Book 6. (7 results) Raiders of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 10 | 34 | Normally, incidentally, in giving measures, the Earth foot, unless otherwise specified, should be understood. |
| 10 | 35 | It seems pertinent, however, in this instance, to state the ratios in Gorean feet, rather than translate into English measures, where the harmony of the proportions would be obscured. |
| 10 | 36 | As in the case of the official "Stone," so, too, at the Sardar is a metal rod, which determines the merchant Foot, or Gorean foot, as I have called it. |
| 10 | 37 | Port Kar's merchant Foot, like her "Stone," is kept in the arsenal, in the same building as her "Stone". |
| 10 | 38 | Not only the ships of Surbus had become mine, his men having declared for me, but his holding as well, and his assets, his treasures and equipments, and his slaves. |
| 10 | 39 | His holding was a fortified palace. |
| 10 | 40 | It lay on the eastern edge of Port Kar, backing on the marshes; it opened, by means of a huge barred gate, to the canals of the city; in its courtyard were wharved his seven ships; when journeying to Thassa the great gate was opened and they were rowed through the city to the sea. |
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Normally, incidentally, in giving measures, the Earth foot, unless otherwise specified, should be understood.
It seems pertinent, however, in this instance, to state the ratios in Gorean feet, rather than translate into English measures, where the harmony of the proportions would be obscured.
As in the case of the official "Stone," so, too, at the Sardar is a metal rod, which determines the merchant Foot, or Gorean foot, as I have called it.
Port Kar's merchant Foot, like her "Stone," is kept in the arsenal, in the same building as her "Stone".
Not only the ships of Surbus had become mine, his men having declared for me, but his holding as well, and his assets, his treasures and equipments, and his slaves.
His holding was a fortified palace.
It lay on the eastern edge of Port Kar, backing on the marshes; it opened, by means of a huge barred gate, to the canals of the city; in its courtyard were wharved his seven ships; when journeying to Thassa the great gate was opened and they were rowed through the city to the sea.
- (Raiders of Gor, Chapter )