Book 16. (1 results) Guardsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 2 | 27 | Callimachus wiped his sword on his cloak. |
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Book 16. (7 results) Guardsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 2 | 24 | We saw tension in the irons as men climbed the ropes secured to them. |
| 2 | 25 | But they were met, as dark shapes at the bulwarks, screaming and cursing, by fierce defenders, thrusting them back with bucklers, darting steel into their bodies. |
| 2 | 26 | They were emerging from longboats and must climb up and over the bulwarks; they could not, bulwark to bulwark, leap to our deck; the advantages were fully ours; only one reached the deck, and we threw his lifeless body, thrust through in a dozen places, back into the Vosk, after its retreating fellows. |
| 2 | 27 | Callimachus wiped his sword on his cloak. |
| 2 | 28 | "Additional insult have they done to us," he grinned. |
| 2 | 29 | "Do they think we are an undefended merchantman, to assail us so boldly, so foolishly?" "As you slew a man," I said, "you cried out with pleasure". |
| 2 | 30 | "Did I?" asked Callimachus. |
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We saw tension in the irons as men climbed the ropes secured to them.
But they were met, as dark shapes at the bulwarks, screaming and cursing, by fierce defenders, thrusting them back with bucklers, darting steel into their bodies.
They were emerging from longboats and must climb up and over the bulwarks; they could not, bulwark to bulwark, leap to our deck; the advantages were fully ours; only one reached the deck, and we threw his lifeless body, thrust through in a dozen places, back into the Vosk, after its retreating fellows.
Callimachus wiped his sword on his cloak.
"Additional insult have they done to us," he grinned.
"Do they think we are an undefended merchantman, to assail us so boldly, so foolishly?" "As you slew a man," I said, "you cried out with pleasure".
"Did I?" asked Callimachus.
- (Guardsman of Gor, Chapter 2)