Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 15 | 6 | The wings of a striking tarn would be cut from its body by such wires. |
| 15 | 7 | Within the city the Initiates, who had seized control shortly after the flight of Marlenus, would have already tapped the siege reservoirs and begun to ration the stores of the huge grain cylinders. |
| 15 | 8 | A city such as Ar, properly commanded, might withstand a siege for a generation. |
| 15 | 9 | Beyond the walls were Pa-kur's lines of investment, set forth with all the skill of Gor's most experienced siege engineers. |
| 15 | 10 | Some hundreds of yards from the wall, just beyond crossbow range, a gigantic ditch was being dug by thousands of siege slaves and prisoners. |
| 15 | 11 | When completed, it would be fifty or sixty feet wide, and seventy or eighty feet deep. |
| 15 | 12 | In back of the ditch slaves were piling up the earth which had been removed from the ditch, packing and hardening it into a rampart. |
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The wings of a striking tarn would be cut from its body by such wires.
Within the city the Initiates, who had seized control shortly after the flight of Marlenus, would have already tapped the siege reservoirs and begun to ration the stores of the huge grain cylinders.
A city such as Ar, properly commanded, might withstand a siege for a generation.
Beyond the walls were Pa-kur's lines of investment, set forth with all the skill of Gor's most experienced siege engineers.
Some hundreds of yards from the wall, just beyond crossbow range, a gigantic ditch was being dug by thousands of siege slaves and prisoners.
When completed, it would be fifty or sixty feet wide, and seventy or eighty feet deep.
In back of the ditch slaves were piling up the earth which had been removed from the ditch, packing and hardening it into a rampart.
- (Tarnsman of Gor, Chapter )