Book 4. (1 results) Nomads of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 12 | 9 | The prairie stretched away for hundreds of View more quotes about pasangs">pasangs in all directions. |
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Book 4. (7 results) Nomads of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 12 | 6 | Even on my kaiila I was certain I could be outdistanced by numerous riders, each leading, in the Tuchuk fashion, a string of fresh mounts. |
| 12 | 7 | Eventually my kaiila would tire and I would be brought down on the prairie by pursuers. |
| 12 | 8 | The trailing would undoubtedly be done by trained herd sleen. |
| 12 | 9 | The prairie stretched away for hundreds of pasangs in all directions. |
| 12 | 10 | There was little cover. |
| 12 | 11 | It was possible, of course, that I might declare my mission to Kutaituchik or Kamchak, and see what would occur—but I knew that Kamchak had said to Saphrar of Turia that the Tuchuks were fond of the golden sphere—and I had no hopes that I might make them part with it—and surely I had no riches comparable to those of Saphrar with which to purchase it—and Saphrar's own attempts to win the sphere by purchase, I reminded myself, had failed. |
| 12 | 12 | Yet I was hesitant to make the strike of a thief at the wagon of Kutaituchik—for the Tuchuks, in their bluff way, had made me welcome, and I had come to care for some of them, particularly the gruff, chuckling, wily Kamchak, whose wagon I shared. |
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Even on my kaiila I was certain I could be outdistanced by numerous riders, each leading, in the Tuchuk fashion, a string of fresh mounts.
Eventually my kaiila would tire and I would be brought down on the prairie by pursuers.
The trailing would undoubtedly be done by trained herd sleen.
The prairie stretched away for hundreds of pasangs in all directions.
There was little cover.
It was possible, of course, that I might declare my mission to Kutaituchik or Kamchak, and see what would occur—but I knew that Kamchak had said to Saphrar of Turia that the Tuchuks were fond of the golden sphere—and I had no hopes that I might make them part with it—and surely I had no riches comparable to those of Saphrar with which to purchase it—and Saphrar's own attempts to win the sphere by purchase, I reminded myself, had failed.
Yet I was hesitant to make the strike of a thief at the wagon of Kutaituchik—for the Tuchuks, in their bluff way, had made me welcome, and I had come to care for some of them, particularly the gruff, chuckling, wily Kamchak, whose wagon I shared.
- (Nomads of Gor)