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| 2 | 412 | He View more quotes about took">took his spear in his right hand. |
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| 2 | 409 | He slipped his shield on his arm, adjusting straps. |
| 2 | 410 | He slid the short blade at his left hip some inches from the sheath, and slipped it back in, lifting and dropping it in the sheath. |
| 2 | 411 | It was loose. |
| 2 | 412 | He took his spear in his right hand. |
| 2 | 413 | It had a long, heavy shaft, some two inches in width, some seven feet in length; the head of the weapon, including its socket and penetrating rivets, was some twenty inches in length; the killing edges of the blade began about two inches from the bottom of the socket, which reinforced the blade, tapering with the blade, double-edged, to within eight inches of its point; the blade was bronze; it was broad at the bottom, tapering to its point; given the stoutness of the weapon, the lesser gravity of this world, and the strength of the man who wielded it, I suspected it would have considerable penetrating power; I doubted that the shields they carried, though stout, could turn its full stroke, if taken frontally; I had little doubt such a weapon might thrust a quarter of its length through the body of a man, and perhaps half its length or more through the slighter, softer body of a mere girl; I looked upon the spear; it was so mighty; I feared it. |
| 2 | 414 | The two men who were my captors conferred briefly among themselves. |
| 2 | 415 | He who was not the bearded man then stepped forward, his shield on his arm, his spear in hand. |