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Book 1. (6 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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2 200 For example, incredibly enough, weapon technology is controlled to the point where the most powerful devices of war are the crossbow and lance.
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2 201 Further, there is no mechanized transportation or communication equipment or detection devices such as the radar and sonar equipment so much in evidence in the military establishments of your world.
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3 39 The schedule that was forced upon me was meticulous and grueling, and except for rest and feeding, alternated between times of study and times of training, largely in arms, but partly in the use of various devices as common to the Goreans as adding machines and scales are to us.
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3 45 My father, to my delight, had taped one of these translation devices with English, and accordingly it was a most useful tool in working out equivalent phrases.
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4 110 I decided I disapproved of the Gorean devices for separating mortals from their beds as much as I loathed the alarm clocks and clock radios of my own world.
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15 15 I knew that the worst of such devices would be invisible.
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Book 2. (1 results) Outlaw of Gor

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2 80 This was contrary to the ways of Gor, for normally only the habiliments of outlaws and exiles, men without a city, lack the identifying devices of which the Gorean is so proud.
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Book 3. (10 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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10 21 For longer periods of time there are various devices for recording a message, without relying on complex mechanical devices.
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5 189 I silently congratulated the Priest-Kings on the efficacy of their devices.
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8 32 No wonder the Priest-Kings hid behind their palisade in the Sardar and let the myths of the Initiates build a wall of human terror about them, no wonder they let their nature and ends be secret, no wonder they took such pains to conceal and obscure their plans and purposes, their devices, their inst...
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14 13 As I dangled there to my irritation further devices manipulated by the Priest-King emerged from the wall and extended towards me.
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17 64 Its speed is controlled by the placement of the feet along double accelerator strips which lie flush with the surface of the disk; its direction is controlled by the rider, who bends and turns his body, thereby transmitting force to the lightly riding disk, the principles involved being no more unus...
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20 51 Also, the globe itself bristled with various devices, nodes, switches, coils, disks, lights.
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20 100 Swiftly and efficiently he placed her wrists in retaining devices mounted in the cylinder and, with a small, curved knife, removed her clothing, which he cast aside.
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20 115 He then sprung her wrists free of the retaining devices and reclosed the plastic cylinder, locking her inside once again.
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30 64 But now that Misk's forces possessed a similar weapon Sarm, in fear, set his own similar devices aside.
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30 187 This transfer of allegiance was apparently the result of long discussion and consideration by the group of Priest-Kings who had followed Sarm because he was First Born, but had at many points objected to his conduct of the War, in particular to his treatment of the Muls, his use of the gravitational...
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Book 4. (5 results) Nomads of Gor

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2 10 But why was it I who came? Why not Priest-Kings in their ships and power, with their fierce weapons and fantastic devices? Priest-Kings cannot stand the sun.
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7 206 Who, or what, could dare such a thing? Besides, how did I know that the message was not from Priest-Kings? I knew, as Kamchak and Kutaituchik did not, of the recent Nest War beneath the Sardar, and of the disruption in the technological complexes of the Nest—who knew to what primitive devices...
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7 207 It had been, after all, months since the Nest War and surely, by now, to some extent, Priest-Kings would have managed to restore significant portions of the equipment, devices of surveillance and control, by means of which they had, for such long millennia, managed to maintain their mastery of this ...
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16 328 Their weapons and devices would rust and crumble in the Sardar.
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17 13 I was puzzled by the manner in which the heat and humidity were introduced to the room, for I saw no vents nor cauldrons of boiling water, or devices for releasing drops of water on heated plates or stones.
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Book 5. (8 results) Assassin of Gor

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3 74 On the other hand, the brilliance which men might have turned into destructive channels was then diverted, almost of necessity, to other fields, most notably medicine, though considerable achievements have been accomplished in the production of translation devices, illumination and architecture.
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5 227 Since Elizabeth and I were strangers in the Nest Serus had wanted us fit with the devices as a precaution, but, of course, Misk would hear nothing of it.
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5 237 Elizabeth had agreed but was startled when placed on a long table, actually of a size for a Priest-King, and found her head enclosed between two curved, intricate devices, rather like two halves of a bowl.
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5 252 Kusk and I discussed various matters then for about an Ahn, primarily having to do with the extent to which the surveillance and control devices of the Nest had been restored since the Nest War, the increasing role of humans in the Nest, and the difficulties of working out a set of social arrangemen...
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5 320 Their ships have sensing devices perhaps the match of our own; they scatter; they have weapons, primitive perhaps, but yet effective at ranges of a hundred thousand pasangs".
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11 6 The expression "The Iron Pens," incidentally, generally refers to all of the subterranean retention facilities in the house of a slaver, not simply cages, but pits, steel drums, wall chains and such; it is the name of an area, on the whole, rather than a literal description of the nature of the only...
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12 199 "Mechanical devices brand too uniformly.
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15 133 The training room was floored with wood, laid diagonally across beams for additional strength; one twelve-foot area of the room was a shallow pit of sand; against one wall were various chests of raiment, cosmetics and retention devices, for girls must be trained to wear chains gracefully; certain da...
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Book 6. (1 results) Raiders of Gor

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9 193 There she could be anonymous, and safe, perhaps contract a desirable marriage, and live well in a large house, perhaps with servants, and conveniences, and devices.
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Book 8. (3 results) Hunters of Gor

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4 70 There she might own a large house, and have the convenience of labor-saving devices.
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5 212 There was a variety of holding devices within the compound.
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15 318 One key, incidentally, serves for an entire set of ankle rings and locking devices.
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Book 10. (9 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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1 636 On Gor, the female slave, desiring her master, yet sometimes fearing to speak to him, frightened that she may be struck, has recourse upon occasion to certain devices, the meaning of which is generally established and culturally well understood.
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1 637 I shall mention two such devices.
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1 643 These devices, incidentally, may be used even by a slave girl who hates her master but whose body, trained to love, cannot endure the absence of the masculine caress.
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2 86 Elaborate random selection devices, utilizing coins and sticks, and formulas, were sometimes used by merchants to assure that applying tenders and drovers were selected, if they were not known, by chance.
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21 540 Beyond this it was not as compact as I would have expected, as filled with devices, panels and storage cabinets.
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21 575 It was the position, at any rate, it seemed clear, in which the devices stopped.
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24 97 She had revealed all she knew of the Sardar, the plans of Priest-Kings, their practices and devices, the weakness of the Nest.
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25 513 I looked about, at the chains and devices.
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26 869 I opened the locking devices, releasing her thigh.
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Book 11. (7 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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9 1119 Beyond this they may continue to function as control devices and incitements.
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9 1973 At that time, however, I had not worn more sophisticated devices, equally or more effective, such as the Gorean slave hood with gag-attachment.
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9 2096 Such devices may be fastened together by as little as one link, or by several links.
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9 2099 Thus, not only could I not hope to slip them, for such devices are not made to be slipped, but my wrists were fastened closely together.
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12 674 "It is with these devices," said the man, holding up the tiny leaf, with its wire, sign and printing, "that we of Treve, in our various ventures of raiding, mark our booty".
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15 356 I assumed such devices must be available.
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22 454 Bondage may also be betokened by such devices as bracelets and anklets.
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Book 12. (7 results) Beasts of Gor

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28 170 I remembered the timing devices in the crashed ship encountered in the Tahari desert, devices set to control the detonation of the fearsome explosives housed within its steel hull.
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21 193 Such cruel devices help to keep order among female slaves.
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35 30 I was interested not so much in official thresholds, of a sort which I supposed would be provided to facilitate the work of lookouts and guards, as apertures more practical to my purposes, apertures unguarded through which passage would not require any system of recognition devices.
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35 347 I did not know, first, where the most remote areas accessible to the overhead track lay or where the surveillance devices, which might be available to human beings, might not scan.
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35 390 There was no time to test and play with the locks, and each wench was secured by three devices, each sufficient to hold her.
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35 900 "Beyond the reach of slaves, beyond the scope of the monitoring devices," I cried.
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37 129 The Priest-Kings have set limits to the devices of men upon this world.
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Book 13. (3 results) Explorers of Gor

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7 49 Some of the girls also wore slave bracelets or other devices, fastening their hands before or behind their bodies.
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13 197 All these devices work from locks, answering to a common key, which hangs high on the wall, toward the back and left, as you enter.
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14 463 A free woman, captured, whose hair her captor unbinds, usually the first time by the stroke of a knife, a precaution against poison pins and other devices, knows full well by this act that she will soon be made his slave.
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Book 14. (10 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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1 106 Similar expressions, once meaningful, now largely of value as rhetorical devices are 'chauvinist', 'sex object', 'person', 'conservative' and 'liberal'.
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2 180 The heavy man put the case down on the steel table, made a note of something in a small notebook, and then threw one of the steel devices to the fellow who stood by Miss Henderson, he who had gagged her unconscious body.
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7 684 Shame she could understand, such things as the chagrin of a man who has failed in honor, but pathologically conditioned guilts, instilled neurotic anxieties, used as control devices to perpetuate sickened societies, were unfamiliar to her.
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19 2 On my hands I wore the gunni, training devices, curved weights of lead, several pounds heavy, with handles, cushioned with cloth.
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19 3 The value of these devices is twofold.
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19 8 The concave surfaces of the gunni face the user of the devices, and the handles are recessed within these surfaces.
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19 15 One may, of course, break through walls with such devices or bend iron.
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27 118 The men of Tharna may be recognized in their city and abroad by the two yellow cords worn at the belt, each some eighteen inches in length, devices useful in tethering women, hand and foot.
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30 53 Others, of course, use them liberally as leading devices.
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32 44 It might be mentioned that there are also such devices as wrist leashes and ankle leashes.
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Book 15. (5 results) Rogue of Gor

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10 208 To be sure, I thought, if she were a slave, and put in such devices, and sent forth, she had best return with a jingling coin box.
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11 91 "I think that I myself, and a friend," I said, "were captured by the same cab, the same devices".
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24 394 There our slavery had been, by such devices as brands and collars, and whips and hoods, fully, for the first time, released in us and made manifest.
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26 99 But the slave girl, standing outside the protections of such devices, stands before her master as an exposed, raw human female, without rights, his to do with as he pleases.
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31 158 The polelike spokes, of course, by which the windlass is normally turned, or managed, should be freed of the windlass before this is done, a disengagement which is effected by loosing the pin-and-lock devices and withdrawing the poles from the windlass.
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Book 16. (6 results) Guardsman of Gor

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8 55 Such devices might seem surely to secure the modesty of a woman.
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10 28 Crests had been ripped from helmets, identificatory devices pried from the convex surfaces of shields.
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17 399 "Perhaps there are no such things as duties, and rights," she said, "perhaps there are only the words, used as the instruments of manipulative rhetorics, devices of conditioning, cheaper and more subtle than guns and whips".
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19 433 This condition, also, of course, could be signified in many other ways, for example, by such devices as a bracelet or anklet, or even a ring.
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19 677 "But I have made certain improvements, bars and certain security devices, for example.
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20 625 The usual devices to take a running woman are nets and ropes.
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Book 17. (5 results) Savages of Gor

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1 735 The iron bolts of these devices, weighing about a pound apiece, were capable of sinking some four inches into solid wood at a range of some twenty yards.
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8 952 Such devices, like the slave collar, cannot be slipped.
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12 105 In more sophisticated devices, two, or even three, poles or boards are used, which can slide apart, and are fastened at given points by pegs or thongs.
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12 110 Too, they may be used in concert with other devices.
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14 790 I was afraid, for I had seen other white slaves put in such devices.
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Book 18. (7 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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1 320 It is common among red savages to use such designs, such devices, to mark their possessions.
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7 161 "Too, shame and humiliation, like chains and whips, can be useful disciplinary devices".
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18 42 She had seen such devices before, and knew their use.
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22 173 Some of the women, though only a few, were marked not with paint, but with tags, devices of wire with an attached leather disk.
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33 242 The point of the collar is to mark the woman as a slave and, in many cases, by means of devices such as a particular kind of knot, a tag, an engraving on metal, or a plate attached to it, to identify the master, not to cause her discomfort.
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39 200 A warrior may secure such women with devices so simple as thumb-cuffs, like tiny, joined rings, and snap-lock, or pronged, tension-closed, nose-rings, with strands of wire, to fasten them together.
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46 53 Such devices, I speculated, dismally, would arrest or turn most arrows from the bows of red savages.
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Book 19. (10 results) Kajira of Gor

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3 855 I think I then realized, perhaps for the first time, fully, the power of the conditioning devices to which I had been subjected.
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3 917 "Slaves, I suppose, occasionally have recourse to such devices," I said.
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8 63 I heard the door, with its various devices, being refastened behind me.
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13 66 I supposed she would be placed with other women, perhaps wearing similar devices.
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13 175 You will find that the holding power of these various devices is more than adequate, by several factors, to hold ten strong men.
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27 200 She may, of course, at the master's whim, by various correctional devices, be swiftly restored to zealousness.
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31 309 Both devices are quite ordinary, but, of course, quite efficient".
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36 473 I had tried, with all the skills I had been taught, and with all the devices, and instincts, of the natural slave, which I was, to attract and lure him.
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36 857 For political and social reasons societies and cultures have often conspired, by means of a variety of devices, to suppress the natural woman, to use the woman herself to imprison her own being, to instill in her an insidious inertness, or frigidity, to inculcate in her a guilt concerning, and a sus...
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36 1570 Such devices would suffice quite well, surely, for a common girl such as I now was.
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Book 20. (4 results) Players of Gor

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2 273 Too, it might be noted that many dramatic masks have megaphonic devices built into them which tend to amplify the actors' voices.
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2 859 They were, in effect, good-will and promotional devices, donated to the festivities, for the pleasures of free men, by the houses of various slavers.
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2 1597 I wondered if Gorean men could even conceive of a world where sexuality was supposedly shameful, where sex and guilt were pathologically intermingled, where children were raised to suspect and fear their own bodies, where the most natural urges and impulses of human beings were denounced, where guil...
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6 957 "Disciplinary devices, such as whips and chains, too, can be expensive," said Boots.
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Book 21. (5 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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27 183 These bracelets, however, those now upon the blonde, were not the lovely, attractive, colorful devices, as much ornaments as restraints, which are designed for attractiveness as well as custodial efficiency, devices which may be matched to various slave silks, types of collars, and such, in effect, ...
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16 121 Needless to say, there is a large number of collar types, chaining arrangements, and security devices, the choices among them largely dictated by the motives and tastes of the master, and sometimes by his cultural background, all of which serve to keep women in perfect custody.
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21 248 Too, it is in such a district that one will find a wide variety of other articles helpful in the identification, keeping, training, and disciplining of females, such things as collars, of the fixed and lock variety, leashes, of metal and leather, neck, wrist and ankle, ranging from simple guide thon...
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24 95 It is a culture more at ease with itself, one less frenetic, one whose sense of time is more indexed to the sun and seasons than the periodic movements of mechanical devices, one with more in common with grass and flowers, and the grazings of animals, and the combing of a girl's hair, than with poll...
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26 2014 But it is also an arsenal of wiles, of cunning weapons and dangerous devices, of misdirections and subtleties, of snares and traps.
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Book 22. (9 results) Dancer of Gor

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3 930 Could it be that on that world such devices were not permitted? I saw the small object pointed at me.
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4 192 "Perhaps those little adornments, those little vanity devices," he said, "will make you more amusing, and interesting, in your collar".
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6 108 Several of our kennels, where our blankets and pans of water were kept, had been closed with similar devices.
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10 294 I was then gagged and hooded, utilizing the devices of the ball-gag, the straps, the leather covering, the buckles and lock, as I had been when first leaving the house of my training.
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13 728 Such devices, of course, but without the authenticity and the ultimate surrender, are often resorted to by "lure girls," slaves who serve as bait for captains who need crewmen, masters of work gangs, and such.
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14 45 Indeed, I was eager to adorn myself with appropriate devices, that I might be rendered even more attractive to men.
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14 46 Too, I had some understanding of the meaning of such devices to Gorean males, and the effects upon them of such things.
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14 345 It, and numerous other disciplines and devices, we so helpless, serve to keep us well in line.
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32 149 They are useful pedagogical devices.
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Book 23. (13 results) Renegades of Gor

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1 349 The meal or flour emerging from these devices is usually sifted, as it must often be reground, sometimes several times.
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1 595 It also, of course, as one would expect, by means of various devices, legal and otherwise, clarifies it and renders it more efficient.
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2 68 "They brought with them the devices for siege work from Brundisium," he said.
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5 396 By such devices one obtains variety, or its deceptive surrogate, even in a substance seemingly so initially unpromising as inn porridge.
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6 118 This left her fully and modestly concealed, albeit with only strips and pieces of clothing, the devices for arranging and closing which had been removed.
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9 75 They may be fastened by means of such devices as cords, straps and laces.
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10 303 There are other devices, too, pertinent to such matters, particularly in formal contexts, such as the symbolic laying aside of arms, but I was certainly not, in this context, about to lay aside any arms.
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17 17 There are many ways of meeting such devices.
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17 46 Such devices are rich in war uses.
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17 58 Huntsmen are skilled in the stringing and weighting of such devices.
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17 65 At both bridges, following the success of the devices of the fishermen and huntsmen, the temporary consternation of hesitant successors permitted defenders to take their place, too, on the shaking bridge, where, in moments, they had pressed their way back even to the edge of the flooring, that of th...
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18 374 Some fellows fastened tags, or other devices, to the nose rings themselves, or to the looped cord dangling from the nose ring.
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18 511 These are handy devices.
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Book 24. (16 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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1 418 And the little she-sleen, I assure you, know well how to utilize those pleasant, remarkable little devices, so subtly and apparently innocently, to drive masters half mad with passion.
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3 313 Needless to say, such casual devices may be swiftly changed, the colors sometimes alternating with the tides of battle.
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13 173 There are many such devices.
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13 175 These devices have in common the feature of ensuring the total helplessness of the slave and, if one wishes, her ignorance of her destination, route and such.
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24 99 "Poor women," I said, "to be the prisoners of such devices".
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24 116 "Although the prisoner is unable to reach any of the devices of closure another might be able to do so.
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24 117 Thus, if one wished, these devices could be locked in place".
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24 159 "Do you think the slaves kept in such devices can escape?" I asked.
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24 164 "To struggle in such devices, if you were a slave," I said, "might earn you a lashing".
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25 55 "Interesting, the effects of such devices upon a woman," I mused.
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25 124 Such devices, rather obviously, are commonly reserved for female slaves.
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25 126 In virtue of such devices, a slave, you see, helpless and vulnerable, may be forced to endure whatever ecstasies a master may be pleased to impose upon her.
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25 128 In such devices many a new slave, perhaps initially determined to resist and remain unresponsive, disbelieving, astonished, screaming and squirming, has first begun to understand her collar.
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28 603 The modalities of these devices, of course, are different, as is known to slaves who are subjected to them.
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28 604 What these various devices do have in common is a tendency to induce a sense of great helplessness, which increases the slave's consciousness of male dominance, and, accordingly, her responsiveness to this dominance.
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28 607 Gags, blindfolds, and such devices, then, may or may not be used, as the master wishes.
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Book 25. (12 results) Magicians of Gor

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1 105 In Schendi the white slave girls of black masters are sometimes taught to carry such vessels on their heads without the use of their hands or such devices as the towel.
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3 65 Such devices, or precautions, had in the interim apparently been deemed necessary, doubtless for purposes of security or to control the number of refugees pouring into the city which, even earlier, had been considerable.
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3 394 Not only is she likely to be lowered on the chain, perhaps even to "last girl," which is demeaning to her, and a great blow to her vanity, but she is likely to be encouraged to greater efforts by a variety of admonitory devices, in particular, the switch and whip.
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3 853 The major difference, I think, between the dice of Earth and those of Gor is that the Gorean dice usually have their numbers, or letters, or whatever pictures or devices are used, painted on their surfaces.
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3 859 At any rate, in the Gorean dice, as mentioned, the numbers or letters, or pictures or whatever devices are used, are usually painted on the dice.
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8 204 That product would have been more likely to have been, as it still was, available on the "Street of Brands," a district in which are found many of the houses of slavers, sales barns, sales arenas, holding areas, boarding accommodations, training facilities, and shops dealing with product lines perti...
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9 10 One could clearly hear the decisive closure of the devices, first the one, then the other.
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17 80 Also, of course, by means of it and a rope or chain one may attach her to various rings and holding devices.
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21 42 The average Gorean has a variety of simple devices at his disposal for marking the passage of time.
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21 401 How effective are such devices! Men know well how to keep us helpless! "She must have noted my tiny, futile struggle.
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22 619 Because there are many Goreans who cannot read, many stores, shops, and such, will utilize various signs and devices to identify their place of business.
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27 809 These devices are excellent for improving the behavior of slaves.
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Book 26. (19 results) Witness of Gor

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34 94 The inflow devices add water to a container and the level in the container measures a unit of time; the outflow devices drain water, the time measured then by the level of water remaining in the vessel.
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10 1002 How well I had been controlled by the leash, even though my hands were free! I lay there prone, trembling, sweating on the stone, the tunic tight between my teeth; he then put his foot on my back, holding me down, pressing me to the stone, and, leaning forward, pulled up the leash, the leather again...
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11 1028 Even their strictest and most severe devices of punishment and discipline were designed with the protection of such features in mind.
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11 1508 I have indicated, too, that such devices are frequently used in the matings of slaves.
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12 883 I did not think that these things were intended to be so much ornaments in themselves as devices by means of which to guarantee that the penetrant channels wrought in my body by the worker's needle could not, even in the healing of the flesh, close.
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12 886 Even so, of course, the devices made it rather clear that my ears were pierced, as they were.
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13 454 Their use, I think, if they are used at all, should be reserved for fierce animals, such as the six-legged beasts I had seen, or perhaps for powerful warriors, or brawny, recalcitrant male slaves in the quarries or mines, captives or animals whose control may require such fierce devices.
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13 535 "In the pits," said he, "there are numerous such devices.
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13 568 Such devices, I supposed, might be common in places such as these.
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13 573 Some of these are rather benign devices, with no object more in mind than to discommode a free woman until the hunters arrive and collect her.
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13 576 Within some of these devices, surrounded by the wire and blades, one cannot move without cutting oneself to pieces.
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13 1184 There are also, of course, a large number of other incarceratory devices, such as slave chests, or boxes, and slave sacks.
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13 1388 Doubtless they had their rounds to make, of the cells or whatever incarceratory devices might be found in this place.
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19 70 The flash was not unlike that from mirrors used as signal devices in the mountains.
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24 297 Such devices, close-fitting, obdurate, restrain us, with perfection.
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29 879 "You may begin," she said, "by removing these horrid bracelets and this obscene leash!" "They are the devices," said he, "of your current keeper, a warden of the city".
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31 549 Save for the metal band, the bow, or spring, mounted crosswise, now drawn, and the cable, arched back, the devices, with their triggers and stocks, were not unlike stubby rifles.
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34 17 In the case of the first man, the pit master had reminded the leader of the strangers that various security devices in the corridors were armed, especially in view of the incursion of the raiders earlier, and reiterated his offer to furnish expert guidance.
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37 709 The cord which went to the latch on the bottom of the cage over the pool went, with the other apparatus, chains and ropes, connected with the control of the cage, from the cage to the wall, over pulleys, and then down to the level of the walkway, where it, like the other devices, was secured.
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Book 27. (15 results) Prize of Gor

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4 117 How she would have terrified weak men, administrators, colleagues, and such, by the presentation of such a fierce mien, suggesting implacable resolution, and full readiness to have instant and embarrassing recourse to various devices, procedures, pressures, laws and institutions engineered to impose...
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13 376 She was unsuccessful, of course, as such devices are not designed to be removed by their wearers.
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14 76 Too, warriors, tarnsmen, slavers, and such, might prefer plainer custodial devices for early captures, transportation, simple holding, and so on.
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16 976 It is one of a large number of devices and techniques for improving a girl.
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26 431 Then the devices snapped shut about her wrists, closely, snugly, and she was braceleted, back-braceleted.
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26 1103 Blankets, sheets, and such, of course, may be used as hooding devices.
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27 385 In a moment these devices were set, the metal bands curved back, the cables tautened; quarrels were fitted to guides.
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27 574 Revealed then, in their keeping, sheathed, or, better, holstered, were similar devices.
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27 576 The convenience, and stolid, latent menace of the devices, however, to any who understood them, was obtrusively evident.
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27 669 Perhaps an ancient technological civilization on Earth had colonized this world, before slipping unnoticed, with its devices, perhaps intentionally, from the pages of history.
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27 1775 "There were six such devices," said Portus Canio.
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27 2654 They are also trained in gagging and blindfolding, two useful devices for controlling and training slaves.
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27 2933 "Put it with the other lightning devices, at the edge of the camp".
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30 677 All your laws then, your politics, your ideologies, your legal remedies, your petty threats, your thousand devices to obtain power, to control, reduce, tame and destroy men, would be useless.
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30 678 Remember them, such seekings, such devices, when you are chained naked in a Gorean dungeon, collared, with other slaves, a mark burned into your thigh, waiting to be brought to the auction block.
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Book 28. (19 results) Kur of Gor

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1 60 The entire facility is automated, though one supposes some supervisory personnel may be in attendance, if only by means of olfactory devices, listening devices, cameras, or such.
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1 319 In this respect, they are much like the Kurii, who are also reluctant to avail themselves of such devices, and who, indeed, interestingly, profess to find them unnatural and distasteful.
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1 476 She had seen the relevant devices, of course, on posts and hanging in sheds, dark, stern, heavy, close-fitting shackles, breeding shackles.
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1 505 Whereas they enjoy utilizing a number of securing devices, ropings, thongings, traps, and such, and a variety of interesting psychological techniques, in acquiring and orienting their wares, some of which are extremely enjoyable and sophisticated, their most common procedure is a simple one, merely ...
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1 926 They were neither gifts nor commonplace sexual provender, but torture devices, wherewith to despoil him of his honor, and perhaps his sanity.
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1 1093 The hallway might be empty, and silent, but there were doubtless, somewhere, surveillance devices, cameras, microphones, or such, to them undetectable, perhaps no more than a few microns in width.
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2 290 He knew such devices existed.
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2 292 Too, Kurii, most at any rate, would need such devices, surely so, for communicating with their human confederates.
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2 297 With respect to translators more generally, one supposes that the Priest-Kings themselves, whoever or whatever they are, must have such devices in order to communicate with humans, and perhaps, too, with Kurii.
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3 168 Too, if there are translators here, translation devices, many would presumably be devised to deal with Gorean".
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5 339 "You must understand that the light and energy is introduced into the habitat indirectly, by means of mirrors and reflective devices.
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11 30 In this fashion the occupants, or passengers, never exposed to the rigors and perils of a near vacuum, need not concern themselves with complex suiting, reaction devices, safety lines, and such.
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18 136 These emanations of moisture were doubtless controlled by automatic devices, and the moisture, in turn, would evaporate to be recycled, indefinitely, rather as in a natural planetary environment.
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27 11 In the alcove, as is often the case, were various devices, gags, blindfolds, shackles, coarse rope, silken cords, adjustable chains, a switch, a whip, such things, convenient to masters, not unfamiliar to slaves.
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33 294 The glowing lenses or optical devices regarded them for a few moments, and then the huge machine quietly submerged, leaving only some ripples in its wake.
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42 97 The throat of the Lady Bina, of course, was not constructed to utter Kur, nor would she know much of that language, saving perhaps to recognize some words addressed to her, and what Kurii might be in the facility would be unlikely to have translators, or, even, if so, would not be likely to have the...
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44 31 Some beam devices, too, had proved of value, and flares, particularly in assisting humans to detect Kur patrols, Kur marches, the advance of raiding parties, and such.
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46 187 "Nor, if we had, even the means to form such devices," said another.
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51 93 "There is some possibility," said Cabot, "that the seeming dearth of female passion on such a world, seemingly so unnaturally pervasive, seemingly so inexplicable, is actually in its way an evidence not of the absence or weakness of female drives and needs, but of their remarkable strength, which re...
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Book 29. (14 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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5 260 Other devices, more common on ships of war, in similar situations, are flags and banners.
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5 420 To be sure, even recent free women are sometimes put in such devices, that they become that much the sooner accustomed to their condition, that they are no longer free, but are now goods, now properties, now slaves.
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9 458 But we are also an intelligent, adaptive people, and are always ready and eager to adopt useful devices, pleasant customs, and such".
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14 25 These, I gathered, were less surrogate weapons than training devices, to quicken reflexes, and enhance skills.
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16 50 These devices may be used for a variety of purposes, identification of location, often important in the confusion of battle, signaling charges, retreats, maneuvers, rallying scattered troops, and so on.
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16 51 Too, after a time they tend to acquire something of the charisma or potency often associated with certain images, or symbolic devices, such as flags.
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18 174 They might have been less inclined to use other devices, say, disease, because of the danger of a mutation which might affect the denizens of the Sardar, sooner or later, as well.
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23 96 "Devices, heated," I said, "to hatch eggs".
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26 242 Neither Priest-Kings nor Kurii cared much to advertise their devices.
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28 21 The calculations in these matters are due to the devices and measurements of Scribes.
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28 170 Although such devices are frequently changed, some are used more than once.
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28 171 Also, certain recognition devices are portions of a secret tradition within Pani clans, the members of which may be separated by thousands of pasangs, and these are either permanent, or relatively so.
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30 60 The usual galley could easily avoid such devices.
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40 26 Most such devices, given their height, or the angle of their fire, could not be well defended from above.
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Book 30. (5 results) Mariners of Gor

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3 165 How lovely such devices are, closely clasping and locked, on the neck of a female! How they enhance a woman's beauty! What she said was surely true, and she, in the company of the Ubara, Talena of Ar, was an arch collaborator with the occupation forces in Ar.
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16 186 Cut the ropes, behind the chain!" He had hardly spoken when two, and then ten or more, such devices dropped to the deck.
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26 42 The Pani, I had discovered on the ship, were familiar with such devices, and, as I later learned, with ciphers and codes, as well.
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33 296 We then, together, began to make our way along the waterfront, to the high piers, so called, those which might, by depth of water, levels of platforms, varieties of lading devices, and proximity to shops and warehouses, accommodate and service round ships.
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34 112 "But let us leave that unusual world to its own devices, its own prevarications, inhibitions, and deceits," I said.
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Book 31. (4 results) Conspirators of Gor

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7 444 It was certainly not as alarming as certain of the discipline rooms I had seen, with their devices and cages.
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15 91 Usually she is left to her own devices there, but sometimes the masters require a certain position, most often kneeling, head down.
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37 182 "There are devices, technologies, here," said Desmond of Harfax, "with which we are unfamiliar.
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46 106 Goreans are wary of the Priest-Kings, but, on the whole, leave them to their devices in the Sardar.
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Book 32. (2 results) Smugglers of Gor

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21 121 From my time on the world Earth, and from the voyages I had made, I was no stranger to a variety of interesting devices seldom found on Gor, devices of communication, and record keeping, and such, devices the nature of which was unknown to most Goreans, even to those who had attained to the Second K...
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25 187 If there were osts here they would be caged pets, or assassination devices.
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Book 33. (15 results) Rebels of Gor

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2 84 That is one reason many warriors require a captured free woman to strip herself, lest they run afoul of concealed devices, a scratch from which might prove fatal.
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2 85 Sometimes the captor inquires politely if the woman's garments contain such devices.
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2 86 If she replies affirmatively she is asked to remove the devices and place them before the captor before stripping herself.
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9 127 Second, the location of, and the security devices of, the first encampment had been betrayed.
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19 247 I myself am rather fond of such things, of the tiny stratagems, the tricks and devices, of female slaves.
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27 175 "Such devices are prohibited".
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27 176 "You have in mind secret, forbidden devices?" asked Haruki.
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42 169 Being a sales tent it seemed likely it would be equipped with certain devices and goods.
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43 116 "It is," I said, "one of the shrewdest devices in the quiver of games, including the game of war".
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50 90 "If that is the case, their mechanical devices are not likely to have been activated".
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50 91 "Mechanical devices?" said Pertinax.
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52 36 "Compared to the dragon," I said, "I am sure the control devices are relatively simple, and possibly easily replaced".
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54 153 Surely they might use sophisticated devices to locate and retrieve a large object fallen into the sea.
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54 154 The arming devices, assuming they exist, as seems likely, might perhaps, with sufficient ingenuity, be neutralized.
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54 155 Indeed, perhaps the very waters of Thassa herself might, after an Ehn, or after months or years, disarm the defensive devices presumably implanted in the machine.
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Book 34. (17 results) Plunder of Gor

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2 87 "Perhaps there are surveillance devices, even in your apartment," said Paula, looking about, "hidden cameras, secretly installed recording devices".
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2 15 I had recounted to Paula, who had almost immediately freed me of the homely devices in which I was so helpless, the incident in the office, and the talk of slaves, of "pot girls," of "kettle-and-mat girls," and such.
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2 33 "There are devices," said Paula.
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2 123 "There are no devices," I said.
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3 142 I wondered if slaves sometimes served in such devices, perhaps at suppers with free women present.
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3 157 The keyed devices in which Paula and I were placed were doubtless intended to make it impossible for us, should we attempt to do so, to dislodge the bits.
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5 35 I would soon grow accustomed to such devices, and how helpless I would be in them.
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6 472 I recalled, too, one of our captors informing Paula that they had heard her enunciation "La kajira," even though we had searched the apartment diligently and had discovered no listening devices.
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6 474 Were there such devices, I did not doubt but what they had been removed from the apartment, probably after we had been handcuffed together and hooded in the two blankets, before being conducted to the waiting van.
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9 9 How helpless, pale, and pathetic seemed the occupants of those other devices! Could I appear similarly to them? Surely not! They were doubtless Gorean women, mere barbarians.
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20 23 I had never worn such devices, leather or metal, since the house of training.
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26 74 I have seen the plates of weapons and devices borne to the training chambers, the daggers, the balanced throwing knives, the easily concealed hook knife, the swords, the darts, the loops of wire, the chain garrotes, and, in particular, the crossbow and quarrel, the favored striking weapon of the cas...
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33 346 Most avail themselves of mechanical devices, translators.
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40 80 Whereas most Gorean cities share in, and respect, Merchant Law, the only common law binding scattered, and often hostile, communities, there are no provisions in such law for securing protections against one party's appropriation of another party's methods, processes, formulas, techniques, devices, ...
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46 397 "In a sense," he said, "but it may be ensconced in larger bodies, or devices, sometimes formidable and terrifying".
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46 406 Too, such devices might be deemed to contravene the technology laws of Priest-Kings, in which case their construction and employment might be attended with great danger".
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54 101 "Did you know," asked Lord Grendel, "that such devices still figure in wars amongst the steel worlds?" "No," said my master, looking back.
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Book 35. (7 results) Quarry of Gor

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10 32 Each was furnished with a number of custodial devices, bracelets, chains, shackles, and such, as well as various instruments of pleasure and discipline.
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11 123 Upon my return to the Golden Chain, I had been released until the Twelfth Ahn, and left to my own devices.
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11 134 Outside one of these metal worker's shops, on racks and poles, hung a number of slave collars, slave bracelets, manacles, shackles, siriks, mixed chains, and various slave-holding devices, such as racks and spreaders.
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24 43 On the other hand, we were much left to our own devices, and when a prosperous looking gentleman or a handsome, dashing fellow was in the vicinity the rings frequently became more active.
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35 175 Every alcove was furnished with disciplinary devices.
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38 96 What predator does not acquaint himself with the habits and gathering places of prey? Might not keen-eyed, shambling creatures before humans have looked in secret on one another, noted comings and goings, scouted numbers, weapons, and defenses; does the pleasant beast, feigning amity, have more in m...
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46 54 Also, of course, they are extremely efficient custodial devices.
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Book 36. (3 results) Avengers of Gor

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26 100 In passing, one might note that the ship catapult, one of several such devices, can rotate, this altering its direction of fire.
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44 39 These devices, together with war torches, torches mounted in the sockets of thrusting poles, proved their worth in battle.
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57 41 Suddenly dozens of these devices, heavy with seven or eight feet of chain, most cast by two men, hurtled toward the Tesephone.
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