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Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)

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, Chapter 12, Sentence #191)
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12 191 A View more quotes about slave">slave attempting to escape through such wire is likely to be found suspended within it, piteously begging for help, half cut to pieces.

Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)

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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.
12 192 Two of the cots were large and conical.
12 193 Their framing, formed of light metal tubing, fitted together, was not untypical of a form of cot found in open camps.
12 194 I supposed it derived from Thentis, and might have been brought to the coast by wagon, and then north by ship, as doubtless was the case with many forms of supplies.
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. Two of the cots were large and conical. Their framing, formed of light metal tubing, fitted together, was not untypical of a form of cot found in open camps. I supposed it derived from Thentis, and might have been brought to the coast by wagon, and then north by ship, as doubtless was the case with many forms of supplies. - (Swordsmen of Gor)