Book 23. (1 results) Renegades of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 1 | 334 | Most sa-tarna is now ground in mills, between stones, the top stone usually turned by water power, but sometimes by a tharlarion, or slaves. |
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Book 23. (7 results) Renegades of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 1 | 331 | "It seems the Priest-Kings are grinding flour," laughed a man near me. |
| 1 | 332 | "It would seem so," I said. |
| 1 | 333 | This was a reference to an old form of grinding, for some reason still attributed to Priest-Kings, in which a pestle, striking down, is used with a mortar. |
| 1 | 334 | Most sa-tarna is now ground in mills, between stones, the top stone usually turned by water power, but sometimes by a tharlarion, or slaves. |
| 1 | 335 | In some villages, however, something approximating the old mortar and pestle is sometimes used, the two blocks, a pounding block strung to a springy, bent pole, and the mortar block, or anvil block. |
| 1 | 336 | The pole has one or more ropes attached to it, near its end. |
| 1 | 337 | When these are drawn downward the pounding block descends into the mortar block, and the springiness of the pole, of course, straightening, then raises it for another blow. |
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"It seems the Priest-Kings are grinding flour," laughed a man near me.
"It would seem so," I said.
This was a reference to an old form of grinding, for some reason still attributed to Priest-Kings, in which a pestle, striking down, is used with a mortar.
Most sa-tarna is now ground in mills, between stones, the top stone usually turned by water power, but sometimes by a tharlarion, or slaves.
In some villages, however, something approximating the old mortar and pestle is sometimes used, the two blocks, a pounding block strung to a springy, bent pole, and the mortar block, or anvil block.
The pole has one or more ropes attached to it, near its end.
When these are drawn downward the pounding block descends into the mortar block, and the springiness of the pole, of course, straightening, then raises it for another blow.
- (Renegades of Gor, Chapter 1)