Book 10. (1 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 5 | 287 | Dew, View more quotes about incidentally">incidentally, is quite common in the Tahari, condensing on the stones during the chilly nights. |
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Book 10. (7 results) Tribesmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 5 | 284 | This was an oasis of the Char, also a vassal tribe of the Kavars. |
| 5 | 285 | Its name had been given to it centuries before, when thirsty men, who had moved at night on the desert, had come upon it, discovering it. |
| 5 | 286 | Dew had formed on the large flat stones thereabouts and, in the light of the dawn, had made them, from a distance, seem to glint like silver. |
| 5 | 287 | Dew, incidentally, is quite common in the Tahari, condensing on the stones during the chilly nights. |
| 5 | 288 | It burns off, of course, almost immediately in the morning. |
| 5 | 289 | Nomads sometime dig stones before dawn, clean them, set them out, and, later, lick the moisture from them. |
| 5 | 290 | One cannot pay the water debt, of course, with the spoonful or so of moisture obtainable in this way. |
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This was an oasis of the Char, also a vassal tribe of the Kavars.
Its name had been given to it centuries before, when thirsty men, who had moved at night on the desert, had come upon it, discovering it.
Dew had formed on the large flat stones thereabouts and, in the light of the dawn, had made them, from a distance, seem to glint like silver.
Dew, incidentally, is quite common in the Tahari, condensing on the stones during the chilly nights.
It burns off, of course, almost immediately in the morning.
Nomads sometime dig stones before dawn, clean them, set them out, and, later, lick the moisture from them.
One cannot pay the water debt, of course, with the spoonful or so of moisture obtainable in this way.
- (Tribesmen of Gor)