Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 3 | 514 | In a View more quotes about tarn">tarn cavalry the wing beats are synchronized, much as in the pace of marching men. |
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 3 | 511 | That was the passage of several tarns, perhaps a tarn cavalry". |
| 3 | 512 | "No," he said, "not a cavalry". |
| 3 | 513 | "Not one disciplined, at any rate," I said. |
| 3 | 514 | In a tarn cavalry the wing beats are synchronized, much as in the pace of marching men. |
| 3 | 515 | Normally this is facilitated, unless surprise is intended, by the beating of a tarn drum, which sets the cadence. |
| 3 | 516 | One of the glorious sights of Gor is the wheeling, the maneuvering and flight, of such cavalries in the sky, a lovely sight, in its way not unlike that of a fleet of lateen-rigged galleys abroad on gleaming Thassa, the sea. |
| 3 | 517 | "A very large band of mercenary brigands?" I suggested. |
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That was the passage of several tarns, perhaps a tarn cavalry".
"No," he said, "not a cavalry".
"Not one disciplined, at any rate," I said.
In a tarn cavalry the wing beats are synchronized, much as in the pace of marching men.
Normally this is facilitated, unless surprise is intended, by the beating of a tarn drum, which sets the cadence.
One of the glorious sights of Gor is the wheeling, the maneuvering and flight, of such cavalries in the sky, a lovely sight, in its way not unlike that of a fleet of lateen-rigged galleys abroad on gleaming Thassa, the sea.
"A very large band of mercenary brigands?" I suggested.
- (Swordsmen of Gor)