Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 171 | Moreover, it would be a simple View more quotes about matter">matter to cover one's tracks in the light. |
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Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 1 | 168 | I was asking for a broken leg or ankle, if not a neck. |
| 1 | 169 | Still, if I could put a mile or so between myself and the old camp, that should be sufficient to give myself the margin of safety I needed—from what I didn't know. |
| 1 | 170 | I might then wait until morning and start off in the light, secure, confident. |
| 1 | 171 | Moreover, it would be a simple matter to cover one's tracks in the light. |
| 1 | 172 | The important thing was not to be at the old camp. |
| 1 | 173 | I had made my way perilously through the darkness for perhaps twenty minutes when, to my horror, my knapsack and bedroll seemed to burst into blue flame on my back. |
| 1 | 174 | It was an instant's action to hurl them from me, and I gazed, bewildered, awe-stricken, at what seemed to be a furious blue combustion that lit the pines on all sides as if with acetylene flames. |
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I was asking for a broken leg or ankle, if not a neck.
Still, if I could put a mile or so between myself and the old camp, that should be sufficient to give myself the margin of safety I needed—from what I didn't know.
I might then wait until morning and start off in the light, secure, confident.
Moreover, it would be a simple matter to cover one's tracks in the light.
The important thing was not to be at the old camp.
I had made my way perilously through the darkness for perhaps twenty minutes when, to my horror, my knapsack and bedroll seemed to burst into blue flame on my back.
It was an instant's action to hurl them from me, and I gazed, bewildered, awe-stricken, at what seemed to be a furious blue combustion that lit the pines on all sides as if with acetylene flames.
- (Tarnsman of Gor)