Book 6. (1 results) Raiders of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 13 | 387 | Then the strokes of the drum were no longer coordinated with the View more quotes about oars">oars. |
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Book 6. (7 results) Raiders of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 13 | 384 | Maximum beat. |
| 13 | 385 | But, in less than an Ehn, one man failed to maintain it, and then two, and the oars began to foul. |
| 13 | 386 | Relentlessly though the keleustes, under his orders, pounded the great drum. |
| 13 | 387 | Then the strokes of the drum were no longer coordinated with the oars. |
| 13 | 388 | The men, many of them, could no longer maintain the beat of the keleustes, and they had no guide for a stroke they could draw. |
| 13 | 389 | The oar-master, his face bloody, climbed to his feet. |
| 13 | 390 | "Up oars!" he cried. |
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Maximum beat.
But, in less than an Ehn, one man failed to maintain it, and then two, and the oars began to foul.
Relentlessly though the keleustes, under his orders, pounded the great drum.
Then the strokes of the drum were no longer coordinated with the oars.
The men, many of them, could no longer maintain the beat of the keleustes, and they had no guide for a stroke they could draw.
The oar-master, his face bloody, climbed to his feet.
"Up oars!" he cried.
- (Raiders of Gor)