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Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Individual Quote)

A century ago the tarnsmen of Treve had even managed to stand off the tarnsmen of Ar in a fierce battle fought in the stormy sky over the crags of the Voltai. - (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter 8, Sentence #114)
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8 114 A century ago the View more quotes about tarnsmen">tarnsmen of Treve had even managed to stand off the tarnsmen of Ar in a fierce battle fought in the stormy sky over the crags of the Voltai.

Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)

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8 111 There was said to be no access to Treve save on tarnback and this would suggest that it must be as much a mountain stronghold as a city.
8 112 She was said to have no agriculture, and this may be true.
8 113 Each year in the fall legions of tarnsmen from Treve were said to emerge from the Voltai like locusts and fall on the fields of one city or another, different cities in different years, harvesting what they needed and burning the rest in order that a long, retaliatory winter campaign could not be launched against them.
8 114 A century ago the tarnsmen of Treve had even managed to stand off the tarnsmen of Ar in a fierce battle fought in the stormy sky over the crags of the Voltai.
8 115 I had heard poets sing of it.
8 116 Since that time her depredations had gone unchecked, although perhaps it should be added that never again did the men of Treve despoil the fields of Ar.
8 117 "Does it hurt?" asked Vika.
There was said to be no access to Treve save on tarnback and this would suggest that it must be as much a mountain stronghold as a city. She was said to have no agriculture, and this may be true. Each year in the fall legions of tarnsmen from Treve were said to emerge from the Voltai like locusts and fall on the fields of one city or another, different cities in different years, harvesting what they needed and burning the rest in order that a long, retaliatory winter campaign could not be launched against them. A century ago the tarnsmen of Treve had even managed to stand off the tarnsmen of Ar in a fierce battle fought in the stormy sky over the crags of the Voltai. I had heard poets sing of it. Since that time her depredations had gone unchecked, although perhaps it should be added that never again did the men of Treve despoil the fields of Ar. "Does it hurt?" asked Vika. - (Priest-Kings of Gor)