Book 23. (7 results) Renegades of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 1 | 477 | More towns and cities, I think, have fallen to trickery and bribery than frontal assaults. |
| 1 | 478 | A good besieging captain is usually aware of the political dissensions within a polity and attempts to exploit them, a promised consequence of his success supposedly being to bring one party or another into power. |
| 1 | 479 | The traitorous party then, and perhaps honestly enough in its own mind, is likely to hail the conqueror as a liberator. |
| 1 | 480 | Dietrich of Tarnburg, one of the best known of the mercenary captains on gor, is legendary for his skill in such matters. |
| 1 | 481 | He has doubtless taken more towns with gold than iron. |
| 1 | 482 | The gold expended, of course, may be later expeditiously recouped from the public treasury, and the sale of goods, such as precious plate, rugs, fine cloths, tapestries, inlaid woods, silver and gold wire, art objects, jewels, tharlarion, tarsks, and women. |
| 1 | 483 | Indeed, such gains may be levied as a "liberation fee," which fee it will be then incumbent on the party in power to welcome with good grace and vigorously justify to the people. |
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More towns and cities, I think, have fallen to trickery and bribery than frontal assaults.
A good besieging captain is usually aware of the political dissensions within a polity and attempts to exploit them, a promised consequence of his success supposedly being to bring one party or another into power.
The traitorous party then, and perhaps honestly enough in its own mind, is likely to hail the conqueror as a liberator.
Dietrich of Tarnburg, one of the best known of the mercenary captains on gor, is legendary for his skill in such matters.
He has doubtless taken more towns with gold than iron.
The gold expended, of course, may be later expeditiously recouped from the public treasury, and the sale of goods, such as precious plate, rugs, fine cloths, tapestries, inlaid woods, silver and gold wire, art objects, jewels, tharlarion, tarsks, and women.
Indeed, such gains may be levied as a "liberation fee," which fee it will be then incumbent on the party in power to welcome with good grace and vigorously justify to the people.
- (Renegades of Gor, Chapter )