Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 5 | 26 | This arrangement is not that View more quotes about unusual">unusual. |
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Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 5 | 23 | "As I understand it," said Tarl Cabot, the tarnsman whom I had encountered the preceding day during my interrogation, "you were not armed when found". |
| 5 | 24 | "No," I said. |
| 5 | 25 | "On a Cosian warship only the officers are armed, until an engagement is imminent, and then weapons are distributed". |
| 5 | 26 | This arrangement is not that unusual. |
| 5 | 27 | It adds to the authority of officers, and tends to reduce the likelihood of serious harm amongst the men. |
| 5 | 28 | It takes time, usually, to beat a fellow bloody and senseless, and he is likely to recover sooner or later, and perhaps put an end to the quarrel over a jug of paga, but an angry word, a swift movement, and a flash of steel, and one may well have lost a shipmate, and eventually, given the friendships and alliances amongst the men, more than one. |
| 5 | 29 | Those on board a ship constitute a small community, confined within a circumscribed area. |
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"As I understand it," said Tarl Cabot, the tarnsman whom I had encountered the preceding day during my interrogation, "you were not armed when found".
"No," I said.
"On a Cosian warship only the officers are armed, until an engagement is imminent, and then weapons are distributed".
This arrangement is not that unusual.
It adds to the authority of officers, and tends to reduce the likelihood of serious harm amongst the men.
It takes time, usually, to beat a fellow bloody and senseless, and he is likely to recover sooner or later, and perhaps put an end to the quarrel over a jug of paga, but an angry word, a swift movement, and a flash of steel, and one may well have lost a shipmate, and eventually, given the friendships and alliances amongst the men, more than one.
Those on board a ship constitute a small community, confined within a circumscribed area.
- (Mariners of Gor)