Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 38 | 239 | They afford, however, View more quotes about little">little shelter from the flighted quarrel, the knife cast from the darkness. |
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 38 | 236 | Lord Nishida might be putting himself at some risk. |
| 38 | 237 | To be sure, he had a large number of men, swordsmen, glaivesmen, archers, and others, at his disposal. |
| 38 | 238 | Such cohorts tend to reduce risks, at least in battle. |
| 38 | 239 | They afford, however, little shelter from the flighted quarrel, the knife cast from the darkness. |
| 38 | 240 | I had taken it as a foregone conclusion that the unknown assassin of whom Lord Nishida was wary was in the fee of an understood foe, but I supposed that that need not be true. |
| 38 | 241 | Not all enemies, I recalled, are strangers. |
| 38 | 242 | In Gorean the saying would literally translate as not all strangers are strangers. |
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Lord Nishida might be putting himself at some risk.
To be sure, he had a large number of men, swordsmen, glaivesmen, archers, and others, at his disposal.
Such cohorts tend to reduce risks, at least in battle.
They afford, however, little shelter from the flighted quarrel, the knife cast from the darkness.
I had taken it as a foregone conclusion that the unknown assassin of whom Lord Nishida was wary was in the fee of an understood foe, but I supposed that that need not be true.
Not all enemies, I recalled, are strangers.
In Gorean the saying would literally translate as not all strangers are strangers.
- (Swordsmen of Gor)