Book 6. (1 results) Raiders of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 7 | 62 | I noted that they were no more than a View more quotes about foot">foot above the water, so heavily laden was the barge. |
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Book 6. (7 results) Raiders of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 7 | 59 | The officer on the tiller deck, Henrak at his side, let fall his hand. |
| 7 | 60 | I heard the oar-master cry out and I saw the oars, with a sliding of wood, emerge from the thole ports. |
| 7 | 61 | They stood poised, parallel, over the water, the early-morning sun illuminating their upper surfaces. |
| 7 | 62 | I noted that they were no more than a foot above the water, so heavily laden was the barge. |
| 7 | 63 | Then, as the oar-master again cried out, they entered as one into the water; and then, as he cried out again, each oar drew slowly in the water, and then turned and lifted, the water falling in the light from the blades like silver chains. |
| 7 | 64 | The barge, deep in the water, began to back away from the island. |
| 7 | 65 | Then, some fifty yards away, it turned slowly, prow now facing away from the island, toward Port Kar. |
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The officer on the tiller deck, Henrak at his side, let fall his hand.
I heard the oar-master cry out and I saw the oars, with a sliding of wood, emerge from the thole ports.
They stood poised, parallel, over the water, the early-morning sun illuminating their upper surfaces.
I noted that they were no more than a foot above the water, so heavily laden was the barge.
Then, as the oar-master again cried out, they entered as one into the water; and then, as he cried out again, each oar drew slowly in the water, and then turned and lifted, the water falling in the light from the blades like silver chains.
The barge, deep in the water, began to back away from the island.
Then, some fifty yards away, it turned slowly, prow now facing away from the island, toward Port Kar.
- (Raiders of Gor)