Book 6. (7 results) Raiders of Gor (Context Quote)
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote |
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| 15 | 121 | Accordingly, its word, and, in effect, its word alone, was law. |
| 15 | 122 | A similar consolidation and unification had taken place, of course, in the realm of inspections and taxations, penalties and enforcements, codes and courts. |
| 15 | 123 | For the first time in several years one could count on the law being the same on both sides of a given canal. |
| 15 | 124 | Lastly, the forces of Henrius Sevarius, under the regency of Claudius, once of Tyros, had been driven by the council forces from all their holdings, save one, a huge fortress, its walls extending into the Tamber itself, sheltering the some two dozen ships left him. |
| 15 | 125 | This fortress, it seems, might be taken by storm, but the effort would be costly. |
| 15 | 126 | Accordingly the council, ringing it with double walls on the land side and blockading it with arsenal ships by sea, chose to wait. |
| 15 | 127 | The time that the fortress might still stand was now most adequately to be charted by the depth of its siege reservoir, and by the fish that might swim within her barred sea gates, and the mouthfuls of bread yet stored in her towers. |
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Accordingly, its word, and, in effect, its word alone, was law.
A similar consolidation and unification had taken place, of course, in the realm of inspections and taxations, penalties and enforcements, codes and courts.
For the first time in several years one could count on the law being the same on both sides of a given canal.
Lastly, the forces of Henrius Sevarius, under the regency of Claudius, once of Tyros, had been driven by the council forces from all their holdings, save one, a huge fortress, its walls extending into the Tamber itself, sheltering the some two dozen ships left him.
This fortress, it seems, might be taken by storm, but the effort would be costly.
Accordingly the council, ringing it with double walls on the land side and blockading it with arsenal ships by sea, chose to wait.
The time that the fortress might still stand was now most adequately to be charted by the depth of its siege reservoir, and by the fish that might swim within her barred sea gates, and the mouthfuls of bread yet stored in her towers.
- (Raiders of Gor, Chapter )