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Book 26. (1 results) Witness of Gor (Individual Quote)

His action, as sudden as it was, took the black-tunicked men by surprise. - (Witness of Gor, Chapter 31, Sentence #650)
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31 650 His View more quotes about action">action, as sudden as it was, took the black-tunicked men by surprise.

Book 26. (7 results) Witness of Gor (Context Quote)

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31 647 It is an alert weapon, responsive to the trigger; its opportunity need not be more prolonged than the movement of the target across a passageway; it is a patient weapon; it can wait quietly, motionlessly, for a long time, for its target to appear.
31 648 The two new bowmen set their feet in the bow stirrup, grasping the cable with two hands, one on each side of the guide.
31 649 Suddenly, crying out, realizing somehow, in some dark part of that simple brain, in some instinctive fashion, that he had not a moment to spare, risking all, heedless of his back, swinging the stone about his head, the peasant, chains flying about his ankles, charged toward the bowmen.
31 650 His action, as sudden as it was, took the black-tunicked men by surprise.
31 651 They fell back before him.
31 652 The one bowman, his foot locked in the stirrup, looked up only in time to see the great stone whipping toward him; the other was protected by his fellow who received the blow, but, he, too, his foot in the stirrup, fell awkwardly to the side.
31 653 He cried out in pain.
It is an alert weapon, responsive to the trigger; its opportunity need not be more prolonged than the movement of the target across a passageway; it is a patient weapon; it can wait quietly, motionlessly, for a long time, for its target to appear. The two new bowmen set their feet in the bow stirrup, grasping the cable with two hands, one on each side of the guide. Suddenly, crying out, realizing somehow, in some dark part of that simple brain, in some instinctive fashion, that he had not a moment to spare, risking all, heedless of his back, swinging the stone about his head, the peasant, chains flying about his ankles, charged toward the bowmen. His action, as sudden as it was, took the black-tunicked men by surprise. They fell back before him. The one bowman, his foot locked in the stirrup, looked up only in time to see the great stone whipping toward him; the other was protected by his fellow who received the blow, but, he, too, his foot in the stirrup, fell awkwardly to the side. He cried out in pain. - (Witness of Gor)