Book 28. (1 results) Kur of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 35 | 4 | One holds the straightener by what is, in View more quotes about effect">effect, its handle, and thrusts the branch through the hole. |
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Book 28. (7 results) Kur of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 35 | 1 | Lita Returns to the Cave "Should she not be back by now?" asked Grendel. |
| 35 | 2 | Cabot was working with the missile, or arrow, straightener, a short wooden tool, some eighteen inches in length, with a small, round hole cut in one end. |
| 35 | 3 | The suitable branch, properly trimmed, is seldom straight. |
| 35 | 4 | One holds the straightener by what is, in effect, its handle, and thrusts the branch through the hole. |
| 35 | 5 | Then, by twisting and pressing, over a small fire, one hand on the tool, the other on the shaft, thrust through the hole, the wood, now softened, now pliable, is straightened, and becomes a shaft worthy of its fletching and heading. |
| 35 | 6 | Cabot looked up, from his work, and put aside the branch and straightener. |
| 35 | 7 | "I think so," he said. |
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Lita Returns to the Cave "Should she not be back by now?" asked Grendel.
Cabot was working with the missile, or arrow, straightener, a short wooden tool, some eighteen inches in length, with a small, round hole cut in one end.
The suitable branch, properly trimmed, is seldom straight.
One holds the straightener by what is, in effect, its handle, and thrusts the branch through the hole.
Then, by twisting and pressing, over a small fire, one hand on the tool, the other on the shaft, thrust through the hole, the wood, now softened, now pliable, is straightened, and becomes a shaft worthy of its fletching and heading.
Cabot looked up, from his work, and put aside the branch and straightener.
"I think so," he said.
- (Kur of Gor)