Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 22 | 249 | Few had View more quotes about brought">brought shields ashore. |
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Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 22 | 246 | The whole rationale of the war bow is to strike from the safety of distance. |
| 22 | 247 | The archers, many of their quivers almost emptied, now began to edge forward. |
| 22 | 248 | It would be difficult to elude the shafts at close range. |
| 22 | 249 | Few had brought shields ashore. |
| 22 | 250 | There was a sudden cry from Lord Nishida and our fellows cast aside the bodies, bristling with arrows, and leaped upon the startled, disconcerted archers, only feet away, few of whom could train or loose more than a single arrow before dying. |
| 22 | 251 | I saw more than one quiver empty, a last arrow spilled beside a fallen bow in the moist, scarlet dust. |
| 22 | 252 | Some archers fled back, but the ranks had now been closed against them. |
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The whole rationale of the war bow is to strike from the safety of distance.
The archers, many of their quivers almost emptied, now began to edge forward.
It would be difficult to elude the shafts at close range.
Few had brought shields ashore.
There was a sudden cry from Lord Nishida and our fellows cast aside the bodies, bristling with arrows, and leaped upon the startled, disconcerted archers, only feet away, few of whom could train or loose more than a single arrow before dying.
I saw more than one quiver empty, a last arrow spilled beside a fallen bow in the moist, scarlet dust.
Some archers fled back, but the ranks had now been closed against them.
- (Mariners of Gor)