned the water with his oar. From Wordnik.com. [The Pilgrimage] Reference
With each stroke of the oar the boat pulls — a little to the left, then to the right. From Wordnik.com. [Heron Lake] Reference
"Almost like the time when you saved the papers in the red oar at Denny Shane's cabin!". From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Waters Blue Or the Strange Cruise of the Tartar] Reference
In the meantime the brother had gotten hold of his oar and was trying to make the boat move. From Wordnik.com. [Trials and Triumphs of Faith] Reference
The father had been a powerful young man, a boxer to be feared, oar one in the Varsity Crew. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
Kermit's friend Buddy used an oar to dig below the beach surface, revealing more oil beneath. From Wordnik.com. [Antonia Juhasz: BP's "Missing Oil" Washes Up in St. Mary's Parish, LA] Reference
Leaks a little, and one oar has been split and mended, but it's all right for our little use. From Wordnik.com. [Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane] Reference
Toffy rowed the bow-oar now, and Purvis, who knew every turn of the river, took the tiller-ropes. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
They share the middle seat; each holds an oar and they row in alternate strokes northward along the shore. From Wordnik.com. [Heron Lake] Reference
Last week she swam so far in the sun she couldn't touch an oar or paddle for days, her arms were so blistered. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins at the Seashore] Reference
No one knows yet whether it will be successful, but, says Romer, "now I think everyone feels they have an oar.". From Wordnik.com. [Playing Catch-Up] Reference
That's going to put enough of a drag on the economy that I don't think the Fed needs to shove its oar in as well. From Wordnik.com. [Rising Interest Rates Spark Inflation Concerns] Reference
As the boat drifted on, his first impulse was to stop it; and in order to do this it was necessary to find an oar. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
Ashlock was at his old post at the steering-oar, with two ladies, who soon came to the landing, having passed through. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
He saw himself in a bright orange raft on the water, piercing the white-foam of the water with a commanding, wooden oar. From Wordnik.com. [Slipknot to Suicide] Reference
And all that handled the oar shall come down from their ships: the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea shall stand upon the land. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 31: Ezechiel The Challoner Revision] Reference
Sport; amusements; a broken oar denotes recklessness for which you will pay dearly; for a lover or husband, this means affliction. From Wordnik.com. [Telling Fortunes By Tea Leaves] Reference
They're double spaced with an indent on the first line of every paragraph and the stack is held down on the middle seat by an oar tip. From Wordnik.com. [Go Where It Takes You] Reference
The boy pulls harder on his oar and the girl tries to match him, but can't keep up and the boat begins to turn in a wide circle. From Wordnik.com. [Heron Lake] Reference
To fight the hordes, singing, crying - Valhalla, I am coming … On we sweep with threshing oar, our only goal will be the western shore. From Wordnik.com. [Led Zeppelin's Blues Roots] Reference
I now helped my companion to half support herself by grasping the oar, while for the rest she was induced to throw an arm over my shoulder. From Wordnik.com. [Daybreak; a Romance of an Old World] Reference
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