Book 21. (1 results) Mercenaries of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 4 | 23 | They are a fierce folk and it would View more quotes about take">take a courageous town indeed to suggest the suitability or propriety of such an arrangement. |
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Book 21. (7 results) Mercenaries of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 4 | 20 | Needless to say, these movements, particularly when they intrude into more settled areas, often bring the folk of the laagers into conflict with others, peasants and, of course, shortly thereafter, townsfolk and city dwellers who depend on the peasants for their foodstuffs. |
| 4 | 21 | Also, of course, their movements often, from a legal point of view, constitute actual invasions or indisputable territorial infringements, as when, uninvited, they enter areas technically within the jurisdiction or hegemony of given cities or towns. |
| 4 | 22 | Sometimes they pay for passage through a country, or pasturage within it, but this is the exception rather than the rule. |
| 4 | 23 | They are a fierce folk and it would take a courageous town indeed to suggest the suitability or propriety of such an arrangement. |
| 4 | 24 | From the point of view of the Alars, of course, they feel it is as absurd to pay for pasturage as it would be to pay for air, both of which are required for life. |
| 4 | 25 | "Without grass the bosk will die," they say. |
| 4 | 26 | "The bosk will live," they add. |
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Needless to say, these movements, particularly when they intrude into more settled areas, often bring the folk of the laagers into conflict with others, peasants and, of course, shortly thereafter, townsfolk and city dwellers who depend on the peasants for their foodstuffs.
Also, of course, their movements often, from a legal point of view, constitute actual invasions or indisputable territorial infringements, as when, uninvited, they enter areas technically within the jurisdiction or hegemony of given cities or towns.
Sometimes they pay for passage through a country, or pasturage within it, but this is the exception rather than the rule.
They are a fierce folk and it would take a courageous town indeed to suggest the suitability or propriety of such an arrangement.
From the point of view of the Alars, of course, they feel it is as absurd to pay for pasturage as it would be to pay for air, both of which are required for life.
"Without grass the bosk will die," they say.
"The bosk will live," they add.
- (Mercenaries of Gor)