Book 5. (7 results) Assassin of Gor (Context Quote)
Chapter #
Sentence #
Quote
5
156
If Miss Cardwell had been frightened, alone astride the tarn, bound for her safety to the saddle, she did not cry out nor speak, but was silent.
5
157
My heart was pounding, but I would not move.
5
158
My breath was deep, my heart filled with joy.
5
159
The cleaning hooks behind the third joints of the priest-king's forelegs lifted and emerged delicately, and extended toward me.
5
160
I looked on that great golden head and its two large, circular, disklike eyes, compound, and the light seemed to flicker among the multilensed surfaces.
5
161
Across the left eye disk there was an irregular whitish seam.
5
162
At last I spoke.
If Miss Cardwell had been frightened, alone astride the tarn, bound for her safety to the saddle, she did not cry out nor speak, but was silent.
My heart was pounding, but I would not move.
My breath was deep, my heart filled with joy.
The cleaning hooks behind the third joints of the priest-king's forelegs lifted and emerged delicately, and extended toward me.
I looked on that great golden head and its two large, circular, disklike eyes, compound, and the light seemed to flicker among the multilensed surfaces.
Across the left eye disk there was an irregular whitish seam.
At last I spoke.
- (Assassin of Gor, Chapter )