Book 2. (1 results) Outlaw of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 44 | I was covered with View more quotes about sweat">sweat. |
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Book 2. (7 results) Outlaw of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 1 | 41 | In an instant he released me, apologizing profusely even before recognizing me. |
| 1 | 42 | In horror I realized that what he had done had been as much a reflex as the blinking of an eye or the jerking of a knee under a physician's hammer. |
| 1 | 43 | It was the reflex of an animal whose instinct it is to destroy before it can be destroyed, or of a human being who has been tooled into such an animal, a human being who has been conditioned to kill swiftly, savagely, or be killed in the same fashion. |
| 1 | 44 | I was covered with sweat. |
| 1 | 45 | I knew that I had been an instant from death. |
| 1 | 46 | Was this the gentle Cabot I had known? "Harrison!" he cried. |
| 1 | 47 | "Harrison Smith!" He lifted me easily to my feet, his words rapid and stumbling, trying to reassure me. |
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In an instant he released me, apologizing profusely even before recognizing me.
In horror I realized that what he had done had been as much a reflex as the blinking of an eye or the jerking of a knee under a physician's hammer.
It was the reflex of an animal whose instinct it is to destroy before it can be destroyed, or of a human being who has been tooled into such an animal, a human being who has been conditioned to kill swiftly, savagely, or be killed in the same fashion.
I was covered with sweat.
I knew that I had been an instant from death.
Was this the gentle Cabot I had known? "Harrison!" he cried.
"Harrison Smith!" He lifted me easily to my feet, his words rapid and stumbling, trying to reassure me.
- (Outlaw of Gor)