Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 5 | 175 | Beak and talons rending, uttering ear-shattering screams, my tarn slashed at the other two View more quotes about birds">birds. |
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Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 5 | 172 | As we crashed in the air, I sharply jerked back the one-strap, bringing the steel-shod talons of my war tarn into play. |
| 5 | 173 | And to this day I bless the tarn keepers of Ko-ro-ba for the painstaking training they had given the great bird. |
| 5 | 174 | Or perhaps I should bless the fighting spirit of that plumed giant, my war tarn, that terrible thing the Older Tarl had called a tarn of tarns. |
| 5 | 175 | Beak and talons rending, uttering ear-shattering screams, my tarn slashed at the other two birds. |
| 5 | 176 | I crossed swords with the nearer of the two warriors in a brief passage that could have lasted only an instant. |
| 5 | 177 | I was suddenly aware, dizzily conscious, that one of the enemy tarns was sinking downward, flopping wildly, falling into the recesses of the swamp forest below. |
| 5 | 178 | The other warrior pulled his tarn about as if for another passage at arms, but then, as if suddenly realizing that his duty was to give the alarm, he shouted at me in rage and wheeled his tarn again, streaking for the lights of Ar. |
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As we crashed in the air, I sharply jerked back the one-strap, bringing the steel-shod talons of my war tarn into play.
And to this day I bless the tarn keepers of Ko-ro-ba for the painstaking training they had given the great bird.
Or perhaps I should bless the fighting spirit of that plumed giant, my war tarn, that terrible thing the Older Tarl had called a tarn of tarns.
Beak and talons rending, uttering ear-shattering screams, my tarn slashed at the other two birds.
I crossed swords with the nearer of the two warriors in a brief passage that could have lasted only an instant.
I was suddenly aware, dizzily conscious, that one of the enemy tarns was sinking downward, flopping wildly, falling into the recesses of the swamp forest below.
The other warrior pulled his tarn about as if for another passage at arms, but then, as if suddenly realizing that his duty was to give the alarm, he shouted at me in rage and wheeled his tarn again, streaking for the lights of Ar.
- (Tarnsman of Gor)