They struggled awkwardly at the heavy oars, and slowly worked off shore.

In the bows two teams of sailors under the king stood ready with heavy oars to fend off.

The heavy oars explained why the fat woman's arms were thick and muscular.

Some of them undid the chains and took up long poles, while the others slid heavy wide-bladed oars through the locks.

Matthew and Kevin man the long, heavy oars and any additional paddling is really for participation's sake or to keep warm.

They stretched out their lean arms and pulled the heavy oars through the water.

He was soaked to the skin within seconds, hands blistered from the heavy oars, muscles in his shoulders cracking with the effort of pulling.

The guardsman's hands were also raw from gripping the heavy oar.

Lucian gestured for silence again and disappeared in the shadows near the shack, returning with two heavy oars.

But her gaze was strained by her struggle to row the heavy oars in time with the others.