Book 6. (1 results) Raiders of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 13 | 386 | Relentlessly View more quotes about though">though the keleustes, under his orders, pounded the great drum. |
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Book 6. (7 results) Raiders of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 13 | 383 | The officer, with a cry of rage, then turned and ran up the stairs to the main deck. |
| 13 | 384 | Maximum beat. |
| 13 | 385 | But, in less than an Ehn, one man failed to maintain it, and then two, and the oars began to foul. |
| 13 | 386 | Relentlessly though the keleustes, under his orders, pounded the great drum. |
| 13 | 387 | Then the strokes of the drum were no longer coordinated with the oars. |
| 13 | 388 | The men, many of them, could no longer maintain the beat of the keleustes, and they had no guide for a stroke they could draw. |
| 13 | 389 | The oar-master, his face bloody, climbed to his feet. |
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The officer, with a cry of rage, then turned and ran up the stairs to the main deck.
Maximum beat.
But, in less than an Ehn, one man failed to maintain it, and then two, and the oars began to foul.
Relentlessly though the keleustes, under his orders, pounded the great drum.
Then the strokes of the drum were no longer coordinated with the oars.
The men, many of them, could no longer maintain the beat of the keleustes, and they had no guide for a stroke they could draw.
The oar-master, his face bloody, climbed to his feet.
- (Raiders of Gor)