Book 16. (1 results) Guardsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
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Quote
7
19
Fusillades of javelins, struck from springals, hailed down on pirate ships as frequently as they did on ours.
Fusillades of javelins, struck from springals, hailed down on pirate ships as frequently as they did on ours.
- (Guardsman of Gor, Chapter 7, Sentence #19)
Book 16. (7 results) Guardsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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Quote
7
16
The ships of the Voskjard so pressed about our three ships that they could not use their rams or shearing blades.
7
17
More than one Voskjard ship had been set afire by flaming pitch cast from another.
7
18
More than one, at the waterline, or on her decks, it falling among crowded men, had been smitten with stones cast from the catapults of their own ships.
7
19
Fusillades of javelins, struck from springals, hailed down on pirate ships as frequently as they did on ours.
7
20
Even arrows, as often as not in the fray, in the mixings and shiftings of men, indiscriminately, to the consternation of pirates, found unintended targets.
7
21
There was a movement in the water behind me, and I twisted suddenly to the side, turning, and catching the arm, its knife in hand, striking toward me.
7
22
"For the Voskjard!" hissed the man.
The ships of the Voskjard so pressed about our three ships that they could not use their rams or shearing blades.
More than one Voskjard ship had been set afire by flaming pitch cast from another.
More than one, at the waterline, or on her decks, it falling among crowded men, had been smitten with stones cast from the catapults of their own ships.
Fusillades of javelins, struck from springals, hailed down on pirate ships as frequently as they did on ours.
Even arrows, as often as not in the fray, in the mixings and shiftings of men, indiscriminately, to the consternation of pirates, found unintended targets.
There was a movement in the water behind me, and I twisted suddenly to the side, turning, and catching the arm, its knife in hand, striking toward me.
"For the Voskjard!" hissed the man.
- (Guardsman of Gor, Chapter 7)