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| 2 | 340 | It would make its strike not View more quotes about below">below, but at the waterline. |
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| 2 | 337 | It possessed great oars, which must be handled by several men, rather than one man to an oar. |
| 2 | 338 | Instead of two side-hung rudders, or oars, it carried a single oar, slung at the vessel's sternpost. |
| 2 | 339 | Its ram was carried high, out of the water. |
| 2 | 340 | It would make its strike not below, but at the waterline. |
| 2 | 341 | It was a laughing stock in the arsenal at Port Kar, but Tersites paid his critics no attention. |
| 2 | 342 | He worked assiduously, eating little, sleeping at the side of the ship, supervising each small detail in the great structure. |
| 2 | 343 | It was said the deep keel would slow the ship; that the two masts would take too long to remove in the case of naval combat; that so large an oar would constitute an impractical lever, that it could not be grasped by a man, that the oarsmen could not all sit during the stroke, that if more than one man controlled an oar some would shirk their work. |