steering-oar

I proceeded to experiment, lashing and wedging the steering-oar until the boat held on fairly well by the wind without my assistance.

Chapter 27 2010

When I took the steering-oar I had first to unbend her cramped fingers.

Chapter 27 2010

By good fortune I was buoyed by the steering-oar I still grasped, and by great good fortune a fling of sea, at the right instant, at the right spot, threw me far up the gentle slope of the one shelving rock on all that terrible shore.

Chapter 19 2010

Now Rasmunsen all his life had been prone to cowardice on water, but he clung to the kicking steering-oar with set face and determined jaw.

THE ONE THOUSAND DOZEN 2010

The regular boat's-crew manned her, and Matauare and three other Tahitians, belted with cartridges and armed with rifles, sat in the stern-sheets where Sheldon stood at the steering-oar.

Chapter 10 2010

By good fortune I was buoyed by the steering-oar I still grasped, and by great good fortune a fling of sea, at the right instant, at the right spot, threw me far up the gentle slope of the one shelving rock on all that terrible shore.

Chapter 19 2010

'Unh, hunh! more'n once when I took a doze at the steering-oar.

The Men of Forty-Mile 2010

What took them possibly two minutes took me twenty, but in the end I succeeded in setting and trimming it, and with the steering-oar in my hands hauled on the wind.

Chapter 26 2010

Then the boat emerged, half swamped, Leach flinging the water out and Johnson clinging to the steering-oar, his face white and anxious.

Chapter 19 2010

As the spritsail was taken in and the boat headed on to the beach, he was aware of a distinct hurt at sight of Joan at the steering-oar, standing erect and swaying her strength to it as she resisted the pressures that tended to throw the craft broadside in the surf.

Chapter 10 2010