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Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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4 91 At the same moment the iron bolt of a crossbow, fired through one of the narrow windows, struck the wall behind my chair-stone and ricocheted viciously about the room.
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10 159 "Shall I call for the iron?" asked Kazrak.
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11 101 "Call for the iron," she said.
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12 24 It was a large steel bow, wound and set, the iron quarrel placed in the guide.
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12 154 My calculations as to my locale tended to be confirmed by the dull reddish color of the cliffs, due to the presence of large deposits of iron oxide.
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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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16 116 Within the first wall of black silk, there was a second wall, but this time of iron bars.
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Book 2. (25 results) Outlaw of Gor

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17 5 When it was filled with its wretched occupants, an iron door, containing a sliding iron observation panel, closed.
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21 92 In theory, if not in practice, when the girl finds herself branded like an animal, finds her fair skin marked by the iron of a master, she cannot fail, somehow, in the deepest levels of her thought, to regard herself as something which is owned, as mere property, as something belonging to the brute ...
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10 32 The entrance itself was nothing more than a small, simple iron door, perhaps eighteen inches in width, perhaps five feet in height.
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10 41 There was a sound of sliding bolts and the iron door swung open, revealing nothing but darkness within.
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10 57 At last it dragged me into a round, globelike space, lit by two torches in iron racks, which were set into the fitted-stone walls.
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10 65 An iron gate, consisting of bars, fell behind it.
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11 10 The halls were lit occasionally by tharlarion oil lamps set in iron fixtures mounted in the walls.
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13 51 Then, with their whips, they drove us to a set of large blocks of quarried granite, weighing perhaps a ton apiece, from the sides of which protruded heavy iron rings.
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18 97 When the iron door was shut and the bolts shot into place, I heard the Whip Slave laugh.
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18 104 There was an iron grating set in the stone, about eight feet high in the shaft.
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21 33 There was an iron brazier near the tree, which was filled with glowing coals.
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21 60 "But," said the man, "the iron will take that out of her".
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21 65 The heavy-set man thrust the iron back into the brazier.
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21 84 After all, did a slave not expect the iron? And the whip? I saw the other girls some thirty yards away, in camisks, the cheapest of slave garments, laughing and talking to one another, disporting themselves as pleasurably as free maidens might have.
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21 94 When the iron is pulled away and she knows the pain and degradation and smells the odor of her burned flesh, she is supposed to tell herself, understanding its full and terrible import, I AM HIS.
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21 98 On the other hand, I have known of several cases in which a proud, insolent woman, even one of great intelligence, who resisted a master to the very touch of the iron, once branded became instantly a passionate and obedient Pleasure Slave.
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21 101 Sometimes I think the iron is simply an anachronistic survival from a more technologically backward age.
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21 103 The poor creature before me did not wish the iron.
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21 105 The minion of the slaver withdrew another iron from the fire.
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21 120 The iron was now poised for the sudden, firm imprint.
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21 121 I noted that some of the delicate golden hair on her thigh, from the very proximity of the iron, curled and blackened.
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21 131 Then he thrust the iron back into the brazier.
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21 171 Obediently the man thrust the iron back into the fire.
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24 136 Once more I noted that the walls bordering the avenue rose as the avenue narrowed, but this time, long before we neared the small iron door, we saw a double rampart thrown across the avenue, the second wall topping the first and allowing missiles to be rained down on those who might storm the first ...
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24 239 We approached the small iron door that gave access to the palace, I in the lead.
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Book 3. (6 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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6 14 Vika seared this meat, as thick as the forearm of a warrior, on a small iron grill over a kindling of charcoal cylinders, so that the thin margin of the outside was black, crisp and flaky and sealed within by the touch of the fire was the blood-rich flesh, hot and fat with juice.
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7 99 I tensed myself for the leap and cry that would fling me into the open, the sudden interruption in the stillness of the passageway that might be sufficient to impair the steadiness of a spear arm, the calm setting of a crossbow's iron quarrel on its guide.
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18 88 "Sometimes this is spoken of as the Home Stone of all Gor," said Sarm, as we walked the long, winding, iron spiral that clung to the side of a vast, transparent blue dome.
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18 98 Sarm stopped on the narrow iron railing circling the huge, glassy blue dome and straightened himself and turned to face me.
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22 82 I thrust the Mul-Torch which I still carried into a narrow iron receptacle, consisting mainly of two connected rings and a base plate, which was bolted to the wall.
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30 47 In the center of this disk, recessed so I could not dash my head against it, was an iron ring.
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Book 4. (21 results) Nomads of Gor

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19 73 About her neck was a thick metal collar to which a heavy iron chain had been fastened; the chain itself was attached to a large iron ring placed in the floor.
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2 62 I could see he carried a small, round, leather shield, glossy, black, lacquered; he wore a conical, fur-rimmed iron helmet, a net of colored chains depending from the helmet protecting his face, leaving only holes for the eyes.
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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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12 246 I noted that, in spite of the fact that Aphris had now been in the wagon for several days, Kamchak had not yet called for the Iron Master.
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13 98 "Tonight," he said, "I shall call the Iron Master".
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13 129 After seeing Kutaituchik and the others, Kamchak stopped by an Iron Master's wagon, and, to my irritation, arranged for the fellow to come by the wagon that very night.
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13 185 The Iron Master affixed the Turian collar.
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13 196 "Must the Iron Master be called," I asked, "to the wagon of Kamchak?" Kamchak looked at me.
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14 63 Kamchak leaped from the back of his kaiila and, seizing a torch from an iron rack, leaped up the stairs and entered the wagon.
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15 76 "There both of you will wait for the Iron Master," he snarled, and turned abruptly, and went to the stairs to the wagon.
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15 77 But the Iron Master did not come that night, or the next, or the next.
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15 80 "They will not run away—let them wait like she-sleen in their cage—not knowing on which day the iron will come".
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15 97 "You will like your collar! Wait until you feel the iron, Slave—like Tuka!" Kamchak never reproved Tuka, but I would silence her when I was present.
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18 80 I heard the wild, eerie cry of the luckless man beneath me and then, with my fist, broke the blue surface and climbed through, grasping the iron of a reticulated framework supporting numerous energy bulbs.
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18 82 I ran over the iron framework until, judging by the distance and curve of the dome, I had reached a point above where Harold and I had waited at the edge of the pool.
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21 113 Downstairs the wooden screens that had separated the shop from the street had been splintered apart; the counter had been broken and the ovens ruined, their oval domes shattered, their iron doors twisted from their hinges; even the top stones on the two grain mills had been thrown to the floor and b...
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21 116 Shortly thereafter some seven or eight ruffians, armed with clubs and iron bars, had attacked the shop, destroying its equipment.
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21 306 The great alarm bars of the city were now ringing, struck by iron hammers.
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23 175 "If not, we can always iron matters out with a bit of bosk raiding".
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25 300 Indeed, even the Gorean woman, outside her city, without a defender, should she escape the dangers of the wild, is not likely long to elude the iron, the chain and collar.
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25 618 I saw the place on her thigh where not many days before the fiery iron had been so cruelly pressed, leaving behind it, smoking for the instant, deep and clean, the tiny mark of the four bosk horns.
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Book 5. (60 results) Assassin of Gor

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12 197 She said nothing but stood there, wrists braceleted behind her back, locked in place, watching the approach of the iron, observing the graceful, white-hot character at the iron's termination; she screamed uncontrollably when the iron marked her, firmly, decisively for about three Ihn; and then she s...
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5 735 About his neck he wore a rude ornament, a loose iron chain bearing, also in iron, a medallion, the crest of the House of Cernus.
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11 19 The female slaves, like the men, were unclothed, and wore collars; their collars, however, were not the typical locked collar of the female slave but, since they were only in the iron pens, a narrow band of iron, with a number, hammered about their neck.
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11 40 Against the far wall there were thirty kennels, five rows of six each, tiered, with iron runways and iron stairs giving access to them.
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12 173 For about fifteen days Virginia and Phyllis, while the other captive Earth girls had been removed to an iron pen, remained in the tiny cement, iron-gated cages, so constructed that the inmate cannot at any one time fully stretch her body; over a period of time this builds up a considerable amount of...
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12 191 When the small iron gates were raised, the guard with a whip standing over them, Virginia and Phyllis crawled painfully out onto the iron walkway.
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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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3 88 A hot iron had been pressed into each of his eyes, probably long ago.
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5 10 Valuables, in such a room, are kept in a heavy, iron-banded chest which is bolted to the wall and kept locked.
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5 15 In a girl's collar lock there would be either six pins or six disks, one each, it is said, for each letter in the Gorean word for female slave, Kajira; the male slave, or Kajirus, seldom has a locked collar; normally a band of iron is simply hammered about his neck; often he works in chains, usually...
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5 43 There were several chests in the room, including the iron-banded one with its heavy lock.
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5 139 At certain times of the year several such booths are set up within the courtyard of a slaver's house; in each, unclothed, chained by the left ankle to a ring, on furs, is a choice Red Silk Girl; prospective buyers, usually accompanied by a member of the Caste of Physicians, in the presence of the sl...
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5 747 "If she gives you trouble," said Ho-Tu, "send her to the iron pens.
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5 761 At that moment a bar, struck in a certain pattern by an iron hammer somewhere in the house, rang out, the sound taken up by other bars, also struck, on various floors of the House of Cernus.
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6 72 "You belong in the iron pens," said Ho-Tu.
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8 64 "Tonight," said Elizabeth, "after the sixteenth bar, I am to report to the smith at the iron pens".
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9 59 In a moment I heard two iron bolts being withdrawn and we entered another corridor.
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10 3 A male slave stood near, a heavy band of iron about his throat, a whipping strap dangling from his right hand.
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10 15 "After they yield to him they are sent to the iron pens".
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10 29 "Most of the House you have seen," said he, "with the exception of training areas, the iron pens, the processing rooms, and such".
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10 57 "When the two new girls chosen for the first set grow weary of the kennels, and of the gruel of the iron pens".
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11 1 Two Girls After having passed through several doors of iron, each with an observation panel, descending on a spiral ramp deeper and deeper beneath the ground level, I could at last, clearly, smell the stink of the pens.
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11 2 In the cylinder there are several varieties of retention areas, ranging from the luxuriousness of the cell shown to me earlier by Ho-Tu, in which Cernus was accustomed to keep Special Captures, to the iron pens.
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11 6 The expression "The Iron Pens," incidentally, generally refers to all of the subterranean retention facilities in the house of a slaver, not simply cages, but pits, steel drums, wall chains and such; it is the name of an area, on the whole, rather than a literal description of the nature of the only...
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11 7 The expression "kennels" is sometimes used similarly, but more often it refers to a kind of small, cement cell, customarily about three feet by three feet by four feet, with an iron gate, which can be raised and lowered; similar cells, but entirely of bars, are also common, and are to be found in th...
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11 11 I supposed it was from this sort of facility that the general expression "The Iron Pens" took its origin.
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11 21 Their food and water areas were protected from the wall of bars shared with the next cage, which might contain male slaves, by a heavy iron mesh rather like that of the flooring, riveted by hammer to the bars.
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11 28 The fourth level, though containing many retention facilities, is used for the processing, assignment, interrogation and examination of slaves; it can be reached independently by a spiral ramp and tunnel which does not pass through the area of the iron pens.
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11 31 I followed him into a large room, barred by a heavy iron door.
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11 61 I and the Physician, and the guardsman, followed him up the iron ramp to the second level.
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11 72 The porridges in the iron pens, however, are as ugly and tasteless a gruel, and deliberately so, as might be imagined.
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11 409 We then, following Ho-Tu, retraced our steps on the iron walkway, descended the steps, and, taking our way between the metal branding rack and the glowing, perforated steel drum containing irons, left the room.
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12 156 The White Silk Girls, of course, having been released from the house, would have been placed in locked, iron belts.
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12 193 The guard braceleted one of Phyllis' wrists to the rail and then snapped bracelets on Virginia, confining her wrists behind her back; he carried Virginia down to the main level and set her on her knees there, before Flaminius and Ho-Tu; Elizabeth and I were in the background; then the guard went bac...
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12 195 "Is the iron ready?" asked Ho-Tu of the guard, and the man nodded.
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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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12 311 First Virginia and then Phyllis laid their heads and throats on the anvil, head turned to the side, their hands holding the anvil, and the smith, expertly, with his heavy hammer and a ringing of iron, curved the collar about their throats; a space of about a quarter of an inch was left between the t...
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13 141 Let such women, I say, feel the iron.
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14 15 Virginia and Phyllis, however, Elizabeth had told me, still wore the simple iron collars which had been hammered about their necks by the smith days before.
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15 96 Sometimes men fight locked in iron hoods, unable to see their opponents.
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15 113 For one thing he never slew an opponent, though the man often could never fight again; the afternoon I had seen him the crowd cried for the death of his defeated opponent, lying bloodied in the sand, pleading for mercy between his legs, and Murmillius had lifted his sword as though to slay the man, ...
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16 31 Even the slaves in the iron pens in the House of Cernus received that day a small cake with oil and had their troughs filled with water mixed with paga.
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16 58 To their consternation, before being permitted to leave the training room, Virginia and Phyllis, beneath their livery, had locked on their bodies, by Sura, the iron belt.
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16 67 "She wears the iron belt," said Sura.
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16 73 "Of course I wear the iron belt," said Phyllis, even more irritably.
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16 124 "I think I will tear the iron belt from her," commented Ho-Sorl.
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17 20 But in a moment it was determined, to the rage of all save the girl, that she wore an iron belt.
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17 160 Once in a paga tavern I heard a man, whom I recognized to be one of the guards from the iron pens, though now in the tunic of a Leather Worker, declaring that the city needed for its Administrator not a Builder but a Warrior, that law would again prevail.
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18 274 There were, however, the means for shutting it at hand, two large beams which might be placed in iron brackets.
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18 342 Now, paga bottle in hand, I was passing guards and found myself walking down the narrow iron runways over the pens below, now filled with drunken slaves, some sleeping, some sitting stupefied in the center of their pen, some singing brokenly to themselves, some trying to crawl again to the trough to...
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18 346 I passed through the level on which interrogations take place, the level of the kennels, and went lower in the cylinder, now far below ground, past even more iron pens and levels.
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18 349 Descending a last spiral of iron stairs I came to the lowest level of the cylinder.
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18 361 There were several corridors lined with small cells with iron doors, each with an observation panel.
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18 365 I picked up a torch and lit it in the light of a lamp near the swirling iron stairs.
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18 425 I returned to him; beneath the iron on his ankles and wrists, and on his throat, there were scars, like white bands, pale shadows of the dark metal; it would take months to form such scars, superseding the fearful sores that must first have been inflicted.
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21 185 The man was one of those slaves who, garbed in black, armed with iron hooks, drag the dead, human or beast, from the sand.
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21 209 Another with a hot iron stood nearby, shouting at the other pairs.
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21 275 Another approached me warily with his hot iron.
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21 277 He looked about himself and dropped the iron and fled.
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22 571 Menicius, hit four times with iron bolts, spun and fell into the sand.
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Book 6. (17 results) Raiders of Gor

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8 5 I had again my sword, that wine-tempered blade of fine, double-edged Gorean steel, carried even at the siege of Ar, so long ago, with its scabbard; and the rounded shield of layered boskhide, with its double sling, riveted with pegs of iron and bound with hoops of brass; and the simple helmet, innoc...
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3 24 There was a rusted, heavy iron collar riveted about the neck of Ho-Hak, with a bit of chain dangling from it.
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6 87 Ho-Hak, sweating, breathing deeply, wildly, his great ears flat against the sides of his head, the iron, riveted collar of the galley slave, with its broken, dangling chain, about his neck, clutching his oar pole, stood with his legs planted widely apart on the rence, at bay.
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8 347 Both of his ankles were shackled to a beam running lengthwise of the ship and bolted to the deck; the chain on the shackles ran through the beam itself, through a circular hole cut in the beam and lined with an iron tube; the slaves behind him, as the beam, or beams, passed beneath their thwarts, we...
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8 351 About his neck was hammered an iron collar.
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8 363 His hair, too, was sheared at the base of his neck; he, too, wore a collar of hammered iron.
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9 41 Telima had been branded long ago, but the thighs of Midice, Thura and Ula had never yet felt the iron.
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9 326 She had been branded, and doubtless her thigh still stung from the fire of the iron.
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12 9 We observed, in the light of the three Gorean moons, some five men emerging from the tiny iron gate.
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14 8 She is carvel-built, and her planking is fastened with nails of bronze and iron; in places, wooden pegs are also used; her planking, depending on placement, varies from two to six inches in thickness; also, to strengthen her against the shock of ramming, four-inch-thick wales run longitudinally abou...
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14 16 The Dorna's ram, a heavy projection in the shape of a tarn's beak, shod with iron, rides just below the water line.
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14 179 The iron-shod ram of the Dorna splintered into her stern a foot below the water line.
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18 156 The only light in the huge high-roofed hall was furnished by a single brazier, whose coals, through the iron basket, now glowed redly.
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18 230 Samos and I, together, dropped the last beam into the heavy iron brackets.
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18 406 An iron was heated.
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18 650 I then seized one of the ropes attached to a grappling iron wedged in one of the crenels and began to descend the outer side of the keep wall.
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18 707 About his neck there was still the heavy iron collar he had worn as a galley slave, with its links of heavy, dangling chain.
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Book 7. (39 results) Captive of Gor

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8 69 Behind us I heard one of the bargemen slam the heavy iron door and slide the heavy iron bolt into place.
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15 709 "This third iron," said Rask of Treve, "is, too, a penalty iron.
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2 112 In the sun, the air stinging my eyes, particles of soot and ash falling on me, I knotted one end of the rope of sheets securely about a small iron railing that surmounted a waist-high wall around the patio and terrace.
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8 213 The two extra crewmen, standing on the deck, threw great looped ropes over heavy iron mooring cleats fastened in the pier.
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8 315 The roof bars are supported at places in the yard by iron stanchions.
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8 725 It struck the bars, reaching through them, its teeth grating on them, its chain striking against the iron, its claws scraping towards us.
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11 948 I hoped that he would capture her, and them, and strip them, and put the blazing iron to their bodies, and lock them in collars, and whip them, and make them slave girls! "Any woman," he said.
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12 120 Here and there, among the wagons, leashed, clad in short woolen skirts, heavy bands of iron hammered about their throats, under the guard of huntsmen, cowled in the heads of forest panthers, there walked male slaves, male outlaws captured by Marlenus and his hunters in the forest.
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13 1005 Once the "slave fires" begin to burn in her belly she is locked in chains of need more obdurate than those of iron; periodically then she must beg the master, subtly or not, implicitly or explicitly, for the release of her tensions.
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14 189 Oddly enough, there was also an iron ring, set in a stone, buried in the ground, beneath the center of the horizontal pole.
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14 190 Off to one side, in an open area there was a small iron box, a square of some three feet in dimension.
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14 191 In the front of the box there was a small iron door, with two slits in it.
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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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14 219 Against its far wall I could see great chests, heavy and bound with iron, filled doubtless with a raider's abundant booty, gems and golden wire, and necklaces and coins, and pearls, and jewelries, and bracelets and bangles, set perhaps with precious stones, which might serve to adorn the limbs of ex...
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15 167 Beneath its center, on the ground, there was an iron ring.
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15 172 Her ankles are tied together and tied, some six inches from the ground, to the iron ring.
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15 290 A bowl of water was nearby, and a fire, over which, on an iron plate fixed on stones, there were, heating, five, small, flat-bottomed, rounded, wooden-handled Gorean irons.
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15 298 I continued to iron.
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15 340 "I know little of such work," said Verna, "but are you not in danger of scorching the garment which you are ironing?" I hastily drew away the iron, placing it on the fire-heated plate.
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15 347 Weeping, I continued to iron.
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15 611 Near that pole, near the iron ring set in the stone, which was buried in the ground, Ute told Techne and I to kneel.
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15 694 I screamed uncontrollably as he pressed in the iron, holding it firmly into my leg.
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15 702 "This penalty brand," said Rask of Treve, lifting another iron from the brazier, again with a small letter at its glowing termination, "marks you also as what you are, as a thief".
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15 706 It must wait for the iron.
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15 715 Then he pressed the third iron into my flesh.
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15 719 Rask of Treve lifted the last iron from the fire.
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15 730 '" "Do not punish me with the iron!" I cried.
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15 732 It must wait, helpless, for the blazing kiss of the iron.
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15 734 I could feel the terrible heat of the iron, even inches from my body.
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15 736 The iron was poised.
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15 740 Then the iron, crackling and hissing, was pressed, deeply and firmly, into my flesh, for some five seconds.
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15 809 Then, by the hair, she stumbling, scarcely able to stand, he dragged her to the small, square iron box which sat near the whipping pole, and thrust her within.
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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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15 822 He had collared her, and, with a hot iron, had placed in her flesh his brand.
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15 833 After my bracelets were removed, and the food then, and water, would only be thrust through the hole under the tiny iron door, I pounded, and screamed, and scratched at the inside of the box.
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15 895 I learned to iron and sew, and to cook and clean.
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15 937 Surely I had not, and could not, forget the iron nor the whip's hot kiss.
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15 941 I would obey, and with promptness! Do not scorn me, until you yourself have felt the iron and the lash.
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17 242 "I have felt the iron," I said.
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Book 8. (35 results) Hunters of Gor

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21 167 About the wrists of many, though separated, still clung iron manacles; about the throats of many, too, still clung collars of iron, some with dangling, broken lengths of chain.
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1 26 To one side of the room, unclothed, his wrists manacled behind his body, his ankles confined in short chains, knelt a large man, a heavy band of iron hammered about his throat.
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1 263 The guards, with keys, bent to his manacles, and the double-chained iron clasps securing his ankles.
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2 15 Their ankles had been tied rather widely apart, each fastened by leather to iron rings further down the beams.
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2 562 In the stern quarter, behind the open kitchen, the girls were chained by the neck to the deck, to iron rings set in the heavy, sanded wood.
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2 571 They were still chained by the neck to the iron rings.
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2 653 "We do not fear the iron.
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2 667 We do not fear the iron.
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3 313 Wordlessly, the girl went and stood by the rack, her back to the curved iron.
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3 321 She did so, and was stretched over the curved iron.
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3 331 There was ample room, I noted, between the bands, on either side, to press the iron.
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3 335 The man, placing heavy gloves on his hands, withdrew from the brazier a slave iron.
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4 6 The girl climbed the narrow, iron ladder to the sixth alcove.
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5 114 Where could she flee? She could not even run to Lydius, her own city, for it was there, publicly, by judicial sentence, that the degradation of slavery, by the iron, had been burned into her body.
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6 578 She would be taught to cook, to sew, to iron and wash clothing.
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6 928 "You are making me learn to cook," she said, "you are making me learn to sew, to wash garments, to iron them!" "You are slave," I told her.
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7 113 It did not displease me that I should bring his daughter to safety from the forests before him, or that I should have Verna, and her band, prisoner, well trussed in tight binding fiber, waiting for my iron, while he still, unknowingly, sought them where they were not.
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7 343 They did not know that soon, perhaps tomorrow, their camp would be stormed, and they would be captives, destined for the iron and the slave markets of the south.
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11 114 This time, he had put the iron to her, and her girls, the first night he had arrived in his camp north of Laura, as though they might have been the meanest of captures.
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11 154 She would also, of course, be taught to sew, and to wash and iron clothing.
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14 112 From the brazier there protruded the handle of a slave iron.
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14 127 Then one of the men of Tyros lifted the iron, glowing redly, from the fire.
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14 136 The man with the leather glove thrust the iron back in the fire.
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14 213 * * * * On the branch of the tree, high, in the darkness, crouching, I saw the man of Tyros, with his leather glove, reach to the handle of the slave iron, protruding from the brazier.
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14 219 Sarus, leader of the men of Tyros, waved his men back now, except for the man with the iron.
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14 223 At a sign from Hura the man from Tyros thrust the iron back into the brazier, to draw it forth again at her signal.
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14 302 I could see, dark, the handle of the slave iron.
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14 311 The man of Tyros, with the heavy glove, reached to the iron.
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14 335 The man of Tyros, grinning, brought the iron forward.
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14 337 But the iron did not make its strike.
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15 412 About the left ankle of each and the neck of each had been hammered a band of iron, each band with two welded rings.
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18 142 What would it matter to Sarus that more than eighty of his fair allies might even now, in chains, in a slaver's camp, be screaming to the iron's kiss.
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21 59 He could not strike for she stood in his way, and did his arm move, her finger, even were she struck, would jerk on the trigger of the weapon, flinging its iron-headed quarrel through his body, perhaps even to the palings behind.
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22 32 Not in the arena of Tharna! I blocked the heavy yoke locked on Kron, the iron horns tearing at me.
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22 112 What had seemed a dim sun, a flame in darkness, became a ship's lantern, swinging on its iron ring.
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Book 9. (72 results) Marauders of Gor

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10 317 The Forkbeard had brought one thrall with him, the young man, Tarsk, who, even now, followed in the retinue of the Forkbeard; it was thought that if the Forkbeard should purchase a crate of sleen fur or a chest of bog iron the young man, on his shoulders, might then bear it back to our tent, pitched...
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6 233 Then, with great blows of the iron hammer, he riveted the iron collar about her throat.
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6 495 Then from his chests, within the hall, he had given me a long, swirling cloak of the fur of sea sleen; a bronze-headed spear; a shield of painted wood, reinforced with bosses of iron; the shield was red in color, the bosses enameled yellow; a helmet, conical, of iron, with hanging chain, and a steel...
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13 366 The collar of black iron, with its heavy hinge, its riveted closure, its projecting ring of iron, for a chain or padlock, showed black, heavy, against the whiteness of her lovely throat.
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1 11 No longer did the several torches, bristling and tarred, burn in the iron rings at the wall.
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2 67 The trade is largely in furs from the north, exchanged for weapons, iron bars, salt and luxury goods, such as jewelry and silk, from the south, usually brought to Kassau from Lydius by ten-oared coasting vessels.
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2 168 The shields were round, and of wood, variously painted, some reinforced with iron bands, others with leather, some with small bronze plates.
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2 351 With a roar of laughter, hurling the shroud from him, to the horror of the High Initiate, and other Initiates, and the congregation, Ivar Forkbeard, almost seven feet in height, leaped to his feet, in his right hand clutching a great, curved, single-bladed ax of hardened iron.
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3 20 I saw two men of Torvaldsland loading their cloaks with golden plate and vessels from the sanctuary, hurling them like tin and iron into the furs.
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3 176 They consist of curved, hinged bands of black iron, three quarters of an inch in width and a quarter inch in thickness.
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3 299 Some carried crate hooks and others chisels, and iron levers.
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3 320 Then, with a great, sweeping gesture, Ivar Forkbeard emptied the bowl of coins, scattering them in a shower of copper and iron over the men.
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4 23 Her wrists, in the black, iron fetters of the north, were now fastened before her body, that she could feed herself.
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4 300 He made her kneel and again snapped on her wrists the iron, single-linked fetters of the north, and then he tied her by the neck at the end of the coffle.
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5 232 With them, her hair combed, warmed with a broth of dried bosk meat, heated in a copper kettle, over a fire on a rimmed iron plate, legged, set on another plate on the stern quarter, her hands tied behind her with simple binding fiber, had gone Aelgifu.
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5 263 Certain jarls, of course, in a sense, coined money, marking bars of iron or gold, usually small rectangular solids, with their mark.
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5 352 She struggled, her head turned to one side, her wrists locked behind her in the black iron of the north.
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6 32 Plates, with iron nails, were pounded against the mast.
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6 57 Men in the fields wore short tunics of white wool; some carried hoes; their hair was close cropped; about their throats had been hammered bands of black iron, with a welded ring attached.
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6 166 About her neck, riveted, was a collar of black iron, with a welded ring, to which a chain might be attached.
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6 176 How magnificent she seemed, the heavy black iron at her throat, riveted.
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6 193 To one side, tall, broad-shouldered, stood a young male thrall, in the thrall tunic of white wool, his hair cropped short, an iron collar on his throat.
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6 198 "Please, my Jarl," she cried, "do not mark your girl!" At a sign from the Forkbeard, the iron was pressed deeply into her flesh, and held there, smoking for five Ihn.
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6 202 She had dared to pit her will against the iron.
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6 203 But, when the iron had been pulled back, from deep within her flesh, smoking, she, her pride gone, her will shattered, had screamed with pain, long and miserably, revealing herself as only another branded girl.
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6 217 He opened the hinged collar of black iron, about a half inch in height.
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6 253 "Run to the iron, wench," suddenly commanded Ivar Forkbeard, harshly.
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6 255 In a moment the iron had bitten her.
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6 283 Your collar, too, the iron on your neck, it, against the softness of your body, is quite becoming".
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6 293 The last blows of the smith's hammer rang out and Aelgifu, by the hair, was pulled from the anvil, wearing a collar of black iron.
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6 298 On his other side, stripped, her collar of black iron at her throat, her arms about his waist, rubbing herself against his belt, was the bondmaid Gunnhild.
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6 522 About each log, fitting snugly into deep, wide, circular grooves in the wood, were several iron bands.
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6 523 These each contained a welded ring, to which was attached a length of chain, terminating in a black-iron fetter.
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6 565 She sat on the furs, her left ankle clasped in the iron fetter, which chained her to the log at the foot of the Forkbeard's couch, her wrists fastened behind her with her father's chain of office.
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6 579 A collar of black iron was riveted on her throat.
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6 591 I took her ankle and, about it, closed the fetter of black iron.
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7 84 This is a stout post, outside the hall, of peeled wood, with an iron ring near the top, to which the wrists of a bondmaid, crossed, are lashed over her head.
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7 124 He then jerked him to his knees by the iron collar.
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7 204 Her left knee was drawn up; about her left ankle, locked, was the black-iron fetter, with its chain.
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7 205 On her throat was the collar of iron.
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8 134 He snapped fetters of black iron on her wrists.
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8 178 "Remove, and swiftly," said she, "these disgusting fetters!" Ivar Forkbeard went to the door of her room and, silently, slipped the two beams into place, in their iron brackets.
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8 197 "Your adornments," said he, "will be simple, a kirtle of white wool, a brand, a collar of iron".
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9 3 She wore the kirtle of white wool, the riveted collar of black iron.
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9 19 She stood proudly on the arm of the Forkbeard, the white kirtle split to her belly, the black iron at her throat.
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9 113 Ottar then, with a scrap of binding fiber, crossed and rudely bound, before her body, the wrists of the daughter of Thorgard of Scagnar; he then, reaching up, fastened her wrists to the heavy iron ring over her head.
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9 423 My left hand held her left arm; with my right hand I forced her right wrist behind her back; I thrust it up; she cried out, suddenly, with misery; I threw her to the furs; scarcely had she struck them, crying out, belly down, than I had clasped the fetter of black iron about her ankle; chained, she ...
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10 428 They all wore the collars of the north, with the projecting iron ring.
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10 632 She was naked, except for the Torvaldsland collar of black iron on her neck, with its projecting ring, and the heavy chain padlocked about her right ankle; the chain was about a yard long; it secured her, by means of a heavy ring, to the block.
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10 640 I took it, from these indications, she had learned her collar in the south; probably originally it had been a lock collar, snugly fitting, of steel; now, of course, it had been replaced with the riveted collar of black iron, with the projecting ring, so useful for running a chain through, or for pad...
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11 48 Each carried a wide, round shield, of iron, some four feet in diameter.
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11 49 Each, too, carried a great, double-bladed iron ax, which, from blade tip to blade tip, was some two feet in width.
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13 71 "Look," he said, "there is Hafnir of the Inlet of Iron Walls.
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13 145 Many were the roast tarsk and roast bosk that had roasted over the long fire, on the iron spits.
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13 262 "How beautiful!" cried a bondmaid, who did not, herself, own even her collar of iron.
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13 449 In one hand it carried a gigantic ax, whose handle was perhaps eight feet long, whose blade, from tip to tip, might have been better than two feet in length; on its other arm it carried a great, round, iron shield, double strapped; it lifted it, and the ax; its arms were incredibly long, perhaps som...
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14 151 Kurii themselves, axes like sheets of iron rain, shattered that fearful throng, splitting it into hundreds of screaming fragments of terror.
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15 345 The Kurii fixed on their left arms the heavy, rounded iron shields, took the great axes, seven feet in length, grasped some two feet from the bottom of the handle, in their massive right fists.
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16 4 I heard the strike of two small pieces of iron pyrite on one another, taken from the Forkbeard's belt wallet, and saw a scattering of sparks.
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16 14 I saw that, near some of the patches of moss, were pieces of flint and steel, near others tiny piles of iron pyrites.
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16 23 The piles of tinder and flint and steel, or iron pyrites, lay now behind us, or to one side.
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16 148 When he looked down, torch lifted, upon the bones and fragile cloths of what had once been a hero, when the myth had been shattered, the crystal of its dream beneath the iron of reality, I wanted to stand near him.
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16 194 It was plied with iron, barbed.
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17 49 These were the gray men, the hurrying men, the efficient, smug, tragic insects, noiseless on soft feet, in the billion iron hills of technology.
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17 134 The iron files of the Goreans, incidentally, will not cut the alloy.
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18 62 I saw the iron collar, dark, on her white throat.
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18 330 Blocking the path of the Kur was a man, in a kirtle of white wool, a collar of black iron at his throat.
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18 431 Over her iron collar she wore a heavy leather Kur collar, high, heavily sewn, with its large ring.
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18 575 He accepted the driving blows, like iron thunderbolts, on his own blade, turning them aside.
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20 162 I turned her about and, taking a pair of the rude iron slave bracelets of the north, black and common, with which bondmaids are commonly secured, locked her wrists behind her back.
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21 12 About her throat she wore the north's collar of black iron, riveted.
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21 16 Like any other wench, on her neck, riveted, was a simple collar of black iron.
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Book 10. (41 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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1 76 A simple band of iron had been hammered about her neck by one of the metal workers in the employ of Samos.
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1 276 Some of the ornately barred, crimson-draped cells, with brass bowls, and rugs, and cushions and lamps, were quite comfortable; some of the cells held more than one occupant; some of the girls were permitted cosmetics and slave silk; generally, however, girls in the pen are raw, totally, save for the...
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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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2 153 In training a man to use the iron slavers always give him poorer women at first, sometimes having him mark them more than once, until he becomes proficient.
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2 553 She wore a plain iron collar, with ring.
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4 42 The sand kaiila, or desert kaiila, is a kaiila, and handles similarly, but it is not identically the same animal which is indigenous, domestic and wild, in the middle latitudes of Gor's southern hemisphere; that animal, used as a mount by the Wagon Peoples, is not found in the northern hemisphere of...
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6 8 On my neck, hammered, was a heavy ring of iron, with two welded rings, one on each side, to which chains were attached, these chains in the hands of guards.
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7 7 To the heavy collar of iron, to each of its two, heavy welded rings, one on each side, there was fastened a short chain, fixed to a ring and plate, bolted through the drilled stone.
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7 13 I looked to the door, some twenty feet across the stone floor; it was of beams, sheathed with iron.
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7 83 I felt a trickle of sweat move down my left forearm, and slip under the iron on my left wrist.
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7 101 I strained against the iron, the chains.
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9 148 Heat well an iron".
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9 153 The contact surface of the iron would be formed into the Taharic character 'Kef', which, in Taharic, is the initial letter of the expression 'Kajira', the most common expression in Gorean for a female slave.
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10 97 "Doubtless you put the iron to her body yourself," said the merchant.
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12 179 About the ankle there was, welded, an iron ring.
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14 56 The heavy door, beams of wood, sheathed with plates of iron, together some eight inches thick, closed.
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14 437 I held my hands, my neck, as still as possible, for the least movement would shift the collar, the manacles, the chain at my waist, and stir burning iron in the raw, abraded flesh.
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16 33 These, drawn and pushed on carts, fitted onto wooden, iron-sheathed rails, are transported to the hooked lift ropes.
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24 68 Many women, of course, know themselves slaves and weep for masters, long before the collar or iron.
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25 433 "Unless you have an iron with you," I said, "there is not much helping that at the moment".
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25 512 He moved back the heavy iron door and we entered the room.
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25 548 It is held for the kiss of the iron.
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25 549 With a heavy glove, Hassan pulled an iron from the brazier.
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25 555 He returned the one iron to the brazier and reached for another.
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25 557 It was a fine iron, clean and precise.
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25 578 In a few Ehn he removed the iron from the coals, and examined it.
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25 583 She struggled in the bracelets, she watched the iron.
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25 585 For five long Ihn Hassan held the iron, pressing it in.
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26 567 I thrust her, holding her by her arms from behind, on her knees, belly tight, against the flat iron piece over which the door swings, in closing.
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26 571 I then took her wrists up, one at a time, she, startled, not resisting, and tied them, on the outside, each to a separate bar, on either side of the small iron gate.
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26 586 The right side of her face was pressed against the flat iron bar, some two inches high, at the top of the opening, against which the gate, when closed, rests.
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26 814 Hassan was there and the iron was already hot.
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26 815 It was the same iron with which he had, the night before, marked the proud Tarna.
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26 817 One iron, properly cared for, can mark thousands of women.
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26 822 I held up the iron, white hot, for the girl's inspection.
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26 828 "Not for me! Not for me!" "Yes," I assured her, examining the iron, "for you".
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26 847 For example, when a woman is collared it is hard for her to conceive of herself as other than she is, a slave; similarly, when a woman is marked slave, either with an iron or by the tattoo needle, this has a useful psychological effect on her.
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26 851 She looked at me, then at the glowing, white-hot marking surface of the iron.
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26 858 For five long Ihn I held the iron, pressing it in.
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26 935 "What thrills you," I said, "is not the whip, not the iron, not pain, but masculine domination.
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26 1246 You burned me with the iron and made me your slave".
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Book 11. (73 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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1 156 The links were close-set, heavy, of some primitive, simple black iron.
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1 160 I could not see it, but it seemed formed, too, of heavy iron; it seemed simple, practical, not ostentatious; it gripped my throat rather closely; I supposed it was black in color, matching the chain; it had a heavy hinge on one side; the chain, by a link, opened and closed, was fastened to a loop; t...
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2 215 With his left hand, fastened in my hair, he drew my head back; with his right hand he thrust up, high on my neck, under my chin, the heavy iron collar I wore.
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2 217 My jugular vein was, held as I was, prominent and, beneath the clasping, circular iron, prominent and exposed.
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2 316 It was as though, in asking for chains of iron, I had cast off thousands of invisible chains, which had held me from myself.
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2 317 Chains of iron I thought might hold me to my own truths, not permitting me to strive for what, in the heart of me, I did not wish, for what I was not.
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2 383 It was heavy, circular, of black iron, hinged, efficient, practical, frightening.
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3 2 Sparks flew from the iron-banded fire, stinging my body.
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3 31 An iron protruded from the coals.
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3 121 From the brazier, protruding, was the handle of an iron.
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3 147 My captor himself had set me the work of tending the coals in the brazier, where the iron was heating.
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3 196 With a heavy glove, picked up from the grass, he pulled forth the iron and examined it.
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3 199 He thrust the iron back in the brazier, deeply, and indicated I should continue my labors, with which directive, of course, I complied.
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3 212 I did not understand the purpose for which the iron was being heated.
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3 213 It was clearly a marking, or branding, iron.
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3 218 I had seen the design at the tip of the iron.
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3 384 "No, no, no, no!" My captor had gone to the brazier and, with the leather glove, and another, too, with two hands, withdrawn the white-hot iron.
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3 396 For an hour it seemed I felt the iron.
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3 401 It is common to let a girl scream, a Gorean kindness, while she is being marked with a white-hot iron.
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3 402 Afterwards, however, once the iron is pulled out of her body, and she is fully marked, Gorean males are less likely to accord her such consideration for her feelings.
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3 407 I felt the iron touch me and almost instantaneously, crackling, flash through my outer skin and then, firmly, to my horror, enter and lodge itself fixedly in my thigh.
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3 412 Not only could I feel the iron, but I could hear it, hissing and searing in the precise, beautiful wound it was relentlessly burning in my thigh.
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3 418 I felt the iron tight in my body, then, to my horror, pressing in even more deeply.
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3 419 The marking surface of the iron, then, lay hissing, literally submerged, in my flesh.
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3 422 The marking surface of the iron is some quarter of an inch in depth.
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3 525 But now, after my recent experience with the iron, I was prepared to believe the evidence of my senses.
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3 527 Eta and I were, in a profound sense, I realized, now the same; we were both branded women; no longer was I her superior; a mark had been put upon me by a hot iron at the pleasure of men; I was now exactly the same as Eta; whatever she was I, too, I knew, was now that, exactly that, and only that.
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4 42 I kissed my fingertips and, gently, pressed them to the petals of the slave flower which my master, yesterday evening, with a hot iron, against my will, had caused to blossom upon my thigh.
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4 811 It had been placed there, burned into my thigh, by a hot iron, as I had screamed under the metal's searing print.
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7 210 "I am going to take you to my secret camp and there, under the iron, brand you a slave girl.
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7 472 When the iron had been pulled from her burned, marked flesh she had been rendered, as was the intention of my master, and those in Ar, politically valueless.
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8 27 When I had flung down the vertically sliding gate behind me, two notched projections, bolts, welded to the flat bar at the gate's bottom had slipped into iron-enclosed spring catches, heavy locks, one on the bottom left, one on the bottle right, the gate being thus secured.
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9 121 The stock consisted of two heavy, oblong pieces of wood, each about four inches thick, joined together by hinged iron.
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9 543 Its head is iron, and heavy, some six inches at the cutting edge, tapering to four inches where it joins the staff.
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9 1083 They ranged from simple bands of iron, hammered about a girl's throat, her head held down on an anvil, to bejeweled, wondrously wrought, close-locking circlets befitting the preferred slave of a Ubar; such collars, whether worn by a kitchen slave or the prize beauty of a Ubar, had two things in comm...
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9 1964 "And in the feast fires let an iron be heated for slave branding!" There was another cheer.
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11 22 I heard Tup Ladletender paid his money, it being counted out from a small iron chest in the office of the captain.
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11 136 At one point, we passed through a heavy iron door, watched by a guard.
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11 187 The door was small, and thick, and iron, some eighteen inches by eighteen inches square.
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11 307 It was small and iron.
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12 76 She was seldom permitted to carry her whip outside the slave quarters, except in conducting a new slave through the corridors and bringing her through the small iron door, as she had me.
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12 174 He wore heavy iron manacles and could not hurt me.
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12 287 He wore chains on his ankles, and his hands were locked behind his back in iron manacles.
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12 552 In a few moments I reached the small iron door, through which I had first been introduced into the quarters for slaves.
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12 581 I then crept from the room of slave girl preparation, and, slipping about the side of the pool, went to the small iron door.
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12 591 But, behind me, now, came two more men, doubtless those I had heard behind the small iron door, who had then entered the quarters for slaves, examined them, and the room for slave girl preparation, and then emerged through the two gates.
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15 255 Too, I lit the tiny oil fire beneath the tempering vessel, on its iron tripod.
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17 12 The slave oval is a hinged iron loop which locks about a girl's waist.
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17 17 My neck wore an iron collar, with its ring, behind my neck, through which a long chain passed, the chain, too, being held to the wall by its own rings.
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18 101 There are double iron gates, and only the free may come and go as they please.
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20 20 There was a stout door there, made of iron.
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20 371 He had marked me with the hot iron, marking my very flesh, branding me a slave girl.
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20 495 * * * * The double gate, of barred iron, shut behind me.
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23 95 He then, by means of this improvised rope, tied my collar close to the iron ring on the wreckage, no more than an inch from it.
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26 28 I had well judged the temperature of the water, mixing the water from the cistern with other water, heated in the tempering vessel on its iron tripod.
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26 398 "Among my things you will find an iron.
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26 399 Prepare a brazier and heat the iron.
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26 417 Bosk of Port Kar, with the quilted cloth, drew forth the iron, and thrust it back.
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26 423 With the leash he tied her thighs tightly together, leaving between the tight, confining leather strips an open space, a small, lovely territory, for the passage of the iron.
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26 425 He indicated that I should give him the quilted cloth with which he might seize the iron, and I did so.
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26 430 Her thighs had been tied for the iron.
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26 438 I listened to the iron, patient, performing its identificatory work.
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26 452 "Remove the brazier and iron," said Bosk of Port Kar.
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26 453 "Set the iron to cool".
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26 455 With the quilted cloths I took the brazier from the room, and the iron, too.
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26 456 Outside, in the outer room, I put the iron aside, on the tiles, near his belongings.
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26 610 "The beast put the iron well to my body," she said, angrily.
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27 564 "That the flank of a merchant's daughter has met the iron cannot dishonor me," said Thandar of Ti.
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27 686 I looked at the stout iron door, behind which I would be sold.
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27 724 He pounded on the iron door.
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27 729 He struck again on the iron door.
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27 735 I heard feet approaching the iron door, from the other side.
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Book 12. (30 results) Beasts of Gor

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1 65 How incredibly beautiful and soft she seemed; she was curled in the furs; she was half covered by them; I lifted them away, that I might see her fully; she stirred; her hands moved a bit on the furs; she drew her legs up; she reached as though to pull the furs more about her but her hands did not fi...
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2 52 "And what is the meaning of this?" she demanded, pulling at a plain ring of iron which had been hammered about her throat.
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3 492 Most of the wagons were common slave wagons, with a parallel bar running down the center of the wagon bed, about which the ankles of the girls were chained; others, however, were flat wagons fixed with an iron framework; two lines of girls kneel back to back on such a wagon, their ankles and necks l...
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3 690 The girl wears a leather apron and an iron belt.
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4 698 The scribe had paid the physician from a small iron box, taken from a locked trunk, a tarsk bit.
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5 141 He opened the interior gate, and then the heavy iron portal.
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6 220 They rubbed their wrists, and moved their heads, no longer in the iron circle of the collars.
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6 421 An iron collar, with broken chain, was at his neck.
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6 921 I would let her anticipate the iron.
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7 43 He eased the heavy iron collar, with the short, dangling chain, from Ram's neck.
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7 58 "How did she take the iron?" I asked.
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10 125 It was not unusual that men died under the lash of the snake, that heavy coil laced with wire and flecks of iron.
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10 244 He drove the iron bar, which he gripped in fur, downward.
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11 87 These newcomers carried, many of them, the iron bars used for chipping at the permafrost, and picks, and shovels.
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14 75 She seized a heavy iron pan, of the sort used out of doors across stones for cooking.
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15 277 "So, Slave," I said, "you want the iron?" "Yes, Master," she wept.
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15 632 "Once captured and conquered, collared and silked, their thigh burned by the iron, thrown to a man's feet, they are as quick to kiss and lick as any woman.
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26 189 Striking iron pyrites together she showered sparks into tinder, dried grass from the summer.
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27 252 "You may think that to be a warrior is to be large, or strong, and to be skilled with weapons, to have a blade at your hip, to know the grasp of the spear, to wear the scarlet, to know the fitting of the iron helm upon one's countenance, but these things are not truly needful; they are not, truly, w...
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27 255 Any man might place upon his brow the helm of iron.
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27 256 But it is not the scarlet, not the steel, not the helm of iron which makes the warrior".
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30 9 There was an upright iron post, about a yard in height, on each platform, behind each girl.
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30 72 She was again fastened at the iron post, this time kneeling beside it, her hands lifted above her face.
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30 189 The man who had been in charge of the combat then released Arlene from the iron post.
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30 223 Arlene was dragged to the iron post and knelt beside it.
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30 271 I saw Tina and Arlene, braceleted at the iron posts.
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35 380 I then went to the girls, to check the graceful, slender steel collars they wore, those lighter, characteristic slave collars about which the heavy iron wall collars had been closed.
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38 134 "I await the iron with eagerness, Master," she said.
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38 150 I shall always remember with joy the moment of pain in which I knew that I, though only an inconsequential, trivial, and lowly slave, had been found worthy of your iron".
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38 202 You could be a peasant, an Iron worker.
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Book 13. (51 results) Explorers of Gor

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6 502 Already I could see many signs, some subtle and some quite obvious, that the secret slave, which lurks in every woman, had begun to sense, fearfully, excitedly, that she had been brought to a world on which she might perhaps be free at last to emerge; had the chains been removed; she lifted her wris...
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1 39 I remembered her from several months ago when I had first seen her, when she had had about her throat only a simple collar of iron, curved about her throat by the blows of a metal-worker's hammer.
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1 57 As for the girl, he had promptly, to her horror, had her clothing removed and had had her put in a brief rep-cloth slave tunic and a rude neck-ring of curved iron, that she would not escape and, anywhere, could be recognized as a slave.
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1 307 An iron is always ready in a slaver's house.
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1 335 Samos stopped before a heavy iron door; a narrow steel panel slipped back.
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1 349 They then slid back the observation panel in the solid iron door and, after looking through, unlocked the door, and swung it open.
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1 686 "I will have the iron ring removed from her throat," said Samos, "and have her, tied in a slave sack, sent to Bejar".
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1 766 It closed and locked, and I waited for the outer gate, that of iron-sheathed wood, to be opened.
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2 17 "A blond-haired, blue-eyed barbarian," called the auctioneer, "who speaks little or no Gorean, untrained, formerly free, a purse not yet rent, a thigh not yet kissed by the iron.
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3 6 Here and there small lamps, set in niches, high in stone walls, or lanterns, hung on iron projections, shed small pools of light on the sides of buildings and illuminated, too, in their secondary ambiance, the stones of the sloping walkway on which I trod, one of many leading down to the wharves.
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3 12 I passed iron doors, narrow, in the walls.
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4 206 "At least she will not have to be stripped for the iron," said a fellow near me, grinning.
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4 722 Did she not know she was branded? "Heat an iron," said Ulafi to the metal worker, a brawny fellow in a leather apron.
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4 725 "We always keep an iron hot," said the metal worker.
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4 771 The metal worker drew out an iron and looked at it.
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4 798 "The iron is ready," said the metal worker.
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4 799 It was a beautiful iron, and white hot.
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4 801 "My friend here," said Ulafi, indicating me, "will use the iron".
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4 809 I donned leather gloves and took the iron from the metal worker, who cheerfully surrendered it.
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4 812 I held the iron before the girl, that she might see it.
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4 816 The girl is commonly shown the iron, that she may understand its might, its heat and meaning.
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4 824 They would await the kiss of the iron.
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5 789 "Yes, Master," she said, and curled up on the sheet-iron square which floored her cage.
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6 655 If only they could see themselves but once through a man's eyes, would they not be terrified to leave the house, lest they be stripped and put under the iron, and collared, by the first man who sees them? Perhaps it is well for women not to know how desirable they are.
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10 34 He was a man of determination, and of iron will, and vision.
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12 295 Did she not know that she had been truly branded and that, in the touch of the iron, as it marked her, she had been made truly a slave? I sensed now that her slavery, latent until now, was soon to be specifically activated.
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13 350 "Such chains," I said, "you will find far fiercer and far more obdurate than the links of these iron laces which now weight your limbs".
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13 352 "They are far more irresistible and implacable than these dark, blunt impediments, these chains of heavy, linked iron, in which you are now held so helplessly, and against which you now struggle so in vain".
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20 10 I looked at the heavy linkage of the gold chain, slung over the iron collar and work chain I wore.
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20 80 I had seen him look after the raft, and had read the cold rage, the fury like iron, in his body.
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21 6 I struggled to a crouching position, the iron ring, with its chain, heavy on my neck.
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24 82 He slipped and I thrust the iron blade into him and thrust him down, pinning him, blood and bubbles bursting up, to the bottom of the marsh.
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29 200 Again the iron door of her prison, like a heavy hatch, was flung shut over her and the bolt thrust shut.
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29 202 She pressed her small fingers against the damp wall to her left, and against the heavy iron door, bolted shut, obdurate above her, which confined her.
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29 203 The lovely slave lying on the narrow, damp steps, hidden beneath the iron door, shut out again from the sun, cried in the lonely, quiet darkness, her existence once again denied.
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32 595 'No!' I screamed, when I reached the top of the platform, for I then saw, before me, a large, oblong piece of stone, a massive, primitive stone altar, discolored with huge stains of dried blood, with iron rings.
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32 598 I was thrown on my back on the altar and my hands, by the wrist leashes, were fastened apart and over my head to iron rings.
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32 603 Men strung the thongs on my ankles through the iron rings at the foot of the altar.
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32 636 My wrist leashes were untied from the iron rings.
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32 894 He then placed his torch in an iron rack, projecting from the wall.
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32 895 On an iron table, to the right of the rack, there was a flat box.
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34 459 The hands of the small, naked slave girl hidden in the dungeon, crouching on the damp, narrow, stone stairs, pressed upward against the iron door which had been bolted shut above her.
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34 463 She thrust harder against the iron door above her.
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34 470 Then, slowly, inch by inch, she pressing upward, the door began to open; she could feel the stone of the stairs hard under her bare feet; her muscles ached; there was a heavy sound from the protesting, thick hinges; she cried out, thrusting upward; the door then, suddenly, opened, suddenly swinging ...
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34 474 But did not her mistress know that it was she herself who was the lovely, frightened slave? Did she not know that it would be only she herself who would feel the blows of such a whip, or she herself who would see again the iron door of the dungeon close above her head? The blond-haired barbarian, my...
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34 1053 "Some cruel brute burned it into my flesh with a hot iron," she said.
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43 144 "The paddle is like iron in my grasp," said Janice.
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48 12 He knelt in the clearing, in the chains of the talunas, shackles on his ankles and wrists, connected to a common chain depending from a heavy iron collar.
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50 32 On it were huge pillars, with iron rings, where vessels might be moored.
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53 323 One askari might fend a committed blow of the panga with the iron blade of his stabbing spear.
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57 145 Girls such as talunas, silked and perfumed, and placed under the iron will of a man, make superb slaves.
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Book 14. (13 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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16 9 For example, one who is of the metal workers might not be permitted to work iron, but might be permitted to do such things as paint iron, and transport and market it.
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19 95 She was quite beautiful, kneeling barefoot before me, clad only in the brief, sleeveless brown rag of a slave, her blond hair about her shoulders, her blue eyes moist, her throat graced by the narrow collar of dark iron, slave iron.
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2 49 These men may not scold and rebuke such as she; rather, they may train such as she, yes, train them, and with iron and leather! I struggled to suppress these thoughts, to generate comforting dismay and guilt.
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3 11 My wrists were chained to one iron ring, my ankles to another.
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3 142 Their arms and thighs were like iron.
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3 383 The whips here, of course, are of real leather, and the chains of honest iron.
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3 386 "They are precisely what they seem," she said, "true leather and iron.
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4 24 It was of iron.
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4 257 "Do you think I want to be branded with a hot iron? Do you think I want to be put in a steel collar and thrown naked to the feet of men beneath their whips? No, my dear Jason, I do not wish that.
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5 16 The heavy iron collar I had worn was now replaced with a lighter collar, enameled white.
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7 260 There was a wooden bucket there, with slatted sides, hooped with iron.
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8 4 I knelt, head down, before the square iron box, the exterior of which was enameled white, one side of which, its door, on hinges, lay opened on the tiles.
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8 90 I pressed against the sides of the iron container.
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Book 17. (1 results) Savages of Gor

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8 67 It takes time to bring an iron to branding heat and the iron, of course, its head sinking and searing, burning, into the girl's flesh, marking her, loses heat rapidly.
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Book 19. (1 results) Kajira of Gor

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6 154 This belt consisted of two major pieces; one was a rounded, fitted, curved barlike waistband, flattened at the ends; one end of this band, that on the right, standing behind the woman and looking forward, had a heavy semicircular ring, or staple, welded onto it; the other flattened end of the waistb...
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Book 21. (1 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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22 351 Without girders, frame steel, and timber iron, as the Goreans say, wrought in the iron shops, such as are used in the towers, physics, even indexed to the Gorean gravity, is quick to impose its inexorable limits on heights.
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Book 22. (1 results) Dancer of Gor

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3 303 I fleetly crossed the open space of the central section of the library and ran up the iron, iron-and-wood-banistered stairs to the upper level, where we keep biographies and fiction.
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Book 24. (1 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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29 167 He then slapped her bared left thigh, high, close to the hip, familiarly, in the place, or about the place, that a slaver or iron worker would be likely to place his iron.
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Book 27. (1 results) Prize of Gor

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17 810 "Guardsman! Search for an escaped slave in a weight collar, a high collar of thick, black iron, hammered shut about her neck, its two forward projections pierced, a dangling, two-hort iron ring threaded through the piercings!" So Ellen lay on the cement shelf, chained, closing her eyes, shuddering, ...
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Book 33. (3 results) Rebels of Gor

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11 249 Might not the rice wither and die in that darkness? Who knows the temper and appetite of the iron dragon? How long it has been since it has last flown! What if it is angry? What if it is hungry? What if it is insatiable? Might it not alight upon the palaces of Yamada as well as upon the holding of T...
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44 317 You may call it an iron dragon, if you wish, but it is not your feared iron dragon of legend, which is a myth.
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47 45 "As it seems the holding is to be destroyed, in either case," said Lord Yamada, "either by the breath of the iron dragon or the torches of Temmu, one may as well be done with it, and free the iron dragon".
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Book 34. (1 results) Plunder of Gor

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54 149 I now realized that it had not been simply cast aside, as I had thought, but, in its looping, had been fashioned into a long, heavy cordage of iron, like a mountain's necklace, a necklace set with stones of iron, shackles, manacles, and the collar.
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