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Book 1. (22 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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7 122 I half-carried, half-floated it, shoving it toward the place where the daughter of the Ubar had slipped under the water.
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18 142 He stood framed for a moment in the doorway and shouted, a shout half of discovery, half of mortal fear.
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2 2 I awoke, feeling rested, and opened my eyes, half expecting to see my room in the alumni house at the college.
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2 16 There was a savage dignity about it, with the shield and spears, all of them stable on the wall, as if ready, like the famous colonial rifle over the fireplace, for instant use; they were all polished and gleamed dully in the half light.
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3 262 Tarns, who are vicious things, are seldom more than half tamed and, like their diminutive earthly counterparts, the hawks, are carnivorous.
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4 93 There were shouts, and, rushing to the window, I saw several answering bolts leave the cylinder and fly in the direction of the retreating assailant, who was now almost half a pasang away and making good his escape.
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6 149 The tharlarion sunk a bit lower in the marsh, half closing its eyes.
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7 119 I frantically looked about, caught sight of a half-submerged log some yards away, protruding upward out of the marsh water.
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8 3 The soldier, beginning at the high, ornate collar of the girl's robes, began to break the braided loops, ripping them loose from their hooks; methodically he tore her robes apart and pulled them down and over her shoulders; in half a dozen tugs the heavy layers of her garments had been jerked downwa...
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8 164 "I am giving you half of the food," I said.
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10 34 "Her sale price would not bring half the hiring price of a sword such as that of Kazrak of Port Kar".
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10 102 Her dress had been half torn from her.
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10 117 However, their metabolism was slower than that of a tarn, whose mind never seemed far from food and, if it was available, could consume half its weight in a single day.
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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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12 113 And then, fool that I was, half demented with hunger and terror, I only then realized that the tarn was none other than my own! I shoved on the steel-shod foot that pressed me into the sticks of the nest, uttering my command with ringing authority.
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13 53 When, twenty feet away, the great, bounding beast, fangs bared, leaped for its prey, it encountered instead only the slender needle of my spear, set like a stake in the ground, braced by the half-naked body of a warrior of Ko-ro-ba.
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13 57 With a convulsive shudder, the great head rolled to one side and the eyes half closed, leaving a milky slit of death between the lids.
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13 118 Within a minute the air was filled with the beating of wings, as some half a hundred wild tarnsmen brought their birds down about us.
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15 17 Also, half buried in the sands among the stakes and set in wooden blocks would be iron hooks, much like those used in ancient times on Earth and sometimes called spurs.
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15 93 "I found the frame," Kazrak said, "half a pasang from the Vosk, broken.
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18 76 In the center of the pit a crude cistern had been carved from the living rock and was half filled with cold but foul water.
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18 112 In this chamber, though empty of human beings, was a monstrous tarn cot, in which some twenty gigantic, half-starved tarns huddled separately on the tarn perches.
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Book 2. (15 results) Outlaw of Gor

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17 123 The last piece of bread I broke in two, taking half and giving the other half to Ost.
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1 80 "Where is home?" asked Cabot, staring into the half-filled glass.
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1 128 Cabot, still half-drunk, looked about himself, at the brutal electric geometry of that great city, at the dark, lonely shapes that moved through the light snow, at the pale glimmering headlights of the cars.
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4 66 My eyes were half closed against the storm.
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9 163 His hand darted to the table where the bag of coins lay, half spilled out in the dried puddles of Kal-da.
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11 77 In her hand, covered with a glove of gold, she held a small, dark leather sack, half filled with coins.
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12 16 In the food pan I saw half a loaf of coarse bread.
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12 34 We faced each other in the half darkness of the dungeon, not speaking.
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14 121 It had, however, been bolted, fastened with a heavy, square-headed bolt, much like an oversized machine bolt, the shaft of which was perhaps an inch and a half in diameter.
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17 48 In the half light, from the small tharlarion-oil lamps set in each end of the room, I saw the heavy, squat figure beside Ost loop his wrist chain silently about the creature's thin throat.
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20 26 The three moons were faint now, like pale white disks in the brightening sky, and the sun was half risen from the throne of the horizon.
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20 32 I walked across the compound and picked up a helmet which lay half hidden in the litter.
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24 10 The shop itself was now hung with perhaps half a hundred lamps and the walls were bright with the caste colors of the men who drank there.
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25 4 Both of us cast well and the jolt of the massive missile thundering on my shield spun me half about.
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25 62 I emerged onto the roof, my eyes half shut against the intense light.
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Book 3. (17 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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27 340 "Half larl, half Priest-King".
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27 341 "No," I said, "half larl, half man".
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29 116 Then without warning it seemed the stern of my craft vanished and I felt the deck suddenly give way and as half of the craft vanished in powder and the other half crumbled to the buildings below I seized the silver tube from the firing port and leaped downward to the back of the enemy ship.
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33 15 I swept Vika again to my arms and, half walking, half floating, made my way downward toward the ruins of the gate.
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7 103 I had run for perhaps a half pasang when I stopped, panting and furious with myself.
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8 5 I had meant to scare her half to death and I was pleased to see that I had.
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12 1 Two Muls On a marble circle of some half pasang in width, in the bottom of that vast, brilliantly lit, many-colored artificial canyon the oval disk diminished its speed and drew to a stop.
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19 59 "It will probably not take more than half a hundred strokes to cut through".
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27 61 I drove the disk about a half pasang away and stopped it by an open portal within which I could see busy Muls stirring vats of bubbling plastic with huge wooden paddles.
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29 69 For half a Gorean Ahn we hung there, none of us moving.
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29 128 I pressed the firing switch of the silver tube and it gave forth with a short, abortive scorching blast and was cold, but the golden body of the Priest-King blackened and, half sliced through, reeled against the wall and fell at my feet.
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29 130 In the half darkness I could see his antennae curl.
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30 168 The latter, of course, terrified, bewildered, would be of little service themselves, but they were offered as inducements to the males of Misk's forces to encourage their desertion; the girls were, so to speak, a bounty for treachery, and since the beauty of Chamber Slaves was well known in the Nest...
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32 4 I looked to the body of Sarm, golden and broken, lying among the rubble on the floor, half covered in the powdery dust that hung like fog in the room.
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32 206 There were no hanging cables in the shaft and I could see the shattered roof of the elevator some half a hundred feet below.
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32 301 He threw the switch again and the portal began to roll down but one of the larls with a wild roar threw himself towards it and got half his body and one long, raking clawed paw under it.
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32 333 The body of Parp, half torn apart, neck and limbs broken, fell from the jaws of the larl.
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Book 4. (31 results) Nomads of Gor

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9 151 Abruptly, it seemed, I came awake, no longer half asleep, more than half drunk.
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25 770 When her struggles had subsided I began, half biting, half kissing, to move up her calf to the delights of the sensitive areas behind her knees.
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6 2 Many others, too, rushed to the sound, and we were jostled by armed warriors, scarred and fierce; by boys with unscarred faces, carrying the pointed sticks used often for goading the wagon bosk; by leather-clad women hurrying from the cooking pots; by wild, half-clothed children; even by enslaved Ka...
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6 161 He took the skin of wine from the boy and bit out the horn plug; he then, with the wineskin on his shoulder, held back the head of Elizabeth Cardwell with one hand and with the other shoved the bone nozzle of the skin between her teeth; he tipped the skin and the girl, half choking, swallowed wine; ...
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8 108 I supposed that on the morrow Kamchak would call for the Tuchuk Iron Master, to brand what he called his little barbarian; the brand of the Tuchuk slave, incidentally, is not the same as that generally used in the cities, which, for girls, is the first letter of the expression Kajira in cursive scri...
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8 170 Once, it might be noted, she returned from searching for fuel with the dung sack, dragging behind her, only half full.
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8 174 Elizabeth Cardwell never again brought a half-filled dung sack to the wagon of Kamchak of the Tuchuks.
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8 310 She would receive a start of fifteen beats of the great heart of the kaiila, after which she would be about half way to the lance.
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9 400 Kamras, the Champion of Turia, half rose from his position.
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10 10 At the head of our line, on a huge kaiila, rode Kutaituchik, his eyes closed, his head nodding, his body swaying with the stately movement of the animal, a half-chewed string of kanda dangling from his mouth.
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10 182 For all his uproarious stomping about the wagon last night, paga bottle in hand, singing gusty Tuchuk songs, half frightening Miss Cardwell to death, he seemed in good spirits, looking about, whistling, occasionally pounding a little rhythm on the side of his saddle.
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10 186 The stakes, flat-topped, each about six and half feet high and about seven or eight inches in diameter, stand in two long lines facing one another in pairs.
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10 194 I noted some of the workmen still affixing small retaining rings to some of the stakes, bolting them one on a side, usually about five feet to five and a half feet from the ground.
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12 520 He took about half of it and then wiped his mouth and handed it back.
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17 56 This train of observation was interrupted by the arrival of Saphrar's two men-at-arms bearing a wooden barrier of sorts, about four and a half feet high and twelve feet wide, which they set between myself and my captors, and Saphrar, the Paravaci and those with the crossbow.
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17 67 If it were a school of fifteen-inch Gorean pike, for example, I might kill dozens and yet die half eaten within minutes.
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18 37 But doubtless by then I would have been half digested, much of me little more than a cream of fluids and proteins then mixing with and nourishing the substance of my devourer—the Yellow Pool of Turia.
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20 91 I was ready to engage the first guard, half on the ladder, but Harold's head emerged from the opening behind me.
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21 29 My heart felt grateful to the stern, fierce warrior, though he had been in the past days harsh and strange, half drunk with hatred for Turia.
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21 49 As I hobbled through the city of Turia, one eye half shut, staring at the street as though I hoped to find a lost copper tarn disk among the stones, I made my way toward the compound of Saphrar of Turia.
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23 68 In an instant we were embroiled among angry men—the half-formed, disorganized Hundreds of the Paravaci—striking to the left and right, shouting the war cry of the Tuchuks.
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25 516 Then, her back still arched, with a half-smile, she stretched even more, and, as though weary, she slowly turned her head to one side, with her eyes closed, and then opened them and with a small, lazy motion of her hands threw her hair back over her head, and with a tiny motion of her head shook it ...
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25 579 "I should have told you, I suppose," I remarked, "that a woman kisses well only when fully aroused, after at least half an Ahn, after she is helpless and yielding".
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25 844 She did not move, and then suddenly I felt the cut of her nails deep in my arms, and though her lips were open, her teeth were clenched, her head was back, the eyes closed, her hair tangled under her and over her body, and then her eyes seemed surprised, startled, and her shoulders lifted a bit from...
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26 4 Kamchak stood in the half darkness, his palms on the wall running about the edge of the roof of the building on which we stood.
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26 16 He seemed humped in the half darkness, short of neck, broad of shoulder.
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26 223 "I do not know," said Saphrar, "but I know that there are men who will pay half the wealth of Gor for this—" "I," said Kamchak, "would not give a copper tarn disk for it".
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26 267 I can give you half the riches of the Paravaci! Bosk and gold and women and wagons!" "I would suppose," said Ha-Keel, "that all that you have is not worth so much as the golden sphere—and that is Saphrar of Turia's".
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26 291 "It had to have been the Ubar of the Paravaci—for who else could have sent their riders against the Tuchuk wagons, who else could have promised a mercenary tarnsman half the bosk and gold and women and wagons of the Paravaci?" I was only dimly aware of their conversation.
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28 14 Elizabeth's Tuchuk leather had been half torn from her but Tuka, who had been clothed only Kajir, had fared not even this well.
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28 19 At last, panting, bleeding here and there, discolored in places, half-naked, triumphant, Elizabeth Cardwell returned to my side, where she knelt as a humble, obedient slave girl.
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Book 5. (28 results) Assassin of Gor

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12 358 Again and again Sura struck and the girls, half stunned, half crazed with pain, seemed unable to even move, but could only scream and cry.
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19 251 As the auctioneer reached for the hood of the third girl, she turned away and suddenly, though chained by the wrists, darted toward the stairs; the slack in the chain was taken up in her flight and, on the second or third stair down, she was spun about and thrown to the steps, half on them, half on ...
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22 396 It is small, double-curved, about four feet in length, built up of layers of bosk horn, bound and reinforced with metal and leather; it is banded with metal at seven points, including the grip, metal obtained from Turia in half-inch rolled strips; the leather is applied diagonally, in two-inch strip...
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1 43 After about half an Ahn the pyre, still fearful with heat and light, had collapsed with a roar, forming a great, fiercely burning mound of oil-soaked wood.
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2 272 We have bred, captured, trained, exchanged and sold slaves for half a millennium.
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3 1 The Game When I deemed it wise to depart from Vella, I knotted her yellow slave livery about her neck and cried out, "Begone, Slave!" and then slapped my hands together at which juncture she let forth a howl as though she had been struck, and then, blubbering hysterically and crying out, she scrambl...
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4 66 His crime, if he had had one, was that his build was rather like mine, and his hair, in the shadows, the half-darkness of the lamps and the three moons of Gor, might have seemed to one who watched like mine.
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5 29 Another form of lock difficult to guard against is the pit lock, because of the natural crevices in Gorean tiling commonly found in corridors of cylinders; when tampered with a trap falls away beneath the individual, dropping him to a pit below, usually containing knives fixed in stone, but upon occ...
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5 730 She lay there on the stones, half-stripped, turned away, bound hand and foot, her throat fastened to the slave ring by the heavy collar and chain.
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11 70 One of the smiths from below was summoned with a bowl of slave porridge, which he mixed half with water, and stirred well, so that it could be drunk.
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11 73 As the girl knelt the guardsman pulled back her head and held her nose while the smith, with thumb and forefinger, forced open her jaws and, spilling it a bit on her chin and body, poured a half cup of gruel into her mouth.
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11 74 The girl tried to hold her breath but when it became necessary for her to breathe she must needs swallow the gruel; twice more the smith did this, and then the girl, defeated, swallowed the gruel as he poured it into her mouth, half choking on it.
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12 309 When the smith arrived, he took, from a rack in the wall, two narrow, straight bars of iron, not really plates but narrow cubes, about a half inch in width and fifteen inches in length.
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13 77 She was about half of the way to the far edge of the pool when she straightened herself in the water, and looked back at me.
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14 173 The chained girl, half crouching, scrutinized the collar and laughed, and then, with disdain, her hands in the slave's collar, flung her to one side, where the slave lay, fearing to rise.
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15 100 Beasts are also popular in the Stadium of Blades, and fights between various animals, half starved and goaded into fury by hot irons and whips, are common; sometimes the beasts fight beasts of the same species, and other times not; sometimes the beasts fight men, variously armed, or armed slave girl...
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15 192 In her opinion, and perhaps rightly, the positions of both were subtle combinations of truths and half-truths; Phyllis seemed to regard men and women as unimportant differentiations off a sexless, neuter stock, whereas Flaminius argued for a position in which women were hardly to be recognized as be...
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16 171 Phyllis, wild eyed, the clothing half torn from her, the iron belt revealed, was trembling by the iron banister on the ramp, on her knees shuddering, her left wrist braceleted to the railing, breathing spasmodically.
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17 391 Suddenly I felt a large quantity of fluid, wine, surely at least half a pitcher, being poured slowly over my head.
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18 198 I saw that half of his body was scarred.
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20 24 I looked across to Elizabeth, the chain of Cernus looped about her neck, staring numbly, woodenly, down at the tiles of the hall, half in shock.
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20 28 Portus, half wasted now, his skin hanging about his frame, was brought, manacled, stripped to the waist, to the square of sand.
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20 479 At last, after perhaps no more than half an Ahn, Scormus stood up.
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22 86 The tarn, the great, fierce saddlebird of Gor, is a savage beast, a monster predator of the high, blue skies of this harsh world; at best it is scarce half domesticated; even tarnsmen seldom approach them without weapons and tarn goad; it is regarded madness to approach one that is feeding; the inst...
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22 362 To my surprise I noted, coiled at the side of his saddle, in four loops, was a whip knife, of the sort common in Port Kar, a whip, but set into its final eighteen inches, arranged in sets of four, twenty thin, narrow blades; the tips of whip knives differ; some have a double-edged blade of about sev...
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22 530 Again and again the small bow, swift and vicious, fired, twenty barbed arrows in half an Ehn, tarnsmen struggling to reach me with their swords, thrusting with their heavy spears, and all the time Ubar of the Skies tearing and ripping, his beak and steel-shod talons engines of fierce carnage; I felt...
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23 73 As the men burst into the room I stood behind the table, in the half-darkness, setting the point of my sword in the wood, holding the hilt with both hands, surveying them.
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24 123 One of the decrees of Marlenus, uttered at his victory feast, yesterday evening, to rounds of drunken cheers and applause, had been to decree a two-hort, approximately two and one-half inch, heightening of the hemline in the already rather briefly skirted livery of female state slaves; this morning ...
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Book 6. (61 results) Raiders of Gor

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1 18 It is the height of a tall man; its back, away from the bowman, is flat; its belly, facing the bowman, is half-rounded; it is something like an inch and a half wide and an inch and a quarter thick at the center; it has considerable force and requires considerable strength to draw; many men, incident...
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6 205 There were no rencers there and, doubtless because of that, none of Port Kar, though I did see many torches, going to the place on the island where we had shortly before stood; then the torches there divided, half going to the left, half coming to the right, our direction.
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8 585 She struggled to her feet, half crouching, half mad with fear, and the pain from being bound at the prow.
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18 142 From time to time the bird, tiring, its wings wet, cold, coated with sleet, would drop sickeningly downward, but then again it would beat its way on the level, half driven by the wind, half flying.
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5 72 Around this time a small boy had come to stare at me, a half-eaten rence cake in his hand.
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5 227 Her mouth was half full.
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5 230 Holding half the rence cake in her mouth she unrolled her sleeping mat and then, as she had the night before, she unlaced her tunic and slipped it off over her head.
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6 52 A man fell near us, his neck cut half through by the thrust of a spear.
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6 76 The rence tunic had been half torn from her right shoulder.
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6 164 Before the man who had thrust with the spear had his sword half from its sheath I was on him.
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6 221 My leg was out of the water, but now the water seemed yellow with the flashing bodies of tiny tharlarion, and, beyond them, I heard the hoarse grunting of the great marsh tharlarion, some of which grow to be more than thirty feet in length, weighing more than half a hundred men.
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7 69 At my feet, half covered with the rence reeds with which we had concealed ourselves, lay Telima.
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7 136 Most pleased I was to find the water gourd, which was still half filled.
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8 11 Both are metal piled and fletched with three half-feathers, from the wings of the Vosk gulls.
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8 21 The barges in line before him, too, had slowed, then stopped, their oars half inboard, waiting.
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8 27 The sixth barge began to drift to leeward, a slow half circle, aimless, like a finger drawing in the water.
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8 57 My feet were spread; my heels were aligned with the target; my feet and body stood at right angles to the target line; my head was sharply turned to my left; I drew the sheaf arrow to its pile, until the three half-feathers of the Vosk gull lay at my jawbone; I took breath and then held it, sighting...
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8 177 I gave her half of the food and water that we had left and, in silence, we ate.
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8 231 I knew, further, that she could not, even were the weapon strung, draw it to the half, but further I knew that, at the range she might fire, the arrow, drawn even to the quarter, might penetrate my back.
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8 426 Telima rolled and then, jerked up short, half choked, by the tether, she lay at the foot of the stairs.
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8 493 Any of them, in rags, sheared and shackled, beaten and half-starved, was greater than I.
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8 588 A huge tharlarion, seeing the image on the water, half rose from the marsh, jaws clashing, and then dropped back into the water.
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9 26 We had seen that the canal was guarded by heavy metal gates, of strong bars, half submerged in the water.
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9 87 "You did well," said a man next to me, half-shaven.
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9 94 The canals which open into the delta or the Tamber were, in the last few years, fitted with heavy, half-submerged gates of bars.
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9 517 Some two or three still sat groggily at the tables, staring at goblets half-filled with paga.
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10 33 The Gorean foot is, in my estimation, just slightly longer than the Earth foot; based on the supposition that each of its ten Horts is roughly one and one-quarter inches long, I would give the Gorean foot a length of roughly twelve and one-half inches, Earth measure.
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10 187 Now, crying to come before the council, was the mad, half-blind shipwright Tersites, a scroll of drawings in his hand, and calculations.
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10 233 I instructed Luma to discharge any such with a gift of gold, of half a stone's weight.
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11 156 I expected the power of the four Ubars, Chung, Eteocles, Nigel and Sullius Maximus, might have been, at a stroke, diminished by a half.
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12 47 I got the knife from between my teeth and, with it, sometimes half out of the water, sometimes beneath it, thrashing and twisting, thrust the blade a dozen times into its hide.
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12 53 In moments, trembling, half supported by two men-at-arms, I was conducted back to the investing wall.
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13 247 He stood unsteadily, half crouching over, looking at me with disbelief, his hand thrust into his left armpit.
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13 316 Both were lateen rigged, the yard of the foresail being about half the length of the yard of the mainsail.
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13 345 I heard, about a half an Ahn later, Tenrik call up to the lookout.
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13 362 "Dead ahead!" "Helm half to starboard!" cried Tenrik.
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13 430 Others were snapped off or half broken, the inboard portions of their shafts, with their looms, snapping in a stemward arc, knocking slaves from the benches, cracking against the interior of the hull planking.
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13 443 There, dented, its contents half spilled, itself floating in an inch or two of sea water, not yet drained down to the cargo hold, I found my pan of bread, onions and peas.
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14 32 Although the Dorna's true beam is sixteen feet Gorean, her deck width is twenty-one feet Gorean, due to the long rectangular rowing frame, which carries the thole ports; the rowing frame is slightly higher than the deck area and extends beyond it, two and one half feet Gorean on each side; it is sup...
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14 39 The Dorna used oars of varying lengths; her oars, like those of many tarn ships, varied by about one and one-half foot Gorean, oar to oar; the most inboard oar being the longest; the outboard oar being the shortest.
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14 91 Then, rather bravely, the music drifting over the water, our oars at only half of maximum beat, we moved across the gleaming waters toward the large fleet.
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14 119 "Oar-master, half beat".
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14 131 The Dorna had now come about and, at half beat, was moving southeast, directly away from the pursuing ships.
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14 136 We were now moving, of course, at only half beat.
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14 175 She was now moving away, perhaps at half beat.
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14 194 "Half of maximum beat," I told the oar-master.
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14 205 As I had expected, he had now begun to draw substantially ahead, since I had reduced to half of maximum beat.
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14 208 I had held my beat to half of maximum.
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14 230 But after about an Ahn and a half, when I again raised the glass, I saw that she was not much farther away than she had been when last I had looked.
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14 274 "Half beat," said I to the oar-master.
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15 108 Even now, in my feast of celebration, hours after the meeting of the council, I still wore about my neck the broad scarlet ribbon with its pendant medallion of gold, bearing the design of a lateen-rigged tarn ship, the initials in cursive Gorean script of Council of Captains of Port Kar in a half cu...
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15 115 My guards had even turned away the mad, half-blind shipwright, Tersites, with his fantastic recommendations for the improvement of tarn ships, as though ships so beautiful, so swift, and vicious, might be improved.
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15 346 I fingered the golden medallion with the lateen-rigged tarn ship, and the initials of the Council of Captains of Port Kar in its half-curve beneath it.
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17 41 Each of my fifty sets of attacking tarn ships would be followed, by some half of an Ahn, by another pair of my tarn ships, which, hopefully, would be able to take a number of these come-about ships of Cos and Tyros from the rear.
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17 49 The first two waves of my attack consisted, thus, of fifty task forces of sixteen tarn ships apiece and, following each of the task forces, at an interval of half an Ahn, another pair of tarn 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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17 105 "Call me in half an Ahn".
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17 175 Astern of the Dorna, not hurrying, at half beat, came fifty tarn ships, their masts high, storm sails bound to their long, sloping yards.
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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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17 206 The sea was now growing high, and the darkness in the north was now half the sky, looming like a beast with wild fur rooting and sniffing for its prey.
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17 425 The heavy, protective wales, the parallel beams protecting her hull, were fresh scarred and half cut away.
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Book 7. (52 results) Captive of Gor

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7 178 I was famished and, burning my fingers, I clutched at it, and, half-choking, thrust it half into my mouth, tearing at it with my teeth and hands, the juices running at the sides of my mouth.
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1 99 Whether my fortune on a given day was something over a half million dollars or something over three quarters of a million dollars did not much interest me.
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1 160 The mark itself was about an inch and a half high.
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3 154 Almost choking, from the loop on my throat, I slid half out of the bed and felt for the knife with my feet.
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3 173 It was already a half past midnight! My heart was pounding.
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4 44 I clutched the handbag in my right hand, half-opened.
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5 36 Some hundred yards or so from me I saw a mass of torn metal, a ruptured structure of black steel, half buried in the grass.
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5 67 I then approached the ship, half buried in the grass.
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5 78 Sometimes these small passages were half closed with bent pipes and tangles of wire erupted from the sides, but I managed to crawl where I wished to.
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5 183 The silverish disk had now landed near the rent, half-buried black ship.
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7 180 It was only roast bosk, and half raw, but I devoured it.
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7 181 No delicate, sauced portion of filet mignon which I had savored in any Parisian restaurant compared to that hot, steaming chunk of bosk, half raw, running with juices, that I had seized from the grass of a Gorean field, beside the wagon of a slaver.
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8 735 The monster was now sitting quietly beside the mountebank, licking its jaws, half-asleep, its eyes empty and vacant, blinking.
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8 933 "Mine!" cried Lana, gorging the other half of the meat.
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8 962 I bit through the charred exterior of the meat, into the red, hot, half-raw, juicy interior.
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8 967 I closed my eyes, running my tongue about the inside of my mouth, and over my teeth and lips, savoring the juice and taste of the externally charred, hot, half-raw meat.
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8 1087 The man who had held me leaped half to his feet, crying out, when something large and heavy struck him on the side of the head.
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8 1095 Then, by the choke leash, half strangling, I was dragged to my feet.
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8 1194 The choke leash slid shut on my throat and, half strangling, stumbling, stripped and gagged, my hands bound behind my back, I was dragged after them, toward the darkness of the forest.
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9 31 When they had drunk and eaten, they sat about in a half circle, looking at me.
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9 108 The other girls stood ready, some half crouching.
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9 292 In its back, there were two heavy metal rings, one about two feet from the ground, the other about three and a half feet from the ground.
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9 301 She then threaded the leash through the ring, about three and a half feet high, behind the post, brought the leash about and looped it, from the left to the right, about my neck and then rethreaded it through the ring, pulling it tight.
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10 640 Then another leg came through the window, and almost half of the animal's body thrust into the room.
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10 667 "Do not feed! Do not feed!" The beast raised its head, half buried in the sleen's body, meat hanging from its jaws.
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11 74 A guard, holding her by the arm, half carried her to the wall, where he left her.
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11 239 He threw me, half stumbling, into the wall, among the other girls.
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11 403 "Do you think to provoke me while pretending not to provoke me?" "Master?" I asked, as though what he had said could be only mysterious to me, an ignorant barbarian, a half-trained slave girl.
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11 425 He had been teasing me! He had dared to tease Elinor Brinton! To be sure, he might do so with impunity; she was now only a half-naked slave.
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11 550 I cleaned one half of the cage, taking out the used straw and scrubbing the plating.
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11 554 At last my half of the cage was clean and I spread fresh straw there.
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11 555 Then I was rebound and Lana was unbound, and set to her work, cleaning the other half of the cage.
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11 560 Ute then took us to the bars at the front of the cage and, unknotting the thong, passed it around two of the bars and reknotted it, over one of the crossbars, about two and a half feet above the floor plating.
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12 32 To be sure, even so, given the common nature of the fabric, which is usually rep-cloth, it is seldom difficult to conjecture with some accuracy the lineaments of its lovely, half-naked occupant, or prisoner.
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12 107 He wore over his head, half covering his face, a hood formed of the skin of the head of a forest panther.
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12 562 We were perhaps a pasang and a half from the distant wagons.
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12 567 My bucket was no more than half full.
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13 465 She was still stunned, half conscious.
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13 487 I was stirring in my bed of soft grasses, hidden in one such thicket, half asleep.
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13 519 I then became apprehensive and, half running, turned back the other direction.
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13 860 With incredible strength, his sword dangling from its wrist strap, commonly used by tarnsmen in flight, I saw him withdraw the spear from the shield, but at the same time the other's tarn struck ours, and his blade, flashing downwards, struck the heavy shaft of the spear, splintering it, half severi...
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13 867 Then its talons locked over the shield and it smote its wings, ripping the shield straps, half tearing my captor from the saddle, and the tarn was away, the shield then dropping like a penny, turning, toward the field below.
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14 107 Ena went to a chest, opened it, and drew forth a folded piece of striped rep-cloth, a rectangle some two and a half by four feet.
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14 192 One, near the top, was about seven inches in width and about a half inch in height; the other, its top formed by a rectangular opening in the bottom of the door, its bottom formed by the iron floor of the box, was about a foot wide and two inches in height.
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14 425 The roving tarnsman, with his leather loops at the side of his saddle, thinking of trying "chain luck," the scrutinizing slaver, with his capture loops and notebooks, engaged in the commerce of women, may surely better assess a half-naked quarry.
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14 634 She had, in her hand, an eighteen-inch strip of purple binding fiber, about half an inch in width, flat, set with jewels.
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15 597 "We must be back soon! Our buckets are not half filled!" I was irritated with Techne.
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15 687 It terminated in a small letter, about a half of an inch high.
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15 720 It was much larger, the letter at its termination some one and a half inches high.
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15 807 And then, as she scarcely understood, hanging half conscious in the fires of her pain, she heard him say, "Cut her down".
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15 813 I could see a tiny slit of the outside through the aperture in the iron door, about a half an inch in height and seven inches in width.
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18 6 Even so, in the arsenal, Tersites, the half-blind, mad shipwright, builds a strange ship, to sail beyond the world's end.
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Book 8. (38 results) Hunters of Gor

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1 185 The two guards, helmeted, threw him to his feet, and half dragging him, half carrying him, their hands on his arms, brought him before us.
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1 28 The man's head had, some weeks ago, been shaven, a two-and-one-half-inch stripe, running from the forehead to the back of his neck.
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2 520 "Half beat," said I to Thurnock.
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2 522 "Half beat! Stroke!" As one, the oars dipped cleanly into the water, and drew against gleaming Thassa, and the Tesephone, lightly, began to turn in the water, her prow seeking the south, and Lydius.
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2 580 Both girls must be half starved.
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2 602 They were still half starving, of course.
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3 336 Its tip was a figure some inch and a half high, the first letter in cursive script, in the Gorean alphabet, of the expression Kajira.
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4 191 "Of course!" she said, in the half darkness, squirming in the bracelets and silk.
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5 209 About a half inch is left between each pair of boards, that men, glancing in, might be moved to interest, but would be able to fully satisfy their curiosity only by actually stepping within.
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6 21 Following in the wake of the Tesephone, to pick up litter or garbage thrown overboard, were two long-bodied river sharks, their bodies sinuous in the half-clear water, about a foot below the surface.
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6 59 The chain dangled to the floor, where it lay, half coiled, near the ring.
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6 357 In half an Ahn, it would be dusk.
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6 846 Rim, from his own pouch, handed up to her a tiny steel half crescent, ground from the blade of a shaving knife.
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6 986 I saw the chains lying dark, half covered in the sand, not far from her feet.
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6 990 She looked down to the chains, half covered with sand.
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6 998 She had, however, standing there, half concealed in the darkness, begun to sense its meaning.
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6 1062 She was terrified now, and was half crouched down, in front of me.
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6 1063 I bent to the sand and picked up the slave chains which, half covered with sand, lay there.
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8 241 Half-carrying Arn I regained the darkness of the hut.
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9 380 I fought, but two girls held my head, and Mira, laughing, with a small bowl of lather and a shaving knife, shaved the two-and-one-half-inch degradation stripe on my head, from the forehead to the back of my neck.
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11 87 On her throat, half concealed by her long blond hair, was a collar of steel, the steel of Ar.
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11 421 It was half torn from her.
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12 43 Each of us, including the mighty Bosk, wore the two-and-one-half inch swath on our heads, running from our foreheads to the back of our necks, making it clear to all who it was who had taken us in the forests.
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13 40 My feet were spread; my heels were aligned with the target; my feet and body were at right angles to the target line; my head was turned sharply to the left; the first sheaf arrow was drawn to its pile; the three half feathers of the vosk gull were at my jawbone.
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13 339 I removed the knife from her throat, and she half collapsed in the coffle.
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15 696 In half an Ahn she was wild, moaning, weeping, submissive in my arms.
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15 697 And when in another half of an Ahn she yielded it was with the helpless, uncontrollable yielding of the utterly vanquished Gorean slave girl.
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15 747 In the night it had taken a full Ahn to an Ahn and a half to bring her to the point of yielding.
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15 890 When the slaves pass you, give each half a bowl of meal".
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16 226 Numbly, half in shock, Mira nodded her head.
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16 300 Mira had, under Vinca's strict questioning, told us that it would render a man unconscious for several Ahn, usually a half a day.
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17 75 She was leading, by the arm, a stumbling, half-conscious panther girl.
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18 421 I tore it in two and threw half to each of the girls.
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18 607 Within half of an Ahn I had left her again, lowering myself over the side.
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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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20 120 They were half crazed with fear.
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20 160 "Stop, in the name of Chenbar!" The men of Tyros, wild-eyed, half crazed with fear, fell back.
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21 194 In time, in a half of an Ahn, his men had returned.
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Book 9. (48 results) Marauders of Gor

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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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18 291 The herd thrust through the square and, half milling, half still running, emerged from its other side, making for the slopes of the valley.
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1 85 That young man with fiery hair, laughing, innocent, seemed far from me now, this huddled mass, half paralyzed, bitter, like a maimed larl, sitting alone in a captain's chair, in a great darkened hall.
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1 149 But when I, half paralyzed and crippled, had left the shore of Thassa I had left behind me a beacon, a mighty beacon formed from the logs of the stockade of Sarus, and it had blazed behind me, visible for more than fifty pasangs at sea.
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1 485 Though I was half motionless, though I could not close the fingers of my left hand, I resolved that I must burn from myself the vestiges of weakness.
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1 609 It would have been half eaten, torn apart.
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1 636 "The beast," he said, "had been seen earlier, twice, on abandoned, half-rotted rence islands, lurking".
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3 39 One man lay half cut through.
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3 327 Then she cried out in misery, half choked by the coffle loop on her throat, as she found herself hurried, fettered and burdened with the others, through the workers of Kassau.
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4 96 Their ankles were no longer bound; their wrists, now, those of most of them, were fettered before their bodies; about their necks, now, however, they wore not simple binding fiber; it had been replaced the first evening out of Kassau; they wore now, knotted about their throats, a coffle rope of the ...
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5 6 Swiftly his men took their places; I heard the oars slide half outboard.
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5 87 "A half pasang away!" called the lookout.
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6 211 The brand used by the Forkbeard, found rather frequently in the north, consisted of a half circle, with, at its right tip, adjoining it, a steep, diagonal line.
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6 212 The half circle is about an inch and a quarter in width, and the diagonal line about an inch and a quarter in height.
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6 217 He opened the hinged collar of black iron, about a half inch in height.
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7 154 The snake is a single-bladed whip, weighted, of braided leather, eight feet long and about a half an inch to an inch thick.
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7 276 It lifted its face from the half-eaten body of a man.
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7 296 It slumped forward, over the couch half falling across the body of a hysterical bondmaid.
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8 45 After the restoration of Marlenus of Ar, in 10,119 Contasta Ar, from the founding of Ar, he had at his victory feast decreed a two-hort, about two and one half inches, shortening of the already briefly skirted garment of the female state slave.
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9 61 "I am the daughter of Thorgard of Scagnar!" she cried, spitting water, half blinded.
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9 73 She had not been on the oar for half an Ahn when she had begun to beg her release; a few Ehn later, she had begun to beg to heel the Forkbeard.
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9 357 After half of an Ahn I saw her, delicately, eyes frightened, lift her head and put her lips to his shoulder; softly, timidly, she kissed him; and then looked into his eyes.
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9 455 We lay together, silently, I holding her, she against me, chained, for something like half of an Ahn.
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10 415 "Drop your kirtles, and hitch them up!" Laughing, once more proud of their bodies, the girls of the Forkbeard insolently slung their kirtles low on their hips, and hitched them high over their calves, even half way up their delightful thighs.
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10 543 "I had her for a broken coin," he said, "half a silver tarn disk of Tharna.
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11 37 Suppose that, at some zoo, the tiger, in its cage, should look at you, and, in its rumbles, its snarls, its growls, its half roars, you should be able, to your horror, to detect crude approximations of the phonemes of your native tongue, and you should hear it speaking to you, looking at you, utteri...
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11 216 It was possible, too, of course, that the Kurii had become gentle beasts, fond of farming, renouncing their warlike ways, and turning humbly to the soil, and the labors of the earth, setting perhaps therein an excellent example for the still half-savage human animals of Gor, so predatory, so savage,...
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11 219 Perhaps, together with them, tilling the soil, we could construct a more placid world, a world in which discipline and courage, and curiosity and adventure, and doing what pleases one, would become no more than the neglected, scorned, half-forgotten anachronisms of remote barbarians.
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14 1 The Forkbeard and I Depart From the Hall of Svein Blue Tooth I saw half of the body of a man spinning crazily past.
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14 152 A man not more than a yard from me was cut half in two, from the head to the belt, in one stroke.
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14 164 It passed half through the body of a Kur.
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14 185 His garments were half torn from him but, still, about his neck, on its chain, was the tooth of the Hunjer whale, dyed blue, by which men in Torvaldsland knew him.
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14 226 Then again the Forkbeard's voice, through the smoke, the sparks, suddenly half choking, drifted across the hall to me.
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15 101 The tent had been half burned, and poles were down.
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15 112 Its head was half cut from its body.
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15 138 They were perhaps a pasang and a half away.
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15 184 It is something over four and a half pasangs in height, or something over seventeen thousand Earth feet.
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15 277 After perhaps half an Ahn, I looked back.
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15 368 I struck snow, rolling, half-blinded.
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15 417 One of them thrust his head within and half a shoulder.
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17 32 I remembered finding the carcass of the animal beneath the fallen, half-burned canvas of the Forkbeard's tent.
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17 247 He half crouched, as though waiting, tense, while the thing, the frenzy, the madness, began to burn within him.
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18 55 Its head half to one side it rose to its feet and ran for a dozen yards before it slipped, falling sideways, rolling into the fur and burning leather of one of their lodges.
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18 107 His shirt was half torn away.
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18 180 Bondmaids, half crushed, some with broken bones, screamed.
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18 368 Then the beast, snarling, half-charged her, stopping short, hissing, eyes blazing.
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18 572 Once the sheer weight of the attacker's blows had turned and driven, interposed, his opponent's sword half through the man's own neck.
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22 162 One of the seamen took her by the back of the neck and thrust her, running, stumbling, half up the gangplank.
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Book 10. (49 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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1 656 I jerked her to her feet and, half turning her, ripping her silk from her, hurled her to the map floor, where she half lay, half crouched, one leg beneath her, looking at me, stripped save for her collar, the brand, the armlets, bells, the anklets, with fury.
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3 211 The heads of four of the men had been torn from them; the heads of two others had been half bitten from them; one man's throat looked as though it had been struck twice with parallel hatchets; I was familiar with the spacing of the wounds; two men had lost arms, one a leg; one of the men without an ...
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14 82 She half knelt, half sat, her head down, the palms of her hands on the floor of the cell.
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1 212 The girl had heard the remark drowsily, half stupefied, shortly after her arrival on Gor.
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1 213 She, stripped, half drugged, the identification anklet of the Kurii locked on her left ankle, had lain on her stomach, with other girls, in the fresh grass of Gor.
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1 551 When she does yield to the master, her guts half torn out with the love of him, then, of course, she is a more satisfactory slave.
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1 553 They are permitted to go through life with their eyes half closed, so to speak.
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1 864 His eyes were half closed.
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2 431 I expected that less than half of them would reach the pits.
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2 555 In her hand she carried a long supple kaiila quirt of leather, about a half inch in width and a yard long.
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3 4 The kaiila, both of them, with the swiftness, the agility of cats, spun, half crouching, squealing in frustration, and again lunged toward one another.
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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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4 7 The superstructure of the frame rose about four feet above the frame at its highest point, enclosing, as in an open-fronted, flat-bottomed, half globe, its occupant.
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4 435 Their burnooses whipped behind them as they mounted the crest of the hill and, the animals half sliding, descended the other side, approaching us.
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4 553 She is not permitted merely to excite, and flee away; when, at the conclusion of the swirling music, she flings herself to the floor at the mercy of free men, her dance is but half finished; she has yet to pay the price of her beauty.
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5 372 Their eyes were squinting, half shut, in the dust and sun.
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9 63 The girl then, again, now half crouching, looked about at the men, from face to face.
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11 16 For two days the sand had hurtled about us, and we had waited, in the manner of the Tahari, patiently in the blasting half darkness of the sand.
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11 107 It might be of interest to note that children of the nomads are suckled for some eighteen months, which is nearly twice the normal length of time for Earth infants, and half again the normal time for Gorean infants.
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11 392 Alyena, slowly, half stumbling, followed him.
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11 471 Two arrows struck the wood, splintering needles of wood into my cheek; then the shutters were pulled closed, fastened; another arrow burst half through one, hanging on our side.
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14 418 * * * * We trudged, climbing, chained, and hooded, half dragged, tortuously, up the long slope.
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14 617 I looked about, through half-shut eyes.
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14 656 He staggered toward the compounds, running, half falling, down the long slope.
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16 158 Because of the saline content of the water the salt shark, when not hunting, often swims half emerged from the fluid.
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17 235 It almost encircled the leg and ranged from a half of an inch to two inches in width.
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17 266 Then the beast swept upward and I, clinging to the fin, erupted with it, eyes and nostrils stung with salt, half blinded, more than ten feet into the air.
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19 183 The beast did not move but remained, its eyes, half-shut, rimmed with sand, fixed upon me, its great arm pointing toward the dune country.
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20 19 Beside the trench, on its back, half covered with sand, lay the Kur.
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20 79 It fell to all fours; then it rose to a half-crouched, shambling position, knuckles to the dirt, as a Kur most naturally moves.
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20 89 Then, slowly, half-crouched, shambling, knuckles to the dirt, it approached us.
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20 101 Several cuts, as though from scimitars, half-healed, marked its body.
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21 46 There was a half-eaten tabuk by the water hole.
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21 179 The Kur, near me, half covered with sand, stirred by the wind, slept.
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21 229 It was water from the last large water hole we had visited, where the half-eaten tabuk had been found, held for days in the beast's storage stomach.
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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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21 389 Too, the force that had penetrated its body had, apparently, searing, half-sealed the wounds it inflicted.
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22 1 I Obtain Kaiila I crouched between thrust chambers, some seventy feet from the ground, on the height of the tall ship, half buried in the Tahari sand.
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24 910 I took a long set of strands of her dark hair, some inch and a half in thickness.
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25 360 Most girls, verbally, will object to slavery, but this half-hearted, pouting, ineffectual rhetoric is belied by the joy of their behavior.
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25 613 The lineaments of her lovely body were much obscured in the shadows, but there was more than a hint, even so, even in the half darkness, of the alluring geography of her beauty, that now of a marked girl, one who now belonged to men.
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25 618 She was quite lovely, in the half darkness.
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25 706 He entered the cell and, putting down his lamp, kicked and cuffed the girl, until she rolled in the straw, tangled in the chain, covering her head, her body half covered with straw, at the wall.
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26 369 The sand had now slipped half through the glass.
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26 651 She is not a mere Gorean girl, a simple, vital, half-animal thing.
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26 796 She fell to the tiles before me, a half-hysterical, trembling, beaten slave, reaching for my ankles, pressing her lips, hot and wet, to my boots, her tears hot on the leather.
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26 1063 She regarded me, in the half-darkness of the dungeon cell, reproachfully.
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26 1126 I sensed her blush, even in the half-darkness, on her chain.
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26 1220 When this had occurred I had been at the steel tower in the Tahari, the half-buried ship which had housed the destructive device.
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Book 11. (24 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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3 529 It was more slender, more vertical, more like a stem with floral, cursive loops, about an inch and a half in height, and a half inch in width; it was, I would later learn, the initial letter in cursive script of the Gorean expression 'Kajira'; my own brand was the "dina"; the dina is a small, lovely...
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3 793 I half knelt, half crouched, on the furs within.
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11 52 I half sat, half lay on the stone floor, my legs to the side, the palms of my hands on the stones, my head down.
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11 103 Her own brand was the customary Kajira brand, the initial letter in cursive Gorean script, about an inch and a half high, and a half inch wide, of the expression "Kajira," the most common Gorean expression for a female slave.
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12 384 "Wait," said the first, his word muffled against the side of my throat, where his mouth and teeth, below my ear, half kissed, half held me.
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14 488 Each took one of my arms, and between them, I half thrust, half dragged, they forced me from the paga tavern.
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15 36 I shook, half choking, half sobbing.
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26 624 The brand with which she had been marked was the common slave brand for the Gorean female; incised deeply in her thigh, about an inch and a half in height and a half inch in width, was the initial letter, in cursive script, lovely, of the expression 'Kajira,' the most common expression in Gorean for...
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1 21 I opened my eyes, part way, keeping them half shut against the light.
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2 386 The loop was circular, and about two and one half inches in width.
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2 413 It had a long, heavy shaft, some two inches in width, some seven feet in length; the head of the weapon, including its socket and penetrating rivets, was some twenty inches in length; the killing edges of the blade began about two inches from the bottom of the socket, which reinforced the blade, tap...
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2 479 His hands were clutched in the scarlet of his wet tunic, bunching it, at the half-severed belt.
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2 627 My head came only to his chest; the width of my body seemed but half the width of that mighty, scarlet-clad chest.
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2 934 I told myself, of course, that this was rational, that he might wake and discover me out of position, or that, perhaps, at times, he was not truly asleep, but was, through half-closed eyes, watching me, to see if I, in the slightest, moved.
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3 219 It was a small flower, stylized; it was circular, about an inch and a half in diameter; it was not unlike a small rose; it was incredibly lovely and delicate.
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3 520 I now realized that I had seen the mark before, in torchlight and half darkness, yesterday evening, when she had been stripped, hooded and belled, and set as lovely quarry to run for the amusement of the men.
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4 526 Another man, not a contestant, caught me and prevented me from plunging into the thick wall of thorn brush, in which I might have been half torn to pieces.
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4 705 It lay there, solid, half buried in the dirt.
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4 851 I was half choked in the hood.
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4 897 I was half immersed in the brush.
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5 35 She, now only a delicious, half-naked slave girl, had once been free.
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5 188 I might have to be half naked in a bond girl's Ta-Teera but she, I expected, despite the wealth of her robes and jewels, was in her way as slave as I.
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5 214 I watched her in the half darkness.
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5 222 She regarded him in the half darkness.
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Book 12. (1 results) Beasts of Gor

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35 858 It lay twisted, half wrenched from its hinges, half melted.
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Book 13. (9 results) Explorers of Gor

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1 11 The brand was the common Kajira mark of Gor, the first letter, about an inch and a half in height and a half inch in width, in cursive script, of the expression 'Kajira', which is the most common expression in Gorean for a female slave.
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1 328 I saw her gasping, and, half fighting, half kissing at them, squirming in their arms.
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4 417 In her hand there was a half of a yellow Gorean pear, the remains of a half moon of verr cheese imbedded in it.
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18 67 His properties were to be confiscated and divided, half to the widow and half, predictably, to the state.
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18 93 His properties were to be confiscated and distributed, half to be given to members of his village and half to the state.
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24 4 A canoe, with bleeding askaris, half drifted, half paddled, passed us, a hundred yards away, on our right.
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24 265 Another uttered an explosive cry, half grunt, half bellow, which, in rage and frustration, sounded across the marsh.
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31 74 Through half-closed eyes, in the half-darkness, as moonlight filtered through the thatched roof and sides of the hut, I watched her struggle to her knees.
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51 174 I took her by the hair and pulled her, she half crawling, then half crouching and walking, to where lay the dark-haired girl and Alice.
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Book 14. (11 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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1 538 "I must pay half the check and leave half the tip," she said.
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2 219 There were two small, round holes, each about a half of an inch in width, in the upper half of the side of the crate which had served as its door.
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4 164 As I lifted my head, miserable, cringing, my back and legs lacerated and bloody, I saw, truly noticing it for the first time, a deep mark, a lovely mark, about an inch and a half high and a half of an inch wide, incised in Lola's left thigh.
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7 861 She half sat, half lay, on the lower portion of the blanket.
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10 228 She moved the whip and its coils gently upon my body, half caressing it, half instructing it in its bondage.
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13 433 The girl, half sitting, half kneeling, her neck in the leash collar, her hands still bound before her, put her head against the wall.
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13 707 I was half kneeling, half lying, on the stones.
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20 109 I was half dragged, half pushed, by a crowd, Kenneth and Barus close to me, Taphris behind, through the barred gate leading to the sand pit.
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21 172 Small cities and towns, usually ruggedly independent, even belligerently so, along the river, such as Ven and Turmus, found themselves, to their discomfort, half coerced by armed might, half enticed with alliances and treaties, embroiled in the struggles of major powers.
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21 413 It squirmed and half pulled itself from the leathery casing which had contained it, drawing it up, half out of the sand.
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22 598 She looked up at me from the furs where she half lay, half knelt.
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Book 15. (3 results) Rogue of Gor

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23 45 Rather, sitting, rolling, and changing position, on her side, her back, her belly, half kneeling, half sitting, kneeling, crawling, reaching out, bending backwards, lying down, twisting with passion, gesturing to her body, presenting it to masters for their inspection and interest, whimpering, moani...
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24 541 Then I thrust her up, half sitting, half lying, against the edge of the tub.
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24 553 She was half lying, half kneeling, against the side of the tub.
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Book 16. (7 results) Guardsman of Gor

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3 18 Then the galley, half on the chain and half off, moved eccentrically, teetering, like a ship caught on a bar, stranded and buffeted, assailed by conflicting currents.
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5 205 Half turned toward the stem of the vessel and half to the stern.
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9 106 She had been rammed and wounded, and had been abandoned, left aground on the sand bar, near the chain, half in the water, half on the bar.
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20 904 Lola, half kneeling, half lying, in the arms of Calliodorus, his hand in her hair, could not take her eyes from the dancer.
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20 1200 I brought it here that I might give one half to you, Aemilianus, and one half to you, Calliodorus.
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20 1202 Tasdron then gave half of the topaz to Aemilianus and the other half to Calliodorus.
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21 275 She was half kneeling, half crouching, near the far corner of the large couch.
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Book 17. (3 results) Savages of Gor

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1 751 I had, even from afar, been half blinded by the light, and, moments later, half staggered by the sound, the blast and heat.
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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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17 501 "What about one-half and one-half?" I asked.
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Book 18. (3 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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2 283 She was half stumbling, half being dragged along, weeping, on a short neck tether, not more than five feet long.
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3 153 The three bands, each about four or five inches in width, and separated also by such distances, were painted in such a way that the bottom ring, or band, was about seven and a half to eight and a half feet from the base of the pole.
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7 211 She quickly half sat, half knelt, on the robes, her bound hands on the robes.
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Book 19. (6 results) Kajira of Gor

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3 256 Each was about two and a half feet long, and one and a half inches wide.
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3 331 It was a delicate mark, almost floral, about an inch and a half high and a half inch, or so, wide.
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3 655 I half lay, half crouched on the bed.
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4 649 I rose on the couch to a position half sitting, half kneeling.
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4 650 I looked at the girl in the mirror, half sitting, half kneeling, as I was.
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30 498 As she still lay half across the table, shuddering, half in shock, a leather collar, with a ring and attached leash, was buckled about her throat, over the snugly fitting steel collar.
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Book 20. (5 results) Players of Gor

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2 6 I slid my hands possessively up her body and then, between my thumbs and fingers, held her under the arms, half lifting her, half pressing her to me.
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2 129 The checking of the weapons is accomplished as follows: One surrenders the weapons and the guard, in turn, tears a ticket in two, placing one half with the weapons and giving you the other half.
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6 555 "Consider how you are standing," said Boots, "half turned away from me, half crouched down, and holding your legs as you are, and with your hands and arms placed as they are, such things seem scarcely fair to me.
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13 204 I stayed at the window for a time, until, half led, half dragged, prodded, the creature below was conducted from the pit.
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14 151 Then it was only necessary, later, to pick up our trail outside the city, at the termination of one of the conduits, where it would empty into one of the long, half-dry drainage ditches about a half pasang outside the walls.
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Book 21. (3 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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11 341 She, her palms on the dirt, half knelt, half lay, by the wheel.
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24 579 But then she looked up, half in defiance, half in tears.
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28 3 She lifted herself to a half sitting, half kneeling position.
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Book 22. (2 results) Dancer of Gor

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7 11 We had thrust up the canvas and silk, an inch or two, at the top edge of the wagon bed, and, turned and kneeling, some half sitting, half lying, eager, curious, our ankle chains twisted, were peeping out.
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11 579 I winced as Mirus snapped one of the ostraka in two, giving half to the purchaser and throwing the other half into Aynur's bowl.
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Book 23. (12 results) Renegades of Gor

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5 716 "How degraded she is!" The fellow had resumed his place now behind the table, sitting there, cross-legged, but he had permitted the slave to half lie, half sit, by him, holding to him, her arms about his waist, her head and hair at his side.
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8 615 It is little wonder that peoples knowing not the horse fled in terror when they first encountered riders, taking the rider and his mount for one thing, something half animal, half human, an awesome, unbelievably swift, gigantic, armed chimera, something that could not be outrun, that seemed to fly u...
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8 616 To such initial glimpses, fraught with fear, might harken back the stories of the centaur, half man, half horse.
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8 629 There is even the legend of the tarntauros, or creature half man, and half tarn, which in Gorean myth, plays a similar, one might even say, equivalent, role to that of the centaur in the myths of Earth.
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10 400 I swung wildly, kicking away from the wall, and was then, for a moment, half climbing, half being drawn upward.
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14 195 She looked up at me, half kneeling, half lying in my arms, in the darkness of the cell.
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15 21 Rather, angrily, summoning up his courage, he went quickly to the Lady Claudia, seized her by the scrub of her hair and drew her, she half crawling, half being dragged, to the center of the cell, and knelt her there, in the position he had specified.
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15 613 I then, abruptly, seized Lady Publia by the scrub of her dark hair and pulled her, she crying out, half crawling, half being dragged, over to where Lady Claudia waited.
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17 41 Here charging foes leaping from the wall found no footing but only an opening beneath them, half pit, half stairs.
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17 646 I then sheathed my sword and half slid, half ran, down the slope of the debris and reached the stone flooring of the covered way.
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23 196 She then half sat, half knelt, the chain depending from her collar, her head down.
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24 500 But in any case, whether because of her own pride, in itself, or her concern that I who had known her as a free woman was about, or because of the strangers in the crowd, or the other slave girls, or whatever, how woefully out of place was that absurd utterance in her new reality! But then I saw in ...
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Book 24. (2 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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1 767 Then she put herself to the dirt before him in what, had she been a dancer, and on a different surface, might have been termed "floor movements," such things as turnings and twistings, rollings and crawlings, sometimes on her hands and knees, sometimes on her stomach; sometimes, too, she would be kn...
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1 653 Immediately one of the girls, a sensuous, widely hipped, sweetly breasted slave, half walking, half dancing, to the music, swirled amongst the guests and then presented herself particularly before the burly fellow, moving before him, back and forth, facing him, turning about.
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Book 25. (2 results) Magicians of Gor

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27 346 It seems there are usually eight tarsk bits in a copper tarsk, and that these are the result of cutting a circular coin in half, and then the halves in half, and then each of these halves in half.
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22 562 She was then on her right thigh, and the palms of her hands, half sitting, half lying, on the street.
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Book 26. (4 results) Witness of Gor

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7 361 I looked wildly up at him, half in astonishment, half in supplication.
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11 671 I looked up at him, startled, but had scarcely time to react for I was seized by the hair, by the jailer, and, half scrambling, half dragged, was conducted to the side, to a ring.
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13 517 Mostly I could see little but the floor of the passage at my feet, and the shadows, my own before me, and his, a misshapen, gliding thing, half on the floor, half on the wall, to the right of mine.
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38 142 She was now half lying, half kneeling.
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Book 27. (9 results) Prize of Gor

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30 535 How helpless was the slave so suddenly in the grip of her need! "So," said he, "in your pretty little belly, there burns slave fire?" She half scrambled up, half lying, half kneeling, looking up at him, her master, her wrists still held, regarding him, wildly.
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4 69 Instantly she turned about, sinuously, and, half lying, half kneeling, extended her left leg, gracefully, toward the older woman, her knee slightly bent, her toes pointed, extending the line of her well-curved calf.
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17 1141 What if a man were watching? She knew the effect that a naked, bound woman can have on a man, even such a woman half hidden, half buried, in a bedding of straw, such as that into which she had been cast.
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18 3 She put down her basket, heavy with layers of meat, and quickly, laughing, slipped the brief brown tunic over her head, it was all she wore save her slave collar, and went immediately to the floor, and, half kneeling, half lying, the palms of her hands on the floor, looked up at Arconious, expectant...
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18 453 Then from his pouch he drew forth a small message capsule, about a half inch in width and two and a half inches in length, with its screw lid and the loop of string by means of which it might be looped about, or tied to, a slave's collar.
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20 457 Her ankles were released, and she quickly moved back, away, literally into the water, drew her legs together, smoothed down her tunic, and half sat, half knelt, the palms of her hands partly supporting her body, frightened, regarding the two young men, little more than boys, who had found her.
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20 836 The hook knife half cut, half tore, through the tunic, soiled, stiff with dirt, and the tunic, parted, fell to the ground.
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25 171 Have you not yet learned the nature of this world, and what you are on this world? What a silly little vulo you are! What a stupid little pudding you are!" Later, rising to a half-reclining, half-sitting position, she brought her legs together, to one side, with smooth, swift, sinuous grace.
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27 1492 Too, if the slave should be standing, her hands chained over her head, nude on a sales shelf, or be nude, half kneeling, half lying, chained on a heavy, wooden platform, or such, it is easy to see how she might feel, finding herself the object of a male's scrutiny.
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Book 28. (7 results) Kur of Gor

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11 174 There was a final, loud snap of the whip, and the dancer threw herself, half kneeling, half sitting, to the sand, and lifted one hand, piteously, to the fellow who had conducted his part of the whip dance.
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18 10 At the shuttle port the blonde had put down her head and rubbed it against the chest of Cabot, half in fear, half in gratitude.
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19 1 The Intervention of the Steel Larl There was suddenly above Cabot a rushing sound and a torrent of fire and Cabot turned his head away, half blinded, and was barely aware of the gigantic, headless trunk above him, the parts of arms, striking about him, and the charred particles of parts of a blacke...
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19 116 There was a flash of metal plating and joints as the device leapt past Cabot, pouncing on the startled, suddenly rearing sleen, its weight striking against it, then half crushing it, and then the machine, rising up slowly, pinned the sleen in place with its left forefoot and the right forefoot of th...
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40 112 The slave was half kneeling, half sitting, beside him, on the grass, which still bore the signs of their tumult, and, later, rest.
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69 38 At another word they half knelt, half lay, the left leg beautifully extended, a common posture for exhibiting brands, but, Cabot noted, they were not yet slave-marked, and at another word they sat down, knees partly flexed, hands on their knees, heads lifted.
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77 25 In moments then, tears running down her cheeks, to her collar, and body, stammering, half-choked, words tumbling out one upon another, piteously, only half-coherently, she addressed her master, and as what she knew she was, a slave.
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Book 29. (3 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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3 739 "Ai!" cried Pertinax, half in consternation, half in delight.
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13 28 A girl, illuminated, but much in shadows, too, shrank back, half kneeling, half lying.
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42 3 I kicked my way to the surface, and was thrown yards to my right by the wash of water, and went under, and came up, again, and gasped for breath, half blinded by the water, still clinging to that massive, furred neck, and the beast's head was then, too, out of the water and I heard an explosive exha...
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Book 30. (10 results) Mariners of Gor

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14 143 I pulled myself half onto a nest of vines, half in the water, half not.
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1 116 The newcomers cast down the bows and, together, reached within their robes to unsheathe blades, the common gladius, but the cloaks, hitherto so convenient in concealing their caste, their intent, their weapons, cost them an unencumbered draw, and the stranger was at them, table flung aside, daggers ...
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2 222 I was half in the water, half out of the water, on the wet, washed, sloping surface.
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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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14 229 "Ho!" I called, half in water, half prostrate amongst the vines, unable to stand.
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14 289 Draw me free!" As the vines were thick there, it was possible, on one's belly, half in the water, half out, to reach him.
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14 295 I lowered myself from the nailed beams, and, half swimming, half crawling, muchly supported by the dense growth, came nigh.
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14 309 He was trying to scramble toward me, half in water, half out, over the raft of vegetation.
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16 344 Tersites, with his small, crooked body, may have been half-blind and more than half-mad, but he had built a ship which, I think, will be remembered in a hundred songs.
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26 172 Then she sank down, half crouching, half kneeling.
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Book 31. (1 results) Conspirators of Gor

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19 23 On your back! Arch your back!" It was hard to know what I might look like to them, half in the firelight, half in the shadows.
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Book 32. (2 results) Smugglers of Gor

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4 257 I had conjectured that she would bring, as a first sale girl, and a barbarian, a half tarsk, half a silver tarsk.
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35 182 Hiza and Emerald, half lifting, half dragging, brought the inert body of Darla to the center of the camp, and put it where Tuza indicated, at her feet.
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Book 33. (3 results) Rebels of Gor

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4 254 "Kill him! Kill him!" Then he spun about, cried out once, and then, in his heavy snow boots, plunged into the darkness, and, a moment later, I heard a cry, half of fear, half of misery, which was cut short.
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24 79 In settled times, a given daimyo, in his turn, will commonly spend half of the year in the palace, subject to the scrutiny of the shogun, and the other half in his own dominion, supervising his lands and retainers.
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50 196 The second beast half rose up, so that he was half standing, and he threw the meat he had been feeding on to the side of the room.
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Book 34. (1 results) Plunder of Gor

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50 13 I took it that that sound was half in articulate Kur, which I was able to at least recognize as Kur, and half, perhaps, in nothing that could even be understood as intelligible discourse, but might better be interpreted as no more than shrieks and cries, a frightful ventilation of frustration and fu...
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Book 35. (4 results) Quarry of Gor

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27 172 I forced myself to the side, freeing myself of sprawled, bloody weight, that of he who had been the first man, his head half broken, half torn away, encumbering me.
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33 427 I was half carried, half dragged, to the side of the canal boat, and men reached down and hauled me aboard.
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37 268 I felt Florian's sandaled foot against my fundament, pressing, and he gave me a vigorous push, and I, so impelled, half stumbled, half fell, into the canal boat which, even then, as Florian boarded, was drawing away from the walkway.
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42 228 Tethered at the side of the canal, near them, was an oared, half-covered, half-canopied, canal boat containing some nine or ten men.
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Book 36. (2 results) Avengers of Gor

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6 143 Instantly, without thought, almost despite herself, as she had been conditioned, she turned to her right, and, half kneeling, half lying, drew up her tunic, exposing her left thigh to the hip.
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28 23 The small raft began to drift from the hull and when Iantha was held over the side and released, she fell half across the planks, her belly and legs half in the water.
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