Book 4. (1 results) Nomads of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 16 | Awkwardly, carrying his View more quotes about sack">sack, the peasant turned and stumbled on, casting occasional terrified glances over his shoulder. |
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Book 4. (7 results) Nomads of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 1 | 13 | "They're coming," he said. |
| 1 | 14 | "Run, you fool! Run for the gates of Turia!" Turia the high-walled, the nine-gated, was the Gorean city lying in the midst of the huge prairies claimed by the Wagon Peoples. |
| 1 | 15 | Never had it fallen. |
| 1 | 16 | Awkwardly, carrying his sack, the peasant turned and stumbled on, casting occasional terrified glances over his shoulder. |
| 1 | 17 | I watched him and his woman disappear over the brown wintry grass. |
| 1 | 18 | In the distance, to one side and the other, I could see other human beings, running, carrying burdens, driving animals with sticks, fleeing. |
| 1 | 19 | Even past me there thundered a lumbering herd of startled, short-trunked kailiauk, a stocky, awkward ruminant of the plains, tawny, wild, heavy, their haunches marked in red and brown bars, their wide heads bristling with a trident of horns; they had not stood and formed their circle, shes and young within the circle of tridents; they, too, had fled; farther to one side I saw a pair of prairie sleen, smaller than the forest sleen but quite as unpredictable and vicious, each about seven feet in length, furred, six-legged, mammalian, moving in their undulating gait with their viper's heads moving from side to side, continually testing the wind; beyond them I saw one of the tumits, a large, flightless bird whose hooked beak, as long as my forearm, attested only too clearly to its gustatory habits; I lifted my shield and grasped the long spear, but it did not turn in my direction; it passed, unaware; beyond the bird, to my surprise, I saw even a black larl, a huge catlike predator more commonly found in mountainous regions; it was stalking away, retreating unhurried like a king; before what, I asked myself, would even the black larl flee; and I asked myself how far it had been driven; perhaps even from the mountains of Ta-Thassa, that loomed in this hemisphere, Gor's southern, at the shore of Thassa, the sea, said to be in the myths without a farther shore. |
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"They're coming," he said.
"Run, you fool! Run for the gates of Turia!" Turia the high-walled, the nine-gated, was the Gorean city lying in the midst of the huge prairies claimed by the Wagon Peoples.
Never had it fallen.
Awkwardly, carrying his sack, the peasant turned and stumbled on, casting occasional terrified glances over his shoulder.
I watched him and his woman disappear over the brown wintry grass.
In the distance, to one side and the other, I could see other human beings, running, carrying burdens, driving animals with sticks, fleeing.
Even past me there thundered a lumbering herd of startled, short-trunked kailiauk, a stocky, awkward ruminant of the plains, tawny, wild, heavy, their haunches marked in red and brown bars, their wide heads bristling with a trident of horns; they had not stood and formed their circle, shes and young within the circle of tridents; they, too, had fled; farther to one side I saw a pair of prairie sleen, smaller than the forest sleen but quite as unpredictable and vicious, each about seven feet in length, furred, six-legged, mammalian, moving in their undulating gait with their viper's heads moving from side to side, continually testing the wind; beyond them I saw one of the tumits, a large, flightless bird whose hooked beak, as long as my forearm, attested only too clearly to its gustatory habits; I lifted my shield and grasped the long spear, but it did not turn in my direction; it passed, unaware; beyond the bird, to my surprise, I saw even a black larl, a huge catlike predator more commonly found in mountainous regions; it was stalking away, retreating unhurried like a king; before what, I asked myself, would even the black larl flee; and I asked myself how far it had been driven; perhaps even from the mountains of Ta-Thassa, that loomed in this hemisphere, Gor's southern, at the shore of Thassa, the sea, said to be in the myths without a farther shore.
- (Nomads of Gor)