Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 37 | 58 | But she needed not View more quotes about half">half the length. |
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 37 | 55 | Few, I supposed, understood why shipwrights seized one another, cried out, and threw their brimless caps into the air. |
| 37 | 56 | An extra tenth of a pasang had been allotted for the turn, in building her wharfage downstream. |
| 37 | 57 | Given the absence of empirical precedents it had not been clear how responsive she would be to the helm. |
| 37 | 58 | But she needed not half the length. |
| 37 | 59 | To be sure, she had not yet nested her galleys, taken on her crew, her supplies, all that she might care to contain. |
| 37 | 60 | In the vicinity of the camp, as she was under construction, the river had been deepened, to accommodate her keel near shore. |
| 37 | 61 | Soundings had been taken, months ago, before construction had begun, to determine that the Alexandra would be navigable, as charts claimed, to Thassa herself. |
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Few, I supposed, understood why shipwrights seized one another, cried out, and threw their brimless caps into the air.
An extra tenth of a pasang had been allotted for the turn, in building her wharfage downstream.
Given the absence of empirical precedents it had not been clear how responsive she would be to the helm.
But she needed not half the length.
To be sure, she had not yet nested her galleys, taken on her crew, her supplies, all that she might care to contain.
In the vicinity of the camp, as she was under construction, the river had been deepened, to accommodate her keel near shore.
Soundings had been taken, months ago, before construction had begun, to determine that the Alexandra would be navigable, as charts claimed, to Thassa herself.
- (Swordsmen of Gor)