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Book 1. (14 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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1 65 I widened my search, keeping that strange metal envelope with its blue ambience the center of my movements.
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2 77 We met in the center of the room and embraced.
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2 118 "In peasant villages on this world," he continued, "each hut was originally built around a flat stone which was placed in the center of the circular dwelling.
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4 143 In the center of the amphitheater was a throne of office, and on this throne, in his robe of state—a plain brown garment, the humblest cloth in the hall—sat my father, Administrator of Ko-ro-ba, once Ubar, War Chieftain of the city.
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5 48 The Home Stone of a city is the center of various rituals.
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6 22 In the center of the circle was a low, round platform, some ten paces in diameter, reached by four circular steps that extended about the perimeter of the platform.
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6 25 I lunged for the center of the platform, breaking under my foot a small ceremonial basket filled with grain, kicking from my path a Ka-la-na container, splashing the fermented red liquid across the stone surface.
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6 26 I raced to the pile of stones at the center of the platform, the girl's screaming in my ears.
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11 71 Talena retired behind the silk partition, and I built up the fire in the center of the tent, not wishing to retire as yet.
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15 66 Whereas the military camp is usually laid out in a set of concentric squares, reflecting the fourfold principle of military organization customary on Gor, the merchant camp is laid out in concentric circles, the guards' tents occupying the outermost ring, the craftsmen's, strap-masters', attendants'...
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15 117 In the center of the great tent, seated alone on cushions before a small fire, were two men, a game board between them.
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18 76 In the center of the pit a crude cistern had been carved from the living rock and was half filled with cold but foul water.
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18 94 Then, with a shout of anger at my stupidity, I ran to the shallow cistern in the center of the pit and fell on my stomach before the chill, foul water.
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19 39 I was over the cylinder and dropping the tarn to its center.
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Book 2. (11 results) Outlaw of Gor

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6 93 Fists clenched, she stands in the center of the room, alone, all eyes upon her, beautiful in the light of the hanging lamps.
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13 141 Those who wore the silver masks had risen to their feet, and the force of their cries pressed in on me like knives, the air itself seemed filled with the bedlam of their command, "Slay him!" I turned and walked slowly to the center of the arena.
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13 145 As I stood there in the center of the arena, alone, silent, aloof, not seeming to hear them, those hundreds, rather thousands, who wore the silver masks understood that their will had been spurned, that this creature alone on the sand beneath them had thwarted their pleasure.
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13 148 Calmly I waited in the center of the arena for the warriors.
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14 26 I looped the scarf about my shoulders and went to the center of the arena.
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14 27 No sooner had I reached the center than one of the sections of the wall rolled back, revealing a portal almost as high as the wall and perhaps thirty feet in width.
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16 97 Slowly, though no strength returned to my body, my vision cleared, first in the center, and then gradually toward the edges, until I could once again see the pillar, the sky beyond and my foes.
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17 10 One larger aperture, a circular hole perhaps two feet in diameter, was visible in the center of the long room.
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23 4 Men seeking the mountains, men tired of life, young idealists, opportunists eager to learn the secret of immortality in its recesses, would use the gate at the end of the central avenue of the Fair, a double gate of black logs mounted on giant wooden hinges, a gate that would swing open from the cen...
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24 23 Kron seized my arm and guided me to a table near the center of the room.
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26 25 Other Silver Masks had taken refuge in the mountains beyond the walls and these were hunted like sleen by converging rings of irate peasants, who drove them into the center of their hunting circles, whence, unmasked and bound, they were herded to the city to meet their fate.
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Book 3. (12 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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2 121 On the other hand if I were under the larl I would have a brief but clean strike at the great, pounding, eight-valved heart that lies in the center of its breast.
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4 19 In this great dome there was nothing save that at its very center there was a high dais and on this dais there was a large throne carved from a single block of stone.
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8 41 Then my eye saw, directly in the center of the ceiling, another energy bulb, like those in the walls, only the bulb was not lit.
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8 45 I leaped to the center of the stone platform.
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9 241 I could not conjecture the nature of the creature's experience but I knew that I stood within the center of its sensory field.
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15 44 Eight wires led from this box into the body of a Priest-King which lay on its back, inert, in the center of the room on a moss-softened stone table.
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19 62 Then it occurred to me that there must be some vital center not mentioned by Sarm, probably a crucial organ or organs for pumping the body fluids of the Priest-Kings, most simply something corresponding to the heart.
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21 73 I broke off the other end of the Mul-Torch, igniting it, and walked to the center of the chamber.
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26 208 She stood, very much alone, in the center of the smooth plastic case, numb, not moving.
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29 42 Moreover, I knew that the cage plastic with which my own ship was protected would be no more protection than tissue paper against Sarm's weapons, the nature of which was not to pierce or melt but, from a given center, radiating outwards, to shatter material gravitationally, breaking it apart and sca...
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29 62 The ceiling of the complex leapt away from above me and I found myself in the very center of the six ships, surrounded on the four sides, and above and below.
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30 47 In the center of this disk, recessed so I could not dash my head against it, was an iron ring.
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Book 4. (25 results) Nomads of Gor

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5 69 In the center of the wagon there is a small, shallow fire bowl, formed of copper, with a raised brass grating.
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6 3 We suddenly emerged into the center of what seemed to be a wide, grassy street among the wagons, a wide lane, open and level, an avenue in that city of Harigga, or Bosk Wagons.
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6 15 Kamchak stepped to the center of the grassy lane, lifting his hand, and the two riders, with their prize, reined in their mounts.
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8 585 When she had stood sideways I had favored the left, so that if the stroke was in error, the lance would miss the tospit altogether; but now, as she faced me, the stroke must be made for the center of the fruit; nothing else would do.
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9 81 More than once we encountered a line of musicians dancing single file down the center of the street, playing on their flutes and drums, perhaps on their way to a feast.
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10 14 The standard of the Kassars is that of a scarlet, three-weighted bola, which hangs from a lance; the symbolic representation of a bola, three circles joined at the center by lines, is used to mark their bosk and slaves; both Tenchika and Dina wore that brand; Kamchak had not decided to rebrand them,...
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12 209 The Tuchuks, of course, were most in evidence, sitting cross-legged in circles rather about a large fire near the center of the enclosure.
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13 135 There was a large circular stone platform in the center of the field.
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13 148 Kamchak and I dismounted and, from outside the circle, watched the four chief haruspexes of the Wagon Peoples approach the huge altar in the center of the field.
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14 32 Rather, to my astonishment, he rode before them all, racing his kaiila to the center of the line where some five or ten warriors, on kaiilaback, waited.
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14 67 Near the center of the wagon, alone, his head bent over, on the robe of gray boskhide, sat Kutaituchik, perhaps fifteen or twenty arrows imbedded in his body.
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17 86 It was almost as if it were lower in the center and the edges higher near the marble basin, inching as high as they could toward our sandals.
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17 97 It became deeper toward the center.
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17 98 About a third of the way toward the center I was entered into the pool to my waist.
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18 43 Each inch I moved toward the center of the pool my journey became easier.
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18 54 I splashed across the center of the pool, literally swimming.
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18 55 As soon as I had crossed the center I felt the fluids of the pool once again begin to gel and tighten.
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18 59 Then I was swimming freely in the yellow fluid at the center of the pool.
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23 67 Our bosk horns rang out and my brave Thousand, worn in the saddle, weary, on spent kaiila, without a murmur or a protest, turned and following my lead struck into the center of the Paravaci forces.
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23 69 I did not wish to remain on the crest of the hill long enough to allow the left and right flanks of the Paravaci—rapidly assembling—to fold about my men and so, in less than four Ehn—as their disorganized, astonished center fell back—our bosk horn sounded our retreat and ...
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23 101 The battle was joined at the seventh Gorean hour and, as planned, as soon as the Paravaci center was committed, the bulk of our forces wheeled and retreated among the wagons, the rest of our forces then turning and pushing the wagons together.
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23 124 I stood with Harold on a planked platform fixed across the wagon box of the wagon at our center, whose domed framework had been torn away.
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25 2 Within, a girl, across the wagon, beyond the tiny fire bowl in the center of its floor, standing on the thick rug, near a hanging tharlarion-oil lamp, turned suddenly to face me.
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26 46 The men held their fire, and the tarn, almost at the center of the compound, as far from our encircling positions as possible, suddenly plummeted downward, its wings high, opening them only at the last minute to land on the top of the keep, beyond accurate crossbow range.
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26 373 Kamchak took the torch and with his right hand, in a long arc, flung it to the center of the pool.
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Book 5. (48 results) Assassin of Gor

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22 135 Menicius, I saw, savagely dragged his bird back to the center of the flight path, cursing, realizing how Mip had waited to take advantage of his momentary surrender of the center.
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2 52 In the center of the tables, under a hanging lamp, there was a square area, recessed, filled with sand, in which men might fight or girls dance.
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2 83 He tried foolishly to hide behind a group of men but they threw him to the center of the pit of sand in the tavern.
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3 89 In the center of his forehead, there was a large brand, the capital initial of the Gorean word for slave, in block script.
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5 11 Most doors giving entry into a compartment, or set of compartments, on Gor do, however, have locks, generally hand-crafted, highly ornate locks, usually set in the center of the door and controlling a long bolt.
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7 175 Their ankles had been tied together at the center of the basket.
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11 20 I noted that the females tended to remain near the center of their cage.
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11 32 There was a drum fire near the center of the room on the floor.
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12 49 The crowd was now engaged in various pursuits, no fixed center now holding their attention.
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12 136 Thus, in leaving the perches at the beginning of the race, the tarns pass first through three rectangular "rings," then come to the first turn, where they negotiate three round rings, two of which are at the corners; and then they encounter three more rectangular "rings" and then come to the second ...
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12 137 If four tarns were flown perfectly, one above, one below, and one on each side, four could just pass through one of the round rings; one of the objects of course is to maneuver the tarn in such a way that it takes the center of the ring, or forces the following bird to strike the ring or miss it alt...
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13 239 Many of the perches were empty, but there were more than a hundred birds in the room; each was now chained to its area of the perch; but each, I knew, at least once in every two days, was exercised; sometimes, when men do not wander freely in the cot, and the portals of the cot, opening to the sky, ...
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14 156 Then she sobbed and ran back to the center of the room, striking again and again the divan with the chain.
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14 162 The girl sprang up from the divan, wiped oil from her wrists on a towel, threw back her hair, and stood regally in the center of the room.
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15 340 "How many ways are there," I asked, sitting cross-legged in the center of the compartment, on the stone couch, "to enter a room?" "It depends on the city," said Elizabeth.
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17 46 A wide area had been cleared in the center of the room, on which, over straw, had been spread some rep-cloth blankets.
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17 102 I permitted her to go to the center of the room, where she stood, facing me, tears in her eyes, near the rep-cloth blankets spread over straw.
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17 537 I then moved into the center of the gambling men and, not speaking, as they looked up, angry at the intrusion, I took the metal goblet containing the knucklebones from the man who held it.
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17 636 I turned about and went back to the center of the room, where I sat down cross-legged.
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17 742 I put a dot in the center of the squares that would normally be red on a board, leaving those squares that would normally be yellow blank.
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18 123 Smiling at him she then returned to the center of the compartment and sat down, cross-legged, for the instrument is commonly played that way, and bent over it.
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18 319 "There, Master!" said she, pointing to a basket of bottles under the large cutting table in the center of the room.
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18 342 Now, paga bottle in hand, I was passing guards and found myself walking down the narrow iron runways over the pens below, now filled with drunken slaves, some sleeping, some sitting stupefied in the center of their pen, some singing brokenly to themselves, some trying to crawl again to the trough to...
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19 56 I was conscious of a crowd about me, not that I was the center of it, but that many men, and some women, were passing about me, probably on the way into the Curulean; there was much bustle, some shouting, much talking and moving.
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19 134 In a moment or two, behind her, a powerful man in a short blue and yellow tunic, the auctioneer, carrying a slender slave goad, almost a wand, climbed to the surface of the block; seeing him the girl turned to flee, and having nowhere to go, fell to her knees weeping at the center of the block, wher...
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19 144 They were driven up the steps by a whip slave and forced to kneel at the center of the block.
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19 199 The auctioneer looked dejected when he returned to the center of the block.
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19 221 They stood near the center of the block, their leashes in the hands of the auctioneer.
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19 226 At the auctioneer's command the slaves led the girls about the block, and then brought them again to its shining, shallowly concave center.
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19 252 The whip slave who held her chain then hauled her cruelly, on her stomach, and then on her back, to the center of the block.
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19 288 When they had finished, Virginia now stood toward the center, with Phyllis behind her and to her left, and Elizabeth behind her and to her right.
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19 300 Then the girls rotated again and this time Elizabeth stood at the center of the block.
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20 385 She screamed and fled and Hup stopped and turned around several times rapidly in the center of the room until, dizzy, he fell down on his seat and wept.
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21 281 It allows a great deal of mobility and, on the level of squad tactics, has its affinity to the Torian Squares; the space allows the swordsmen, of course, room in which to handle their weapons, room in which to properly attack or defend themselves; in this case I expected the center man to engage me,...
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21 285 I pretended to stumble and the center man rushed forward to press his putative advantage.
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21 287 The man who had been the center man was at that time dead.
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21 288 I pretended my blade had been wedged between the ribs of the center man.
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22 130 This time, on the center side ring, a nonfaction tarn was forced into the padded bar by a sudden swerve of Menicius of Port Kar, riding for the Yellows.
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22 165 Menicius of Port Kar, riding for the Yellows, tearing at the control straps of his bird, tarn goad showering sparks to the sand below, tarn screaming, fought his way, birds buffeting, past the Silver trying to regain the center of the rings.
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22 180 Mip was clearing the center ring of the end rings when the heavy leather-wrapped cable of the crossbow sprang forward and the quarrel hissed from the guide.
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22 245 In a given race, attempting the head pass, he misjudged the distance and was struck bodily from the saddle by the high bar of the first of the center side rings.
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22 431 To the crowd's astonishment, but not to mine, he wheeled his tarn, a rare, gloriously plumaged jungle tarn from the tropical reaches of the Cartius, to block the first of the right center rings.
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22 490 Then, to my horror, I saw that both the rider for the Reds and he for the Greens had wheeled their tarns and stood ready at the left center ring to block my passage.
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22 495 My tarn struck the other two and in a moment, tarn goads flashing, talons clutching, birds screaming and biting, we found ourselves as in a clenched, winged fist of fury, beating and turning before the left center ring.
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22 541 When I came to the right center rings I again encountered tarnsmen, now regrouped.
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22 544 I heard an exultant shout from behind me and saw the leader of the tarnsmen signal his men across the dividing wall again, to meet me at the left center rings.
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22 552 Now there was but one tarn head on the poles when I came again to the right center rings.
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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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Book 6. (19 results) Raiders of Gor

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3 10 In times of emergency the inhabitants of the island gather behind wickerlike breastworks, woven of rence, in the area of the center wells; in such an emergency the low-ceilinged rence huts on the island will have been knocked down to prevent an enemy from using them for cover, and all food and water...
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14 51 The thole ports in a given group of three are about ten inches apart and the groups themselves, center to center, are a bit less than four feet apart.
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1 18 It is the height of a tall man; its back, away from the bowman, is flat; its belly, facing the bowman, is half-rounded; it is something like an inch and a half wide and an inch and a quarter thick at the center; it has considerable force and requires considerable strength to draw; many men, incident...
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1 79 Rence paper is made by slicing the stem into thin, narrow strips; those near the center of the plant are particularly favored; one layer of strips is placed longitudinally, and then a shorter layer is placed latitudinally across the first layer; these two surfaces are then soaked under water, which ...
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3 9 These deep center wells, actually holes cut in the island, permit its movement, though slowly when used alone, without exposing any of its inhabitants at its edges, where they might fall easier prey to the missile weapons of foes.
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5 150 The pole, barkless, narrow, upright, thrust deep in the rence of the island, stood at the very center of the clearing, surrounded by the circles of the feasting rencers.
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6 64 Again we ran back toward the center of the island.
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6 100 We fled back toward the light, the torches, the center of the island, the screaming women and men.
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6 208 I placed Telima in the center of the raft.
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7 2 The men of Port Kar had set fire to the two islands, beginning at the farther edges, to drive any who might be concealed on them, perhaps having cut burrows into the rence or hiding in the center oar wells, across the bridges toward the central island, on which had been the pole of the dance, Telima...
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7 25 On the island now, in its center, near the pole, there stood, packed together, a miserable crowd of prisoners.
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8 107 If boarding were attempted toward the center of the line, the boarding party could thus be crushed on both flanks by warriors pouring in from adjacent barges.
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11 564 "Do you have a nomination?" asked the scribe at the center table.
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14 195 The oar-master grinned, and went to the center of the rowing frame.
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14 209 My oar-master had been calling the beat, this time, by mouth from the center of the rowing frame.
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14 210 When I saw the tarn ship ahead, its captain doubtless confident of his speeds and distances, lift her oars, preparing to come about, I called to the oar-master, "Now!" Without the loss of a stroke he, at the center of the rowing frame, began to call maximum beat, "Stroke! Stroke! Stroke!" The Dorna,...
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15 512 Also I had toyed with the idea of opening a paga tavern in the center of the city, the most opulent in Port Kar, perhaps, called the Tavern of the Forty Maidens.
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17 370 Almost instantly the ship was the center of a great beating of wings and descending tarns.
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18 694 Claudius stood unsteadily in the center of the great hall, and then, he fell forward, sprawling on the tiles.
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Book 7. (23 results) Captive of Gor

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1 54 One of my instructors, from whom I had won an extension in the afternoon, did not recognize me the same evening when he sat some rows behind me at a chamber-music performance at the Lincoln Center.
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3 333 I drove lights off for several minutes, following the double yellow line in the center of the road by the moonlight.
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4 11 In the center of the clearing there was a large, dark shape, much larger than the small one, but not particularly different in design or appearance.
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7 204 When the grizzled, one-eyed guard returned to the bank, now clad in dry clothes, the girls cried out to him, pleading with him, and he leapt into the center of the circle and began, wildly, to regale them with some narrative, which seemed to require much gesticulation.
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7 212 Then, she leapt to her feet, to the center of the circle, and she cried out to Targo, oh so prettily, and held out her hands to him.
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7 216 How beautiful she was in my clothing! She wore them better than I! Then Targo, protesting, was pulled by two squealing girls to the center of the circle.
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9 314 "Very well!" The first girl to leap to the center of the circle was she who had first held my leash.
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9 324 Then, for the first time I noticed, in the center of the circle, there were four heavy stakes, about six inches in height, dark in the grass.
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10 13 I saw that the chain was short, that it would not reach even to the center of the room.
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11 872 The binding fiber, in its center, had been knotted about the chain of the bracelets, so that my hands were held close to my belly.
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12 69 We sat in the wagons, five to a side, our feet toward the center.
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13 574 I knew myself, small on the grasses, far below, to be the center of that circle.
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14 189 Oddly enough, there was also an iron ring, set in a stone, buried in the ground, beneath the center of the horizontal pole.
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14 200 My steps now, inadvertently, took me toward the center of the camp.
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14 203 It was a low tent, and only near its center could a man walk upright.
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15 167 Beneath its center, on the ground, there was an iron ring.
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15 183 A girl would cry, "They return!" and we, eager in our work tunics, would run to the center of the camp to greet the returning warriors.
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15 222 It was convenient to pass by the tent, you understand, for it was in the center of the camp, and thus often lay on the shortest route from place to place within the palisade.
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15 1152 "Serve, Slaves!" laughed Ute, clapping her hands, and the girls fled to the center of the camp, where I heard the shoutings of pleasure of men, welcoming them.
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15 1155 Angrily I, perfumed and rouged, belled and silked, turned and followed the other girls to the center of the camp, near the great tent of Rask of Treve, of scarlet canvas lined with scarlet silk, on its eight poles.
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15 1242 I was thrust rudely to the center of the sand.
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17 9 Our ankles were tied together at the center of the basket.
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17 202 Our ankles were bound together at the center of the basket; our wrists were bound behind our backs, to the wicker; our throats were independently secured, the knots outside, keeping us in place.
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Book 8. (15 results) Hunters of Gor

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2 77 This crawl space, further, in its center, rather amidships and toward the stern, contains the sump, or bilge.
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2 138 Arn's strong hand, gripping the branch in its center, controlled both girls.
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7 319 In the center of the camp there was a cooking hole, banked with a circle of flat stones.
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9 3 I lay in the center of a clearing.
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9 444 I lay in the center of the circle.
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13 83 Sharks were still moving in the center of the river, feeding.
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16 17 Looped loosely about my right wrist, so that it would fall when my hand was held downwards, was a thick, wide strip of panther skin, twisted in its center.
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16 92 As my right hand did this the loop of panther skin, twisted in its center, fell from my hand across her face.
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18 97 Mira went to the coffle of slave beauties and, about in its center, before Verna, seized the throat leather and pulled the girls in a "V" toward the shore.
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19 103 Inside the stockade I was the immediate center of attention.
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19 111 I was the center of a circle.
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20 115 Some six men of Tyros, near the center of the stockade, some fifteen yards from the gate, were engaged with blades, striking at one another.
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20 130 The man who held the torch at the gate was facing the fighting in the center of the stockade.
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20 139 In the center of the stockade, two torches were lifted.
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20 152 I saw, in the light of two torches, men fighting, still in the center of the stockade.
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Book 9. (21 results) Marauders of Gor

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17 97 Near the center of the camp, but somewhat to the south and east of the center, like the verr, the tarsk, the bosk, was another herd of Kurii animals; it, too, resided in its pen, a wide pen, more than a quarter of a pasang in diameter, formed of poles and crossbars, lashed together; this pen, howeve...
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17 201 Near the center of the camp but somewhat to the south and east of the center, behind its poles and crossbars, lashed together, was a different herd of Kurii livestock.
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2 82 It was, accordingly, the spiritual center of a district extending for hundreds of pasangs around.
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3 7 They fled back to the center of the temple, huddled together.
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4 45 In the center of each square was a tiny peg.
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6 227 These rings, when the wings of the collar are joined, are aligned, those on one wing on top and bottom, that on the other in the center.
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6 323 A fire, in a rounded pit, was in its center.
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6 330 The center of the hall, down its length, is dug out about a foot below the ground level.
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6 331 In the long center are set the tables and benches.
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6 332 Also, in the center, down its length are two long rows of posts, each post separated from the next by about seven feet, which support the roof.
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6 337 The hall proper, the center of the hall, is about twelve feet in width.
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6 519 At the foot of the ground level, which is the sleeping level, which lies about a foot above the dug-out floor, the long center of the hall, on the floor, against the raised dirt, here and there, were rounded logs, laid lengthwise.
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13 24 Thus, it was not the case that one at a long side table, who was above the salt, would be farther away from the high seat than one at one of the center tables, who was "below" the salt.
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13 38 Even those who sat commonly at the center tables, and were warriors, kept their shields and spears at the wall.
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13 162 The palisade enclosed some two acres; within it were many shops and storage houses, even an ice house; in the center, of course, reared the great hall itself, that rude, high-roofed palace of the north, the house of Svein Blue Tooth.
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13 172 Honey Cake, like many shy, introverted, timid girls, fearing her own sexuality and fearing that of men, sensing them in terror as her natural masters, was the mistress of secret, incredible depths of repressed sexual emotion and feeling; the Forkbeard, of course, a rude barbarian, was not in the lea...
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14 195 One who begged mercy in the center of the hall was cut in twain, the blade of the ax driving into the very dirt itself, emerging covered with dirt and blood, streaked with ash.
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17 98 To the north and west of the camp's center I could see the tents of Thorgard of Scagnar and his men.
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17 160 The order of such a march is typically as follows: Captured humans, in single file, form its center.
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17 170 There are thus five lines, the center line of prisoners and spoils, its flanking lines of sleen, and, on either side, the flanking lines of the Kur foragers.
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18 434 He then, from his belt, took a long length of binding fiber and, doubling it, looped it, securing it, at its center to the ring, leaving two long ends.
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Book 10. (29 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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1 106 About this imaginary pole, it constituting a hypothetical center of gravity, she moves, undulating, swaying, sometimes yielding to it in ecstasy, sometimes fighting it, it always holding her in perfect place, its captive.
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1 180 I saw the parted lips, the eyes wide with horror, of the kneeling, harnessed girl, through the light, yellow veil; then the dancer had drawn it away from her, and, turning, was again in the center of the floor.
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2 75 In the center of the street is a gutter.
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2 117 An advantage of this municipal organization, of course, though it is scarcely a matter of intentional design, is that the water is in the most protected portion of the city, its center.
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2 440 "Stand here," I told Miss Blake-Allen, indicating a place in the center of the floor, before the desk of the slave master.
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3 173 I hoped to draw the center man forward, to where he might, if I should move to the right, block the man on his own right, or if I moved to the left, block the man on his own left.
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4 8 This frame, however, was covered completely with layers of white rep-cloth, to reflect the sun, with the exception of the front, which was closed with a center-opening curtain, also of white rep-cloth.
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4 399 The kaiila would be put in circles, ten animals to the circle, and fodder, by kaiila boys, would be thrown into the center of the circle.
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10 159 He threw her back to the center of the marble circle.
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11 276 Toward its lower parts, in its center, were the gardens.
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11 287 The oasis which we were entering is named for the Battle of Red Rock, which is a large shelf of reddish sandstone behind the oasis, north by northeast from its lowest point, and center.
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16 24 Each raft carries four of these, either arranged in a lateral frame, or arranged in a square frame, at the raft's center.
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16 64 The brain of the lelt is interesting, containing an unusually developed odor-perception center and two vibration-reception centers.
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16 65 Its organ of balance, or hidden "ear," is also unusually large, and is connected with an unusually large balance center in its brain.
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16 66 Its visual center, on the other hand, is stunted and undeveloped, a remnant, a vague genetic memory of an organ long discarded in its evolution.
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17 209 "Bring the lamps to the center of the raft," said T'Zshal.
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23 70 I could see the Kavar center, white.
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23 98 The Aretai themselves, of course, with black kaffiyeh and white agal cording, held their center.
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23 137 "Yet they are given prominence in the left flank!" I could see a small group of riders hurrying from the Aretai center to their left flank.
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23 145 One of the riders going to the left flank from the Aretai center was tied in his saddle.
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23 152 Before the Kavar center I saw another figure, robed in white, bearded.
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23 165 Thanks to the Tajuks, Suleiman was not in the center, and thanks, too, to them, the Aretai left flank, instead of being ready for action, swarmed and broiled like the crowds in a bazaar.
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23 176 Suleiman hurried to the Aretai center.
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23 179 There came to that parley in the center of the field the pashas of the Ta'Kara and Bakahs, and of the Char and Kashani; and, too, riding deliberately, strapped in the saddle, there came Suleiman, high Pasha of the Aretai, with him, Shakar, captain of the Aretai, and their guard, and, with them as we...
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23 190 In a few moments, crowding my kaiila in, moving with courtesy but resolution through the guards, I found myself near the center of the parleying group, in the line behind the pashas and the khan.
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23 284 In the center were the Kavars and the Aretai.
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25 247 She stood in the center of the room.
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25 257 She then stood, barefoot, on the tiles in the center of the room.
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26 38 The women, for there were insufficient wagons or kaiila for them, would march, in separate groups of fifty, within the columns and toward their center.
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Book 11. (25 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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9 1502 Bran Loort stood with both hands on his staff, one hand grasped in its center, the other hand, his left, some eighteen inches below the center of the staff.
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1 82 The plate, with its ring, was attached near the center of the rock, low, about a foot above the grass.
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2 401 I was hurled to its center.
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4 538 Then I fled back and found myself again somewhere in the center of the camp.
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4 952 Among slave girls, however, ear piercing, inflicted upon them by the will of their masters, is becoming widespread on Gor; one might say it is gaining considerable popularity among masters, which accounts, of course, for its growing frequency in the female slave population of the planet; it is a cus...
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5 106 In the center of the camp was a striped tent, almost a pavilion, supported on ten poles.
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5 165 From the striped tent in the center of the camp another girl emerged, clad like the other in the sleeveless gown, a circlet on her throat and left wrist, and made her way toward the supplies wagon.
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5 664 The four slave maids crouched terrified, under swords, in the center of the tent, including she who had been beaten.
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6 109 In the center of the hut was a large flat, circular piece of metal, on which, on legs, might sit braziers or the small, flattish cooking stoves, using pressed, hardened wood, common in the villages north and west of Ar.
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7 666 I heard a shout from the center of the camp.
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7 849 Once I almost cried out with misery, for the path to my desired destination lay across a dark street, down which, a hundred yards or so away, I could see the center of the village, where, about the village fire, were seated several men, villagers and my master, and his men.
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7 870 They had circled our camp area, between it and the edge of the palisade, and were now returning to the center of the village.
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8 14 I knelt head down, shuddering, my hands over my head, in the center of the tiny cage.
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9 1293 I spun and ran, but fled into the arms of one of the young males, who roughly threw me back to the center of the circle.
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9 1294 I tried again to break the circle and was again caught and flung again to its center.
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9 1454 Thurnus's hut was near the center of the village, near its clearing.
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13 128 By the hand he led me to the center of the block.
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16 114 I drew my feet and hands, in their chains, as near the center of my space as I could.
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16 159 With four other girls, later, with buckets, I emptied the bilge, which lies below and at the center of the floor of the hold, under a removable wooden grille.
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17 124 Soon Narla and I, sharing a common neck leash, two collars, with a strap with center grip, stood outside the long, low room, in the corridor.
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18 40 Dancers in the Chatka and Curla, and there are several, move between and among the tables; sometimes a dancer, if she is indeed superb, is displayed solo in the center of the scarlet wooden flooring, within the painted, yellow ring of the slave circle.
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18 148 A dancer, I supposed, had been sent to the center of the floor.
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19 20 A long rug, some forty yards in length, narrow, red, led toward a large pair of white doors, which opened from the center.
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27 751 I went to the circle and knelt in its center, on the cement.
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28 285 At the height of the center aisle, high, framed in the portal of the market hall, stood a warrior, in full panoply of war.
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Book 12. (35 results) Beasts of Gor

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4 239 The purpose of the Center Defense is to draw the yellow Spearman from the center.
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2 569 "As you know," said Samos, "this house is an intelligence center, in which we receive many reports.
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3 492 Most of the wagons were common slave wagons, with a parallel bar running down the center of the wagon bed, about which the ankles of the girls were chained; others, however, were flat wagons fixed with an iron framework; two lines of girls kneel back to back on such a wagon, their ankles and necks l...
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4 87 The table with the board was set in the center of the stage, at the foot of the huge, sloping, semicircular amphitheater.
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4 212 This will contest the center and prohibit the advance of the opposing Spearman.
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4 214 Red then elects to accept or decline the gambit, accepting by capturing the Ubara's Tarnsman's Spearman, but surrendering the center in doing so, or declining the gambit, by defending his spearman, and thus constricting his position.
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4 235 "Would he play the Center Defense against one such as Scormus?" asked a man.
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4 237 A child could crush the Center Defense.
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4 249 The Center Defense is certainly not to be generally recommended.
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4 262 The Center Defense seemed an implausible candidate however from which to project a brilliancy, unless perhaps the brilliancy might involve some swift and devastating exploitation of red's temerity by yellow.
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4 263 Still Centius of Cos seemed prepared to meet Scormus with the Center Defense.
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4 269 The Center Defense was not being played.
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4 350 Scormus now had a spearman again in the center.
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4 351 He would support this Spearman, consolidate the center, and then begin a massive attack on red's weakened Ubar's side.
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6 465 "They had formed a hunting line," said he, "the girl in the center.
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9 163 The girls were on a common tether, the throat of each tied at a different end of a long strap; it served as their common leash, a guard grasping it in the center.
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10 169 She wanted me in a position of maximum security, nearer the wall's center, closer to her headquarters.
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10 255 The center of the wall had been built across the main run of the tabuk migration.
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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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12 385 A leather strap is knotted about the girl's wrist, passed through the drilled hole at one end of the yoke, usually that on her left, taken up through the hole behind the neck, looped twice about her neck, threaded back down through the center hole, taken up through the other hole at the end, usually...
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21 326 "Thus," I said, "that is a situation in which a free woman is theoretically of more interest than a slave, but, upon closer analysis, the center of interest, even in such a situation, because of her latency, her womanhood, her helplessness, what can be done with her, is the slave".
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28 73 I spun to look at the girls, who, frightened of my fury, cowered together in the center of the cell.
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30 22 A fellow in brown and black, which seemed to be the livery of the men of the Kurii in this place, stepped to the center of the sand.
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30 35 The man at the center of the sand spoke to the two combatants, who stood near to him.
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30 42 "Place each of you your right heel on the wooden rim of the sand oval," then said the man in the center of the sand.
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30 45 The man in the center of the sand then withdrew.
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30 98 We stood in the center of the sand, with the other man, listening.
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30 109 The man in the center of the sand backed uneasily away from us.
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30 120 We met in the center of the ring.
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30 231 Ram and I met, as we had with our previous antagonists, in the center of the oval.
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30 232 Then, after a moment or two, the man with us in the center of the sand withdrew.
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31 31 At the center of the room, toward the front, there was a wide, low, circular platform.
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34 91 I looked about at the shallow, moonlit bowl, in whose center we stood, the sled between us.
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35 905 "In the center of the complex," he said.
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36 47 In the room, alone, in its center, knelt a young red woman, her head down.
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Book 13. (22 results) Explorers of Gor

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1 363 In the center of the cell was a wooden, metal-sheathed pole, some four inches in diameter.
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10 55 He, like a clever spider in its web, was the center of an intelligence network that might have been the envy of many a Ubar.
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13 192 There are similar chains in the four corners of the room, and in the center of the wall, near the floor, opposite the red curtains.
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13 195 In the center of the wall, near the floor, opposite the curtains, the chain terminates with a collar.
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14 526 I walked back to the center of the room and turned, facing her.
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14 588 I threw it to the center of the room.
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19 16 The sleeping platform, I was told, was near the center of the room.
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19 18 Very slowly, inch by inch, every sense alert, I began to move toward the center of the room.
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19 49 In the center of the room, on a high platform, some nine feet high, supported by eight poles, sitting, cross-legged, naked, save for the panther teeth about his neck, was not Shaba, but the ubar, Bila Huruma.
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19 54 I looked to the round, shallow, circular pit in the center of the room.
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23 294 "I would go first," I said, "but I cannot, as I am toward the center of the chain".
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23 313 One after another, I and Kisu, and Ayari, toward the center of the chain, the some forty-five or forty-six prisoners of the cage slipped free.
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23 339 Soon, leading the chain from the center, its ends behind and on either side of us, I, and Kisu, and some others between us, were wading westward, shovels in hand.
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33 71 Wading, we followed Kisu and Tende out toward the center of the river.
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39 4 We had kept to the center of the river and had continued on.
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45 6 I picked that hut which seemed the largest and most impressive, one in the center of the camp.
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47 93 Now, near the rear wall and spreading toward the center of the village, it seemed there was a growing, lengthening, rustling, living carpet of insects.
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47 114 Kisu, like a demented man, ran toward the great campfire in the center of the village.
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48 161 Rather she would feel his whip, for then, at least, she knows that she is in the center of his interest and attention, and he cares enough about her to improve her, or remind her that she is not only a slave, but his slave.
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48 272 The prow of the canoe swung slowly toward the center of the river.
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48 328 The canoe moved into the center of the river.
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53 19 While the rest of our two parties, including Bila Huruma, had waited within the threshold, I was conducted across the broad stone court to its center, where, on a huge stone couch, of ancient design, lay Shaba.
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Book 14. (17 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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2 260 I then found myself the center of the attention of the five men.
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3 173 Then it was lifted up and swung, on a set of ropes, over the edge of the barrier and toward the center of the circular, sunken enclosure, whence it was lowered.
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11 403 Consider a circle with a point at its center.
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11 407 The man of Earth looks to the periphery; the man of Gor looks to the center.
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11 422 It is the Home Stone which, for the Gorean, marks the center.
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11 425 For the Gorean the Home Stone would mark the point of the circle's center.
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13 210 In such a wagon the girls are commonly chained by the ankles to a metal bar which runs down the center of the wagon bed.
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13 641 I found myself, thus, in the center of several individuals, the men in the palanquins, various servants, the slave girls, and the draft slaves.
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20 30 But I was now in the center of the pit.
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20 60 I was half thrust to my feet and staggered toward the center of the pit.
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20 98 I was dragged to the center of the sand and my hands, one by the referee, the other by Kenneth, the trainer, were lifted in victory.
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21 426 At the bottom the tunnel, in its center, is floored by a set of single boards, laid end to end.
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21 469 I began to traverse the tunnel, toward the nursery, keeping my right foot on the center board.
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22 65 Between the tables there was a large, tiled scarlet circle, some twelve feet in width, with an iron ring at its center.
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25 188 Krondar came carefully toward the center of the sand.
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25 206 I stood unsteadily in the center of the sand.
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34 10 "This way," I told the Lady Florence, heading toward the center of the camp, where the assessment platform would be.
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Book 15. (3 results) Rogue of Gor

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1 58 A single pearl, fastened in a setting like a droplet, on a tiny golden chain, was suspended at the center of her forehead.
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4 636 "Have mercy on me, Master! Please have mercy on me, Master!" Then, from the window, I saw her run to the center of the street.
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24 454 I dragged her to the center of the room.
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Book 16. (11 results) Guardsman of Gor

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2 130 It was diagonal, and, at its deepest point, toward the link's center, about an inch in depth.
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6 50 To the starboard side of the Olivia was the Tais, slender, scarred, indefatigable, valiant, of Port Cos, which held the center of our line.
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7 15 It was like a lake of bloody wood in the center of the Vosk.
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11 50 In the center of the room there was a cistern.
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11 166 The common camisk is a simple rectangle of cloth, containing, in its center, a circular opening.
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16 344 I dragged him back by his ankles to the center of the small, high deck of the stern castle, where I put him on his belly.
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18 759 Then, using the cord and eyelets, I laced the two ends of the broad, flat binding surface, to which, in the front and the center, the wadding was attached, tightly together behind the back of her neck.
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19 317 What a little slave she was! I stepped back from her, going to the center of the room.
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19 711 "Crawl to the center of the room, and lie there on your belly," I said.
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19 1178 She did these things, and then walked to the center of the room.
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20 936 She retreats to the center of the pen, falls to her knees, covers her head with her hands, and weeps.
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Book 17. (11 results) Savages of Gor

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17 62 One end of the longer thong is taken through the center aperture and that thong is then looped about the girl's throat, usually, again, some five times, and then returned through the center aperture.
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1 807 "The story begins here," said Kog, indicating the center of the skin.
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1 809 As the skin is turned each marking on it is at the center of attention, first, of course, of the artist, and, later, as he follows the trail, of the viewer.
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5 16 In the center of the road, approaching, between, and with, the lines, drawn by two tharlarion, was an ornately carved, high, two-wheeled cart.
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6 19 It serves a function as well, however, as do many such towns, as a social and commercial center for many outlying farms and ranches.
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8 17 In the center of each there is an iron ring.
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8 405 The first two men, between them, carried a branding rack, which they placed near the steps on the right, as I faced the block, and then slid to the center of the block, rather forward on the block.
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13 1422 Another part of the hair, the center strands, take back between your lips, so that you can feel it on the soft interior surfaces of your lips.
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17 39 This consisted of a stout branch, about two inches thick, and some five feet in length, drilled at the center and near the extremities.
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17 44 The same thong is then taken behind the yoke and passed through the center hole, whence, after having been knotted, to prevent slippage to the left, and having been looped about the girl's neck, usually some five times, and having been knotted again, to prevent slippage to the right, it is returned ...
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17 58 In this way of doing things each wrist is tied in the center of one of the short thongs.
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Book 18. (22 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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10 40 Grasped between her small, fine white teeth was the center of a heavy, braided, beaded-handled kaiila quirt.
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11 110 In the center of the camp a great circular brush lodge had been erected.
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11 112 In the center of this space was the pole which had been formed, some days ago, from the tree which Winyela had felled.
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22 104 "That was doubtless the center of the attack," said Cuwignaka.
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22 107 That is the center of camp.
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22 250 "We must try to make the center of camp".
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22 256 In the center of the lodge, visible now through a hole torn in the brush, was the tall, slim, peeled, twice-forked pole which, days ago, Winyela had felled.
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23 45 "That indicates, I think," said Cuwignaka, "that we may, at last, be closer to the center of Kaiila resistance".
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24 8 Had he a shield he might have sought an inside attacking position, fending to the left, striking then toward the opened center.
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25 60 It was at the center of the camp.
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30 202 Before we had left the center of the camp I had seen him move.
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32 82 In the center of each there was a fire.
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32 83 In the center of the great circle the huge fire blazed from a kindling of broken lodge poles.
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34 102 I pulled him toward the center of our camp where Cuwignaka, now on his feet, waited.
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34 352 We had rigged a center trace.
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35 119 In the center there is a hole, in which the hot stones, passed in from the outside on a forked stick, are placed.
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37 446 I sense myself the center of that circle".
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40 3 Hci, Cuwignaka and I sat behind a fire, in the center of the large, half-sunken, earthen-and-wood lodge of the Waniyanpi.
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40 15 Its roof is rounded and slopes upward towards the center.
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40 17 At the apex of the lodge is a smoke hole and beneath the smoke hole, at the center of the lodge, is the fire hole.
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43 253 Then I began to loop the rope carefully, from its center, that the ends of which were attached to the handles of the girls' sacks.
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43 429 I cut the rope apart in the center.
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Book 19. (17 results) Kajira of Gor

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33 157 Another chain, on each of us, ran from the center of our wrist chain to the center of our ankle chain.
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1 65 "Do you see how the design is slightly off center?" "Yes," I said.
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2 485 I felt a needle being entered into my flesh, in the center of that chemically chilled area.
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3 16 I was, half sunk in its softness, near the center of it.
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4 489 They might indeed serve to keep others out, perhaps climbing upward, or descending on ropes from the roof above, but they surely served as well, and as perfectly, to keep me within! What is this room, I asked myself, is it truly my protected quarters, or is it, rather, my cell? I walked back to the ...
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6 218 It was now, again, pulling toward the center of the road, the high iron-rimmed wheels trundling on the stone, seeking the long, shallow, shiny, saucerlike ruts, polished in the stone by the earlier passage of countless vehicles.
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6 395 The chain was on her neck and ran to a ring anchored in the center of the disk.
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6 488 I crawled again upon it, to its center.
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8 313 I then kept closely to the center of the catwalks.
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10 50 I suddenly cried out, seized from the side, and I saw Drusus Rencius, the torch flung to the side, lunge toward the man who had been in the center of the first two.
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11 34 I stood up, and went to the center of the room.
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15 34 They were moving toward the center of the camp.
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15 96 A man stepped out, into the center of the lane.
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16 122 Like most Gorean roads, however, a single pair of ruts marked its center.
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16 123 Gorean vehicles, commonly slow moving, tend to keep to the center of a road, except in passing.
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34 88 She then, the whip in her teeth, turned from the door and, head down, on her hands and knees, returned to the center of the room.
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36 1142 Then, crawling, swiftly, crying out, half dragged, I was pulled by the hair to the center of the room.
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Book 20. (13 results) Players of Gor

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1 154 Lydius is a bustling, populous trade center located at the estuary of the Laurius River.
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1 441 I would attempt to secure the center, garnering thereby the mobilities and options commonly attendant on the control of these customarily vital routes.
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1 714 This, supporting the center, would also open a file, developing the Ubara's Builder.
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1 730 She was then again in the center of the tiles, among the tables.
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1 805 A long-legged brunette was thrust to the center of the tiles.
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1 1019 She leaped to her feet and hurried to the center of the tiles.
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1 1050 This move attacks the center and opens a diagonal for the Ubara.
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1 1052 I made the same move, matching him positionally in the center, stopping an advance on that file and securing the same advantages for the Ubara and Ubar's Tarnsman.
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13 174 The three sleen in the pit, snarling, tails lashing, their hunched shoulders scarcely a foot from the ground moved in a menacing, savage, twisting, eager circle about the center of their interest.
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13 175 This object, alert, every nerve seemingly tensely alive, was chained in the center of the pit.
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13 218 I looked back again at the high window; then I put the table back in the center of the cell.
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16 1078 The lowered ring dangled near the center of the hall, in the space between the tables.
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17 17 I stepped from the shadows, toward the center of the sand.
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Book 21. (5 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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2 31 I moved a little in the shadows, slowly, and back, and toward the center of the hut.
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2 33 In moving back I had also tended to reassure the figure in the doorway that I meant no harm; this movement, too, of course, had the advantage of ensuring me reaction space; in moving toward the center of the hut I made it possible for her to see me better, this tending, too, one supposes, to allay s...
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9 29 The tents of commanders are usually placed on high ground near the center of the camp.
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25 682 The girl then came forward and knelt before us, in the center of the cage.
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25 1698 A round, cylindrical, truncated cushion, usually of cork or leather, with a circular hole in its center, is forced into the slave's mouth.
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Book 22. (22 results) Dancer of Gor

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8 154 Within, in the center of the building, in the center of its dirt floor, was a fire pit, in which blazed a cheerful fire.
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23 15 Another chain, some three feet in length, ran from the center of the ankle chain to the center of the chain joining the wrist rings.
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5 34 Its horizontal portion, like an iron oval, would close about my waist, and the vertical portion, like a "U," hinged in front to the horizontal portion, flattened, shaped and slotted at its center, would swing up between my legs and there its flattened, laterally slotted end, like a hasp, would be pl...
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5 221 The "U-shaped" vertical bar on this belt was, at the center, hammered flat, shaped and slotted.
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8 95 In an instant she was in the center of the container.
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8 124 At the center point a man seized me by the hair and, to my acute distress, forced my head under the fluid.
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8 352 The platform I was on was near the center of the room.
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9 361 He then had me kneel and bent me back, painfully, my hair back to the sawdust, to the center, and then the left, and then the right, before the buyers.
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11 526 I stood toward the center and about a third forward from the rear of the floor, my arm still in the grip of Hendow, my master.
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11 613 My ankle released, Tupita, aided by Sita, again put me toward the center of the floor, near the front, much where I had stood before.
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11 693 I was then knelt near the center of the floor, and a little toward its front.
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11 978 Then, pointing to me, and lifting his finger twice, he indicated I should turn away, and return to my dance, in the center of the floor, facing the crowd.
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11 1031 "Let us have the drawing!" Hendow nodded to Mirus, and Mirus summoned Aynur to the center of the floor, and near the front, with her copper bowl, laden with the halves of broken ostraka.
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17 93 It ran down the center of the street.
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24 185 I then found myself in the midst of them, kneeling, trembling, small, in the center of that grim circle.
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24 308 Then I was too near the other side of the circle, and returned, quickly, gracefully, to its center, dancing to first one man and then another.
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25 238 Where was lazy Tela? If she wanted to court the wrist rings and chains, to be fastened on her knees to the center post of the tent, and whipped, that was her business, not mine! To be sure, this was not like Tela.
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26 250 I would want to sleep near the center of the pen.
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27 1 The Pen; Outside the Pen I lay in the center of the pen.
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30 199 I spread two blankets in the center of the wagon, and put another, loosely, over my shoulders.
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30 204 I then returned to the center of the wagon, to the place I had spread the blankets, and knelt there, the blanket clutched about my shoulders.
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31 382 I then relieved myself at the bucket in the other part of the wagon, and then lay down in the center of the wagon, on the blankets.
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Book 23. (16 results) Renegades of Gor

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1 10 Too, as every point on the circumference is normally visible from, and equidistant from, the center, this facilitates defense, for example, the prompt and pertinent deployment of reserves.
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1 345 The upper stone has two holes in it, in the center a funnel-shaped hole through which grain is poured, and, near the edge, another hole into which one end of the turning pole is placed.
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6 53 She crouched in the center of one of the spaces.
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14 64 She turned about and crawled back toward the center of the cell where, feeling about, she located the pan of food.
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15 21 Rather, angrily, summoning up his courage, he went quickly to the Lady Claudia, seized her by the scrub of her hair and drew her, she half crawling, half being dragged, to the center of the cell, and knelt her there, in the position he had specified.
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15 32 She then knelt there, in the center of the cell, heavily bound, collared, the leash dangling down before the ropes bound about her.
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15 204 Touching them softly, in the center, perhaps tracing a pattern there, can be very unsettling to her, or, if she is aroused, stimulatory to her.
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17 136 On the east, and nearer the center portions of the wall, four of the towers were aflame.
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17 225 A pressure at the center exerts the best leverage.
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17 247 This time I managed to get the spear into the center of the right upright.
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17 252 I hoped to use his own fear against him, his unwillingness to release the ladder, but before I could push back enough, past the center of balance, he released one hand and twisted, hanging to a rung with his free hand.
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17 294 The Cosians then within the wall, in the center, were much harder pressed.
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18 268 These two lines, converging, the fighting in the center, by the gate, between them, led to the walkway, and then out on the walkway, for better than forty yards.
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18 327 The two lines which had to some extent protected the women and children now withdrew to protect the flanks of the retreating center.
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20 135 Women and children huddled toward the center of the piers, crouching down.
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20 246 I stepped back a little, toward the center of the pier, that I might observe them.
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Book 24. (22 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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46 379 The ankle chaining, by its center, and the wrist chaining, by its center, were joined with a short length of chain, about two feet in length.
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1 458 "Are you not in my spot?" inquired the newcomer heartily, of a poor fellow sitting rather near the center of the enclosure, usually regarded as a preferred position for prompt service, for observing the dancing of slaves, and such.
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1 654 "Lana!" called Philebus, and Dora swirled away, twirling, from the center of the presentation area, to complete her circuit of the area, doing her best to evade the caresses and clutches of men, and then knelt, in the background.
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1 676 Then she, too, dismissed, swirled about, away from the center, and went to kneel in the back.
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1 754 It seemed she had expected he must surely recognize her! Doubtless she had been prepared to be again scorned, to be rebuffed, to be ordered from his sight, to be sent away, perhaps even struck, but he had not yet even released her from the prime display area, that before him, near the center of the ...
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1 1222 Also, fixed on the center pole there was a piece of paper which said, "Beware, this is the tent of Borton".
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11 15 The center of such a strap is tied about the chain of the manacles and the two ends of the strap are joined behind the back.
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11 32 We, as I understood it, were in the center.
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13 85 This was done, and wrapped about the leather strap looped twice about my neck, that threaded through the center hole in the yoke, behind my neck.
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13 513 My manacled hands were then tied at my belly, the center of the tie fastened to the linkage, the ends of the tie knotted together, behind my back.
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18 41 The center waves, seemingly obedient to some statistical imperative, enjoyed that distinction.
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19 712 I then dragged the pole to the marsh and, floating it, waded out a way, and thrust it into the center of what seemed a deep, promising channel.
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22 31 Lately, however, I had given her a much more merciful tie, binding her ankles together with the center of a length of binding fiber, then bringing the two ends up and, still avoiding its ends, tying her hands together before her body, then pulling her hands back, close to her belly, and fastening th...
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25 10 There is a center aisle.
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26 16 At other times I had her tied as I usually slept her, her ankles crossed and bound in the center of the length of binding fiber, the same fiber, now in its double strand, being brought up and used to tie her hands together before her body, its separated ends then tying behind her back, to keep her h...
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28 260 She was now in the center of us.
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39 63 Now the captive knelt in the center of the dance floor, the "hunters" exultant about her.
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46 85 At last I stopped, somewhere near the center of the camp.
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46 285 One girl, toward the center of the chain, was standing very still, tears streaming down her cheeks.
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47 118 I stopped, and found myself then in the center of a large ring of men, some one hundred feet or so in diameter, waiting in the first concourse, near the main gate, surely at least seventy or eighty of them.
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47 341 The mercenary then went to where Ina lay in the dirt, in the center of what had been the circle.
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48 216 I bent down and untied the cord which, about her neck, held the center of the sheet, hoodlike, over her head.
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Book 25. (17 results) Magicians of Gor

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7 13 It was in the open area near the Central Cylinder, which loomed in the center of a circular park, the territory open enough for defense, midway in the avenue.
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8 243 This incredible stage, although only the center portions of it were used on many occasions, lent itself to large-scale productions, such as circuses and spectacles.
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13 38 "What of the new art center?" he said.
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13 43 "I am serious! That is the same thing, but for the intellectuals, the scribes, the high castes!" "And will they bring back the marbles from Cos for the art center?" I asked.
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14 4 We pushed in, toward the center of the circle.
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14 11 I glimpsed the face of a girl, white and frightened, in the center of the crowd.
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14 32 "You are not kneeling," I said to the girl in the center.
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17 138 The palanquin was still of course where it had been last, near the center of the stage, lifted off the floor, by its four bearers.
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17 178 These were placed rather toward the back of the stage, at the center, about five feet apart.
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19 383 I glanced to the two vessels, to the side, now filled with water, and the associated yoke, thrice drilled, with slender leather straps wrapped about it, at the center and near the ends.
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19 1272 I then lifted up the yoke, which, as I have mentioned, was thrice drilled, once in the center, and once near each end.
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19 1277 I loosened the thongs at the center of the yoke and then, by means of them, looped about her neck and tied, fastened the yoke on her.
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23 2 "Let it be spattered with the spew of urts!" He seized up the Home Stone from the plank on which it sat, the plank resting on two inverted wastes vats, of the sort used in insulae, in the park of the Center Cylinder, within which lies the Central Cylinder.
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24 25 In the center of the room there was a large couch, a round couch, some seven or eight feet in diameter.
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25 17 On the other hand, I found her in the center of the room, on the couch itself, in his arms.
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26 312 She then backed away from him, toward the center of the couch.
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26 313 In this way, unwittingly, she positioned herself under the center of the net.
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Book 26. (25 results) Witness of Gor

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4 141 One of them reached down and took me by the upper left arm, and guided me to a position in the center of the corridor.
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7 618 It had a jewel, a ruby, set in its center.
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7 690 He was the center of her fury, her rage.
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8 318 The latter is little more than a rectangle of cloth with an opening for the head in the center.
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11 170 She put the pan down, on the stone flagging, before the dais, a bit to the right of its center, as I faced it.
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11 1449 I had been much the center of attention, but now, it seemed, I was forgotten.
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11 1822 I might have been somewhere near the center of the surface; I might have been at an edge; I did not know.
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12 836 My net, I now discovered, was suspended almost over the center of what appeared to be a large, circular, well-like enclosure.
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13 329 Their bodies were oriented in such a way as to face the center of the circle.
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13 344 "Stand on the floor of the cage, in its center, your hands closely at your sides".
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13 370 She continued to stand in the center of the cage, her arms at her sides.
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13 591 Near its center was a roughly hewn table, with rude benches.
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13 1289 He then pulled her by the upper arms, the chain leaving its coil by the ring, toward the center of the furs.
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19 283 Before them, toward the center, were the three boys, novices, I supposed.
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19 284 He with the golden standard, that surmounted with the golden circle, was in the center.
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19 374 He was again facing the center of the crowd.
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24 255 To my left I saw one of the raiders dragging a free woman toward the center of the terrace.
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24 279 They were being brought to the center of the terrace, where the officer held forth.
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24 392 It was she whom I had first seen being dragged by the hair toward the center of the terrace.
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24 407 It was she whom I had seen being led at the intruder's hip, the second woman who had been brought to the center of the terrace.
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24 417 Toward the center of the terrace some intruders held the reins of several tarns.
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24 421 Two of the intruders, from the group at the center of the terrace, hurried toward the wall, swords drawn.
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24 475 The men who had guarded the group near the center of the terrace now rushed from the group, some to seize the reins of tarns, others running toward the stairway.
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24 949 Toward its center was the place where the butchery had occurred.
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28 7 A broad, scarlet marble circle was before the high desk of the praetor's officer, and the Lady Constanzia was conducted to its center, the guards then withdrawing, moving back, several feet, leaving her there, alone, on the circle.
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