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| 13 | 428 | Obediently the View more quotes about oars">oars slid outboard, and suddenly, all along the starboard side there was a great grinding, and the slaves screamed, and there was a sudden ripping of planks and a great snapping and splintering of wood, the sounds magnified, thunderous and deafening, within the wooden hold. |
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| 13 | 425 | "Oars inboard!" cried the oar-master, instinctively. |
| 13 | 426 | The oars slid inboard. |
| 13 | 427 | "Oars outboard!" I commanded. |
| 13 | 428 | Obediently the oars slid outboard, and suddenly, all along the starboard side there was a great grinding, and the slaves screamed, and there was a sudden ripping of planks and a great snapping and splintering of wood, the sounds magnified, thunderous and deafening, within the wooden hold. |
| 13 | 429 | Some of the oars were torn from the thole ports. |
| 13 | 430 | Others were snapped off or half broken, the inboard portions of their shafts, with their looms, snapping in a stemward arc, knocking slaves from the benches, cracking against the interior of the hull planking. |
| 13 | 431 | I heard some men cry out in pain, ribs or arms broken. |