Book 31. (1 results) Conspirators of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 48 | 117 | The View more quotes about common">common Kur is fanatically loyal to his lord, unless his lord is thought to have failed him, in which case the bond of allegiance is regarded as dissolved. |
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Book 31. (7 results) Conspirators of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 48 | 114 | In any event, several Kurii hurried to interpose themselves between the newcomers and the dais. |
| 48 | 115 | Snarling, unarmed, they confronted the newcomers. |
| 48 | 116 | Their own bodies would be the shield of Agamemnon. |
| 48 | 117 | The common Kur is fanatically loyal to his lord, unless his lord is thought to have failed him, in which case the bond of allegiance is regarded as dissolved. |
| 48 | 118 | This behavior, the loyalty to a chieftain, so to speak, had doubtless been selected for in millennia of Kur warfare, even prior to the development of sophisticated weaponry, which, as I understand it, exists on the steel worlds. |
| 48 | 119 | In seeing these Kurii, unarmed, interposing their own bodies between weapon assailants and a leader, I learned more of what a Kur might be, and often was. |
| 48 | 120 | I heard the snapping vibration of the cables of the crossbows, again and again. |
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In any event, several Kurii hurried to interpose themselves between the newcomers and the dais.
Snarling, unarmed, they confronted the newcomers.
Their own bodies would be the shield of Agamemnon.
The common Kur is fanatically loyal to his lord, unless his lord is thought to have failed him, in which case the bond of allegiance is regarded as dissolved.
This behavior, the loyalty to a chieftain, so to speak, had doubtless been selected for in millennia of Kur warfare, even prior to the development of sophisticated weaponry, which, as I understand it, exists on the steel worlds.
In seeing these Kurii, unarmed, interposing their own bodies between weapon assailants and a leader, I learned more of what a Kur might be, and often was.
I heard the snapping vibration of the cables of the crossbows, again and again.
- (Conspirators of Gor)