Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | 3 | I turned my head, without pain or discomfort. |
| 2 | 4 | I seemed to be lying on some hard, flat object, perhaps a table, in a circular room with a low ceiling some seven feet high. |
| 2 | 5 | There were five narrow windows, not large enough to let a man through; they rather reminded me of ports for bowmen in a castle tower, yet they admitted sufficient light to allow me to recognize my surroundings. |
| 2 | 6 | There was a tapestry to the right, a well-woven depiction of some hunting scene, I took it, but fancifully done, the spear-carrying hunters mounted on birds of a sort and attacking an ugly animal that reminded me of a boar, except that it appeared to be too large, out of proportion to the hunters. |
| 2 | 7 | Its jaws carried four tusks, curved like scimitars. |
| 2 | 8 | It reminded me, with the vegetation and background and the classic serenity of the faces, of a Renaissance tapestry I had once seen on a vacation tour I had taken to Florence in my second year at the University. |
| 2 | 9 | Opposite the tapestry—for decoration, I assumed—hung a round shield with crossed spears behind it. |
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I turned my head, without pain or discomfort.
I seemed to be lying on some hard, flat object, perhaps a table, in a circular room with a low ceiling some seven feet high.
There were five narrow windows, not large enough to let a man through; they rather reminded me of ports for bowmen in a castle tower, yet they admitted sufficient light to allow me to recognize my surroundings.
There was a tapestry to the right, a well-woven depiction of some hunting scene, I took it, but fancifully done, the spear-carrying hunters mounted on birds of a sort and attacking an ugly animal that reminded me of a boar, except that it appeared to be too large, out of proportion to the hunters.
Its jaws carried four tusks, curved like scimitars.
It reminded me, with the vegetation and background and the classic serenity of the faces, of a Renaissance tapestry I had once seen on a vacation tour I had taken to Florence in my second year at the University.
Opposite the tapestry—for decoration, I assumed—hung a round shield with crossed spears behind it.
- (Tarnsman of Gor, Chapter )