Book 18. (1 results) Blood Brothers of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 134 | It is also View more quotes about used">used more broadly for a gash, such as an ax might cut in a tree, or for a cut or scar. |
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Book 18. (7 results) Blood Brothers of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 1 | 131 | This is not all that unusual, incidentally. |
| 1 | 132 | One cannot expect identical regularities in meaning and usage to obtain in diverse linguistic communities. |
| 1 | 133 | The expression, for most practical purposes, signifies a certain type of gap, such as, for example, might occur in the edge of a trade ax, or hatchet, for use in drawing nails, an occupation for which the red savages, of course, have little use. |
| 1 | 134 | It is also used more broadly for a gash, such as an ax might cut in a tree, or for a cut or scar. |
| 1 | 135 | It seems to be clearly in the latter range of meanings that the name belonged. |
| 1 | 136 | At the left side of Hci's face, at the chin, there was an irregular, jagged scar, some two inches in length. |
| 1 | 137 | This dated from several years ago, when he had been seventeen, from the second time he had set the paws of his kaiila on the warpath. |
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This is not all that unusual, incidentally.
One cannot expect identical regularities in meaning and usage to obtain in diverse linguistic communities.
The expression, for most practical purposes, signifies a certain type of gap, such as, for example, might occur in the edge of a trade ax, or hatchet, for use in drawing nails, an occupation for which the red savages, of course, have little use.
It is also used more broadly for a gash, such as an ax might cut in a tree, or for a cut or scar.
It seems to be clearly in the latter range of meanings that the name belonged.
At the left side of Hci's face, at the chin, there was an irregular, jagged scar, some two inches in length.
This dated from several years ago, when he had been seventeen, from the second time he had set the paws of his kaiila on the warpath.
- (Blood Brothers of Gor)