Book 10. (1 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 16 | 40 | We were not View more quotes about alone">alone in the pits. |
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Book 10. (7 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 16 | 37 | There are twelve of these pintles, mounted in a large circle; when a given hook drops off one, freed by gravity, another hook is already engaged on another, held there by the weight of the ascending lift sacks. |
| 16 | 38 | Empty sacks are placed on slack hooks, below the machinery, to be returned to the pit. |
| 16 | 39 | The steersman, when not attending to his sweep, carried a lance. |
| 16 | 40 | We were not alone in the pits. |
| 16 | 41 | Hand over hand, I drew the cone through the sludge toward the raft. |
| 16 | 42 | I had been amazed to learn that the brine pits, in effect a network of small subterranean marine seas, were not devoid of life. |
| 16 | 43 | I had expected them to be sterile bodies of water, from the absence of sunlight, precluding basic photosynthesis and the beginning of a food chain, and the high salt content of the fluid. |
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There are twelve of these pintles, mounted in a large circle; when a given hook drops off one, freed by gravity, another hook is already engaged on another, held there by the weight of the ascending lift sacks.
Empty sacks are placed on slack hooks, below the machinery, to be returned to the pit.
The steersman, when not attending to his sweep, carried a lance.
We were not alone in the pits.
Hand over hand, I drew the cone through the sludge toward the raft.
I had been amazed to learn that the brine pits, in effect a network of small subterranean marine seas, were not devoid of life.
I had expected them to be sterile bodies of water, from the absence of sunlight, precluding basic photosynthesis and the beginning of a food chain, and the high salt content of the fluid.
- (Tribesmen of Gor)