oarless
- a word derived from oar.
Example Sentences
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If you succeed in constructing this sailless, oarless vessel that shall face the wind as swiftly as if the wind were in its favor, I will create you—what is your name?
From The Resources of Quinola by Balzac, Honoré de
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.
From The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints by MacAlister, R.A. Stewart
When the birth of a son leads to discovery, Democles has them placed in an oarless boat and so cast adrift.
From Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England by Greg, Walter W.
It was a little boat, oarless, or not visibly propelled, and in it were her mother, and Vesta, and some one whom she could not make out.
From Jennie Gerhardt A Novel by Dreiser, Theodore
Three days ago, through an accident, I drifted, in an oarless boat, out from the river-mouth at Fort Dearborn to the open lake.
From When Wilderness Was King A Tale of the Illinois Country by Parrish, Randall
