Book 6. (7 results) Raiders of Gor (Context Quote)
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Quote
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418
They followed me, and I left the chamber of the council, and, in a few moments, stood on the top of the broad marbled steps leading up to the hall of the Council of Captains.
16
419
"It is Bosk," cried the people.
16
420
"It is Bosk, Admiral!" I looked out into the thousands of faces, the hundreds of torches.
16
421
I could see the canals far away, over the heads of the people, crowded even to the distant waters bordering the great piazza.
16
422
And in those waters beyond there were crowded hundreds of boats, filled with men, many of them holding torches, the flames' reflections flickering on the walls of the buildings and on the water.
16
423
I said nothing, but faced the crowd for a long moment.
16
424
And then, suddenly, I lifted my right arm, and held in my right hand, high over my head, was the stone.
They followed me, and I left the chamber of the council, and, in a few moments, stood on the top of the broad marbled steps leading up to the hall of the Council of Captains.
"It is Bosk," cried the people.
"It is Bosk, Admiral!" I looked out into the thousands of faces, the hundreds of torches.
I could see the canals far away, over the heads of the people, crowded even to the distant waters bordering the great piazza.
And in those waters beyond there were crowded hundreds of boats, filled with men, many of them holding torches, the flames' reflections flickering on the walls of the buildings and on the water.
I said nothing, but faced the crowd for a long moment.
And then, suddenly, I lifted my right arm, and held in my right hand, high over my head, was the stone.
- (Raiders of Gor, Chapter )