Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 12 | 110 | The View more quotes about sound">sound of my voice had an unusual effect on the bird. |
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Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 12 | 107 | Soon my swift captor had reached his mountains, and the vague, distant smudge that I had seen had become a lonely, frightening, inaccessible wilderness of reddish cliffs. |
| 12 | 108 | High on a sunlit mountain ledge, the sable tarn dropped me to the sticks and brush of its nest and set one steel-shod taloned foot across my body, to hold me steady as the great beak did its work. |
| 12 | 109 | As the beak reached down for me, I managed to get one leg between it and my body and kicked it back, cursing wildly. |
| 12 | 110 | The sound of my voice had an unusual effect on the bird. |
| 12 | 111 | He tilted his head to one side quizzically. |
| 12 | 112 | I shouted at him again and again. |
| 12 | 113 | And then, fool that I was, half demented with hunger and terror, I only then realized that the tarn was none other than my own! I shoved on the steel-shod foot that pressed me into the sticks of the nest, uttering my command with ringing authority. |
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Soon my swift captor had reached his mountains, and the vague, distant smudge that I had seen had become a lonely, frightening, inaccessible wilderness of reddish cliffs.
High on a sunlit mountain ledge, the sable tarn dropped me to the sticks and brush of its nest and set one steel-shod taloned foot across my body, to hold me steady as the great beak did its work.
As the beak reached down for me, I managed to get one leg between it and my body and kicked it back, cursing wildly.
The sound of my voice had an unusual effect on the bird.
He tilted his head to one side quizzically.
I shouted at him again and again.
And then, fool that I was, half demented with hunger and terror, I only then realized that the tarn was none other than my own! I shoved on the steel-shod foot that pressed me into the sticks of the nest, uttering my command with ringing authority.
- (Tarnsman of Gor)