Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor (Context Quote)
Chapter #
Sentence #
Quote
19
139
It became possible to breathe without pain.
19
140
Later, a light rain had begun to fall, for the first time in several days.
19
141
This, I take it, may have been a result of the stifling, burning air ascending to the high, cold sky, familiar to jacketed tarnsmen, where, condensing, it fell as a soft, washing rain.
19
142
Had we not been on the ship, I feared we might not have escaped death.
19
143
Fixed in place, there would have been little to do but die.
19
144
I no longer saw the slave, but I knew that she had survived.
19
145
Originally, I feared she might have drowned, her arms locked, desperately, frozen, about the storm rope, but, later, the ship righted and emergent, though cruelly pitching, I had seen her move, trembling, struggling to clutch the rope even more tightly.
It became possible to breathe without pain.
Later, a light rain had begun to fall, for the first time in several days.
This, I take it, may have been a result of the stifling, burning air ascending to the high, cold sky, familiar to jacketed tarnsmen, where, condensing, it fell as a soft, washing rain.
Had we not been on the ship, I feared we might not have escaped death.
Fixed in place, there would have been little to do but die.
I no longer saw the slave, but I knew that she had survived.
Originally, I feared she might have drowned, her arms locked, desperately, frozen, about the storm rope, but, later, the ship righted and emergent, though cruelly pitching, I had seen her move, trembling, struggling to clutch the rope even more tightly.
- (Mariners of Gor, Chapter )