Book 6. (1 results) Raiders of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 13 | 341 | View more quotes about beaten">Beaten or not, the oarsmen could only draw their oars so rapidly. |
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Book 6. (7 results) Raiders of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 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. |
| 13 | 343 | I heard another cry drifting down from the basket far above. |
| 13 | 344 | "Two more ships astern!" The heavy, leather-cushioned mallets of the keleustes struck again and again on the copper-covered drum. |
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"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.
Two seamen came down from the upper deck and seized whips from racks behind the oar-master.
I smiled.
Beaten or not, the oarsmen could only draw their oars so rapidly.
And it would not be rapidly enough.
I heard another cry drifting down from the basket far above.
"Two more ships astern!" The heavy, leather-cushioned mallets of the keleustes struck again and again on the copper-covered drum.
- (Raiders of Gor)