| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 3 | 30 | Who could allege, or View more quotes about know">know of, or confidently state, the destruction of a village or town prior to the event, unless one were somehow privy to the intentions of raiders contemplating such an attack? "How is Aktis doing?" I asked Thurnock. |
| 3 | 31 | "He draws a good oar," said Thurnock. |
| 3 | 32 | "Relieve him, and send him to me," I said. |
| 3 | 33 | Thurnock then descended the stairs to the helm deck. |
| 3 | 34 | Once we were another Ahn from the coast of Chios, in the open sea, I would have the mast raised, with its long yard, and let the fore-and-aft rigged sail, the swelling, triangular sail, a lateen sail, now the fair-weather sail, take the wind. |
| 3 | 35 | I thought this a politic delay, as shipping tends to be heavier in the vicinity of a coast, and a high-masted sail, swollen with wind, is easily detected from a stem castle, even by eye, at more than five pasangs. |
| 3 | 36 | "Captain?" asked Aktis. |