Book 16. (7 results) Guardsman of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 4 | 70 | There were two men to each oar. |
| 4 | 71 | Our bow was aligned, as though to take its ram on the ram shield. |
| 4 | 72 | The strike, should it occur, I feared would snap our keel. |
| 4 | 73 | To our port side, gunnels almost touching, lay the Mira, our sister ship, from Victoria. |
| 4 | 74 | I saw, some hundred yards away, on the stem castle of the speeding galley, her captain move his arm. |
| 4 | 75 | Almost instantaneously the galley, responsive at that speed to the slightest rudder pressure, veered a point to her starboard. |
| 4 | 76 | It was her intention not to be stopped at the Tina but to shatter between us and the Mira, opening the line. |
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There were two men to each oar.
Our bow was aligned, as though to take its ram on the ram shield.
The strike, should it occur, I feared would snap our keel.
To our port side, gunnels almost touching, lay the Mira, our sister ship, from Victoria.
I saw, some hundred yards away, on the stem castle of the speeding galley, her captain move his arm.
Almost instantaneously the galley, responsive at that speed to the slightest rudder pressure, veered a point to her starboard.
It was her intention not to be stopped at the Tina but to shatter between us and the Mira, opening the line.
- (Guardsman of Gor, Chapter )