Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 27 | 2 | Though the time was now past the fourth feeding. |
| 27 | 3 | It was almost eight Gorean Ahn, or about ten Earth hours, since I had separated from Misk and Mul-Al-Ka and Mul-Ba-Ta early this morning. |
| 27 | 4 | The transportation disk which had originally taken me to the chamber where I had found Misk I had taken to the entrance to the tunnels of the Golden beetle and I thought it well that it should stay there, as if witnessing my entrance and my supposed failure to return. |
| 27 | 5 | I was less pleased to have left the translator with the disk but it seemed the better thing to do, for one would not have taken a translator into the tunnels of the Golden beetle and if it were found missing from the disk it might occasion speculation not that I had returned from the tunnels of the Golden beetle but more likely that I had only pretended to enter. |
| 27 | 6 | The word of the two Muls by the portal might or might not carry weight with their Priest-King Masters. |
| 27 | 7 | I had not walked far from the Vivarium before I was able to regather my general directions in the Nest and, as I walked impatiently along, I spied a transportation disk docked, so to speak, hovering on its cushion of gas, outside one of the tall steel portals of the Hall of Commissaries. |
| 27 | 8 | The disk was of course, untended, for in the enclosed, regulated life of the Nest theft, save for an occasional handful of salt, was unknown. |
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Though the time was now past the fourth feeding.
It was almost eight Gorean Ahn, or about ten Earth hours, since I had separated from Misk and Mul-Al-Ka and Mul-Ba-Ta early this morning.
The transportation disk which had originally taken me to the chamber where I had found Misk I had taken to the entrance to the tunnels of the Golden beetle and I thought it well that it should stay there, as if witnessing my entrance and my supposed failure to return.
I was less pleased to have left the translator with the disk but it seemed the better thing to do, for one would not have taken a translator into the tunnels of the Golden beetle and if it were found missing from the disk it might occasion speculation not that I had returned from the tunnels of the Golden beetle but more likely that I had only pretended to enter.
The word of the two Muls by the portal might or might not carry weight with their Priest-King Masters.
I had not walked far from the Vivarium before I was able to regather my general directions in the Nest and, as I walked impatiently along, I spied a transportation disk docked, so to speak, hovering on its cushion of gas, outside one of the tall steel portals of the Hall of Commissaries.
The disk was of course, untended, for in the enclosed, regulated life of the Nest theft, save for an occasional handful of salt, was unknown.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter )