Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 12 | 114 | The View more quotes about bird">bird lifted his foot and backed away, still uncertain as to what to do. |
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Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 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. |
| 12 | 114 | The bird lifted his foot and backed away, still uncertain as to what to do. |
| 12 | 115 | I sprang to my feet, standing well within the reach of his beak, showing no fear. |
| 12 | 116 | I slapped his beak affectionately, as if we were in a tarn cot, and shoved my hands into his neck feathers, the area where the tarn can't preen, as the tarn keepers do when searching for parasites. |
| 12 | 117 | I withdrew some of the lice, the size of marbles, which tend to infest wild tarns, and slapped them roughly into the mouth of the tarn, wiping them off on his tongue. |
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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.
The bird lifted his foot and backed away, still uncertain as to what to do.
I sprang to my feet, standing well within the reach of his beak, showing no fear.
I slapped his beak affectionately, as if we were in a tarn cot, and shoved my hands into his neck feathers, the area where the tarn can't preen, as the tarn keepers do when searching for parasites.
I withdrew some of the lice, the size of marbles, which tend to infest wild tarns, and slapped them roughly into the mouth of the tarn, wiping them off on his tongue.
- (Tarnsman of Gor)