Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 37 | 779 | View more quotes about doors">Doors may be secured from the inside, usually by two bars. |
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Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 37 | 776 | To enter the door, one simply unties the knot and frees the door. |
| 37 | 777 | Whereas anyone may untie the knot the tying of the knot is a secret, difficult to duplicate except by one familiar with the knot. |
| 37 | 778 | If, say, the proprietor returns to the dwelling and discovers the knot is missing or different, that suggests that the area has been entered without authorization. |
| 37 | 779 | Doors may be secured from the inside, usually by two bars. |
| 37 | 780 | In some dwellings, of a somewhat better sort, such as mine, the signature-knot fastening is combined with a latch or bolt arrangement, in which the drawing of a latch string, put through a small hole in the door, moves the latch or bolt. |
| 37 | 781 | When one is absent, or within and, say, expecting company, the latch string may be left free, outside the door. |
| 37 | 782 | When one wishes, one draws the latch string within, which prevents the door from being opened, except from the inside. |
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To enter the door, one simply unties the knot and frees the door.
Whereas anyone may untie the knot the tying of the knot is a secret, difficult to duplicate except by one familiar with the knot.
If, say, the proprietor returns to the dwelling and discovers the knot is missing or different, that suggests that the area has been entered without authorization.
Doors may be secured from the inside, usually by two bars.
In some dwellings, of a somewhat better sort, such as mine, the signature-knot fastening is combined with a latch or bolt arrangement, in which the drawing of a latch string, put through a small hole in the door, moves the latch or bolt.
When one is absent, or within and, say, expecting company, the latch string may be left free, outside the door.
When one wishes, one draws the latch string within, which prevents the door from being opened, except from the inside.
- (Mariners of Gor)