Book 10. (1 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 17 | 205 | The Old One View more quotes about turned">turned, its vast sicklelike tail snapping across the beams. |
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Book 10. (7 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 17 | 202 | "Aiiii!" cried a man. |
| 17 | 203 | The Old One rose, twisting, near him, near the forequarter on the port side. |
| 17 | 204 | He leaped back. |
| 17 | 205 | The Old One turned, its vast sicklelike tail snapping across the beams. |
| 17 | 206 | It caught the man's leg between itself and the salt tub, breaking the leg, turning it suddenly oddly inward below the knee. |
| 17 | 207 | But it had not been the man, we surmised, that the Old One had wanted. |
| 17 | 208 | The tail, like a twig, had struck loose the lamp pole, hurling it, spinning, flaming oil spilling, yards away into the circle of darkness outside the ring of lamplight on the dark, briny water. |
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"Aiiii!" cried a man.
The Old One rose, twisting, near him, near the forequarter on the port side.
He leaped back.
The Old One turned, its vast sicklelike tail snapping across the beams.
It caught the man's leg between itself and the salt tub, breaking the leg, turning it suddenly oddly inward below the knee.
But it had not been the man, we surmised, that the Old One had wanted.
The tail, like a twig, had struck loose the lamp pole, hurling it, spinning, flaming oil spilling, yards away into the circle of darkness outside the ring of lamplight on the dark, briny water.
- (Tribesmen of Gor)