Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 14 | 149 | Then the View more quotes about tarnsman">tarnsman saw me and shouted in rage, drawing his sword. |
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Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 14 | 146 | The first guess would be that my body had torn in two, and the darkness would conceal the truth for a moment, until the tarnsman himself would try the ropes, to test the weight of their burden. |
| 14 | 147 | I swung myself up and began to climb one of the two ropes leading to the great bird above me. |
| 14 | 148 | In a few wild moments I had gained the saddle straps of the bird and hauled myself nearly to the weapon rings. |
| 14 | 149 | Then the tarnsman saw me and shouted in rage, drawing his sword. |
| 14 | 150 | He slashed downward, and I slipped down one talon of the bird, which screamed and became unmanageable. |
| 14 | 151 | Then, with one hand, while clinging to the talon, I loosened the girth straps. |
| 14 | 152 | In a moment, given the wild motion of the bird, the entire saddle, to which the tarnsman was fixed by the saddle straps, slid from the bird's back and flew wildly into the depths below. |
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The first guess would be that my body had torn in two, and the darkness would conceal the truth for a moment, until the tarnsman himself would try the ropes, to test the weight of their burden.
I swung myself up and began to climb one of the two ropes leading to the great bird above me.
In a few wild moments I had gained the saddle straps of the bird and hauled myself nearly to the weapon rings.
Then the tarnsman saw me and shouted in rage, drawing his sword.
He slashed downward, and I slipped down one talon of the bird, which screamed and became unmanageable.
Then, with one hand, while clinging to the talon, I loosened the girth straps.
In a moment, given the wild motion of the bird, the entire saddle, to which the tarnsman was fixed by the saddle straps, slid from the bird's back and flew wildly into the depths below.
- (Tarnsman of Gor)