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Book 1. (4 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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6 181 Few warriors will risk their lives to capture a woman who may be as ugly as a tharlarion.
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18 43 "Pa-Kur wishes to know if the false Ubar, Marlenus, still lives".
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19 69 "Will you surrender your city? Yield your lives and women to Assassins?" I challenged.
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20 72 Who or what are the Priest-Kings that they should so determine the lives of others, that they should rule a planet, terrorize the cities of a world, commit men to the Flame Death, tear lovers from each other's arms? No matter how fearful their power, they must be challenged.
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Book 2. (4 results) Outlaw of Gor

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1 191 Though I have reason to believe he lives.
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14 205 On every hand, robes and regalia flying, the silver masks of Tharna which had so insolently screamed but moments before for blood fled now for their lives in panic-stricken rout, trampling one another, scratching and tearing at one another, scrambling over the benches, thrusting one another even ove...
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22 68 "You are indeed beautiful," I said, "—so beautiful that a thousand warriors might give their lives to see your face, so beautiful that a hundred cities might come to ruin on your behalf".
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24 104 "While she lives," said Kron, "the revolution is not safe".
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Book 3. (10 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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2 98 Last Spear must remain standing, and if the beast still lives, receive its charge with only his drawn sword.
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2 102 First Spear is normally the best of the spearmen because if the larl is not slain or seriously wounded with the first strike, the lives of all, and not simply that of Last Spear, stand in considerable jeopardy.
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4 8 Perhaps they would regard it as a useless excrescence detracting from the more sober values of life, such as, I supposed, study, meditation and the manipulation of the lives of men.
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13 14 Torm, my friend of the Caste of Scribes, never forgave me this and to this day, if he lives, he undoubtedly considers me partly illiterate.
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18 45 "The one who was not a Priest-King," quickly said Mul-Al-Ka, "was a Matok and is called a Toos and lives on discarded fungus spores".
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27 34 I did not know the location of the female egg nor could I have tended it had I known; and, further, that the race of Priest-Kings should wither and die did not seem the proper business of a human, particularly considering my hatred for them, and my rejection of their mode of regulating in so many im...
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30 169 As the War continued I became more and more impressed with the loyalty and courage of the men and women serving Misk, who for a bit of fungus and water and freedom were willing to sell their lives in one of the strangest conflicts ever fought by men, boldly serving one of the most unusual causes tha...
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31 222 I knew now why it was that the Golden Beetles were permitted to live in the Nest, why it was that Priest-Kings would not slay them, even though it might mean their own lives.
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31 223 I wondered if the hairs of the Golden Beetle, heavy with the droplets of that narcotic exudate, offered adequate recompense to a Priest-King for the ascetic millennia in which he might have pursued the mysteries of science, if they provided an acceptable culmination to one of those long, long lives ...
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33 122 Most who had returned from the Sardar would, eventually at least, I was sure, try to gain admittance in new cities, where they were not known, and attempt to work out new lives, as though they did not keep in their hearts the secret of the Sardar.
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Book 4. (8 results) Nomads of Gor

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10 232 I bent down in the saddle and tensed to kick the kaiila forward to sweep her to the saddle, turn and race for our lives.
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19 175 "So," said Hereena, "free me—and I will give you ten Ihn to flee for your lives".
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22 93 Take her back to her home and while we remain in the city, guard her with your lives".
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22 96 "With our lives!" Dina of Turia looked at me, gratitude in her eyes.
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23 79 It was the vengeance of the bosk and the frightened, maddened animals thundered into the Paravaci lines goring and trampling both kaiila and riders, and the Paravaci who could manage turned their animals and rode for their lives.
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24 47 He professed a cruel hatred of Turia and Turians, and yet he had, considering the normal practices of the Wagon Peoples, not noted for their mercy to helpless foes, treated the unarmed citizens of the city with unique indulgence, permitting them, on the whole, to keep their lives and freedom, though...
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26 188 "See that he lives.
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27 36 "Turia lives," said he, "Ubar".
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Book 5. (7 results) Assassin of Gor

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3 34 The Players are not a caste, nor a clan, but they tend to be a group apart, living their own lives.
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5 611 Each month, containing five five-day weeks, is separated by a five-day period, called the Passage Hand, from every other month, there being one exception to this, which is that the last month of the year is separated from the first month of the year, which begins with the Vernal Equinox, not only by...
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13 233 There are few on Gor who will take their lives into their hands by confronting a Gorean Warrior.
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19 400 "She does not think the man lives who can master her," said Elizabeth.
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19 401 "She does not think the man lives who can make her truly a slave girl!" There were cries of derision, much laughter.
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22 86 The tarn, the great, fierce saddlebird of Gor, is a savage beast, a monster predator of the high, blue skies of this harsh world; at best it is scarce half domesticated; even tarnsmen seldom approach them without weapons and tarn goad; it is regarded madness to approach one that is feeding; the inst...
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22 207 "Mip lives!" Mip now hung on the neck of Green Ubar, his body parallel to the saddle, clinging to the bird, his face pressed against it, his lips moving, speaking to it.
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Book 6. (6 results) Raiders of Gor

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10 56 The story was that they had been attacked by more than a thousand rencers, abetted by a conjectured five hundred mercenaries, trained warriors, and had barely escaped with their lives.
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10 76 They might find others to fight their battles and risk their lives for them.
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11 335 "I refer to the ships of the minor captains, in the number of better than twenty-five hundred!" "In the streets," said Samos, "I have heard the cry 'Power to the council!'" "Proclaim Henrius Sevarius sole Ubar," said Lysias numbly, "and your lives will be spared, and you will be granted amnesty".
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11 340 "Perhaps," said Samos, "their lives may be spared, that they may take their seat on the benches of the public round ships".
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18 658 And the rencers, to my astonishment, had come to risk their lives for me.
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18 880 "You are free with the lives of others," I said.
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Book 7. (8 results) Captive of Gor

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1 97 As far as I know my mother still lives in New York City, in a suite on Park Avenue.
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7 158 Our lives became a great deal easier after Targo encountered the caravan wagons.
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9 455 "Is it only slaves who so beg for their lives?" asked Verna.
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15 43 And one of them said to him, 'And we thank you, Rask of Treve, for our lives.
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17 49 Their lives would be hard, but I did not think them dismayed, nor unhappy.
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17 50 The huntsman lives a free and open life, as wild and swift, and secret, as the beasts he hunts, and his slaves, whom he insists on accompanying him, must, too, learn the ways of the forests, the flowers and the animals, the leaves and wind.
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17 108 On Earth millions of women live empty, unrewarding lives.
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17 479 He is said himself to be a master swordsman, much feared, and his house is strong, and there are men here, some hundreds, who pledge their lives and their blades to him.
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Book 8. (6 results) Hunters of Gor

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1 222 The great merchant galleys of Port Kar, and Cos, and Tyros, and other maritime powers, utilized thousands of such miserable wretches, fed on brews of peas and black bread, chained in the rowing holds, under the whips of slave masters, their lives measured by feedings and beatings, and the labor of t...
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2 496 Still, perhaps they are fortunate to have their lives, even at such a price.
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11 747 Yet, in their dreams, it seems they find themselves forced to surrender, totally, to fierce, dominating masters, masters emerging like welcome, long-awaited, long-sought beasts from another reality, imperious, hungry men striding into their lives with ropes and chains, looking for a capture, a woman...
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17 25 They desired to preserve their own lives.
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19 407 "I offer you your life, and the lives of your men," I said, "if you depart now, leaving behind all slaves".
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22 694 She lives in terror that she might meet one in real life.
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Book 9. (10 results) Marauders of Gor

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1 26 He was a pirate, and a cutthroat, but he was not unhappy in his death; he had died by the sword, which would have been his choice, and before he had died he had looked again upon gleaming Thassa; it is called the death of blood and the sea; he died not unhappy; men of Port Kar do not care to die in ...
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2 121 That would be the time to imprint them, while innocent and trusting, at the mother's or nurse's knee, with superstitions which might, in simpler brains, subtly control them the length of their lives.
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8 93 Be grateful that I permit you your lives".
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10 44 His sense of humor, I thought, might cost us all our lives.
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10 67 That seemed to me not a bad idea, unless a better might have been to flee for our lives.
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10 108 Incidentally, for what it is worth, though the southern girl is, I expect, worked less hard than the northern girl, who is commonly kept on an isolated farm, she is more often than her northern sister put to the switch or whip; I think she lives under a harsher discipline; southern masters are harde...
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11 150 We now wish only to be simple farmers, tilling the soil and leading lives of rustic tranquillity".
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11 246 "And if all this be granted to you," asked Svein Blue Tooth, "what will you grant us in return?" "Your lives," said the Kur.
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18 13 Their lives were unimportant.
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21 178 It was to you that my men and myself, those who survived, owed their lives.
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Book 10. (8 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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13 432 On Gor they are rescued from the political and sexual deserts of Earth; branded, collared, dressed revealingly, they find themselves for the first time in their lives, though embonded, far more free than they could ever have believed possible on Earth; gone is the ennui, the vacuity; on Gor they fin...
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2 157 Though they feel their mark intensely physically, it is felt, interestingly, even more intensely, more profoundly, psychologically; not unoften it, in itself, radically transforms their self-images, their personalities; they are then only slaves, not permitted their own wills, rightless, at the bidd...
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3 244 "No," said the man, "he lives by the east gate, near the shearing pens for verr".
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4 173 He lives miserably, of course, unfulfilled, frustrated, and subject to hideous diseases, and has little to console himself with other than the ignorant servility with which he has worn his chains, taking smug, righteous pride in his allegiance to them".
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5 397 "It is my recommendation to you," I said, "that you, and your fellows, ride for your lives".
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7 737 If so, my dalliance, increasing their risks, had jeopardized their lives.
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17 67 I suppose, in the salt pit, one of our small lamps might seem to those who had in their lives known only darkness like the glory of a thousand suns.
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25 201 Even these men who once served you fight now, decimated, for their lives".
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Book 11. (4 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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5 789 Why did these men not hide their dominance; why did they not pretend it did not exist; why did they not suppress it; why did they not thwart and repudiate the birthright of their nature; why did they not make themselves miserable; why did they not torture themselves and diligently cultivate weakness...
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7 905 Surely they valued their lives.
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9 983 Man lives confused in the ruins of ideologies.
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9 2449 It had been only a cheap hard candy but such things are rare in the lives of most slave girls.
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Book 12. (6 results) Beasts of Gor

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2 502 "And if I am to sail with men I must pick them myself, for our lives would depend upon one another".
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3 471 Women, in their heart, long to submit; this is necessary for the slave girl; she must submit or die; submitted, she is thrilled to the core; she lives then for love and service, bound to the will of her master.
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10 325 I will petition that your lives be spared".
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10 342 "Work well and I may spare your lives".
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17 91 "No man lives north of Karjuk," he added.
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21 20 Although the red hunters can and do experience intense cold their lives, generally, are not made miserable by their climate.
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Book 13. (6 results) Explorers of Gor

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27 209 For the first time in their lives they, these beautiful, vulnerable, captive, chained females of Earth, have looked into the eyes of a virile, powerful, untamed male, one not crushed and diminished by the machinations of a society pathologically fearful of nature.
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27 213 For the first time in their lives, they have looked into the eyes of a master.
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32 485 Indeed, the denial of, and abuse of, nature can shorten lives.
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32 1002 "Do you think," she asked, "that people may have lived before, that they may have had many lives and have met one another perhaps time and time again?" "I would not wish to rule out such possibilities," I said, "but such a thing seems to me very unlikely".
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41 21 "Paddle for your lives!".
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51 121 Their lives depend on it.
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Book 14. (4 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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5 150 "You men of Earth well deserve the lives you lead," she laughed.
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7 38 Was his profit so sacred, truly? Was it truly more precious than lives, and the future? The men of Earth congratulated themselves smugly on the power of their democracies, in which the people, purportedly, ruled.
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7 131 Twenty blows of the snake, I had little doubt, might cost some men their lives.
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19 215 Their lives are hard.
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Book 15. (6 results) Rogue of Gor

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3 342 "For their lives they bartered their goods and slaves".
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4 74 "You did well," I said, "to save the lives of your men, and yourself".
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4 493 Whereas there are bred slaves on Gor, and houses that specialize in such, almost all female slaves have begun their lives as free women.
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10 213 In general, the Gorean female slave lives in mortal fear of the Gorean free woman and usually endeavors, as much as possible, to avoid them.
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13 142 It can even shorten lives.
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27 48 She lives in the desperate hope that her master will deign again to subject her to the those merciless storms of degrading, possessing, obliterating sensations available only to a slave in her collar.
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Book 16. (4 results) Guardsman of Gor

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5 63 The pirates, pressed by our defenders, and attacked now from their own vessel, fought for their lives.
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20 1336 It is interesting to consider, when one thinks of it, that there are probably many men who, in all their lives, have never tied a woman.
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20 1590 They may have their petty jealousies and feuds, but, on the whole, for most of them, their lives are quite pleasant.
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21 190 We chatted of many things, including our former lives, on Earth, and our experiences in the university.
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Book 17. (5 results) Savages of Gor

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1 1078 Too, if one regards these things as of any interest, the counting of coup and intertribal warfare lends color, excitement and zest to the lives of the red savages.
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1 1130 They will have known one another almost all of their lives; as children and boys they have played together and watched the kaiila herds in the summer camps together; they may even have shared in their first kailiauk hunt; now, as men, they have taken the warpath together; they are comrades, and frie...
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1 1199 "The red savages depend for their very lives on the kailiauk," said Kog.
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15 273 "Your tutelage of them in submission and servitude, the instructional abuse to which you have subjected them," said Grunt, "may prove to be instrumental in saving their lives".
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17 199 "Drivers leaped from the wagon boxes, fleeing for their lives," she said.
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Book 18. (7 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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9 72 In their most secret and intimate relations thereafter she lives and loves as his slave.
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28 96 It could make the difference between surviving the winter and losing many lives in the cold and snows.
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29 138 "It is my suggestion that you ride for your lives".
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34 433 "Your son lives!" I pointed behind me, to the slope, down which the young, former Waniyanpi lad, and Mira, and the former Waniyanpi girl, now a master's slave, drew the travois.
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39 169 "But we know," she said, "that though we are in one sense fully without power, that in another sense we may do much to control the happiness and quality of our lives.
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40 26 The entire community lives within them.
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47 511 They flee for their lives".
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Book 19. (2 results) Kajira of Gor

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6 209 "Lady Sheila seems much interested in the small details in the lives of female slaves," he said.
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6 465 Perhaps they could not be blamed for not choosing to reduce the quality of their lives in this fashion.
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Book 20. (9 results) Players of Gor

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2 518 He lives only for Kaissa.
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7 286 Such things, of course, are not that unusual in the lives of players.
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8 313 Their lives depend upon it.
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8 330 "You have saved our lives," he said.
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9 231 "We owe him our very lives".
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10 409 The young Earth females discover that Gorean males are neither weak nor pliant, nor desperately concerned to please them, nor ready to redirect, even ruin, their lives to accommodate themselves to the frets, notions, whims and caprices of the desirable and fair.
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13 194 "Three times!" cried the creature clinging to the bars, beside me, "three times! It lives again!" This was the third time, apparently, the creature had survived the pit.
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16 671 "If you surrender them promptly, without a fight, I may be tempted to spare your miserable lives".
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16 723 "I spare you your lives," said Petrucchio, generously.
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Book 21. (13 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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1 229 This is quite a change in their lives.
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1 331 Certain things which are not only common knowledge to slaves but even a normal, familiar part of their lives seem to be scarcely suspected by free women.
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2 209 The family lives in one section of the dwelling, and the animals are quartered in the other.
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13 298 For example, she desires to belong, and the fullness of belonging is to be literally owned; she desires to be treasured, and to be a treasure one must be a possession; she desires to be wanted, and there is no mistaking the wanting of her, when she is so wanted that she is forcefully and categorical...
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13 307 One feels sometimes sorry for free women, with their confusions, their unhappiness, the meaninglessness, the shallowness, of their forlorn psychological habitations, the lonely, empty corridors of their lives, their boredom, their hostilities.
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16 1694 "Suppose, thinking himself immortal," I said, "he then lives recklessly, fearing nothing, takes unwise risks gleefully and perhaps suffers unfortunate and grievous consequences?" "I had not thought of that," admitted Hurtha.
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22 207 "He lives in the building," said the proprietor.
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22 401 It is understandable that many men may not care to risk their lives to obtain a woman who, when unveiled, may turn out to be a disappointment, one who is insufficiently beautiful to be a slave, one whose looks do not merit the iron and the collar.
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25 2171 That would make the transition easier for them, I thought, from the emptiness and meaninglessness of their former lives to the rigors and significances of Gorean servitude.
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25 2318 Many people have given their lives for absurdities.
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26 1706 And both the Gorean woman and the Earth girl, embonded, learning there is no escape for them and that they are irrevocably slaves, unless masters choose to free them, an act which is not only rare and foolish, but almost nonexistent, soon adjust to their new life and, sometimes to their surprise, an...
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26 1916 Similarly, if one lives in a well-walled, well-defended city, one which is likely to resist attack and siege, such as Ar, one is less likely to risk the slaver's noose.
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27 140 It is not one of those lives which is part this, and part that.
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Book 22. (7 results) Dancer of Gor

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3 855 I wondered, wildly, if I had felt it in former lives.
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3 857 Could I be remembering it, I wondered, from a sunlit shelf in Memphis, from a patio in Athens, from a post in Rome or a ring, cords on my wrists, in a women's quarters in Bokara, Basra, Samarkand or Baghdad? Had I felt it before, somewhere, or in many places, and never, even through a succession of ...
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13 186 Indeed, I had even wondered, strangely, at times, I supposed, if I might not have been a slave in former lives, in other eras, perhaps in the Ancient World or in the Medieval Middle East, in times more in tune with the true natures of human beings, natures as they really were, in themselves, and not...
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13 649 We may be totally at the mercy of masters, and as mere animals, and even to our lives, but just as it is within the power of these uncompromising brutes who own us to do as they wish with us, so, too, it is within their power, when it pleases them, to grant us transport to ineffable raptures, to fli...
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13 655 Indeed, I had wondered sometime if, in a former life, or lives, I might not have done so.
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29 327 "Take our coins! Leave us our lives!" He then removed his wallet and tossed it, hastily, timidly, onto the blanket, beside the other wallet, that which contained the coins from the two fallen men.
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29 487 "He is alive! My master is alive! He lives!" She looked at me, wildly, in her neck ropes.
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Book 23. (14 results) Renegades of Gor

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8 807 She would be made first girl over the coffle of "free women," the Lady Temione, and the others, that she might teach them something of discipline and the basic arts of giving pleasure to men, lessons which might soon make a serious difference not only with respect to the quality of their lives, but ...
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5 76 And they would learn for the first time in their lives how marvelous they were, and why they were put in collars.
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11 112 For the first time in their lives they become females in the order of nature.
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12 105 "We were all in fear of our lives.
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13 213 "It is for such that men most cheerfully risk their lives," I said.
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15 537 "But if your thoughts in this matter had been correct," I said, "it might have been too bad, might it not, for many of the other women of Ar's Station, women less fortunate, less rich, than you, who lacked the means wherewith to purchase their lives?" "That could not be my concern," she said, angril...
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16 239 And so, in her place in nature, at a man's feet, content, she lives and loves.
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21 70 As a slave she lives to obey, to please, to love and serve.
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21 468 In particular, it may not be shared by those who risked their lives in the defense of the city, those who, say, fought upon the wall, or at the gate, or on the landing or walkway.
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21 950 After the constraints and lies of an environment warped politically to subserve unnatural interests and goals they encounter for the first time in their lives men who are quite different from most of the men they have been familiar with, men who have not been culturally tamed, men who have not been ...
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21 1082 Why are the men of Gor so different from the men of Earth? Why are they not diffident, not apologetic? Why do they not turn their eyes aside, lest they cause the smallest modicum of unease to the fair? Why do they not pretend not to notice? Why are they not like the typical man of Earth? But soon, a...
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21 1083 They come to understand themselves at last as what they are, as what can no longer be denied, as living, desirable females, as sexual creatures, and that they are, perhaps for the first time in their lives, as such, of great interest and importance.
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21 1266 Few men care to risk their lives to take a woman who, disrobed and unveiled, may prove to be worthy at best of no more than a kettle-and-mat sale.
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24 755 Most Goreans, save for occasional sacrifices, observations, donations to temples, and such, called for by the caste of Initiates, who claim to mediate between men and Priest-Kings, live their lives without much concern for Priest-Kings, and seem to hope that the Priest-Kings will return the favor, w...
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Book 24. (8 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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1 180 You are one of those sluts who lives off men, who runs up bills and then inveigles fools into satisfying them.
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1 592 For the first time in their lives they had then worn chains.
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14 137 "Do you really think Cos would choose to meet you in the delta?" "They fled before us, in fear of their lives," said he, angrily.
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17 217 Once outside the delta the sting flies, which spend most of their adult lives as solitary insects, tend to disperse.
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19 1240 Perhaps she hates her embonded sister because she senses the slave lives in a world denied to her, a distant, honest, wonderful world, one of submission and obedience, one of intimacy and service, one at last of radical, unabashed sexuality, one of pleasure and joy, one of love and fulfillment, one ...
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28 87 "Ar lives on".
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28 123 "Ar lives," insisted another.
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37 181 They may risk their lives to obtain them.
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Book 25. (8 results) Magicians of Gor

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1 210 "Perhaps we should consider saving our lives now," said Marcus.
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3 604 Indeed, it was almost as though each of them, though perhaps a low girl in the tavern rosters, and much subject to the whip, had become "first girl" to some free woman or other, a rare turnabout in the lives of such collared wenches.
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9 190 The Home Stone is safe! The Central Cylinder stands! How shall we make amends to our Cosian brother? What gift would be great enough to thank him for our Home Stone, our lives and honor? What sacrifice would be too much to express our gratitude?" "No gift would be too great!" cried men.
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16 251 "Let us hope that he lives to make a report on the matter".
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19 837 She lives in a veritable atmosphere, a veritable richness, of sensation and sensibility.
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22 188 They seem eager to become private slaves, with a given master, whom they may then try to serve with such perfection and devotion that they may hope to exert some influence, however small, on the quality of their lives, for example, with respect to the nature of the contentments they may receive, tho...
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26 130 The slave lives for the master, and wants to please him.
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26 493 "Do you think we are fond of she who was once Talena," asked Tolnar, "of she who betrayed Ar, and collaborated with her enemies?" "Release me, if you value your lives!" she cried.
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Book 26. (11 results) Witness of Gor

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24 276 Was a woman or two, a sack of plate, a handful of gems, worth their lives? Did they value their lives so lightly? It must be that, I thought, they must all be mad.
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5 93 Were they to find themselves within it I did not doubt but what they would discover their lives considerably transformed.
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6 157 It was as though I were suddenly in touch with a thousand possible lives, ones which I might have lived, ones which, surely, I could have lived.
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7 911 Our lives would have been quite different, it seemed clear, if we were on the other side of the wall.
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10 581 But where was the end of this? Were the older ones real either? Could it be that the older ones, too, were waiting? Were they embarrassed to admit this? Were the parents real? Had they learned, in their longer lives, secrets they refused to reveal? It is a terrible thing to look behind a mask and se...
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10 995 Many hunters have lost their lives in their pursuit.
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13 457 Indeed, I believe it can be more quickly and efficiently completed, as, less terrified of our lives, except to the extent that we might be found displeasing, we are, in a normal leash and collar, freer to concentrate our attention more fully on our lessons.
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19 38 Unauthorized strangers risk their lives by even approaching such places.
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19 326 Did they not think their own efforts had been efficacious in these matters? Who, after all, rode the mighty tarns, who did battle, who risked their lives, who, sword in hand, bestrode the corridors of burning palaces? And how must such words sound to the lovely captives? Surely they, if none others,...
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24 972 Let them then salvage what they could of their lives.
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31 507 They would remain, as we, the rest of us, slave girls kneeling in a cell, bound, our disposition, our lives, in the hands of men.
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Book 27. (32 results) Prize of Gor

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25 701 Ellen wonders, sometimes, how many of her former colleagues, in their private lives, in their secret lives, repudiate the falsity, foolishness and treason of their public lives.
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29 179 "I am an Earth woman! You cannot whip an Earth woman! Earth women are never whipped! We are never punished, no matter what we do! Even if we ruin lives, and destroy men, we are never punished!" "Embonded women do not ruin lives and destroy men," he said.
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2 6 Our lives are changed, profoundly.
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2 63 He had not accepted her pronouncements without question, though they were, for the most part, merely being relayed by her, almost verbatim, from the dicta of various scholar activists in the movement, women who had devoted their lives to the promulgation of a political agenda.
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4 346 Accordingly, in many respects, not being afflicted by these processes, the human beings of our supposed world, that on which I am inviting you to conjecture, might tend in many ways to be healthier and happier, and to find their lives more rewarding and meaningful, more worth living, than many of th...
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10 345 On Earth, she thought, a woman is never punished, no matter what she has done, no matter how cruel and nasty, how vicious and petty, she has been, no matter how much hurt she has brought about, no matter how much injury she has inflicted, no matter how much misery and pain she has caused, no matter ...
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11 997 His role, I fear, has been rather an embarrassing, frustrating one, much like that in which many Earth males spend their lives, but he is patient, and knew that his patience would be eventually rewarded".
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14 109 What an incredible privilege, what an incredible honor, to be the slave of such a man! What an incredible joy to be fulfilled by him, to be owned and mastered by him! How pallid by comparison are boring and meaningless lives; how tepid the quotidian familiarities of contractual partners, each taking...
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15 411 But it is said that even in such women there eventually comes a moment in their bondage when the emotional cataclysm occurs, when the breakthrough takes place, when the depths of the unconscious open up, when the surgent, rising earthquake of the liberated spirit totters and collapses the fragile, b...
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18 476 Does not the tunic make such things clear to her? In such a garment she is well aware of her vulnerability; she lives in a state of sexual awareness, and often, whether in despite of her wishes or not, she finds herself in a state of helpless sexual arousal.
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22 143 Ideology and politics were to take priority over such embarrassments as truth and fact; reality was inconvenient; clearly it had not been formed with orthodoxy in mind; nature denied would, of course, exact her vengeance; causes would continue to have their effects; rationality would be sacrificed, ...
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22 156 It is quite likely that, in the history of the human species, thousands of women have begged for their lives by dancing naked before severe captors, and that the case even in historical times, before Chaldeans and Hittites, Assyrians and Babylonians, Greeks and Romans, Goths, Mongols, Crusaders, Tur...
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24 212 Certainly they bid hard enough to own us, they fight wars to possess us, they risk their lives to steal us, they fight for us, they kill for us, do not let them tell you you are not important and valuable! Each of us is different, and special.
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25 683 Despite their profession of disinterest in such matters, free women, it seems clear, seek avidly to learn all they can about female slaves and their lives.
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25 1063 She is a den of cowards, beggars and traitors! She lives at the sufferance of Cos!" "Long live Cos!" cried more than one man in the crowd.
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26 570 How many, she wondered, clung to their tear-stained pillows, longing for the domination, the mastering, that would complete them, that would give meaning to their lives.
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26 1302 Men risk their lives for them; men fight for them; men kill for them.
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26 1322 And, too, is the slave not often ambushed by love? Is her path not beset with its thousand snares? Is she not often trapped, a helpless possession, within the nets of her needs? She lives with a man on terms of obedience and intimacy.
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26 1326 She lives thus in a radiant world enflamed with emotion.
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27 456 But I do not think that they will care to risk their lives for some biscuits, some blankets, a slave, a wagon, a tharlarion".
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27 1326 And so it had been his intention to inflict upon her what he supposed would be the most miserable of lives for a human female, and particularly for one such as she, a life of unutterable terror, misery, lamentation, humiliation, and shame, the life of a female slave.
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27 1396 The slave lives in a world of intimacy and emotional richness.
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27 1585 "We may yet owe our lives to our enemies," said Portus Canio.
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27 2126 "It would be my recommendation that you sue for peace, and bargain for your lives".
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27 2872 "Let others speak, those others," said the spokesman, indicating Mirus, the sleenmaster and the wounded man, the latter bound, as the two others, but he unconscious in the grass, "let them speak first!" "If you would save the lives of your friends," said the officer, irritably.
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27 3027 "My master lives!" cried the slave.
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27 3050 The rent sleen had given their lives to defend him, who was only a rent master.
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28 174 "We owe you our lives," said Portus Canio, "on more than one occasion".
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30 51 For the first time in their lives, they have met masters.
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30 502 First, some free women, disconsolate and lonely, unhappy, miserable, deprived of sex, starved for love, distressed with the numerous circumscriptions and constraints which confine them, realizing the boredom, the emptiness, of their lives, "court the collar".
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30 642 How their lives will change! Talena, acclaimed by some as Ubara, denounced by others as traitress, is seldom seen now in public.
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30 780 As a female slave you will live the most degraded and the most beautiful of lives.
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Book 28. (16 results) Kur of Gor

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1 362 She lives to love and serve.
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1 524 They sensed, of course, the meaninglessness and emptiness of their existence, the tragic, profound lacunae in their lives, that a female can obtain the wholeness of her nature and being only in relation to a dominant male, and that she can find her ultimate sexual fulfillment only in the earthquakes...
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1 1028 In the ancient genes of her she lives for, hopes for, and craves male dominance.
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2 61 Let them hide behind men, he thought, whose they are, and to whom they owe their lives.
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4 130 He was grateful that to this point, at least, they had their lives.
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11 142 She is then spoiled for freedom, is beyond it, and lives instead for the attention, love, and touch of her master.
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29 46 "You were interested in learning of the nature and lives of female slaves?" he asked.
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35 137 "Peisistratus lives," said Cabot.
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35 140 "He lives, as of now," said Grendel.
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55 147 "I can see," said Statius, "where the slave in a civilization is more helplessly and inalterably a slave than one in a simpler, ruder, more primitive situation, but, still, would their lives not be easier?" Lord Grendel snorted, a derisive Kur laugh.
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65 22 "It is our lives or that of Lord Arcesilaus.
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69 85 They saw, too, that our forces were prepared to give their lives for Lord Arcesilaus, and this, too, was Kur".
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70 109 You desire them and are content with nothing less than owning them, and with utmost totality! You risk your lives to bring them to your feet in chains, to be mastered.
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78 9 Yet, perhaps their feelings are comprehensible to some degree, as they cannot help but take note, doubtless with some irritation, of the seemingly unaccountable contentment, fulfillment, happiness, and joy of the slave, a contentment, fulfillment, happiness, and joy of the absence of which in their ...
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79 168 Who but barbarians would poison their foods, pollute the air they breathed and the water they drank, would live lives of unhealthy deprivation and misery, would wrap their bodies in clumsy, malformed, constricting garments, would congratulate themselves on denying themselves the natural gratificatio...
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81 59 It is amusing in its way, how they go so naively, so unsuspectingly, about the boring, meaningless trivialities of their daily lives.
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Book 29. (18 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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17 28 She now, perhaps for the first time in her life lives, truly lives, though now as no more than a benighted slave, lives as she must, and now desires to live, as a slave, for her master.
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2 141 One might consider two lives.
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2 272 Too, in the codes there is a saying that he who strikes first lives to strike second.
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5 368 Commonly she lives to love and serve the master, to the best of her ability.
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5 623 Or does he know? "Hundreds escaped with their lives," said a man.
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5 826 We must seize what loot we could and flee for our lives".
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7 354 On the other hand, the sex lives of slaves are a thousand times richer and deeper than those of a free woman, if the free woman, with her hauteur and grandeur, has anything worth considering a sex life.
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10 229 They come to a new understanding of their bodies, and are at peace with them, perhaps for the first time in their lives, and rejoice in them, and come to love them, and come to see them as delicious and lovely contrasts to the sternness and power, the rudeness and brutishness, of the male bodies, to...
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12 254 Muchly had their lives changed, and doubtless that of many others, as well, following the rising in Ar.
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12 384 If he lives, he may begin again, and gain honor".
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15 214 His task and challenge, of course, difficult as it might be, would be to make certain she was kept as a full and perfect slave, despite their previous lives and background.
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19 105 Doubtless this was in part due to many things, perhaps to his unusual, imposing, even wretched, appearance, and in part to his reputation, an understanding of who this was, and what he had done, and what he could do, and perhaps, in part, too, to that sense of being in the presence of one who lives ...
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19 106 Some men are alone, essentially solitary, their lives given over unswervingly to an ideal, or dream, the search for a fact, the discovery of a cause, or planet, the unraveling of a mystery, the creation of a perfect poem.
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26 206 We held her, to make use of her, to use her as a counter, if necessary, in bargaining for our lives, our tarns ready, the crowds crying out below, the rebels climbing upward, on the height of the Central Cylinder".
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38 153 And let these goods then kneel and press their soft lips to the boots of conquerors, gratefully, thankful for their lives, spared now, at least for a time.
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38 158 And what might it be, they might wonder, which has won them this incredible, welcome reprieve, temporary as it might be, from the ax or torch? Could it be that it is their sex and beauty, their exquisite features and lovely slave curves, to which they may have hitherto given little thought, save for...
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40 108 She lives to please.
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43 123 "Many of our mercenaries," said Lord Nishida, "have chosen names for convenience, to distance themselves from records of crime and blood, to elude pursuers, to escape justice, to begin new lives, such things".
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Book 30. (4 results) Mariners of Gor

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32 69 "She lives! My ship lives!" cried Tersites.
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3 898 Who but an unhappy, ill-constituted madman or tyrant could find gratification in attempting to legislate the values, loves, lives, and hearts of others?" "'You may speak,' he said, as though I, a free woman, required such permission.
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9 418 Men have placed their lives and trust in your hands.
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21 790 I had little doubt that many lives had been saved, after the fall of a city, by a naked captive's supplicatory writhings before its conquerors.
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Book 31. (11 results) Conspirators of Gor

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2 3 You value your lives, surely, and your Home Stones, and your fellows, but I wonder if you value your world, truly, or, perhaps better, value it enough.
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4 99 We lived arrogant, tasteful, condescending lives, in keeping with our superiority.
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5 379 But better I thought to be the abject slave of such a man than the pampered darling of a rich weakling, of the sort to which our background and the nature of our lives directed us.
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9 76 "The gambling," she said, "is not then done with lives, those of men and animals".
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12 54 "Who are you?" I expected to be told that curiosity was not becoming in a kajira, but the small, exquisite Lady Bina, despite her selfishness and vanity, her almost charmingly innocent lack of concern with the feelings and lives of others, was often pleasant, and communicative.
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21 33 One lives in terror of it.
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24 42 "We will spare you your lives.
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24 135 "We would have given you your lives," said Trachinos.
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46 107 Let the gods live their lives; let men live theirs.
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52 251 I knew that some men, while professing to despise their slaves, scoffing at the very thought that they might find them of interest, would risk their lives for them, even die for them.
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52 266 How utterly different is the exalted, noble, proud free woman, suspicious and demanding, bargaining and calculating, insisting on her hundred rights, jealous of a thousand prerogatives! How strange then that men would be willing to risk their lives, even die, for the slave, no more than a collared c...
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Book 32. (12 results) Smugglers of Gor

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6 50 Despite the distortions, the curbs, and obstacles, of a pathological acculturation, stunting minds and shortening lives, nature, embedded in each cell in the human body, persists.
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6 83 It was claimed by some that the retreat from Ar had been a rout, precipitous and disorderly, and, in some cases, even disciplined troops had cast aside their shields and fled for their lives.
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20 235 The barks to which they trust their lives, the skies, even Thassa herself, they note, do not read.
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29 164 Sometimes free women, miserable and unhappy in their lives, resentful of the conventional constraints commonly imposed on them in the cities and towns, fleeing unwanted matches, debtors hoping to escape the law, and such, attempted to join a band of Panther Girls.
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35 119 "She lives?" said Hiza.
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39 297 Your lives will be in his hands, completely".
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40 76 I wondered if our relative freedom, and even our lives, might not have something to do with the presence of Tiomines, who was not only dangerous, but, happily, valuable.
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43 79 Rather, with such intelligence at our disposal, and our possible use of it, I suspect our lives might stand in some jeopardy".
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43 905 We may be able to save your lives".
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43 1068 "It will give you time to deck train the new slaves," said Axel, "helping them to understand, and well, the nature of their new lives".
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43 1280 You have been repaid with your lives.
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50 328 Our lives, our destinies, our fates, are in the hands of the masters! Do they think we have no interest in what is going on, in what is to take place, in what is to be done with us? I twisted futilely in the ropes, unanswered, uninformed.
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Book 33. (16 results) Rebels of Gor

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11 265 "How else explain the massacre at the first encampment, and the ambush and decimation of the exploratory force?" Many lives, and tarns, had been lost in the massacre at the first encampment, and many more lives had been lost in the defeat of the exploratory force.
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1 100 They would have realized then that their lives were at stake.
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4 195 "I suspect those killed sold their lives well.
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4 220 If I lose, you have our lives, and your honor, and have proved to your men your bravery.
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6 237 "You will not take this holding," said Lord Okimoto, "while a single man lives".
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7 83 They go about their normal lives, completely unaware that they are now slaves.
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22 60 Two tarnsmen, who purchased their lives by capitulation, wisely changed their banner".
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25 269 It is little wonder that men will risk their lives to join such fellows in the sky.
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31 46 One supposes that a peasant is not entitled to such a weapon, that such a weapon should not be entrusted to a peasant, indeed, that it is forbidden to them, that it dishonors so fine a weapon if it should be so unworthily, so shamefully, possessed, and that a peasant, in any case, could not afford s...
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39 87 "We will sell our lives fearlessly," he said.
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41 49 "Remember, Tajima," I said, "Pertinax and Ichiro have entered this camp and risked their lives to find you and free you".
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42 34 "Yes," I said, "and if all does not go well, we will sell our lives dearly, as Pertinax would be likely to suggest, as there would not seem much else to do".
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55 89 "Let us not wager our lives on the matter," I said.
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59 217 See, Tajima lives".
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60 108 He lives.
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61 67 "Yamada lives?" said Lord Okimoto.
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Book 34. (8 results) Plunder of Gor

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23 185 "I was not paid to kill him, so he lives," he said.
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33 283 It lives for a time off the tissue and blood of the womb, but it is normally collected and taken to a nursery before the womb perishes.
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33 507 Your life and our lives may depend on this.
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51 64 "Few raiders, without independent information, from the baths, or such, would care to risk their lives to seize such a woman, one who might, when unveiled, dismay a male tarsk.
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51 191 "Lord Agamemnon still lives.
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60 223 "It could mean our lives," said Decius Albus.
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62 28 How many free women, I wondered, could match the slave in beauty? How many would dare to walk and stand, and move, as a slave, with such casual, unconscious ease, such assurance and womanly grace, the grace of a woman who knows herself so special and prized that she is collared and owned? Did they s...
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64 95 And worthless, indeed! We are selected for our beauty, our intelligence, our passion, our needs, and our desirability! And we are clothed, if clothed, in such a way as to display us, to flatter our sex and show it as it can be, as men want to see it, exciting and vulnerable, ready and purchasable! D...
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Book 35. (7 results) Quarry of Gor

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1 178 "As you may suspect, my homely, naked, two-legged beasts," he said, speaking English, as had his predecessor, "your lives have changed.
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3 396 "Now, for the first time in their lives," he said, "they will be worth something, as abject slaves".
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6 50 "Some risk their lives to protect the goods of men they do not even know; others, in the same situation, think nothing of seizing goods not their own".
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8 803 But do you not fear for your lives?" "Not now," he said.
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41 220 And men will fight more fiercely for their lives than coin".
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42 46 "Do you value your lives?" inquired a voice, powerful, arrogant, and belligerent, from outside the barricade.
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43 8 Our lives will depend on unnoted expedition".
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Book 36. (20 results) Avengers of Gor

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4 151 We offer it in exchange for our lives".
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13 103 Doubtless you could kill us and flee for your lives.
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13 112 Could they really count on their lives being worth more to their fellows, thieves and murderers, than gold? "Unbind the prisoners," I said.
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17 340 Lives are at stake, on sea and land".
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20 48 "Yes," said Aktis, "Nicosia lives, but it is bloodied, emptied, and scarred.
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22 7 "When one lives at the edge of a cliff," said Clitus, "one should watch where one steps.
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22 157 "You have just succeeded in saving several lives, three ships, and three holds filled with goods," I said.
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23 39 Who would risk their lives on a blind ship? Who would be so foolish as to take such a ship to sea? The eyes of the seven ships were blackened over with paint, presumably administered from small boats in the night, possibly by means of paint-soaked rags or sponges fastened to poles.
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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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30 12 This conjecture seemed plausibly corroborated by remarks overheard in Sybaris by the former Melete, Iantha, and Philomena, which remarks, fearing for their lives, they were kind enough to share with us.
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43 146 Mercenaries, it seemed, as I had expected, were more interested in preserving their goods than in rushing off, possibly at the risk of their lives, to investigate what might be amiss with ponderous siege equipment.
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45 44 Also, troops which have followed orders and risked their lives in battle are unlikely to view with tolerance or equanimity those who have shirked their duty and thus, quite possibly, put their fellows in greater peril.
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52 2 "The Dorna can see!" "She lives!" cried a man, and cheers rang from the benches.
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53 82 "While the Dorna sees, while the Dorna lives," he said, "we will not leave her".
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53 87 "The Dorna sees, the Dorna lives," I said.
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53 211 "Let it be the price by means of which you purchase your lives," came back.
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53 212 "Transfer the gold to this ship and your lives will be spared".
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53 273 "Now, lads," I called down, "we will see if you row faster for your lives than the foe for his pay".
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58 47 We trade our lives for our ships.
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58 48 The enemy obtains our ships and we retain our lives".
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