Book 4. (1 results) Nomads of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 17 | 30 | Yet, if it had been a View more quotes about tharlarion">tharlarion or a Vosk turtle, it might well have broken the surface for air. |
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Book 4. (7 results) Nomads of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 17 | 27 | It would probably be a sea-tharlarion, or perhaps several such; sometimes the smaller sea-tharlarion, seemingly not much more than teeth and tail, fluttering in packs beneath the waves, are even more to be feared than their larger brethren, some of whom in whose jaws an entire galley can be raised from the surface of the sea and snapped in two like a handful of dried reeds of the rence plant. |
| 17 | 28 | It might, too, be a Vosk turtle. |
| 17 | 29 | Some of them are gigantic, almost impossible to kill, persistent, carnivorous. |
| 17 | 30 | Yet, if it had been a tharlarion or a Vosk turtle, it might well have broken the surface for air. |
| 17 | 31 | It did not. |
| 17 | 32 | This reasoning also led me to suppose that it would not be likely to be anything like a water sleen or a giant urt from the canals of Port Kar. |
| 17 | 33 | These two, even before the tharlarion or the turtle, would by now, presumably, have surfaced to breathe. |
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It would probably be a sea-tharlarion, or perhaps several such; sometimes the smaller sea-tharlarion, seemingly not much more than teeth and tail, fluttering in packs beneath the waves, are even more to be feared than their larger brethren, some of whom in whose jaws an entire galley can be raised from the surface of the sea and snapped in two like a handful of dried reeds of the rence plant.
It might, too, be a Vosk turtle.
Some of them are gigantic, almost impossible to kill, persistent, carnivorous.
Yet, if it had been a tharlarion or a Vosk turtle, it might well have broken the surface for air.
It did not.
This reasoning also led me to suppose that it would not be likely to be anything like a water sleen or a giant urt from the canals of Port Kar.
These two, even before the tharlarion or the turtle, would by now, presumably, have surfaced to breathe.
- (Nomads of Gor)