Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 13 | 48 | For an View more quotes about instant">instant I could not move, literally. |
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Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 13 | 45 | Without bothering to think, I seized my spear and, dragging harshly on the four-strap, brought the tarn into a sharp, abrupt descent. |
| 13 | 46 | The bird struck the ground between the diseased victim and the approaching larl. |
| 13 | 47 | Rather than risk casting my spear from the safe but unsteady saddle of the tarn, I leaped to the ground, just as the larl, furious that it had been discovered, uttered the paralyzing hunting roar and charged. |
| 13 | 48 | For an instant I could not move, literally. |
| 13 | 49 | Somehow the shock of that great, wild cry gripped me in a steel fist of terror. |
| 13 | 50 | It was uncontrollable, an immobility as much a physiological reflex as the jerking of a knee or the blinking of an eye. |
| 13 | 51 | Then, as swiftly as it had come, that nightmarish instant of immobility passed and I set my spear to take the jolt of the larl's attack. |
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Without bothering to think, I seized my spear and, dragging harshly on the four-strap, brought the tarn into a sharp, abrupt descent.
The bird struck the ground between the diseased victim and the approaching larl.
Rather than risk casting my spear from the safe but unsteady saddle of the tarn, I leaped to the ground, just as the larl, furious that it had been discovered, uttered the paralyzing hunting roar and charged.
For an instant I could not move, literally.
Somehow the shock of that great, wild cry gripped me in a steel fist of terror.
It was uncontrollable, an immobility as much a physiological reflex as the jerking of a knee or the blinking of an eye.
Then, as swiftly as it had come, that nightmarish instant of immobility passed and I set my spear to take the jolt of the larl's attack.
- (Tarnsman of Gor)