Book 16. (1 results) Guardsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 9 | 125 | The View more quotes about great">great weight of the Tuka, so dark, so heavy, so obdurate, so seemingly resistant and fixed in place, suddenly, unexpectedly, straining, with a heavy, sliding noise, the keel like the runner of a great sled, leaving a line in the sand, thrust by our forces, moved by the water, slipped backward, six inches. |
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Book 16. (7 results) Guardsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 9 | 122 | Other men, with spear points, scraped at the sand under the keel. |
| 9 | 123 | "I fear there is little time," called Callimachus from the rail of the Tina. |
| 9 | 124 | "It is hopeless," said the man near me. |
| 9 | 125 | The great weight of the Tuka, so dark, so heavy, so obdurate, so seemingly resistant and fixed in place, suddenly, unexpectedly, straining, with a heavy, sliding noise, the keel like the runner of a great sled, leaving a line in the sand, thrust by our forces, moved by the water, slipped backward, six inches. |
| 9 | 126 | "Work!" I whispered. |
| 9 | 127 | "Push! Work!" The Tuka slipped back a foot. |
| 9 | 128 | Then another foot. |
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Other men, with spear points, scraped at the sand under the keel.
"I fear there is little time," called Callimachus from the rail of the Tina.
"It is hopeless," said the man near me.
The great weight of the Tuka, so dark, so heavy, so obdurate, so seemingly resistant and fixed in place, suddenly, unexpectedly, straining, with a heavy, sliding noise, the keel like the runner of a great sled, leaving a line in the sand, thrust by our forces, moved by the water, slipped backward, six inches.
"Work!" I whispered.
"Push! Work!" The Tuka slipped back a foot.
Then another foot.
- (Guardsman of Gor)