Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 23 | 14 | The bones had been split and the marrow sucked from them. |
| 23 | 15 | How long Vika had been dead I had no way of judging, though I cursed myself for it would not have appeared to be a matter of more than a few hours. |
| 23 | 16 | Her body, though rigid in the appearance of recent death, did not have the coldness I would have expected. |
| 23 | 17 | She was unmoving and her eyes seemed fixed on me with all the horror of the last moment in which the jaws of the Golden beetle must have closed upon her. |
| 23 | 18 | I wondered if in the darkness she would have been able to see what had attacked her. |
| 23 | 19 | I found myself almost hoping that she had not, for it would have been more than enough to have heard it following in the tunnels. |
| 23 | 20 | Yet I myself I knew would have preferred to see the assailant and so I found myself wishing that this brief, terrible privilege had been Vika of Treve's, for I remembered her as a woman of courage and pride. |
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The bones had been split and the marrow sucked from them.
How long Vika had been dead I had no way of judging, though I cursed myself for it would not have appeared to be a matter of more than a few hours.
Her body, though rigid in the appearance of recent death, did not have the coldness I would have expected.
She was unmoving and her eyes seemed fixed on me with all the horror of the last moment in which the jaws of the Golden beetle must have closed upon her.
I wondered if in the darkness she would have been able to see what had attacked her.
I found myself almost hoping that she had not, for it would have been more than enough to have heard it following in the tunnels.
Yet I myself I knew would have preferred to see the assailant and so I found myself wishing that this brief, terrible privilege had been Vika of Treve's, for I remembered her as a woman of courage and pride.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter )