Book 4. (1 results) Nomads of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 16 | 32 | I View more quotes about heard">heard Harold's voice in the darkness, sounding hollow against the tiled walls and over the water. |
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Book 4. (7 results) Nomads of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 16 | 29 | Two ropes led to the drum, a small rope to control its filling, and a large one to support it; the large rope, incidentally, has a core of chain; the rope itself, existing primarily to protect the chain, is treated with a waterproof glue made from the skins, bones and hoofs of bosk, secured by trade with the Wagon Peoples. |
| 16 | 30 | Even so the rope and chain must be replaced twice a year. |
| 16 | 31 | I judged that the top of the well might lie eight or nine hundred feet above us. |
| 16 | 32 | I heard Harold's voice in the darkness, sounding hollow against the tiled walls and over the water. |
| 16 | 33 | "The tiles must be periodically inspected," he said, "and for this purpose there are foot knots in the rope". |
| 16 | 34 | I breathed a sigh of relief. |
| 16 | 35 | It is one thing to descend a long rope and quite another, even in the lesser gravity of Gor, to climb one—particularly one as long as that which I now saw dimly above me. |
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Two ropes led to the drum, a small rope to control its filling, and a large one to support it; the large rope, incidentally, has a core of chain; the rope itself, existing primarily to protect the chain, is treated with a waterproof glue made from the skins, bones and hoofs of bosk, secured by trade with the Wagon Peoples.
Even so the rope and chain must be replaced twice a year.
I judged that the top of the well might lie eight or nine hundred feet above us.
I heard Harold's voice in the darkness, sounding hollow against the tiled walls and over the water.
"The tiles must be periodically inspected," he said, "and for this purpose there are foot knots in the rope".
I breathed a sigh of relief.
It is one thing to descend a long rope and quite another, even in the lesser gravity of Gor, to climb one—particularly one as long as that which I now saw dimly above me.
- (Nomads of Gor)