Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 8 | 37 | Mightier than thassa is she, my ship, always, in every way, do nothing!" But the ice, like the forge pliers of a Metal Worker, slowly, little by little, began to close on the wood. |
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Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 8 | 34 | We rejoiced that there was again water beneath our keel, and that we might again negotiate a righted deck, but, by morning, as the ice closed in, almost invisibly forming, Ehn by Ehn, hort by half-hort, our joy turned to terror, for one could remark the groaning of timbers, the cracking of stressed beams. |
| 8 | 35 | "Do nothing!" had cried Tersites. |
| 8 | 36 | "The ship is strong! She will neither bend nor break. |
| 8 | 37 | Mightier than thassa is she, my ship, always, in every way, do nothing!" But the ice, like the forge pliers of a Metal Worker, slowly, little by little, began to close on the wood. |
| 8 | 38 | "Do nothing!" cried Tersites. |
| 8 | 39 | But now none heeded him. |
| 8 | 40 | Aëtius, his confidante and loyal apprentice, in whose management was the day-to-day handling of the ship, dared to countermand his orders, this with the support of Lords Nishida and Okimoto, and the counsel of Tarl Cabot, admiral in Port Kar, member of the council of captains, and the war with ice had begun, to keep it at bay, by whatever means necessary. |
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We rejoiced that there was again water beneath our keel, and that we might again negotiate a righted deck, but, by morning, as the ice closed in, almost invisibly forming, Ehn by Ehn, hort by half-hort, our joy turned to terror, for one could remark the groaning of timbers, the cracking of stressed beams.
"Do nothing!" had cried Tersites.
"The ship is strong! She will neither bend nor break.
Mightier than thassa is she, my ship, always, in every way, do nothing!" But the ice, like the forge pliers of a Metal Worker, slowly, little by little, began to close on the wood.
"Do nothing!" cried Tersites.
But now none heeded him.
Aëtius, his confidante and loyal apprentice, in whose management was the day-to-day handling of the ship, dared to countermand his orders, this with the support of Lords Nishida and Okimoto, and the counsel of Tarl Cabot, admiral in Port Kar, member of the council of captains, and the war with ice had begun, to keep it at bay, by whatever means necessary.
- (Mariners of Gor, Chapter 8)