Book 33. (7 results) Rebels of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 25 | 174 | Similarly, it is not unusual for trainers and keepers in Ar and Turia to withhold food from arena animals, that the torments of hunger might be sorely exacerbated, so cruelly heightened that the released animal will forgo the caution and probity of its ways in the wild to indiscriminately rush upon and attack, and attempt to feed upon, whatever falls within its desperate ken. |
| 25 | 175 | Sumomo moved but half a step further on the board, which now bent slightly under her. |
| 25 | 176 | She teetered in place, too terrified to move. |
| 25 | 177 | "mercy!" she cried. |
| 25 | 178 | "mercy!" "It seems she is frightened," said Lord Akio to the shogun. |
| 25 | 179 | "I fear so," said the shogun. |
| 25 | 180 | "But it is well known she is delicate, and sensitive, as a flower," said Lord Akio, possibly attempting to mitigate his former observation, lest the shogun be displeased. |
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Similarly, it is not unusual for trainers and keepers in Ar and Turia to withhold food from arena animals, that the torments of hunger might be sorely exacerbated, so cruelly heightened that the released animal will forgo the caution and probity of its ways in the wild to indiscriminately rush upon and attack, and attempt to feed upon, whatever falls within its desperate ken.
Sumomo moved but half a step further on the board, which now bent slightly under her.
She teetered in place, too terrified to move.
"mercy!" she cried.
"mercy!" "It seems she is frightened," said Lord Akio to the shogun.
"I fear so," said the shogun.
"But it is well known she is delicate, and sensitive, as a flower," said Lord Akio, possibly attempting to mitigate his former observation, lest the shogun be displeased.
- (Rebels of Gor, Chapter )