Book 4. (1 results) Nomads of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 7 | 189 | But I could not understand why View more quotes about priest">Priest-Kings should wish me slain. |
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Book 4. (7 results) Nomads of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 7 | 186 | "I did not know". |
| 7 | 187 | My mind was whirling. |
| 7 | 188 | Now I understood, as I had only suspected before, why an English-speaking girl was necessary to bear the collar, that she might be the device whereby I would be singled out from the hundreds and thousands among the wagons, and so be marked for death. |
| 7 | 189 | But I could not understand why Priest-Kings should wish me slain. |
| 7 | 190 | Was I not engaged, in a sense, in their work? Had I not come to the Wagon Peoples on their behalf, to search for the doubtless golden sphere that was the last egg of Priest-Kings, the final hope of their race? Now they wished me to die. |
| 7 | 191 | It did not seem possible. |
| 7 | 192 | I prepared to fight for my life, selling it as dearly as possible on the dais of Kutaituchik, called Ubar of the Tuchuks, for what Gorean would dare reject the command of Priest-Kings? I stood up, unsheathing my sword. |
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"I did not know".
My mind was whirling.
Now I understood, as I had only suspected before, why an English-speaking girl was necessary to bear the collar, that she might be the device whereby I would be singled out from the hundreds and thousands among the wagons, and so be marked for death.
But I could not understand why Priest-Kings should wish me slain.
Was I not engaged, in a sense, in their work? Had I not come to the Wagon Peoples on their behalf, to search for the doubtless golden sphere that was the last egg of Priest-Kings, the final hope of their race? Now they wished me to die.
It did not seem possible.
I prepared to fight for my life, selling it as dearly as possible on the dais of Kutaituchik, called Ubar of the Tuchuks, for what Gorean would dare reject the command of Priest-Kings? I stood up, unsheathing my sword.
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