Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 28 | 16 | And yet there was not an instant's pause in that singing nor the dropping of a View more quotes about beat">beat or tempo. |
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Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 28 | 13 | Therefore it was much to my surprise when I heard a distant singing in the tunnel that grew louder as I approached and soon I slowed the transportation disk and waited, my weapon ready. |
| 28 | 14 | As I waited, the tunnel and, as I later learned, the entire complex, were suddenly plunged into darkness. |
| 28 | 15 | The energy bulbs, for the first time in centuries perhaps, had been shut down. |
| 28 | 16 | And yet there was not an instant's pause in that singing nor the dropping of a beat or tempo. |
| 28 | 17 | It was as if the darkness made no difference. |
| 28 | 18 | And as I waited on the still disk in the darkness, my weapon ready, I suddenly saw far down the tunnel the sudden blue flash of an opened Mul-Torch and then its steady blaze, and then I saw another flash and blaze and another and to my amazement it seemed that these fires hung from the very ceiling of the tunnel. |
| 28 | 19 | It was the carriers of Gur but far from the Gur Chamber and I watched with something of awe as the long procession of humanoid creatures, two abreast, marched along the ceiling of the tunnel until they stopped above me. |
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Therefore it was much to my surprise when I heard a distant singing in the tunnel that grew louder as I approached and soon I slowed the transportation disk and waited, my weapon ready.
As I waited, the tunnel and, as I later learned, the entire complex, were suddenly plunged into darkness.
The energy bulbs, for the first time in centuries perhaps, had been shut down.
And yet there was not an instant's pause in that singing nor the dropping of a beat or tempo.
It was as if the darkness made no difference.
And as I waited on the still disk in the darkness, my weapon ready, I suddenly saw far down the tunnel the sudden blue flash of an opened Mul-Torch and then its steady blaze, and then I saw another flash and blaze and another and to my amazement it seemed that these fires hung from the very ceiling of the tunnel.
It was the carriers of Gur but far from the Gur Chamber and I watched with something of awe as the long procession of humanoid creatures, two abreast, marched along the ceiling of the tunnel until they stopped above me.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor)