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When I saw the tarn ship ahead, its captain doubtless confident of his speeds and distances, lift her oars, preparing to come about, I called to the oar-master, "Now!" Without the loss of a stroke he, at the center of the rowing frame, began to call maximum beat, "Stroke! Stroke! Stroke!" The Dorna, stern low, ram almost lifted from the water, leapt ahead, as beautiful, as eager and vicious as an unleashed sleen. - (Raiders of Gor, Chapter 14, Sentence #210)

He would be assuming, of course, that I, in pursuing him, was at maximum beat, as he was. I had held my beat to half of maximum. My oar-master had been calling the beat, this time, by mouth from the center of the rowing frame. When I saw the tarn ship ahead, its captain doubtless confident of his speeds and distances, lift her oars, preparing to come about, I called to the oar-master, "Now!" Without the loss of a stroke he, at the center of the rowing frame, began to call maximum beat, "Stroke! Stroke! Stroke!" The Dorna, stern low, ram almost lifted from the water, leapt ahead, as beautiful, as eager and vicious as an unleashed sleen. We took the fourth ship amidships, as we had the third. Angrily the Dorna shook herself loose. Then, in an Ehn, we were in pursuit of the last ship. - (Raiders of Gor)