Book 10. (7 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 16 | 173 | I then understood, from his words, the meaning of the scarcity of food in the pit. |
| 16 | 174 | When the hunting is good, one hunts. |
| 16 | 175 | One can return later to earlier kills, driving away scavenging lelts. |
| 16 | 176 | Further, I wondered at the salt shark, blind, living in total darkness. |
| 16 | 177 | Yet it hunted at dusk, and at dawn, driven apparently by ancient biological rhythms. |
| 16 | 178 | The long-bodied, ghostly creature, hunting in the black waters, followed still the rhythms of its dark clock, set for its species a quarter of a billion years ago in a vanished, distant, sunlit world. |
| 16 | 179 | "Make haste!" cried the steersman. |
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I then understood, from his words, the meaning of the scarcity of food in the pit.
When the hunting is good, one hunts.
One can return later to earlier kills, driving away scavenging lelts.
Further, I wondered at the salt shark, blind, living in total darkness.
Yet it hunted at dusk, and at dawn, driven apparently by ancient biological rhythms.
The long-bodied, ghostly creature, hunting in the black waters, followed still the rhythms of its dark clock, set for its species a quarter of a billion years ago in a vanished, distant, sunlit world.
"Make haste!" cried the steersman.
- (Tribesmen of Gor, Chapter )