Book 7. (1 results) Captive of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 6 | 197 | But I View more quotes about recalled">recalled the accent of the large man, who had commanded them. |
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Book 7. (7 results) Captive of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 6 | 194 | I had heard only a word or two of it before. |
| 6 | 195 | My captors had conversed, almost entirely, in English. |
| 6 | 196 | And I supposed they had been, at least on the whole, native speakers of English. |
| 6 | 197 | But I recalled the accent of the large man, who had commanded them. |
| 6 | 198 | In English, that accent had marked his speech as foreign. |
| 6 | 199 | Here, however, a world away, I heard the same accent, or one similar, save that here it was not an accent. |
| 6 | 200 | Here it was the natural sound, the rhythm and inflection, of what was apparently an independent, doubtless sophisticated, native tongue. |
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I had heard only a word or two of it before.
My captors had conversed, almost entirely, in English.
And I supposed they had been, at least on the whole, native speakers of English.
But I recalled the accent of the large man, who had commanded them.
In English, that accent had marked his speech as foreign.
Here, however, a world away, I heard the same accent, or one similar, save that here it was not an accent.
Here it was the natural sound, the rhythm and inflection, of what was apparently an independent, doubtless sophisticated, native tongue.
- (Captive of Gor)