Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 27 | 323 | The withered antennae View more quotes about trembled">trembled, and the thin brown threads on them lifted as though stirred by a chill wind, the passing foot of mortality. |
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Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 27 | 320 | "Long ago," she said, "Misk, my child, stole the egg of a male and now he has hidden it from Sarm and others who do not wish for there to be another Nest". |
| 27 | 321 | "I know," I said softly. |
| 27 | 322 | "Not long ago," said she, "perhaps no more than four of your centuries, he told me of what he had done and of his reasons for doing so". |
| 27 | 323 | The withered antennae trembled, and the thin brown threads on them lifted as though stirred by a chill wind, the passing foot of mortality. |
| 27 | 324 | "I said nothing to him but I considered what he had said, and I thought on this matter, and at last—in league with the Second Born, who has since succumbed to the Pleasures of the Golden Beetle, I set aside a female egg to be concealed from Sarm beyond the Nest". |
| 27 | 325 | "Where is this egg?" I asked. |
| 27 | 326 | She seemed not to understand my question and I was afraid for her as I saw her ancient brown carcass begin to shake with spasmodic tremors which I feared might herald the close of that vast life. |
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"Long ago," she said, "Misk, my child, stole the egg of a male and now he has hidden it from Sarm and others who do not wish for there to be another Nest".
"I know," I said softly.
"Not long ago," said she, "perhaps no more than four of your centuries, he told me of what he had done and of his reasons for doing so".
The withered antennae trembled, and the thin brown threads on them lifted as though stirred by a chill wind, the passing foot of mortality.
"I said nothing to him but I considered what he had said, and I thought on this matter, and at last—in league with the Second Born, who has since succumbed to the Pleasures of the Golden Beetle, I set aside a female egg to be concealed from Sarm beyond the Nest".
"Where is this egg?" I asked.
She seemed not to understand my question and I was afraid for her as I saw her ancient brown carcass begin to shake with spasmodic tremors which I feared might herald the close of that vast life.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor)