Book 2. (1 results) Outlaw of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 14 | 200 | The descent was as smooth and silent as the View more quotes about falling">falling of a rock, the opening of a hand. |
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Book 2. (7 results) Outlaw of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 14 | 197 | "Tabuk!" The great predator wheeled in the sky, turning as smoothly as a knife on wire. |
| 14 | 198 | It hovered, the sun at its back. |
| 14 | 199 | Its talons, shod with steel, dropped like great hooks; it seemed to tremble almost motionless in the air; and then its wings, parallel, lifted, almost enfolding me, and were still. |
| 14 | 200 | The descent was as smooth and silent as the falling of a rock, the opening of a hand. |
| 14 | 201 | I clung fiercely to the bird. |
| 14 | 202 | My stomach leaped to my throat. |
| 14 | 203 | The stands of the arena, filled with its robes and masks, seemed to fly upward. |
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"Tabuk!" The great predator wheeled in the sky, turning as smoothly as a knife on wire.
It hovered, the sun at its back.
Its talons, shod with steel, dropped like great hooks; it seemed to tremble almost motionless in the air; and then its wings, parallel, lifted, almost enfolding me, and were still.
The descent was as smooth and silent as the falling of a rock, the opening of a hand.
I clung fiercely to the bird.
My stomach leaped to my throat.
The stands of the arena, filled with its robes and masks, seemed to fly upward.
- (Outlaw of Gor)