Book 10. (1 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 17 | 279 | Too, the heart is View more quotes about deep">deep within the body. |
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Book 10. (7 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 17 | 276 | The fish leaped again from the water and I had the dagger free, plunging it, ripping, into the gill tissue below its jaw, one of the salt-adaptations of marine life in the pit. |
| 17 | 277 | I did not know the number of its hearts or their location. |
| 17 | 278 | These vary in Gorean sharks. |
| 17 | 279 | Too, the heart is deep within the body. |
| 17 | 280 | I did not think I could reach it with the blade at my disposal. |
| 17 | 281 | But the gill tissue is delicate, like layers of petals, essential for drawing oxygen from the environment. |
| 17 | 282 | Madly did the great marine beast thrash; its jaws distended, trying to disgorge its victim, but it was held by the teeth; it tried to bite through the body in its jaws but the body was wedged well within the jaws and it could exert little leverage. |
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The fish leaped again from the water and I had the dagger free, plunging it, ripping, into the gill tissue below its jaw, one of the salt-adaptations of marine life in the pit.
I did not know the number of its hearts or their location.
These vary in Gorean sharks.
Too, the heart is deep within the body.
I did not think I could reach it with the blade at my disposal.
But the gill tissue is delicate, like layers of petals, essential for drawing oxygen from the environment.
Madly did the great marine beast thrash; its jaws distended, trying to disgorge its victim, but it was held by the teeth; it tried to bite through the body in its jaws but the body was wedged well within the jaws and it could exert little leverage.
- (Tribesmen of Gor)