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Book 1. (2 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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15 233 "She is your daughter," I said, my temper rising.
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16 92 "I will probably be impaled," said Kazrak, rising to his feet, "but I will go".
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Book 2. (2 results) Outlaw of Gor

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5 5 Whereas Ar was glorious, a city of imposing grandeur, that acknowledged even by its blood foes; whereas Thentis had the proud violence of the rude mountains of Thentis for its setting; whereas Port Kar could boast the broad Tamber for its sister, and the gleaming, mysterious Thassa beyond, I thought...
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11 163 "Unthinkable!" cried Lara, rising to her feet.
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Book 3. (3 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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28 53 "The Muls are rising," said Al-Ka simply.
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31 182 I supposed there might be tidal waves in distant Thassa, that crags in the Sardar and the Voltai and Thentis Ranges might be collapsing, that mountains might be falling and new ones rising, that the Sa-Tarna fields might be broken apart, that towers of cities might be falling, that the ring of black...
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33 72 He pointed to the smoke which was now rising in an almost natural pattern.
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Book 4. (14 results) Nomads of Gor

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1 44 There, some pasangs distant, I saw columns of smoke rising in the cold air, where fields were burning.
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1 46 Too in the distance I saw dust, rising like a black, raging dawn, raised by the hoofs of innumerable animals, not those that fled, but undoubtedly by the bosk herds of the Wagon Peoples.
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8 7 It seemed a lofty, fine city, white and shimmering, rising from the plains.
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9 350 "Dance!" screamed Aphris, rising to her feet.
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10 213 "You're right," said Kamchak, rising in the stirrups.
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11 50 "Is it my understanding," asked Saphrar, the golden drops over his eyes rising, "that you would—upon reaching your majority—transfer your entire fortunes to a Tuchuk, merely to obtain your freedom".
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12 389 Even Elizabeth had lifted her head now from my shoulder and was rising on her knees a bit for a clearer view.
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12 469 "Oh?" she asked, one eyebrow rising skeptically.
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17 54 There seemed to be a rhythm in the rising of the steam from the pool.
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18 69 Now below me the fluid began to gel swiftly almost like a rising floor and it loosened and withdrew on all sides and suddenly my head broke the surface and I breathed.
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20 32 Harold and I then got up and, with Hereena under one of his arms, we circumspectly made our way from roof to roof until we saw the keep, rising like a dark cylinder against one of Gor's three moons.
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23 144 Suddenly rising over the crest of rolling hills, like black floods, from both the left and the right, I saw on racing kaiila what must have been thousands of warriors, thousands upon thousands.
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24 6 I left the kaiila with the Tuchuks and mounted my tarn, and, in less than an Ahn, saw the shimmering walls of Turia in the distance, and the veils of smoke rising over the city.
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25 473 But my hand on her shoulder prevented her from rising.
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Book 5. (2 results) Assassin of Gor

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8 124 The girl nodded and, rising gracefully, backing away a step or two, head down, turned and went to the kitchen.
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18 148 "I do not think Ho-Tu will bother Kuurus, of the black caste," said I, rising to my feet.
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Book 6. (1 results) Raiders of Gor

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9 7 "Yes, Master," she said, rising, taking the goblet.
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Book 7. (4 results) Captive of Gor

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3 222 There were two that were already rising, one at the seventh floor and one at the ninth.
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4 187 I saw the sun's rim at the edge of my world, rising, touching it.
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11 837 Then, rising, I entered the stream, feeling its cold waters on my ankles, and waded downstream.
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14 500 Better a collar anywhere, she weeps, than in what was once her own city! Sometimes a fellow of the city who knows her will find her there, in the paga tavern, only another girl, nude, kneeling, rising, hurrying to serve her master's customers.
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Book 8. (3 results) Hunters of Gor

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9 6 I could see them, on all sides, at the edges of the clearing, rising beautifully a hundred, two hundred feet toward the blackness of the Gorean night, the brightness of the stars, and then, almost at the top, exploding into a broad canopying of interlaced branches.
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19 413 I heard the male slaves in the shadows rising to their feet.
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22 108 "Pa-Kur is alive!" I screamed, rising up, throwing aside the furs.
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Book 9. (2 results) Marauders of Gor

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21 71 "I would speak!" called Svein Blue Tooth, rising to his feet, lifting a horn of mead.
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21 76 "Svein Blue Tooth and I," said Ivar Forkbeard, rising, spilling Hilda from his lap, "have had our differences".
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Book 10. (12 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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5 401 "Fortunately," I said, "I see only dust rising in the east.
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11 13 Once, when a rising edge of blackness, whipping with dust, had risen in the south, we had dismounted, hobbled our kaiila and turned their backs to the wind.
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11 189 When the sky is reflected in this rising, heated air, the mirage is even more striking, because then the surface of the "lake," reflecting the sky, seems blue, and, thus, even more waterlike.
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11 190 A second common sort of mirage, more private than the first, but quite normal, is the interpretation of a mixed terrain, usually rocks and scrub brush, mixed with rising heat waves, as an oasis with water, palms and buildings.
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15 29 In the separate-pipe system, two pipes, separated by several yards, are used, fresh water being forced through one, the salt water solution, the salt being dissolved in the fresh water, rising through the other.
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17 252 We saw the Old One emerge from the water, rising up, more than a dozen feet of that great, mighty body rearing upward, water streaming from it, in its jaws the body of T'Zshal.
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21 204 The sun was rising.
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23 150 Rising from his couch, his wound, inflicted by Hamid, the would-be assassin, not yet healed, he had taken saddle.
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23 267 "Aiiii!" cried the young khan, rising in his stirrups, lifting his lance.
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24 598 "You cannot treat me, a woman of Earth, as a slave girl!" "Try rising again, without permission, Slave Girl," I said.
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24 864 "No!" she wept, rising to her feet, trying to turn and run.
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26 393 "Strip," I told her, "without rising to your feet".
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Book 11. (11 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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2 57 I cried out, rising almost to my toes.
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2 680 Low on the horizon I saw, rising, three moons.
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9 718 The cart of Tup Ladletender was now disappearing in the distance, a bit of dust rising behind its wheels.
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12 281 * * * * "Fetch in the prisoner," called Borchoff, rising behind the low table in the hall of Turian pleasures, lifting his goblet.
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12 416 "The key to these chains," demanded the prisoner, rising to his feet.
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13 342 "Yes, Master," I said, swiftly rising to my feet.
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15 237 "Finish with her," said the Lady Elicia, rising, angrily, from the curule chair.
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20 582 Did I want truly to be a slave? How could that be? To have no choice but to obey, and serve! Surely that could not be true! I must not let it be true! I must not let it be true! And then I felt, rising within me, the feelings of Earth, so insidious, grievous and ugly, the reflexes, emotions and resp...
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22 43 Rising from under the grunt swiftly was a long-bodied shark, white, nine-gilled.
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22 176 "We are lost men!" cried a sailor, rising in terror from the bench.
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26 19 She stood up and I, rising and standing behind her, lifted away her robe.
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Book 12. (7 results) Beasts of Gor

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2 655 Also, some winter under the ice, remaining generally dormant, rising every quarter of an Ahn or so to breathe.
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4 316 I saw many men rising to their feet.
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9 343 In the rising of the tide it was freed and sank.
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10 185 It was not difficult, I thought, to account for her early rising this day.
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25 67 The wind was rising.
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27 159 Air from the entrance, or another aperture, moving into or through the shelter and, warmed, rising, escaping at the smoke hole in the roof, supplies the required ventilation.
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35 1256 And it was clear that so small an effort as rising to meet me, and touching his glass to mine, had opened one of the vicious wounds on his great body.
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Book 13. (5 results) Explorers of Gor

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4 66 I could not yet see the golden rim of Tor-tu-Gor, Light Upon the Home Stone, rising in the east over the city.
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6 583 The rising of the warm air leaves a vacuum, so to speak, or, better, an area of less pressure or density in the atmosphere.
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11 143 These are often kept open that the hot air in the room, rising, may escape.
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12 654 "Yes," said Shaba, rising from behind the table.
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33 18 I looked, the hair on the back of my neck rising.
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Book 14. (2 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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4 134 Then she lay back on the tiles, watching me, her sweet breasts rising and falling with her breathing.
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13 670 The breasts of some were rising and falling with excitement.
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Book 15. (5 results) Rogue of Gor

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4 178 "What is going on here?" I had asked, rising to my feet and going to the counter.
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20 86 "Unless," said Kliomenes, rising to his feet, "you care to meet me with steel".
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23 281 "Yes, Master," she said, frightened, and rising quickly, lightly, hurried away, barefoot on the tiles, to serve others.
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28 108 "Greetings, Callisthenes," said Callimachus, rising to greet him.
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32 176 "Must you mock me?" "Take him outside," said Kliomenes, rising, and stretching.
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Book 16. (9 results) Guardsman of Gor

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3 95 "Look there!" I pointed to one of the truncated pylons rising out of the river.
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6 103 "There is shouting on the stern deck of the Olivia," said a man, rising at the bench.
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8 28 She screamed, suddenly rising to a kneeling position in the berth, clutching the scarlet sheet about her throat.
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16 240 "What is going on?" "The towns are rising," I said.
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20 104 "I propose a toast," said Aemilianus, rising.
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20 232 Then, rising, they began to serve, one on each side.
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20 558 Then, putting her hands back, swiftly and smoothly, beautifully, to the music, without rising, she changed her position on the tiles.
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20 714 "Yes, Master," she said, and then, rising up, turned and hurried to the kitchen, there to render aid to Lola and the slave of Aemilianus.
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20 1067 "Oh, Master," begged Florence, "please take me home, and use me! Please, my Master, take me home, and use me!" "It has been a pleasant evening," grinned Miles of Vonda, rising to his feet.
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Book 17. (9 results) Savages of Gor

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2 131 It is called the Place of the Twenty-Fifth of Se'Kara, because of the monument there, rising from the water.
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13 257 "We are used to consolidate family alliances," she said, "and are given as awards, in matings, to energetic young men, often rising in our fathers' companies".
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13 794 I thrust the slave tunic up and then, pulling her to a sitting position, I pulled it off, her arms rising, over her head.
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14 398 "Ieska!" called one of the Dust Legs, rising to his feet, from where the men had been sitting.
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15 6 I referred to the slow liftings of smoke, rising from low buttes, behind us and to our left, and before us, and to the right.
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17 178 "In a moment, then, behind us, suddenly, rising from the grass, on foot, screaming, brandishing weapons, there arose, it seemed, hundreds of savages.
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17 185 In the southeast, then, rising from the gullies and draws, there suddenly seemed hundreds of riders.
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19 607 "I can walk," he said, rising unsteadily to his feet.
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19 650 "Yes, Master," she said, rising, and smoothing down the skirt of the tiny slave tunic with the palms of her hands.
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Book 18. (9 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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1 384 Already Canka was a rising young warrior in the tribe.
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9 266 I could, on my back and belly, in effect, dance for you, my head never rising above the knee of a standing man.
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19 225 He then rushed from the lodge and I, rising to my feet, hurried after him.
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21 1 Yellow Knives One of the Sleen Soldiers, rising to his feet, spun awkwardly, kicking dust, the arrow having entered through the chest, its point protruding above his left hip.
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26 29 There a Kaiila warrior leapt upon him, knife rising and falling.
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28 291 "It is rising to its feet.
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32 111 The line, snakelike, weaved its way toward the fires, and then began, its dancers shuffling, bending down, rising up, chanting, to wind its way among them.
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37 557 The bird, then, rising up, wings beating, took to flight, jerking the hobbling log from the pit, tearing it up through the sod roof and poles.
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40 551 "We are rising," said a man.
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Book 19. (11 results) Kajira of Gor

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8 557 I tried to fight the emotions rising in me, welling up, irresistibly, from my very depths.
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12 19 I could see smoke rising from the city.
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24 314 "Yes, Master," she said and, rising up, hurried to her place.
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26 416 In few modalities is a woman's slavery made clearer or more manifest than when she must perform floor movements, than when she must, in effect, dance before men, never rising higher than her knees.
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28 77 I then, sometimes on the floor, and never rising higher than my knees, displayed my limbs, and moved and turned before him, showing myself to him in various postures and attitudes.
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33 135 "My Ubar," said Miles of Argentum, rising to his feet, "reluctant as I am to agree with the former first minister of Corcyrus, and doubtless one of the finest liars on Gor, I think it not impossible that he may have seen Sheila about in the palace, perhaps on her hands and knees scrubbing tiles in a...
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33 180 "How do you know?" asked Drusus Rencius, rising to his feet.
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33 352 "I did not know," said Publius, rising to his feet, "that it was for such a purpose I was invited to Argentum.
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33 453 "I will fetch them," said Hassan, rising to his feet.
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36 28 They, rising to their knees in the wagon, lifted their hands, waving me farewell.
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36 225 "Yes," I said, angrily, rising to my elbows, "I, then!" "I thought so," he said.
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Book 20. (11 results) Players of Gor

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1 149 Her breasts, rising and falling, moved nicely under the silk.
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1 785 Then, rising up a little and approaching further, still on her hands and knees, she turned her head, delicately, and kissed the edge of the table, her lips touching partly the surface of the table, partly its side.
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1 1123 "Yes, Master," she said, taking up her tunic, rising to her feet, tears in her eyes.
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4 160 "Yes, Mistress," I said, rising and approaching with the vessel of Ka-la-na.
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6 598 "What?" she cried, turning about, half rising, and then collapsed back in confusion, in misery, to her knees.
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6 680 "I am ruined," wailed the Brigella, rising to her feet, wringing her hands.
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6 1145 She, still on her knees, rising from her heels, reached eagerly for the veil.
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10 402 "Very well," she said, rising, and clutching the wagon wheel, and pulling herself up, and around it.
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10 829 "Yes, Master," said the girl, rising.
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13 13 "What do they want?" Then, it seemed in a moment, while she cried out in misery, high tharlarion, some twenty of them, thundered suddenly about me, the earth shaking, dust rising in billows about me.
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18 122 "Citizens of Brundisium, and guests," called Belnar, rising to his feet, "I would have preferred for the Lady Yanina, that distinguished citizeness of Brundisium, known to you all, that true servant of our palace and state, that lovely courtier, my trusted agent, my beautiful operative, to conduct t...
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Book 21. (5 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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15 188 Its waters are usually shallow, seldom rising above the chest of a tall man.
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24 19 "Masters," she said, eagerly, rising to her feet, moving toward us.
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25 1167 "Yes, Master," she said, rising to her feet, and hurrying to the bar.
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26 1062 I felt her in my arms rising up on her toes.
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26 1502 "Are you a true man?" she said, petulantly, rising up on her knees.
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Book 22. (9 results) Dancer of Gor

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9 274 Was that all my training in the house counted for, I wondered, rising so early, retiring so late, the busy days, the long lessons, their frequency, variety and intensiveness, administered to us morning, noon and night? I then wondered if this, like the claims made with respect to my Gorean, were int...
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9 546 It would be inevitable, like the rising of water in a well.
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10 336 Then, to my astonishment, the object in which I had been placed began to slide rapidly along the ground and then, in a moment, it taking my breath away for an instant, it swung free, and was rising.
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10 657 Then, suddenly, I felt hair on the back of my neck rising.
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11 96 On my knees, rising, I had been conscious of their legs, and whips, about me.
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11 981 As the music concluded I performed floor movements, and the eyes of the men blazed, and fists pounded on the tables, and then the music was done and I lay before them on my back, my breasts rising and falling as I fought for breath, my body sheened with sweat, my hands beside me, palms up, my knees ...
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11 1624 Too, sometimes I had felt a desperate longing for them to continue, and had been eager for them, and others, some charming, and subtle, and some almost overpowering, making me feel weak, and held, to surface in me, like wonders, some bursting up, some rising slowly, in my depths.
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13 502 Gratefully, eagerly, I pressed forward, rising on my toes, he half lifting me, his hands under my arms, holding me.
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29 693 "Yes," said Mirus, rising unsteadily to his feet.
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Book 23. (5 results) Renegades of Gor

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5 331 Then, rising, she hurried, as she could, angrily toward the door of the kitchen and, in a moment, disappeared through it.
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15 991 "It does not matter," she said, "it was only an illusion, a ripple in the air, a matter of the waves of heat rising from the stone, the debris".
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18 138 Smoke was rising from somewhere in the citadel.
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18 322 I saw the snout of more than one shark rising from the water.
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19 75 Too, in places the harbor water suddenly muddied, the mud from the bottom rising to the surface.
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Book 24. (13 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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1 580 "Are you angry," I asked, "that it is not you who are in his power?" "A toast to Borton the noble, Borton the generous!" called a fellow, rising unsteadily.
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1 722 The kneeling girls in the back, too, watched, some rising up from their heels.
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1 1058 "Hold," I said, rising.
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11 4 It seemed one could almost see the steam rising from the water.
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18 44 As soon as I had seen the first edge of the new darkness, those new clouds, like a black rising moon, emerge on the horizon, over the rence, to the west, I had taken the rence tube, already prepared, and returned to the vicinity of the men of Ar.
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18 45 None here, on the bar, it seemed, was yet aware of the new clouds, rising in the west.
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31 255 "Yes, my captor," she said, rising from the sand, and hurrying to Plenius, who was near Labienus.
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32 89 "Perhaps," she said, rising to her knees, modestly adjusting them.
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32 139 I thrust Ina away, into the sand, rising to a crouch beside her.
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35 34 "I wish you well," said Labienus, rising.
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36 75 Swiftly she did so, pulling it over her head, not even rising from her knees.
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37 509 "I wish you well," said he, rising to his feet, and clasping my hand.
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47 119 "Tal," said Octantius, rising from a chair, beneath an awning, handing his beverage to a subordinate.
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Book 25. (6 results) Magicians of Gor

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3 848 It would be a vestige, like the rising of hair on "goose bumps".
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12 572 "No, Master," she said, quickly, rising.
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16 263 "Because of the popular support now rising in favor of the veterans," I said.
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21 518 Or suppose that she was paraded in a line, with other slaves, excellent slaves all, on all fours, in neck coffle, the chains going back under the slaves' bodies and between their legs, rising to the collar of the next in line, and so on, before a conqueror's chair.
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25 546 "Yes, Master," he said, rising to his feet.
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27 819 "It is like a sun, in the morning," I said, "rising over dark mountains".
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Book 26. (8 results) Witness of Gor

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8 131 I felt a wave, cold and cruel, of misery, rising within me, a forlorn, agonizing cry of alienation, of anguish.
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10 157 Other than this there was only the steepness, the side of the mountain, there on the right, rising up, and, on the left, below the ledge, the drop, forty or fifty feet, to the ledge and trail below.
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12 1002 "Courage," whispered the slave, rising to her feet.
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18 16 But the free woman, rising up on her toes, straining, had eyes only for those on the terrace, scanning them.
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19 192 "Thank you, Master," I said, rising to my feet.
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24 938 "Yes," I said, rising unsteadily.
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40 214 "What have you done!" cried the pit master, in horror, rising up.
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41 30 I did not fear rising before dawn, and taking up a basket, and hurrying through the gray streets to the market.
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Book 27. (23 results) Prize of Gor

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4 186 How abhorrent, at her age, at her age, and he a man, the enemy! And she remembered vaguely, scarcely with full consciousness, and fighting, even in her animation and delight, to keep the insistent glimmerings from rising forcefully and undeniably before her, how, many years ago, she, then in her lat...
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5 70 "Good," he said, rising from the chair.
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10 202 He then stood, rising from the curule chair.
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15 411 But it is said that even in such women there eventually comes a moment in their bondage when the emotional cataclysm occurs, when the breakthrough takes place, when the depths of the unconscious open up, when the surgent, rising earthquake of the liberated spirit totters and collapses the fragile, b...
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15 833 Then, rising angrily from the chair, with his bootlike sandal, he thrust her forcibly, rolling, down the steps of the dais to the floor at its foot.
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18 295 More embarrassingly Ellen, despite her initial dismay, her resentment, and distress, at Portus's first use of her there, had gradually, in the vicinity of this object, and in certain other places where men had put her to their purposes, begun to be disturbed by slave heat rising within her.
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19 3 "Bonto knows nothing," said Portus, angrily, rising to his feet.
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19 508 She turned, as she could, lifting her head, rising a bit on the palms of her hands, to view her master, her body still pinned in place by Selius, who was kneeling across the back of her legs.
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20 117 Dirt and gravel flew up from the animals' passage, pelting, stinging the startled, chained girls, who shrank back, whimpering, and a rising, thick, floating cloud of dust, bright in the hot sun, lingered and swelled behind, enveloping the line.
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20 599 The rope was long enough to serve as well as a leash, and, moments after she had been ordered to her feet, some yard or so of it, rising from her confined wrists, had been looped and knotted about her throat, its free end then, some five feet or so in length, serving as a leash.
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22 612 Its sudden rising up and vicious snarl terrified her.
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23 231 "You displayed your brand excellently," he observed, "rising up, turning, your wrists lifted behind you in the bracelets position".
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25 171 Have you not yet learned the nature of this world, and what you are on this world? What a silly little vulo you are! What a stupid little pudding you are!" Later, rising to a half-reclining, half-sitting position, she brought her legs together, to one side, with smooth, swift, sinuous grace.
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26 1501 "I do not know! I wanted to please my master! I wanted to give him pleasure! I do not know!" "Did you want to do it?" he asked, rising to one elbow.
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26 1743 Perhaps an Ahn later, shortly before the first rays of Tor-tu-Gor, Light-Upon-the-Home-Stone, the common star of Earth and Gor, began to glimmer in the east, rising there as it does on Earth, they rose together, he suddenly to his feet, casting the blanket aside, she quickly to her knees, at his thi...
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27 1893 "No!" cried the spokesman, half rising, but thrust down again.
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27 2243 How quickly she had learned to do that, how naturally! The grasslands are commonly dry, but this was in the spring, and storms sometimes erupt, and, when they do, it is often with a sudden rage, a blackening of the sky, a rising of wind, a rushing of clouds, a shattering of lightning, a beating, pou...
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27 2244 And the wind was now rising.
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27 2285 In that moment, in a great flash of lightning, she saw a figure, that of the officer, hurling aside his blankets, rising angrily to his feet.
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27 3066 Blood seemed to rise to the surface there, like water rising through sand.
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27 3481 "I must go to my fellow," said Mirus, rising from beside the fire.
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28 306 "Yes, Master," said Ellen, quickly rising to her feet.
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30 222 Later, rising from her knees within, at a gesture from her master, the slave brought forth and served small glasses of Turian liqueurs.
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Book 28. (11 results) Kur of Gor

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2 212 Perhaps even now investigatory ships were rising swiftly, silently, from the Sardar.
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19 116 There was a flash of metal plating and joints as the device leapt past Cabot, pouncing on the startled, suddenly rearing sleen, its weight striking against it, then half crushing it, and then the machine, rising up slowly, pinned the sleen in place with its left forefoot and the right forefoot of th...
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20 81 "And let this, too, be so recorded, and I speak as Kur," called Pyrrhus, his voice rising from the cement pit, in which, to rings, he was chained, "I am guilty of no treason against the species or the world!" This caused a considerable stir on the tiers, for it was clear Lord Pyrrhus had spoken as K...
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34 1 The Storm; The Cave "The wind is rising," said Cabot.
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34 3 "That is why it is rising".
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34 37 The raft, mighty as it was, began to respond to the force of swift, rising swells.
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34 71 "Here!" In the darkness, in the cold, blinding water, he thrust the slave to the log, and, with loops of wet rope, loose from the log, fastened her to it, and then he thrust his own arm amongst the ropes, and clung to the log as it pitched about, rising and falling, and sometimes rolling over, takin...
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43 192 "Tal," said Cabot, rising.
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55 252 "How has she lived, thusly?" asked Lord Grendel, rising up, now again himself.
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56 162 He sensed Lord Grendel rising in the trench, and looking about.
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67 107 He might have preferred a field on Gor, with long green grass, with the wind rising from the east, in the morning, or perhaps a crag in the scarlet mountains, the mighty Voltai, or perhaps the stem castle or helm deck of a lateen-rigged galley, perhaps the Dorna or Tesephone.
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Book 29. (24 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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5 502 "Tell me of the rising, the rebellion," I said.
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5 578 "Surely the great bar had not yet rung, signaling the rising".
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5 673 How much could the fleeing Ubara have taken with her, I wondered, given the suddenness of the turn of events, the surprise of the rising.
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8 22 The Pyrrhic dances were used primarily as training exercises, but also figured in parades and martial displays, men shouting, spears clashing rhythmically on shields, the spear hedge rising and falling, wheeling about, a thousand spears in unison, this all to music.
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8 70 Constantina, however, had seemed on the point of rising.
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8 135 "I will do the talking," said Constantina, rising to her feet.
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11 353 She was a former high woman of Ar, who, with several others, all embonded, and their hair shortened, had been taken from Ar, when the rising had occurred in the city.
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12 254 Muchly had their lives changed, and doubtless that of many others, as well, following the rising in Ar.
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13 59 It was predominantly wiped out in the rising, it seems, for its collaboration with the occupational forces, its extending of credit to them, to meet its payrolls, when the funds for these failed somehow to reach the city, its purchases of great quantities of loot, including women, for later retailin...
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13 60 For a time it had become the wealthiest and most powerful house in Ar, but then had come the rising.
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13 63 I did not doubt but what many a profiteer, traitor, and such, burdened impaling stakes within Ahn of the rising.
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13 230 Plans must have been laid against such eventualities as the rising.
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13 311 Then, later, of course, the rising took place".
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13 313 "The rising came suddenly, and there was terror in the streets for many.
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13 335 The Central Cylinder was surrounded even before the bars sounded the rising".
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14 110 I had gathered from Pertinax that hundreds had beached in the north, following, say, the rising in Ar, and, clearly, there were not that many in Tarncamp itself, though, as mentioned, there were several in Tarncamp, and they would, if counted, have considerably outnumbered the Pani in the area.
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16 159 A change of wind, a rising of dust, a prolonged battle, in which the angle of the sun changes, the loss of a commander, the loss of a standard, an unexpected, unpredictable wave of alarm in the ranks, an unfounded rumor of entrapment, the failure of a wing to hold, the hesitation or confusion of res...
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24 99 Too, with a gesture, Lord Nishida released the two contract women and they, rising to their feet, with small steps, took their exit from the tent.
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26 254 "The matter became public knowledge shortly after the rising of the people, the return of Marlenus," he said.
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26 262 When it became clear that Marlenus had indeed returned, he recognized by some meaningless female slave in the city, and that the rising would be successful, we took our way to the height of the Central Cylinder, from which point we hoped to either escape or negotiate our way to freedom, turning the ...
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28 357 She thrashed wildly, gratefully, kicking mud about, half rising up, and twisting from side to side, and then lay back, and still.
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31 47 "The selections," said Lord Nishida, rising, "take place tomorrow".
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35 87 "How seriously," I asked, "should it be taken?" The wind was rising, outside.
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42 5 My body began to numb in the water, and my legs and arms began to lose feeling and stiffen, and my arm slipped from the neck of the beast and I was separated from it, surely for yards, and then I felt it beneath me, rising up, and my body was gripped, firmly, gently, in those wide jaws, and lifted u...
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Book 30. (12 results) Mariners of Gor

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19 115 I saw rising, on either side, and before, mountains rising from the sea, mountains of fire, bursting alive, mountains moving, rising, run with molten streams of rock, some loose like flaming water, some patient and thick, dully red, and from these strange mountains, cast into the air were clouds of ...
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1 92 "Do not touch me," said the stranger, quietly, politely, rising unsteadily to his feet.
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3 1055 I had seen to that in preparing my disguise, which I began on the first day of the uprising, when the outcome was muchly unclear, a rudely armed populace rising against a professional soldiery.
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5 17 The wind was rising.
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5 296 The yards above, carrying their large square sails, creaked, turning, as the sails took the rising wind, moving from a gray north.
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7 99 When the panel slid back, though the noise was tiny, many of the girls would cry out, piteously, kneeling, holding out their small hands toward the door, some rising and running to the end of their ankle chain, begging to be taken elsewhere, anywhere, to be released from the stale air, the confineme...
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10 53 I thought of Jad, her opulent streets, of the countryside, of the terraces of Cos, of her grapes, fresh, sweet, and full, of Ar, of glorious, imperial Ar, with its countless towers and its wide boulevards, of the occupation, of my squad, of the rising in the city, the flight to return, the welcome w...
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14 1 The Tharlarion; Two Galleys are Lost; I Find Myself Alone with Seremides Oars snapped, and the small galley, the large glistening body rising under it, tipped fearfully to port.
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14 119 I sensed a rising under my feet, something stirring, something approaching, from far below, water moving away from it.
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14 125 What command could stay him, what consideration could distract him, what give pause to so single-minded and formidable a force of nature? The blade of Pertinax was but half drawn when both galleys burst apart, leaping from one another, the gigantic body of the tharlarion rising between them, springi...
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19 98 Behind us I saw steam rising from the sea, and the water began to boil.
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25 418 My hand on her shoulder prevented her from rising.
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Book 31. (16 results) Conspirators of Gor

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8 405 Already, in the scarlet swirl of memory, rising and falling like some warm fluid, I was uneasy.
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8 2078 "The price, now," said Menon, rising, looking down on me, "is fifty, fifty copper tarsks".
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9 410 "Your principal," said the man, rising to his feet, "made an excellent buy.
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15 124 For what was I to wait? Was it here I was to wait for Lord Grendel to arrive and, at his leisure, kill me? Without rising to my feet I pushed open the half-gate of the stall and crawled inside.
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17 13 "Hurry on, blue!" I thought, rising to my tip toes.
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17 443 Who was interested in such things anyway? I sensed people rising up, screaming, about me.
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18 658 "I am not asleep," I said, acidly, rising to my knees.
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18 1171 Far down the road, behind us, one could make out a darkness, some dust rising from the road.
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22 168 "And you," said Kleomenes, rising to his feet, stumbling a little, "the three of you, pretty kajirae, put your hands down on your thighs, put your heads back, far, and open your mouths, widely!" "Master!" we cried, gratefully.
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23 113 "The wind is rising," said Astrinax.
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31 63 "Allison," said Nora, rising, wiping her eyes with her forearm, and facing us.
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32 54 I began then to feel hair rising on the back of my neck, and on my scalp, and forearms.
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34 62 "Perhaps," she said, rising from her low desk and stretching.
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39 29 How I wanted to please him, as a naked slave! * * * * We had not anticipated a Kur revolt, the rising of several of the iron-chain Kurii against the silver- and gold-chain Kurii.
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46 8 Then, the winds rising, the chill blasts whistling amongst the mountains, the first scattering of snow hurrying betwixt the peaks, the parties had returned.
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49 67 In any event, one snowy morning, several of us watched the departure of the small, remarkable ship, emerging from its housing, rising through the falling snow, then fading from sight, a ship with no crew, and with but one passenger, Tiresias, whom we all wished well.
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Book 32. (7 results) Smugglers of Gor

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6 308 "Do you wish to meet outside?" "I wish you well," he said, and, rising, turned about, and left.
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9 266 "We all know of defeat and flight," he said, "the sorry fate of the occupational forces, of the rising of the men of Ar, of screaming crowds, diversely armed, of fires, of the decimation and disruption of troops, the desertion of officers, the stranding of units, of frequent withdrawals under fire, ...
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14 102 Four more strokes, and there was a gross splintering, a breakage of wood, and the tree fell crashing to the earth, half obscured by a rising cloud of dust and leaping, shimmering leaves.
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19 93 "The wind is rising," I said.
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25 264 The wind was rising, and some leaves fell from the nearby branches.
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29 249 "Put her on the rope," said the leader, rising.
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52 90 "Masters!" Tor-tu-Gor, Light-Upon-the- Home-Stone, the common star of two worlds, Earth and Gor, was rising.
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Book 33. (14 results) Rebels of Gor

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2 129 It seemed I could see the fires, the smoke rising.
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9 101 But in moments their cries were behind us, as was the smoke rising from burning tents.
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24 100 I gathered that it was inappropriate for high Pani, in such a situation, to evince curiosity or impatience, by rising to their feet, as might less couth individuals, anxious to satisfy their curiosity.
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29 35 Shortly thereafter I took my mount into the cover of clouds, within which I would be briefly concealed, shifted my course, descended, landed, and freed the bird, which then, rising, would presumably seek its cot in the north".
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30 165 I could note the welt rising, even now.
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31 90 "Challenge, rather, the rising of Tor-tu-Gor, the tides of Thassa".
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33 2 Several yards away, rising from the grass, was a tall figure, clearly a man of two swords.
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40 37 * * * "Demon rider!" said Lord Akio, rising to his feet, spilling tea.
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42 206 "Thank you, Master!" she wept, and scrambled about, rising to her feet and dragging against the chain fastened to her left ankle.
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44 219 Then I cried out, "Clear the parapet!" At that very moment the wall of the parapet a few feet to my right burst apart, stones rising in the sky, a hundred paces, and then falling, gracefully.
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55 183 Nodachi, not rising, inclined his head, politely.
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60 201 "To the bridge!" The bridge, entwined with the blue climbers, arched in a lovely manner, for a length of some thirty-five or forty feet over a narrow, decorative pond, on the surface of which bloomed white and yellow water flowers, rising from flat, green pads; below, in the pond, which was shallow,...
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61 386 "Yes, Master," she had said, rising, and hurrying to obey.
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61 988 "Yes, Master," they said, rising, heads down.
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Book 34. (9 results) Plunder of Gor

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9 94 I turned to him, rising on my elbow.
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9 188 Toward morning I had turned to him, rising on my elbow, and had addressed him.
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49 4 "Welcome!" called a large, coarse-featured man in white and gold, rising from his curule chair on its dais, and hurrying down to embrace Kurik of Victoria, warmly.
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52 98 "Yes, Master," I said, rising easily and gracefully, as a slave does.
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56 151 "I wish you well," said Drusus Andronicus, rising.
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63 13 It was a large, closed wagon, with bright, yellow canvas stretched over the high, rectangular frame rising from its sides.
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63 251 As we lay, rising a bit on our elbows, we could see the Viktel Aria, and the passing traffic.
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64 82 Rising from this circular foundation of bricks was a conical, barred cage, of a height of some five or six feet.
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65 254 "And what have you decided?" called the Lady Bina, again rising to her feet.
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Book 35. (19 results) Quarry of Gor

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2 28 "Yes, Master," I said, rising, head down.
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6 309 She then withdrew, gracefully, rising and backing away.
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8 881 It was low in the water, painted a mottled green, scarcely visible at first, almost lost in the swells, moving swiftly, so swiftly that, propelled by the mighty levers of its oars, rising and falling, in unison, shedding water, it was like a living spear.
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11 99 More dangerously it approaches more slowly, but wholly submerged, either rising in the water below the prey or from the side.
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15 175 With the restoration of Marlenus of Ar and the bloody rising of Ar's vengeful citizenry, Talena's regime had crumbled, and Talena herself had disappeared.
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22 132 Threads parted, and pulled away from my skin, bristling and curling, blackened, rising, twisting.
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23 44 The collar was gone! I, though a Gorean slave, was not collared! I then sank to my knees, and then went to all fours, head down, trembling, and then, a moment later, shadows rising slowly about me, I lowered myself to the stones and lost consciousness.
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33 124 Some yards before the canal boat the waters stirred, swelling up, and then parted, revealing, shedding water, a rising, monstrous head.
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33 159 If one is unable to free oneself, perhaps by spreading out, getting to one's back, and working one's way to more solid ground, one might drown in rising tides, fall prey to tharlarion, or even, eventually, die of exposure or hunger.
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33 600 In my situation the rising tide in Thassa and the Tamber Gulf will wash back into the marshes.
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33 617 The tide was rising in the Tamber.
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33 621 The Yellow Moon then broke free of clouds and I could see its light reflected all about me in the rising, surrounding water.
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33 624 I could not free myself! I could feel the encircling water rising.
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33 628 The water was rising, slowly, inexorably.
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33 649 I suspected it had come from the side of the canal boat, from the right side of the canal boat, in the darkness, and somehow, in the mix of waters, that of the exiting freshwater flow of the Vosk, draining through the marsh, and the incoming, rising tide of the Tamber, had turned and moved behind me...
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37 68 They usually have a narrow landing with mooring cleats, but often they will have one or two vertical, colorful, thick, capped, metal poles, rising from the canal itself, to which boats may be tethered.
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46 175 He, aside from a few slaves who would doubtless be cuffed or slapped about, would be the likely focus of a rapidly rising, widely spread disgruntlement.
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46 622 "I think I will see to Euphrosyne," said Florian, rising.
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47 221 "In the marshes," I said, "caught in quick sand, unable to free myself, the tide rising, I might have drowned".
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Book 36. (28 results) Avengers of Gor

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2 2 "A Cosian," said Thurnock, not rising.
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2 160 "I will teach you the bow," said Thurnock, rising, and clasping his hand.
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3 176 "It is as on the Tahari, where air shimmers, rising from a heated surface".
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6 24 "Its head parted the water suddenly like a great rock rising from the sea.
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7 170 "I can ask for no more, your excellency," I said, rising.
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8 59 "Four large, two smaller!" "Likely," I said, rising, and leaving the tent.
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11 42 The attendant turned about, and signaled, subtly, to two large fellows lounging on a wall-bench behind and to the left of the paga vat, who then, rising, began to approach the table.
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13 12 I saw a burst of vulos rising from somewhere, ascending, fluttering, into the air.
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16 310 Thurnock and I, as we took our departure, oars rising, shedding bright water, like drops of light, looked back to the island.
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18 92 "It came up, like a great rock rising from the sea," I said.
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18 234 To the left, from the bow, some points to port, I saw a heaving and roiling in the water, several yards in length, and then it seemed as though there was a slow, swelling, rising of water, and it was as if a long, low, broad river of water had risen from the surface, and then, as suddenly and inexpl...
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21 2 "I know you," said Nicomachos, Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, rising, angrily.
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23 41 "Someone comes," said Clitus, rising, trident in hand, loosening the strands of his net.
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23 57 "I am Aktis," said Aktis, rising.
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24 35 Rising and turning, I could see the firelight reflected on their faces.
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28 33 "Take us back aboard!" screamed Melete, rising to her feet, struggling to keep her balance, steadied by her fellows.
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32 61 That being that case, their heads lifted and their attention directed upward, they should constitute easy, close, stationary targets for the first volley of arrows from my men, rising from the grass and firing.
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35 40 "It seems," said Clitus, "the Peasants are rising, if only belatedly".
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37 140 "Welcome, fellows," said our fee-giver, rising and smiling, shortly thereafter.
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41 3 Sometimes, if one is on the wall, and it is still light, one sees it coming, like a large slow bird rising, and then descending, approaching, growing larger and larger.
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45 77 There was a sound of abrupt movement, of a falling, a rising, and a dashing toward the door.
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47 1 How the Siege Came to an End The rising of the Peasants rendered the issuing forth of the men of Mytilene and their allies unnecessary.
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48 113 Had Tarchon known of the gathering and rising of the Peasants? Was he trying to falsely inspirit the mercenaries, lulling them into patience and quiescence, holding them in place to be slaughtered?" "Interesting," I said.
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50 6 And if a contact of this size had been made with a reef, there would have been a hideous tearing and splintering of wood, like thunder at one's ear drum, a swift inrush of cold water rising to the gunwales.
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53 47 There was much screaming, much confusion, a splintering of ladders, a tumbling of rectangular blocks of stone, intended originally to be ammunition for the great catapults, the tearing loose of tent pegs which had been pounded into the flesh of the island, and a scattering of tents rising from the b...
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53 50 The flesh of the island then began reacting to the trauma of its wound, to shudder and ripple, contracting and expanding, its edges, or coasts, disappearing on one side or the other for a moment and then rising again, shining and dripping.
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56 59 "It is rising to the surface," said Sakim, "but on its back, under the swimmers".
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57 33 Several mercenaries had plunged into the sea with hand axes, and, reaching and climbing upward in the rolling sea, assisted by oars thrust forth from the corsair, dipping and rising, had clambered onto the few remaining oars of the Tesephone which were still holding the corsair at bay.
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