Book 21. (1 results) Mercenaries of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 22 | 352 | Such View more quotes about buildings">buildings tend to be vulnerable to structural stresses, and are sometimes weakened by slight movements of the earth. |
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Book 21. (7 results) Mercenaries of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 22 | 349 | There are ordinances governing how high they may be built. |
| 22 | 350 | Although we had come up several flights, we were probably not more than seventy or eighty feet Gorean from the street level. |
| 22 | 351 | Without girders, frame steel, and timber iron, as the Goreans say, wrought in the iron shops, such as are used in the towers, physics, even indexed to the Gorean gravity, is quick to impose its inexorable limits on heights. |
| 22 | 352 | Such buildings tend to be vulnerable to structural stresses, and are sometimes weakened by slight movements of the earth. |
| 22 | 353 | Sometimes walls give way; sometimes entire floors collapse. |
| 22 | 354 | I put the lamp down on the chest. |
| 22 | 355 | I put my pack against a wall. |
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There are ordinances governing how high they may be built.
Although we had come up several flights, we were probably not more than seventy or eighty feet Gorean from the street level.
Without girders, frame steel, and timber iron, as the Goreans say, wrought in the iron shops, such as are used in the towers, physics, even indexed to the Gorean gravity, is quick to impose its inexorable limits on heights.
Such buildings tend to be vulnerable to structural stresses, and are sometimes weakened by slight movements of the earth.
Sometimes walls give way; sometimes entire floors collapse.
I put the lamp down on the chest.
I put my pack against a wall.
- (Mercenaries of Gor)