Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 2 | 135 | It would be slow to come about, and a small galley might easily outdistance her, much as a racing kaiila might easily overtake a caravan of bosk-drawn wagons. |
| 2 | 136 | It was not built for war, but for space and power, for height and storage, perhaps for invulnerability. |
| 2 | 137 | We did not know what cargo it might carry. |
| 2 | 138 | In its holds it might carry the stores of a small city. |
| 2 | 139 | Its maneuverability would be so sluggish that the deft adjustments of shearing blades, responsive to subtleties of the ship's movement, so common in the swift movements of Gorean naval warfare, would be impractical, if not impossible. |
| 2 | 140 | Too, in such a mountain of wood there would be little use for a ram, as it would be of little use against a swifter, darting foe. |
| 2 | 141 | To be sure, the ship itself would be formidable. |
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It would be slow to come about, and a small galley might easily outdistance her, much as a racing kaiila might easily overtake a caravan of bosk-drawn wagons.
It was not built for war, but for space and power, for height and storage, perhaps for invulnerability.
We did not know what cargo it might carry.
In its holds it might carry the stores of a small city.
Its maneuverability would be so sluggish that the deft adjustments of shearing blades, responsive to subtleties of the ship's movement, so common in the swift movements of Gorean naval warfare, would be impractical, if not impossible.
Too, in such a mountain of wood there would be little use for a ram, as it would be of little use against a swifter, darting foe.
To be sure, the ship itself would be formidable.
- (Mariners of Gor, Chapter )