Book 16. (1 results) Guardsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 4 | 75 | View more quotes about almost">Almost instantaneously the galley, responsive at that speed to the slightest rudder pressure, veered a point to her starboard. |
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Book 16. (7 results) Guardsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 4 | 72 | The strike, should it occur, I feared would snap our keel. |
| 4 | 73 | To our port side, gunnels almost touching, lay the Mira, our sister ship, from Victoria. |
| 4 | 74 | I saw, some hundred yards away, on the stem castle of the speeding galley, her captain move his arm. |
| 4 | 75 | Almost instantaneously the galley, responsive at that speed to the slightest rudder pressure, veered a point to her starboard. |
| 4 | 76 | It was her intention not to be stopped at the Tina but to shatter between us and the Mira, opening the line. |
| 4 | 77 | At her stern quarters, like running, heeling sleen, were two other galleys, to exploit the opening the point must make. |
| 4 | 78 | Fanning out, too, behind the supporting galleys, were others. |
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The strike, should it occur, I feared would snap our keel.
To our port side, gunnels almost touching, lay the Mira, our sister ship, from Victoria.
I saw, some hundred yards away, on the stem castle of the speeding galley, her captain move his arm.
Almost instantaneously the galley, responsive at that speed to the slightest rudder pressure, veered a point to her starboard.
It was her intention not to be stopped at the Tina but to shatter between us and the Mira, opening the line.
At her stern quarters, like running, heeling sleen, were two other galleys, to exploit the opening the point must make.
Fanning out, too, behind the supporting galleys, were others.
- (Guardsman of Gor)