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Book 10. (1 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Individual Quote)

I propped the body beside me, holding it that it not be swept from the side of the ship. - (Tribesmen of Gor, Chapter 21, Sentence #505)
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21 505 I propped the View more quotes about body">body beside me, holding it that it not be swept from the side of the ship.

Book 10. (7 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Context Quote)

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21 502 Behind the decoy there would be nothing.
21 503 One thing the Kur would not expect would be that I would surrender the shield of invisibility; one thing he would not expect would be that it would be I, myself, who would present myself to his weapon.
21 504 I clung to the side of the portal.
21 505 I propped the body beside me, holding it that it not be swept from the side of the ship.
21 506 I counted slowly, five thousand Ihn, that the reflexes of the Kur within be drawn to a hair-trigger alertness, that the whole nervous might of the beast might be balanced on a razor's edge of response, that every instinct and fiber in his body would scream to press the trigger at what first might move.
21 507 But I counted, too, on its intelligence, its control, that it would not fire on what first might move, particularly if it were visible.
21 508 The wind howled and the sand swirled about the ship.
Behind the decoy there would be nothing. One thing the Kur would not expect would be that I would surrender the shield of invisibility; one thing he would not expect would be that it would be I, myself, who would present myself to his weapon. I clung to the side of the portal. I propped the body beside me, holding it that it not be swept from the side of the ship. I counted slowly, five thousand Ihn, that the reflexes of the Kur within be drawn to a hair-trigger alertness, that the whole nervous might of the beast might be balanced on a razor's edge of response, that every instinct and fiber in his body would scream to press the trigger at what first might move. But I counted, too, on its intelligence, its control, that it would not fire on what first might move, particularly if it were visible. The wind howled and the sand swirled about the ship. - (Tribesmen of Gor)