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Book 25. (7 results) Magicians of Gor (Context Quote)

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1 94 They are called such because they are commonly opened at dawn and closed at dusk, thus the hours of their ingress and egress being determined by the diurnal cycle.
1 95 Ar is the largest city of known Gor, larger even, I am sure, than Turia, in the far south.
1 96 She has some forty public gates, and, I suppose, some number of restricted smaller gates, secret gates, posterns, and such.
1 97 Long ago, I had once entered the city through such a passage, its exterior access point reached by means of a putative dar-kosis pit, which passage, I had recently determined, descending into the pit on ropes, was now closed.
1 98 I supposed that this might be the case with various such entrances, if they existed, given Ar's alarm at the announced approach of Cos.
1 99 In a sense I regretted this loss, for it had constituted a secret way in and out of the city.
1 100 Perhaps other such passages existed.
They are called such because they are commonly opened at dawn and closed at dusk, thus the hours of their ingress and egress being determined by the diurnal cycle. Ar is the largest city of known Gor, larger even, I am sure, than Turia, in the far south. She has some forty public gates, and, I suppose, some number of restricted smaller gates, secret gates, posterns, and such. Long ago, I had once entered the city through such a passage, its exterior access point reached by means of a putative dar-kosis pit, which passage, I had recently determined, descending into the pit on ropes, was now closed. I supposed that this might be the case with various such entrances, if they existed, given Ar's alarm at the announced approach of Cos. In a sense I regretted this loss, for it had constituted a secret way in and out of the city. Perhaps other such passages existed. - (Magicians of Gor, Chapter )