Book 26. (7 results) Witness of Gor (Context Quote)
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235
When I looked up, I realized the one party had gone to seal off the stairway, and the other, that which had run past me, perhaps without even really seeing me, had gone to the bridge.
24
236
These were the two principal access points to the terrace.
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237
To be sure, it could doubtless be reached in some other fashions, through narrow passageways, over the balustrade from below, descending from adjacent roofs, perhaps through certain buildings.
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238
On the terrace, now discarded, lying among bodies, I saw some of the banners of this city, which had been displayed during the approach to the city.
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239
Too, here and there, on the stones, occasionally glinting in the oblique rays of the lowering sun, strands of it, like lengths and tangles of metallic webbing, was tarnwire.
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240
To me this incursion seemed madness.
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Surely there were less than two hundred men here.
When I looked up, I realized the one party had gone to seal off the stairway, and the other, that which had run past me, perhaps without even really seeing me, had gone to the bridge.
These were the two principal access points to the terrace.
To be sure, it could doubtless be reached in some other fashions, through narrow passageways, over the balustrade from below, descending from adjacent roofs, perhaps through certain buildings.
On the terrace, now discarded, lying among bodies, I saw some of the banners of this city, which had been displayed during the approach to the city.
Too, here and there, on the stones, occasionally glinting in the oblique rays of the lowering sun, strands of it, like lengths and tangles of metallic webbing, was tarnwire.
To me this incursion seemed madness.
Surely there were less than two hundred men here.
- (Witness of Gor, Chapter )