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Book 1. (14 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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8 151 I recalled the attempt on my life in the cylinder of my father, an attempt that would have been successful except for the alertness of the Older Tarl.
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16 3 It would presumably be suicidal to make any direct attempt to cut through to her, and yet, if this was the last resort, I knew I would make the attempt.
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3 119 I had little time for speculation, however, as I was trying to bear up under an arduous schedule which seemed designed to force me to become a Gorean in a matter of weeks or perhaps see me die in the attempt.
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4 111 Besides, I had a headache like the beating of spears on a bronze shield, a headache that drove all lesser considerations, such as the attempt on my life yesterday, from my mind.
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5 47 Any attempt on the Home Stone was regarded by the citizens of a city as sacrilege of the most heinous variety and punishable by the most painful of deaths, but, paradoxically, it was regarded as the greatest of glories to purloin the Home Stone of another city, and the warrior who managed this was a...
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7 56 After all, according to the rude codes of Gor, I owed her nothing; indeed, considering her attempt on my life, which had been foiled only by the fortuitous net of Nar's web, I would have been within my rights to slay her, abandoning her body to the water lizards.
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7 101 As Nar raced backward, he lifted a foreleg in a gesture that I interpreted as an attempt to wave.
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15 3 Every fifty yards along the walls rose towers, jutting forth so as to expose any attempt at scaling to the fire of their numerous archer ports.
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15 24 It was unthinkable that they should top the walls of Ar, but with their battering rams they would attempt to break through at the lower levels.
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15 43 I had no realistic or clearheaded plan, but was determined somehow to find Talena and escape, or die in the attempt.
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16 63 One thing at least remained to be done: there must be an attempt to rescue Talena.
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16 104 It would be suicide to attempt to cut my way in, but Pa-Kur was in the environs of Ar, directing the siege operations, and I might, with luck, pass myself off as his messenger; who would be bold enough to deny entrance to one whose helmet bore the golden slash of the courier? Without hesitation I cl...
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17 7 In despair I realized I had done nothing more than make clear the fact that someone was desperately interested in the whereabouts of the girl, and, if anything, this information would make Pa-Kur redouble his precautions for her security and doubtless attempt to apprehend the individual responsible ...
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20 73 If I should once again walk the green fields of Gor, I know that I should attempt to solve the riddle of the Priest-Kings, that I should enter the Sardar Mountains and confront them, whoever or whatever they might be.
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Book 2. (2 results) Outlaw of Gor

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14 40 It would not attempt to fly while hooded; indeed, I doubted that the bird would attempt to fly while it dragged its bar of silver.
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20 107 Once again it would attempt to climb, ever faster, ever more fiercely.
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Book 3. (8 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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16 109 "Your father was instructed to call you Tarl, and lest he might speak to you of the Counter-Earth or attempt to dissuade you from our purpose, he was returned to Gor before you were of an age to understand".
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27 21 Probably to die with him, or to die in the attempt to avenge him.
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28 65 And there was, and in this case though it had been seared as if an attempt had been made to open it, I found Vika of Treve.
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30 187 This transfer of allegiance was apparently the result of long discussion and consideration by the group of Priest-Kings who had followed Sarm because he was First Born, but had at many points objected to his conduct of the War, in particular to his treatment of the Muls, his use of the gravitational...
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32 310 I stood at the portal, sword drawn, to defend it against the larls should they attempt to enter.
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33 111 Suddenly I was very sad, and I wondered what would be the fate of humans from the Nest, if they should attempt to return to their cities or the world above.
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33 122 Most who had returned from the Sardar would, eventually at least, I was sure, try to gain admittance in new cities, where they were not known, and attempt to work out new lives, as though they did not keep in their hearts the secret of the Sardar.
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35 127 If I should attempt to help Misk, what would this mean, ultimately? Would it not be to surrender my race to the mercies of the people of Sarm and the Priest-Kings who had served him, or would it be ultimately to protect my race until it had learned to live with itself, until it had reached the matur...
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Book 4. (16 results) Nomads of Gor

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5 49 The dour women of the Wagon Peoples, I saw, looked on these girls with envy and hatred, sometimes striking them with sticks if they should approach too closely the cooking pots and attempt to steal a piece of meat.
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10 128 I must attempt to obtain it and return it to the Sardar.
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10 451 I gather that the Wagon Peoples, if they wanted sabers or regarded them as valuable, would be able to acquire them, in spite of the fact that they have no metalworking of their own; there might be some attempt to prevent them from falling into the hands of the Wagon Peoples, but where there are gold...
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11 295 "If you attempt to leave the wagons at night they will sense you out and rip my pretty little slave girl in pieces".
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12 23 If this was true, and I thought it likely, I realized I must obtain the egg as rapidly as possible and attempt to return it to the Sardar.
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12 216 The three flutists were polishing their instruments and talking together; it was shop talk I gathered, because one or the other would stop to illustrate some remark by a passage on his flute, and then one of the others would attempt to correct or improve on what he had done; occasionally their discu...
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12 257 Also, she may have feared more than death that if she failed in an attempt to slay him she would be plunged in the sack again which lay ever ready near the back, left wheel of the wagon.
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12 499 I might, of course, if I could find the money, buy her myself and attempt to find her a kind master.
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15 41 I must somehow attempt to seize it and return it to the Sardar.
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15 47 I did not know how I might even attempt to succeed in so dangerous a task as that which I had set myself.
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15 136 "Then I shall attempt not to be bitten," I said.
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16 319 The attempt on my life took place one night and the raid on Kutaituchik's wagon the next.
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19 152 Harold stood by, patiently, making no attempt to interfere.
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20 78 I then flung the two bars in position, which locked the door, lest men on ladders from the ground attempt to force it.
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22 24 I could smell tharlarion oil on the walls, waiting to be fired and poured on those who might attempt to dig at the walls or mount ladders against them.
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26 444 "Do not tell me where it is," I said, "or I should feel bound to attempt to seize it and take it to the Sardar".
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Book 5. (22 results) Assassin of Gor

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3 72 They believe, perhaps correctly, that man is a shrewish animal which, if it had the power, would be likely to fear Priest-Kings and attempt to exterminate them.
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4 87 We were confident that this attempt on my life, for that it seemed to be, had something to do with the Sardar, and the Priest-Kings, and the Others, not Priest-Kings, who desired this world of Priest-Kings and men, and, surreptitiously and cruelly, were fighting to obtain it, though as yet, perhaps ...
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5 83 "Sometimes," I added, "someone enters the compartment and has a confederate on the outside attempt to duplicate the knot, that the man inside may surprise the occupant on his return, but commonly this stratagem is unsuccessful, because of the difficulties of duplicating the knot".
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5 239 Further, that she not become terrified and attempt to struggle or leave the table, she was secured to it by several broad metal bands, plus ankle, leg, wrist and arm clips.
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5 317 "Will you attempt to drive them away again?" I asked.
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5 499 "I shall follow her," I said, "probably as a mercenary tarnsman, and attempt to take service with the House of Cernus".
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7 170 I supposed it was possible that a girl might awaken, in the rushing cold air, and attempt to hurl herself to the ground.
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10 9 I gathered this was in case someone on the other side would attempt to break the mirror.
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15 10 He would not inform me of the location of the maps and papers and I did not feel that any direct attempt to steal them and carry them away would be likely to be successful; further, if simply stolen, the Others, through Cernus, would doubtless be informed at the first opportunity and alternate plans...
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16 108 "If I remove the bracelets from you," said Relius, "you will not attempt to escape, will you?" "No," she said, softly, "Master".
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16 127 "Perhaps you wish me to promise that I shall not attempt to escape?" she inquired.
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16 216 It is to the advantage of any given faction that there should be a small number of factions in competition and so the riders of an older faction, if unable to win themselves in given races, will often attempt to prevent a good race being flown by the riders of the new faction.
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17 40 My feet could be thus jerked from beneath me should I attempt to run or struggle.
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17 239 Elizabeth, predictably, did not care to leave without me, but she recognized the plan as a good one; if she could be independently removed from the House there would be less for Caprus and me to worry about; further, she naturally wished Virginia and Phyllis to have the same opportunity for freedom ...
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17 783 "I know!" "Your best alternative at this point," she explained, "would be, would it not, to attempt to free your position by exchanges?" I glared at her.
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20 168 "There is more sport!" There were some tentative grunts about the table, some attempt to muster enthusiasm.
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21 304 The end man stumbled in an attempt to turn to me and I passed the side of the blade beneath the helmet and was behind them.
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22 98 The bird did not attempt to strike me.
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22 169 Menicius of Port Kar had been slowed by the Silver's attempt to stop him.
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22 323 I approached them but did not attempt to penetrate their line.
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22 472 I decided at the next attempt in passing I would, regardless of what I felt like, pass at the position of the numeral nine on Gorean chronometers.
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24 304 "It was clear months ago that Cernus would attempt to market the girls, among other barbarians, on the Love Feast in the Curulean".
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Book 6. (8 results) Raiders of Gor

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2 25 She did not lift the throwing stick against me, nor did she attempt to flee, but simply stood looking at me, watching me.
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3 13 Incidentally, when the island is to be moved under siege conditions, divers leave the island by means of the wells and, in groups of two and three, attempt to cut a path in the direction of escape; such divers, of course, often fall prey to underwater predators and to the spears of enemies, who thru...
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4 28 She had made little attempt to conceal her beauty from me.
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7 103 "Do not attempt again to kill me," I said.
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8 329 She did, and then I ordered them both back to the tiller deck of the first barge, making them stand on the rowing deck, below the steps of the tiller deck, to my left near the rail, where I might see them, where they might not, unnoticed, attempt to free others.
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10 256 It is called the wingfish because it can, on its stiff pectoral fins, for short distances, glide through the air, usually in an attempt to flee small sea tharlarion, who are immune to the poison of the spines.
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17 68 But now I expected, to the surprise of attacking ram-ships which might attempt to board them, they would find themselves boarded, and their decks overwhelmed with swarms of armed, free men.
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17 75 In effect, rather than do sea battle, they would attempt to close with the enemy and, via the rails and the grappling bridges, board her and fight what would be, for most practical purposes, a land engagement at sea.
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Book 7. (4 results) Captive of Gor

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6 158 I was going to speak further to him, to attempt to explain my predicament and my desires, but he said something abruptly, irritably.
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10 571 Too, I did not doubt but what my original captors would have made a similar determination, perhaps after I had been anesthetized, before my branding, or before I had awakened, after my futile attempt at escape, and found myself bound and neck-roped in my own bed.
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15 375 "When it became known that Marlenus, in his hunting, for his sport, would seek her, Rask of Treve gave order for Raf and Pron to attempt to join his retinue".
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15 990 Virtue, I discovered, is one way in which a human being may attempt to diminish and insult others.
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Book 8. (16 results) Hunters of Gor

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2 252 It was a portion of my plan to attempt to obtain information on the whereabouts of Verna's band.
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4 76 Ubar of the Skies, my great war tarn, for some reason, though he had slain men for this attempt, permitted her, only a girl, to saddle him and fly.
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5 120 If she should attempt to escape again, the master's patience is usually less willing to be presumed upon.
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6 45 She did not attempt to cover herself.
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6 177 Tyros' financing of Vosk pirates, over the past century, was an attempt to deprive Ar of the Vosk markets, and make those markets more dependent on overland shipments of goods, originally debarked at shore ports, brought to them by the cargo ships of Tyros, and other maritime powers.
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6 332 I had also pointed guards about the camp, in case, as was unlikely, there should be an attempt to make an approach through the forests.
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6 949 I made no attempt to comfort her.
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8 28 It can be extremely perilous to attempt to capture such women.
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8 144 And one might, in such an attempt, outside the stockade, lose several of the girls.
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11 106 "Do not attempt to run away again," he told her, and then turned away.
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11 292 "She will attempt to escape tonight," said Marlenus.
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11 294 "Surely, together," he smiled, "we have motivated such an attempt?" It was true.
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11 299 "It was her attempt," said Marlenus, "to pretend to be a slave.
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11 334 "Then you think," I asked, "that tonight she will attempt an escape?" "Of course," said Marlenus.
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14 53 Doubtless, too, near one of the exchange points, they would attempt to locate and seize, or purchase, Talena, the former daughter of Marlenus of Ar.
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18 53 His earlier attempt to slay slaves had been unsuccessful.
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Book 9. (17 results) Marauders of Gor

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2 218 It is regarded as blasphemy to attempt to picture a Priest-King.
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4 313 There is also, however, some danger in this, for sea sleen and the white sharks of the north occasionally attempt to tear such a girl from the oar.
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5 241 Gurt, I knew, if wise, would not attempt to cheat the Forkbeard.
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6 387 It was the practice of Priest-Kings to destroy the wrecks of such ships but, usually, at least, they did not attempt to hunt and exterminate survivors.
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10 365 Free women view the platform with stern disapproval; on it, female beauty is displayed for the inspection of men; this, for some reason, outrages them; perhaps they are furious because they cannot display their own beauty, or that they are not themselves as beautiful as women found fit, by lusty men...
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10 406 It is a common practice of free women, for some reason, to attempt to make the female slave ashamed of her body.
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11 119 I wondered if this were an attempt to simulate a human smile.
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13 270 It is one thing to cheat one not of Torvaldsland, quite another to attempt to defraud one of one's own country, particularly one's Jarl.
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15 144 "It is madness to attempt to climb," I said.
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15 251 They made no attempt to approach us.
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15 263 Furthermore, it would be extremely dangerous to attempt to move on the Torvaldsberg in the night; it was extremely dangerous even in full daylight.
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16 178 I made no attempt to answer the Forkbeard.
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17 166 Should any individual, either male or female, depart by so much as a yard from the line of march, or attempt to close the gap between himself and a fellow prisoner, the sleen prevent this.
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17 207 They were no longer interested in it, unless it should attempt to leave the pen.
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20 92 "That attempt failed," it said.
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22 122 Last summer, in journeying to the forests, to attempt to rescue Talena, I had, in a tavern in Lydius, encountered a wench once known, Vella, Elizabeth Cardwell.
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22 309 "May your slave, Leah," whispered Leah, "attempt to please her master?" "Yes," I told her.
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Book 10. (20 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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1 276 Some of the ornately barred, crimson-draped cells, with brass bowls, and rugs, and cushions and lamps, were quite comfortable; some of the cells held more than one occupant; some of the girls were permitted cosmetics and slave silk; generally, however, girls in the pen are raw, totally, save for the...
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1 893 It would be almost suicidal, in my opinion, to attempt it.
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3 137 After determining this point, I would continue on to the Oasis of Nine Wells, where I would lay in supplies and water, attempt to hire a guide, and, returning to the rock, strike eastward into the Tahari.
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4 186 "They attempt to imitate the masculinity they do not find in men," I said.
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7 663 "It was essential for us, to protect appearances with Kurii, to appear to attempt to delay you, to forestall you in the completion of your inquiry for Priest-Kings".
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9 181 These arrangements, I suspected, had to do with the attempt of cities to protect their free women who, in numbers, seldom fall to the enemy, unless the city itself should fall, and then, of course, they would find themselves, like slaves, under the victory torches, their clothing removed, completely...
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10 255 "Six days ago," said I, "the soldiers at Nine Wells were in the vicinity of the oasis, hunting for a fugitive, escaped from their prison, who had been sentenced to the pits of Klima for an alleged attempt on the life of Suleiman Pasha".
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10 348 "But what if I attempt to slay you now?" I asked.
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12 350 She did not attempt to strike me.
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14 132 It interested me that she would attempt to pit her strength against mine.
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14 356 "Perhaps she will attempt to undermine the slave master with Ibn Saran," I said, "in the wheedlings of the couch.
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14 429 Normally one would not attempt to move a coffle on the desert in the day, but the march to Klima is made in the sun, that only the strong will survive.
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19 90 All things considered, the decision to attempt to reach Four Palms seemed the most rational decision in the circumstances.
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19 175 It swayed in the wind, leaning into it, but did not attempt to approach us.
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21 489 He would assume, perhaps, I might attempt to draw fire with a decoy, thus slipping into the ship.
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21 491 I made no attempt to conceal my sounds.
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24 602 "Is it not now time, woman of Earth," I asked, "for you to attempt to manipulate me by utilizing persuasive discourse, belittling expressions, scorn words, the abundant, pathetic panoply of cultural artifacts designed to confuse and dominate males.
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24 687 I might even, I thought, put her in the bondage of the she-sleen or she-tarsk, and deny her words, refusing to let her rise to her feet, and limiting her discourse to small sounds, whimpers and such, by which she might attempt, as she could, to make clear her wants.
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26 797 In such a way a slave may attempt to placate her master.
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26 1096 "Attempt to do so," I said.
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Book 11. (15 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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5 904 Even my attempt to please a man was dependent upon his permission that I should attempt to do so.
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4 971 Should she attempt escape a second time, and be recaptured, she is commonly hamstrung, the tendons behind the knees being severed.
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4 972 Almost no girls attempt escape a second time.
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4 978 Some girls attempt to flee to the greenwood forests of the north.
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4 1040 I had resolved to attempt escape.
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4 1074 She did not attempt to untie me.
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4 1111 I had resolved to attempt to resist him.
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5 836 It is a rare girl who, having tasted the mills or sul fields, does not beg her proprietor to be sold again on the open market, that she may attempt anew, and perhaps more successfully this time, to be pleasing to a man.
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7 243 "Lehna," said my master, "should the Lady Sabina dally or in any way attempt to delay the coffle, it will be your charge to hasten her".
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8 189 The verr and the bosk are the most common animals herded; tabuk and slave girls are the most common animals tracked; the uses to which the sleen is put in guarding and patrolling are innumerable; it is used to secure borders, to prowl walls and protect camps; it may run loose in the streets after cu...
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8 299 Might I not bring a high price in a market? Too, I had little doubt that if I were so foolish as to attempt escape a second time I would be maimed, if not worse.
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9 1418 How foolish of a slave girl to attempt to best a free man.
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12 246 They would doubtless attempt to indoctrinate her swiftly with masculine values, and turn her into an imitation man.
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16 81 She is chained in such a way as to preclude movement which might tear at the mesh or break it, thus making possible the entry of urts, which might eat at her, lowering her price, and to preclude her tearing hysterically with her hands and fingernails at her own body, bloodying herself, perhaps scarr...
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18 147 I heard the musicians begin to play, on Aurelion's orders, to attempt to pacify the crowd, to distract it.
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Book 12. (15 results) Beasts of Gor

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2 136 "The word 'Zarendargar'," I said, "is an attempt to render a Kur expression into Gorean".
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2 358 Some would see this as superstition; others sense that there is some sort of an inexplicable reality which is here involved, a difficult and subtle reality which the man of the sea can somehow sense, but which he cannot, and perhaps should not, attempt to explain to the satisfaction of men other tha...
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2 442 There will be industries which will attempt to assuage their boredom".
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3 840 The four Earth girls, though they could not speak Gorean, watched, horrified, the enactment of a common Gorean episode, the attempt on the part of a slave to interest masters in her purchase.
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4 112 An official in such a situation insane enough to attempt to tamper with the record of the moves would be likely to be torn to pieces.
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11 511 "Please, Sir! Please, please, Sir!" "Do not attempt to follow me," I said.
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15 1000 "Surely," she whispered, "I can attempt to influence the nature of my slavery".
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20 130 I did not attempt to respond to him.
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23 232 If it is known where I am, the enemy may attempt to contact me here".
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23 235 "Why would the Kur attempt to kill me?" asked Ram.
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31 240 "Do they attempt to run away?" I asked.
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35 66 I did not attempt to respond or confuse the operator.
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35 817 "Four Kurii were here," he said, "to guard this place, to intercept him who might attempt to attain it.
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35 918 "We must attempt to reach the chamber of Zarendargar," I said.
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35 921 "But I must attempt it.
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Book 13. (25 results) Explorers of Gor

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5 510 Often she tries to dominate males in her vicinity, perhaps in an attempt to punish them for their inability or cruel refusal to understand or relieve her discomfort, perhaps, too, in an attempt to provoke them into an action which will restore her to her place in nature.
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1 677 "We must attempt to regain the ring," said Samos, "or, at worst, prevent it from falling into the hands of the Kurii".
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4 10 "Is it her first attempt to escape?" asked another man.
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4 178 "If you should attempt to do that again, my dear," said the praetor, "your ankles will be tied, and you will hear the rest of the proceedings while lying on your belly before the tribunal".
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4 351 Here she would, presumably, attempt to conceal herself.
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5 38 First girls can be cruel and petty but, commonly, they attempt to govern with intelligence and justice.
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6 710 I did not think, however, that she would be likely to attempt to escape again, anyway.
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6 716 I did not think she would attempt to escape again.
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12 552 I would, however, if I were you, attempt to do my best to justify Pembe's confidence in you.
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16 65 One of the most amazing evidences of its scope and ambition was the very project in which I was now unwillingly engaged, the visionary attempt to join Lakes Ushindi and Ngao, separated by more than four hundred pasangs, by a great canal, a canal that would, via Lake Ushindi and the Nyoka and Kamba r...
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25 25 "Is it your intention to return," I asked, "in an attempt to foment rebellion?" "That is not a portion of my current plan," he said.
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32 781 'Attempt to do so,' he said.
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32 782 'Attempt, Master?' I said, aghast.
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32 920 If you should be so foolish as to attempt to escape any who apprehend you, seeing the mark, will return you to the city as a runaway slave.
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34 184 "Too," I said, "I am not certain that it is altogether wise for a girl to attempt to escape.
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34 432 "Say," I said, "'I will be such and behave in such a way as to attempt to secure the satisfaction of my deepest and most honest sexual needs.
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34 433 '" "I will be such and behave in such a way," she said, "as to attempt to secure the satisfaction of my deepest and most honest sexual needs".
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44 228 "I must attempt to rescue those of my party," I said.
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44 231 "I must make the attempt," I said.
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46 42 "I now," I said, "must address myself to the attempt to rescue those of my party".
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46 49 I had thought that it would be only a matter of time until the peoples of the river would mass in an attempt to stop the advance of Bila Huruma.
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50 74 She would be given absolutely no opportunity whatsoever to attempt to give an alarm to Shaba, should we come upon him, thinking such an action on her part might please her master.
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51 146 If one presents them only with masculine images, presented in approval contexts, they will often attempt dutifully to conform to these alien models.
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53 162 "Msaliti would then have no alternative but to tell Bila Huruma of the ring, and then join with him in Bila Huruma's attempt to seize it, hoping later to secure it for himself".
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54 48 One attempt already had been made upon my life.
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Book 14. (9 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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1 757 After centuries of disparagement why should they not now, with a vengeance, set themselves up as models for their sex? Why should they not now, so long denied the world, attempt now through rhetoric and politics to bend it to their designs? Can you blame them? Can you not understand their hatred for...
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1 664 "They would deride your attractiveness," I said, "and attempt, in envy, to avenge themselves on you in the department?" "Yes," she said.
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7 524 Indeed, what was the pseudomasculinization of many of the women of Earth, in clothing and mental garb, but a hysterical attempt to deny their sexuality? What did the women of Earth fear? That a true acknowledgment of their deepest sexual needs would lead them to kneel at the feet of a master? Lola l...
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11 306 "I did not know until moments ago whether you would be willing to attempt escape or not".
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11 595 "Perhaps now," I said, "you should show me the secret exit, that I may attempt to escape from this place".
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12 518 "Jason," said the Lady Tima, "you did attempt to escape".
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30 58 They may be useful, too, of course, in broken or wooded areas, where a fleeing girl might attempt to find cover, or in dangerous places, where she might be stolen.
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32 48 "If you were an understanding, refined sort," she said, "and I more fully free, I might beg to attempt to earn my freedom, by the performance of intimate services for you".
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34 188 The male fulfills himself in the mastery, and the girl, sheltered, and cared for and nurtured, and commonly loved, even madly, though masters usually attempt to conceal this from their slaves, receives the strict, uncompromising domination without which she cannot attain her full womanhood.
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Book 15. (9 results) Rogue of Gor

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1 460 I would permit her to attempt to placate me, in one of the ancient fashions of the female slave.
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21 68 Indeed, many feel you were courageous to have even entered the tavern under the circumstances, to attempt to extract the unwitting little fool from the situation in which she had placed herself".
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21 91 "Do not attempt it," she said.
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23 28 In the third phase of the dance she, in an almost ladylike fashion, acknowledges herself defeated in her attempt to conceal her sexuality; she then, again in an almost ladylike fashion, delicately but clearly, with restraint but unmistakably, acknowledges, and publicly, before masters, that she has ...
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23 115 I did not attempt to strike him.
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24 287 A not uncommon task for an Earth female on Gor is to attempt to secure the affections of a Gorean master who regards her as nothing and despises her.
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24 669 "Buy Beverly, please!" I have also seen girls attempt to influence their sales in public auctions, while being exhibited naked on the block, trying to present themselves particularly to a given man, but this disposition is usually curbed by the auctioneer's whip.
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25 90 "Attempt to prevent bloodshed," said Callimachus.
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29 70 "The topaz, given the existence of the chain," said Callisthenes, "is now meaningless, though, to be sure, I am charged with the attempt to intercept it, a charge in which I have, thanks to our young friend here, failed".
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Book 16. (10 results) Guardsman of Gor

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1 53 But this time I did not think they would attempt to so brazenly assault the chain.
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1 54 This time, I speculated, they would attempt to cut it.
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8 218 It had not occurred to me that she would attempt to reach the leaden sheets.
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8 443 "Why did Artemidorus, the first officer, when he inquired as to your readiness, not attempt to enter the cabin, and check you by hand?" "None may touch me save Reginald, my master," she said, proudly, "unless I have displeased him".
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10 74 Now, if he had survived the clash with the Tais, he could always maintain that the documents had been lost with the ship, in his bold and ill-fated attempt to prevent our escape.
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12 151 Pirates attempt to flee".
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16 465 "If you wish to attempt to escape, this would be an excellent time to do so".
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19 349 A girl in a slaver's tent, for example, stripped and freshly collared, will often rage and sob, and cry out, and attempt to tear the collar from her throat.
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19 1041 "I beg forgiveness, Master!" "Perhaps you will attempt to be more pleasing in the future," I said.
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20 864 The common theme of the genre, of course, is the attempt on the part of a neglected slave to call herself to the attention of the Master.
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Book 17. (14 results) Savages of Gor

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1 478 "They have already had ample opportunity to attempt to do so, if that were their intention," I said.
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1 640 It had apparently found my attempt to read its behavioral cues amusing.
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1 950 At other times, if the point becomes dislodged in the body, it is common to seek it with a bone or greenwood probe, and then, when one has found it, attempt to work it free with a knife.
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2 33 "Do you think they will attempt to enlist the aid of men?" asked Samos.
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2 213 I have suspected that they are spoken of as the Barrens not so much in an attempt to appraise them with geographical accuracy as to discourage their penetration, exploration and settlement.
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13 949 The main thing is to attempt to be fully pleasing to the master, in every way.
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13 1061 Similarly she may lie, or attempt to lie, about her responsiveness, but she is then, of course, merely a lying slave and, when found out, will be treated accordingly".
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13 1366 You attempt to convince him of this, of course, even though he is unknown to you, even though he is a total stranger to you, by serving him, and superbly, as a female slave.
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13 1595 For example, under observation, you cannot very well employ your right hand in the attempt to undo the knot on your left ankle.
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14 144 Attempt to interest him in you".
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14 904 Grunt and the Fleer spoke largely in sign, this being easier for them than the attempt to communicate verbally.
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17 55 The wire coring in the rope, of course, tends to discourage the attempt to chew through the bond.
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17 472 "We attempt to convert them," said one of the men.
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19 748 "Why was I not attacked? Why was I permitted an opportunity to attempt an escape? Why have I been treated with such lenience?" "Can you not guess?" asked Cuwignaka.
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Book 18. (19 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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3 220 She was now only a filthy slave, an ignoble animal, something of no account, something worthless, obviously, but nonetheless permitted, in the kindness of the Kaiila, a woman of another people, to attempt to please the pole.
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4 370 To be sure the greatest dangers were clearly borne by the hunters who must ride among the running beasts themselves, and attempt their kills from a distance just outside the hooking range of the trident, from a distance so close that they might almost reach out and touch the animal.
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9 559 "You may rest assured," she smiled, "I shall attempt to be fully pleasing".
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11 121 I shall not, therefore, attempt to reduce it to simple terms or translate it into simplistic concepts.
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12 103 "What is the penalty for a second attempt at escape?" I asked.
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14 168 Similarly, an attempt is made, through such things as verbal abuse and ridicule, to make individuals with truly powerful sexual drives succumb to irrational guilts and shames.
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17 53 "I think it was Hci's intention merely to make it seem that an attempt had been made on his life".
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28 134 Similarly, slaves are to be absolutely unable, even if they wish, to interfere with the defense or abet the attackers, in any way; similarly, they are to be precluded from attempting to take advantage of the confusion, perhaps in order, foolishly, to attempt to escape.
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29 106 "Do not attempt to conceal your repulsion".
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32 194 We must then attempt to depart in the morning, after the watches have been recalled or relaxed, or the camp, as a whole, has been left".
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42 77 If it was the feather of Wakanglisapa, then why should they not attempt to capture it, to secure its mighty medicine for themselves? The five riders then broke their formation by swerving to the side and began to circle, to build up momentum, and then, soon, they had brought their birds onto an atta...
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43 79 I shall attempt to mend my ways.
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44 331 Not a pasang away, across the prairie, all attempt at concealment discarded, waves of Yellow Knives, feathers flying, dust billowing behind them, charged toward Council Rock.
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45 100 Most began, in haste, to attempt the descent.
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56 47 Indeed, I suspected that they would soon attempt to obtain them even through the channels of trade.
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56 87 "I suppose," I said, "as one who has upon occasion espoused the cause of Priest-Kings, I should attempt to slay you".
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56 95 "I assumed," he said, "they would attempt to enlist the aid of men in what, from their point of view, would seem to be a project of interest to men, my apprehension and destruction.
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56 96 Surely they would attempt to contact Samos of Port Kar and, in this, would presumably be apprising you, too, of their plans".
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56 113 I did not, of course, attempt to follow them.
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Book 19. (13 results) Kajira of Gor

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6 766 "I shall attempt to make the arrangements," he said.
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11 52 "Do not attempt to interfere in the relationship between a man and his slave," he said.
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14 96 He did not wish to accept the risk, it seemed, that I might attempt to escape, perhaps impulsively attempting to dart away into the darkness.
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14 124 On Earth it is not unusual for a free woman to attempt to take a profit on her own beauty, using it, for example, if only in mate competitions, to advance herself economically.
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15 279 The usual punishment for a girl's second attempt at escape is hamstringing, the severing of the tendons behind the knees.
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29 157 "I will be absolutely compliant," I said, "and I will attempt to be fully pleasing".
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31 384 "Struggle, squirm, attempt to escape," he said.
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32 317 How I would attempt to lure him, and present myself before him for his consideration! How piteously helpless are slaves, I thought.
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32 318 What can we do, other than attempt to appeal to the chooser of slaves, to the desiderated buyer, to the man we desire, to the man we want, to the man we love? The decision is his.
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33 86 "Do not attempt to deny it, Sheila," said he, scarcely noting her.
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33 664 I must attempt to be needless, and cold, in his presence.
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33 801 The beasts, it is my surmise, having hitherto failed to win Gor by overt conquest, attempt now to obtain power on this world by specific and detailed subversions, mixing in, and influencing, the politics and affairs of cities.
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36 775 I would attempt to get him to cure himself of the false Sheila, that the way might then be open for a poor, nameless slave who so much loved him.
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Book 20. (17 results) Players of Gor

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20 106 I considered the cleverness of Belnar, and the probable audacity and daring of such a man, one deviously implicated, I suspected, in the intricate and dangerous games of Gorean high politics, and how easily I had been earlier outwitted in my first attempt to close with him, in my first attempt to ga...
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1 441 I would attempt to secure the center, garnering thereby the mobilities and options commonly attendant on the control of these customarily vital routes.
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2 576 "If you like, I shall attempt to search him out for you".
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2 1168 I shall attempt to get to the bottom of things.
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2 1187 "Also, as I understand it," said Samos, "you had dealings with him in the Barrens, and ample opportunity there to attempt to capture or kill him".
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6 95 It would not be unusual for her, in a crowded place, to overhear remarks, perhaps whispers or sneers, of which she is the obvious object, such as "Shameless slut," "Brazen baggage," "As immodest as a slave," "I wonder who her master is," and "Put a collar on her!" And if she should attempt to confro...
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11 3 "I am free! Save me! Someone save me!" "Should we attempt to rescue her?" asked one stout youth of another.
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13 176 An attempt on my life had been made in Port Kar.
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13 177 That attempt had seemed tied in, somehow, with Brundisium.
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13 212 What then could be the explanation for the attempt on my life in Port Kar, and for the obvious interest of certain parties in Brundisium in me? What, if anything, could be my importance to them? What, too, was the meaning of the messages I had intercepted? They had apparently been intended for certa...
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14 209 If you should attempt to run or move to one side, as though thinking of skirting the pack, we will immediately release the sleen.
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15 20 "Do not attempt to free yourself, fool," said Boots.
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16 256 Then he gave up the attempt, it apparently being stuck in the sheath.
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16 415 The movements, of course, were not, nor were they intended to be, those of an actually displayed slave in such a predicament, say, in a market or capture camp, being commanded, say, to "move" before men, the adagio movements, the sudden movements, the melodious movements, the incredibly sensuous mov...
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20 44 Sleen are extremely single-minded beasts, even in feeding, and, as long as I did not attempt to interfere with it, or counter its will, I did not fear the Kur.
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20 319 "Regroup!" The Kur, at this time, did not attempt to escape, though I believe it might have made its way then at least from the baiting pit.
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21 552 The answers you seek, or some of them, must be there!" "An attempt was made on my life, in Port Kar," I said.
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Book 21. (24 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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5 279 "In a collar," he said, "subject to the whip, you would doubtless attempt desperately to learn to do so, and quickly and well".
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5 479 I was pleased she made no attempt to punish Feiqa for her indiscretion.
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7 91 "If you should remove it yourself, or attempt to do so," I said, "it will be promptly replaced, or resecured, and you will be stripped and put in slave bracelets, your hands behind your back.
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7 99 But she did not attempt to dislodge the device by means of which, in accordance with the will of men, she had been silenced.
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8 82 Indeed, in certain circumstances the attempt to impose discipline upon them can be extremely dangerous.
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14 129 I did not attempt to explore this, for I thought it might have to do with Alar logic.
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16 288 "As a free female you might, if you wished, for whatever purposes, hatred or envy, the seeking of power, or whatever it might be, attempt to do them such hurt, such insidious and grievous injury, but such terrible and grotesque crimes, for which legal penalties are not even prescribed, my lovely dau...
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16 964 The mother cried out, softly, and drew her legs up more, but did not attempt to defend herself, nor to return the blow.
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16 1652 I would attempt to discharge his commission.
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18 58 I did not fear that she would attempt to escape.
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19 369 I will not attempt to give Hurtha's poem in its entirety, but I think I may have suggested something of its drift already.
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21 142 In such times, of course, in the light of the failures and ineffectuality of an inept civilian administration, it is not unknown for military men, seeing what must be done, simply responding to the imperatives of survival, to take power and attempt to instill the will, the discipline and order witho...
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21 191 Who could one trust? Too, I surely had no wish to attempt to cut my way through the corridors of the Central Cylinder to effect a private audience with the regent.
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24 258 It is seldom wise, incidentally, to impugn, or attempt to manipulate, the honor of a Gorean.
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24 444 I would attempt to assess the possibilities of the daughter by seeing the mother, by seeing her naked and performing, attempting desperately to please.
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25 482 "I choose not to accept this attempt at manipulation".
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25 558 I assumed that they would attempt to make the first contact, either having seen me, presumably near the Central Cylinder, or having some sort of description.
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25 999 Her hands made a small movement, as though to attempt to cover herself, as she could, but she quickly returned them to her thighs.
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25 1376 When one sex needs the other to fulfill it, and the other refuses, what is to be done? One way of striving for vengeance, of course, is to attempt, socially and politically, to bring about the debilitation and ruination of anatomical males, whether they be men or not.
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25 2300 "They will attempt to use law," she said, "using men against men, using them as their dupes and tools, until the last man can be destroyed".
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26 155 Actually, of course, given the structure of the alcoves, as I had determined it, it could be extremely dangerous to attempt to enter it if it were defended.
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26 184 There are, of course, tactics for fighting in the darkness, such as misdirection, the casting of pebbles to encourage an opponent to make a move, the use of back kicks, giving extension to one's striking capacity while providing a minimum exposure of vital areas, the attempt to lure a blow from a di...
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26 575 She made no attempt to call back to anyone.
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26 1542 "You are, after all, a free woman, and free women are entitled to insult, and to attempt to demean and destroy men.
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Book 22. (20 results) Dancer of Gor

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24 59 How could they escape? Too, if they do attempt to kill you, I might attempt to intervene.
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6 641 To be sure, the original master may attempt to steal her back.
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11 1609 Accordingly, my Earth conditioning could do little more now than attempt to war with my needs and urges.
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13 644 I could not attempt to relieve my own tensions, as my hands, by his will, had been bound behind me.
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13 718 She must then, even if her belly is raging for the touch of the guest, attempt to pretend to disinterest in him, and even loathing, if the master wishes, though she must, of course, serve him with perfection.
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13 755 "But am I commanded to attempt to conceal my passion?" "No," he said.
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13 885 Must not what might remain in me of the proud Earth woman attempt to resist this? "Master!" I cried.
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16 191 To be sure, this very understanding, in itself, knowing the discipline under which they served, its consistency and reality, encouraged them to attempt to achieve perfect pleasingness, with the result that the whip was seldom called for, unless perhaps for the amusement of masters.
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19 128 If I were inclined to attempt an escape, even clad merely in such a way, I presumably would not get far.
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20 194 They seldom attempt to enter the cities, where they might eventually contribute to the formation of a discontented urban proletariat.
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24 58 "It is unlikely that they will attempt to kill you while they are in their chains.
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28 213 "He made no attempt to negotiate for me, or secure me," she said.
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29 992 The other fellow, not the bearded man, had been lacerated, probably in an attempt to interfere in the tangle of fighting beasts.
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29 1426 Sometimes that is done in an attempt to wheedle with the male, or flatter him.
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30 150 "I shall attempt to fall into the hands of the men of Pietro Vacchi".
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30 155 "I, too," she said, "shall attempt to venture to the camp of Pietro Vacchi, in the hope that one into whose hands I hope to fall will still be there.
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31 167 It is a well-known fact, too, that it is not easy for a man to remain angry with a beautiful, contrite female who strips herself before him, who kneels, kisses his feet, begs his forgiveness, and pleads to be ordered to the furs, that she may there await him in trepidation, and, when he chooses, att...
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31 211 He would attempt to resist me.
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34 111 "Do you think it would be wise to attempt to escape from a Gorean master?" he asked.
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34 113 "And do you think it would be wise to attempt to escape from Teibar of Ar?" "No, Master!" I said.
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Book 23. (25 results) Renegades of Gor

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8 811 The girl who had been beneath the wagon last night, and whom Ephialtes had, hopefully, purchased for me this morning, had been formerly purchased, and primarily purchased, I had suspected, in an attempt, and perhaps a somewhat foolish, and somewhat misdirected, attempt, I thought, by the fellow to e...
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1 171 It would attempt its rendezvous with the road by an ascendant diagonal.
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3 50 This training innovation, interestingly enough, and perhaps predictably, was not primarily the result of an attempt to increase the safety of human beings, particularly those in rural areas, but was rather largely the result of attempting to achieve military objectives, in particular those having to...
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6 372 It is one thing for a free woman, tearfully, while in the dignity of robes and veil, to attempt to impose on a fellow's gullibility or good nature, and quite another for her to do so when she is unclothed.
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8 139 "It was your intention, I gather," I said, "to attempt to bribe me, that I might abet your escape".
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8 546 The following night an attempt had been made on my life in the Tunnels, one of the slave brothels of Ludmilla, from which the street called the Alley of the Slave Brothels of Ludmilla is named.
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9 47 I had made the attempt in the afternoon and again in the evening of the first day I had arrived in the vicinity of Ar's Station.
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9 212 Gorean, she was not unacquainted with the severities typically inflicted upon wayward slaves, slaves foolish enough to attempt escape.
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10 134 "You may attempt to do it, as you please, in the future," I said, "but I think you will do it within the limits of the collar".
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16 107 Still the ram might attempt its entry there, pounding through the brass facing riveted into the thick beams of the gate, punching, driving it back, snapping the crossbars, forcing back, blow by blow, even the rock and sand behind.
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16 246 "Why else do you think they are put in collars?" "I must attempt to conceal my emotions," she said.
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16 383 "That she would, in one way or another, attempt to conceal her true condition?" "Yes," she said.
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17 637 They would, of course, attempt to swing it in further, gain leverage, and then try to draw it back again.
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18 313 Or perhaps it was simply a matter of taking possessions along with one, as one might, similarly, attempt to preserve one's livestock, as one might, in flight, say, herd verr or tarsks before one.
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18 320 It seemed to me then that most of the women who wished, or dared, to attempt the walkway had done so.
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18 413 The officer rallied enough regulars about himself to assure that we would not attempt to press forward.
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18 567 "But if we should survive," he said, "you understand that we must attempt to apprehend the prisoner and see that the sentence is carried out upon her, even if it means only weights on her ankles and a sharpened pole on a pier".
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19 165 He did not attempt to come closer.
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19 252 None of them, as I had anticipated, cared to attempt the same leap.
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19 256 I did not think that one of them, given the crowding on the walkway, would attempt the same leap.
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21 236 New girls sometimes attempt to be slow, or half-hearted, or insolent.
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21 369 I think that I am entitled, then, to attempt to secure my survival as best I can, and in my own way".
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21 766 We are prepared to overlook your attempt to abet her escape, serious though this is, in view of your action on the wall, and elsewhere".
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21 857 After such an experience, it is not only difficult but somewhat unrealistic and absurd for a free woman to attempt to retain her haughtiness, her arrogance and pride.
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21 1133 Slavers sometimes attempt to raid such places.
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Book 24. (29 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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1 369 There had been no attempt, at least as yet, for the fine forces of Ar, in all their power, to cut them off, to pin them against the Vosk, or meet them in battle.
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3 108 Yet I knew, in deference to Marcus, I should attempt to approach the winter camp of Ar.
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12 271 "Then you would have to attempt desperately to interest him," I said.
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14 145 "They will meet you when you attempt to extricate yourself from the delta," I said.
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17 125 If anything, proportionally, the losses may have been heavier there than those incurred in the attempt to exit to the south.
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17 324 Rencers usually attempt to destroy such an animal, as it represents a particular menace.
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19 371 "Slave girls are sometimes ordered to writhe in their bonds and attempt to free themselves," I said.
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19 1147 I saw that she would attempt boldness.
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19 1807 "Yes," I said, "and attempt to improve it even further".
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19 1813 "They wish to improve themselves, and attempt zealously to do so," I said.
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27 15 Thus, in certain cases, it is rational to attempt to remain calm and call for help.
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27 16 Of course, if no one is about, and one will otherwise inevitably sink, it makes sense to attempt to free oneself, by wading, or, in effect, trying to swim free.
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28 509 "Cosians will not attempt to interpose themselves?" I asked.
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28 516 "It might not be advisable for you or your men to attempt that route," I said, "with your accents".
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28 518 "You do not think the Cosians will attempt to prevent Saphronicus from reaching Ar?" "No," he said.
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28 575 I hoped that the madness of Labienus would not jeopardize our attempt to withdraw from the delta.
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32 310 "Come, join us!" "Any who would attempt to harm him, or offer him violence," said Plenius, "will be cut to pieces".
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35 8 "Plenius and Titus," said Labienus, "will attempt to see me to the lines of Ar".
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35 26 "You will then attempt to make your way independently to Ar, by an alternative route?" I asked.
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37 366 "But you will attempt to do better next time, will you not?" inquired Liadne.
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37 380 "But in a moment," wept Rimice, "I did yield to it!" "But for a moment," said Liadne, "you dared to attempt to resist".
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37 386 "Yes," wept Rimice, "Rimice is going to be a good slave!" Sometimes even extremely hormonally feminine women, fearing the latent slave in themselves, attempt to resist.
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37 413 "In the morning I will attempt to sell Amina and Rimice.
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40 17 Indeed, men might have died in his attempt to contain this intelligence.
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40 63 Wisely, of course, Myron also left many troops about the city, and in special strength near the gates, lest Dietrich attempt to outwit him, by sallying forth and breaking free".
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43 184 To be sure, suspecting her to be of Cos, I had feared he might attempt to kill her.
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44 345 "Certainly they did not attempt to detain us, or pursue us.
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44 395 "In the meantime," he said, "do not attempt to escape.
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48 18 "I am nothing, worthless, only a slave! I must be shameless! No longer am I permitted to claim, profess, and attempt to retain, false dignities! That is for free women! No longer am I a free woman! That is behind me! It is gone, gone! I am now a slave! I am shameless! Yes, shameless, shameless! I am...
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Book 25. (32 results) Magicians of Gor

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1 360 By means of the study of mathematics they attempt to purify themselves.
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2 378 Similarly the penalties for attempted escape, particularly for a second attempt, are severe, usually involving hamstringing.
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2 387 Although I did not think that Phoebe, who was a highly intelligent girl, would be likely to attempt an escape, even if she were not bound to Marcus by chains a thousand times stronger than those of iron, the chains of love, she might be stolen.
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3 395 Earth-girl slaves brought to Gor, for example, are often, particularly at first, understandably enough, I suppose, afraid to be sold, and accordingly, naturally enough, I suppose, sometimes attempt, usually in subtle ways, to discourage buyers, thereby hoping to be permitted to cling to the relative...
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3 423 She had perhaps begged to be permitted to appear before him in the dancing circle, that she might attempt to please him.
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3 577 For example, sometimes free women attempt, sometimes even disguising themselves, to spy on the doings of masters and slaves.
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3 578 For example, they might attempt, perhaps disguised as lads, to gain entrance to paga taverns.
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3 580 Similarly if they attempt to enter such establishments as pretended slaves they may find themselves leaving them by the back entrance, soon to become true slaves.
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3 591 This is, I believe, and example, though a rather extreme one, of a not unprecedented sort of psychological reaction, the attempt, by disparagement or action, motivated by envy, jealousy, resentment, or such, to keep from others pleasures which one oneself is unable, or unwilling, to enjoy.
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3 860 Some gamesmen, even so, attempt to expend the same amount of paint on all surfaces.
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3 981 Before one becomes too critical in these matters, however, I recommend that one attempt the same feat.
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4 47 If he were successful in his mad attempt to obtain the Home Stone of his city he would doubtless be a recognized wanted man.
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4 48 Some might recall that Phoebe was his slave, and thus attempt to trace him through her.
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4 93 "I can die in the attempt of its rescue," he said, grimly.
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8 132 "It is only right," said another, "that we should attempt to make amends to our good friends of Cos and others whom we may have injured".
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8 967 "Too, I would not attempt to interfere with the work on the walls".
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11 137 The girl made no attempt to leave the chest.
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12 138 If this occurs, it is not uncommon for the master to attempt, at least for a time, to conceal this from his peers, perhaps treating the slave in public with sharpness and peremptory disdain.
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13 156 Several weeks ago in Ar there had been some hints of an attempt on the part of the Ubarate, as a social-control procedure, to facilitate its governance, a venture doubtless emanating from Cos, which had reason to fear an alert, healthy foe, to reduce the vitality and virility of the men of Ar, to fu...
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16 259 "At this stage of the game?" "What?" "They must attempt to discredit the Delta Brigade".
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16 265 He must now attempt to drive a wedge between the veterans and the Delta Brigade".
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18 525 "If you were to attempt to accomplish this, with your particular subtlety and skills, there would indeed be danger, perhaps unparalleled peril.
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18 589 "Perhaps we should encourage him to use magic in his attempt on the Home Stone," said Marcus.
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19 757 Perhaps they had feared an attempt was in progress on the master's life.
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19 1160 "You would attempt to improve your behavior, in all ways?" "Yes, Master".
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20 580 "I think it would be better if you were not present when he makes the attempt on the Home Stone," I said.
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20 616 "I really think it would be better if you were not present when the attempt is made on the Home Stone," I said.
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21 108 Certainly a girl would not be likely, more than once, at any rate, to attempt to attack a leash holder, say, to bite or kick.
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22 466 Interestingly enough many Gorean municipalities intentionally resist the attempt to impose some form of rational order on this seeming chaos.
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22 691 They had their supposed role to play, doubtless, in the attempt on the part of Cos to depress the sexual vitality of the males of Ar, to devirilize them and make them easier to manage.
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23 77 "He must make a new attempt!" "No," I said.
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26 423 "I am Talena, Ubara of Ar! Down on your knees before me! I am Talena, Talena! Ubara of Ar! I am your Ubara!" "You may, of course, attempt to conceal your former identity," said Tolnar.
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Book 26. (23 results) Witness of Gor

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2 92 Indeed, shortly after the steps had passed, I scrambled to my knees! I must be angry! I must pound upon the door! I must call out! I must insist upon attention! I must demand to see someone! I must demand release! I must bluster and threaten! I must attempt to confuse my jailers, and terrify them in...
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4 154 He had made no attempt, as far as I could tell, to disguise an accent.
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7 971 One might then attempt to ascertain this.
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7 972 Too, might she not attempt bribe guards, or such, promising rich rewards for her release? But let her not be apprehended in such an intrigue, lest her lofty status vanish by morning, and she find herself in the garden then no more than another such as we.
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7 1023 "You did not attempt to eject it?" "I did not dare to do so," I said.
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7 1067 It would do little good, I feared, to attempt to deny, to an observer as astute as Aynur, what would have been obvious.
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10 613 Might I run, or bolt? Might I, in some imminent situation, overcome with terror, attempt irrationally, unable to help myself, to flee? But even if I wished to do so, and dared to do so, I could not.
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12 338 Let their free women rant at them, contradict them, and attempt to make them miserable, for whatever strange reasons might prompt them to do so, but before them, before such men, I am only, and can be only, a slave.
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13 212 Our intelligence, interestingly, makes us more the properties of our masters, just as one will demand, and have, more from an intelligent animal than from one less intelligent; we are more easily controlled in a thousand ways by as little as a glance or gesture, because we grasp what is required; ou...
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13 348 "You are never again," said he, "to impede, or attempt to impede, the operation of the latch".
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13 354 The shaved-headedness of them, aside from the usual purpose of such, which is punishment, would doubtless be to prevent the attempt on their part to secure the gate by means of their hair.
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13 374 If you should dare again to attempt to interfere with the possible functioning of the cage you will find yourself within it as though you might be a slave girl.
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14 53 Specifically, I think it was useful to have had to explicitly, frequently, and humbly address the depth warden as "Sir," which practice apparently, in its present authentic form, began on that day, to know that she was not permitted to attempt to interfere with the latching of the cage, and might th...
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14 1323 At any rate, men here, or most men here, do not seem to fear this part of themselves or attempt, perhaps for some cultural reason, to conceal it.
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23 201 But did she wish, herself, to elude him, and attempt to escape? I did not think so.
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24 25 Then they would doubtless attempt to withdraw, their work done, whatever it might be, under the cover of darkness.
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28 133 "I will attempt to serve my master to the best of my abilities," she said.
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29 735 Free women may make men miserable, and even attempt to destroy them, but slaves may not do so.
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40 28 He would, I gathered, attempt to approach the figure.
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42 147 Reasons for this are obvious, for example, that they might receive gratuities from guests and hide them; that they might take money from guards, or others, to further intrigues or to attempt to influence masters; that they be denied the power which coins might bring, in bribing guards or tradesmen, ...
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45 1 I thought that I would attempt to charm or placate my master.
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45 25 It is one thing never to acknowledge oneself; it is one thing to pretend and hide; it is one thing to avoid meeting oneself; but it is quite another to forget oneself once one has met oneself; one cannot, so to speak, then unmeet oneself; one may hide from the truth; one may attempt to avoid it; one...
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46 537 "The first blow," he said, "will be for disobedience, the second will be for your attempt to take your own life".
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Book 27. (26 results) Prize of Gor

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27 2858 The soldier then took a length of rope and knotted it to the length of rope which was already on her neck, that which Mirus, in his attempt, during the fray, to make away with her, had slashed short, an attempt foiled by Selius Arconious.
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1 66 Too, in accordance with the admonitions to which she has been subjected, she will attempt to conceal the names of institutions, and references to streets, and localities, museums, theaters, parks, shops and boulevards, and such things, which might serve to identify or reveal, even tentatively or rem...
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5 9 It was thus impossible, for example, to try to barricade the door, to protect her privacy, or move it to the wall and attempt to use it to obtain a glimpse outside, through the small window, high there in the wall, well over her head.
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7 161 "Will you now attempt to be pleasing?" asked the second instructrix.
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7 164 "I will attempt to be pleasing," she wept.
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9 160 He would have nothing less than that she attempt to honestly and forthrightly make clear to those in the room what she had taught for many years, what her colleagues in the movement expected of her, what she had been commended for, the views on which her standing, reputation and prestige had been fo...
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11 1056 Too, after she has been chained to the wall, she may notice that, dangling from the ceiling, before her, just out of her reach, is the sack of diamonds We do not want her to be able to reach them lest she should attempt something foolish, such as trying to hide some of them in her body.
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12 410 Too, a slave girl quickly learns how to use her body, to produce a mood, or to attempt to entice or encourage one, to stimulate, to placate, to lure, to arouse, and so on.
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16 1001 "Do they really think we are going to attempt to allure an unwanted master?" "Not in their absence," laughed another, two rings to Ellen's right.
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17 468 The usual method is to stake out a verr or slave girl, at night, and then, when the sleen comes to feed, concealed hunters attempt to kill it, usually with the quarrels of crossbows, sometimes with long arrows, the arrows of the great bow, the peasant bow.
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17 601 She could not help what she was! To be sure, she resolved to attempt to conceal what she was.
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17 602 None must suspect that she was a slave! She must attempt to deny this even to herself, as she had desperately for years on Earth.
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19 460 "Do not attempt this, I beg of you," said Arconious.
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20 326 I love my collar, but should I not seek to return to my rightful Master? Might he not search for me? And so Ellen resolved to attempt to elude her unwitting captors.
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20 441 The tarn behind him tried to beat its way forward, too, and this urged the first to make another attempt.
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22 145 And certainly amongst human females there was a disposition to attempt to present themselves to advantage before an attractive male.
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24 730 Ellen sat then in the sand, and drew up her left leg, to attempt to remove the bells.
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25 390 "If you do not attempt to call out, you may never know, thereafter, what might have happened".
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26 821 Those of Ar will attempt to severally work their way southeast to Ar.
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26 824 Our friends of the scarlet caste will then attempt to return to Ar by tarn, traveling at night, utilizing the cover of darkness".
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27 108 Interestingly, too, though Ellen feared the lash, and would go to great lengths to avoid it, she, in the complex subtleties and ambiguities of the master/slave relationship, in which she was so obviously implicated, and despite her constant explicit reassurances to herself that she must hate her mas...
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27 714 But there are no Priest-Kings, as we see, and the laws have a simple explanation, namely, an attempt to preclude an ever-increasing efficiency of engineered carnage".
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27 1333 Do not free women, in the fall of a city, often tear away their clothes and cast themselves naked before the conquerors, begging to be kept as a slave? Do not others find collars and attempt to conceal themselves amongst slaves, but are then seized and bound by the slaves and presented naked to the ...
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27 2138 If any would attempt to dig his way free, kill him".
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30 605 Indeed, many, should the occasion arise, will attempt to prevent the publication of this manuscript.
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30 721 Do not attempt to manipulate them unless you are prepared to accept the consequences.
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Book 28. (30 results) Kur of Gor

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1 372 Who has not seen the difference in the behavior of even veiled free women when in the presence of men, how they stand, how they hold their heads, how they speak, with such pretended, insouciant indifference? And, too, who has not seen the even more obvious competitions amongst the girls on a slave s...
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1 498 She did not even snarl at the Steel Worlds' girl or attempt to challenge her.
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1 602 She began then to speak soothingly to the blonde, as one might attempt to pacify a beast, perhaps an ocelot or small leopard, but this merely elicited an angry hiss.
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1 866 It annoyed him that she would attempt to cover herself.
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1 1324 He wants me, she thought, trying to hold her head very still, quite aware that if she made any sudden movement or made the least attempt to escape, it would hurt even more, and that he, if he wished, with a mere tightening or twist, could subject her to the torment of hundreds of tiny scalding knive...
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2 145 The Kurii stood about her, but did not attempt either to deter her, or apprehend her.
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11 121 There is little attempt on Gor to pretend that obvious differentiations in such matters do not exist.
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18 117 When leashed, however, and used as controlled hunting animals, they often drag against their leashes, and harnesses, attempt to hurry the hunters, growl in frustration, and sometimes utter an angry squealing sound, as though protesting the supposed dalliance of the leash masters, the seemingly unnec...
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20 10 Other testimony had made it clear that Lord Pyrrhus had returned from the sport cylinder without Tarl Cabot, and that, later, a hunting party of eight Kurii, three of whom were womb brothers, and two of whom were egg brothers, to Lord Pyrrhus had entered the sport world with sleen, and had been arre...
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26 39 She does not know writing, does she?" "When Grendel is taken," said Cabot, "as I think must soon occur, if it has not already come about, she will attempt to purchase her life by betraying his remarks".
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27 156 "A man of Peisistratus will attempt to contact Lord Arcesilaus in the morning, in the cylinder day, openly, a fellow not to be suspected by Kur guards, as I might be".
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31 11 She might attempt to imitate a free woman, true, but the farce would be hypocritical and hollow, for she had once worn a collar, a slave collar.
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31 32 And one who has dared to attempt to pass herself off as one of their own exalted sisterhood! The hapless, terrified slave is then stripped, held down, and lashed.
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45 5 "When we are outside the camp, when we march, why are my hands bound behind me?" "That you may not attempt to silence the bell," said Cabot.
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45 117 "Had we a hundred like him I would attempt the palace of Agamemnon itself".
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46 170 "First, we storm the nearest termination of the world, utilizing the grasps at hand, and attempt to avail ourselves of weapons".
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46 174 "If one could approach the axis," said a Kur, "one might, if winged, then attempt the far arsenal, by flight".
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46 177 It is to attempt the far arsenal".
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46 194 "And who will attempt the arsenal of Agamemnon?" asked a Kur.
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47 48 The plan was to attempt the ascent to the arsenal, to determine its feasibility.
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47 195 "It is unlikely," said Lord Grendel, "that without intelligence he would have anticipated, and prepared so carefully for, even to the removal of guards, so unlikely and bold a stroke as an attempt on the arsenal itself".
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61 107 "Most take him as indispensable, and courageous, and, I fear, he will attempt to undermine the authority of Lord Grendel".
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61 117 Thus, if her prosecution is forced, you may both die, she by torture, and you, as well, should you attempt to interfere, and the insurrection is then deprived of its ablest leader".
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61 127 "Even if you attempt to flee with her, Flavion will come to power".
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64 83 This was now common knowledge in the camp, given the freeing of the Lady Bina, the attempt on the life of Lord Grendel, his flight, and such.
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64 87 She had not understood, of course, her unwitting role in the attempt on the life of Lord Grendel, who was certain to follow her.
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74 26 In actual battle, in the great formations, there is an almost inevitable drift to the right, as soldiers attempt to obtain some protection under the shield of the man to their right.
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77 127 He had, of course, gathered some intelligence from her attempt.
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77 150 They could, of course, through the bars, attempt to interest one male more than another, hoping that he might then spend his coins accordingly.
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80 399 "I, for one, will cruelly regret his departure, but I would not oblige him to remain, nor attempt to influence him to do so, against his will".
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Book 29. (10 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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20 42 He had worn a yellow armband to insure his safety from his own cohorts, an armband later removed, in an attempt to blend in with our men, an attempt unsuccessful as he had been well noted in the fighting.
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20 43 He had then, it seemed, with several others, taken refuge in the stable, doubtless first urging others to loose tharlarion and attempt to escape in the confusion, an attempt in which he had apparently declined to participate, preferring to remain concealed, planning to make away in the darkness.
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3 290 She might, of course, beg permission to speak, and attempt to discuss or review the command, perhaps if she fears the command might have been ill considered, perhaps contrary to the master's own best interests.
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11 197 Slave wine makes no attempt to conceal the bitterness of ground, raw sip root, whereas "the wine of the noble free woman" is flavored, spiced, and sweetened in such a way that it offers no offense to the delicate and more refined sensibility of the free woman.
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15 88 What are you going to do with me?" She relates to free women, of course, quite differently, and there, kneeling before them, will commonly attempt to convey to them a sense of her own self-acknowledged worthlessness, as a pierced-ear girl.
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18 268 "She will learn to fear, and will then attempt to avoid, the stoke," he said.
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18 453 The fear is that she might not know herself a slave before Pertinax, that she might attempt to use the subtle wiles of Earth, guilt, and such, to work her will in a hundred ways upon him".
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19 217 "If any are within," he said, "they will attempt to flee before morning".
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20 145 Perhaps, even more foolishly, she would attempt to conceal from him what she was, and use his sympathy or compassion to manipulate him, to bend him to her will.
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20 147 Perhaps, in order to more successfully exploit him, she would attempt to enlist the social engineering to which he had been subjected on Earth, attempting to instill guilt in him, attempting to make him feel ashamed of the pleasure with which he, as a man, might now regard her, as a slave.
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Book 30. (2 results) Mariners of Gor

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3 1231 'Another pretense, another attempt at fraud, another attempt to deceive Ar,' he snarled.
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9 439 It is my suspicion that this act was an attempt to conserve rations, to prolong the life of some by ending that of others, perhaps an attempt, even, to thin your forces, so as, eventually, to seize the ship".
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Book 31. (1 results) Conspirators of Gor

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18 726 Indeed, if I were to attempt to circumvent the discipline of Master Desmond by an appeal to Lord Grendel, I had no doubt he would lash me well, and if I were to attempt to appeal to the Lady Bina I was sure she would make inquiries as to what was appropriate under such circumstances, and then, when ...
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Book 32. (2 results) Smugglers of Gor

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14 203 Some days ago there had been a failed attempt on the life of Lord Nishida, which attempt had been shortly followed by a presumably coordinated, large-scale attack on the camp, one beaten away, on the ground, by Pani and mercenaries, and in the air, by Lord Nishida's tarn cavalry, commanded by the ta...
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22 66 "What might be the punishment," she said, "for a slave's second attempt at escape?" "There would be no second attempt," I said.
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Book 33. (1 results) Rebels of Gor

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55 21 "We will attempt to locate Nodachi and Haruki," I said, "and then attempt to make contact with Ichiro, and the tarns, and then take flight north".
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Book 34. (1 results) Plunder of Gor

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62 63 The position of the hands behind the neck or head facilitates appraisal, getting the hands out of the way, and the locking of the hands discourages any attempt on the part of a slave, should she be so foolish, as to attempt to either shield her body or fend away examining hands.
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Book 35. (1 results) Quarry of Gor

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14 211 On the other hand, it was clear that an attempt, an understandable attempt, given Adraste's beauty, had been made in Brundisium to steal her.
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