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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: to meet the foremost of the green warriors.
The fellow was charging with couched spear, but Carthoris
leaped to one side, and as the great thoat and its
rider hurtled harmlessly past him he swung his long-sword
in a mighty cut that clove the green carcass in twain.
At the same moment Kar Komak leaped with bare hands
clawing at the leg of another of the huge riders; the
balance of the horde raced in to close quarters, dismounting
the better to wield their favourite long-swords; the
Dusarian fliers touched the soft carpet of the ochre-clad
sea-bottom, disgorging fifty fighting men from their bowels;
Thuvia, Maid of Mars |
