Book 6. (7 results) Raiders of Gor (Context Quote)
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442
There was much shouting, and a great crying out.
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443
"Yes, Captain," said Samos, "I think that you are right".
17
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How Bosk Conducted the Affairs of Port Kar Upon Thassa I stood in the swaying basket at the height of the mast of the Dorna, the glass of the builders in hand.
17
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It was a very beautiful sight, the great lines of ships in the distance, extending to the ends of the horizons, the sails like yellow and purple flags, in their thousands, in the sun of the ninth Gorean hour, an ahn before noon.
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Port Kar had mustered what ships she could.
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In the hurrying of our formations and the drawing of battle plans, I was not even certain of the numbers of ships engaged in our various ventures.
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The nearest estimations I could make were that we were bringing, at the time of the engagement, in the neighborhood of twenty-five hundred ships, fourteen hundred of them only round ships, against the joint fleet of Cos and Tyros, of some forty-two hundred ships, all tarn ships, now approaching from the west.
There was much shouting, and a great crying out.
"Yes, Captain," said Samos, "I think that you are right".
How Bosk Conducted the Affairs of Port Kar Upon Thassa I stood in the swaying basket at the height of the mast of the Dorna, the glass of the builders in hand.
It was a very beautiful sight, the great lines of ships in the distance, extending to the ends of the horizons, the sails like yellow and purple flags, in their thousands, in the sun of the ninth Gorean hour, an ahn before noon.
Port Kar had mustered what ships she could.
In the hurrying of our formations and the drawing of battle plans, I was not even certain of the numbers of ships engaged in our various ventures.
The nearest estimations I could make were that we were bringing, at the time of the engagement, in the neighborhood of twenty-five hundred ships, fourteen hundred of them only round ships, against the joint fleet of Cos and Tyros, of some forty-two hundred ships, all tarn ships, now approaching from the west.
- (Raiders of Gor, Chapter )