Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 9 | I regretted freeing the View more quotes about tarn">tarn, for it was a fine bird, powerful, intelligent, fierce, courageous, loyal. |
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Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 1 | 6 | It had been caught in the shield of the Priest-Kings, invisible, not to be evaded, undoubtedly a field of some sort, which had so acted on the bird, perhaps affecting the mechanism of the inner ear, that the creature had become incapable of controlling itself and had fallen disoriented and confused to the earth below. |
| 1 | 7 | None of the animals of Gor, as far as I knew, could enter the Sardar. |
| 1 | 8 | Only men could enter, and they did not return. |
| 1 | 9 | I regretted freeing the tarn, for it was a fine bird, powerful, intelligent, fierce, courageous, loyal. |
| 1 | 10 | And, strangely, I think it cared for me. |
| 1 | 11 | At least I cared for it. |
| 1 | 12 | And only with harsh words could I drive it away, and when it disappeared in the distance, puzzled, perhaps hurt, I wept. |
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It had been caught in the shield of the Priest-Kings, invisible, not to be evaded, undoubtedly a field of some sort, which had so acted on the bird, perhaps affecting the mechanism of the inner ear, that the creature had become incapable of controlling itself and had fallen disoriented and confused to the earth below.
None of the animals of Gor, as far as I knew, could enter the Sardar.
Only men could enter, and they did not return.
I regretted freeing the tarn, for it was a fine bird, powerful, intelligent, fierce, courageous, loyal.
And, strangely, I think it cared for me.
At least I cared for it.
And only with harsh words could I drive it away, and when it disappeared in the distance, puzzled, perhaps hurt, I wept.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor)