Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 33 | 21 | It should View more quotes about take">take one leap and a step to clear it, but when I leaped my leap carried me only about fifteen feet and where my foot scraped the side a pebble, dislodged, bounded downward and I could hear it strike the floor of the crevice. |
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Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 33 | 18 | I descended with Vika from the trail and, as I floated down to the bottom of a small crevice between the trail and the gate, the bottoms of my sandals stung when I hit the rock. |
| 33 | 19 | I had apparently slightly misjudged the distance. |
| 33 | 20 | The top of the crevice was only about thirty feet away. |
| 33 | 21 | It should take one leap and a step to clear it, but when I leaped my leap carried me only about fifteen feet and where my foot scraped the side a pebble, dislodged, bounded downward and I could hear it strike the floor of the crevice. |
| 33 | 22 | I took another leap, this time putting some effort into it, and cleared the top of the crevice by some ten feet to land between it and the gate. |
| 33 | 23 | In my heart something seemed to be speaking, but I could not dare to listen. |
| 33 | 24 | Then I looked through the ruins of the palisade and over the fallen gate, at the smoke from the countless sacrificial fires that burned there, at the smoke from the swinging censers. |
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I descended with Vika from the trail and, as I floated down to the bottom of a small crevice between the trail and the gate, the bottoms of my sandals stung when I hit the rock.
I had apparently slightly misjudged the distance.
The top of the crevice was only about thirty feet away.
It should take one leap and a step to clear it, but when I leaped my leap carried me only about fifteen feet and where my foot scraped the side a pebble, dislodged, bounded downward and I could hear it strike the floor of the crevice.
I took another leap, this time putting some effort into it, and cleared the top of the crevice by some ten feet to land between it and the gate.
In my heart something seemed to be speaking, but I could not dare to listen.
Then I looked through the ruins of the palisade and over the fallen gate, at the smoke from the countless sacrificial fires that burned there, at the smoke from the swinging censers.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor)