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Few seemed willing to cast themselves recklessly upon us. - (Rebels of Gor, Chapter 60, Sentence #208)

In the pause which followed Nodachi's swift, almost casual, felling of Lord Akio's two men, that small, eager, ill-fated vanguard unwisely addressing themselves, woefully unsupported, to their foray, both he and Lord Yamada had replaced their companion swords in their sashes and drawn up their field swords from the sand where they had deposited them, following the election of the companion sword as the instrument for resolving the matter which lay between them. The blow of the field sword can fell a small tree, or cut away the head of a glaive. We fenced away sporadic, tentative attacks about us, drawing back to the bridge. Few seemed willing to cast themselves recklessly upon us. The lesson of Nodachi, it seems, had been well noted. "Kill them! Kill them!" shouted Lord Akio. I had no doubt that the Ashigaru, some ten or so, with Lord Akio would enter the pond, but the obstacle of the floor of the bridge, and its height, would, I hoped, neutralize to some extent the effect of the glaives wielded from below, by wading men with uncertain footing. - (Rebels of Gor)