Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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By night Ar would be in flames, its coffers broken open, its gold and silver in the bedrolls of the looters, its men slaughtered, its women, stripped, lashed to the pleasure-racks of the victors.
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33
The Cylinder of Justice was a lofty cylinder of pure white marble, the flat roof of which was some hundred yards in diameter.
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34
There were about two hundred people on the cylinder roof.
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35
I could see the white robes of Initiates and the variegated colors of soldiers, both of Ar and of Pa-Kur's horde.
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36
And, dark among these shapes, like shadows, I could see the somber black of members of the caste of Assassins.
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37
The high impaling post, normally visible on the top of the cylinder, had been lowered.
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When it was raised again, it would bear the body of Talena.
By night Ar would be in flames, its coffers broken open, its gold and silver in the bedrolls of the looters, its men slaughtered, its women, stripped, lashed to the pleasure-racks of the victors.
The Cylinder of Justice was a lofty cylinder of pure white marble, the flat roof of which was some hundred yards in diameter.
There were about two hundred people on the cylinder roof.
I could see the white robes of Initiates and the variegated colors of soldiers, both of Ar and of Pa-Kur's horde.
And, dark among these shapes, like shadows, I could see the somber black of members of the caste of Assassins.
The high impaling post, normally visible on the top of the cylinder, had been lowered.
When it was raised again, it would bear the body of Talena.
- (Tarnsman of Gor, Chapter )