Book 4. (1 results) Nomads of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 16 | 33 | "The View more quotes about tiles">tiles must be periodically inspected," he said, "and for this purpose there are foot knots in the rope". |
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Book 4. (7 results) Nomads of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 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. |
| 16 | 36 | The foot knots were done with subsidiary rope but worked into the fiber of the main rope and glued over so as to be almost one with it. |
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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.
The foot knots were done with subsidiary rope but worked into the fiber of the main rope and glued over so as to be almost one with it.
- (Nomads of Gor)