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Book 1. (12 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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1 12 Biographical details are tedious, so suffice it to say that I was a bright child, fairly large for my age, and was given a creditable upbringing by an aunt who furnished everything that a child might need, with the possible exception of love.
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1 178 Strangely enough, now that I think of it, I didn't run headlong from the spot, though I can't see why, and the thought did cross my mind that the bright, flarelike luminescence would reveal my position, if it was of interest to anyone or anything.
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2 110 After the meal I tasted the drink, which might not inappropriately be described as an almost incandescent wine, bright, dry, and powerful.
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3 188 I withdrew it bright with his blood.
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3 254 The tarn dropped to the roof of the cylinder and regarded us with his bright black eyes.
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4 6 The effect was startling: there was the sudden bright flash of yellow glittering light, the splash of sparks, and a scream of pain and rage from the tarn as he immediately beat his wings, lifting himself out of my reach in a rush of air that nearly forced me over the edge of the roof.
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9 159 As I lifted the hood, she uttered a small, joyful sound, her green eyes bright with pleasure.
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11 84 There was a sudden bright clash of the finger cymbals, and, to the music of the nearby tent, Talena, daughter of the Ubar of Ar, began to dance for me.
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12 170 Gripped in the talons of the tarn was the dead body of an antelope, one of the one-horned, yellow antelopes called tabuks that frequent the bright Ka-la-na thickets of Gor.
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13 25 The light of the three moons was bright that night, and in the resultant exotic patchwork of shadows below, I caught sight of one of the larls, padding softly along, its body almost white in the moonlight.
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19 149 Our blades met again, this time in a flash of bright, clean sound.
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19 248 "Are you a true warrior?" she asked, her eyes bright with mischief, testing me, her voice breathless.
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Book 2. (16 results) Outlaw of Gor

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3 12 Though it was still bright, many of the colorfully plumed birds had already sought their nests.
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3 22 Also, at night, crossing the bright disks of Gor's three moons might occasionally be seen the silent, predatory shadow of the ul, a giant pterodactyl ranging far from its native swamps in the delta of the Vosk.
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4 65 I replaced the helmet, it bright, and then dark, running with rain.
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4 76 I had hardly moved another step when, in a flash of lightning, I saw the sleen, this time a fully grown animal, some nineteen or twenty feet long, charging toward me, swiftly, noiselessly, its ears straight against its pointed head, its fur dark, slick with rain, its fangs bared, its wide nocturnal ...
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7 98 I looked at the girl, now after her long days of suffering and flight at last a captive, her slender wrists encircled at last by Thorn's hated bracelets, beautifully wrought bracelets, like many, of exquisite workmanship, bright with color, set even with jewels, but like all slave bracelets, of unyi...
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8 8 Normally the caste colors of Gor would be in abundant evidence, enlivening the streets and bridges of the city, a glorious spectacle in Gor's bright, clear air.
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13 110 Suddenly the foot of Kron swept through the white perfumed sand, bright with mica and red lead, and kicked a broad sheet of particles toward my eyes.
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14 98 The bright round eyes, the pupils like black stars, gleamed at me.
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14 177 Beyond Tharna and its gloomy soil, continually broken by its stony outcroppings, I could see the green fields of Gor, glades of yellow Ka-la-na trees, the shimmering surface of a placid lake and the bright blue sky, open and beckoning.
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22 113 "And in his city," said the girl, her eyes bright, "he put bells upon my ankles and dressed me in dancing silk.
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22 227 Humbly she held the cords up for me to accept, her eyes bright, entreating, raised to mine.
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23 9 It was a bright yellow and she had belted it with a scarlet sash.
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24 2 The sign 'Kal-da sold here' had been repainted in bright letters.
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24 10 The shop itself was now hung with perhaps half a hundred lamps and the walls were bright with the caste colors of the men who drank there.
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24 253 The silence seemed uncanny and the darkness startling after the bright sunlight of the street outside.
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25 59 Outside I could see the bright blue rectangle of the open sky.
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Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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3 51 Small bright eyes twinkled under heavy white eyebrows.
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3 52 Most was I surprised to find him holding a tiny, round pipe from which curled a bright wisp of smoke.
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4 153 Through the dome I could see the three moons of Gor and the bright stars above them.
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8 82 Six times the hilt of my sword struck against the sensors and six times there was a hissing pop like the explosion of hot glass and a bright shower of scarlet sparks.
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17 112 I, in the very Nest of Priest-Kings, was more free than he who walked the stones of some road in the bright sun, somewhere beyond the palisade, far from the mountains of Priest-Kings yet still in the shadow of the Sardar.
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25 112 When one of the attendant Muls happened to pass near the case the two little tabuk immediately froze, becoming almost invisible, and the mother, her bright golden pelt gleaming, began to prance away from them, while the angry male lowered his head against the Mul and trotted in a threatening manner ...
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27 48 To another human, of course, my hair alone, which is a shaggy, bright red, would have been a clearly recognizable feature, but Priest-Kings, as I may have indicated, tend to have extremely casual visual discrimination and are, moreover, I would gather, color blind.
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Book 4. (15 results) Nomads of Gor

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2 175 At that time I could read only the top scar, the red, bright, fierce cordlike scar that was the Courage Scar.
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8 83 It is not an easy transition to make, that from a bright, lovely young secretary in a pleasant, fluorescently lit, air-conditioned office on Madison Avenue in New York City—to a slave girl in the wagon of a Tuchuk warrior.
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8 260 Immediately they did so and, in spite of the brisk, bright chilly afternoon, they stood in the grass, clad Kajir.
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8 286 Although it was late in the afternoon the sun was still bright.
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9 28 Saphrar was a short, fat, pinkish man, with short legs and arms; he had quick bright eyes and a tiny, roundish red-lipped mouth; upon occasion he moved his small, pudgy fingers, with rounded scarlet nails, rapidly, as though rubbing the gloss from a tarn disk or feeling the texture of a fine cloth; ...
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9 361 At the height of one of her dances, called the Dance of the Tuchuk Slave Girl, Kamchak turned to Aphris of Turia, who was watching the dance, eyes bright, as astounded as I at the savage spectacle.
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10 515 I saw a sudden, bright drop of blood on his thumb.
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10 574 "Slay him!" howled Aphris of Turia! For perhaps better than fifteen minutes, patiently, not hurrying, Kamchak of the Tuchuks shuffled after Kamras of Turia, touching him once more and ever again, each time leaving a quick, bright stain of blood on his tunic or body.
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11 72 Then she lifted her head to him, her eyes bright with tears.
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11 221 She looked up suddenly, her eyes bright with tears.
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12 485 She was gentle, not understanding, naive, in her way foolish—a girl of Earth but not on Earth—not a woman of Gor female on her own barbaric world—she would always be of Earth—the bright, pretty girl with the stenographer's pad—like many girls of Earth, not men but ...
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19 39 From where I sat I could see two lovely pools, in which lotuslike plants floated; one of the pools was large enough for swimming; the other, I supposed, was stocked with tiny, bright fish from the various seas and lakes of Gor.
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25 185 She looked at me, her eyes bright.
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25 540 She, too, laughed, standing close to me, her eyes bright.
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25 621 And yet this beautiful, soft, proud thing stood there, though ringed and branded, though collared, bold and brazen flinging at me, eyes bright, her challenge, the eternal challenge of the unconquered female, that of the untamed woman, daring the male to touch her, to try, she resisting, to reduce he...
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Book 5. (19 results) Assassin of Gor

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2 121 He with the missing teeth laughed and looked about the crowd, his eyes bright, seeing that they waited with eagerness for his stroke.
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2 342 The girl sat up, her eyes bright, holding her ankles with her hands.
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2 360 I mumbled something, but she would hear nothing of it, and suddenly feeling her in my arms I laughed and held her to me, and she laughed, and whispered, "I love you, Tarl Cabot," and I said to her, "Kuurus, Kuurus—of the Caste of Assassins," and she said, "Yes, Kuurus—and poor Vella of...
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3 56 "Game!" I heard, an answering cry, and a fat fellow, of the Caste of Vintners, puffing and bright eyed, wearing a white tunic with a representation in green cloth of leaves about the collar and down the sleeves of the garment, stepped forth from a doorway.
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5 283 "She is a very bright human," said Kusk.
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12 234 The tip began to glow, a bright yellow.
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13 304 The stars over the city were clear and bright, the coursing moons white with splendor against the black space of the Gorean night.
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19 60 Within, the hood was, to my satisfaction, removed; when the large wad of soured leather was removed from my mouth I threw up against one wall; the guards laughed and struck me; the lights, lamps, though they were feeble, seemed very bright, and ringed with many colors; the hood had been dark and hot...
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21 269 My world now was small, bright, alive, consisting of little other than swift, flashing, ringing patterns before me, then to the side, and once more before me.
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22 534 Menicius of Port Kar was now far in the advance but my tarn, silent, save for the crack of his great wings, eyes bright, blood on its beak and steel-shod talons, again took up the pursuit.
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22 555 A tarnsman pressed in with sword upon us and I met the sword with tarn goad, with a bright yellow flash; his tarn veered away and I hurled the tarn goad savagely at another bird dropping toward me, talons opened; the goad struck him with a blinding flash and he, too, veered away; I then drew my swor...
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23 136 He stood now with his sword in hand, eyes bright.
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24 2 It was fresh and clean, bright scarlet, pressed with hot, round irons warmed over fires.
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24 97 The bright sunlight in the room, the scarlet of my tunic, the new leather, the metal embossings, seemed nothing to me.
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24 106 At times we walked up swirling gradients, at times stairs, swirling and broad, leading higher and higher into the cylinder; sometimes we walked through marble-floored passageways, in which, through narrow windows, designed to be too small for a body to pass, but large enough for use as crossbow port...
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24 328 There were tears bright in her eyes.
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24 337 Phyllis, her eyes bright with tears of happiness for Virginia, turned her back to Ho-Sorl, that he might similarly remove from her throat the degrading band of steel that marked her as only slave.
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24 406 There was a leaf of fire, bright yellow, at its tip.
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24 489 Together we ascended the stairs to the roof of Ar's Central Cylinder and looked across the many towers of the city, at the bright clouds, the blue sky, the ridges of the scarlet Voltai in the distance.
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Book 6. (7 results) Raiders of Gor

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4 119 The water glistened in the dusk, moving in small bright circles about the stems of rushes.
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8 335 They had cost me the concept that I had taken for my reality; they had torn from me a bright image, an illusion, precious and treasured, an unwarranted reflection of suppositions and wishes, not examined, which I had taken to be the truth of my identity.
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9 192 It is mine as much as yours!" It would be hard, certainly, for her to leave this world, beautiful, bright and green, but perilous, for the cities of Earth, to breathe again its air, to live in its cubicles, to move jostled among her uncaring crowds, to lose herself again in its mercantile grayness, ...
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9 372 "Master," said Midice, looking at me, eyes bright.
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13 501 In the bright sun reflecting off the water, green is a color most difficult to detect on gleaming Thassa.
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13 502 The green ship, in the bright sun, can be almost invisible.
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15 466 She looked up at me, suddenly, her eyes bright, her lips slightly parted.
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Book 7. (26 results) Captive of Gor

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6 51 The air was bright and clear, the grass green, the sky a full blue with bright, white clouds.
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3 139 Through the open curtains I could see the tens of thousands of bright rectangles of windows, many of them still illuminated.
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5 27 In the distance, away from the forest, I could see a yellowish thicket, it, too, of trees, but not green, but bright and yellow.
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5 240 Never before had I seen stars look so beautiful, so bright and burning in the blackness of the night.
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6 372 Near me, across from me, a short girl, with dark hair, very red lips, and bright dark eyes, smiled at me.
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8 78 A few dozen yards to my right a fish leaped out of the water and disappeared again, leaving behind him bright, glistening, spreading circles.
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8 136 The morning sun was bright on the surface of the river.
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8 540 I knelt there on the flat rock, pounding and rinsing the fabric, in the fresh air with the bright blue sky overhead.
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8 780 The three moons were bright in the sky.
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8 950 Beyond the fire, in the distance, like an irregular margin, a torn, soft, dark edge hiding the bright stars of Gor, I could see the lofty, still blackness of the borders of the northern forests.
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8 1012 Lana looked up, her eyes bright with pleasure.
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9 171 * * * * As we continued our journey, we could see the bright moons above.
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9 283 Bright in the dark, star-strewn Gorean sky, large, dominating, seemingly close enough to touch, loomed the three moons of Gor.
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9 330 In the dark sky the moons were vast and bright.
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9 360 The moons fled across the black sky, burning with its bright stars.
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10 419 The beast now crouched on the straw, its nostrils wide in the leathery snout, its eyes bright and black, the ears lifted.
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12 131 "Look at the huntsmen!" breathed Lana, her eyes bright, her lips parted.
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12 428 The sky was bright and blue, and the white clouds scudded swiftly by.
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13 501 They might have been a source of protein, but rather than touch such things to my lips I would have preferred to starve! It was easier to steal meat, good bosk meat, from ignorant peasants! I lay on my back, drowsy, looking up at the bright sky between the interlaced branches canopied over my head.
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13 542 Then, in the sunlight of the bright morning, late, almost at noon, I fled from the thicket, across the grass of the open field.
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13 556 I stood in the bright, knee-high grasses of that windblown, flowing field.
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13 560 The sky was deep, and blue, and bright with sunlight.
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15 976 I recalled the circle of the dance in the northern forest, and how even Verna, the proud Verna, had, beside herself with need, writhed helplessly beneath the bright moons of Gor, a female.
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15 1264 They were silent, their fierce eyes bright.
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15 1284 I threw back my head and the bells flashed at my ankles and wrists, and in my body the music, in its bright flames, burned.
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16 110 My chained, naked body, that of a slave, restless, squirming, supine, was bathed in the light of the three, bright moons of Gor.
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Book 8. (12 results) Hunters of Gor

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6 186 Turning slowly, sweetly, into the wharves of Laura was the heavy-beamed, large medium galley, bright with the yellow of Tyros.
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6 907 The stars were very bright in the black Gorean sky.
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7 10 Overhead were several birds, bright, chattering, darting, swift among the branches and green leaves.
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8 213 The sun was lower, but it was still bright and warm.
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9 308 I looked up, and saw the bright moons, now beyond the foliage of the Tur trees.
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18 5 The tunic of Tyros, once a bright yellow, was now stained and tattered.
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18 25 Beyond the breakers, and the white caps, there was only the calm placid line of gleaming Thassa, its vastness untroubled, meeting the bright, hard blue sky in a lonely plane, as unbroken and simple as the mark of a geometer's straight edge.
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18 136 There was a salt smell in the air, swift and bright in the wind.
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18 408 I looked out to sea, across the vast, placid waters of Thassa, now bright with oblique moonlight.
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22 75 I drew on the one-strap of Ubar of the Skies, and the great bird, giant and predator, screamed and, together, we thrust higher, and higher, into the bright, sunlit skies of Gor.
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22 855 The entire back of her body was hot and bright with the scarlet marks of the switch.
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22 938 The sky to the north and east was bright.
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Book 9. (5 results) Marauders of Gor

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2 224 I would not prophesy for it a bright future.
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3 293 "Hurry, bright-fleshed ones," called he to the fettered, burdened, coffled bondmaids.
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4 305 "When your father sees you tomorrow night," said he, "you must not be weak, but rosy-cheeked and bright-eyed.
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6 63 The men of the north enjoy the bright eyes, the leaping bodies, the squealing, the greetings of their bondmaids.
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10 92 Their eyes were bright; their steps were eager; they had been long isolated on the farm; rural slave girls, the Forkbeard's wenches, they were fantastically stimulated to see the crowds; they looked upon the Thing-Fields with pleasure and excitement; even had they been permitted, some of them, to lo...
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Book 10. (30 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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1 44 There was a clear note of the finger cymbals, sharp, delicate, bright, and the slave girl danced before us.
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1 116 Her left hand was at her thigh; her right high above her head; her eyes were on her hip; frozen into a hip sway; then there was again a bright, clear flash of the finger cymbals, and the music began again, and again she moved, helpless on the pole.
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1 828 In the dune country, by day, if one were so unwise as to go barefoot, the bright sand would quickly cripple a man, abrading and burning the flesh from his feet in a matter of hours.
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2 159 For example, it is common for a master to force his girl to speak at length and in detail to him of the secret sides of her nature, explaining and elaborating on her fantasies; if she is literate, she may be forced, naked, collared, on her knees at a small table, sometimes with her ankles shackled, ...
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2 214 The note of this bell, which is bright and clear, is easily distinguished from those of the degrading, sensual bells of the slave.
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2 239 I was mildly surprised that the boy had been eating the tospit raw, for they are quite bitter, but, I knew, that people of the Tahari regions, these bright, hot regions, relished strong tastes and smells.
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2 351 At various places in the bazaar, from poles laid between the buildings, numerous skeins of wool hung, dyed in various bright colors, drying.
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5 18 There was a bright flash of the tiny finger cymbals and Alyena danced for us.
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5 470 Her eyes were strikingly blue, and bright, lively; her hair, long, blond, streamed behind her.
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5 630 Her lip was swift to tremble, her eyes swift to moisten, filling with bright tears.
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7 270 There was a roar of pain, a howl of rage, and I saw that his scimitar, to six inches, was splashed with the bright blood of the Kur, clearly visible.
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11 18 Then, as swiftly as it had come, the sand fled, and the sun, bright and immediate, raw with its ferocity and beauty, held again, untroubled, forgetful, the scepter, the constant, merciless mace, of its light and heat over the wide land.
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11 86 Then, it seems suddenly, the sky is black and wide and high and is rich with the reflected sands of stars, like clear bright diamonds burning in the soft, sable silence of the desert's innocent quietude.
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11 530 I could now see fire, in a bright, geometrical, right-angled line, glowing from below, about the trap door's edge.
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12 54 "On your feet!" she said, her eyes bright over the purple veil.
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12 391 Overhead the stars were bright.
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12 469 She looked up at me, her lips parted, her eyes bright.
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13 24 In the bright moonlight of Gor's three moons we turned.
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13 199 "I have been traveling with this fellow," he said, "a clumsy, but well-meaning oaf, a boorish date merchant, Hakim of Tor, not overly bright, but good-hearted.
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14 435 The inside of the slave hood seemed bright and granular.
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17 7 On the height of the keep I saw, tight in the bright, hot wind, under the merciless sun, defiant to the pits and desert itself, the flag of Klima, the whip and scimitar.
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17 154 Within the boundaries of his own being, in that bright realm, let him claim the supremacy which is his; it will remain vacant, unless he seize upon it.
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21 141 I looked at the dunes to my left, shimmering with heat, rippled in the wind, the tops like bright, tawny smoke in the light.
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23 72 On the right flank were the golden Char and the diverse reds and bright yellows of the Kashani.
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24 663 Masters tend to be fond of the bright, heated skin of their girls.
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25 187 For an instant there were tears in her eyes, bright and hot.
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25 558 At its tip, bright red, was the common Kajira slave mark of Gor.
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25 658 It was not bright, but, in the dimness of the cell, it hurt her eyes.
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26 1226 There was not a cloud in the wide, bright Tahari sky.
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26 1270 Their walls were bright, hot and white in the morning sun.
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Book 11. (14 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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1 69 My chin was forced up; I saw the bright sky, blue with its startlingly white clouds.
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1 122 It was a strange world on which I stood, wide and unfamiliar, open, bright and clean.
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1 198 It was a bright, beautiful world, but it was not Earth.
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2 787 But, as I followed the man, trekking through the glorious grass, under the bright, marvelous moons, carrying his shield, literally heeling him, as might have an animal, his captive, nude and bound, I felt, paradoxically, a fantastic sense of freedom, of psychological liberation.
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3 491 I looked up at the rich Gorean night, beautiful with bright stars.
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4 1247 Above me were the bright stars in a black sky, and three moons.
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16 198 The sky was very bright.
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17 21 The light of the tiny lamp the man carried seemed bright in the room.
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17 77 Suddenly, startling me, elating the men, there emerged, as though by magic, a tiny, printed sentence, in fine characters, in bright red.
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20 635 Such a lamp seems dim, nothing, in the daylight, but in the darkness of the unilluminated kennels it seems bright, even painfully so.
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21 152 The oars, in unison, twenty on each side, dipped into the waters of the harbor, drew and lifted, the water falling from them in bright droplets, splashing back into the harbor.
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22 3 The sun was bright.
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23 1 The Raft I lay in the arms of Clitus Vitellius, my master, under the bright stars of Gor, under the white moons and the black sky, on the rough wood, in the midst of that great, lonely sea.
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26 374 It was still bright.
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Book 12. (9 results) Beasts of Gor

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4 12 The morning was cool and the air was bright and clear.
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11 416 The sun was high and bright, and I had fed well, and had rigged a backpack, in which I had placed supplies and my things, when I again climbed the steps to the whipping platform.
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12 299 "Is it your intention to offer her bright feasting clothes?" "I am not insane," he said.
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14 4 It was a very broad face, with high cheekbones, and very dark, bright eyes, a face framed in cut, blue-black hair, with bangs across the forehead.
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25 24 I looked about at the irregular and jagged shapes, weird and mighty, which loomed about us, of the pack ice, eerie in the deep shadows, and bright, strange light of the moons and snow.
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26 106 The storm had passed, and the light of the three moons was bright on the snow and ice.
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36 69 "He is Karjuk, Master," she whispered, "once of Bright Stones Camp, who became the guard".
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37 15 For a terrible instant it had seemed as bright as day, with a brightness that most of the People, in their northern regions, had never known, a brightness that might have struck the white sands of the blazing Tahari or the green jungles of the rain forests of the eastern Cartius.
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38 9 The stars were bright in the moonlit sky.
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Book 13. (7 results) Explorers of Gor

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1 325 I glanced within, for I heard from within the clash of slave bells and the bright sound of zills, or finger cymbals.
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6 4 The sun was bright, and there was a good wind astern.
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32 26 Overhead bright jungle birds flew.
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32 502 Too, I wore sunglasses, pieces of colored glass sometimes worn by those of Earth before their eyes, sometimes to guard their expressions and features, but usually to reduce the glare of a bright sun".
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32 529 I then saw it in the bright and direct light of the sun.
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49 105 They were bright with feathers.
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53 220 Puzzled it looked at its paw, where there was a flash of bright blood.
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Book 14. (6 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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9 112 The day was bright.
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18 160 The sunlight was bright; the air was Gorean in its exuberance and freshness.
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20 112 Slave girls, their eyes bright, their breath hot, tried to press themselves piteously against me.
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20 115 I saw even the eyes of free women bright and wild over their veils.
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27 215 The stars were still bright in the sky.
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32 4 The stars were fine and beautiful, bright in the black sky.
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Book 15. (1 results) Rogue of Gor

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21 297 It is a complex, vital, bright, colorful, deeply sensuous civilization; it is a harsh, gorgeous world in which the slave girl has a special role and place; her condition is unquestioned and categorical; it is supported by history, by custom and law; there is absolutely no escape for her; she is slav...
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Book 16. (2 results) Guardsman of Gor

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20 1450 The three moons are bright in the sky.
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21 136 It was warm and bright outside.
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Book 17. (4 results) Savages of Gor

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1 769 "They are bright, and fresh".
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1 971 We may conjecture that the day is bright.
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1 1000 "And this, you see," said Kog, turning the hide, "is what he saw on that bright and thawing morning".
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14 288 "Three," she said, suddenly, beaming, the fine, strong teeth bright in her broad, reddish-brown face.
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Book 18. (8 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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3 137 The three scarlet bands of paint were bright on the white pole.
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3 152 The paint was bright on the pole.
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7 111 One might have hoped that, at this time, rather, in the bright afternoon, she would have been adorned and marched, clothed or unclothed, a rope on her neck, beside Canka's kaiila, he in his finery, that he might display her to the Isbu, and the other bands.
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18 300 The day was bright and clear.
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21 7 The rider, clad only in a breechclout, his body bright in purple and yellow paint, thrust towards us with the long tarn lance.
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25 133 The sky was bright.
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37 529 A large, bright, round eye peered through the opening in the ceiling of the pit.
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47 145 Through clouds, such bright, lofty fogs, did we ascend.
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Book 19. (4 results) Kajira of Gor

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2 100 The lights were bright.
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30 252 It was bright and hot.
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36 640 Compartments, or at least many of them, tend to be light and airy, and often have bright walls and a flooring of broad, multicolored tiles.
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36 642 The towers, streets, and bridges are often bright with color, strikingly in contrast with the passive urban monochromes, the browns and grays, with which you may be familiar.
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Book 20. (5 results) Players of Gor

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2 1584 Those of Earth, in urban areas, may never have seen how black, really, the sky can be; perhaps they have never really lifted their heads to the sky; perhaps they have never noted, or cared to note, how sharp and bright the stars can be, how astonishing they are, how beautiful they are, remote, carel...
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2 1590 I feared that many of them, so used to beauty, the greenness, the mountains, the rains, the dark forests and bright meadows, the winding rivers, did not really see it.
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11 100 She stood there, buckled in place, against the bright red, yellow-trimmed backboard.
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13 193 It then flung the creature down at its feet, threw back its head, its fangs and tongue bright with fresh blood, and howled its defiance to the hot noonday sun, to the towers of Brundisium, and the crowd.
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16 488 An elongated, bright red mark was now upon her pretty white fundament, and now her entire cheek flared scarlet.
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Book 21. (6 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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4 608 I looked to Feiqa, still kneeling, her back bright with the memory of the free woman's attentions.
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16 1420 The walls, from this close to them, the fall sun bright on them, seemed very high and formidable.
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20 24 The high, uprearing walls of the city, some hundred feet or more in height, the sun bright upon them, stretched into the distance.
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25 526 "You are a bright little she-quadruped".
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26 565 Although it was a very small light, it seemed very bright in the darkness.
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29 43 I noted a slave passing by in the street, the lower portion of her body in shadows, the upper portion bright in the late afternoon sun.
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Book 22. (9 results) Dancer of Gor

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3 372 It had been a bright afternoon.
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3 671 Lying as I was, of course, I probably could not, from my position, have seen what it was even had the room been as light as it had been long ago, some three months ago, on that bright afternoon when I had for the first time to my knowledge found myself under the eyes of my current captor.
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3 1034 My eyes were bright with tears.
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8 311 In the wake of the object there appeared a bright, thick, red line, moving about and circling, completing a course, a configuration, on me, which perhaps to some who looked upon it, but not to me, was significant.
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9 385 Then she became aware of a man at the reference desk, looking down at her, one bright afternoon, a man whose look penetrated into her deepest heart and belly, and stripped her, and saw the slave there.
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24 464 The sun was still bright.
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26 14 He had bright, dark eyes, and curly black hair.
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29 551 Its eyes were now very bright.
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Book 23. (8 results) Renegades of Gor

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15 960 I moved quickly toward him but then it seemed, suddenly, as though the world had burst apart, and I spun about, covering my head with my hands, and it seemed in that instant that the cell was filled with bursting stones and bricks, and there was a great sound, and Lady Claudia screamed, and one coul...
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15 970 There, spread before me, in the bright morning sun, under the clear blue sky, bright with glittering spear blades and shields, with nodding plumes, with the standards of companies and regiments, dotted with engines, here and there a tharlarion stalking about, tarnsmen in the sky, in serried ranks, s...
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8 308 He led it from the cot, it stalking beside him, its head moving about, its eyes round, bright and sharp.
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8 669 On the left, far below, I could see the Vosk Road, like a bright thread in the sun.
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16 20 It was bright and windy there.
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20 67 At the same instant, from beneath the bandage bound about his body there emerged a bright, fresh stain of crimson.
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24 32 The oarsmen of Port Cos were in their best today, their tunics bright, their leather polished, their brimless, jaunty caps atilt on their heads.
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24 687 Publia's eyes were suddenly bright with tears.
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Book 24. (7 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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30 38 The shrub has various names but one of them is the tor shrub, which name might be fairly translated, I would think, as, say, the bright shrub, or the shrub of light, it having that name, I suppose, because of its abundant, bright flowers, either yellow or white, depending on the variety.
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3 11 The overarching sky was bright and clear, almost cloudless.
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3 86 The sun, though it was late in the afternoon, was still bright.
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16 109 "If it were up to me," he said, "I would clothe you in bright scarlet, and put you at point, manacled, a rope on your neck".
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17 238 "My eyes!" The flies tend to be attracted to the eyes, as to moist, bright objects.
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21 32 Am I correct?" She whimpered once, her eyes bright with tears.
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32 261 Too, the women of the rencers like the bright cloth, and we were told, too, that some of them were to be cut into slave strips, or fashioned into ta-teeras, slave rags, for slave girls, such being, in their opinion, a fit disposition for such material".
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Book 25. (5 results) Magicians of Gor

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7 228 In a moment a large bipedalian saddle tharlarion, in golden panoply, its nails polished, its scales brushed bright, wheeled to a halt before the standard bearers.
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22 64 Was it so soon that they were no longer permitted to bask adoringly in the warmth of that bright smile? Then they drew back, standing behind, looking after him, longingly, as he continued on his way.
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22 346 This suggestion he, a bright fellow, had been quick to accept.
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26 5 His colleague, Venlisius, a bright young man who was now, by adoption, a scion of the Toratti, was with him.
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27 163 Then she looked up at him, timidly, love bright in her eyes.
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Book 26. (15 results) Witness of Gor

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4 80 It was doubtless a dim light, but it seemed very bright to me, as I had been long in the darkness.
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7 320 He rubbed his index finger across the ball of the foot and then, his finger bright with a spot of blood, placed it to my lips.
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8 31 The light seemed bright.
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8 93 The light seemed too bright, through my closed eyelids.
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8 588 I looked out, at the narrow ledge, the beautiful mountains, the vast, bright, late-afternoon cloudy sky over the mountains.
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10 800 The light was not bright, but it hurt my eyes.
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11 6 The sky was very bright, and very blue.
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11 1681 I saw the leather worker with a bright, long needle.
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12 829 It was now bright, contrasting with the precedent darkness.
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12 891 The light was very bright.
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14 1012 It was hot and bright on her muchly exposed body.
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14 1093 We drank in the sight of the snow-capped peaks, the darkness in the valleys, the patches of cloud in the bright sky.
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24 105 It was still bright, still late afternoon.
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24 196 Its head seemed alert, lifted, its eyes wickedly bright, scanning to the left and right.
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31 742 One of the black-tunicked men lay in the portal, his chest bright with blood.
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Book 27. (28 results) Prize of Gor

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2 170 How their eyes had locked together for that moment, the eyes of the older woman bright with hatred, and cold hostility, the eyes of the younger woman sparkling with a secure, insouciant amusement.
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10 224 There were the gentle kisses, some prolonged, some as light and quick as the shiftings of sunlight and shadow among stirring leaves, some as bright and unexpected as the pattering of momentary, shimmering drops of rain, some as tender as the falling of the petal of a flower, and the other kisses, th...
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10 386 She looked up at him in horror, from her side, bright stripes upon her body.
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11 496 Indeed, she saw, with mixed feelings, that he regarded her as a quick, bright slave.
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11 652 "You are a bright slave, Ellen," he said.
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11 932 "You are a bright, pretty little slave," he said.
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11 935 To be sure, what am I now, with my eighteen-year-old body, but a bright, pretty, little slave? It is true, true! That is what he has made me! "Thank you, Master," she said.
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11 1001 "And quite bright?" The slave nodded.
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12 31 Certainly the work came back well-aired, clean-smelling, bright with sunlight, pressed and folded.
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13 5 Above her there raced white clouds in a bright blue sky.
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13 42 It was one of the "high cities," a forest of cylinders, a city of towering, spaced cylinders, many of them in bright colors, and, joining these cylinders, at various levels, like light curving, colored, rail-less traceries in the sky, were numerous bridges.
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15 807 There seemed to be a bright, hazy glow about the lamps.
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16 13 How vigorous and remarkable, and diverse, and expressive, seemed that strange tongue, at once so lively, bright and fluent, even delicate, and then suddenly so explosively rude and brutal, at one moment loud, at another soft, at one moment rapid, even careless, at another measured and stately, at on...
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16 32 There seemed to be bright sunlight.
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16 711 Ellen then lay there, on her stomach, by the ring, still grasping it, sobbing, in misery, her body rich with bright, burning stripes, a whipped slave.
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18 668 She heard a bright laugh from beside her, and she quickly thrust the cloth down.
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19 621 Some markets were open, these lit with torches, small, bright patches of light in the darkness.
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20 117 Dirt and gravel flew up from the animals' passage, pelting, stinging the startled, chained girls, who shrank back, whimpering, and a rising, thick, floating cloud of dust, bright in the hot sun, lingered and swelled behind, enveloping the line.
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20 212 She recalled the saying that curiosity was not becoming in a slave girl, a saying which had always seemed ironic to her, because, to the best of her knowledge, amongst such eager, bright, lively creatures, an avid curiosity was endemic.
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20 383 Ellen cowered back, as pieces of the basket were torn away, flung out into the water, the wicked, bright eyes of the bird near her, not a yard away, the beak slashing at the wicker.
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21 48 The sky was a bright blue.
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22 281 She looked at the red-figured vessel she carried, the red image on it bright, fresh and exciting against the smooth, glazed, curved, black background.
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27 1004 The sky was a bright blue.
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27 2887 The dagger paused, wavering, the energy of the arm behind it revealing itself in the conflicted hesitation of the blade, narrow, bright, quivering, arrested by a sudden monitory glance from the officer.
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28 151 Bosk of Port Kar picked up the warmed, bright, red-rich, drenched blade of Selius Arconious, and held it out to him.
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29 246 "To see your ankle, the turn of a calf, the sweetness of an arm, the softness of a small shoulder, the turning of a wrist, the delicacy of a hand, the provocative call of your love cradle, the joy of your waist, made for a slave chain, your swelling bosom, its delights, the whiteness of your encircl...
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30 574 "Be silent!" he cried, and, mad with passion, cuffed her, striking her head to the side but she turned back, instantly, her mouth bleeding, kissing at his body, leaving small, bright prints of blood upon it.
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30 665 Know, too, proud, vulnerable woman of Earth, that you might be observed, yes, you, literally you, personally you, exactly you, you who are now reading this, observed, carefully observed, scrutinized and noted, perhaps in the bright, cool office where you work; perhaps at the beach, where you thought...
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Book 28. (6 results) Kur of Gor

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10 93 "She is quite bright".
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27 22 "It is a sound which surely no woman ever forgets! Is it not the most meaningful of sounds, that snap, that click, as the collar is closed on one, and one realizes that it is now on one, and that one is collared?" "There are many meaningful sounds," said Cabot, "the snarl of the sleen, the roar of t...
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33 1 A Return to the Habitats is Contemplated The light was bright on the lake, and it was not well to look too long on its waters.
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43 384 The eyes of the slave were bright with tears.
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44 177 Cabot noted their tips were bright with blood.
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56 62 More importantly, the Kur might emerge suddenly from the darkness of caves into bright sunlight, to hunt, and, say, the sleen might similarly emerge suddenly from darkness, though commonly from its burrow.
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Book 29. (9 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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1 3 We watched the ship of Peisistratus ascending, almost vertically, and then vanishing, far off, a sparkle, in the bright, blue sky.
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10 686 The slave looked up at me, in misery, her eyes bright with tears, and put her head down, again, to the feet of Pertinax.
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11 30 How far she was now from the seats of commercial power, far from the treasure houses of wealth, far from paneled board rooms, long corridors, marshaled desks, and bright offices.
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13 97 For example, the robes of concealment, prescribed for, and almost universally accepted by, Gorean free women, certainly of the higher castes, were not uniform, drab garmentures imposed on them by, say, an oppressive society which regarded women as inferior, unclean, and morally dangerous, but, in th...
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15 313 Her eyes were bright with protest, and tears.
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16 268 How can the eye see itself, and even in water, or burnished plates, or bright mirrors, it sees but an image of itself, and who knows what lies behind it? "Tarnsmen," said Lord Nishida, "have been recruited from better than two dozen cities".
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18 507 About them they hear the squeals of kaiila, the shouting of men, the shrieks of their sisters, the sudden pounding of paws in the grass behind them, and then the bright sound of a flighted, swirling, belled capture net.
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25 2 They are very bright in the Gorean night.
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32 1 The Selections The sun was bright at the beach.
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Book 30. (16 results) Mariners of Gor

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1 142 Shortly thereafter, we heard the bright flash of bells.
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5 2 It was a bright day.
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8 373 Her eyes were bright with tears, some coursed down her cheeks, running under the fur.
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9 213 The sound of steel on steel was now bright and sharp.
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9 242 Several tarns, sensing the sky, the hatch now open to the far, bright stars, with a great snap of their wings, sometimes dragging saddle and harnessing behind them, disappeared into the cold night.
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9 264 In doing so, I became aware, as I never had been, of the size, the power, and awesomeness of the tarn, for I came within feet of one, whose head, far above mine, with its bright, glistening, dark eyes, was moving, alertly, from one side to the other, as though more puzzled, or curious, than anything...
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9 474 His face was broad, his eyes bright.
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12 158 Given the darkness, the lanterns seemed bright.
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14 16 Looking back I could see a tarn against the bright sky.
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14 40 It may have been thirsty for that sudden, bright, exhilarating draught.
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14 60 Suddenly, ahead, some twenty yards, between the galleys and the numbers of ship's boats, the gigantic body of the wounded tharlarion emerged, its vast body, neck, head, and wide paddlelike appendages running with water, bright in the sunlight.
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14 346 I saw the sky, a bright blue in the spring afternoon.
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15 62 Rather we felt the sharp, salted air of bright, vast, green Thassa, fresh and clean, once more in our nostrils, in our lungs, and blood.
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15 149 Her eyes were bright with fear, and tears.
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25 50 In the morning, they were there, large, bright, patient, calm, stately.
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37 192 "Do you think," he asked, "that I am a fool and weakling?" "In general, no," I said, "but men wiser and stronger than you, I am sure, and men perhaps wiser and stronger than I, have succumbed to eyes bright with tears, a strand of hair brushed piteously aside, a faltering syllable, a trembling lip".
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Book 31. (16 results) Conspirators of Gor

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6 87 My lungs drew in the bright, clean air of Gor.
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8 84 At that time, hooded, I did not realize the striking beauty of a Gorean city, how so many of its buildings, the lofty towers and graceful bridges, the spacious porticoes, the splendid colonnades, and such, were bright with color, nor was I aware of the wealth of colors in clothing, both that of men ...
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9 251 At the side of her hood, there was a strand of bright, blondish hair.
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15 199 There were twin darknesses in that massive head, flesh, and hair, where eyes, large, bright and glistening, must once have been but no longer were.
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17 239 Tor-tu-Gor was still bright, but there were long shadows, from the awnings, lying across the nearer track.
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17 251 And now we might compete in a hundred new ways with one another, almost like free women who compete by means of the many luxurious varieties of their own bright, colorful, beautifully draped garmentures.
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24 96 It is not likely he could kill nine in the bright day.
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25 13 The higher elevations, as with many mountains in the Voltai, might be bright with snow all the year.
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33 25 It was chilly by the portal, but I dallied, for the bright, sharp air, and the vista.
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38 4 One turned about, surveying us, eyes bright, determined that we were human, growled, and rejoined his fellows.
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42 7 The day was bright.
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45 43 The morning sun would be bright before me, on rock, and then, in a moment, one would confront almost impenetrable, cave-like shadows, indicating recesses of an undisclosed depth.
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48 330 Grendel stepped forward, to the center of the room, and Lucius, with a cry of rage, unintelligible in the translator, rushed forward and his ax, bright and double edged, described its swift, terrible arc, and in a moment might have cut away a head and part of a shoulder, but it was suddenly arrested...
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49 2 Tor-tu-Gor was bright outside.
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52 2 I was tied on my knees, my hands before me, fastened to the ring, in the small, bright courtyard, behind a house on Clive, that in which Desmond of Harfax had rented a room.
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52 310 How bright his eyes were, how tense his body! Might not a starving larl so gaze upon a tethered tabuk doe, a hungry sleen upon a penned verr? In the streets of Ar I had once seen a leashed slave being dragged running and stumbling, weeping, toward a domicile, but the master found himself unable to w...
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Book 32. (26 results) Smugglers of Gor

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2 50 Too, the light was not bright, and I was not now dressed in the cumbersome, barbarous garments in which she had first seen me.
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8 127 At the gate to her cage, she turned about, on all fours, and lifted her head to me, her eyes bright with tears, tears running down her cheeks.
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8 505 I would wait until the ship departed, and see it disappear, a bright speck, outside the farther breakwater.
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10 10 Let the idealist and the fanatic curse the inevitable fruits of his success, the brass he took for gold, the unexamined shadow he took for substance, the bright illusion he took for reality; he does not lament the downfall of peoples and states, the carts of bones and the lakes of blood; his grief, ...
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10 57 She blinked against the light, which, in the darkness, dim as it was, must have seemed bright to her.
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15 2 It was not bright, I suppose, but the contrast with the darkness of the slave house was painful.
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17 12 It was he who had brought me to this, to this strange, different, natural, beautiful, fresh world, much as Earth might once have been, a world of blue skies and white clouds, of wind and rain, of storms and sunlight, of green fields and dark forests, of bracing, uncontaminated air and clean, clear, ...
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17 120 And why do some of them join small caravans, and risk dangerous journeys to far places, or wander dark, unguarded streets, or stroll the high bridges alone, in the bright moonlight? Are they so smug, so sure of themselves, that they do not understand the perils of such things? Do they court the coll...
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21 7 So the bright serpent of steel remained in its housing, tense.
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23 61 Is she not then, in her way, naked before the free, more naked than naked in her tiny tunic, naked psychologically, societally, socially? The morning was bright, and my heart was beating rapidly I could see the end of the dock before me.
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23 95 The light was bright on the water.
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25 51 The sunlight was bright where it fell between the trees.
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27 53 Lightning occasionally gashed the darkness, turning the night for an instant into a bright, cold, frightening noon, but then again, as quickly as a door might close, I found myself once again in darkness, as though shut in a room, the room of the forest, with no light, only rain, wind, cold, darknes...
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30 12 "He is playing," said Axel, "he is enjoying himself, he is relishing, he is reminding himself of what a bright, glowing thing it can be, he is taking it more deeply into himself".
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35 78 It was bright enough for a man's paga feast, the sort at which stripped free women must dance as slaves and, to their shame, though they are still legally free, will be put to use as sluts before their collaring and branding.
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37 156 "Do you think I would permit you the ignominy, the degradation, the raptures, of the kajira?" Darla, laying on her side, miserable, her body well inscribed with the bright records of Tuza's displeasure, looked up at her, confused, and frightened.
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37 272 She wore a brief tunic, of bright scarlet.
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43 1015 "It is you who have brought us to this!" "Stop her!" cried Axel, and Donna had scarcely reached the edge of the camp, her scarlet tunic bright against the green, when she was seized.
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43 1158 Did Tula's eyes seek out Aeson amongst the prisoners; and was Genak the possible object of Mila's bright regard? The other slave, in contrast, seemed alarmed.
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44 8 Once there had been a dusting of snow, the specks bright in the sunlight between the trees.
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48 33 How bright, how clever, how superior, I was! I had eluded the masters.
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50 44 He indicated a long, tapering, triangular swirl of bright scarlet silk.
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50 295 These were no lovely, silken cords, supple, delightful cords, bright with color slave cords, suitable for the attractive binding of a secured, helpless slave, but were a common, coarse ropage, the same, it seemed, as that which tethered the boats in place.
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52 32 This tendency may be expressed in innumerable ways, from the design of cities to the bright colors of buildings and walls, and porches and pillars, from long garden paths, a pasang in length, characterized by a planned music of scent as well as a scenic melody of blossoms, to the shaping of vases an...
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52 107 Through the door I saw smoke, billowing like dark, ugly, suffocating clouds, and then there was a sudden gust of wind, which tore apart the smoke, and flung before it a shower of sparks, and then more sparks began to fall about, the wind softening, in the clearing, these now descending like hot, bri...
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52 111 I saw it outlined, black, with flames bright behind it.
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Book 33. (18 results) Rebels of Gor

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1 189 What delirium of kanda, I wondered, can compare with the rapture of that greater drug? But who, who listens carefully, can fail to hear the dark notes of terror in its bright song, to which the unwary hasten to succumb.
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13 309 Surely much could be done with the robes of concealment, with their layerings and drapings, their bright colors, so ingeniously arranged, with veils slack or disarranged, even diaphanous, the street veil brazenly neglected, with loose, casual hoods from which strands of hair might escape, as though ...
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15 34 We continued on our way, occasionally crossing a rivulet of water on a small, railed wooden bridge, between flowering shrubs and patches of bright flowers, some of which were terraced amongst steps of rocks.
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21 76 The possibility had suggested itself to some, a possibility which seemed plausible to me, that the Kurii, frustrated at the current failure of their designs, and the Priest-Kings, annoyed by probes, and predatory intrusions, might be willing to gamble for a world's surface, which space was seldom tr...
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24 4 The stones of the pool's circular containing wall were cunningly fitted and bright with color, for the Pani have a finely developed aesthetic sense.
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24 12 I supposed the day was pleasant enough, at least in itself, as it was neither too warm nor too cold, and the sky was a bright, unblemished, cloudless blue.
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24 14 How could it be then that it seemed I felt the balmy air concealed a veiled chill and the bright sky lied? "One is surprised," said Lord Akio, "in the light of the prodigious nature of the offense, that the punishment of the criminal should be so mild".
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25 57 The sky, as noted earlier, was a bright blue.
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25 249 I supposed the day was pleasant enough, as Lord Akio had suggested; it was neither too warm nor too cold, and the sky was a bright, an unblemished, cloudless blue.
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32 104 Arashi winced, drawing back, his shirt bright with blood.
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32 139 There was a great, crackling roar of flames above, and a new wave of heat, and I could see the brightness above through the cracks in the ceiling, cracks I had not even noticed until now, until they were bright with light.
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42 318 He then stepped back, and she looked up at him, her eyes bright with tears.
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47 321 "The sun is bright.
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49 155 Her eyes were bright with tears.
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50 20 There was a slight streak of yellow, like a bright line, beneath the door.
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50 124 There was a dim, yellowish light within, though I supposed it bright enough for the chamber's occupants.
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61 1 How Matters Turned Out; I Look Eastward It was a bright morning, with a pleasant wind, and I stood on the heavy planks of the great wharf, that at the foot of the long trail which led upward, within its walls, to the holding of Temmu, far above, almost obscured by clouds.
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61 1295 I thought, too, of bold, young Tajima, so bright, and earnest, and of a slave, Nezumi.
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Book 34. (30 results) Plunder of Gor

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2 141 "You are bright, but self-centered and shallow.
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2 294 After a time, the bright, stirring aroma of coffee excited and charmed the kitchen.
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3 83 She is bright.
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6 70 But Paula's eyes were bright.
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9 556 The day, again, was bright, and the boards of the wharf, as I could tell, placing my hands through the bars, once again, were, like the cage and bars, warm to the touch.
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20 146 As soon as she had begun to move, it had emerged from the doorway, quickly, lightly for so mighty a bulk, crouched down, bent over, looking about, alertly, from one side to the other, eyes bright, its knuckles on the paving stones, following her, a bit behind and to the left.
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30 330 I heard the jangle of jewelry, and the sudden, bright flash of finger cymbals.
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30 428 It would not do to keep the bright yellow tunic I had worn at the slave ring, that which I had worn when posing as a guide slave for Tyrtaios, of the Black Court.
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32 143 One could not see a great deal in the light of the lantern, for the shadows about us, and above us, to the sides, but even a small light, in a darkness, may seem surprisingly bright.
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33 22 I held back a cry of alarm, for it seemed, for a moment, in the light of the lantern, that two bright, sudden, feral disks of copper blazed forth from the darkness.
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33 388 Its eyes were bright, glistening, in the lantern light.
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33 674 But the lantern was dashed to the floor, where it shattered in a spattering rainbow of glass and oil, and, a moment later, a hungry torrent of fire, raging, ever enlarging, began its bright feeding, racing across the boards of the floor of the house.
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37 150 It was a bright day, and the street was public.
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39 93 "You may be far less bright and beautiful than your friend, Paula," he said, "but I doubt that even she could improve on your screaming".
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46 66 "And on other worlds, of prowling steel, as well," said the voice from the box, "and on Gor, too, green Gor, Gor of flowing grass and bright skies, secretly ensconced, both high ones and humans.
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49 212 Was the sun so bright in this room? Did she fear a sudden torrent of rain might fall from the ceiling, from which a parasol, even so improbable a defense, might serve to protect her? "Tenrik, of Siba," said Decius Albus.
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50 184 He then removed from his belt that bright yellow parasol that had been so common a feature of the Lady Alexina's ensemble, and discarded it, as well.
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51 134 The room was large, bright, light, and airy.
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52 153 Uncertain as to the outcome of this meeting, whose prospects now seem bright, I left her behind, in the house of Decius Albus, in the House of a Hundred Corridors".
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53 30 These towers, which are almost always brightly colored, as Goreans are fond of bright colors, inside and outside, in both private and public buildings, in fountains and walls, and so on, are often joined, as well, at different levels, by narrow, graceful, colorful, arching, railless bridges.
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59 43 The door to the left had been thrown open and bright sunlight enflamed the doorway, and I heard the sound of men outside, and there was a sound of cheering, and an eager howling of Kurii, and two gates were flung up, one at the near end of the verr pen, to my left, separating it from its chute, and ...
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60 2 To our left, as we emerged from the chute, and into the light, we saw a small set of tiers, on these tiers, bright with festive regalia, mostly in the colors of the upper castes, but subdued, and restless, were perhaps two hundred men, doubtless mostly those who had been at the feast.
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60 5 Also, on the tiers, mixed in with the men, crouching, I saw several Kurii, in bright harnessing.
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60 6 There were also several Kurii, also in bright harnessing, on the ground, before, and to the sides of the tiers.
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61 153 Aelius had climbed toward the box but, before he could enter it, Lucilius, two hands on the great haft, wielded the ax, and the sundered head of Aelius spun far away, a small, dark cloud raining blood, and blood from the decapitated corse, sped by the fierce pressure generated by the frantic poundin...
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61 518 She also carried a bright, yellow parasol, which I was sure I recognized.
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61 645 In the bit of time in which the Kur had advanced upon the free woman, had encountered the poisoned spines of the gay, bright-yellow parasol, and experienced the consequences of its indiscretion, the Kurlike thing near the stake had flung open the large, flat box, and Lord Grendel had seized out his ...
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63 13 It was a large, closed wagon, with bright, yellow canvas stretched over the high, rectangular frame rising from its sides.
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68 224 In daylight it would have been a bright yellow.
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68 430 I looked up to my master, my eyes, I fear, bright with tears.
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Book 35. (12 results) Quarry of Gor

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1 33 Their buildings, inside and out, are bright with color.
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1 34 Even slaves, when clothed, as we need not be, as we are animals, are commonly clothed in bright, attractive tunics, or less.
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8 2 I could see the sky, a bright blue, with white, scudding clouds.
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17 32 It was a bright, pleasant morning in late summer.
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21 78 At that moment, there was a sudden noise, a bright, loud, unexpected, shocking, jagged flash of sound not a foot from my head, and a handful of stone and dust, and debris, gouged, burst forth from the wall.
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26 76 Against the bright disk of the White Moon, shortly before clouds once more enveloped it, half obscuring it, tattering its light, something moved across its face.
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27 170 I had heard just one sound, a small, swift sound, bright and quick, when Bruno of Torcadino, fiercely turned, leaning on the crutch, parried the assailant's blade, following which he thrust.
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31 41 He seemed to have an uncanny sense of degrees of prowess, even before the first bright contact of steel.
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31 80 Scarcely had the bright note of the light hammer on the small bar rang out than Bruno of Torcadino apparently lost his balance and fell at the feet of the acceptor of his challenge.
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33 383 In a moment I again saw the bright flare of a torch before me, and I turned aside again.
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46 628 The cloak was cast aside and I saw belts of shimmering, threaded coins, ropes of necklaces, bright armlets and bracelets, and swirling flutterings and flashes of diaphanous silks.
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47 47 It was a pleasant apartment, on a second floor, small but light, and bright with color.
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Book 36. (19 results) Avengers of Gor

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3 148 In a moment we had climbed to the deck of the stem castle, and, shielding our eyes, looked across the bright, gentle water, in the direction Clitus indicated.
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5 53 "What would you do, dear Thurnock," I asked, "if you saw a tiny serpent, one which could fit in the palm of your hand, with bright orange scales?" "I would avoid it at all costs," said Thurnock.
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6 223 Almost at the same moment there was a bright skirl of music and the dancer, in her swirling silks and veils, her ankle bells, and bracelets and necklaces, began to perform.
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7 83 I offer to you intriguing considerations, bright with portent.
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11 45 I reached into my bulging pouch, hung from my belt, and handed the attendant a small, bright disk.
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12 11 Certainly they were not noted for their streams glittering with nuggets or mountains and caves bright with veins of gold.
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13 128 "Bright colors," he said, "wide markings, plain, simple, broad designs".
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16 310 Thurnock and I, as we took our departure, oars rising, shedding bright water, like drops of light, looked back to the island.
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19 113 "Please," she said, lifting her head to me, her eyes suddenly bright with tears, "do not sell me, Master".
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19 119 Women are marvelous speakers, bright, charming, gifted, and loquacious, nimble-tongued, perceptive, and quick-witted.
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20 174 Then, the flaming tent behind us, bright in the darkness, we made our way across the fields to our camp, where the Tesephone was beached.
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31 13 "It is bright, loud, and grotesque," said Aktis.
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37 1 What Cannot Speak May Say Much The salt scent of Thassa, borne inland over the piers, was bright in our nostrils.
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41 93 It was toward noon, the tenth Ahn, on the twentieth day of the siege, a bright, windy day, that Thrasymedes joined Thurnock, Clitus, and myself on a ragged, uneven portion of rebuilt wall, now, at this point, only some fifteen feet in height.
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43 122 Yet the flashing ring of struck steel was bright under the moon and surely that sound would carry well beyond the catapults, even were it not noticed amongst the distant tents.
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44 74 At the edge of the opening was a short, diagonal gouge in the stone, bright and stark against the otherwise well-weathered surface.
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52 54 I supposed that there were worst places to die, if one must, than in the midst of ringing metal on a goodly morning, on the deck of a fine, if disabled, ship, on the bright waves of Thassa, amongst friends, in the light of Tor-Tu-Gor.
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58 262 "Next afternoon," said Sakim, "when the lights are no longer too bright for the crew, when the noises are no longer too loud for them, when the slightest move no longer torments them, when the clouds no longer scream and beat on their heads, what course shall we set?" "Sybaris," I said, "there are d...
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63 172 "Surely you see the hideous irony here," I said, "a piteous fugitive, widely sought for torture and impalement, living in terror, fearing each small, unexpected sound, each unfamiliar step, for months, and then, suddenly, she is given hope, senses the bright beacon of refuge, is promised asylum, pro...
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