Book 16. (1 results) Guardsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 16 | 147 | More than one of the View more quotes about beasts">beasts had already struck the blade and not my body. |
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Book 16. (7 results) Guardsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 16 | 144 | I knew that the fastening of those jaws, in a fair bite, could gouge ounces of flesh from a man's body. |
| 16 | 145 | Too I knew that the eel seldom takes its food out of the water, that such strikes, in all probability, had not been selected for. |
| 16 | 146 | Accordingly, the only inward compensation for the refraction differential would presumably have to be learned by trial and error. |
| 16 | 147 | More than one of the beasts had already struck the blade and not my body. |
| 16 | 148 | But, too, they might not understand that the blood source was my body; they might understand, rather, only the point at which blood was entering the water. |
| 16 | 149 | The waters beneath me now fairly churned with activity. |
| 16 | 150 | The ship moved backward a yard. |
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I knew that the fastening of those jaws, in a fair bite, could gouge ounces of flesh from a man's body.
Too I knew that the eel seldom takes its food out of the water, that such strikes, in all probability, had not been selected for.
Accordingly, the only inward compensation for the refraction differential would presumably have to be learned by trial and error.
More than one of the beasts had already struck the blade and not my body.
But, too, they might not understand that the blood source was my body; they might understand, rather, only the point at which blood was entering the water.
The waters beneath me now fairly churned with activity.
The ship moved backward a yard.
- (Guardsman of Gor)