Book 17. (1 results) Savages of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 14 | 1122 | I View more quotes about later">later learned the sign for knife alone would suffice for this tribe. |
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Book 17. (7 results) Savages of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 14 | 1119 | That stood for the Kaiila, the Cutthroat tribes. |
| 14 | 1120 | The sign for the Sleen tribe had been the same as that for the sleen, the resting of the middle fingers of the right hand on the right thumb, extending the index and little finger, this suggesting the animal's pointed snout and ears. |
| 14 | 1121 | The sign for the Yellow Knives had been the sign for knife, followed by the sign for fleer. |
| 14 | 1122 | I later learned the sign for knife alone would suffice for this tribe. |
| 14 | 1123 | In the compound sign fleer presumably occurs as a modifier in virtue of the bird's coloration. |
| 14 | 1124 | Adjectives in sign commonly, though not always, follow the noun, so to speak. |
| 14 | 1125 | This arrangement is doubtless to be expected, for it reflects a common grammatical feature of the spoken languages of the red savages. |
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That stood for the Kaiila, the Cutthroat tribes.
The sign for the Sleen tribe had been the same as that for the sleen, the resting of the middle fingers of the right hand on the right thumb, extending the index and little finger, this suggesting the animal's pointed snout and ears.
The sign for the Yellow Knives had been the sign for knife, followed by the sign for fleer.
I later learned the sign for knife alone would suffice for this tribe.
In the compound sign fleer presumably occurs as a modifier in virtue of the bird's coloration.
Adjectives in sign commonly, though not always, follow the noun, so to speak.
This arrangement is doubtless to be expected, for it reflects a common grammatical feature of the spoken languages of the red savages.
- (Savages of Gor)