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It was hard for me to imagine that so different and beautiful, so artistic, a structure, might be, in effect, a fortress, a place of harrowing might, a holding of formidable power, a housing for a hundred companies, a resister of sieges, a coign of vantage, from which might issue dragons of war, and a closed portal behind which they might, in security, withdraw. - (Mariners of Gor, Chapter 23, Sentence #35)

"I have never seen such a castle, such a fortress," I said. "I have seen representations of such structures, pictures of such structures," said Cabot, "but it was long ago, and faraway". To me the slopes, the curves, the peaks, of roofs, and such, were profoundly unfamiliar, but, in their way, awesome, and beautiful. It was hard for me to imagine that so different and beautiful, so artistic, a structure, might be, in effect, a fortress, a place of harrowing might, a holding of formidable power, a housing for a hundred companies, a resister of sieges, a coign of vantage, from which might issue dragons of war, and a closed portal behind which they might, in security, withdraw. "The men are uneasy," I said. "No longer are they eager to go ashore". "Who could blame them?" said Cabot. - (Mariners of Gor)