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| 6 | 155 | Such men could be View more quotes about kept">kept in line, I was sure, only by paga, gold, the promise of women, and an uncompromised discipline as swift and merciless as the strike of an ost. |
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| 6 | 152 | I had the impression they were intent to fee men who could handle blades well and ask few questions with respect to their unsheathing. |
| 6 | 153 | It was my impression that in some respects they were very little particular in their choices. |
| 6 | 154 | They were not reluctant, it seems, to recruit vagabonds, likely bandits, rogue mercenaries, cutthroats, boasters, liars, gamblers, and thieves. |
| 6 | 155 | Such men could be kept in line, I was sure, only by paga, gold, the promise of women, and an uncompromised discipline as swift and merciless as the strike of an ost. |
| 6 | 156 | Accordingly, many who were approached, even when starving, refused to be wooed even by the golden staters of Brundisium when it became clear to them the likely nature of many of their companions. |
| 6 | 157 | One does not wish to have a foe at one's back or side. |
| 6 | 158 | Others declined service when their would-be recruiters refused to reveal to them the length and nature of the service intended, and even its location. |