Book 6. (7 results) Raiders of Gor (Context Quote)
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Sentence #
Quote
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184
It was only a rumor, one which, it seemed, recurred at least every year in Port Kar.
10
185
Doubtless there were similar rumors, raising their small stirs, in the councils of Cos and Tyros.
10
186
I recalled that the words of the seaman had been dismissed.
10
187
Now, crying to come before the council, was the mad, half-blind shipwright Tersites, a scroll of drawings in his hand, and calculations.
10
188
At a word from the scribe at the long table before the thrones of the Ubars, two men put Tersites from the chamber, dragging him away.
10
189
Once before he had been permitted to present plans to the council, but they had been too fantastic to be taken seriously.
10
190
He had dared to suggest a redesign of the standard tarn ship.
It was only a rumor, one which, it seemed, recurred at least every year in Port Kar.
Doubtless there were similar rumors, raising their small stirs, in the councils of Cos and Tyros.
I recalled that the words of the seaman had been dismissed.
Now, crying to come before the council, was the mad, half-blind shipwright Tersites, a scroll of drawings in his hand, and calculations.
At a word from the scribe at the long table before the thrones of the Ubars, two men put Tersites from the chamber, dragging him away.
Once before he had been permitted to present plans to the council, but they had been too fantastic to be taken seriously.
He had dared to suggest a redesign of the standard tarn ship.
- (Raiders of Gor, Chapter )