Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 2 | 74 | I was puzzled that I might encounter a larl in the Sardar. |
| 2 | 75 | How could it have entered the mountains? Perhaps it was native. |
| 2 | 76 | But on what could it live among these barren crags? For I had seen nothing on which it might prey, unless one might count the men who had entered the mountains, but their bones, scattered, white and frozen, were unsplintered and unfurrowed; they showed no evidence of having suffered the molestation of a larl's gnawing jaws. |
| 2 | 77 | I then understood that the larl I had heard must be a larl of priest-kings, for no animal and no man enters or exists in the Sardar without the consent of priest-kings, and if it was fed it must be at the hand of priest-kings or their servants. |
| 2 | 78 | In spite of my hatred of priest-kings I could not help but admire them. |
| 2 | 79 | None of the men below the mountains, the mortals, had ever succeeded in taming a larl. |
| 2 | 80 | Even larl cubs when found and raised by men would, on reaching their majority, on some night, in a sudden burst of atavistic fury slay their masters and under the three hurtling moons of Gor lope from the dwellings of men, driven by what instincts I know not, to seek the mountains where they were born. |
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I was puzzled that I might encounter a larl in the Sardar.
How could it have entered the mountains? Perhaps it was native.
But on what could it live among these barren crags? For I had seen nothing on which it might prey, unless one might count the men who had entered the mountains, but their bones, scattered, white and frozen, were unsplintered and unfurrowed; they showed no evidence of having suffered the molestation of a larl's gnawing jaws.
I then understood that the larl I had heard must be a larl of priest-kings, for no animal and no man enters or exists in the Sardar without the consent of priest-kings, and if it was fed it must be at the hand of priest-kings or their servants.
In spite of my hatred of priest-kings I could not help but admire them.
None of the men below the mountains, the mortals, had ever succeeded in taming a larl.
Even larl cubs when found and raised by men would, on reaching their majority, on some night, in a sudden burst of atavistic fury slay their masters and under the three hurtling moons of Gor lope from the dwellings of men, driven by what instincts I know not, to seek the mountains where they were born.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter )