Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 8 | 17 | There is a time to View more quotes about strike">strike, a time to wait. |
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Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 8 | 14 | I had heard no more of sedition from Tyrtaios, who was of the retinue of Lord Nishida. |
| 8 | 15 | If he harbored thoughts of insubordination, even mutiny, he did not now speak them. |
| 8 | 16 | They lay dormant, if seething, within the walls of his own dark, coiled, serpentine heart. |
| 8 | 17 | There is a time to strike, a time to wait. |
| 8 | 18 | What point to seize a ship, to risk one's life, when the prize, even if won, would be without profit? Only a fool would hope to steal a wagon without wheels, a kaiila which cannot be untethered, a girl whose chain he cannot loosen, a treasure which cannot be carried away. |
| 8 | 19 | "Away!" called a man, standing at the rail. |
| 8 | 20 | One of the great saws, heavy, eleven feet in length, with gigantic metal teeth, fashioned from iron timber braces, by the ship's Metal Workers, on its rope, was lowered over the side, to the men below. |
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I had heard no more of sedition from Tyrtaios, who was of the retinue of Lord Nishida.
If he harbored thoughts of insubordination, even mutiny, he did not now speak them.
They lay dormant, if seething, within the walls of his own dark, coiled, serpentine heart.
There is a time to strike, a time to wait.
What point to seize a ship, to risk one's life, when the prize, even if won, would be without profit? Only a fool would hope to steal a wagon without wheels, a kaiila which cannot be untethered, a girl whose chain he cannot loosen, a treasure which cannot be carried away.
"Away!" called a man, standing at the rail.
One of the great saws, heavy, eleven feet in length, with gigantic metal teeth, fashioned from iron timber braces, by the ship's Metal Workers, on its rope, was lowered over the side, to the men below.
- (Mariners of Gor)