Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 18 | 157 | Leaving my tarn below, I climbed the stairs, my sword drawn. |
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Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
|---|---|---|
| 18 | 154 | Several tarns were dead; some were flopping about awkwardly on the marble floor, pierced by arrows. |
| 18 | 155 | There were no living guardsmen in sight. |
| 18 | 156 | Those who had survived had fled from the room, perhaps up the long, wide, circling stairwell that climbed the inside of the cylinder. |
| 18 | 157 | Leaving my tarn below, I climbed the stairs, my sword drawn. |
| 18 | 158 | When I reached that portion of the stairwell adjoining the upper floors, devoted to the private use of the Ubar, I saw some twenty or thirty guardsmen, behind them a barricade of tile and tarn wire which they had erected. |
| 18 | 159 | It was not simply that my sword was drawn. |
| 18 | 160 | To them, my presence was unauthorized, and my Assassin's garb, far from being a safe-conduct, was an incitement to attack. |
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Several tarns were dead; some were flopping about awkwardly on the marble floor, pierced by arrows.
There were no living guardsmen in sight.
Those who had survived had fled from the room, perhaps up the long, wide, circling stairwell that climbed the inside of the cylinder.
Leaving my tarn below, I climbed the stairs, my sword drawn.
When I reached that portion of the stairwell adjoining the upper floors, devoted to the private use of the Ubar, I saw some twenty or thirty guardsmen, behind them a barricade of tile and tarn wire which they had erected.
It was not simply that my sword was drawn.
To them, my presence was unauthorized, and my Assassin's garb, far from being a safe-conduct, was an incitement to attack.
- (Tarnsman of Gor, Chapter 18)