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| 13 | 289 | He would View more quotes about mark">mark the rowing stroke with blows of wooden, leather-cushioned mallets on the head of a huge copper-covered drum. |
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| 13 | 286 | "The lot of a slave is indeed miserable," I lamented. |
| 13 | 287 | He turned the key in the locks and, laughing, turned about and went to his seat, facing us, in the stern of the rowing hold. |
| 13 | 288 | Before him, since this was a large ship, there sat a keleustes, a strong man, a time-beater, with leather-wrapped wrists. |
| 13 | 289 | He would mark the rowing stroke with blows of wooden, leather-cushioned mallets on the head of a huge copper-covered drum. |
| 13 | 290 | "Out oars!" called the oar-master. |
| 13 | 291 | I, with the others, slid my oar outboard. |
| 13 | 292 | Above us, on the upper deck, I could hear the cries of the seamen, casting off mooring lines, shoving away from the dock with the traditional three long poles. |