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Book 12. (1 results) Beasts of Gor (Individual Quote)

It would make its strike not below, but at the waterline. - (Beasts of Gor, Chapter 2, Sentence #340)
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2 340 It would make its strike not View more quotes about below">below, but at the waterline.

Book 12. (7 results) Beasts of Gor (Context Quote)

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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.
It possessed great oars, which must be handled by several men, rather than one man to an oar. Instead of two side-hung rudders, or oars, it carried a single oar, slung at the vessel's sternpost. Its ram was carried high, out of the water. It would make its strike not below, but at the waterline. It was a laughing stock in the arsenal at Port Kar, but Tersites paid his critics no attention. He worked assiduously, eating little, sleeping at the side of the ship, supervising each small detail in the great structure. 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. - (Beasts of Gor)