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Book 1. (8 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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2 5 There were five narrow windows, not large enough to let a man through; they rather reminded me of ports for bowmen in a castle tower, yet they admitted sufficient light to allow me to recognize my surroundings.
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2 28 The building in which I found myself was apparently one of an indefinite number of towers, like endless flat cylinders of varying sizes and colors, joined by narrow, colorful bridges that arched lightly between them.
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2 129 My father paused at the narrow window in the circular room and looked out onto the hills beyond and fell silent.
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4 91 At the same moment the iron bolt of a crossbow, fired through one of the narrow windows, struck the wall behind my chair-stone and ricocheted viciously about the room.
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4 116 The Older Tarl and I had made a round of taverns in the various cylinders, and I recall toddling precariously, singing obscene camp lyrics, along different narrow bridges, about a yard wide without rails, and the earth somewhere below—how far I had no idea at the time.
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6 183 Now the eyes of the daughter of the Ubar were blazing at me furiously from the narrow aperture in her veil.
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7 3 Her eyes flashed from the narrow opening in her veil.
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12 106 The beak, curved like an instrument of war, slit with its narrow nostrils, closed on my body, and I was once more the prize of a tarn.
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Book 2. (15 results) Outlaw of Gor

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3 1 Zosk I had walked for some hours in the direction of Ko-ro-ba when I was delighted to come on one of the narrow roads to the city.
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3 50 Its wide, narrow eyes, pale like water, regarded me through the brush of hair that almost concealed them.
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6 202 The eyes of the officer were narrow in the Y-like opening of his helmet.
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7 86 Silently, Thorn and the other warrior scooped out a narrow trench and buried their comrade.
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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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10 29 On each side of the avenue was a gradually ascending brick wall, and as we trudged upward the walls on each side became higher and the avenue more narrow.
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10 37 I was facing the door, first in the narrow passage.
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11 29 His narrow eyes, like those of an urt, looked upon me contemptuously.
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12 29 She wore only a single garment, a long, narrow rectangle of rough, brown material, perhaps eighteen inches in width, drawn over her head like a poncho, falling in front and back a bit above her knees and belted at the waist with a chain.
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17 1 The Mines of Tharna The room was long, low, narrow, perhaps four feet by four feet, and a hundred feet long.
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17 39 Today, more than once, he had scattered the ore which, on my hands and knees, I had chipped from the narrow shafts of the mine.
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17 85 I found myself gazing at the large circular hole in the ceiling of the narrow cell.
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18 5 The ore shafts are like narrow wells sunk in the stone and their platforms can scarcely accommodate a slave's sack of ore.
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19 34 Bodily the small conspirator was thrown from slave to slave down the length of the chain until the last man hurled him, headfirst, screaming for mercy, down that dark narrow channel which we had ascended.
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24 248 This time the trap did not open and I found myself in a narrow unlit hallway opposite the door to the palace.
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Book 3. (14 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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4 37 Then he fumbled about a bit more and emerged with a narrow cylindrical, silverish object.
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6 31 I felt, for some months, rather awkward, rather unsteady perched on a little wooden platform supported by four narrow sticks.
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14 24 I was considering my next insult when the two arms which held me swung me over a metal cage with a double floor, the higher consisting of narrow bars set in a wide mesh and the lower consisting simply of a white plastic tray.
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18 98 Sarm stopped on the narrow iron railing circling the huge, glassy blue dome and straightened himself and turned to face me.
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20 60 On the disk there was mounted a narrow, closed cylinder of transparent plastic.
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21 71 A heavy chain, fastened to a ring in the ceiling, led to a thick metal band which was locked about his narrow trunk between the thorax and the abdomen.
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22 82 I thrust the Mul-Torch which I still carried into a narrow iron receptacle, consisting mainly of two connected rings and a base plate, which was bolted to the wall.
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24 27 This withdrawal on its part, of course, would not in the least prevent it from using its great jaws to attack, but it would, I supposed, somewhat narrow the area of its sensory awareness.
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25 1 The Vivarium My hands seized the narrow, hollow, pincerlike jaws of the Golden Beetle and tried to force them from my body, but those relentless, hollow, chitinous hooks closed ever more tightly.
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30 6 My arms and legs were bound with bands of steel to a flat, narrow, wheeled platform; my throat and waist were similarly locked in place.
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31 120 I looked up to see Sarm on that narrow passage that traced its precarious way around the great blue dome that covered the power source.
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31 123 Then I saw him through the sides of the blue dome that covered the power source, far above, a golden figure on the narrow walkway at the crest of the dome.
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31 134 I left cover and rushed to the walkway and was soon climbing up the narrow path that crept around the surface of the globe that now barely contained the frenzied, bubbling fury, the turbulence of the hissing, erupting substance that leaped and smote against the smooth enclosing walls.
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31 196 Behind me, inching its way up the narrow walkway, clinging with its six small legs, slowly lifting its heavy domelike golden body a step at a time, came the Golden Beetle I had seen below.
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Book 4. (9 results) Nomads of Gor

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21 259 The narrow column, and probably the Tuchuk spacing, a Hundred and then the space for a Hundred, open, and then another Hundred, and so on, tends to narrow the front of dust, and the spaces between Hundreds give time for some of the dust to dissipate and also, incidentally, to rise sufficiently so th...
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2 67 His lance remained on his back, but he carried in his right hand the small, powerful horn bow of the Wagon Peoples and attached to his saddle was a lacquered, narrow, rectangular quiver containing as many as forty arrows.
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5 46 Among the Wagon Peoples, to be clad Kajir means, for a girl, to wear four articles, two red, two black; a red cord, the Curla, is tied about the waist; the Chatka, or long, narrow strip of black leather, fits over this cord in the front, passes under, and then again, from the inside, passes over the...
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6 38 She wore a simple yellow shift, with narrow orange stripes, of what must once have been crisp oxford cloth.
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13 89 She could not stand in the low, narrow cage, and knelt, wrists braceleted, hands on the bars.
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18 107 It was locked but we kicked it open, splintering the bolt from the wood, and emerged on a narrow, unrailed balcony.
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21 78 I darted down a narrow street.
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21 258 Judging from the dust, its dimensions, its speed of approach, the riders, perhaps hundreds of them, the first wave, were riding in a narrow column, at full gallop.
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25 161 She wore the Sirik and was, of course, clad Kajir, clad in the Curla and Chatka, the red cord and the narrow strip of black leather; in the Kalmak, the brief vest, open and sleeveless, of black leather; and in the Koora, the strip of red cloth that bound back her brown hair.
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Book 5. (22 results) Assassin of Gor

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12 309 When the smith arrived, he took, from a rack in the wall, two narrow, straight bars of iron, not really plates but narrow cubes, about a half inch in width and fifteen inches in length.
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2 54 Seven narrow ladders, each about eight inches in width, fixed into the wall, gave access to these alcoves.
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2 329 Kuurus threw the silk and chain over his shoulder and motioned the girl to move ahead of him and, numbly, she did so, crossing the room, going between the tables, and stopping before the narrow ladder at the right side of the high wall, in which were found the ledges with their alcoves.
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3 1 The Game When I deemed it wise to depart from Vella, I knotted her yellow slave livery about her neck and cried out, "Begone, Slave!" and then slapped my hands together at which juncture she let forth a howl as though she had been struck, and then, blubbering hysterically and crying out, she scrambl...
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4 17 The room was lit, and grayly, by sunlight now filtering in through several narrow, barred windows set very high in the thick stone of the walls.
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5 517 Then, when they had their hands in one another's hair, kicking, the slave girl suddenly stopped, terrified, not seeing the gleaming, narrow band of steel locked on Elizabeth's throat.
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6 45 To each, on furs, there was chained, by the left ankle, a bare-breasted girl about whose waist there was knotted a scarlet cord, in which was thrust a long, narrow rectangle of red silk.
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11 19 The female slaves, like the men, were unclothed, and wore collars; their collars, however, were not the typical locked collar of the female slave but, since they were only in the iron pens, a narrow band of iron, with a number, hammered about their neck.
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12 30 I could see him a few feet behind the throne, wrapped in a scarlet cloak, a tall, spare man, long-armed and narrow-faced, whose head moved restlessly, surveying the crowd.
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12 134 The flight track itself, of course, is rather like a narrow, aerial rectangle with two rounded ends.
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13 219 About the walls, here and there, were lists and records, inked on narrow boards; there were also, here and there, hanging on the walls, some memorabilia, such as saddle rings and tarn harnesses, suitably labeled as to their origin; there were also representations of tarns and some drawings of famous...
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13 306 The first time I attempted to use the harness, though I was aware of the danger, I overdrew the strap and the suddenness of the bird as it veered in flight threw me against the two narrow safety straps; the small, broad, rapid-beating wings of the racing tarn permit shifts and turns that would be im...
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13 378 I tossed him back the knife and retraced my steps along the narrow perch.
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15 19 A white silken cord had been knotted about her waist; in this cord was thrust a narrow rectangle of white silk, perhaps about two feet long.
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16 243 "No, Master! Phyllis will not speak!" I turned to my left and began to follow the tier, until I came to a narrow set of stairs, leading to the lower portions of the stands, which I then followed, descending.
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17 87 There was one window high in one wall, narrow, barred.
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18 342 Now, paga bottle in hand, I was passing guards and found myself walking down the narrow iron runways over the pens below, now filled with drunken slaves, some sleeping, some sitting stupefied in the center of their pen, some singing brokenly to themselves, some trying to crawl again to the trough to...
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19 86 Philemon looked at me with his narrow ferret eyes and smiled.
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22 362 To my surprise I noted, coiled at the side of his saddle, in four loops, was a whip knife, of the sort common in Port Kar, a whip, but set into its final eighteen inches, arranged in sets of four, twenty thin, narrow blades; the tips of whip knives differ; some have a double-edged blade of about sev...
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22 394 An attendant, from beneath his cloak, threw to the saddle the tiny, swift bow of Tuchuks, the narrow, rectangular quiver, with its forty arrows.
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24 106 At times we walked up swirling gradients, at times stairs, swirling and broad, leading higher and higher into the cylinder; sometimes we walked through marble-floored passageways, in which, through narrow windows, designed to be too small for a body to pass, but large enough for use as crossbow port...
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24 273 I stopped suddenly, regarding one of the small, narrow wooden doors, giving entry surely only to the quarters of a slave.
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Book 6. (35 results) Raiders of Gor

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7 9 Their slaves, their torches extinguished, were loading the narrow, high-prowed barges, treading long, narrow planks extending from the barges to the matting of the island.
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1 4 I took the triangular-bladed tem-wood paddle and moved the small craft, light and narrow, large enough scarcely for one man, ahead.
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1 24 I paddled along, gently, kneeling on the rushes of my small, narrow craft.
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1 31 Gorean warriors, generally drawn from the cities, are warriors by blood, by caste; moreover, they are High Caste; the peasants, isolated in their narrow fields and villages, are Low Caste; indeed, the Peasant is regarded, by those of the cities, as being little more than an ignoble brute, ignorant a...
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1 51 I noticed that one of these rence plants had, tied about it, below the tuft of stamens and narrow petals, a white cloth, rep-cloth.
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1 79 Rence paper is made by slicing the stem into thin, narrow strips; those near the center of the plant are particularly favored; one layer of strips is placed longitudinally, and then a shorter layer is placed latitudinally across the first layer; these two surfaces are then soaked under water, which ...
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1 84 Sometimes rence merchants, on narrow marsh craft rowed by slaves, enter some pasangs into the delta to negotiate the transactions, usually from the western edge, that bordering the Tamber Gulf.
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3 82 Between Se'Kara and the winter solstice, which occurs on the first of Se'Var, the rence will be sold or bartered, sometimes by taking it to the edge of the delta, sometimes by being contacted by rence merchants, who enter the delta in narrow barges, rowed by slaves, in order to have first pick of th...
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4 91 In the narrow innuendo of the slightly parted tunic I sensed her perfection.
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5 150 The pole, barkless, narrow, upright, thrust deep in the rence of the island, stood at the very center of the clearing, surrounded by the circles of the feasting rencers.
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6 18 In the light of the moving torches, beyond them, toward the marsh, I saw, dark, the high, curved prows of narrow marsh barges, of the sort rowed by slaves.
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6 57 I saw a girl stumbling, being dragged by the hair toward one of the narrow barges.
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8 15 I was pleased with the craft, and, not more than an Ahn after we had returned to the island from our concealment in the marsh, Telima poled us away from its shore, setting our course in the wake of the narrow, high-prowed marsh barges of the slavers of Port Kar.
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8 48 Soon, shielded by rushes and sedge, we had the first of the narrow, high-prowed barges abeam.
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8 108 This arrangement, in effect, transformed the formerly isolated barges into what was now, for all practical purposes, a long, single, narrow, wooden-walled fort.
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9 44 There was something of an uproar as a large, fierce-looking fellow, narrow-eyed, ugly, missing an ear, followed by some twenty or thirty sailors, burst into the tavern.
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9 48 The fierce fellow, bearded, narrow-eyed, missing an ear, who seemed to be the leader of these men, seized one of the paga girls, twisting her arm, dragging her toward one of the alcoves.
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9 273 I threw a silver tarsk, taken from what we had obtained from the slavers in the marsh, to the proprietor of the paga tavern, and took in return one of the huge bottles of paga, of the sort put in the pouring sling, and reeled out of the tavern, making my way along the narrow walkway lining the canal...
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9 499 I trod the narrow walkway lining the canal.
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9 539 How ugly he was, with his fierce beard, the narrow eyes, the ear gone from the right side of his face.
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9 630 She was scrawny, and thin faced, with narrow shoulders.
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9 651 I bent and put the arm of the dying man about my shoulders and, lifting him, with the girl's help, went back through the kitchen of the tavern and, one by one, climbed the high, narrow stairs to the top of the building.
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9 682 I, followed by the slave Luma, left the roof, descended the long, narrow stairs.
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10 58 But still, even in the face of such reputed odds as he had faced, there were those in Port Kar who smiled behind his back, thinking to themselves how he had gone forth with so fine a showing and had returned with little more than his life, a handful of terrified men, and a narrow wooden punt.
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11 325 I gazed upon the Ubars: squat, brilliant Chung; narrow-faced, cunning Eteocles; tall, long-haired Nigel, like a warlord from Torvaldsland; and Sullius Maximus, who was said to write poetry and be a student of the properties of various poisons.
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11 418 It was shortly past daybreak, and the gray light of Port Kar's dawn was filtering in through the high, narrow windows of the Council of Captains.
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14 7 The Dorna, like most tarn ships, is a long, narrow vessel of shallow draft.
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16 287 Even from where I was I could hear, beyond the holding, the cries that there was a Home Stone in Port Kar, and could see torches being borne along the narrow walks which, in most places, line the canals.
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16 312 A man stood on a narrow walk, a bundle on his back, tied over a spear.
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16 325 Men were hurrying along the narrow walks lining the canals.
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16 381 Through the thick walls, and the high, narrow windows of the hall of the Council of Captains, there came a great, rumbling cry, the thunderous mixture of roiling shouts.
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17 18 I snapped shut the glass of the builders and descended the narrow rope ladder to the deck of the Dorna.
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17 241 I crammed the last of the tarsk meat into my mouth and, chewing, climbed down the narrow rope ladder, fastened to the deck near the mast well.
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18 14 She, like most tarn ships, was a narrow vessel, long and of shallow draft.
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18 714 We went outside, and saw Ho-Hak slowly climb the long, narrow stairs beside the delta wall, until he stood behind the parapet, at its height.
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Book 7. (7 results) Captive of Gor

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4 202 There were narrow walk spaces between the tiers.
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7 155 We desperately wanted to have something to cover ourselves, be it only a narrow, shameful camisk.
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10 270 I remembered the two men thrusting me into the narrow, transparent slave capsule, in its rack, its lid being screwed shut.
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12 312 The crowd of slave girls swarmed forward toward the cart with their sticks and switches, some of them even leaping upon it, spitting, and striking and poking through the bars of the high narrow cage.
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12 621 "Tarns!" In the distance, in a set of four, long, narrow, extended "V's," there came a flight of tarnsmen.
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12 662 But, about the throat, the broad strap, for each of us, was perforated in two places, and it was by means of narrow binding fiber, passed several times through the perforations and knotted, that it was fastened on our throats.
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14 607 Another girl, one of four near me, besides Ena, again knelt behind me and again began to pass the narrow, purple horn comb through my hair.
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Book 8. (9 results) Hunters of Gor

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1 14 We played in the hall of Samos, a lofty room, with high, narrow windows.
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1 377 We stood together in that lofty room, with its high, narrow windows, on the tiles, he in the robes of the Slaver, I in those of the Merchants, though beneath them the red of the Warriors.
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2 544 They are long, narrow, shallow-drafted, carvel-built craft.
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4 6 The girl climbed the narrow, iron ladder to the sixth alcove.
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5 218 Sometimes the passages between them were very narrow.
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6 342 Meanwhile, portions of the crew not engaged in such labors, would be carrying stones from the shore and cutting saplings in the forest, to build the narrow rectangular wall which shields such camps.
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13 74 I saw the distant churning in the water, and saw, far off, the narrow head of a river shark, lifting itself, water falling from it, and the dorsal fins, black and triangular, of four others.
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13 324 She felt it, like a narrow, obdurate line, on her throat.
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17 46 I detected in one of the small, narrow, open tents, abandoned, a movement.
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Book 9. (10 results) Marauders of Gor

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16 1 The War Arrow Following the Forkbeard, on hands and knees, I crawled down the narrow passage, at one point turning to my left side to slide through a narrow aperture.
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1 8 I looked up, at the narrow apertures in the wall to my right.
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1 70 I looked about the hall, at the great walls of stone, the long table, the tiles, the narrow apertures through which I could glimpse the far stars, burning in the scape of the night.
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4 90 It rests on four poles, with two long, narrow poles, fixed in sockets, mounted in tandem fashion, serving as a single ridge pole.
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4 166 Gorm moved aside eight narrow planks from the loose decking.
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6 329 Ventilation is supplied, as it is generally in Torvaldsland, by narrow holes in the roof.
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13 252 The eyes of Svein Blue Tooth and Bera, narrow, shining, were filled with pleasure.
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14 113 I saw, too, the nostrils of the Kurii closing to narrow slits.
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14 207 I observed the patterns; they were regular, linear, of narrow width; no body was missed.
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22 27 He thrust her, ahead of him, stumbling, up the narrow gangplank, and put her on the ship.
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Book 10. (42 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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2 254 It was reached by climbing a narrow flight of wooden stairs between closely pressing walls, and opened off a narrow corridor, lit by a hanging tharlarion-oil lamp; off this corridor, too, were the doors of several similar rooms.
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7 117 It is a narrow threshold, lying at the foot of a set of narrow, twisting, concave stairs.
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1 442 A shelter trench is a narrow trench, some four or five feet deep and about eighteen inches wide.
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1 834 I looked upon her, narrow lidded, as she strove to please me.
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2 71 I was now in the shade, descending a narrow, steep street, toward the bazaar.
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2 74 These buildings, on the outside smooth and bleak, save for occasional narrow windows, high, not wide enough to admit a body, abut directly on the streets, making the streets like deep, walled alleys.
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2 116 The architecture of Tor, in concentric circles, broken by numerous, narrow, crooked streets, was a function of the radius from its wells.
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2 170 But when I descended the narrow gangplank of the dhow which I took upstream from Kasra to the village port of Kurtzal, it was not as a tarnsman.
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2 330 High in the house, through one of the narrow windows, I saw a girl, looking out.
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3 38 His eyes were narrow.
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3 153 Sometimes they were steep; often they were narrow and crooked.
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3 192 Lights appeared in others of the high, narrow windows.
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3 323 I then turned and began to climb the narrow wooden stairs to my compartment.
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4 56 About some of these water holes there were a dozen or so small trees, flahdah trees, like flat-topped umbrellas on crooked sticks, not more than twenty feet high; they are narrow branched, with lanceolate leaves.
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5 20 Suleiman watched her, through heavily lidded, narrow eyes.
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6 1 A Slave Girl Testifies The bodies of the two girls, stripped, lay on the narrow rectangles, networks, of knotted ropes, on the racks.
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6 64 He then took a narrow, eighteen-inch thong and bound her hands behind her back.
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6 131 He then, as he had with the other girl, with another narrow thong, tied her hands behind her back.
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7 286 I smiled, seeing, in the confusion, the blood, drop by drop, slip to the door of the cell, move across the stones, out into the hall, and through the threshold, then up the twisting, narrow, concave stairs.
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7 288 It would have known it would not have had the time to wrench loose the bars and slip through the narrow window before being hacked to pieces.
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7 425 When first I had seen her, her yellow nylon stockings in shreds, her brief, yellow, with narrow orange stripes, Oxford-cloth shift, dusty and stained, her neck bound to a capture lance, her wrists bound behind her, on the plains of the Wagon Peoples, a captive of Tuchuks, she had worn it.
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11 484 We climbed a narrow ladder, pushing up a trap door to the roof.
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12 226 I lifted her to her feet and put her back against one of the cool, narrow marble columns supporting the arched roof of the seraglio.
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14 285 He pointed to a window, narrow, high in the wall.
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14 293 "It is she," said Hamid, indicating the girl in the narrow window, the slave master behind her.
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14 494 Such birds, broad-winged, black and white, from afar, follow the marches to Klima; their beaks, yellowish, narrow, are long and slightly hooked at the end, useful for probing and tearing.
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14 592 "The right ear," said the next man, grasping the long, slim lance, eight feet Gorean in length, marked with red and yellow swirling stripes, terminating in an extremely narrow point, razored, steel, some eleven inches in length, and lanceolate, as the leaf of the flahdah tree.
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15 85 He was bare-chested, and hairy; he wore kaffiyeh and agal, though of rep-cloth, the cording, too, of rep-cloth, twisted into narrow cord.
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15 132 Water at Klima is generally carried in narrow buckets, on wooden yokes, with dippers attached, for the slaves.
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16 83 The long, narrow legs also lift the salamander's head and body from the floor, enabling it, with its sensors, to scan a greater area for prey.
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17 127 From his sash he took a long, narrow lacing of rawhide, which he bound about the base of the lance blade, where it was riveted in the shaft, thus, for about six inches, reinforcing the shaft.
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19 125 The trench was about four feet deep, narrow, not hard to dig.
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20 83 The paw encircled the heavy, twisted interlacings of stems of a thick clump of narrow-leafed scrub brush.
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21 79 In another place, that night, we found a narrow channel of baked mud, the dried bed of a tiny, vanished stream, of the sort which in the winter, should it rain, carries water for a few days.
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21 608 I seized a narrow pipe over my head, jerking at it.
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22 80 It was long, slim, some eight foot Gorean in length; it was marked with red and yellow swirling stripes; it terminated in an extremely narrow point, razored, steel, some eleven inches in length, lanceolate, as the leaf of the flahdah tree.
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24 118 In a narrow window in the wall of the kasbah, high over my head, there had stood a woman, a slave girl, veiled and robed in yellow, a slave master behind her.
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24 698 When I came to one of the narrow windows, not wide enough to admit the body of a man, facing the desert on the north, I lifted and lowered the lamp, and then did this once again.
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24 747 Men leaped from their kaiila, climbing, scimitars flashing, up the narrow stairs, toward the walls.
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25 443 I tore down one of the hangings, a yellow one, and ripped a narrow strip from it.
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25 473 I took her by the arm and, Hassan preceding us, I conducted her down the curving, narrow, worn stairs, deep below the kasbah.
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25 498 It led into a large, long, narrow room.
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Book 11. (18 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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2 17 The hair of both men was long; the hair of the man behind was tied back with a narrow piece of folded cloth.
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2 211 He took from his dagger sheath the steel blade, narrow, about seven inches long, double-edged, evenly sharpened.
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4 403 I felt the strap, black, narrow, loop my belly.
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4 418 Did my master not love me, as I loved him? He, narrow-lidded, looked at me over the rim of the goblet of paga.
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4 989 I looked with dread down the narrow corridor forced between the walls of fierce thorn brush, into the darkness beyond.
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4 1069 There, bending over me, he crossed my wrists and, with a narrow strap, tied them together behind my back; he then similarly fastened my ankles.
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6 36 Tabuk's Ford was a large village, containing some forty families; it was ringed with a palisade, and stood like a hub in the midst of its fields, long, narrow, widening strips, which radiated from it like the spokes in a wheel.
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6 106 The entrance was reached by a flight of rough, narrow steps.
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7 594 I turned about, my back to the logs, and looked back down the narrow dirt street.
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9 1666 He then secured it in place with a narrow piece of folded cloth which slipped deeply between my teeth.
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11 194 The room was lofty, and spacious; it contained numerous slender, white pillars, rich hangings; it was tiled in purple, and there was in it a scented pool; the walls were glossy and richly mosaiced with scenes of slave girls at the service of their masters; I uneasily touched the collar at my throat;...
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12 716 In a few Ehn we emerged, after climbing stairs, on the roof of one of the buildings, and, thence, by a narrow bridge, crossed to one of the parapets.
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16 67 These platforms were separated by narrow aisles; also they did not adjoin the sides of the hold, thus allowing a passage between them and the wall of the hold on both the left and right side of the ship.
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18 11 Over the Curla in front, slipping under the body and between the legs, and passing over the Curla in the back, was the Chatka, or narrow strip of black leather, some six inches in width, some five feet or so in length; it was drawn tight; when a girl wears the Curla and Chatka, the brand, whether on...
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19 20 A long rug, some forty yards in length, narrow, red, led toward a large pair of white doors, which opened from the center.
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22 593 Weakly I tried to push away the jaws that held me, long and narrow, with many fine teeth.
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26 143 In one sleeve, in a tiny, narrow sheath, he found a needle, which he held up.
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27 743 A yellow circle, in outline, narrow-bordered, the border some six inches in width, the circle itself some ten feet in width, was painted on the cement.
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Book 12. (14 results) Beasts of Gor

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2 650 It is called the parsit current for it is followed by several varieties of migrating parsit, a small, narrow, usually striped fish.
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3 1320 Over this string, in the front, there was thrust a single, simple narrow rectangle of vulgar, white rep-cloth, some six inches in width, some twelve inches in length.
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5 149 Then I stepped across the narrow court before the house of Samos and down into the waiting longboat.
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6 612 With the knife he slit the belt into narrow strips, improvising binding fiber.
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6 785 She was struggling in the narrow leather which confined her.
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7 247 I saw the wadding of a slave hood thrust deep in Constance's mouth and then, behind her neck, secured in place with two narrow, buckled straps.
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8 59 The jacket was held about her waist, closely, by a narrow belt, black, and shining, with a golden catch.
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8 61 Over her shoulder, across her body, was a second belt, from which hung, at her right hip, a pouch and, on a ring, a slave whip, its blades folded, and four coils of narrow, rawhide rope.
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10 99 He who dares to pursue the twisting, sinuous dangerous sea sleen in the arctic waters, fended from the teeth and sea by only a narrow vessel of tabuk skin and his simple weapons and skill, does not care to be confused with a tradesman.
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11 20 Too they may be used for buckets and tents, and for kayaks, the light, narrow hunting canoes of skin from which sea mammals may be sought.
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12 196 Imnak cracked his whip over their heads and they threw their weight against the traces and the long, narrow, freighted sled eased upward, over the rocks, and then slid down onto the ice of Ax Glacier.
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22 106 I wrenched myself to the side and righted the light, narrow vessel.
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22 175 The bone point of the harpoon, thrown, would probably not penetrate the skull and it would be difficult to strike the submerged, narrow forepart of the body knifing toward the kayak.
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35 511 Her face was narrow but very beautiful.
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Book 13. (27 results) Explorers of Gor

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1 335 Samos stopped before a heavy iron door; a narrow steel panel slipped back.
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1 365 About this pole, encircling it, and supported by it, was a narrow, circular, wooden, metal-sheathed platform.
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1 382 The walkway's front edge was about a yard from the tiny, wooden, metal-sheathed, circular platform, mounted on the wooden, metal-sheathed pole, that tiny platform on which the girl knelt, that narrow, tiny platform which held her but inches from the tharlarion-filled water.
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3 12 I passed iron doors, narrow, in the walls.
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4 339 I did not think she would be likely to flee east along the canal walkways, for these were relatively narrow and, on them, between the buildings and the canal, she might be easily trapped.
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4 388 These boats are generally shallow-drafted, narrow, and single-oared, the one oar being used to both propel and guide the boat.
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6 502 Already I could see many signs, some subtle and some quite obvious, that the secret slave, which lurks in every woman, had begun to sense, fearfully, excitedly, that she had been brought to a world on which she might perhaps be free at last to emerge; had the chains been removed; she lifted her wris...
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11 30 I looked about, and then crossed the narrow street.
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11 41 The girl took the bit of wadded yellow pleasure silk she carried in her hand and, straightening it a bit, slipped it on a narrow wooden rod in an open closet.
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16 30 "You have had a narrow escape," I told Ayari.
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16 218 The askaris were jubilant, resplendent in their skins and feathers, with their golden necklaces and armlets, their narrow, tufted shields and short-handled stabbing spears.
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23 281 The space freed would be narrow, but it would be large enough to admit the passage of a man's body.
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25 3 The two white slaves, kneeling one behind the other, before me, lifted their paddles from the water, laying them across the sides of our narrow vessel.
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25 45 He took a narrow, short length of leather and bound Tende's wrists, tightly, behind her body.
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29 7 It lived on the white ants, or termites, of the vicinity, breaking apart their high, towering nests of toughened clay, some of them thirty-five feet in height, with its mighty claws, then darting its four-foot-long tongue, coated with adhesive saliva, among the nest's startled occupants, drawing tho...
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29 127 "Oh," she said, as I, with the end of a long, narrow strip of leather, fastened her wrists, tightly, together.
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29 201 The slave, lying on the narrow stairs, leading from her dungeon, wept.
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29 203 The lovely slave lying on the narrow, damp steps, hidden beneath the iron door, shut out again from the sun, cried in the lonely, quiet darkness, her existence once again denied.
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32 409 The freedoms of the Earth woman, in effect, are freedoms to conform, within rather narrow limits, to certain socially approved stereotypes.
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32 562 Sticks, pushed against my back, guided me to a narrow doorway, leading into a room, carved out of living rock, in the base of what I took to be a temple.
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32 1125 I took a piece of improvised binding fiber, a narrow strip of leather some five feet long, and crouched down behind her.
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34 459 The hands of the small, naked slave girl hidden in the dungeon, crouching on the damp, narrow, stone stairs, pressed upward against the iron door which had been bolted shut above her.
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34 464 An inch of light, narrow and straight, almost blinded her.
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47 77 I saw the column, like a narrow black curtain, dark in the moonlight, ascend the palings.
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48 209 Janice, Alice and Tende, wading, placed the paddles and supplies in the canoe, and then, entering the narrow vessel, assumed their places.
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49 93 "Quickly," I said, "take the canoe to the left, take shelter upon that river island!" We took the canoe quickly to a narrow river island, almost a wooded bar, on either side of which, placidly, flowed the Ua.
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53 522 I saw the narrow column of Kurii disappear among the distant buildings.
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Book 14. (9 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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2 177 The heavy man then brought forth a long, narrow, rectangular leather case.
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4 95 What fantastically attractive women they were, their lovely faces framed in cascades of dark hair, their throats, closely encircled by steel collars, their shoulders, their breasts, bared, their narrow waists and sweetly flared hips, the bit of rag they wore, their thighs, calves, ankles and small, ...
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11 142 She wore the scandalously brief shreds of a tattered slave rag, sewn of brown rep-cloth, torn open at her thighs, I assume deliberately, held but by a single, narrow strap over her left shoulder.
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11 471 "We girls," she said, her voice soft, the fingers of her right hand touching the narrow, close-fitting metal loop at her throat, "must learn the language of our masters".
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13 198 Certain of the shops, usually those containing more precious goods, such as that of Philebus, are entered through a narrow door.
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19 95 She was quite beautiful, kneeling barefoot before me, clad only in the brief, sleeveless brown rag of a slave, her blond hair about her shoulders, her blue eyes moist, her throat graced by the narrow collar of dark iron, slave iron.
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19 339 To see her in the brief rag of a stable slut, she standing so beautifully, the narrow collar on her throat, was to desire to rape her.
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21 146 The pennon of the standard bearer, long and narrow, fluttering back some twenty feet from his spear, was that of Vonda.
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34 166 It would probably be hard for a woman of Earth to understand how a mere slave girl, nothing but a commodity in a snatch of silk and a light, lovely, narrow, locked collar, could be so admired and prized.
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Book 15. (14 results) Rogue of Gor

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23 204 Some, but not all, wore five steel loops on their body, a rounded, narrow collar loop, and, rounded and narrow, loops on their wrists and ankles.
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4 554 I went to one of the narrow, barred windows in the inn.
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7 180 I then took my way up a narrow street leading into Victoria.
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11 6 Her wrists, by several narrow loops of red leather, on each wrist, were tied to iron rings on each side of her body, a little below the level of her shoulders.
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11 252 It was simple, narrow, close-fitting, of gleaming steel.
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11 430 My hand wandered to her hair, and then to her neck, enclosed in the narrow, steel collar.
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23 252 There were five, narrow, rounded loops of steel locked upon her fair body, one serving as collar, and the others for her wrists and ankles.
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24 16 It was off her right shoulder and held loosely on her by a casually knotted, narrow disrobing loop, fastened over her left shoulder.
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24 153 I took the steel collar, the rounded, narrow metal loop, with its lock, which she had brought with her into the room.
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25 199 There was the sound of the metal clapper in the narrow, flattish, triangular-shaped bell, the rustle of the chain and lock, the sound of the small, metal, sturdy, rectangular, locked coin box.
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28 88 He slid back a narrow panel, and then shut the panel, and opened the door.
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29 175 We can then send supporting forces through the narrow waters to the wall.
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29 196 "The portals and walks to be defended are sufficiently narrow," I said earnestly.
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31 169 I also noted that the window was too narrow to admit the egress of a man.
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Book 16. (21 results) Guardsman of Gor

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20 363 The lovely little slave in bluish gauze, whom I had not yet named, holding the narrow-spouted, silver pouring vessel in a heavy cloth, to retain its heat and protect her hands, poured the scalding, steaming black fluid, in narrow, tiny streams, into the small cups.
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3 38 The strands seemed narrow, from the distance from which I viewed them.
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11 5 It led onto a narrow balcony, screened by intricate grillwork, which, some twenty feet above the floor, encircled the area of the central slave quarters.
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12 22 I saw the flags of welcome, narrow, triangular and yellow, run up on their lines.
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12 110 Narrow corridors, too, and blind passages, suddenly shut off by barred barricades, through which arrows might be fired by our men, served a similar purpose.
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13 32 I felt the steel, hard and narrow, in my back.
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15 64 Too, the metal back of the blade, though not sharp, was narrow, and rectangular.
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16 558 The drag of its subsidence pulled momentarily against the headway of the longboat and then, after churning ripples, the narrow, shallow-drafted ship gone, the waters were smooth.
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17 2 It is dark and narrow, and not far from the wharves.
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17 19 The Street of the Writhing Slave winds tortuously upward from the wharves, threading its narrow way through a commercial district upward towards a hilly residential district.
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17 69 I regarded her, in the yellowish, flickering light of the tiny tharlarion-oil lamp, late at night, on the rude stones of that dark, narrow street in Victoria.
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17 73 From the chain there hung two objects; the first was a narrow, bronze bell, flattish and tapering, with a flat top and ring; when she moved it would sound, calling attention to her whereabouts; the second was a metal coin box, which contained a slot for the deposition of coins; the coin box was lock...
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17 113 And then she who had once been Miss Beverly Henderson, of New York City, of Earth, and was now Linda, knelt before me, on the rude stones of that narrow street in Victoria.
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17 308 "Please, please, Master!" I dropped the coin into the narrow, metal coin box.
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17 431 I heard the bell, and the coin, my coin, in the small, narrow metal box on her neck chain.
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17 779 I heard the bell, and the creak of the narrow, wooden wheels of the cart of the vendor of bosk milk, nearby.
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20 35 She, kneeling, poured wine from a narrow, long-spouted silver vessel into the cup of Aemilianus, of Ar's Station.
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20 72 With a serving prong she placed narrow strips of roast bosk and fried sul on my plate.
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20 167 I threw him a narrow, eighteen-inch black strap.
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20 649 The panties, too, were simulated with white silk, which, in a narrow rectangle, had been wrapped twice about her hips and tucked in at her waist.
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20 661 Besides these two garments, intended, respectively, to suggest the brassiere and panties of an Earth girl, she still wore, of course, the light, narrow white scarf, this twisted and wound twice about her throat, the ends thrown over her left shoulder.
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Book 17. (21 results) Savages of Gor

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1 69 The walls, of heavy stone, too, saturated with the chilled, humid air, would be cold and damp, and the defensive bars set in the narrow windows, behind the buckled leather hangings.
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2 144 They can be most easily closed, of course, by moving the narrow, vertically mounted, central wooden lever, but this lever, as would be expected, is on the outside.
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4 165 To our right, in a long, sloping valley, some two or three pasangs from the road, there were three narrow, slowly ascending columns of smoke.
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4 183 He could not turn the wagon on the narrow road.
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7 48 About her throat, narrow, sturdy and closely fitting, was a steel collar.
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8 178 On her feet were black, shiny, high-heeled dress sandals, each secured, apparently, by a single, narrow black ankle strap.
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8 194 He then went to the suspended girl and, thrusting up the ropes on her ankles, unbuckled the narrow, ankle-encircling black straps of her high-heeled dress sandals.
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8 312 Too, beneath the narrow garter belt, in what was perhaps an indication of charming reserve, I could see silken panties.
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8 890 It was wooden-floored and the narrow floor boards were laid lengthwise.
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9 10 It was of peeled Ka-la-na wood and, from its top, there dangled two long, narrow, yellow, black-tipped feathers, from the tail of the taloned Herlit, a large, broad-winged, carnivorous bird, sometimes in Gorean called the Sun Striker, or, more literally, though in clumsier English, Out-of-the-sun-it...
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9 50 The butcher knives are usually ground down into a narrow, concave shape.
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10 43 "To raise dust like that, in this terrain," said Grunt, "you must ride across draws, rather than avoid them, and you must ride in a cluster, where the dust will rise, cloudlike, rather than rise and fall, in a narrow line, swiftly dissipated by the wind".
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12 207 The breechclout of the Barrens, incidentally, consists of a single piece of narrow material.
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13 692 Suddenly, to my horror, a narrow chain was looped about my throat.
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13 718 About my throat, closely looped, was a narrow golden chain.
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13 719 It was controlled by two narrow wooden handles, in his hands".
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13 1104 There was a narrow rim of light in the east now.
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17 64 Again, of course, this knot, a heavy one, prevents the thongs from slipping back through the narrow aperture.
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17 459 A collar need not be as light and beautiful as the common, narrow, flat-band collars common in the high cities or the loose, light, rounded loops commonly referred to as Turian collars.
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17 465 It could be as simple as a narrow roll of knotted scarlet silk, or white, if the slave is at that time a virgin, or a piece of string or cord, or strip of leather, tied shut, perhaps looped six times about the throat, each time for one of the letters in the word 'Kajira', the most common expression ...
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19 199 The young man then lowered his lance, until the long point of narrow, tapering, bluish flint was but inches from her bared breasts.
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Book 18. (27 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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1 7 The vibration, clearly, was registered in the narrow, flat-based rings.
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2 142 I prefer, of course, both in point of beauty and security, the collars of the cities, for example, the narrow, flat bands, often engraved with the master's name, and sometimes with that of the slave, as well, which fit closely about the girl's neck and lock in the back, the most common sort of Gorea...
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3 67 In moments we, with the others, were splashing across a narrow, shallow stream.
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6 6 We were in a long, narrow, generally shallow draw.
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6 16 It carried through the draw, the deep thudding, magnified by, intensified by, that narrow corridor, open to the sky, of dirt and rock.
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6 40 I joined him and, slowly, our kaiila at a walk, we returned to the narrow draw.
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7 270 If you depart from the narrow line of slave perfection by so much as a hort you may expect a cuffing, or the lash".
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12 20 About my left shoulder, in five or six narrow coils, there was a rope of braided rawhide.
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12 143 She was sweetly breasted, narrow-waisted and widely hipped.
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12 167 She did so and, in a moment, with one end of the light, narrow rope I carried, removed from my shoulder, I bound them together.
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22 257 The paraphernalia of the dance, with the exception of some long, narrow, braided ropes, had been removed from the pole.
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33 234 I cut a length from a narrow, braided rawhide rope.
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33 240 I took the narrow rope, then, and looped it about her neck, three times.
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34 141 "What is that on her neck?" she asked, referring to the narrow, dark, braided rawhide rope, looped three times about the slave's neck and knotted before her throat, the two loose ends dangling between her breasts.
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34 306 I went to the travois and freed the coil of narrow, braided rawhide rope I had used for Mira's collar.
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34 322 He then looped the dark, narrow, braided rawhide rope three times about her neck.
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34 326 A narrow, inverted triangle of flesh showed between the first two coils of the collar, wrapped closely about her neck, and the knot.
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37 7 She crawled toward me, on all fours, in the narrow pit.
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37 53 She began to play with the narrow, dangling, braided-rawhide rope ends of her leather-rope collar, that which I had put on her in the vicinity of the compound of the Waniyanpi.
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44 367 Others, jostling and milling about, in dust and feathers, pressing and gesticulating, fought for a position on the narrow upgrade.
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44 369 I did not think it wise that the Yellow Knives were urging their kaiila so speedily upward, and in such numbers, on so narrow a trail.
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44 457 Still more Yellow Knives, not clear on what was ahead, were trying to force their way upward on the narrow trail.
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44 475 The trail, within its narrow boundaries, the rock on one side, the fall on the other, constituted a suitable trap, or slaughter channel, for our paralyzed, bewildered, confined enemies.
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44 497 Slowly, with difficulty on the narrow trail, some backing down, some turning, some falling, the Yellow Knives on the lower lengths of the trail, pressing back among their fellows at the foot of Council Rock, freed the lower ascents, enabling their trapped fellows on the upper reaches of the trail, t...
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44 699 Miserably then, moaning, Iwoso squirmed, knowing Hci's narrow-lidded, glinting eyes, amused, were upon her.
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44 733 Much of it was obscured by the narrow, coarse ropes which bound her neck back against the post.
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44 853 "Aside from the main trail," I said, "there is no easy route, not even a narrow path, to the summit of Council Rock".
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Book 19. (20 results) Kajira of Gor

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8 27 * * * * "This is the house of Kliomenes," had said Drusus Rencius, climbing the stairs to the narrow, heavy iron portal, recessed some feet back, at the end of a narrow tunnel, in the wall.
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15 168 I continued on my way, treading narrow valleys between mountains of sacks, narrow aisles separating cliffs of boxes.
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3 51 I fled to the window, which was narrow, about fifteen inches in width.
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3 85 The garment was belted, and rather snugly, with two turns of a narrow, silken, yellow cord, knotted at her left hip.
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6 222 Generally I had been able to see little or nothing, usually only the narrow, gloomy doors, often of iron, of grim, almost fortresslike buildings, but, sometimes, there would be an open-air market or some girls, as displays, would be chained outside.
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8 29 Above the entrance to the tunnel, and on its right, in the wall, hanging from an iron projection, was a narrow, blue-and-yellow banner.
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8 38 He beckoned and I joined him in the narrow tunnel leading to the door.
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8 307 And, here and there, I could see passages, narrow, crooked and dark, leading to even lower levels.
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10 56 A narrow strap was then slung about my head and pulled back, deeply between my teeth, and tied tightly behind the back of my neck.
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13 165 I was put on my feet near a tall, narrow, cylindrical cage with a conical top.
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15 179 Between the boxes, at places, darknesses in the darkness, there were narrow cracks.
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15 238 What are such women, I asked myself, but collar meat! What are they good for, save to serve the pleasure of callous, virile beasts? How pleased I was that I was different from them, that I was not as they! I then listened, with misery, while the two men, one after the other, in the narrow passageway...
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30 232 Many buildings at intersections in Ar, incidentally, particularly where the streets are narrow, have rounded corners.
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30 402 Its portal was sturdy, not unusual in a Gorean house, and was reached by a high, narrow flight of stairs, this leading to a broad landing.
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30 403 In this arrangement defenders have a secure footing, given the breadth of the landing, but unwelcome guests, in the absence of ladders, must face the difficulty of negotiating an unpleasant approach, that afforded by steep, narrow stairs.
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31 142 Did he truly think that an agonizing death, writhing on a high, narrow impaling spear, some twenty feet in height, unable to free myself, in a public square, or on the walls of Argentum, in public view, to the jeers and cries of a vengeful crowd was not to be feared? "I am Tiffany," I said, weakly, ...
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31 224 He drew away the sheet and folded it, horizontally, again and again, until it formed, with several folds, a thick, long, narrow band, about six inches in height and the sheet's length, about seven feet, in width.
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31 682 Sometimes a girl, particularly a new girl, must strive for days to earn even a narrow strip of cloth and a piece of string.
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33 15 Because of my proximity to the narrow, linear spaces between the beading, I had little difficulty in seeing well into the hall.
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36 524 I wondered if they listened to the lies they were told to tell themselves, and if they managed to believe them, or if they found much enjoyment in treading the dry, narrow, walled paths set out for them.
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Book 20. (23 results) Players of Gor

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12 758 Many slaves are kept in the common camisk, a narrow, poncholike garment, little more than a long, narrow rectangle of cloth, generally cheap cloth, with an opening for the head.
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13 278 It was narrow-shouldered and narrow-chested.
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1 68 The group outside, doubtless on a rented barge, was not the first to pass beneath the narrow windows of the house of Samos this evening.
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2 99 He looks out through a narrow, gauze-backed, rectangular opening in the robes.
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2 398 It might have stalked off one of the long, narrow, roofed stages of Ar, such as serve commonly for serious drama, spectacle and high comedy.
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2 963 The thongs were narrow, dark and tight.
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3 66 "You have broad shoulders," she said, "a narrow waist.
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7 56 The girls were all on their hands and knees on the long, narrow platforms, uniformly positioned, facing outwards, a short chain on the neck of each, running down to individual rings anchored in the thick planks.
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10 691 "Will it be necessary to kick your feet from under you, and strike you," I asked, "as one might a slave whose compliance has been foolishly less than instantaneous?" She knelt, braceleted, hooded, in the narrow space between the two bunks, facing the door.
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11 32 Another fellow was diligently investigating in the vicinity of the narrow, twisted strip of cloth, fringed, and covered with sequins, which we had bound about her breasts.
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13 1 Nim Nim I clutched the bars of the narrow cell window, looking out onto the courtyard.
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13 3 Behind me, on his straw, crouched the small, narrow-shouldered, spindle-legged representative of the urt people.
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13 156 * * * * I clutched the bars of the narrow cell window, looking out onto the courtyard.
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13 158 Behind me, on his straw, crouched the small, narrow-shouldered, spindle-legged representative of the urt people.
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13 277 It had a narrow, elongated face and rather large, ovoid eyes.
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14 7 It, too, had been cut from the stones and sides of the narrow sewers through which we had made our way.
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14 37 There was a bit more light coming from somewhere high above, through some sort of narrow, shuttered aperture.
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14 302 I saw those narrow, elongated snouts lifted towards him, the nostrils twitching and flaring.
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18 344 Instantly, as men and slaves screamed and fled, a frightening torrent of sheetlike flames, like narrow, roaring, successive walls of fire, leapt upward and outward, surging, racing away from me, seeming for a moment to engulf the room.
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18 445 "The corridor is narrow.
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18 505 The joining of the mirrors, facing outwards, was concealed by a narrow freestanding decorative pole, from which plantings might be hung, which pole, thanks to Boots, was now somewhat recessed in the niche.
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19 1 A Lattice Has Been Forced in, from the Outside "Hold!" cried a guardsman, one of two, at his post on one of the long, arching, graceful, railless, narrow bridges interlaced among the towers of Brundisium.
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21 169 He raised his arm, signaling to some men on the other side of the garden gate, on the narrow bridge outside it.
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Book 21. (25 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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20 64 Sometimes Earth girls, first brought to Gor, do not understand why so many of these two-handled, narrow-necked vessels have such a narrow, usually pointed base, for they cannot stand upright on such a base.
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2 94 As soon as I had spoken she crawled over the flat stones to the ashes of the fire, and began to prod among them, stirring them with a narrow stick, searching for covert vital embers.
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4 96 On the face of Genserix, and on the faces of those about us, the males, were the thin, white, knife-edge lines, the narrow scars, by which it might be known that each had, in his time, undergone the same ceremony.
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5 298 He then went to her and untied the strings which held the dagger sheath, with its small, narrow, sheathed weapon, with its ornamented, enameled handle, at her belt.
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13 113 There, some fifty yards away, kneeling, huddled together against the brick wall of a public building, the wall composed of the flat, narrow bricks common in southern Gorean architecture, was a group of some one hundred to one hundred and fifty females.
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16 921 It was as though, then, again, that I had brought her, whimpering and needful, with me, again in the Gorean fashion, down a long, patient, narrow-walled, heavily carpeted corridor, one in which her bare feet could feel the deep, soft piling of the carpeting, and through a heavy, barred door, one whi...
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16 1432 He had a mustache, like string, and narrow eyes.
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16 1480 The small fellow with the narrow eyes and the mustache like string was ahead of us.
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16 1828 "That is the Treasure Road," I said, indicating a narrow road in the distance.
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16 1847 I noticed the small fellow with narrow eyes, he with the mustache like string, nearby.
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18 3 The wheels of the cart were narrow, and some seven feet in height.
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20 39 I had not forgotten the streets, the baths, the shops, the broad, noble avenues, with their fountains, the narrow, twisting streets, little more than darkened corridors, shielded from the sun, of the lower districts.
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20 114 I noted the sound of the narrow, metal-rimmed wheels on the stones.
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22 17 The staircase was narrow.
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22 26 The stairwell boards were narrow.
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22 252 It was narrow, and moved with one's weight.
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22 270 There was a narrow corridor there, with some rooms on the left and right.
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22 323 There was a tiny falling of light, in a narrow, descendant shaft, into the room.
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25 54 The room was illuminated, insofar as it was, with a soft, flickering, reddish light, the result of the flames of tiny tharlarion-oil lamps set in narrow red-glass enclosures on certain of the tables.
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26 593 I then seized her wrist and drew her forcibly, swiftly, she crying out, on her belly, through the narrow opening.
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26 790 Beyond this yard was the narrow alley behind the buildings.
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26 796 She herself now, of course, though I do not think she had counted on it, had the benefit of that narrow, encircling garmenture.
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26 1935 The particular bridge, colorfully paved, graceful, narrow and ascendant, on which she walked, barefoot, blonde, her hair moving in the wind, in her exquisitely brief leather, gave entrance to the tower at something over half its height; it was one of several such bridges about, some giving access at...
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26 1938 Such bridges, even the loftiest, are usually narrow, and railless.
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26 1979 The bridge was lovely, narrow, ascendant, and colorful.
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Book 22. (44 results) Dancer of Gor

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13 298 Similarly, and perhaps for similar reasons, Gorean men tend, on the whole, it seems, to prefer normal-sized, lovely breasted, sweetly thighed women, with broad love cradles, as opposed to unusually tall, breastless, narrow-thighed women with narrow hips.
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1 73 How many times I had awakened from sleep, moving against the coarse, narrow cords which had held me down, above and below my breasts and crossed between them, leaving their cruel marks on my body! How many times had I awakened, seeming still to feel the tight bite of cruel shackles on my wrists and ...
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3 140 I have a narrow waist with, I think, sweetly wide hips.
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3 142 I put on armlets, bracelets and, opposite the bells on my left ankle, three light, narrow, goldenlike anklets on my right ankle.
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3 298 I tried to pick up one of the small armchairs, to smash through, and perhaps squeeze through, one of the high, narrow windows, but it was too heavy for me, and the man was now close behind me.
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3 332 I leaped up and fled away from him, utilizing the narrow space at the edge of the porchlike upper level, between the safety banister and the shelves, to the second stairs, on the east side of the upper level, leading down to the main floor.
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3 481 Here where we were light came through the high, narrow windows to my left, from the moon, and from a street lamp, about a hundred feet away.
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3 991 It was heavy, dark, long, and narrow.
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5 68 On my neck, also, there was now a flat, narrow steel collar.
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5 115 Narrow tubes were then brought, with plungers.
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6 137 And there seemed little objection anywhere to marching them through the streets in tunics or camisks, a narrow, poncholike garment.
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6 221 I had had some at the house, narrow, cooked slices smeared with butter, sprinkled with salt, fed to me by hand.
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6 249 When we had begun our training, shortly after we had been branded and collared, we had been kept in a lower level of the house, in a dank, dark, cold, musty area, seeming to consist largely of narrow corridors and cells, an area of damp, cold stone walls, of shadows and pools of water, chained in a ...
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6 687 It was as though a narrow path had been cut into it, and left raw, and burning, on it.
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6 718 The board is narrow.
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8 27 The cages were long, low and narrow, such as may be stacked and tied on long, flatbed wagons.
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8 33 Then, on her hands and knees, swiftly, at a gesture, she crawled, poked by sharp sticks, hastened by the cry "Quickly, she-tarsk!" to the first of the low, narrow cages and scrambled, weeping, within it.
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8 63 We had mostly backed out, for the cages were narrow, and then remained there, in the dirt, in the gray light of the early morning, on all fours.
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8 82 We had come to a long, narrow, wooden, caulked, semicircular tanklike container, about two feet wide and ten feet long, half buried in the dirt, its forward edge reached by a low ramp.
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8 103 As she had been the first into the first cage yesterday, and we had had, for the most part, to back out of the narrow enclosures, it was natural that she had been at the head of our group this morning.
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9 2 We could see it on the other side of the barred gate, the narrow, wooden ramp, with the low, wooden walls, open at the top, with the two gates, one for the shoot itself, to control the number of animals entering it, the other, slanting, behind which men might stand, which, when closed, given its dia...
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9 84 I observed the long, narrow, low-walled wooden conduit, leading up and forward.
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9 129 I knew the smell from the courtyard, and the narrow cages.
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10 349 Too much in my earlier terror I had fought against the close loops, the coarse, narrow, bristly bands that confined them.
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10 513 It was a brief slave tunic, slit deeply at the hips, with narrow shoulder straps, little more than strings.
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11 838 They then, similarly, placed narrow bracelets on both my wrists, several on each wrist.
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16 23 A single narrow strand of coarse rope ran between these two rings.
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17 92 The gutter on the street was a long, narrow trough.
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17 246 I could hear, beneath its narrow, sewn canvas surface, the crinkling of the straw within.
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20 81 I did have an errand capsule, a capped, narrow leather cylinder, such as may be used for carrying notes, messages, and such, on a string about my neck, the string over my collar.
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23 89 It had not been until they were loading me, and four of the other girls, each of us tied within a tall, narrow leather sack, our heads exposed, the sack locked shut beneath our chins, into the cargo net, to be slung beneath a draft tarn, that I found out any specific information pertinent to my fate...
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24 103 Her work tunic, however, had been removed and a narrow rectangle of silk, thrust in a leather thong knotted about her waist, hung down before her.
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25 11 I wore only my collar, that of Ionicus, and, about my waist, a knotted thong, in which was thrust a narrow rectangle of red silk.
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28 128 Tela had the soiled narrow rectangle of silk.
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28 224 She had then torn narrow strips from about the hem of the garment, tying some of them together.
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28 230 "Here," she said, handing me the narrow strips, some tied together, taken from the hem of her skirt.
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28 237 I fastened this fragile, narrow, improvised cordlike belt of twisted and rolled cloth about me, closely, snugly, knotting it at the left hip.
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29 1124 She was very beautiful there, bare-breasted, her neck in the slave collar of Ionicus, about her hips and thighs the brief shreds of the skirt of her work tunic, that tunic sacrificed that I might have at least the little I wore, a slave strip thrust in a narrow belt of rolled cloth.
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29 1570 He was broad-shouldered and narrow-waisted.
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29 1668 I could see the hilt of Hendow's sword there, and, behind it, the narrow board fixed in the earth by Mirus, that simple, crude marker, not bearing much of a message, really, little more than the data that Hendow had been of Brundisium, and had had a friend.
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30 205 It would be easy for him to keep me indefinitely in such a place, I realized, as there was a wastes bucket, and food and water could easily be thrust through the narrow, now-closed aperture at the bottom of the door.
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31 32 It is a different matter altogether to labor in a tavern kitchen, at a narrow task, or to stir the cooking pots in a work camp, which must feed perhaps a thousand slaves.
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31 276 I removed the bit of clothing I wore, the belt, the narrow strip of cloth.
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32 9 I could see the narrow print of its wheels in the leaves.
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Book 23. (27 results) Renegades of Gor

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1 357 In the wagon ahead, briefly illuminated, I saw, swinging from its strap, slung over a hook on the rear axle housing, a narrow, cylindrical, capped "grease bucket," the handle of the brush protruding through a hole in the cap.
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1 401 It had been a narrow thing a few Ehn ago, back on the road.
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1 609 She did so, and I drew forth a tarsk bit from my pouch, this one not a separate coin in the sense of a round or square coin, but a piece of such a coin, a narrow, triangular, chopped eighth of a copper tarn disk, and placed it in her mouth.
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2 1 The Court; Chained Women "You are not a female," said the voice from behind the door, a small, narrow door cut in the left panel of the gate, the eyes peering out from a small sliding hatch in the door.
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2 187 Narrow drainage channels had been cut in it.
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2 215 It had narrow openings in it here and there through which it might be defended.
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2 218 Both sections, I speculated, would be joined by a narrow, easily blocked underground passage cut in the stone, one presumably taking its way beneath the covered way between them.
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4 42 They are usually of metal and almost always of a narrow, spatulate form.
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4 91 He then returned the bucket to its place by the barrel and, from one of the wood bins, to the right, near the barrels, fetched an armload of kindling, then some narrow hardwood logs.
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4 93 He then added kindling, and then, a bit later, thrust the narrow logs into the platform.
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6 26 The second and third levels, incidentally, were reached by narrow stairs, rather than ladders, as in some inns.
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8 58 Narrow ladders, too, ascend it here and there, leading to its catwalks and platforms.
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8 287 The bird thrust its beak into a tall, narrow vessel.
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12 20 There was also a narrow paneled opening in the bottom of the door, also locked now, through which, when it was opened, a pan, say, of water, or bread, or dampened meal, might be inserted.
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12 283 Then she snarled, "Spies!" I did not think I could get my hand through the panel, it was too narrow.
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14 182 There seemed a narrow fringe of lightness in the darkness, at the edge of the high window.
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15 762 He wore a black hood, which, save for a narrow, rectangular opening for the eyes, covered his entire head.
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17 104 On such a narrow path I hoped twenty men might hold against a thousand, for there the thousand could put against them no more than twenty.
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17 320 A false step on the narrow battlements might have plunged her to her death.
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17 707 A single narrow cord bound her.
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20 388 Among others boarding the flagship, too, in her improvised hood, naked, her hands, too, thonged behind her back, as I had fastened them earlier, being pulled on her leash by one free woman, being herded from behind, poked and jabbed, and struck, with a stick by another, stumbling, ascending the narr...
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21 1218 The tunic, short, loosely draped, flowing, is fastened by a single, soft, narrow strap at the left shoulder, opportunely situated for the right-handed master, which strap, given the nature of the knot, may be undone with a casual tug, this dropping the garment to the slave's ankles.
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23 47 To be sure, unless the slave is a bred slave, most of this interest is on the part of the free women, for the slaves have usually, at one time or another, been free women, and have a very good idea of how narrow, dull, limited and mediocre is the sex life of the free woman.
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24 14 Two narrow beams, with attachment points for tackle, lay at the sides of the bow deck.
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24 782 Beyond the pier, abutting on harborside wharfage, there were numerous buildings, mostly shops, such as those of sailmakers, oarmakers and sawyers, and warehouses, and, here and there, between these buildings, narrow streets, stretching up toward the city.
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24 1031 "Might you be from Cos?" he asked, his eyes narrow, his hands on the belt, near the buckle.
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24 1072 It was one of those narrow streets leading up between buildings, leading up, away from the wharves.
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Book 24. (20 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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19 38 I had also seen then, as I had come closer, the small head of the creature, small considering the size of its body, and the span of its wings, lift up, above the rence, with its long narrow, toothed jaws, like a long snout or bill, with that long, narrow extension of skin and bone in the back, balan...
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1 356 Temione had now reached the vat, and was carefully dipping her narrow, high-handled serving vessel in the simmering paga.
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1 381 The shelving on the rack was of narrow wooden rods.
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2 252 I folded one scarf over several times, forming a narrow rectangle, several folds thick.
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3 3 It was long and narrow.
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3 178 On that road, that dirt road, that narrow road, almost a path, long and dusty, the dried grass on each side, a figure was approaching.
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4 22 The narrow snout of a fishlike tharlarion thrust up from the water, inches away.
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6 8 "There is a body here, in the water," said a fellow ahead, to the left, on a narrow raft.
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10 59 "Torches!" The opening of its long, narrow jaws may have been as much as five foot Gorean.
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11 9 This same type of simple yoke, though much lighter, sometimes no more than a narrow board or branch, is sometimes used for female slaves.
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13 217 A fellow, for example, who has seen several fall near him, in his own tiny place of war, often as narrow as a few yards in width, has a tendency to suppose these losses are typical of the entire field, that they characterize the day itself.
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14 318 This would narrow the width of my body.
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21 8 Lying in the sand, in the moonlight, on a small bar to our left, carved from wood, half sunk in the sand, about ten feet in length, was the long, narrow neck and head of a marsh gant.
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26 41 We saw a narrow, dark shape, about five feet long, like a slowly undulating whip, glide past.
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28 14 Over the cord, in front and back, were two narrow slave strips.
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29 12 Once it had been a patrol of Cosians, on narrow flatboats.
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34 45 "A narrow path," I said, "for at least a few Ahn".
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37 498 The strip, however, is to be narrow and the cord no more than a lace, these things conforming to her status as captive and full servant".
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43 61 From about the wagon, and about the concealing canvas, timidly, and yet beautifully, leashed, in a belly cord, a mere lace, and a narrow, yellow slave strip, her hands behind her, probably braceleted, came a beautiful young woman.
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46 215 There were two or three long, low, narrow tarsk cages nearby, with chain-link sides, in which some women were waiting for processing.
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Book 25. (9 results) Magicians of Gor

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1 78 We were in a street of Ar, a narrow, crowded street, in which we were much jostled.
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1 380 Across from us, about seven feet away, on the other side of the narrow street, was the free woman who had secured her robes, that they might not touch an Initiate.
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7 162 It had been a narrow thing, I thought.
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8 11 In Gorean cities it is often the case that many streets, particularly side streets, little more than alleys, are too narrow for wagons.
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9 4 The woman, held now by the upper left arm, by a guardsman, was conducted to a point on the platform, erected now in the Plaza of Tarns, a few feet from a rather narrow, added side ramp, where she was knelt, to be manacled.
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11 111 "See, Captain?" said one of the men, lifting up the lid of a narrow, oblong chest.
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14 157 It was a standard collar, of a sort familiar in the north, flat, narrow, light, sturdy, close-fitting.
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17 69 On her left ankle was a narrow, locked slave anklet.
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19 1042 The contrast was attractive, like slave silk against flesh, or a narrow cord sustaining such silk at the shoulder, perhaps an inch from a disrobing loop, or the metal of slave bracelets locked on small, downy wrists, a rope on a waist, snug above a sweetly rounded belly, or a collar on the neck.
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Book 26. (4 results) Witness of Gor

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10 807 Even were I not confined as I was, I would not have dared to essay that narrow span, that long, terrifyingly narrow beam.
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4 714 How could we possibly know what that meant? There was suddenly, from well behind me, yards back, back down the line, a sharp, cruel crack, almost as clear and terrible, in the narrow corridor, as the report of a rifle.
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6 200 So, to be sure, I might not have worn certain narrow, stiltlike garments as well as a model but I had learned, initially to my surprise, and later to my dismay, and terror, and later, yet, rather to my contentment, and even joy, that I might, in a bit of silk, or in a bracelet and a pair of bangles,...
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7 282 Sometimes we are moved in special ships, constructed for us, with narrow, slatted tiers, on which we lie down, chained, closed off from one another with narrowly meshed steel screens.
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Book 27. (2 results) Prize of Gor

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16 1404 Perhaps that window opened to a narrow passage between the tenements, or to a small, narrow yard, concealed from the street.
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30 339 And he threw her to his feet and, crouching beside her, she first, startled, on all fours, and then thrust to her belly, tore away her tunic, shred by silken shred, flinging these narrow, delicate, yellow, rent scraps behind him, they fluttering away to alight, scattered, like startled flowers, on t...
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Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor

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21 225 Ashore, atop what appeared to be the left side of narrow defile, leading between hills into a wooded area, there was a narrow, ascending trail of reddish smoke.
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Book 32. (1 results) Smugglers of Gor

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46 136 One could enter or leave this opening at either end, and, though the opening was quite narrow, it was large enough for me to enter, and, at the same time, I was sure, too narrow to admit either a sleen or panther.
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Book 33. (1 results) Rebels of Gor

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25 221 I could almost sense Sumomo trembling, and trying to breathe, teetering on the narrow, unstable support which held her from the pool far below, that bending, narrow, unsteady bridge lacking a farther shore.
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Book 34. (1 results) Plunder of Gor

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39 77 I could see buildings about, and, in the distance, several of the lofty towers of Ar, lights in many of the narrow windows, not wide enough to admit the passage of a body, and several of the narrow, graceful, lamp-lit bridges that, like delicate traceries, at various levels, linked the towers.
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