The intricacies of the sword were useless against his primative fury as a human boxer's skill against the onslaughts of a pantherFrom "The Pool of the Black One"
Page 171. The Complete Chronicles of CONAN.
This started out as an excuse to post some of the funnier brags and threats etc, I found while reading through the CONAN the Barbarian stories, but I think as I get more excited, I'm hoping it will become something academically useful to anyone studying pulp fiction. Right now, I'm posting the funnier and more unexpected quotes, but on my second pass through the stories I will be tackling some meatier issues and themes.
The intricacies of the sword were useless against his primative fury as a human boxer's skill against the onslaughts of a pantherFrom "The Pool of the Black One"
SANCHA, ONCE OF KORDAVA, yawned daintily, stretched her supple limbs luxuriously, and composed herself more comfortably on the ermine-fringed silk spread on the carack's poop-deck. That the crew watched her with burning interest from the waist and forecastle she was lazily aware, just as she also aware that her short silk kirtle veiled little of her voluptuous contours from their eager eyes.From "The Pool of the Black One"