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| 14 | 2 | View more quotes about kurii">Kurii leapt down the long sides of the hall, slashing, cutting men down as they fled to their weapons. |
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| 13 | 452 | Then, other Kurii behind it, crowding about it, past it, it shrieked, lips drawn back, with a hideous sound, which, somehow, from its lips and mien, and mostly from its eyes, I took to be a sign of pleasure, of anticipation; I would learn later that this sound is instinctively uttered by Kurii when they are preparing to take blood. |
| 13 | 453 | This cry, like a stimulus, acted upon the others, as well; almost instantly, with the velocity that the stranger signal can course through a pack of urts, this shriek was picked up by those with it; then, the hall filled with their horrid howling, eyes blazing, led by the Kur with the golden band, frenzied by the blood shriek, they leaped forward, great axes flailing. |
| 14 | 1 | The Forkbeard and I Depart From the Hall of Svein Blue Tooth I saw half of the body of a man spinning crazily past. |
| 14 | 2 | Kurii leapt down the long sides of the hall, slashing, cutting men down as they fled to their weapons. |
| 14 | 3 | The wooden shields of Torvaldsland no more stopped the great axes than dried skins of larma fruit, stretched on sewing frames, might have resisted the four-bladed dagger cestus of Anango or the hatchet gauntlet of eastern Skjern. |
| 14 | 4 | More than once the blades of the Kurii axes bit through the spines of men, reaching for their weapons, and splintered, gouging, in the beams of the hall. |
| 14 | 5 | I choked in the smoke. |