Book 5. (1 results) Assassin of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 15 | 107 | The one time I did attend the games I suppose I was fortunate in seeing Murmillius fight. |
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Book 5. (7 results) Assassin of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 15 | 104 | There are no factions, it might be mentioned, at the games. |
| 15 | 105 | Further, as might be expected, those who favor the games do not much go to the races, and those who favor the races do not often appear at the games. |
| 15 | 106 | The adherents of each entertainment, though perhaps equaling one another in their fanaticism, tend not to be the same men. |
| 15 | 107 | The one time I did attend the games I suppose I was fortunate in seeing Murmillius fight. |
| 15 | 108 | He was an extremely large man and a truly unusual and superb swordsman. |
| 15 | 109 | Murmillius always fought alone, never in teams, and in more than one hundred and fifteen fights, sometimes fighting three and four times in one afternoon, he had never lost a contest. |
| 15 | 110 | It was not known if he had been originally slave or not, but had he been he surely would have won his freedom ten times over and more; again and again, even after he would have won his freedom had he first been slave, he returned to the sand of the arena, steel in hand; I supposed it might be the gold of victory, or the plaudits of the screaming crowd that brought Murmillius ever again striding helmeted in the sunlight onto the white sand. |
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There are no factions, it might be mentioned, at the games.
Further, as might be expected, those who favor the games do not much go to the races, and those who favor the races do not often appear at the games.
The adherents of each entertainment, though perhaps equaling one another in their fanaticism, tend not to be the same men.
The one time I did attend the games I suppose I was fortunate in seeing Murmillius fight.
He was an extremely large man and a truly unusual and superb swordsman.
Murmillius always fought alone, never in teams, and in more than one hundred and fifteen fights, sometimes fighting three and four times in one afternoon, he had never lost a contest.
It was not known if he had been originally slave or not, but had he been he surely would have won his freedom ten times over and more; again and again, even after he would have won his freedom had he first been slave, he returned to the sand of the arena, steel in hand; I supposed it might be the gold of victory, or the plaudits of the screaming crowd that brought Murmillius ever again striding helmeted in the sunlight onto the white sand.
- (Assassin of Gor, Chapter 15)