Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 3 | 141 | For one who did not View more quotes about know">know the ways of Port Kar, it would be a natural assumption, one I pretended to make, that dressing crews would shape and plank a great deal of the wood before shipping it to the south. |
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 3 | 138 | "It is not the season," he said. |
| 3 | 139 | "I see," I said. |
| 3 | 140 | I had then more evidence that our friend, Pertinax, and perhaps his slave, Constantina, were not what they pretended to be. |
| 3 | 141 | For one who did not know the ways of Port Kar, it would be a natural assumption, one I pretended to make, that dressing crews would shape and plank a great deal of the wood before shipping it to the south. |
| 3 | 142 | Indeed, I had often thought that that would be a sensible practice. |
| 3 | 143 | On the other hand, the artisans of the arsenal, under the command of the master shipwrights, attended to these matters in the arsenal itself. |
| 3 | 144 | The rationale for this, as it had been explained to me, was that each mast, each strake, each plank, each article of the ship, was to be shaped and customized under the supervision of the arsenal's naval architects. |
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"It is not the season," he said.
"I see," I said.
I had then more evidence that our friend, Pertinax, and perhaps his slave, Constantina, were not what they pretended to be.
For one who did not know the ways of Port Kar, it would be a natural assumption, one I pretended to make, that dressing crews would shape and plank a great deal of the wood before shipping it to the south.
Indeed, I had often thought that that would be a sensible practice.
On the other hand, the artisans of the arsenal, under the command of the master shipwrights, attended to these matters in the arsenal itself.
The rationale for this, as it had been explained to me, was that each mast, each strake, each plank, each article of the ship, was to be shaped and customized under the supervision of the arsenal's naval architects.
- (Swordsmen of Gor)