Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 5 | 25 | "On a View more quotes about cosian">Cosian warship only the officers are armed, until an engagement is imminent, and then weapons are distributed". |
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Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 5 | 22 | Yet, later, I was sure, the cold, despite the corridors, the braziers, the lamps, would reach even the mysterious labyrinths below. |
| 5 | 23 | "As I understand it," said Tarl Cabot, the tarnsman whom I had encountered the preceding day during my interrogation, "you were not armed when found". |
| 5 | 24 | "No," I said. |
| 5 | 25 | "On a Cosian warship only the officers are armed, until an engagement is imminent, and then weapons are distributed". |
| 5 | 26 | This arrangement is not that unusual. |
| 5 | 27 | It adds to the authority of officers, and tends to reduce the likelihood of serious harm amongst the men. |
| 5 | 28 | It takes time, usually, to beat a fellow bloody and senseless, and he is likely to recover sooner or later, and perhaps put an end to the quarrel over a jug of paga, but an angry word, a swift movement, and a flash of steel, and one may well have lost a shipmate, and eventually, given the friendships and alliances amongst the men, more than one. |
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Yet, later, I was sure, the cold, despite the corridors, the braziers, the lamps, would reach even the mysterious labyrinths below.
"As I understand it," said Tarl Cabot, the tarnsman whom I had encountered the preceding day during my interrogation, "you were not armed when found".
"No," I said.
"On a Cosian warship only the officers are armed, until an engagement is imminent, and then weapons are distributed".
This arrangement is not that unusual.
It adds to the authority of officers, and tends to reduce the likelihood of serious harm amongst the men.
It takes time, usually, to beat a fellow bloody and senseless, and he is likely to recover sooner or later, and perhaps put an end to the quarrel over a jug of paga, but an angry word, a swift movement, and a flash of steel, and one may well have lost a shipmate, and eventually, given the friendships and alliances amongst the men, more than one.
- (Mariners of Gor)