Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 170 | I might then wait until morning and start off in the light, secure, confident. |
| 1 | 171 | Moreover, it would be a simple matter to cover one's tracks in the light. |
| 1 | 172 | The important thing was not to be at the old camp. |
| 1 | 173 | I had made my way perilously through the darkness for perhaps twenty minutes when, to my horror, my knapsack and bedroll seemed to burst into blue flame on my back. |
| 1 | 174 | It was an instant's action to hurl them from me, and I gazed, bewildered, awe-stricken, at what seemed to be a furious blue combustion that lit the pines on all sides as if with acetylene flames. |
| 1 | 175 | It was like staring into a furnace. |
| 1 | 176 | I knew that it was the envelope that had burst into flame, taking with it my knapsack and bedroll. |
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I might then wait until morning and start off in the light, secure, confident.
Moreover, it would be a simple matter to cover one's tracks in the light.
The important thing was not to be at the old camp.
I had made my way perilously through the darkness for perhaps twenty minutes when, to my horror, my knapsack and bedroll seemed to burst into blue flame on my back.
It was an instant's action to hurl them from me, and I gazed, bewildered, awe-stricken, at what seemed to be a furious blue combustion that lit the pines on all sides as if with acetylene flames.
It was like staring into a furnace.
I knew that it was the envelope that had burst into flame, taking with it my knapsack and bedroll.
- (Tarnsman of Gor, Chapter )