Book 10. (1 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 21 | 580 | I had little doubt that these measurements, however, were calibrated on the movements of a world, presumably vanished, destroyed in their wars. |
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Book 10. (7 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 21 | 577 | The Kur was climbing toward me. |
| 21 | 578 | The first dial, I surmised, registered something equivalent to months, the second to weeks, the third to days, the fourth to hours. |
| 21 | 579 | I did not know the rate of revolution of the Kurii's original planet, nor the rate of its rotation. |
| 21 | 580 | I had little doubt that these measurements, however, were calibrated on the movements of a world, presumably vanished, destroyed in their wars. |
| 21 | 581 | They had destroyed one world; they now desired another. |
| 21 | 582 | With my teeth I tore the insulation from a part of the wire I had taken from the pile of debris and wire, coiled and, in my teeth, carried with me in my climb. |
| 21 | 583 | I looped the noose where the wire was naked. |
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The Kur was climbing toward me.
The first dial, I surmised, registered something equivalent to months, the second to weeks, the third to days, the fourth to hours.
I did not know the rate of revolution of the Kurii's original planet, nor the rate of its rotation.
I had little doubt that these measurements, however, were calibrated on the movements of a world, presumably vanished, destroyed in their wars.
They had destroyed one world; they now desired another.
With my teeth I tore the insulation from a part of the wire I had taken from the pile of debris and wire, coiled and, in my teeth, carried with me in my climb.
I looped the noose where the wire was naked.
- (Tribesmen of Gor, Chapter 21)