Book 2. (1 results) Outlaw of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 3 | 35 | The weight the man was carrying was prodigious, and would have staggered men of most castes, even that of the Warriors. |
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Book 2. (7 results) Outlaw of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 3 | 32 | No rations or water flask had been in the leather package found with the weapons. |
| 3 | 33 | I had scarcely stepped from the stones of the road when, coming down the road, each step carefully measured and solid, I saw a wide, hunched figure, bending under a gigantic bundle of sticks, strapped to his back by two cords which he held twisted in his fists in front of his body. |
| 3 | 34 | His stature and burden proclaimed him a member of the Caste of Carriers of Wood, or Woodsmen, that Gorean caste which, with the Caste of Charcoal Makers, provides most of the common fuel for the Gorean cities. |
| 3 | 35 | The weight the man was carrying was prodigious, and would have staggered men of most castes, even that of the Warriors. |
| 3 | 36 | The bundle reared itself at least a man's height above his bent back, and extended perhaps some four feet in width. |
| 3 | 37 | I knew the support of that weight depended partly on the skillful use of the cords and back, but sheer strength was only too obviously necessary, and this man, and his caste brothers, over the generations, had been shaped to their task. |
| 3 | 38 | Lesser men had turned outlaw or died. |
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No rations or water flask had been in the leather package found with the weapons.
I had scarcely stepped from the stones of the road when, coming down the road, each step carefully measured and solid, I saw a wide, hunched figure, bending under a gigantic bundle of sticks, strapped to his back by two cords which he held twisted in his fists in front of his body.
His stature and burden proclaimed him a member of the Caste of Carriers of Wood, or Woodsmen, that Gorean caste which, with the Caste of Charcoal Makers, provides most of the common fuel for the Gorean cities.
The weight the man was carrying was prodigious, and would have staggered men of most castes, even that of the Warriors.
The bundle reared itself at least a man's height above his bent back, and extended perhaps some four feet in width.
I knew the support of that weight depended partly on the skillful use of the cords and back, but sheer strength was only too obviously necessary, and this man, and his caste brothers, over the generations, had been shaped to their task.
Lesser men had turned outlaw or died.
- (Outlaw of Gor, Chapter 3)