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Then did Pea and I once more embark in our four-oared galley, and glide swiftly down the river with the tide.

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We were in a four-oared Thames Police Galley, lying on our oars in the deep shadow of Southwark Bridge — under the corner arch on the

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The sound of cheerful voices came from the kitchen garden, several horses grazed contentedly in the paddock nearby, and far away down the distant silver river, a small boat came down, a four-oared piretta, its oars stroking the surface, brisk and graceful as a water strider.

A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

Magomero, Drs. Livingstone and Kirk, and Charles Livingstone started for Nyassa with a light four-oared gig, a white sailor, and

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

Mr. Bloomfield Douglas, the Resident, a tall, vigorous, elderly man, with white hair, a florid complexion, and a strong voice heard everywhere in authoritative tones, met me with a four-oared boat, and a buggy with a good Australian horse brought me here.

The Golden Chersonese and the way thither Isabella Lucy 2004

He could not go alone down the river; Ross and Toffy and Hopwood would have to come too, to man the four-oared boat, and some one would have to steer, because the river was dangerous of navigation and full of sandbanks and holes.

Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir

When hard pressed, reindeer soon take to the water, and swim so well, that a four-oared boat can scarcely come up with them, but an Esquimaux, in his kayak will overtake them.

Journal of a Voyage from Okkak, on the Coast of Labrador, to Ungava Bay, Westward of Cape Chudleigh Undertaken to Explore the Coast, and Visit the Esquimaux in That Unknown Region George Kmoch

In the four-oared race of gentlemen amateurs held last year at Agecroft in Lancashire the prize of silver plate was won by a crew taken from a club composed entirely of colliers, who had been allowed to row under protest, they not being acknowledged as "_gentlemen_ amateurs."

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Various

While stationed at Kiukiang I possessed a teak-built four-oared gig which, being heavy and strong, I rigged with a jib and mainsail, besides adding six inches to her keel, when she proved to be a handy and seaworthy little craft.

Life and sport in China Second Edition Oliver George Ready

The swift ones seemed to be all four-oared, and he knew that he must have a fleet, light vinta to elude the Dyaks.

The Adventures of Piang the Moro Jungle Boy A Book for Young and Old Florence Partello Stuart