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Its two-part structure formed something in the nature of two keeps, one or both of which, I supposed, might be defended. - (Renegades of Gor, Chapter 2, Sentence #216)

This place, for most practical purposes, lacked guardsmen, though doubtless it kept a burly fellow or two on hand to deal with possible emergencies. I then made my way back to the main building. It had narrow openings in it here and there through which it might be defended. Its two-part structure formed something in the nature of two keeps, one or both of which, I supposed, might be defended. The number of available defenders, I supposed, might dictate the decision in such a case. Both sections, I speculated, would be joined by a narrow, easily blocked underground passage cut in the stone, one presumably taking its way beneath the covered way between them. Contrary to what one might think, incidentally, it is not easy to set fire to such structures. - (Renegades of Gor)