Book 10. (7 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 2 | 69 | A man on View more quotes about foot">foot in the desert, in warfare, is accounted a dead man. |
| 2 | 70 | I looked up at the buildings. |
| 2 | 71 | I was now in the shade, descending a narrow, steep street, toward the bazaar. |
| 2 | 72 | The buildings in Tor are seldom more than four stories high, which is about as high as one may build safely with beams and mud brick. |
| 2 | 73 | Because of the irregular topography of Tor, however, which is a hilly, rocky area, like most of the Tahari terrain, many of the buildings, built on shelves and rises, seemed considerably higher. |
| 2 | 74 | These buildings, on the outside smooth and bleak, save for occasional narrow windows, high, not wide enough to admit a body, abut directly on the streets, making the streets like deep, walled alleys. |
| 2 | 75 | In the center of the street is a gutter. |
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A man on foot in the desert, in warfare, is accounted a dead man.
I looked up at the buildings.
I was now in the shade, descending a narrow, steep street, toward the bazaar.
The buildings in Tor are seldom more than four stories high, which is about as high as one may build safely with beams and mud brick.
Because of the irregular topography of Tor, however, which is a hilly, rocky area, like most of the Tahari terrain, many of the buildings, built on shelves and rises, seemed considerably higher.
These buildings, on the outside smooth and bleak, save for occasional narrow windows, high, not wide enough to admit a body, abut directly on the streets, making the streets like deep, walled alleys.
In the center of the street is a gutter.
- (Tribesmen of Gor)