Book 23. (7 results) Renegades of Gor (Context Quote)
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Even my garb as a courier had not permitted me free access to the airspace over Ar's Station.
9
46
I had been immediately pursued and fired upon by flights of Cosian tarnsmen.
9
47
I had made the attempt in the afternoon and again in the evening of the first day I had arrived in the vicinity of Ar's Station.
9
48
Had it not been for the strength of the bird and my start I might have been downed over the city.
9
49
I had escaped the second time only with considerable difficulty, by taking my way over the citadel and harbor, past the chained rafts closing the harbor, and across the Vosk itself, eluding my pursuers only after a long run, under the cover of darkness.
9
50
In these attempts I had, of course, not taken Phoebe.
9
51
I had no wish to risk a quarrel's penetrating that beauty, which, properly refined and improved, would, in my opinion, not have shamed even the central block of the Curulean.
Even my garb as a courier had not permitted me free access to the airspace over Ar's Station.
I had been immediately pursued and fired upon by flights of Cosian tarnsmen.
I had made the attempt in the afternoon and again in the evening of the first day I had arrived in the vicinity of Ar's Station.
Had it not been for the strength of the bird and my start I might have been downed over the city.
I had escaped the second time only with considerable difficulty, by taking my way over the citadel and harbor, past the chained rafts closing the harbor, and across the Vosk itself, eluding my pursuers only after a long run, under the cover of darkness.
In these attempts I had, of course, not taken Phoebe.
I had no wish to risk a quarrel's penetrating that beauty, which, properly refined and improved, would, in my opinion, not have shamed even the central block of the Curulean.
- (Renegades of Gor, Chapter )