Book 18. (1 results) Blood Brothers of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 7 | 646 | It is View more quotes about nice">nice to know that one is, at such times, safe. |
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Book 18. (7 results) Blood Brothers of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 7 | 643 | Similarly, interestingly, enemy tribes, during this period, perhaps in virtue of an implicit bargain, that their own festival times be respected, do not attack them, or raid them. |
| 7 | 644 | For the red savages the festival times in the summer, whenever they are celebrated by the various tribes, are the one time in the year when they are territorially and politically secure. |
| 7 | 645 | These are very happy times, on the whole, for the tribes. |
| 7 | 646 | It is nice to know that one is, at such times, safe. |
| 7 | 647 | More than one war party, it is recorded, penetrating deeply into enemy territory, and seeing the high brush walls of a dance lodge, and discovering that it was the enemy's festival time, has politely withdrawn. |
| 7 | 648 | This sort of thing is not historically unprecedented. |
| 7 | 649 | For example, in ancient Greece the times of certain games, such as the Olympic games, constituted a truce period during which it was customary to suspend the internecine wars of competitive cities. |
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Similarly, interestingly, enemy tribes, during this period, perhaps in virtue of an implicit bargain, that their own festival times be respected, do not attack them, or raid them.
For the red savages the festival times in the summer, whenever they are celebrated by the various tribes, are the one time in the year when they are territorially and politically secure.
These are very happy times, on the whole, for the tribes.
It is nice to know that one is, at such times, safe.
More than one war party, it is recorded, penetrating deeply into enemy territory, and seeing the high brush walls of a dance lodge, and discovering that it was the enemy's festival time, has politely withdrawn.
This sort of thing is not historically unprecedented.
For example, in ancient Greece the times of certain games, such as the Olympic games, constituted a truce period during which it was customary to suspend the internecine wars of competitive cities.
- (Blood Brothers of Gor)