Book 16. (1 results) Guardsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 5 | 197 | I saw grappling irons, on their View more quotes about lines">lines, hurled over the bulwarks of the Portia. |
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Book 16. (7 results) Guardsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 5 | 194 | Still by these chains, of course, the platforms with their planked constructions, were held to the ship's masts. |
| 5 | 195 | I saw the rollers then locked in position. |
| 5 | 196 | Pirates crowded to the rails of their ships. |
| 5 | 197 | I saw grappling irons, on their lines, hurled over the bulwarks of the Portia. |
| 5 | 198 | But almost at the same time the planked constructions, on their platforms, were pulled downward by ropes. |
| 5 | 199 | These constructions, some twenty-five feet in length, and some seven feet in width, as the pirates scattered back in their path, crashed downward, their great bent spikes shattering into the decking of the pirate ships, anchoring the ships together, yet holding them some seven or eight feet apart. |
| 5 | 200 | At the same time battle horns of Ar sounded from the galley and hatches were thrown open. |
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Still by these chains, of course, the platforms with their planked constructions, were held to the ship's masts.
I saw the rollers then locked in position.
Pirates crowded to the rails of their ships.
I saw grappling irons, on their lines, hurled over the bulwarks of the Portia.
But almost at the same time the planked constructions, on their platforms, were pulled downward by ropes.
These constructions, some twenty-five feet in length, and some seven feet in width, as the pirates scattered back in their path, crashed downward, their great bent spikes shattering into the decking of the pirate ships, anchoring the ships together, yet holding them some seven or eight feet apart.
At the same time battle horns of Ar sounded from the galley and hatches were thrown open.
- (Guardsman of Gor)