Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 2 | 159 | There was then View more quotes about another">another cry, but it was not the cry of the Vosk gull. |
| 2 | 160 | It was a wild, shrill, ringing scream, unmistakable. |
| 2 | 161 | "That is a tarn!" cried a man. |
| 2 | 162 | "Impossible," said the captain. |
| 2 | 163 | Even with the fog we could not be so far off our course, or so confused. |
| 2 | 164 | The tarn, you see, is a land bird, a hook-beaked, vast-winged, gigantic, crested, dreaded, fearsome monster of the skies. |
| 2 | 165 | Its talons can clasp a kaiila and carry it aloft, to drop it to its death, thence to land and feed on the meat. |
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There was then another cry, but it was not the cry of the Vosk gull.
It was a wild, shrill, ringing scream, unmistakable.
"That is a tarn!" cried a man.
"Impossible," said the captain.
Even with the fog we could not be so far off our course, or so confused.
The tarn, you see, is a land bird, a hook-beaked, vast-winged, gigantic, crested, dreaded, fearsome monster of the skies.
Its talons can clasp a kaiila and carry it aloft, to drop it to its death, thence to land and feed on the meat.
- (Mariners of Gor)