Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 19 | 214 | It is well then to View more quotes about hold">hold back, until one is sure, until matters are clear, at least to the glass. |
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Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 19 | 211 | Thousands of times I, and others, had done so. |
| 19 | 212 | How eager we were to see tiny irregularities in the distance, initially almost undiscernible, perhaps tiny, beckoning flecks of green or brown. |
| 19 | 213 | Sometimes, interestingly, particularly after long at sea, one sees such things when they are not there. |
| 19 | 214 | It is well then to hold back, until one is sure, until matters are clear, at least to the glass. |
| 19 | 215 | More than one watch had been flogged for crying out the sight of land, stirring crews, rousing jubilation, where there was no land. |
| 19 | 216 | It suddenly occurred to me that we must be at least two or three days from land, else the tarns, the concealment of whose existence seemed a matter of such moment to Lords Nishida and Okimoto, would remain concealed. |
| 19 | 217 | To be sure, perhaps we were months from land. |
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Thousands of times I, and others, had done so.
How eager we were to see tiny irregularities in the distance, initially almost undiscernible, perhaps tiny, beckoning flecks of green or brown.
Sometimes, interestingly, particularly after long at sea, one sees such things when they are not there.
It is well then to hold back, until one is sure, until matters are clear, at least to the glass.
More than one watch had been flogged for crying out the sight of land, stirring crews, rousing jubilation, where there was no land.
It suddenly occurred to me that we must be at least two or three days from land, else the tarns, the concealment of whose existence seemed a matter of such moment to Lords Nishida and Okimoto, would remain concealed.
To be sure, perhaps we were months from land.
- (Mariners of Gor)