Book 27. (1 results) Prize of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 19 | 468 | This is the strongest of grips, for View more quotes about otherwise">otherwise hands may be pulled apart. |
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Book 27. (7 results) Prize of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 19 | 465 | "No," said Arconious. |
| 19 | 466 | "I wish you well," said Portus. |
| 19 | 467 | He extended his hand and the two men clasped wrists, each the wrist of the other. |
| 19 | 468 | This is the strongest of grips, for otherwise hands may be pulled apart. |
| 19 | 469 | In this fashion each has his own grip, and if one hand should slip, the other will hold. |
| 19 | 470 | It is a grip common to mariners, it seems, and may have been derived from maritime practice. |
| 19 | 471 | It is useful, it seems, in their dangerous work, where a lost grip might be the prelude to catastrophe, a fall from a yard, a plunge into cold, stormy seas. |
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"No," said Arconious.
"I wish you well," said Portus.
He extended his hand and the two men clasped wrists, each the wrist of the other.
This is the strongest of grips, for otherwise hands may be pulled apart.
In this fashion each has his own grip, and if one hand should slip, the other will hold.
It is a grip common to mariners, it seems, and may have been derived from maritime practice.
It is useful, it seems, in their dangerous work, where a lost grip might be the prelude to catastrophe, a fall from a yard, a plunge into cold, stormy seas.
- (Prize of Gor)