George bent to the oars and began to row away.

They bent to the oars to make a dash for it.

With a merry face Kalugin bent to the oars to take them to land.

The boat was pushed away from the yacht, and the young detective bent to the oars with all his strength.

He bent to the oars, comprehending only that Annabel was in danger.

In the other boats, the men were murmuring among themselves as they bent to the oars, and one addressed the Voice anxiously.

The Argo rode a smooth path out to sea, while her crew bent to the oars.

The orks bent to the oars before Damra had a chance to make her way through the press of bodies.

As for pirates-' He grinned enigmatically, and bent to the oars.

Cuthred bent to the oars and urged the boat along what would be a long trip back to a bed and fire.

The Tonga boys bent to the oars.

Then a dozen sailors bent to the oars and pulled rapidly toward the point where Tarzan crouched in the branches of a tree.

The men bent to the oars while Ramage and Southwick scrambled across to the stern.

Fifty mighty Argonauts, bending to the oars,

So, the rowers bending to the oars, the boat came slowly around from under the clump of mangrove bushes and out into the open water again.

replied Sparrow, bending to the oars.

They bent to the oars, and a dozen more strokes sent the rowboat under a clump of pines growing close to the edge of the lake.

Tatum bent to the oars and propelled the raft on the designated heading, pulling alongside a shape in the water-a parachute!

In the other boat Sir Francis and Hal bent to the oars and rowed on upstream.

He knew the tourists and Yeoman Warders had left, but he did not bend to the oars, did not try to hasten the little craft's progress.

How must centuries of mariners have blessed this tiny dot in the Indian Ocean as they bent to the oars that moved the heavy ship perhaps a mile a day!

While the boat's crew bent to the oars, he steered with the sweep between his arm and his side in order that he might hold Jerry with the other arm.

We bent to the oars then, and there was no time for talking, and truly I had much to think on that had no part of kings or lords or free air or land.

"My word, King o' Babylon," he muttered in the chief's ears as the boat's crew bent to the oars, "one fella boy make 'm trouble, I shoot 'm hell outa you first thing.

With each beat, the slaves bent to the oars, rising to their feet, raising the looms, and leaning back until their weight brought them down on the benches; then pushing the looms down and forward and repeating.