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Updated: June 21, 2025
"This is, at best, but a Jacob's ladder we have to climb," said Barnstable, casting his eyes upward at the difficult ascent, "and it's by no means certain that we shall be well received, when we get up, even though we should reach the top." "We are under the guns of the frigate," returned the boy; "and you remember, sir, three oar-blades and a pistol, repeated from the barge, will draw her fire."
There was already a white-topped sea running, and the spray from the oar-blades and the dinghy's bows blew aft into his companion's face in stinging wisps as he drove the plunging craft over it.
The heavy oar-blades of the seamen now made play, dashing the lake away in sheets of foam; and, in less than five minutes, the heads of the swimming savages were seen mingling like so many rats upon the water, as they returned once more in disappointment from their fruitless pursuit.
And he sat there so long so long after his hopes and wishes had flown over to Sark and hurried Bernel and Nance into a boat and landed them on L'Etat that the night seemed running out, and he began to fear they were not coming, after all. In the troubled darkness of the Race, he caught gleams at times which might be oar-blades or might be only the upfling from the perils below.
Many watch the retreat and slack of the sea, and leap boldly into the shoal water; others slide down the oars. I will let my vessel break up on such harbourage if once she takes the land. When Tarchon had spoken in such wise, his comrades rise on their oar-blades and carry their ships in foam towards the Latin fields, till the prows are fast on dry land and all the keels are aground unhurt.
If you meet with difficulties, show three oar-blades in a row, and I will pull in to your assistance. Three oars on end and a pistol will bring the fire of my muskets, and the signal repeated from the barge will draw a shot from the ship."
Then down toward the turmoil dwarfed to nothingness by the magnitude of the walls sped the tiny shell-like boat, running smoothly like a racing machine! There was no rowing. The oar-blades were tipped high to avoid loss in the first comber; then the boat was buried in foam, and staggered through on the other side.
Ford Foster had had oars in his hands before, but his experience had been limited to a class of vessels different in some respects from the one he was in now. He was short of something, at all events. It may have been skill, or it may have been legs or discretion; but, whatever was lacking, at the third or fourth stroke the oar-blades went a little too deeply below the smooth surface of the water.
"We ceased pulling lest the light should fall on our oar-blades, for we should have had no chance if they had made chase. "`Let's paddle in under these bushes, whispered Jack; `they're very thick, and we can lie hid here, while maybe they'll pass us. "We did as he proposed. As the boughs overhung the water and almost touched it with their ends, we hoped that the pirates would not discover us.
Only when Ban thrust down the oar-blades, as he did now and again to direct their course or avoid some obstacle, was Io made sensible, through the jar and tremor of the whole structure, how swiftly they moved. She felt the spirit of the great motion, of which they were a minutely inconsiderable part, enter into her soul. She was inspired of it, freed, elated, glorified.
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