Book 16. (1 results) Guardsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 5 | 201 | The View more quotes about pirates">pirates, startled, unable to reach the ship, stood confused along their railings. |
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Book 16. (7 results) Guardsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 5 | 198 | But almost at the same time the planked constructions, on their platforms, were pulled downward by ropes. |
| 5 | 199 | These constructions, some twenty-five feet in length, and some seven feet in width, as the pirates scattered back in their path, crashed downward, their great bent spikes shattering into the decking of the pirate ships, anchoring the ships together, yet holding them some seven or eight feet apart. |
| 5 | 200 | At the same time battle horns of Ar sounded from the galley and hatches were thrown open. |
| 5 | 201 | The pirates, startled, unable to reach the ship, stood confused along their railings. |
| 5 | 202 | "Infantrymen of Ar!" cried a man on the Tina. |
| 5 | 203 | Out of the opened hatches poured warriors of Ar, grimly helmeted, bearing great, rounded shields and mighty spears, bronze-headed and tapering. |
| 5 | 204 | Pirates rushed to the planked road bearing ingress to their ship, but a dozen spears, and then another dozen, hurled by running men devastated resistance, and then, on the run, swords drawn, their shields struck by arrows, buffeting, slashing, driving men into the water, the soldiers of Ar rushed over the bridges linking the ships. |
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But almost at the same time the planked constructions, on their platforms, were pulled downward by ropes.
These constructions, some twenty-five feet in length, and some seven feet in width, as the pirates scattered back in their path, crashed downward, their great bent spikes shattering into the decking of the pirate ships, anchoring the ships together, yet holding them some seven or eight feet apart.
At the same time battle horns of Ar sounded from the galley and hatches were thrown open.
The pirates, startled, unable to reach the ship, stood confused along their railings.
"Infantrymen of Ar!" cried a man on the Tina.
Out of the opened hatches poured warriors of Ar, grimly helmeted, bearing great, rounded shields and mighty spears, bronze-headed and tapering.
Pirates rushed to the planked road bearing ingress to their ship, but a dozen spears, and then another dozen, hurled by running men devastated resistance, and then, on the run, swords drawn, their shields struck by arrows, buffeting, slashing, driving men into the water, the soldiers of Ar rushed over the bridges linking the ships.
- (Guardsman of Gor)