Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 26 | 197 | View more quotes about tarns">Tarns, as other birds, do not much care to flight in the rain. |
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 26 | 194 | The rain, which had been light, stopped. |
| 26 | 195 | The light of the yellow moon, high to my right, broke through some clouds. |
| 26 | 196 | I could see the sheen on the wings of the tarn, the streaking on its beak. |
| 26 | 197 | Tarns, as other birds, do not much care to flight in the rain. |
| 26 | 198 | Whereas the feathering tends to shed water, it is only a matter of time before the penetrant fluid soaks through the layerings and impedes the flight. |
| 26 | 199 | For maximum efficiency the feathers must be dry and the sky clear and dry. |
| 26 | 200 | In the wingbeat in the rain, after a sudden clearing, the rain water is flashed into the sky, sometimes taking the light in an instant's rainbow, vanishing almost instantly to be replaced with another, and another. |
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The rain, which had been light, stopped.
The light of the yellow moon, high to my right, broke through some clouds.
I could see the sheen on the wings of the tarn, the streaking on its beak.
Tarns, as other birds, do not much care to flight in the rain.
Whereas the feathering tends to shed water, it is only a matter of time before the penetrant fluid soaks through the layerings and impedes the flight.
For maximum efficiency the feathers must be dry and the sky clear and dry.
In the wingbeat in the rain, after a sudden clearing, the rain water is flashed into the sky, sometimes taking the light in an instant's rainbow, vanishing almost instantly to be replaced with another, and another.
- (Swordsmen of Gor)