Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 17 | 23 | Worse, from the reports of deserters, it View more quotes about became">became clear that the city was starving and that water was running short. |
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Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 17 | 20 | Rumor had it that dozens of tunnels, unimpeded, now extended beneath the second wall and could be opened in a matter of hours at various places in the city. |
| 17 | 21 | The countermining operations of the men of Ar had apparently been desultory or incompetent. |
| 17 | 22 | It was Ar's misfortune, at this most critical time in its long history, to be in the hands of the bleakest of all castes of men, the Initiates, skilled only in ritual, mythology, and superstition. |
| 17 | 23 | Worse, from the reports of deserters, it became clear that the city was starving and that water was running short. |
| 17 | 24 | Some of the defenders were opening the veins of surviving tarns, to drink the blood. |
| 17 | 25 | The tiny urt, a common rodent of Gorean cities, was bringing a silver tarn disk in the markets. |
| 17 | 26 | Disease had broken out. |
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Rumor had it that dozens of tunnels, unimpeded, now extended beneath the second wall and could be opened in a matter of hours at various places in the city.
The countermining operations of the men of Ar had apparently been desultory or incompetent.
It was Ar's misfortune, at this most critical time in its long history, to be in the hands of the bleakest of all castes of men, the Initiates, skilled only in ritual, mythology, and superstition.
Worse, from the reports of deserters, it became clear that the city was starving and that water was running short.
Some of the defenders were opening the veins of surviving tarns, to drink the blood.
The tiny urt, a common rodent of Gorean cities, was bringing a silver tarn disk in the markets.
Disease had broken out.
- (Tarnsman of Gor)