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Dec 8, 2012 19:02:37 GMT -5
Post by Daubee on Dec 8, 2012 19:02:37 GMT -5
Behind us, we heard the roof of the temple, collapse, I looked back. Smoke stained the sky. A hundred yards from the wharves we saw a crowd of angry men, perhaps two hundred, blocking the way. They held gaff, harpoons, even pointed stick. Some carried crash hooks and others chisels, and iron levers. Marauders of gor, chapter 3
Two weeks ago, some ten to fifteen sleeps ago, by rare fortune, we had managed to harpoon a baleen whale, a bluish, white-spotted blunt fin. That two whales had been taken in one season was rare hunting, indeed. Sometimes two or three years pass without a whale being taken. Beasts of Gor, page 36
Two weeks ago, some ten to fifteen sleeps ago, by rare fortune, we had managed to harpoon a baleen whale, a bluish, white-spotted blunt fin. That two whales had been taken in one season was rare hunting, indeed. Sometimes two or three years pass without a whale being taken. Beasts of Gor, page 265
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Dec 8, 2012 19:03:07 GMT -5
Post by Daubee on Dec 8, 2012 19:03:07 GMT -5
The hides can serve for harnesses for the snow sleen and their white-skinned female beasts. Too, they may be used for buckets and tents, and for kayaks, the light, narrow hunting canoes of skin from which sea mammals may be sought. Lashings, harpoon lines, cords and threads can be fashioned from its sinews. Carved, the bone and horn of the animal can function as arrow points, needles, thimbles, chisels, wedges, and knives. Beasts of Gor, page 170
"It is a hurricane of stones!" cried Hassan, the wind tearing back his burnoose. "Maybe it will be cold tonight," speculated Imnak, bending over the slate point of his harpoon, methodically sharpening it with a stone, in the light of the small sleen-oil lamp. Blood Brothers of Gor, page 304
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Dec 8, 2012 19:03:39 GMT -5
Post by Daubee on Dec 8, 2012 19:03:39 GMT -5
It was then I retrieved the harpoon again from the water by its line, for it had been once more struck away from me. I set the light harpoon into the notch on the throwing board and, even mittened, an instant before the beast turned toward me, grunted, snapping the throwing board forward and downward, speeding the shaft toward the enraged animal. The bone head, vanishing, sunk into its withers and it snapped downward, diving, bubbles breaking up to the surface, and swift blood. The line snapped out from its tray darting under the water. In moments the harpoon shaft and foreshaft bobbed to the surface, but the bone harpoon head, its line taut, turning the head in the wound, held fast. I played the line as I could. Beasts of Gor, page 280
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harpoon
Dec 8, 2012 19:04:05 GMT -5
Post by Daubee on Dec 8, 2012 19:04:05 GMT -5
I drew the harpoon toward me by the line fastened to the kayak. "Do not move too swiftly," said Imnak, "lest he charge and kill you." "It is well he does not dislike me," I said. "Otherwise I might be in real danger." “Oh, oh,” said Imnak. Beasts of Gor, pages 286
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harpoon
Dec 8, 2012 19:04:32 GMT -5
Post by Daubee on Dec 8, 2012 19:04:32 GMT -5
The hides can serve for harnesses for the snow sleen and their white-skinned female beasts. Too, they may be used for buckets and tents, and for kayaks, the light, narrow hunting canoes of skin from which sea mammals may be sought. Lashings, harpoon lines, cords and threads can be fashioned from its sinews. Carved, the bone and horn of the animal can function as arrow points, needles, thimbles, chisels, wedges, and knives. Beasts of Gor, page 170
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