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| 53 | 140 | "The Tesephone, in View more quotes about free">free water, is like a flighted javelin". |
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| 53 | 137 | "It would be easy for them, given our handicap," he said, "to ram us abeam, or at stem or stern, or to shear away oars". |
| 53 | 138 | "At the possible loss of one or two of their vessels?" I said. |
| 53 | 139 | "Possibly one, it seems clear," said Sakim. |
| 53 | 140 | "The Tesephone, in free water, is like a flighted javelin". |
| 53 | 141 | "And in this very act, that of making our strike, we would presumably be rammed by one or two other ships," I said. |
| 53 | 142 | "Presumably," he said. |
| 53 | 143 | "But in such an action at least two ships would be lost," I said, "the Tesephone and at least one of theirs". |