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Less than a quarter of a glass later, the dory was little more than an oar's length from the wall, and less than twenty cubits north of the southeast corner.

Ordermaster Modesitt, L. E. 2005

Conan glared shoreward; like a tongue of emerald flame, a ribbon licked out on the water futilely, an oar's length from the Wastrel 's keel.

The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

Conan glared shoreward; like a tongue of emerald flame, a ribbon licked out on the water futilely, an oar's length from the Wastrel 's keel.

The Coming of Conan The Cimmerian Howard, Robert E. 2003

Conan glared shoreward; like a tongue of emerald flame, a ribbon licked out on the water futilely, an oar's length from the Wastrel's keel.

The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

Conan glared shoreward; like a tongue of emerald flame, a ribbon licked out on the water futilely, an oar's length from the Wastrel's keel.

The Pool Of The Black One Howard, Robert E. 1986

Conan glared shoreward; like a tongue of emerald flame, a ribbon licked out on the water futilely, an oar's length from the Wastrels keel.

Conan the Adventurer Howard, Robert E. 1966

Every day we passed great flocks of sea fowl floating on the water, coming frequently almost within an oar's length, but always just out of reach.

Out of the Fog C. K. Ober

In one the fierce current set against the cliff so strongly that we were carried within an oar's length of it, notwithstanding our severe effort to avoid so close an acquaintance with the rough wall.

A Canyon Voyage The Narrative of the Second Powell Expedition down the Green-Colorado River from Wyoming, and the Explorations on Land, in the Years 1871 and 1872 Frederick S. Dellenbaugh

Nearer and nearer they come; an oar's length, a step; they touch now!

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859 Various

Instantly, as it seemed, the whale drove almost perpendicularly downwards, but so great was its momentum, that its fluked tail cut the air within an oar's length of the boat as it disappeared.

The Island Home Richard Archer