Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 40 | 10 | The passage of the View more quotes about great">great ship had not been arrested. |
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 40 | 7 | On both banks there were marshaled infantries, ranks upon ranks, prepared to do war. |
| 40 | 8 | Many in the farther ranks broke ranks, to press forward, to witness so unaccountable a sight, as though a city might be afloat. |
| 40 | 9 | Hundreds of men waded into the river, wondering, some pressed by those behind them. |
| 40 | 10 | The passage of the great ship had not been arrested. |
| 40 | 11 | There would be no boarding, no escaping of hundreds of men from a grounded, caught, foundering, sinking, burning ship, men to be cut down as they tried to elude the small boats and clamber to shore. |
| 40 | 12 | And so the infantries stood to the side, on each bank, many men to their waist in the river, astonished, wondering, in the cold water. |
| 40 | 13 | And I think none then expected to raise their shields, to put their blades and spears that day to battle. |
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On both banks there were marshaled infantries, ranks upon ranks, prepared to do war.
Many in the farther ranks broke ranks, to press forward, to witness so unaccountable a sight, as though a city might be afloat.
Hundreds of men waded into the river, wondering, some pressed by those behind them.
The passage of the great ship had not been arrested.
There would be no boarding, no escaping of hundreds of men from a grounded, caught, foundering, sinking, burning ship, men to be cut down as they tried to elude the small boats and clamber to shore.
And so the infantries stood to the side, on each bank, many men to their waist in the river, astonished, wondering, in the cold water.
And I think none then expected to raise their shields, to put their blades and spears that day to battle.
- (Swordsmen of Gor)