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Book 24. (7 results) Vagabonds of Gor (Context Quote)

Chapter # Sentence # Quote
3 26 Yet it is from the nearness of the village that the battle took its name.
3 27 Such historical details seem curious.
3 28 I listened for a moment, and it seemed to me then, as though from below, and yet from far away, as from another time, faintly, I heard the blare of trumpets, the rolling of the drums, the crying of men, the clash of metals.
3 29 Once I supposed that that placid road below, that ribbon of dust between the brown shores of grass, had run with blood.
3 30 Then once again there was only the silence and the dry road, stretching northward.
3 31 The camp of Ar near Holmesk, incidentally, was situated on, or near, the same site as had been the camp of Harfax two hundred years ago.
3 32 Such things are not coincidences.
Yet it is from the nearness of the village that the battle took its name. Such historical details seem curious. I listened for a moment, and it seemed to me then, as though from below, and yet from far away, as from another time, faintly, I heard the blare of trumpets, the rolling of the drums, the crying of men, the clash of metals. Once I supposed that that placid road below, that ribbon of dust between the brown shores of grass, had run with blood. Then once again there was only the silence and the dry road, stretching northward. The camp of Ar near Holmesk, incidentally, was situated on, or near, the same site as had been the camp of Harfax two hundred years ago. Such things are not coincidences. - (Vagabonds of Gor, Chapter )