Book 6. (7 results) Raiders of Gor (Context Quote)
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347
There were few scribes or pages there.
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348
Of the usual seventy or eighty, or so, captains of the approximately one hundred and twenty entitled to sit in the council, only some thirty or forty were present.
16
349
And even as I entered some two or three left the hall.
16
350
The scribe, haggard behind the great table, sitting before the book of the council, looked up at me.
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351
I glanced about.
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352
The captains sat silently.
16
353
Samos was there, and I saw that short-cropped white hair buried in his rough hands, his elbows on his knees.
There were few scribes or pages there.
Of the usual seventy or eighty, or so, captains of the approximately one hundred and twenty entitled to sit in the council, only some thirty or forty were present.
And even as I entered some two or three left the hall.
The scribe, haggard behind the great table, sitting before the book of the council, looked up at me.
I glanced about.
The captains sat silently.
Samos was there, and I saw that short-cropped white hair buried in his rough hands, his elbows on his knees.
- (Raiders of Gor, Chapter )