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| 13 | 339 | Two seamen View more quotes about came">came down from the upper deck and seized whips from racks behind the oar-master. |
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| 13 | 336 | I heard the voice of the captain, Tenrik, crying to his helmsmen, "Hard to starboard!" The big ship began to swing to starboard. |
| 13 | 337 | But then another cry, wild, drifted down from the basket on the main mast, "Two more ships! Off the starboard bow!" "Helm ahead!" cried Tenrik. |
| 13 | 338 | "Full sail! Maximum beat!" As soon as the Rena had swung to her original course, the oar-master cried "Stroke!" and the mallets of the keleustes began to strike, in great beats, the copper-covered drum. |
| 13 | 339 | Two seamen came down from the upper deck and seized whips from racks behind the oar-master. |
| 13 | 340 | I smiled. |
| 13 | 341 | Beaten or not, the oarsmen could only draw their oars so rapidly. |
| 13 | 342 | And it would not be rapidly enough. |