Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 17 | 108 | View more quotes about sometimes">Sometimes it seizes the animal, carries it to a height, and then releases it, and then descends to feed. |
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 17 | 105 | The tale of the past is often told only in the future. |
| 17 | 106 | Looking downward I saw a swooping, riderless tarn seize a fellow in its talons and beat its way upward. |
| 17 | 107 | Commonly the tarn strike breaks the back of the verr or tabuk, and then it begins to feed, while the animal is still alive. |
| 17 | 108 | Sometimes it seizes the animal, carries it to a height, and then releases it, and then descends to feed. |
| 17 | 109 | To one side I heard a long, wailing cry and saw a fellow dropped from some two or three hundred feet to the ground below, the riderless tarn, reverted without its rider, then descending to feed. |
| 17 | 110 | Elsewhere another riderless tarn was pinning a fellow to the earth with one taloned foot, and striking at him with its beak. |
| 17 | 111 | Then it had an arm loose and the ground about, to thrashing and screaming, was muddied with blood. |
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The tale of the past is often told only in the future.
Looking downward I saw a swooping, riderless tarn seize a fellow in its talons and beat its way upward.
Commonly the tarn strike breaks the back of the verr or tabuk, and then it begins to feed, while the animal is still alive.
Sometimes it seizes the animal, carries it to a height, and then releases it, and then descends to feed.
To one side I heard a long, wailing cry and saw a fellow dropped from some two or three hundred feet to the ground below, the riderless tarn, reverted without its rider, then descending to feed.
Elsewhere another riderless tarn was pinning a fellow to the earth with one taloned foot, and striking at him with its beak.
Then it had an arm loose and the ground about, to thrashing and screaming, was muddied with blood.
- (Swordsmen of Gor)