Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 41 | 19 | To be View more quotes about sure">sure, many storms cover the sea for hundreds of square pasangs and one can no more avoid them than the sea herself. |
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 41 | 16 | One does not know what the sky portends, only that it portends. |
| 41 | 17 | I myself, particularly with an untried ship, would not have challenged it. |
| 41 | 18 | And so, too, had ruled whoever might be the master of the ship of Tersites. |
| 41 | 19 | To be sure, many storms cover the sea for hundreds of square pasangs and one can no more avoid them than the sea herself. |
| 41 | 20 | Too, some storms last several days. |
| 41 | 21 | One strives to weather such storms, and sometimes one must flee before them. |
| 41 | 22 | In a galley one would normally take down the mast and yard, that they not be lost in the wind, or, if necessary, rig the smallest of her sails, the storm sail, get the storm astern and run before her, as might a tabuk attempting to elude a pursuing larl. |
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One does not know what the sky portends, only that it portends.
I myself, particularly with an untried ship, would not have challenged it.
And so, too, had ruled whoever might be the master of the ship of Tersites.
To be sure, many storms cover the sea for hundreds of square pasangs and one can no more avoid them than the sea herself.
Too, some storms last several days.
One strives to weather such storms, and sometimes one must flee before them.
In a galley one would normally take down the mast and yard, that they not be lost in the wind, or, if necessary, rig the smallest of her sails, the storm sail, get the storm astern and run before her, as might a tabuk attempting to elude a pursuing larl.
- (Swordsmen of Gor)