Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 9 | 49 | View more quotes about twice">Twice, riderless tarns had returned to the ship, their harnessing torn apart or missing, their beaks red with frozen blood. |
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Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 9 | 46 | If landfall were practical from our current position surely our outriders and scouts would have discovered this, returned, reported it, brought back much needed supplies, and such. |
| 9 | 47 | But it was true some deserters had, in the past weeks, now and then, flighted a tarn away, over the ice, into the gray sky, and had not returned. |
| 9 | 48 | Who knew that some of them might not have reached land. |
| 9 | 49 | Twice, riderless tarns had returned to the ship, their harnessing torn apart or missing, their beaks red with frozen blood. |
| 9 | 50 | They flew at those who would have led them below. |
| 9 | 51 | They were killed. |
| 9 | 52 | In our small quarters there were some forty fellows, mostly of Cos, Tyros, or the smaller islands. |
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If landfall were practical from our current position surely our outriders and scouts would have discovered this, returned, reported it, brought back much needed supplies, and such.
But it was true some deserters had, in the past weeks, now and then, flighted a tarn away, over the ice, into the gray sky, and had not returned.
Who knew that some of them might not have reached land.
Twice, riderless tarns had returned to the ship, their harnessing torn apart or missing, their beaks red with frozen blood.
They flew at those who would have led them below.
They were killed.
In our small quarters there were some forty fellows, mostly of Cos, Tyros, or the smaller islands.
- (Mariners of Gor)