Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 17 | 34 | They would be, I supposed, little used to riding together, and would presumably lack familiar, common signals and maneuvers. |
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 17 | 31 | They have been spoiled for freedom. |
| 17 | 32 | And what man does not want one at his feet? Lord Nishida had informed me that these tarnsmen had been recruited in more than two dozen cities. |
| 17 | 33 | Although the numbers were prodigious, considered merely as military units, these riders, I supposed, would be less a cavalry than a conglomerate or horde. |
| 17 | 34 | They would be, I supposed, little used to riding together, and would presumably lack familiar, common signals and maneuvers. |
| 17 | 35 | They would expect, in numbers, if in nothing else, to overwhelm and destroy a smaller force. |
| 17 | 36 | I would learn later that our foes of the afternoon numbered better than two thousand, to our two hundred. |
| 17 | 37 | To be sure, more important than simple numbers was firepower, and our two hundred possessed the firepower of a group much larger, if the larger group was armed in the usual manner. |
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They have been spoiled for freedom.
And what man does not want one at his feet? Lord Nishida had informed me that these tarnsmen had been recruited in more than two dozen cities.
Although the numbers were prodigious, considered merely as military units, these riders, I supposed, would be less a cavalry than a conglomerate or horde.
They would be, I supposed, little used to riding together, and would presumably lack familiar, common signals and maneuvers.
They would expect, in numbers, if in nothing else, to overwhelm and destroy a smaller force.
I would learn later that our foes of the afternoon numbered better than two thousand, to our two hundred.
To be sure, more important than simple numbers was firepower, and our two hundred possessed the firepower of a group much larger, if the larger group was armed in the usual manner.
- (Swordsmen of Gor, Chapter 17)