Book 4. (1 results) Nomads of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 53 | It is a huge, shambling animal, with a thick, humped neck and long, shaggy hair. |
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Book 4. (7 results) Nomads of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 1 | 50 | They live on the meat and milk of the bosk. |
| 1 | 51 | They are among the proudest of the peoples of Gor, regarding the dwellers of the cities of Gor as vermin in holes, cowards who must fly behind walls, wretches who fear to live beneath the broad sky, who dare not dispute with them the open, windswept plains of their world. |
| 1 | 52 | The bosk, without which the Wagon Peoples could not live, is an oxlike creature. |
| 1 | 53 | It is a huge, shambling animal, with a thick, humped neck and long, shaggy hair. |
| 1 | 54 | It has a wide head and tiny red eyes, a temper to match that of a sleen, and two long, wicked horns that reach out from its head and suddenly curve forward to terminate in fearful points. |
| 1 | 55 | Some of these horns, on the larger animals, measured from tip to tip, exceed the length of two spears. |
| 1 | 56 | Not only does the flesh of the bosk and the milk of its cows furnish the Wagon Peoples with food and drink, but its hides cover the domelike wagons in which they dwell; its tanned and sewn skins cover their bodies; the leather of its hump is used for their shields; its sinews form their thread; its bones and horns are split and tooled into implements of a hundred sorts, from awls, punches and spoons to drinking flagons and weapon tips; its hoofs are used for glues; its oils are used to grease their bodies against the cold. |
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They live on the meat and milk of the bosk.
They are among the proudest of the peoples of Gor, regarding the dwellers of the cities of Gor as vermin in holes, cowards who must fly behind walls, wretches who fear to live beneath the broad sky, who dare not dispute with them the open, windswept plains of their world.
The bosk, without which the Wagon Peoples could not live, is an oxlike creature.
It is a huge, shambling animal, with a thick, humped neck and long, shaggy hair.
It has a wide head and tiny red eyes, a temper to match that of a sleen, and two long, wicked horns that reach out from its head and suddenly curve forward to terminate in fearful points.
Some of these horns, on the larger animals, measured from tip to tip, exceed the length of two spears.
Not only does the flesh of the bosk and the milk of its cows furnish the Wagon Peoples with food and drink, but its hides cover the domelike wagons in which they dwell; its tanned and sewn skins cover their bodies; the leather of its hump is used for their shields; its sinews form their thread; its bones and horns are split and tooled into implements of a hundred sorts, from awls, punches and spoons to drinking flagons and weapon tips; its hoofs are used for glues; its oils are used to grease their bodies against the cold.
- (Nomads of Gor, Chapter 1)