Book 12. (1 results) Beasts of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 13 | 8 | Wood is scarce in the View more quotes about north">north and the peasant bow, or longbow, is not known there. |
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Book 12. (7 results) Beasts of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 13 | 5 | Some eleven tabuk were grazing on the mosses some one hundred yards from us. |
| 13 | 6 | The horn bow, unfortunately, formed of pieces of split tabuk horn, bound with sinew, is not effective beyond some thirty yards. |
| 13 | 7 | One must, thus, be almost upon the animal before loosing the shaft. |
| 13 | 8 | Wood is scarce in the north and the peasant bow, or longbow, is not known there. |
| 13 | 9 | More importantly, in the colder weather, the long bow would freeze and snap, unable to bear the stress of being drawn to its customary extent. |
| 13 | 10 | I had brought a longbow north with me but I wished to accustom myself to the horn bow, for the larger weapon, I knew, would be useless for most of the year in these latitudes. |
| 13 | 11 | It is difficult to convey the nature of a world subject to great cold. |
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Some eleven tabuk were grazing on the mosses some one hundred yards from us.
The horn bow, unfortunately, formed of pieces of split tabuk horn, bound with sinew, is not effective beyond some thirty yards.
One must, thus, be almost upon the animal before loosing the shaft.
Wood is scarce in the north and the peasant bow, or longbow, is not known there.
More importantly, in the colder weather, the long bow would freeze and snap, unable to bear the stress of being drawn to its customary extent.
I had brought a longbow north with me but I wished to accustom myself to the horn bow, for the larger weapon, I knew, would be useless for most of the year in these latitudes.
It is difficult to convey the nature of a world subject to great cold.
- (Beasts of Gor)