Book 6. (1 results) Raiders of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 13 | 388 | The men, many of them, could no View more quotes about longer">longer maintain the beat of the keleustes, and they had no guide for a stroke they could draw. |
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Book 6. (7 results) Raiders of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 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. |
| 13 | 390 | "Up oars!" he cried. |
| 13 | 391 | Then he spoke to the keleustes, wearily, "Ten from maximum beat". |
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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.
"Up oars!" he cried.
Then he spoke to the keleustes, wearily, "Ten from maximum beat".
- (Raiders of Gor)