Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 14 | 138 | The View more quotes about birds">birds were pulling against one another, stabilized in their flight, each trying to pull away from the other. |
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Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 14 | 135 | For a moment I swung between the birds, and then, perhaps a hundred feet in the air, the tarnsmen, at a prearranged signal—a sharp blast of a tarn whistle from the ground—turned their birds in opposite directions. |
| 14 | 136 | The sudden wrenching pain seemed to rip my body. |
| 14 | 137 | I think I inadvertently screamed. |
| 14 | 138 | The birds were pulling against one another, stabilized in their flight, each trying to pull away from the other. |
| 14 | 139 | Now and again there would be a moment's giddy respite from the pain as one or the other of the birds failed to keep the ropes taut. |
| 14 | 140 | I could hear the curses of the tarnsmen above me and saw once or twice the flash of the striking tarn-goad. |
| 14 | 141 | Then the birds would throw their weight again on the ropes, bringing another flashing wrench of agony. |
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For a moment I swung between the birds, and then, perhaps a hundred feet in the air, the tarnsmen, at a prearranged signal—a sharp blast of a tarn whistle from the ground—turned their birds in opposite directions.
The sudden wrenching pain seemed to rip my body.
I think I inadvertently screamed.
The birds were pulling against one another, stabilized in their flight, each trying to pull away from the other.
Now and again there would be a moment's giddy respite from the pain as one or the other of the birds failed to keep the ropes taut.
I could hear the curses of the tarnsmen above me and saw once or twice the flash of the striking tarn-goad.
Then the birds would throw their weight again on the ropes, bringing another flashing wrench of agony.
- (Tarnsman of Gor)