Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 12 | 180 | Only View more quotes about later">later did I discover that there were beasts of such a size. |
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 12 | 177 | To one side there was a tank for water and there were several racks from which hung meat, probably tabuk, forest tarsk, and forest bosk. |
| 12 | 178 | The greater forest tarsk, unlike the common tarsk, can be quite large. |
| 12 | 179 | When I first came to Gor I saw a tapestry depicting the tarn hunting of such beasts, and, from the sizes involved, I had thought the tapestry to be based on some fantasy or myth. |
| 12 | 180 | Only later did I discover that there were beasts of such a size. |
| 12 | 181 | The common tarsk, on the other hand, is much smaller. |
| 12 | 182 | When a slave, or even a free woman, is disparaged as a "she-tarsk," the smaller animal, the common tarsk, is invariably in mind. |
| 12 | 183 | Otherwise the metaphor would be unintelligible. |
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To one side there was a tank for water and there were several racks from which hung meat, probably tabuk, forest tarsk, and forest bosk.
The greater forest tarsk, unlike the common tarsk, can be quite large.
When I first came to Gor I saw a tapestry depicting the tarn hunting of such beasts, and, from the sizes involved, I had thought the tapestry to be based on some fantasy or myth.
Only later did I discover that there were beasts of such a size.
The common tarsk, on the other hand, is much smaller.
When a slave, or even a free woman, is disparaged as a "she-tarsk," the smaller animal, the common tarsk, is invariably in mind.
Otherwise the metaphor would be unintelligible.
- (Swordsmen of Gor)