Post by Daubee on Mar 13, 2008 1:25:59 GMT -5
“Across the city, from the walls to the cylinders and among the cylinders, I could occasionally see the slight flash of sunlight on the swaying tarn wires, literally hundreds of thousands of slender, almost invisible wires stretched in a protective net across the city.”
Tarnsman of Gor, pages 162 - 163
“. . . loops of tarn wire were cast over the armed, halted efflux which the foe, to his horror, trying to extricate himself, felt draw tight and then he, too, snared, was dragged from the bridge . . .The wire, in its wide, supple loops, had settled about its victims, their legs and bodies . . .perhaps to have its throat cut. . .”
Renegades of Gor, page 283
At the last tower a simple garrote of tarn wire, almost invisible, had been thrust forth, secured between two poles. Such wire is usually handled with gloves. It can usually cut to the bone. It can take a wing from a tarn. I do not think the first fellows hurrying down the bridge even saw it. Their bodies, lacerated, impeded the flow of their fellows.
Renegades of Gor, pages 283 - 284
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
Tarnsman of Gor, pages 162 - 163
“. . . loops of tarn wire were cast over the armed, halted efflux which the foe, to his horror, trying to extricate himself, felt draw tight and then he, too, snared, was dragged from the bridge . . .The wire, in its wide, supple loops, had settled about its victims, their legs and bodies . . .perhaps to have its throat cut. . .”
Renegades of Gor, page 283
At the last tower a simple garrote of tarn wire, almost invisible, had been thrust forth, secured between two poles. Such wire is usually handled with gloves. It can usually cut to the bone. It can take a wing from a tarn. I do not think the first fellows hurrying down the bridge even saw it. Their bodies, lacerated, impeded the flow of their fellows.
Renegades of Gor, pages 283 - 284
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