Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
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Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 14 | 133 | "Good-bye, Warrior," he called. |
| 14 | 134 | With a sickening lurch and sharp jolt of pain the two tarnsmen brought their birds into the air. |
| 14 | 135 | For a moment I swung between the birds, and then, perhaps a hundred feet in the air, the tarnsmen, at a prearranged signal—a sharp blast of a tarn whistle from the ground—turned their birds in opposite directions. |
| 14 | 136 | The sudden wrenching pain seemed to rip my body. |
| 14 | 137 | I think I inadvertently screamed. |
| 14 | 138 | The birds were pulling against one another, stabilized in their flight, each trying to pull away from the other. |
| 14 | 139 | Now and again there would be a moment's giddy respite from the pain as one or the other of the birds failed to keep the ropes taut. |
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"Good-bye, Warrior," he called.
With a sickening lurch and sharp jolt of pain the two tarnsmen brought their birds into the air.
For a moment I swung between the birds, and then, perhaps a hundred feet in the air, the tarnsmen, at a prearranged signal—a sharp blast of a tarn whistle from the ground—turned their birds in opposite directions.
The sudden wrenching pain seemed to rip my body.
I think I inadvertently screamed.
The birds were pulling against one another, stabilized in their flight, each trying to pull away from the other.
Now and again there would be a moment's giddy respite from the pain as one or the other of the birds failed to keep the ropes taut.
- (Tarnsman of Gor)