Oaring

With the results of the TVA calamity, if you took a canoe trip along the Emory River in Tennessee, it would be like oaring through a vat of thick, toxic chocolate milk. ❋ Harmon Leon (2010)

I had the boat ready when they returned, and we poled off and were away in minutes, oaring hard. ❋ Matt Dennison (2010)

I only hope he has the substance to make good on his victory, and truly believes his oaring rhetoric, for all of our sakes. ❋ Unknown (2008)

We were oaring because our actual propeller on our life boat didn't work. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Somewhere in the mountains ahead was stashed a deflated raft, a jumble of oaring frame pipe, and a can of stove fuel. ❋ Unknown (2004)

I'm just going too much, got the boat turning and we oaring and stuff like that. ❋ Unknown (2005)

McNab, when she broke in and lurched about, dusting, sweeping, looked like a tropical fish oaring its way through sun-lanced waters. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Hence the need for ten men to labor, pushing, pulling and oaring the longboat around, mindful of the fact that Donovan had said they had to finish filling the tuns that day. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2000)

Lifting my head I saw the enemy galley back-oaring on the starboard side, and then, straightened, back-oaring from the chain. ❋ Norman, John, 1931- (1981)

Great masts of ships were there and huge fishes oaring their way, and as the water touched her she did not feel it warm, but cold and salt. ❋ Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon (1918)

He, a sort of minnow, thought to trouble the pool where the great fish were oaring at ease by flirting the surface with his tail. ❋ Maurice Hewlett (1892)

And the goblins came sailing and sailing up on the star; they was working it like, to make it go quick you know, like a boat with men oaring it you know, and they was oaring and oaring so hard, they was as hot as hot. ❋ Mrs. Molesworth (1880)

A bloody fool I was all yesterday, an 'oaring with my picture-frame. ❋ George Alfred Townsend (1877)

Had its globe fallen? and its lovely light gone out upon great wings, a resplendent firefly, oaring itself through a yet grander and lovelier room? ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

Still the old trout, calmly oaring, looked at them both suspiciously. ❋ Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle (1864)

So he went down under his root again, hugging himself upon his wisdom, never moving a fin, but oaring and helming his plump, spotted sides with his tail. ❋ Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle (1864)

Their children, scattered about in schools, convents, and colleges, will find the home of their affections elsewhere, or rather they will form the habit of oaring for nothing. ❋ Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1745)