Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 27 | 86 | It was a most ancient creature on which I gazed, the Mother of the Nest. |
| 27 | 87 | It was hard to imagine her, uncounted generations ago, with wings of gold in the open air, in the blue sky of Gor, glistening and turning with her lover borne on the high, glorious, swift winds of this distant, savage world. |
| 27 | 88 | How golden she would have been. |
| 27 | 89 | There was no male, no Father of the Nest, and I supposed the male had died, or had not lived long after her mating. |
| 27 | 90 | I wondered if, among Priest-Kings, he would have helped her, or if there would have been others from the former Nest, or if she alone would have fallen to earth, to eat the wings that had borne her, and to burrow beneath the mountains to begin the lonely work of the Mother, the creation of the new Nest. |
| 27 | 91 | I wondered why there had not been more females. |
| 27 | 92 | If Sarm had killed them, how was it that the Mother had not learned of this and had him destroyed? Or was it her wish that there should be no others? But if so why was she, if it were true, in league with Misk to perpetuate the race of Priest-Kings? I looked again through the grille on the shaft. |
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It was a most ancient creature on which I gazed, the Mother of the Nest.
It was hard to imagine her, uncounted generations ago, with wings of gold in the open air, in the blue sky of Gor, glistening and turning with her lover borne on the high, glorious, swift winds of this distant, savage world.
How golden she would have been.
There was no male, no Father of the Nest, and I supposed the male had died, or had not lived long after her mating.
I wondered if, among Priest-Kings, he would have helped her, or if there would have been others from the former Nest, or if she alone would have fallen to earth, to eat the wings that had borne her, and to burrow beneath the mountains to begin the lonely work of the Mother, the creation of the new Nest.
I wondered why there had not been more females.
If Sarm had killed them, how was it that the Mother had not learned of this and had him destroyed? Or was it her wish that there should be no others? But if so why was she, if it were true, in league with Misk to perpetuate the race of Priest-Kings? I looked again through the grille on the shaft.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter )