Book 17. (1 results) Savages of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 947 | The View more quotes about head">head of the war arrow, too, is fastened less securely to the shaft than is that of the hunting arrow. |
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Book 17. (7 results) Savages of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 1 | 944 | The hunting arrow, incidentally, has a long, tapering point, and this point is firmly fastened to the shaft. |
| 1 | 945 | This makes it easier to withdraw the arrow from its target. |
| 1 | 946 | The war arrow, on the other hand, uses an arrowhead whose base is either angled backwards, forming barbs, or cut straight across, the result in both cases being to make the arrow difficult to extract from a wound. |
| 1 | 947 | The head of the war arrow, too, is fastened less securely to the shaft than is that of the hunting arrow. |
| 1 | 948 | The point thus, by intent, if the shaft is pulled out, is likely to linger in the wound. |
| 1 | 949 | Sometimes it is possible to thrust the arrow through the body, break off the point and then withdraw the shaft backwards. |
| 1 | 950 | At other times, if the point becomes dislodged in the body, it is common to seek it with a bone or greenwood probe, and then, when one has found it, attempt to work it free with a knife. |
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The hunting arrow, incidentally, has a long, tapering point, and this point is firmly fastened to the shaft.
This makes it easier to withdraw the arrow from its target.
The war arrow, on the other hand, uses an arrowhead whose base is either angled backwards, forming barbs, or cut straight across, the result in both cases being to make the arrow difficult to extract from a wound.
The head of the war arrow, too, is fastened less securely to the shaft than is that of the hunting arrow.
The point thus, by intent, if the shaft is pulled out, is likely to linger in the wound.
Sometimes it is possible to thrust the arrow through the body, break off the point and then withdraw the shaft backwards.
At other times, if the point becomes dislodged in the body, it is common to seek it with a bone or greenwood probe, and then, when one has found it, attempt to work it free with a knife.
- (Savages of Gor)