Quotation from: The Chessmen of Mars

Written by: Edgar Rice Burroughs

Gahan smiled. "We do not speak of that except to enemies," he
said, "and then with tongues of steel rather than of flesh."

"But what practice in the art of war has a people which nature
has thus protected from attack?" asked Tara of Helium, who had
liked the young jed's answer to her previous question, but yet in
whose mind persisted a vague conviction of the possible
effeminacy of her companion, induced, doubtless, by the
magnificence of his trappings and weapons which carried a
suggestion of splendid show rather than grim utility.