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Book 1. (3 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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2 171 Even the technology of the envelope with its patterned thumb-lock, the disorientation of my compass, and the ship that had brought me, unconscious, to this strange world, argued for an incredible grasp of unusual, precise, and manipulable forces.
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9 156 At last, terminating a frenzied exchange, I managed to drive my blade into his shoulder, and as his sword arm dropped, I kicked the weapon from his grasp.
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16 51 Marlenus and his men apparently had command of the top floor and roof of the cylinder, but there was little hope he could use the Home Stones that now lay within his grasp.
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Book 2. (4 results) Outlaw of Gor

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2 62 It felt strange to hold it again in my hand, to feel its weight, the familiar grasp of the hilt.
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14 212 And so for an instant stood the tarn, its head and beak extended, its wings snapping, its prey locked in its grasp, and uttered the terrifying capture scream of the tarn, at once a scream of victory, and of challenge.
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21 259 Almost as an afterthought, he plucked the helmet from my grasp.
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25 73 Its neck twisted and the blade was wrenched from my grasp.
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Book 3. (2 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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15 5 I had no mind to do this, but I did grasp the torch in my teeth with one end lit and, hand over hand, lower myself down the knotted rope.
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20 101 Bending to a panel in the disk he took out three objects: the long, classic, white garment of a Chamber Slave, which was contained in a wrapper of blue plastic; a slave collar; and an object of which I did not immediately grasp the import, a small, flat boxlike object which bore the upraised figure ...
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Book 4. (3 results) Nomads of Gor

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8 101 I tried to talk to Kamchak and help him to understand the shock that the girl had undergone, the total alteration of her life and circumstances, unexplained—finding herself alone on the prairie, the Tuchuks, the capture, the return to the Wagons, her examination in the grassy avenue, the Siri...
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18 16 "Yes, Tarl Cabot," wheezed Saphrar, giggling, "and yet you will, in an hour or so, when you are mad with pain and fear, try yet again and again to touch and grasp a vine, knowing that you will not succeed but yet again and again trying, believing that once somehow you will be successful.
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26 365 Then the merchant's hands, still extended as though to grasp the vines overhead, with their scarlet fingernails, the robes eaten away from the flesh, disappeared beneath the sparkling, glistening surface.
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Book 5. (3 results) Assassin of Gor

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2 98 "Why," cried the man with missing teeth, "it is he! It is Hup the Fool!" "Mercy, Masters!" cried Hup, squealing, struggling in the grasp of his captor.
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18 316 Some startled slaves leaped up, each chained by one ankle to her ring; but most slept, drunk; one or two, too drunk to notice me, were sitting against the wall, their left ankles chained to their slave rings, a bottle of Ka-la-na in their grasp, their hair falling forward.
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20 423 I had sensed the marvelous raw power of Sura, her amazing, almost intuitive grasp of the game; and I wondered of Hup, who could be the father of so brilliant a boy as Scormus of Ar; perhaps Hup, the Fool, was no stranger to the game; I looked to one side and saw Qualius of Ar, the blind Player; unno...
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Book 6. (3 results) Raiders of Gor

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4 50 She stood within my grasp, her arms on my neck, taunting me with her eyes.
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7 101 Then as, with a cry of rage, she thrust at me, I took the spear from her grasp, disarming her, tossing it to one side.
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7 110 She had now come closer to me, as I had indicated she should, and stood now where, if I wished, I might take her in my grasp.
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Book 7. (4 results) Captive of Gor

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9 255 We stood alone, she in her skins, I unclothed, she free, I bound, my leash in her grasp.
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11 99 The Turian collar, too, a looser ring of steel, large enough for a man's fist to grasp on the girl's throat, was occasionally seen now in the northern cities.
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12 168 I would manipulate my master so subtly that he would not even grasp what I was doing to him until I had been successful, until he was at my feet, lost, reduced, docile, confused, ingratiating, insecure, pathetic, needful, desperately eager to please me.
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17 107 In their grasp I found myself, Elinor Brinton, no more than an aroused, needful slave.
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Book 8. (2 results) Hunters of Gor

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15 65 Ilene was on her hands and knees, looking at them, the binding fiber tied on her throat, its free end in the grasp of one of her captors.
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20 98 The spear, a Gorean war spear, its head tapered of bronze, some eighteen inches long, its shaft more than an inch and a half in thickness, more than six feet in length, sped from my grasp.
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Book 9. (2 results) Marauders of Gor

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6 83 Eager hands vied on the dock to grasp the mooring ropes.
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20 103 In my way, to use concepts you may grasp, I am a prince among my people, not only in blood, but by battle, for in such a way only does one become prince among the Kurii.
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Book 10. (3 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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4 236 Her grasp was imperfect.
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21 588 It flung out its paws but could grasp on nothing.
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26 573 She could grasp the bars with her small hands.
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Book 11. (8 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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3 505 I, branded, shuddered in his grasp.
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4 23 A girl who has not been owned perhaps cannot grasp the feelings of one who is owned, truly owned; but perhaps such a girl, even if only dimly, can sense the joy of the slave girl.
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4 855 With a cry of joy and misery then, from the depths of the hood, rearing from the dirt as I could, I clutched him; I felt my body locked to his; then I felt my body, as though of its own will, suddenly, spasmodically, grasp him; I could not begin to control the reflexes which he had triggered in me; ...
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5 454 The other end of the closed loop, about a foot from my hand, was taken in the grasp of a soldier.
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5 463 I was then again the prisoner of the wrist thong in his grasp.
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27 293 Bran Loort seized me by the hair, which was now long enough to permit a master to grasp it.
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27 294 "Come, Slave Beauty!" he cried and, bending me over, my hands trying to grasp his wrist, ran me, stumbling, to the nearest alcove.
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28 96 He would then stand over me, the two bands extending from me, ribbonlike, in his grasp, taking more bids.
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Book 12. (9 results) Beasts of Gor

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1 88 She, if properly treated, and by properly treated I do not mean treated with courtesy and gentleness, but rather correctly treated, as her nature craves, is even more helplessly in the grasp of its power than a man.
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2 254 She struggled, squirming in their grasp, her feet slipping on the tiles.
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4 423 One of the men of the party of Cos which had now returned to the stage stood on the table of the game, the yellow Home Stone in his grasp.
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10 68 "Put Sarpelius in my grasp," said Sarpedon, "and I will see you receive rich satisfaction for your inconvenience".
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10 321 But by the time it was in my grasp the man was well out of its range.
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10 355 I took again the spear which had earlier been pressed into my grasp.
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15 679 Then she screams for mercy, writhing in her chains or in the grasp of the slaver, his hand in her hair.
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27 252 "You may think that to be a warrior is to be large, or strong, and to be skilled with weapons, to have a blade at your hip, to know the grasp of the spear, to wear the scarlet, to know the fitting of the iron helm upon one's countenance, but these things are not truly needful; they are not, truly, w...
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30 20 A short sword was placed in his grasp.
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Book 13. (7 results) Explorers of Gor

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1 556 "If this is an invisibility ring, we are fortunate to have it fall into our grasp," I said.
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5 671 Why now should they think of destroying a world which, like a ripe fruit, seemed to hang almost within their grasp? I looked at the blond-haired barbarian.
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12 416 It was only that her Earth mind was not quick to grasp that she might, almost unbelievably, almost incomprehensibly to her, be placed in certain categories.
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18 53 It is never anywhere but within our grasp.
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31 20 The blond-haired barbarian twisted in the grasp of the men.
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43 144 "The paddle is like iron in my grasp," said Janice.
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44 132 I made as though to hold down to her, that she might grasp it, the shaft of the raider's spear.
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Book 14. (5 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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1 762 "I must be a true woman!" "I have little doubt that you are more intelligent, and have a greater grasp of reality, than they," I said, "but you will not, in all likelihood, compete successfully with them.
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7 999 But if a woman should kneel before me and beg a collar would I not be terrified to enclose her lovely neck in its inflexible grasp? Would I not be afraid to own her, to assume the mighty responsibility of the mastery? Did I have the power, the strength, the courage, to be a master? Did I fear I woul...
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12 129 The first is well within the reach of the weak; the second is only within the grasp of the strong.
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13 957 I saw her hand reach for a quirt at the side of the saddle, but then she did not grasp it.
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19 143 Perhaps a brief remark on this point might be in order, as it may be difficult for those of certain cultures to grasp.
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Book 15. (2 results) Rogue of Gor

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8 69 Before him, even with the blade in my grasp, I would have been, I knew, for all practical purposes, defenseless.
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26 41 Indeed, sometimes the girl is merely told to grasp the ring and to remain there until the master returns.
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Book 16. (5 results) Guardsman of Gor

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9 251 It pleased me to let her feel herself again in my grasp, helpless.
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16 186 The spear shaft was twisted from my grasp.
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18 254 She lifted her head, and, extending her slender, closely collared neck, delicately tendered the whip into my grasp.
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20 1595 I considered the former Miss Henderson's ankles, securely in my grasp.
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21 702 The female slave is quite lovely in one's arms, head back, hair wild, squirming, pleading for mercy and wanting none, hot, sweating, vital, responsive, helpless in her collar, or chains, moaning, gasping, her body moving uncontrollably, in your grasp, owned, yours, locked in the merciless throes of ...
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Book 17. (10 results) Savages of Gor

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1 1034 These lances are used in a great variety of ways, but the most common method is to thrust one's wrist through the wrist loop, grasp the lance with the right hand, and anchor it beneath the right arm.
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5 85 The banners of civilization are in our grasp".
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7 11 The woman, her hands tied behind her, each arm in the rude grasp of a slaver's man, was thrust to the height of the platform, beside the corpulent fellow.
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8 809 "It is only that they come from a world which has not prepared them to easily grasp the nature of certain realities, let alone that they might find themselves implicated in them".
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8 820 In a moment the girls, the upper left arm of each in the grasp of an attendant, were conducted, bewildered, through a side door from the hall.
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8 1058 The palms of the red-haired girl, forcibly, her wrists in his grasp, were placed on her thighs.
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13 1332 "You may find this hard to grasp now, but most girls, as you will learn, once they discover its authenticity and inescapability, blossom joyously, submitted, in their bondage; in it they occupy their place in nature; in it, subject to the authority and power of strong men, owned and mastered uncompr...
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14 243 I saw her hands, half wanting to grasp him, half wanting to thrust him back.
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17 206 The reins were not in my grasp.
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19 124 Grunt struggled futilely in their grasp.
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Book 18. (3 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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35 220 I could not grasp it tightly.
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43 395 Some men and women, too, stood near the nearby lodges, as though trying to grasp what might be taking place.
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44 222 It is not hard to grasp such things.
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Book 19. (10 results) Kajira of Gor

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11 79 Then I whimpered as I felt his strong hands grasp me by the upper arms.
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11 82 Do you understand?" I could not begin to free myself of his grasp.
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23 148 It had been done so naturally, almost reflexively! I felt suddenly shamed, miserable, and revealed, exposed, vulnerable, piteous, displayed! Why had I done that? Had it to do with the changes in me which had been wrought by Speusippus of Turia? Had it to do with those sensations which he had induced...
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27 188 Some years from now you may begin to grasp an inkling of what can be the skills, the sensitivities and talents, the emotions, the depths of feeling, of the slave.
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31 70 "And so now you grasp the reason why young women are adept at learning new languages," he said.
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31 277 In most leadings, of course, this amount of length would not be used, but would be coiled in the grasp of the master.
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31 791 I stood there, shuddering, only just had by Miles of Argentum, my arm now locked helplessly in the tight grasp of the new fellow.
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33 281 "I had her in my grasp," cried Speusippus, "but she escaped.
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34 14 "Kneel, and grasp your ankles," he said.
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34 106 I, kneeling, tightened the grasp on my ankles.
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Book 20. (12 results) Players of Gor

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1 1 Samos I looked up from the board, idly, as the woman, struggling, in the grasp of two guards, was thrust into the vicinity of our table.
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1 8 The woman struggled fiercely in the grasp of the two guards.
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1 669 One of the strongest chains binding a slave, even to a hated master, is her need for sexual relief; she is, after all, a slave; frequently, and perhaps even to her misery, if the master is hated, she begins to sense her growing restlessness, her uneasiness and discomfort; she may fight it, but it is...
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1 725 She gyrated but inches from a burly oarsman, then leaped back, eluding his drunken grasp.
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1 1064 She was now on her knees between them, facing us, her arms held high and to either side of her, each of her wrists in the grasp of a guard.
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9 398 "No!" she cried, her head back, wincing, her hair in Boots's grasp.
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11 86 I supposed that if Kamchak had known his name was being used in this fashion, and mispronounced at that, and Boots was within his grasp he might have, as a joke, for Kamchak was fond of jokes, had Boots put in a sack and put out in front of the bosk, curious to see if they would move in that directi...
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13 108 "For example, she had Bosk of Port Kar in her very grasp and let him escape.
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14 159 "Behold, Bosk of Port Kar," he laughed, "naked and kneeling before us, outwitted, terrified into the desire for escape, then led to believe his escape was successful, then his hopes dashed, now realizing how he was never out of our grasp.
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14 384 Yet I did not think it would take Flaminius long to grasp my intent.
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20 59 It regarded me, Belnar in his grasp.
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20 91 "He," I said, slowly, pointing at the meat in the beast's grasp.
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Book 21. (4 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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13 37 The talons of the silver tarn did not grasp weakly.
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13 350 We then followed him, Hurtha and I, and Boabissia, the hempen leashes of Tula and Feiqa in the grasp of Hurtha.
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19 83 His grasp, I gathered, was not gentle.
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25 1804 She jerked her hands, but could not remove them from my grasp.
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Book 22. (15 results) Dancer of Gor

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13 154 Another is when she is forced to sit and reach forward between her legs, passing the right arm from inside the right thigh to outside and beneath the right calf, to grasp the right ankle from the outside, and the left arm from inside the left thigh to outside and beneath the left calf, to grasp the ...
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3 352 Now I was in his grasp.
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5 159 To be sure, my grasp of this language still left much to be desired.
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9 248 I myself thought my grasp of Gorean far exceeded such a minimal level but perhaps they wished to be conservative in their claims on my behalf, if only to protect themselves against the possible complaints of dissatisfied customers.
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9 517 This had to do with my disappointment in the matter of Teibar, that I was still not within his grasp, that he had not brought me here, in some master's jest, to reclaim me.
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11 486 It was like being a doll in his grasp.
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11 1323 That is something I think many men do not grasp, the wholeness of the sexual experience for the woman, its enhancement and deepening by the beautiful and intricate context, that it is not simply a matter of skillful epidermic stimulations.
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11 1625 Too, sometimes I had felt genuine fear, as I seemed to sense, far off, feelings and emotions so incredible and overwhelming that I knew I would be helpless in their grasp, feelings that would be as commanding and irresistible to me as the movements of the earth and the tides of the sea.
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13 338 "I am in your grasp," I whispered.
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13 430 I laughed, unable to help it, out loud, in his grasp.
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24 772 If I were to put myself within his grasp, he might be whipped, or slain.
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27 67 He was a true master, and, in moments, licking and kissing, squirming, moaning, crying out with gratitude, I was helpless in his grasp.
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29 952 In this moment the leader of the beasts, which at times had been sitting back, almost catlike, observing, and at other times had been crouching, and moving about the fighting animals, waiting to strike, seeing its opportunity, leapt to the fray, seizing Borko's collar from the back, but, I think to ...
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31 310 I was then, helpless in his angry grasp, put to his pleasure.
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33 308 I saw the long, hairy arms of the gigantic beast slowly relaxing their grasp on my master's body.
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Book 23. (7 results) Renegades of Gor

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11 258 Do they really think we would believe that this report just happened to fall into our grasp, at this time? Do they intend for us to take it seriously? It is not even in cipher.
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16 40 This makes it harder for boarders to grasp them, wrenching them away, forcing gaps in the pike wall, and so on.
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17 564 She stood and her leash was taken in his grasp.
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19 19 Then there would be churning froths, and blood swirling up, and reachings out, graspings with nothing to grasp, and then we would see bodies drawn under the water.
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21 269 Then, having managed to adjust somewhat to the light, and managing to achieve some grasp of her surroundings, and seeing in the midst of what men she knelt, she looked about herself wildly, in consternation.
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21 1337 Later, of course, as she began to understand what it was to be a slave girl, as she began to grasp something of the nature of her condition, and its categoricality, she would hastily, and fearfully, on her own, reject such thoughts.
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24 110 And I, like a fool, who had had her once in my grasp, in Port Kar, had had her freed, even when she had mocked and scorned me, thinking me crippled, and had had her returned in honor and safety to Ar! I considered her.
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Book 24. (20 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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1 717 But she had drawn back from him, as though fearfully, but yet in such a way that he was under no delusion that her wholeness, in his grasp, or in that of another, would yield untold pleasure.
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1 956 And let them anticipate their helplessness in the grasp of strong masters.
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1 1098 Certainly he was here now, not in a good humor, and with a sword in his grasp.
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13 79 My keeper, my leash in his grasp, clambered aboard, after me.
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13 438 In a moment I was stumbling forward, before him, returning to the raft, the rope on my neck over the yoke, running behind me, to his grasp.
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19 764 The monster's quarry, its creamy flesh in its grasp, its blond hair spread in the wind, made gasping, sobbing, choking noises.
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19 790 It put back its head, lifting it, twisting it, and given the power of its body, the sword, fixed still in its jaw, was torn from my grasp.
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19 1257 He is amazed to discern not only that she has sexual needs, but that they are profound, and that she is currently, helplessly, in the throes of their grasp.
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19 1287 Then I was again quiet, she helpless in my grasp.
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19 1341 "Oh!" "Aii!" I said, suddenly, and, in the grip of my reflexes, in my spasmodic tumult, spun about, twisting, rolling in the sand, carrying her lightly, helplessly, with me, as though she might be a doll, and sand scattered about, and she, too, gasped, and then again we lay in the sand as we had bef...
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25 89 Her small hands pulled back in the wrist stocks, but could not escape their grasp.
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27 5 Then, instead of supporting one's weight, with a give of some inches, it seems, suddenly to grasp the ankles, and then gravity begins its slow work.
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27 67 Then he managed to grasp it with one hand, then two.
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28 375 Then she was moaning again, her head back, her hair about, helpless in this new grasp.
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28 381 "Ah!" cried the fellow in whose grasp she lay.
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29 96 Sometimes in the trek he would grasp and clutch these, squeezing and twisting them, it seemed for Ahn at a time.
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35 41 He could not grasp a marking stick.
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40 16 I could well imagine Myron being somewhat reluctant to have it broadcast about that his supposedly helplessly trapped quarry had somehow slipped out of his grasp.
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43 125 Marcus angrily put aside my grasp and turned, looking back toward the wagon.
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44 2 I stopped, the leash to the hooded woman in my grasp.
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Book 25. (13 results) Magicians of Gor

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3 326 The lead on her leash looped up to Marcus' grasp.
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7 111 It was a graceful figure who, head down, the fingers of her left hand in the light grasp of Seremides, now came forward upon the platform.
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9 249 She moved a little bit but found herself helpless in his grasp.
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16 3 "Will no one rescue me?" cried the bearded, bound fellow, struggling in the grasp of the mercenary who had first cried out.
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17 282 And well did she move upon that wicker surface, in helpless desirability, in the grasp of the sirik, the metal on her neck, and on her wrists and ankles, the whole impeccably joined by its linkage of gleaming chain.
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18 370 "But I am a master of flexibility," said the fellow, "I have enormous range, from one horizon of the theater to another, I have a grasp of nuance that would shame the infinite shades of the spectrum, in all their variations in brilliance, saturation and hue!" "Truly?" asked Marcus.
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18 418 Its loss could thus undermine their grasp on the city".
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20 187 She struggled a bit more, but was now pinioned tightly in his grasp.
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20 234 He then put his hand to her hair, letting her feel the tightness of his grasp, and turning her head from one side to the other.
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22 488 One typical way is to stand her at the ring and have her place her right hand behind her back through the ring and grasp her left wrist.
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22 490 One of the simplest and perhaps the most typical way of "binding by the master's will" is simply to have the girl grasp her left wrist with her right hand behind her back.
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23 189 "A sneeze! Do you not grasp it, the audacity of it, the humor of it?" "No," said Marcus.
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27 78 "I grasp it," I said, "in friendship, and, too, in friendship, I place my other hand on your shoulder.
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Book 26. (24 results) Witness of Gor

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8 687 Would they be able to grasp now that she must obey, that she must please and serve? No, they could presumably not grasp such things.
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7 319 My ankle was helpless in his grasp.
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8 427 I then drew back a little, but kept my grasp on the bars.
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10 325 Perhaps they did not wish them torn off by the beast! In the pens we kajirae, kneeling or crouching down, had sometimes put our hands through the bars of our kennels, trying to touch a guard, to call ourselves, whimperingly, to his attention, but this experience suggested, uneasily, a quite differen...
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10 392 I saw the jailer, below me, put his foot in the stirrup, his left foot, and at the same time grasp the rope with his left hand, above his head; and then the rope, too, bore his weight.
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10 625 I hastened to keep up with the soldier and jailer, the leash in the grasp of the latter.
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10 781 A common slave-girl leading position is to grasp her by the hair and hold her head at your hip.
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12 140 How odd if we should truly be the end of history, if our tiny grasp of things, our demands flung into the void, should be the finality of the universe.
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13 149 By his grasp on my hair he pressed me further forward, more tightly against the wall, and then, holding me there, he pulled my head back by the hair, to better show my collar.
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13 212 Our intelligence, interestingly, makes us more the properties of our masters, just as one will demand, and have, more from an intelligent animal than from one less intelligent; we are more easily controlled in a thousand ways by as little as a glance or gesture, because we grasp what is required; ou...
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13 806 I had, I was confident, as all women, an instinctive grasp of its import.
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13 1147 My hands, chained, continued to grasp the bars.
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13 1462 "And they are quick to grasp the impossibility of escape, and the irreversibility, by their own efforts, of what has been done to them".
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16 162 He then returned to the divan, on which he reclined, the whip on the silks beside him, inches from his grasp.
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18 29 I had then, on all fours, fetched it back to him, in my teeth, and, lifting my head, delivered it into his grasp.
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19 167 He then put his left hand on the side of the captive's waist and, with her wrists enfolded in his grasp, bent her backwards, to exhibit the bow of her delights.
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29 837 The pit guard then, holding to her ankle, lifted her foot, lifted it up so that the lower portion of the robe of concealment came forward, to lodgment behind the knee, this revealing something of her calf, and also, of course, her foot, the ankle in his grasp.
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29 900 With her insult the free woman may have inadvertently placed herself closer to their grasp than she realized.
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37 130 "Scent! Hunt!" The blanket was literally torn from the grasp of the leader of the strangers, who then stood up, watching the sleen.
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37 1151 "Too, it was not I who kicked a sword to him, putting it within his grasp".
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40 330 "Surely it is not so difficult to grasp," he said.
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42 74 Indeed, I welcomed the prospect for I hoped that it would, sooner or later, bring me within the grasp of a master who would know how to handle me, and would do so, with audacity and command.
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44 185 How helpless we are, bound! "So it seems fitting then," said the first man, "that your fate be now put in the hands of she whom you tricked, she whom you betrayed into our grasp".
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46 335 "The knife is in your grasp," he said.
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Book 27. (17 results) Prize of Gor

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30 343 The irresistible, overwhelming, powerful, handsome beast, the virile, desiring, lustful, arrogant monster! How obviously he was regarding his property with inordinate pleasure! Muchly then was she aware of the collar on her neck, and that she was owned, and that she was in the grasp of her master, h...
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3 60 The grasp of the device was close, obdurate and perfect.
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11 1078 How her misery would mingle with the viselike grasp of the opened, then closed, spun shut, tightened, then locked-closed branding rack on her thigh, the meticulous, brief, carefully controlled, searing fury of the marking iron, the futile pulling at the light, attractive bracelets that held her hand...
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12 348 I have seen her in Gart's grasp.
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13 279 It might have snared even a man, so neatly and quickly it was slipped on its quarry, before he could thrust it from his straight, muscular, linear body, but, positioned as it was on Nelsa, a woman, nicely centered, between the flare of her hips and the swelling of her bosom, she could not even have ...
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13 530 Ellen was certain that the raiders had captured at least one free woman, as she had seen her helpless in the grasp of a tarn's talons.
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16 674 "Grasp the ring".
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17 409 "It is only that I, poor business man that I am, generous creature and unwary humanitarian, let them slip from my grasp at bargain prices".
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18 565 How small her body seemed in his mighty grasp.
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22 598 She felt men reach out and grasp for her, but she sped on.
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23 14 Ellen felt the gigantic, clawed paw of the beast grasp her hair and her head was pulled up and back violently, painfully.
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23 177 Ellen then began to grasp how easily a woman of Earth, and with so little awareness, thinking herself superior and safe, might court the collar of a slave.
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27 437 Why did she not rejoice? Was she not to be rescued from the grasp of he whom she feared and hated, her cruel master, Selius Arconious? She had little doubt then, though she could not yet see them, who followed them.
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27 952 All regarded the beast, all in awe, save he who was the first rider, he closest to the wagon, whose weapon was still in his grasp.
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27 1613 He had a foot in the stirrup, and drew himself up with his left hand, retaining his grasp on the slave with his right hand, hauling her upward with him.
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29 274 "Do you realize the will power that has been required for me, day and night, not to seize you, again and again, and put you to slave service? Do you understand what it is to lie in the darkness, with you at my thigh, and not grasp you by the hair as a master a slave, to warn you that your taking is ...
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30 53 They seem to grasp their new identity, their new being, shortly after their collaring, after having been taught to crawl and kiss the whip.
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Book 28. (28 results) Kur of Gor

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63 66 It seemed the hand of his mind reached out to grasp something, but it slipped from his grasp.
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1 1082 Was she unaware that she was beautiful and naked? Was she unaware she was a woman and he was a man? Did she not know he was of the Warriors, and that she, with all her loftiness and pretensions, luscious and unclothed, easily within his grasp, did not even possess a Home Stone? But he growled, and d...
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1 1313 She did not then grasp herself as before, in that preposterous fashion, trying to conceal herself from him, for he had seemed to discountenance it, but she did press herself against his leg, putting her head down, so that he could not see the full slave of her.
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2 343 The Kur who held her ankle turned about and, the ankle retained in his grasp, began to follow those who had already departed the hallway.
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2 353 At this point Cabot, who had hitherto for some time remained inert, seemingly crushed and defeated, reconciled to whatever might lie in store for him, in the grasp of his captor, suddenly lashed back with his elbow, striking sharply, heavily, as an ax, into the ribs of the Kur who held him, who, sta...
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10 194 She managed to grasp one of its two handles in her teeth, and lift, with a tiny sound of the chain, and right the pan.
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10 264 The blonde, however, had leapt happily into the brute's grasp, and obviously the girl before him, though she had done so with fearful alacrity, had also done so with terror.
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10 265 How frightening it must have been for her, thought Cabot, to put herself within the grasp of those mighty appendages, within reach of those massive jaws.
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11 265 "He was intent to rescue a friend, with whom it is told he had once shared paga, to save him from death or dishonor at the hands of Priest-Kings, a noble endeavor, but instead he brought him unwittingly into the grasp of Agamemnon".
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13 88 The touch, thought Cabot, cannot be a simple grasp, but it must be nearly so, to be such as could be applied with a moment's notice.
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17 27 They must not be allowed an opportunity to regroup, or even, clearly, to grasp what had occurred.
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18 251 "Do you think the pointed stick in your grasp is a weapon?" inquired one of the Kurii.
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25 15 "Release her," ordered Cabot, and the two small Kurii, each of which had held an arm of their prisoner, loosened their grasp.
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32 476 "You could always cry out to Lord Grendel," said Cabot, "to rescue you from my foul grasp".
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43 24 He was but feet from the butcher, who, tool in hand, the Lady Bina in his grasp, regarded him, curiously.
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44 168 Grendel's fangs half in her throat, her body helpless in his grasp, the Kur female, trembling and squirming, began to utter a piteous succession of tiny, urgent, plaintive noises.
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47 1 How the Tarns of Victory Came to Surmount the Standards of Agamemnon It was a long, weird cry, from Cabot's left, and he reached out his hand, wildly, but could not grasp the outstretched, clutching hand of the human, one from the cages, to his left.
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47 144 Lord Grendel thrust up the weapon with his wing, and then, spinning about, close to his foe, who floated before him, had one hand loose from the wing harness and tore the weapon from the Kur's grasp, and the Kur recovered control of the wings, and backed away, warily.
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55 213 Then Cabot, for the first time, heard the sound which had been noted earlier by Lord Grendel and Statius, and, at almost the same time, saw a small, struggling body in the grasp of one of the cattle humans, and he then heard the sound again, and again, as the small body was lifted and shaken in fury...
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57 110 "Doubtless she had, in her espionage, perhaps returning from the palace, to do more mischief, inadvertently fallen into the grasp of our peers, whom she later eluded, but found herself unable then either to return to the palace or, braceleted, to secretly frequent again the environs of our camp".
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63 121 In this action may perhaps be detected the astute recommendation of Flavion, whose grasp of politics, diplomacy, and war was of a most direct, simple, and practical sort.
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63 141 The blow did not fall because the club was torn from his grasp and then Lord Grendel, the massive club in his hands, began to strike about him, and the cattle humans fled back before these blows, limping, arms dangling, faces a mass of bones and blood.
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64 51 "She need no longer fear then," said Cabot, "her stripping beneath his appraising glance, his accosting, the callous, imperious grasp of his strong hands on her defenseless beauty".
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70 64 But it was a foot beyond its grasp.
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74 176 And it was then, perhaps, that the brunette first began to grasp the nature of what she had done, and that she was one to whom such things were not permitted.
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77 249 He struck the ax lightly into the post, that its handle was within an easy grasp, and it was lightly held in the wood.
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79 255 He could feel her begin to tremble in his grasp.
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79 435 "Matched?" "Yes, by a vast intelligence, one beyond our grasp".
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Book 29. (15 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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10 618 Then the guards held apart her arms, each with a grasp with one hand on her wrist, and a grasp with the other on her arm, above the elbow.
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3 369 The justification for this grasp is practical and aesthetic, practical in the sense of assuring greater control of the vessel, and aesthetic, having to do with symmetry, and a framing of the slave's beauty.
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3 371 No hand is free, for example, to grasp a dagger, or slip powder into the drink.
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9 86 It gave her great pleasure to be above them, remote, frosty, businesslike, inaccessible, beyond their level, out of their grasp.
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10 223 Are they not, then, secret slaves, slaves awaiting their masters? So Earth girls brought to Gor must largely learn the shame and degradation of the tunic, which, however, is not too difficult to grasp when, shortly, they see the contrast between their garmenture and that of the free woman, and under...
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10 615 "Stop! Stop!" cried Miss Wentworth, squirming in the grasp of the guards.
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12 261 The fellow had no disciplinary wand, no branch, no club in his grasp.
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16 206 I heard a cry of misery from the platform, and the wound dresser stood up, the bloodied arrow in his grasp, held with two hands.
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17 68 And unto this mass, from above, were hurled dozens of weighted nets, which tangled the birds, and riders, and dozens, half crippled, unable to fly, fell brokenly toward the earth, and some riders freed themselves of the safety straps and tried to leap to the saddle rings of other birds, and some fai...
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18 210 I did note that his sword, the long sword, with its beautifully curved blade, and its tasseled hilt, suitable for a two-handed grasp, was bloodied.
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18 425 The hands of each slave must then grasp the rope and may not, until permitted, release the rope.
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27 130 "But would you not rather it had been Saru?" I was pleased, incidentally, as suggested earlier, that he now seemed to grasp the nature of women, and their proper place in an advanced civilization.
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34 100 And, it sometimes comes as a surprise to them that, in the grasp of the master, whether they wish it or not, they will endure, and submit to, ecstasies they never realized possible as a free woman, ecstasies often prolonged for Ahn.
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38 154 And let them tremble, as well, realizing they are now no longer their own, but belong to masters, in whose grasp they will discover what it is to be a slave.
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38 186 What may be more difficult for the outsider to grasp is that she regards this posture and attitude as appropriate for her.
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Book 30. (15 results) Mariners of Gor

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3 781 I sensed two or more men moving about me and he in whose grasp I was.
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5 284 It was a not unfamiliar sensation, having such an instrument of war again in my grasp.
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8 9 "We are in the grasp of Thassa," said Philoctetes to me.
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8 225 "I can understand such things," I said, "before high officers, before men who determine the opening and closings of gates, men who hold the keys to cellars of gold, to the trove of Merchants, men who command armies, who grasp the reins of power, whose word will launch fleets, but not before common s...
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9 87 Who greets a larl without a spear in one's grasp? Of the three weapon rooms we knew about, two were forward, and one amidships.
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12 176 The two-handed grasp is much more aesthetic; it suggests deference; it frames her body, and it brings her wrists together, as though they might be chained.
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12 370 I clung to the knife wrist, with an oarsman's grasp.
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14 302 The hand extended to me, that it might grasp mine was his left hand.
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14 305 "Die, Sleen!" he cried, tearing himself upward, out of the vines, the right hand dripping with water, the sun flashing on the wet blade in its grasp.
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14 318 My only chance would be to grasp his knife wrist, and I thought there was little chance of that.
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14 320 He would prepare carefully for the kill, feinting, darting, keeping the blade forward of my grasp, but slashing, striking, again and again, at the hand, from which he might sever fingers, or slash a wrist, disabling the hand.
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14 334 He struck again, and I managed to grasp his wrist, with two hands, and we turned in the water amidst the vines, struggling, thrashing about.
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25 195 She put her face, as she could, through the bars, and carefully, with her small tongue, kissed it and licked it, first the palm, and then the back, reverently, and then drew back in the kennel, looking at me, but continued to grasp the bars.
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33 181 She was barbarian, she was a mere paga girl, and from a low tavern, her accent was unusual, she had not been much trained, she was new to her collar, and she was just beginning to sense the heat of slave fires, in the grasp of which, perhaps even in days, she would find herself helpless.
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37 498 Perhaps I wanted them, and longed for them! Is that possible? I change! I have changed! Such acts change me! No wonder they are forbidden to free women! How they make us slaves! How right they seem! So right, so right! Inwardly I am different! How can one do such things, and live so, without becomin...
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Book 31. (10 results) Conspirators of Gor

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8 337 I had been handled with authority, of course, and was left in no doubt that I was within the grasp of masters, Gorean masters.
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8 407 Had I not sensed the beginning of such things, even before my red-silking? Does not being barefoot, tunicked, and collared have its effect, in knowing that one, so degraded, is a slave? What was going on in my body? How was I changing? What had been done to me? I remembered the arms of the guards, s...
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10 846 You are unknown, and unconnected, you bring no cities or armies into his grasp, no fleets, or cavalries of tarns.
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18 909 It seemed almost small in his grasp.
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18 1097 I squirmed a little, but was helpless in his grasp.
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45 186 I then screamed and covered my eyes, for the ax of the first guard, in the grasp of Tiresias, from behind, from where he had come about the boulder, smote down on the second guard, hemmed in by the narrow passageway.
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45 207 That handle would be comfortable in his grasp.
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45 263 I saw Tiresias approach, some short, gnarled branches in his grasp, and some shrubbery, dirt still about the roots.
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47 90 "Mix with the others!" Akesinos sprang to his feet, eluded the grasp of the nearest Kur, and fled down the hall.
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48 295 "Grasp it boldly," said the other.
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Book 32. (19 results) Smugglers of Gor

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3 27 For years I have wanted to be at the feet of men, to kneel naked, collared, subservient and submitted, before them, to put my head down and lick and kiss their feet, to be bound at their pleasure, to squirm helplessly in their grasp, to serve them in all ways, instantly and unquestioningly, to be co...
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11 181 How fearful, I suspected, are the needs of a female slave, and how helpless she is in their grasp.
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15 99 Accordingly, I supposed, evolution might provide a place on diverse worlds for birds, or birdlike creatures, creatures of keen eyesight, creatures which might attack, grasp, and tear, creatures not bound to the earth, creatures which might negotiate and traverse the very atmosphere itself.
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15 346 How could a man respect a woman who is no more than a helpless, spasmodic toy in his grasp, squirming and begging? Where was refinement, sophistication, self- control, dignity, pride, personhood, and respect? How could a woman respect herself when she reveals herself as no more than a helpless, unco...
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15 641 I cannot be this! I cannot be here, in the darkness, on a chain! How strong his hands were! How helpless I was in his grasp! No, no, I thought, and then yes, yes, please.
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17 25 How helpless I had been in their grasp! How angry I was with myself that I could not but respond as the least and most worthless of slaves! How I had leaped, and moaned, and whimpered, and begged for the least continuance of their touch! But how could this be? Was I not of Earth? And how lonely I wa...
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21 89 In its grasp it seemed little more than a stick.
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21 106 One of the beasts by the fire lifted a small metal box, which almost disappeared within its grasp.
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21 118 A tissue of noises which were far from human, but might rather have been the unintelligible emanations of a beast of prey, of a lari, or sleen, emerged from the throat of the beast who held the tiny box, or that which seemed tiny in its grasp.
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21 319 The skin on the back of my neck seemed to rise, as I saw that small sack almost disappear in the latitudinal grasp of those long, encircling, multiply jointed six digits.
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35 17 On Gor it was easy to grasp.
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37 80 Darla, I conjectured, in this unexpected, and unusual situation, was suddenly coming to grips with her sex, its slightness, its softness, its helplessness, its weakness, its sensitivity, its limitations, its jeopardy, its fearful and glorious flood of rich and profound emotions, emotions over which ...
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38 146 Whatever marked stick we might have had to cast in this game, I feared, was no longer within our grasp.
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38 174 "It seems," said he, "you are helpless in the grasp of your hereditary coils".
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39 183 "You are ignorant, you would grasp lightning.
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39 386 "Bend over," said Donna to Darla, "grasp your right wrist with your left hand, head to the dirt!" "Please, no," said Darla.
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42 181 Let him hunger for a slave who was indifferent to him, one he might desire but who did not desire him, one who would be forever beyond his grasp, one whom he would never have, one who loathed him, who despised him, who found him repulsive, who hated him, who scorned him, whose most dreaded fate woul...
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46 6 I found it hard to grasp my feelings.
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54 65 "I trust it is not hard to grasp," he said.
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Book 33. (11 results) Rebels of Gor

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1 517 But who is to grasp the lance, I wondered, and whose would be a proper hand.
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12 379 Two ropes were on my neck, of some five or six feet in length, each in the grasp of an Ashigaru, one on either side of me.
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21 204 "But soon," she said, "by pathetic whimpers, and tiny movements of my body, which men cannot withstand, I made known that I now acknowledged myself a helpless woman in their grasp, admitting myself their helpless prisoner, and that I desired to speak".
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30 331 "Remain as you are," he said, "and grasp your ankles and close your eyes".
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35 48 First came Arashi, the bandit, swathed with ropes, two rope leashes on his neck, each in the grasp of a glaive-bearing Ashigaru, two of the foragers first met in the inn.
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47 283 Even as we cried out with astonishment and pleasure, and Lord Yamada, shaken, tried to grasp what had occurred, Nodachi thrust the companion sword amongst the ropes which fastened him to the post, and the ropes parted, darting to the sides, as though fleeing from the blade.
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59 244 "You grasp it in an unusual fashion," he said.
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61 270 "Conquest was within our grasp.
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61 326 Others grasp at sparkling pebbles and tiny disks of yellow metal.
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61 503 * * * As you may suppose, Lord Temmu, with victory almost in his grasp, was furious with the withdrawal, and return, of the small invasion force sent south.
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61 790 "Beast!" she wept, and threw herself toward me, to strike me with her small fists, but I caught her wrists, and held them, she then helpless in my grasp.
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Book 34. (21 results) Plunder of Gor

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3 8 "No," said the fellow in whose grasp I was, "she is not of great interest.
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3 18 Even now, no one held her! Why did she not scream, cry out, run? Did she not see the plea in my eyes, that she should scream, run? "Shall I use a readied gag?" asked the second man, "a slave bit?" "No," said he in whose grasp I was, "let her know that materials suitable for rendering a woman helples...
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3 27 "For now," said he in whose grasp I was.
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5 73 "This way," said a voice, and I felt a hand grasp my upper right arm.
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9 84 "It would doubtless be amusing to see you, when you are in their grasp".
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12 13 What free woman, wise and noble in her freedom, can grasp the consciousness, the fears, the hopes, the helplessnesses, the vulnerabilities, the terrors, the despairs, the desires, the feelings, the joys, the passions, the wholeness, the identity, of the slave? Suppose a woman has been free; then she...
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22 42 What master would deny himself the wholeness of his property, the sight of her, the feel of her, the grasp of her, the sound of her, the intelligence of her, the emotions of her? Too, although she may be put to use briefly and abruptly, whenever and however the master wishes, as she is a slave, it i...
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27 166 He then reached about, and then apparently managed at last to grasp the guide stick, and, once again, it was perpendicular to my neck.
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33 641 Then I saw a leash put about her neck, over the hooding sheet, its leather in the grasp of one of the monsters.
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35 38 "Surely you know," I said, "what it is to be at his feet, to have your embonded body helpless in his imperious grasp, that of a master?" "Ela," she said, sadly.
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44 114 As light and terrifying as such a thing might be in the grasp of a Kur, I was sure, did I dare to touch it, I would have found it difficult to lift, let alone employ.
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47 14 Occasionally he would grasp the ax, arms trembling, and lift it a hort from the floor, eyeing the door leading downstairs to the street.
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50 197 Kurik held her in place, her arm again in his grasp.
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51 227 Shortly thereafter the Lady Bina was in the garments of the Lady Alexina, even to the grasp of the parasol, and I, now bared to tunic and collar, as was appropriate, was now again on my knees, for I was in the presence of the free.
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54 50 Cannot five fingers hold, grasp, caress, and touch as well as six? Your voice is soft, and not harsh; it can utter Kur, and make human sounds, as well.
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54 138 I saw no ax, no staff, no club, not even a knife, in the grasp of Lord Grendel.
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55 21 Lord Grendel, the chain dangling in his grasp, was regarding the Kurii who had been approaching from behind.
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55 24 The chain hung easily in his grasp.
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58 22 Does nature not, in its thoughtless processes, in its blind, dark game, favor the organ sensitive to light, the organ sensitive to sound, the capacity to discriminate tastes and odors, the capacity to grasp, to feel, to think? Does it not, without thought or heart, fashion the wings of the tarn, the...
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60 19 In the stands, too, I saw, here and there, such vessels in the grasp of one Kur or another.
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68 380 "I will cut her tunic away," he said, preparing to reach down and grasp the tiny garment.
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Book 35. (12 results) Quarry of Gor

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4 12 Shortly after the sounding of the gong, Adraste, bent over, in leading position, at the side of the slaver's man, her hair in his grasp, appeared.
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14 182 What do they understand of the feelings, hopes, needs, and desires of a lowly agent, an obscure, neglected, unimportant hireling, one afflicted with want, one impoverished, one deprived, one lonely and miserable, one laboring in the midst of gold she cannot touch, one encircled by the wealth of othe...
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17 84 I think I had a better grasp of the sorts of forces which might wreak such havoc, and so easily and in so little time, than the others, but I did not think they could be found on Gor.
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22 134 I screamed again and again and struggled to escape the grasp of Addison Steele.
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31 14 "Come back," said the fellow in whose grasp was my hair.
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33 592 I could see nothing about which I could grasp.
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37 105 I struggled helplessly in his arms, my size and weight so small compared to his, helpless in his grasp.
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37 168 One hopes to accommodate oneself as perfectly as possible to the least signal from the captor's grasp, to the least whim or caprice of his will.
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43 191 You do not grasp what deed we are about.
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46 25 My tunic was torn at the left hip, the result of a patron's drunken grasp.
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46 264 "There is no paga left," he said, slowly, trying to grasp what doubtless seemed to him a most unexpected anomaly.
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46 491 I would have sunk to my knees, unable to stand, were it not for the grasp of the Vat Master.
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Book 36. (7 results) Avengers of Gor

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1 256 "From distances the mind must strive to grasp," he said.
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17 407 In this braceleting a woman is helpless, unable to resist, unable to protect or defend herself, unable to fend off the hands which may now delightfully trace, grasp, and caress her vulnerable, undefended beauty.
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33 65 "Free us, let us go to the beach and our ships, uncontested, and it is within your grasp," he said.
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48 153 I looked upon the broken lyre in the grasp of Thrasymedes, and, oddly, felt sorrow, and that a wrong had been done.
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49 37 Presumably outnumbered we might have scattered, slipped from their grasp, even withdrawn to the safety of Mytilene".
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56 12 "Their officers are heartened; they are sanguine with victory; they can feel it in their grasp, they can smell it in our shed blood, see it in our weakness and paucity, hear it in the groans of our wounded, note it in the confidence and jubilation of their troops".
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58 53 "They would grasp at such a bargain," said Clitus.
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