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Book 2. (7 results) Outlaw of Gor (Context Quote)

Chapter # Sentence # Quote
3 10 Surprisingly, though the pasang stones told me I was close to Ko-ro-ba, stubborn tufts of grass were growing between the stones, and occasional vines were inching out, tendril by tendril, across the great stone blocks.
3 11 It was late afternoon and, judging by the pasang stones, I was still some hours from the city.
3 12 Though it was still bright, many of the colorfully plumed birds had already sought their nests.
3 13 Here and there swarms of night insects began to stir, lifting themselves under the leaves of bushes by the road.
3 14 The shadows of the pasang stones had grown long, and, judging by the angle of these shadows, for the stones are set in such a way as to serve also as sundials, it was past the fourteenth Gorean Ahn, or hour.
3 15 The Gorean day is divided into twenty Ahn, which are numbered consecutively.
3 16 The tenth Ahn is noon, the twentieth, midnight.
Surprisingly, though the pasang stones told me I was close to Ko-ro-ba, stubborn tufts of grass were growing between the stones, and occasional vines were inching out, tendril by tendril, across the great stone blocks. It was late afternoon and, judging by the pasang stones, I was still some hours from the city. Though it was still bright, many of the colorfully plumed birds had already sought their nests. Here and there swarms of night insects began to stir, lifting themselves under the leaves of bushes by the road. The shadows of the pasang stones had grown long, and, judging by the angle of these shadows, for the stones are set in such a way as to serve also as sundials, it was past the fourteenth Gorean Ahn, or hour. The Gorean day is divided into twenty Ahn, which are numbered consecutively. The tenth Ahn is noon, the twentieth, midnight. - (Outlaw of Gor, Chapter )