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Book 1. (6 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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10 107 It seemed the routine of the journey would never end, and I grew enamored of the long line of wagons, each filled with its various goods, those mysterious metals and gems, rolls of cloth, foodstuffs, wines and paga, weapons and harness, cosmetics and perfumes, medicines and slaves.
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12 131 I frantically looked about for a weapon, and then, hardly believing my eyes, I saw, woven roughly into the nest sticks, the remains of my harness and saddle.
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12 139 I returned to the nest and salvaged what I could of the tarn harness and saddle.
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12 156 I would use them in repairing the saddle and harness.
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12 167 In the hours that remained before the tarn returned to his nest, I used the binding fiber and bowstrings to repair, as well as I could, the harness and saddle.
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12 173 Letting him see the harness fully, I slowly and with measured care fastened it around his neck.
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Book 2. (10 results) Outlaw of Gor

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13 60 He approached us, individually, checking the harness chains.
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14 159 Normally the tarn is guided by a harness.
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14 163 But I lacked both saddle and harness.
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15 4 Now, of all times, without a harness and saddle, such training would have been invaluable.
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15 6 When I had borne Talena home from Ar to Ko-ro-ba, I had tried to teach her the reins of the tarn-harness and help her, at least with me at hand, to learn to master the brute.
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15 8 That was the only association between the voice of man and the arrangements of the strap harness which the tarn had known.
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16 100 Now, I thought, it would be free, escaping at last to some rude habitat where it might, without saddle and harness, without a silver hobble, reign as the Ubar of the Skies that it was.
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25 65 The two guardsmen were fixing a carrying basket to the harness of a large brown-plumaged tarn.
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25 158 If this miserable fate were to be hers, the imperious Dorna the Proud, stripped and sweating, her back exposed to the ox whip, would learn in harness that a peasant is a hard master.
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26 39 Here and there the mount of a tarnsman boasts a golden harness.
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Book 3. (2 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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1 73 I passed among wines and textiles and raw wool, silks, and brocades, copperware and glazed pottery, carpets and tapestries, lumber, furs, hides, salt, arms and arrows, saddles and harness, rings and bracelets and necklaces, belts and sandals, lamps and oils, medicines and meats and grains, animals s...
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7 111 Surely I had enjoyed the scent of flowers and women, of hot, fresh bread, roasted meat, paga and wines, harness leather, the oil with which I protected the blade of my sword from rust, of green fields and storm winds, but seldom had I considered the sense of smell in the way one would consider that ...
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Book 4. (2 results) Nomads of Gor

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8 44 Wagons had to be abandoned on the prairie, as there was no time to train new bosk to the harness, and the herds must needs keep moving.
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15 50 There was much grooming of wagon bosk, checking of harness and wagons, cutting of meat to be dried hanging from the sides of the moving wagons in the sun and wind.
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Book 5. (7 results) Assassin of Gor

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13 286 The racing harness, like the common tarn harness, works with two rings, the throat ring and the main saddle ring, and six straps.
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7 11 On the roof there were eight tarns, beside five of which there were carrying baskets attached to tarn harness.
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7 43 If the guidance attachments are in place, then the tarn is seldom saddled, but wears only basket harness.
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13 285 He moved over the tem-wood beams until he came to two sets of racing saddles and harness, and he threw me one, indicating a brown, alert racing tarn two perches away.
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13 288 I fastened the saddle on the bird and, with a bit of difficulty, the bird sensing my unsure movements, the tarn harness.
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13 294 "It will take time to accustom yourself to the harness".
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13 306 The first time I attempted to use the harness, though I was aware of the danger, I overdrew the strap and the suddenness of the bird as it veered in flight threw me against the two narrow safety straps; the small, broad, rapid-beating wings of the racing tarn permit shifts and turns that would be im...
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Book 7. (13 results) Captive of Gor

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6 101 They seemed immeshed in the harness.
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6 122 The girls near the front of the wagon, immeshed in the harness, seemed apprehensive.
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6 248 I looked to the girls near the front of the wagon, immeshed in the harness.
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6 436 But I was Elinor Brinton, of Park Avenue, of Earth! She had been rich, beautiful, smartly attired, tasteful, sophisticated; she had been well educated and traveled; she had been decisive, confident; she had carried her wealth and her beauty with élan; and she had deserved her position in society;...
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7 96 In the morning a harness was jerry-rigged.
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7 173 To be relieved of the agony of the harness and the strain of drawing the wagon was simply in itself an exquisite delight.
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7 191 She had not forgotten that I had tried to shirk in the harness.
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7 242 I could not tell her I was sorry that I had shirked in the harness, trying to let others work for me.
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7 395 We could hear the bosk bells, on the harness of the bosk, quite clearly now.
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8 59 They were controlled by a bargeman, with a long whipping stick, who was ensconced in a leather basket, part of the harness, slung between the two animals.
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8 220 The bosk, now, bellowing and snuffing, and scuffing at the wood with their hoofs, were being backed toward the harness.
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11 1098 Victorious, they roar with laughter and, hauling on the one-straps of their tarn harness, take flight.
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13 719 I felt the one-strap of the tarn harness jerk tight across my body, and, suddenly, taking my breath away, the great bird screamed and began to beat its wings, and the saddle pressed up against my back, and I, upside down, saw the conical huts of the peasants drop away below us, and the bird, stroke ...
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Book 10. (17 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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1 93 Her fists were clenched at her thighs, beside which they were held in the cuff straps of her harness.
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1 120 "Never!" she hissed, in her harness.
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1 132 "I want to be a man! I always wanted to be a man!" She squirmed in the harness, fighting its restraints.
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1 561 I, if her trainer, would probably put her frequently, at least at first, and later for discipline, in a rope slave harness.
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1 562 After a night in such harness, her wrists braceleted behind her that she might not remove it, I expected Miss Blake-Allen would be suitably docile, and eager to attend to her lessons.
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1 584 Her fists were clenched in the leather, buckled cuffs of her harness, held to her thighs by the thigh straps.
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1 668 "Free her legs of the harness," said Samos to one of the guards.
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1 669 The guard took the straps which had bound her ankles together, and, untying them, slipped them through the metal ring, glinting, sewn into the back of the leather collar of the harness, worn over the simple curved collar of iron which marked her, even should she be clothed, and her brand not visible...
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1 679 The harness is designed to provide a large number of ties.
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1 861 She fought the harness.
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2 500 For the first five nights, following my recommendation, she would wear the rope harness.
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4 128 She had been placed, of course, as I had requested, in a stimulation chamber; the first five nights the rope harness had been used, as I had specified; it had not been used thereafter for discipline, however, as the girl had been cooperative and diligent; furthermore, her attention and efforts were ...
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8 55 The kaiila, then, freed of reins and harness, with the flat of scimitars, and cries, were driven into the desert.
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11 1 Red Rock, Where Salt is Shared; Hassan and I Encounter Tarna "You do not wear bells on your kaiila harness!" said the man, threatening us with his lance.
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11 172 On our kaiila harness, we knew, we wore no bells.
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22 22 I could have rigged a flat travois with shoulder harness, to slip over the sand, loaded with water and food, and could have traveled at night, but I had decided against this.
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26 1274 There was a jangling of kaiila harness, the movement of weapons.
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Book 11. (3 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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3 216 I then conjectured that one of the men, perhaps my captor, since it was he who had had me tend the brazier, wished to mark something which he owned, imprinting in it an identificatory design, perhaps a harness or belt, or the leather of a brass-hooped shield.
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9 581 Slowly, leaning forward, our feet digging into the earth, we had pitted our strength against the restraining band of the harness, and, slowly, the great blade had begun to move through the deep soil, turning it for our master.
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12 867 He drew back on the first strap of his tarn's harness.
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Book 12. (13 results) Beasts of Gor

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26 204 I unhitched the sleen's harness from the sled and, by the harness, still on the animal, dragged it into the shelter.
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33 11 The beast looped the harness about me, and I stood, waiting, in the harness, before the sled.
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6 900 Ram, with his left hand on the tarn harness, managed to get his right hand on her arm.
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12 195 Soon Arlene, too, to her fury, stood in harness.
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24 13 It had been wounded twice, and was found feeding on the carcass of a snow sleen with harness marks in its fur".
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25 88 The animal, with its back hunched, and its wide, furred paws, claws extended, scratching, threw itself against the harness, making taut the trace and linkage, and the sled moved.
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33 3 It held a leather harness looped in its paw.
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33 26 Was that not clear to all? I felt the leather of the sleen harness being drawn more tightly about me.
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34 96 The Kur indicated that I should free myself of the harness.
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37 31 I cuffed the sleen on its snout and, holding it by the harness, jerked it up, disentangling it from the traces.
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37 144 "On!" The sleen, clawing and scratching at the ice, threw its weight against the harness.
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38 21 I checked the harness on the snow sleen on my sled.
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38 34 Who could ask more from life than the opportunity to stand for a time on the slope of the mountain and sing?" The harness on the snow sleen was secure.
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Book 16. (1 results) Guardsman of Gor

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11 203 For example, is a slave harness a garment or a bond; objectively, I suppose, it is both.
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Book 18. (13 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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6 63 Bindings and harness were scattered about.
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6 69 Cuwignaka dismounted and began to gather in the rawhide bindings and pieces of harness from the shattered travois.
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6 120 We finished our work, coiling the rent harness and bindings from the travois.
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14 350 They were, I take it, her harness mates, responsible with her, I supposed, for drawing one of the travois.
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14 594 "I hate you!" I then carried her back to the shelter and put her, again, with her sisters, her harness mates, other females of the Waniyanpi.
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33 351 I picked up the other strap, the rigged harness, the trace, and slipped it over my shoulder, about my body.
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33 363 "I am well aware of that, my lovely harness mate," I said.
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33 380 Such a slackening, of course, would have been instantly detectable to me, her harness mate.
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34 353 He now drew it, flanked on either side, also in harness, by a female slave, Mira on his right and the blond girl, who also had been once of the Waniyanpi, on his left.
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39 338 Not only will it be unnecessary to break it but it will be of great use, in a brace harness, in training the two tarns we have already caught".
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39 501 I disengaged myself from the slave, and slipped into the harness beside Cuwignaka.
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39 503 We did not enter the girl into the harness.
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39 526 I then, followed by Cuwignaka, threw my weight against the harness.
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Book 19. (3 results) Kajira of Gor

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16 45 The great beast grunted and threw itself forward, against the harness.
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16 124 In the distance I heard the sound of bells, harness bells.
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27 4 "When you are more experienced, you will not need the harness," said the whip master.
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Book 20. (5 results) Players of Gor

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1 868 I recalled her kneeling naked before us, the slave harness cinched on her in such a way as to enhance her beauty.
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1 876 When Samos had finished with her, she had, at the command of Hassan, still in the harness, served the pleasure of both of us.
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1 879 He had tied her ankles together and pulled them up behind her body, fastening them there with a strap passed through a ring at the back of the slave harness.
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3 11 I, with several others, in harness, some others chained by the neck behind, had drawn this wagon for the past two days.
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10 890 She had probably never before, in all her life, dirtied her hands, fetched upon command, gathered wood, tended fires, cooked, aired blankets, made up bunks, washed and ironed, carried water, cleaned harness, or fed and scrubbed down tharlarion, such things.
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Book 21. (11 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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3 260 The driver, who had apparently been adjusting the harness of his beast, was now again on the wagon box, his reins and whip in hand.
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4 449 But let those of the cities tremble that among the hordes there might one day arise one who can unify storms and harness lightning.
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5 99 "Are you ready?" inquired Mincon, our wagoner, he with whom Feiqa and I had traveled yesterday, jerking tight the harness of his tharlarion.
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15 540 She could not have been more helpless had she been staked out in the Barrens, lashed to an oar in Torvaldsland, chained as a prize to the stirrup of a war tharlarion on the Vennan road, kneeling buckled, hand and foot, waiting, in a slave harness on Tyros, fastened to a pleasure rack in a dingy, hal...
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24 623 "You need not now keep your head in high-harness position," he said to the girl.
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24 625 It is soon uncomfortable, and, after a time, painful, to keep one's head in the high-harness position.
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24 626 As might be supposed there are many varieties of slave harness, and they can serve a number of purposes, from a simple, effective restraint to the infliction of a punishing discipline.
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24 633 A woman in slave harness, incidentally, is very attractive.
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24 635 Some masters enjoy keeping their women in slave harness.
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24 637 Most such harnessing is not uncomfortable, and does not impede in any way the girl's movements, but there are commonly adjustments that may be easily made, with the snaps, straps, clips, and such, which will convert the harness into a device of restraint ranging from nothing much different from a si...
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24 638 These harnesses are similar to, but are not to be confused with, various other forms of harness which may be used with girls serving as draft animals, for example, fixed between the handles of a peddler's cart, or drawing, say, a conqueror's chariot.
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Book 22. (4 results) Dancer of Gor

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6 119 In a moment then there was a cry to some animal and the shaking of a harness.
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10 330 I heard the rattle of harness, sensed the attachment of ropes, the tying of knots, the drawing of them tight, their testing.
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10 331 Then, in a bit, I heard a cry and the jerking of harness, and that wild scream again, so piercing, hurting my ears, making me again leap and squirm, terrified, miserable, in my bonds.
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27 9 Though the wagons could doubtless be drawn by tharlarion, if speed were necessary, the harnesses I had seen on the covered harness racks, near the wagons, were not made for tharlarion.
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Book 23. (34 results) Renegades of Gor

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6 697 The harness he referred to was undoubtedly not a security harness but a training harness, a complex affair, consisting of numerous straps and rings.
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1 37 The tharlarion, probably thrown from its feet, was squealing in its harness.
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1 41 In another flash of lightning I saw the wagon in the ditch, tipped on its side, its canvas-covered, roped-down load bulging against the restraining cover, the tharlarion also on its side, lying tangled in its harness, its feet flailing, its long neck craning about.
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1 146 I think he then literally seized the harness of the next tharlarion.
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1 187 Some other men, too, came to the second tharlarion, hauling on its harness, and others, too, seized the wagon sides and the forward wheels, lending their efforts to getting the wagon on the road.
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1 203 "Hold the lantern here," I said to the fellow of the driver, who had now, having arrested the progress of the following tharlarion, released his hold on the beast's harness.
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2 211 Aside from the bird itself, however, there was no indication of this, no emblazoned saddlecloths, no insignia, no particular style of harness.
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4 66 Though no insignia or harness had been about, it had seemed clearly a war tarn, a warrior's mount.
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6 689 "She should have been put in a slave harness and sent to a training school," he said.
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8 18 He scurried back into the shed, where, doubtless, the burly fellow's gear was stored, the saddle, tarn harness, and such.
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8 269 The attendant was near it, his hand on the harness.
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8 580 I moved the harness, drawing the straps evenly, and the bird, anticipatory, alerted, stalked to the front edge of the landing platform, outside the portal of the tarn gate.
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8 748 She sobbed, moaned, gasped, cried out, whimpered, and screamed, in turn, in the darkness of the blindfold, clutching the pommel, as the bird, obedient to the obligations of the harness, bent itself to his maneuvers.
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23 220 "May Claudia inquire how it is to be done?" "We use a harness of chains and leather," he said.
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24 18 Some men began to attach tackle, chains and harness, to the two beams.
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24 63 The two beams, by fellows of Port Cos, were put in the mounts, the chains and harness pulled back inside, within the rail.
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24 230 There was a sound of chain, pulling against the beam ring, the links suddenly growing taut, and Publia, suspended from the beam, in her chain-and-leather harness, hung at the port side, out, about a yard from the rail, her feet now slightly below the level of the bow deck, over the water.
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24 232 Although her weight was substantially borne by the harness her small wrists were pulled high over her head, and held in place there, close to the chain, by her wrist shackles.
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24 244 Then she was lifted up, lightly, in the chain-and-leather harness.
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24 248 Then, a moment later, her hands pulled high over her head, suspended in her harness, she hung off the starboard rail of the bow deck, as Publia did off the port rail.
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24 251 Her body, suspended in the harness, swung a bit, and then turned from side to side, over the water.
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24 401 Publia jerked in her harness as though she might have been struck, but it had not touched her.
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24 421 Publia threw back her head and wept, in the harness.
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24 458 She dangled and jerked in the harness, sobbing, wild-eyed, disbelieving, though she had been struck but once.
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24 461 She shook helplessly, miserably, in the harness.
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24 487 "I, too, am such a girl!" she cried out, wildly, swinging in the harness.
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24 490 The chain-and-leather harness, incidentally, is muchly open.
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24 493 Claudia swung in the harness to face me.
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24 502 She was elated in the harness.
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24 549 Motionless were they then, their arms high, their bodies beautifully elongated, stretched out, suspended from the outjutting beams in the shackles and harness.
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24 616 "It was a good voyage," said the keeper, reaching out with a staff and hook to draw Publia, by the chain from which her harness was suspended, close to the rail.
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24 618 When Publia had been drawn closer to the rail two other fellows reached out and pulled her to the bow deck where they knelt her, in the shackles, in the harness, still attached to the chain.
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24 626 "I wish you well, Master," said Publia, humbly, kneeling before me in her shackles and harness, putting down her head, kissing my feet.
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24 641 He then removed her harness.
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Book 24. (21 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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10 100 "We will arrange a harness for you," he said.
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11 18 I now, besides the yoke, wore a harness of straps which fastened me to the raft I drew.
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12 75 "From various things," I said, "from blows, from ropes, from harness, from the slash of rence, from the bites and stings of insects, from the fastening places of marsh leeches".
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13 3 The three-log raft, the harness settling in the water between myself and it, moved slowly forward.
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13 37 Does the yoke on you, and the harness on your back, not tell you that?" I did not move.
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13 64 My keeper put a rope on my neck and then freed me from the harness.
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13 452 He picked up the harness attached to the raft.
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13 464 The harness was fitted about me.
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13 466 Angrily I felt the harness buckled on me.
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13 478 If I could get beyond the men of Ar I was sure I could break the yoke to pieces, splintering it on the logs of the raft, thus freeing my hands, then in a moment discarding the harness and slipping away.
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13 529 Again I pressed forward, straining against the harness, westward.
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15 1 We Continue Westward Again I struggled westward in the marsh, gagged, my hands manacled before me, tied at my waist, my body pulling against the harness.
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17 2 I stopped, grateful enough in the harness.
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17 246 I drew against the harness.
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17 288 I tried to find a projection within the range of the harness.
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17 347 With some difficulty I attained the surface of the raft and, with my manacled hands, tied at my waist, bending down, bit by bit, drew up the harness behind me.
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17 349 My hands manacled before me I managed to free the harness from the raft.
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19 1620 I then picked up a short, buckled strap, cut from the harness I had worn in drawing the raft through the marsh.
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19 1622 I then lifted up one end, the loose end, of a long strap, also part of the harness I had worn in drawing the raft through the marsh, and tied it about the four turns of the strap on her neck.
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26 11 Her hands were now free, but the collar and strap, fashioned from the harness I had once worn, was still on her throat, fastened to the raft.
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46 347 I saw more rows of cages, a commissary, two kitchens, the infirmary, a punishment area, two mat areas, the harness booth, some holding areas, chains of women.
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Book 25. (10 results) Magicians of Gor

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8 200 It was Harness Street, apparently so called from long ago when it was once a locale of several harness makers.
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8 201 The harness makers are members of the caste of leather workers.
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8 202 The "harness makers" on Gor, provide not just harnesses but an entire line of associated products, such as saddles, bridles, reins, hobblings and tethers.
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8 203 Presumably the harness makers on this street would not have dealt in slave harnesses.
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8 206 There are many varieties of slave harness, incidentally, with various purposes, such as discipline, display and security.
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8 236 We then continued east on Harness Street.
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8 438 I stood on the Wall Road, back near Harness Street.
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8 799 Quickly she pulled from him, and hurried a few steps back, toward Harness Street, turning then to look back, pleadingly at him.
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8 1000 We had encountered one on the way to the wall, on Harness Street, who had detained us briefly, apparently primarily to determine whether or not we were of Ar.
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8 1004 Near the entrance to Harness Street, off the Wall Road, I turned about.
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Book 26. (5 results) Witness of Gor

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10 1014 There are usually two rings on such a harness, for the attachment of a leash; one is on the front of the harness and the other is on the back.
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7 909 Sometimes we heard even, to angry cries, and the cracking of whips, cries of weariness, and misery, and effort, of such as we, cries mingling with the sounds of the tightening and slackening, and tightening, of harness, the groaning of heavily laden wagons, the creaking of large wooden wheels turnin...
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9 203 Sometimes I would see birds leaving or returning to whose harness were slung baskets, sometimes open, sometimes closed.
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10 1011 Another device which can be used for training, display, control, or such, is the slave harness, to which a leash may be attached.
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10 1013 Such a harness, well cinched on the slave, can be extremely attractive.
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Book 27. (21 results) Prize of Gor

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19 481 Tersius Major would come third, with the third basket, but, from his tarn's harness, a long line extended to the fourth tarn and basket, and from the harness of that tarn, with its basket, there ran another line to the fifth tarn, and so, too, to the sixth and seventh tarn, this forming a string of ...
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18 319 Selius picked up a loop of harness and held it in his hands.
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19 382 "Harness tarns".
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19 482 The eighth and ninth tarns were in harness but bore no baskets.
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19 516 And what if the narrow ropes by which the basket was suspended from the harness should break? She would not have dared to protest, of course, even if she had been permitted speech.
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19 566 The tarn basket attached to the bird's harness, having slid on its leather runners from the platform, swung darkly on its ropes beneath the bird.
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19 586 She looked up, struggling to keep her balance, at the ropes, the harness, the dark, majestic body of the winged titan above her.
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19 683 It would be quite unpleasant, she supposed, to be bound naked, hand and foot, in such a conveyance, one's ankles perhaps lashed closely to one's wrists, a simple, popular, but extraordinarily effective and secure slave tie, and kept in the basket in one way or another, perhaps by a secured lid, or p...
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20 301 Moving in the basket, facing forward, peering again through the wicker, she saw the first tarnsman who had approached the train swoop beneath it, beat his way forward, and then seize the long rope dangling better than a hundred feet from the harness of the first tarn, that which had been the fourth ...
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20 382 The tarn then, to whose harness Ellen's ruined basket was insecurely fastened, began to strike out, perhaps crazed with fear, for tarns abhor water, biting, at the line, at the other tarns, at the basket, perhaps in its fear, or madness, or to rid itself of perceived obstructions or impediments.
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20 384 When the bird turned away, to strike at another bird, Ellen, wildly, thrust the last rope free, and found herself in the water, the basket free of the harness, clinging to the remains of the basket, little more now than two sides and a flooring.
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20 435 Free of the harness it was forced away from the birds by their very struggles, their movements creating rolling swells of water, swirling into the darkness.
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27 336 The tharlarion was not in harness, but hobbled nearby, grazing.
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27 356 "Harness the tharlarion," said Portus Canio.
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27 1934 As far as could be determined, it was not in harness.
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27 1937 It was clearly not in harness.
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27 1949 "They chew loose the harness and let the meat escape!" "How will we get back?" asked Tersius Major.
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27 2160 In a matter of moments the tharlarion had been hobbled, and freed of its harness.
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27 2774 "If you are finished with us," said Portus Canio, "free us, and we will harness the tharlarion and move on, with the wagon".
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27 3373 Accustom her early then to binding and chaining, to the helplessness of slave bracelets, and perhaps shackles, to the blindfold and the gag, to encircling ropes, and buckled slave straps, perhaps to a harness, such things.
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29 9 She stepped back a little, as a caravan was passing, and there was a ringing of the bells on a kaiila harness.
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Book 28. (24 results) Kur of Gor

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2 90 The beast then slung its rifle behind its left shoulder, to a harness hook, and seized the container with its long arms, but could not fully encircle it.
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4 17 Cabot's interlocutor surely wore Kur harness, though he was not armed, not even with the small throwing ax, or night ax, commonly used in approaching isolated sentries, and such.
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4 19 This conversation was at the time being conducted by means of the interlocutor's translator, clipped to the harness.
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13 28 Instead of skins, he wore the remains of a Kur harness.
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13 34 The fellow in the remains of the Kur harness, he who had approached Cabot the most closely, made several abrupt, rapid gestures to him, which were incomprehensible to Cabot.
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13 59 The fellow in the remains of the Kur harness smiled, as had Cabot.
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13 61 The fellow in the remains of the Kur harness then spread his hands, as had Cabot.
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13 80 But the leader, as he was that, and we shall call him Archon, to utilize a Gorean title for a variety of civic officials, removed the sheath and dagger from the remains of the Kur harness he wore and handed it to Cabot.
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13 101 But Archon thrust the knife through a broad leather band of the Kur harness, unwilling to trust it again to its strange, recalcitrant sheath, and approached Cabot, and, putting out his arms, embraced him.
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18 149 The sleen threw itself against the harness and the Kur struggled to hold it in place.
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18 263 They began to tremble and scratch at the ground, and they then lurched forward, and were held back, and then, again, they strained forward, eagerly, against the harness, which made it more difficult to release the catches.
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19 52 Archon had worn remnants of a Kur harness.
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19 106 "It was doubtless with this that the sleen were set upon him," said a Kur, lifting Cabot's tunic, taken from a pouch attached to the harness of one of the fallen hunters.
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21 453 Whatever the clue might have been, a pressing of a paw into the sand to gain leverage for a blow, an intake of breath prior to striking, a tiny sound of harness, perhaps even the slick, shifting of a grip, to take advantage of a less-moist, drier surface, Grendel threw himself to the side and the mi...
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24 36 Grendel drew forth a key from his harness.
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33 5 Grendel reached to activate the small, disklike translator on his harness.
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33 169 In his harness, he had thrust the haft of the long ax.
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38 15 "The scarf, wound in the harness," said Cabot.
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44 130 The creature had unlooped from her harness several loops of soft, and pliant, but stout rope.
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47 123 One of the purple scarves freed an arm from the wing harness and groped for a hand weapon, as he spun about, loose, helplessly, in the atmosphere.
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47 144 Lord Grendel thrust up the weapon with his wing, and then, spinning about, close to his foe, who floated before him, had one hand loose from the wing harness and tore the weapon from the Kur's grasp, and the Kur recovered control of the wings, and backed away, warily.
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47 166 Statius, not questioning Lord Grendel, slipped his harness, and moved the weapons to the two Kurii.
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53 241 Lord Grendel was already up, fastening his harness.
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63 122 The head of one of the cattle humans was burned away but inches from the chest of Lord Grendel, and another cattle human's chest was burned through, in such a way that a portion of Lord Grendel's harness was blackened, and hair singed from his shoulder.
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Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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16 2 There are six strap positions on the common tarn harness.
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Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor

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3 1266 Shortly thereafter the officer and the slave had reentered the tarn basket and the tarnster took the bird to flight, the basket trailing behind on its long harness ropes.
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Book 31. (17 results) Conspirators of Gor

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20 23 Softening the harness makes it more supple, and prolongs harness life.
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8 1412 If he had, he would have looked for a larger, sturdier girl than I, one who in harness, alone or with another, might drag a hoeing plow.
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10 401 I next approached a fellow of the Leather Workers, or so I supposed, for he had several loops of harness slung about his shoulders.
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10 402 I barely noticed that several of harnesses slung about his shoulders were slave harness, a form of ingenious harnessing in which a slave might be variously, pleasingly, constrained and exhibited.
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16 160 Within it, parts, harness, and other tackle can be stored.
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20 3 I was oiling its harness, softening it.
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20 22 I rubbed oil carefully into the harness, a bit at a time.
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20 25 Similarly, if the harness is wet, as from rain, it may dry stiffly.
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20 56 Who did not know that? It had been fortunate that my boldness, my lapse, had not been rewarded with a whipping! I rubbed the oil, in small, firm circular motions, into the broad harness.
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20 129 I suddenly stopped working the oil into the harness leather, as something on the other side of the wagon had caught my attention, without my really being aware of it.
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20 238 "We must harness the tharlarion and be on our way".
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20 241 I stood up, by the mat and harness, and jar of oil, and the rags, and looked about myself.
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20 285 "Have you finished with the harness?" asked Desmond of Harfax.
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20 331 "How long will it take you to finish the harness?" he said.
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45 194 He cast the harness toward me, impatiently, growling.
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45 264 I also noted he was now in harness, as well.
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48 305 There, tall, and mighty, in full harness, stood Grendel.
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Book 32. (2 results) Smugglers of Gor

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11 12 Among the peasants it is not unknown for us to struggle against our harness, dragging our master's plow.
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52 32 This tendency may be expressed in innumerable ways, from the design of cities to the bright colors of buildings and walls, and porches and pillars, from long garden paths, a pasang in length, characterized by a planned music of scent as well as a scenic melody of blossoms, to the shaping of vases an...
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Book 33. (5 results) Rebels of Gor

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43 1 We Reach the Merchant Portal I cinched the harness straps on Cecily.
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43 26 "You look well in harness," I said.
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43 161 The slaves strained against the harness.
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44 104 Swiftly the slaves, in a rustle and jangle of harness, knelt.
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44 126 With a sound of harness, the girls, I think uncertain, bewildered, stood.
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Book 34. (8 results) Plunder of Gor

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9 42 He handles his slave with assurance and authority, sometimes treating her as though she were in a bit and harness, and other times as though she were a vibrating, responding musical instrument from which he draws out tunes, tiny whimpers, soft moans, and cries, as he wishes.
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32 52 Its huge gate had two leaves, and, were it opened, it would easily accommodate the passage of a double-harness tharlarion wagon.
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40 69 Art may be lavished on rooms and buildings, on bedding and clothing, on the saddle or harness of a kaiila, even on cuisine, in its preparation and display.
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46 328 He then snapped the reins of the tharlarion and, with a jangle of harness, the wagon lurched forward.
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57 8 By one of the tables, heaped with viands and blossoms, I beheld a Kur, in festive harness.
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61 64 The gate on the ground level, through which the verr had been driven out, was flung open, and a collared, Kurlike thing, bereft of harness, was prodded out, into the sunlight.
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63 19 It is doubtless unpleasant to be switched or whipped when straining in a harness, doing one's best, under the tyranny of a merciless keeper, one of several, soft, slight, two-legged draft animals.
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65 403 "We must remove the emblem of Mintar from the wagon, take down the banner, change the canvas to brown, harness the tharlarion, be on our way".
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Book 35. (1 results) Quarry of Gor

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8 859 I saw it being lowered, in a rope harness, into the water.
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Book 36. (1 results) Avengers of Gor

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37 104 Thurnock then slipped the harness about his body and set himself to draw the cart up the iron-reinforced loading planks and onto the nearly square deck of the barge.
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