Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 8 | 74 | And even an obedient View more quotes about tarn">tarn must eat, after a time. |
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Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 8 | 71 | Perhaps the tarns themselves, now unhobbled, unwilling to return to the imprisonment of the cramped cots below, where they had seen their fellows die, now drunk with their sudden freedom, in the cold, fine, piercing air, exhilarated, and exultant, had chosen to reclaim for themselves their rightful realm, the deep, broad, high country of the sky. |
| 8 | 72 | The tarn is a dangerous bird, half wild even when domesticated. |
| 8 | 73 | It would be an easy thing to resist the reins, and turn upon a rider. |
| 8 | 74 | And even an obedient tarn must eat, after a time. |
| 8 | 75 | And then, presumably, one must die, tarn or rider. |
| 8 | 76 | And if the rider survive, how will he live, afoot, alone, in the cold, in the long night? But the man Tajima had returned. |
| 8 | 77 | I suspected he was an able rider. |
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Perhaps the tarns themselves, now unhobbled, unwilling to return to the imprisonment of the cramped cots below, where they had seen their fellows die, now drunk with their sudden freedom, in the cold, fine, piercing air, exhilarated, and exultant, had chosen to reclaim for themselves their rightful realm, the deep, broad, high country of the sky.
The tarn is a dangerous bird, half wild even when domesticated.
It would be an easy thing to resist the reins, and turn upon a rider.
And even an obedient tarn must eat, after a time.
And then, presumably, one must die, tarn or rider.
And if the rider survive, how will he live, afoot, alone, in the cold, in the long night? But the man Tajima had returned.
I suspected he was an able rider.
- (Mariners of Gor)