Book 17. (7 results) Savages of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 255 | Even the guards outside do not understand, clearly, on what business we have come here. |
| 1 | 256 | Besides, if one had not seen such things, who would believe stories as to their existence? They would be regarded as mythical or as existing only in stories of wondrous animals, such as the horse, the dog and griffin". |
| 1 | 257 | I smiled. |
| 1 | 258 | Horses and dogs did not exist on gor. |
| 1 | 259 | goreans, on the whole, knew them only from legends, which, I had little doubt, owed their origins to forgotten times, to memories brought long ago to gor from another world. |
| 1 | 260 | Such stories, for they were very old on gor, probably go back thousands of years, dating from the times of very early Voyages of Acquisition, undertaken by venturesome, inquisitive creatures of an alien species, one known to most goreans only as the Priest-Kings. |
| 1 | 261 | To be sure, few Priest-Kings, now, entertained such a curiosity nor such an enthusiastic penchant for exploration and adventure. |
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Even the guards outside do not understand, clearly, on what business we have come here.
Besides, if one had not seen such things, who would believe stories as to their existence? They would be regarded as mythical or as existing only in stories of wondrous animals, such as the horse, the dog and griffin".
I smiled.
Horses and dogs did not exist on gor.
goreans, on the whole, knew them only from legends, which, I had little doubt, owed their origins to forgotten times, to memories brought long ago to gor from another world.
Such stories, for they were very old on gor, probably go back thousands of years, dating from the times of very early Voyages of Acquisition, undertaken by venturesome, inquisitive creatures of an alien species, one known to most goreans only as the Priest-Kings.
To be sure, few Priest-Kings, now, entertained such a curiosity nor such an enthusiastic penchant for exploration and adventure.
- (Savages of Gor, Chapter )