Book 6. (1 results) Raiders of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 17 | 37 | Each pair would single out a given ship by signals and as it maneuvered to meet one the other could make its strike. |
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Book 6. (7 results) Raiders of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 17 | 34 | Our sets of sixteen ships, each in a position not to interfere with but support one another, could cut such a line easily. |
| 17 | 35 | We would cut it in fifty places. |
| 17 | 36 | As soon as the ships broke through the line they would spread in predesignated pairs, attacking where possible from the rear, but always conjointly. |
| 17 | 37 | Each pair would single out a given ship by signals and as it maneuvered to meet one the other could make its strike. |
| 17 | 38 | The balance, the great majority of ships in the joint fleet, thus, would remain, at least for the time, unengaged, apart from the battles. |
| 17 | 39 | Once more it would not be so much a question of absolute numbers of ships as concentrating superior numbers at strategic points. |
| 17 | 40 | With their lines cut in fifty places, for no extended handful of tarn ships, part of a great line, could resist a close-set formation of sixteen tarn ships, I hoped that many of the ships would turn to face the attackers, now in their rear. |
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Our sets of sixteen ships, each in a position not to interfere with but support one another, could cut such a line easily.
We would cut it in fifty places.
As soon as the ships broke through the line they would spread in predesignated pairs, attacking where possible from the rear, but always conjointly.
Each pair would single out a given ship by signals and as it maneuvered to meet one the other could make its strike.
The balance, the great majority of ships in the joint fleet, thus, would remain, at least for the time, unengaged, apart from the battles.
Once more it would not be so much a question of absolute numbers of ships as concentrating superior numbers at strategic points.
With their lines cut in fifty places, for no extended handful of tarn ships, part of a great line, could resist a close-set formation of sixteen tarn ships, I hoped that many of the ships would turn to face the attackers, now in their rear.
- (Raiders of Gor, Chapter 17)