Book 27. (1 results) Prize of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 5 | 29 | The language View more quotes about apparently">apparently contained no words for hundreds of the most common objects on her former world, such as automobiles and radios. |
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Book 27. (7 results) Prize of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 5 | 26 | The other three, she suspected, did not know English. |
| 5 | 27 | She did not know what might be their native language. |
| 5 | 28 | She suspected that they were native to this new world. |
| 5 | 29 | The language apparently contained no words for hundreds of the most common objects on her former world, such as automobiles and radios. |
| 5 | 30 | On the other hand, it contained many words for implements; artifacts, items of apparel, botanical forms, comestibles, and such, with which she was unfamiliar. |
| 5 | 31 | In such a way she had begun to suspect something of the nature of the world which must lie beyond the enforcements of her current horizon, a horizon limited by four walls, a patch of sky detected through an inaccessible window and an occasional glimpse into a forbidding corridor. |
| 5 | 32 | To be sure, her most widely ranging, and far-flung, and ambitious speculations and conjectures, of necessity under the circumstances, must fail to prepare her for the reality without. |
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The other three, she suspected, did not know English.
She did not know what might be their native language.
She suspected that they were native to this new world.
The language apparently contained no words for hundreds of the most common objects on her former world, such as automobiles and radios.
On the other hand, it contained many words for implements; artifacts, items of apparel, botanical forms, comestibles, and such, with which she was unfamiliar.
In such a way she had begun to suspect something of the nature of the world which must lie beyond the enforcements of her current horizon, a horizon limited by four walls, a patch of sky detected through an inaccessible window and an occasional glimpse into a forbidding corridor.
To be sure, her most widely ranging, and far-flung, and ambitious speculations and conjectures, of necessity under the circumstances, must fail to prepare her for the reality without.
- (Prize of Gor)