Book 36. (7 results) Avengers of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 42 | 37 | When the View more quotes about second">second beam was moved to the left, fully within its own bracing, the portal would be cleared, and the two heavy leaves of the gate could be swung inward. |
| 42 | 38 | When I heard the second beam begin to move, slowly, and heavily, in its brackets, I called, "Lamps!" At this point a dozen men on the wall above the gate thrust the wicks of tharlarion-oil lamps into the flames of their then unshuttered dark lanterns, and lowered the lamps, on their cords to a height of some eight or ten feet above the ground. |
| 42 | 39 | This illuminated the gate area. |
| 42 | 40 | "Vengeance for Mytilene!" hissed better, I conjecture, than two hundred voices. |
| 42 | 41 | Corsairs turned about, startled, dismayed, terrified. |
| 42 | 42 | They impeded one another, pressed back, trapped against the wall and gate. |
| 42 | 43 | Many, crowded together, could not wield their weapons. |
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When the second beam was moved to the left, fully within its own bracing, the portal would be cleared, and the two heavy leaves of the gate could be swung inward.
When I heard the second beam begin to move, slowly, and heavily, in its brackets, I called, "Lamps!" At this point a dozen men on the wall above the gate thrust the wicks of tharlarion-oil lamps into the flames of their then unshuttered dark lanterns, and lowered the lamps, on their cords to a height of some eight or ten feet above the ground.
This illuminated the gate area.
"Vengeance for Mytilene!" hissed better, I conjecture, than two hundred voices.
Corsairs turned about, startled, dismayed, terrified.
They impeded one another, pressed back, trapped against the wall and gate.
Many, crowded together, could not wield their weapons.
- (Avengers of Gor)