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Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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3 158 It sunk eight inches into the heavy wooden beams behind me.
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6 85 He then backed away from me on his eight legs, but never taking the pearly gaze of his several eyes from me.
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7 4 "It pleased the daughter of Marlenus," she said, "to inform you and your eight-legged brother of the fate of your tarn and of the Home Stone you sought".
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7 81 Wordlessly Nar moved rapidly through the marsh, his eight delicate feet scarcely seeming to dip into the greenish water.
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7 83 I held the daughter of the Ubar tightly as the insect righted himself, floating in the muck for a second, and then managing to free himself with his eight scrambling legs.
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15 40 I brought the tarn down near the far ranges of Pa-Kur's tents, where his camp ended, seven or eight miles from the city.
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17 66 I was puzzled as the great procession halted and a palanquin was borne forward by eight members of the Caste of Assassins.
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Book 2. (3 results) Outlaw of Gor

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2 29 With this weapon groups of men hunt even the larl in its native haunts in the Voltai Range, that incredible pantherlike carnivore which may stand six to eight feet high at the shoulder.
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4 38 It was indeed a young sleen, not more than eight feet long, and it lacked the patience of an older animal.
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18 104 There was an iron grating set in the stone, about eight feet high in the shaft.
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Book 3. (18 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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1 41 He informed me that in this time he had refuted seven hundred and eight scribes from fifty-seven cities, but I will not vouch for the accuracy of the report, as I sometimes suspect that Torm, like most members of his caste, and mine, tends to be a bit too sanguine in recounting his numerous victorie...
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2 121 On the other hand if I were under the larl I would have a brief but clean strike at the great, pounding, eight-valved heart that lies in the center of its breast.
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3 7 They were gigantic beasts, superb specimens, perhaps eight feet at the shoulder.
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3 43 I had not long to wait for only a few moments later, perhaps no more than ten Gorean Ihn, a section of stone rolled silently back and upward revealing a rock passage beyond of perhaps some eight feet square.
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10 70 At that moment to my horror a large, perhaps eight feet long and a yard high, multilegged, segmented arthropod scuttled near, its eyes weaving on stalks.
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11 92 Usually the breathing cycle, unless one is quite close and listens carefully, cannot be heard, but in the present case I could hear quite clearly from a distance of several feet the quick intake of air through the eight tiny, tubular mouths in Sarm's abdomen, and its almost immediate expellation thr...
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12 104 "I assume," I said, "you have more than twenty-eight human slaves".
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12 105 There were twenty-eight characters in the Gorean alphabet.
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14 96 My case was a transparent plastic cube of perhaps eight feet square, with ventilation holes and a sliding plastic door.
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15 44 Eight wires led from this box into the body of a Priest-King which lay on its back, inert, in the center of the room on a moss-softened stone table.
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15 61 "It is the first male born in the Nest in eight thousand years".
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15 90 I puzzled on the machine in the room, the wiring that seemed to feed into the young Priest-King's body at eight points.
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15 99 I considered the impulses that must be transmitted by those eight wires into the body of the creature that lay before us.
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15 101 "He is a Priest-King," said Misk, "and has eight brains, modifications of the ganglionic net, whereas a creature such as yourself, limited by vertebrae, is likely to develop only one brain".
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18 115 Sarm had pointed to his eight brains.
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25 125 She lay on her side against the wall of the shaft, some seven or eight feet back from the grille.
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27 3 It was almost eight Gorean Ahn, or about ten Earth hours, since I had separated from Misk and Mul-Al-Ka and Mul-Ba-Ta early this morning.
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29 51 The other eight craft suddenly stopped their destructive work and seemed to hover in indecision.
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Book 4. (18 results) Nomads of Gor

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17 10 Around the edge of the pool there were eight large columns, fashioned and painted as though the trunks of trees, one standing at each of the eight cardinal points of the Gorean compass; from these, stretching often across the pool, were vines, so many that the ceiling could be seen only as a patchwo...
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1 26 Briefly, for those it might interest, all directions on the planet are calculated from the Sardar Mountains, which for the purposes of calculating direction play a role analogous to our north pole; the two main directions, so to speak, in the Gorean way of thinking are Ta-Sardar-Var and Ta-Sardar-Ki...
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5 63 One of the most striking features of these wagons is the wheels, which are huge, the back wheels having a diameter of about ten feet; the front wheels are, like those of the Conestoga wagon, slightly smaller, in this case, about eight feet in diameter; the larger rear wheels are more difficult to mi...
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5 66 The wagon is guided by a series of eight straps, two each for the four lead animals.
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7 3 The hundred, rather than eight, bosk that drew his wagon had been unyoked; they were huge, red bosk; their horns had been polished and their coats glistened from the comb and oils; their golden nose rings were set with jewels; necklaces of precious stones hung from the polished horns.
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8 297 Near the animal, on the turf, a long bosk whip was laid in a circle, having a diameter of somewhere between eight and ten feet.
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10 186 The stakes, flat-topped, each about six and half feet high and about seven or eight inches in diameter, stand in two long lines facing one another in pairs.
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10 197 In the space between the two lines of stakes, for each pair of facing stakes, there was a circle of roughly eight yards in diameter.
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12 214 One of the instruments was an eight-stringed czehar, rather like a large flat oblong box; it is held across the lap when sitting cross-legged and is played with a horn pick; the other was the kalika, a six-stringed instrument; it, like the czehar, is flat-bridged and its strings are adjusted by mean...
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14 44 There were perhaps eight hundred to a thousand of them.
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16 17 "Here," said Harold, pointing to a cut between two rocks, only about eight inches wide, through which from some underground source a flow of water was emerging, entering and adding to the small stream at which, some four pasangs from the wagons, Aphris and Elizabeth had often drawn water for the wag...
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16 31 I judged that the top of the well might lie eight or nine hundred feet above us.
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17 4 The pool itself, around which there is a marble walkway some seven or eight feet in width, is roughly circular in shape and has a diameter of perhaps sixty or seventy feet.
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19 69 There were seven or eight girls, clad in Pleasure Silks, sleeping in this hall, scattered about, curled up on cushions.
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19 80 I had not kept count but we must have passed by more than seven or eight hundred girls, and still, among all these riches of Saphrar, he could not seem to find the one for which he searched.
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21 116 Shortly thereafter some seven or eight ruffians, armed with clubs and iron bars, had attacked the shop, destroying its equipment.
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23 90 "It will take the rider, if he gets through, seven Ahn to reach Turia and even if Kamchak rides with his full force the moment the rider comes to the gates of the city, it will be eight Ahn before their vanguard can reach us—and by then it will be too late".
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24 204 It was a large wagon, drawn by eight black bosk.
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Book 5. (23 results) Assassin of Gor

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2 54 Seven narrow ladders, each about eight inches in width, fixed into the wall, gave access to these alcoves.
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2 333 It was lined with red silk, and floored with love furs and cushions, the furs being better than some six to eight inches deep.
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3 147 At most times there were, however, some seven or eight individuals, including myself, who were watching.
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3 180 "Ubar's Rider of the High Tharlarion," said the Player, "to Ubar's Physician Eight".
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5 206 It had been some eight years or better that I had not seen her.
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7 11 On the roof there were eight tarns, beside five of which there were carrying baskets attached to tarn harness.
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7 74 It was about thirty feet in diameter, about eight feet in height.
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10 44 "The remaining eight will be divided into two larger sets and trained separately".
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12 43 On the low wall, some seven or eight feet in height, some forty feet in width, which divided the track, I could see that only three of the great wooden tarn heads remained on their poles, indicating that only three laps remained in the race.
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12 90 Eight tarns were flying in this race, and, hooded, they were brought forth on low, sideless wheeled platforms, drawn by horned tharlarion.
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13 132 She had first been sold for eight silver tarsks to a keeper of one of the public kitchens in a cylinder, a former creditor of her father, who had in mind making a profit on her; she worked in the kitchen for a year as a pot girl, sleeping on straw and chained at night, and then, as her body more ade...
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15 358 My own duties during these months in the House of Cernus remained light, consisting of little more than accompanying Cernus on infrequent occasions on which he left the house, a member of his guard; in the city Cernus traveled in a sedan chair, borne on the shoulders of eight men.
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16 41 The Yellows carried the first day of the races, led by Menicius of Port Kar, claiming more than six thousand wins, perhaps the most famed rider since the days of Melipolus of Cos, who even in his own time had been a legend, said to have accumulated more than eight thousand wins.
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19 12 On the wagon there rode some eight guards.
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19 80 Philemon, I and the guards emerged from the exposition area to the interior of the sales amphitheater; the entire house was now lit by energy bulbs; later, the block alone would be illuminated; the seats rose in tier after tier, largely circling the block, though a passage lay open behind the block;...
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19 236 "Eight gold pieces!" I heard cry from the crowd.
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19 427 "Eight hundred gold pieces!" came one cry.
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19 428 "Eight hundred and fifty," came another.
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21 386 He was followed by some seven or eight Taurentians.
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22 362 To my surprise I noted, coiled at the side of his saddle, in four loops, was a whip knife, of the sort common in Port Kar, a whip, but set into its final eighteen inches, arranged in sets of four, twenty thin, narrow blades; the tips of whip knives differ; some have a double-edged blade of about sev...
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24 232 Eight hundred double tarns I gave to him that he might begin well his research once more.
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24 237 "Already some eight, of skill and repute, have pledged themselves my aids in this undertaking".
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24 453 "In the year 10,110, more than eight years ago, a tarnsman of Ko-ro-ba purloined the Home Stone of the city".
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Book 6. (14 results) Raiders of Gor

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1 82 Rence paper comes in various grades, about eight in all.
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3 3 They are generally about eight to nine feet thick and have an exposed surface above the water of about three feet; as the rence stems break and rot away beneath the island, more layers are woven and placed on the surface.
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4 168 It was eight feet long and five feet wide.
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6 211 There were eight fastenings, four on a side.
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8 251 I supposed the punt could not carry many men, perhaps eight or ten, if dangerously crowded.
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10 20 The round ship, of course, is not round, but it does have a much wider beam to its length of keel, say, about one to six, whereas the ratios of the war galleys are about one to eight.
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13 365 In a few strokes the heavy Rena had swung some eight points, by the Gorean compass, to starboard.
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13 446 The Rena was now hemmed in by the eight ships, and two, heavy-class galleys, from the arsenal, were drawing alongside.
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14 11 Her keel, one hundred and twenty-eight feet Gorean, and her beam, sixteen feet Gorean, mark her as heavy class.
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14 26 She also carried, on leather-cushioned, swivel mounts, two light catapults, two chain-sling onagers, and eight springals.
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15 35 Had there ever been triumph such as this in Port Kar? I brought with me fifty-nine ships: the flagship of the treasure fleet, Vivina bound at its prow, the Dorna, the other twenty-nine ships which had composed my original fleet, and, as prizes, laden with wealth which might have been the ransom of c...
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15 376 The ends of six lengths of binding fiber, like slave snares, were fastened on her, one for each wrist and ankle, and two about her waist; the men, then, each holding the free end of a length of fiber, stood about her, some six or eight feet from her, three on a side.
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17 31 This was one of fifty such task forces, consisting altogether of eight hundred tarn ships.
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17 50 This meant the first wave consisted of eight hundred ships, and the second of one hundred.
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Book 7. (14 results) Captive of Gor

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3 470 It was round, black, circular, small, perhaps seven or eight feet in diameter, perhaps five feet in thickness.
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4 12 It might have been thirty feet in diameter, perhaps some seven or eight feet in thickness.
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6 98 About it were some seven or eight men.
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8 674 It stood perhaps eight or nine feet high.
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8 675 It may have weighed seven or eight hundred pounds.
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11 1435 How pleased I was to be free! And then suddenly I turned and, behind me, some eight or ten feet away, standing, not speaking, tall in the blue and yellow robes of the slaver, still partially hooded, the band of leather across his left eye, was Soron of Ar.
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11 1442 Again, some eight to ten feet away, not speaking, he stood.
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13 661 In peasant villages there is often a horizontal pole, set in its uprights, rather like a fence railing; it is usually either about a yard from the dirt, or some seven or eight feet above the dirt.
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14 201 I stood before a large, low tent of scarlet canvas, suspended on eight poles.
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14 641 This time she carried, coiled in her hand, some seven or eight feet of slender, coarse rope, simple camp rope.
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15 221 When I could, I would manage, in my daily tasks, to pass by the tent of Rask of Treve, that large, low tent, on its eight poles, of scarlet canvas lined with scarlet silk.
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15 1155 Angrily I, perfumed and rouged, belled and silked, turned and followed the other girls to the center of the camp, near the great tent of Rask of Treve, of scarlet canvas lined with scarlet silk, on its eight poles.
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16 126 It was some eight feet long.
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17 20 Sometimes, to my fury, he had tried to put me from him, and had summoned other women to his tent, but often he would send them away again, and it would be I, El-in-or, who would again be summoned to the tent of scarlet canvas, red-silk lined, on its eight poles.
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Book 8. (21 results) Hunters of Gor

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2 269 "I refuse to sell for less than eight gold pieces each," said Arn.
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3 11 I saw a blond giant from Torvaldsland, with braided hair, in shaggy jacket; a merchant from Tyros, hurrying, perfumed and sleek; seamen from Cos, and Port Kar, mortal enemies, yet passing one another without thought in the streets of Lydius; a black woman, veiled in yellow, borne in a palanquin by e...
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3 36 Some eight to ten bales of sleen fur, highly prized, is a plausible cargo for a light galley.
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3 257 It was moved by eight tunicked, collared slave girls, two to each wheel, pushing at the wheels.
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3 262 A pole extended from the front of the wagon, some eight or nine feet.
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9 398 She had been permitted to strike me only some eight or nine times.
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10 260 Marlenus then took a length of binding fiber, of some eight feet in length, and knotted one end of it about Verna's throat.
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11 2 His hunting tent, hung on its eight great poles, was open at the sides.
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15 85 The fiber which separated them was about eight feet in length, enough to serve as a double leash.
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15 417 Then came Arn, and the other eight men of mine who had been in the camp of Marlenus when it had been attacked.
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15 427 Eight men of Tyros, with whips, struck the male slaves.
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15 439 Then there came six panther girls, who had been of Verna's band, in their skins, and then, still in lipstick and earrings, still in her bit of slave silk, came Verna, and then, following her, came the other eight girls who had been of her band.
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15 544 , by the clock on my dresser, a dark, disklike shape, not more than five feet in thickness and eight feet in width, black, appeared before the window.
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16 10 Eight men of Tyros I felled near the front of the column.
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16 29 After I had felled the eight men at the beginning of the column I had withdrawn to the forest, where I slept for an Ahn.
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17 6 From our coffle we had separated eight girls and chained them in pairs, left ankle to right ankle, running the Harl-ring chain of one to the second welded ring on the Harl ring of the other.
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17 120 Fifty-eight new slaves lay at the chain.
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20 119 Now some eight or ten were engaged.
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21 164 As soon as the men of Marlenus, sixty-seven of them, and the balance of my men, eight, had been freed, they had trekked to the beach followed by the women, with the slave chain.
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21 238 With Thurnock and eight of my men I thrust the longboat back in the water and then, wading, swung it about.
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21 240 My eight men took their oars.
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Book 9. (26 results) Marauders of Gor

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3 363 Eight bows were trained on me; eight arrows lay ready at the taut string.
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13 6 On each side of this high seat were two pillars, about eight inches in diameter, and some eight feet high, the high-seat pillars, or rightful-seat pillars.
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1 46 "Very well," I said, "give the men time for their pleasures, eight days, and have the cargoes transferred to one of my round ships, whichever can be most swiftly fitted, and embark them for Asperiche, the Venna and Tela as convoy".
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2 140 As in the southern galleys the keel to beam ratio was designed, too, for swiftness, being generally in the neighborhood of one to eight.
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2 333 He was of incredible stature, perhaps eight feet in height and broad as a bosk.
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3 330 Eight held bows, with arrows at the string; none had dared to approach the ship; the short bow of the Gorean north, with its short, heavy arrows, heavily headed, lacks the range and power of the peasant bow of the south, that now, too, the property of the rencers of the delta, but, at short range, w...
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4 105 The giant, he who might have been nearly eight feet in height, and had in the temple wrought such furious slaughter, sat now, almost somnolently, on a rowing bench, sharpening, with slow, deliberate movements, with a circular, flat whetstone, the blade of his great ax.
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4 166 Gorm moved aside eight narrow planks from the loose decking.
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6 320 Its walls, formed of turf and stone, were curved and thick, some eight feet or more in thickness.
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6 336 The sleeping level, which also can accommodate a man's gear, though some keep it at the foot of the level, is about eight feet in length.
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6 520 Each log is ten to fifteen feet long, and commonly about eight inches to a foot thick.
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7 154 The snake is a single-bladed whip, weighted, of braided leather, eight feet long and about a half an inch to an inch thick.
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8 82 "It is only eight stone of gold," said I, obsequiously, "for the vial".
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10 421 The shed is some two hundred feet long, about ten feet wide, and eight feet in height.
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10 577 I have been, by my reckoning, eight months in the north".
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11 29 The beast was approximately nine feet in height; I conjectured its weight in the neighborhood of eight or nine hundred pounds.
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11 51 The axes were some seven or eight feet in height.
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13 172 Honey Cake, like many shy, introverted, timid girls, fearing her own sexuality and fearing that of men, sensing them in terror as her natural masters, was the mistress of secret, incredible depths of repressed sexual emotion and feeling; the Forkbeard, of course, a rude barbarian, was not in the lea...
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13 449 In one hand it carried a gigantic ax, whose handle was perhaps eight feet long, whose blade, from tip to tip, might have been better than two feet in length; on its other arm it carried a great, round, iron shield, double strapped; it lifted it, and the ax; its arms were incredibly long, perhaps som...
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15 239 The first Kur was some eight or ten feet below us when, suddenly, it slipped on the rock and, with a wild shriek, scratching at the stone, slid some four feet downward and then plunged backward, turning in the air, howling, and, some five Ihn later, struck the rocks far below.
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16 20 It was about eight feet in height and width.
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20 72 His weight, I conjectured, was some eight or nine hundred pounds.
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20 108 It was a Kur ax, its handle some eight feet in length, the broad head better than two feet in sharpened width.
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20 123 It tottered, eyes wild, not understanding, then understanding, the hilt protruding from its chest, stopped only by the guard, the blade fixed in the vast eight-valved heart.
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20 171 On the tiny rock promontory, footing the skerry, some eight or nine feet in width, I met Ivar Forkbeard, and his men.
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21 96 I looked at the huge, somber, shaggy head of the Kur, mounted on its stake, some eight feet from the ground.
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Book 10. (14 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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1 320 It hurled itself, some eight hundred pounds of weight, to the length of the six chains that fastened it, each chain to a separate ring, to the wall.
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2 610 At this time of year eight of the steps were uncovered by the water.
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3 10 Of the past forty passages eight had been divided, no blood adjudged drawn.
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4 408 With the kaiila a simple figure-eight twist of kaiila-hair rope, above the spreading paws, below the knees, is sufficient.
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5 388 Eight other girls now stood behind Alyena, ready for chains.
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7 196 Then suddenly he cried, "Ho!" and leapt forward, the blade, in rapid, diagonal figure-eight strokes, backhand upswept, shallowly curved, blade turning, forehand descending, shallowly curved, tracing its razor pattern.
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11 115 "Young warrior," asked Hassan, of a youth, no more than eight, "have you heard aught of a tower of steel?" His sister, standing behind him, laughed.
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14 56 The heavy door, beams of wood, sheathed with plates of iron, together some eight inches thick, closed.
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14 392 The alcoves are usually eight to ten feet deep, with a flat floor and rounded sides and ceiling, the sides about four feet wide at their widest, and the ceiling about four feet in height, at its highest.
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14 592 "The right ear," said the next man, grasping the long, slim lance, eight feet Gorean in length, marked with red and yellow swirling stripes, terminating in an extremely narrow point, razored, steel, some eleven inches in length, and lanceolate, as the leaf of the flahdah tree.
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15 8 A stronger animal carries sixteen, eight to a side.
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16 10 I shared the raft with eight others, three, who handled cones as I, the "harvesters," four polemen and the steersman.
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21 35 The Kur held up eight fingers, and pointed to the sun.
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22 80 It was long, slim, some eight foot Gorean in length; it was marked with red and yellow swirling stripes; it terminated in an extremely narrow point, razored, steel, some eleven inches in length, lanceolate, as the leaf of the flahdah tree.
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Book 11. (21 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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2 413 It had a long, heavy shaft, some two inches in width, some seven feet in length; the head of the weapon, including its socket and penetrating rivets, was some twenty inches in length; the killing edges of the blade began about two inches from the bottom of the socket, which reinforced the blade, tap...
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2 726 Carrying his shield, the pouch and bota, some eight or nine feet behind him, on his left, I followed him.
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3 15 Roughly as we were situated, some two thirds of the camp was closed in by projecting sides of the canyon; roughly, then, about a third of its perimeter was closed by a thick wall of recessed, cut thorn brush, some eight feet high and ten feet thick, a defense against animals.
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3 762 The thorn-brush wall was some eight feet high, some ten feet thick.
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5 16 In certain cities, in connection with the free companionship, the betrothed or pledged beauty may wear eight veils, several of which are ritualistically removed during various phases of the ceremony of companionship; the final veils, and robes, of course, are removed in private by the male who, foll...
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7 593 The pointed tops of the palings were eight feet over my head.
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7 627 She had been a slave since the age of eight, but it had not been until she was seventeen that she had been judged fit for men, and then branded.
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8 55 Within the ring, too, were some eight sleen, tied on short tethers to stakes, at the sides; and a rack of meats, and poles, and ropes and whips, used in the training of the animals.
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9 874 "I am Tupelius Milius Lactantius, of the Lactantii, of the merchants, of Ar," he said to me, "but we fell upon hard times, and I, though only eight at the time, fell as well, it being my duty, caste discipline, family pride and such".
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9 1444 There were the eight young men of Bran Loort, and others, too, gathered from the village.
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9 1450 His eight young men stood near to him, each with his staff.
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9 1688 He looked at the eight cohorts of Bran Loort.
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11 294 The cell itself was some eight feet deep and four feet wide and four feet high.
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12 145 More warriors, eight men from the keep, followed, bearing spears.
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12 765 Eight of us were imprisoned in the basket.
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13 59 I had spent eight days in the slave pens, waiting for the night of the sale.
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13 213 I did not know my wrist or ankle size in Earth measurements, for such measurements are not important for a girl on Earth as they are on Gor, but the interior circumference of the number-two wrist ring is 5 horts and the interior circumference of the number-two ankle ring is 7 horts; thus, my wrist s...
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16 66 There were eight slave platforms in the hold, each with six tiers.
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20 182 I knelt with them, in a line of some seven or eight girls.
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28 61 On a slow night it could take as much as eight Ahn, the sales extending into the early morning hours.
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28 83 It was some eight inches in width.
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Book 12. (15 results) Beasts of Gor

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3 704 Some cities give eight tarsk bits to the copper tarsk; others, most, I think, have the copper tarsk equivalent to ten tarsk bits.
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3 1135 It is about ten inches high and weighs between eight and twelve pounds.
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4 123 It was true that many times even masters found themselves in time pressure in the second Ahn, having perhaps only a few Ehn sand left for eight or ten moves.
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4 195 Scormus of Ar, no irrational fool, knew he played a fine master, one of the seven or eight top-rated players on the planet.
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10 137 The whipping frame itself, vertical, consisted of two heavy uprights, some six inches square and eight feet high, and a crossbeam, some six inches square and some seven feet in length.
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18 20 It was some eight feet in length, some two and a half inches in diameter.
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22 12 It was a medium-sized, adult sea sleen, some eight feet in length, some three to four hundred pounds in weight.
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22 288 New blood was splashed more than twenty-eight inches along the shaft.
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28 68 The cell was a cubic rectangle, some twelve feet by twelve feet, and eight feet in height.
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29 37 The cart was on eight wheels, some four inches in diameter, rimmed with rubber.
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31 64 It was more than eight feet in height.
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31 208 In the same amount of time a Kur egg-carrier will develop seven to eight eggs, each of which may be fertilized and deposited in a blood-nurser".
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35 862 Some eight Kurii were hurrying toward us.
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38 36 There were some eight sleds there.
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38 291 "On!" The eight sleds left the area of the camp.
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Book 13. (29 results) Explorers of Gor

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27 14 Other men, too, some eight or nine of them, and some seven or eight boys, of various ages, came out farther on the platform, balancing themselves expertly over the flowing waters, to bid us be on our way.
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1 14 The Gorean alphabet has twenty-eight characters, all of which, I suspect, owe their origin to one or another of the alphabets of Earth.
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1 367 The platform itself was lifted about seven or eight inches out of the water.
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1 369 The water, judging by the pole, must have been about eight feet deep.
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2 175 "Twenty-eight tarsks," called a man.
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3 43 The peasant girl brought eight tarsks; the merchant's daughter, to her indignation, brought only six.
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4 87 She was a medium-class round ship, with a keel-to-beam ratio of about six to one; that of the long ship is usually about eight to one.
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5 602 The males are usually about ten hands at the shoulders and the females about eight hands.
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6 317 We were still some seven or eight pasangs from the buoy lines.
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6 326 The warehouse of Ulafi is near wharf eight".
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6 340 It must have been some eight pasangs wide and some two or three pasangs in depth.
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6 597 The number of the wharf was eight.
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7 142 I threw my sea bag beside the sea chest, braceleted Sasi's hands before her body about the ring, left the room, locked the door, dropped the key in my pouch and made my way downstairs, to return inconspicuously to the vicinity of wharf eight, where the Palms of Schendi was disembarking her cargo.
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7 159 The blond-haired barbarian, as she knelt frightened, in the mud, with the other girls, still wore her blindfold, that which Uchafu had placed on her at wharf eight.
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15 286 Some seven or eight were askaris, including the two huge fellows whom I had seen yesterday, black giants in skins and feathers, with golden armlets.
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16 52 It is estimated that some five to eight percent of the people of Schendi are familiar with the inland speech.
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16 216 They were chained together, in groups of eight or ten, by the neck.
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19 49 In the center of the room, on a high platform, some nine feet high, supported by eight poles, sitting, cross-legged, naked, save for the panther teeth about his neck, was not Shaba, but the ubar, Bila Huruma.
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19 63 There were eight such diminutive reptiles.
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24 114 This gave us, altogether, a total of eight paddles, not counting two which were lost, floated away, for there were two paddles, extra paddles, tied in the canoe.
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27 32 I heard a sudden scream, that of a boy, and, looking about, saw one of the lads, some eight years in age, tumble from the scaffolding.
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30 9 It was an eight-man raiders' canoe.
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32 229 There is, however, a sleenlike animal, though much smaller, about two feet in length and some eight to ten pounds in weight, the zeder, which frequents the Ua and her tributaries.
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32 612 It was then that I saw him, sitting on an oblong pillar of stone, some eight feet in height, some forty feet from the altar.
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32 717 Stumbling I saw before me a circular opening in the stone, like a sunken, sheer-sided pool some eight or nine feet in diameter.
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43 126 There were now some eight canoes behind us.
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44 92 It was globular, hairy, brown and black, some eight feet in thickness.
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44 138 They had made not the least effort to help her, even when the eight-legged monster had emerged to claim her as its trapped quarry.
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53 194 Eight or ten more Kurii dropped inside the wall, lightly for their weight, and crouched there for the moment, pangas in their fangs, the knuckles of their paws on the stones.
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Book 14. (9 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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2 266 He who had been the driver of the cab now walked about me, until he stood some eight or ten feet in front of me.
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3 131 Beyond the bars and crosspieces I could see a corridor, some eight feet wide.
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4 8 She then took a long strip of cloth, some five feet long and eight inches wide, thrust it over the cloth belt in front, took it under and between my legs, passed it under and over the cloth belt in back, and, adjusting it, drew it snugly tight.
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12 302 The bids, slowly, without enthusiasm, increased to one eight.
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12 453 "Seven eight!" "Show yourself to them as you were in the room of preparation," said the Lady Tima to the Lady Tendite, "when you pretended to be a miserable little Earth-girl slave".
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21 406 Its head was some eight inches in width.
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21 409 The head of the tiny hatchling, some eight inches wide, some foot or so in length, was now fully emerged from the sand.
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22 44 In a Gorean supper in a house of wealth, in the course of the supper, with varied courses, eight to ten wines might be served, each suitably and congruously matched with respect to texture and bouquet not only to one another but to the accompanying portions of food.
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25 154 "Eight to one!" cried Barus.
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Book 15. (15 results) Rogue of Gor

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9 215 "Ninety-eight, I have ninety-eight," called the auctioneer.
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3 221 Her ankles would then be chained together, as before, with about eight inches of chain separating them.
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3 335 Eight stone of perfumes were taken from him.
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6 56 It was not unusual that a single captain had as many as three or four hundred men and eight to ten ships.
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6 104 Windows are commonly small and from eight to ten feet above a girl's head.
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7 55 I stepped aside as a string of eight peasants, with bundles of Sa-Tarna grain on their shoulders, made their way toward the wharves.
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8 18 About it had sat some seven or eight fellows, unshaven, dour chaps.
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9 134 "Twenty-five tarsks!" "Twenty-six!" "Twenty-seven!" "Twenty-eight!" "Thirty!" "Buy her," a voice seemed to say to me.
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9 198 "Forty-eight!" "Fifty!" Suddenly the girl cried out, startled.
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9 212 "Ninety-eight!" I cried out, suddenly.
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10 9 At the table I had paid ninety-eight tarsks.
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10 314 "I am worth much more than ninety-eight copper tarsks".
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10 315 "I am not sure you are worth ninety-eight copper tarsks," I said.
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14 277 I looked at the heavy iron slave ring, about eight inches in diameter, set in the stone of the great couch.
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21 201 "Imagine a wall," she said, "of eight feet in height, of heavy stone, a hundred yards in length.
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Book 16. (6 results) Guardsman of Gor

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4 173 These heavy constructions were some twenty-five feet in length, and some seven or eight feet in width.
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5 199 These constructions, some twenty-five feet in length, and some seven feet in width, as the pirates scattered back in their path, crashed downward, their great bent spikes shattering into the decking of the pirate ships, anchoring the ships together, yet holding them some seven or eight feet apart.
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6 64 These five ships, this small, uneasy, slender line, were all we had to oppose the might of the Voskjard, surely still some twenty-eight or twenty-nine ships, now being marshaled off our bows.
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8 3 It was some eight feet in length.
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16 114 Then, streaking from under the water, suddenly breaking its surface, another body, some four feet in length, about eight or ten pounds in weight, leapt upward.
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21 2 About her throat, over the slender, identificatory collar, a heavy, thick iron collar had been locked, with a heavy chain, leading to the stout loop of the slave ring, some eight inches in width, fixed in the foot of the couch.
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Book 17. (17 results) Savages of Gor

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1 407 Their hind legs, some eight to ten inches in width, are proportionately shorter than their arms, which tend to be some eight inches in width at the biceps and some five inches, or so, in width at the wrist.
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1 408 Standing as they were, upright, the larger of the two creatures was some nine feet tall, and the smaller some eight and a half feet tall.
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1 409 I conjecture the larger weighed about nine hundred pounds and the smaller about eight hundred and fifty pounds.
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1 943 Ideally it strikes into the intestinal cavity behind the last rib, producing large-scale internal hemorrhaging, or closely behind the left shoulder blade, thence piercing the eight-valved heart.
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1 1179 It was some seven or eight inches in diameter.
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6 101 There must have been seven or eight hundred of them.
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8 19 It is about seven or eight feet in height and some twenty feet in diameter.
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8 306 In certain other markets these girls, in their current state of barbarity and ignorance, might have brought as little as seven or eight tarsks apiece.
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8 530 "Six eight!" called another.
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8 535 Seven or eight men, in the boots and garb of drovers, thrust in the door.
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8 851 "Seven eight".
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9 8 The wand before us was some seven or eight feet high.
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12 1 I Learn Why We Are No Longer Being Followed; We Add Two Members to our Party We saw a small gray sleen, some seven or eight feet in length, lift up its head.
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14 320 The thongs were some seven or eight feet in length and the red savages knelt Ulla and Lenna down, their hands still tied behind them, by the forepaws of their kaiila.
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14 772 "I was taken from the enclosure when I was eight years old," she said, "taken home by a Kaiila warrior as a pretty little white slave for his ten-year-old son.
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16 367 I knew of one Kur who had survived, and now it seemed clear that as many as eight might have escaped from the savages.
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17 256 "Perhaps seven, perhaps eight".
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Book 18. (18 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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1 164 It has four stomachs and an eight-valved heart.
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2 215 The Isanna Kaiila number between some seven and eight hundred.
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2 223 Indeed, sometimes an encampment contains only seven or eight families.
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3 97 Its trunk was slim and polelike, and surely only some eight to ten inches in width.
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3 120 This was to allow for the pole later being set in the earth, within the enclosure of the dance, set among its supporting stakes, to a depth of some seven or eight feet.
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3 153 The three bands, each about four or five inches in width, and separated also by such distances, were painted in such a way that the bottom ring, or band, was about seven and a half to eight and a half feet from the base of the pole.
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4 193 Such lodges are conveniently and comfortably inhabited by families of from five to eight red savages.
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5 73 Wasnapohdi thrust eight or ten pounds of bloody meat into the unwilling hands of Winyela.
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11 113 Fixed in the earth, buried to a depth of about seven or eight feet, and supported, too, with a circle of heavy stakes, to which it was bound, it was about twenty-two feet in height.
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18 35 At that time she was only eight years old.
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28 353 It was some eight feet tall.
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32 42 She had speculated that there had been some seven or eight beasts in this group.
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33 8 At one edge of the field a crude wooden platform had been erected, some seven or eight feet high, its surface reached by a ladder.
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33 247 I let the two loose ends of the braided, rawhide rope, some seven or eight inches in length, dangle between her breasts.
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37 93 An adult Herlit is often four feet in height and has a wingspan of some seven to eight feet.
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40 16 This roof ranges from five to eight feet in height, from the surface level, as opposed to the interior floor level; it is formed of poles covered with sod; it is supported at the edges of the log walls, against which, on the outside, dirt is banked, and by log stanchions arranged in a circle on the ...
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51 21 Subtracting the nine beasts which had been slain in the fighting, probably mostly by Fleer, who seemed to have less apprehension concerning their appearance than several of the other tribes, I had arrived at a probable figure of eight Kur survivors.
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54 101 We were now in a great victory camp, near water, within sight of Council Rock, some seven or eight pasangs in the distance.
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Book 19. (10 results) Kajira of Gor

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2 2 It must have been about ten minutes after eight in the evening.
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2 9 Then, on a Monday evening, a few days ago, the Monday before last, at eight o'clock, I had received a phone call.
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2 27 The next two nights I waited by the phone at eight o'clock.
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2 29 It rang, however, on Thursday, precisely at eight.
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2 31 I was told to report the next evening to the southwest corner of a given intersection in Manhattan at precisely eight P.
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2 121 It was about ten or eleven minutes after eight P.
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2 123 Yesterday, on Monday evening, at eight P.
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2 125 I had been instructed to take a shower at precisely eight P.
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6 305 It has eight strings, plucked with a horn pick.
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16 333 Such bread is usually baked in round, flat loaves, with eight divisions in a loaf.
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Book 20. (12 results) Players of Gor

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6 373 "Eight thousand?" she asked, hopefully.
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12 3 There were fourteen pieces on the board, six yellow, eight red.
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12 27 I thrust my Rider of the High Tharlarion to Ubar's Initiate Eight.
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12 39 One of my Riders of the High Tharlarion, as I indicated earlier, was now at Ubar's Initiate Eight, threatening capture of Home Stone on the next move.
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12 40 On his eighth rank he had a Spearman at Ubar's Builder Eight, inserted between my two Spearmen on my third rank.
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12 41 His Spearman at Ubar's Builder Eight was supported by another of his Spearmen, posted at Ubar's Scribe Seven.
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12 229 "I have a protected Rider of the High Tharlarion at Ubar's Initiate Eight.
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12 252 He then advanced his Spearman at Ubar's Builder Eight to Ubar's Builder Nine.
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12 270 I eyed my Rider of the High Tharlarion at Ubar's Initiate Eight.
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12 282 Indeed, in many adjudication procedures the Tarnsman is valued at eight points and the Rider of the High Tharlarion at only two.
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20 130 It must have been about eight feet tall, tall even for such a beast.
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21 470 It was some eight feet in length.
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Book 21. (5 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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3 299 On the summit of a small hill I saw some seven or eight riders, riders of the high tharlarion, the tharlarion shifting and clawing about under them, with tharlarion lances.
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16 1499 Seeing herself the object of our attention the girl lying on her side in the mud shrank back, pressing her back against the heavy stake, some eight inches in diameter, it sunk deeply in the mud.
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22 72 We had now come some seven or eight landings.
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27 6 This circle had a diameter of about seven or eight feet.
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27 7 The border of this circle, delineating it, was about seven or eight inches in width, and was formed of yellow stones set mosaiclike into the smooth scarlet flooring.
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Book 22. (16 results) Dancer of Gor

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6 743 I had moved some seven or eight feet, maybe ten feet, at an angle of perhaps twenty degrees.
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9 356 Why should I be favored in this respect? The bidding had been interrupted at eighty-eight tarsks, whatever that meant.
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16 96 Although this varies from city to city, it is not unusual for a silver tarsk to be exchangeable for a hundred copper tarsks, each one of which can be worth anywhere from ten to four tarsk bits, usually eight.
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23 10 I could take only short steps for my ankles were shackled, the run of chain between them only some eight to ten inches.
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23 14 The manacles were joined by some seven or eight inches of chain.
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24 229 There, now, on the summit, was not only the guard and the other work slave, now kneeling, with her head down to the sand, but the overseer, and a palanquin, with eight bearers, and a man in silken robes, fat and bald, who reclined upon it, holding a short-stemmed lorgnon, in his right hand.
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26 96 "Sixty-eight, to be exact," said the fellow.
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26 125 "Very well," said Aulus, "sixty-eight silver tarsks.
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26 134 "I shall return with you to your camp, to pick up the sixty-eight men," said Aulus.
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28 10 Far above me, as at the end of some odd, vertical tunnel, I could see a circular opening, perhaps some seven or eight feet across, and, across this, in open sockets, there was a peeled, rounded timber, about which a rope was wound.
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29 208 That is eight.
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29 225 The thing must have been eight feet tall.
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29 226 We had seen it lift its head, in the tall grass, some seven or eight yards behind the five men, and to their left.
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29 318 It was some eight feet, or so, in height.
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29 319 It must have weighed eight or nine hundred pounds.
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29 663 "That would be at least eight then," he said, "and the beasts".
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Book 23. (8 results) Renegades of Gor

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1 491 It was about eight feet wide.
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1 496 Two massive ropes, better than eight inches in diameter, sloped down from the gate structure to the bridge, which allowed for the raising and lowering of a portion of it at will.
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4 32 Some seven or eight fellows, the latticework open, were sleeping in the bath area.
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5 308 The average loaf is cut into either four or eight wedges.
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12 316 The hems of both the inner and outer skirt, doubtless in their shortenings, had been deeply serrated, each in a series of some seven or eight large, triangular points.
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15 66 I was about seven or eight feet from him.
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17 2 These bridges were each about eight to ten feet in width.
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24 718 A coin smaller than the copper tarsk is the tarsk bit, but most do not lend themselves to gambling as they are usually triangular, being fashioned by cutting a copper tarsk into either four or eight pieces.
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Book 24. (1 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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39 121 This evening I had seen a line of mercenaries, perhaps a hundred in all, with some slaves, mostly pack slaves, some eight or ten of them, approaching Brundisium.
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Book 25. (7 results) Magicians of Gor

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1 206 He was preceding the palanquin of a free woman, apparently a rich one, borne by some eight male slaves.
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23 373 This is regularly done with copper tarsks, to produce, usually, the eight tarsk bits equivalent in most cities to the copper tarsk.
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24 25 In the center of the room there was a large couch, a round couch, some seven or eight feet in diameter.
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25 51 Seven or eight times the slave received heavy blows from the staff.
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27 346 It seems there are usually eight tarsk bits in a copper tarsk, and that these are the result of cutting a circular coin in half, and then the halves in half, and then each of these halves in half.
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27 347 An analogy would be the practice of cutting the round, flat Gorean loaves of sa-tarna bread into eight pieces.
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27 351 Accordingly, on this approach, the equivalencies, very approximately, and probably only for certain cities, would be eight tarsk bits to a copper tarsk; one hundred copper tarsks to a silver tarsk; and ten silver tarsks to a gold piece, a single tarn.
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Book 26. (9 results) Witness of Gor

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8 166 It was some six or seven feet high and some seven or eight feet wide.
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8 371 It was in depth some twenty feet long, in width some fifteen feet wide, in height some eight or ten feet high.
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9 27 But how contemptuous, and how regal, they had appeared, and so beautifully robed and veiled! Many I was told, wore platforms of a sort on their feet, perhaps as much as eight to ten inches high, which would increase their apparent height, and, of course protect their slippers from being soiled, for ...
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10 760 Within was a long, dimly lit tunnel, with several opened gates within it, some of bars, some of metal-sheathed wood, with tiny apertures some eight to ten feet above the floor.
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12 41 They are commonly circular, with a diameter of some eight to ten feet.
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14 213 It was a comfortable cell, some eight feet in width and height, some ten feet in depth.
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24 479 Some seven or eight tarns rose into flight.
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31 725 I think I heard blades cross seven or eight times.
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40 340 You will disappear to the eight winds.
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Book 27. (26 results) Prize of Gor

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11 789 She did not think it made much difference, really, whether she had been stabilized at thirty-eight years of age, or twenty-eight, or eighteen.
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3 11 But, after a bit, despite what would have been her choice, her deeper subjectivity, anxiously, frightened, seemingly more informed than she herself, calling out, began to make itself heard; it seems then that her consciousness, patiently, insistently, responding, began little by little to overcome h...
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4 160 "First," he said, "you have been unconscious, for better than forty-eight hours".
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7 88 "If I were to see you on the planet Earth," he said, "I would conjecture that you were somewhere in your late thirties, say, thirty-seven or thirty-eight.
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7 89 I would say thirty-eight.
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7 90 When you were acquired, you were fifty-eight".
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7 92 "Fifty-eight," he said.
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8 36 "You are twenty-eight again," he whispered to her.
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11 792 She thought that many men might have preferred her at twenty-eight, the age when she had first met her master, he then a student in one of her courses.
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13 145 "They will never get past the walls," said Nelsa, who had climbed up one of the racks, and was now some seven or eight feet above the surface of the roof, her feet on one pole, she clinging to another.
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13 521 "Last week, our lads took eight from Treve, three of whom were free," said the man.
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15 611 It was about eight or ten inches long, an inch wide, and of red silk.
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16 89 Across the way, behind the stalls, and also behind her, on her side of the square, were brick, tenementlike buildings, some seven or eight stories in height, very different from the tall cylinders she had seen before.
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16 1034 "You are very pretty," said Cotina, "perhaps in four or five years, or six or seven years, or eight or ten years, you might be thought worthy of the Curulean".
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17 948 In the saddle he was some eight feet above the stones.
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20 503 The water there, say, some three or four yards from shore, was some eight to ten inches deep.
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22 709 As it stood on its hind legs it was some eight feet in height, and its arms must have been five feet in length.
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24 113 There were eight or nine girls of exceeding loveliness within.
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24 645 Why did you have to come here, and make me miserable, reminding me of your imperious strength and mastery! I will go to a richer master! I do not think you could afford a girl whose lot number is less than seven or eight hundred.
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25 599 "Accordingly scarcely opened for the pleasures of men! Indeed, for most practical purposes, one might say 'not yet opened for the pleasures of men,' certainly not yet opened for the true pleasures of men, and certainly not opened as a slave is opened! Twenty copper tarsks! Be the first to open her a...
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25 625 "Thirty-eight copper tarsks!" The woman cried out with misery.
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25 628 "Thirty-eight copper tarsks is too much for so stupid a woman!" called a man.
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27 478 He was then something like seven or eight yards from the wagon, some two or three yards before the line of his fellows, the beasts and the two sleen.
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27 1839 Eight men.
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27 2578 She could not reach him easily, for he was some seven or eight feet from her, but she went to her belly, and, as nearly as she could manage, to the common second position of obeisance, and lifted her head, and looked up at him, piteously, her small wrists braceleted behind her.
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28 401 "In eight or ten days," said Portus Canio to Mirus, "you might reach the coast, and Brundisium".
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Book 28. (15 results) Kur of Gor

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48 23 The eight weapons would doubtless have made one of the insurrectionary groups more formidable than otherwise, say, that of Lord Grendel, but presumably the eight such weapons would have been of little avail against the full, massed power which might be brought against them by a reasonably large cont...
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1 66 The diameter, in measurements likely to be familiar to the reader, would be something like four feet, whereas the container, as a whole, is something like eight feet in height, though much of this space is not conveniently utilizable, given the tapering at the top and bottom.
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18 80 He had been aware for Ahn of their entrance, two beasts, with a hunting party of eight, as he counted, through the shuttle port.
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18 159 The eight Kurii were now emerged from the forest and were rather at the bottom of the small escarpment.
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19 11 The eight who had hunted Cabot had all been destroyed.
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19 92 "There were only eight, and two sleen," said one of the Kurii.
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20 10 Other testimony had made it clear that Lord Pyrrhus had returned from the sport cylinder without Tarl Cabot, and that, later, a hunting party of eight Kurii, three of whom were womb brothers, and two of whom were egg brothers, to Lord Pyrrhus had entered the sport world with sleen, and had been arre...
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21 627 In the portal, now, some eight to ten feet in breadth, some twenty feet in height, there appeared what seemed to be a gigantic, metallic Kur, the limbs, the body, the head, all in proportion, and cunningly devised.
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36 6 This garland was woven of shrub flowers, a white Lirillium, and was in width some seven or eight inches.
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48 16 "We had eight power weapons," said a Kur.
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48 25 It had then been decided, shortly after the defeats of the preceding days, on a variety of fronts, that eight of the several groups, of which Lord Grendel's was one, would have one weapon apiece, this at least, hopefully, acting as some deterrent for several of the groups, or bands, against a too ra...
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48 26 Some thought had been given to the concentration of the eight weapons for a raid on the palace itself, but it was soon understood that the palace was not only closely guarded, but was, for most practical purposes, impregnable.
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48 27 Accordingly the weapons had been allotted amongst eight groups, of which Lord Grendel's was one.
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57 5 His Corinna was eagerly heeling him, Statius' female hurried forth, to kneel at his feet, rubbing her head against his leg, and other slaves crowded about, kneeling, weeping with joy, and the seven or eight humans and Kurii who had been commanded, to their sorrow, to stay within the camp, to protect...
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79 740 Only seven or eight fellows, mostly half asleep, were still about the fire.
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Book 29. (14 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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1 15 This mode of orientation is not Gorean, the common compass of which, with its eight cardinal points, is oriented to the Sardar, the dark, walled, mountainous abode of Priest-Kings, but founded on the Gorean poles.
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5 1094 Behind them, back in the trees, I saw seven or eight briefly tunicked slaves.
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8 332 Pertinax then loosened the leash, and stepped back from her, some seven or eight feet away.
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13 3 Others, similarly accoutered, were in the slave house, as well, perhaps seven or eight.
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13 6 Its ceiling was some eight feet from the flooring.
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14 6 Eight of the Pani then rose from their places and four of them, unarmed, faced the other four, similarly unarmed.
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14 18 The eight fellows then stood, exchanged bows, and resumed their places.
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19 145 "He can strike out in eight directions at once," claimed another.
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22 396 I doubted that more than seven or eight were still missing.
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27 62 She followed it, on her tether, some seven or eight feet behind.
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29 98 It must have been seven or eight stories high.
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30 206 At that moment we heard the roar of caged larls, as, down from the forest, came the cage wagons housing Lord Nishida's pets, of which there were some ten, as I had counted, two from the pavilion, and some eight, who had prowled the wands.
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38 81 Lord Okimoto himself was boarding, being borne in a sedan chair by eight Pani, which chair was followed by an entourage of contract women and guards.
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38 404 It had eight oarsmen, and a fellow at the tiller, and another at the bow.
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Book 30. (19 results) Mariners of Gor

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30 163 I thought of the disarmed men, more than eight hundred and fifty, indeed, precisely, eight hundred and seventy, now held in the three prison barracks, hot, windows boarded, guarded by Pani.
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3 789 After a time, seven or eight fellows were about.
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9 180 "Fools," he hissed, "fools!" There were footsteps in the corridor and some seven or eight Pani, with their odd, long-handled, curved blades removed from their sashes, hurried past us.
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9 227 I did know, now, there were eight Pani at the door, and one unarmed Cosian.
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9 545 I exited the tarn hold through the same door through which the eight Pani and I had entered it earlier.
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14 236 I felt something long, seven or eight feet in length, and rough, like a rasp, pass, moving beneath the water, against my leg.
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16 207 Meanwhile, in accord with the instructions of Lord Okimoto, the great ship had come about, toward the warning ship, and there was a rending crash, as the great ship crushed the smoldering remains of our galley, almost at water level, and eight or ten of the small boats, caught between the grinding h...
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16 250 I was some seven or eight feet behind Lords Nishida and Okimoto, for I had already moved toward the fighting at the forward port quarter.
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22 167 There were, facing the enemy, some seven or eight lines of our men, strung across an arc of the beach, some seventy yards in width, defending frontally and on the flanks.
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23 80 It was apparently only a tiny remnant of a once mighty force, driven about, harried, fought, defeated again and again, some seven or eight hundred men, perhaps a thousand, which, exhausted, bloodied, and starving, on a gray, cold morning, surrounded save for the sea, awaiting an onslaught they could...
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24 60 It took eight of the lower Pani to manage the cage up the ascent to the castle.
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26 8 A robust exploratory force of some five hundred men, a hundred Pani warriors of the men of Lord Temmu, and four hundred of our mercenaries, our armsmen, had been sent forth eight days ago.
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27 32 Among these figures I made out what seemed to be a coffle, of some eight or ten figures, being moved northwest, toward the mountains.
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29 6 Later, as they would be counted, there would be eight hundred and seventy men, precisely.
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30 2 We counted them, eight hundred and seventy of them, as they returned in the morning, making their way up the steep path, to the inner courtyard gate.
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31 3 The eight hundred and seventy men were still held in the prison barracks.
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32 4 Each bird could carry, for a short way, some seven or eight men.
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36 518 Two narrow, barred windows, set some eight feet from the floor, admitted light, rather as the windows in the general trading area.
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37 311 I doubt then that you, now a slave, would be impaled as high as a free person, for that might demean them, you, say, some seven or eight feet, not twenty or thirty, as they, to show your lowliness".
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Book 31. (6 results) Conspirators of Gor

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12 5 The water entered the fountain through eight spouts, oriented to the eight major points of the Gorean compass.
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4 616 Rawlinson's hands, we leapt up and hurried to the kitchen, to bring forth the fare, the sweets, the candies, the nuts, the bowls of fruit, the herbs, the bread, flat, circular loaves of bread, which would be divided into eight wedges, the many covered dishes of boiled vegetables and hot meat, the ve...
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8 425 I was in a cell, a relatively small cell, about eight feet square, with a wall of bars on one side, facing a street.
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11 112 "Eight or ten men, some women, have been torn to pieces, in different places, in different districts".
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18 6 Master Desmond had informed me that the Vennan aqueduct, the third longest, was some eight hundred and ten pasangs long.
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35 163 A typical Gorean alphabet, as I understand it, though this seems to differ a bit in one place or another, contains twenty-eight letters.
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Book 32. (15 results) Smugglers of Gor

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4 256 She finally went for forty- eight, forty-eight copper tarsks.
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4 195 In many cities, Ar, Besnit, Thentis, Ko-ro-ba, and such, the tarsk-bit is more valuable, there being most often eight or ten to a copper tarsk.
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5 253 I sold for forty-eight copper tarsks.
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5 255 I am not familiar with what forty-eight copper tarsks might buy, other than it might buy one such as I.
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6 74 She went for forty-eight copper tarsks, which was about what I thought she would bring, something in the nature of a half tarsk, of silver.
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7 153 "Sixty-eight," called the fellow in blue, with the marking board, and pencil.
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8 223 I wondered if a master would place bells on the other slave, the Earth slut, who had sold for forty- eight copper tarsks.
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15 258 What did you go for?" "I have heard," I said, "forty- eight copper tarsks".
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15 506 What did you go for?" "Forty-eight," I said.
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25 340 It must be a young animal, I thought, as an adult sleen, even in the wild, may range from eight to ten feet in length.
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52 237 Some were entering boats, long boats, six-or eight-oared, and small boats, two- oared, thrusting oars outboard, and some were partly in the water, preparing to launch the boats, and several were about, with weapons, supervising the beach.
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52 247 "Take your place there," said the mercenary, indicating an eight- oared craft.
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52 483 Then I had been sold, as it turned out, to an agent for Pani, for forty- eight copper tarsks.
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52 750 "That is more than forty-eight copper tarsks," I said.
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52 755 For example, in some cities there are eight tarsk-bits to a copper tarsk, and in others, such as Brundisium, a major commercial port, a hundred tarsk-bits to a copper tarsk.
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Book 33. (7 results) Rebels of Gor

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1 85 How had it been that several men, perhaps altogether some eight hundred or so, had managed, by various routes, undetected, to converge simultaneously on a supposedly secret camp? And it seemed that these men must have been especially trained, or warned, about what they would find once the battle was...
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1 522 Did they really think, I wondered, that I, or others, tarnsmen, would set a flight line directly to a camp allegedly secret, a line which, well marked, might be followed by seekers, or hunters, on foot? I had ordered my men, in leaving the castle, to choose randomly amongst pieces of silk, each insc...
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7 8 It has two narrow windows placed some eight feet above the floor level, and has a single, heavy, timber door.
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16 47 I calculated I had been sedated for some eight days, but did not know how or when I had been brought to the regions controlled by General Yamada.
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25 136 It might be as little as six or so feet, perhaps eight feet, perhaps as much as ten.
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30 80 On this string were seven or eight copper disks, each penetrated by a small, square opening, through which the string was threaded.
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41 58 "Eight of the enclaves are slave pens," said Haruki, "and four are slave tents".
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Book 34. (14 results) Plunder of Gor

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7 55 In this chamber there was a large, disklike object, perhaps forty yards in diameter, and eight to ten feet in depth, or height.
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10 158 In some cities, there are eight copper-tarsks to a silver tarsk, and, in others, as in Brun­disium, where many land and sea routes converge, and business tends to be brisk, one hundred copper tarsks to a silver tarsk.
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15 130 At the foot of some more stairs, I was carried on a level for some time, at least for seven or eight minutes.
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24 55 We walked for seven or eight Ehn.
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28 79 It is commonly divided into four, if smaller, or eight, if larger, wedgelike pieces, these pieces sold separately.
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36 35 He never pays less than eight silver tarsks for a slave.
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37 39 "It is common knowledge," I said, "that Decius Albus will not buy a cheap slave, any who might go appropriately for less than eight silver tarsks".
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41 206 I wished to reach the second floor before the last of the eight bars had rung.
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41 211 The third of the eight bars had already sounded.
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51 309 Seven or eight Ehn later Kurik, the Lady Bina, in the robes of the Lady Alexina, and I were ready to exit the Renata Chamber.
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53 37 When he did this he was some eight to nine feet in height.
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58 3 Behind Decius Albus were an officer and eight guards.
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65 106 "I count eight torches," said Paula, "and each torch bearer illuminates the way for a bowman".
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65 178 "Neither would I," said the Lady Bina, "if he were pierced by eight crossbow bolts, before he could lift his ax".
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Book 35. (7 results) Quarry of Gor

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3 235 In many cities for example, there were only four or eight tarsk-bits to a copper tarsk.
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11 214 The common Gorean loaf is flat and circular, and is divided, if divided, into either four or eight slices.
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15 64 By this time I was aware that a small throng had gathered about, consisting, it seemed, of seven or eight men and three or four women.
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33 94 In the canal boat were some seven or eight men, mostly sitting.
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35 91 He approached to within some seven or eight feet of me.
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36 59 I supposed he had some three to four hundred men and some seven or eight ships.
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37 74 The insulae are essentially tenements, often seven or eight stories high, crowded with dozens of tiny, low-ceilinged, narrow, often-unlit, one-room apartments.
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Book 36. (11 results) Avengers of Gor

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14 1 An Anomaly is Noted, a Day from Daphna "Ho," called down the lookout, from the ringed platform near the top of the single mast, "land, island, tiny, four points Ror!" Whereas I, in the interests of intelligibility, have often had recourse to directions apt to my native world, Earth directions, appl...
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18 75 Putting together what we think we know of the hith, from stories, legend, and evidence, it was an immense, constricting serpent, over a hundred feet in length with a girth the diameter of which would have been something like eight to ten feet.
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32 3 A small contingent of the corsairs, some ten men, was advancing before the larger column, consisting, we supposed, of some eight hundred men.
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41 152 "Eight of Mytilene's wells, now closely guarded, still have water," said Clitus.
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42 38 When I heard the second beam begin to move, slowly, and heavily, in its brackets, I called, "Lamps!" At this point a dozen men on the wall above the gate thrust the wicks of tharlarion-oil lamps into the flames of their then unshuttered dark lanterns, and lowered the lamps, on their cords to a heigh...
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43 127 "Seventy-eight Ihn," I counted, "seventy-nine Ihn, eighty Ihn".
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56 8 At this point the massive, heavy body of the Brigand Island had slipped some seven or eight feet back, away from the side of the Tesephone.
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57 4 The grapnels of the enemy, as I had anticipated, had some seven or eight feet of chain between the eye of the grapnel and the normal casting ropes.
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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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57 43 As much as seven or eight men would drag on each grapnel rope, to pull the corsair ship and the Tesephone together.
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57 119 Without grappling holding the ships together it was difficult for the corsair ship, given the sea, to retain its position, and soon, pitching and rocking, it was no longer at the side of the Tesephone but lay abeam of her by some seven or eight feet.
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