Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 12 | 142 | Some decorum must be preserved, if only for the sake of the ship's discipline. |
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Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 12 | 139 | While we were at table, the girls, as expected, had served. |
| 12 | 140 | They had been clad in modest tunics. |
| 12 | 141 | This was no Ubar's victory feast, in which the daughters of the conquered, still free, must serve naked. |
| 12 | 142 | Some decorum must be preserved, if only for the sake of the ship's discipline. |
| 12 | 143 | Paga slaves, house slaves, pleasure slaves, and such, serve one way at the low tables common in households, inns, taverns, and such, and rather differently at the ship's tables, which are higher, and which are, as are the benches, fastened in place, this to prevent shifting in rough seas. |
| 12 | 144 | The benches anchor one in place, so to speak, as sitting cross-legged at the low tables would not. |
| 12 | 145 | Too, one may hold to the table itself, which is, incidentally, bordered by a slightly raised rim, or sometimes by a small railing, this helping to keep things in place. |
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While we were at table, the girls, as expected, had served.
They had been clad in modest tunics.
This was no Ubar's victory feast, in which the daughters of the conquered, still free, must serve naked.
Some decorum must be preserved, if only for the sake of the ship's discipline.
Paga slaves, house slaves, pleasure slaves, and such, serve one way at the low tables common in households, inns, taverns, and such, and rather differently at the ship's tables, which are higher, and which are, as are the benches, fastened in place, this to prevent shifting in rough seas.
The benches anchor one in place, so to speak, as sitting cross-legged at the low tables would not.
Too, one may hold to the table itself, which is, incidentally, bordered by a slightly raised rim, or sometimes by a small railing, this helping to keep things in place.
- (Mariners of Gor, Chapter 12)