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Book 1. (3 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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1 28 I discovered, to my dismay, that being English does not automatically qualify one as an authority on English history.
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16 135 I noted with dismay that the cage had no door.
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18 65 I streaked from the walls of Ar, noting with dismay that the procession of Pa-Kur was only a short distance from the great gate.
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Book 2. (1 results) Outlaw of Gor

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24 172 "I live!" cried a voice behind me and I turned and to my dismay I saw that Lara had followed me to the rampart.
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Book 3. (2 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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29 17 I cried out with dismay but knew what I must do, and retraced my steps to try the ditch.
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29 111 To my dismay I saw the last ship turning slowly toward me and I saw the disrupter cone rise and focus on me.
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Book 4. (7 results) Nomads of Gor

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8 37 From these raids the Wagon Peoples obtain a miscellany of goods which they are willing to barter to the Turians, jewels, precious metals, spices, colored table salts, harnesses and saddles for the ponderous tharlarion, furs of small river animals, tools for the field, scholarly scrolls, inks and pap...
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8 194 As soon as Kamchak had agreed to Albrecht's proposal the children and several of the slave girls immediately began to rush toward the wagons, delightedly crying, "Wager! Wager!" Soon, to my dismay, a large number of Tuchuks, male and female, and their male or female slaves, began to gather near the ...
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8 338 To my dismay, as he returned racing toward the circle of the boskhide whip the girl, a fine wench, managed to sink her teeth into the neck of the kaiila causing it to rear squealing and hissing, then striking at her.
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10 112 "An animal! A slave!" Then he added, giving her head another shake, "Like yourself!" Elizabeth looked at him with dismay.
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13 1 The Attack In the morning, to my dismay, Elizabeth Cardwell was not to be found.
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14 43 In the distance we heard a sound like a thunder of wings and then, against the three white moons of Gor, to my dismay, we saw tarnsmen pass overhead, striking toward the camp.
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20 54 Then to my dismay I saw two more crossbowmen, this time on a nearby roof.
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Book 5. (6 results) Assassin of Gor

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20 12 To one side, to my dismay, I saw Relius and Ho-Sorl chained.
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20 218 Her capacity, raw and brilliant, was simply a phenomenon, one of those rare and happy gifts one sometimes discovers, to one's delight or dismay, and she had caused me much of both.
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22 409 There was a cry of dismay from those near my perch.
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22 445 I glanced at the tarn heads remaining on the poles and saw, to my dismay, only eleven remained.
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22 526 Suddenly, to my dismay, I heard about us shouts and the thunder of wings and, closing in upon us, and following us, and rushing to meet us, were tarnsmen.
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24 397 There were shouts of dismay from those assembled.
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Book 6. (2 results) Raiders of Gor

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14 81 Accordingly, her goods, to the dismay of her merchants, were becoming less competitive in the markets of Thassa.
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16 282 They looked at one another in dismay.
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Book 7. (6 results) Captive of Gor

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8 833 "Why not?" I asked, in dismay.
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8 1065 Then, too, to my dismay, I saw another look, which I, even white silk, understood.
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13 454 To my dismay, terrified, frantic, her eyes wide, hands extended, fleet as a tabuk, Ute was fleeing back down the trail.
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15 84 I turned, as well as I could, and saw, to my dismay, Rask of Treve.
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15 1506 I then felt, to my dismay, his hand tear the ribbon of white silk from my collar.
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17 134 And well, and categorically, sometimes to my initial dismay, was I again conquered.
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Book 8. (1 results) Hunters of Gor

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15 208 On the march, however, they would discover, to their dismay, that there was even less protection.
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Book 10. (1 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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1 665 I heard a cry of dismay, of protest, from the horrified, once Miss Blake-Allen.
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Book 11. (2 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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11 425 When I again stood before her she, to my dismay, touched me.
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13 378 He had exacted from the crowd the highest possible price in the given market before he revealed, unexpectedly and to her dismay, the delicious richness and vulnerability of the girl's exploitable latencies, they as much a part of her as her block measurements, and as much for sale.
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Book 12. (2 results) Beasts of Gor

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2 284 What else could one such as you be on this world?" She regarded me, her eyes widened in dismay, in comprehension.
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34 39 I looked at it, as though in dismay.
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Book 13. (2 results) Explorers of Gor

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3 50 Once the slave discovers her sexuality, a venture in which the humiliated slave, to her dismay, is forced to participate to the fullest, she can never again ignore it.
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32 400 The spears of guards, lowered, to her dismay, suddenly block her way.
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Book 14. (4 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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2 49 These men may not scold and rebuke such as she; rather, they may train such as she, yes, train them, and with iron and leather! I struggled to suppress these thoughts, to generate comforting dismay and guilt.
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22 362 "Oh," cried the Lady Florence, in mock dismay, "I wished to obtain a dancing slave from Vonda, but it slipped my mind, so silly am I, and we have now on hand only poor Melpomene".
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25 227 And the leather of their whips, to cries of dismay and pain, fell liberally on the half-stripped bodies of the embonded beauties.
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26 57 "Tomorrow, by nightfall?" she said, in dismay.
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Book 15. (3 results) Rogue of Gor

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1 187 "Does it dismay you," she asked, "that I, a woman of Earth, should be a natural slave?" "Get on your back," I said.
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1 309 "Does that horrify you? Does that scandalize you? Does it startle and discomfort you, does it so dismay you, does it seem so hard to comprehend, that a woman from Earth could be sexually excited, that she could have sexual desires, that she could feel helpless and frustrating passion, that she could...
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11 223 Is your anger or dismay actually an envy of the Gorean brutes who throw us to their feet and put collars on our necks? Consider that.
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Book 16. (4 results) Guardsman of Gor

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10 207 "Loose the gate! Loose the gate!" Cries of dismay rose from the water below, within the sea yard.
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16 128 But, to my dismay, I was again held perfectly.
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16 509 I then freed his leash from the upright but then, to his dismay, passed it again about the upright and, holding Kliomenes' head close to the upright, fastened him to the other end of the leash.
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19 329 This can distress, or dismay, her.
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Book 17. (4 results) Savages of Gor

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8 1066 "Not you, please!" They regarded who it was who owned them, in dismay, and with horror.
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11 239 Yet from their glances, exchanged, it seemed that their responses held little of dismay.
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12 200 They regarded their new garments, decided for them by Grunt, with dismay.
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17 209 Alfred turned his mounted forces to the north, but, to his dismay, he saw that his plan had been anticipated.
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Book 18. (3 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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24 31 I heard the two shafts crack together, Cuwignaka fending the driving point away, and then, to my dismay, I heard a swift, striking sound, and saw Cuwignaka struck from the side of the kaiila, and reeling and staggering backwards, then sprawling, his legs loose under him, to the dust, struck by the p...
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37 216 She regarded it with dismay.
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42 72 I then, to my dismay, saw the five riders freeing their weapons.
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Book 19. (2 results) Kajira of Gor

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16 17 On this third day, however, to my dismay, I could see roads below, and many dwellings and fields.
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16 47 To my dismay I then saw the porter close the gates and thrust the great beam across, through its brackets, behind them.
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Book 20. (5 results) Players of Gor

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2 180 It is one of those cases in which a thing she has long striven to hide from herself is suddenly, perhaps to her consternation and dismay, made incontrovertibly clear to her.
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6 342 "It is far worse than I thought," cried the girl in dismay to the crowd.
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10 417 Last night, after bringing her to the camp, I had removed the offensive, light white gown from her body, that to which she, a free woman, so objected, that in which the brigands to her dismay had insolently clothed her, and, from something I found in the camp, prepared her new garment.
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10 454 I suppose on any world women understand such things, choosing garments with care and intent, displaying themselves as sexual merchandise, and then pretending confusion, dismay, outraged innocence, and such, when the display is only too clearly understood.
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20 88 I was in dismay.
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Book 21. (4 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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7 64 "It is all gone?" asked Hurtha, in dismay.
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16 1395 Some of the women, probably because the guards were interested in seeing them, were stripped stark naked, standing on the stones before the portal and, to their dismay, examined with Gorean efficiency.
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18 66 She realizes, almost instantly, of course, perhaps to her initial dismay, that she cannot break such bonds, and that she is their helpless prisoner.
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24 344 Then, suddenly, as she cried out in surprise, in dismay, he tore her dress down to her waist.
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Book 22. (9 results) Dancer of Gor

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5 116 These, to our dismay and discomfort, and horror, were thrust down our throat to our stomach.
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9 332 At the least he would have known that this, or something similar, would be done to me! How amused he must be, when he thought of such things, his haughty, pretentious "modern woman," as he thought, she whom he held in such contempt, to her dismay and terror, and misery, now being sold naked from a s...
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11 503 He was proud of me! Too, there were conventionalized sounds, indicative of interest and approval, the intake of breath through saliva, certain sounds made with the tongue and lips, certain clickings and smackings, and such, of the sort that might cause a free woman to swoon with dismay, but are addr...
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11 912 I was ready, even at that time, as I now realize, to have the relentless torches of men set to the tinder in my belly, that slave fires might be lit there, thence by service, submission and love, my condition as slave, and the commands and touches of men, to be fanned, whether I willed it or not, to...
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11 945 I examined in dismay the beads about my neck, the cords at my waist, my barbarically adorned ankles and wrists.
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17 195 In the presence of men, sometimes to my dismay and embarrassment, I would feel warm and wonderful between my legs.
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20 266 He could feign dismay.
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20 337 It had been taken from her and then she, as much as I, to her dismay, had found herself the prisoner of the thieves.
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30 62 I regarded him with dismay, twisting.
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Book 23. (7 results) Renegades of Gor

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9 387 She watched it burn, in dismay.
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9 414 She looked in dismay at the strip of cloth which I had taken from the back of the cord, as it now flared, and then turned black and crumbled, in the fire.
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12 24 It was the sort of cell in which inmates, to their dismay, soon discover that they cannot escape, that they are helpless, that they are truly prisoners.
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13 35 It had had a sudden wild ring about it, as though she might suddenly, to her dismay, have felt ropes settle about her body, and draw tight.
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15 591 She clutched her head wildly, in dismay, in disbelief.
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15 802 Lady Publia, in the hood, tied at our feet, made a small, wild noise, as of understanding, acknowledgment, dismay, regret, misery and pain.
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18 155 He had a look of dismay, of disbelief, on his face.
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Book 24. (8 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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1 47 We were overjoyed, thinking to be freed, but found to our dismay that we were put in coffle, to be taken northward on the Vosk Road to the vicinity of Ar's Station".
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1 438 Philebus cried out in good-humored dismay.
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1 798 "Alas, no," cried Philebus, in mock dismay, "none of my girls are dancers!" The taborist continued his work.
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13 218 Similarly, of course, there are occasions in which a fellow, victorious in his purview, learns only later, and to his dismay, that his side is in retreat, that the battle, as a whole, was lost.
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13 486 Once, to my dismay, I had to move the raft through an open expanse of water.
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19 650 I gathered that she might be trying to understand, and cope with, unusual things which had occurred in her body, perhaps for the first time, things which, even in their incipience, even in the first and most inchoate forms, had profoundly stirred her, things which had perhaps hinted at profound late...
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19 679 "'Perhaps'?" she asked, in dismay.
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19 1797 "That you are sexually responsive, and could become significantly so," I said, "is no cause for dismay, or embarrassment or shame.
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Book 25. (14 results) Magicians of Gor

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2 40 The same free woman, captured, who is cast such a garment, and regarding it cries out with rage and frustration, and dismay, and hastens to don it only when she sees the hand of her captor tighten on his whip, is likely, in a matter of moments, to be wearing it quite well, and with talent, moving gr...
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3 305 Indeed, she, like other female slaves, would soon learn to be, and discover that she had become, perhaps to her initial dismay and horror, helplessly responsive to the touch of men, any man.
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7 134 "She is in the robes of a penitent or suppliant!" cried another in dismay.
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12 87 It would be inconsistent discipline, and would be likely to dismay and confuse her.
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12 242 Phoebe had often learned that to her dismay.
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12 476 "Surely Marcus," I said, "you would not begrudge the fellow a certain dismay over the destruction of his shop and the grievous impairment of his means of livelihood".
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14 628 Suddenly, to her dismay, the girl is exhibited as helplessly, uncontrollably, vital and responsive.
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20 253 To be sure, of late, with the rise of the Delta Brigade, and the undercurrent of unrest in Ar, there seethed in the city, doubtless to the dismay of Cos, a surgency of male energies.
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22 62 Some uttered noises of dismay, of protest.
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22 340 "Oh!" said the woman in dismay, seeing the handsome fellow put to his knees.
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23 56 There were some cries of protest, even of dismay, about the outside of the roped-off circle.
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23 292 "Flee now," said Marcus, in dismay.
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24 142 In the case of the free woman her vulnerability is likely to dismay and terrify her.
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25 1 Bracelets and Shackles "So," shrieked Appanius, "this is how you betray me!" Lavinia had screamed when the net had descended, and the slave with her had cried out in dismay.
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Book 26. (14 results) Witness of Gor

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6 200 So, to be sure, I might not have worn certain narrow, stiltlike garments as well as a model but I had learned, initially to my surprise, and later to my dismay, and terror, and later, yet, rather to my contentment, and even joy, that I might, in a bit of silk, or in a bracelet and a pair of bangles,...
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8 28 And I had learned, too, to my dismay, and shame, what men could do to me, and what I could become in their arms.
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8 503 At any rate, to my dismay, shortly before I was removed from the house, the guards had actually been warned away from me.
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8 764 And what if they saw how willingly, how eagerly, how joyfully I did this! But I thought, rather, that they, somehow, if only after a moment or two, beneath the immediate, superficial crusts of their conditioning, on some deep level, would feel something quite different, not shock, not scandal, not d...
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10 250 I whimpered in dismay, and hurried on.
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11 79 And entries pertinent to these matters, I gathered, and had gathered originally to my dismay, for I had regarded such things as my closely guarded secrets, now appeared explicitly on my papers.
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11 167 From the table, she picked up, to my dismay, a long, supple switch.
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11 694 The five-stranded lash, that to whose attentions I was now, to my dismay, to my misery, being formally introduced punishes terribly, but inflicts no permanent damage.
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11 997 I heard cries of protest, of dismay, from several of the men about.
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13 433 The free woman, far above us, cried out with dismay.
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13 1295 But then I saw her, to my dismay, press her lips to that monstrous visage.
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14 1474 She was a free woman! I could well conjecture her dismay, her discomfort, her fear, her wild sensations—she, a free female, being held so close to him, she half stripped, he fully dressed, so powerful, so masculine! "'Tuta'," he read.
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14 1496 Then, to my surprise, and dismay, I saw her lift her chin a little more, and stretch her neck a little, lifting her lips to him.
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24 688 How else explain the fascination that even a plain slave may sometimes exercise over the most powerful, rich, and handsome of men, to the puzzlement and dismay of beauties languishing in his pleasure garden? How else explain how a slave worthy of a ubar's palace may in a market, unbidden, throw hers...
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Book 27. (30 results) Prize of Gor

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3 44 Then, suddenly, she cried out in dismay, and backed toward the bed, until she felt its obdurate, solid frame against the back of her thighs, beneath the gown, which could be opened from the back.
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4 323 Her dismay was obvious.
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6 17 She whirled about, and rushed forward, only in an instant to find herself to her dismay grasping heavy, narrowly set bars.
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10 318 It had begun, of course, with anger and dismay, irritation, consternation, fascination, and then fear, when he had cuffed her about intellectually in the classroom, when he had indifferently and decisively refuted her again and again, when he had had her reeling from blows of logic and fact, until s...
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11 410 And this did not dismay her.
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11 462 "Did you let them know my role in this, that it was I who designated them for their fates?" "Certainly," he said, "and you may well conjecture their dismay, their wild cries, and tears, their helpless rage, how they pulled at their chains, trying to rise, or seized and shook, in futile fury, the bar...
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11 606 No longer, of course, did she feel it incumbent upon her to pretend to indignation or dismay, such hypocrisies and dishonesties, when she sensed a man's interest in her.
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11 1077 She could well imagine the horror, the dismay, the consternation, which might be felt by the fair guest when her disposition, what men had decided for her, was made clear to her.
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11 1100 "Master?" she cried, in dismay.
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12 258 Soon he would appear in front of the bins, with his whip, and the errant slaves, to their dismay, their pleas for mercy unheeded, would be appropriately admonished.
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16 817 At this moment, to Ellen's dismay, and that of her companions, the lead guard, seizing the first girl by the upper arm, pulled the coffle through the crowd, bringing it to a place just before the shelf.
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16 1288 What you have done to me! Targo she saw, to her dismay, was standing before her.
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17 253 She, sitting on the cement, regarded her small ankles, chained to the ring, with dismay.
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17 277 She looked after him, in misery and dismay.
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17 375 She heard, not really understanding them for a moment or two, so wild and frightened were her own responses, similar sounds of fear and dismay from Lydia, Cichek and Emris.
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17 1127 Then she cried out with dismay.
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18 295 More embarrassingly Ellen, despite her initial dismay, her resentment, and distress, at Portus's first use of her there, had gradually, in the vicinity of this object, and in certain other places where men had put her to their purposes, begun to be disturbed by slave heat rising within her.
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19 330 "Don't!" He opened the heavy door of the ice room, and, in a moment, as she protested weakly, and struggled, and moaned in dismay, and begged mercy, he placed her in the room, bound as she was, on blocks of ice, half hidden by the sawdust.
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19 514 Ellen, her mouth stuffed with her own tunic, serving as a gag, moaned in dismay.
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20 390 Ellen heard tiny cries of fear and dismay, from both before and behind her.
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22 173 He apparently wanted her, in her collar, to be little more than an ignorant woman of Earth, forced to serve in dismay and torment, in the crudest and lowest of bondages.
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22 563 She regarded the vintner with dismay.
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24 505 She looked with dismay, and fear, it seemed, to some unseen captor.
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24 555 She turned about, to the music, and then lifted her left wrist, looking upon it, with dismay.
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24 558 Surely, as she looked upon it, with awe and dismay, it must suggest the bracelet of a slave.
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25 68 Kneeling before the small enclosure, she had regarded it with dismay.
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27 731 Ellen momentarily regarded the light constraints with chagrin, and dismay.
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27 1379 It does not dismay her vanity to learn that she is attractive, and beautiful, even "slave beautiful".
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27 1442 A slave may often find herself, sometimes to her dismay or terror, the focus of an uncompromised, ferocious lust, a desire so powerful that it can be satisfied by nothing less than the owning of her, the tearing away of her clothing and the hurling of her to one's feet, where she is collared.
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30 487 Sometimes a free woman, who fears that her feelings for a projected companion, to her dismay and scandal, are more intense, suffusive, overwhelming and passionate than is proper for one of her status will withdraw from the projected match.
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Book 28. (12 results) Kur of Gor

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1 489 Then suddenly, half kneeling in the container, unable to stand, she uttered a wild, incoherent scream, a cry of utter incomprehension and dismay, and shook her head, as though to awaken herself.
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1 595 The blonde however, to the brunette's dismay, and trepidation, wrinkled her lip and snarled at her, much as might have an animal, a displeased, threatening animal.
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1 659 He is plunged then into confusion, dismay, and, not unoften, is overcome by a sense of unlocalized, nebulous guilt.
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1 828 But he was tolerant, at least for a time, of her effusive excesses, doubtless taking into consideration her confusion and dismay, given her presumably recent entrapment and her present circumstances.
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6 74 Grendel, in dismay, lifted a paw before his face.
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14 34 When it is given to the girl she may, to her dismay and misery, and perhaps shrieking for mercy, expect to be soon sent to the breeding sheds, to be chained and hooded, and crossed with a male slave, who is similarly hooded.
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33 150 "Ai!" cried Cabot, in dismay.
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51 69 "It is true that if you put them naked on certain surfaces, sometimes tiles, sometimes a rug, they find themselves, sometimes to their dismay, in a state of sexual arousal".
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56 71 "Aii!" cried Cabot, suddenly, in pain, and shouts of dismay rang through the field, from both Kur and human, for the world was suddenly, instantly, flooded with an intense light.
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63 102 "Its leader is the cattle human from the time of the slaughter bench, he who noted the Lady Bina, he who understood in his simple, doltish, stupid way her role in leading others to the slaughter bench, he who would have her blood!" "No!" cried Flavion, in dismay.
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70 19 This did not please Cabot, but it did not dismay him either.
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80 307 There were cries of anger and dismay, both from Kurii and men on the dais.
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Book 29. (3 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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10 621 A look of utter dismay bespoke itself on her troubled features.
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15 82 Initially this is likely to produce a great deal of dismay and stress in Gorean girls.
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17 49 Some of our foes would learn that, to their dismay.
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Book 30. (4 results) Mariners of Gor

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16 100 To my dismay I saw the boarding party, surprised and outnumbered by dozens to one, swept aside in bloody rout.
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20 384 "But then," she cried out in dismay, almost daring to rise from her knees, "I might go to anyone!" "Yes," I said, and then turned about, and left her.
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21 316 The slaves, save some, kept below, were on deck, and this intelligence was received with dismay.
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36 331 Men cried out, in dismay.
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Book 31. (12 results) Conspirators of Gor

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4 124 Rawlinson had discovered certain of these books, apparently, as I then thought, to her astonishment, embarrassment, dismay, and indignation.
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4 140 What of the simple test of life consequences? Is it obvious that an unnatural culture which produces vehemence, confusion, hysteria, sickness, treachery, hypocrisy, mass murder, and hatred is obviously superior to a culture compatible with nature, and her kinds and differences, a culture in which na...
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4 541 Jane, Eve, and I exchanged glances, of dismay, and misery.
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7 26 How we rubbed against them, so inadvertently, laughed, joked, touched their arms, and hands, applauded their boldness, pretended dismay at a loss, pretended chagrin and sorrow when they made to leave the tables.
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7 350 If they existed, they were to be, at best, sources of dismay and regret.
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10 517 "Does that dismay you, or give you pause?" "No," he said.
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10 1115 I was within fifty paces of one of the lower entryways, a back entryway, to Six Bridges when, to my dismay, I saw my two nemeses, one emerging from a doorway to the left, the other from a doorway to my right.
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17 434 I sometimes heard cries of protest, even of rage, for some reason, which I did not understand, and, twice, I heard gasps of dismay, or of fear, perhaps as a beast fell, or was forced from the track.
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18 949 Certainly I, on my former world, before I was collared, had very much enjoyed that sort of thing, a form of amusing play, exciting boys and men and leading them on, and then, when well reassured of my attractiveness, pretending to dismay or annoyance, putting them from me, dismissing them.
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18 1074 I recalled both Astrinax and Menon had thought I would be a good buy for such a place, a girl willing to wheedle and smile, to pretend to emotions of excitement and enthusiasm, one who could adroitly feign dismay and sympathy, one who would ply customers with drink, urge them to remain at the tables...
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35 96 "And how, if they left now, could they recoup their losses? And might their departure not dismay the pretty kajira who has been so delightedly and enthusiastically at their side, encouraging them to spin or choose once again, and then again, one sharing so sympathetically in their fortunes? Could th...
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49 206 I, however, to my dismay, had been retained.
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Book 32. (7 results) Smugglers of Gor

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6 333 It is interesting to see how carefully some, at first, will tread a line, flirting with a master's patience, practicing a deference akin to insolence, and then to note their dismay when they discover that the line has been moved by the master in such a way that they find themselves clearly on its wr...
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7 92 Did he not know I was his slave, from the first moment I had seen him? But to my dismay I saw he did not recognize me.
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16 66 I was, however, annoyed, and, to her horror and dismay, purchased her.
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17 111 The Gorean free woman, on the other hand, understands that she is free in a manner which might dismay, and would surely far exceed, that of the allegedly free woman of Earth.
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44 25 I remembered my terror, and dismay, when I beheld the wands marking the perimeter of Shipcamp.
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49 23 "I think that may be to dismay strangers, perhaps to obscure an actual destination.
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50 529 To my dismay a heavy metal collar was placed about my throat and snapped shut.
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Book 33. (11 results) Rebels of Gor

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1 81 Tarns were unknown at the World's End and it had been anticipated that their appearance in war would, at least initially, provide the forces of Lord Temmu with a fearsome, unanticipated weapon, the very sight of which might dismay and terrify at least common soldiers, the Ashigaru contingents, commo...
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1 240 Would not rushing about, when all is hopeless, and known to be such, be undignified, even shameful, an act of desperation, contemptible, base, and disgraceful, like the bound tarsk squirming and squealing on the sacrificial altar? If our foes break into the holding and discover, to their dismay, onl...
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1 420 "Perhaps the commander proposes the first of a series of lesser engagements, compounding ever greater dismay and terror," said Lord Okimoto.
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6 33 Would the cards not be marked, the dice weighted? Might a hand not surreptitiously move a piece, or insert another? And who is to say on what tiny matters, a sedative pellet scarcely visible, a sliver of iron in the foot, might hang the performance of even the mighty tharlarion? Too, to my dismay, I...
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7 18 Why then should such a slave suffer for the fault of another? Would this not be likely to dismay, bewilder, and confuse a slave? Similarly, in my view, discipline is not to be arbitrary.
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7 34 Once her slave fires have been ignited, and, periodically, rage, in all their suffusive, global might, she finds herself, perhaps at first to her terror, dismay, and misery, their helpless, desperate captive and victim.
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21 344 I looked with dismay on the bound slave, stretched over the saddle apron, before the warrior.
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25 342 As I left the stadium I noted, to my dismay, the departure of two tarns, northward.
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29 275 Disbelievingly, awed, with dismay, she put her hands to her head.
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32 4 Shortly thereafter I heard cries of dismay, and some of death.
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41 29 On the other hand, it is possible that Lord Yamada's seeming dalliance was otherwise motivated; perhaps negotiations of some sort were underway; perhaps certain pieces in his game of war were being rearranged with scrupulous care; perhaps it was merely that the advance of his might, approaching now ...
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Book 34. (17 results) Plunder of Gor

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1 424 I could not part my wrists, no more than the single link I was permitted! My hands, at least, were cuffed before my body! Had they been cuffed behind my body I would have been even more helpless, and my figure, despite what I might wish, and to my frustration and dismay, would have been emphasized.
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6 283 Almost at the same time one of the young women in jeans and a sweatshirt seized the remains of the woman's gown, trying to pull her away from the others, and the woman cried out in dismay, half stripped, left with little but shreds of her garment.
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6 465 Then I, and others, cried out with surprise, and dismay, for the heap of clothing was gone.
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14 174 I watched this with horror and dismay.
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33 568 Almost at the same time I heard a shriek of dismay from the beast in the crate, and was aware, a moment later, of two other large, hirsute forms descending, forms in the darkness, away from the lantern, one leaping from the first level to the flooring, and the second swinging down from the second le...
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38 56 "But was he not a slave?" I said, in dismay.
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41 85 But, to my dismay, she stopped, before me.
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42 163 It is preposterous to suppose she could produce any effect in him other than loathing and dismay.
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46 55 The utterance, in Kur, was startled, shaken, but its reproduction in Gorean, with its single, flat, unemotional, metallic syllable, conveyed nothing of Lord Grendel's surprise, dismay, or agitation.
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46 88 Better that I should conceal the horror of my body here, far from the dismay of high ones".
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48 170 And, to my dismay, he can have his pick of most of the slaves, many of whom are far more beautiful than I, and some of whom, I fear, dear Phyllis, are even as beautiful as you.
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51 64 "Few raiders, without independent information, from the baths, or such, would care to risk their lives to seize such a woman, one who might, when unveiled, dismay a male tarsk.
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53 148 To my dismay I saw Paula behind Surtak and Master Drusus.
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55 29 Eve cried out in dismay but I think, truly, that Lord Grendel's apparent lapse of attention to those who had been behind us was not what it had seemed, given his swift turn, which preceded Eve's outcry, to face the Kur scrambling forward, from those behind, ax raised.
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61 480 There were cries of dismay, wails of misery from the kajirae.
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61 508 The free woman was clad in the full regalia of the Robes of Concealment, and yet, surely to the shock and dismay of some of the soldiers, and the awe or delight of others, had disdained veiling.
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65 188 There were cries of dismay from several of the fellows about.
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Book 35. (17 results) Quarry of Gor

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1 219 "In this world," he said, "the only women who may be whipped are slave girls—" And here, at the bare mention of the word 'slave girls', there were cries of dismay and protest, and whimpers of fear.
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6 88 How easy it was to lure and then reject a male, to provoke interest and then, pretending innocence, to feign astonishment and dismay when interest was aroused.
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8 310 "Oh!" I cried, in dismay, for my right shoulder had struck against voluminous robes, these enveloping a figure as slight and soft, and not much larger, if at all, than my own.
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8 984 The two other girls cried out in dismay.
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11 173 Might they not then faint in the street for dismay? They, after all, are high, precious, priceless, exalted, and free.
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13 13 She is clad, when clad, in a very distinctive fashion, one instantly and easily recognized, commonly in a brief, revealing tunic, a form of garmenture which would not only scandalize a free woman but plunge her into the throes of shame, consternation, and dismay.
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13 173 "You must not even mention this to Adraste, lest she collapse in dismay, fearing her discovery".
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14 173 "An inadvertent substitution," I said, "mirth for dismay, laughter for distress".
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14 198 When I had confronted the proud Adraste, who had at the time seemed much agitated, with the announcement that she was the former Lady Julia Leta, she had not responded as I would have expected, perhaps collapsing in terror, shuddering in dismay, weeping uncontrollably, moaning in despair, hysterical...
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17 122 A small sound of dismay escaped me.
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20 121 I hurried down to the office of Ho-Tosk, to crave an audience, to inquire into, and confirm, details in the message, but learned, to my dismay, that he was absent from the tavern, and would not return until tomorrow.
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23 50 "Masters!" I wanted to cry, but, to my amazement and dismay, no sound, escaped my lips.
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33 291 "Ho!" cried Bruno of Torcadino, to my dismay, his voice ringing across the water.
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40 346 I had been convinced that I had revealed nothing, but I had learned, later, from Addison Steele, to my dismay, that I had spoken fully and volubly.
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42 262 How mixed were my feelings! I was elated, almost weeping, to learn that I was not to be summarily slain and, almost as much, filled with dismay that I might soon become a victim of the proud, vengeful former Adraste.
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46 235 Euphrosyne arrived at the vat, and looked with dismay into the vat.
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47 158 "We generated that rumor, to slow or stop the search for her, to dismay and discourage hundreds of bounty hunters and gangs of bounty hunters, to keep her safer and to divert the search from the continent.
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Book 36. (8 results) Avengers of Gor

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11 131 "How did you know?" I asked, feigning dismay.
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17 412 A small whimper of dismay escaped her lips.
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29 186 The slaves exchanged sudden glances of dismay and terror.
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41 82 This act, if it was intended to dismay or terrify the citizenry of Mytilene, failed of its purpose, as it produced in most, but not all, a hardening of a general intention to resist.
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45 127 In this case, however, the would-be arsonist, doubtless to his dismay, was challenged by the guard whom Thrasymedes and I had posted, having earlier in the afternoon become aware of some missing stores.
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48 114 "I suspect that they, under the circumstances, as matters unfolded, viewed him as a spy for Mytilene, and, accordingly, to his dismay and horror, treated him as such".
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57 116 Almost at the same time dozens of mercenaries, unopposed, uttering war cries, leapt over the rail of the corsair ship on our starboard side, and landed on the smooth, glistening deck, only to cry out in dismay and alarm, as they slipped, skidded, and lost their footing.
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62 33 He will have his ceremony, and receive his decoration, and then, to his dismay, be put to what amounts to exile, be consigned to practical banishment, be sent to be again Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands".
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