Book 22. (7 results) Dancer of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 25 | 198 | I then rose to my feet, and, head down, humbly, frightened, hurried to the back portions of the tent. |
| 25 | 199 | There I saw the shield which Tela had been polishing, a small, round silver shield, more of a buckler, really, than a shield. |
| 25 | 200 | It was ornamented with bosses, and engraved with mythological scenes, the conquest, and the rape and enslavement of Amazons by satyrs. |
| 25 | 201 | In Gorean mythology it is said that there was once a war between men and women and that the women lost, and that the priest-kings, not wishing the women to be killed, made them beautiful, but as the price of this gift decreed that they, and their daughters, to the end of time, would be the slaves of men. |
| 25 | 202 | The shield, so small, so beautiful, was perhaps more an artifact for display, I think, than a device of war. |
| 25 | 203 | Still I did not doubt that Aulus could handle weapons. |
| 25 | 204 | He seemed to me that sort of man. |
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I then rose to my feet, and, head down, humbly, frightened, hurried to the back portions of the tent.
There I saw the shield which Tela had been polishing, a small, round silver shield, more of a buckler, really, than a shield.
It was ornamented with bosses, and engraved with mythological scenes, the conquest, and the rape and enslavement of Amazons by satyrs.
In Gorean mythology it is said that there was once a war between men and women and that the women lost, and that the priest-kings, not wishing the women to be killed, made them beautiful, but as the price of this gift decreed that they, and their daughters, to the end of time, would be the slaves of men.
The shield, so small, so beautiful, was perhaps more an artifact for display, I think, than a device of war.
Still I did not doubt that Aulus could handle weapons.
He seemed to me that sort of man.
- (Dancer of Gor, Chapter )