Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 8 | 16 | He had two hands on an unusual sword, with which he described certain evolutions, thrusts, strokes, a return to guard, and so on. |
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 8 | 13 | We were some twenty yards from the fellow, who was engaged, I supposed, in certain martial exercises, certainly of a rather stylized, formal nature. |
| 8 | 14 | I had never seen anything exactly like this before. |
| 8 | 15 | He was standing, and sometimes wheeled about, gracefully. |
| 8 | 16 | He had two hands on an unusual sword, with which he described certain evolutions, thrusts, strokes, a return to guard, and so on. |
| 8 | 17 | It seemed ritualistic, but he was certainly intent on what he was doing. |
| 8 | 18 | I had the sense of a severe concentration. |
| 8 | 19 | I was reminded somewhat of the Pyrrhic dances of Gorean infantry, particularly of those infantries who specialized in the tactics of the phalanx, rather than the shifting, melting, forming, reforming tactics of the squares. |
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We were some twenty yards from the fellow, who was engaged, I supposed, in certain martial exercises, certainly of a rather stylized, formal nature.
I had never seen anything exactly like this before.
He was standing, and sometimes wheeled about, gracefully.
He had two hands on an unusual sword, with which he described certain evolutions, thrusts, strokes, a return to guard, and so on.
It seemed ritualistic, but he was certainly intent on what he was doing.
I had the sense of a severe concentration.
I was reminded somewhat of the Pyrrhic dances of Gorean infantry, particularly of those infantries who specialized in the tactics of the phalanx, rather than the shifting, melting, forming, reforming tactics of the squares.
- (Swordsmen of Gor, Chapter 8)