Book 2. (7 results) Outlaw of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 20 | 109 | Unwillingly the View more quotes about bird">bird alighted on the grassy plains about a league from the Fair of En'Kara. |
| 20 | 110 | I slipped from his back. |
| 20 | 111 | I thought those great eyes looked at me reproachfully. |
| 20 | 112 | Why did I not leap again to his back and once more cry "One-strap!" Why did we not try once more? I slapped his beak affectionately and, digging among his neck feathers with my fingers, scratched out some of the lice, about the size of marbles, that infest wild tarns. |
| 20 | 113 | I slapped them on his long tongue. |
| 20 | 114 | After a moment of impatient, feather-ruffling protest, the tarn succumbed, if reluctantly, to this delicacy, and the parasites disappeared into that curved scimitar of a beak. |
| 20 | 115 | What had happened would have been regarded by the untrained Gorean mind, particularly that of a low-caste individual, as evidence of some supernatural force, as some magical effect of the will of the Priest-Kings. |
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Unwillingly the bird alighted on the grassy plains about a league from the Fair of En'Kara.
I slipped from his back.
I thought those great eyes looked at me reproachfully.
Why did I not leap again to his back and once more cry "One-strap!" Why did we not try once more? I slapped his beak affectionately and, digging among his neck feathers with my fingers, scratched out some of the lice, about the size of marbles, that infest wild tarns.
I slapped them on his long tongue.
After a moment of impatient, feather-ruffling protest, the tarn succumbed, if reluctantly, to this delicacy, and the parasites disappeared into that curved scimitar of a beak.
What had happened would have been regarded by the untrained Gorean mind, particularly that of a low-caste individual, as evidence of some supernatural force, as some magical effect of the will of the Priest-Kings.
- (Outlaw of Gor)