Book 31. (7 results) Conspirators of Gor (Context Quote)
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8
555
Even while war was waged in the streets proscription lists had been posted and many traitors, profiteers, and such, hundreds, were seized by maddened citizens and publicly impaled.
8
556
Later, the invaders flighted and the blood lust of an outraged citizenry largely spent, numbers of surviving profiteers and collaborators, as apprehended, were placed in several underground dungeons scattered throughout the city.
8
557
Many were later executed by impalement, but others were embonded, men usually destined to the quarries or galleys, and women remanded to slave houses.
8
558
"It must be near the Tenth ahn," said a brunette.
8
559
I supposed that so.
8
560
There were few shadows in the street.
8
561
So what did it matter, if it were near the Tenth ahn, noon? Was that, in some way, important? One girl, one of the brunettes, went to stand near the bars, sideways, fingering her hair.
Even while war was waged in the streets proscription lists had been posted and many traitors, profiteers, and such, hundreds, were seized by maddened citizens and publicly impaled.
Later, the invaders flighted and the blood lust of an outraged citizenry largely spent, numbers of surviving profiteers and collaborators, as apprehended, were placed in several underground dungeons scattered throughout the city.
Many were later executed by impalement, but others were embonded, men usually destined to the quarries or galleys, and women remanded to slave houses.
"It must be near the Tenth ahn," said a brunette.
I supposed that so.
There were few shadows in the street.
So what did it matter, if it were near the Tenth ahn, noon? Was that, in some way, important? One girl, one of the brunettes, went to stand near the bars, sideways, fingering her hair.
- (Conspirators of Gor, Chapter )