Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 22 | 10 | For a View more quotes about moment">moment I hung there sweating. |
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Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 22 | 7 | I could see the figures of Mul-Al-Ka and Mul-Ba-Ta beneath me, perhaps a hundred and fifty feet below. |
| 22 | 8 | Suddenly one of the extensions, the fourth I believe, slipped with a grating sound from the ceiling and I leaped wildly for the next bar, just managing to catch it in my fall. |
| 22 | 9 | I heard the other bar drop with a great clang to the floor. |
| 22 | 10 | For a moment I hung there sweating. |
| 22 | 11 | My mouth seemed to be filled with carbon and I realized I must have almost bitten through the Mul-Torch. |
| 22 | 12 | Then the bar to which I clung moved an inch from the ceiling. |
| 22 | 13 | I moved a bit and it slipped another inch. |
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I could see the figures of Mul-Al-Ka and Mul-Ba-Ta beneath me, perhaps a hundred and fifty feet below.
Suddenly one of the extensions, the fourth I believe, slipped with a grating sound from the ceiling and I leaped wildly for the next bar, just managing to catch it in my fall.
I heard the other bar drop with a great clang to the floor.
For a moment I hung there sweating.
My mouth seemed to be filled with carbon and I realized I must have almost bitten through the Mul-Torch.
Then the bar to which I clung moved an inch from the ceiling.
I moved a bit and it slipped another inch.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor)