“For a space he faltered, when Goltan fell with a spear through him. “Now I am one friend poorer,” he said, “and that is a wealth not gained back.””
Source: The Broken Sword (1954), Chapter 10 (p. 65)
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“For once he was as serious as a spear through the gut.”
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“While spear in hand he repels the hounds agape to rend him.”
Tela manu, reicitque canes in vulnus hiantes.
Source: Thebaid, Book IV, Line 574 (tr. J. H. Mozley)