Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 177 | I View more quotes about shuddered">shuddered, thinking of what might have happened if I had been carrying it in the pocket of my coat. |
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Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 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. |
| 1 | 175 | It was like staring into a furnace. |
| 1 | 176 | I knew that it was the envelope that had burst into flame, taking with it my knapsack and bedroll. |
| 1 | 177 | I shuddered, thinking of what might have happened if I had been carrying it in the pocket of my coat. |
| 1 | 178 | Strangely enough, now that I think of it, I didn't run headlong from the spot, though I can't see why, and the thought did cross my mind that the bright, flarelike luminescence would reveal my position, if it was of interest to anyone or anything. |
| 1 | 179 | With a small flashlight I knelt beside the flakes of my knapsack and bedroll. |
| 1 | 180 | The stones on which they had fallen were blackened. |
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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.
It was like staring into a furnace.
I knew that it was the envelope that had burst into flame, taking with it my knapsack and bedroll.
I shuddered, thinking of what might have happened if I had been carrying it in the pocket of my coat.
Strangely enough, now that I think of it, I didn't run headlong from the spot, though I can't see why, and the thought did cross my mind that the bright, flarelike luminescence would reveal my position, if it was of interest to anyone or anything.
With a small flashlight I knelt beside the flakes of my knapsack and bedroll.
The stones on which they had fallen were blackened.
- (Tarnsman of Gor)