Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 22 | 250 | It is View more quotes about difficult">difficult for even a fine swordsman to defend himself against even two assailants, for one need only engage, setting the target, so to speak, and the other strike. |
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 22 | 247 | "I think," I said, "you are an excellent swordsman". |
| 22 | 248 | I recalled the fellows in the stable, his own cohorts, whom I had set to secure him, one struck by a quarrel, but three felled by steel. |
| 22 | 249 | The skills involved in such a display are rare. |
| 22 | 250 | It is difficult for even a fine swordsman to defend himself against even two assailants, for one need only engage, setting the target, so to speak, and the other strike. |
| 22 | 251 | I would not, comfortably, have set Tajima against him, who was skilled, as I had determined in the dojo. |
| 22 | 252 | And I certainly would not, at his present level of training, have allowed him to engage Pertinax, certainly not singly. |
| 22 | 253 | "I would not have cared to conduct the dialogue in steel with Bosk of Port Kar," he said. |
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"I think," I said, "you are an excellent swordsman".
I recalled the fellows in the stable, his own cohorts, whom I had set to secure him, one struck by a quarrel, but three felled by steel.
The skills involved in such a display are rare.
It is difficult for even a fine swordsman to defend himself against even two assailants, for one need only engage, setting the target, so to speak, and the other strike.
I would not, comfortably, have set Tajima against him, who was skilled, as I had determined in the dojo.
And I certainly would not, at his present level of training, have allowed him to engage Pertinax, certainly not singly.
"I would not have cared to conduct the dialogue in steel with Bosk of Port Kar," he said.
- (Swordsmen of Gor)