Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 18 | 143 | One of the starved View more quotes about tarns">tarns, with a leap and stroke of his wings, lunged upward, catching the man in his beak. |
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Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 18 | 140 | The other tarns, poking out of the tarn cot, seemed to hesitate and then to notice the open door into the cylinder. |
| 18 | 141 | At that moment, to his own misfortune, a passing guardsman of Ar discovered the opened door that had mysteriously appeared in the wall of the first floor of the Central Cylinder. |
| 18 | 142 | He stood framed for a moment in the doorway and shouted, a shout half of discovery, half of mortal fear. |
| 18 | 143 | One of the starved tarns, with a leap and stroke of his wings, lunged upward, catching the man in his beak. |
| 18 | 144 | The man screamed horribly. |
| 18 | 145 | Another tarn reached the portal and tried to pull the body from the beak of its possessor. |
| 18 | 146 | There was another shout from within, and several more guardsmen rushed to the opening. |
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The other tarns, poking out of the tarn cot, seemed to hesitate and then to notice the open door into the cylinder.
At that moment, to his own misfortune, a passing guardsman of Ar discovered the opened door that had mysteriously appeared in the wall of the first floor of the Central Cylinder.
He stood framed for a moment in the doorway and shouted, a shout half of discovery, half of mortal fear.
One of the starved tarns, with a leap and stroke of his wings, lunged upward, catching the man in his beak.
The man screamed horribly.
Another tarn reached the portal and tried to pull the body from the beak of its possessor.
There was another shout from within, and several more guardsmen rushed to the opening.
- (Tarnsman of Gor)