Book 33. (1 results) Rebels of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 25 | 273 | "He View more quotes about must">must be in the saddle within Ehn!" Haruki, I thought, wildly, had not failed! The tiny message, fastened to the left foot of the vulo, held in its flight against its belly, half hidden in its plumage, days ago, had made its way to the cot in the holding of Temmu! Suddenly the vast shadow of the mighty bird darkened the stands, and put in flickering, tumultuous shade the disquiet waters of the wide pool, for the tarnsman had pulled the bird up short, and, wings beating, holding its place, the bird shuddered, and hovered but yards below the high board. |
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Book 33. (7 results) Rebels of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 25 | 270 | Many in the crowd, now, were aware of the disturbance, the impending arrival of an uninvited guest. |
| 25 | 271 | I did not doubt but what the brave, displayed, fluttering banners of Lord Yamada had well proclaimed the venue of the afternoon's fearful proceedings. |
| 25 | 272 | "Summon Tyrtaios!" called the shogun. |
| 25 | 273 | "He must be in the saddle within Ehn!" Haruki, I thought, wildly, had not failed! The tiny message, fastened to the left foot of the vulo, held in its flight against its belly, half hidden in its plumage, days ago, had made its way to the cot in the holding of Temmu! Suddenly the vast shadow of the mighty bird darkened the stands, and put in flickering, tumultuous shade the disquiet waters of the wide pool, for the tarnsman had pulled the bird up short, and, wings beating, holding its place, the bird shuddered, and hovered but yards below the high board. |
| 25 | 274 | "Jump, slave!" screamed Tajima. |
| 25 | 275 | Surely he knew she was not a slave! Crying out in confusion, and misery, Sumomo, obedient, bound and blindfolded, leaped from the board's edge into nothing, and plummeted downward, the skirt of her sheetlike garment torn high about her thighs, and was caught in the arms of Tajima, who threw her on her belly to the saddle apron and wheeled the tarn to the right, and upward, and, as two glaives, hurled from the platform, passed him, one below, and one to the left, spun the bird about and streaked from the stadium. |
| 25 | 276 | Consternation reigned below. |
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Many in the crowd, now, were aware of the disturbance, the impending arrival of an uninvited guest.
I did not doubt but what the brave, displayed, fluttering banners of Lord Yamada had well proclaimed the venue of the afternoon's fearful proceedings.
"Summon Tyrtaios!" called the shogun.
"He must be in the saddle within Ehn!" Haruki, I thought, wildly, had not failed! The tiny message, fastened to the left foot of the vulo, held in its flight against its belly, half hidden in its plumage, days ago, had made its way to the cot in the holding of Temmu! Suddenly the vast shadow of the mighty bird darkened the stands, and put in flickering, tumultuous shade the disquiet waters of the wide pool, for the tarnsman had pulled the bird up short, and, wings beating, holding its place, the bird shuddered, and hovered but yards below the high board.
"Jump, slave!" screamed Tajima.
Surely he knew she was not a slave! Crying out in confusion, and misery, Sumomo, obedient, bound and blindfolded, leaped from the board's edge into nothing, and plummeted downward, the skirt of her sheetlike garment torn high about her thighs, and was caught in the arms of Tajima, who threw her on her belly to the saddle apron and wheeled the tarn to the right, and upward, and, as two glaives, hurled from the platform, passed him, one below, and one to the left, spun the bird about and streaked from the stadium.
Consternation reigned below.
- (Rebels of Gor)