Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 3 | 659 | Should the View more quotes about tarnsman">tarnsman dismount he fights evenly with his foe, and the more skilled warrior is most likely to survive. |
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Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 3 | 656 | There were tarns in the sky and their shadows seemed to race across the grass. |
| 3 | 657 | More than one mercenary had a crossbow bolt half through his brass-bound shield, formed of layers of bosk hide. |
| 3 | 658 | The crossbow, even the stirrup variety, loads slowly, and there is little danger from the quarrel if one need only defend oneself from a single direction. |
| 3 | 659 | Should the tarnsman dismount he fights evenly with his foe, and the more skilled warrior is most likely to survive. |
| 3 | 660 | I soon realized that the bolts flighted from the crossbows had the mercenaries as targets, and not the women. |
| 3 | 661 | I realized, again, a difference between ourselves and men. |
| 3 | 662 | We could be left for later, to be rounded up, like verr or kaiila, and roped at a victor's leisure. |
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There were tarns in the sky and their shadows seemed to race across the grass.
More than one mercenary had a crossbow bolt half through his brass-bound shield, formed of layers of bosk hide.
The crossbow, even the stirrup variety, loads slowly, and there is little danger from the quarrel if one need only defend oneself from a single direction.
Should the tarnsman dismount he fights evenly with his foe, and the more skilled warrior is most likely to survive.
I soon realized that the bolts flighted from the crossbows had the mercenaries as targets, and not the women.
I realized, again, a difference between ourselves and men.
We could be left for later, to be rounded up, like verr or kaiila, and roped at a victor's leisure.
- (Mariners of Gor)