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Book 1. (4 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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7 81 Wordlessly Nar moved rapidly through the marsh, his eight delicate feet scarcely seeming to dip into the greenish water.
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11 53 To my surprise, most of the girls seemed excited by their sale and displayed their charms with brazen gusto, each seeming to compete with the one before to bring a higher price.
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19 128 Pa-Kur feinted, not exposing himself, his eyes seeming to watch my shoulder, noting how I parried the blow.
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20 44 I was wearing the now so crude-seeming camp clothes I had originally worn.
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Book 2. (6 results) Outlaw of Gor

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1 86 "It is late," he said, seeming to agree with me but intending perhaps more.
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1 111 Cabot simply took the weapon, seeming to draw it easily from the startled grip of the fat man.
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2 17 The Priest-Kings, Keepers of the Holy Place in the Sardar Mountains, seeming knowers of all that occurred on Gor, masters of the hideous Flame Death that could with consuming fire destroy whatever they wished, whenever they might please, were not so crudely motivated as men, were not susceptible to ...
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4 48 The wind gathered force, seeming to tear at the trees.
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5 39 I looked at this man, seeming to be a man among other men, yet more.
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13 145 As I stood there in the center of the arena, alone, silent, aloof, not seeming to hear them, those hundreds, rather thousands, who wore the silver masks understood that their will had been spurned, that this creature alone on the sand beneath them had thwarted their pleasure.
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Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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15 11 I could see the discolorations of slime molds, probably white, but seeming blue in the light, on the walls.
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Book 4. (6 results) Nomads of Gor

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2 60 And then I saw the first of the outriders, moving toward me, swiftly yet not seeming to hurry.
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7 150 Kamchak set the blade of the quiva between the girl's throat and the collar and moved it, the leather collar seeming to fall from the blade.
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10 566 For more than a minute, while I scarcely dared to breathe and there was silence all about save for the ring of steel, I watched Kamchak stand there, heavy in his boots, his head seeming almost to sit on his shoulders, his body hardly moving save for the swiftness of a wrist and the turn of a hand.
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12 395 He, too, in his way, though hardly seeming to move, approached, and it seemed that wherever the girl might flee there was found the warrior.
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15 83 Aphris, in particular, seemed utterly distraught by Kamchak's unreasoning cruelty, his callous treatment of herself and Elizabeth—perhaps most by his sudden, seeming indifference to her.
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26 230 Ha-Keel looked up, suddenly, seeming to forget his sword and its oiling.
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Book 5. (14 results) Assassin of Gor

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2 149 Then the dark shape of the Assassin seemed to move like a swift shadow in the room, and each of the three Warriors leaped toward him, but seemed to fail to find him, and another man, without even the flash of sword steel, dropped to his knees and fell forward in the pit of sand; the other two men st...
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3 235 I turned again to the Player, but he was now standing there in the street, seeming somehow alone, though I stood at his side.
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5 176 Delicately, slowly, the gigantic creature approached me, seeming to move only the four supporting appendages, until it stood near me.
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6 121 There was a long, incredibly weird, horrifying scream, coming from far away, and yet seeming to penetrate the very stones of the hall where we enjoyed ourselves.
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7 55 Then I heard one of the men-at-arms say, "There!" The black disk approached, more slowly now, seeming to sense its way.
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13 297 Mip, scarcely seeming to touch the one-strap with his finger, almost a tap, took the old bird from the perch and in a whiplike flurry of its wings it struck the outside perch and stood there, its old head moving alertly, the wicked black eyes gleaming.
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13 321 Mip on his tarn, Green Ubar, seemed a swift, dark movement against the white sand and tiers, the shadow coursing behind them, seeming to break geometrically over the tiers.
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20 296 Through the entryway, rather angrily, strode a young man, perhaps no more than eighteen or nineteen years of age, with piercing eyes and incredibly striking features; he wore the garb of the Player, but his garb was rich and the squares of the finest red and yellow silk; the game bag over his left s...
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20 299 "Tal," responded Cernus, seeming somehow in awe before this mere boy.
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21 414 I looked back down the long valley of stone tiers to the sands far below, seeing there in the circle of the arena, seeming small, Murmillius, Ho-Sorl, Relius, Ho-Tu, the milling, stirring crowd.
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22 181 I watched the dark, swift flight of the quarrel, like a black needle, and saw it drop into the back of the Taurentian, who suddenly stiffened, seeming inches taller, the metal fins of the bolt like a tiny dark triangle in the purple of the cloak, and pitched lifeless from the wall.
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22 195 I saw Green Ubar begin then to hold his lead, his wings striking with the accelerating, timed frenzy of the racing tarn, each stroke seeming to carry him swifter and farther than the last.
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24 278 My fingers scarcely seeming mine, scarcely able to move, touched the knot.
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24 416 I turned, the room seeming to swirl about me, black and startling, and, scarcely feeling the tiles beneath my feet, departed from the court of the Ubar.
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Book 6. (1 results) Raiders of Gor

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3 253 "No, No," I said again, the words again seeming almost those of another.
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Book 7. (2 results) Captive of Gor

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3 478 Always the object, smoothly, not seeming to hurry, with the yellow light beneath it, approached more closely.
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13 510 There was a din, coming from the direction of the village, seeming to move towards me, gradually, through the thicket.
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Book 9. (3 results) Marauders of Gor

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7 37 "Then we will find another post!" There are many tricks in the use of the ax; feints are often used, and short strokes; and the handle, jabbing and punching; a full swing, of course, should it miss, exposes the warrior; certain elementary stratagems might be mentioned; the following are typical; it ...
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13 311 Her robes were marvelously wrought, subtle, soft, seeming almost in their sheens, like the jewels, to shift their colors in the light of the lamps and the flickering torches.
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17 95 The northern pole of the camp would be left free, as a seeming avenue of escape, to lure embattled Kurii, should the tide of the war turn against them, into flight northward.
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Book 10. (9 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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1 770 Unfortunate though it might be, I doubted and, I think, realistically, that Priest-Kings, those large, golden creatures, so gentle and delicate seeming, so content to mind their own affairs, truly understood their enemy, the Kurii.
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2 592 In the bazaar I stopped, seeming to contemplate mirrors.
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5 793 What if she had gone to Earth? I thought of her briefly amidst the hypocrisies and pollutions of Earth, on the pavements, reflected in the shop windows, in miniskirts or tailored suits, seeming a woman and yet in that raging, mechanistic, politically pathological culture, brought about by the organi...
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7 19 In the placid, diagonal beam of light, seeming to lean against the wall, ascending to the window, I saw dust.
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7 642 "Actually you are agents of Priest-Kings, secretly seeming to work for Kurii.
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15 169 T'Zshal smiled, seeming human for the moment, and not kennel master.
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17 191 The Old One circled away and again lay out from us in the water, some fifty to sixty feet distant, seeming to watch.
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17 217 The Old One circled the raft four times, sometimes stopping, seeming to regard us.
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26 707 It seemed to me then an excellent modality in which to conduct our relationship, seeming to drive a wedge between the past and the present.
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Book 11. (4 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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1 22 I saw the grass, green and close, each blade seeming wide, blurred in its nearness.
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3 109 But then I recalled the beautiful, intelligent-seeming, hot-eyed slut in the brown rag.
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7 308 On the other side of Donna, Marla stood, her head in the air, seeming not to notice the hands of the boys upon her.
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9 1651 Thurnus stood to one side, not seeming to pay them attention.
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Book 12. (2 results) Beasts of Gor

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14 264 Leading the crowd, but seeming half in the midst of it, came Imnak.
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26 131 She fell, twisting, to his feet, her own neck tether, seeming to emerge from her furs, still fastening her to the sled.
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Book 13. (3 results) Explorers of Gor

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23 16 On the cushions, reclining, on one elbow, in yellow robes, embroidered with gold, in many necklaces and jewels, lay a lovely, imperious-seeming girl.
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32 639 Frightened, I supposed that these seeming animadversions, this obvious hostility, must be directed toward the fellow, obviously one in authority, whose intervention had interfered with the ceremony, indeed, at whose word the ceremony had come to an end.
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47 83 A woman, not even seeming to see me, crying out with pain, fled past me.
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Book 14. (2 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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7 465 How ambivalent may be their feelings, those of the subdued, helpless, utterly vulnerable slaves, properties only, resenting the chains that are locked unlovingly on their fair limbs, the cuffings and bruises that seem so unfair and unearned to them, the cruel and arduous labors assigned to them, the...
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21 145 We could see their spears, mounted at the right stirrup, like needles, at the distance, and the shields, seeming small and round.
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Book 15. (7 results) Rogue of Gor

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15 64 Then, at his leisure, garment by garment, with his knife, seeming to enjoy having her progressively revealed to him, he stripped the Mistress.
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25 107 "To me, too," said Callimachus, seeming to look through her, without really seeing her.
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27 125 Then I took another stone in my hands, seeming to struggle with it.
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28 13 "I then, in seeming to try to please him, whispered to him of the topaz, and that I had been sent to his feet by those who knew its whereabouts.
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29 260 I was pitched upward, the prow of the galley, the forward gunnels, seeming to leap upward.
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31 76 Then, in my dream, slowly and gracefully, the clothing, put aside, seeming to float from her, Miss Henderson, standing beside the table, on the carpet of the restaurant, stripped herself.
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32 342 I then struck the water, seeming to plummet through it, and struck with great force the mud and debris of the bottom.
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Book 16. (4 results) Guardsman of Gor

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20 931 Then, in poignant fantasy, within the pen, she prepares herself for the master, seeming to thoughtfully select silks and jewelry, seeming to apply perfume and cosmetics, seeming to be bedecked in shimmering, diaphanous slave splendor.
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19 956 Or perhaps she is haughty and vain, an affluent, prized darling of Earth, au courant with the latest fashions, familiar with magazines and shops, an exemplar of, and fulfiller of, prescribed stereotypes, seeming to be something out of a lavish advertisement, or commercial, and regards herself with u...
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20 927 Swiftly she hurries about, in the graceful, frightened haste of the dancer, her hands seeming to trace the location of the obdurate barriers, those invisible walls which seemed to contain her.
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20 1496 There are a thousand subtle ways in which she can call herself to his attention, even without seeming to do so.
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Book 18. (11 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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37 168 How lasciviously, how desirably, she lay before me, and yet with what seeming indifference, with what a seeming innocence, with what a seeming lack of awareness! She sighed, and smiled, and looked away.
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6 28 The thudding now became thunderous, striking about the walls, seeming all about us.
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37 508 Almost at the same instant, flashing over the opening, I saw immense, extended talons closing, and the rushing passage of a huge, dark shape, the grass leaping up and seeming to be almost torn up, almost uprooted, following it.
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42 105 Almost at the same time the flanking riders had, in seeming terror, in disarray, their formation lost, burst like a star about me and then, frantically, on all sides of me, as though I might no longer be of interest to them, wheeled their tarns about and, like their leader, sped away.
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44 134 Did she truly think that it was a mere accident that she and Bloketu had been brought to the posts this morning, interestingly, on the last day of Canwapegiwi? Without seeming to Iwoso then began to scan the terrain below, doubtless with some anxiety.
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44 274 "I love you," said Iwoso, frightened, not even seeming to understand the words she spoke.
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44 502 It took perhaps a dozen men from the trail and then bounded down the rock face and, a few Ihn later, skipping and leaping almost like a pebble, possessing such terrible forces, yet seeming so small from this height, it caromed off the foot of the rock face and then landed, rolling and bounding, amon...
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44 711 How absurd now seemed her words, uttered hitherto with such seeming authority, but they had been empty of authority.
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47 132 My lance took a rider from his mount, tearing him back out of the girth rope, and then he was spinning, wildly flailing, screaming and turning, growing smaller, journeying with terrible, accelerative force, seemingly eccentrically, to the turf below, it seeming to rock and shift with my movements, l...
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47 176 It caught the second tarn about the neck, as it swerved madly, by the grasping talons of its left foot, and I was thrown about, upside down, the ground seeming to be over my head, and the two birds spun in the air and then my tarn disengaged itself, the neck of the other bird flopping to the side, b...
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47 301 The man, gesticulating, flailing, screaming, the sound rapidly fading, the body seeming to grow smaller and smaller, sank away from me.
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Book 19. (5 results) Kajira of Gor

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2 270 I adjusted the towel a bit about my breasts, seemingly inadvertently, accidentally, pulling it down a bit, and then, hastily, with seeming modesty, tucking it securely, much higher, even more closely, about my body.
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6 576 I fought the wild needs within me, seeming to well up from my very depths, needs which seemed to be to surrender, to submit and love, totally, irreservedly, giving all, asking nothing.
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31 118 And what did the haters and controllers know of love, in its deepest sense, in its most profound expressions? "But then," said he, "what of other things, what of loneliness, of unhappiness, of confusion, of misery? What of a sense of being lost, of being unfulfilled, of wanting something and not see...
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36 148 I had awakened, held in a sitting position, my face, stinging, seeming to explode, being jerked, by blows, first with the flat of a hand, and then with its back, from side to side.
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36 235 I had, in a thousand ways, in glances, in small words, in smiles, in tiny gestures, in movements, in seemingly careless proximities, in seeming inadvertencies, tormented him.
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Book 20. (7 results) Players of Gor

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6 514 Suddenly, with a cry of apprehension, looking down the road, Boots snapped away the cloth and whipped it behind his back, seeming to stuff it in his belt, behind his back.
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14 322 It reverberated in the area, striking against the nearby cliffs, the stones and outcroppings, rebounding, resounding, again and again in that natural bowl, torturing the ear, tearing and shocking the air, seeming as though it must affright and terrify even the clouds themselves, which seemed to flee...
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16 34 The three women seeming to cower behind him, covered from head to toe in robes of concealment, huddled together, ducking its great swings.
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18 230 After the inspection it is easy enough, in seeming to do other things, to fix the bolts as one wishes.
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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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21 145 Most masters will not accept a brazen insolence in a slave, as in, say, her arrogantly flaunting her beauty, or seeming to do so, unless it is done by the master's command, say, to torture a prisoner, or torment a weakling.
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22 166 "If giving her your permission in this matter bothers you," I said, "seeming to you perhaps a bit too indulgent, there exists an obvious remedy wherewith you may assuage your qualms".
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Book 21. (5 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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3 14 "Feed me! Please, feed me!" The others, too, then, almost instantly, hastily, each seeming to hurry to be before the others, some moaning and crying out in misery, unhooded and unveiled themselves.
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5 229 It covers almost everything, with seeming modesty, but in such a way, that it is likely to lead a man to think in terms of removing it.
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11 111 "I looked about the yards, and when I found fine-looking, sensitive-looking chaps, splendid-seeming fellows, of apparent refinement and taste, those of a sort I thought might be capable of appreciating my work, I offered them one of my poems, and for no more than a mere token of appreciation, a silv...
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25 796 I dared not confess to him how distressed I was at the stoppage of his touch, at the cessation of those intriguing, unfamiliar, troubling sensations which seemed to irradiate through my entire body, seeming to change everything within me and my whole concept of myself.
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25 1313 "Oh, no," she said, drawing back, suddenly, seeming to wipe a tear from her eye, "I must not say such things to you".
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Book 22. (14 results) Dancer of Gor

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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 25 The thing that had perhaps most impressed me about him, aside from his size, his seeming vigor and formidableness, was his eyes.
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3 880 I could not understand his animosity, his seeming hatred of me.
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5 232 This undoubtedly had something to do with the sexual tastes of such men, seeming to run more toward the normal, natural female than toward the current commercial paradigms of feminine beauty in my culture, but I think, too, I was pretty, really pretty, genuinely pretty, and very desirable to them, a...
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5 273 I think this was not so much a matter of the words, as of their seeming import.
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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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11 917 I picked one man after another out of the audience, seeming to dance my beauty most meaningfully to him.
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11 955 I approached him in the dance, and then others, my belly seeming to register, with its jangling accouterments, their presence.
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11 1329 How helpless we are! "Oh," I said, then, and for the first time felt the imperious casting forth within me, seeming to fill my helplessly held body, of a man's triumph.
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13 187 And, at times, recollecting, or seeming to recollect, such times and places, and their naturalness, and rightness, and their fulfillments and ecstasies, I, lonely and yearning, seemingly an exile in the sexual deserts of my own world and time, had wept.
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19 91 It was a question of overcoming his inhibitions, connected with my supposed station, that of the free woman, my caste, his own, and perhaps some reservations about seeming to take advantage of my presumed straits.
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19 94 But he did not stop me as I there, gracefully, but with a certain seeming timidity, in the shelter between the walls, brushed back my hood, and lowered my veil.
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24 585 Too, this can be done with seeming naturalness, apparently merely applying their labors elsewhere.
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29 1538 Tela screamed, only now seeming to comprehend what had been done.
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Book 23. (7 results) Renegades of Gor

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24 966 I did not understand his seeming anger, his seeming suspicion.
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10 301 On the other hand, its relationship to the Earth device may be merely a coincidental one, a white cloth, in effect, a blank flag, seeming to be a reasonably natural device to signify neutrality.
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15 108 At that instant I lunged forward and the nearest guard had barely time to turn his head before I caught him, and his fellow, taking them together, striking them with great force, I sprinting, thrusting, they off balance, and blasted them back, one loosened, sprung quarrel skittering about the room l...
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17 374 From my pouch I took the thong by means of which her small, fair ankles had earlier, before her seeming placement on the spear, been so securely bound, the one to the other.
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17 441 Too, I thought I might buy some time for them by seeming to offer the Cosians an enviable prize, the capture of the wall commander.
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17 466 I took the thong which had originally bound her ankles, before her seeming placement on the spear, that which I had later looped in and about the ropes on her back, and put it beside me on the stone.
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21 484 For example, in the present case, a judge would be expected to decide whether or not the behaviors of the sort performed, for example, the seeming misrepresentation of caste, the baring of certain portions of the body, perhaps violating codes of decorum, the adoption of exciting habiliments, with th...
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Book 24. (8 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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1 741 Then the slave stood before the burly fellow, her shoulders back, her head up, proud in her slavery, unabashedly exultant in it, her body seeming hardly to move, but yet revealing, and obedient to, as must be the body of a slave in the parade, the music.
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1 859 Yet, too, uncompromisingly, she was one with the music, and, particularly in the beginning, with the story, seeming to examine her own charms, timidly, as if, like the "Tina" of the song, she might be considering her possible merits, whether or not she might qualify for bondage, whether or not she m...
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3 347 "Very well," I said, seeming to measure the fellow on the left.
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13 344 "Beware!" I watched the smooth, gliding descent of the bird, the sloping pattern, the creature seemingly almost motionless in the air, but seeming to grow larger every instant.
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37 419 "Hopefully," said Ephialtes, addressing Liadne, but not seeming to take notice of her apparent agitation or distress, "we will clear accounts with my friend, Tarl, by tomorrow evening".
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39 37 There was much skilled staff work in progress, the staffs often behaving in unison, circling about, changing hands, striking on the floor together, seeming to poke at the victim, to strike her and such.
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39 117 I would have supposed 'Cara', that seeming to me suitable for a slave name, but I did not know.
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46 368 She would probably think in terms of a more feminine hiding place, a smaller, more-closed-in, more-sheltered, safer-seeming place, a closet, a cabinet, a trunk, a box, a cage, a wagon, a sack, such places, or else to think in terms of putting herself where it might seem to her that she belonged in a...
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Book 25. (7 results) Magicians of Gor

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3 762 Then she was with her master, seeming to heel him, but yet so close to him that she touched him, brushing against him.
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7 311 To be sure, it seemed that Talena now, overcome with modesty, clutching the garments to her gratefully with one hand and with the other seeming to try to pull down the white robes, to more cover her bared feet, wished to leave the platform.
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8 568 A flute girl was parodying, or accompanying, their efforts on the flute, the instrument seeming to strain with them, and then, when they rolled the stone down, she played a skirl of descending notes on the flute, and, spinning about, danced away.
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22 25 She was, after all, even though in the seeming livery and collar of a state slave, still only a slave.
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22 466 Interestingly enough many Gorean municipalities intentionally resist the attempt to impose some form of rational order on this seeming chaos.
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25 530 Then, shyly, with seeming demureness, but with a slave girl's sense of self-display, she, her chin level, her back straight, her shoulders back, centered the lock, with both hands, delicately, carefully, at the back of the neck.
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28 7 Somewhere, hidden among their belongings, would be an obscure item, a seeming oddity, a stone.
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Book 26. (10 results) Witness of Gor

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8 11 Various were the memories, or seeming memories, which mingled in my confused, sluggish consciousness.
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8 478 One does this as an act of seeming modesty but, of course, it accentuates one's figure.
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8 636 This suggested surely that the men here were cross-fertile with women such as I, and, thus, presumably, that we, despite the seeming considerable differences between us, were actually of the same species.
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8 669 Suddenly certain of my memories, or seeming memories, of my journey here, made more sense.
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10 344 There was the mountain there, rearing upward, and, high above, perhaps a hundred feet above, seeming to rise out of the rock itself, were the walls of the citadel.
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11 5 Above it, supported by beams, casting a pattern of almost intangible shadows, seeming to stir on the flagging, were numerous, swaying strands of fine wire.
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14 1326 Were we regarded, because of what we were, rightly, as being worthy of less consideration than the delicate petals of a tiny blossom? Did they know us that well? Was our nature so obvious to them? Did they know, too, I wondered, that we were the secret enemy? Did they understand the secret war? But ...
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18 285 Perhaps she would lift her head, seeming surprised, and pleased, when his shadow fell across her body.
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31 269 The peasant looked out, as he often did, seeming to see nothing.
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31 396 He pulled at them a little, not seeming to comprehend the impediment they imposed upon him.
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Book 27. (18 results) Prize of Gor

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2 187 He turned about, seeming puzzled.
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4 170 But, interestingly, to her delight, and alarm, the couple, after the performance, seeming to see her for the first time, had smiled at her, rather as if acknowledging that they had met her before, and pleasantly.
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11 631 His remarks were not really critical; rather, they seemed instructional, their intent seeming to be merely to help an ignorant girl to better understand her collar.
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13 595 Eccentricities and subjectivities, seeming anomalies, often enter into such matters.
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16 177 To be sure, then the loveliness of her figure, so extended, would be revealed in other dimensions, the tininess of her feet, the slimness of her ankles, which took shackles so nicely, the swelling of her calves, her thighs, one bearing a slave brand, the curves, now so beautifully and subtly interre...
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16 345 She looked down at her bared body, in consternation, startled, caught off guard, suddenly distraught, suddenly seeming to understand almost nothing.
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18 7 Then she enthusiastically and provocatively displays, with skills that might be the envy of a dancer, sometimes with seeming shyness, timidity, reluctance or fear, the well-curved, delectable merchandise which is herself.
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18 297 A frequent thought in her mind, one she often tried to banish, was "Use me as a slave! Use me as the slave I am!" How startled, and seemingly upset, she had been upon occasion when she was dragged to the saddle for use, to discover, despite her seeming resistance, her trying to hang back, her wrist ...
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20 316 Even my beauty might give me away, it seeming to be a beauty appropriately that of a slave, and little things, too, about how I move, things I am not even aware of.
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20 380 There was ground below, and then there was water, and then ground, seeming to swing about and turn, and then water, again.
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20 669 And so, in time, she rolled, and thrashed, and moaned, on the dusty floor of the cave, until, red-eyed, weary, she lay there quietly, save for an occasional small, pathetic, protestive movement, one seeming to arise from somewhere deep within her, from somewhere within her deprived, needful, torture...
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20 829 She became aware then that in the vicinity of the tent, where she could see behind it, and to its sides, there were many whitenesses in the darkness, whitenesses receding, seeming to become smaller, into the darkness.
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21 81 She watched the rope move before her, that fastened to the left ankle of the girl before her, pulled forward, then dropping down, disappearing in the grass, then seeming to leap up, only to drop down again between the blades.
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21 252 "Yes," said Portus Canio, the effort to speak seeming to cost him much.
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24 506 Then swiftly, to music, it seemed she was turned about, fiercely, and then, as she stood still, yet seeming to resist in place, it seemed that her hands, wrists crossed, were lifted up behind her, to the small of her back.
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24 747 Perhaps my records are in error?" I think we may grant, even within this narrative, despite the possible risk of a seeming impropriety, hopefully not one punishable, that Ellen had at least average, or reasonable, intelligence.
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25 1 Sold Ellen screamed in pain, her head seeming to explode with fire.
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27 2717 His two compeers, scarcely seeming to move, joined him.
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Book 28. (9 results) Kur of Gor

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21 587 "That of enlisting a human leader, one men will trust, a warrior, a seeming champion, a seeming hero, one whom men, properly motivated, will unquestioningly, eagerly follow, one who will lead armies against the Sardar".
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1 158 I personally suspect that this lapse of attentiveness or this seemingly tolerant permissiveness, or this seeming lack of zeal, on the part of Priest-Kings, and their ships, presumably mostly automated and remotely controlled, has less to do with technological limitations than with some reordering of...
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18 179 A common stratagem is for a group of seeming maidens to be noted sporting outside a city's walls, perhaps tossing a ball about, or such, and laughing, and chatting, with one another.
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20 114 "Yes," said the judge, the voice seeming to ring about the gigantic chamber.
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37 33 Indeed, the seeming friend, proclaiming camaraderie, may be the deadliest foe".
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47 27 He felt the artificial gravity of the rotation seeming to push against him.
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51 93 "There is some possibility," said Cabot, "that the seeming dearth of female passion on such a world, seemingly so unnaturally pervasive, seemingly so inexplicable, is actually in its way an evidence not of the absence or weakness of female drives and needs, but of their remarkable strength, which re...
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57 142 Too, Lord Grendel, I now understand, as I did not before, your seeming lenience to the traitress, permitting her clothing, such as it might be, the freedom of the camp, and such.
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60 11 Great Agamemnon, in an act of seeming mercy, has called them to the theater, that of death, where they expect to be forgiven, and their penalties revoked, merely for joining his forces".
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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12 348 The Pani are an extremely emotional, passionate race, as I would learn, and the calmness of their exterior demeanor, their frequently seeming impassibility, even seeming apathy, was less of a disposition than an achievement.
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2 100 They should be distinguished from claims, or seeming claims, which are noncognitive, namely, which lack either truth or falsity.
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4 382 I wondered if an agent, or agents, of Priest-Kings might be aboard that vessel, now so far off, now seeming so tiny.
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15 89 In this fashion, thus seeming to accept and share the view of the free woman as to her abysmal degradation, she is less likely to be switched.
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15 187 "Why else," I asked, "would she, of all others, have chosen you to accompany her to Gor, to complete her role on Gor, that of seeming to be her master?" "She brought me with her to have a manipulable weakling," he said, "one to despise, one to do her bidding, unquestioningly".
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19 35 The issue of more than one battle had turned on this seeming oddity.
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27 18 I did not doubt that Tajima had reported to Lord Nishida my flight of the preceding late evening, and my seeming encounter with an unidentified tarnsman, an encounter I had refused to explain to him.
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Book 30. (5 results) Mariners of Gor

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4 112 I would learn later, however, that there was a simple explanation for this seeming anomaly.
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5 104 "Five days ago," said Seremides, addressing himself to the seeming rabble about, "without provocation, we were attacked by Cosian pirates, who attempted to burn our ship.
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8 23 Surely that lacked all foundation in fact, and who, save the simplest and most gullible, might be deceived by so obvious and meretricious an enticement, so transparent a fabrication? And yet, I wondered, why would one of the seeming astuteness of Tyrtaios put himself so at risk, as he would be when ...
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16 77 In an Ehn he was on the open deck, hurrying to the starboard rail, where he stood beside Cabot, his hands on the rail, looking over, past the galley, to the deck of the seeming derelict.
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36 74 Of five groups what man had they all in common, and of those men held in common, who, in turn, had they all in common? Some seeming patterns began to emerge.
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Book 31. (5 results) Conspirators of Gor

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4 722 After a bit, however, my alarm seemed foolish to me, and I regarded the dream, for all its seeming reality, with amusement.
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8 881 The slaver's man entered the cell, took one of the brunettes by the wrist, and drew her from the cell, through the short passage, and led her to the block, where she stood, small, seeming isolated, much alone, though the auctioneer was near, on the red carpet.
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8 971 Given the seeming importance of the former Lady Persinna I did not understand how it was that she was being vended in such a market.
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10 173 Had I not seen free women standing as though forlorn before tiny lakes of drainage water and mud at intersections, until a suitable male approached, alert to her seeming distress, to whom she granted the daring privilege of carrying her to safety on the other side of the street? I supposed he knew w...
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10 838 Once again I wondered about her background, her seeming lack of socialization, and such.
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Book 32. (4 results) Smugglers of Gor

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21 45 Their seeming unawareness, almost somnolence, was to put us at our ease".
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41 214 One might even, in seeming to stumble, kick dirt upon one in passing, an accident pertaining to which a free woman might legitimately express regret, or even, less pleasantly, trip against them, and then execrate them for being in one's way, or such.
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41 471 I recalled that it had been my knees and not those of Tula or Mila which had been forced apart by the boot¬ like sandal of Genserich, leader of the captors, or his seeming lieutenant, Aeson.
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48 2 There was a seeming movement to the side, and I glanced to my right, quickly.
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Book 33. (7 results) Rebels of Gor

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20 298 I had little understood the adamant nature of her seeming hostility.
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35 44 Indeed, at certain points, there seemed to be a traffic of sorts from outside the camp into the camp, and from within the camp to the outside, this seeming to consist mostly of local peasants vending millet or vulos, herdsmen with a verr or a tarsk or two, some sellers of salted fish, for the sea wa...
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41 29 On the other hand, it is possible that Lord Yamada's seeming dalliance was otherwise motivated; perhaps negotiations of some sort were underway; perhaps certain pieces in his game of war were being rearranged with scrupulous care; perhaps it was merely that the advance of his might, approaching now ...
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50 46 "I brought them, that I might have a pretext for moving about in the palace, discharging a seeming errand".
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53 46 Indeed, lacking wings, or seeming wings, this remarkable machine might not have been instantly identified, in the minds of thousands, with the fabled iron dragon of legend.
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59 210 In the Kaissa of steel, as in the Kaissa of the hundred-square board, beware the seeming mistake, for it may not be a mistake.
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61 153 But, of course, the thousand men or so with Lords Nishida and Okimoto were only too aware of the camp's fortification, and the seeming appearance of hostile troops in the vicinity, hostile troops in undetermined numbers.
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Book 34. (8 results) Plunder of Gor

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20 181 That supposition, it seemed to me, was well warranted, given the size and attitude of the beast, its apparent ferocity, its apparent menace, its seeming readiness to attack.
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27 45 We passed two seeming ruffians, sitting at the side of the street, cross-legged.
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46 10 Perhaps, I thought, Kurii, given their fangs and claws, their seeming night vision, and, as my master had averred, their keenness of hearing, were originally night hunters.
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49 102 I was told of an incident along these lines, the seeming paradoxicality of matters, that took place in a winter campaign, unusual for Goreans, as the favored time of war, as that of most sports, is the warmer weather.
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50 148 If it were not for seeming to be demeaning to Eve, the true beauty, I could doubtless suggest that a sizable quantity of gold be added to the scales".
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60 283 The two seeming beasts, one bound with chains, the other with its ax, approached the center of the small field, opposite the stands, near the stake to which Kurik of Victoria had been fastened.
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61 1 The one seeming beast, it with the ax, as one would expect, had been rather behind his charge, but, as it came closer, and was less blocked from view, I was startled.
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61 502 I saw the eyes of the soldiers about us, but feet away, eyes narrowed, watchful, alit within the apertures of those fierce-seeming helmets, the openings so like a "Y" in shape, the lowered spears, the points threatening us, moving slightly, like the heads of a ring of osts.
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Book 35. (4 results) Quarry of Gor

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1 150 He snapped the whip once, in seeming annoyance, unexpectedly, fiercely, abruptly.
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31 15 Each step down was gained with seeming difficulty.
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35 189 How painful can be its comings and goings, its games, tricks, and jests! And how can one distinguish between an authentic memory and a seeming memory? Falsity would not be falsity did it not hide under the claim of truth.
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39 109 Two more men entered the room below, Miles, whom I knew from the holding, and he who had been the seeming officer on the canal boat, whom I shall refer to as "the officer".
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Book 36. (14 results) Avengers of Gor

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2 95 Too, to be frank, so simple an artifice also tends to reduce unpleasant observations, insults, jokes, altercations, and such, sometimes seeming to require attention, with or without the sword".
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5 13 But it is not likely that a vessel in its seeming condition could have remained afloat for more than an Ahn.
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7 77 In the same tavern, yesterday night, seeming loot from the raid of Nicosia was glimpsed, strung on a dancer's belt".
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7 104 Small clues, even seeming clues, are to be preferred to the absence of clues altogether.
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8 12 I was somewhat surprised to note the seeming agitation on the part of my friend.
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8 99 Fourth, and lastly, I am curious as to an island which seemed to appear from nowhere, shortly after which we came upon a seeming wreck, patent bait in a trap well laid at sea".
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21 125 I placed one of the two bottles received from the three female decoys we had encountered earlier at sea, supposedly waiting to be rescued from the seeming wreckage on which they stood, to which they pathetically clung.
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28 64 Think of yourselves, below, on seeming wreckage, looking up at me and others, we above you, at the rail".
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33 74 "You, Commander," said Thurnock, in seeming disappointment.
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44 54 I suspect that the ruses of 'pretended traitors' and 'seeming weaknesses' had done much to dishearten the mercenaries.
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44 65 Too, the enemy soon became wary of 'seeming weaknesses' as too often, in such locations, defenders proved to be the most numerous and best prepared.
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44 113 The most obvious compromise would be one in which the command would manage to save face, seeming to have preserved power and surrendered nothing, while the mercenaries would, in effect, achieve their own aim, the aim of the most loot with the least possible risk".
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50 23 At the time I did not understand the likely explanation of this seeming subsurface tumult or thrashing.
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59 264 "The float is constructed to look like a ship, with a prow and all!" "And Nicomachos on the seeming stem castle, bowing and smiling, lifting his hands to the crowd".
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