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Book 2. (1 results) Outlaw of Gor

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1 29 I did receive a check from Cabot to cover the cost of my camping equipment, which he had apparently lost.
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Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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25 171 The words were spoken very softly, very slowly, haltingly, painfully, and it must have cost the proud girl of Treve much to speak them.
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Book 4. (4 results) Nomads of Gor

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10 129 This, I knew, might well cost me my life.
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11 282 "It will cost money," grumbled Kamchak, "but you will learn—I will have you taught".
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13 120 "Such a slow beast," said Kamchak, "might in battle cost a man his life".
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16 10 "I cost my master only eleven copper tarn disks," he said, "and so I think he had no reason to be ill satisfied with his investment".
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Book 5. (6 results) Assassin of Gor

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3 119 To my surprise, the Player chose the withdrawal of Ubara's Spearman to cover Ubar Two, which seemed to me rather defensive, and surely cost him the possibility of a dangerous but promising counterattack, which would eventually, if all went well, culminate with his second tarnsman at his opponent's I...
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5 503 My return to the city was affecting, for here it was that my sword had been pledged to a Gorean Home Stone; here it was that I had trained in arms and learned Gorean; it was here that I had met my father, after long years of separation; it was here that I had made dear friends, the Older Tarl, Maste...
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13 46 I cost one tarsk.
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13 47 Nela was an expensive girl, though there were pools where the girls cost as much as a silver tarn disk.
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13 49 All the girls in the Pool of Blue Flowers cost the same, except novices in training who would go for ten or fifteen copper tarn disks.
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24 470 "Then," said he, "do not think Marlenus, whatever the price or cost, his grief, his dream, would betray that of Ar".
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Book 6. (3 results) Raiders of Gor

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8 335 They had cost me the concept that I had taken for my reality; they had torn from me a bright image, an illusion, precious and treasured, an unwarranted reflection of suppositions and wishes, not examined, which I had taken to be the truth of my identity.
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8 422 It was she who had done this to me, who had cost me myself, teaching me my ignobility and my cowardice, who had broken the image, casting it into the mud of the marsh, that I had for so many years, so foolishly, taken as the substance and truth of my own person.
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10 219 I did not, however, in this early period, because of the cost, purchase cargoes of great value.
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Book 7. (9 results) Captive of Gor

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7 2 I cost him nothing.
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7 405 Her raiment might have cost more than any three or four of us together were worth.
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8 62 The cost for transporting a free person across the Laurius was a silver tarsk.
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8 63 The cost for transporting an animal, however, was only a copper tarn disk.
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8 64 I realized, with a start, that that was what I would cost.
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8 979 I had never tasted so rich and delicate a wine on Earth, and yet here, on this world, it cost only a copper tarn disk and was so cheap, and plentiful, that it might be given even to a female slave.
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10 326 "You cost only one hundred arrow points".
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13 675 "What is the cost of the meat?" inquired the warrior.
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15 526 "What did she cost you?" asked Verna.
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Book 8. (9 results) Hunters of Gor

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4 138 "I will not cost much," she said.
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4 401 "How much did she cost you?" I asked Thurnock.
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6 965 "It cost me much to do so.
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7 85 Further, Hesius had told Rim that he would send wine with the girls, at no additional cost.
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13 261 It had cost them.
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15 780 Indeed, she had cost me nothing.
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18 351 It would have cost me time.
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18 587 "Our protection has a cost," said their leader.
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19 216 "Do you understand what these slaves have cost us?" asked Sarus.
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Book 9. (4 results) Marauders of Gor

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1 473 She had cost me a tarn.
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6 448 Yet I admired the audacity of the man of Torvaldsland, though his act, in freeing Chenbar to act against me, had almost cost me my life last year in the northern forests.
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10 44 His sense of humor, I thought, might cost us all our lives.
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10 485 We had not been much pleased at the insolence of the bondmaid with respect to the young thrall; once, we recalled, her taunting of him had almost cost him his life; I had intervened, and he had only been whipped instead; I had little doubt that Wulfstan of Kassau, the thrall, Tarsk, had many scores ...
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Book 10. (9 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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5 730 She had cost me the tarn; it was worth ten times the cost of her body on a public block.
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5 562 Her lessons, which had been intensive, once we had arrived at the Oasis of Nine Wells, had cost little, and had, in my opinion, much increased her value, doubling or tripling it.
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5 563 The modest cost of the lessons had been, in my opinion, an excellent investment.
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5 745 Did the girl, in Lydius, truly think I would have freed her, yielding to her pleadings, I, in whose veins flowed Gorean blood, whose tarn she had cost him? I had not slain her.
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7 487 I supposed that that had been part of my punishment of her, for having disobeyed me, for having cost me the tarn.
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10 9 The protection tax helps to defray the cost of maintaining soldiers, who, nominally, at any rate, police the desert.
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10 214 "With those who have cost water?" asked the merchant.
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15 115 At Klima the cost of lodging is high.
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16 81 Further, they enable the animal to move efficiently, covering large areas without considerable metabolic cost.
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Book 11. (6 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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2 312 That I had been terrified, and desperate to buy my life at any cost, had been the occasion, and an adequate justification, of my utterance, doubtless, but this terror could not explain the wild, uncontrollable acknowledgment, the shattering of inhibitions which I had felt, the torrential rapture, th...
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11 327 But then I remembered I had cost only six copper tarsks.
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12 13 "What did she cost you?" a lieutenant had asked him.
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13 320 What is the cost of gruel and a whip? "I have heard a bid of twenty-one tarsks," called the auctioneer.
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21 16 I had lived for my vengeance, dreaming of it, and, when I had attained it, I found it only misery and ashes, and unspeakable anguish, for it had cost me my very self, he whom I loved, Clitus Vitellius of the city of Ar.
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28 342 "Here is something which may cover the cost of the miserable little slave".
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Book 12. (7 results) Beasts of Gor

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3 976 "I need a wench," said the man, "one who will cost me little, one to keep in the cots by day, to shovel the excrement of tarns, one to keep in my stall by night, as a pot-and-mat girl".
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4 18 She cost me only a quarter of a silver tarsk.
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4 27 It had cost me two golden tarns.
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21 394 Where else could one obtain so remarkable and lovely a commodity, with so many delicious applications, at so reasonable a cost? The slave is without defenses; she is utterly and perfectly vulnerable.
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23 389 "They did cost me five pelts," he said.
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24 154 "Your beauty, you see," I said, "has a cost on this world.
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38 198 Another is, "I was found beautiful enough for a Warrior to brand!" Girls compete, so to speak, with one another in many ways, the quality and nature of their brands, the comfort, lightness, and attractiveness of their collars; at whose command they were branded and collared, the quality and texture ...
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Book 13. (11 results) Explorers of Gor

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3 28 She was hot and she had cost him not forty but only twenty-nine tarsks.
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4 295 "Then let her be placed on sale outside the shop for five Ehn, to be sold to the first buyer for the cost of her branding.
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4 296 If she is not sold in five Ehn then take her to the public market shelves and chain her there, taking the best offer which equals or exceeds the cost of her branding".
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4 717 If she was not soon sold for the cost of her branding she would be taken and put on the public shelves, large, flat steps, leading down to the water, near where the Central canal meets Thassa, the sea.
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4 856 "It will cost you a silver tarsk," he said.
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4 873 "It cost a copper tarsk to brand her," he said.
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4 950 It will cost you an extra copper tarsk".
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13 55 "But one must figure in, too," said he, "the cost of the paga".
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24 52 "Not without cost," he said.
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57 227 She had cost two silver tarsks.
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57 270 She cost me two and five, two silver tarsks and five of copper.
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Book 14. (9 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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7 131 Twenty blows of the snake, I had little doubt, might cost some men their lives.
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13 126 I suppose he was wondering what I had cost.
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13 170 "What did you cost?" he asked.
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16 268 "Five two-hort vials should cost you no more than a copper tarsk!" "Yes, Turbus," she said.
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17 104 "What did it cost?" "Five silver tarsks," I said.
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21 230 Ar had never forgotten that she had been checked in the Voltai, nor had Treve forgotten the cost of having done so.
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25 53 "Doubtless he has cost Miles of Vonda much," said Barus, rubbing my back.
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27 262 "You cost me many tarn disks".
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27 265 "He cost me twenty copper tarsks," said another man.
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Book 15. (3 results) Rogue of Gor

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6 153 "Girls who cost nothing can be sold cheaply," he said.
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14 20 That would cost her, I decided, an additional five strokes.
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25 135 "It was evidence brought against Callisthenes in Port Cos five years ago by Callimachus," said Tasdron, "which cost him an early promotion, a matter of minor peculation".
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Book 16. (2 results) Guardsman of Gor

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8 466 "What did you cost him? A silver tarsk, two?" "Oh! Oh!" she gasped.
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17 135 I wondered if it cost the beauty much to utter such sentiments, before one such as I, who had been of Earth.
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Book 17. (3 results) Savages of Gor

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6 85 While this procedure permits the rider to reload without dismounting and tends to improve, at some cost to striking power, the bow's rate of fire, it still provides, in my opinion, no adequate compensation for the loss of rapidity of fire.
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8 876 Yet, here, in the house of Ram Seibar, in this house of prizes and bargains, no one of them is likely to cost you more than a silver tarsk!" I glanced about, at the girls on the side blocks.
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13 620 "Oh, yes," she said, "I have value! I cost 'seven nine', I am told, whatever that means".
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Book 18. (1 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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1 148 The Fleer, eventually, had left the scene of battle, feeling the cost of obtaining a victory over such men would be too high.
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Book 19. (9 results) Kajira of Gor

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6 325 "How much did they cost?" I asked.
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17 15 I had been given to understand that if I were not claimed within ten days, I, too, would be put up for sale, even if I might be a free woman, if only to cover the cost of my keep.
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26 344 "They cost me only twelve copper tarsks each," said Aemilianus.
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26 347 Had you bought them in an open market they doubtless would have cost you more".
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31 655 Some of the lesser girls in a Ubar's pleasure gardens might not have cost so much.
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33 866 "True," said Ligurious, "but only at the cost of sacrificing the honor of Argentum".
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35 117 "Never, Master!" "You cost me a silver tarsk," he said.
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36 570 "I am of the warriors! I am an officer! I am a citizen of Ar, glorious Ar! And I am a fool! What you have done to me! Such women as you are the downfall of men! You have cost me my respect and my honor!" "Do you want me to pretend to be a free woman?" I asked.
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36 1626 "You know what you paid! What did I cost you? What did I bring Miles of Argentum!" "I do not recall," he said.
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Book 20. (6 results) Players of Gor

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1 22 I did not wish to be forced to sacrifice a move for Home-Stone placement in a situation that might, for all I knew, not turn out to be to my liking, a situation in which the obligatory placement might even cost me a tempo.
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1 547 They cost far less than many of their higher-priced sisters and yet, in the long run, are worth far more.
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6 206 "I will share the cost," said another.
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6 1360 I doubt that she would cost you, at the most, even given her beauty, more than two silver tarsks.
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12 67 "You may now protect your Home Stone," I said, "but only at the cost of your Ubara".
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13 5 This was somewhat cheaper than buying the flour directly, for then one must pay the cost of the peasant women's work or that of its millage.
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Book 21. (7 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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6 40 "Oh," said Hurtha, "it cost more than that".
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6 44 "What did all this cost?" I asked.
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15 412 "Among these petitioners came one fellow bringing with him the promise of a gift of wine, a wine supposedly secret, the rare Falarian, a wine only rumored among collectors to exist, a wine supposedly so rare and precious that its cost might purchase a city.
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15 807 "What is the cost, really, of some scraps of parchment and a few drops of ink?" "The coins," I said.
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25 164 "That has cost me many beatings," said the free woman.
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25 920 "How much did she cost?" I asked.
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25 937 What counts ultimately, in my opinion, is not the cost of the merchandise, but its value, its quality; it is not what one pays that is ultimately important, but what gets for one's money.
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Book 22. (7 results) Dancer of Gor

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1 185 Are you I? Are we the same? Surely that cannot be I! No one showed you such a dance! Has there been such a dance lurking in you all this time? Can we be the same? Surely that cannot be! Surely I must stop! You are the Doreen I must conceal, the Doreen whom I must, whatever be the cost or anguish, ne...
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11 891 In the arms of no other sort of man could I be fulfilled! Too, let Teibar cry out with anguish if he could find out how desired I would be, and what an excellent slut, what superb slave meat, I, his despised "modern woman," proved to be! I would become a high slave! I would cost a great deal of mone...
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12 8 "I cost nothing more".
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13 746 Such places, regardless of their cost, their location, their appointments, the excellence of their food and drink, the beauty of their slaves, the quality of their music, existed, as did the tavern of Hendow, for the pleasures of men.
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17 70 I had cost him only fifty copper tarsks, half a silver tarsk.
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17 72 I had cost them nothing.
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26 66 "She cost Ionicus five, and a tarsk bit," said Aulus.
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Book 23. (17 results) Renegades of Gor

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1 428 Perhaps, in time, they would even be released, in two or three years perhaps, when it was thought they had earned out several times their purchase cost, and if it were thought they had been exemplary prisoners, hard-working and suitably docile.
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2 369 "I would cost only twenty-seven tarsks to redeem!" called the fourth girl.
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3 35 Dancers, to be sure, sometimes cost two.
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5 29 I recalled that he had told me that although the use of an inn girl would cost me, in these times, three copper tarsks for only a quarter of an Ahn, I might have the free woman working in the paga room for an Ahn for only a tarsk bit.
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6 661 "What did she cost you?" he asked.
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8 787 Her redemption had cost me a silver tarsk, five.
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8 790 per silver tarsk, the women had cost me two silver tarsks, 87 C.
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10 35 I had redeemed her, by means of Ephialtes, at the Crooked Tarn, for thirty-five copper tarsks, the cost of her bill, but I had sold her for forty, a modest, almost irresistible price, considering the value of women here, at least prior to the city's fall.
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10 107 "I was once well taken at the Crooked Tarn," said the first man, "by a wench whose redemption cost me three silver tarsks, plus travel money, supposedly to get her back to Cos.
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10 263 Klio, redeemed through Ephialtes, had only cost me thirty copper tarsks.
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11 269 "Do you realize the cost of supporting such forces?" asked Aemilianus.
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16 132 Too, my words must have given her some hope that she might have, at my hands, at least some slim chance for life, albeit that it might have to be purchased at so alarming a cost as consigning herself by her own words to a fate no less than the degradation and categoricality of uncompromising Gorean ...
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16 534 But what will it cost the Cosians?" "Much," said a man, grimly.
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17 507 Under certain conditions, this may be an acceptable cost, but it is not likely to be so if one expects to have use for the sword in the near future.
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17 677 She had intended to use them to bargain for her life with Cosians, begging to purchase it from them, even at the frightful cost of Gorean bondage.
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19 169 He is pleased with your work, though it has been to his own cost.
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24 284 Surely you realize that the fidelity of Port Cos to the pledge of the Topaz may cost her greatly in the future".
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Book 24. (4 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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1 27 Her use had cost me a tarsk bit.
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1 28 Had I had a slave sent to my "space" it would have cost me three full copper tarsks, for only a quarter of an Ahn.
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31 505 "Such a mistake," he said, "might cost a man his life".
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44 159 The cost is a tarsk bit.
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Book 25. (9 results) Magicians of Gor

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3 903 "Next!" As it cost a tarsk bit to try the game I think he had already made more than the cost of the wineskin and its contents.
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2 124 I had later carried a spurious message which had nearly cost me my life to Ar's Station, to be delivered to its commanding officer at the time, Aemilianus, of the same city.
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2 223 She was not the sort of girl, for example, whom he, as a host, even at the cost of a certain rudeness and inhospitality, would be likely to hand over for the nightly comfort of a guest.
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7 191 I supposed this tiny act of exposure, so apparently natural, if not inadvertent, as though merely to aid her footing, this act so delicately politic, must have cost the modesty of the putative daughter of Marlenus of Ar much.
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7 553 Indeed, I suppose that it had cost Talena much to be seen in public, barefoot.
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8 416 It had cost three full copper tarsks for our admission to the pageant, and one of those was for Phoebe.
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18 392 "You know that Ar refused to support Ar's Station in the north and that her loyalty to the state of Ar cost her her walls and her Home Stone?" "Yes," he said.
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20 153 "What did you cost?" asked Phoebe.
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25 324 Much had it doubtless cost him to avert his eyes from the beauty.
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Book 26. (13 results) Witness of Gor

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3 19 On the other hand, ironically, our appearance, achieved at such cost, with so much labor, and so much attention to detail, seems most often taken for granted by our guests.
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5 20 Many things are advertised, too, in such a way, by calling out bargains, the fruits in season, the markets, the cost of cloth, and such.
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11 396 That admission, I conjectured, had cost her much.
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12 450 I did not know, of course, what I had cost.
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12 850 She did not have gloves, which must have cost her modesty somewhat, but I did not find this surprising.
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14 1146 I think it cost her some effort to do so.
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14 1586 It seemed that within him, unaccountably, this question had cost him something.
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28 39 It might have cost more than many slaves.
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29 672 Then he thrust her from him, reluctantly, an effort which must have cost him much will.
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37 963 The moments taken for its identification, the lapse of attention to the tunnel entrance occasioned by its appearance, had been without cost.
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39 14 The special little pleasure he had in me, a particular pleasure with me, as he might and doubtless did have other particular pleasures from other women, aside from the usual marvels, excitements, and gratifications of our slave usages, his to command and ours to provide, again and again at the cost ...
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43 123 Perhaps that cost her much, I such a lowly slave, and only a barbarian.
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46 423 "Even though you knew your failure to obey could cost you your own life?" "Yes," I said.
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Book 27. (9 results) Prize of Gor

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22 602 Ultimately, however, in theory, the cost of the wine, as tabulated, and the cost of its distribution by such as Callimachus, was to be borne by the state of Cos, as the festival camp was organized on her behalf.
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1 83 She has learned the cost of disobedience, and she shall obey, as she must, instantly, in all things, and with perfection.
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4 301 She suspected that that serving, and humble withdrawal, had cost Tutina much.
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8 114 "Does that word cost you much?" he asked.
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12 33 The cost of the laundry work, she conjectured, would be minimal, even negligible, to the laundry's patrons, particularly given its volume.
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15 531 "But it pleased me," he said, "to have had you made as young as you are, to give you such a meaningless, trivial age, a mere lovely eighteen, though I cost myself some coins in the business.
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16 1272 "Perhaps the new she-urt cost him too much," said Jasmine.
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17 819 Too, to be sure, cosmetics, even slave cosmetics, were not free, but cost their coins.
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21 252 "Yes," said Portus Canio, the effort to speak seeming to cost him much.
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Book 28. (6 results) Kur of Gor

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12 65 "But at the cost of glory," said Pyrrhus.
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32 134 "What did she cost you?" asked the Lady Bina.
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32 137 "Then she cost you nothing?" "True," said Cabot.
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45 58 Indeed, it is, as I understand it, natural for any human male who sees a woman in such a garment to think of her as "slave," what she would be like in one's arms, how much she would cost, what she would look like at one's feet, and so on.
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55 273 "Her act, I suspect," said Cabot, "was one less of courage than of terror, of sudden and thoughtless desperation, an irrational flight at any cost to escape capture by the killer humans".
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69 83 The loyalists saw that Lord Arcesilaus did not wish to have his life purchased at such a cost.
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Book 29. (9 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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3 605 "Perhaps one determined and ambitious, and one not too scrupulous, one intending to achieve wealth and success at any cost".
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5 91 These blessings, on feast days, may be bestowed on the faithful without cost.
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5 933 A single urt cost as much as a silver tarsk".
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15 15 She did not cost much".
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18 312 Had we been elsewhere on Gor and she branded and naked in a slave cage I did not doubt but what he would bid on her, and soon, doubtless regardless of the cost, would have her on his chain.
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20 150 They are, in a sense, as the bed of Procrustes, to which the human being is to be fitted, at whatever cost to his life or limbs, to his health or happiness.
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23 314 Their waiting would cost them time, and gain me time.
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25 58 Is not the beautiful woman, curled at one's feet, avid to learn the secrets of a house, petulant and pouting if denied, ideally suited to gather the flowers of intelligence? Is it not a natural, and simple, and innocent thing to purchase one of their smiles, at so small a cost as an expression, an u...
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43 104 "How can his sword be of great value," I asked, "if it has cost you six men?" "Is such a sword not worth six men?" asked Lord Nishida.
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Book 30. (11 results) Mariners of Gor

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1 110 A moment of indulgence, of clever vanity, can cost one one's life.
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1 116 The newcomers cast down the bows and, together, reached within their robes to unsheathe blades, the common gladius, but the cloaks, hitherto so convenient in concealing their caste, their intent, their weapons, cost them an unencumbered draw, and the stranger was at them, table flung aside, daggers ...
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3 811 The catastrophes in Ar had begun some days ago, hundreds of fugitives from Ar had scattered from the city, presumably most to seek the coast, and eventual security in the islands; and the six women in the camp might well have been from Ar, perhaps proscribed women, begging passage from Ar, even at t...
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7 149 Why had he not performed, or had performed, the simple ceremony of pacifying Thassa, of seeking to smooth her waves with a bit of oil, of mingling man's salt with hers, to plead kinship, friendship, even alliance, of giving her some wine, that she might be warmed, and pleased? Would it not have been...
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13 116 "Would it not cost blood to deny them their gold?" asked Cabot.
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17 47 Barbarians, incidentally, are often of high quality, perhaps because of the time and cost of their acquisition and transportation.
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20 197 "If one of you had seriously injured the other, cost an eye, or such," I said, "it might have gone seriously with you".
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21 284 Were they to use their swords? To be sure, such an act would doubtless have cost dozens of men, and forever divided the Pani from the mariners and armsmen.
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21 509 I recalled her from Ar, in her ornate, sumptuous robes, one of which might have cost a laborer a year's wages, sometimes so casual about the hem, lifting it up a bit, as to examine the heel of a slipper, but exhibiting an ankle, or drawing back, against her, or smoothing, about her, a garment, in su...
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26 57 Their use cost a two-dot shell.
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36 28 Demetrion knew little more of the stranger, the Cosian, Callias of Jad, than the fact that he may have cost the harbor, or, better, its administration, a number of golden tarn disks, of double weight.
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Book 31. (4 results) Conspirators of Gor

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10 675 Before a man, for example, I would have knelt, head down, waiting to be commanded, hoping, at any cost, to be found pleasing.
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18 1036 But as much as I wished to be allowed to speak, and as much as that deprivation cost me in helplessness and misery, what hurt me most was his neglect, his ignoring of me.
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24 151 If they managed this carnage, nine men, quite possibly with ease, with little or no cost to themselves, it seems they might do as well with, say, five men.
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49 376 "What do you cost?" he asked.
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Book 32. (6 results) Smugglers of Gor

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4 122 Unhappiness and misery is a high cost to pay for the denial of nature; it is well, I suppose, at least, that the victims are encouraged to think well of themselves, taking their unease, grief, and wretchedness as badges of rectitude.
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4 228 Sometimes white - silkers cost more, though for no reason that seems clear.
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14 278 Many had fallen slave following their flight from the city, females alone and defenseless in the fields, and many had purchased their conduct from the city from escaping mercenaries, at the cost of the collar itself, mercenaries unwilling to be burdened by free women.
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25 211 It was almost as though the plant wished to feed but not at the cost of its own demise.
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38 158 "I find it hard to believe that you have come this far, surely at the cost of time and coin, for a handful of Panther Girls who, as they are Panther Girls, are likely to be less appealing than your average she- tarsk".
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38 206 As slaves are commonly vain of their beauty, as other women, even extraordinarily so, a grievous discipline, which most girls will attempt to evade at almost any cost, is shaving their head.
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Book 33. (2 results) Rebels of Gor

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1 27 Desertions had occurred, some in the vicinity of the farther islands, particularly Daphna and Thera; later a mutiny had occurred which, though suppressed, had cost men, a mutiny in the wake of which still lay division.
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14 127 "Years were spent subtly enhancing the reputation of Daichi in the islands, with the result that Lord Temmu must have his services, at whatever cost".
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Book 34. (7 results) Plunder of Gor

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21 12 I had now realized, for the first time, perhaps belatedly, certainly foolishly, that intelligence, rationality, a capacity to calculate and plan, to pursue far goals, might not be limited to my species, but that the dark selections of evolution, in their impersonal, blind processes, without heart, m...
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26 198 "Her switching cost him four tarsk-bits".
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35 65 How then, I asked myself, could she be a display slave? I wondered what she had cost.
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35 87 I wondered again what she had cost.
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49 293 I hated her! How could I compete with her, half-naked, in a tunic, collared, on my knees? "A single bottle," said Decius Albus, "may cost as much as a golden tarsk".
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61 86 You will behold, momentarily, an unusually lovely kajira, a former display slave, a nicely curved item that cost the house a full golden tarsk".
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64 91 We cost money.
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Book 35. (12 results) Quarry of Gor

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3 26 I supposed there must be Earth women who would prefer to be free and gradually grow weak, decrepit, haggard, miserable, and die, but I supposed that there might be some who would not mind retaining their youth and beauty indefinitely, even at the cost of a collar on their neck.
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8 491 "You might have cost us our deck privileges".
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10 62 It can cost a proprietor a goodly bit of coin to buy a fine dancer.
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13 120 "You, in particular, cost us more than we expected, three copper tarsks, forty, forty tarsk-bits".
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13 153 "Their rental cost," I said, "being easily defrayed, that in virtue of the additional business their beauty might bring to an establishment".
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15 4 I am tempted to tie your hands behind your back and fasten a note to your collar that your indiscretion come to the attention of the Golden Chain! Scrolls cost coins, thief".
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28 33 This time you cost nothing.
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33 264 How zealous are Goreans! I supposed a principle must be involved, one to be satisfied at all costs, to warrant such a disproportion between expenditure and achievement, between cost and value, between effort and success.
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36 46 "And she will not cost you a tarsk-bit!" called Florian.
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40 51 They may yet rival black wine in preciousness, at a quarter the cost".
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40 92 Are those not decanters of ka-la-na, ruby red and tawny, like the wet pelt of a fresh-foaled kaiila? Do I not see flasks and vessels common to the liqueurs and syrups of Turia? Might those not even be tospits, short-stemmed and long-stemmed, from the lands of the Wagon Peoples? And do I not smell th...
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43 217 That would cost time, but would gain him men who might later prove to be sorely needed.
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Book 36. (7 results) Avengers of Gor

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4 156 Its cost, it was claimed by some, might purchase a city.
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17 42 To be sure, I was pleased that she had cost so little.
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21 122 I had no idea what she would cost in the Islands, but in Brundisium or Ar I would suppose as much as two silver tarsks.
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21 173 It had cost me a silver stater in Brundisium.
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27 10 "My ostracon cost me but a single tarsk-bit and I have won ten tarsk-bits!" "Well done," granted Thurnock.
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41 136 "But at a cost I would not pay," said Thurnock.
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59 333 "Let the cost be," I said, "a single gold stater of Brundisium".
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