Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 12 | 188 | View more quotes about rope">Rope netting is used rather than wire to protect the birds. |
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 12 | 185 | The forest bosk tends to be territorial, and, as I have already suggested, it can be quite dangerous. |
| 12 | 186 | Most interestingly to me were the cots in the area, of which there were several. |
| 12 | 187 | These cots were mostly improvised, walled with rope nets strung between trees, and, too, large, heavy poles, doubtless from local trees, trimmed of bark and branches. |
| 12 | 188 | Rope netting is used rather than wire to protect the birds. |
| 12 | 189 | Tarn wire, for example, sometimes used to "roof a city," to defend it from tarn attack, is almost invisible, and can easily cut the wing from a descending bird. |
| 12 | 190 | A lighter form of wire is called "slave wire," and it, too, is dangerous. |
| 12 | 191 | A slave attempting to escape through such wire is likely to be found suspended within it, piteously begging for help, half cut to pieces. |
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The forest bosk tends to be territorial, and, as I have already suggested, it can be quite dangerous.
Most interestingly to me were the cots in the area, of which there were several.
These cots were mostly improvised, walled with rope nets strung between trees, and, too, large, heavy poles, doubtless from local trees, trimmed of bark and branches.
Rope netting is used rather than wire to protect the birds.
Tarn wire, for example, sometimes used to "roof a city," to defend it from tarn attack, is almost invisible, and can easily cut the wing from a descending bird.
A lighter form of wire is called "slave wire," and it, too, is dangerous.
A slave attempting to escape through such wire is likely to be found suspended within it, piteously begging for help, half cut to pieces.
- (Swordsmen of Gor)