Book 10. (7 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | 9 | The protection tax helps to defray the cost of maintaining soldiers, who, nominally, at any rate, police the desert. |
| 10 | 10 | It is not unusual for the genealogy of most of the pashas sovereign in the various oases to contain a heritage of raiders. |
| 10 | 11 | Most of those in the Tahari who sit upon the rugs of office are those who are the descendants of men who ruled, in ruder days, scimitar in hand, from the high, red leather of the kaiila saddle. |
| 10 | 12 | The forms change but, in the Tahari, as elsewhere, order, justice and law rest ultimately upon the determination of men, and steel. |
| 10 | 13 | It was late at night, in single file, over the sands, silvered in the light of the three moons, that we came to Two Scimitars. |
| 10 | 14 | Men rushed forth from the darkness, with weapons, encircling us. |
| 10 | 15 | "It is Hassan," said a voice. |
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The protection tax helps to defray the cost of maintaining soldiers, who, nominally, at any rate, police the desert.
It is not unusual for the genealogy of most of the pashas sovereign in the various oases to contain a heritage of raiders.
Most of those in the Tahari who sit upon the rugs of office are those who are the descendants of men who ruled, in ruder days, scimitar in hand, from the high, red leather of the kaiila saddle.
The forms change but, in the Tahari, as elsewhere, order, justice and law rest ultimately upon the determination of men, and steel.
It was late at night, in single file, over the sands, silvered in the light of the three moons, that we came to Two Scimitars.
Men rushed forth from the darkness, with weapons, encircling us.
"It is Hassan," said a voice.
- (Tribesmen of Gor, Chapter )