Book 23. (1 results) Renegades of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 16 | 36 | This View more quotes about makes">makes it hard to cut them free. |
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Book 23. (7 results) Renegades of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 16 | 33 | It was drawn forward and one of the hooks caught and the rope sprang taut. |
| 16 | 34 | Such things are generally not much good in this form of fighting except for secret ascents, say, at night, when they are not noticed, or there are too many of them to deal with. |
| 16 | 35 | They are much more useful, in my opinion, at sea, as in, say, drawing ships within boarding distance of one another, the ropes then usually being attached to chains some ten feet or so behind the hooks. |
| 16 | 36 | This makes it hard to cut them free. |
| 16 | 37 | Boarding hooks, on poles, are often used, too, for such purposes, when one can get close enough. |
| 16 | 38 | These are sometimes sheathed with tin near the points, again to make it harder to cut or chop them away. |
| 16 | 39 | Pikes for repelling boarders, it might be noted, are often greased near the blade end. |
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It was drawn forward and one of the hooks caught and the rope sprang taut.
Such things are generally not much good in this form of fighting except for secret ascents, say, at night, when they are not noticed, or there are too many of them to deal with.
They are much more useful, in my opinion, at sea, as in, say, drawing ships within boarding distance of one another, the ropes then usually being attached to chains some ten feet or so behind the hooks.
This makes it hard to cut them free.
Boarding hooks, on poles, are often used, too, for such purposes, when one can get close enough.
These are sometimes sheathed with tin near the points, again to make it harder to cut or chop them away.
Pikes for repelling boarders, it might be noted, are often greased near the blade end.
- (Renegades of Gor)