Book 6. (1 results) Raiders of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 14 | 193 | View more quotes about both">Both were fleeing at maximum beat. |
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Book 6. (7 results) Raiders of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 14 | 190 | We heard trumpets blaring behind us frantically, trying to warn the ship ahead of us. |
| 14 | 191 | It, too, began to come about, and we caught her amidships, the ram thrusting through the heavy planking like kindling, then stopped by the shield, like a spread tarn's crest, and we chopped our way back and free, and then knifed past her stern toward the next two ships. |
| 14 | 192 | By this time the two ships ahead of us were well aware of their danger and, given the distances involved, neither captain elected to chance the dangerous maneuver of coming about to meet us. |
| 14 | 193 | Both were fleeing at maximum beat. |
| 14 | 194 | "Half of maximum beat," I told the oar-master. |
| 14 | 195 | The oar-master grinned, and went to the center of the rowing frame. |
| 14 | 196 | As the beat dropped, I took out the glass of the builders and scanned the horizon. |
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We heard trumpets blaring behind us frantically, trying to warn the ship ahead of us.
It, too, began to come about, and we caught her amidships, the ram thrusting through the heavy planking like kindling, then stopped by the shield, like a spread tarn's crest, and we chopped our way back and free, and then knifed past her stern toward the next two ships.
By this time the two ships ahead of us were well aware of their danger and, given the distances involved, neither captain elected to chance the dangerous maneuver of coming about to meet us.
Both were fleeing at maximum beat.
"Half of maximum beat," I told the oar-master.
The oar-master grinned, and went to the center of the rowing frame.
As the beat dropped, I took out the glass of the builders and scanned the horizon.
- (Raiders of Gor)