Book 18. (1 results) Blood Brothers of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 28 | 79 | For View more quotes about example">example, the meretricious proposal of a spurious peace, to lure the leadership of a people into a small area, there to be devastatingly attacked, while not beyond the intelligence or cunning of red savages, did not seem at all typical of their approach to military matters. |
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Book 18. (7 results) Blood Brothers of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 28 | 76 | Alliances between tribes unfamiliar to one another commonly took place only in resistance to white intrusion into the Barrens. |
| 28 | 77 | Another peculiarity of the attack lay in the nature of its engineering. |
| 28 | 78 | It did not follow the normal, rather restrained, small-scale, almost ritualized patterns of conflict common among the red savages. |
| 28 | 79 | For example, the meretricious proposal of a spurious peace, to lure the leadership of a people into a small area, there to be devastatingly attacked, while not beyond the intelligence or cunning of red savages, did not seem at all typical of their approach to military matters. |
| 28 | 80 | Certainly it was a surprising kind of generalship to find in the Barrens. |
| 28 | 81 | It seemed to have little to do with traditions of honor and the meticulous counting of coup. |
| 28 | 82 | Lastly, it seemed almost incomprehensible, given the nature of the beliefs of the red savages, that the attack had been mounted on a people at the time of the festivals. |
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Alliances between tribes unfamiliar to one another commonly took place only in resistance to white intrusion into the Barrens.
Another peculiarity of the attack lay in the nature of its engineering.
It did not follow the normal, rather restrained, small-scale, almost ritualized patterns of conflict common among the red savages.
For example, the meretricious proposal of a spurious peace, to lure the leadership of a people into a small area, there to be devastatingly attacked, while not beyond the intelligence or cunning of red savages, did not seem at all typical of their approach to military matters.
Certainly it was a surprising kind of generalship to find in the Barrens.
It seemed to have little to do with traditions of honor and the meticulous counting of coup.
Lastly, it seemed almost incomprehensible, given the nature of the beliefs of the red savages, that the attack had been mounted on a people at the time of the festivals.
- (Blood Brothers of Gor)