Book 32. (1 results) Smugglers of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 15 | 90 | View more quotes about perhaps">Perhaps it had arisen on some larger world, perhaps a much larger world, a world on which evolution might select for such massive size and power. |
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Book 32. (7 results) Smugglers of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 15 | 87 | I know others did. |
| 15 | 88 | How small the rider was compared to the bird! I think it fair to call it a bird, but it was no form of life with which I was familiar. |
| 15 | 89 | I wondered on what world such a thing might have emerged from the dark, grisly, unforgiving, demanding games of nature, certainly not on my former world, nor, I suspected, this world. |
| 15 | 90 | Perhaps it had arisen on some larger world, perhaps a much larger world, a world on which evolution might select for such massive size and power. |
| 15 | 91 | In this sense, I did not know if such a monster were well thought of as a bird, or not. |
| 15 | 92 | It was, as far as I could tell, a form of life alien to both the Earth and Gor. |
| 15 | 93 | Still it was clearly a bird, or very birdlike. |
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I know others did.
How small the rider was compared to the bird! I think it fair to call it a bird, but it was no form of life with which I was familiar.
I wondered on what world such a thing might have emerged from the dark, grisly, unforgiving, demanding games of nature, certainly not on my former world, nor, I suspected, this world.
Perhaps it had arisen on some larger world, perhaps a much larger world, a world on which evolution might select for such massive size and power.
In this sense, I did not know if such a monster were well thought of as a bird, or not.
It was, as far as I could tell, a form of life alien to both the Earth and Gor.
Still it was clearly a bird, or very birdlike.
- (Smugglers of Gor)