Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 22 | 175 | I View more quotes about feared">feared the defensive lines might break. |
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Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 22 | 172 | It doubtless depended on where the enemy had first struck. |
| 22 | 173 | They knew that if they turned their backs, they would die. |
| 22 | 174 | They constituted the fragile, dangerous wall behind which swirled panic-stricken rout, the wall without which our forces would be slaughtered, like penned verr, against the sea. |
| 22 | 175 | I feared the defensive lines might break. |
| 22 | 176 | A moment of panic, an unpredictable loss of nerve, can, in a moment, turn rows of desperate, brave men into disorganized, fugitive, vulnerable prey. |
| 22 | 177 | One man in flight, followed by another, and another, can break a line. |
| 22 | 178 | To be sure, it is reputed infamy to die with a wound in one's back. |
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It doubtless depended on where the enemy had first struck.
They knew that if they turned their backs, they would die.
They constituted the fragile, dangerous wall behind which swirled panic-stricken rout, the wall without which our forces would be slaughtered, like penned verr, against the sea.
I feared the defensive lines might break.
A moment of panic, an unpredictable loss of nerve, can, in a moment, turn rows of desperate, brave men into disorganized, fugitive, vulnerable prey.
One man in flight, followed by another, and another, can break a line.
To be sure, it is reputed infamy to die with a wound in one's back.
- (Mariners of Gor)