Oarless

Floating in an oarless boat, they eventually arrived at the southern coast of France. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He sits back in the oarless boat as other dead faces emerge, all white-eyed and wide-mouthed, with fatally wounded necks below them. ❋ Matt Haig (2010)

One is that this group had escaped from the persecution of the early Church by the Jews, and the other main motive given is that they had been deliberately set adrift by their enemies in a rudderless and oarless vessel. ❋ Lynn Picknett (2004)

It was a little boat, oarless, or not visibly propelled, and in it were her mother, and ❋ Unknown (2004)

Many curious inventions are alluded to in this last volume: diving bells, p. 533; gunpowder, p. 536; oarless and very swift boats; carriages without horses running at an extraordinary speed: "Item currus possunt fieri ut sine animali moveantur impetu inæstimabili," p. 533. ❋ Jean Jules Jusserand (N/A)

According to this story, Ciaran was not travelling alone, but with his disciples; and they had no means of transport to the island except an oarless boat woven of osiers. ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

He was not used to the water, and, oarless, became ❋ Robert S. Carroll (N/A)

If Doria had an uneasy consciousness that he might at any time see the shore littered with oarless galleys and dismasted nefs, while the sea was filled with drowning men, the same vision had been vouchsafed to his imperturbable adversary. ❋ E. Hamilton Currey (N/A)

Harlan bailing desperately, and in the stern Kayak Bill, his hand still on the tiller, keeping the oarless boat steady a-top the swift, rushing wave that was sweeping them on to the beach! ❋ Barrett Willoughby (N/A)

Summers of the snakeless meadow, unlaborious earth and oarless sea; 10 ❋ Unknown (1909)

In the space of a few breaths every living creature that dwelt in the lower grounds had been smothered by the waters, save for a few who huddled in a pair of galleys that were driven oarless inland, over what had once been black forest and hunting land for the beasts. ❋ Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne (1905)

The Ark was rudderless, oarless, and machineless, and could travel only where the High Gods chose. ❋ Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne (1905)

The coasts of the lakes up which the _Griffin_ led the oarless way are three thousand three hundred and eighty-five miles in length, or, including those of the lower lake, Frontenac, which was also first touched of French keels, over four thousand miles. ❋ John Finley (1901)

It may not have been so always, for I remember a black night when a poor lieutenant lay down in an oarless boat and let it drift toward the weir. ❋ Unknown (1898)

It was then that he suddenly decided to grasp this opportunity for "looking about a little to find something for Uncle Harold" -- and it was then that he was lost, for no longer had he compass, captain, or a port in view; but oarless and rudderless he drifted. ❋ Unknown (1894)