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Shields

Book 1. (3 results) Tarnsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	10	The shield was rather like the old Greek shields on some of the red-figured vases in the London Museum.	10
4	167	Had they been armed, my caste brothers in the last tier would have struck their spear blades on their shields.	10
12	32	The men of Pa-Kur stamped their feet in the sand and clanged their spears on their shields.	10

Book 2. (6 results) Outlaw of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	179	Approaching across the meadow, ankle deep in the wet grass, were four warriors, helmeted and carrying spears and shields.	10
11	114	One or two of the warriors, heedless of the proprieties of Tharna, acknowledged my deed by smiting their shields with the bronze heads of their spears.	10
23	178	Some six shapes, gray, carrying spears and shields were moving rapidly in our direction.	10
23	180	Suddenly I saw the shields shift, facing us obliquely, and saw the right arms raise, spears high, with no change in the rapid pace of the men.	10
24	147	Trained infantry, incidentally, might move rapidly through the streets of a city with shields locked over their heads, much in the fashion of the Roman testudo, but this formation requires discipline and precision, martial virtues not to be expected in high degree of the rebels of Tharna.	10
25	3	Both of us had in casting our weapon inclined our shields in such a way as to lessen the impact of a direct hit.	10

Book 4. (11 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
10	216	The morning sun flashed from their helmets, their long tharlarion lances, the metal embossments on their oval shields, unlike the rounded shields of most Gorean cities.	10
1	56	Not only does the flesh of the bosk and the milk of its cows furnish the Wagon Peoples with food and drink, but its hides cover the domelike wagons in which they dwell; its tanned and sewn skins cover their bodies; the leather of its hump is used for their shields; its sinews form their thread; its ...	10
4	57	I could hear the other three men of the Wagon Peoples, the Kataii, the Kassar, the Paravaci, striking their shields with their lances.	10
8	588	Warriors were pounding on the lacquered shields with their lances.	10
10	246	There was much laughing and pounding of lances on shields.	10
10	585	There was an enormous roar about us and the pounding of lances on leather shields.	10
21	315	In an instant another five and then another and another had repeated this maneuver and soon, sometimes with squealing of kaiila and dismounting of riders as one beast or another would be crowded between the gates and the others, a Hundred and then another Hundred had hurtled howling into the city, b...	10
21	343	Somewhere, off on the other side of the wagon, I heard the heavy grunting of a tharlarion and the squealing of a kaiila, the meeting of lances and shields.	10
22	45	I was astonished when, at the gate to the palace of Phanius Turmus, the four Tuchuk guards smote their lances three times on their leather shields.	10
23	98	The latter would be driven before the warriors through the wagons, both slave girls and free women stripped and bound together in groups, providing shields against arrows and lance charges on kaiilaback for the men advancing behind them.	10
24	211	The two Tuchuk guards saluted us, striking their lances three times on their shields.	10

Book 6. (6 results) Raiders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	11	I heard the clank of arms, overlapping shields.	10
6	30	Behind us we heard trumpets, and the beating of spears on shields, the shouts of men.	10
6	37	"Stop! There are nets! Nets!" But most of those with us, heedless, fleeing the trumpets and beating of spears on shields, ran wildly toward the nets, which suddenly emerged before them, held by slaves.	10
6	54	Some of the men of the rencers, with their small shields of rence wicker, fought, but their marsh spears were no match for the steel swords and the war spears of Gor.	10
11	38	Its great weight, to screams of horror, fell crushing upon men who, with shields and swords, were closely pressing the captains.	10
14	97	Bowmen were setting their weapons; helmets, weapons and shields were being brought up from below decks.	10

Book 7. (5 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
8	172	Shields hung on the left sides of the saddles.	10
14	123	There were many warriors about, perhaps a hundred or more, the men of Rask of Treve, and perhaps some twenty girls, lovely ones, in brief work tunics, busying themselves with their tasks, cooking, cleaning leather, polishing shields.	10
14	680	Some of the warriors smote their shields with the blades of their spears.	10
14	721	Among the warriors, the flat of sword blades and the blades of spears rang on shields.	10
15	1002	"Tonight," had cried Rask of Treve, blood on his shield, his eyes like those of laughing tarns, "we will feast!" The men had clashed their weapons on their shields and the girls had scurried away that the feast might be prepared.	10

Book 8. (3 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
5	4	The urt shields were still fastened to the mooring ropes, circular plates, preventing small port urts from boarding the ship.	10
6	342	Meanwhile, portions of the crew not engaged in such labors, would be carrying stones from the shore and cutting saplings in the forest, to build the narrow rectangular wall which shields such camps.	10
15	98	The panther girls were their guides, their hunters, their scouts, their shields.	10

Book 9. (35 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	167	When, in the harbor, the ship rested on its moorings, the shields, overlapping, of its men were hung on the sides; this was another indication of peaceful intent.	10
2	168	The shields were round, and of wood, variously painted, some reinforced with iron bands, others with leather, some with small bronze plates.	10
2	169	In battle, of course, such shields are not hung on the side of the ship; they would obstruct the thole ports; but, even if oars were not used, they would be within the hull, at hand; why should a crewman expose himself to missile fire to retrieve a shield so fastened? Also, of course, when the ship ...	10
2	171	The men did not carry their shields.	10
2	299	They wore long cloaks; they carried no weapons; no shields; they wore no helmets.	10
5	169	Their shields, like those of Torvaldsland, are circular, and of wood.	10
6	84	The oars slid inboard; the men hung their shields at the serpent's flanks.	10
6	251	The men cheered, and struck their shoulders, and again, the spear blades smote upon the shields.	10
8	251	We saw shields, one by one, being tied over the bulwarks.	10
10	14	I heard hands striking the left shoulders; weapons struck on shields.	10
10	77	Most of the men at the Thing were free farmers, blond-haired, blue-eyed and proud, men with strong limbs and work-roughened hands; many wore braided hair; many wore talmits of their district; for the Thing their holiday best had been donned; many wore heavy woolen jackets, scrubbed with water and bo...	10
10	150	Two men meet, but each is permitted a shield bearer; the combatants strike at one another, and the blows, hopefully, are fended by each's shield bearer; three shields are permitted to each combatant; when these are hacked to pieces or otherwise rendered useless, his shield bearer retires, and he mus...	10
10	343	And it was Gunnhild who was thrown the pastry, to the delight of the crowds, shouting, pounding their spear blades on their wooden shields.	10
10	667	When I retrieved my arrows, to the shouting of the men, the lifting of bows, the lifting of axes, the pounding of blades on wooden shields, the girl had already been unchained from the block.	10
12	47	Spear blades struck the surfaces of the round, painted, wooden shields.	10
13	37	About the edges of the hall hung the shields of warriors, with their weapons.	10
13	38	Even those who sat commonly at the center tables, and were warriors, kept their shields and spears at the wall.	10
13	41	The hall was ornately carved, and, above the shields, decorated with cunningly sewn tapestries and hangings.	10
13	421	I heard swords clashing against the sides of plates, spear blades clattering on shields, and ringing, one against the other.	10
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.	10
14	86	His sword was drawn, but it would prove of little efficacy against the great metal shields, the sweeping axes of the Kurii.	10
15	13	Several Kurii, not feeding, carrying shields, axes, moved to and fro.	10
15	139	They carried shields, axes.	10
15	149	They had slung their shields and axes on their backs.	10
15	250	They carried their shields, their axes, on their back.	10
15	343	The Kurii unslung their shields, their axes.	10
15	345	The Kurii fixed on their left arms the heavy, rounded iron shields, took the great axes, seven feet in length, grasped some two feet from the bottom of the handle, in their massive right fists.	10
18	159	We saw the overlapping shields of the Kurii line, the axes.	10
18	221	It consists of two lines, one on the ground, the other at chest level, of overlapping shields.	10
18	222	The shields turn only for the blows of axes.	10
21	92	Spear blades rang on shields.	10
21	94	But as the men cried out, and cheered, and the weapons clashed on shields, I looked to a place in the hall where, mounted on a great stake, was the huge, savage head of the Kur which I had slain on the Skerry of Vars.	10
22	33	"Tarl Red Hair," had said he, "with this talmit accede to Jarlship in Torvaldsland!" I had been lifted on the shields of shouting men.	10
22	38	I had lifted my hands to them, standing on the shields, a Jarl of Torvaldsland, one who might now, in his own name if need be, send forth the arrow of war, summoning adherents; one who might, as it pleased him, command ships and men; one who might now say to the rough, bold seamen of the north, as i...	10
22	212	The seamen brought their shields inboard, stowed their gear beneath their benches, grasped their oars.	10

Book 10. (1 results) Tribesmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	77	Further, one shields, with one's body, the surface on which one lies.	10

Book 11. (7 results) Slave Girl of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	413	It had a long, heavy shaft, some two inches in width, some seven feet in length; the head of the weapon, including its socket and penetrating rivets, was some twenty inches in length; the killing edges of the blade began about two inches from the bottom of the socket, which reinforced the blade, tap...	10
2	674	I looked about at the field, at the signs of battle, the discarded shields, one deeply punctured and cut, the scattered weapons.	10
2	1179	The tunics, scarlet, the helmets and shields, were not cut and formed, and decorated, as were those of the brute who held me by the upper arms.	10
3	12	Spears were stacked to one side, and shields lay about against the sheltering, enclosing cliffs.	10
3	221	The only reservation I had pertaining to the design was that I thought it might be a bit too delicate and lovely, like a lovely rose, to appropriately mark goods of a gross masculine nature, such as, say, harnesses or shields.	10
19	22	There were shields and crossed spears on either side of the door.	10
21	67	I saw guardsmen hurrying by, with shields and spears.	10

Book 12. (5 results) Beasts of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	98	It was true that in the north, by the word of Svein Blue Tooth, I had stood upon the shields as Jarl.	10
4	313	"Kill him! Kill him!" Guardsmen at the stage's edge, with shields, buffeted back a man who, with drawn knife, had tried to climb to the level where sat the table of the game.	10
9	119	Usually they are killed from a distance, often from behind shields, with arrows.	10
10	315	They did not carry shields, for their duties had only involved the supervision of a work crew.	10
10	359	They did not have shields.	10

Book 13. (17 results) Explorers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	229	Shaba's nine boats had fixed at their masts the tufted shields of the officialdom of Bila Huruma".	10
6	66	The shields in this area tend to have that shape.	10
11	169	They carried high, oval shields, and short, long-bladed stabbing spears.	10
11	181	They put aside their shields and short spears and, hauling on the rope, jerked the blond-haired barbarian to her feet.	10
12	32	I glanced uneasily at the two large fellows, those with the shields and stabbing spears, who stood near us.	10
16	218	The askaris were jubilant, resplendent in their skins and feathers, with their golden necklaces and armlets, their narrow, tufted shields and short-handled stabbing spears.	10
23	36	Like most askaris they carried long, tufted shields and short stabbing spears.	10
23	354	Nervously I saw that there were several askaris about, more than I had originally realized, some twenty of them, with their shields and stabbing spears.	10
24	20	Concealed by a thin layer of mud on the raft were two shields and two stabbing spears, which Kisu and I had taken from the two askaris we had subdued on the platform of Tende.	10
24	69	Kisu tore at the mud, scratching for one of the shields and stabbing spears.	10
24	170	We had placed weapons in the canoe, the shields and stabbing spears from the two askaris, and some spears and another shield, from the raiders.	10
39	3	In these two other villages the men, with shields and spears, had rushed out to the shore to threaten us.	10
39	21	Streaming out from behind them, brandishing spears and shields, knives and pangas, crying out, plunging toward us in the water, were dozens of men.	10
50	10	Here and there, emerging from the lake, were great stone figures, the torsos and heads of men, shields upon their arms, spears grasped in their hands.	10
50	39	At places, and flanking the huge building at the top of the flights of stairs, were more of the huge figures of warriors, with shields and spears.	10
53	316	The oval leather shields and the stabbing spears of the askaris might have been an ideal armament for invincibility in tribal warfare but they afforded little in the way of martial equity when compared to the weighty, slashing pangas of the Kurii.	10
53	317	They were not the mighty axes and heavy shields of Torvaldsland.	10

Book 14. (3 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
13	277	Behind their left shoulders were round shields.	10
13	279	Behind their left shoulder, over the shields, there hung steel helmets.	10
21	145	We could see their spears, mounted at the right stirrup, like needles, at the distance, and the shields, seeming small and round.	10

Book 15. (1 results) Rogue of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	79	While the spearmen lifted their shields to protect themselves from the sky our squares swept down the slopes upon them".	10

Book 16. (10 results) Guardsman of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	138	I saw then that their action had been diversionary, to occupy us while other longboats, fixed with wicker shields, of the sort used for naval bowmen, lay along the chain.	10
1	139	Behind those shields, like shapes and shadows, distinguishable behind the wicker, men tore with saws at the chain.	10
1	146	The wicker shields of our own archers were now bristling with feathers and wood.	10
1	158	Not more than a dozen feet away I could see a pirate longboat behind the chain, protected by wicker shields.	10
4	207	Archer shields, of heavy wicker, floated in the water, and ruptured posts and strakes, and parts of oars.	10
5	203	Out of the opened hatches poured warriors of Ar, grimly helmeted, bearing great, rounded shields and mighty spears, bronze-headed and tapering.	10
5	204	Pirates rushed to the planked road bearing ingress to their ship, but a dozen spears, and then another dozen, hurled by running men devastated resistance, and then, on the run, swords drawn, their shields struck by arrows, buffeting, slashing, driving men into the water, the soldiers of Ar rushed ov...	10
6	119	Even soldiers of Ar, at our benches, crying out, seized up shields and bucklers, and smote them with the blades of spears and the flats of swords.	10
7	60	By the buffeting of those mighty shields, by the thrusting of great spears, by the swift, ringing flash of well-tempered steel, wave after wave of boarders was repelled, cut to pieces, swept back like rabble.	10
10	28	Crests had been ripped from helmets, identificatory devices pried from the convex surfaces of shields.	10

Book 17. (4 results) Savages of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	722	This product, crude and tough, may be used for such things as shields, cases and ropes.	10
1	1220	The shields, too, are made of the hide of the kailiauk, from the thick hide of the back of the neck, where the skin and musculature are thick, to support the weight of the trident and turn the blows of other tridents, especially in the spring buffetings, attendant upon which follows mate selection".	10
6	81	It will also, at short ranges, penetrate most of the hide shields used by the red savages.	10
12	42	They could be hung, too, from lodge poles, and parts of them, in twisted or dangling fringes, could decorate numerous articles, such as shields and war shirts.	10

Book 18. (23 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	226	They carried feathered lances, and war shields and medicine shields, in decorated cases.	10
44	610	They were not the large, oval shields of Turia, or the large rounded shields common to Gorean infantry in the north, behind which a warrior might crouch, hoping for a swift surcease to the storm of missiles.	10
15	235	"Shields do not behave like that outside of the Barrens," I told Cuwignaka, smiling.	10
15	237	"Well, be assured, my friend, I am speaking of the shields of the peoples of the Barrens and within the Barrens.	10
15	238	These are not your ordinary shields.	10
15	250	"Thus," said Cuwignaka, "they are not ordinary shields".	10
15	261	"About the shields," I said.	10
26	13	Lances struck on shields.	10
27	27	Still others spoke to their shields and weapons, telling them what would be expected of them.	10
27	70	"Shields overhead!" I cried.	10
28	22	We had come with shields and lances.	10
28	217	As we could protect ourselves reasonably well with shields from simple, distance archery it seemed obvious, then, that our two enemies would act in conjunction.	10
28	219	Similarly, if we attempted to protect ourselves from aerial fire, by lifting our shields, we would be exposing ourselves to the Yellow Knives' plane of attack.	10
29	63	"Shields overhead!" I cried.	10
34	417	This would be the time for the sunning of shields, hanging on the shield tripods behind the lodges, the entrance of the lodge facing east, the back of the lodge facing west.	10
37	121	Helplessness and vulnerability seem strange shields; how implausible is gentleness as an instrument of diplomacy; what an unlikely weapon is her tenderness.	10
44	490	Yellow Knives raised their shields but this did little good for the potency of the stones lay primarily not in their capacity to cut or penetrate but to transmit their considerable force, bluntly, crushingly, suddenly, to the target surface.	10
44	568	And as they lowered their shields to defend themselves against the almost point-blank fire of the Kaiila other Kaiila archers, from above, over the edge of the escarpment, fired down upon them.	10
44	607	In moments the shields of the Yellow Knives bristled with arrows.	10
44	609	The small shields of the Yellow Knives, too, provided them with little protection.	10
46	154	War clubs, shields and knives met.	10
46	173	Our weapons and shields slung about us we then climbed these ropes to the height of the escarpment.	10
47	424	Kaiila swarmed over and through the barricade, with clubs and lances, and shields and knives.	10

Book 19. (1 results) Kajira of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	86	I could see a double line of guardsmen, with shields and spears, exiting through the gates.	10

Book 21. (5 results) Mercenaries of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	203	In this formation shields are held in such a way that they constitute a wall for the outer ranks and a roof for the inner ranks.	10
3	218	Spears and shields were cast away that men might flee the more rapidly.	10
3	301	Two had shields slung at their back.	10
3	302	Shields of the others hung at the left sides of their saddles.	10
4	45	Their shields tend to be oval, like those of Turians.	10

Book 22. (1 results) Dancer of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
17	119	To one side there was a sculptured group, perhaps celebrating some triumph or victory, of five heroic male figures, with shields, helmets and spears, and at their feet, amidst apparent spoils, perhaps captives, or slaves, kneeling, two nude female figures.	10

Book 23. (25 results) Renegades of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
18	151	"All with shields here! Form the wall!" Men with shields hurried to where I stood, lifting the shields, overlapping them.	10
18	269	The men in these lines crouched down, their shields between themselves and the wall, creating an open fence of shields, a poor, broken cover, given the paucity of their numbers, but better than none.	10
15	970	There, spread before me, in the bright morning sun, under the clear blue sky, bright with glittering spear blades and shields, with nodding plumes, with the standards of companies and regiments, dotted with engines, here and there a tharlarion stalking about, tarnsmen in the sky, in serried ranks, s...	10
17	24	As soon as the bridges struck down on the stone, at eleven points along the wall, from each of the somber, giant, looming, hide-hung towers, scores of men packed within rushed forth, spewing forth, erupting, like lava or steam and water breaking from the side of a cliff, racing, sprinting, descendin...	10
17	37	The first catapult slung its storm of missiles into the charging men, blinding them, denting shields, cutting clothing from bodies.	10
17	461	I could hear the ringing of swords, the clash of metal on shields, from both the right and left.	10
18	152	I forced my way among them, sometimes literally thrusting shields into position.	10
18	174	The bearers, then, crouching down, behind four fellows holding shields between them and the wall, hurried toward the walkway.	10
18	179	I then sent forth men from the shield wall singly, and in squads, to ferry the women and children, one at a time, or the women carrying children in their arms, beneath the cover of their shields, to the walkway.	10
18	205	He had hardly spoken when the interior gate, leading out to the landing, swung inward, and a stream of Cosians waiting within, a moment later, helmeted, with shields, thrusting with spears, slashing with swords, pressed out against the defenders.	10
18	209	As shields were turned and lifted quarrels sped down from the walls and men screamed, twisting, hit.	10
18	267	Two lines were formed, one on the left, one on the right, of fellows with shields.	10
18	298	Among the free women running to, and on, the walkway, under the partial cover of the shields, I saw slave females, too, barefoot and bare-armed, in their tiny skirts, their necks in their light steel collars.	10
18	329	These mostly backed along, protecting their retreat with their shields, making their way in a file between the fellows still in position on the walkway, on each side of it, those I had placed there to afford protection to the women and children.	10
19	28	In between the assaults we gasped for breath and crouched behind our shields, resting their rims on the walkway.	10
19	30	It is little wonder warriors often train with weighted shields.	10
19	112	What can a handful of shields do there? Little, or nothing.	10
19	242	The men with him smote with their steel on their shields.	10
20	55	Use the bodies of the slain, and the wounded, as shields".	10
20	71	Then there will be no more quibbling about bodies and shields".	10
20	133	"Shields to the edges of the piers!" called out Surilius.	10
20	202	Men with shields leapt from them to the piers, hurrying to the sides facing the inner harbor.	10
20	242	They crouched there, with overlapping shields, their swords drawn.	10
24	370	"Not everything in war is nodding plumes and the sun flashing from silvered shields".	10
24	794	"Because war is not all nodding plumes and the sun flashing from silvered shields?" I asked, recalling the words of Aemilianus.	10

Book 24. (3 results) Vagabonds of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
15	73	"Shields right!" I heard.	10
15	75	The shields were now to be shifted to the right arm, for that was the direction from which had come the arrow.	10
18	33	Indeed, though I did not wish to retrace the steps of the column, there were many things, even shields and such, which had been discarded in the marsh.	10

Book 25. (2 results) Magicians of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	748	Then, the dance ended, men striking their left shoulders in Gorean applause, shouting their vociferous approval, some armed warriors striking their shields with spear blades, she sank to the ground, on her back, breathless, breasts heaving, covered with a sheen of sweat, before her master, her left ...	10
7	195	Regulars of Cos, regiments of them, in ordered lines, in cleaned, pressed blue, with polished helmets and shields, preceded by numerous standard bearers, representing far more units than were doubtless in the city at the moment, and musicians, advanced.	10

Book 26. (4 results) Witness of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	211	Some of these men lacked weapons, helmets and shields.	10
34	87	The bows had served, in their way, as shields, the urts snapping at them, clinging to them, permitting the defender to draw and hack at their stretched necks with his sword.	10
34	175	"Too," continued the leader of the black-tunicked men, "the slaves may also serve as shields, if we are attacked, either by he whom we hunt, or by other beasts".	10
35	121	We were to be used, I gathered, as shields, or as tests, thrust before the men, of the passages, their possible dangers.	10

Book 27. (3 results) Prize of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	288	She caught, in less than an Ehn, a glimpse of saddles and shields, of lances, of helmets.	10
27	1696	Some had spears and some shields.	10
27	1697	She wondered if the shields would stop a bullet.	10

Book 28. (3 results) Kur of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
36	299	"And do they not sometimes struggle beneath the weight of their masters' shields?" she asked.	10
47	86	"They fired from behind metal shields," said Lord Grendel.	10
74	19	He was familiar with martial dances from Gor, of course, which are used not simply for public displays, and such, but in the training of infantry, the turns, advances, withdrawals, the liftings and lowerings of spears, the rhythmic clash of blades on shields, the stamping of feet, the glittering of ...	10

Book 29. (6 results) Swordsmen of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
3	164	It was the Gorean short sword, or gladius, light, easily unsheathed, convenient, designed for wickedly close work, to move behind the guard of longer, heavier weapons, to slip about buffeted shields or bucklers.	10
8	22	The Pyrrhic dances were used primarily as training exercises, but also figured in parades and martial displays, men shouting, spears clashing rhythmically on shields, the spear hedge rising and falling, wheeling about, a thousand spears in unison, this all to music.	10
17	2	The heavy shields and mighty spears borne by them would alone far outweigh the armament and accouterments of my men.	10
40	13	And I think none then expected to raise their shields, to put their blades and spears that day to battle.	10
40	46	There was shouting, and the clashing of blades, and the pounding of spear metal on metal-rimmed shields.	10
40	139	There had been shouting, the clashing of blades, the pounding of spear metal on metal-rimmed shields.	10

Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
22	249	Few had brought shields ashore.	10

Book 31. (1 results) Conspirators of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
38	3	They carried improvised shields of nailed wood and spears.	10

Book 32. (2 results) Smugglers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
6	83	It was claimed by some that the retreat from Ar had been a rout, precipitous and disorderly, and, in some cases, even disciplined troops had cast aside their shields and fled for their lives.	10
20	178	"And the objects of war," said another, "timbers, hurling stones, cordage, jars of pitch, finned darts, spears, glaives, javelins, varieties of blades, masses of shields, bucklers, wrappings in which are bound a thousand arrows".	10

Book 34. (3 results) Plunder of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
49	111	In short, the truce standards were raised, and hundreds of men, from each army, came onto the field, gathered up the birds in their helmets and the basins of their shields, and returned to their respective camps, where the birds were nursed, being warmed and fed, and, two days later, on a common sig...	10
61	653	The need for shields had not been anticipated.	10
63	149	We could see sunlight flashing from helmets, shields, and weapons.	10

Book 36. (32 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
32	21	What I did expect to take place, and what did take place, with various disorganized groups of the raiders, other than simple, precipitate flight, was either forming shield rings, circles of shields, which, in effect, immobilizes the group, or counterattacks in which the beleaguered group rushes into...	10
3	71	"There were no uniforms," I said, "no flags, no pennons, no banners, no identificatory marks on helmets or shields?" Surely the raiders would seek anonymity.	10
3	72	"On the contrary," he said, "banners were flourished and emblems and signs were boldly displayed, both on helmets and shields".	10
19	120	What a joy to hear them speak! Her words are much to her, and important to her; they are her offense and defense, her shields and her weapons.	10
20	67	Arm yourselves! Arm yourselves!" At that point, from outside the tent, there was a shouting and a clanging on shields.	10
32	14	Moreover, as our archers were on both sides of the road, the shields of our targets, which could face but one way at a time, would be largely ineffective.	10
32	20	In this retreat both sides of a moving column are covered by shields, one side changing the shield arm.	10
32	47	Carts should have been brought for their shields; the paga ration last night had been meager and of poor quality; the porridge this morning had been no better than slave gruel; yesterday's column had spent a comfortable night in the village, carousing and sleeping, not in blankets between rowing ben...	10
32	93	"Captain," said Xanthos, "they will surely, in one or two days, become desperate and rush forth, shields forward, in numbers we will be unable to resist or turn back".	10
33	78	"However," I said, "in your safe, uncontested passage to the sea, generously allowed to you, you may bear no arms, either offensive or defensive, no swords, no spears, no knives or axes, no shields, no helmets, no bucklers, or such".	10
41	173	"They can conceal and protect men, be wheeled to walls, overtop walls, and, when they suddenly drop their gates, permit besiegers bearing shields to rush downward with great force upon defenders".	10
45	25	Many of the mercenaries who had passed the outer ditch remained in its vicinity, crouched down, covering themselves with their large, round shields of leather, rimmed and bossed with bronze.	10
47	9	I, and others, my men and the fighters of Mytilene, from the town walls, watched the mercenaries' harried retreat to the sea, through a corridor flanked by lifted shields.	10
47	14	Several cast aside helmets, weapons, and shields and tried to swim to the waiting ships.	10
47	16	Many others, hundreds, backs to the sea, shields lifted, must stay indefinitely in place, trusting to the return of the crews of the longboats, few of which, it seemed, cared, for their fees, to hazard a second trip.	10
48	5	The wealth, valuables, coins, rings, jewelries, garments, cloaks, weapons, helmets, shields, and such, of the slain enemy would be considerable.	10
48	63	If a tree is available, suitably situated, and of an appropriate size, it is cleared of bark, leaves, and smaller branches, and then used as a mount or frame on which to hang paraphernalia proclaiming the victory, usually helmets, shields, insignia, banners, standards, broken weapons, and such, take...	10
50	14	"Spears and shields! Arm your bows and slings! Release the vulos".	10
51	69	Sunlight was reflected from helmets, from the metal bosses of rounded shields, from the blades of spears.	10
54	110	"We could hand them about tonight, and, in the morning, use them as human shields".	10
56	2	A trumpet blared, hundreds of voices screamed cries of war, metals clattered, wood creaked, helmeted visages appeared, eyes wild, ladders sagged, swords thrust, quarrels and arrows passed in flight, men bellowed, men screamed, shields were pressed back, ladders were thrust back and to the side.	10
56	71	Most of these, shields, weapons, and helmets discarded, were still in the water.	10
57	17	"Shields will be raised," I said.	10
57	40	One was killed by a screaming officer, and then men with shields rushed to the rail, that those who would cast the grapnels might loft them from behind shielding.	10
57	59	Simultaneously, strings of men who, behind shields, were hauling on the grapnel ropes, lost their balance and spilled backward onto the deck of the corsair.	10
57	63	"Archers, shields!" blared a hand-held speaking tube on the corsair ship.	10
57	121	Some other mercenaries, comprehending their predicament, had already cast aside their shields and weapons and had crawled or rolled to the railless edge of the Tesephone and plunged overboard, preferring the jeopardy of Thassa to the near certitude of extermination.	10
57	168	We had not yet, muchly concealed behind the screens, attacked the boarders, nor had they, as yet, shields lifted, weapons poised, charged us.	10
57	193	Others threw away their shields and weapons and leapt from the Tesephone to the water now separating us from the corsair ship.	10
59	207	"I see little but chains," said Thurnock, "and two soldiers, with shields".	10
59	213	The two soldiers with the prisoner on the float shook their shields warningly, menacingly, at the crowd, presumably to discourage it from clambering onto the float and tearing the prisoner apart.	10
59	214	The shields did little, however, to protect the prisoner from the fruit, garbage, and debris which was cast upon him.	10