Book 5. (1 results) Assassin of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 43 | After about View more quotes about half">half an Ahn the pyre, still fearful with heat and light, had collapsed with a roar, forming a great, fiercely burning mound of oil-soaked wood. |
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Book 5. (7 results) Assassin of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 1 | 40 | His forehead began to sweat. |
| 1 | 41 | He blinked his eyes against the heat. |
| 1 | 42 | The men and women of Ko-ro-ba stood circled about the pyre, neither moving nor speaking, for better than two Ahn. |
| 1 | 43 | After about half an Ahn the pyre, still fearful with heat and light, had collapsed with a roar, forming a great, fiercely burning mound of oil-soaked wood. |
| 1 | 44 | At last, when the wood burned only here and there, and what had been the pyre was mostly ashes and glowing wood, the men of a dozen castes, each carrying a jar of chilled wine, moved about, pouring the wine over the fire, quenching it. |
| 1 | 45 | Other men sought in the ashes for what might be found of the Warrior. |
| 1 | 46 | Some bones and some whitish ash they gathered in white linen and placed in an urn of red and yellow glass. |
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His forehead began to sweat.
He blinked his eyes against the heat.
The men and women of Ko-ro-ba stood circled about the pyre, neither moving nor speaking, for better than two Ahn.
After about half an Ahn the pyre, still fearful with heat and light, had collapsed with a roar, forming a great, fiercely burning mound of oil-soaked wood.
At last, when the wood burned only here and there, and what had been the pyre was mostly ashes and glowing wood, the men of a dozen castes, each carrying a jar of chilled wine, moved about, pouring the wine over the fire, quenching it.
Other men sought in the ashes for what might be found of the Warrior.
Some bones and some whitish ash they gathered in white linen and placed in an urn of red and yellow glass.
- (Assassin of Gor)