Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 3 | 167 | I would View more quotes about come">come to know this skilled, powerful, proud man well. |
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Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 3 | 164 | He was a blond Viking giant of a man, a bearded fellow with a cheerful, craggy face and fierce blue eyes, who strode about as though he owned the earth on which he stood. |
| 3 | 165 | His whole body, his carriage, the holding of his head bespoke the warrior, a man who knew his weapons and, on the simple world of Gor, knew that he could kill almost any man who might stand against him. |
| 3 | 166 | If there was one outstanding impression I gathered of the Older Tarl in that first terrifying meeting it was that he was a proud man, not arrogant, but proud, and rightfully so. |
| 3 | 167 | I would come to know this skilled, powerful, proud man well. |
| 3 | 168 | Indeed, the largest part of my education was to be in arms, mostly training in the spear and sword. |
| 3 | 169 | The spear seemed light to me because of the gravity, and I soon developed a dexterity in casting it with considerable force and accuracy. |
| 3 | 170 | I could penetrate a shield at close distance, and I managed to develop a skill sufficient to hurl it through a thrown hoop about the size of a dinner plate at twenty yards. |
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He was a blond Viking giant of a man, a bearded fellow with a cheerful, craggy face and fierce blue eyes, who strode about as though he owned the earth on which he stood.
His whole body, his carriage, the holding of his head bespoke the warrior, a man who knew his weapons and, on the simple world of Gor, knew that he could kill almost any man who might stand against him.
If there was one outstanding impression I gathered of the Older Tarl in that first terrifying meeting it was that he was a proud man, not arrogant, but proud, and rightfully so.
I would come to know this skilled, powerful, proud man well.
Indeed, the largest part of my education was to be in arms, mostly training in the spear and sword.
The spear seemed light to me because of the gravity, and I soon developed a dexterity in casting it with considerable force and accuracy.
I could penetrate a shield at close distance, and I managed to develop a skill sufficient to hurl it through a thrown hoop about the size of a dinner plate at twenty yards.
- (Tarnsman of Gor)