Book 16. (1 results) Guardsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 5 | 141 | It View more quotes about seemed">seemed to me not unlikely that others of her galleys, as well, might by now have met a similar fate. |
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Book 16. (7 results) Guardsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 5 | 138 | It is a ship of the Voskjard! It has been taken as a prize!" "How could that be?" asked a man. |
| 5 | 139 | "Ar's Station is unskilled upon the river. |
| 5 | 140 | Their ships are undermanned!" To be sure we had noted, earlier, the wreckage of at least four of the ships of Ar's Station, including two of her heavy-class galleys, the Tullia and the Publia. |
| 5 | 141 | It seemed to me not unlikely that others of her galleys, as well, might by now have met a similar fate. |
| 5 | 142 | It was not clear to me why Ar's Station had resorted to such vessels as she had. |
| 5 | 143 | They were too squat and sluggish; their holds were too large; their lines were clumsy; they were too slow, too unresponsive to their helms; they seemed little other than fat merchantmen, fit less for war than for the placid transportation of weighty cargoes. |
| 5 | 144 | Did Ar's Station truly think to match such swollen, ponderous freighters against the swift, sleek menace of the Voskjard's warships? And to aggravate the situation the ships of Ar's Station seemed undermanned. |
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It is a ship of the Voskjard! It has been taken as a prize!" "How could that be?" asked a man.
"Ar's Station is unskilled upon the river.
Their ships are undermanned!" To be sure we had noted, earlier, the wreckage of at least four of the ships of Ar's Station, including two of her heavy-class galleys, the Tullia and the Publia.
It seemed to me not unlikely that others of her galleys, as well, might by now have met a similar fate.
It was not clear to me why Ar's Station had resorted to such vessels as she had.
They were too squat and sluggish; their holds were too large; their lines were clumsy; they were too slow, too unresponsive to their helms; they seemed little other than fat merchantmen, fit less for war than for the placid transportation of weighty cargoes.
Did Ar's Station truly think to match such swollen, ponderous freighters against the swift, sleek menace of the Voskjard's warships? And to aggravate the situation the ships of Ar's Station seemed undermanned.
- (Guardsman of Gor)