Sentences with phrase «oars in a single blow»

One of Osborne's favorite descriptions of a rogue wave is from Virgil's Aeneid: «A squall came howling from the north - east, catching the sail full on, raising the waves to the stars, breaking the oars in a single blow, wrenching the boat around to offer its flank to the waves as a mountain of water rose above them, immense and immeasurable.