Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 24 | 26 | It View more quotes about seemed">seemed to me that it would be very difficult to injure the Golden Beetle, particularly when its head was withdrawn beneath the shell of its enclosing wings. |
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Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 24 | 23 | One thing was clear. |
| 24 | 24 | The creature did not fear me nor the flame. |
| 24 | 25 | I withdrew a step and it, on its six short legs, moved forward a step. |
| 24 | 26 | It seemed to me that it would be very difficult to injure the Golden Beetle, particularly when its head was withdrawn beneath the shell of its enclosing wings. |
| 24 | 27 | This withdrawal on its part, of course, would not in the least prevent it from using its great jaws to attack, but it would, I supposed, somewhat narrow the area of its sensory awareness. |
| 24 | 28 | It would most certainly limit its vision but I did not suppose that the Golden Beetle, any more than a Priest-King, much depended on this sense. |
| 24 | 29 | Both would be quite at home, incomprehensibly to a visually oriented organism, in utter darkness. |
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One thing was clear.
The creature did not fear me nor the flame.
I withdrew a step and it, on its six short legs, moved forward a step.
It seemed to me that it would be very difficult to injure the Golden Beetle, particularly when its head was withdrawn beneath the shell of its enclosing wings.
This withdrawal on its part, of course, would not in the least prevent it from using its great jaws to attack, but it would, I supposed, somewhat narrow the area of its sensory awareness.
It would most certainly limit its vision but I did not suppose that the Golden Beetle, any more than a Priest-King, much depended on this sense.
Both would be quite at home, incomprehensibly to a visually oriented organism, in utter darkness.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor)