Book 6. (1 results) Raiders of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 17 | 320 | I View more quotes about knew">knew tarns had destroyed riders who had attempted to ride them out over Thassa from the shore. |
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Book 6. (7 results) Raiders of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 17 | 317 | Whereas their instincts apparently tend to keep them within the sight of land, I did not know what would be the case if they were unhooded at sea, and there was no land to be found. |
| 17 | 318 | Perhaps they would not leave the ship. |
| 17 | 319 | Perhaps they would go mad with rage or fear. |
| 17 | 320 | I knew tarns had destroyed riders who had attempted to ride them out over Thassa from the shore. |
| 17 | 321 | But I hoped that the tarns, finding themselves out of the sight of land, might accommodate themselves to the experience. |
| 17 | 322 | I was hoping that, in the strange intelligence of animals, it would be the departure from land, and not the mere positioning of being out of the sight of land, that would be counter-instinctual for the great birds. |
| 17 | 323 | Doubtless I would soon know. |
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Whereas their instincts apparently tend to keep them within the sight of land, I did not know what would be the case if they were unhooded at sea, and there was no land to be found.
Perhaps they would not leave the ship.
Perhaps they would go mad with rage or fear.
I knew tarns had destroyed riders who had attempted to ride them out over Thassa from the shore.
But I hoped that the tarns, finding themselves out of the sight of land, might accommodate themselves to the experience.
I was hoping that, in the strange intelligence of animals, it would be the departure from land, and not the mere positioning of being out of the sight of land, that would be counter-instinctual for the great birds.
Doubtless I would soon know.
- (Raiders of Gor)