Book 4. (1 results) Nomads of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 20 | 34 | The bridge View more quotes about permitted">permitted access to the tower from the building on the roof of which we stood. |
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Book 4. (7 results) Nomads of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 20 | 31 | In a short moment we heard it flutter to alight somewhere beyond. |
| 20 | 32 | Harold and I then got up and, with Hereena under one of his arms, we circumspectly made our way from roof to roof until we saw the keep, rising like a dark cylinder against one of Gor's three moons. |
| 20 | 33 | It stood some seventy feet from any of the other buildings in the compound that was the House of Saphrar, but now, swaying, formed of rope and sticks, a removable footbridge extended from an open door in its side to a porch some several feet below us. |
| 20 | 34 | The bridge permitted access to the tower from the building on the roof of which we stood. |
| 20 | 35 | Indeed, it provided the only access, save on tarnback, for there are no doors at ground level in a Gorean keep. |
| 20 | 36 | The first sixty feet or so of the tower would presumably be solid stone, to protect the tower from forced entrance or the immediate, efficient use of battering rams. |
| 20 | 37 | The tower itself was some one hundred and forty feet in height and had a diameter of about fifty feet. |
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In a short moment we heard it flutter to alight somewhere beyond.
Harold and I then got up and, with Hereena under one of his arms, we circumspectly made our way from roof to roof until we saw the keep, rising like a dark cylinder against one of Gor's three moons.
It stood some seventy feet from any of the other buildings in the compound that was the House of Saphrar, but now, swaying, formed of rope and sticks, a removable footbridge extended from an open door in its side to a porch some several feet below us.
The bridge permitted access to the tower from the building on the roof of which we stood.
Indeed, it provided the only access, save on tarnback, for there are no doors at ground level in a Gorean keep.
The first sixty feet or so of the tower would presumably be solid stone, to protect the tower from forced entrance or the immediate, efficient use of battering rams.
The tower itself was some one hundred and forty feet in height and had a diameter of about fifty feet.
- (Nomads of Gor)