Book 19. (7 results) Kajira of Gor (Context Quote)
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94
I sought a dwelling, or a road, which I might follow to a dwelling, that I might there, like an urt, skulk about and, as at the inn, piteously seek some sustenance from their refuse.
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95
Twice I fainted, probably from hunger.
16
96
The second time I recovered consciousness the storm had worsened and the sky was bursting with lightning and thunder.
16
97
As I crouched in the grass I saw, in a valley below me, in a flash of lightning, like a wet stone ribbon, a road.
16
98
I crawled toward it.
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99
At its edge there was a deep ditch.
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100
Had I not been crawling, I might, in the darkness, between flashes of lightning, have come on the ditch unawares and fallen into it.
I sought a dwelling, or a road, which I might follow to a dwelling, that I might there, like an urt, skulk about and, as at the inn, piteously seek some sustenance from their refuse.
Twice I fainted, probably from hunger.
The second time I recovered consciousness the storm had worsened and the sky was bursting with lightning and thunder.
As I crouched in the grass I saw, in a valley below me, in a flash of lightning, like a wet stone ribbon, a road.
I crawled toward it.
At its edge there was a deep ditch.
Had I not been crawling, I might, in the darkness, between flashes of lightning, have come on the ditch unawares and fallen into it.
- (Kajira of Gor, Chapter )