Book 9. (1 results) Marauders of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 10 | 149 | The formal duel is View more quotes about quite">quite complex, and I shall not describe it in detail. |
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Book 9. (7 results) Marauders of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 10 | 146 | If the combatants wished, however, they might choose another field. |
| 10 | 147 | Such duels, commonly, are held on wave-struck skerries in Thassa. |
| 10 | 148 | Two men are left alone; later, at nightfall, a skiff returns, to pick up the survivor. |
| 10 | 149 | The formal duel is quite complex, and I shall not describe it in detail. |
| 10 | 150 | Two men meet, but each is permitted a shield bearer; the combatants strike at one another, and the blows, hopefully, are fended by each's shield bearer; three shields are permitted to each combatant; when these are hacked to pieces or otherwise rendered useless, his shield bearer retires, and he must defend himself with his own weapon alone; swords not over a given length, too, are prescribed. |
| 10 | 151 | The duel takes place, substantially, on a large, square cloak, ten feet on each side, which is pegged down on the turf; outside this cloak there are two squares, each a foot from the cloak, drawn in the turf. |
| 10 | 152 | The outer corners of the second of the two drawn squares are marked with hazel wands; there is thus a twelve-foot-square fighting area; no ropes are stretched between the hazel wands. |
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If the combatants wished, however, they might choose another field.
Such duels, commonly, are held on wave-struck skerries in Thassa.
Two men are left alone; later, at nightfall, a skiff returns, to pick up the survivor.
The formal duel is quite complex, and I shall not describe it in detail.
Two men meet, but each is permitted a shield bearer; the combatants strike at one another, and the blows, hopefully, are fended by each's shield bearer; three shields are permitted to each combatant; when these are hacked to pieces or otherwise rendered useless, his shield bearer retires, and he must defend himself with his own weapon alone; swords not over a given length, too, are prescribed.
The duel takes place, substantially, on a large, square cloak, ten feet on each side, which is pegged down on the turf; outside this cloak there are two squares, each a foot from the cloak, drawn in the turf.
The outer corners of the second of the two drawn squares are marked with hazel wands; there is thus a twelve-foot-square fighting area; no ropes are stretched between the hazel wands.
- (Marauders of Gor)