Book 23. (1 results) Renegades of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 8 | 56 | This gives the effect of a View more quotes about door">door, opening to the sky. |
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Book 23. (7 results) Renegades of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 8 | 53 | Not all tarn gates have this particular construction. |
| 8 | 54 | In another common construction the two parts, or leaves, of the gate, within their supporting framework, lean back, at an angle of some twenty degrees. |
| 8 | 55 | They are then slid back, in a frame, on rollers, each to its own side. |
| 8 | 56 | This gives the effect of a door, opening to the sky. |
| 8 | 57 | The structure supporting the gate, in such a case, with its beams, platforms, catwalks and mastlike timbers, is very sturdy. |
| 8 | 58 | Narrow ladders, too, ascend it here and there, leading to its catwalks and platforms. |
| 8 | 59 | Such a construction, of course, requires the more time-consuming, hovering landing of all birds, not simply draft tarns, carrying tarn baskets. |
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Not all tarn gates have this particular construction.
In another common construction the two parts, or leaves, of the gate, within their supporting framework, lean back, at an angle of some twenty degrees.
They are then slid back, in a frame, on rollers, each to its own side.
This gives the effect of a door, opening to the sky.
The structure supporting the gate, in such a case, with its beams, platforms, catwalks and mastlike timbers, is very sturdy.
Narrow ladders, too, ascend it here and there, leading to its catwalks and platforms.
Such a construction, of course, requires the more time-consuming, hovering landing of all birds, not simply draft tarns, carrying tarn baskets.
- (Renegades of Gor)