Book 5. (1 results) Assassin of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 3 | 207 | "Magnificent!" he View more quotes about cried">cried weeping, taking the Player by the shoulders and shaking him. |
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Book 5. (7 results) Assassin of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 3 | 204 | Then others watching cried out in glee. |
| 3 | 205 | I myself removed my sword from its sheath and with it struck my shield. |
| 3 | 206 | Then the Vintner began to howl with pleasure and slap his knees so pleased he was at the wonder of it, though he himself was the victim. |
| 3 | 207 | "Magnificent!" he cried weeping, taking the Player by the shoulders and shaking him. |
| 3 | 208 | And then the Vintner himself, as proud as though it had been his own, announced the Player's next move. |
| 3 | 209 | "Scribe takes Home Stone". |
| 3 | 210 | The crowd and I cried out with delight, marveling on it, the now-apparent simplicity of it, the attack which had been not so much mounted as revealed by the apparently meaningless moves, intended only to clear the board for the vital attack, coming from the improbable Ubara's Scribe, one of the least powerful pieces on the board, yet, when used in combination with, say, a Tarnsman and a Rider of the High Tharlarion, as devastating as the Ubar itself. |
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Then others watching cried out in glee.
I myself removed my sword from its sheath and with it struck my shield.
Then the Vintner began to howl with pleasure and slap his knees so pleased he was at the wonder of it, though he himself was the victim.
"Magnificent!" he cried weeping, taking the Player by the shoulders and shaking him.
And then the Vintner himself, as proud as though it had been his own, announced the Player's next move.
"Scribe takes Home Stone".
The crowd and I cried out with delight, marveling on it, the now-apparent simplicity of it, the attack which had been not so much mounted as revealed by the apparently meaningless moves, intended only to clear the board for the vital attack, coming from the improbable Ubara's Scribe, one of the least powerful pieces on the board, yet, when used in combination with, say, a Tarnsman and a Rider of the High Tharlarion, as devastating as the Ubar itself.
- (Assassin of Gor)