Book 10. (1 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 21 | 198 | It lay in the sand, curled, its View more quotes about head">head facing away from the wind, like something discarded, needed no longer, cast aside. |
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Book 10. (7 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 21 | 195 | Its mouth and lips were dry, like paper. |
| 21 | 196 | About the snout, the nostrils, the mouth and lips, were tiny fissures, broken open, filled with sand. |
| 21 | 197 | Sand, too, rimmed the nostrils and eyes, and the mouth and lips. |
| 21 | 198 | It lay in the sand, curled, its head facing away from the wind, like something discarded, needed no longer, cast aside. |
| 21 | 199 | It, proud beast, had pitted itself against the desert. |
| 21 | 200 | It had lost. |
| 21 | 201 | What prize, I wondered, could be worth the risk the beast had been willing to take, the price it had been willing to pay, its own life. |
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Its mouth and lips were dry, like paper.
About the snout, the nostrils, the mouth and lips, were tiny fissures, broken open, filled with sand.
Sand, too, rimmed the nostrils and eyes, and the mouth and lips.
It lay in the sand, curled, its head facing away from the wind, like something discarded, needed no longer, cast aside.
It, proud beast, had pitted itself against the desert.
It had lost.
What prize, I wondered, could be worth the risk the beast had been willing to take, the price it had been willing to pay, its own life.
- (Tribesmen of Gor)