Book 33. (1 results) Rebels of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 1 | 161 | The site of the View more quotes about holding">holding, atop the cliffs, over the centuries, had apparently been variously fortified and commanded. |
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Book 33. (7 results) Rebels of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 1 | 158 | Trails leading to the valley below were narrow and easily defended. |
| 1 | 159 | On the seaward side, a single, narrow, walled trail ascended tortuously from the wharves below to the courtyard of the holding. |
| 1 | 160 | This trail, too, now barricaded, would be easily defended. |
| 1 | 161 | The site of the holding, atop the cliffs, over the centuries, had apparently been variously fortified and commanded. |
| 1 | 162 | Doubtless its lines, appointments, battlements, keeps, and structures, in number and nature, over the years, had changed, had come and gone, but the mountain, with its proud, summoning escarpment, had endured. |
| 1 | 163 | As the remote, precipitous, unapproachable crag might commend itself to the wild tarn so too would this place commend itself to tarns amongst men. |
| 1 | 164 | Was this not a possible place of wealth, and power? From such a place might not one command, govern, and rule? Might one not find here a suitable aerie for tyranny? From such an ensconcement might one not descend with fire and sword, and to such a place might one not withdraw, with immunity, laden with treasure? In the quiet, on the parapet, in the damp, chill air, standing there in the fog, I wondered on myself. |
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Trails leading to the valley below were narrow and easily defended.
On the seaward side, a single, narrow, walled trail ascended tortuously from the wharves below to the courtyard of the holding.
This trail, too, now barricaded, would be easily defended.
The site of the holding, atop the cliffs, over the centuries, had apparently been variously fortified and commanded.
Doubtless its lines, appointments, battlements, keeps, and structures, in number and nature, over the years, had changed, had come and gone, but the mountain, with its proud, summoning escarpment, had endured.
As the remote, precipitous, unapproachable crag might commend itself to the wild tarn so too would this place commend itself to tarns amongst men.
Was this not a possible place of wealth, and power? From such a place might not one command, govern, and rule? Might one not find here a suitable aerie for tyranny? From such an ensconcement might one not descend with fire and sword, and to such a place might one not withdraw, with immunity, laden with treasure? In the quiet, on the parapet, in the damp, chill air, standing there in the fog, I wondered on myself.
- (Rebels of Gor)