Book 11. (1 results) Slave Girl of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 2 | 1217 | About the View more quotes about robes">robes and over the hood and veils of the garmenting were slung medallions and necklaces of wrought gold, pendant with gems. |
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Book 11. (7 results) Slave Girl of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 2 | 1214 | They knelt, or sat, or reclined about the foot of a white, ornate curule chair set on the platform. |
| 2 | 1215 | In this chair, in graceful lassitude, weary, sat another girl, though one whose features, as she wore sheaths of pinned veils, I could not well remark. |
| 2 | 1216 | I was startled, discerning the volume and splendor of her robes; they were multicolored and brilliant in their sheens and chromatic textures, and so draped and worn that, particularly at the hem, the diverse borders of these various garments seemed to compete with one another to win the observer's accolade as the finest, the most resplendent, of all. |
| 2 | 1217 | About the robes and over the hood and veils of the garmenting were slung medallions and necklaces of wrought gold, pendant with gems. |
| 2 | 1218 | On her hands were white gloves, fastened with hooks of gold. |
| 2 | 1219 | Beneath the final hem of the innermost robe I saw the toes of golden slippers, jeweled, and scarlet-threaded, sparkling in the torchlight. |
| 2 | 1220 | Only in a barbarian world, I thought, could raiment dare be so lavish, so gorgeous, so rich. |
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They knelt, or sat, or reclined about the foot of a white, ornate curule chair set on the platform.
In this chair, in graceful lassitude, weary, sat another girl, though one whose features, as she wore sheaths of pinned veils, I could not well remark.
I was startled, discerning the volume and splendor of her robes; they were multicolored and brilliant in their sheens and chromatic textures, and so draped and worn that, particularly at the hem, the diverse borders of these various garments seemed to compete with one another to win the observer's accolade as the finest, the most resplendent, of all.
About the robes and over the hood and veils of the garmenting were slung medallions and necklaces of wrought gold, pendant with gems.
On her hands were white gloves, fastened with hooks of gold.
Beneath the final hem of the innermost robe I saw the toes of golden slippers, jeweled, and scarlet-threaded, sparkling in the torchlight.
Only in a barbarian world, I thought, could raiment dare be so lavish, so gorgeous, so rich.
- (Slave Girl of Gor)