Book 10. (7 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 1 | 770 | Unfortunate though it might be, I doubted and, I think, realistically, that priest-kings, those large, golden creatures, so gentle and delicate seeming, so content to mind their own affairs, truly understood their enemy, the Kurii. |
| 1 | 771 | The persistence, the aggression, the fevers of the blood, the lust, the territoriality of such beasts, would be largely unintelligible to them. |
| 1 | 772 | There was little place in the placid, lucid categories of priest-kings for comprehending the bloods and madnesses of either men or Kurii. |
| 1 | 773 | They, Kurii and men, understood one another better, I suspected, than the priest-kings understood either. |
| 1 | 774 | As long as the Kurii remained behind the fifth ring, that determined by the orbit of the planet called on Earth Jupiter, on Gor, Hersius, after a legendary hero of Ar, the priest-kings were little concerned with them. |
| 1 | 775 | They had no objection if such ravening wolves prowled their fences, and scratched at their very gates. |
| 1 | 776 | "They, like men, are an interesting life form," once had said Misk to me. |
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Unfortunate though it might be, I doubted and, I think, realistically, that priest-kings, those large, golden creatures, so gentle and delicate seeming, so content to mind their own affairs, truly understood their enemy, the Kurii.
The persistence, the aggression, the fevers of the blood, the lust, the territoriality of such beasts, would be largely unintelligible to them.
There was little place in the placid, lucid categories of priest-kings for comprehending the bloods and madnesses of either men or Kurii.
They, Kurii and men, understood one another better, I suspected, than the priest-kings understood either.
As long as the Kurii remained behind the fifth ring, that determined by the orbit of the planet called on Earth Jupiter, on Gor, Hersius, after a legendary hero of Ar, the priest-kings were little concerned with them.
They had no objection if such ravening wolves prowled their fences, and scratched at their very gates.
"They, like men, are an interesting life form," once had said Misk to me.
- (Tribesmen of Gor, Chapter )