| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 131 |
"Where a man sets his Home Stone, he claims, by law, that land for himself. |
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| 2 | 132 |
Good land is protected only by the swords of the strongest owners in the vicinity". |
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| 3 | 75 |
"The city-state," said my father, speaking to me late one afternoon, "is the basic political division on Gor—hostile cities controlling what territory they can in their environs, surrounded by a no-man's land of open ground on every side". |
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| 4 | 20 |
For example, to land or lose altitude, one uses the four-strap which exerts pressure on the four-ring, which is located beneath the throat of the tarn. |
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| 5 | 115 |
"If you wish to land," said Sana, apparently determined to see me compensated in some fashion, "I will serve your pleasure". |
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| 7 | 85 |
About three or four pasangs distant, through the thinning swamp trees, I could see the verdant meadows of Ar's Sa-Tarna land. |
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| 7 | 87 |
"I do not wish to approach nearer to the land. |
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| 7 | 126 |
I shoved the log back and finally, carrying the filthy body soaked in its absurd garments, made my way to a ledge of green, dry land at the edge of the swamp. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 11 |
Even the Caste of Peasants regarded itself as the "Ox on which the Home Stone Rests" and could seldom be encouraged to leave their narrow strips of land, which they and their fathers before them had owned and made fruitful. |
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| 15 | 14 |
"Four-strap!" I called, and the bird began to drop toward the earth, preparing to land. |
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| 16 | 20 |
For some reason the bird seemed unwilling to land. |
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| 19 | 82 |
We must live off the land. |
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| 23 | 77 |
Angry men, armed with whatever tools of destruction they might find, prowled the land, evading the sorties of Tharna's soldiers, hunting for granaries to rob, for buildings to burn, for slaves to free. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 66 |
If there is an optimum configuration for a land predator, I suppose on my old world the palm must go to the Bengal tiger; but on Gor the prize belongs indisputably to the mountain larl; and I cannot but believe that the structural similarities between the two animals, though of different worlds, are... |
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| 28 | 10 |
On the second day of the second week of battle, after the forces of Sarm had withdrawn, I, armed with sword and silver tube, mounted a transportation disk and swept through the no man's land of unoccupied tunnels toward the Vivarium. |
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| 33 | 5 |
Several times, in fact, I had simply leaped from one portion of the trail to float more than a hundred feet downward to land lightly on another portion of the trail, a point which, on foot, might have been separated by more than five pasangs from the point above from which I had leaped. |
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| 33 | 22 |
I took another leap, this time putting some effort into it, and cleared the top of the crevice by some ten feet to land between it and the gate. |
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| 35 | 189 |
"Where," I asked him, "is the land of the Wagon Peoples?". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 24 |
I had left the vicinity of the Sardar Range in the month of Se'Var, which in the northern hemisphere is a winter month, and had journeyed south for months; and had now come to what some call the Plains of Turia, others the Land of the Wagon Peoples, in the autumn of this hemisphere; there is, due ap... |
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| 4 | 79 |
Suddenly the Tuchuk bent to the soil and picked up a handful of dirt and grass, the land on which the bosk graze, the land which is the land of the Tuchuks, and this dirt and this grass he thrust in my hands and I held it. |
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| 1 | 22 |
The land between the Cartius and the Vosk had once been within the borders of the claimed empire of Ar, but not even Marlenus, Ubar of Ubars, when master of luxurious, glorious Ar, had flown his tarnsmen south of the Cartius. |
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| 1 | 31 |
From the Sardar I had gone largely Cart, sometimes Vask, then Cart again until I had come to the Plains of Turia, or the Land of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 2 | 22 |
I recalled a windy night in the shadow of the Sardar when we had spoken of strange things, and I had left him and come down the hill, and had asked the leader of those with whom I had traveled the way to the Land of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 2 | 39 |
I was afoot, on the treeless southern plains of Gor, on the Plains of Turia, in the Land of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 2 | 106 |
* *The pasang, a common unit of Gorean land measurement, is approximately seven-tenths of a mile. |
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| 4 | 81 |
"Yes," said the warrior, "come in peace to the Land of the Wagon Peoples". |
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| 7 | 1 |
La Kajira The wagon of Kutaituchik, called Ubar of the Tuchuks, was drawn up on a large, flat-topped grassy hill, the highest land in the camp. |
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| 10 | 78 |
"The Land of the Wagon Peoples, you mean". |
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| 15 | 6 |
The cavalries of the Tuchuks, however, managed to maintain a reasonably effective blockade of land routes to Turia. |
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| 16 | 310 |
And they might have learned, as well, that I had been in the War of Priest-Kings a lieutenant to Misk, the Fifth Born, Chief of the Rebels, and that I had now made my way to the southern plains, to the land of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 24 | 33 |
Yet it seemed to me true, for Turia was the main avenue of contact between the Wagon Peoples and the other cities of Gor, the gate through which trade goods flowed to the wilderness of grasses that was the land of the riders of the kaiila and the herders of bosk. |
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| 25 | 225 |
I did, however, measure the distance between us, an experiment in speculation, and decided I could reach her in one bound and in one motion, with luck, land her on the rug. |
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| 26 | 46 |
The men held their fire, and the tarn, almost at the center of the compound, as far from our encircling positions as possible, suddenly plummeted downward, its wings high, opening them only at the last minute to land on the top of the keep, beyond accurate crossbow range. |
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| 26 | 292 |
I recalled Tolnus, for he had been one of the four Ubars of the Wagon Peoples, whom I, unknowing, had met when first I came to the Plains of Turia, to the Land of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 27 | 221 |
"This woman," said Kamchak of the Tuchuks, brusquely, his voice stern but almost breaking, "is called Aphris—know her—she is Ubara of the Tuchuks, she is Ubara Sana, of my heart Ubara Sana!" We let Kamchak and Aphris ride ahead, and followed them, by some hundred yards, toward the main... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 149 |
I remembered her on the Plains of Turia, in the Land of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 5 | 145 |
* * * * Some months before, Elizabeth and I, the egg of Priest-Kings in the saddlepack of my tarn, had returned to the north from the Plains of Turia, the Land of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 5 | 192 |
For many months, while you labored in our service in the Land of the Wagon Peoples, thousands upon thousands of those of Ko-ro-ba have returned to the city. |
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| 16 | 231 |
Throughout the stands, startling those multitudes, unsettling the other birds being drawn by the horned tharlarion on the low carts, there was heard the sudden shrill, ringing challenge scream of a tarn, unhooded, a giant tarn, black, a wild mountain cry of one of Gor's fiercest, most beautiful pred... |
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| 22 | 403 |
The tarnsmen, of course, centuries before, had been developed from land forces; it had always seemed to me that the tarn cavalries of Gor might be considerably improved by a judicious alteration of weapons and training practices; however, I had never had a command of tarnsmen of my own, and my ideas... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 133 |
The nearest solid land was about one hundred pasangs to the north, but it was open land, and, there, on the edges of the delta, there were log outposts of Port Kar, where slave hunters and trained sleen, together, patrolled the marshes' edges. |
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| 17 | 317 |
Whereas their instincts apparently tend to keep them within the sight of land, I did not know what would be the case if they were unhooded at sea, and there was no land to be found. |
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| 17 | 322 |
I was hoping that, in the strange intelligence of animals, it would be the departure from land, and not the mere positioning of being out of the sight of land, that would be counter-instinctual for the great birds. |
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| 8 | 532 |
Here, on this wooden land lost in the delta marshes, I was Ubar. |
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| 9 | 111 |
The nearest solid land, other than occasional bars in the marshes, to Port Kar lies to her north, some one hundred pasangs distant. |
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| 10 | 242 |
On land I did not see much of them, preferring it this way, remaining aloof. |
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| 13 | 295 |
We were now free of the land. |
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| 15 | 126 |
Accordingly the Council, ringing it with double walls on the land side and blockading it with arsenal ships by sea, chose to wait. |
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| 15 | 134 |
It had been on one side, a land side, of that last remaining fortress of Henrius Sevarius, that Lysias, Henrak, and others had emerged from a postern, carrying the heavy sack which they had hurled into the canal, that sack from which I had saved the boy. |
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| 17 | 75 |
In effect, rather than do sea battle, they would attempt to close with the enemy and, via the rails and the grappling bridges, board her and fight what would be, for most practical purposes, a land engagement at sea. |
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| 17 | 246 |
The tarn is a land bird, generally of mountainous origin, though there are brightly-plumaged jungle tarns. |
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| 17 | 254 |
Generally even tarn-goads cannot drive them from the sight of land. |
10 |
| 17 | 314 |
The tarn can scarcely be taken from the sight of land. |
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| 17 | 321 |
But I hoped that the tarns, finding themselves out of the sight of land, might accommodate themselves to the experience. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 83 |
Those approaching were drawn by land tharlarion, plodding on log roads along the edges of the river. |
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| 8 | 84 |
The land tharlarion can swim barges across the river, but he is not as efficient as the vast river tharlarion. |
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| 8 | 222 |
Some men came down to the pier to watch us land. |
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| 9 | 228 |
It is not impossible that they belt the land surfaces of the planet. |
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| 12 | 439 |
Various cities, through their own Merchant Castes, lease land for these stockades and, for their fees, keep their garrisons, usually men of their own cities, supplied. |
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| 13 | 749 |
If it was now possible, or soon would be possible, to bring a land army easily southward to Ar, once the Vosk was traversed, by the same token, it would be similarly possible for Ar to bring, swiftly, a considerable force of men northward, to the very shore of the Vosk. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 90 |
Night camps are frequently made on land. |
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| 2 | 673 |
"Tomorrow," I told them, "briefly, we will put into land". |
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| 2 | 685 |
We had put into land briefly this afternoon. |
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| 5 | 8 |
They had splashed beneath the water and then, in a moment, their snouts and sleek heads had poked upward, shining and dripping, and then, they, all six of them, noses like compass needles, smelling the land, had turned in the water and, tails whipping, leaving snakelike curves in the water, had sped... |
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| 6 | 176 |
Ar remains substantially a land power, but the river traffic, on the Vosk and, to the south, on the Cartius, is important to her. |
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| 6 | 313 |
Who knew to what heights, in time, might be raised the chair of Bosk? Perhaps, in time, it might stand as high, or higher, than the throne of Ar? And might there not come to be, in time, an alliance of Gor's greatest sea power and her greatest land power, and, perhaps, in time, but one throne? We wo... |
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| 9 | 243 |
"We were following an enemy panther girl," she said, "one less skilled than yourself, of the band of Hura, who would take my land from me". |
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| 18 | 668 |
They had been long at sea, doubtless not putting into land, save for supplies and water, and that in lonely places. |
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| 19 | 58 |
Further, if they kept slaves on the shoreward side of the rafts, as they would, and did not put into land to make camp, there was little that could be done. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 99 |
And he had gone to the Land of the Wagon Peoples, to the Plains of Turia, and had obtained there the last egg of Priest-Kings and had returned it, safe, to the Sardar. |
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| 1 | 617 |
It is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to fly a tarn from the sight of land. |
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| 1 | 619 |
In the engagement of the 25th of Se'Kara we had used tarns at sea, but they had been kept below decks in cargo ships until beyond the sight of land. |
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| 2 | 176 |
They can be brought to land in either direction, a valuable property in the rocky, swift northern waters. |
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| 4 | 5 |
We had been out of sight of land for two days, and, the night preceding, had been, with shortened sail, swept eastward by high winds. |
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| 4 | 9 |
Torvaldsland is a cruel, harsh, rocky land. |
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| 4 | 19 |
The stream of Torvald is regarded by the men of Torvaldsland as a gift of Thor, bestowed upon Torvald, legendary founder and hero of the land, in exchange for a ring of gold. |
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| 4 | 69 |
In the long winters of Torvaldsland, when the snow, the darkness, the ice and wintry winds are upon the land, when the frost breaks open the rocks, groaning, at night, when the serpents hide in their roofed sheds, many hours, under swinging soapstone lamps, burning the oil of sea sleen, are given to... |
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| 6 | 34 |
Then the ship turned a bend between the cliffs, and, to my astonishment, I saw a dock, of rough logs, covered with adzed boards, and a wide, sloping area of land, of several acres, green, though strewn with boulders, with short grass. |
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| 6 | 59 |
I saw people running down the sloping green land, toward the water. |
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| 9 | 474 |
This morning, at dawn, the serpent would leave the small wharf, dipping oars, gliding through fog on the inlet, the result of the cooler land winds moving over the somewhat warmer water of the encroaching Torvaldstream. |
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| 10 | 49 |
Prior to his winning the swimming he had won talmits for climbing the "mast," a tall pole of needle wood, some fifty feet high, smoothed and peeled; for jumping the "crevice," actually a broad jump, on level land, where marks are made with strings, to the point at which the back heel strikes the ear... |
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| 10 | 156 |
The motivation of this custom, I gather, is to enable strong, powerful men to obtain land and attractive women; and to encourage those who possess such to keep themselves in fighting condition. |
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| 11 | 159 |
"We will take only as much of your land as the width of our march, and for only as long as it takes to pass". |
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| 11 | 174 |
"What will you pay us to cross our land?" asked one of the free men of Torvaldsland. |
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| 11 | 181 |
The Kur, moreover, tends to be an inveterate land animal. |
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| 11 | 221 |
"What will you pay," asked Svein Blue Tooth, "for permission to traverse our land, should that permission be granted?" "We will take little or nothing," said the Kur, "and so must be asked to pay nothing". |
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| 11 | 286 |
"Do we, free men of Torvaldsland," called out Svein Blue Tooth, "grant permission to the Kurii to traverse our land?" "No!" cried one man. |
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| 12 | 36 |
"I distinguish myself, and enter into the history of our land," said the Blue Tooth, "in being the high Jarl to award these talmits in the games. |
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| 13 | 406 |
His word was to him as his land, and his sword, as his honor and his ship; it would be kept; it would be neither demeaned nor broken. |
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| 13 | 425 |
Then, to the astonishment of all Torvaldsland, and most to that of Svein Blue Tooth, the Forkbeard, redoubtable, after earning six talmits in the contests, delivered to his hall the very wergild no man had supposed it possible to pay, and had then, arrogantly, before the high seat of the Blue Tooth ... |
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| 15 | 45 |
Kurii are land animals, not fond of water. |
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| 15 | 323 |
I had not conquered a mountain; the mountain, when I had paid its price, that I might understand the value of the gift, had lifted me to where I might see how insignificant I was and how beautiful and precious was reality and life, and the sun on a bleak, cold land. |
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| 16 | 118 |
When his land needs him, he shall awake. |
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| 16 | 129 |
I did not think it impossible that there had once been a Torvald, one who had come to this land, with followers perhaps, more than a thousand years ago. |
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| 16 | 144 |
One such legend, quite naturally, might have been that Torvald, the great Torvald, was not truly dead, but only asleep, and would waken when once again his land had need of him. |
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| 16 | 222 |
If the land is to be saved, it is by us, and others like us, that it must be saved. |
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| 17 | 106 |
In these days I had much spied on Kurii, living on the land, returning more than once to the Blue Tooth's war camp. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 114 |
Land, at an oasis, which will grow food is not wasted on domiciles. |
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| 2 | 234 |
On the Plains of Turia, or in the Land of the Wagon Peoples, it was available only late in the summer. |
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| 7 | 479 |
And what she did not accomplish with the message collar in the land of the Wagon Peoples, she has well accomplished here on the rack in the chamber of justice". |
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| 11 | 18 |
Then, as swiftly as it had come, the sand fled, and the sun, bright and immediate, raw with its ferocity and beauty, held again, untroubled, forgetful, the scepter, the constant, merciless mace, of its light and heat over the wide land. |
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| 11 | 37 |
When it falls, it often falls heavily, and on flat land, in the loose dust. |
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| 23 | 142 |
If offended, and not deeming it honorable to attack the allies of the Aretai, they might simply withdraw their forces and return to their own land, more than a thousand pasangs away. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 151 |
The Gorean peasant is a resolute, strong fellow, upright and stubborn, who prides himself on his land and his sovereignty. |
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| 7 | 48 |
This, said to be a plan to bring more arable land under cultivation, is generally viewed as being an opening of this territory to large-scale military passage. |
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| 9 | 1186 |
The land was in drought. |
10 |
| 9 | 1617 |
The peasant is a part of the land. |
10 |
| 9 | 1625 |
The wood of our land will decide". |
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| 22 | 58 |
The sea sleen, vicious, fanged aquatic mammals, apparently related to the land forms of sleen, are the swiftest predators to be found in Thassa; further, they are generally conceded to be the most dangerous; they tend, however, to frequent northern waters. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 639 |
We tend to think of mountains as being land formations. |
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| 3 | 108 |
They had been driven from that bleak, rocky land by the mighty men of the high-roofed halls. |
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| 11 | 249 |
Trees do not flourish in the land of Imnak and their needs for wood must largely be satisfied by occasional finds at the shore, driftwood, from hundreds of pasangs south, dragged from the chilled water. |
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| 11 | 344 |
Then one would land, to reconnoiter. |
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| 12 | 89 |
It did not land upright. |
10 |
| 12 | 352 |
Most of the land is tundra, a cool, generally level or slightly wavy, treeless plain. |
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| 23 | 262 |
"If it were on the land," I said, "I think the red hunters, of one village or another, in their hunting, would have come across it. |
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| 25 | 108 |
The lay of the land, the winds, the stars, help him with directions, as well as, of course, his own keenly developed sense of orientation, probably selected for in the harsh environment. |
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| 25 | 110 |
Interestingly, in his descriptions and rude maps of terrain, scratched in the snow, he shows little awareness of or interest in land masses or shapes. |
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| 25 | 115 |
And even if a red hunter should become lost it is normally possible for him, at least for a time, to live off the land. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 9 |
We could not yet see land. |
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| 6 | 11 |
They, too, could smell the spices, even this far from land. |
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| 6 | 24 |
"They nest on land at night". |
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| 6 | 32 |
She knew we were now in the vicinity of land. |
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| 6 | 51 |
Still we could not see land. |
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| 6 | 52 |
Yet I knew that land must be nigh. |
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| 6 | 575 |
The land will not support large permanent settlements. |
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| 7 | 104 |
We are not an armed city, not a fortress, not a land power. |
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| 16 | 88 |
The eventual intent of Bila Huruma was not only to open the rain forests of the deep interior, and whatever might lie within the system of the Ua and her tributaries, to commercial exploitation and military expansion, but to drain the marshes between the two mighty lakes, Ushindi and Ngao, that that... |
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| 20 | 14 |
In some places there were risings above the marsh and hills of relatively dry land. |
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| 29 | 222 |
This property also, of course, makes it possible for them to elude marine predators and, on the land, to return to the water in case of danger. |
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| 32 | 206 |
In the ground zone, and on the ground itself, are certain birds, some flighted, like the hook-billed gort, which preys largely on rodents, such as ground urts, and the insectivorous whistling finch, and some unflighted, like the grub borer and land gim. |
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| 32 | 243 |
They normally occur only where men have cleared land, and then, later, abandoned it. |
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| 36 | 31 |
How could I tell Kisu, who was of the land, of the feelings of those who had known the waves of Thassa? "You will not free me, will you, Master?" asked Janice. |
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| 57 | 84 |
To this day, as one may see upon the map, the land of Ukungu stands as a sovereign free state within the perimeters of the empire of Bila Huruma. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 396 |
"I would be curious to know from what land". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 36 |
Many of the refugees, destitute, who had come to Lara had not been permitted to land at the quays, but had been driven further downriver. |
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| 22 | 129 |
It is outside the house, like the land, and space, and stars. |
10 |
| 25 | 154 |
"Indeed, Ar is substantially a land power. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 221 |
Similarly the absence of large bodies of water in the Barrens reduces rainfall which might be connected with large-scale evaporation and subsequent precipitation of this moisture over land areas, the moisture being carried inland on what are, in effect, sea breezes, flowing into low-pressure areas c... |
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| 1 | 931 |
Still the man pressed on, knowing the direction of the kailiauk and following the natural geodesics of the land, such as might be followed by a slow-moving beast, pawing under the snow for roots or grass. |
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| 1 | 1234 |
Too, the land is too open, and tracks are difficult to conceal. |
10 |
| 2 | 211 |
They are barren only in contrast, say, with the northern forests or the lush land in river valleys, or the peasant fields or meadows of the southern rain belts. |
10 |
| 2 | 217 |
They would be, on the whole, much less arable than much of the other land of known Gor. |
10 |
| 2 | 224 |
Areas in the vicinity of large bodies of water, because of the differential heating ratios of land and water, usually have warmer winters and cooler summers than areas which are not so situated. |
10 |
| 2 | 246 |
To be sure, this rain usually runs off rapidly, cutting crevices and gullies in the land. |
10 |
| 4 | 15 |
To accompany one such as the fellow, Grunt, of whom I had heard, seemed to me advisable, at least until I could learn the land and fend better for myself. |
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| 7 | 95 |
Land which is suitable for farming, and in proximity to towns, is seldom, along the perimeter, put to the uses of grazing. |
10 |
| 9 | 29 |
A single human being can be agriculturally supported by less than an acre of land. |
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| 14 | 1333 |
"Is it your intention to go to the land of the Kaiila?" I asked. |
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| 19 | 109 |
"Yes," said Grunt, "when last I was in the land of the Kaiila, I met him in general council, with Black Clouds, Mahpiyasapa, civil chief of the Isbu". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 205 |
The land of the Napoktan, or Bracelets band of the Kaiila, is east of the Snake, and north of the Northern Kaiila, and the Kaiila proper. |
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| 33 | 333 |
We will then proceed north and west of Council Rock, into the land of the Casmu Kaiila. |
10 |
| 39 | 281 |
"I think the bird intends to land," said Cuwignaka. |
10 |
| 39 | 284 |
"It is going to land," said Cuwignaka. |
10 |
| 39 | 293 |
"Why would he land?" asked Cuwignaka. |
10 |
| 54 | 310 |
The community of those who had been Waniyanpi, of course, was not identified with a particular area of land, and certainly not with a territory occupied under the conditions of a leased tenancy. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 84 |
"They will not meet Ar on the land". |
10 |
| 31 | 60 |
Wars, and such, are fought for territory, for mineral wealth, for geopolitical advantage, for ports, for mines, for treasure, for arable land, for slaves, and such, and for reasons of insult and honor. |
10 |
| 33 | 33 |
Ar, of course, had substantial land forces. |
10 |
| 33 | 35 |
The land forces of Cos, on the other hand, were probably not superior to those of a number of Gorean states, even much smaller in their populations than the island Ubarate. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 992 |
"Can it be," I asked, "that Cos is planning to challenge Ar on the land?" "That would be madness," said Samos. |
10 |
| 1 | 994 |
Ar is the major land force in known Gor. |
10 |
| 1 | 995 |
The Cosian infantry, meeting her on land in open battle, in force, would be crushed. |
10 |
| 1 | 998 |
Cos would never challenge Ar on the land. |
10 |
| 8 | 257 |
From the fellow's back there protruded the handle of a knife, the hilt of a particular sort of knife, that of a saddle knife, that of the sort common in the land of the Wagon Peoples, that commonly known as a "quiva". |
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| 22 | 227 |
"Ar," I said, "has the finest land forces on Gor. |
10 |
| 22 | 228 |
Cos and Tyros are mad to challenge her on the land". |
10 |
| 22 | 235 |
"Now Tyros, a traditional naval ally of Cos, is prepared to support her ambitions openly on the land. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 377 |
"If they saw fit to land, I would take to my heels with all haste". |
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| 4 | 152 |
"Land, gold, vengeance, women, water, pasturage, tradition, custom, sport," said Hurtha, "such things". |
10 |
| 4 | 270 |
When possible, of course, given considerations of the land, warriors like to have both the sun and the wind at their back. |
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| 15 | 650 |
The land between here and Ar, and the city itself, would be in effect without defense". |
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| 18 | 128 |
"Because it is rich and busy, populous and thriving, a hub of commerce, the mistress of thousands of pasangs of arable soil and verdant pasture land". |
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| 27 | 212 |
"I was the Lady Lydia, she of the High Merchants, she whose wealth was in gems and land, she of the Tabidian Towers!" she said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 830 |
"When we are out of the sight of land," he said, "totally out of the sight of land". |
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| 20 | 187 |
Some Gorean farmers own their own land, and some share in land owned by a village. |
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| 7 | 39 |
As soon as land had first been sighted, we had again, the original coffle of us, been subjected to our original securities, our hands back-manacled, our mouths gagged, our heads covered with heavy, opaque, buckled, locked hoods. |
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| 20 | 193 |
Usually, as it is their caste policy, the farmers or villagers seek new land, usually farther away, to start again. |
10 |
| 20 | 207 |
He is fond of the land he knows. |
10 |
| 25 | 57 |
"I came out for air," I said, "and to see the land. |
10 |
| 25 | 59 |
"It is not only the land which is beautiful," he said. |
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| 25 | 175 |
It seems they think that whatever land the tread of their tharlarion can shake, whatever soil they choose to mark with the imprint of their beasts' claws, is theirs. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 461 |
This pitch of the land, too, incidentally, makes it difficult to drain the moat. |
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| 1 | 484 |
The water in the moat, from the inpourings from the land about, the drainages, dark and roiling, was almost to the foot of the bridge. |
10 |
| 2 | 52 |
"Only what I hear," he said, "—that the Cosians have invested Ar's Station, on three sides by land, and have closed the harbor, that with a wall of chained rafts". |
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| 2 | 97 |
I also knew that Ar, inexplicably, to my mind, had literally invested the bulk of its land power in that very expedition, and had done so with the main forces of Cos not in the north but in the vicinity of Torcadino. |
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| 10 | 321 |
The land side was invested. |
10 |
| 11 | 266 |
Your conjecture that Cos could not field such land forces assumes that these forces must consist of her own troops. |
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| 13 | 28 |
Later that afternoon there were several more such crashes, all on the land side of the citadel. |
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| 16 | 50 |
If the wall is a land wall, it can, with luck, topple a siege tower. |
10 |
| 17 | 108 |
It was the most central location on the land wall. |
10 |
| 17 | 112 |
The men I had sent to the west end of the land wall, past the west bastion, had actually sped by them. |
10 |
| 18 | 228 |
In their fall they not unoften took others with them, the some seventy feet or so, to the landing, the wall lower on the harbor side than the land side. |
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| 20 | 295 |
The major land forces of Ar, I had gathered, were somewhere in the west, south of the river. |
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| 21 | 1040 |
Doubtless as they served their masters in the halls, roasting meat and carrying flagons of mead, they heard warriors regale young men with the tales of the women of their native land. |
10 |
| 21 | 1045 |
I supposed that, eventually, both Publia and Claudia would be vended in Cosian slave markets, As slaves they would have no Home Stones, nor native land, no more than a tarsk or kaiila. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 346 |
Young Marcus, with the consent of his commander, Aemilianus, formerly of Ar's Station, now amongst the refugees at Port Cos, had been given permission to track the movements of the Cosians in the north, and to convey this information to the major land forces of Ar, which were currently located at Ho... |
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| 3 | 34 |
The land, its fall and lie, wells, watercourses, their breadth and depth, their swiftness, fords, climate, time of year, visibility, precipitation, footing, and such, provide the four-dimensional board on which are played the games of war. |
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| 3 | 453 |
Whereas the main forces of Ar might be well rested in their winter camp, perhaps unexercised, perhaps grown sleek and fat, men such as these, foragers, rangers, scouts, and such, had probably had more than their share of alarms and labors, of suspicions and dangers, more than their share of contacts... |
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| 12 | 154 |
It is for such a reason that her major land forces came north with the Cosians at Torcadino. |
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| 13 | 337 |
"He will land," said another. |
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| 17 | 126 |
It seems men had glimpsed the firm land, grass, and fields, and had rushed weeping, joyfully, toward them, and that it was but Ehn afterward, when the second column had emerged from the delta, that the ambush had been sprung. |
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| 19 | 251 |
I then waded back to the land. |
10 |
| 27 | 68 |
Then I drew him, filthy, covered with sand and water, from the pool, to the dry land. |
10 |
| 28 | 103 |
To find truly different cultures one might have to travel to Torvaldsland, to the Tahari, to the Barrens, to the Land of the Wagon Peoples, to the interior, east of Schendi, and so on. |
10 |
| 32 | 159 |
I considered the likely path of the fugitive, given the lay of the land, the simplest geodesics he might traverse, giving him the least resistance to flight. |
10 |
| 36 | 121 |
In this fashion, they have more land, obtain cheaper rentals, avoid certain local taxes, and so on. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 308 |
The ugliness of the crowd, its hostility, and such, was, I think, a function of recent events, which had precipitated confusion, uncertainty and terror in Ar, in particular the military catastrophe in the delta, in which action, absurdly, the major land forces of Ar had been invested, and the news t... |
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| 3 | 734 |
"From a distant land," said another. |
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| 3 | 856 |
Thus the "one" side is slightly heavier and, in normal play, should tend to land face down more often than, say, the "six" side, this bringing up the opposite side, the "six" side in Earth dice, somewhat more frequently. |
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| 8 | 227 |
I also recalled a blond free woman acquired later in the same place, the Lady Lydia, of the High Merchants, whose wealth had been in gems and land, a tenant even of the Tabidian Towers. |
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| 14 | 59 |
What if she had found herself, for example, tied with wire in an alcove in Brundisium, almost concealed in ropes on a submission mat in the Tahari, wearing a body cage in Tyros, bound to a wheel in the land of the Wagon Peoples, shackled on a sales platform in Victoria, fearing the auctioneer's whip... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 449 |
He and I might both have noted the beauty of the mountains on the ascent, achieving in that moment a sort of brief parity, suspended as we were on the rope, between the land and the sky, between worlds, in a sort of aesthetic void, an artificial stasis, but we had now come to the platform, to its so... |
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| 11 | 342 |
And here, too, at last, after having lived for years in a sexual desert, unhappy, frustrated, deprived and starved, we find ourselves in a land of plenty. |
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| 11 | 1360 |
"That is a land," said one. |
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| 11 | 1374 |
"Tarns do not care to leave the sight of land," said another, as though reminding his peer of something. |
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| 11 | 1395 |
"But what matters it," asked a man, "the place from which she came, and whether it is a land, and where it might be, to the south, or elsewhere, or a world, and wherever it might be?" "It matters naught," said another man. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 341 |
"He is going to land on the roof," said one of the girls, frightened. |
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| 20 | 332 |
When they land, thought Ellen, I will try to slip away. |
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| 20 | 333 |
Then it occurred to her that they might well land after dawn, in the full daylight, and in some camp, where she would be instantly discovered. |
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| 20 | 450 |
The tarn is not an aquatic species, and resists being flown out of the sight of land. |
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| 27 | 2110 |
"The land here is dry most of the year. |
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| 29 | 337 |
Many Goreans, incidentally, assume that "Earth" is a remote locale or land on their own world. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 147 |
"Gold, land, power, tharlarion, kaiila, women?" asked Cabot. |
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| 8 | 152 |
"Gor, I take it," said Cabot, "would be shared equally, its land, its riches, and such, all, equally, between Kurii and humans". |
10 |
| 8 | 164 |
"And Kurii?" "We would expect some land to be set aside for us, to be reserved for our use," said Agamemnon. |
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| 29 | 18 |
"I do not see why Kurii should fear such things, on the land". |
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| 29 | 19 |
"If power weapons were permitted in the cylinder, they would have nothing to fear," said Cabot, "but they are not, and these things, I understand, are far more terrible than Kurii, though on land they do not move quickly". |
10 |
| 29 | 120 |
"Even a princess," he said, "has often been exchanged for land and power". |
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| 32 | 255 |
"We are now on land. |
10 |
| 33 | 112 |
"We are closer to land," said Grendel. |
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| 43 | 170 |
"A land tharlarion, he attended by Lords Lucullus and Crassus". |
10 |
| 61 | 18 |
"Not so here," said Lord Grendel, "the habitats are, in their way, a land, a territory, at least, for most practical purposes, a world in itself. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 40 |
And would one not require the means to reach those sovereignties, which lay hundreds of pasangs to the west? The tarn is a land bird, and will not fly beyond the sight of land. |
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| 30 | 91 |
The tarn is a land bird and will not fly beyond the sight of land. |
10 |
| 30 | 95 |
They may have taken the ships below as land, as islands, so to speak, or, perhaps, it was a mere matter that we had not triggered or engaged the bird's reluctance to forsake the sight of land. |
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| 2 | 24 |
Gor is somewhat smaller than Earth but having missed the cataclysm that drew, say, a sixth of Earth into space to form her magnificent single moon, leaving behind a mighty basin to become in time a vast ocean, her land area is quite possibly more extensive than that of Earth. |
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| 2 | 73 |
The last thing Port Kar, or these other powers, needs is a land war, which would have to be primarily conducted by mercenaries. |
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| 3 | 799 |
Gorean vessels, incidentally, are usually shallow-drafted, and usually tend to keep in sight of land. |
10 |
| 12 | 129 |
"In the land of the Wagon Peoples, long ago," I said, "I was honored to command a thousand, kaiila riders of the Tuchuks". |
10 |
| 18 | 172 |
If this is the case, it seemed they may have overestimated the rationality of the human species, or underestimated the lengths to which it might go to acquire land, wealth, women, and other valuables. |
10 |
| 18 | 185 |
In such a way one might earn promotion, land, gifts, preferments, and such. |
10 |
| 19 | 262 |
"They desire land, power, gold, ships, villas, cities, women, other valuables". |
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| 22 | 113 |
How could they, free women, hope to compete in interest with a slave? A slave, of course, came with no companion dowry, no land, no wealth, no social or mercantile connections, but men, nonetheless, somehow, enjoyed having them at their feet. |
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| 25 | 189 |
The warrior is trained to live off the land. |
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| 28 | 274 |
Wars may be fought for arable land, for markets, for high ground, for defensible passes, for routes, for access to the sea, for olive groves and stands of timber, for orchards and vineyards, for precious metals, cloths, and jewels, for kaiila, tarsks, verr, many things. |
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| 30 | 40 |
Many Gorean pilots are reluctant to venture beyond the sight of land, and open-sea voyages of more than a few days are rare, except in Torvaldsland. |
10 |
| 30 | 92 |
What I had done was to house tarns below decks until we were far from land. |
10 |
| 30 | 94 |
Fortunately for us the tarns responded to their straps as though over land. |
10 |
| 30 | 97 |
Tarns which were disposed to leave the sight of land might have perished in the sea, and thus failed to replicate their genes. |
10 |
| 30 | 98 |
Tarns which, for whatever reason, or random gift of genes, were reluctant to leave the sight of land might nest, and reproduce. |
10 |
| 30 | 166 |
This vessel might venture far, might spend months at sea, with no sight of land. |
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| 37 | 50 |
She was stately, majestic, surely no lightness like that of a Vosk gull, given her bulk, but as serene and mighty, and as unchallenged here, as might be some vast lake or river tharlarion in its own domain, some ponderous thing, unable and awkward on land perhaps, but, in the water, oddly graceful, ... |
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| 38 | 10 |
Months might be spent at sea, never viewing land, on such largesse. |
10 |
| 38 | 95 |
"Be certain," I said, "to board the tarns before we are beyond the sight of land". |
10 |
| 38 | 275 |
Perhaps I had done Licinius no great favor, considering he seemed ill equipped with forest craft, was seemingly unable to live off the land, hold a direction, elude pursuit, and such. |
10 |
| 38 | 372 |
Officers and crew often slept on the deck, under the stars, or at the side of the ship, on land, if it were beached at night. |
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| 41 | 40 |
"That is a land animal. |
10 |
| 41 | 42 |
The sea sleen is an unusual animal, presumably related somehow to the varieties of land sleen. |
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| 43 | 75 |
Why should he, a mere beast, and a land beast, too, have essayed so long, dubious, and dangerous a journey? It made no sense. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 215 |
More than one watch had been flogged for crying out the sight of land, stirring crews, rousing jubilation, where there was no land. |
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| 2 | 164 |
The tarn, you see, is a land bird, a hook-beaked, vast-winged, gigantic, crested, dreaded, fearsome monster of the skies. |
10 |
| 2 | 165 |
Its talons can clasp a kaiila and carry it aloft, to drop it to its death, thence to land and feed on the meat. |
10 |
| 2 | 168 |
The tarn, you see, never flies from the sight of land. |
10 |
| 3 | 1396 |
"Before I was brought on board," I said, "I heard the scream of a tarn, this far from land, in the fog". |
10 |
| 8 | 27 |
In the land of the Red Hunters, farther north, north even of Torvaldsland, it was said that night would reign unremitting for weeks, from passage hand to passage hand, and to passage hand again, as in their summer, oddly, Tor-tu-Gor would never set. |
10 |
| 8 | 95 |
To be sure, the sea sleen, like its confreres on land, is an intelligent animal, and we did not think it unlikely that it might prove quite dangerous if it were attacked, or thought it necessary to protect a breathing hole. |
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| 8 | 325 |
We were hundreds of pasangs from land, and who knew how far the ice might last, but, it seemed, even so woeful and improbable a scheme might have some appeal to forlorn, desperate minds, minds half crazed by the imprisonment of the ship, the silence, the darkness, the cold, the endless labor at the ... |
10 |
| 9 | 44 |
As it turned out, however, the weapon room had been stormed earlier by a number of disaffected crew members, in effect, mutineers, who were intent on freeing tarns, and risking a flight which might lead to land, a flight presumably to the east, where lay Torvaldsland. |
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| 9 | 45 |
I knew little of tarns, the control of such monsters, their dispositions and habits, their ranges of flight, and such, but it seemed improbable, given our conjectured position, so far west of even the farther islands, that one might reach land, say, Torvaldsland, before the tarn might, even with the... |
10 |
| 9 | 48 |
Who knew that some of them might not have reached land. |
10 |
| 9 | 516 |
"They hope to reach land, over the ice," said Cabot. |
10 |
| 11 | 3 |
I was familiar with this instrument because I was one of several regularly sent aloft, to the platform and ring, that the horizon might be scanned, that large sea life might be noted, that land or a ship might be sighted. |
10 |
| 11 | 4 |
To be sure, we had seen no land since the farther islands, and the last of those, Chios. |
10 |
| 11 | 49 |
The banks are usually within two or three hundred pasangs of land masses. |
10 |
| 11 | 51 |
"We are near land," said a man. |
10 |
| 11 | 64 |
"Then," said Aëtius, pleased, "we are near land!" To be sure, it might yet be hundreds of pasangs distant. |
10 |
| 12 | 29 |
It takes time for one of the land, say, an infantryman like myself, to accustom himself to the sea, but I had managed this well enough, quickly enough, after two or three days in the Metioche, but this had little prepared me for the high watch here, with the distance and violence of the mast's motio... |
10 |
| 12 | 54 |
We had had two hail storms of great severity when farther north, storms such as those which, in the Barrens, north and east of the Voltai, sometimes decimate flocks of migrating birds, striking them from the sky, flocks which, obedient to their hereditary imperatives, refuse to land and seek shelter... |
10 |
| 13 | 95 |
"Perhaps with small boats, with rafts, or such," I said, "but then one is defenseless on Thassa, perhaps a thousand pasangs from land, perhaps more". |
10 |
| 13 | 108 |
"It seems likely they failed to reach land," he said. |
10 |
| 14 | 75 |
The sea tharlarion, in its varieties, not other than its brethren of the land, breathes air. |
10 |
| 16 | 292 |
"I take it," said Cabot, "that we are not, as far as you know, near to land". |
10 |
| 17 | 81 |
The Pani did, of course, keep slaves, as the gifting of Saru would make clear, as well as the likely disposition, sale or such, if land were ever reached, of the lovely beasts normally housed in the Kasra and Venna keeping areas. |
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| 19 | 216 |
It suddenly occurred to me that we must be at least two or three days from land, else the tarns, the concealment of whose existence seemed a matter of such moment to Lords Nishida and Okimoto, would remain concealed. |
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| 19 | 217 |
To be sure, perhaps we were months from land. |
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| 20 | 1 |
It is Suspected that Land is Nigh; Many Slaves are Allowed the Liberty of the Deck; I Take the Opportunity to Interrogate a Particular Slave; No Cry of Interest Had Yet Emanated from the High Watch Having passed the "ridge," and leaving the Raging Sea, the Sea of Fire, in our wake, we had turned no... |
10 |
| 20 | 2 |
Though no word was spoken to the crew we suspected we were near land, that the long voyage of the great ship was almost done. |
10 |
| 20 | 386 |
On the next day, the first day of the sixth month, the cry, "Land, ho!" was called from the foremast, by Leros. |
10 |
| 21 | 17 |
Perhaps there is fruit on land. |
10 |
| 21 | 67 |
"The land is there!" She pointed, at a tiny line against the horizon. |
10 |
| 21 | 172 |
* * * * It was now the next day, the second day of the sixth month, the day following the first sight of land. |
10 |
| 21 | 191 |
It was my impression, given the increasing restlessness of the men, which might approach the level of danger, given the excitements of the sight of land, that they thought it might be unwise, unless clearly called for, to order a clearing of the deck. |
10 |
| 21 | 192 |
We had been nearly a year at sea and the discipline of the armsmen, now that land was near, hung by little more than a thread. |
10 |
| 21 | 215 |
Slaves, of course, another form of treasure, however desperate they might be to set foot on land, however pathetically they might plead, would remain on board, as well. |
10 |
| 21 | 321 |
Many stood by the rail, looking toward the land, their cheeks stained with tears. |
10 |
| 21 | 847 |
I recalled, too, we had come to land. |
10 |
| 23 | 115 |
Our men, who are mercenaries, and hired as such, save for the Pani, prefer to choose their wars intelligently, to weigh odds, to balance gold carefully against blood, to fight for a presumed victory, with loot and pay in the offing, not for defeat, not for the chains of a slave, not for a likely dea... |
10 |
| 24 | 35 |
Had it not served its purpose? Had it not traversed Thassa? Had it not vindicated the madness, the bizarre faith, the superstition and conviction, of its malformed master, half-blind Tersites, a jest amongst the islands, a joke in a hundred ports, who had sent it eyeless upon the open sea? I had lon... |
10 |
| 24 | 107 |
Some men, I fear, suspected that the great ship might depart the cove, with the treasure aboard, and the slaves, leaving the contingents then in a strange, hostile land. |
10 |
| 25 | 41 |
He had been, it seemed, no more successful at sea than on the land. |
10 |
| 26 | 102 |
To reach such fields by land would mean to pass the holding of Lord Temmu. |
10 |
| 27 | 110 |
Too, whereas a tarn cavalry can acquire intelligence, strike unexpectedly, cut supply lines, and such, it is of limited value against a distributed land force. |
10 |
| 32 | 3 |
The great birds did not land, but hovered, some yards from the ground; long knotted ropes, fastened to their saddle rings, spilled to the earth. |
10 |
| 33 | 312 |
The sound of the bar carried over the port, even to the land walls. |
10 |
| 35 | 2 |
The sea end of the pier had now been cleared by guardsmen, that the ship might be attended to, but the land end of the pier, and the adjacent waterfront, even to the warehouses, and the streets leading up to the city, were still swarming with people, men, and women, and boys. |
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| 35 | 102 |
"I know not your people, your land, your city, your ship, your family, your caste, your clan," said Demetrion, "but whoever you be, if anyone, there is wharfage due in Brundisium". |
10 |
| 36 | 10 |
When land roads are closed, Thassa's roads beckon. |
10 |
| 37 | 729 |
I did see a pair of guardsmen at the land end of the wharf, and a number of Pani were taking up stations near the now-closed warehouse. |
10 |
| 37 | 1469 |
We turned about, to join the slaves, one in a scarlet tunic, one in a blue tunic, waiting at the land end of the pier. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | 54 |
The larl is probably the most fearsome land predator on Gor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 103 |
I found myself exiled in my native land. |
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| 5 | 245 |
That is interesting, considering the fact that we have been sold, bartered, and exchanged for millennia, and doubtless for millennia before the records of such transactions were scratched on bark, or incised into tablets of moist clay Is it so unusual to be exchanged for barley, or cattle, or sheep,... |
10 |
| 8 | 387 |
Indeed, most Gorean mariners, when practical, like to keep in sight of land. |
10 |
| 14 | 264 |
It was good to know the land, and good to be alone, sometimes, and good, sometimes, to have time to think. |
10 |
| 15 | 480 |
Would it not be an island of wood, a world of sorts, sufficient onto itself, indefinitely scorning land, cresting indefinitely the dark turbulence of proud, dreadful, beautiful Thassa? "Kneel," said a stern voice, and I instantly knelt. |
10 |
| 37 | 186 |
We can live off the land, like the beasts. |
10 |
| 43 | 1101 |
The seemingly most placid, and tame, of such beasts carries within its pelt, and surely not far beneath the fur, the ancient blood and antique heritage of Gor's most fearsome land predator. |
10 |
| 44 | 16 |
Even coast vessels, seldom out of the sight of land, would seek their harboring before the onset of winter. |
10 |
| 47 | 14 |
I had even traversed the shore of the Alexandra, for a pasang or more, both east and west, given the possibility that she might have waded, before returning to the land. |
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| 52 | 916 |
"Do you think he will land?" I asked. |
10 |
| 52 | 919 |
"He may land," I said. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 61 | 36 |
It had returned to its secret lair to guard its treasures, perhaps to sleep for another thousand years; it had returned to the country of mystery from which it had emerged, some fearful land, a far land of rock and flame; a vast, noxious crevice in the bowels of the earth, a dark, freezing country b... |
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| 1 | 30 |
There had been three signals, trails of ascending smoke, red, yellow, and green, red betokening that the shore was held, land having been retaken, yellow that the holding of Lord Temmu still stood, and green that all was safe, and, accordingly, a landing might be effected. |
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| 1 | 177 |
Men see land differently, the merchant in terms of profitability, the sage in terms of quietude, the poet in terms of mood, the painter in terms of beauty, the peasant in terms of home, in terms of soil, fertility, tillability, and yield. |
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| 1 | 180 |
The military eye does not see land as others see it. |
10 |
| 1 | 374 |
"Lord Yamada must have the majority of his land forces, thousands, committed to the siege". |
10 |
| 4 | 279 |
Land, position, and authority may be attendant upon the presentation of such trophies. |
10 |
| 6 | 14 |
Eventually the primary remnants of the land forces of Lord Temmu, those separated from the holding, to which portions had retreated, cut off and undersupplied, had been driven to the very shore of Thassa. |
10 |
| 9 | 117 |
"Yes!" It had originally been hoped that a major land battle with the forces of Lord Yamada, a battle decisive for the outcome of the war, might have been brought about, a battle which might turn profitably on the unexpected appearance of the tarn cavalry, a military arm new to the islands. |
10 |
| 9 | 121 |
First, no major land battle had occurred. |
10 |
| 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... |
10 |
| 12 | 254 |
"Even though the sun be devoured and the land cast into the sea". |
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| 13 | 153 |
Had it not been for the intervention of Priest-Kings or Kurii, or both, I think the remnants of Lord Temmu's land forces would have perished on a beach long ago, rather than appearing, seemingly unaccountably, in the vicinity of Brundisium on continental Gor. |
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| 21 | 71 |
Long ago, on a dark night on a remote beach, the remaining land forces of Lord Temmu, defeated and routed, confronted with superior force on one side, the victorious warriors and Ashigaru of Lord Yamada, and roiling Thassa on the other, awaited their last battle, in which they would be driven into t... |
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| 21 | 73 |
Shortly thereafter the Goreans of the continental coast, particularly that in the vicinity of Brundisium, found strangers in their midst, Pani, these survivors of the major land forces of Lord Temmu. |
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| 21 | 81 |
First, how might the dice be balanced; how might they be more equally weighted? The forces of Yamada were large and disciplined, both on the land and sea. |
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| 21 | 85 |
How then could the dice of men and war, those of Yamada and Temmu, be better balanced, be more evenly weighted? The house of Yamada had seized the land and the sea. |
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| 46 | 264 |
"Where is your land, your home?" asked Katsutoshi. |
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| 60 | 319 |
I prepared to cry us from the bridge, to regain the land, to fight amidst our foes, that archers must have patience, confronted with moving, confusing targets, that they must be cautious and often hold their fire, lest they strike allies. |
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| 60 | 399 |
They will overrun the land. |
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| 61 | 606 |
I watched him make his way through the crowd toward the land end of the wharf, toward a cluster of townsmen, merchants, and peasants, each with their case or sack of goods. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 261 |
I would learn the gravity of Gor, for it was on this world I now was, was less than that of Earth, the planet being somewhat smaller, though it would have more land surface than Earth, as it possessed only one mighty ocean, not two, that ocean being restless, turbulent, gleaming Thassa, the sea. |
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| 10 | 158 |
In some cities, there are eight copper-tarsks to a silver tarsk, and, in others, as in BrunÂdisium, where many land and sea routes converge, and business tends to be brisk, one hundred copper tarsks to a silver tarsk. |
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| 15 | 209 |
As they would walk on land, so they swim in water. |
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| 15 | 326 |
There was suddenly a great crack, as of the smiting of wind, like the crack of sails, like the snapping of a mighty banner, or whip, and the very basket in which I was held shook, and then, suddenly, the ropes were taut, and the basket, as I screamed in fear, thrown back, helpless in my bonds and st... |
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| 34 | 173 |
"But what you may not know," he said, "is that Gor has more land surface than Earth. |
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| 34 | 176 |
"So," he said, "humans are many on Gor, at least in places, but few, it seems, given the wealth of land, muchly unexplored, at their disposal". |
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| 34 | 222 |
In the Barrens, are there not prize hides and belts of beads? Do not Ubars bestow women, land, and power?" "I do not know," I said. |
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| 44 | 162 |
It was reputedly the largest, most dangerous land predator on Gor. |
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| 49 | 109 |
Thousands of tiny defts, a small, flocking, gray, migratory bird, undistinguished in its plumage and not noted for its song, on their way to the shores of the Cartius, had been caught in the storm, as well, and, paralyzed with cold, with wings coated with ice, unable to continue their journey, had f... |
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| 53 | 19 |
The location of walls, for example, as well as their height and nature, as one would expect with military architecture, is heavily influenced by a consideration of the resources to be protected, their extent and nature, and the topographical features of the land. |
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| 62 | 75 |
For example, many Goreans limited to the "First Knowledge" do not realize their world is one of many, and think that "Earth," of which they have heard, and from which many barbarian slaves are obtained, is merely a remote country or land falling outside "known Gor". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 17 |
Those limited to the First Knowledge think of "Earth" as a distant, barbarous land. |
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| 3 | 73 |
Men sacrifice the air and sky, the land and sea, as it were, for tarsk-bits. |
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| 8 | 16 |
Most Gorean vessels remain, when possible, in sight of land. |
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| 45 | 48 |
"See the horizon! Ships approach, rowed with earnest purpose! A dozen craft will land within Ehn! The longboat will pull away!" Vas of Anango growled with fury, but, wavering, uncertain, did not approach us more closely. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 144 |
"Land, land to port!" "Thurnock!" I called down to the benches. |
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| 5 | 118 |
At that point, our lookout, armed with a Builders Glass, from the small, ringed platform on the raised mast, called out "Land, land, ho!" "The Cove of Harpalos," I said. |
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| 18 | 85 |
And, one supposes, it might be, that some members of a species subject to extermination on land might, in diverse behaviors, in withdrawing from strong stimuli, in fleeing, in avoiding discovery, discover that the same muscles which allow it to move on land permit it to move in water. |
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| 47 | 36 |
The town needs the land and the land needs the town". |
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| 53 | 30 |
"It is like land, living land, rushing upon us!" cried a helmsman. |
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| 3 | 90 |
"Or on land," I said. |
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| 3 | 145 |
"Rest oars!" "What land is here?" I asked Aktis, who was partly down the steps to the deck. |
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| 3 | 152 |
"There can be no land here," said Thurnock. |
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| 5 | 106 |
"But the cots, the homes of the flighted vulos, are on land," said Thurnock. |
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| 8 | 96 |
Third, I have at hand a guide who knows its land. |
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| 13 | 78 |
"Now, corsairs, predators of the sea and land," I said, "you urts, enleagued with the shameless, dreaded Bosk of Port Kar, prepare to be slain in accordance with the justice of the great Archelaos, governor of Thera". |
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| 14 | 1 |
An Anomaly is Noted, a Day from Daphna "Ho," called down the lookout, from the ringed platform near the top of the single mast, "land, island, tiny, four points Ror!" Whereas I, in the interests of intelligibility, have often had recourse to directions apt to my native world, Earth directions, appl... |
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| 16 | 24 |
"You are on the brink of land, an island, though one tiny and inauspicious". |
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| 16 | 187 |
"Who has not heard of that dreadful pirate, so elusive and ruthless a corsair?" "Might his predations, on land and sea, be somehow supported and abetted by living islands?" "I should hope not," she said. |
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| 17 | 340 |
Lives are at stake, on sea and land". |
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| 18 | 78 |
It is possible that the land hith still exists on Gor, doubtless in remote areas, but it seems more likely that that form of hith is extinct. |
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| 18 | 188 |
Perhaps his ships were being used to land corsairs on some coast, from which, following a raid or raids, they might be conveyed back to safety. |
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| 25 | 11 |
A land breeze was moving toward Thassa. |
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| 25 | 16 |
To my disappointment, the islands' Peasantry had not responded, stirred by Aktis' pleadings, flooding to the ruins of Nicosia to organize for a common, redoubtable defense of their lives, property, and land. |
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| 26 | 104 |
The land catapult is commonly stationary and commonly has a stationary target. |
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| 32 | 73 |
This trench was walled toward the land by the dislodged sand and surmounted by a shield wall. |
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| 35 | 167 |
"I had hoped," I said, "that with communication and cooperation amongst the villages, the building and manning of watch towers, the arming of peasants with an effective weapon, that the land would be closed to the raiders, this protecting both villages and towns". |
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| 36 | 131 |
Indeed, the attention of the raiders seemed then to depart from the land and turn to the sea, far from the arrows of a watchful Peasantry. |
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| 44 | 109 |
We noted that violence did not ensue upon the visit to the tents of the corsairs' land command. |
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| 46 | 59 |
We put them to work in the fields; they hoe and dig; they bear sacks and carry water; they weed and clear land; they scratch out stumps; we turn them into draft beasts, harnessing them to our carts, yoking them to our plows". |
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| 47 | 51 |
"He is of the land, the Peasantry," said Thurnock. |
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| 48 | 4 |
In this way, they need not be burned in gigantic pyres, costly of valuable timber, or, with a sorry expenditure of time and effort, buried in nearby, perhaps revered, land, certainly not within the pomerium of Mytilene. |
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| 48 | 178 |
Commonly Gorean mariners stay within sight of land and beach their vessels at night. |
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| 49 | 36 |
Had they attempted to attack us here, or nearby, here on land, they would have risked losing us. |
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| 49 | 66 |
The enemy would have made their appearance either by land or sea. |
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| 49 | 67 |
Given the victory of Mytilene and the control of the fields by our Peasant cohorts, we may rule out an attack by land. |
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| 51 | 91 |
"The hith, nearly exterminated on land," said Sakim, "took to cover and plenty, to the vast world of the sea". |
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| 51 | 109 |
"Large land animals, of which the hith was one once, given the amount of food needed to sustain a large organism, tend to be territorial". |
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| 52 | 89 |
As a sleen, tenacious and swift, can follow scent on land, tenacious and swift, a living island can follow sounds, disturbances, stirrings, in the water, schooling fish, the wake of a passing vessel, and such. |
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| 53 | 164 |
"They will expect a small land action, only in a different venue," I said. |
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| 53 | 165 |
"A tiny land of wood, possibly awash, shifting beneath their feet," said Sakim. |
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| 53 | 174 |
The ideal for an enemy contemplating boarding was clearly, if possible, to utilize two ships and draw alongside the target vessel on both the port and starboard side, thus permitting a simultaneous, coordinated attack, analogous to a land action in which an enemy can be attacked both on the front an... |
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| 55 | 31 |
"You will fight a land battle at sea," said Sakim. |
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| 57 | 143 |
"They are land fighters," said Clitus. |
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| 57 | 185 |
One of a mariner's worst nightmares is to awaken at night to the cry of "Fire!" Fire at sea is quite different from fire on land, say, in a house or village. |
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| 59 | 34 |
The Theran fleet under Nicomachos, anticipating land action on Chios near Mytilene, had embarked with numerous Cosian regulars aboard, which allowed frequent shifts of oarsmen, an advantage which the corsair fleet had itself hitherto exploited, this now, however, enabling the Theran fleet to equal, ... |
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| 59 | 36 |
The corsair fleet then, fleeing toward Chios, had either been caught near Chios or had tried to land on Chios and, encountering the hostile, armed Peasantry on the beaches, fresh from Mytilene and its vicinity, had put once more to sea, where it eventually fell to the pursuing Theran fleet, say, som... |
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