Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 208 | A kur, armed, has little to fear, unless taken unawares. |
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 1 | 205 | Bred for dark sports, trained to hunt and kill, he was a prize of his breed, a champion of his kind. |
| 1 | 206 | Later, in the insurrection, he, and other sleen, as Agamemnon grew more desperate, uncertain, and frightened, had been freed, that they might hunt down, destroy, and devour his foes, in particular ill-armed humans who might be party to the rebellion. |
| 1 | 207 | A kur, unarmed, is a match for a sleen. |
| 1 | 208 | A kur, armed, has little to fear, unless taken unawares. |
| 1 | 209 | In turn, the revolutionaries, primarily the rebel kurii, primarily on behalf of their human allies, had set a number of heavy, metal traps, more than two-hundred pounds in weight, baited with haunches of tarsk, traps fastened by heavy chains to large stakes sunk deeply into the ground, and in one such trap this beautiful animal, this great, fierce, dangerous, six-legged, sinuous monster, Ramar, had been caught. |
| 1 | 210 | In this trap, held by its steel teeth, clamped deeply into his left rear leg, to the bone, bleeding and tortured, jerking against the stake and chain, then quiescent and silent, he would have died, of prolonged pain, or thirst. |
| 1 | 211 | He was a large, noble animal, and beautiful in the hideous way in which a sleen can be beautiful, and it did not please me that such a creature should perish so miserably. |
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Bred for dark sports, trained to hunt and kill, he was a prize of his breed, a champion of his kind.
Later, in the insurrection, he, and other sleen, as Agamemnon grew more desperate, uncertain, and frightened, had been freed, that they might hunt down, destroy, and devour his foes, in particular ill-armed humans who might be party to the rebellion.
A kur, unarmed, is a match for a sleen.
A kur, armed, has little to fear, unless taken unawares.
In turn, the revolutionaries, primarily the rebel kurii, primarily on behalf of their human allies, had set a number of heavy, metal traps, more than two-hundred pounds in weight, baited with haunches of tarsk, traps fastened by heavy chains to large stakes sunk deeply into the ground, and in one such trap this beautiful animal, this great, fierce, dangerous, six-legged, sinuous monster, Ramar, had been caught.
In this trap, held by its steel teeth, clamped deeply into his left rear leg, to the bone, bleeding and tortured, jerking against the stake and chain, then quiescent and silent, he would have died, of prolonged pain, or thirst.
He was a large, noble animal, and beautiful in the hideous way in which a sleen can be beautiful, and it did not please me that such a creature should perish so miserably.
- (Swordsmen of Gor, Chapter 1)