Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 12 | 377 | View more quotes about almost">Almost at the same instant I sensed something pass my head, like a sudden, fierce whisper in the air. |
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Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 12 | 374 | I could not understand why the alarm bar had not rung. |
| 12 | 375 | I staggered back, panting, against the mast. |
| 12 | 376 | The mast swung with the rolling of the ship, a surprising swell, perhaps from the helmsman's work. |
| 12 | 377 | Almost at the same instant I sensed something pass my head, like a sudden, fierce whisper in the air. |
| 12 | 378 | I instantly threw myself to the platform, within the ring. |
| 12 | 379 | No bird so flies, not so swift, not so straight, so piercing the wind. |
| 12 | 380 | An instant after something new struck the mast, ringing on a metal brace, and caromed far off, over the side, abeam. |
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I could not understand why the alarm bar had not rung.
I staggered back, panting, against the mast.
The mast swung with the rolling of the ship, a surprising swell, perhaps from the helmsman's work.
Almost at the same instant I sensed something pass my head, like a sudden, fierce whisper in the air.
I instantly threw myself to the platform, within the ring.
No bird so flies, not so swift, not so straight, so piercing the wind.
An instant after something new struck the mast, ringing on a metal brace, and caromed far off, over the side, abeam.
- (Mariners of Gor)