Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 22 | 5 | When I View more quotes about reached">reached the ceiling I saw, to my relief, that further bars projected downwards from the ceiling and that the bottom of each was bent outwards in a flat, horizontal projection that would afford me a place to put my feet. |
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Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 22 | 2 | Putting the torch in my teeth, I began to climb the bars rapidly. |
| 22 | 3 | One or two of them, rusted through, broke away in my hands, and I was nearly plunged to the rocky floor beneath. |
| 22 | 4 | The bars were apparently very old and had never been kept in a state of repair or replaced when defective. |
| 22 | 5 | When I reached the ceiling I saw, to my relief, that further bars projected downwards from the ceiling and that the bottom of each was bent outwards in a flat, horizontal projection that would afford me a place to put my feet. |
| 22 | 6 | Still holding the Mul-Torch in my teeth because I wanted both hands free I began to make my way toward Misk, hand and foot, across these metal extensions. |
| 22 | 7 | I could see the figures of Mul-Al-Ka and Mul-Ba-Ta beneath me, perhaps a hundred and fifty feet below. |
| 22 | 8 | Suddenly one of the extensions, the fourth I believe, slipped with a grating sound from the ceiling and I leaped wildly for the next bar, just managing to catch it in my fall. |
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Putting the torch in my teeth, I began to climb the bars rapidly.
One or two of them, rusted through, broke away in my hands, and I was nearly plunged to the rocky floor beneath.
The bars were apparently very old and had never been kept in a state of repair or replaced when defective.
When I reached the ceiling I saw, to my relief, that further bars projected downwards from the ceiling and that the bottom of each was bent outwards in a flat, horizontal projection that would afford me a place to put my feet.
Still holding the Mul-Torch in my teeth because I wanted both hands free I began to make my way toward Misk, hand and foot, across these metal extensions.
I could see the figures of Mul-Al-Ka and Mul-Ba-Ta beneath me, perhaps a hundred and fifty feet below.
Suddenly one of the extensions, the fourth I believe, slipped with a grating sound from the ceiling and I leaped wildly for the next bar, just managing to catch it in my fall.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor)