Book 16. (1 results) Guardsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 5 | 206 | The View more quotes about pirates">pirates' lines, thin, strung out for boarding, were instantly cut. |
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Book 16. (7 results) Guardsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 5 | 203 | Out of the opened hatches poured warriors of Ar, grimly helmeted, bearing great, rounded shields and mighty spears, bronze-headed and tapering. |
| 5 | 204 | Pirates rushed to the planked road bearing ingress to their ship, but a dozen spears, and then another dozen, hurled by running men devastated resistance, and then, on the run, swords drawn, their shields struck by arrows, buffeting, slashing, driving men into the water, the soldiers of Ar rushed over the bridges linking the ships. |
| 5 | 205 | Half turned toward the stem of the vessel and half to the stern. |
| 5 | 206 | The pirates' lines, thin, strung out for boarding, were instantly cut. |
| 5 | 207 | Vicious and swift, clean, exact, merciless, was the steel of professional warriors. |
| 5 | 208 | In moments had the decks of both pirate vessels been cleared. |
| 5 | 209 | And still soldiers emerged from the hold. |
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Out of the opened hatches poured warriors of Ar, grimly helmeted, bearing great, rounded shields and mighty spears, bronze-headed and tapering.
Pirates rushed to the planked road bearing ingress to their ship, but a dozen spears, and then another dozen, hurled by running men devastated resistance, and then, on the run, swords drawn, their shields struck by arrows, buffeting, slashing, driving men into the water, the soldiers of Ar rushed over the bridges linking the ships.
Half turned toward the stem of the vessel and half to the stern.
The pirates' lines, thin, strung out for boarding, were instantly cut.
Vicious and swift, clean, exact, merciless, was the steel of professional warriors.
In moments had the decks of both pirate vessels been cleared.
And still soldiers emerged from the hold.
- (Guardsman of Gor)