I never saw a man fight as Conan fought. He put his back to the courtyard wall, and before they overpowered him the dead men were strewn in heaps thigh-deep about him. But at last they dragged him down, a hundred against one.

Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing.

It’s a mad nightmare,’ I muttered.