Book 5. (1 results) Assassin of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 45 | Other men sought in the ashes for what View more quotes about might">might be found of the Warrior. |
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Book 5. (7 results) Assassin of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 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. |
| 1 | 47 | Kuurus knew that such an urn would be decorated, probably, since the man had been a Warrior, with scenes of the hunt and war. |
| 1 | 48 | The urn was given to him who wore the robes of the Administrator of the City, who took it and slowly, on foot, withdrew toward Ko-ro-ba, followed by the large blond Warrior and the small Scribe. |
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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.
Kuurus knew that such an urn would be decorated, probably, since the man had been a Warrior, with scenes of the hunt and war.
The urn was given to him who wore the robes of the Administrator of the City, who took it and slowly, on foot, withdrew toward Ko-ro-ba, followed by the large blond Warrior and the small Scribe.
- (Assassin of Gor)