Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 3 | 629 | They were View more quotes about already">already within fifty yards of the perimeter. |
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Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 3 | 626 | But then, suddenly, one of the fellows cried out, alarmed. |
| 3 | 627 | 'Corso, Corso, mercenaries!' Corso, I gathered, was the fellow to whom I had first presented myself, he whom I took to be in command at this point of the perimeter. |
| 3 | 628 | It seems that a group of mercenaries, perhaps fifteen or twenty, with some women in tow, roped together by the neck, had determined to take advantage of the distraction my presence had brought about at the perimeter. |
| 3 | 629 | They were already within fifty yards of the perimeter. |
| 3 | 630 | I heard the ringing of an alarm bar, the sounding of battle horns. |
| 3 | 631 | The fellows about me abandoned me, rushing to interpose themselves between the fugitives and the cleared ground outside the perimeter. |
| 3 | 632 | They were not professional soldiers and I did not think they could stand before well-armed, desperate mercenaries, though they might hold them long enough for more effective troops, summoned by the bar and the horns, to arrive, even tarnsmen flighted from the city. |
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But then, suddenly, one of the fellows cried out, alarmed.
'Corso, Corso, mercenaries!' Corso, I gathered, was the fellow to whom I had first presented myself, he whom I took to be in command at this point of the perimeter.
It seems that a group of mercenaries, perhaps fifteen or twenty, with some women in tow, roped together by the neck, had determined to take advantage of the distraction my presence had brought about at the perimeter.
They were already within fifty yards of the perimeter.
I heard the ringing of an alarm bar, the sounding of battle horns.
The fellows about me abandoned me, rushing to interpose themselves between the fugitives and the cleared ground outside the perimeter.
They were not professional soldiers and I did not think they could stand before well-armed, desperate mercenaries, though they might hold them long enough for more effective troops, summoned by the bar and the horns, to arrive, even tarnsmen flighted from the city.
- (Mariners of Gor)