Book 6. (1 results) Raiders of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 10 | 255 | This is a View more quotes about small">small, delicate fish; it has three or four slender spines in its dorsal fin, which are poisonous. |
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Book 6. (7 results) Raiders of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 10 | 252 | Cos is also a lofty island, even loftier than Tyros, but she has level fields to her west. |
| 10 | 253 | Cos had many terraces, on which the Ta grapes are grown. |
| 10 | 254 | Near her, one night, lying off her shore, silently, I heard the mating whistles of the tiny, lovely Cosian wingfish. |
| 10 | 255 | This is a small, delicate fish; it has three or four slender spines in its dorsal fin, which are poisonous. |
| 10 | 256 | It is called the wingfish because it can, on its stiff pectoral fins, for short distances, glide through the air, usually in an attempt to flee small sea tharlarion, who are immune to the poison of the spines. |
| 10 | 257 | It is also called a songfish, because, in their courtship rituals, males and females thrust their heads from the water, uttering a kind of whistle. |
| 10 | 258 | Their livers are regarded as a delicacy. |
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Cos is also a lofty island, even loftier than Tyros, but she has level fields to her west.
Cos had many terraces, on which the Ta grapes are grown.
Near her, one night, lying off her shore, silently, I heard the mating whistles of the tiny, lovely Cosian wingfish.
This is a small, delicate fish; it has three or four slender spines in its dorsal fin, which are poisonous.
It is called the wingfish because it can, on its stiff pectoral fins, for short distances, glide through the air, usually in an attempt to flee small sea tharlarion, who are immune to the poison of the spines.
It is also called a songfish, because, in their courtship rituals, males and females thrust their heads from the water, uttering a kind of whistle.
Their livers are regarded as a delicacy.
- (Raiders of Gor)