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The challengers turned about in the sand and lifted their simple weapons in salute to the crowd, which incited still more approbation in the tiers. - (Kur of Gor, Chapter 21, Sentence #348)

Kurii, however, might play with such a device as with a wand, or as a brawny peasant might with his stout, well-grasped defensive staff, a punishing implement which, well used, might overcome a blade. The crowd stamped, roared, leaped about in place, and smote its thighs, expressing its pleasure with the number and harnessing of the challengers. Indeed, some of the challengers were well known to the crowd, from ascendancies in the rings, and more than one was accounted a champion. The challengers turned about in the sand and lifted their simple weapons in salute to the crowd, which incited still more approbation in the tiers. "Is Grendel to be unarmed?" asked Cabot. "You now fear for your rubies?" asked Peisistratus. "Is he to be unarmed?" "No," said Peisistratus, "that would not be Kur, that would not be honorable". - (Kur of Gor)