Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 2 | 136 | It was not built for war, but for space and View more quotes about power">power, for height and storage, perhaps for invulnerability. |
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Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 2 | 133 | The mighty structure before us had a blunt, rearing prow. |
| 2 | 134 | It had no ram, no shearing blades. |
| 2 | 135 | It would be slow to come about, and a small galley might easily outdistance her, much as a racing kaiila might easily overtake a caravan of bosk-drawn wagons. |
| 2 | 136 | It was not built for war, but for space and power, for height and storage, perhaps for invulnerability. |
| 2 | 137 | We did not know what cargo it might carry. |
| 2 | 138 | In its holds it might carry the stores of a small city. |
| 2 | 139 | Its maneuverability would be so sluggish that the deft adjustments of shearing blades, responsive to subtleties of the ship's movement, so common in the swift movements of Gorean naval warfare, would be impractical, if not impossible. |
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The mighty structure before us had a blunt, rearing prow.
It had no ram, no shearing blades.
It would be slow to come about, and a small galley might easily outdistance her, much as a racing kaiila might easily overtake a caravan of bosk-drawn wagons.
It was not built for war, but for space and power, for height and storage, perhaps for invulnerability.
We did not know what cargo it might carry.
In its holds it might carry the stores of a small city.
Its maneuverability would be so sluggish that the deft adjustments of shearing blades, responsive to subtleties of the ship's movement, so common in the swift movements of Gorean naval warfare, would be impractical, if not impossible.
- (Mariners of Gor)