Book 5. (1 results) Assassin of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 22 | 378 | The View more quotes about riders">riders, with the exception of myself and Menicius of Port Kar, looked from one to the other warily, puzzled. |
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Book 5. (7 results) Assassin of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 22 | 375 | The starting rope was strung before the tarns. |
| 22 | 376 | I noted, to my surprise, that the padding on the rings had been removed by attendants, and replaced with bladelike edges, used not in races but in exhibitions of daring riding, stunts in effect, in which riders appear to court death at the rings. |
| 22 | 377 | The crowd, all factions, cried out in protest at this. |
| 22 | 378 | The riders, with the exception of myself and Menicius of Port Kar, looked from one to the other warily, puzzled. |
| 22 | 379 | "Bring me," I said, to the crossbowman, standing at the foot of the perch, "from the belongings of Gladius of Cos, kept in the compound of the Steels, the bola of the Tuchuks, the kaiila rope, the southern quiva". |
| 22 | 380 | He laughed. |
| 22 | 381 | "I wondered," he said, "when you would understand that you ride to war". |
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The starting rope was strung before the tarns.
I noted, to my surprise, that the padding on the rings had been removed by attendants, and replaced with bladelike edges, used not in races but in exhibitions of daring riding, stunts in effect, in which riders appear to court death at the rings.
The crowd, all factions, cried out in protest at this.
The riders, with the exception of myself and Menicius of Port Kar, looked from one to the other warily, puzzled.
"Bring me," I said, to the crossbowman, standing at the foot of the perch, "from the belongings of Gladius of Cos, kept in the compound of the Steels, the bola of the Tuchuks, the kaiila rope, the southern quiva".
He laughed.
"I wondered," he said, "when you would understand that you ride to war".
- (Assassin of Gor)