Book 16. (1 results) Guardsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 135 | We rode over the View more quotes about first">first longboat, shattering it, its bow and stern snapping upward, its crew screaming and leaping into the water. |
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Book 16. (7 results) Guardsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 1 | 132 | The men in the longboats carried swords and grapnels. |
| 1 | 133 | Did they truly think to engage us? Our galley, like most of Gorean construction, was low and shallow drafted, but still its bulwarks would loom above the gunnels of a simple longboat. |
| 1 | 134 | The Tina knifed toward the chain. |
| 1 | 135 | We rode over the first longboat, shattering it, its bow and stern snapping upward, its crew screaming and leaping into the water. |
| 1 | 136 | Another was fouled in the oars of our starboard side and capsized. |
| 1 | 137 | The other three fled back toward the chain. |
| 1 | 138 | I saw then that their action had been diversionary, to occupy us while other longboats, fixed with wicker shields, of the sort used for naval bowmen, lay along the chain. |
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The men in the longboats carried swords and grapnels.
Did they truly think to engage us? Our galley, like most of Gorean construction, was low and shallow drafted, but still its bulwarks would loom above the gunnels of a simple longboat.
The Tina knifed toward the chain.
We rode over the first longboat, shattering it, its bow and stern snapping upward, its crew screaming and leaping into the water.
Another was fouled in the oars of our starboard side and capsized.
The other three fled back toward the chain.
I saw then that their action had been diversionary, to occupy us while other longboats, fixed with wicker shields, of the sort used for naval bowmen, lay along the chain.
- (Guardsman of Gor)