Book 4. (1 results) Nomads of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 8 | 217 | I acquired, I View more quotes about think">think, skill in its use. |
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Book 4. (7 results) Nomads of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 8 | 214 | I learned as well the rope and bow. |
| 8 | 215 | The bow, of course, small, for use from the saddle, lacks the range and power of the Gorean longbow or crossbow; still, at close range, with considerable force, firing rapidly, arrow after arrow, it is a fearsome weapon. |
| 8 | 216 | I was most fond, perhaps, of the balanced saddle knife, the quiva; it is about a foot in length, double edged; it tapers to a daggerlike point. |
| 8 | 217 | I acquired, I think, skill in its use. |
| 8 | 218 | At forty feet I could strike a thrown tospit; at one hundred feet I could strike a layered boskhide disk, about four inches in width, fastened to a lance thrust in the turf. |
| 8 | 219 | Kamchak had been pleased. |
| 8 | 220 | I, too, naturally had been pleased. |
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I learned as well the rope and bow.
The bow, of course, small, for use from the saddle, lacks the range and power of the Gorean longbow or crossbow; still, at close range, with considerable force, firing rapidly, arrow after arrow, it is a fearsome weapon.
I was most fond, perhaps, of the balanced saddle knife, the quiva; it is about a foot in length, double edged; it tapers to a daggerlike point.
I acquired, I think, skill in its use.
At forty feet I could strike a thrown tospit; at one hundred feet I could strike a layered boskhide disk, about four inches in width, fastened to a lance thrust in the turf.
Kamchak had been pleased.
I, too, naturally had been pleased.
- (Nomads of Gor)