Book 4. (1 results) Nomads of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 16 | 36 | The foot knots were done with subsidiary rope but worked into the fiber of the main rope and glued over so as to be almost one with it. |
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Book 4. (7 results) Nomads of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 16 | 33 | "The tiles must be periodically inspected," he said, "and for this purpose there are foot knots in the rope". |
| 16 | 34 | I breathed a sigh of relief. |
| 16 | 35 | It is one thing to descend a long rope and quite another, even in the lesser gravity of Gor, to climb one—particularly one as long as that which I now saw dimly above me. |
| 16 | 36 | The foot knots were done with subsidiary rope but worked into the fiber of the main rope and glued over so as to be almost one with it. |
| 16 | 37 | They were spaced about every ten feet on the rope. |
| 16 | 38 | Still, even resting periodically, the climb was an exhausting one. |
| 16 | 39 | More disturbing to me was the prospect of bringing the golden sphere down the rope and under the water and through the underground stream to the place where we had embarked on this adventure. |
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"The tiles must be periodically inspected," he said, "and for this purpose there are foot knots in the rope".
I breathed a sigh of relief.
It is one thing to descend a long rope and quite another, even in the lesser gravity of Gor, to climb one—particularly one as long as that which I now saw dimly above me.
The foot knots were done with subsidiary rope but worked into the fiber of the main rope and glued over so as to be almost one with it.
They were spaced about every ten feet on the rope.
Still, even resting periodically, the climb was an exhausting one.
More disturbing to me was the prospect of bringing the golden sphere down the rope and under the water and through the underground stream to the place where we had embarked on this adventure.
- (Nomads of Gor, Chapter 16)