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Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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20 18 Those members of the Caste of Assassins, the most hated caste on Gor, who had served Pa-Kur, were taken in chains down the Vosk to become galley slaves on the cargo ships that ply Gor's oceans.
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Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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6 19 If they were indeed Ta grapes I supposed they must have come by galley from Cos to Port Kar, and from Port Kar to the Fair of En'Kara.
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Book 4. (4 results) Nomads of Gor

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9 27 "How is it," I asked, "that here in Turia you can serve the livers of wingfish?" "I have a war galley in Port Kar," said Saphrar the merchant, "which I send to Cos twice a year for the fish".
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9 37 "How is it," I asked, "that a merchant of Turia has a war galley in Port Kar?" Saphrar reclined on the yellow cushions, behind the low table covered with wines, fruits and golden dishes heaped with delicate viands.
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16 218 "That explains," I said, "how it is that you, though in Turia, can have a galley in Port Kar".
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17 27 It would probably be a sea-tharlarion, or perhaps several such; sometimes the smaller sea-tharlarion, seemingly not much more than teeth and tail, fluttering in packs beneath the waves, are even more to be feared than their larger brethren, some of whom in whose jaws an entire galley can be raised f...
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Book 5. (2 results) Assassin of Gor

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19 146 Slave girls who escape masters or some free women, who will not accept the matches arranged by their parents, or reject the culture of Gor, occasionally flee to these forests and live together in bands, building shelters, hunting their food, and hating men; there are occasional clashes between these...
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19 148 The pair was eventually sold to a collector for ten gold pieces; I trust the security of his Pleasure Gardens is superb, else he might waken to a knife at his throat and the demand for a tarn, and, perhaps eventually, in the rags of a slave, a seat on the bench of a cargo galley.
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Book 6. (22 results) Raiders of Gor

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3 43 He had been a slave, doubtless, and, doubtless, judging by the collar, and the large hands and broad back, had served on the galleys, but he had been an unusual slave, a bred exotic, doubtless originally intended by the slave maters for a destiny higher than that of the galley bench.
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6 87 Ho-Hak, sweating, breathing deeply, wildly, his great ears flat against the sides of his head, the iron, riveted collar of the galley slave, with its broken, dangling chain, about his neck, clutching his oar pole, stood with his legs planted widely apart on the rence, at bay.
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8 446 Thurnock, the peasant, and Clitus, the fisherman, approached, holding between them Ho-Hak, bound hand and foot, the heavy collar of the galley slave, with its dangling chain, still riveted about his neck.
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9 466 Ho-Hak, I recalled, still wore the heavy collar of the galley slave.
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10 197 The injured galley then is like a broken-winged bird, and at the mercy of the other ship's ram as she comes about, flutes playing and drums beating, and makes her strike amidships.
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10 247 My fifth voyage was one to satisfy my interest, and made in a light swift galley.
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10 261 I had leaned on the rail of the light galley, and, in the moonlight, had listened to the mating whistles of the small fish.
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10 275 The galley slaves I thought worth freeing, I freed, and found that many would stay with me, taking me for their captain.
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10 300 Tur wood is used for galley frames, and beams and clamps and posts, and for hull planking; Ka-la-na serves for capstans and mastheads; Tem-wood for rudders and oars; and the needle trees, the evergreens, for masts and spars, and cabin and deck planking.
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10 311 Each would be escorted by a medium galley.
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11 90 These are the arrangements when a galley moves through the city, or when she enters battle.
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11 580 "A galley," I said, "a ram-ship, heavy class".
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11 594 Further, even if my mission failed, I would be richer by a galley, and that a ram-ship of heavy class, the most redoubtable naval weapon on gleaming Thassa.
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13 8 I took a longboat ashore, and sent the boat back to my galley.
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13 494 "As I recall, I have waiting for me there a galley, heavy class, for my work in Cos".
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13 507 Then I vaulted over the rail of the Rena onto the deck of the heavy-class arsenal galley.
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13 511 * * * * Within the month, supplied and outfitted, the ram-ships of Bosk, a light galley, two of medium class, and one of heavy class, made their first strikes on Thassa.
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14 314 Penned in among the twenty-three round ships was a long galley, a purple ship, flying the purple flag of Cos.
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14 345 The distinction of man and officer does not exist on the benches of a galley.
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17 133 The lateen-rigged galley, whether a round ship or a ram-ship, although it can furl its sail, cannot well let out and take in sail; it is not a square-rigged craft; accordingly she carries different sails for different conditions; the yard itself, from the mast, is lowered and hoisted, sails being re...
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18 707 About his neck there was still the heavy iron collar he had worn as a galley slave, with its links of heavy, dangling chain.
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18 804 Ho-Hak turned and I saw the broad back of the ex-galley slave move through the door.
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Book 7. (5 results) Captive of Gor

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5 112 I found the tiny galley.
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5 131 Its silken body struck my leg as it ran from the galley.
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5 133 I shut the door of the galley, crying.
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5 136 I would have to starve! Then I sat down on the floor of the steel galley and wept.
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5 153 I opened the galley door.
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Book 8. (19 results) Hunters of Gor

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1 221 "Doubtless to be a galley slave," he said.
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2 23 Men scrambled on the long yard of the lateen-rigged light galley, a small, swift ram-ship of Port Kar.
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2 31 The oars were now inboard, and the galley, of its own accord, swung, into the wind.
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2 61 This galley, one of my swiftest, the Tesephone of Port Kar, had forty oars, twenty to a side.
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2 91 I had no desire, in this instance, to beach the galley.
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2 487 "This one," said one of the girls, "will look well chained at the bench of a galley".
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2 548 In the usual Gorean galley, lateen rigged, there is no practical way to take in, or shorten, sail, as with many types of square-rigged craft.
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2 551 On the other hand, the lateen-rigged galley, with its triangular sail on the long, sloping yard, has marvelous maneuvering capabilities, and can sail incredibly close to the wind.
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2 698 It contains much sand, used as ballast for the galley.
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3 36 Some eight to ten bales of sleen fur, highly prized, is a plausible cargo for a light galley.
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5 383 I noted, to my interest, the large, yellow medium galley from Tyros, too, was casting off.
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6 186 Turning slowly, sweetly, into the wharves of Laura was the heavy-beamed, large medium galley, bright with the yellow of Tyros.
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6 328 The Rhoda, though a shallow drafted galley, was still considerably deeper keeled than the Tesephone.
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13 159 She was a medium-class galley.
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18 29 Somewhere, how far away I knew not, the strike of the hammer of the keleustes governed the stroke of those great sweeping levers, the oars of the Rhoda, and doubtless, not more than fifty yards abeam, those, too, of the light galley, the Tesephone, she of Port Kar.
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18 451 The Gorean galley, carvel built, long and of shallow draft, built for war and speed, is not built to withstand the frenzies of Thassa.
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21 249 Dark, ahead, were the hulls of the Rhoda, a ship of Tyros, and the Tesephone, a light galley of Port Kar.
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21 264 Ahead, dark, were the hulls of the Rhoda, she of Tyros, and the Tesephone, a light galley of Port Kar.
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22 449 Their food is that of a galley slave, peas, black bread and onions.
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Book 9. (1 results) Marauders of Gor

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1 575 No longer about his throat was clasped the collar of the galley slave, with short, dangling chain.
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Book 11. (13 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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22 229 A ship passed near us, but it was one which flew the flag of Port Kar, a light galley.
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22 232 Far to our left we saw a galley aflame.
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22 704 We seized a small, oared galley.
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22 718 Our own small galley had been rammed, and was shipping water.
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22 726 I must search further! I returned to my own galley.
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22 729 Had she been picked up? That must not be! She must be here, somewhere! Surely none who knew her, and what she was, who knew her true nature, would deign to fish such garbage out of the water! Unless to deliver her, to her horror, to me for my vengeance! Our own galley was subsiding.
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22 732 I remained on our galley, its deck pitching and awash.
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22 736 As the galley suddenly rolled and sank, I dove into the water.
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24 1 I am Chained in the Hold of a Galley "Awaken, Slave," said Clitus Vitellius.
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24 8 A ship was approaching, a medium-class galley, with twenty oars to a side, dipping unhurriedly.
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24 14 The galley swung about and eased to the side of the wreckage.
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24 17 To look at him one knew, though it was the deck of a galley he bestrode, that he was of the warriors.
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24 237 "Stroke!" Slowly the galley began to swing about.
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Book 13. (20 results) Explorers of Gor

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50 29 "It is the third galley," said Turgus, "the last galley of Shaba".
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57 122 On this galley, the floating prison for the talunas, both those on the benches, chained to the thwarts, and the fetch-and-carry girl, we put five askaris, one for the rudder, for the river galley is single ruddered, and four, should the girls at the oars require encouragement, or the fetch-and-carry...
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6 394 A light galley, two-masted, with yellow sails, was leaving the harbor, far to port.
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6 397 Far to starboard we saw two other ships, a medium-class round ship and a heavy galley, the latter with red masts, both of Ianda.
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6 521 A heavy galley, out of Tyros, forty oars to a side, stroked past us, her yellow lateen sails loose on their yards.
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21 36 "I know the draw of a light galley.
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21 37 These vessels are too light for even such a galley.
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21 38 Furthermore, any light galley with which I am familiar, though comparatively shallow-drafted, would be too deeply keeled to traverse this marsh".
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36 3 We saw, shattered on rocks, the stern quarter of a river galley.
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36 15 Shaba had not, at that time, as far as we knew, lost a galley.
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49 54 "There was a third galley," I said.
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49 82 But I think, too, that if the destruction of Shaba was the content of the message that we might well have heard drums yesterday and the day before, when perhaps the second galley was destroyed.
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50 28 "There, at the landing, moored," said Ayari, "is a river galley".
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50 45 "Moor it near the galley".
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52 117 "Like yourself, doubtless, only his galley.
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54 8 Shaba's galley, and the three galleys and canoes of Bila Huruma, and our raiders' canoe, which had served us so long and faithfully, could be seen far below us, where they were moored at the landing.
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57 98 Their progress in femininity had not been much advanced by their work at the oars of a galley.
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57 116 A long chain was run lengthwise in the galley and fastened to rings at both stem and stern.
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57 120 She might move back and forth, lengthwise in the galley, and to the benches, performing her labors, but could not leave the vessel or, indeed, even touch its bulwarks.
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57 128 It was hard to blame them for the oar of a river galley is normally drawn by a strong man.
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Book 15. (28 results) Rogue of Gor

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22 33 The pirate threw the woman to his feet near the nearest galley and there stripped her and handed her to a comrade who stood on board the galley.
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22 84 "Run to the nearest galley! Beg to be displayed there, as the loot you are!" "Yes, Master!" she cried and, leaping up, fled toward the galley, a commanded slave.
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5 50 The fifth fellow was an oarsman on a grain galley.
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18 64 "Had you found the topaz," I asked, "what would have been done with me?" "You might have looked forward," said he, "if fortunate, to a lifetime chained at the bench of a state galley".
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22 45 "So, too, were they," said the man, angrily, gesturing to the bound woman at the railing of the pirate galley.
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23 3 Again I found it startling, and impressive, how the figure of a river galley emerged from the brownish discolorations in the two pieces of stone, once they were fitted together.
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23 216 She had been ordered to run to the galley.
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27 114 It was building stone brought in by a quarry galley several weeks ago.
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29 3 The deck of the low river galley shifted beneath our feet, as the ship nosed through the inlet waters toward the secluded stronghold of Policrates.
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29 6 Callimachus and I stood on the foredeck of the galley.
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29 213 The sea gate itself was fifty feet in height, large enough, when the barred latticework was lifted, to accommodate a masted cargo galley.
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29 220 I then stood alone on the foredeck of the galley.
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29 259 A few feet behind me, hurtling downward, crashing through the foredeck of the galley, fell the great gate of iron.
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29 260 I was pitched upward, the prow of the galley, the forward gunnels, seeming to leap upward.
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29 261 There had been a horrendous sound of splintering, as the heavy gate had cut through the strakes of the galley like an ax through twigs.
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29 262 In that moment I had seen, through the closely set latticework of the gate, the chopped galley leaping upward.
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29 263 I saw Callimachus thrown into the water, and the men, suddenly, lifted up with the galley, some clinging to benches, others rolling on the deck.
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29 267 The debris of the forequarters of the galley was floating about me.
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29 268 Outside the gate I saw the rest of the galley subsiding into the water.
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30 15 She had been ordered then to the galley, to be bound there as an exposed slave, to be taken to the stronghold of her masters.
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30 65 How thunderously had the great sea gate descended, destroying our first galley.
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31 157 To make the gate fall with extreme swiftness, incidentally, as was done when my galley was shattered, it is necessary only to disengage one of the counterweights.
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32 78 "One, as I understand it, was the galley Telia, captained by Sirnak, of this holding, he who has just presented me, and other loot, before you.
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32 79 The other was the galley Tamira, captained by Reginald, he who is in the fee of Ragnar Voskjard".
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33 2 We stood in the bow of the long galley, below the stem castle.
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33 15 The great sea gate had crashed down, destroying the galley on which I had sought to enter the holding of Policrates.
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33 124 I listened to the creaking of the mighty links, and to the water lapping at the sides of our galley, and to the occasional cries of Vosk gulls.
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33 240 I stood, for the moment unable to move, on the deck, at the bow, below the stem castle of the galley.
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Book 16. (51 results) Guardsman of Gor

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1 6 There was a great sound, the hitting of the huge chain by the galley, a sound as of the striking of the chain, and then the grating sound, scraping and heavy, of the chain literally being lifted out of the water.
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1 8 Then the whole galley, by its momentum, stopped by the chain, swung abeam.
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1 11 Another galley then struck the chain, off the port bow.
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1 17 "Set the catapults! Unbind the javelins! Bowmen to your stations!" I saw, amidships, opposite our galley, on the enemy vessel, two bowmen.
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1 31 Lifting my head I saw the enemy galley back-oaring on the starboard side, and then, straightened, back-oaring from the chain.
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1 32 Some fifty yards away I heard another galley strike at the chain.
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1 49 At the chain, settling back, its concave bow lifted fully from the water, its stern awash, was a pirate galley.
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1 51 Beyond this ship, too, there was another pirate galley, crippled, listing.
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1 92 A heavy stone, from some catapult, struck down through the deck near me, fired doubtless from some other galley.
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1 120 This one did not wait for us to approach, but withdrew behind the shelter of the nearest galley.
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1 133 Did they truly think to engage us? Our galley, like most of Gorean construction, was low and shallow drafted, but still its bulwarks would loom above the gunnels of a simple longboat.
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1 165 I saw pirates, on the galley opposite, shaking their fists at us.
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3 1 The Chain has been Broken in the North The long galley, some eighty feet Gorean, sped toward the chain.
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3 18 Then the galley, half on the chain and half off, moved eccentrically, teetering, like a ship caught on a bar, stranded and buffeted, assailed by conflicting currents.
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3 20 "Ready!" We saw another galley from the west, too, its prow high, speeding toward the chain.
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3 21 The first galley, its oars stroking, slashing at the Vosk, its hull twisting, careened forward and to the side.
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3 43 The second enemy galley had ridden over the chain.
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3 47 Beyond that ship we could see another galley, too, but this one was striking at the chain.
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3 48 The Mira was hastening to engage the galley which had ridden over the chain.
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3 51 The starboard rudder of the enemy galley had been torn away in crossing the chain.
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3 54 As we came about a pirate galley knifed towards us.
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3 69 The ships of Ar's Station could bring numbers to bear in our favor, but we did not regard them, ship for ship, as the match of either a galley of the Voskjard or of Port Cos.
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3 73 We had now come about, but already the galley which had nearly torn us open was facing us.
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3 81 But then we saw the galley swinging to starboard.
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3 82 Another galley, one flying the pennons of Port Cos, was speeding towards her.
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3 105 We came upon the wreckage of a pirate galley, broken in two, deserted.
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3 107 "There is a pirate galley behind us, a pasang back, lying to!" called out a man, aft on the stern castle.
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4 67 * * * * It was a galley, heavy class, fit for the open sea.
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4 69 I had never seen a galley move with such speed.
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4 74 I saw, some hundred yards away, on the stem castle of the speeding galley, her captain move his arm.
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4 75 Almost instantaneously the galley, responsive at that speed to the slightest rudder pressure, veered a point to her starboard.
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4 79 And, in the wake of the first galley, plowed several others.
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4 94 Suddenly, as the enemy galley veered to knife between us, and the Mira men with poles, and, too, with oars, on our ship, and on the Mira, thrust the ships apart.
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4 95 There was a shattering and a scraping but the enemy galley, which had thought with force to press us apart, meeting little resistance was, by her momentum, almost immediately astern of us.
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4 97 The two ships following the first galley had intended to follow her into our line, exploiting the breach.
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4 107 The first galley, isolated behind our lines, was trying to swing to the southeast, to avoid the chain and find the open water to the east.
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4 210 I saw a pirate galley slip under the water, near the chain.
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5 181 "If we did so," said another man, glumly, pointing to the rocking galley of the Voskjard off our bow, "she would take us in the hull like a speared tarsk".
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5 200 At the same time battle horns of Ar sounded from the galley and hatches were thrown open.
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5 245 Too, she was a heavy-class galley, with a large hold.
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6 4 A medium-class galley of the Voskjard slipped past our bow, the tooth of her ram failing to feed, the water from her cleft passage, swelling away from her, forcing us to port.
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6 41 Off the starboard bow lay a galley of the Voskjard, rocking on the water, seemingly somnolent, but we knew, in an instant, if we exposed our flank to her, she would come alive, springing to the attack.
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10 5 In a river galley, of the construction of the Tina, her legs fell on either side of the heavy, wooden concave slope of the bow to the water and ram.
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12 44 Cautiously, from behind the parapet, I surveyed the stem castle of the lead galley.
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12 81 The identity of the third man on the deck of the stem castle of the lead galley, we learned, in the exchange of identifications, was Alcibron, who had been the commander of the Tuka.
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12 91 I saw the lead galley drawing alongside the walk near the fortress wall, across the sea yard.
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12 119 One galley tried to come about.
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12 128 This signal was rapidly relayed to the west gate tower and, as the fellow below leapt into the water, to swim for the gate, it, with a thunderous rattle of weight and chaining, shaking and sliding, crashed downward, smiting and dividing a galley just aft of amidships, and then anchored itself in pla...
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16 80 "You have not heard the last of us! We are coming back, you sleen! We are coming back!" Then the stern of the ship struck against another pirate galley, trying to extricate itself from the press of ships.
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16 286 Scarcely had I ascended the heavy planking than, approaching rapidly, bearing down on me, I saw a medium galley, thrusting itself between the flagship of Policrates and Spined Tharlarion, the flagship of Ragnar Voskjard.
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18 634 I was carried to his galley.
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Book 17. (1 results) Savages of Gor

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2 239 In the winter there can be blizzards, probably the worst on Gor, in which snows can drift as high as the mast of the light galley.
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Book 18. (1 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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37 258 Thus, if the offspring is female, she is likely to be attractive, and thus, eventually, she should prove to be of value on the auction block, and if the offspring is male he is likely to be powerful, and thus of greater utility in the performance of heavy tasks, for example, in haulage, in digging a...
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Book 20. (2 results) Players of Gor

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9 115 I thought of vulos swarming forth to peck up scattered feed, of urts in the canals of Port Kar nosing swiftly toward emptied garbage, of sharks following a galley, of a larl lifting its head, to test the night air, of a sleen emerging from its burrow, silent, serpentine, hungry, intent.
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21 216 "Who knows? You might even be permitted to live, perhaps as a blinded, tongueless slave chained to the bench of a Cosian galley".
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Book 21. (1 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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15 150 I had once served on a Cosian galley.
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Book 23. (5 results) Renegades of Gor

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20 407 Too, the river galley, for those whom it might interest, is normally shorter masted than a Thassa galley, seldom has more than one mast, and seldom carries the varieties of sails, changed on the yard according to wind conditions, that are carried by a Thassa galley.
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20 190 "It was originally a quite unusual stone, one which bore in its markings and coloration a remarkable configuration, that of a river galley.
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20 254 I was startled, for no sooner had the two pieces of stone been fitted together than it seemed there suddenly emerged, as now from a single stone, unriven, the image of a galley.
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21 25 It was remarkable to see the difference in the fellows from Ar's Station, now that they had had some food and a decent night's sleep, though only stretched out on the crowded deck of a galley.
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21 31 Though she would know that she was on a galley and moving with the current on the Vosk, thus west, she had no real idea as to where she was or what was to be done with her.
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Book 25. (2 results) Magicians of Gor

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22 474 More than one fellow, too, has put himself in the quarries or on the bench of a galley for having been caught with such a map in his possession.
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25 505 You might look well, chained to the bench of a galley".
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Book 26. (1 results) Witness of Gor

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41 37 I wondered if there were not many amongst us who would have welcomed being thrown to galley slaves.
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Book 27. (1 results) Prize of Gor

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21 230 "You will soon be slave, branded with the mark of the quarries of Tyros, or perhaps we will mark you for the bench of a merchant galley, where, drawing your oar by day or night, hungry for a crust of bread or a sip of water, you will have time to ponder your foolishness".
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Book 28. (2 results) Kur of Gor

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67 107 He might have preferred a field on Gor, with long green grass, with the wind rising from the east, in the morning, or perhaps a crag in the scarlet mountains, the mighty Voltai, or perhaps the stem castle or helm deck of a lateen-rigged galley, perhaps the Dorna or Tesephone.
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81 16 They had visited, for example, the bridge, galley, pantries, mess, crew's quarters, officers' cabins, engine room, weapon cubicles and turrets, the diverse holds, and such.
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Book 29. (13 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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30 6 The common Gorean galley has two side-rudders, each with its helmsman.
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30 16 The lateen-rigged galley can sail closer to the wind, but, for a given length of yard, it exposes less surface to the wind.
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30 38 This information made me somewhat apprehensive, for it suggested that the designer of the ship was planning it not for swiftness and maneuverability, common features of a Gorean galley, even the so-called "round ships," but for stability in serious weather.
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30 48 Such blades are designed to shear away a galley's oars, thus crippling her, and preparing her for a ramming, usually amidships, which is a blow of considerable force, easily sufficient to rupture and flood the prey vessel, and occasionally sufficient to snap her in two.
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30 60 The usual galley could easily avoid such devices.
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30 82 "It is not a galley".
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35 115 "In deference to your sensibilities," he said, "he has been spared, for chains, and the bench of a galley".
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41 14 Perhaps a galley might have weathered it, without even sheeting itself with canvas.
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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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42 28 "No! No!" I became dimly aware of the bulwarks of a pitching galley, her mast down, her oars outboard, about me.
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42 45 I caught it by the neck, and drew it toward the galley.
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42 60 "Bring blankets," said Torgus, who had commanded the galley, adding, "for both".
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43 3 "We could have lost a galley," he said.
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Book 30. (102 results) Mariners of Gor

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22 57 To starboard, back a bit, was another galley, also with a handful of oarsmen, it commanded by Pertinax, and to port, further back, was the galley of Turgus, more amply manned, as men, later gathered, had come to the last galley nest.
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2 208 I thought I heard the oars of a galley, a light galley, not much different from the patrol ship.
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3 8 The galley was nested within the hull itself, which opened to accommodate her, the galley being lifted and swung inboard by means of lines and davits.
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5 78 "Fortunately for yourself," he said, "you were picked up by a second galley, the port-amidships galley, captained by the mercenary, Torgus".
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15 20 When called to flight, Turgus' galley was to fall to Pertinax, and if the entire cavalry were put aflight, I was pleased that the galley's command would fall to Philoctetes, a mariner of Cos, for whom I would be eager to draw oar.
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22 71 The galley's bow swung toward the beach, and Cabot, from the helm, called the stroke, and, water running from the lifted and dipping oar blades, the galley crested the night waters, and sped, like a gull, toward the torches and confusion on the beach.
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22 81 "Back oars!" he commanded, and the stern of the galley, backing, pushed its way through small boats and wading men, and, a moment later, he cried "Hold!" and we lifted the oars, and we felt the keel of the galley grate on sloping, submerged sand, at the foot of the shore.
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2 113 She was a light galley, and she, though fitted with ram and shearing blades, was built more for speed and reconnaissance than fencing at sea, the ship the weapon itself.
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2 115 Such ships are less likely to engage a medium- or heavy-class galley than support such larger sisters in their altercations, perhaps hovering about, like a small sleen, awaiting an auspicious moment to take advantage of an otherwise distracted foe.
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2 130 The round ship, with its size and weight, though oared, usually by galley slaves, chained to their benches, relies more on its sails than a long ship.
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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.
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2 228 Then, the fog parting, momentarily, I saw, looming above me, passing, a large, painted eye, black on yellow, that behind the small galley's downward sloping, concave prow, such eyes that she may guard herself and see her way, for as those who follow the sea are well aware, the ship is a living thing...
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2 241 Yes, clearly the accent was reassuring! The galley back-oared on the port side.
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2 244 The hull of the galley was within two or three yards, and a wharfing pole thrust over the bulwarks, toward me.
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2 245 The common galley usually carries three wharfing poles, for pushing away from a wharf, until oars can obtain their purchase.
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3 10 I would later learn there were six such side ports, three on each side, each accommodating a light galley.
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3 17 Once I had been lifted over the rail of the galley and handed to others, my ankles had been unbound, and I had been blindfolded.
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3 26 Why had they not left me to drown? Had they been of vengeful Ar, would they not have cut my throat and put me, bleeding, over the side of the galley? What could they want of me? I could not pretend to be of background, a fellow replete with rich connections, for whom a splendid ransom might be paid.
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3 1358 "Some fifty such as I," she said, "were exhibited and bought, and, chained, taken by galley north, to the great forests.
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4 81 Certainly I had heard accents of Cos on the galley which had picked me up.
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4 84 "Long ship, light galley, out of Telnus, ten oars, single-masted, guard ship, patrol ship.
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4 106 "If you had been rescued by another," said Lord Nishida, "say, a galley of Tyros, it is our speculation that a dozen ships, within days, in the vicinity of the farther islands, would have sought us, to our inconvenience and distraction".
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4 160 "If," said I, "you feared survivors, who might warn those of Tyros or Cos of your presence, why did you not simply slay me, and cast me over the side of the galley?" "Do you think we are pirates?" asked Lord Nishida.
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4 162 To be sure, the vessel itself would seem an impractical corsair, but I knew she sheltered at least one nested galley, which might plausibly exercise the dark vocation of the low, green ships.
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4 173 A galley of Tyros was to rendezvous with us, but that was days ago, and, if you are sailing to the farther islands, much to the east.
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5 74 They were picked up by the private galley of Lord Okimoto, captained at the time by Rutilius of Ar, first in his guard".
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6 108 "Yesterday," he said, "a galley was commandeered, seized and launched, and seventy men, pursued, beached on Thera, fleeing inland.
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8 271 "For the bounty on your head, pretty kajira," I said, "one might purchase a galley, and a dozen slaves whose beauty would shame yours, as yours, such as it is, might shame that of tarsk sow".
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8 492 Might it not purchase a galley, and several slaves, of high quality? But she had thought he was after greater game, of some sort.
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9 316 Why could I not forget her? Had I not, even from Ar, dreamed of her small wrists fastened behind her, in my bracelets? The bounty might win me a dozen slaves, even more beautiful than she, perhaps even a galley, but would these, together, the gold washed with blood, be of greater value to me than a ...
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10 109 On both port and starboard, I heard, too, the opening of the galley nests, and the extension and rattling of davits.
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10 111 In a few Ehn I saw the first galley, to shouts of gladness, slip into the open water.
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11 83 It was the size of a small galley.
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12 393 "Launch a galley!" I called.
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13 17 It was somewhat larger than a medium galley.
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13 124 "None is larger than a medium-class galley, and none is oared".
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14 1 The Tharlarion; Two Galleys are Lost; I Find Myself Alone with Seremides Oars snapped, and the small galley, the large glistening body rising under it, tipped fearfully to port.
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14 5 The large body, rolling beside us in the water, was almost as large as the galley itself.
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14 6 It turned away from us suddenly, its arched spine high above the water, and buffeted the galley which lay to starboard.
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14 11 Our galley, and the other, rocked back to an even keel.
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14 13 From each galley there looped two stout ropes back to the ship.
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14 24 I could see the galley to starboard, some yards away.
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14 28 Our galley was captained by the warrior Pertinax, a friend, it seemed, of the commander of the tarn cavalry, Tarl Cabot.
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14 42 He should coordinate his efforts with the draw of the companion galley, ours.
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14 64 The galley of Seremides, too, paused.
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14 72 The oars on the galley commanded by Seremides were similarly retracted.
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14 86 "Wait!" "Out oars!" cried Seremides, angrily, and, his rope falling amongst his oarsmen, the oars of his galley slid outward.
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14 91 "Pull, pull!" said Seremides, and the ropes attached to his galley, leading back to the great ship, lifted, dripping, from the water.
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14 95 Seremides' galley began to move toward ours.
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14 97 "Out oars! Row! Move!" The galley of Seremides kept its original heading, dictated by its towing ropes, while we were still, towing ropes slack, now almost across his bow, rocking in the water.
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14 98 "Poles!" cried Pertinax, and men seized up the launching poles, used in thrusting a galley from a wharf, cushioning her approach to a wharf, holding her away from rocks, or such.
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14 106 But already the blade of Seremides was free of its sheath, and, his eyes alight with eagerness, he leaped aboard our galley.
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14 117 His galley scraped a little against ours.
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14 133 I heard a man scream on the galley of Seremides, and he poked upward with his spear.
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14 135 It then threw its gigantic, massive, glistening body, sharks clinging to it, over the gunwales of the galley of Seremides, pressing it under the waves, men leaping into the sea on either side.
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14 136 It then, dragging its burden of sharks, its victim still struggling in its jaws, dove, and the snap of that great tail, striking upward, tipped us, and then, striking downward, propelling that enormous bulk, clove our galley, and we were plunged into the water.
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14 155 Men swam toward the small boats, the nearest galley.
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14 159 The wreckage of the galley of Seremides seemed farther away now.
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14 160 I saw no sign of the galley of Pertinax.
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14 213 The nearest galley, I conjectured, from the faint sounds I heard, men calling out, was two hundred yards distant.
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15 1 Seremides; The Slave, Alcinoë "Turgus commands a galley!" said the fellow to Seremides.
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15 60 By nightfall the small boats were tiered in the galley holds, and the galleys themselves, scraped clean of vines and clinging blossoms, were nested.
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15 73 "I sat third oar on your galley.
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15 126 Did those on his galley, whom Seremides had so roundly abused, carry on so? "Do not hurt me," said Seremides.
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16 14 An Ahn later I reported the galley had hoisted the green pennon.
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16 20 The galley was drawn up alongside the apparent derelict.
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16 21 From the starboard rail, given the height of the ship of Tersites, we could look down on both our galley and, higher, the deck of the seemingly unmanned ship.
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16 60 The launched galley had been manned by mariners, oared by armsmen.
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16 77 In an Ehn he was on the open deck, hurrying to the starboard rail, where he stood beside Cabot, his hands on the rail, looking over, past the galley, to the deck of the seeming derelict.
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16 88 Recall the galley, the men, instantly".
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16 101 A hundred Pani must have leapt into the galley, which rocked and almost capsized.
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16 104 Some grapnels, on knotted rope, were slung upward from the galley, but fell short.
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16 109 The Pani below had set fire to our galley and were trying to thrust it against our hull.
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16 114 Our galley burned beside our hull, on the starboard side.
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16 118 The great ship, sails unfurled to the wind, rudder turned, moved to port, away from the derelict, and our burning galley.
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16 150 "We have lost a galley," said Lord Okimoto.
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16 207 Meanwhile, in accord with the instructions of Lord Okimoto, the great ship had come about, toward the warning ship, and there was a rending crash, as the great ship crushed the smoldering remains of our galley, almost at water level, and eight or ten of the small boats, caught between the grinding h...
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16 208 Indeed, the warning ship itself was partly afire, on its starboard side, where the flaming mast of the galley, with its lateen sail, had collapsed against its aft bulwarks.
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16 323 Some of the enemy managed to reach the nets, as well, and began to climb, but, after a few yards, they dropped back in the water and swam to the wreckage of the galley, and that of some small boats, from which they were drawn to the deck of the warning ship, now falling back.
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16 337 The greatest marking, if not damage, had been done forward on the starboard side, where the flaming galley had been moved against the hull.
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18 103 It might purchase a galley, several slaves".
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18 105 Might one not be worth a galley, and might not one slave be worth several slaves?" "It would depend on the slave," I said.
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21 351 I heard a galley being placed in the water.
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21 414 When Tyrtaios glanced at him, for Tyrtaios often apprised himself of his surroundings, Seremides looked away, as though concerned to watch the small boats, now about the galley, approach the shore.
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22 29 I gathered then that the first galley had been returned to the ship, following the landing.
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22 31 I gathered that he was unwilling to lose another galley.
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22 55 Cabot was at the helm of the galley on which I drew an oar.
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22 58 More than once the galley turned, and slowed, rocking, men from the water clinging to the oars.
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22 80 Several yards from the torchlit, screaming, raucous shore, the clash of metal, the cries of enraged men, of frightened men, of dying men, Cabot turned the galley.
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22 100 "Take the galley back to the ship.
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22 105 There were now three or four men at a bench, which should hold two, and the galley was crowded amidships, and fore and aft.
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22 106 Then Cabot, I following him, leaped into the water amongst men trying to board the galley, and, water to our waist, we waded to shore.
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22 110 "Oars," called Pertinax, taken aback, his voice cracking with misery, "Stroke!" The galley now captained by Philoctetes had already moved from shore, outside the light of the torches.
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22 111 I watched the galley of Pertinax, now crowded, low in the water, pulling away, toward the ship, dark in the distance.
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22 136 "Good Callias," he said, "hurry to the galley of Turgus.
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22 138 Board the galley, or a small boat, return to the ship".
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22 150 I turned about, and saw the galley of Turgus, oars striking the water, drawing away.
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22 264 I could see some lanterns, on small boats, and one on the stern of a galley.
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24 26 Interestingly, nothing was permitted to leave the ship through the galley nests, which, if opened, might have provided a convenient access to the wharf.
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24 329 Early in the voyage, when a galley was launched, he had often been chained to his bench.
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26 138 The galley nests remained closed.
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29 54 "The galley nests are not open.
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Book 32. (2 results) Smugglers of Gor

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15 79 We had, however, following others, including the several men bearing the two large, strange, apparently weighty boxes or crates unloaded from our galley, soon left Tarncamp, and, by a short trail, emerged onto what we learned was a training area of sorts.
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53 57 "Two such boxes, concerning which the contents were obscure," I said, "were disembarked from the galley which brought me and others north.
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Book 34. (2 results) Plunder of Gor

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2 62 I have found myself barefoot in those green fields, I have glimpsed far horizons from the bow of a swift galley, knelt trembling before a master".
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7 69 If you will now ascend the ramp, we will give you a sense of the interior of the ship, its bridge, its crew quarters, its galley, the propulsion chamber, and such.
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Book 35. (1 results) Quarry of Gor

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45 171 There was then no sign of either a longboat or the waiting, low-in-the-water, easily unremarked galley which had been visible earlier.
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Book 36. (2 results) Avengers of Gor

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4 98 The men were slain, or taken to be galley slaves".
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51 53 The sight of a galley's oars, such graceful, mighty levers, drawing, and lifting, in unison, water running from the wood in sparkling rivulets, is a beautiful sight, one that those of my former world had not seen in centuries.
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