Book 36. (1 results) Avengers of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 57 | 25 | As she did so, I called, "Oars outboard," and the oars of the Tesephone's starboard benches thrust out, trying to force a distance between the Tesephone and the corsair. |
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Book 36. (7 results) Avengers of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 57 | 22 | As suggested earlier, the lashing together of the Dorna and Tesephone made this possible, permitting a rapid, judicious distribution of men and resources, allowing them to be applied when and where most needed. |
| 57 | 23 | As the prow of the corsair ship at our starboard side slipped past our stern deck, like a long, gliding sea tharlarion, her port oars were withdrawn. |
| 57 | 24 | She ground against our side. |
| 57 | 25 | As she did so, I called, "Oars outboard," and the oars of the Tesephone's starboard benches thrust out, trying to force a distance between the Tesephone and the corsair. |
| 57 | 26 | Given the weight of the corsair and surge of the sea, several oars snapped, but others, some bending and others half broken, interposed themselves between the two hulls. |
| 57 | 27 | Some of the corsair mercenaries had leapt between the ships at the moment of contact, but these, isolated from their fellows who could not follow them, were cut down or forced back over the rail, some of whom were being crushed between the vessels in our battle to force the hulls apart. |
| 57 | 28 | Then, in the wash of the sea, the corsair was separated from our proximity and rocked some ten feet to the side. |
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As suggested earlier, the lashing together of the Dorna and Tesephone made this possible, permitting a rapid, judicious distribution of men and resources, allowing them to be applied when and where most needed.
As the prow of the corsair ship at our starboard side slipped past our stern deck, like a long, gliding sea tharlarion, her port oars were withdrawn.
She ground against our side.
As she did so, I called, "Oars outboard," and the oars of the Tesephone's starboard benches thrust out, trying to force a distance between the Tesephone and the corsair.
Given the weight of the corsair and surge of the sea, several oars snapped, but others, some bending and others half broken, interposed themselves between the two hulls.
Some of the corsair mercenaries had leapt between the ships at the moment of contact, but these, isolated from their fellows who could not follow them, were cut down or forced back over the rail, some of whom were being crushed between the vessels in our battle to force the hulls apart.
Then, in the wash of the sea, the corsair was separated from our proximity and rocked some ten feet to the side.
- (Avengers of Gor, Chapter 57)