Book 10. (7 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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190
We retained the light on the poles.
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191
The Old One circled away and again lay out from us in the water, some fifty to sixty feet distant, seeming to watch.
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192
Then he again slipped from sight.
17
193
We did not see him for more than a quarter of an ahn.
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194
Then, suddenly, at the port side, aft, he erupted from the water a dozen feet away, and fell back, spattering torrents of water over the raft.
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"Cover the torches," cried T'Zshal.
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196
"Protect the lamps!" The lamp at the aft, port corner of the raft, drenched, was extinguished.
We retained the light on the poles.
The Old One circled away and again lay out from us in the water, some fifty to sixty feet distant, seeming to watch.
Then he again slipped from sight.
We did not see him for more than a quarter of an ahn.
Then, suddenly, at the port side, aft, he erupted from the water a dozen feet away, and fell back, spattering torrents of water over the raft.
"Cover the torches," cried T'Zshal.
"Protect the lamps!" The lamp at the aft, port corner of the raft, drenched, was extinguished.
- (Tribesmen of Gor, Chapter )