Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 32 | 4 | Each View more quotes about bird">bird could carry, for a short way, some seven or eight men. |
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Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 32 | 1 | Lines are Severed; Torches Fall Into the Sea Dust was roiling in the courtyard from the beating of wings. |
| 32 | 2 | I feared it was too late. |
| 32 | 3 | The great birds did not land, but hovered, some yards from the ground; long knotted ropes, fastened to their saddle rings, spilled to the earth. |
| 32 | 4 | Each bird could carry, for a short way, some seven or eight men. |
| 32 | 5 | In such a way men may be borne over the walls of a city, in a raid, to set it afire, to attack a Ubar, to free a fellow, to fight to open a gate. |
| 32 | 6 | In a city, of course, one risks swaying, almost invisible tarn wire, capable of disemboweling or beheading a bird, cutting away a wing in flight. |
| 32 | 7 | I, and others, including Leros, Aeacus, and Philoctetes, seized a rope, and, elsewhere, others of the high watches, and several mariners, did likewise. |
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Lines are Severed; Torches Fall Into the Sea Dust was roiling in the courtyard from the beating of wings.
I feared it was too late.
The great birds did not land, but hovered, some yards from the ground; long knotted ropes, fastened to their saddle rings, spilled to the earth.
Each bird could carry, for a short way, some seven or eight men.
In such a way men may be borne over the walls of a city, in a raid, to set it afire, to attack a Ubar, to free a fellow, to fight to open a gate.
In a city, of course, one risks swaying, almost invisible tarn wire, capable of disemboweling or beheading a bird, cutting away a wing in flight.
I, and others, including Leros, Aeacus, and Philoctetes, seized a rope, and, elsewhere, others of the high watches, and several mariners, did likewise.
- (Mariners of Gor)