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Some enemy officers struck about themselves with swords, trying to stop the rout, but these, too, were as often struck by terrified men who, in the darkness, were unclear as to their foe, his power, or even his nature. - (Mariners of Gor, Chapter 22, Sentence #329)

"Demons!" "Dragons!" we heard. Had we had stakes and trenches before us, the trenches would have been filled, the stakes heavy with the impaled meat of death. The enemy turned, and began to flee. Some enemy officers struck about themselves with swords, trying to stop the rout, but these, too, were as often struck by terrified men who, in the darkness, were unclear as to their foe, his power, or even his nature. Some of our bowmen climbed over bodies, and from the grisly height of such hills, formed of inert or bleeding men, plied their craft, playing, as it is said, tunes on the lyre of death. I thought there would be much feasting here for Thassa's gulls. Tor-tu-Gor, Light-upon-the-Home-Stone, began to rise in the east. - (Mariners of Gor)