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Book 21. (1 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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25 1888 Did she really think that there were not millions upon millions of men on Earth who would not desire to have her so in their power, who would not relish seeing her in a slave collar, who would not delight in seeing her at their feet, who would not rejoice to sip and savor the wines of her bondage, w...
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Book 28. (1 results) Kur of Gor

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79 499 I would rather I had collared you amongst the collapsing walls of a burning city, that I had bought you off a block in Ar! A thousand times better I had discovered you for myself, in an exposition cage in Venna, or as you were being marched naked down the gangplank of a corsair in Port...
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Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor

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4 162 To be sure, the vessel itself would seem an impractical corsair, but I knew she sheltered at least one nested galley, which might plausibly exercise the dark vocation of the low, green ships.
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Book 31. (2 results) Conspirators of Gor

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8 635 "We were first used on the deck of the corsair itself".
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31 21 She had been a free woman of Cos, captured at sea by a corsair from Port Kar, as had been the girl from Tabor with whom I had been sold in the Metellan district, though much farther from shore, had been sold to rencers in the delta of the Vosk, who had sold her at a profit to a camp of...
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Book 32. (2 results) Smugglers of Gor

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9 42 "It is, then, a corsair," said the officer.
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9 155 Considering that the coast is generally kept in view, it seemed unlikely it would have been lost at sea; considering how long it had been with us it seemed unlikely it would have encountered difficulties of which we would have been unaware; and now, considering our position, and how far north we wer...
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Book 35. (22 results) Quarry of Gor

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8 639 "A corsair," he said, "flying the colors of Cos".
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8 659 "The captain," I said, "spoke of a corsair".
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8 660 "It is a corsair," said the keeper, "undoubtedly".
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8 678 "We could never outdistance the corsair," he said.
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8 683 "Surely you note that the corsair has positioned itself between us and the shore," said the keeper.
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8 685 "And," I said, "if we turn out to sea, the corsair could overtake us?" "Within the Ahn," he said.
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8 688 He then looked about, and then, shading his eyes with his hand, looked back, at the corsair.
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8 703 We have realized we could not beat the corsair to the shore, so we have no choice but to risk all on flight".
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8 707 "But note," said the keeper, "as we turn to the open sea, we draw the corsair behind us".
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8 814 Their attention was on the corsair, now paused, oars at rest, a few yards away.
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8 820 Surely, if, at the sturdy, narrow bow of the corsair, invisible, just below the surface of the water, fixed in place, there was a beak or snout of metal, it would have some purpose.
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8 830 What was it, I wondered, that had so frightened her before? How could it be that she could bear our current peril with such equanimity? I turned back to look at the corsair, gentle in the water.
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8 858 "The corsair," I said, "is putting down a long boat".
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8 866 I heard shouts from the corsair, cries of alarm.
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8 872 "There!" cried one of our men, pointing outward, past the corsair.
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8 875 The corsair began to turn toward the shore.
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8 878 Others were crowded at the rail of the corsair.
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8 887 The bow and stern of the corsair seemed to fold toward one another.
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8 889 There must have been a gaping hole in the side of the corsair.
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8 895 There must have been a hundred men or more on the corsair.
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8 902 The corsair then settled under the waves.
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24 18 She was brought to Port Kar tied at the prow of the corsair which had taken her vessel.
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Book 36. (151 results) Avengers of Gor

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36 130 Following the withdrawal of the corsair fleet from Daphna, after the Daphna incident, many mercenaries left the corsair fleet, and few enlisted to take their places.
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57 33 Several mercenaries had plunged into the sea with hand axes, and, reaching and climbing upward in the rolling sea, assisted by oars thrust forth from the corsair, dipping and rising, had clambered onto the few remaining oars of the Tesephone which were still holding the corsair 10
59 34 The Theran fleet under Nicomachos, anticipating land action on Chios near Mytilene, had embarked with numerous Cosian regulars aboard, which allowed frequent shifts of oarsmen, an advantage which the corsair fleet had itself hitherto exploited, this now, however, enabling the Theran fl...
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4 134 "Our poor vessel, the Doris," said the first, "was beset by pirates, two days ago, by the dreaded corsair, the merciless Bosk of Port Kar, rogue of Thassa!" "The crew was slaughtered," said the second.
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5 100 A wise corsair would do better to range the waters more broadly".
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5 101 "Unless," said Clitus, "the corsair was informed, if it knew the vessel, the time, and course".
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7 22 We have long sought the trail of this mysterious, elusive, merciless corsair, Bosk, of Port Kar".
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7 117 "If there are six or so corsair ships, fully manned, or more than fully manned," said Nicomachos, "one would be dealing with several hundred men.
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7 181 How much better for us that the authorities of Thera, or Cos, whose legal charge it was, utilizing the weapon of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, some twenty ships or so, should locate, engage, and destroy the corsair fleet.
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8 51 Too, with this advancement, we have now solved the mystery of the vanishing corsair fleet.
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8 58 "Ships! Ships! I make out four, no, five, no, six!" "The corsair fleet!" said Clitus.
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8 95 It lies within range of the corsair fleet.
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8 117 I considered the rhythm of the oars in the corsair fleet.
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16 187 "Who has not heard of that dreadful pirate, so elusive and ruthless a corsair?" "Might his predations, on land and sea, be somehow supported and abetted by living islands?" "I should hope not," she said.
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18 178 Presumably he seeks clues as to the whereabouts of the feared corsair, Bosk of Port Kar, who has so plundered the coast and ravaged the local waters".
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22 75 I had no doubt these were replacement vessels for the corsair ships I had burned on Daphna.
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22 76 The destroyed corsair fleet had possessed four ships of fifty-oars and two of thirty-oars.
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22 78 Moreover, if the ships were out of Telnus, the greatest of the harbors on Cos, it seemed clear that Lurius of Jad himself, the Ubar of Cos, had invested resources in replacing the corsair fleet.
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22 81 Why would Lurius interest himself in such unimportant, distant matters? The winnings of the corsair fleet, with its plundering of small villages, and the sacking and sinking of an occasional merchantman, could bring no more than tarsk-bits, so to speak, into the treasury of Cos.
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22 82 "I fear," I said, "the corsair fleet, and a more formidable one this time, is now at Mytilene".
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23 37 On the morning the corsair fleet, with its seven ships, was to depart the harbor at Mytilene in pursuit of the three Brundisium merchantmen, superstitious terror gripped savage crews.
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25 21 "I have come here," I said, "thinking about the corsair fleet.
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25 25 "At least," I said, "we have determined that the corsair fleet is not at Mytilene".
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26 44 "Steady, helms," I said, "two points more!" "The corsair gains," said Sakim.
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26 122 "Not on a corsair ship," I said.
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26 123 "Perhaps it was not a corsair ship," he said.
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26 124 "It was a ship of corsairs," I said, "even if it was not a corsair ship".
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27 54 We had burned the corsair fleet and left the corsairs themselves to perish, stranded in what may well be Daphna's most inhospitable region".
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28 12 "I take it, Captain Glycon," said Melete, "that your ship, the Hermione, and the others of the corsair fleet, are properly positioned".
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28 14 "As far as I know, there is no Captain Glycon and no ship, Hermione, and the corsair fleet, I would suppose, presumably disguised as merchantmen, is in the harbor at Sybaris".
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29 14 The Dorna, in my view, was the match for any of the seven ships in the corsair fleet.
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29 45 "You will sail into the jaws of a seven-headed monster, the seven ships of the corsair fleet".
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29 238 It is true that our two ships, one of merely twenty oars, are grossly overmatched by the seven ships of the corsair fleet.
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32 63 Then another corsair spun about, turned by the blow of an arrow.
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32 70 The last third of the column and some remnants of the broken center hurried back to the beach, where the corsair fleet lay to, some forty or so yards offshore.
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34 3 As once before, when scrutinizing the enemy, I, Thurnock, and some others, lay at the crest of a hill overlooking the beach and the seven ships of the corsair fleet.
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35 126 Second, it could give the corsair ships a port at sea, out from Sybaris, a depot where they could obtain water, food, and other supplies, and even, if necessary, repairs.
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35 127 In this way the corsair ships could remain longer at sea.
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35 129 Thirdly, it could support the corsair fleet in action, interfering with attacked vessels, impeding movements, blocking escapes, even delivering reinforcements to the corsairs in the way of boarders equipped with grappling irons and scaling ladders".
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35 140 A mariner spoke, whom I now realize must have been a corsair.
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35 158 Consider the corsair fleet, in its full strength, seven ships with crews, supplemented with mercenaries, accompanied by the Brigand Island, itself not only a transport for additional mercenaries, but conveying an arsenal of supplies and siege equipment".
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35 174 "I would match Tab and the Dorna against any single ship of the corsair fleet," I said.
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35 175 "But there are no isolated ships of the corsair fleet," said Thurnock.
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36 160 "You have heard, I assume," I said, "of the hoax of The Village of Flowing Gold, the burning of corsair ships, and the near extermination of an entire force of raiders in a waterless, inhospitable region of Daphna".
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36 226 And, I suspected, given the currently limited success of the unified corsair fleet, which could no more scour the seas for victims than could a single ship, and the risks of now attacking villages, that it might be soon.
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37 6 "Some ships at closed piers may be corsair ships," said Clitus.
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37 12 "And thus a merchantman becomes a corsair," said Thurnock.
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38 30 "How could he search so long for the corsair fleet and somehow never find it? He does not want to find it.
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39 44 "If I were a corsair," I said, "that is the way I would arrange it.
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39 64 "The corsair fleet," I said, "if it remains united, can move no faster than its slowest ship".
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39 65 "You are not thinking of engaging the corsair fleet at sea, are you?" said Thurnock.
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41 70 On what we might call the first day of the siege, the seven ships of the corsair fleet closed the harbor at Mytilene.
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41 208 "That would be the largest corsair force we have faced," said Thurnock.
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42 50 I thrust my blade into the side of a corsair who sought, half mad with fear, to brush past me.
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43 14 "The opening of the tunnel in the corsair camp will be guarded," said Thurnock.
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44 55 Doubtless an account of such episodes had reached even to the command tents of the enemy, and even to the command cabins of the corsair fleet.
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44 101 Moreover, should a mutiny be mounted, the corsair ships need only withdraw, leaving the mercenaries stranded on Chios".
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47 2 Within two days, the mercenaries, surrounded and beleaguered, harassed, shut off from the countryside, and sustaining dreadful losses, had withdrawn to the seven ships of the corsair fleet.
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47 10 The corsair ships did not risk coming within range of the peasant archery but sent forth a small fleet of longboats to ferry their mercenaries to the safety of the ships.
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48 214 "The corsairs' living island, the Brigand Island, may be about," I said, "too low to see, with cots of vulos which will home to at least the flagship of the corsair fleet".
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48 217 "Surely the corsair fleet has fled," said Clitus.
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49 69 But one might well have assumed, mistakenly, in the heat of the moment, given an appearance by the enemy, that the corsair fleet intended to attack the beach".
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49 71 "As Tab and Sakim left no message of any sort to explain their departure, we may infer that the appearance of the corsair fleet was sudden and unexpected, perhaps emerging from darkness in the vicinity of dawn, a situation calling for instant action, getting the Dorna and Tesephone to ...
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49 139 "Mercenaries suffered grievous losses," said Clitus, "and soon, as they could, under fire, those who could, sought to avail themselves of the hospitality of the corsair fleet".
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49 190 "You will dally some days," asked Tab, "hoping the corsair fleet will grow impatient and depart?" "Possibly," I said.
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49 191 "I do not think the corsair fleet will be so accommodating," said Tab.
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50 36 "At least," said Clitus, "the corsair fleet is still far behind".
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50 69 The corsair fleet constituted a formidable foe at sea not only in virtue of its size, its number of vessels, but in virtue of its number of men, this enhancing its capacity both to board and resist boarding, and to mount frequent shifts of oarsmen, this enabling the vessel to maintain ...
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50 96 "The danger is the corsair fleet," said Clitus, "should it detect us, given its armament and its presumed changes of oarsmen".
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50 98 "The corsair fleet is faraway," said Clitus.
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50 111 "But, Captain," said Sakim, "that, in itself, given the height of the stem decks of the corsair fleet, and the glass of the Builders, will make us visible from pasangs away".
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50 115 We cannot in wisdom, the two of us, engage the corsair fleet.
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50 132 "The Brigand Island and the corsair fleet are both between us and Mytilene," I said.
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51 6 "Where are the other four?" I had hoped to lead the corsair fleet, all seven fifty-oared ships, away from the Dorna.
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51 8 I had no doubt that the other four corsair ships, possibly in communication by means of message vulos, were in pursuit of the Dorna.
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51 28 I looked at the three corsair ships, each a vessel of fifty oars, the coast of Chios behind them.
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51 119 I guessed that there might be two hundred and fifty to three hundred men in the water, as the corsair ships were crowded with evacuated mercenaries.
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51 139 "Do you think the corsair captains are aware of this?" I asked.
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51 143 One of the four lifeboats had now reached the wreckage of the first corsair vessel.
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51 159 It turned about and, the mercenaries with spears continuing to fend off desperate swimmers, began to make its way back toward the two unharmed corsair ships, waiting closer to shore.
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51 167 "Many," I said, "despairing of rescue, swim for the corsair ships, the shore".
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51 177 "Those on the corsair ships can see.
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51 179 Hardly had Sakim said this than the oar drums on the corsair ships began to sound, the reverberations carrying over the water.
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51 188 We could still hear the oar drums of the corsair ships carrying over the water.
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51 190 "The corsair ships would pursue us, but presumably under sail," said Sakim.
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51 208 "It may have already led the balance of the corsair fleet, four ships, to the Dorna," I said.
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52 57 "Dear Captain," I said, "I had hoped, mast high, posing as a tempting prey, to draw the corsair fleet away from you.
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52 63 "Four ships of the corsair fleet followed you," said Sakim.
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52 83 "Four corsair ships followed me," said Tab, "even in darkness, unerringly.
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52 91 "Why would it leave the corsair ships?" asked Tab.
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52 124 The raised mast of the first ship, which doubtless had the Admiral of the corsair fleet on board, had signaled the readiness for action.
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53 95 In this way I hoped to shield her from the two corsair vessels to port and the three to starboard.
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53 105 "We would be intercepted by the two corsair ships to port, and possibly the Brigand Island.
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53 106 Then, engaged, we would be at the mercy, as well, of the three corsair vessels in our wake".
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53 108 "The three corsair vessels to starboard are, for the moment, inert," I said.
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53 125 "Why are the corsair ships waiting?" asked Sakim.
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53 209 "At the first sign of hostility we shall cast it into the sea!" There seemed some confusion on the stem deck of the nearest vessel, which I took, mistakenly, as it turned out, to be the flagship of the corsair fleet.
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53 218 Was he not a familiar of Archelaos, governor of Thera? Would he not be the plausible commander of the corsair fleet? "Laios?" I asked.
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53 223 Thus I conjecture that the ship sunk by the hith, the sinking of which Ctesippus survived, was the designated flagship of the corsair fleet".
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53 241 We watched a longboat enter the water and begin to make its way back between enemy vessels to the farthest ship back, the presumed flagship of the corsair fleet.
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55 10 "The corsair ships will not feed it," said Clitus.
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55 68 "That ship," I said, "will be the ears and eyes of the corsair fleet.
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56 51 Then it returned to the water, falling, like a mountain, and the residue of this great splash descended like rain on the Dorna and Tesephone, and the closest of the five corsair ships.
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56 69 "The corsair ship is back-oaring," said Thurnock.
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56 105 Once more, the enormous living weight of the Brigand Island exploded up from the sea and then, from some sixty to eighty yards above the surface, plunging downward, it fell athwart the retreating corsair ship, snapping it in two.
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56 107 Sakim disengaged a glass of the Builders from his belt and trained it on the divided sinking corsair ship.
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56 123 "The island gone, the corsair fleet will set itself to rescue survivors," said Clitus.
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57 3 Following the sinking of the forward ship, or observation ship, by the maddened living island, which we commonly spoke of as the "Brigand Island," the corsair fleet was reduced to four vessels, two of which were now drawing close, one to attempt drawing alongside the port side of the D...
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57 19 On the other side of our small 'fort in the sea', Tab and the crew of the Dorna were similarly observing the approach of a corsair ship and readying themselves for action.
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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.
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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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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.
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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...
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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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57 39 On the corsair ship, several who held the casting ropes hurled them down.
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57 43 As much as seven or eight men would drag on each grapnel rope, to pull the corsair ship and the Tesephone together.
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57 48 Some swam desperately to make their way to and about the prow or stern of the corsair vessel.
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57 56 "Pull," I heard from the corsair vessel, and then, again, "Pull!" The two hulls, rocking in the sea, approached one another, more and more closely.
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57 58 Then, suddenly, there was a splintering of wood in several locations and the grapnels leaped backward with force, several even striking the corsair ship itself, others disappearing between the hulls, splashing into the water.
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57 59 Simultaneously, strings of men who, behind shields, were hauling on the grapnel ropes, lost their balance and spilled backward onto the deck of the corsair.
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57 63 "Archers, shields!" blared a hand-held speaking tube on the corsair ship.
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57 73 The other corsair ship, that addressing itself to the port side of the Dorna, had, despite the general neutralization of grapnels, grated alongside her, and, in the moment, was held in place by the sea.
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57 74 Mercenaries were trying to clamber over the corsair ship's railings, to force themselves to the muchly leveled deck of the Dorna.
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57 116 Almost at the same time dozens of mercenaries, unopposed, uttering war cries, leapt over the rail of the corsair ship on our starboard side, and landed on the smooth, glistening deck, only to cry out in dismay and alarm, as they slipped, skidded, and lost their footing.
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57 118 Other mercenaries, dozens on the corsair ship, milled behind its railing, unwilling to follow their fellows, much aware of the hazard of placing themselves on so treacherous a surface.
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57 119 Without grappling holding the ships together it was difficult for the corsair ship, given the sea, to retain its position, and soon, pitching and rocking, it was no longer at the side of the Tesephone but lay abeam of her by some seven or eight feet.
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57 135 The corsair ship was maneuvering to come alongside once more.
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57 159 The helmsmen of the corsair ship were skilled.
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57 160 In a moment the length of the corsair ship, oars swiftly brought inboard, the vessel then obedient to inertia, would slide parallel to the starboard side of the Tesephone.
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57 162 I heard two more screams, both of which were suddenly stifled or cut short, as the corsair ship slid along our hull, scoring planking.
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57 164 Too, I did not think the corsair could hold its current position for more than a few Ihn at a time.
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57 166 The two ships, the corsair ship and the Tesephone, were literally against one another only briefly, but the gap between them, ranging from a few inches to a yard, held for almost an Ehn; then it widened to four to five feet, and then, once more, was such that it could be easily bridged...
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57 181 What I had not anticipated was the alarm amongst the officers and seamen of the corsair ship.
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57 183 Some thought that our ship was genuinely afire, either by accident or that we had deliberately fired the ship, certain that all was lost, to immolate our vessel and the corsair ship in a common conflagration.
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57 189 "Oars out, thrust away!" I heard from the corsair vessel.
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57 190 Oars from the corsair ship thrust out, striking our hull, trying to move their ship from our proximity.
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57 193 Others threw away their shields and weapons and leapt from the Tesephone to the water now separating us from the corsair ship.
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57 194 Ropes were cast down from the corsair ship, which were grasped by struggling men.
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57 216 "Those on the corsair ship will not be pleased," said Clitus.
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57 218 We watched the corsair ship take aboard her mercenaries, one by one.
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58 203 "Where he might encounter the corsair fleet," I said.
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58 210 "I hoped Nicomachos would return sooner from his patrol and encounter the corsair fleet at Mytilene," I said.
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58 211 "The other corsair ships withdraw," said Clitus.
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58 217 "You learned in Sybaris that the corsair fleet would attack Mytilene, naturally enough to seize the wealth accrued from the fair," said Sakim.
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58 225 Nicomachos, on the other hand, would understand the true import of the message, which was to deliver to him the location of the corsair fleet".
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58 227 "Presumably arriving after the destruction of Mytilene and the withdrawal of the corsair fleet," I said.
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59 35 Further, the position of the Theran fleet cut the corsair fleet off from its base in Sybaris, and the width of its line prevented an escape to the side.
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59 36 The corsair fleet then, fleeing toward Chios, had either been caught near Chios or had tried to land on Chios and, encountering the hostile, armed Peasantry on the beaches, fresh from Mytilene and its vicinity, had put once more to sea, where it eventually fell to the pursuing Theran f...
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59 394 "How came it about," I asked, "that Nicomachos, Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, encountered the corsair fleet near Mytilene on Chios?" "I do not know," he said.
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60 201 "I did not think that the commanding officer of the corsair fleet would be," I said.
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62 77 "Who," asked Archelaos, "sped the coordinates of the corsair fleet to Nicomachos? Who led him at just the right moment to the waters of Mytilene?" "Do you not conjecture implausibly, recklessly?" I asked.
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