Book 6. (1 results) Raiders of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 13 | 339 | Two seamen came down from the upper deck and seized whips from racks behind the oar-master. |
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Book 6. (7 results) Raiders of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 13 | 336 | I heard the voice of the captain, Tenrik, crying to his helmsmen, "Hard to starboard!" The big ship began to swing to starboard. |
| 13 | 337 | But then another cry, wild, drifted down from the basket on the main mast, "Two more ships! Off the starboard bow!" "Helm ahead!" cried Tenrik. |
| 13 | 338 | "Full sail! Maximum beat!" As soon as the Rena had swung to her original course, the oar-master cried "Stroke!" and the mallets of the keleustes began to strike, in great beats, the copper-covered drum. |
| 13 | 339 | Two seamen came down from the upper deck and seized whips from racks behind the oar-master. |
| 13 | 340 | I smiled. |
| 13 | 341 | Beaten or not, the oarsmen could only draw their oars so rapidly. |
| 13 | 342 | And it would not be rapidly enough. |
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I heard the voice of the captain, Tenrik, crying to his helmsmen, "Hard to starboard!" The big ship began to swing to starboard.
But then another cry, wild, drifted down from the basket on the main mast, "Two more ships! Off the starboard bow!" "Helm ahead!" cried Tenrik.
"Full sail! Maximum beat!" As soon as the Rena had swung to her original course, the oar-master cried "Stroke!" and the mallets of the keleustes began to strike, in great beats, the copper-covered drum.
Two seamen came down from the upper deck and seized whips from racks behind the oar-master.
I smiled.
Beaten or not, the oarsmen could only draw their oars so rapidly.
And it would not be rapidly enough.
- (Raiders of Gor, Chapter 13)