Book 16. (1 results) Guardsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 4 | 151 | The lead View more quotes about ship">ship of the wedge was trying to come about, swinging to starboard. |
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Book 16. (7 results) Guardsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 4 | 148 | "No!" I cried laughing. |
| 4 | 149 | "No! Look! It is the flank of the Voskjard which is now unguarded!" The Tais and her swift, lean sisters, emerging unexpectedly, circling, from behind our lines, stern quarters low in the water, rams half lifted from the water, wet and glistening in the sun, at full stroke, oars beating, drums pounding, like loosened weapons, sped toward the wedge. |
| 4 | 150 | Our oarsmen stood on their benches cheering. |
| 4 | 151 | The lead ship of the wedge was trying to come about, swinging to starboard. |
| 4 | 152 | Her immediate support ship, fifty yards astern, could not check her flight. |
| 4 | 153 | Her ram took the lead ship in the stern, tearing away wood and breaking loose the starboard rudder. |
| 4 | 154 | Almost at the same time the seven ships of Port Cos, fanning out, each choosing an undefended hull, exposed, helpless before the hurtling strike of the ram's brutal spike, to the tearing of wood, the rushing of water, the screaming of men, made contact with the enemy. |
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"No!" I cried laughing.
"No! Look! It is the flank of the Voskjard which is now unguarded!" The Tais and her swift, lean sisters, emerging unexpectedly, circling, from behind our lines, stern quarters low in the water, rams half lifted from the water, wet and glistening in the sun, at full stroke, oars beating, drums pounding, like loosened weapons, sped toward the wedge.
Our oarsmen stood on their benches cheering.
The lead ship of the wedge was trying to come about, swinging to starboard.
Her immediate support ship, fifty yards astern, could not check her flight.
Her ram took the lead ship in the stern, tearing away wood and breaking loose the starboard rudder.
Almost at the same time the seven ships of Port Cos, fanning out, each choosing an undefended hull, exposed, helpless before the hurtling strike of the ram's brutal spike, to the tearing of wood, the rushing of water, the screaming of men, made contact with the enemy.
- (Guardsman of Gor)