Book 4. (1 results) Nomads of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 2 | 106 | * *The pasang, a View more quotes about common">common unit of Gorean land measurement, is approximately seven-tenths of a mile. |
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Book 4. (7 results) Nomads of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 2 | 103 | The kaiila is extremely agile, and can easily outmaneuver the slower, more ponderous high tharlarion. |
| 2 | 104 | It requires less food, of course, than the tarn. |
| 2 | 105 | A kaiila, which normally stands about twenty to twenty-two hands at the shoulder, can cover as much as six hundred pasangs in a single day's riding. |
| 2 | 106 | * *The pasang, a common unit of Gorean land measurement, is approximately seven-tenths of a mile. |
| 2 | 107 | The head of the kaiila bears two large eyes, one on each side, but these eyes are triply lidded, probably an adaptation to the environment which occasionally is wracked by severe storms of wind and dust; the adaptation, actually a transparent third lid, permits the animal to move as it wishes under conditions that force other prairie animals to back into the wind or, like the sleen, to burrow into the ground. |
| 2 | 108 | The kaiila is most dangerous under such conditions, and, as if it knew this, often uses such times for its hunt. |
| 2 | 109 | Now the rider had reined in the kaiila. |
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The kaiila is extremely agile, and can easily outmaneuver the slower, more ponderous high tharlarion.
It requires less food, of course, than the tarn.
A kaiila, which normally stands about twenty to twenty-two hands at the shoulder, can cover as much as six hundred pasangs in a single day's riding.
* *The pasang, a common unit of Gorean land measurement, is approximately seven-tenths of a mile.
The head of the kaiila bears two large eyes, one on each side, but these eyes are triply lidded, probably an adaptation to the environment which occasionally is wracked by severe storms of wind and dust; the adaptation, actually a transparent third lid, permits the animal to move as it wishes under conditions that force other prairie animals to back into the wind or, like the sleen, to burrow into the ground.
The kaiila is most dangerous under such conditions, and, as if it knew this, often uses such times for its hunt.
Now the rider had reined in the kaiila.
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