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| 27 | 128 | View more quotes about sarm">Sarm placed his jaws to the mouth of the Mother but she did not lift her head to him. |
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| 27 | 125 | As his antennae touched her head her antennae lifted and seemed to tremble and the ancient, brownish creature lifted her head and on her ready tongue from his own mouth Misk, her child, delicately and with supreme gentleness placed a glistening drop of Gur. |
| 27 | 126 | He backed away from her. |
| 27 | 127 | Now did Sarm, the First Born, approach the Mother and dip his jaws too to the golden bowl and stalk to the Mother and place his antennae gently on her head, and once again the old creature's antennae lifted but this time they seemed to retract. |
| 27 | 128 | Sarm placed his jaws to the mouth of the Mother but she did not lift her head to him. |
| 27 | 129 | She turned her face away. |
| 27 | 130 | The scent-music suddenly stopped and the Priest-Kings seemed to rustle as though an unseen wind had suddenly stirred the leaves of autumn and I heard even the surprised jangling of those tiny metal tools. |
| 27 | 131 | Well could I now read the signs of consternation in the rows of Priest-Kings, the startled antennae, the shifting of the supporting appendages, the sudden intense inclination of the head and body, the straining of the antennae toward the Platform of the Mother. |