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Some ships, crowded together, sterns to the dock, protected themselves from other ships with thick coils of cushioning rope dangling over their gunwales. - (Avengers of Gor, Chapter 37, Sentence #23)

I myself had left my sword on the Tesephone. Thurnock would not carry his bow, of course, as Sybaris was a stronghold of Cos on Thera, and the weapon laws of Cos forbade bows to any but authorized personnel, guardsmen, guards of officials, and such. Our guise was that of common workmen, supposedly making our way about the hiring tables, looking for fee. Some ships, crowded together, sterns to the dock, protected themselves from other ships with thick coils of cushioning rope dangling over their gunwales. Others, at higher-priced wharfage, had their hulls parallel to the pier. Their mooring ropes, fastened to shore cleats at stem and stern, with their conical or disklike urt guards, would, as they lifted and tightened, shed water in a rain of sunlit droplets, and then, again, relaxing, would loop downward, settling again into the water. "Give way, give way!" cried a voice, and we stepped aside, making way for a railed cart piled with baskets of larmas, a fruit well to have aboard on long voyages. - (Avengers of Gor)