Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 41 | 48 | Its greatest View more quotes about moment">moment of danger is at its birth, for the mother's casting of the offspring and blood into the water stimulates the investigation of predators, in particular that of the nine-gilled Gorean shark. |
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 41 | 45 | It is not fully clear whether the sea sleen is a marine adaptation of the sleen or a similar but independently evolved animal. |
| 41 | 46 | Its body is snakelike, and it approaches its prey silently, gliding, usually from the rear right or left, and propels itself, when making its strike, by the sudden lashing of its tail. |
| 41 | 47 | It is the fastest creature in the sea. |
| 41 | 48 | Its greatest moment of danger is at its birth, for the mother's casting of the offspring and blood into the water stimulates the investigation of predators, in particular that of the nine-gilled Gorean shark. |
| 41 | 49 | At such times several male sea sleen will ring the mother and infant, protecting them. |
| 41 | 50 | The narrow snout of the sea sleen, driven into the shark at great speed, can destroy the capacity of gills to extract oxygen from the water, and crush cartilage. |
| 41 | 51 | The razorlike teeth aligned in two rows within the narrow, triangular jaws, too, some eighteen inches in length, can seize, shake, and tear the head from many varieties of shark. |
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It is not fully clear whether the sea sleen is a marine adaptation of the sleen or a similar but independently evolved animal.
Its body is snakelike, and it approaches its prey silently, gliding, usually from the rear right or left, and propels itself, when making its strike, by the sudden lashing of its tail.
It is the fastest creature in the sea.
Its greatest moment of danger is at its birth, for the mother's casting of the offspring and blood into the water stimulates the investigation of predators, in particular that of the nine-gilled Gorean shark.
At such times several male sea sleen will ring the mother and infant, protecting them.
The narrow snout of the sea sleen, driven into the shark at great speed, can destroy the capacity of gills to extract oxygen from the water, and crush cartilage.
The razorlike teeth aligned in two rows within the narrow, triangular jaws, too, some eighteen inches in length, can seize, shake, and tear the head from many varieties of shark.
- (Swordsmen of Gor)