Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 16 | 125 | A crossbowman would View more quotes about commonly">commonly carry even fewer bolts or quarrels. |
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 16 | 122 | This was the first time I had had the cavalry strike publicly, while under official observation, at ground targets in formation. |
| 16 | 123 | Each rider, as indicated, had two broad quivers at his disposal, in each of which was a hundred arrows. |
| 16 | 124 | The common quiver of the great bow, familiar to the peasants, would contain between twenty and thirty arrows. |
| 16 | 125 | A crossbowman would commonly carry even fewer bolts or quarrels. |
| 16 | 126 | Let us suppose that a crossbowman on tarnback had twenty bolts, and, drawing and cocking the cable, and extracting the bolt, and placing it in the guide, and aiming, could fire one every twenty Ihn. |
| 16 | 127 | He could thus fire twenty bolts in 400 Ihn, or ten Ehn. |
| 16 | 128 | On the other hand, with the short bow one could fire an arrow every five Ihn. |
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This was the first time I had had the cavalry strike publicly, while under official observation, at ground targets in formation.
Each rider, as indicated, had two broad quivers at his disposal, in each of which was a hundred arrows.
The common quiver of the great bow, familiar to the peasants, would contain between twenty and thirty arrows.
A crossbowman would commonly carry even fewer bolts or quarrels.
Let us suppose that a crossbowman on tarnback had twenty bolts, and, drawing and cocking the cable, and extracting the bolt, and placing it in the guide, and aiming, could fire one every twenty Ihn.
He could thus fire twenty bolts in 400 Ihn, or ten Ehn.
On the other hand, with the short bow one could fire an arrow every five Ihn.
- (Swordsmen of Gor)