Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 12 | 26 | It is View more quotes about different">different, of course, if one is in dangerous waters, fears an attack, or such. |
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Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 12 | 23 | The platform and ring, and each mast had such an arrangement, are near the summit of the mast, and encircle it, allowing the lookout to move about the mast. |
| 12 | 24 | In this fashion, if it desired, there may be more than one lookout on each platform, within each ring. |
| 12 | 25 | To be sure, usually only one ring and platform was manned, and that by a single lookout, commonly, as tonight, that of the foremast. |
| 12 | 26 | It is different, of course, if one is in dangerous waters, fears an attack, or such. |
| 12 | 27 | I clung to the ring, which was cold, and wet, that I might be steadied. |
| 12 | 28 | The motion of the ship, whether its side to side rolling, or yaw, or its plunging, the lifting and falling of the bow, its pitch, is exaggerated at the height of the mast. |
| 12 | 29 | It takes time for one of the land, say, an infantryman like myself, to accustom himself to the sea, but I had managed this well enough, quickly enough, after two or three days in the Metioche, but this had little prepared me for the high watch here, with the distance and violence of the mast's motion. |
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The platform and ring, and each mast had such an arrangement, are near the summit of the mast, and encircle it, allowing the lookout to move about the mast.
In this fashion, if it desired, there may be more than one lookout on each platform, within each ring.
To be sure, usually only one ring and platform was manned, and that by a single lookout, commonly, as tonight, that of the foremast.
It is different, of course, if one is in dangerous waters, fears an attack, or such.
I clung to the ring, which was cold, and wet, that I might be steadied.
The motion of the ship, whether its side to side rolling, or yaw, or its plunging, the lifting and falling of the bow, its pitch, is exaggerated at the height of the mast.
It takes time for one of the land, say, an infantryman like myself, to accustom himself to the sea, but I had managed this well enough, quickly enough, after two or three days in the Metioche, but this had little prepared me for the high watch here, with the distance and violence of the mast's motion.
- (Mariners of Gor)