Book 10. (7 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 2 | 114 | Land, at an oasis, which will grow food is not wasted on domiciles. |
| 2 | 115 | Tor, rather similarly, though few crops were grown within its walls, was built high, about its water, several wells in the deepest area in the city. |
| 2 | 116 | The architecture of Tor, in concentric circles, broken by numerous, narrow, crooked streets, was a function of the radius from its wells. |
| 2 | 117 | An advantage of this municipal organization, of course, though it is scarcely a matter of intentional design, is that the water is in the most protected portion of the city, its center. |
| 2 | 118 | Tor's water, I might mention, was ample to her needs. |
| 2 | 119 | Though I saw few of them, she boasted many shaded gardens. |
| 2 | 120 | Water for these gardens, by contract with slave masters, was carried by chains of male slaves and emptied into house cisterns, whence, later, by house slaves, it would be taken in cans and sprinkled carefully, foot by foot, throughout the garden. |
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Land, at an oasis, which will grow food is not wasted on domiciles.
Tor, rather similarly, though few crops were grown within its walls, was built high, about its water, several wells in the deepest area in the city.
The architecture of Tor, in concentric circles, broken by numerous, narrow, crooked streets, was a function of the radius from its wells.
An advantage of this municipal organization, of course, though it is scarcely a matter of intentional design, is that the water is in the most protected portion of the city, its center.
Tor's water, I might mention, was ample to her needs.
Though I saw few of them, she boasted many shaded gardens.
Water for these gardens, by contract with slave masters, was carried by chains of male slaves and emptied into house cisterns, whence, later, by house slaves, it would be taken in cans and sprinkled carefully, foot by foot, throughout the garden.
- (Tribesmen of Gor, Chapter )