Book 15. (1 results) Rogue of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 33 | 121 | It represented an engineering feat of no View more quotes about mean">mean proportions. |
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Book 15. (7 results) Rogue of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 33 | 118 | "The chain does seem fearfully strong," I said. |
| 33 | 119 | Neither Callimachus nor myself had seen the chain until we had come westward. |
| 33 | 120 | We had been unprepared for its impressiveness. |
| 33 | 121 | It represented an engineering feat of no mean proportions. |
| 33 | 122 | Although we retained our theoretical reservations about its effectiveness, these reservations, in the very presence of the chain, seemed, to my relief, less alarming, and more tenuous and abstract, than they had in the urgent discussions which had taken place in the tavern of Tasdron. |
| 33 | 123 | It was easy to understand, now, why those who had seen the chain tended to be more confident of its effectiveness than those who had not. |
| 33 | 124 | I listened to the creaking of the mighty links, and to the water lapping at the sides of our galley, and to the occasional cries of Vosk gulls. |
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"The chain does seem fearfully strong," I said.
Neither Callimachus nor myself had seen the chain until we had come westward.
We had been unprepared for its impressiveness.
It represented an engineering feat of no mean proportions.
Although we retained our theoretical reservations about its effectiveness, these reservations, in the very presence of the chain, seemed, to my relief, less alarming, and more tenuous and abstract, than they had in the urgent discussions which had taken place in the tavern of Tasdron.
It was easy to understand, now, why those who had seen the chain tended to be more confident of its effectiveness than those who had not.
I listened to the creaking of the mighty links, and to the water lapping at the sides of our galley, and to the occasional cries of Vosk gulls.
- (Rogue of Gor)