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Before Nordhoff & Hall, popular notions of the southwestern Pacific were of an earthly paradise�"summers of the snakeless meadow, unlaborious earth and oarless sea."

From Time Magazine Archive

The ancient Angles had a saga which told of the arrival in their country of a boat, evidently sailless, oarless, and rudderless, containing only a child surrounded by arms and treasure.

From A Book of Operas Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music by Krehbiel, Henry Edward

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

He was not used to the water, and, oarless, became "panicky."

From Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness by Carroll, Robert S.

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