Book 33. (1 results) Rebels of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 14 | 40 | "I did not expect honor and appointment," I said to Lord Yamada, "when I was delivered to you". |
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Book 33. (7 results) Rebels of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 14 | 37 | He who has demon birds is elusive and may strike unexpectedly, in the day or night, at dawn or dusk. |
| 14 | 38 | He who has demon birds, in time, could rain fire from the sky, far above futile, angrily brandished glaives, and burn with impunity where archers are not. |
| 14 | 39 | In a year every fortress, castle, palace, barracks, warehouse, and humble shed of our house could be collapsed and charred wood, the ashes like dry fog, borne on the wind to the sea". |
| 14 | 40 | "I did not expect honor and appointment," I said to Lord Yamada, "when I was delivered to you". |
| 14 | 41 | "You expected to bear the brunt of a shogun's wrath," said Lord Yamada, "exquisitely expressed over weeks with cords and irons, with needles and clamps, with flaming splinters, perhaps culminating eventually in the horror of the straw jacket?" "I did not know what to expect," I said. |
| 14 | 42 | "Perhaps that was just as well," smiled Lord Yamada. |
| 14 | 43 | "Lord Temmu and Daichi, the reader of bones and shells, perhaps were more apprised of various possibilities than I," I said. |
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He who has demon birds is elusive and may strike unexpectedly, in the day or night, at dawn or dusk.
He who has demon birds, in time, could rain fire from the sky, far above futile, angrily brandished glaives, and burn with impunity where archers are not.
In a year every fortress, castle, palace, barracks, warehouse, and humble shed of our house could be collapsed and charred wood, the ashes like dry fog, borne on the wind to the sea".
"I did not expect honor and appointment," I said to Lord Yamada, "when I was delivered to you".
"You expected to bear the brunt of a shogun's wrath," said Lord Yamada, "exquisitely expressed over weeks with cords and irons, with needles and clamps, with flaming splinters, perhaps culminating eventually in the horror of the straw jacket?" "I did not know what to expect," I said.
"Perhaps that was just as well," smiled Lord Yamada.
"Lord Temmu and Daichi, the reader of bones and shells, perhaps were more apprised of various possibilities than I," I said.
- (Rebels of Gor, Chapter 14)