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Tesephone

Book 8. (121 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	191	It was the ship from Tyros which had been moored near the Tesephone in Lydius, the same which had cast off, following the departure of the Tesephone from Lydius.	10
11	961	And I recalled her in the hold of the Tesephone, and later, in the camp, in my shelter beside the Tesephone, that hot night, and the sweet day that had followed.	10
2	61	This galley, one of my swiftest, the Tesephone of Port Kar, had forty oars, twenty to a side.	10
2	81	The Tesephone, like almost all galleys, is ballasted with sand, kept in the lower hold.	10
2	95	The wooden tarn head, surmounting the prow of the Tesephone, with its large, carved, painted eyes, turned slowly toward the beach.	10
2	113	The Tesephone hesitated, backed a foot, and then, gently, rocked.	10
2	118	The Tesephone rested.	10
2	276	Rim, followed by Cara and myself, began to walk back down the beach, toward the Tesephone.	10
2	290	Cara turned, stumbling in the sand, weeping, and waded to the Tesephone.	10
2	293	Rim and I entered the water, and began to wade toward the Tesephone.	10
2	418	"Panther girls," she hissed, "do not make slaves!" It did not seem opportune to mention to Sheera that, aboard the Tesephone, nude, chained in the first hold, in gags and slave hoods, were two panther girls.	10
2	457	I expected however, under interrogation, to be able to obtain it from the helpless girls, at my mercy, on the Tesephone.	10
2	482	The nude male wretches were, by men from the Tesephone, cut down.	10
2	505	Soon the two seamen, with their black, bending temwood poles, were thrusting the Tesephone backward, into the deeper waters.	10
2	522	"Half beat! Stroke!" As one, the oars dipped cleanly into the water, and drew against gleaming Thassa, and the Tesephone, lightly, began to turn in the water, her prow seeking the south, and Lydius.	10
2	541	The Tesephone carried four sails, one sail of the first type; two of the second, and one of the third.	10
2	542	Her sails were, first, the fair-weather sail, which is quite large, and is used in gentle winds; secondly, the tarn sail, which is the common sail most often found on the yard of a tarn ship, and taking its name from the ship; third, a sail of the same type as the tarn sail, and, in a sense, a small...	10
2	689	Had they been able to see, they would have seen men returning to the Tesephone, with water kegs, and Thurnock and Rim returning, too, Thurnock carrying an object on his back, bulky but apparently not particularly heavy.	10
2	710	Their catch, returned to the Tesephone, in a cage, covered with canvas, carried on the back of Thurnock, had been six, rather large forest urts, about the size of tiny dogs.	10
3	18	We had taken the Tesephone to mooring at a public dock.	10
3	37	That the Tesephone, a ram-ship, was engaging in commerce was unusual, but not particularly so, especially considering the cargo we were putatively interested in carrying.	10
3	40	He did not even demand the proof of registration of the Tesephone in Tabor.	10
3	92	In the hold of the Tesephone, they had learned that they were female.	10
3	426	Then she was led away to her chains on the Tesephone.	10
4	417	I recalled the slender, beautiful Cara, on the Tesephone, Rim's slave, clad in the brief slave tunic of white wool, her hair bound back with the woolen fillet.	10
5	1	We Enter Upon the River It was now four days following my arrival, the master of the Tesephone, in the harbor of Lydius, near the mouth of the broad, winding Laurius River.	10
5	53	Cara now, cleaned, climbed the gangplank and boarded the Tesephone.	10
5	73	When she was off the wharf to which the Tesephone was moored, I saw her cast a look over her shoulder, and begin to run between the bales and boxes near the warehouses.	10
5	76	From the Tesephone I watched.	10
5	88	She was escorted by the dock workers to the very foot of the gangplank of the Tesephone.	10
5	158	The Tesephone, of course, being a light ship, an oared ship, a shallow-drafted ship, is commonly very little dependent on the tide.	10
5	337	When we reached the Tesephone, less than a hundred yards from the slave market, the tide was at a knife's edge of its crest.	10
5	361	Several had paused in their work, to watch the Tesephone moving away from the wharf.	10
5	363	The bow of the Tesephone swung upriver.	10
5	369	Stroke!" The Tesephone began to move upriver.	10
6	16	The Tesephone continued to move slowly upriver, between the banks of the Laurius, the fields to the south, the forests to the north.	10
6	21	Following in the wake of the Tesephone, to pick up litter or garbage thrown overboard, were two long-bodied river sharks, their bodies sinuous in the half-clear water, about a foot below the surface.	10
6	193	Twice in the Tesephone's own journey upriver, even with her shallow draft, we had gently ran aground and must needs use the poles to free ourselves.	10
6	325	We had taken the Tesephone from the wharves of Laura, and ascended the river some twenty pasangs.	10
6	328	The Rhoda, though a shallow drafted galley, was still considerably deeper keeled than the Tesephone.	10
6	339	The Tesephone had been beached, and lay partly on her side, thus permitting scraping, recaulking and resealing of the hull timbers, first on one side and then, later, when turned, on the other.	10
6	343	Cooking, and most living, is done within the camp, within the wall and at the side of the Tesephone.	10
6	345	Canvas sheets, like rough awnings on stakes, are tied to the Tesephone, and these provide shade from the sun and protection in the case of rain.	10
6	583	My first task had been to see to the Tesephone.	10
6	590	"The little she-sleen!" I observed Tina, carrying a pitcher of water to two of the men working at the side of the Tesephone.	10
6	733	* * * * I and my men, save the posted guards, sat about the fire on the beach, within the wall, not far from the inclining hull of the Tesephone.	10
6	897	She, a slave, bound, turned her lips to his, carried from the fire to her chains, in the darkness of the wall, on the other side of the Tesephone.	10
6	909	The men lay on their blankets in the sand, under the awnings stretched from the Tesephone.	10
6	914	I looked at the lines of the Tesephone in the darkness.	10
6	999	I supposed that I, in the hold of the Tesephone, had perhaps taught her something of the import of the obdurate steel on her fair throat.	10
6	1065	By the arm I thrust her, stumbling, to the darkness of the small canvas shelter at the side of the Tesephone.	10
7	374	* * * * "Take this captive," I told Rim, "back to the Tesephone".	10
7	392	"At the Tesephone," I said, indicating Grenna with my foot, "brand her, and fit her with a collar.	10
8	7	Further, I wished to leave a full garrison at the Tesephone, to protect the ship should there be any danger at the river.	10
9	322	But now it did not seem that she would stand beside me among falling flowers on the bow of the Tesephone, on some great holiday declared in Port Kar, as we returned in triumph to that city, making our way through its flower-strewn canals, beneath the windows and rooftops of cheering throngs.	10
11	879	I recalled her in my shelter beside the Tesephone, in the darkness, and in the following day.	10
11	970	In the morning I must make my way back to the Tesephone.	10
12	2	I had left my men at the camp of Marlenus, Arn, his outlaws, and the five men from the Tesephone.	10
12	62	I asked myself, as Verna had twice before, Marlenus, are you always victorious? Now I returned to the Tesephone, without Talena, with nothing.	10
12	142	I was now near the Tesephone.	10
12	148	I began to look forward to my return to the Tesephone.	10
12	171	I was anxious to see again Thurnock, and Rim, who had returned to the Tesephone with Grenna, the girl I had captured in the forest, who had stood high in Hura's band.	10
12	172	At her arrival at the Tesephone she would have been branded and placed in my collar.	10
12	176	Perhaps I would give her to Arn, when he, with my other men, returned to the Tesephone the day after tomorrow, coming from the camp of Marlenus.	10
12	207	I approached the camp of the Tesephone with great caution.	10
12	214	My men, the slaves, the Tesephone, were gone.	10
13	11	I had approached the camp of the Tesephone with great caution.	10
13	184	"The ship, the Tesephone, which was here," I said, "was it taken, by a prize crew, downriver?" "Yes," she said.	10
13	187	The Tesephone had forty oars.	10
13	190	"What happened," I asked, "to my men, and slaves?" "The men," she said, "with the exception of one, whose head wore the swath of panther girls, were chained in the hold of the Tesephone.	10
13	192	"What was the destination of the Tesephone?" I asked.	10
13	206	"What is the destination of the Tesephone?" I asked.	10
13	237	The Tesephone, most of my men aboard, chained in her hold, was to make rendezvous with the Rhoda at Laura.	10
13	243	Thurnock, as a common seaman, was doubtless chained in the hold of the Tesephone.	10
13	251	The others, including Thurnock, had been incarcerated in the hold of the Tesephone.	10
13	253	I saw the long mark in the sand, where the keel of the Tesephone had been dragged down to the water.	10
13	255	There were some fifty men of Tyros, as a prize crew, with the Tesephone.	10
13	292	I thought it might be so, from the crumbling of the sand beside the keel track of the Tesephone.	10
14	50	The men of Tyros, I was sure, would be eager to march their captives through the forests north of Laura and Lydius to the exchange point, where they would meet, by prearranged rendezvous, the Rhoda and the Tesephone.	10
15	416	Then came Rim, who had been captured at the time of the raid on the Tesephone.	10
17	132	Doubtless his main concern would be to reach the sea, for his rendezvous with the Rhoda and the Tesephone.	10
18	29	Somewhere, how far away I knew not, the strike of the hammer of the keleustes governed the stroke of those great sweeping levers, the oars of the Rhoda, and doubtless, not more than fifty yards abeam, those, too, of the light galley, the Tesephone, she of Port Kar.	10
18	39	I, too, had a rendezvous with the Rhoda and the Tesephone.	10
18	41	And in the hold of the Tesephone were numbers of my men, captured at the camp on the Laurius River, due to the treachery of a tavern keeper of Laura, by name, Hesius, and four paga slaves.	10
18	67	Then, of course, after having laid this impediment in the path of his pursuer or pursuers, he, with his choice male prisoners, Marlenus chief among them, and the twenty-four captured slave girls, including Verna, Cara, Grenna and Tina, continued their flight to the shores of gleaming Thassa and thei...	10
18	139	I counted, accordingly, on his being early for his rendezvous with the Rhoda and Tesephone.	10
18	198	It was their beacon to the Rhoda and Tesephone.	10
18	217	I must make rendezvous with the Rhoda and Tesephone before Sarus.	10
18	436	Somewhere, abroad on Thassa, concealed by the bending of a world, moved the Rhoda and Tesephone.	10
18	448	I expected, however, because of the dangers of the shores of Thassa, and the importance of their mission, the Rhoda and Tesephone, though they might lie at anchor, would not make a beach camp.	10
18	484	There was, of course, another reason why the commander of the Rhoda and Tesephone would keep within sight of the shore.	10
18	653	As the longboat pulled away, moving back toward the Rhoda and Tesephone, it passed a log, floating in the water, drifting back to shore.	10
18	661	Then the two lanterns, too, both on the Rhoda, the Tesephone, dark, lying off her starboard bow, were extinguished.	10
18	669	It was long that the men of the Rhoda and Tesephone had been at sea.	10
19	15	It was now the night following that on which I had, by my will, forced Tina to deliver herself to the men of the Rhoda and Tesephone.	10
19	31	Obviously Sarus was growing impatient for the Rhoda and Tesephone.	10
19	45	I had anticipated, however, that he would make camp and wait for the appointed rendezvous with the Rhoda and Tesephone.	10
19	61	We had missed the rendezvous with the Rhoda and Tesephone by only a matter of hours.	10
20	302	"It is the men of the Rhoda and Tesephone," said Sarus.	10
21	108	"Similarly," said Thurnock, "took she the key from the mate of the Rhoda and, when the ships were tied together, and the men of the Rhoda and Tesephone were drunk with her body and the vessels of paga she poured them, she brought it to us.	10
21	208	"Take me to the Tesephone, Thurnock," I said.	10
21	249	Dark, ahead, were the hulls of the Rhoda, a ship of Tyros, and the Tesephone, a light galley of Port Kar.	10
21	264	Ahead, dark, were the hulls of the Rhoda, she of Tyros, and the Tesephone, a light galley of Port Kar.	10
22	3	I sat, in blankets, in a captain's chair, brought from the Tesephone.	10
22	6	At their anchors, fore and aft, some quarter of a pasang from shore, swung the Rhoda, in her yellow, now dim in the grayness of the morning, and the Tesephone, on her flag line, snapping, an ensign bearing the following device, the head of a bosk, in black, over a field of white, marked with broad s...	10
22	25	I had lain, in pain and fever, in my cabin, in the small stern castle of the Tesephone.	10
22	165	Mira had then been chained in the hold of the Tesephone.	10
22	171	It was to you that I submitted in the forest!" I looked out across Thassa, to where the Rhoda and Tesephone rocked at anchor.	10
22	179	Out on the Rhoda, chained in its hold, were the crews of Tyros who had manned the Rhoda and Tesephone.	10
22	180	On the Tesephone, chained in its first hold, were, with one exception, those women whom I had placed in my slave chain.	10
22	354	"Those who were crews from Tyros on the Rhoda and Tesephone," I said, "will be taken to Port Kar and sold on the wharves as slaves.	10
22	464	She flung it to him, and sped down the beach laughing, toward the longboat that would take us back to the Tesephone.	10
22	613	I had already, the night preceding, on the Tesephone, freed Vinca, the red-haired girl, and the two paga slaves, the dark-haired one, and the blond one, who had assisted her.	10
22	632	"It was not my name you cried out," she said, tears in her eyes, "when you lay in fever in the cabin of the Tesephone".	10
22	646	"I will sell those in the hold, the men of Tyros who crewed the Rhoda and Tesephone, in Port Kar".	10
22	736	Her women, now slaves, waited in longboats to be carried to the Rhoda, the Tesephone.	10
22	858	"Take her to the Tesephone," I told two of my men, "and put her in the hold with the other female slaves".	10
22	868	I looked, too, to the Tesephone.	10
22	936	"I would return to the Tesephone".	10
22	937	* * * * That night, sitting on the stern castle of the Tesephone, I looked north and eastward.	10
22	967	I could hear the snapping of the tarn sail of the Tesephone.	10

Book 9. (1 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	483	And, too, I knew that I had, in the fevered delirium attendant on my wounds, when I lay in the stern castle of the Tesephone, cried out her name.	10

Book 12. (4 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	347	Were I to hunt the world's end I would prefer to do so with the Dorna or the Tesephone, a sleek ship whose moods and gifts I well knew.	10
4	511	I thought I might rather ply toward the horizon beckoning betwixt Cos and Tyros in the Dorna or the small, swift Tesephone.	10
5	34	"You must take the Dorna," said he, "or the Tesephone".	10
5	45	"You must take another ship, the Dorna or the Tesephone, or you may take my flagship, the Thassa Ubara".	10

Book 13. (1 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
4	75	Similarly, it would not be wise to take one of my own ships, say, the Dorna or the Tesephone, south.	10

Book 28. (1 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
67	107	He might have preferred a field on Gor, with long green grass, with the wind rising from the east, in the morning, or perhaps a crag in the scarlet mountains, the mighty Voltai, or perhaps the stem castle or helm deck of a lateen-rigged galley, perhaps the Dorna or Tesephone.	10

Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	405	She had some ten oars to a side; she was smaller than my Tesephone.	10

Book 35. (1 results) Quarry of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
36	76	Bosk of Port Kar's smallest ship was the swift Tesephone, it also bearing a woman's name, though one of a rather Cosian ring.	10

Book 36. (146 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	1	Disturbing Reports have been Received; Tab Learns of the Fair of the Farther Islands; The Tesephone will Depart with the Tide In my tent, high amidst the crags of the Cove of Harpalos, I angrily thrust aside the reports of several selected men, chosen from the crews of the Dorna and Tesephone, thes...	10
16	31	Interestingly, when the Tesephone had touched the shore, one sensed, that the shore had drawn back a little, almost imperceptibly, as though reacting to the pressure of the Tesephone's hull.	10
53	181	For the next twenty Ehn, the Tesephone and the Dorna rowed abreast, like a larger and smaller waterfowl, the beat set by my charge to the Tesephone's keleustes.	10
53	193	Though the Dorna and Tesephone were still abreast, the line was fastened to the stern of the Tesephone and the prow of the Dorna.	10
57	25	As she did so, I called, "Oars outboard," and the oars of the Tesephone's starboard benches thrust out, trying to force a distance between the Tesephone and the corsair.	10
58	115	If we were to interpose the hull of Tesephone directly between her and the attacker we would save the Dorna but only at the expense of the Tesephone.	10
2	29	"I beached the Dorna and Tesephone upwind," said Thurnock, with a look at Aktis, suggesting this decision might have been judiciously motivated.	10
3	1	We Set Course for Thera; I Speak with Aktis; We Encounter a Surprise at Sea I stood on the stern castle of the Dorna, Builder's Glass in hand, above the twin rudders, the small, swift Tesephone, shallow-drafted, capable of negotiating rivers, abeam.	10
3	10	From the Cove of Harpalos on Thera, I might take the Tesephone to the harbor of Sybaris.	10
3	19	The Tesephone was small, light, and clean-lined.	10
3	26	"By means of the Tesephone?" "Yes," I said.	10
4	24	"The Tesephone signals," said Thurnock.	10
4	26	Our mast and that of the Tesephone were raised.	10
4	47	"Have the Tesephone heave to," I said.	10
4	50	Shortly thereafter, with the Builder's glass, I could make out what had occasioned the communication from the Tesephone.	10
4	51	We then proceeded further on the bearings provided by the Tesephone, which now fell astern.	10
5	66	"The Dorna and Tesephone are sleek and swift," I said.	10
5	83	The Dorna was a fifty-oar ship, commonly using three men to an oar; the Tesephone was much smaller, a twenty-oar ship, using two men to an oar.	10
8	2	Both the Dorna and Tesephone were beached, prows waterward, near an inlet below, not noticeable from the sea itself.	10
8	68	"Break camp, strike tents, extinguish fires, gather the men, get the Dorna and Tesephone into the water, masts and sails down.	10
8	121	The Dorna and Tesephone were already in the water.	10
9	17	A single vessel, and perhaps even two, would be unlikely to engage the Dorna and Tesephone".	10
9	63	Similarly, on the voyage from Nicosia to Sybaris, after painting the Tesephone white and yellow, colors of the Merchants, so that it would stand out, and not be difficult to detect amongst the billows of Thassa, we had again failed to encounter the small, dark island.	10
14	4	We were aboard the Tesephone.	10
15	66	"The Tesephone departs with the tide," I said.	10
16	30	The Tesephone's port side rocked gently against a rounded surface which seemed to curve back, and descend, for several feet, and was then lost from sight, under the water.	10
16	44	Ropes from the Tesephone were cast ashore and secured to the stones.	10
16	45	Others from the shore, fastened to the stones, were cast over the rail of the Tesephone, which were then secured on board.	10
16	95	"Yes," cried more than one of the young women, and, released, they hurried away, to mingle eagerly with the crew of the Tesephone.	10
16	309	Board! Board! We must be on our way!" Shortly thereafter, the Tesephone, freed of the lines attached to the heavy drilled stones, drifted from the side of the Isle of Seleukos.	10
17	6	She lay there before me, in the light of the single, dangling tharlarion-oil lamp, prone, helpless, trembling and disoriented, on the dark, polished, wooden floor of my room in an obscure inn, The Fat Urt, in Sybaris, near the harbor where the Tesephone was inconspicuously at anchor, crowded amongst...	10
18	1	We Approach Mytilene He stood beside me, at the bow of the Tesephone, summoned from the helm deck.	10
18	68	"The Tesephone," I had said.	10
18	109	"Thurnock, second to me on the Tesephone," I said, "heard speak of a sighting of a hith, that from men on the Isle of Seleukos".	10
18	135	"You are afraid the Tesephone might be recognized?" he said.	10
18	229	The Tesephone rocked, quiet in the waves.	10
20	174	Then, the flaming tent behind us, bright in the darkness, we made our way across the fields to our camp, where the Tesephone was beached.	10
21	128	Sips from the contents of one of the bottles, I was sure, would have killed those who drank on the Tesephone, and sips from the other, I was sure, would have killed those who drank on the Dorna.	10
21	161	I still had one bottle of poison left, back on the Tesephone.	10
22	4	He and Clitus lowered the large, inert, blanketed form, groaning and soaked with paga, to the sand beside the beached Tesephone, in our camp a pasang or so away from the harbor at Mytilene, near which the teeming streets of the fair were still lit by hundreds of torches.	10
22	48	Nor is the Tesephone.	10
24	39	The Dorna and the Tesephone were beached nearby.	10
26	22	"The Tesephone is light, swift, and shallow-drafted," said Sakim.	10
26	35	Had I kept a straight course I was reasonably confident that the next projectile, or its successor, would strike the Tesephone, perhaps crashing through the main deck, perhaps destroying a section of a rowing frame, in either case setting the ship afire.	10
26	117	"Given the lightness of the Tesephone," he said.	10
27	201	"Proceed me to the Tesephone," I said.	10
27	215	"We are returning to the Tesephone".	10
28	1	Intelligence is Gathered at Sea I stood upon the stem deck of the Tesephone, looking about.	10
28	21	The small improvised raft was at the side of the Tesephone, rocking, when Philomena was lowered to its surface.	10
29	13	"And find themselves in them," said Captain Tab, currently assigned the captainship of the Dorna, fifty-oared, larger and more formidable than the light, swift Tesephone, sped by twenty oars.	10
29	253	"Leave us here!" "I have had a sturdy slave ring fixed in the main deck of the Tesephone," I said.	10
36	34	The three slaves, as I had informed them they would be, had been taken with us, exposed to the elements, chained naked to a deck ring on the Tesephone.	10
36	38	Fortunately for the slaves, neither the Tesephone nor the Dorna saw action on the voyage to Daphna.	10
37	20	I myself had left my sword on the Tesephone.	10
39	54	"The Dorna, at the Cove of Harpalos," said Thurnock, "can cast her moorings within an Ahn of the Tesephone's arrival".	10
39	57	"Consider the Tesephone," I said, "disguised now as a merchant's vessel, painted in white and gold.	10
48	49	I had done this so that our departure for the Dorna and Tesephone, both waiting in their secret hiding place, a departure which was imminent, might be accomplished, if not in stealth, at least discreetly.	10
48	160	"The Dorna and Tesephone wait, concealed to the south".	10
48	203	"Then, after dark, we will join Tab and Sakim at the Dorna and Tesephone".	10
49	20	"The Dorna and Tesephone are gone!" I unshuttered the dark lamp, and waved it horizontally four times, and then rotated it forward, slowly, three times.	10
49	27	"There are furrows in the sand where the Dorna and the Tesephone were launched," said Clitus.	10
49	35	"We are their quarry," I said, "their nemesis, their coveted foe, the core of the defense of Mytilene, more so than the Dorna and Tesephone.	10
49	38	"But the Dorna and Tesephone are gone," said Thurnock.	10
49	53	"Where then are Captains Tab and Sakim, where the Dorna and the Tesephone?" asked a man.	10
49	71	"As Tab and Sakim left no message of any sort to explain their departure, we may infer that the appearance of the corsair fleet was sudden and unexpected, perhaps emerging from darkness in the vicinity of dawn, a situation calling for instant action, getting the Dorna and Tesephone to sea before an ...	10
49	108	"The Tesephone," I said.	10
49	132	Shortly thereafter, oars were drawn inboard, crews disembarked, and, with intermittent, soft, sliding sounds, the Tesephone and Dorna were thrust partly onto the beach.	10
49	133	Tab, who had captained the Dorna, and Sakim, who was captaining the Tesephone, soon joined us.	10
50	10	It was as though the Tesephone had inadvertently struck, or had been struck by, some enormous living mountain, a mountain which could live and breathe, could lift itself and then, trembling, subside, and draw away.	10
50	11	The Tesephone, tilted, slid down the side of the living island, splashing into the water.	10
50	29	The Tesephone, turned about, sped into the fog, leaving the Brigand Island behind.	10
50	116	If one ship must be lost, and we hope none will be lost, better the smaller Tesephone than the larger, more crewed, more formidable Dorna.	10
51	25	"The Tesephone is swift," I said.	10
51	33	"Our men are strong, the Tesephone is swift," said Clitus.	10
51	40	"I do not think the High Admiral of the fleet will be aboard one of those vessels, each surveying the Tesephone like a hungry sleen eyeing a cornered tabuk.	10
51	84	The nearest ship was now within twenty yards of the Tesephone, preparing to draw alongside.	10
51	181	Suddenly the huge, wide head of the hith, slick, wet, shedding water, rose more than twenty feet out of the water, some ten feet aft of the Tesephone, a body grasped in its jaws.	10
52	42	Not long thereafter the Tesephone rocked gently against the hull of the Dorna.	10
52	67	"Surely the tiny Tesephone did not engage a fifty-oared vessel," said Tab, "let alone manage to sink such a foe".	10
52	121	"There is another!" called the mariner pointing abeam, past the Tesephone, to his port side.	10
53	9	Five ships, quiet, were within fifty yards of the Dorna and the Tesephone.	10
53	61	At the same time I had had the Tesephone brought to a position where it would be abeam of the Dorna should that craft manage to extricate itself from its current position and require assistance, and if it could not do so, we would be close enough to take swimmers aboard.	10
53	73	The Tesephone is swift! You may be able to elude the enemy, even with his shifts of rowers, until dark.	10
53	94	Soon I had come about in such a way that the Dorna was between the Brigand Island and the Tesephone.	10
53	113	"And possibly the Tesephone," I said.	10
53	119	"I think they were waiting for the Tesephone," I said.	10
53	129	They may have thought, seeing the Dorna and Tesephone together, that we had been boarded and captured, that their plan had been successful".	10
53	140	"The Tesephone, in free water, is like a flighted javelin".	10
53	143	"But in such an action at least two ships would be lost," I said, "the Tesephone and at least one of theirs".	10
53	147	"I am thinking the enemy would be reluctant to risk more ships, and would much prefer to replace his losses with two prizes, the Dorna and the Tesephone".	10
53	149	"No," I said, "and they waited, it seems, for the Tesephone to join her".	10
53	175	To do this in one maneuver the enemy would require four ships, two for the Dorna and two for the Tesephone.	10
53	187	The second order was to mount a ship's lantern, unlit, on the stern deck of both the Dorna and the Tesephone.	10
53	196	Fifteen Ehn later I signaled the keleustes to cease the beat, and the Dorna and the Tesephone rocked on the water.	10
53	198	"There is little point in capitulating," I said, "if it means the death of every man aboard the Dorna and the Tesephone".	10
53	254	I then gave orders that the two stern lanterns, these on the Dorna and Tesephone, be lit.	10
53	275	The Tesephone leapt forward, slipped past the Dorna, tautened the line between herself and the Dorna, was arrested by the line, and then, smoothly, forcefully, began to draw against it, giving impetus to her fellow.	10
53	276	At the same time, the rowers of the Dorna bent to their oars, and the Dorna, partly towed, partly under its own power, fell into place behind the Tesephone.	10
53	280	Shortly thereafter, as darkness fell, I had the two lanterns removed from the sterns of the Dorna and Tesephone and mounted on two separate buoyant frameworks, fastened together with some sixty or seventy feet of line.	10
53	281	These I set adrift, that pursuers might mistake them for lights mounted to assist the Dorna and Tesephone to remain in proximity despite the darkness.	10
54	5	Hardly had Sakim spoken than the lookout on the Tesephone's stern deck called out, "Sails! Five sails astern!" His cry was echoed a moment later by the lookout ensconced on the stern deck of the Dorna.	10
54	12	My ships, the Dorna and Tesephone, and those others at sea or docked in the arsenal at Port Kar, used a five-beat system.	10
54	26	"It will slow the Tesephone," said Thurnock.	10
54	27	"Then," I said, "the Tesephone will be slowed".	10
54	28	The line was attached and the Dorna fell in behind the Tesephone.	10
55	22	"On the starboard side of the Tesephone and the port side of the Dorna," I said.	10
55	33	Shortly thereafter, the Dorna and the Tesephone, oars inboard, were lashed together.	10
55	37	"Should we not, the Dorna and the Tesephone, lower our own masts, as well?" asked Clitus.	10
56	1	One Makes Use of What Means are at Hand A dozen ladders struck against the starboard-side hull of the Tesephone.	10
56	8	At this point the massive, heavy body of the Brigand Island had slipped some seven or eight feet back, away from the side of the Tesephone.	10
56	31	The Tesephone seemed to shudder as the left flank of the Brigand Island slid against its side.	10
56	51	Then it returned to the water, falling, like a mountain, and the residue of this great splash descended like rain on the Dorna and Tesephone, and the closest of the five corsair ships.	10
56	104	I gripped the rail of the Tesephone.	10
57	3	Following the sinking of the forward ship, or observation ship, by the maddened living island, which we commonly spoke of as the "Brigand Island," the corsair fleet was reduced to four vessels, two of which were now drawing close, one to attempt drawing alongside the port side of the Dorna, and the ...	10
57	20	The enemy would, to the best of his ability, attack simultaneously at the port side of the Dorna and the starboard side of the Tesephone, but this maneuver, given a choppy sea, intermittent gusts of wind, the difference in vessels, a disparity of helmsmen and command, and the rocking of the target i...	10
57	22	As suggested earlier, the lashing together of the Dorna and Tesephone made this possible, permitting a rapid, judicious distribution of men and resources, allowing them to be applied when and where most needed.	10
57	33	Several mercenaries had plunged into the sea with hand axes, and, reaching and climbing upward in the rolling sea, assisted by oars thrust forth from the corsair, dipping and rising, had clambered onto the few remaining oars of the Tesephone which were still holding the corsair at bay.	10
57	36	Given the railing of the Tesephone we could not well interfere with their work without unduly exposing ourselves.	10
57	41	Suddenly dozens of these devices, heavy with seven or eight feet of chain, most cast by two men, hurtled toward the Tesephone.	10
57	43	As much as seven or eight men would drag on each grapnel rope, to pull the corsair ship and the Tesephone together.	10
57	119	Without grappling holding the ships together it was difficult for the corsair ship, given the sea, to retain its position, and soon, pitching and rocking, it was no longer at the side of the Tesephone but lay abeam of her by some seven or eight feet.	10
57	121	Some other mercenaries, comprehending their predicament, had already cast aside their shields and weapons and had crawled or rolled to the railless edge of the Tesephone and plunged overboard, preferring the jeopardy of Thassa to the near certitude of extermination.	10
57	160	In a moment the length of the corsair ship, oars swiftly brought inboard, the vessel then obedient to inertia, would slide parallel to the starboard side of the Tesephone.	10
57	163	Given the movement of the decks, and our changes to the starboard side of the Tesephone, minimizing or eliminating points of purchase, the passage between ships was precarious.	10
57	166	The two ships, the corsair ship and the Tesephone, were literally against one another only briefly, but the gap between them, ranging from a few inches to a yard, held for almost an Ehn; then it widened to four to five feet, and then, once more, was such that it could be easily bridged.	10
57	193	Others threw away their shields and weapons and leapt from the Tesephone to the water now separating us from the corsair ship.	10
57	225	"Boarding was intended to secure our vessels, to garner the Dorna and Tesephone, valuable, fine ships, as prizes.	10
57	228	"Unlash the Dorna and Tesephone," I said.	10
57	232	"The Tesephone is light," said Sakim.	10
58	39	Sakim, Thurnock, Clitus, and myself were on the stem deck of the Tesephone.	10
58	45	"Dear friends," I said, "the enemy has recently shown, by preferring boarding to ramming, that he would like to obtain our ships, the Dorna and the Tesephone, as prizes, and doubtless most the Dorna.	10
58	65	"We could turn the Tesephone into a torch," said Thurnock.	10
58	99	"The Tesephone is swift, Captain," said Thurnock.	10
58	105	"Too," said Sakim, "the Tesephone is light.	10
58	116	It was my hope that we could, with harrowing but acceptable damage, bring the forward starboard side of the Tesephone against the side of the attacking ship in such a way as, given the attacker's speed, to force his thrust wide of the Dorna.	10
58	145	At this point I was reasonably sure, despite the loss of one of our rudders, that we could bring the Tesephone, aflame, against one of the enemy ships.	10
59	77	The repairs on the Dorna and Tesephone were nearly complete.	10
59	172	Recently the Dorna and Tesephone, in dry dock, after having been repaired, had been repainted.	10
60	8	We were standing on the dock, near the Tesephone.	10
62	165	The guards left us at the dock where the Dorna and the Tesephone were moored.	10
62	182	"I arranged with Tab to arm and distribute the crew of the Dorna and with Sakim to arm and distribute the crew of the Tesephone in such a manner as to fire Sybaris, the harbor, and ships, if we were not back by the fourteenth Ahn.	10
63	5	The Tesephone, smaller and quicker, more responsive, than the larger Dorna, lay a pasang out, south, beyond the harbor, that she might warn the Dorna of danger and, if necessary, cover her flank.	10
63	33	"Ho!" cried Bombastico, from the Tesephone's small stem castle.	10
63	55	The Dorna and the Tesephone would proceed due south for some ten pasangs, and then, if we detected no other ships in the vicinity, part company.	10
63	62	Soon, the Dorna and the Tesephone would rendezvous and then go their separate ways.	10
63	120	"When we reach the arsenal at Port Kar," I said, "you will take command of the Tesephone".	10