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Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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20 15 The large contingent of mercenaries who had flocked to his banner were kept as work slaves for a period of one year, to fill in the vast ditches and siege tunnels, to repair the extensive damage to the walls of Ar, and to rebuild those of its buildings that had been injured or burned in the fighting...
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Book 2. (6 results) Outlaw of Gor

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13 28 It seemed that all the glorious colors of Gor which had been denied the buildings of Tharna were lavished on this place of its amusements.
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20 7 I examined the low, wooden buildings which dotted the ugly landscape in the vicinity of the mines.
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23 77 Angry men, armed with whatever tools of destruction they might find, prowled the land, evading the sorties of Tharna's soldiers, hunting for granaries to rob, for buildings to burn, for slaves to free.
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23 93 The tarn's shadow glided over the blackened frames of buildings, over broken pens from which livestock had been driven, over orchards that were now no more than felled trees, their leaves and fruit brown and withered.
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23 118 Outside the walls several small buildings had been burned.
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23 192 Some of the buildings had been destroyed.
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Book 3. (10 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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25 100 At last we came to an opening which gave onto something of the sort for which I was looking, a rather small complex of buildings, where I saw several Muls at work but no Priest-Kings.
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28 8 Thinking to overcome us with little difficulty, the forces of Sarm, mounted on transportation disks, swept through the tunnels and plazas, but the Priest-Kings of Misk, hidden in rooms, concealed behind portals, firing from the ramps and the roofs of buildings in the open complexes, soon took fierce...
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28 256 We could hear no fall of buildings, no clatter of rubble.
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29 13 Here and there where a human or Priest-King would dart into the open the cone nearest to him would focus on him and the human or Priest-King, like the buildings and the walls, would seem to break apart into powder.
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29 97 A few yards from the flooring of the plaza I brought the craft again into order and, again throwing open the speed valve, darted into the midst of a complex of buildings, where I stopped, hovering a few feet above the street passing between them.
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29 116 Then without warning it seemed the stern of my craft vanished and I felt the deck suddenly give way and as half of the craft vanished in powder and the other half crumbled to the buildings below I seized the silver tube from the firing port and leaped downward to the back of the enemy ship.
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29 161 The buildings in the complex were deserted.
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31 105 In the distance we could hear the domed side of a complex begin to crumble, raining down huge blocks of stone on the buildings beneath.
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32 52 At this moment, skimming over the buildings in the complex, no more than a few feet from their roofs, came one of the ships of Misk, piloted by Al-Ka, accompanied by his woman.
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32 90 Some more tons of stone fell from the hole torn in the ceiling, raining down on the buildings beneath, breaking through the roofs, shattering to the streets.
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Book 4. (12 results) Nomads of Gor

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19 40 Then I became aware of the flickerings and reflections of light from over the wall, against some of the higher buildings about.
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19 67 He made his way across some dark blue and yellowish-orange grass and came to the buildings set against one wall of the gardens.
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20 33 It stood some seventy feet from any of the other buildings in the compound that was the House of Saphrar, but now, swaying, formed of rope and sticks, a removable footbridge extended from an open door in its side to a porch some several feet below us.
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21 56 I came to the ring of flat, cleared ground, some hundred feet or so wide, which separates the walled compound of buildings which constitutes the House of Saphrar of Turia from all the surrounding structures.
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21 344 I saw a woman, unveiled, hair streaming behind her, twisting, buffeted, among the kaiila, somehow managing to find her way among them and rush between two buildings.
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21 347 The roof of a building on the left was afire and smoke and sparks were being hurled into the sky and swept by the wind across the adjoining buildings.
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22 5 Certain of the Hundreds, delegated the task, had immediately, almost before the alarm bars could sound, seized many of the wells, granaries and public buildings, including the very palace of Phanius Turmus itself.
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22 36 At last it was night and we were making our way through the streets of Turia, sometimes between burning buildings.
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24 50 The structures about the compound had been fortified by Tuchuks, and walls of stone and wood had been thrown into the streets and openings between the buildings, thus enclosing the compound.
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24 53 These warriors I stationed on roofs of buildings encircling the compound, as close to the walls as possible.
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26 23 "My own recommendation," Harold was saying, "would be first to fly my tarn cavalry over the walls, clearing them with thousands of arrows, and then, in a second wave, to fly dozens of ropes of warriors to the roofs of the main buildings, to seize them and burn the others".
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26 101 The clear ground between the walls and the first buildings was similarly empty, though here and there I saw some litter, pieces of boxes, broken arrows, patches of cloth.
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Book 5. (1 results) Assassin of Gor

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17 194 Ho-Tu turned and strode away between the buildings.
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Book 6. (12 results) Raiders of Gor

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9 93 Those buildings which face outwards, say, either at the delta or along the shallow Tamber Gulf, have no windows on the outward side, and the outward walls of them are several feet thick, and they are surmounted, on the roofs, with crenelated parapets.
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9 505 The buildings lining the canals on each side were dark, but, here and there, in the side of one, near a window, was a torch.
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9 506 I looked at the brick, the stone, watched the patterns and shadows playing on the walls of the buildings of Port Kar.
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9 655 And then the dawn came and, over the buildings of Port Kar, beyond them, and beyond the shallow, muddy Tamber, where the Vosk empties, we saw, I for the first time, gleaming Thassa, the Sea.
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11 81 I pointed down to some of the canals, cutting between the buildings.
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11 84 There we saw crossbowmen fleeing, in lines along the edges of the buildings.
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15 14 The rooftops and the windows of the buildings were crowded with cheering throngs, and I lifted my arm to them and accepted their acclaim.
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15 40 The wild crowds screamed and shouted, and threw flowers, and the flagship, oars dipping in stately fashion, took her regal path, ram's crest dividing flowers in the water, between the buildings lining the great canal.
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16 340 And I heard men behind him cry, "There is a Home Stone in Port Kar! There is a Home Stone in Port Kar!" This cry was taken up by thousands, and everywhere I saw men pause in their flight, and boats put about, and men pour from the entryways of their buildings onto the walks lining the canals.
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16 422 And in those waters beyond there were crowded hundreds of boats, filled with men, many of them holding torches, the flames' reflections flickering on the walls of the buildings and on the water.
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18 161 We had flown over the city, seeing below us the darkened buildings, the reflection of the three moons of Gor flickering in the dark canals.
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18 945 I saw the Venna and the Tela in the lakelike courtyard of my holding, and the sea gate, and the canals, and the roofs of buildings.
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Book 7. (4 results) Captive of Gor

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7 5 Laura is a small trading city, a river port, whose buildings are largely of wood, consisting mostly it seems of warehouses and taverns.
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8 117 I could now see, fairly clearly, the wooden buildings of Laura.
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8 525 There was no penthouse here, no Maserati, no wealth, no mighty buildings, no roar and drone of engines, no scream of planes, no clouds of choking smoke.
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8 563 I loved its ramps going down to the river and winding among the warehouses, the painted, carved wood on its buildings, the black shingles, the smell of bosk on the ramps and the creak of wagons, the smell of fish and salt, and glistening tharlarion, from the river, the smell of hides and fur, and sa...
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Book 9. (4 results) Marauders of Gor

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2 324 The High Initiate then began to intone a complex prayer in archaic Gorean, to which, at intervals, responses were made by the assembled Initiates, those within the railing originally and now, too, those twelve, still carrying candles, who had accompanied the body from the ship through the dirt stree...
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13 161 Looking out through the window I could see the palisade about the hall and its associated buildings.
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15 15 We slipped behind the hall, keeping, where possible, buildings between us and the yard.
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17 42 The distant light in the great cities, unknowing, soon to be occupied with the concerns of their days, piercing the haze of daily, customary poisons, first struck the heights of the lofty buildings, reflecting from the rectangular windows, like sheets of burnished copper reflecting the fire of the s...
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Book 10. (17 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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2 59 The buildings of Tor are of mud brick, covered with colored, often flaking, plasters.
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2 70 I looked up at the buildings.
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2 72 The buildings in Tor are seldom more than four stories high, which is about as high as one may build safely with beams and mud brick.
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2 73 Because of the irregular topography of Tor, however, which is a hilly, rocky area, like most of the Tahari terrain, many of the buildings, built on shelves and rises, seemed considerably higher.
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2 74 These buildings, on the outside smooth and bleak, save for occasional narrow windows, high, not wide enough to admit a body, abut directly on the streets, making the streets like deep, walled alleys.
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2 252 When I had arrived in Tor I had, immediately, rented one of the small, hovel-like compartments in the plastered, mud-brick buildings near the street of caravan tables.
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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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7 748 As soon as I was out of earshot of Ibn Saran and Hamid, and among the walls of the oasis buildings, I reined in.
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10 19 Hassan stood in his stirrups, looking about at the palms, the red-clay walls, the buildings of mud, some domed, of the oasis, the gardens.
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10 30 The mud buildings at an oasis such as that of Two Scimitars last for many years.
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11 177 I could see the buildings, whitish, with domes, the palms, the gardens, the high, circling walls of red clay.
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11 190 A second common sort of mirage, more private than the first, but quite normal, is the interpretation of a mixed terrain, usually rocks and scrub brush, mixed with rising heat waves, as an oasis with water, palms and buildings.
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11 206 It is thus not unusual that, in a desert situation, a calm, normal person may, misinterpreting physical cues, make an oasis, complete with buildings and trees, out of energies reflected over a heated surface from rock and brush.
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11 518 Four buildings were afire.
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11 588 "Destroy the palms, burn the buildings," she said.
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14 630 In the distance, below, perhaps five pasangs away, in the hot, concave, white salt bleakness, like a vast, white, shallow bowl, pasangs wide, there were compounds, low, white buildings of mud brick, plastered.
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15 65 I hid the bit of silk in the crusts, at the edge of one of the low, white plastered buildings.
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Book 11. (4 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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9 894 Girls more beautiful than I often slaved in the kitchens of great houses or, in state tunics and chains, scrubbed the floors of public buildings at night.
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12 716 In a few Ehn we emerged, after climbing stairs, on the roof of one of the buildings, and, thence, by a narrow bridge, crossed to one of the parapets.
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12 718 I could see fire licking through the roof of one of the buildings.
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21 47 Between buildings I could see galleys at their moorings.
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Book 12. (9 results) Beasts of Gor

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7 218 "In there, between the buildings," said the man, the leader of the others.
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7 219 Angrily I moved between the buildings and stood in the half darkness of the alley, my hands raised.
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10 319 He turned suddenly and, bolting, fled toward the platform and main buildings.
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11 47 The men and guardsmen who had been at the wall's center, in the buildings there, and west along the wall, including the hunters at that termination of the structure, learning the breaking of the wall and the freeing and arming of many laborers, had for the most part fled.
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11 208 Other buildings, too, with the exception of this hall, have been fired.
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11 274 Buildings were burned.
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11 343 They would see the destruction of the wall, and of the buildings, except for the hall.
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11 421 I looked away from her, out over the tundra, the loneliness, the blackened remains of the scattered logs which had been the wall, the ruined buildings.
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35 948 "Warriors storm buildings and burn towers".
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Book 13. (11 results) Explorers of Gor

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3 6 Here and there small lamps, set in niches, high in stone walls, or lanterns, hung on iron projections, shed small pools of light on the sides of buildings and illuminated, too, in their secondary ambiance, the stones of the sloping walkway on which I trod, one of many leading down to the wharves.
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3 127 It was still rather dark in the canal streets with the buildings on each side.
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4 339 I did not think she would be likely to flee east along the canal walkways, for these were relatively narrow and, on them, between the buildings and the canal, she might be easily trapped.
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4 345 Too, it would, given the construction of the buildings of Port Kar, be difficult to attain the roof of one from the outside of the building.
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4 441 The buildings were on one side, the canal on the other.
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4 934 I watched Port Kar, its low buildings, fall behind.
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11 142 Most of the buildings of Schendi have wooden ventilator shafts at the roof, which may be opened and closed.
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13 802 The tops of the buildings, as nearly as I could determine, seemed clear.
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32 575 I was conducted down a long street, between mighty buildings.
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53 7 The scribe had led us through the city, ascending and descending streets, making our way through various buildings, following various ancient avenues, flanked by the ruins of what must once have been an impressive grandeur.
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53 522 I saw the narrow column of Kurii disappear among the distant buildings.
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Book 14. (7 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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13 192 The broad avenue was beautiful, with its width, its paving and fountains, the buildings, the trees, the central cylinder in the distance.
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23 2 It was the central tunnel of that network of tunnels under the lands of the mistress, by means of which various buildings, such as storage sheds, the incubation shed, certain of the stables, and the nursery, are connected.
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24 1 Another Girl in the Tunnel I stood again in the absolute darkness of the tunnel, the central tunnel of that network of tunnels under the lands of the mistress, by means of which various buildings, such as storage sheds, the incubation shed, certain of the stables, and the nursery, are connected.
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27 11 "The house, and many of the buildings, were burned".
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27 50 I had then left her on her back, her knees drawn up, tied, in the incubation shed, while I had investigated certain buildings and sheds, gathering such supplies as I thought I might wish.
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28 83 Her house, and several of her buildings, had been burned.
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29 25 I thrust her toward the door of the barn, and, in moments, we were crossing the meadows, beyond the ruins of several buildings, the sun on our left.
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Book 15. (2 results) Rogue of Gor

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22 13 Five warehouses, and some ancillary buildings were afire.
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22 188 I had seen the insolence of the pirates, the burning of buildings.
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Book 16. (3 results) Guardsman of Gor

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16 13 Almost at that very moment, from the seemingly deserted buildings of Victoria, running and screaming, charging, brandishing an incredible assortment of chains, tools and weapons, there issued hundreds of the outraged citizens of Victoria.
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16 31 Still more citizens were running forth, from buildings, from further down the wharves, with spears and swords.
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20 185 There I shall arrange a loan and with this money return to Vonda, there to rebuild the burned buildings of my ranch".
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Book 17. (1 results) Savages of Gor

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6 65 Who would buy them? The compound also contained several larger and smaller wooden structures, primarily holding and storage areas, barracks for men and various ancillary buildings, a cook house, smithy, discipline shack, and such.
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Book 18. (2 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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33 3 We then, the grass to our waist, dragging the travois on which Hci lay, and other articles, surmounted a rise, surveying the maize fields below us, the buildings and palisade of the compound beyond them.
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33 57 Approaching, along the side of the maize field, coming from the direction of the palisade and buildings in the distance was a group of Waniyanpi.
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Book 19. (16 results) Kajira of Gor

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4 63 It had been a thrilling experience for me, seeing the people, the shops, the streets, the buildings.
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6 222 Generally I had been able to see little or nothing, usually only the narrow, gloomy doors, often of iron, of grim, almost fortresslike buildings, but, sometimes, there would be an open-air market or some girls, as displays, would be chained outside.
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6 223 Inside some of these buildings I had learned there were display courtyards where girls, for example, might be examined in natural light.
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24 212 He had emerged from one of the mill buildings.
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24 331 "I love Borkon!" In another moment or two we were following Borkon across the yard and toward one of the buildings.
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30 24 This is usually the responsibility of those whose buildings face the street, the larger avenues, squares and plazas, and such, being cleaned by state slaves.
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30 231 They are commonly painted a few feet above the ground, on buildings at corners.
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30 232 Many buildings at intersections in Ar, incidentally, particularly where the streets are narrow, have rounded corners.
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30 240 I did not know the streets by name in this area and even had I been able to read the signs, there were none written here on the corners of the buildings.
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30 258 He must have come somehow, between or through the buildings.
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30 268 He took me into the alley, and, in a few moments, we came to a recessed place, between two buildings.
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30 331 I saw the wall, over some buildings, in the distance.
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30 349 I saw one or two men on the street back against the buildings.
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30 375 Buildings hemmed me in.
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30 376 There was no way through or around the buildings.
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36 654 There is no doubt that numerous, lovely, scarcely clad slaves, in the streets and boulevards, in the plazas and parks, on the bridges and amongst the towers, perhaps hurrying on errands, perhaps casting shy glances over their shoulders at young men, perhaps visiting or shopping with their masters, a...
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Book 20. (2 results) Players of Gor

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1 70 Their hand-printed handbills and hand-painted posters, the latter pasted on the sides of buildings and on the news boards, were much in evidence.
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5 2 It lies in the midst of certain other buildings, mostly now, too, closed and dark.
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Book 21. (18 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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26 797 I pulled my captive around and between buildings, and emerged onto the street called the Alley of the Slave Brothels of Ludmilla, and then I went between more buildings and emerged on the Avenue of Turia.
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9 269 "Ho! Move!" We then drew again into the street and began to follow the rough signs painted on the sides of buildings to the wagon yards.
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10 46 I could see mountings for it on several of the buildings.
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12 144 He pointed over the wagons, over the camp, over the buildings about the camp.
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13 17 Within these buildings, soldiers were looting.
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13 25 "In more than a dozen buildings we have seen it".
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13 47 Sometimes, when a town is taken, you can feel the heat of burning buildings even blocks away.
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16 43 It is, after all, one of Torcadino's great buildings.
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20 30 Within the gamut of those gleaming walls, so lofty and mighty, rose thousands of buildings, and a veritable forest of ascendant towers, of diverse heights and colors.
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22 352 Such buildings tend to be vulnerable to structural stresses, and are sometimes weakened by slight movements of the earth.
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24 75 Yet, behind it, reached by a crevice between some buildings, only a walk of some two or three Ehn away, was the Alley of the Slave Brothels of Ludmilla.
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26 790 Beyond this yard was the narrow alley behind the buildings.
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26 857 I then, leaving my former hostess behind me on her knees, naked, her hands and ankles tied behind her to the slave ring, the tarsk bit on her belly, conducted the blonde back between the buildings to the Alley of the Slave Brothels of Ludmilla.
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26 1038 She then led the way back across the street, to the opening between the buildings, one of several which joined the Avenue of Turia, in this section, with the Alley of the Slave Brothels of Ludmilla.
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26 1304 "Someone is passing by, in the passage between the buildings".
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26 1309 It was now warm between the buildings.
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26 1754 She then preceded me from the back passage, into the larger passage, running between the buildings, leading to the Avenue of Turia.
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26 1780 She then took her way in the opposite direction, which would have been to the right, as we had emerged between the buildings.
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Book 22. (11 results) Dancer of Gor

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7 46 "There are so many burned buildings here!" We saw that what she had said was true, peeping out.
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7 47 It seemed, here, that an entire district, or streets, at least, of buildings, had been burned in this area.
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7 50 Indeed, in various places, sometimes between gutted, blackened shells of buildings, there were cleared areas.
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7 53 In many places tents and temporary buildings, sometimes little more than shacks, had been erected.
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7 92 I found almost everything I saw different, and interesting, the men and women, the children, the clothes, their accouterments, the streets, the buildings, the tents, the stalls, the trees, the flowers, everything.
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17 85 Buildings were on both sides of us.
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17 104 The public buildings, the law court and the "house of the Administrator," the locus of public offices, were similarly structured and adorned.
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17 255 But, also today I was charged with seeing the square, the buildings, and the people of Market of Semris.
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19 92 I backed a little into the alleyway, between the two buildings.
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20 149 Similarly they generally would not use them for the construction of temples and public buildings.
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29 1621 Mirus scratched a board, taken from the ruins of the buildings about, which he fixed on the common grave of Borko and Hendow.
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Book 23. (20 results) Renegades of Gor

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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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24 782 Beyond the pier, abutting on harborside wharfage, there were numerous buildings, mostly shops, such as those of sailmakers, oarmakers and sawyers, and warehouses, and, here and there, between these buildings, narrow streets, stretching up toward the city.
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2 183 The inn itself, aside from certain ancillary buildings, was built of heavy logs, and in two parts, or structures, with a common, peaked roof, and an open space, covered from above by the roof, between the two parts.
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2 204 I examined various of the smaller buildings and sheds, their location and what vantages or cover they might provide.
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8 36 I went about the shed and cot, and crossed the yard, moving between buildings.
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8 734 In such flight one can use the screening of a forest or of low hills, even buildings, to make an approach to an objective.
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8 754 In the first pass I hovered the bird for a time, some fifty yards over a portion of the court on the top of the palisaded plateau, one rather behind and to the left of the main inn buildings, as one would face them, entering.
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13 31 "They are clearing the ground outside the citadel, destroying the buildings, that they may bring their engines within range".
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13 32 We heard, from somewhere outside, the long, wild scream of a woman, perhaps from among the buildings, outside the wall.
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13 198 "You have not now, for some time, heard the crashing of buildings," I said.
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13 200 There is nothing to keep them from undermining the foundations, firing the buildings, clearing paths through debris".
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14 103 Indeed, of late, we had even heard the sounds of collapsed buildings, some of them perhaps within a hundred yards of us.
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14 115 The buildings about the citadel have been brought down.
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15 422 "What did you expect to do," I asked, "if, say, Cosians, or others, in darkened buildings or flaming streets, came upon you?" "I had thought I would have had my letter of safety," she said.
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15 989 "I thought I saw a building move," she said, "back by the other buildings".
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15 998 "Buildings cannot move!" she said.
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15 1008 "They are not really buildings as you think," I said, "made of stone, and such.
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17 388 I then went to the wall and looked out, once more, on the vast panoply before me, across the burned, leveled ground, at the engines, the troops, the hulks and shells of buildings in the distance.
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24 939 Thereafter they learn to serve their dark masters well, within the recesses of the cool, white buildings of the oases and cities, and out on the desert, in the tents.
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24 1072 It was one of those narrow streets leading up between buildings, leading up, away from the wharves.
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Book 24. (1 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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39 8 I thought I detected the shadows which had been with us since the camp, darknesses in the darkness, moving furtively to the side, to the edge of the buildings.
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Book 25. (17 results) Magicians of Gor

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8 165 Incidentally, many buildings, particularly public buildings, in this part of the city, which was an older part of the city, were quite old.
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6 17 To be sure, many folks, presumably poorer folks, or at least folks less ready to part with a tarsk bit, simply inscribe their messages, in effect as graffiti, on pillars, walls of buildings, and such.
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8 166 Many smaller buildings, dwellings, shops, insulae, and such, on the other hand, were relatively new.
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8 329 Some incidents had occurred nonetheless, such as the destruction of property in various taverns and the vandalization of certain buildings, for example, baths and libraries.
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11 281 "There are adjoining buildings," I said.
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12 588 It would attract more attention, I feared, to march our captive between buildings, through backways and alleys, as though we wished to hide her.
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13 130 "But it is here I am," he exclaimed, looking about himself, at the street, the avenue, the buildings, the trees, the fountains, the sky.
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15 81 The atrium in the house of records, I had learned, was open to the sky, which opening, as in many public and private Gorean buildings in the south, serves to admit light.
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16 298 "Yes," I said, and, in a few moments, in a sheltered place, between buildings, we had resumed our customary guise, that of auxiliary guardsmen, police in the pay of Cos.
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18 91 I had no wish to do anything which Appanius might find disagreeable, such as burn down one of his buildings.
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19 46 Some of the great villas, owned by wealthy landowners, and such, are, in effect, with all their buildings, retainers, slaves, and such, tiny cities.
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22 140 Some shopkeepers, householders, landlords, and such rent space on the streetsides of their buildings for this purpose.
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22 462 Many Gorean streets, incidentally, are almost always in shade because of their narrowness and the encompassing buildings.
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24 243 "He is going between the buildings," said Marcus.
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24 386 "Do you not think they might not be, separately, of course, in nearby buildings?" asked Appanius.
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24 388 "Slaves do not just walk into buildings without some business there.
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24 451 Did he not realize that my plans might now, in a moment, be set awry? I turned back, to pound on the door, but he took me firmly by the arm and we followed Appanius and his retainers back down the street, until we turned left, and made our way through an opening between two buildings.
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Book 26. (18 results) Witness of Gor

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8 591 I thought of my old world, and its buildings, its streets, its roads, its signs, its crowding, its people, so many of them so wonderful, so precious, so many of them so miserable and sad, their mode of dress, now seemingly so unnatural, or eccentric, the vanities, the hostilities, the offensive, dis...
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11 1575 The point of the high bridges seems to be twofold, first, they are lovely in their traceries against the sky and between the cylinderlike buildings, and such things are important to these people, who seem to have an unusually developed aesthetic sense and, second, they have military value, inasmuch ...
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16 56 Outside it I could see lights in some of the tower buildings of the city.
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24 35 Some men now emerged from buildings.
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24 230 Some of these squads went into buildings, adjoining the terrace.
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24 237 To be sure, it could doubtless be reached in some other fashions, through narrow passageways, over the balustrade from below, descending from adjacent roofs, perhaps through certain buildings.
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24 252 Whereas the buildings, and towers, might be burned out, it would be practical, on the whole, to do it only from the inside.
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24 277 Across the terrace, now, to my left, as I now knelt, my back to the wall, I saw some people being herded out, onto the terrace, from one of the buildings.
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24 302 I saw a slave girl fleeing from one of the buildings.
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24 346 But if it were mere massacre that was upon the mind of these men, if simple butchery was their intent, why did they not fall upon the huddled, kneeling group as a whole? Why did they not, in some two dozen fierce, merciless strokes, make the terrace run red with blood? Indeed, why had they bothered ...
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24 348 Perhaps it had been cut off in one of the buildings, a rear entrance sealed.
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24 388 Smoke was now emanating from three of the buildings bordering the terrace.
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24 460 Two more buildings adjacent to the terrace were now aflame.
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24 468 Almost at the same time a line of guardsmen appeared far to my left, emerging from one of the buildings.
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24 623 A sign was given and one of the soldiers went down the wall, permitting what slaves were there to leap up and speed from the terrace, some through buildings, some over the bridge, others, crossing the terrace, to descend by the far steps.
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24 685 "Yes, Master!" she cried, and leaped up, and fled from the terrace, leaving through one of the buildings, that from which, earlier, she and others had been herded forth.
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24 882 "Master!" After he had disappeared, taking his way through one of the buildings to the left, the Lady Constanzia collapsed to the stones of the terrace, weeping.
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24 944 One of the buildings, bordering the terrace, one now rather before me, and to my right, was still afire.
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Book 27. (13 results) Prize of Gor

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13 41 The building on whose roof she stood, and it had been a long climb to the roof from the laundry, bearing the heavy basket, was very similar to most of the other buildings she saw in the city.
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13 71 Help me to be a good slave!" She looked out over the buildings.
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16 89 Across the way, behind the stalls, and also behind her, on her side of the square, were brick, tenementlike buildings, some seven or eight stories in height, very different from the tall cylinders she had seen before.
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16 91 At the other side of the square, down a narrow street threading its way between buildings similar to those about the square, she could glimpse what seemed to be a high, broad wall.
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16 781 She had seen that there were dozens of stalls in the square, most lining the fronts of buildings, stalls displaying an incredible variety of goods.
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16 1405 Gorean buildings of this sort often present a solid front to the street, this discouraging traffic, trespassing, burglary, and such.
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17 938 Once she heard the scream of a tarn as it swept between buildings, and felt the blast of wind from its wings which half thrust her to the wall.
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17 939 Its shadow passed and she turned her head to the left, looking for it, but missed it between the buildings.
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17 1072 For better than an Ahn she was led through the streets, and alleys, and between buildings, sometimes with passages, many of them steep, downward and upward, and sometimes so narrow that she might strike her shoulders, first on one side, then on the other.
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19 620 In other areas, muchly dark, one could scarcely detect the narrow crooked ways which twisted amongst clutters of buildings, some of them several-storied insulae.
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27 2497 Slaves, incidentally, are usually not allowed in public buildings, and certainly not in temples.
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30 512 Soon ropes are fastened on them, plenteously, perhaps to convince them that they are now other than they were, and they are carried between buildings, and down stairs, to be left in a basement, gagged, and bound hand and foot, heavily, until nightfall, when they will be placed in a wagon, perhaps wi...
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30 633 Buildings are burned, stores looted.
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Book 28. (1 results) Kur of Gor

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80 85 As the inquiry of the man of Peisistratus might have seemed to some readers somewhat anomalous, it should be mentioned that on Gor slaves are not permitted in many public buildings, rather as other animals would not be permitted in them.
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Book 29. (5 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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8 353 Metal leashes are common if one wishes to chain the girl to a slave ring, a convenience with which Gorean buildings and streets are usually well furnished.
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17 63 Two buildings were aflame.
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18 234 Buildings might be especially dangerous.
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19 18 Fortunately the gigantic draft beasts, disoriented, snorting and lumbering, had not been loosed amongst buildings, or much of the camp, where it was intact, might have been reduced to shambles.
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38 28 These would be devastating at sea, as on the 25th of Se'Kara, and perhaps effective against tents and wooden buildings, but I feared they would not seriously discommode an infantry.
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Book 30. (6 results) Mariners of Gor

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2 205 Some of the loveliest buildings on Gor were their temples.
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3 533 And buildings were being searched, room to room.
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3 942 About the eighteenth Ahn we reached the road, and, shortly thereafter, we reached what I took to be the village of Ragnar, no more than some small buildings, mostly dark, some little more than shacks, on both sides of the road.
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3 947 Its auxiliary buildings, its stables, its stable yard, and such, like the main building, seemed similarly fallen into a state of forlorn desuetude.
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3 951 The slaves were then put between two of the small buildings, and the men sat near them, in various attitudes of repose, some fetching food and drink from their packs.
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3 1256 Too, he had women nearby, between two buildings, bound and in coffle, and would not be eager to surrender them to another's chains.
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Book 31. (7 results) Conspirators 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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8 976 Then, a moment later, looking about myself, at the buyers, the street, the local buildings, the crowded shops across the way, I realized how foolish were my conjectures.
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10 434 I put up my head, and walked, unhurriedly, in the measured saunter of the slave, proud of her collar, and proud of her womanhood, and well demonstrating it, toward the buildings at the edge of the market.
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10 457 I walked at the edge of the market, the walls of buildings to my right.
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12 172 "A body was discovered," she said, "thrust between buildings".
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15 346 He drew me back, into a small side street, little more than a space between buildings, from which we had just emerged, for I had sought a most clandestine, unfrequented route to the shop of Epicrates, and, holding me tightly against him, covered my mouth tightly with one vast paw.
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46 95 Too, I have little doubt that the kajira, like the colorful buildings and soaring bridges, the spacious parks and wide boulevards, adds to the charm of Gor.
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Book 32. (19 results) Smugglers of Gor

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9 347 "They have buildings in the barbarian lands?" he asked.
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13 3 On the fourth day, after the shore of Thassa, we reached the large, sprawling, extensive set of buildings and shops called Tarncamp.
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15 63 There were many buildings there, for housing, cooking, feeding, washing, sleeping, exercise, storage, and such.
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15 408 I did not know for certain what lay across the Alexandra, but I did know there were two or three buildings there, and something which was palisaded.
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15 440 There was very little on the southern bank of the Alexandra, some two or three buildings, and the mysterious palisaded area.
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22 53 It was not as though one seized them as they fled from buildings in a burning city, and, even there, sometimes one simply stripped them and released them, assessing them as less than collar¬ worthy.
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23 97 I could not well see the buildings there, for the glare, but I could see some of them, and there were others there, as well.
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23 99 This was all a portion of Shipcamp, I supposed, though across the river, apart from the main buildings.
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39 427 Let us suppose a city has fallen, buildings are roaring with flame, blood is in the streets, walls collapse, the air is thick with choking, stinging smoke.
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42 138 I did know that in the vicinity of Shipcamp, across the river, there were some buildings, including a mysterious stockade, where, it was rumored, prize slaves were housed, under great security, presumably to be boarded on the great ship, shortly before its departure.
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50 275 Standing at the edge of the shore, I could see, across the river, some of the buildings, and the mysterious stockade, which had excited my curiosity in the past.
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50 355 To one side, there was a steep wooden stairway, with broad steps, leading up from the beach to the level, where I could see something of the higher parts of the walls, and the roofs, of several small buildings, and the carved points of the palings of the stockade.
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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 80 If Shipcamp were abandoned, and, with it, the stockade and buildings here, on the south side of the Alexandra, what of me? Had I been forgotten? I could not free myself.
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52 97 The torch, I feared, was being set to the local buildings.
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52 167 They had doubtless been firing the buildings and stockade.
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52 390 On the hill, behind us, the buildings were burning, and the stockade.
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52 497 Why had that been? As the great ship prepared for its departure, Shipcamp was fired, and the buildings and stockade on the south side of the river, as well.
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52 511 Smoke billowed from Shipcamp, as well as the buildings and the stockade on our side of the river.
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Book 33. (11 results) Rebels of Gor

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1 55 I learned later of the nature of the attack, the silent, signaling smoke arrows coordinating the four prongs of the attack, from four passes, the following blasts of conch horns, and the rolling of drums, the streaming into the valley of armed men, the small, narrow, rectangular banners of Lord Yama...
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1 503 I supposed they were kept largely indoors, where they would be in little danger, should a storming take place, or an occasional stone or looping arrow fall into the courtyard space between the walls, and the buildings and the castle itself.
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7 92 Might not a climber, dark in the night, as silent as a snake, attain the parapet, cut a throat, and set meager stores ablaze? Might not a rush to a gate, up one of the high trails, perhaps that from the wharves below, be too belatedly recognized? What if a thousand fire arrows should be launched at ...
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9 62 Men milled about, their eyes wild, uncertain now where to begin, which buildings to breach, what portals to force.
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9 74 At the same time more than a thousand mercenaries streamed forth from the barracks, sheds, ancillary buildings, and the castle itself, crying out a hundred war cries from a hundred cities.
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11 30 "I trust he was not in the courtyard, or waiting in the ancillary buildings, to rush forth upon the looters," he said.
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13 259 Buildings were burned.
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16 31 Whereas I had been given much liberty of movement within the palace, the garden, and the surrounding grounds, with their shops, pantries, storerooms, and numerous ancillary buildings, including a bakery, smokehouse, and brewery, certain areas were forbidden to me.
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23 118 "It leads beyond the palace to the vicinity of auxiliary buildings, the dairy, the smoke house, store houses, some workshops, the pens.
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26 59 I then turned about and made my way toward several of the ancillary buildings in the vicinity of the palace.
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27 94 Then we were at its far terminus, that which emerged in brush, not far from several of the smaller, ancillary buildings.
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Book 34. (9 results) Plunder of Gor

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26 156 Surely these lovely slaves contribute, like parks and well-designed, colorful buildings, to the beauty of a city.
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29 26 The sky was overcast, but occasionally the light of the white moon, the clouds parted, broke through, illuminating the street and adjoining buildings.
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32 17 In any event, we stayed near the center of the walkway, away from the buildings and shadows.
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33 734 We had turned right, in the alley, and were making our way between buildings onto a street, that which we had originally descended, leading toward the wharves, where we turned left.
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39 77 I could see buildings about, and, in the distance, several of the lofty towers of Ar, lights in many of the narrow windows, not wide enough to admit the passage of a body, and several of the narrow, graceful, lamp-lit bridges that, like delicate traceries, at various levels, linked the towers.
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40 69 Art may be lavished on rooms and buildings, on bedding and clothing, on the saddle or harness of a kaiila, even on cuisine, in its preparation and display.
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41 110 Indeed, in many public buildings slaves are not allowed, no more than other domestic animals.
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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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68 225 It is common for Goreans to enhance their surroundings with color, the exteriors of buildings, the interiors of rooms.
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Book 35. (12 results) Quarry of Gor

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6 96 This may have had to do with a shift in the wind, easily marked at the docks, but not evident where we were, on the street between buildings, or, perhaps, it was occasioned when the fire reached different materials in the affected building or buildings.
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1 33 Their buildings, inside and out, are bright with color.
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11 3 The sides of buildings often seem to rise from the very waters of the canal itself.
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11 4 In this way, many of the buildings, worn and stained, often touched with lichen, dampened by the lapping waters, swelling and ebbing with the tides of the gulf, are, in effect, island fortresses.
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11 39 To my left was the canal; to my right were buildings, some portaled with stout, carved doorways, their associated barred gates now open, to be closed at dark, and several housing open-sided stores and shops, furnished with folding, wooden screens, to be shut after the time of business, which, as wit...
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11 46 Indeed, many of the buildings abutting directly on the canals, those fortresslike dwellings earlier alluded to, may have been designed originally to provide a defense not so much against foreign aggressors as local, domestic predation.
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35 27 Then, after something like an Ahn, I no longer felt the sun and breezes on my arms and I had the sense that we might be making our way in narrower, less traveled canals, darker canals, between or behind close buildings.
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35 58 I would later learn that its high porch and parapet were literally one, as was the case with several other large buildings and holdings, with a tiny portion of the city's walls.
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37 65 Indeed, my ambulations took me regularly past the portal, coming and going, of one of these buildings.
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37 67 Many such buildings, incidentally, lack walkways, and can be reached only by water.
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43 38 Occasionally we saw a woman in a window of one of the buildings lining the canal.
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45 159 The newcomers, freeing themselves of the attentions of the crowd, began to search the buildings, housings, domiciles, emporiums, and barracks of the Skerry of Lars.
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Book 36. (2 results) Avengers of Gor

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41 248 "Some buildings are fortunate," he said.
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41 259 "Yes," said Thrasymedes, "that house, the large one amongst the unharmed buildings".
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