Book 28. (1 results) Kur of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 74 | 119 | In the View more quotes about case">case of the crossbow this seems to the writer a mistake. |
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Book 28. (7 results) Kur of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 74 | 116 | He could split a post with an ax hurled from fifteen Kur paces, which is approximately twenty human paces. |
| 74 | 117 | The crossbow and power weapons were not included in the agons. |
| 74 | 118 | It was felt that the use of neither weapon, however dangerous and effective it might be, required enough skill to qualify it for inclusion in an agon. |
| 74 | 119 | In the case of the crossbow this seems to the writer a mistake. |
| 74 | 120 | The writer feels that, beyond a certain point, skill with the crossbow is as respectable and rare as that with the great bow. |
| 74 | 121 | The prejudice against the crossbow, the writer suspects, is due largely to the fact that it is, for obvious reasons, the assassin's weapon of choice. |
| 74 | 122 | * * * * The next time Cabot visited the tiny cage of a brunette slave, she knelt as the other slaves had, with the palms of her hands down on the cage floor, and her head down to it, as well, in first obeisance position. |
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He could split a post with an ax hurled from fifteen Kur paces, which is approximately twenty human paces.
The crossbow and power weapons were not included in the agons.
It was felt that the use of neither weapon, however dangerous and effective it might be, required enough skill to qualify it for inclusion in an agon.
In the case of the crossbow this seems to the writer a mistake.
The writer feels that, beyond a certain point, skill with the crossbow is as respectable and rare as that with the great bow.
The prejudice against the crossbow, the writer suspects, is due largely to the fact that it is, for obvious reasons, the assassin's weapon of choice.
* * * * The next time Cabot visited the tiny cage of a brunette slave, she knelt as the other slaves had, with the palms of her hands down on the cage floor, and her head down to it, as well, in first obeisance position.
- (Kur of Gor)