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Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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5 123 Then I thought to myself, a hundred tarns indeed! Forty perhaps, because she was a beauty.
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5 131 As I crossed the Vosk, that mighty river, some forty pasangs in width, which hurtles past the frontiers of Ar to pour into the Tamber Gulf, I realized that I was at last within the borders of the Empire of Ar.
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10 57 "Forty," he said.
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10 60 "Forty-five," he said, his voice flat.
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10 85 Before they swept shut, he said, "You will never get forty-five tarn disks".
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10 130 I argued with him to accept forty, on the ground that he was a sword brother, and at last convinced him to accept half of his own wages back.
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16 123 We stopped before a resplendent tent of yellow-and-red silk, some forty feet in diameter and twenty feet high at the dome.
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Book 2. (3 results) Outlaw of Gor

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3 17 Each Ahn consists of forty Ehn, or minutes, and each Ehn of eighty Ihn, or seconds.
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13 49 There were perhaps forty yoked wretches in the arena.
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15 48 In the distance, perhaps some forty pasangs away, I saw a set of ridges, lofty and steep, rearing out of a broad, yellow meadow of talenders, a delicate, yellow-petaled flower, often woven into garlands by Gorean maidens.
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Book 3. (6 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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5 7 The room in which I lay was large, perhaps forty feet square, and the sleeping platform lay at one end of the room but not touching the wall.
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11 7 The oval disk glided to within some forty feet of us, and the golden creature which had ridden it stepped delicately to the ramp.
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11 80 He now stood almost forty feet from me.
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15 14 When I arrived at the bottom of the rope, some forty feet below, I held the torch over my head and found myself in a bare, simple chamber.
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29 16 It lay across my path, perhaps thirty-five feet wide, perhaps forty feet deep.
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32 203 Moving as though in a dream, my foot touching the ground only perhaps once in thirty or forty yards, I climbed the circling ramp upward toward the elevator.
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Book 4. (12 results) Nomads of Gor

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2 67 His lance remained on his back, but he carried in his right hand the small, powerful horn bow of the Wagon Peoples and attached to his saddle was a lacquered, narrow, rectangular quiver containing as many as forty arrows.
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8 37 From these raids the Wagon Peoples obtain a miscellany of goods which they are willing to barter to the Turians, jewels, precious metals, spices, colored table salts, harnesses and saddles for the ponderous tharlarion, furs of small river animals, tools for the field, scholarly scrolls, inks and pap...
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8 218 At forty feet I could strike a thrown tospit; at one hundred feet I could strike a layered boskhide disk, about four inches in width, fastened to a lance thrust in the turf.
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8 360 She had run in actual competition more than two hundred times; almost always she managed to interfere with and postpone her return to the circle; and forty times, an incredible feat, she had managed to reach the lance itself.
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8 484 I wondered how it could be that such a girl had never been taken in less than thirty-two beats, that she had reached the lance forty times.
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8 486 Then I remembered the intelligence of her eyes, her confidence, that never had she been taken in less than thirty-two beats, that she had reached the lance forty times.
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10 17 Yesterday afternoon, for an incredible forty pieces of gold, four quivas and the saddle of a kaiila, Kamchak had sold Tenchika back to Albrecht.
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10 158 "You should have forty pieces of gold in that pouch," he said.
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10 258 "Hah!" said Kamchak, seeing now the lines of tharlarion part for a space of perhaps forty yards, through which could be seen the screened palanquins of Turian damsels, some on the shoulders of chained slaves, among them undoubtedly men of the Wagon Peoples.
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14 25 Kamchak threw me a lance, and a quiver with forty arrows and a bow.
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20 37 The tower itself was some one hundred and forty feet in height and had a diameter of about fifty feet.
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24 163 I had taken, as a share of battle loot, a hundred and ten bottles of paga and forty bottles of Ka-la-na wine from Tyros, Cos and Ar, but these I had distributed to my crossbowmen, with the exception of one bottle of paga which Harold and I had split some two nights ago.
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Book 5. (22 results) Assassin of Gor

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3 38 The odds are usually one to forty, one copper tarn disk against a forty-piece, sometimes against an eighty-piece, and sometimes the amateur who would play the master insists on further limitations, such as the option to three consecutive moves at a point in the game of his choice, or that the master...
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19 376 "I am offered five hundred and forty gold pieces for these hot-blooded barbarian beauties," called the auctioneer, "only five hundred and forty gold pieces for this exquisite set of animals, in prime condition and superbly trained to tantalize you, to torment you, to drive you wild with pleasure! Do...
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3 141 All eyes turned to the Player and he put his head down for a moment, apparently reconstructing the game from memory, through all of its better than forty moves to that point, and then he smiled.
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4 147 I was amused, for she had run as a slave girl is sometimes taught to run, with rapid short steps, her legs almost straight, her feet scarcely leaving the ground, back straight, head turned to the left, arms at her sides, palms out at a forty-five degree angle, more of a dancer's motion than a true r...
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5 146 In the vicinity of the Sardar Mountains I had brought the tarn down on the quiet, flat, gray-metal, disklike surface, some forty feet in diameter, of the ship, some two miles above the surface of Gor.
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7 139 There was a large quantity of this gold, perhaps forty squares, which were distributed among the four tarn baskets remaining on the ledge.
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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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12 399 Irritably I gave him a silver forty-piece, far more than enough to pay for the spilled candies, and strode away.
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13 48 The tarsk is a silver coin, worth forty copper tarn disks.
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13 119 There were many small nooks and glades, here and there, some more than forty yards from the pool, where a man might rest.
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13 247 With an agility that could come only from years in the cots he clambered about the tem-wood beams, sometimes forty feet from the floor, checking this bird and that; perhaps because I was slightly drunk I followed him; at last we had come to one of the four great round portals which give access to th...
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16 250 I was now some forty yards from the birds.
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18 382 "The Forty Cell," he said.
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18 391 Soon, in the flickering light of the torch, I could read the Forty on the tiny metal plate over one of the cells.
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19 142 An extremely good price, under relatively normal market conditions, for a truly beautiful woman of High Caste tends to be about thirty pieces of gold, though some go as high as forty, and fifty is not unknown; these prices, for women of low caste, may be approximately halved.
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19 247 "Forty!" I heard cry.
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19 274 The bids increased to a hundred and forty gold pieces.
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19 290 By this time the bids had increased to two hundred and forty.
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19 374 "Five hundred and forty gold pieces!" cried the rich man of Ar, and the crowd cheered its approval of the bid.
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19 377 "Five hundred and forty-five," growled the Slaver from Tyros.
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22 394 An attendant, from beneath his cloak, threw to the saddle the tiny, swift bow of Tuchuks, the narrow, rectangular quiver, with its forty arrows.
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22 543 Then the arrows, of which there had been forty, were gone.
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Book 6. (24 results) Raiders of Gor

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1 37 I heard a bird some forty or fifty yards to my right; it sounded like a marsh gant, a small, horned, web-footed aquatic fowl, broad-billed and broad-winged.
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5 101 The girls, perhaps more than forty or fifty of them, stood about me, laughing, looking from one to the other, giggling.
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5 149 There was a circular clearing amidst the feasters, of some forty feet in diameter, about which their circles formed.
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8 10 The Gorean sheaf arrow is slightly over a yard long, the flight arrow is about forty inches in length.
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10 139 The figures I have listed would give us some forty-nine hundred ships.
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10 244 I had purchased the girl whom I had seen dance in the paga tavern, for forty pieces of gold.
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14 66 The treasure fleet, with her escort, consisted of seventy ships; forty were ram-ships and thirty round ships.
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14 67 Of the forty ram ships, twenty-five were heavy class, and fifteen medium class.
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14 84 Thus, the odds, which might have been prohibitive under normal conditions, of seventy ships to thirty, I suspected I had reduced to something like forty, or perhaps fifty, to thirty.
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14 85 But even so, I did not regard it as rational to undertake odds of forty, or fifty, to thirty.
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14 277 Of the forty tarn ships in her escort, thirty, lured away, had pursued my ships far from the critical points.
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14 390 "Forty," he said.
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15 36 And bound at the prow of the first forty ships, following the flagship, beginning with the Dorna, and then the tarn ships and the first ten and largest of the captured round ships, was a high-born beauty, once intended to be the maiden of Cos' Ubara, now, like herself, destined only for the brand an...
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15 512 Also I had toyed with the idea of opening a paga tavern in the center of the city, the most opulent in Port Kar, perhaps, called the Tavern of the Forty Maidens.
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16 188 The fleet would consist, according to my information, of forty-two hundred ships, twenty-five hundred from Cos and seventeen hundred from Tyros.
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16 189 Of the forty-two hundred, fifteen hundred would be galleys heavy class, two thousand medium-class galleys, and seven hundred light galleys.
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16 348 Of the usual seventy or eighty, or so, captains of the approximately one hundred and twenty entitled to sit in the council, only some thirty or forty were present.
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17 5 The nearest estimations I could make were that we were bringing, at the time of the engagement, in the neighborhood of twenty-five hundred ships, fourteen hundred of them only round ships, against the joint fleet of Cos and Tyros, of some forty-two hundred ships, all tarn ships, now approaching from...
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17 9 Of the seven hundred arsenal ships, three hundred and forty were tarn ships, and three hundred and sixty were round ships.
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17 80 My fifth wave, following the fourth by half an Ahn, consisted of two fleets of forty tarn ships apiece, one attacking from the north and the other from the south.
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17 177 Following the fourth wave, its own attack timed to occur half an Ahn after that of the fourth wave, would come the fifth wave, the two small fleets of tarn ships, of forty ships apiece, masts down, who would initiate their pincers attack from the north and the south.
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17 202 I had only some twenty-five hundred ships, most of them round ships, to bring against a fleet of prime vessels, some forty-two hundred in strength, each a tarn ship, with fierce ram and shearing blades.
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17 363 I saw that the fleets of my fifth wave, the two fleets of forty ships apiece, under the command of Chung and Nigel, were well engaged in their strikes on the flanks of the great fleet.
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18 200 Perhaps forty men rushed into the room.
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Book 7. (14 results) Captive of Gor

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3 203 On the wall clock it was forty minutes past midnight.
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3 218 It was forty-two minutes past midnight.
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3 310 When I did so it was one forty-six A.
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3 325 She was Elinor Brinton, rich, brilliant Elinor Brinton! For more than forty-five minutes I raced ahead of my pursuer, sometimes increasing my lead, sometimes losing it.
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3 326 Once, grinding and spurring about graveled side roads, they were within forty yards of me, but I increased the lead, yard by yard.
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3 397 It was four forty-five.
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4 49 The time was five forty-two.
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7 72 Targo had set forth from Ko-ro-ba with forty girls and five wagons, ten bosk, and many other goods.
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7 394 The wagon was flanked by perhaps forty warriors, with spears, twenty to a side.
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7 512 Targo then, piece by piece, from the leather pouch at his belt, handed forty-five pieces of gold to the chief of the two men.
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8 169 Far away, through the sky, from the east of Laura, following the forest line, there came a flight of tarnsmen, perhaps forty of them, mounted on the great, fierce, hawklike saddlebirds of Gor, the huge, swift, predatory, ferocious tarns, called Brothers of the Wind.
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11 1285 Furthermore, in Ko-ro-ba Targo had purchased additional girls, and guards, and his caravan southeast to Ar would be a substantial one, one surely not to be endangered by some forty to fifty tarnsmen.
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12 685 When he had come to Ko-ro-ba, he had had little more than forty men, if that many.
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13 588 The grass rushed swiftly past below me, and I could not touch it with my feet, and then it fled from me, dropping away, and then suddenly, in the rushing air, as I twisted and turned, buffeted in the blasts of wind, a prisoner of the forces, the physics, of the braided leather rope and the accelerat...
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Book 8. (11 results) Hunters of Gor

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16 76 In all, throughout the day, the great bow had spoken forty-one times, and forty-one men of Tyros now lay scattered along the trail and in the forest, feed for prowling sleen.
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2 61 This galley, one of my swiftest, the Tesephone of Port Kar, had forty oars, twenty to a side.
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2 111 I heard the forty oars slide inboard.
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2 464 "Forty arrow points for each, and the knives," said Sheera, cutting at the sand.
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3 109 Those of Lydius pretend to much civilization, and are fond of decorating their houses, commonly of wood, with high, pointed roofs, in manners they think typical of Ar, of Ko-ro-ba, of Tharna and Turia, but to settle points of honor they commonly repair to a skerry in Thassa, little more than forty f...
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5 236 The bar was about four feet from the ground, and about forty feet long.
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11 457 "I will give you a steel knife," said Marlenus, "and forty arrow points for her".
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13 187 The Tesephone had forty oars.
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14 2 I stood on a strong branch, against the trunk of a tree, some forty feet above the ground.
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14 34 Yet, altogether there were not more than forty fallen, including some who had apparently been wounded, and whose throats had been cut.
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14 89 I stood on a strong branch, against the trunk of a tree, some forty feet above the ground.
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Book 9. (15 results) Marauders of Gor

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13 2 The interior hall, not counting rooms leading from it on various sides, or the balcony which lined it, leading to other rooms, was some forty feet high, and forty feet in width, some two hundred feet in length.
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1 451 For it she might be suspended naked, bound by the wrists, on a forty foot rope from one of the high bridges, to be lashed by tarnsmen, sweeping past her in flight.
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2 137 It carried, thus, forty oars, with two men to each oar.
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2 204 It is some one hundred and twenty feet in length, and forty feet in width and height.
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3 357 From it, too, I took, in its waterproof sheath, the great bow, and its arrows, forty arrows, both flight and sheaf.
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5 101 "It has forty benches," said Ivar Forkbeard.
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6 346 Too, from the darkness behind me, and more than forty feet away, on the raised level, I heard the screams of a raped bondmaid.
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8 149 Anesthetic darts, too, are sometimes used in the taking of females; these may be flung, or entered into her body by hand; they take effect in about forty Ihn; she awakens often, stripped, in a slave kennel.
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12 7 The men of Torvaldsland have in common a code of sound signals, given by the horns, consisting of some forty messages.
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13 253 "There is forty weight of gold here," said Svein Blue Tooth's man, almost as though he could not believe it, "four hundred stone of gold".
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14 115 I brushed aside one of the hanging vessels of bronze, a tharlarion-oil lamp which, on its chain, hung from the ceiling, some forty feet above.
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14 183 Like panic-stricken urts thirty-five or forty men thrust through the hole, sometimes jamming themselves momentarily within it, some tearing the flesh from their bodies and the sides of their faces on the splintered wood.
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14 199 He held the leashes, several in each hand, of more than forty catches.
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14 251 Hand over hand I crawled up the chain; then the chain shook, wildly; I struggled to hold it; the fire at my right sleeve snapped back and forth; I lost my breath; I feared my neck would break; blood was on the chain; I held it; Kurii howled beneath me; I moved further up the chain; then the chain st...
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15 367 The heavy shield, with fantastic force, with a sidelong motion, a sweep, struck me, fending me away, hurtling me for forty feet through the air.
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Book 10. (15 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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1 417 Each cylinder, roped to others, weighed in the neighborhood of ten stone, or some forty pounds, a Gorean "Weight".
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2 30 A weight is some ten stone, or some forty Earth pounds.
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2 98 These various establishments, and more than forty others, from the point of view of tenders and drovers, have one thing in common.
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3 10 Of the past forty passages eight had been divided, no blood adjudged drawn.
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3 163 I think I was not more than a half pasang from my compartment when, approaching an opened gate, some forty yards ahead, lit by torches in walls, I stopped.
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12 26 Some forty female slaves, coffled, braceleted, had been taken.
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15 6 The cylinders are standardized at ten stone, or a Gorean "Weight," which is some forty pounds.
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17 134 It was some forty feet away, aft on the starboard side.
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17 185 Then the raft lifted, to an almost forty-five-degree angle as the monster rose beneath it, thrusting it upward.
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21 327 I opened my eyes, and saw, briefly, before me, not more than a hundred yards away, in a fleeting gap in the storm, swiftly closed again by the hastened, stinging sand, crooked, leaning to one side, half buried in the sand, a cylinder of steel; it was perhaps twelve feet in diameter, perhaps forty fe...
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21 531 I fell, dropping, striking objects, sliding for perhaps forty or fifty feet, until stopped by a compartment wall.
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22 69 He was some forty yards away.
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23 286 On the left were the Ti, the Arani and the Zevar, and, holding the extremity of the flank, forty deep, the Tajuks.
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26 356 The Gorean day consists of twenty Ahn; the Gorean Ahn, or hour, of forty Ehn, or minutes; the Ehn consists of eighty Ihn, or seconds.
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26 773 Forty lashes, incidentally, is not much of a beating, particularly considering what she had done.
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Book 11. (12 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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17 19 Some forty or fifty girls were chained on my side of the room, and another forty or fifty on the other side of the room.
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2 416 He stood separated from the stranger by some forty feet.
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2 1151 The length of their line of march was perhaps some forty or fifty yards, its width some ten yards.
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6 36 Tabuk's Ford was a large village, containing some forty families; it was ringed with a palisade, and stood like a hub in the midst of its fields, long, narrow, widening strips, which radiated from it like the spokes in a wheel.
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9 61 The girls stood erect, left arms extended, wrist straight with the arm, their left arms aligned, each at a forty degree angle from her body, right arms at their sides, palms on thighs, ankles closely together, bellies sucked in, chins up.
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10 32 Afoot, between the wagons, walked a chain of forty girls.
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13 371 "Forty copper tarsks," I heard call from the floor, "from the Tavern of Two Chains".
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16 69 There were, thus, two hundred and forty girls in the hold.
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19 20 A long rug, some forty yards in length, narrow, red, led toward a large pair of white doors, which opened from the center.
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25 99 Over forty percent of the language consists of the first five letters I mentioned, Eta, Tau, Al-Ka, Omnion and Nu".
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28 35 It is semicircular and some forty feet in width.
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28 157 At any rate, from the girl's point of view, any chain position after forty and before one hundred would be good.
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Book 12. (29 results) Beasts of Gor

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3 1004 "Attend to the forty through forty-five platforms," said the second man, who seemed to have greater authority than the first.
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3 1061 In a moment the first slaver's man, who had gone to supervise the forty through forty-five platforms, those in the two hundreds, joined his colleague.
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2 732 It was a large urt, some forty pounds in weight.
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3 747 Would you buy a girl you had not had a chance to examine in detail? In the two hundreds Tenalion's platforms were numbered from two hundred and forty through two hundred and eighty, inclusive.
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4 119 Each player must complete forty moves before his clock is empty of sand, under penalty of forfeit.
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4 146 Behind them, more than forty feet high, and fifty feet wide, was a great vertical board.
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6 14 I stood in the midst of fields south of the Laurius river, some forty pasangs inland from the shore of Thassa, some one hundred and twenty pasangs south-southeast of the river port of Lydius, lying at the mouth of the Laurius river, on its farther side.
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10 163 There were some forty men in my chain.
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10 316 "Captain!" called another guard, from some forty yards away.
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10 348 Hurrying toward us we could now see some forty or fifty guardsmen, weapons at the ready.
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10 377 Forty or more tabuk suddenly, with startling rapidity, a tawny blur, trotted past me.
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11 44 He, with his men, some forty, who had taken refuge in the wooden hall, that serving as the headquarters of the wall commander, filed tensely between the ranks of my men.
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11 54 Sorgus, with some forty cohorts then, seeing me deploy bowmen to his rear, broke for the hall and barricaded himself within.
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11 357 I almost lost the saddle as my bird, struck by the next tarn, reeled buffeted, twisting backward, some forty feet in the air.
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12 369 Some two hundred and forty different types of plants grow in the Gorean arctic within five hundred pasangs of the pole.
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13 16 A mountain which seems very close, given the sharpness of visibility in the clear air, may actually be forty pasangs in the distance.
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15 846 Commonly only one woman in, say, forty or fifty is a slave.
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18 30 The monster, as though it stood on its flukes, towered forty feet above us, the line like a tiny thread, billowing, leading downward to the boat.
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20 6 There were some forty individuals, men and women, crowded into the structure.
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20 104 There were some forty of these camps, sometimes separated by journeys of several days.
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23 49 I suspect the temperature would have been objectively something like forty below zero.
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26 361 I do not think he had worked longer, altogether, than some forty or fifty minutes on it.
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31 11 It was domed, and some forty feet in height.
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33 108 The temperature in the steel room, almost immediately, fell thirty or forty points in temperature.
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34 150 I was more than forty feet from the beast.
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35 483 "Forty-two," he said, "Central Level Minus one, Mu corridor".
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35 498 Soon I had come to the steel door marked forty-two.
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35 1204 The overhead track system stopped some forty feet or so from Zarendargar's chamber.
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36 3 Sleds were readied; prisoners, men of the complex, now in furs, some forty of them, were tied, their hands behind them, their necks linked by a long rope of rawhide, placing them in coffle.
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Book 13. (30 results) Explorers of Gor

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23 313 One after another, I and Kisu, and Ayari, toward the center of the chain, the some forty-five or forty-six prisoners of the cage slipped free.
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1 247 With considerable hardship, limiting himself to forty men, and temporarily abandoning all but two boats, which were half dragged and thrust through the marshes eastward, after two months, Shaba reached the western shore of what we now know as Lake Ngao".
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1 362 The flooded cell was circular, and perhaps some forty-five feet in diameter.
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1 566 Long ago, perhaps as long as forty thousand years ago, the Kurii possessed a technology far beyond what they now maintain.
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2 186 "Forty tarsks," said a voice, triumphantly.
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2 200 "Forty tarsks," repeated Procopius Minor, Little Procopius.
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2 214 "I have heard a bid of forty tarsks," said the auctioneer, Vart.
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2 221 He had never counted on getting as much as forty tarsks for the blond barbarian.
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2 254 We have already on the floor a bid of forty tarsks".
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3 28 She was hot and she had cost him not forty but only twenty-nine tarsks.
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5 654 The only other hand awake, as far as I knew, was the lookout, some forty feet above me, on the ringed platform encircling the mainmast, the taller of the two masts.
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6 53 Already, though we were still perhaps thirty or forty pasangs at sea, one could see clearly in the water the traces of inland sediments.
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6 334 I could see some forty or fifty sails in the harbor.
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6 521 A heavy galley, out of Tyros, forty oars to a side, stroked past us, her yellow lateen sails loose on their yards.
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6 528 There are more than forty merchant wharves at Schendi, each one of which, extending into the harbor, accommodates four ships to a side.
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7 193 I recalled she had had an honest bid on her once at the market of Vart, once Publius Quintus of Ar, in Port Kar, a bid from the tavern keeper, Procopius, of forty copper tarsks.
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24 38 "There is an engagement there," I said, "in canoes and in the water, some hundred askaris, some forty or fifty raiders".
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24 181 Some forty yards behind I could now hear the water churning.
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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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33 12 I waded after him, some forty or fifty feet out into the current.
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34 2 The tarsk, a small one, no more than forty pounds, tusked, snorting, bits of leaf scattering behind it, charged.
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39 15 "Where are the men?" The canoe was now about forty yards from the shore.
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46 3 The talunas, more than forty of them, plunged after us, brandishing their weapons, in hot pursuit.
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46 11 Then, in a row, lying on the jungle floor, there were forty-two captives.
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46 23 The forty-three girls then knelt, naked, hands tied behind them, ankles crossed and bound, at the trunk of the fallen tree, their heads tied down over it.
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50 18 They towered thirty and forty feet out of the water.
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53 483 Between myself and the beasts there lay the broad, uneasy moat, some forty feet across, stirring with the movements of the crowded fish.
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57 133 In this way no taluna would have to spend more than forty consecutive days at an oar.
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57 169 Normally only about one in forty or so Gorean women in the cities is enslaved.
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57 297 Turgus had picked her out from among them, some forty girls, to be his personal slave.
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Book 14. (10 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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3 26 A strong woman stood there, perhaps some five feet ten inches in height and one hundred and forty pounds in weight.
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3 213 I was now, squirming and crying, some forty feet above the floor of the pit below.
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13 30 The villa of the Lady Florence of Vonda lay some forty pasangs south and west of Vonda.
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13 240 There must have been some forty birds and riders.
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13 292 This becomes clearer, too, when it is recognized that most of the supply posts occur at forty pasang intervals.
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13 293 Forty pasangs is an average day's march for a Gorean infantryman.
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18 158 I was the thirty-fifth in a long line of male slaves, some forty-two in length.
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18 164 We did not, in the great stables, raise saddle tharlarion, though in the house stables, here in the mistress' villa, some forty pasangs south and west of Vonda, there were several saddle tharlarion.
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18 212 Besides the line of forty-two male stable slaves, with which my mistress was now concerning herself, there knelt to one side, backs straight and heads up, a line of five kajirae, who were stable sluts.
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21 424 The young beast weighed, I conjecture, some one hundred and forty to one hundred and fifty pounds.
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Book 15. (12 results) Rogue of Gor

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4 221 I will charge you forty copper tarsks for the wine, two cups".
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9 139 "Forty!" I heard.
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9 140 "Forty-two!" I could not even enter the bidding.
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9 147 "Forty-four!" I heard.
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9 148 "Forty-six!" I trembled.
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9 197 "Forty-seven!" I heard.
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9 198 "Forty-eight!" "Fifty!" Suddenly the girl cried out, startled.
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29 178 "You would ask some forty men to stand against them, holding the sea gate for perhaps two Ahn?" "Surely," said Callisthenes.
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29 184 "Ragnar Voskjard," I said, "would come with a fleet, not one or two ships, and forty men".
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33 166 He commands forty ships and some two thousand men".
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33 168 "To be sure," said Callimachus, "and yet some fifty ships can be brought into the river by Port Cos, and some forty-five by Ar's Station.
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33 182 "We have, then, forty-seven ships upon the river," I said.
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Book 16. (9 results) Guardsman of Gor

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1 19 They were some forty yards away.
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3 166 I had counted at least forty.
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4 2 "Forty-two," said he.
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6 7 A man screamed on the stern of the Portia, to starboard, not more than forty yards away, and tumbling, reeling, like a torch, his clothing soaked with flaming pitch, fell into the water.
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10 213 The fleet of Policrates, as I knew, some forty ships, was abroad, to prevent reinforcements from the eastern towns, should they appear, from proceeding westward to assist at the defense of the chain.
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14 60 "I command forty".
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14 64 "By the right of forty ships," said Policrates.
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16 274 Some forty yards away, across the water, some hundred yards or so out in the river, off the wharves, half afire, I saw the ship of Ragnar Voskjard.
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16 414 Forty feet away, down the deck, amidships, sword in hand, half crouching, blade ready, slowly approaching, I saw Kliomenes.
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Book 17. (3 results) Savages of Gor

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1 1364 It missed Samos and shattered half through the wall some forty feet behind us.
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6 54 It is, I would estimate, something over six hundred feet square, perhaps more, perhaps even six hundred and forty or six hundred and fifty feet square.
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8 32 It was written on her back in lipstick, forty copper tarsks.
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Book 18. (14 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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7 957 These herds, usually consisting of from forty to fifty white females, stripped, are usually kept a pasang or so from camp, with the kaiila herds.
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11 111 Its high walls, some forty feet in height, built on poles, from platforms, and ceilinged with poles and branches, enclosed a dancing space, cleared, circular and packed down, of about fifty feet in diameter.
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22 253 It was some forty feet in height.
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27 95 "Forty, fifty?" speculated Cuwignaka.
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28 305 In this type of formation, given the speed of the charging kaiila, the distance between successive waves is about forty to fifty feet.
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32 110 From between lodges there was emerging a long line, of perhaps forty to fifty men, bearing lances.
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34 390 They stood within some thirty to forty feet of one another and both were outlined dramatically against the sky.
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37 146 Its evasive leaps, in the Gorean gravity, can cover from thirty to forty feet in length, and attain heights of ten to fifteen feet.
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37 266 Usually, however, in cities which encourage this sort of registration it is sufficient to bring the papers for stamping to the proper office within forty Ahn.
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43 423 It scrambled, slipping, but then caught its footing, and attained its summit, some forty feet above the level of the plain.
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44 514 In some places the upgrade on this trail was some forty-five degrees and the kaiila, scratching and scrambling, lunged and fought his way upward.
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46 97 Two of these groups, of some forty each, were stationed near the summit barrier.
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46 102 There were three other groups, of some forty men each.
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46 134 The forty men in his party, including myself and Cuwignaka, then, on the ropes left along the edge of the escarpment, held by the members of the fourth group, under the command of Kahintokapa, lowered ourselves to the trail below.
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Book 19. (4 results) Kajira of Gor

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14 36 It was some forty feet below.
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26 87 Though I had been here only two days, some forty Ahn, I reveled in its contrast with the mills.
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30 377 There was no opening here to the Wall Road, which must, judging from the proximity of the wall, be only forty or fifty yards behind the building.
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32 14 Suspended there, some forty feet from the floor, on a long rope, almost lost in the shadows, was a golden sack.
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Book 20. (2 results) Players of Gor

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7 86 I suspect that many of the lots, even large lots, literal bevies of luscious slaves, chained together forty or fifty in a lot, may end up being simply purchased by slavers at rock-bottom prices, for purposes of later speculation".
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12 377 There were forty-three moves in the game.
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Book 21. (5 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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3 189 It was he who had won the day on the fields of both Piedmont and Cardonicus, who had led the Forty Days' March, relieving the siege of Talmont, who had effected the crossing of the Issus in 10,122 C.
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3 346 When the men of Ar moved, for example, and whenever possible they would do so on the great military roads, such as the Viktel Aria, they used a measured pace, often kept by a drum, and, including rests, would each day cover a calculable distance, usually forty pasangs.
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3 347 At forty-pasang intervals there would generally, on the military roads, be a fortified camp, supplied in advance with ample provisions.
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13 18 From the high, opened window of another building, some four or five feet below the sill, some forty feet or so above the street, its back against the stuccoed surface of the wall, there hung a body.
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15 6 At the end of the room, standing behind a functionary's desk, some forty feet away, there stood a soldier.
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Book 22. (3 results) Dancer of Gor

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24 72 The other girl, she who had told me this, by her own account, had brought only forty.
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27 5 The pen was some forty feet square, and some seven feet in height.
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29 77 From where we knelt we could see the remains of the well, about forty yards away.
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Book 23. (13 results) Renegades of Gor

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1 458 It was some forty feet in width.
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2 10 I then followed him through a high, shedlike tunnel, walled with wood, about forty feet long, to the interior gate.
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2 191 Water was running from the long roof of the two-part structure, perhaps two hundred feet in length, falling some thirty or forty feet down to the court.
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2 263 "Your redemption fee," I said, "is forty copper tarsks, a considerable amount".
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2 366 "It costs only forty tarsks to redeem me!" she said.
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5 302 Many Gorean wines, it might be mentioned, if only by way of explanation, are very strong, often having an alcoholic content by volume of forty to fifty percent.
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10 35 I had redeemed her, by means of Ephialtes, at the Crooked Tarn, for thirty-five copper tarsks, the cost of her bill, but I had sold her for forty, a modest, almost irresistible price, considering the value of women here, at least prior to the city's fall.
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15 756 At that moment there was a hideous impact some forty feet or fifty feet from us and on the other side of the interior wall to the left, as one would face the cell door, in what, presumably, would have been the cell adjoining ours, there was a bursting inward of brick and stone.
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17 288 The bulk of the Cosians stopped at this wall of flames some forty feet in width.
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17 481 To be sure, now, with the interior debris below, the drop there was only about forty feet, but then there was another distance, longer, given the angle, down to the courtyard, down the hill.
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17 505 Sliding down such a rope for even forty feet or so can burn the flesh from one's hands.
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17 569 The great interior gate, leading into the courtyard, like the outer gate, in the wall, from which it was separated by a covered way, some forty feet in length, had been backed with debris.
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18 268 These two lines, converging, the fighting in the center, by the gate, between them, led to the walkway, and then out on the walkway, for better than forty yards.
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Book 24. (4 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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1 255 The area, circular, of leveled, beaten earth, was about forty yards in diameter.
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19 767 I feared I might rip free and fall to the marsh below, sometimes a hundred feet below, sometimes as little as thirty or forty feet.
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29 19 We could see the black dorsal fin of the marsh shark about thirty to forty feet off, in the open water.
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30 24 "Look behind Titus," I said, "some thirty to forty yards back, in the shrubbery, where the two trees are close together".
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Book 25. (11 results) Magicians of Gor

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27 337 I had given Boots half of these, forty-five gold pieces, and had retained the other forty-five.
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1 96 She has some forty public gates, and, I suppose, some number of restricted smaller gates, secret gates, posterns, and such.
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8 432 The bottom of the breach was still some forty or fifty feet high.
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9 852 We could probably have added forty or fifty more women to the coffle had we wished.
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9 856 In this way we distributed the weight of the unused length of chain over the wrist chains of the last forty women or so, this constituting no unusual burden to any one of them.
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10 262 The lads had now withdrawn some forty yards or so away.
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10 339 I then took the pouch of coins in my hand and lofted it to the group of lads some forty yards away.
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22 135 Lavinia was about thirty to forty yards behind the palanquin.
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23 383 I have put half of those, forty-five pieces of gold, in the purse.
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23 386 "I have kept the other forty-five," I said, "because I may need them, tomorrow.
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25 222 I had some forty-five pieces of gold with me.
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Book 26. (8 results) Witness of Gor

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1 23 The wall was some forty feet high.
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8 652 It must have had a wingspan of some forty feet in breadth! It is difficult to convey the terribleness, the size, the speed, the savagery, the power, the ferocity, the clearly predatory, clearly carnivorous nature of such a thing! But the most incredible thing, to my mind, was that I saw, in the mome...
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10 140 I looked down to the left, and groaned, for there was a precipitate drop there, some forty or fifty feet to another trail below, and below that another such drop to another trail, and thence to another.
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10 157 Other than this there was only the steepness, the side of the mountain, there on the right, rising up, and, on the left, below the ledge, the drop, forty or fifty feet, to the ledge and trail below.
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10 838 I saw, in the bottom of the depression, some forty feet below, numerous upward-pointing knives.
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11 2 I found myself on the stone flagging of a large, circular terracelike structure, perhaps some forty yards in diameter.
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24 278 There were perhaps thirty or forty of them.
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24 583 That is where the last of them died, some forty of them.
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Book 27. (8 results) Prize of Gor

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4 160 "First," he said, "you have been unconscious, for better than forty-eight hours".
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4 379 Then the forty-nine natural women would not have been belittled, twisted, and commanded to behave like the unnatural "fiftieth woman," the authentic, disturbed malcontent, consumed with envy, intent on working her vengeance and will on an entire community.
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4 380 If one is to be sacrificed, why not the fiftieth, she alone, why the forty-nine?" "Let each be as she wishes," said the older woman.
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4 383 Then she said, angrily, "We know our values! Let the forty-nine be sacrificed!" "Perhaps men will not permit it," he said.
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16 275 "What is the forty-third position of joy?" asked the man.
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21 103 Surely there were at least thirty or forty of them, some on one side of the stream, some on the other.
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25 655 "Forty copper tarsks!" called a voice.
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25 656 "Forty-five!" cried another.
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Book 28. (5 results) Kur of Gor

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13 20 There seemed to be some twenty or thirty of them which were now encircling him, none closer than thirty or forty feet.
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15 46 There must have been here, here in the camp, some forty males.
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21 119 Some wombs perish after one child; some hardy wombs have produced as many as forty or fifty infants.
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42 138 He had managed, despite the desperation and rapidity with which he clambered upward, to ascend only thirty or forty feet on the wide rungs, when he pitched backward, to the floor.
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46 1 Darkness Encroaches; A Plan is Formed In Lord Grendel's small group, one of several, there were some forty Kurii and some twenty to thirty humans.
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Book 29. (2 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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3 188 The wingspan of many tarns is in the neighborhood of forty feet.
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16 38 There were in short, then, in the group as a whole, two centuries, ten squadrons, twenty flights, and forty prides.
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Book 30. (17 results) Mariners of Gor

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3 258 There were some forty of us, men and women.
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3 1305 "Forty tarsks," she said.
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3 1452 Yes, I thought, certainly well worth forty copper tarsks.
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3 1470 "Forty copper tarsks," I said.
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3 1478 "To taunt men," she snapped, "to make them miserable, to let them see what they could not have!" "Most," I said, "might have afforded forty copper tarsks".
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9 52 In our small quarters there were some forty fellows, mostly of Cos, Tyros, or the smaller islands.
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9 191 The great ship itself, made possible by Tur wood and bracing, would be something like a hundred and ten yards from stem to stern, and, abeam, some forty yards.
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13 56 It was some forty feet in height, and surmounted by what I took, despite its unusual appearance, bowl-like, but with a grated cover, to be a ship's lamp or lantern.
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14 125 What command could stay him, what consideration could distract him, what give pause to so single-minded and formidable a force of nature? The blade of Pertinax was but half drawn when both galleys burst apart, leaping from one another, the gigantic body of the tharlarion rising between them, springi...
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14 177 He was some forty feet away.
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16 316 Within a handful of Ehn forty riders of the tarn cavalry were at the rail, each armed with the small Tuchuk bow, used by the tarn cavalry, a weapon of considerable power, which may be swept easily from one side of a saddle to the other.
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23 39 After the misfortune of the mutiny, we had retained something like one hundred and forty tarns, and seventeen hundred mariners and armsmen.
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25 98 Of our original store, or cargo, of slaves then, we retained something like one hundred and forty.
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25 364 "And so, too, in similar straits," said Alcinoë, "would you have been purchased, as a common slave, and surely for no more than for a handful of copper!" Alcinoë, as I recalled, had sold for forty copper tarsks, not even half a silver tarsk.
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26 159 I knew her, of course, even from across the courtyard, some forty yards, or so.
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27 108 We did have some one hundred and forty tarns back in the mountains, with their riders and auxiliary personnel.
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32 19 Suddenly the entire width of the trail, within its walls, for better than forty yards, began to roar with flame.
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Book 31. (29 results) Conspirators of Gor

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8 777 Here I conjectured that I might sell for between forty and sixty pieces of gold, or, given this market, and that I was not much trained, and was a new slave, perhaps only between forty and sixty silver tarsks.
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8 1127 I accordingly had conjectured that I might go from between forty to sixty gold pieces, or, possibly, given my level of training, and such, from between forty and sixty silver tarsks.
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8 1304 "Forty, forty," said the auctioneer.
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5 148 "Forty, perhaps sixty," said the fellow.
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5 152 I remembered the words, 'forty, perhaps sixty,' and gasped.
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5 153 This must stand for forty, or sixty, thousand dollars.
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5 298 "I can give you money, much money! I can make it worth your while, very much so!" I recalled that a fellow in the house had said something like 'forty, perhaps sixty' in response to another's question.
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5 299 I could double or triple forty, or better, even sixty, thousand dollars for my freedom, simply from immediately available resources and accounts.
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5 400 "We speculated that you might go from somewhere in the neighborhood of forty to sixty".
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5 401 "So that is what a beautiful woman, one as beautiful as I, would bring on the Arab slave market," I said, "forty to sixty thousand dollars".
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8 775 I recalled that on Earth it had been speculated that I would sell for between forty and sixty.
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8 776 I had supposed, at the time, that meant between forty and sixty thousand dollars.
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8 1124 I did recall that it had been estimated, on Earth, that I would go from between forty and sixty.
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8 1125 Here, of course, I realized they did not deal in dollars, forty to sixty thousand dollars.
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8 1305 "Forty-two, no more? No more? No more? Done!" I realized I had been sold.
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8 1306 At least, I thought, I have gone for forty-two.
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8 1307 I dared not suppose it would have been forty-two pieces of gold, for I was new to my condition, had not been extensively trained, and had only recently been opened, in what I now had come to understand was the house of Tenalion, in Ar.
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8 1317 I took forty-two silver tarsks to be a considerable amount of coin, particularly for a new slave.
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8 1321 I recalled that it had been estimated, even on Earth, that I would go from between forty and sixty, an amount which I had then mistakenly interpreted as dollars, thousands of dollars, a form of Earth currency.
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8 1329 "Forty-two," said a fellow, thick-bodied, short-bearded, in a brown robe, girded up to his knees.
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8 1332 "Forty-two copper tarsks," confirmed the auctioneer.
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8 2077 I had originally sold for forty-two copper tarsks.
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9 70 "Forty," said the man.
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9 93 "Forty-five," said the man.
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9 192 "Perhaps forty-five?" suggested the man.
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9 215 "Let us say, forty," suggested the man.
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18 894 "Forty copper tarsks each week," said Astrinax.
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27 26 I did not know how many Kurii inhabited the Cave, but I would have supposed some forty or fifty.
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45 113 Grendel and his two guards continued for a time to approach our position, and then, some sixty or so paces from the portal, some forty or so from our position, they halted.
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Book 32. (15 results) Smugglers of Gor

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4 193 None had sold for less than twenty- forty copper, namely twenty copper tarsks, forty tarsk-bits.
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4 256 She finally went for forty- eight, forty-eight copper tarsks.
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4 197 In Brundisium a day's wages, for a docksman, is usually twenty to forty tarsk-bits.
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4 255 "Forty-five!" called a fellow from the tiers, below me and to my right.
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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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7 161 "Forty-one, twenty-two, one hundred and six," called the fellow in blue.
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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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11 60 The rope before me looped up to Eighteen, and, behind me, looped up to Forty-Three.
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15 130 I looked to my left and saw rows of targets, perhaps forty or fifty.
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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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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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Book 33. (17 results) Rebels of Gor

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1 41 At the time of the debacle of the exploratory force we had had some one hundred and forty tarns in the mountains, not yet committed, with their riders and support personnel.
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1 51 In any event, given an abundance of evidence which suggested spies amongst us, and ample indications of treachery, and despite the supposedly secret location of the tarn encampment hidden in the mountains, and the supposed security of posted guards, I had ordered that tarns, in shifts of forty each,...
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1 71 Of the one hundred and forty tarns which we had managed to bring across Thassa to the World's End, we now had fifty one, including the two which Pertinax and I had brought to the castle weeks ago, in reporting to Lord Temmu.
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8 81 Of the fifty-one tarns which had survived the raid on the first encampment, we were utilizing forty.
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10 7 Tarns descended, the forty of the striking arm.
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17 210 With a blast of dust, and a snapping of wings, Tyrtaios brought the tarn down some forty or fifty paces away, at the far end, to the right of the archery court.
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40 122 "There must have been forty or fifty of them.
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42 40 Within it were housed some forty slaves.
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42 61 As mentioned earlier, there were some forty slaves in the tent.
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47 163 Several paces behind us, some forty paces, for it had been paced out, was an arrow stand.
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47 210 "The distance is forty paces," said Lord Yamada.
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47 237 He then advanced to a marker farther down the court, which would be not forty, but thirty, paces from the target.
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60 142 "Men pour in!" Visitors; A Plan is Formed It was not the men of Temmu who first burst through the gate, overcoming guards, but some thirty or forty soldiers, mostly officers, many of whom still wore the livery of the shogun.
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60 151 Lord Akio, I conjectured, had no more than forty men with him.
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60 194 The forty some who were still with Lord Akio paused, startled, disconcerted.
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60 201 "To the bridge!" The bridge, entwined with the blue climbers, arched in a lovely manner, for a length of some thirty-five or forty feet over a narrow, decorative pond, on the surface of which bloomed white and yellow water flowers, rising from flat, green pads; below, in the pond, which was shallow,...
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60 307 There must have been forty or fifty men now filing through the gate, many, as several of those with Lord Akio, still in the livery of Yamada.
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Book 34. (9 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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10 169 "Forty copper tarsks".
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10 175 Surely then you must recognize that forty copper tarsks is a splendid buy for this lovely beast".
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31 105 "Many," said a fellow, near us, "go for no more than thirty or forty in this market".
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40 238 "Yet we have renewed the companionship forty times," he said.
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45 21 There were perhaps forty men present, and, on a high dais, at the end of the room, crouching, facing the diners, six Kurii, including the she-Kur that had so impressed Lord Grendel.
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49 12 There must have been between forty or fifty present.
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59 9 Some forty of us were penned in the enclosure.
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60 8 I was not sure of the numbers but I would have hazarded that the number might more closely approximate some forty Kurii, say, twenty in the stands, and twenty on the ground.
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Book 35. (18 results) Quarry of Gor

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13 120 "You, in particular, cost us more than we expected, three copper tarsks, forty, forty tarsk-bits".
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3 304 "Two copper tarsks, forty!" called another.
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3 414 "I have, I recall," said the auctioneer, "a bid in hand of two copper tarsks, forty".
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3 486 I was a slave, only a slave! "Three copper tarsks, forty tarsk-bits, of Brundisium!" called a fellow from the tiers.
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3 500 "Three copper tarsks, forty.
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3 554 "You sold for three copper tarsks, and forty tarsk-bits, Brundisium," he said.
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4 202 What did you go for?" "I went for three copper tarsks, forty tarsk-bits," I said, adding, "of Brundisium".
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8 766 He was no more than forty or fifty yards from us.
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13 66 You were sold for three copper tarsks, forty.
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17 120 It was some forty yards away, to the left.
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18 62 Shortly thereafter I knelt again beside the table, Table Forty-One, near the far wall of the tavern's main serving area, and placed the small tray on its surface with the three goblets.
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23 97 Some forty paces down the walkway, the first guardsman stopped before a portal where flowers grew in boxes on either side of the portal, knocked politely, and called within.
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24 266 "Forty," said the slaver's man.
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27 47 The three men were some forty or fifty paces away.
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27 208 I looked toward the canal and saw a roiling of water, some thirty or forty paces from where we stood.
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29 38 There were some forty men on board this particular game ship, one of several coming and going from and to the Southern Gate, not counting the oarsmen, two to an oar, the rudder men, and he whom I took to be the captain.
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30 51 In the center of the enclosure, below the tiers of benches, sunken in the earth, was a wooden-walled pit, floored with sand, of some forty yards in diameter.
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41 174 I had little enthusiasm for the prospect of a most perilous, swinging, dizzying descent into the arms of delta brigands or, worse, being cast bodily over the wall, hopefully to be retrieved from the water before being seized by tharlarion! I think it was shortly after the eleventh Ahn that some thir...
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Book 36. (5 results) Avengers of Gor

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3 171 "It is hard to assess its dimensions," I said, "but it is small, ovoid in shape, perhaps with a long axis of eighty paces, a short axis of forty paces".
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17 34 "Forty copper tarsks," he said, handing me the small sack which would contain my change.
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32 70 The last third of the column and some remnants of the broken center hurried back to the beach, where the corsair fleet lay to, some forty or so yards offshore.
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51 67 Shortly, the first of the three ships was within forty yards of us.
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51 86 A moment before the eightieth Ihn, a gigantic snakelike form with a diameter of some ten feet burst some forty feet upward from the water like some living geyser, and, in the midst of screams and tumult, fell heavily, laterally, across the deck of the enemy ship, and wound itself, with incredible ra...
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