Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 5 | 191 | And now, down there, somewhere in that monstrous blaze of light, was a humble piece of stone, the home stone of that great city, and I must seize it. |
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Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 5 | 188 | The city of Ar must have contained more than a hundred thousand cylinders, each ablaze with the lights of the Planting Feast. |
| 5 | 189 | I did not question that Ar was the greatest city of all known Gor. |
| 5 | 190 | It was a magnificent and beautiful city, a worthy setting for the jewel of empire, that awesome jewel that had proved so tempting to its Ubar, the all-conquering Marlenus. |
| 5 | 191 | And now, down there, somewhere in that monstrous blaze of light, was a humble piece of stone, the home stone of that great city, and I must seize it. |
| 6 | 1 | Nar the Spider I had a little difficulty making out the tallest tower in Ar, the cylinder of the Ubar Marlenus. |
| 6 | 2 | As I dropped closer, I saw that the bridges were lined with the celebrants of the Planting Feast, many perhaps reeling home drunk on paga. |
| 6 | 3 | Flying among the cylinders were tarnsmen, cavalry warriors reveling in the undisciplined liberty of the feast, racing one another, essaying mock passages at arms, sometimes dropping their tarns, like thunderbolts toward the bridges, only to jerk them upward just inches above the terrified heads of the celebrants. |
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The city of Ar must have contained more than a hundred thousand cylinders, each ablaze with the lights of the Planting Feast.
I did not question that Ar was the greatest city of all known Gor.
It was a magnificent and beautiful city, a worthy setting for the jewel of empire, that awesome jewel that had proved so tempting to its Ubar, the all-conquering Marlenus.
And now, down there, somewhere in that monstrous blaze of light, was a humble piece of stone, the home stone of that great city, and I must seize it.
Nar the Spider I had a little difficulty making out the tallest tower in Ar, the cylinder of the Ubar Marlenus.
As I dropped closer, I saw that the bridges were lined with the celebrants of the Planting Feast, many perhaps reeling home drunk on paga.
Flying among the cylinders were tarnsmen, cavalry warriors reveling in the undisciplined liberty of the feast, racing one another, essaying mock passages at arms, sometimes dropping their tarns, like thunderbolts toward the bridges, only to jerk them upward just inches above the terrified heads of the celebrants.
- (Tarnsman of Gor, Chapter 5)