Book 4. (1 results) Nomads of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 9 | 24 | The blue, four-spined wingfish is View more quotes about found">found only in the waters of Cos. |
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Book 4. (7 results) Nomads of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 9 | 21 | "Now this," Saphrar the merchant was telling me, "is the braised liver of the blue, four-spined Cosian wingfish". |
| 9 | 22 | This fish is a tiny, delicate fish, blue, about the size of a tarn disk when curled in one's hand; it has three or four slender spines in its dorsal fin, which are poisonous; it is capable of hurling itself from the water and, for brief distances, on its stiff pectoral fins, gliding through the air, usually to evade the smaller sea-tharlarions, which seem to be immune to the poison of the spines. |
| 9 | 23 | This fish is also sometimes referred to as the songfish because, as a portion of its courtship rituals, the males and females thrust their heads from the water and utter a sort of whistling sound. |
| 9 | 24 | The blue, four-spined wingfish is found only in the waters of Cos. |
| 9 | 25 | Larger varieties are found farther out to sea. |
| 9 | 26 | The small blue fish is regarded as a great delicacy, and its liver as the delicacy of delicacies. |
| 9 | 27 | "How is it," I asked, "that here in Turia you can serve the livers of wingfish?" "I have a war galley in Port Kar," said Saphrar the merchant, "which I send to Cos twice a year for the fish". |
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"Now this," Saphrar the merchant was telling me, "is the braised liver of the blue, four-spined Cosian wingfish".
This fish is a tiny, delicate fish, blue, about the size of a tarn disk when curled in one's hand; it has three or four slender spines in its dorsal fin, which are poisonous; it is capable of hurling itself from the water and, for brief distances, on its stiff pectoral fins, gliding through the air, usually to evade the smaller sea-tharlarions, which seem to be immune to the poison of the spines.
This fish is also sometimes referred to as the songfish because, as a portion of its courtship rituals, the males and females thrust their heads from the water and utter a sort of whistling sound.
The blue, four-spined wingfish is found only in the waters of Cos.
Larger varieties are found farther out to sea.
The small blue fish is regarded as a great delicacy, and its liver as the delicacy of delicacies.
"How is it," I asked, "that here in Turia you can serve the livers of wingfish?" "I have a war galley in Port Kar," said Saphrar the merchant, "which I send to Cos twice a year for the fish".
- (Nomads of Gor)