Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 22 | 74 | It was now View more quotes about clear">clear that quarterless war, red with blood, reigned upon the beach. |
| 22 | 75 | Some hundreds of our men, in lines, were being forced back, away from the high beach, and the defile, toward the water. |
| 22 | 76 | Glaives prodded them and struck at them. |
| 22 | 77 | Swords flashed in the torches. |
| 22 | 78 | Many, we had later learned, had perished in the defile, from concealed arrow fire, but arrows, now, save at short range, a yard or two, given the proximity of the combatants and the confusion, could scarcely find congenial targets. |
| 22 | 79 | The arrow, ignorant of its purpose, might with equanimity bestow indiscriminate death. |
| 22 | 80 | Several yards from the torchlit, screaming, raucous shore, the clash of metal, the cries of enraged men, of frightened men, of dying men, Cabot turned the galley. |
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It was now clear that quarterless war, red with blood, reigned upon the beach.
Some hundreds of our men, in lines, were being forced back, away from the high beach, and the defile, toward the water.
Glaives prodded them and struck at them.
Swords flashed in the torches.
Many, we had later learned, had perished in the defile, from concealed arrow fire, but arrows, now, save at short range, a yard or two, given the proximity of the combatants and the confusion, could scarcely find congenial targets.
The arrow, ignorant of its purpose, might with equanimity bestow indiscriminate death.
Several yards from the torchlit, screaming, raucous shore, the clash of metal, the cries of enraged men, of frightened men, of dying men, Cabot turned the galley.
- (Mariners of Gor)