Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 3 | 194 | In the View more quotes about past">past domestic tarns were sometimes freed, to hunt in the wild, and later to return to their cots, sometimes to the blasts of the tarn whistle. |
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 3 | 191 | It, like many wild beasts, can sense fear, and that stimulates its aggression. |
| 3 | 192 | In facing a tarn a human being has little but will to place between himself and the beak and talons. |
| 3 | 193 | To be sure many tarns are domesticated, so to speak, raised from the egg in the vicinity of humans, taught to expect their food from them, accustomed to harnessing from the age of the chick, and so on. |
| 3 | 194 | In the past domestic tarns were sometimes freed, to hunt in the wild, and later to return to their cots, sometimes to the blasts of the tarn whistle. |
| 3 | 195 | That is seldom done now. |
| 3 | 196 | A hungry tarn is quite dangerous, you see, and the reed of its domesticity is fragile. |
| 3 | 197 | There is no assurance that its strike will be directed on a tabuk or wild tarsk, or verr. |
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It, like many wild beasts, can sense fear, and that stimulates its aggression.
In facing a tarn a human being has little but will to place between himself and the beak and talons.
To be sure many tarns are domesticated, so to speak, raised from the egg in the vicinity of humans, taught to expect their food from them, accustomed to harnessing from the age of the chick, and so on.
In the past domestic tarns were sometimes freed, to hunt in the wild, and later to return to their cots, sometimes to the blasts of the tarn whistle.
That is seldom done now.
A hungry tarn is quite dangerous, you see, and the reed of its domesticity is fragile.
There is no assurance that its strike will be directed on a tabuk or wild tarsk, or verr.
- (Swordsmen of Gor)