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Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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8 199 Vika was a bandit princess, accustomed to be clad in silk and jewels from a thousand looted caravans, to sleep on the richest furs and sup on the most delicate viands, all purloined from galleys, beached and burnt, from the ravished storerooms of outlying, smoking cylinders, from the tables and trea...
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Book 4. (2 results) Nomads of Gor

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7 155 I suppose, in itself, this meant nothing, but I naturally thought of Port Kar, malignant, squalid Port Kar, which claims suzerainty over the delta, exacting cruel tributes from the rence growers, great stocks of rence paper for trade, sons for oarsmen in cargo galleys, daughters for Pleasure Slaves ...
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16 329 And then, one day, like the pirates of Port Kar in their long galleys, unannounced, unexpected, Others would cross the seas of space and bring their craft to rest on the shores and sands of Gor.
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Book 5. (3 results) Assassin of Gor

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17 330 He was a cutthroat but there were drunken tears in his eyes as he hopped about, pantomiming the work of one of the swift galleys.
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17 333 The man who had been dancing the ship dance had now left the pit of sand and, over against one wall, in the shadows of the torchlight, largely unnoted, danced alone, danced for himself the memories of gleaming Thassa and the swift black ships, the Tarns of the Sea, as the galleys of Port Kar are kno...
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24 165 They were ordered to Port Kar, in chains, to be sold to the galleys.
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Book 6. (25 results) Raiders of Gor

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16 189 Of the forty-two hundred, fifteen hundred would be galleys heavy class, two thousand medium-class galleys, and seven hundred light galleys.
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1 63 The fleets of tarn ships of Port Kar are the scourge of Thassa, beautiful, lateen-rigged galleys that ply the trade of plunder and enslavement from the Ta-Thassa Mountains of the southern hemisphere of Gor to the ice lakes of the North; and westward even beyond the terraced island of Cos and the roc...
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1 106 The tributes exacted, when the small communities can be found, are customarily harsh, often whatever of value can be found; typically what is demanded is great stocks of rence paper for trade, sons for oarsmen in cargo galleys, daughters for Pleasure Slaves in the taverns of the city.
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3 27 He was doubtless a slave, probably escaped from the galleys of Port Kar, who had fled to the marshes and been befriended by rence growers.
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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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3 55 "Later I was recaptured and sent to the galleys".
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3 61 "And I brought to the marshes with me," said he, "the memory of a dozen years on the galleys, and a hatred for all things of Port Kar".
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3 137 He had strength, and much strength, for he had strung the bow smoothly, strength it might be from the galleys, but strength, and superb strength.
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7 54 These anchor-hooks, incidentally, are a great deal lighter than the anchors used in the long galleys, and the round ships.
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8 523 Thurnock was a huge man, with arms like the oars of the great galleys; Clitus was slighter, but he had been first oar; he would have great strength, beyond what it might seem.
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9 155 Raids of one upon the other, involving a few dozen ships, were not infrequent, whether on the shipping of Port Kar, or beaching on Cos or Tyros, but major actions, those which might involve the hundreds of galleys possessed by these redoubtable maritime powers, the two island Ubarates and Port Kar, ...
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10 20 The round ship, of course, is not round, but it does have a much wider beam to its length of keel, say, about one to six, whereas the ratios of the war galleys are about one to eight.
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10 128 As I have mentioned, the warfare between Cos and Tyros and Port Kar had been, for years, small-scale, seldom involving more than a few dozen galleys on a side.
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10 134 We then turned our attention to matters of greater importance, the need for more covered docks in the arsenal, beneath which additional galleys could be caulked for the grain fleet, else how could a hundred vessels be ready for the voyage north to the grain fields before the sixth passage hand? It i...
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10 194 Indeed, the galleys of Port Kar, medium and heavy class, carried shearing blades, which had been an invention of Tersites.
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10 198 Recent galleys of Cos and Tyros, and other maritime powers, it had been noted, were now also, most often, equipped with shearing blades.
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10 230 Better, they would think, to lie in wait on the open sea for the slave galleys of Tyros or the treasure ships of Cos.
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11 107 Some of the other basins are large enough to float galleys; these large basins connect with the arsenal's canal system, by means of which heavy materials may be conveyed about the arsenal; the arsenal's canal system also gives access, at two points, to the canal system of the city and, at two other ...
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13 200 High-born ladies commonly sailed in cabins, located in the stern castle of the galleys.
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13 236 Besides, I was not, considering that I was about to be sold to the galleys, in a particularly bad mood.
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13 314 The Rena of Temos, like most round ships, had two permanent masts, unlike the removable masts of the war galleys.
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13 446 The Rena was now hemmed in by the eight ships, and two, heavy-class galleys, from the arsenal, were drawing alongside.
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13 483 "I carried peace to Cos and Tyros," I said, "and for this I was awarded the chains of a slave in the galleys".
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14 69 There were no light galleys in either fleet.
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18 869 "But long ago, when he was running from the galleys, and hunted, I concealed him in my house.
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Book 7. (1 results) Captive of Gor

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13 742 Marlenus had set a swift fleet of light, Vosk galleys to clear the river waters adjoining his Ubarate of pirates.
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Book 8. (13 results) Hunters of Gor

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1 222 The great merchant galleys of Port Kar, and Cos, and Tyros, and other maritime powers, utilized thousands of such miserable wretches, fed on brews of peas and black bread, chained in the rowing holds, under the whips of slave masters, their lives measured by feedings and beatings, and the labor of t...
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1 240 "When am I to be sent to the galleys?" he asked.
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2 67 The oarsmen, as in most Gorean war galleys, are free men.
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2 68 Slaves serve commonly only in cargo galleys.
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2 81 The Tesephone, like almost all galleys, is ballasted with sand, kept in the lower hold.
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2 83 Such galleys normally function optimally with a freeboard area of three to five feet.
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2 89 Gorean galleys, with their shallow draft, are often beached.
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2 494 Most commonly, male slaves are utilized on the cargo galleys, and in the mines, and on the great farms.
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2 539 Gorean galleys commonly carry several sails, usually falling into three main types, fair-weather, "tarn," and storm.
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2 543 Gorean galleys, in particular the ram-ships, are built for speed and war.
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6 196 The only craft commonly seen in Laura were light galleys, and the ubiquitous barges, towed by tharlarion treading along the shore.
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13 164 She was single masted, as are most Gorean war galleys.
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18 447 Gorean galleys do not commonly sail at night, and, often, put into shore during darkness.
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Book 9. (4 results) Marauders of Gor

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1 579 Recaptured, he had been sentenced to the galleys, but had escaped, too, from them, killing six men in his flight.
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2 132 Sometimes, in light raiding galleys, it is so attached, to remove its weight from the prow's height, to ensure greater stability in high seas; it is always, however, at the prow in harbor, or when the ship enters an inlet or river to make its strike; in calm seas, of course, there is little or no da...
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2 138 Tersites of Port Kar, the controversial inventor and shipwright, had advocated more than one man to an oar but, generally, the southern galleys utilized one man per oar, three oars and three men on a diagonal bench, facing aft, the oars staggered, the diagonality of the bench permitting the multipli...
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2 140 As in the southern galleys the keel to beam ratio was designed, too, for swiftness, being generally in the neighborhood of one to eight.
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Book 11. (8 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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20 149 They would then row on the merchant galleys of Cos.
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20 152 It was a grim fate which awaited them, the confinement and pain of the benches, the weight of the long oars, the shackles, the whip, the drum of the hortator, the stench, the black bread and onions of the ponderous galleys.
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20 547 "It is the heavy galleys for spies," said one man.
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20 551 The heavy galleys were round ships, large ships, which usually carried bulk goods, such as lumber and stone.
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20 559 "You will soon be slave in the heavy galleys," I said.
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20 565 "Remember it was she who put you in chains, who puts you upon the bench of the galleys!" He regarded me, not speaking.
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21 30 Did I not know I was a slave girl? What did I expect? To be treated as a free woman? How vast a thing, how vicious and disproportionate it was that I, a mere slave girl, for so small a fault, if fault it was, had sentenced him to the tortures of the galleys.
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21 47 Between buildings I could see galleys at their moorings.
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Book 12. (1 results) Beasts of Gor

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15 497 It is applied in such places as the quarries, the roads, the great farms, in certain types of cargo galleys, on the wharves, at the walls of cities and in the forests.
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Book 13. (21 results) Explorers of Gor

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33 85 We could see the flotilla largely because of the size of its galleys and the number of its vessels, both canoes and galleys.
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6 337 Most of the ships, of course, would be small ships, coasting vessels and light galleys.
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21 34 "They must be light galleys".
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33 31 There must have been in the neighborhood of a hundred, oared river galleys, the balance of the fleet which had been prepared for Shaba's originally projected penetration of the Ua, and perhaps again as many canoes.
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33 32 If there were crews of fifty on the galleys and from five to ten men in a canoe, the force behind us must have ranged somewhere between five and six thousand men.
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33 74 From its surface we could see downriver, and, pasangs back, the flotilla of canoes and galleys of the Ubar, Bila Huruma.
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36 20 Shaba now had but two galleys.
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49 37 "It is one of the galleys of Shaba, is it not?" I asked Turgus.
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49 47 "There were three galleys," I said.
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49 50 "There were three galleys".
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52 92 "I retain two hundred and ten men, three galleys and four canoes".
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53 151 Shaba had fled, I recalled, with three galleys.
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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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54 17 For a time Bila Huruma and I watched the galleys and canoes being readied for casting off.
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54 29 In our plans he was to take one hundred galleys and five thousand men.
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54 30 But he fled with three galleys and perhaps not even two hundred followers.
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54 87 "The galleys, the vessels, are ready," he said.
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54 90 Kisu nodded and returned down the stairs to where the galleys and canoes were moored.
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54 114 "Yes," said Bila Huruma, looking down then at the galleys and canoes.
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55 24 Soon the four galleys and the canoes, including our raiders' canoe, were upon the lake.
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57 113 We relieved the caught beauties of the coffle and chained them, four to a bench, to certain of the thwarts of one of the galleys.
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Book 14. (1 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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12 336 The next level of slaves, not generally thought to be of great value, tends to be male work slaves, usually used in cargo galleys, on the wharves, and in the fields or quarries.
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Book 15. (19 results) Rogue of Gor

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3 292 They have struck even into Lara herself, then withdrawing to their galleys".
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4 23 Many hundreds had fled from Vonda, and most had taken the river southward, paying highly for their fares on the varieties of river craft, barges, skiffs, river galleys, and even coracles, which had brought them to Lara.
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7 8 The masts of river galleys bristled at the quays.
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12 35 The amount of money earned varied from day to day, depending on the galleys in port and the need for men from the hiring yard.
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22 6 Other citizens, with ship poles, of the sort used on Gorean galleys in casting off and thrusting from the wharves, pressed back the crowd.
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22 17 I watched the pirates, perhaps some fifty or sixty of them, unchallenged, moving between warehouses and the wharves, where two pirate galleys were moored.
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22 18 Some townsfolk, at swordpoint, were loading goods onto the galleys.
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22 28 I heard a woman scream and saw her, thrown over the shoulder of a laughing pirate, a brawny fellow, being carried to one of the galleys.
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22 47 I saw Kliomenes, some seventy yards away, directing his men and the enforced laborers, citizens of Victoria, loading the galleys.
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22 87 He then laughed again, and, turning about, went back toward the galleys.
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22 244 I saw free men impressed into the service of loading the goods of the town onto the galleys of the thieves.
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29 36 "It was forged in Cos, in a thousand lengths," said Glyco, "and brought overland, around the delta, and on galleys east from Turmus.
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29 280 The three galleys we had towed were now adrift, aimlessly, almost lost in the shadows.
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30 70 "It could, too, be a soldier, one even with our galleys," I said.
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30 174 Doubtless he did not wish to be bound to the shearing blade of one of Ragnar Voskjard's galleys.
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31 140 Outside I supposed that one or more ships, river galleys, might be gracefully entering or leaving the lakelike courtyard of the holding of Policrates.
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32 312 They were short, ship bows, stout and maneuverable, easy to use in crowded quarters, easy to fire across the bulwarks of galleys locked in combat.
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33 28 To port and starboard, each some fifty yards away, gray and silent, intermittently visible in the fog, each lying to, as was the Tina, were two other galleys, the Mira, out of Victoria, and the Talender, out of Fina.
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33 200 "Those from Ar's Station are essentially infantrymen of Ar, put at the oars of galleys.
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Book 16. (22 results) Guardsman of Gor

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1 3 I watched, fearfully, almost mesmerized, as the first of the gray galleys, emerging from the fog, moving swiftly, like a living thing, looming now, struck the chain.
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1 69 I could see several galleys, some two to three hundred yards away, approaching the chain.
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1 80 I doubted that any of the enemy galleys would be so foolish as to draw abeam of the chain.
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1 99 Here and there, along the chain, we could see other galleys drawing abeam of it, and men, in small boats, with tools, cutting at the great links.
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1 145 Too, now, from the pirates' galleys, protecting their longboats, there sped a fierce counterfire.
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3 45 We saw other galleys, too, approaching the chain.
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3 52 The galleys of the Voskjard, like most Gorean ships, were double ruddered.
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3 91 Here and there, at the chain, again and again, pirate galleys were striking at the great links, and then backing away, and then again, patiently, renewing their attack.
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3 101 We neared the first of the galleys and flighted arrows toward her.
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4 77 At her stern quarters, like running, heeling sleen, were two other galleys, to exploit the opening the point must make.
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4 78 Fanning out, too, behind the supporting galleys, were others.
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4 103 Then one of the supporting galleys was struck in the stern by a following ship, unable to check its momentum.
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4 104 The pirate galleys began to back oars, frantically to extricate themselves, but, clumsily, half swung about, they must accept our fire.
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5 98 "She is supported by heavy galleys," said another man.
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5 140 Their ships are undermanned!" To be sure we had noted, earlier, the wreckage of at least four of the ships of Ar's Station, including two of her heavy-class galleys, the Tullia and the Publia.
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5 141 It seemed to me not unlikely that others of her galleys, as well, might by now have met a similar fate.
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6 129 The galleys, I could see, stretched from horizon to horizon.
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8 145 I recalled that in open battle the Tamira had been supported, and, indeed, convoyed, by two heavy galleys.
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12 37 In moments had the first of the galleys reached the vicinity of the sea gate.
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12 43 From the stem castles and decks of the galleys below the shackling on his ankles could not be seen.
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16 541 "Thus they may be saved for the quarries or the galleys".
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16 543 In the quarries and on the galleys the chains are heavy and the whips are swift.
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Book 17. (1 results) Savages of Gor

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2 189 Some, larger boats and light galleys, such as might be used in the Tamber Gulf or, abroad, on Thassa, were being rowed from thwarts.
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Book 21. (1 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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19 259 They had both, with other high traitorous officers, been ordered to Port Kar, in chains, to be sold to the galleys.
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Book 23. (8 results) Renegades of Gor

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20 406 It must be remembered, too, that these were river galleys and, on the whole, smaller than the galleys of Thassa.
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20 111 I could see, out beyond the wall of chained rafts, opened now in three places, a flotilla of sails, long and low, triangular, sloping, those of lateen-rigged galleys.
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20 117 These are preparations of galleys for entering battle.
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20 201 I could see several galleys now drawing up at the piers.
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20 269 Women and children were still boarding galleys.
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20 408 River galleys, also, as would be expected, seldom carry more than twenty oars to a side, and are almost always single-banked.
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21 5 Ahead of us, in oblique formation, barely discernible, were four smaller galleys.
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21 7 Similarly, behind the main body of the flotilla, bringing up the rear, back a pasang or so, flying no colors, their markings concealed, were two galleys.
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Book 24. (4 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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1 376 But in spite of the invitation seemingly flagrantly offered by Policrates, the camp commander, general of the Cosian forces in the north, said once to have been a pirate, rescued from the galleys by Myron, Polemarkos of Temos, a cousin to Lurius of Jad, Ubar of Cos, the forces of Ar had not struck, ...
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4 53 Saphronicus and Seremides, as traitors, had been put in chains and sold to the galleys whence, I gathered, they had been rescued by some who perhaps might find use for men such as they.
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17 50 Prisoners can be of value, in the quarries, on the rowing benches of galleys, in such places.
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39 84 Although most of them were doubtless fellows from Brundisium, citizens of that polity, there were many others about, as well, in particular, oarsmen from the galleys in the harbor, not far away, and soldiers from the camp outside the walls, mostly mercenaries, on which Cos depends heavily, but some,...
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Book 25. (1 results) Magicians of Gor

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5 15 It was not like the city contained large numbers of dangerous, powerful, virile male slaves, such as might be found on the galleys, in the quarries, on the great farms, and so on.
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Book 27. (3 results) Prize of Gor

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11 149 It is not unusual for them to be kept chained, and put to heavy labors, in the fields, the quarries, the galleys, such places".
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21 119 "Yes," said the second, "and doubtless on the galleys, or in the quarries of Tyros".
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21 260 You will not find many such, I assure you, in the quarries of Tyros, or amongst the benches of the great galleys".
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Book 29. (19 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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3 516 One of the glorious sights of Gor is the wheeling, the maneuvering and flight, of such cavalries in the sky, a lovely sight, in its way not unlike that of a fleet of lateen-rigged galleys abroad on gleaming Thassa, the sea.
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29 99 "Beyond that," said Tajima, "though you cannot see them, are several galleys".
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30 65 Tersites, incidentally, had recommended that the rams of galleys make their strike above the waterline rather than below it.
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30 103 "There are here, as well," said Aëtius, "six common galleys.
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30 139 The galleys are seaworthy now".
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30 140 I supposed the galleys had come from the south, and had been brought upstream, under oars, or towed, perhaps by tharlarion on shore, where the current might be difficult.
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37 52 Unladen, and without her nest of galleys, the river should come to the first mark.
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37 59 To be sure, she had not yet nested her galleys, taken on her crew, her supplies, all that she might care to contain.
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37 65 Her galleys, of course, were shallow-drafted long ships and could maneuver in water in which a man might stand upright.
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38 76 On the other side of the ship, larger ports had been opened now, and, on ramps sloping up from the water, the six galleys were being drawn on board, and were being rolled to berths in a lower hold.
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38 78 In this way, galleys might be nested from either side of the great ship.
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38 289 I had gathered he was to be chained to a bench, presumably in one of the galleys.
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38 371 In many Gorean ships, shallow-drafted galleys, with which I was familiar, and on which I had sailed, there was not much in the way of cabins at all, though there might be a hold in which one might place stores, chain slaves, and such.
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39 26 The six nested galleys had their oarsmen and captains, but these captains, presumably, though familiar with the sea, would not be familiar with the problems and requirements of a ship such as that of Tersites.
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39 42 "Are there galleys off shore?" I inquired.
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40 22 The attentions of our tarnsmen had been divided between the artillery, the ballistae, the mangonels, the catapults, the springals, on the shore, armed with their missiles and fire, and several galleys offshore.
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40 28 Too, a pasang from the beach we could see two galleys aflame, and others had withdrawn from our path.
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40 35 Most Gorean galleys could negotiate water as shallow as five to seven feet Gorean.
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42 34 One of the nested galleys had been launched.
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Book 30. (53 results) Mariners of Gor

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14 125 What command could stay him, what consideration could distract him, what give pause to so single-minded and formidable a force of nature? The blade of Pertinax was but half drawn when both galleys burst apart, leaping from one another, the gigantic body of the tharlarion rising between them, springi...
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2 45 Even galleys with rowing frames have comparable shieldings.
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2 118 Larger galleys, rogues from the coastal ports, not signatory to the imposed treaties, or, more dangerously, pirates or merchantmen from Port Kar, our enemy, detected, would be reported to Telnus, in theory to be intercepted, if possible, on their return to their home ports.
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3 9 I suppose this, in its way, is not that much different from the common beaching of Gorean galleys at night, drawn ashore by their crews, as many Gorean seamen do not care to be at sea after the fall of darkness.
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3 11 In this fashion the light galleys were concealed within the great ship, in such a way that they would not be exposed to missile fire and might be expeditiously launched.
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4 174 The absence of the Metioche, of course, will be noted, and doubtless galleys will leave Telnus, searching for her, or her wreckage".
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6 109 Two other galleys followed, she was recovered, and brought back.
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7 168 The nested galleys, on the other hand, were typical of most Gorean vessels, long or round ships, oar-banked, double ruddered, single-masted, and lateen-rigged.
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7 206 "Ice has been seen in the water," said Tyrtaios, "ice the size of galleys".
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9 79 She nested six galleys.
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10 110 Galleys would be lowered to the ice, and slid toward the open water.
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11 37 Many times we had launched the nested galleys, though not of late, in pairs, nets strung between them.
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12 395 Within the Ahn, by one of two galleys, lanterns suspended on poles over the water, part of the body had been recovered.
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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 2 She was one of the six nested galleys, normally housed in the hull of the great ship.
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14 12 All six galleys were forward of the great ship, like a mountain behind us.
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14 46 Again and again, to my right, across the yards between the galleys, the rope fell.
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14 55 Amongst the slashed, trailing vines between the galleys, sometimes entangling the oars, I saw, occasionally, the dorsal fin of a shark, briefly emergent, then whipping again beneath the water.
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14 60 Suddenly, ahead, some twenty yards, between the galleys and the numbers of ship's boats, the gigantic body of the wounded tharlarion emerged, its vast body, neck, head, and wide paddlelike appendages running with water, bright in the sunlight.
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14 66 The other galleys, too, farther to starboard, must have held their position, as the great ship behind us neither moved, nor was drawn to the side.
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14 101 The two galleys grated against one another.
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14 142 The other galleys, too, loosing their towing ropes, would be soon at our side.
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14 149 I heard an oar count being called, over the water, and one of the towing galleys was near.
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14 161 Soon, as I lay, I could no longer see the small boats, or any galleys.
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14 166 Were I able to stand I had little doubt I could see them, and certainly one or more galleys.
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14 176 He was better situated than I, for he crouched on two nailed beams, which must have been from the hull of one of the two destroyed galleys.
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14 256 I could then see two of the four intact galleys in the distance and, several hundred yards away, the great ship itself.
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15 18 There remained four nested galleys.
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15 19 Tyrtaios' place with Lord Nishida had been taken by Turgus, an officer in the tarn cavalry, who had been given the command of one of the four remaining nested galleys.
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15 32 On the final day, we heard the cry from the foremast, "The sea! The sea!" There was much cheering, from the small boats, from the towing galleys.
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15 44 Licinius Lysias, who had survived the sinking of the galleys of Seremides and Pertinax, rose at the bench, and pointed backward, toward the great ship.
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15 53 The galleys, and the small boats, scattered, some being dragged over the vines.
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15 59 By evening the great ship was free of the Vine Sea and, sails furled, and sea hooks cast, she waited, a pasang west of the vines, the odor, and insects, while the numbers of ship's boats, and the four galleys, rejoined her.
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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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16 13 Shortly thereafter one of the nested galleys was being lowered to the water.
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16 18 We would lose, in consequence, one of our four remaining galleys.
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16 153 "We will launch the galleys, and deal with them later," said Lord Okimoto.
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17 41 He had been, for example, this Pertinax, captain on one of the galleys lost in the Vine Sea, that on which I had shared an oar with Licinius Lysias, the fellow from Turmus.
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21 10 "Please, noble lord," said Tyrtaios to Lord Nishida, nearby, "anchor, put forth the galleys.
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21 243 "Let us put forth the galleys, the small boats," said Tyrtaios.
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21 259 "Launch the galleys, the small boats," men cried.
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21 282 Already men had rushed below decks, to obtain access to the three remaining nested galleys, and the numerous tiny, tiered, ship's boats.
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22 28 "Launch the galleys!" cried Aëtius, from amidships.
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22 37 "The galleys must be launched," said Tarl Cabot.
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22 49 "To the galleys?" "Any who can draw an oar," said Cabot.
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22 52 In a quarter of an Ahn three galleys had been lowered and, half manned, were about the ship, and moving amongst small boats, toward the shore.
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22 59 The other two galleys were similarly impeded.
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22 84 Shortly thereafter the galleys of Pertinax and Turgus, turned as well, lay to, at the shore, and were similarly subjected to clambering men.
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22 211 I was pleased to see that the three galleys had now returned.
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22 255 By now it seemed, with the return and departure of the galleys, many of our men might have been returned to the ship.
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22 334 There were now three galleys at the beach, and several small boats.
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33 303 War galleys were not announced, and, shallow-drafted, commonly used the low piers.
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37 1311 "I thought of myself, frequently enough, as a property, as owned, as a girl who must unquestioningly, fearfully, obey masters, who might dance for their pleasure, about campfires in lonely places, on streets in shabby districts, to a master's flute, on the decks of galleys, to the clapping of hands,...
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Book 31. (2 results) Conspirators of Gor

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8 557 Many were later executed by impalement, but others were embonded, men usually destined to the quarries or galleys, and women remanded to slave houses.
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8 626 Was it not from the sea gates of Port Kar that the galleys of the dreaded Bosk, Bosk of Port Kar, clove the dark waters of restless Thassa? "At least," she said, "I was not sold in Port Kar".
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Book 32. (6 results) Smugglers of Gor

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15 473 What was the meaning of such a ship? For what work, what voyage, might it be intended? It was not a warship in any common sense; yet, interestingly, it nested six galleys, three to a side, which might be independently launched, and those galleys, I gathered, given their rams and large, crescent-like...
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7 109 I had little doubt that the collar and chain, as the others, was originally intended for men, perhaps criminals, perhaps prisoners of war, bound for the quarries or galleys.
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15 465 Would not a variety of galleys be more practical? For what is so large a vessel required? It is much larger, many times larger, I am told, than even the largest of common round ships, or cargo vessels, which, too, are apparently very different from the long, low, knifelike vessels of war.
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33 161 By the next Passage Hand you will be bound naked to selling poles on the beach, awaiting passing galleys".
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34 42 "Is it to intercept deserters, to trade, to convey departing contingents to the galleys, to take part in some action? They do not know".
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54 24 "A hundred galleys come and go each day".
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Book 33. (1 results) Rebels of Gor

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61 595 Perhaps wary of displeasing me, as I was important to the cavalry, he had been taken in chains aboard the ship of Tersites, where he was to be put to the oar in one of the great ship's nested galleys.
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Book 34. (8 results) Plunder of Gor

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8 215 "And male slavery," he said, "but male slavery is less obvious, as most male slaves are utilized in the quarries, on the galleys, on the great farms, in such places.
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9 309 Too, if I had been more aware, and more familiar with Gor, I would have noted that the slaves, as much as possible, went to great lengths to avoid finding themselves in the proximity of such women, often turning about, and hurrying away, or slipping to the side, sometimes even hastening to conceal t...
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11 106 Warriors might perform martial exercises to music, in the manner of Pyrrhic dances, advancing, withdrawing, wheeling about, and such, brandishing weaponry; athletes might train to music; sa-tarna might be harvested to music; grain might be threshed to music, galleys might be rowed to music, and so o...
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13 45 Indeed, in harbor cities, rich men, doubtless to their annoyance, are often expected to underwrite the repair of docks, the construction of galleys, and so on.
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27 20 I could see the masts of galleys, round ships, in the distance.
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27 22 Those of war galleys, the long ships or knife ships, are commonly raised and lowered, depending on wind, and battle conditions.
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32 19 There were several galleys moored in the area, at the piers, and at the edge of the walkway itself.
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45 177 Similarly, smugglers, if apprehended, are often dealt with harshly, by impalement, or servitude in the mines, quarries, or galleys.
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Book 35. (1 results) Quarry of Gor

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8 595 How beautiful, I thought, were the galleys of Gor.
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