Book 32. (7 results) Smugglers of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 23 | 109 | Too, I knew of the men in small boats, coming and going so frequently, with their charts, weights, and marked ropes, mapping, testing, and sounding that lengthy, broad, twisting, flowing road of water. |
| 23 | 110 | But even so, all was not at ease, and peril was afoot. |
| 23 | 111 | A river is not the open sea. |
| 23 | 112 | A river is treacherous, with its shifting channels, its differential siltings, its vagaries of current, given changes in the configuration of the shore, its varying depths depending on the rainfall upstream, the occasional impediments of floating debris, the countless ridges and bars which might form overnight and be washed away, to form themselves anew, in a matter of ahn. |
| 23 | 113 | I must be away I thought, and swiftly, though I must show no haste now, not now. |
| 23 | 114 | There would be time for that later. |
| 23 | 115 | I feared there might be guards near the wands. |
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Too, I knew of the men in small boats, coming and going so frequently, with their charts, weights, and marked ropes, mapping, testing, and sounding that lengthy, broad, twisting, flowing road of water.
But even so, all was not at ease, and peril was afoot.
A river is not the open sea.
A river is treacherous, with its shifting channels, its differential siltings, its vagaries of current, given changes in the configuration of the shore, its varying depths depending on the rainfall upstream, the occasional impediments of floating debris, the countless ridges and bars which might form overnight and be washed away, to form themselves anew, in a matter of ahn.
I must be away I thought, and swiftly, though I must show no haste now, not now.
There would be time for that later.
I feared there might be guards near the wands.
- (Smugglers of Gor, Chapter )