Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 22 | 173 | They View more quotes about knew">knew that if they turned their backs, they would die. |
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Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 22 | 170 | To be sure, these particular men were not so different from the others. |
| 22 | 171 | That these particular men were where they were was, I supposed, as much an accident of battle as anything else. |
| 22 | 172 | It doubtless depended on where the enemy had first struck. |
| 22 | 173 | They knew that if they turned their backs, they would die. |
| 22 | 174 | They constituted the fragile, dangerous wall behind which swirled panic-stricken rout, the wall without which our forces would be slaughtered, like penned verr, against the sea. |
| 22 | 175 | I feared the defensive lines might break. |
| 22 | 176 | A moment of panic, an unpredictable loss of nerve, can, in a moment, turn rows of desperate, brave men into disorganized, fugitive, vulnerable prey. |
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To be sure, these particular men were not so different from the others.
That these particular men were where they were was, I supposed, as much an accident of battle as anything else.
It doubtless depended on where the enemy had first struck.
They knew that if they turned their backs, they would die.
They constituted the fragile, dangerous wall behind which swirled panic-stricken rout, the wall without which our forces would be slaughtered, like penned verr, against the sea.
I feared the defensive lines might break.
A moment of panic, an unpredictable loss of nerve, can, in a moment, turn rows of desperate, brave men into disorganized, fugitive, vulnerable prey.
- (Mariners of Gor)