Book 7. (1 results) Captive of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 6 | 198 | In View more quotes about english">English, that accent had marked his speech as foreign. |
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Book 7. (7 results) Captive of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 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. |
| 6 | 201 | I was frightened. |
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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.
I was frightened.
- (Captive of Gor)