Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 21 | 50 | Most strange perhaps was the shape and width of the eyes, for they were very large, perhaps three inches in width, and were round and dark and shining, much like the eyes of a nocturnal animal. |
| 21 | 51 | I wondered at what manner of creatures they were. |
| 21 | 52 | As more of them filed abreast into the room the increased torchlight well illuminated the chamber and I quietly warned my companions to make no movement. |
| 21 | 53 | I could now see the priest-kings clearly where they clung upside down to the ceiling, their great swollen abdomens almost dwarfing their thoraxes and heads. |
| 21 | 54 | Then to my amazement, one by one, the strange creatures, disdaining the bars near the door began simply to pad up the almost vertical walls to the priest-kings and then, astonishingly, began to walk upside down on the ceiling. |
| 21 | 55 | Where they stepped I could see a glistening disk of exudate which they had undoubtedly secreted from the fleshy pads which served them as feet. |
| 21 | 56 | While the creatures remaining on the floor continued their mournful paean, their fellow creatures on the walls and ceiling, still carrying their torches, and scattering wild shadows of their own bodies and those of swollen priest-kings against the ceiling, began to fill their golden vessels from the mouths of the priest-kings. |
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Most strange perhaps was the shape and width of the eyes, for they were very large, perhaps three inches in width, and were round and dark and shining, much like the eyes of a nocturnal animal.
I wondered at what manner of creatures they were.
As more of them filed abreast into the room the increased torchlight well illuminated the chamber and I quietly warned my companions to make no movement.
I could now see the priest-kings clearly where they clung upside down to the ceiling, their great swollen abdomens almost dwarfing their thoraxes and heads.
Then to my amazement, one by one, the strange creatures, disdaining the bars near the door began simply to pad up the almost vertical walls to the priest-kings and then, astonishingly, began to walk upside down on the ceiling.
Where they stepped I could see a glistening disk of exudate which they had undoubtedly secreted from the fleshy pads which served them as feet.
While the creatures remaining on the floor continued their mournful paean, their fellow creatures on the walls and ceiling, still carrying their torches, and scattering wild shadows of their own bodies and those of swollen priest-kings against the ceiling, began to fill their golden vessels from the mouths of the priest-kings.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter )