Book 9. (1 results) Marauders of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 3 | 332 | It is more View more quotes about useful">useful in close combat on a ship, for example, than would be the peasant bow. |
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Book 9. (7 results) Marauders of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 3 | 329 | Ten men had remained at the ship. |
| 3 | 330 | Eight held bows, with arrows at the string; none had dared to approach the ship; the short bow of the Gorean north, with its short, heavy arrows, heavily headed, lacks the range and power of the peasant bow of the south, that now, too, the property of the rencers of the delta, but, at short range, within a hundred and fifty yards, it can administer a considerable strike. |
| 3 | 331 | It has, too, the advantage that it is more manageable in close quarters than the peasant bow, resembling somewhat the Tuchuk bow of layered horn in this respect. |
| 3 | 332 | It is more useful in close combat on a ship, for example, than would be the peasant bow. |
| 3 | 333 | Too, it is easier to fire it through a thole port, the oar withdrawn. |
| 3 | 334 | The two other men stood ready with knives to cut the mooring ropes. |
| 3 | 335 | The men of Ivar Forkbeard threw their bulging cloaks, filled with gold and plate, into the ship. |
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Ten men had remained at the ship.
Eight held bows, with arrows at the string; none had dared to approach the ship; the short bow of the Gorean north, with its short, heavy arrows, heavily headed, lacks the range and power of the peasant bow of the south, that now, too, the property of the rencers of the delta, but, at short range, within a hundred and fifty yards, it can administer a considerable strike.
It has, too, the advantage that it is more manageable in close quarters than the peasant bow, resembling somewhat the Tuchuk bow of layered horn in this respect.
It is more useful in close combat on a ship, for example, than would be the peasant bow.
Too, it is easier to fire it through a thole port, the oar withdrawn.
The two other men stood ready with knives to cut the mooring ropes.
The men of Ivar Forkbeard threw their bulging cloaks, filled with gold and plate, into the ship.
- (Marauders of Gor)