Careful Words

oar (n.)

oar (v.)

oar (adj.)

On the ear

Drops the light drip of the suspended oar.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iii. Stanza 86.

  He has an oar in every man's boat, and a finger in every pie.

Miguel De Cervantes (1547-1616): Don Quixote. Part ii. Chap. xxii.

Low stir of leaves and dip of oars

And lapsing waves on quiet shores.

John G Whittier (1807-892): Snow Bound.

Oh swiftly glides the bonnie boat,

Just parted from the shore,

And to the fisher's chorus-note

Soft moves the dipping oar.

Joanna Baillie (1762-1857): Oh swiftly glides the Bonnie Boat.

Learn of the little nautilus to sail,

Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Essay on Man. Epistle iii. Line 177.