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Oars

Book 6. (81 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	196	One of the most common of naval strategies, other than ramming, is oar shearing, in which one vessel, her oars suddenly shortened inboard, slides along the hull of another, whose oars are still outboard, splintering and breaking them off.	10
13	364	"Port oars! Stroke!" We lifted our oars, and then those of the port side only entered the water and pressed against it.	10
13	371	Two of the men lost the oars, and the free oars fouled those of other men.	10
13	374	The man then called out, "Up oars! Ready oars! Stroke!" Again we found our rhythm, and again the Rena moved through the waters.	10
14	39	The Dorna used oars of varying lengths; her oars, like those of many tarn ships, varied by about one and one-half foot Gorean, oar to oar; the most inboard oar being the longest; the outboard oar being the shortest.	10
14	45	This arrangement, one man to an oar, and oars in groups of three, and oars mounted in the rowing frame, long and beautiful sweeps, has been found extremely practical in the Gorean navies.	10
14	59	To be sure, there are many factors involved here, and one might suppose triple banks following the model of the single-banked, three-men-three-oars-to-a-bench type, and so on, but, putting aside questions of the size of vessel required for such arrangements, we may simply note, without commenting fu...	10
14	306	In tacking to windward her leeward oars and rowing frame are likely to drag in the water, cutting down speed considerably and not infrequently breaking oars.	10
7	60	I heard the oar-master cry out and I saw the oars, with a sliding of wood, emerge from the thole ports.	10
8	21	The barges in line before him, too, had slowed, then stopped, their oars half inboard, waiting.	10
8	26	That path must needs be wide enough for the beam of the barges, and the width of the stroke of the oars.	10
8	44	I could hear the creak of the oars in the thole ports, hear the calling of the oar-master, the conversation of warriors at their leisure, the moans of bound slaves, soon silenced with the lash and blows.	10
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.	10
10	191	He had wanted to deepen the keel, to add a foremast, to change the rowing to great oars, each handled by several men, rather than one man to an oar; he had wanted even to raise the ram above the waterline.	10
10	195	These are huge quarter-moons of steel, fixed forward of the oars, anchored into the frame of the ship itself.	10
10	265	Silently, oars scarcely touching the water, we had moved from Cos, leaving her behind in the moonlight.	10
10	274	The fighting ship, incidentally, the long ship, the ram-ship, has never been, to my knowledge, in Port Kar, or Cos, or Tyros, or elsewhere on Gor, rowed by slaves; the Gorean fighting ship always has free men at the oars.	10
10	280	Not only did free men render more efficient service at the oars, but, when they were given the opportunity, I found them eager to train with arms, and so hired masters to teach them weapons.	10
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.	10
11	82	Slowly, moving smoothly, their oars dipping in rhythm, from various sides, we saw tarn ships moving toward the hall of the council.	10
11	96	"The warehouses of pitch and that of oars, too," said another.	10
11	195	It amounted to the destruction of one roofed area where Ka-la-na wood was stored, and the partial destruction of another; one small warehouse for the storage of pitch, one of several, had been destroyed; two dry docks had been lost, and the shop of the oar-makers, near the warehouse for oars, had be...	10
13	290	"Out oars!" called the oar-master.	10
13	301	"Ready oars!" called the oar-master.	10
13	302	The oars were poised.	10
13	305	As one the oars entered the water, dipping and moving within it.	10
13	311	The oars were inboard.	10
13	331	At that moment, from far above, from the basket on the main mast, came the cry of the lookout, "Two ships off the port beam!" "Out and ready oars!" cried the oar-master, running to his chair.	10
13	341	Beaten or not, the oarsmen could only draw their oars so rapidly.	10
13	353	The seamen with whips rushed between the benches, but none, of all those there chained, slacked on the oars.	10
13	363	"Up oars!" cried the oar-master.	10
13	366	"Full oars!" cried the oar-master.	10
13	385	But, in less than an Ehn, one man failed to maintain it, and then two, and the oars began to foul.	10
13	387	Then the strokes of the drum were no longer coordinated with the oars.	10
13	390	"Up oars!" he cried.	10
13	425	"Oars inboard!" cried the oar-master, instinctively.	10
13	426	The oars slid inboard.	10
13	427	"Oars outboard!" I commanded.	10
13	428	Obediently the oars slid outboard, and suddenly, all along the starboard side there was a great grinding, and the slaves screamed, and there was a sudden ripping of planks and a great snapping and splintering of wood, the sounds magnified, thunderous and deafening, within the wooden hold.	10
13	429	Some of the oars were torn from the thole ports.	10
13	500	Green hulls, sails, oars, even ropes.	10
14	22	She has two steering oars, or side rudders.	10
14	28	These blades, mentioned before, are fixed on each side of the hull, abaft of the bow and forward of the oars.	10
14	32	Although the Dorna's true beam is sixteen feet Gorean, her deck width is twenty-one feet Gorean, due to the long rectangular rowing frame, which carries the thole ports; the rowing frame is slightly higher than the deck area and extends beyond it, two and one half feet Gorean on each side; it is sup...	10
14	33	The size and weight of the oars used will doubtless seem surprising, but, in practice, they are effective and beautiful levers.	10
14	34	The oars are set in groups of three, and three men sit a single bench.	10
14	37	This slanting makes it possible to have each of the three oars in an oar group parallel to the others.	10
14	38	The three oars are sometimes of the same length, but often they are not.	10
14	40	The oars themselves usually weigh about one stone a foot, or roughly four pounds a foot.	10
14	41	The length of those oars on a tarn ship commonly varies from twenty-seven to thirty foot Gorean.	10
14	43	The length and weight of these oars would make their operation impractical were it not for the fact that each of them, on its inboard end, is weighted with lead.	10
14	54	The major questions involve the number and size of oars that can be practically mounted, balanced against the size of ship required for the differing arrangements.	10
14	55	The use of the extended rowing frame, permitting the leverage necessary for the great oars, and the seating of several oarsmen, each with his own oar, on a given bench, conserving space, are important in this regard.	10
14	91	Then, rather bravely, the music drifting over the water, our oars at only half of maximum beat, we moved across the gleaming waters toward the large fleet.	10
14	109	I called down to the oar-master to rest oars.	10
14	111	I signaled my trumpeter to transmit the command "Rest oars".	10
14	160	"Rest oars!" I called.	10
14	161	I watched the tarn ship heave to, then port oars, and turn away.	10
14	180	"Back oars!" came the cry from the oar-master, and the Dorna, rocking and shuddering from the impact, chopped her way backward.	10
14	189	We saw the ship ahead of us trying to come about, but, before she could make four points of the Gorean compass, our ram struck the corner of her stern, skidding through and freeing itself, the ships, the Dorna's port oars inboard, grating together, and then the Dorna was clear, free, and we were dri...	10
14	210	When I saw the tarn ship ahead, its captain doubtless confident of his speeds and distances, lift her oars, preparing to come about, I called to the oar-master, "Now!" Without the loss of a stroke he, at the center of the rowing frame, began to call maximum beat, "Stroke! Stroke! Stroke!" The Dorna,...	10
14	222	He looked at her for better than an Ehn, studying the rise and fall, the sweep, of the oars.	10
14	234	"She carries one hundred and thirty-two oars," he said, "but she is a heavier ship, and her lines are not as good as those of the Dorna".	10
14	245	Then, about four Ehn later, "Rest oars".	10
14	255	His oars took up maximum beat and his heavy ship, the crest of the ram dividing the water before the concave bow, the tarn's beak just below the water line, plunged toward us.	10
14	477	Men sat ready at the oars of the Dorna, should I come aboard her.	10
15	15	The ships, in a splendid, long line, filing behind me, the Dorna first, then the tarn ships, then the round ships, under oars, moved slowly through the city, following the triumphal circuit of the great canal, passing even before the chamber of the Council of Captains.	10
15	40	The wild crowds screamed and shouted, and threw flowers, and the flagship, oars dipping in stately fashion, took her regal path, ram's crest dividing flowers in the water, between the buildings lining the great canal.	10
16	296	The men shoved off with the oars.	10
16	303	I noted that at one of the oars sat the slave boy Fish.	10
16	328	Our boat mixed oars with another, and then we shoved apart and continued on our way.	10
17	88	The Dorna rested, rocking on the waters, her oars inboard.	10
17	132	As I watched, the long, strung-out line of round ships of Port Kar moved past, tacking, scarcely using their oars, their small, triangular storm sails beaten from the north.	10
17	141	Behind them, scattered across the cold waters of Thassa, I could see the pairs of the second wave proceeding, swiftly gliding, oars dipping, toward the long lines of yellow and purple sails in the distance, yellow for Tyros, purple for Cos.	10
17	260	At one of the oars, as though he belonged there, was the slave boy Fish.	10
17	415	My men fought back boarders and then, with oars, thrust away the other ship.	10
17	416	Another ship struck our side, shearing oars.	10
17	431	I could see some, a hundred yards away, climbing the wales of tarn ships, some clinging to their oars.	10
18	32	Meanwhile, the starboard oars, under the call of the oar-master, began swinging the vessel about, to bring her stern into the wind.	10
18	134	Far below I saw the Dorna, lifting and falling in the troughs of the waves, and, separated from her, the ships of the fleet, round ships and tarn ships, storm sails set, oars dipping, flying before the storm.	10
18	635	Men were fleeing from my holding but, even more important, approaching down the canal, oars flashing, mast down, came a tarn ship, and then another.	10

Book 7. (3 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	50	It had two large steering oars, manned by bargemen.	10
8	188	Then Targo and the one-eyed guard returned toward the stern of the barge, where two of the bargemen handled the great steering oars.	10
8	211	The helmsmen, at their steering oars, shouting and cursing, brought the barge to its mooring.	10

Book 8. (28 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	31	The oars were now inboard, and the galley, of its own accord, swung, into the wind.	10
2	61	This galley, one of my swiftest, the Tesephone of Port Kar, had forty oars, twenty to a side.	10
2	93	With the men at the oars, ready, and others with the thrusting poles, she might be swiftly sped, if need should arise, at a word, into the deeper waters.	10
2	109	"Oars inboard!" called Thurnock.	10
2	111	I heard the forty oars slide inboard.	10
2	507	"Out oars!" he called.	10
2	508	The oars slid outboard.	10
2	521	"Oars ready!" he called.	10
2	522	"Half beat! Stroke!" As one, the oars dipped cleanly into the water, and drew against gleaming Thassa, and the Tesephone, lightly, began to turn in the water, her prow seeking the south, and Lydius.	10
5	199	"We dip oars within the hour," I told him.	10
5	231	"We must soon dip oars," I told Rim, not much pleased.	10
5	293	"We must dip oars soon," said Rim.	10
5	319	"We must dip oars soon," Rim said.	10
5	356	"Out oars!" called Thurnock.	10
5	357	"Ready oars!" Seamen began to pull on the yard ropes to raise the yard.	10
5	362	"Port oars! Stroke!" called Thurnock.	10
5	367	"Full oars!" called Thurnock.	10
6	190	I heard the beat, over the water, of the copper-covered drum of the keleustes, marking the time for the oars.	10
6	341	There would also, of course, be much attention given to the deadwork of the ship, and to her lines and rigging, and the fittings and oars.	10
13	187	The Tesephone had forty oars.	10
13	256	The crew of the Rhoda herself, though I expected not all of her oars would now be manned, would have been somewhere in the neighborhood of a hundred.	10
18	28	Somewhere men strained at oars.	10
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.	10
18	539	Men remained at alternate pairs of oars.	10
19	188	An hour after his arrival on Tyros, the Rhoda, under my command, raised mast and dipped oars for Lydius".	10
21	240	My eight men took their oars.	10
21	245	The oars cut the water.	10
21	273	The glittering surface of the water, broken by the stroke of the oars, seemed to swirl.	10

Book 9. (39 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
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...	10
2	139	The oars were generally some nineteen feet in length, and narrower than the southern oars, that they might cut and sweep with great speed, more rapidly than the wider bladed oar; and with two men to each oar, and the lightness of the ship, this would produce great speed.	10
6	77	Ivar Forkbeard, crying out, leaped from moving oar to moving oar, proceeding from the oars nearest the stem on the port side to the stern, then leaping back onto the deck at the stern quarter and leaping again on the oars, this time on the starboard side, and proceeding from the oar nearest the ster...	10
2	130	His men had rowed slowly, singing a dirge at the oars.	10
2	137	It carried, thus, forty oars, with two men to each oar.	10
2	169	In battle, of course, such shields are not hung on the side of the ship; they would obstruct the thole ports; but, even if oars were not used, they would be within the hull, at hand; why should a crewman expose himself to missile fire to retrieve a shield so fastened? Also, of course, when the ship ...	10
3	391	The men of Torvaldsland began to sing at the oars.	10
3	400	The oars, two men to an oar, lifted and dipped.	10
3	411	The men of Torvaldsland singing, the oars lifting and dipping, the serpent of Ivar Forkbeard took its way from the harbor of Kassau.	10
4	100	The men of Forkbeard, their oars inboard, the ship under sail, amused themselves as they would.	10
5	6	Swiftly his men took their places; I heard the oars slide half outboard.	10
5	29	The oars slid outboard.	10
5	102	"Eighty oars, one hundred and sixty rowers".	10
5	174	His men leaped to their benches and seized their oars.	10
5	179	The oars bit the water.	10
5	188	I saw the long oars lift, and then fall.	10
5	201	After another quarter of an Ahn Forkbeard bade his men rest at their oars.	10
5	202	Far behind us Black Sleen, reputed to be the fastest ship in the north, struggled, under oars and sail, to match our pace.	10
5	282	I heard the oars, in good rhythm, lifting and dipping.	10
5	322	I heard the thole-port caps turned back, and the oars thrust through the wood.	10
5	327	"Stroke!" The serpent turned its prow to sea, and the oars moved down, entered the water, and pulled against it.	10
5	332	"Let this be a lesson to you," he called to them, "never trust the men of Kassau!" At the oars the men struck up a rowing song.	10
6	6	The oars lifted and fell.	10
6	28	The oars lifted and dipped.	10
6	73	Then the Forkbeard himself drained the remains of the tankard, threw it to the foot of the mast, and then, to my astonishment, leapt from the ship, onto the moving oars.	10
6	84	The oars slid inboard; the men hung their shields at the serpent's flanks.	10
8	229	The men rested on the oars.	10
8	247	Almost noiselessly oars dipped, bringing us closer to the hull of Black Sleen.	10
8	249	The oars were brought inboard.	10
8	308	"Oars," said he, softly, to his oarsmen.	10
8	309	The oars, gently, noiselessly, entered the water, and the boat moved away, into the darkness.	10
9	55	Hilda, clothed, had been roped, hand and foot, and body, on her back, head down, to one of the nineteen-foot oars.	10
9	474	This morning, at dawn, the serpent would leave the small wharf, dipping oars, gliding through fog on the inlet, the result of the cooler land winds moving over the somewhat warmer water of the encroaching Torvaldstream.	10
13	323	"How many oars has it?" he asked.	10
15	40	It had eighty oars.	10
20	168	I could see the longboat, four torches uplifted in it, men at the oars, putting in to the skerry.	10
22	212	The seamen brought their shields inboard, stowed their gear beneath their benches, grasped their oars.	10
22	214	Then oars dipped slowly.	10
22	230	In the distance, as the ship moved to sea, the wind in its sail, oars dipping, I saw the bleak, white heights of the Torvaldsberg.	10

Book 11. (19 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
21	150	"Ready oars!" The oars slid through the thole ports.	10
16	176	It was also equipped with oars, but these were primarily used in entering and leaving a harbor.	10
16	214	The two men at the steering oars, one on each side of the ship, at its back, turned the vessel away from the left.	10
16	215	Men rushed to the benches and slid oars through the oar openings in the side of the ship.	10
16	216	Another man began to call to them and their oars, in unison, began to dip and pull.	10
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.	10
21	152	The oars, in unison, twenty on each side, dipped into the waters of the harbor, drew and lifted, the water falling from them in bright droplets, splashing back into the harbor.	10
22	94	"It has two masts, two sails," he said, "and ten oars to a side.	10
22	111	"She seems long," said he, "for only ten oars to a side".	10
22	118	Men leaped to the benches and our oars slid outboard.	10
22	160	"Note the oars, Captain," pressed the second officer.	10
22	162	Additional oars had been slid through thole ports.	10
22	171	Now not only the flag of Port Kar but another flag, too, snapped on its line at the stem castle of the approaching vessel, hurling toward us, like a swift knife, its oars flashing.	10
22	267	Once, late, we were partly sheared, losing several oars on the port side.	10
22	296	We felt the ship shift as oars took the water.	10
22	508	We heard some oars snapped.	10
22	516	The attacker backed his oars and the ram, its work done, splintering more wood, withdrew and settled away from us.	10
24	8	A ship was approaching, a medium-class galley, with twenty oars to a side, dipping unhurriedly.	10
24	236	"Left oars!" called the oar master.	10

Book 12. (3 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	323	Some said that Thassa was endless, and there was no world's end, only the green waters extending forever, gleaming, beckoning the mariner and hero onward, onward until men, one by one, had perished and the lonely ships, their steering oars lashed in place, pursued the voyage in silence, until the ti...	10
2	337	It possessed great oars, which must be handled by several men, rather than one man to an oar.	10
2	338	Instead of two side-hung rudders, or oars, it carried a single oar, slung at the vessel's sternpost.	10

Book 13. (24 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	88	She had ten oars to a side, two rudders, and two, permanent, lateen-rigged masts.	10
4	926	Ten sailors, on a side, slid oars outboard.	10
4	928	The long oars dipped into Thassa and rose, dripping, from the greenish sea.	10
4	932	"Oars inboard!" called the second officer.	10
6	91	His men did not rush to the benches, slide back the thole ports or slip the great oars outboard.	10
6	121	I could see the oars lifting and dipping in unison, as they moved by.	10
6	140	One does not put slaves at the oars of warships.	10
6	211	Soon, to his calls, the oars drew against the brownish waters about the hull.	10
6	316	The oars dipped and lifted.	10
6	521	A heavy galley, out of Tyros, forty oars to a side, stroked past us, her yellow lateen sails loose on their yards.	10
6	536	As the Palms of Schendi, her canvas now taken in and the long yards swung parallel with the deck, oars lifting and sweeping, moved past the wharves many men stopped working, setting down their burdens, to wave us good greetings.	10
6	591	"Oars inboard," called Gudi, who acted as oar master.	10
21	21	"Oars, muffled, several of them".	10
21	24	I could hear, slightly out of time, the softer entry into the water of a second set of oars.	10
21	27	Askaris used not oars but paddles, and used canoes.	10
21	33	"The number of oars suggests length," said Ayari.	10
21	49	The shafts of the oars, where they rested in the open, fixed-position, U-shaped oarlocks, had been wrapped in fur, that they might make no sound as they moved against these fulcrums.	10
21	50	The oars themselves had barely lifted from the water and had then entered and drawn again, almost splashlessly.	10
49	42	Splintered oars lay about.	10
57	98	Their progress in femininity had not been much advanced by their work at the oars of a galley.	10
57	114	Oars were then thrust in their hands, four girls to one oar, that they might be able to move the levers.	10
57	115	There were enough girls, in this arrangement, for five oars to a side with one girl left over, who could carry food and water to her laboring sisters.	10
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...	10
57	129	If the journey had not been downriver I do not think it would have been practical to put them at oars at all.	10

Book 14. (1 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
7	88	Let men again put their hands to the oars; let the low, swift ships be launched once more.	10

Book 15. (6 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
29	211	We nosed toward the sea gate, our oars scarcely entering the water.	10
29	257	"Back oars!" cried the oar master, the fellow from Port Cos.	10
29	258	"Back oars!" But there was no time.	10
33	130	Its mate, anchored, too, in the strakes, forward of the oars, reposed on the port side.	10
33	200	"Those from Ar's Station are essentially infantrymen of Ar, put at the oars of galleys.	10
33	230	"You are mad!" I heard only the water at the strakes, the creaking of the chain, the sound of oars restless in the thole ports, the far-off cries of occasional Vosk gulls.	10

Book 16. (75 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	45	"Back oars, back oars," said the oar master.	10
1	9	I saw oars snapping.	10
1	44	The oar master set the oars outboard, into the water.	10
1	79	The oars were already outboard.	10
1	124	Then, later, he called, "Back oars!" An occasional stone, or globe of pitch, was lofted towards us, but fell short.	10
1	136	Another was fouled in the oars of our starboard side and capsized.	10
1	164	We slid along the chain, then, the oars on our starboard side striking loose the wicker shielding of another longboat, too close to the chain, and spilling men into the water.	10
1	170	"Back oars," called Callimachus.	10
2	2	The sound of the oars, softly entering the water, drawing and lifting, was almost inaudible.	10
2	10	The oars of the Tina lifted and slid partly inboard.	10
2	68	"With muffled oars we may patrol our sector of the chain".	10
2	92	We rested the oars in the oarlocks.	10
2	111	"Back oars," I said.	10
2	126	"Return to the ship!" We let the longboat move past us, some yards to starboard, judging by the sound of the oars.	10
2	149	The longboat, almost noiselessly, the oars muffled, the wood wrapped with thonged fur at the fulcrum points, the oarlocks similarly served, moved away.	10
3	19	"Out oars!" called Callimachus.	10
3	21	The first galley, its oars stroking, slashing at the Vosk, its hull twisting, careened forward and to the side.	10
3	29	"Back oars!" called Callimachus.	10
3	31	"Back oars!" called Callimachus.	10
3	56	Then he cried, "Oars inboard!" Her ram missed us.	10
3	58	"Oars outboard!" called Callimachus.	10
4	4	Our oars were inboard.	10
4	17	The Ina, her starboard oars sheared, had been boarded and taken as a prize.	10
4	93	Our oars were inboard.	10
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.	10
4	104	The pirate galleys began to back oars, frantically to extricate themselves, but, clumsily, half swung about, they must accept our fire.	10
4	149	"No! Look! It is the flank of the Voskjard which is now unguarded!" The Tais and her swift, lean sisters, emerging unexpectedly, circling, from behind our lines, stern quarters low in the water, rams half lifted from the water, wet and glistening in the sun, at full stroke, oars beating, drums pound...	10
4	160	Few of these ships boasted more than twenty oars.	10
4	206	Hundreds of oars, like sticks, had been snapped in the stresses involved, even against the hulls of their own vessels.	10
4	207	Archer shields, of heavy wicker, floated in the water, and ruptured posts and strakes, and parts of oars.	10
4	209	"Back oars! Reform our lines!" called Callimachus.	10
4	211	"Back oars! Reform our lines!" called Callimachus.	10
5	8	Men on the Tina, using loose oars as levers, were trying to pry the ships apart.	10
5	15	Then he was lost among the splinters of oars and the grinding of the hulls.	10
5	118	"Oars inboard!" cried the oar master.	10
5	122	We heard oars of the enemy snapping against our hull.	10
5	124	"Oars outboard!" called the oar master, and we slid the wood through the thole ports.	10
5	159	"Hold! Back oars!" cried the oar master, miserably.	10
6	2	"Back oars!" cried the oar master.	10
6	8	"Back oars!" called the oar master.	10
6	17	"Back oars!" called the oar master.	10
6	25	"Back oars!" called the oar master.	10
6	27	Men leaped from it into the water, mixing in the water with the striking oars of the Voskjard's ship.	10
6	35	Oars, like startled limbs, not in unison, unevenly, rose from the water.	10
6	37	Oars, one and two, and more, at a time, began to slash down at the water.	10
6	46	"Back oars, gently, Lads".	10
6	68	Without such men we could not have manned our oars.	10
6	81	"Their oars are outboard now," said a man.	10
6	85	"Oars outboard!" called the oar master.	10
6	98	We rested on our oars.	10
6	166	The Tina shuddered in the water, and then, once more, with her sisters, the Olivia and the Tais, her oars catching at the water, her ram half lifting, dripping, from the Vosk, defiant and gallant, leapt forward.	10
7	5	I was then among slashing oars and swimming men.	10
9	94	"Port oars inboard!" cried Callimachus.	10
9	95	"Port oars inboard!" echoed the oar master.	10
9	108	Near me other men, with their shoulders, and using oars as levers, pried at the hull, its keel sunk in the sand.	10
9	333	We saw oars sliding outboard.	10
9	399	Then the blade moved back and the Tais, oars cutting at the dark river, with a ripping of strakes, extricated her ram from the hull of the stricken Tamira.	10
10	78	Instead of proceeding northwest toward Tetrapoli, or toward any other of the western towns, we had, under sail and oars, proceeded directly northward along the chain.	10
10	109	I wondered how many of the hands of the fellows, mostly of Ar's Station, tensed on their oars in the Tuka, anticipating the reach below their benches to where their weapons lay concealed.	10
12	27	We watched the oars of the approaching ships.	10
12	118	"Go back!" There was then a confusion of oars.	10
16	59	"Oars outboard!" I could see the pirate ship to my left, across the wharf, moored on the opposite side, its mooring ropes cut, backing away from the wharf.	10
16	69	Some ran past me and apparently leaped to oars, trying to hold them and use them to clamber aboard.	10
16	71	"Do not encumber the oars!" cried Policrates.	10
16	85	"Back oars!" screamed Policrates.	10
16	86	"Back oars!" cried Kliomenes.	10
16	251	"Back oars!" screamed Policrates, on the stem castle.	10
16	252	"Back oars!" We heard a pirate ship, somewhere to starboard, being boarded.	10
16	292	The encroaching shape seemed to veer toward me, and then I realized, to my horror, that she intended to shear the starboard oars of Spined Tharlarion.	10
16	294	There was a grating, shearing noise and snapping oars.	10
16	297	Scarring and ripping timber, snapping oars, it scraped and scored its way toward me.	10
16	310	Oars were thrusting out from the attacking vessel, to force the ships apart.	10
16	363	"It is the ship which sheared your starboard oars," I told him.	10
16	553	The oars entered the water.	10
18	639	The oars were put outboard.	10

Book 17. (1 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	255	Then we heard oars being drawn inboard on the starboard side.	10

Book 20. (1 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	1159	We then pushed off, thrusting against the steps with the port oars.	10

Book 22. (2 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	791	With its stroke oars, it seemed, entered the water.	10
6	793	I supposed they would be strong, virile men, to draw oars.	10

Book 23. (9 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	5	All about were tangles of floating debris, broken oars, rope-bestrewn yards, and smoke-stained barrels and crates.	10
19	86	"Wait," said the fellow at the oars, alarmed, holding up his hand.	10
19	267	But then, too, I saw the rowers of these small vessels, rest on their oars.	10
20	166	Suddenly I saw the flagship, knifing through an opening in the chain of rafts, literally sheer oars from the side of the Cosian ship put about in the harbor.	10
20	408	River galleys, also, as would be expected, seldom carry more than twenty oars to a side, and are almost always single-banked.	10
20	455	"Out oars!" I heard the oar master call.	10
24	30	"Out oars!" called the oar master, from his place before the helmsmen, aft.	10
24	81	The oars entered the water in unison, drew and rose, shining, dripping, from the river.	10
24	612	Oars were inboard, stowed.	10

Book 28. (2 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
21	65	"Yes," said Cabot, "of war, and the march, sometimes to measure the stroke of oars, occasionally to signal the opening and closing of markets, of gates, and such".	10
67	108	The thought crossed his mind of the mad shipwright, Tersites, filled with his dream of a ship so sturdy and mighty that it might see what lay on the far side of Thassa, to go so far that no mariner who had attained only to the first knowledge would dare to ply one of its oars, for fear of plunging o...	10

Book 29. (17 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	67	To guarantee a supply of valuable, suitable timber, for example Tur trees for strakes, keels, and planking, needle trees for masts, and tem wood, the rare yellow tem wood, for oars, the arsenal claims and badges selected trees within given ditched areas in the northern forests, which supplies, large...	10
2	473	Water fell from the oars.	10
5	12	The other two oarsmen, oars outboard, and the helmsman, his hand on the tiller, nursed the boat, keeping it, as it was turned, muchly parallel to the shore.	10
5	280	This makes the ship more amenable to her oars and less vulnerable to flaming missiles, which might ignite a sail on its long, sloping yard.	10
5	405	She had some ten oars to a side; she was smaller than my Tesephone.	10
5	431	"We were much under oars.	10
5	443	I watched the small ship dip her oars and begin to move south.	10
7	25	Indeed, pirates commonly painted their ships green, to make them less discernible at sea, certainly while under oars, with the masts lowered.	10
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.	10
30	85	I saw no thole ports, near the waterline, even for the great oars, with grips, those used on some round ships, five men to an oar.	10
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.	10
38	292	Many consecutive shifts at the oars, as free oarsmen exchanged positions, would doubtless be imposed on the wearied, aching body of Licinius Lysias of Turmus.	10
38	365	We saw the oars dipping, water falling from the blades.	10
42	28	"No! No!" I became dimly aware of the bulwarks of a pitching galley, her mast down, her oars outboard, about me.	10
42	46	"Oars down!" I said.	10
42	48	"Four oars went under the water, and I drew the body of the sleen over two of them.	10
42	49	"Oars up!" I said, from the water.	10

Book 30. (38 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	173	"Back oars! Back oars!" cried the second officer, standing wildly at the port rail.	10
14	23	Two spare oars were set in place to starboard, and we transferred two oars, as well, from port to starboard, one of which was manned by myself and Licinius Lysias.	10
14	86	"Wait!" "Out oars!" cried Seremides, angrily, and, his rope falling amongst his oarsmen, the oars of his galley slid outward.	10
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.	10
2	21	We at the oars, free men all, for our vessel was a long ship, low in the water, knifelike, fit for war, were looking forward to our winter leave, and the paga and girls of the taverns, The Silver Chain, the Beaded Whip, the Pleasure Garden, the Chatka and Curla, the Ubar's Choice, and others.	10
2	84	There was no command to bring the oars inboard.	10
2	96	"Oars!" called the captain, and we resumed our position.	10
2	116	We had only five oars to a side, and a rowing crew of twenty, two to each oar.	10
2	147	"Back oars," suggested the second officer.	10
2	148	"Back oars!" "No," said the captain.	10
2	174	"Back oars!" screamed the captain.	10
2	175	We seized the oars but it was useless.	10
2	208	I thought I heard the oars of a galley, a light galley, not much different from the patrol ship.	10
2	224	"I am here!" I heard some oars being indrawn, through the thole ports.	10
2	239	Many of the vessels of Port Kar, that den of thieves and cutthroats, that scourge of Thassa, were green, almost invisible, under oars, low in the water, the mast down.	10
2	242	Her starboard oars were mostly indrawn, or still.	10
2	245	The common galley usually carries three wharfing poles, for pushing away from a wharf, until oars can obtain their purchase.	10
3	65	On some ships they time the stroke of oars, but this is more commonly done by mallets on a copper-headed drum, or, if silence is in order, by calling the beat, from amidships.	10
4	84	"Long ship, light galley, out of Telnus, ten oars, single-masted, guard ship, patrol ship.	10
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.	10
14	17	Eleven days now we had been at the oars.	10
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.	10
14	62	"Back oars!" cried Pertinax.	10
14	67	"Oars inboard!" called Pertinax.	10
14	72	The oars on the galley commanded by Seremides were similarly retracted.	10
14	84	"Out oars!" cried Seremides.	10
14	87	We grasped our oars.	10
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.	10
14	100	"Back oars!" cried Seremides, alarmed.	10
14	102	I heard oars splinter.	10
14	148	They clung to the gunwales of the ship's boats, and armsmen and oarsmen struck down with tools and oars, to protect those in the water.	10
14	365	I heard the dip of oars in the water.	10
22	58	More than once the galley turned, and slowed, rocking, men from the water clinging to the oars.	10
22	70	Men clinging to oars came aboard, and took their places on the benches.	10
22	83	Dozens of terrified men rushed about us, wading in the water, seizing oars, trying to climb aboard.	10
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.	10
22	150	I turned about, and saw the galley of Turgus, oars striking the water, drawing away.	10
22	154	The tumult, the confusion, the striking of oars, the splashing of men in the water, had doubtless attracted the attention of marine predators, presumably sharks.	10

Book 31. (1 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	9	Your swiftest ships knifing the water, propelled by no more than wind and oars.	10

Book 32. (11 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
50	285	At the edge of the shore, there were several small boats tied in place, to stakes anchored in the beach, some, long boats, propelled by several oars, and others, smaller boats, propelled by a pair of oars.	10
8	197	One did not know when the long poles might thrust one ship or another from the wharves, the sail take the wind, or the low-banked oars enter the water, and rise again, shedding their sparkling showers in the early morning light.	10
8	503	Oars were still inboard.	10
9	111	Oars emerged from the oar ports.	10
15	469	It was too large to be propelled by oars.	10
23	142	And the vessels of war were like knives in the water, swift, low, multiply oared, and concave prowed, armed with deck engines, rams, and crescent-like blades, which might shear away timbers and oars.	10
50	310	Please show me mercy!" He then scooped me up, lightly, and carried me to one of the nearby small boats, one with two oars, and put me on my back, roughly, on the boards, at the bottom of the boat.	10
50	312	He must then have freed the boat from its mooring, for he was wading beside it, thrusting it into the river, and then he entered the boat, took his seat, freed the oars, set them in place, and began to row.	10
50	346	The oars were drawn inboard, and my captor left the boat, and, wading, drew it high, onto the beach.	10
52	237	Some were entering boats, long boats, six-or eight-oared, and small boats, two- oared, thrusting oars outboard, and some were partly in the water, preparing to launch the boats, and several were about, with weapons, supervising the beach.	10
52	951	He then threw three oars out into the river, and, with the remaining oar, punched an opening in the bottom of each boat, following which he thrust them out into the current, and then hurled the last oar after them.	10

Book 35. (34 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
43	123	Oars ready! We are going to shear the oars of the vessel which suspects nothing, coming alongside.	10
8	650	"Oars ready!" called the captain.	10
8	651	Oars were grasped.	10
8	652	"Oars out!" called the captain.	10
8	675	"Surely, with oars and sail, we can outdistance the stranger," I said.	10
8	677	Our oars were not yet in the water, but only poised.	10
8	693	The oars then entered the water.	10
8	694	At a second stroke on the drum, with the other mallet, the oars moved.	10
8	711	At this point, perhaps in response to signals conveyed by the captain, or one of his officers, the hortator's strokes changed, some too closely together to be matched by the heavy oars, others widely spaced, and then occurring almost unexpectedly.	10
8	712	The oars lifted and fell, and drew, not in unison, but sporadically, disjointedly, out of rhythm.	10
8	759	To the benches he called, "Oars in!" The hortator put down his mallets.	10
8	760	The oars were drawn inboard with their rattle of wood.	10
8	764	His drum stopped, and his oars, lifted, dripping water, were poised.	10
8	814	Their attention was on the corsair, now paused, oars at rest, a few yards away.	10
8	870	Some oars struck into the water.	10
8	881	It was low in the water, painted a mottled green, scarcely visible at first, almost lost in the swells, moving swiftly, so swiftly that, propelled by the mighty levers of its oars, rising and falling, in unison, shedding water, it was like a living spear.	10
8	949	"Oars out," called the Captain.	10
8	951	Bring her about!" Oars slid through the thole ports and entered the water.	10
11	58	Port Kar had a Home Stone! Men then, resolute and joyous, no longer fled, but, weeping, embraced one another as fellows and brothers, and rushed to the great arsenal to seize oars and take their places on the rowing benches of waiting ships.	10
33	169	We are at the mercy of the strength of birds, the stamina of kaiila, the beat of the long oars and the accommodations of congenial winds.	10
43	56	"Rest oars," called he whom I took to be the leader of our crew.	10
43	102	"Oars, at ease," said he whom I took to be the leader of our crew.	10
43	128	I saw our oars on the right lifted.	10
43	129	Almost at the same time there was a hideous wrenching and scraping of wood, a snapping and splintering of oars, and the cries of startled, angry, dismayed men.	10
43	137	"She blocks the gate!" "Strong oars, fellows!" cried Seremides.	10
43	144	"Back oars!" cried Vas of Anango.	10
43	148	They call your bluff! They do not draw aside! Back oars! They remain in place!" "On!" said Seremides.	10
43	152	The oarsmen, their backs to the bow, sweating, strained at the oars.	10
43	161	There was a debris of timbers and oars in the water, and men, too, some swimming, some clinging to wreckage.	10
43	167	The shearing on the one side of the boat of Decius of Venna had snapped oars but not torn open the strakes.	10
43	168	Half the oars on the uninjured side of the boat had been repositioned to provide the craft with a symmetry of leverage.	10
43	259	Twice I heard Seremides call, "Pause, wait, be ready, lads, now, now stroke," when, I suppose, the rhythm of the oars had begun to lapse from some desiderated regularity.	10
43	265	I heard oars being brought inboard, and several oarsmen clambered ashore.	10
43	282	Even now oars are outboard and enter the water".	10

Book 36. (80 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	76	The rowing arrangements mentioned were common rowing arrangements, a single rowing deck, with twenty-five oars to a side or fifteen oars to a side.	10
22	76	The destroyed corsair fleet had possessed four ships of fifty-oars and two of thirty-oars.	10
51	117	"First would come the movement of oars, particularly of several oars, the disturbance in the water, alerting the hith to the presence of an intruder, then the discovery of a large, dark shape entering his domain, and then, only after the attack, would it be likely to sense possible prey, thrashing i...	10
57	25	As she did so, I called, "Oars outboard," and the oars of the Tesephone's starboard benches thrust out, trying to force a distance between the Tesephone and the corsair.	10
57	33	Several mercenaries had plunged into the sea with hand axes, and, reaching and climbing upward in the rolling sea, assisted by oars thrust forth from the corsair, dipping and rising, had clambered onto the few remaining oars of the Tesephone which were still holding the corsair at bay.	10
57	46	The oars of the enemy, to which the mercenaries had clung, had been withdrawn, forcing them from the oars, into the water.	10
2	14	Aktis was not a small man, but Thurnock was unusually large, a boulder of a man, with arms like oars.	10
3	145	"Rest oars!" "What land is here?" I asked Aktis, who was partly down the steps to the deck.	10
4	93	"Then rest oars".	10
4	123	"Draw the port oars inboard," said Clitus.	10
4	142	Take your oars inboard, that, assisted, we may clamber aboard".	10
4	143	"Prepare to back oars," I said.	10
4	168	"Back oars," I said.	10
8	117	I considered the rhythm of the oars in the corsair fleet.	10
16	308	"Board, board! The oars are waiting, the canvas is slack.	10
16	310	Thurnock and I, as we took our departure, oars rising, shedding bright water, like drops of light, looked back to the island.	10
18	13	I was a captain, master of a fine round ship of a hundred oars".	10
18	225	"Oars inboard!" I called.	10
22	77	Now there were seven enemy ships, each of fifty-oars, a far more formidable fleet than the one we had managed to destroy by trickery.	10
25	4	In the harbor there were several small boats, but only a single large vessel, a ship-of-war, one of fifty oars.	10
26	10	A smooth beat, however it is timed, is important, particularly in battle, as an awkwardness or mixing of oars can lead to an impairment of maneuverability.	10
28	36	"Out oars," I called.	10
28	75	"Oars ready," I called.	10
29	13	"And find themselves in them," said Captain Tab, currently assigned the captainship of the Dorna, fifty-oared, larger and more formidable than the light, swift Tesephone, sped by twenty oars.	10
29	238	It is true that our two ships, one of merely twenty oars, are grossly overmatched by the seven ships of the corsair fleet.	10
34	89	Oars are outboard".	10
49	106	"I hear muffled oars".	10
49	119	There was then no more sound of oars, but, given the silence, they had not yet been drawn inboard.	10
49	132	Shortly thereafter, oars were drawn inboard, crews disembarked, and, with intermittent, soft, sliding sounds, the Tesephone and Dorna were thrust partly onto the beach.	10
50	3	There had been no sound of alien oars, no warning, no cries.	10
51	12	"The oars are still," he said.	10
51	18	"We passed these waters, safely," I said, "and under oars as well, when we first came to Chios, to warn Mytilene of the intentions of the corsairs".	10
51	20	"Many ships must pass this way," I said, "and under oars".	10
51	24	We had come to this point under sail, oars inboard.	10
51	28	I looked at the three corsair ships, each a vessel of fifty oars, the coast of Chios behind them.	10
51	32	"Now," said Thurnock, "their oars are outboard".	10
51	34	"Out our oars and race east".	10
51	36	"Keep the oars inboard.	10
51	43	"Keep the oars inboard," said Sakim.	10
51	45	"Keep the oars inboard," said Sakim.	10
51	47	"Use the oars," said Clitus.	10
51	50	Even at the distance it was easy to see the oars were not only outboard but now in the water.	10
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.	10
51	56	"If they are on the point of closing with us," I said, "I will resort to oars".	10
51	74	Each has fifty oars.	10
51	75	These oars, hastening, strike the water, again and again.	10
51	77	"Ready oars," I called to the benches.	10
51	85	At seventy Ihn I tensed, preparing to slash my hand downward, at which signal the oars would be thrust outboard, be poised, would enter the water together, and the keleustes, his mallet already lifted, would deliver his first blow to the metal-headed drum.	10
51	106	It is, in any event, the ship, a moving object, with oars like appendages, and, I suspect, more seriously, an intruding object, an object invading what the beast presumably takes as its territory".	10
51	203	An Ahn later, shortly before sundown, oars inboard, we brought the long, sloping yard into the wind.	10
52	6	She must have lost oars".	10
52	7	Normally the Dorna has twenty-five oars to a side.	10
52	23	"Too, we have spare oars".	10
52	24	"The Dorna must have had spare oars as well," said Clitus.	10
52	109	"I turned about," said Tab, "and, circling, and charging, for the Dorna, for her size, is like a tabuk, stove in the hull of the nearest pursuer, but the ram anchored itself athwart the keel of the enemy, and before I could disengage it, my oars were being sheared, rudders torn away, and planking ru...	10
53	3	Oars were in the water.	10
53	44	But Tab, by oars and rudders, was already struggling to bring the prow of the Dorna toward the island, which maneuver would minimize the width of the expected impact.	10
53	59	The few serviceable oars of the Dorna were out from the thole ports, almost like narrow wooden legs to keep the tormented craft from pitching on its side.	10
53	130	"They will not think so for long," said Sakim, "as our oars taste Thassa and our prows are set for Thera".	10
53	131	Clitus, who had a glass of the Builders, and was on the stem deck, called back, "Three ships, to starboard, oars outboard!" And a moment later the sound of a drum, and then two others, carried over the water.	10
53	137	"It would be easy for them, given our handicap," he said, "to ram us abeam, or at stem or stern, or to shear away oars".	10
53	156	Consider the maneuvering required to draw alongside, the employment of fending oars, the closure with the enemy, facilitating the use of missiles at close range, the shifting gap between hulls, the uncertainty of footing, the sea destabilizing the two platforms involved, the temporary exposure of at...	10
53	202	Clearly their oars were at rest, blades submerged.	10
53	276	At the same time, the rowers of the Dorna bent to their oars, and the Dorna, partly towed, partly under its own power, fell into place behind the Tesephone.	10
54	20	They prefer a living keleustes who can see the benches and heed the action of the oars and, consequently, adjust the beat, subtly, as necessary, to optimize the performance of the vessel, subject to actual conditions.	10
55	27	"So joined, tied together, many oars unavailable, speed is lost, maneuverability is nullified," said Sakim.	10
55	33	Shortly thereafter, the Dorna and the Tesephone, oars inboard, were lashed together.	10
55	67	"The oars of the enemy ships, save those of one, rest," said Clitus.	10
55	71	"Its oars now rest," said Clitus.	10
56	79	"He should rest his oars," said Sakim.	10
57	23	As the prow of the corsair ship at our starboard side slipped past our stern deck, like a long, gliding sea tharlarion, her port oars were withdrawn.	10
57	26	Given the weight of the corsair and surge of the sea, several oars snapped, but others, some bending and others half broken, interposed themselves between the two hulls.	10
57	160	In a moment the length of the corsair ship, oars swiftly brought inboard, the vessel then obedient to inertia, would slide parallel to the starboard side of the Tesephone.	10
57	189	"Oars out, thrust away!" I heard from the corsair vessel.	10
57	190	Oars from the corsair ship thrust out, striking our hull, trying to move their ship from our proximity.	10
57	230	"We are short even on oars," said Sakim.	10
58	84	"Oars, rest," I said.	10
63	223	"Oars ready," I called.	10
63	224	"Oars ready," called the keleustes.	10
63	226	"Stroke," called the keleustes, and his mallet struck the metal drum, and oars, as one, dipped into the waters of gleaming Thassa.	10