Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 17 | 47 | The mercenary who fights for his life is more to be feared, surely, than one who fights merely for his pay. |
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 17 | 44 | As hundreds of birds alighted in the plaza of training, tarnsmen dismounted, to fire the camp. |
| 17 | 45 | On the ground, of course, the tarnsman was a common infantryman, and I had no doubt their incursion, despite their superiority in numbers, would be fiercely met by the Ashigaru of the Pani and several of our mercenaries. |
| 17 | 46 | The Pani, I was sure, would be loyal to their lord, their daimyo, Lord Nishida, for that seemed to be their way, and a cornered mercenary, one with no hope of a higher fee or escape, much like the cornered seventy-pound canal urt of Port Kar, is a most desperate and dangerous foe. |
| 17 | 47 | The mercenary who fights for his life is more to be feared, surely, than one who fights merely for his pay. |
| 17 | 48 | The larls, of course, prowled, still, beyond the wands. |
| 17 | 49 | Some of our foes would learn that, to their dismay. |
| 17 | 50 | I do not doubt that the invading force, for the moment seemingly unopposed, would suppose our smaller cavalry had judiciously forsaken the field, even as, unbeknownst to the central body of the invaders, dozens of our tarnsmen, darting to and fro, were shredding its margins. |
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As hundreds of birds alighted in the plaza of training, tarnsmen dismounted, to fire the camp.
On the ground, of course, the tarnsman was a common infantryman, and I had no doubt their incursion, despite their superiority in numbers, would be fiercely met by the Ashigaru of the Pani and several of our mercenaries.
The Pani, I was sure, would be loyal to their lord, their daimyo, Lord Nishida, for that seemed to be their way, and a cornered mercenary, one with no hope of a higher fee or escape, much like the cornered seventy-pound canal urt of Port Kar, is a most desperate and dangerous foe.
The mercenary who fights for his life is more to be feared, surely, than one who fights merely for his pay.
The larls, of course, prowled, still, beyond the wands.
Some of our foes would learn that, to their dismay.
I do not doubt that the invading force, for the moment seemingly unopposed, would suppose our smaller cavalry had judiciously forsaken the field, even as, unbeknownst to the central body of the invaders, dozens of our tarnsmen, darting to and fro, were shredding its margins.
- (Swordsmen of Gor, Chapter 17)