Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 17 | 106 | View more quotes about looking">Looking downward I saw a swooping, riderless tarn seize a fellow in its talons and beat its way upward. |
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 17 | 103 | A skirmish can be won and a battle lost, and a battle can be won while a war is lost. |
| 17 | 104 | The weathers of war are not only difficult to predict, but are often, and sometimes for days, difficult to ascertain. |
| 17 | 105 | The tale of the past is often told only in the future. |
| 17 | 106 | Looking downward I saw a swooping, riderless tarn seize a fellow in its talons and beat its way upward. |
| 17 | 107 | Commonly the tarn strike breaks the back of the verr or tabuk, and then it begins to feed, while the animal is still alive. |
| 17 | 108 | Sometimes it seizes the animal, carries it to a height, and then releases it, and then descends to feed. |
| 17 | 109 | To one side I heard a long, wailing cry and saw a fellow dropped from some two or three hundred feet to the ground below, the riderless tarn, reverted without its rider, then descending to feed. |
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A skirmish can be won and a battle lost, and a battle can be won while a war is lost.
The weathers of war are not only difficult to predict, but are often, and sometimes for days, difficult to ascertain.
The tale of the past is often told only in the future.
Looking downward I saw a swooping, riderless tarn seize a fellow in its talons and beat its way upward.
Commonly the tarn strike breaks the back of the verr or tabuk, and then it begins to feed, while the animal is still alive.
Sometimes it seizes the animal, carries it to a height, and then releases it, and then descends to feed.
To one side I heard a long, wailing cry and saw a fellow dropped from some two or three hundred feet to the ground below, the riderless tarn, reverted without its rider, then descending to feed.
- (Swordsmen of Gor)