Post by Daubee on Mar 11, 2008 17:33:36 GMT -5
Immediately we heard the sound of several men leaping down to the street and the draw cords on the wire net probably of the sort often used for snaring sleen began to tighten. Neither Harold nor myself could move an arm or hand and, locked in the net, we stood like fools until a guardsman kicked the feet out from under us and we rolled, entrapped in the wire, at his feet.
He grinned, pressing against the net, trying its strength. "No," he said. I, too, tried the net. The thick woven wire held well.
Nomads of Gor, page 193
As with nets, with snares there is a great variety of types and uses. Some are fine enough to set for field urts and other stout enough for tharlarion.
Renegades of Gor, page 283
The fishermen had a net with them, doubtless brought up from their small boat in the harbor. Such devices are rich in war uses. They can discommode scalers and grapnel crews. They can block passages. From behind them, one may conveniently thrust pikes and discharge missiles. In the field they may serve as foundations for camouflage, for example, effecting concealments from tarnsmen. Nets, too, of course, are used at sea in the repulsion of boarders. Similarly, nets, often small and silken, but sturdy and cunningly weighted, are used in the taking of women. At both these bridges the charge was arrested by the bristling points of a braced, pike wall, two men to a pike. At the fishermen’s bridge the net was cast, but its weights were not now stones. Rather was it weighted with two logs, which, at it settled upon its catch, were toppled over the parapet.
Renegades of Gor, pages 282 – 283
He grinned, pressing against the net, trying its strength. "No," he said. I, too, tried the net. The thick woven wire held well.
Nomads of Gor, page 193
As with nets, with snares there is a great variety of types and uses. Some are fine enough to set for field urts and other stout enough for tharlarion.
Renegades of Gor, page 283
The fishermen had a net with them, doubtless brought up from their small boat in the harbor. Such devices are rich in war uses. They can discommode scalers and grapnel crews. They can block passages. From behind them, one may conveniently thrust pikes and discharge missiles. In the field they may serve as foundations for camouflage, for example, effecting concealments from tarnsmen. Nets, too, of course, are used at sea in the repulsion of boarders. Similarly, nets, often small and silken, but sturdy and cunningly weighted, are used in the taking of women. At both these bridges the charge was arrested by the bristling points of a braced, pike wall, two men to a pike. At the fishermen’s bridge the net was cast, but its weights were not now stones. Rather was it weighted with two logs, which, at it settled upon its catch, were toppled over the parapet.
Renegades of Gor, pages 282 – 283