Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 5 | 26 | Yet if the home stone of Ar, the very symbol and significance of the empire, could be removed from Ar, the spell of Marlenus might be broken. |
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Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 5 | 23 | My father, in his office as Administrator of Ko-ro-ba, had attempted to develop an alliance against Ar, but the free cities of Gor had, in their pride and suspicion, their almost fanatical commitment to protecting their own independent destinies, refused the alliance. |
| 5 | 24 | Indeed, they had, in the fashion of Gor, driven my father's envoys from their Council Chambers with the whips normally used on slaves, an insult which, at another time, would have been answered by the War Call of Ko-ro-ba. |
| 5 | 25 | But, as my father knew, strife among the free cities would be the very madness which Marlenus of Ar would welcome most; better even that Ko-ro-ba should suffer the indignity of being thought a city of cowards. |
| 5 | 26 | Yet if the home stone of Ar, the very symbol and significance of the empire, could be removed from Ar, the spell of Marlenus might be broken. |
| 5 | 27 | He would become a laughingstock, suspect to his own men, a leader who had lost the home stone. |
| 5 | 28 | He would be fortunate if he was not publicly impaled. |
| 5 | 29 | The girl on the saddle before me stirred, the effect of the drug wearing off. |
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My father, in his office as Administrator of Ko-ro-ba, had attempted to develop an alliance against Ar, but the free cities of Gor had, in their pride and suspicion, their almost fanatical commitment to protecting their own independent destinies, refused the alliance.
Indeed, they had, in the fashion of Gor, driven my father's envoys from their Council Chambers with the whips normally used on slaves, an insult which, at another time, would have been answered by the War Call of Ko-ro-ba.
But, as my father knew, strife among the free cities would be the very madness which Marlenus of Ar would welcome most; better even that Ko-ro-ba should suffer the indignity of being thought a city of cowards.
Yet if the home stone of Ar, the very symbol and significance of the empire, could be removed from Ar, the spell of Marlenus might be broken.
He would become a laughingstock, suspect to his own men, a leader who had lost the home stone.
He would be fortunate if he was not publicly impaled.
The girl on the saddle before me stirred, the effect of the drug wearing off.
- (Tarnsman of Gor, Chapter 5)