Book 6. (1 results) Raiders of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 9 | 152 | Only Cos and Tyros had fleets to View more quotes about match">match those of Port Kar. |
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Book 6. (7 results) Raiders of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 9 | 149 | They usually possessed no vessels more noteworthy than clinker-built skiffs and coasters. |
| 9 | 150 | The girl in the sand, the dancing girl, was now performing the Belt Dance. |
| 9 | 151 | I had seen it done once before, in Ar, in the house of Cernus, a slaver. |
| 9 | 152 | Only Cos and Tyros had fleets to match those of Port Kar. |
| 9 | 153 | And they, almost of tradition, did not care to engage their fleets with hers. |
| 9 | 154 | Doubtless all sides, including Port Kar, regarded the risks as too great; doubtless all sides, including Port Kar, were content with the stable, often profitable, situation of constant but small-scale warfare, interspersed with some trading and smuggling, which had for so long characterized their relations. |
| 9 | 155 | Raids of one upon the other, involving a few dozen ships, were not infrequent, whether on the shipping of Port Kar, or beaching on Cos or Tyros, but major actions, those which might involve the hundreds of galleys possessed by these redoubtable maritime powers, the two island Ubarates and Port Kar, had not taken place in more than a century. |
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They usually possessed no vessels more noteworthy than clinker-built skiffs and coasters.
The girl in the sand, the dancing girl, was now performing the Belt Dance.
I had seen it done once before, in Ar, in the house of Cernus, a slaver.
Only Cos and Tyros had fleets to match those of Port Kar.
And they, almost of tradition, did not care to engage their fleets with hers.
Doubtless all sides, including Port Kar, regarded the risks as too great; doubtless all sides, including Port Kar, were content with the stable, often profitable, situation of constant but small-scale warfare, interspersed with some trading and smuggling, which had for so long characterized their relations.
Raids of one upon the other, involving a few dozen ships, were not infrequent, whether on the shipping of Port Kar, or beaching on Cos or Tyros, but major actions, those which might involve the hundreds of galleys possessed by these redoubtable maritime powers, the two island Ubarates and Port Kar, had not taken place in more than a century.
- (Raiders of Gor)