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Given the swiftness of the runner and the strength of Plenius, who was a large, strong man, and who had come up through the ranks as a spearman, that thrust, compounding the forces involved, would presumably carry both the head and upper part of the shaft through the runner's body. - (Vagabonds of Gor, Chapter 32, Sentence #163)

I could hear him splashing through some shallow water now, several yards away. I signaled to Plenius that his fellows might take up positions in the brush, on either side of the likely path of the runner. Plenius, close to me now, half bent over in the brush, grasped his spear in two hands, for the forward thrust. Given the swiftness of the runner and the strength of Plenius, who was a large, strong man, and who had come up through the ranks as a spearman, that thrust, compounding the forces involved, would presumably carry both the head and upper part of the shaft through the runner's body. I put my hand on the spear and pushed it down. "Let him pass," I said. He looked at me, puzzled, but did not demur. - (Vagabonds of Gor)