Book 7. (7 results) Captive of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 13 | 841 | The other View more quotes about tarn">tarn streaked away, and its rider, standing in his stirrups, braced in the saddle, held to it by the broad safety strap, was redrawing his crossbow, a quarrel held in his teeth. |
| 13 | 842 | My captor attacked, giving him no instant in which to set again his bow. |
| 13 | 843 | When only yards separated us, the other man flung away his bow and quarrel, seizing up his shield. |
| 13 | 844 | My captor, standing in his stirrups, flung his own great spear. |
| 13 | 845 | It struck the other's shield, piercing it. |
| 13 | 846 | If the other man had not been fastened in his saddle by the great strap the force of my captor's blow would have struck him from the saddle. |
| 13 | 847 | As it was, it spun him, tearing the shield from his arm. |
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The other tarn streaked away, and its rider, standing in his stirrups, braced in the saddle, held to it by the broad safety strap, was redrawing his crossbow, a quarrel held in his teeth.
My captor attacked, giving him no instant in which to set again his bow.
When only yards separated us, the other man flung away his bow and quarrel, seizing up his shield.
My captor, standing in his stirrups, flung his own great spear.
It struck the other's shield, piercing it.
If the other man had not been fastened in his saddle by the great strap the force of my captor's blow would have struck him from the saddle.
As it was, it spun him, tearing the shield from his arm.
- (Captive of Gor)