Book 15. (1 results) Rogue of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 31 | 137 | We were now in View more quotes about position">position to brake the gate, in its lowering. |
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Book 15. (7 results) Rogue of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 31 | 134 | The gate would not now slip. |
| 31 | 135 | The weights, overhead and to one side, swung on their chains. |
| 31 | 136 | We reversed our position at the poles, stepping under them and then standing, turning the chain swivels, to which the chains on our collars were attached. |
| 31 | 137 | We were now in position to brake the gate, in its lowering. |
| 31 | 138 | I, then, like several of the others, the holding pawl now engaged, put my head down on the bar, resting. |
| 31 | 139 | It is not easy to raise the gate. |
| 31 | 140 | Outside I supposed that one or more ships, river galleys, might be gracefully entering or leaving the lakelike courtyard of the holding of Policrates. |
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The gate would not now slip.
The weights, overhead and to one side, swung on their chains.
We reversed our position at the poles, stepping under them and then standing, turning the chain swivels, to which the chains on our collars were attached.
We were now in position to brake the gate, in its lowering.
I, then, like several of the others, the holding pawl now engaged, put my head down on the bar, resting.
It is not easy to raise the gate.
Outside I supposed that one or more ships, river galleys, might be gracefully entering or leaving the lakelike courtyard of the holding of Policrates.
- (Rogue of Gor)