Book 18. (1 results) Blood Brothers of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 47 | 174 | As a hurricane can imbed a View more quotes about straw">straw in a post so, too, are compounded the forces involved by the speed of the stroke. |
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Book 18. (7 results) Blood Brothers of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 47 | 171 | There were snappings, as of wood breaking, but it was not wood. |
| 47 | 172 | The first tarn, that highest, was struck full in the back, the man broken between the two bodies. |
| 47 | 173 | Its back was broken and perhaps the neck of the man in the same blow. |
| 47 | 174 | As a hurricane can imbed a straw in a post so, too, are compounded the forces involved by the speed of the stroke. |
| 47 | 175 | Again the tarn aligned itself, smote downward, then lifted its wings, almost folded on either side of me, its talons, like great hooks, lowered. |
| 47 | 176 | It caught the second tarn about the neck, as it swerved madly, by the grasping talons of its left foot, and I was thrown about, upside down, the ground seeming to be over my head, and the two birds spun in the air and then my tarn disengaged itself, the neck of the other bird flopping to the side, blood caught in the wind, like red rain. |
| 47 | 177 | Its rider's scream alerted the third rider, but, in a moment, the talons had locked upon him, his bird exhausted, struggling in the air, and he was torn upward from the girth rope. |
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There were snappings, as of wood breaking, but it was not wood.
The first tarn, that highest, was struck full in the back, the man broken between the two bodies.
Its back was broken and perhaps the neck of the man in the same blow.
As a hurricane can imbed a straw in a post so, too, are compounded the forces involved by the speed of the stroke.
Again the tarn aligned itself, smote downward, then lifted its wings, almost folded on either side of me, its talons, like great hooks, lowered.
It caught the second tarn about the neck, as it swerved madly, by the grasping talons of its left foot, and I was thrown about, upside down, the ground seeming to be over my head, and the two birds spun in the air and then my tarn disengaged itself, the neck of the other bird flopping to the side, blood caught in the wind, like red rain.
Its rider's scream alerted the third rider, but, in a moment, the talons had locked upon him, his bird exhausted, struggling in the air, and he was torn upward from the girth rope.
- (Blood Brothers of Gor)