Book 5. (7 results) Assassin of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 16 | 252 | Then, as though searching for me in those multitudes, that turbulence of faces and cloth, of sound, of cries, I saw the gleaming eyes of the tarn cease their scanning and fasten upon me. |
| 16 | 253 | The wicked, black eyes, round and blazing with light, did not leave me. |
| 16 | 254 | The crest on its head seemed to lift and each muscle and fiber in that great body seemed filled with blood and life. |
| 16 | 255 | The vast, long black wings, broad and mighty, opened and struck against the air, hurling a storm of dust and sand on all sides, almost tumbling the small, hooded Tarn Keeper from the low wagon. |
| 16 | 256 | Then the tarn threw back its head and once more screamed, wild, eerie, fierce, savage, a cry that might have struck terror into the heart of a larl, but I did not fear it. |
| 16 | 257 | I saw the talons of the tarn were shod with steel. |
| 16 | 258 | It was, of course, a war tarn. |
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Then, as though searching for me in those multitudes, that turbulence of faces and cloth, of sound, of cries, I saw the gleaming eyes of the tarn cease their scanning and fasten upon me.
The wicked, black eyes, round and blazing with light, did not leave me.
The crest on its head seemed to lift and each muscle and fiber in that great body seemed filled with blood and life.
The vast, long black wings, broad and mighty, opened and struck against the air, hurling a storm of dust and sand on all sides, almost tumbling the small, hooded Tarn Keeper from the low wagon.
Then the tarn threw back its head and once more screamed, wild, eerie, fierce, savage, a cry that might have struck terror into the heart of a larl, but I did not fear it.
I saw the talons of the tarn were shod with steel.
It was, of course, a war tarn.
- (Assassin of Gor, Chapter )