| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 12 | 721 | It is a favorite View more quotes about sport">sport of tarnsmen to streak their tarn over an enemy city and, in such a fashion, capture an enemy girl from one of the city's high bridges, carrying her off, while the citizens of the city scream in fury, shaking their fists at the bold one. |
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| 12 | 718 | Others, flying low and to the side, roped the girls as they ran, using their slender ropes of braided leather, familiar to all tarnsmen. |
| 12 | 719 | Such warriors do not even deign to dismount to bind their fair prisoners. |
| 12 | 720 | They haul them to the saddle, in flight, there securing them, stripping them and fastening them to the binding rings. |
| 12 | 721 | It is a favorite sport of tarnsmen to streak their tarn over an enemy city and, in such a fashion, capture an enemy girl from one of the city's high bridges, carrying her off, while the citizens of the city scream in fury, shaking their fists at the bold one. |
| 12 | 722 | In moments her garments flutter down among the towers and she is his, bound on her back across the saddle before him, his prize. |
| 12 | 723 | If he is a young tarnsman, and she is his first girl, he will take her back to his own city, and display her for his family and friends, and she will dance for him, and serve him, at the Collaring Feast. |
| 12 | 724 | If he is a brutal tarnsman, he may take her rudely, should he wish, above the clouds, above her own city, before even his tarn has left its walls. |