Book 4. (1 results) Nomads of Gor (Individual Quote)
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2
58
I passed fields that were burning, and burning huts of peasants, the smoking shells of sa-tarna granaries, the shattered, slatted coops for vulos, the broken walls of keeps for the small, long-haired domestic verr, less belligerent and sizable than the wild verr of the Voltai Ranges.
I passed fields that were burning, and burning huts of peasants, the smoking shells of Sa-Tarna granaries, the shattered, slatted coops for vulos, the broken walls of keeps for the small, long-haired domestic verr, less belligerent and sizable than the wild verr of the Voltai Ranges.
- (Nomads of Gor, Chapter 2, Sentence #58)
Book 4. (7 results) Nomads of Gor (Context Quote)
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2
55
But now I could hear, carried on the wind blowing toward distant Turia, the bellowing of the bosks.
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56
The dust was now heavy like nightfall in the air.
2
57
The grass and the earth seemed to quake beneath my tread.
2
58
I passed fields that were burning, and burning huts of peasants, the smoking shells of sa-tarna granaries, the shattered, slatted coops for vulos, the broken walls of keeps for the small, long-haired domestic verr, less belligerent and sizable than the wild verr of the Voltai Ranges.
2
59
Then for the first time, against the horizon, a jagged line, humped and rolling like thundering waters, seemed to rise alive from the prairie, vast, extensive, a huge arc, churning and pounding from one corner of the sky to the other, the herds of the Wagon Peoples, encircling, raising dust into the sky like fire, like hoofed glaciers of fur and horn moving in shaggy floods across the grass, toward me.
2
60
And then I saw the first of the outriders, moving toward me, swiftly yet not seeming to hurry.
2
61
I saw the slender line of his light lance against the sky, strapped across his back.
But now I could hear, carried on the wind blowing toward distant Turia, the bellowing of the bosks.
The dust was now heavy like nightfall in the air.
The grass and the earth seemed to quake beneath my tread.
I passed fields that were burning, and burning huts of peasants, the smoking shells of sa-tarna granaries, the shattered, slatted coops for vulos, the broken walls of keeps for the small, long-haired domestic verr, less belligerent and sizable than the wild verr of the Voltai Ranges.
Then for the first time, against the horizon, a jagged line, humped and rolling like thundering waters, seemed to rise alive from the prairie, vast, extensive, a huge arc, churning and pounding from one corner of the sky to the other, the herds of the Wagon Peoples, encircling, raising dust into the sky like fire, like hoofed glaciers of fur and horn moving in shaggy floods across the grass, toward me.
And then I saw the first of the outriders, moving toward me, swiftly yet not seeming to hurry.
I saw the slender line of his light lance against the sky, strapped across his back.
- (Nomads of Gor, Chapter 2)