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Book 1. (41 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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1 17 Being literate and not too dull, and having read enough history to tell the Renaissance from the Industrial Revolution, I applied to several small American colleges for an instructorship in history—English history, of course.
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1 25 Surely I had no publications, and I am confident there must have been several candidates from American universities whose credentials and capacities would have far outshone my own, except for the desiderated British accent.
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2 227 It was moved by the science of the Priest-Kings several times in its history, seeking again and again a new star.
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2 228 I regarded this story as improbable, at least in part, for several reasons, primarily having to do with the sheer spatial improbabilities of such a migration, which, even at a speed approximating light, would have taken billions of years.
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3 41 Whereas there was a main common tongue on Gor, with apparently several related dialects or sublanguages, some of the Gorean languages bore in sound little resemblance to anything I had heard before, at least as languages; they resembled rather the cries of birds and the growls of animals; they were ...
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4 43 He pointed back toward the city, which was now several miles in the distance.
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4 93 There were shouts, and, rushing to the window, I saw several answering bolts leave the cylinder and fly in the direction of the retreating assailant, who was now almost half a pasang away and making good his escape.
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6 29 One of them must be the Home Stone of Ar, but which? How could I tell it from the others, the Home Stones of those cities which had fallen to Ar? Yes! It would be the one that would be red with Ka-la-na, that would be sprinkled with the seeds of grain! I felt the stones in frenzy, but several were d...
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6 85 He then backed away from me on his eight legs, but never taking the pearly gaze of his several eyes from me.
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6 121 It must have been light for several hours.
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6 174 Her Robes of Concealment were splattered with mud and marsh water, and in several places the heavy brocade had stiffened and cracked.
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6 185 I also noted, though with considerably less pleasure, that the daughter of the Ubar was several inches taller than myself.
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9 51 It seemed we had little to fear, and we had passed several of the pasang stones that line the side of the highway without seeing anything more threatening than a line of peasants carrying brushwood on their backs, and a pair of hurrying Initiates.
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9 59 We passed several crossroads, but I kept moving generally in the direction of Ko-ro-ba.
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9 70 "Here," she said, "I have it!" She took a lead chain from my pouch, wrapped it several times about her slim ankle and snapped it shut, placing the key in my hand.
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10 10 Seated inside on several pillows of tasseled silk was a mammoth toad of a man, whose head was as round as a tarn's egg, the eyes nearly lost in the folds of fat, pocked skin.
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10 28 I became acutely conscious of the proximity of the several points.
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10 89 Beside one of several long wagons of the sort covered with yellow and blue silk, I removed the bracelets from her wrists and turned her over to an attendant.
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11 1 The City of Tents For several days, to the sound of the caravan bells, we made our way through the Margin of Desolation, that wild, barren strip of soil with which the Empire of Ar had girded its borders.
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11 49 There Talena watched, thrilled, as girls, several of whom she had known in the caravan, were placed on the large, rounded wooden block and sold, one by one, to the highest bidder.
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11 96 She danced before me for several minutes, her scarlet dancing silks flashing in the firelight, her bare feet, with their belled ankles, striking softly on the carpet.
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13 12 Shielded among the crags of the Voltai, invisible except from directly above, I saw four or five small cooking fires, such as might mark the camp of a mountain patrol or a small company of hunters, perhaps after the agile and bellicose Gorean mountain goat, the long-haired, spiral-horned verr, or, m...
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13 19 Feeling that I had satisfied my curiosity and not wanting to risk a landing in the darkness, where a spear might dart from any shadow, I drew back on the one-strap and prepared to return at last to Ko-ro-ba, whence I had departed several days—an eternity—before.
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13 24 But tonight a pride of larls was hunting, and the cries of the three beasts were driving cries, herding the prey, usually several animals, toward the region of silence, herding them in the direction from which no cries would come, the direction in which the remainder of the pride waited.
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13 39 For whatever reason, the larl will always prefer ruining a hunt, even one involving a quarry of several animals, to allowing a given animal to move past it to freedom.
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15 16 Indeed, several of the spaces between the stakes were probably occupied by covered pits, more sharpened stakes being fixed in the bottom.
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15 55 The compound of Mintar enclosed several acres of ground and was the largest merchant compound in the camp.
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15 164 "And who," I asked, "is the Spear Slave?" "Does it matter?" asked Marlenus, sifting several of the Spear Slaves through his fingers, letting them drop, one by one, to the board.
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16 28 It began several hours before dawn, as the giant siege towers, covered now with plates of steel to counter the effect of fire arrows and burning tar, were slowly rolled across the ditch bridges.
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16 42 Meanwhile, at several points in the city and at randomly selected times, picked tarnsmen of Pa-Kur, each of whose tarns carried a dangling, knotted rope of nine spearmen, dropped to the wires and the tops of cylinders, landing their small task forces of raiders.
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16 50 Marlenus and several men had entered the city, it seemed, but had been discovered—and sealed off in the very cylinder of the Home Stones—indeed, in that cylinder that had been his palace in the days of his glory.
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16 100 Above them, at several places, flew the black banner of the Caste of Assassins.
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18 69 There were several, easily visible from above because of their broad, circular form, much like a great well sunk in the earth.
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18 80 Looking about, I saw several of the caves dug into the walls of the pit, which, at least in most pits, house the inmates.
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18 81 In desperate, frustrated haste, I examined several of them; some were shallow, little more than scooped-out depressions in the wall, but others were more extensive, containing two or three chambers connected by passageways.
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18 89 For several minutes I examined the blank wall, sure that it held the secret of Marlenus's entrance into the city.
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18 146 There was another shout from within, and several more guardsmen rushed to the opening.
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18 154 Several tarns were dead; some were flopping about awkwardly on the marble floor, pierced by arrows.
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18 183 I turned the bend in the stairs and, several yards above me, observed a wide doorway, jammed with chests and furniture.
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19 10 Marlenus was, in general, well informed of the political situation; indeed, to be so informed required only the vantage point he had so stoutly defended for several days and a particle of awareness.
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19 161 After several such onslaughts, my arm would be weakened to the point where it could not withstand the fury of his own offense, which was legendary on Gor.
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Book 2. (21 results) Outlaw of Gor

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1 21 I waited several hours, and then returned at the same time the next day.
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1 26 Yet, several months later, I understand that Tarl Cabot stumbled out of these same mountains, alive and well, but apparently under the stress of some emotional shock which had culminated in amnesia—at least for that period during which he had been missing.
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1 27 He never returned to teach at the college, to the relief of several of my elder colleagues, who now confessed that they had thought that young Cabot had never really fitted in.
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1 155 I arose, now conscious for the first time of a lost night of sleep, the effects of the drinking, and of the several cups of bitter coffee.
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2 49 In the Home Stone—sometimes little more than a crude piece of carved rock, dating back perhaps several hundred generations to when the city was only a cluster of huts by the bank of a river, sometimes a magnificent and impressively wrought, jewel-encrusted cube of marble or granite—the...
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4 98 I sensed that I was irrational, perhaps a bit drunk after the kill and the first food I had had in several hours.
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6 25 As was wise, I avoided cities in my long journey, though I passed several, for to enter a city without permission or without satisfactory reason is tantamount to a capital crime, and the punishment is usually a swift and brutal impalement.
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6 196 The officer was the third man in the formation, and the other warrior hung several yards in the rear.
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10 66 Several pairs of strong hands seized me, and I caught a glimpse of a heavy, curved, silverish object.
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10 87 There were several exits, most of them rather small, barred apertures.
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10 90 By one wall there was a large bowl of burning coals, from which protruded the handles of several irons.
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11 6 Several doors led from this hall.
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11 8 This door led again into a corridor, from which again several doors led, and so it continued.
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13 31 Several were armed warriors, perhaps stationed there to keep the peace, but many must have been common citizens of Tharna.
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14 167 In several cases tarns have devoured their own masters, and it is not unusual for them, when loosed for feeding, to attack a human being with the same predatory zest they bestow on the yellow antelope, the tabuk, their favorite kill, or the ill-tempered, cumbersome bosk, a shaggy, long-haired wild o...
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19 49 I sent several men climbing to the top of the chains so high above.
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21 98 On the other hand, I have known of several cases in which a proud, insolent woman, even one of great intelligence, who resisted a master to the very touch of the iron, once branded became instantly a passionate and obedient Pleasure Slave.
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23 115 At several places in the city long ropes of smoke spiraled upward and then unraveled into vague, dark strands.
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23 118 Outside the walls several small buildings had been burned.
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23 202 Several of them held crossbows; at least four others had spears poised; some boasted swords; but many of them carried nothing more than a chain or sharpened pole.
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24 92 Several other men had by now crowded about the table.
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Book 3. (34 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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14 36 At last after I, sputtering and choking, had been duly cleansed and rinsed several times, and then it seemed several times again, the cage began to move slowly, mercifully, between vents from which blasts of hot air issued, and, eventually, it passed slowly between an assortment of humming projectio...
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1 24 Smith has had the pleasure of knowing Cabot personally, having originally met him several years ago in New England and having been able to renew the acquaintance briefly in New York City something over a year ago.
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1 69 Other contests of interest pit choruses and poets and players of various cities against one another in the several theaters of the fair.
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4 24 I did not stand precisely where he asked but several feet away, but I did remain outside the tiled ring.
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9 14 On the whole I find her more joyful than many of her Earth-inhabiting sisters who, theoretically at least, enjoy a more lofty status, although it is surely true that on my old world I have met several women with something of the Gorean zest for acknowledging the radiant truth of their sex, the gifts...
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10 36 The translator tapes, incidentally, are approximately the same size, but this is no help, since the tapes represent pairings of approximate equivalents, and there are several English morphemes not translatable into the language of Priest-Kings, and, as I learned, morphemes in their language for whic...
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11 92 Usually the breathing cycle, unless one is quite close and listens carefully, cannot be heard, but in the present case I could hear quite clearly from a distance of several feet the quick intake of air through the eight tiny, tubular mouths in Sarm's abdomen, and its almost immediate expellation thr...
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12 5 I stepped aside as a flat, sluglike creature, clinging with several legs to a small transportation disk, swept by.
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13 1 The Slime Worm I followed Mul-Al-Ka and Mul-Ba-Ta through several rooms and down a long corridor.
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13 3 We passed several high steel portals in the hallway and on each of these, about twenty feet high, at the antennae level of a Priest-King, were certain dots, which I was later to learn were scent-dots.
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14 4 It seemed to be bare except that at one end there were several metal disks in the wall and, high in the wall, there was a transparent shield.
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14 58 I leaned back against the portal of the Hall of Processing, my eyes closed, and took several slow, deep breaths.
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14 178 The ease with which he did this astonished me for I am sure its weight must have been several hundred pounds.
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15 10 The temperature fell several degrees.
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15 36 Scarcely were we inside when Misk touched a button I could not see several feet over my head and the door swung smoothly closed.
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17 84 "Is that mechanism also in this room?" "Yes," said Sarm, indicating with one foreleg a quiet-looking metal cabinet to one side possessing several dials and knobs.
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18 4 I gathered that the Muls to whom I spoke, who seemed well enough disposed towards me, simply did not know what was meant, in spite of the fact that several of them had been bred in the Nest, in the breeding cases located in certain special vivaria set aside for the purpose.
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20 33 Mul-Al-Ka swung the transportation disk suddenly down a side tunnel and, accelerating fiercely, flowed like sound down the tunnel for several portals and then stepped off the accelerator strips and, as the disk slowed and stopped, brought it neatly to rest at a tall steel portal.
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21 67 When there several Muls flanked him on either side, still singing, and holding their torches and carrying their vessels which now brimmed with a pale, milky substance, something like white, diluted honey.
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22 83 There were several of these, I noted, around the walls and they seemed obviously intended to hold Mul-Torches or some similar illuminating device.
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24 7 Most strangely perhaps were several long, golden strands, almost a mane, which extended from the creature's head over its domed, golden back and fell almost to the floor behind it.
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25 24 What approached was not another Golden Beetle, though I supposed there might have been several in those tunnels, but another inhabitant of those dismal passages, the whitish, long, slow, blind Slime Worm.
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25 100 At last we came to an opening which gave onto something of the sort for which I was looking, a rather small complex of buildings, where I saw several Muls at work but no Priest-Kings.
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25 113 There were several other creatures in the cases but I am not sure of their classification.
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26 117 "Once," said the Attendant, "and it took several months, but there is no danger because we feed and water them from the outside".
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27 241 I saw the antennae of several of the Priest-Kings curling.
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27 266 I saw that several Priest-Kings who stood behind him began to edge forward.
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32 270 "As you might imagine," said Parp, "I acquired the habit originally on Earth and, since I have returned to Earth several times as an Agent of Priest-Kings, I have had the opportunity to indulge it.
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33 5 Several times, in fact, I had simply leaped from one portion of the trail to float more than a hundred feet downward to land lightly on another portion of the trail, a point which, on foot, might have been separated by more than five pasangs from the point above from which I had leaped.
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33 13 In the front, several deep, in lines that extended as far as I could see in both directions, were the white robes of the Initiates.
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33 70 "Yes!" cried several of the others.
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33 166 "Nor did I," said several of them.
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34 183 Torm hit him several times with the scroll but the blows seemed not to faze him.
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34 198 I remained some days beside the Sardar, in the camp of some men from Tharna, whom I had known several months before.
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Book 4. (86 results) Nomads of Gor

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1 34 Even with the harnessed might of several huge tharlarion drawing toward the opposite shore the crossing took us several pasangs downriver.
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9 121 There were several women present at the tables, free women, and several others, slaves, who served.
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28 45 I then took binding fiber and looped it several times about Miss Cardwell's waist and then several times about the pommel of the saddle, then tying it.
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1 32 I crossed the Cartius on a barge, one of several hired by the merchant of the caravan with which I was then serving.
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2 72 In the thinking of the Wagon Peoples it is called the Omen Year, though the Omen Year is actually a season, rather than a year, which occupies a part of two of their regular years, for the Wagon Peoples calculate the year from the Season of Snows to the Season of Snows; Turians, incidentally, figure...
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2 73 It is near Turia, in the spring, that the Omen Year is completed, when the omens are taken, usually over several days by hundreds of haruspexes, mostly readers of bosk blood and verr livers, to determine if they are favorable for a choosing of a Ubar San, a One Ubar, a Ubar who would be High Ubar, a...
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2 76 The year names are kept in living memory by the Year Keepers, some of whom can recall the names of several thousand consecutive years.
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2 102 The kaiila, once it eats its fill, does not touch food for several days.
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3 127 Both of these claims are, of course, mistaken, and the Ubars of the Wagon Peoples know well each wagon and the number of branded beasts in the various herds; each herd is, incidentally, composed of several smaller herds, each watched over by its own riders.
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5 48 As Kamchak and I walked to his wagon, I saw several girls, here and there, clad Kajir; they were magnificent; they walked with the true brazen insolence of the slave girl, the wench who knows that she is owned, whom men have found beautiful enough, and exciting enough, to collar.
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7 10 There were many Tuchuks, and some others, crowded about the dais, and, standing upon it, about Kutaituchik, there were several men who, from their position on the dais and their trappings, I judged to be of great importance.
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8 147 Not surprisingly, but to my amusement, I noted that it hung several inches below her knees, indeed, only about four inches or so above her ankles.
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8 194 As soon as Kamchak had agreed to Albrecht's proposal the children and several of the slave girls immediately began to rush toward the wagons, delightedly crying, "Wager! Wager!" Soon, to my dismay, a large number of Tuchuks, male and female, and their male or female slaves, began to gather near the ...
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8 212 In the hour that followed I rejoiced that I had spent much of the last several months, when not riding with Kamchak in the care of his bosk, in the pleasant and, to a warrior, satisfying activity of learning Tuchuk weaponry, both of the hunt and war.
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8 243 The problem of the young man, and perhaps the reason that he had not yet won even the Courage Scar of the Tuchuks, was that he had fallen into the hands of Turian raiders in his youth and had spent several years in the city; in his adolescence he had, at great risk to himself, escaped from the city ...
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8 396 I wished that I had seen her run before, because most girls will have a running pattern, even in their dodging which, if you have seen it, several times, you can sense.
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8 426 "I have given her several such things," said Albrecht.
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8 443 Then she had doubtless run from the bola several times before, perhaps as many as ten or fifteen.
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8 444 "I gather," I said to Albrecht, casually, "that the girl has run several times".
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8 551 Several in the crowd shouted out, "The living wand!" I looked at Kamchak.
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9 46 "Perhaps," he suggested, "you would like a piece of roasted bosk meat?" I replaced the golden eating prong in its rack beside my place, shoved back the glittering dish in which lay several theoretically edible objects, carefully arranged by a slave to resemble a bouquet of wild flowers sprouting fro...
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9 173 Saphrar was not related to the girl, but had been appointed by the Turian merchants, on whom he undoubtedly exercised considerable influence, the guardian of the girl following the death of her father in a Paravaci caravan raid several years before.
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9 185 I had seen him use it several times while discussing the possible sale of little Tenchika to Albrecht in the wagon.
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9 339 Several of the men had leaped from behind the tables, including Kamras, but they hesitated, seeing Kamchak so armed.
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9 347 Then, to my relief, and doubtless to the relief of several at the table, he thrust the quiva in his sash and sat back down.
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9 388 Undoubtedly it still reposed in one of her several chests of jewelry.
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9 476 "Permit it!" cried several of those present.
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10 1 Love War It was early in the morning, several days after Saphrar's banquet, that Kamchak and myself, among some hundreds of others of the Four Wagon Peoples, came to the Plains of a Thousand Stakes, some pasangs distant from lofty Turia.
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10 5 Some of the judges, now wealthy, had officiated several times at the games.
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10 14 The standard of the Kassars is that of a scarlet, three-weighted bola, which hangs from a lance; the symbolic representation of a bola, three circles joined at the center by lines, is used to mark their bosk and slaves; both Tenchika and Dina wore that brand; Kamchak had not decided to rebrand them,...
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10 366 "There are probably several better among the stakes," said Kamchak.
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10 374 But already several of the other warriors of the Wagon Peoples were inspecting the unveiled Aphris of Turia.
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11 111 Already Kamchak was placing a thong on her neck, the loose end of which he looped several times about the pommel of his saddle.
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11 191 We then waited about a minute, and I saw several birds, river gulls—flying north.
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12 1 The Quiva In the next days I several times wandered into the vicinity of the huge wagon of Kutaituchik, called Ubar of the Tuchuks.
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12 59 Aside from the bells and collar she wore only several strings of diamonds wrapped about the collar, some dangling from it, with the bells.
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12 207 Several men, and some of their girls, were there.
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12 217 There was also a second drummer, also with a kaska, and another fellow, a younger one, who sat very seriously before what appeared to me to be a pile of objects; among them was a notched stick, played by sliding a polished tem-wood stick across its surface; cymbals of various sorts; what was obvious...
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12 241 I saw several of the Tuchuks present eye her with admiration.
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12 246 I noted that, in spite of the fact that Aphris had now been in the wagon for several days, Kamchak had not yet called for the Iron Master.
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12 307 She exhaled slowly as if fire might be sizzling out instead of breath and then she shook, a delayed reaction, as if she had been thumped five times and then began to cough spasmodically and painfully until I, fearing she might suffocate, pounded her several times on the back.
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12 420 The dance consists of several phases, depending on the general orbit allowed the girl by the chain.
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13 127 While near Kutaituchik's wagon, on the dais, he also conferred with several other high men among the Tuchuks.
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13 170 The Omen Taking as a whole lasts several days and consumes hundreds of animals.
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14 61 They lay tumbled about, several on the dais near the wagon.
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15 8 Several times also, hosts of tharlarion had attempted to protect caravans leaving the city, or advanced to meet scheduled caravans approaching Turia, but each time in spite of this support, the swift, harrying, determined riders of the Tuchuks had forced the caravans to turn back, or man by man, bea...
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15 21 There was, after all, no place on the prairies to hide the wagons or the bosk, and tarnsmen could easily reach them anywhere within a radius of several hundred pasangs.
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15 53 I had heard, from a master of hunting sleen, that the Omens were developing predictably, several to one against the choice of a Ubar San.
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16 117 Immediately we heard the sound of several men leaping down to the street and the draw cords on the wire net—probably of the sort often used for snaring sleen—began to tighten.
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17 27 It would probably be a sea-tharlarion, or perhaps several such; sometimes the smaller sea-tharlarion, seemingly not much more than teeth and tail, fluttering in packs beneath the waves, are even more to be feared than their larger brethren, some of whom in whose jaws an entire galley can be raised f...
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17 35 It might be gilled, like Gorean sharks, probably descendants of Earth sharks placed experimentally in Thassa millennia ago by Priest-Kings, or it might have the gurdo, the layered, ventral membrane, shielded by porous plating, of several of the marine predators perhaps native to Gor, perhaps brought...
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18 60 Beneath me, vaguely, several feet under the surface, I could see a collection, almost like threads and granules in a transparent bag, of intertwined, writhing filaments and spheres, imbedded in a darkish yellow jelly, walled in by a translucent membrane.
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18 102 We heard running feet approaching, those of several men, the clank of arms, the high-pitched, enraged screaming of Saphrar of Turia.
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18 116 About a hundred and fifty yards away, over several small roofs and domes, all within the vast compound that was the House of Saphrar of Turia, I saw the high walls of what was undoubtedly a Pleasure Garden.
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19 16 He picked up a stalk of a patch of violet grass, one of several hues used in such gardens, and began to chew on it.
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19 36 Besides several of the flower trees there were also some Ka-la-na trees, or the yellow wine trees of Gor; there was one large-trunked, reddish Tur tree, about which curled its assemblage of Tur-Pah, a vinelike tree parasite with curled, scarlet, ovate leaves, rather lovely to look upon; the leaves o...
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19 68 Here we climbed several low, broad marble steps and passed down a columned porch and entered the central building, finding ourselves in a dim, lamp-lit hall, bestrewn with carpets and cushions and decorated, here and there, with carved, reticulated white screening.
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19 81 Several times, one girl or another would roll over or shift in her sleep, or throw out an arm, and my heart would nearly stop, but none of the wenches awakened and we would troop on to the next room.
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19 84 It was carpeted by a large red rug on which were several cushions of different colors, mostly yellows and oranges.
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20 15 Although the wall was several feet from the top of the tree I managed, by springing on one of the curved branches, to build up enough spring pressure to leap to where I could get my fingers over the edge of the wall.
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20 33 It stood some seventy feet from any of the other buildings in the compound that was the House of Saphrar, but now, swaying, formed of rope and sticks, a removable footbridge extended from an open door in its side to a porch some several feet below us.
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20 61 Now I could see several more guardsmen rushing toward the bridge.
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20 72 The bridge began to rock and sag on its ropes and several men from the building began to thunder across towards me.
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20 73 Then there was a horrified cry as one rope was cut and the flooring of the bridge suddenly pitched, throwing several of the guardsmen to the ground below.
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21 11 Clustered about the hill, in ranks, on their kaiila, black lances in the stirrup, were several of the Tuchuk Hundreds.
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21 155 Several times criers had passed through the streets shouting that I was still at large and calling out my description.
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21 219 This amused several of the guards and some of the passersby as well, who gathered to watch the driver's discomfiture.
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21 220 Then the officer of the guard, nearly beside himself with rage, ordered several of his amused men to put their shoulders to the wagon as well.
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21 221 Even the several men, together with the driver, could not right the wagon, and it seemed that levers must be sent for.
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22 2 One makes a pretext of seriously besieging a city, spending several days, sometimes weeks, in the endeavor, and then, apparently, one surrenders the siege and withdraws, moving away slowly with the wagons and bosk for some days—in this case four—and then, the bosk and wagons removed fr...
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23 6 Thundering behind each of us was a Thousand, which would continue on toward the main Tuchuk encampment, several Ahn away.
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23 50 He had apparently, in the past several days since our escape from Saphrar's keep, been familiarizing himself with the saddle straps and the bird's habits and responses.
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23 87 He had cleared several areas of Paravaci but they were still, here and there, among the wagons.
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23 210 The covering on the framework had been torn in several places and the rugs ripped or carried away.
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24 56 In fact, to my elation, some of my fledgling crossbowmen, on the first day, brought down four tarns attempting to enter the compound, though, to be sure, several escaped them.
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24 74 I knew Kamchak had brought, over the past few days, several hundred bosk to graze near Turia, to use in feeding his troops.
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25 194 I went to the chest by the side of the wagon and pulled out a small bottle, one of several, of Ka-la-na wine which reposed there.
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26 2 Kamchak, Harold and I stood with several others on the roof of a building across from the compound.
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26 10 The tarns that Harold and I had stolen from Saphrar's keep several days ago had both been brought into the city and were nearby, for it was thought that such might be needed, if only to convey reports from one point to another.
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26 96 Behind us came several warriors.
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26 98 About the pommel of Kamchak's saddle were tied several bags of gold, each weighed out to four stone.
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26 99 And following him, among the warriors, were several Turian slaves, clad in chains and the Kes, among them Kamras, Champion of Turia, and Phanius Turmus, the Turian Ubar, all of whom carried large pans filled with sacks of gold.
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26 142 Kamchak now gave his kaiila to a subordinate and, on foot, carrying torch and quiva, began to prowl down the passage, beside him the two snarling sleen, behind him Harold and I, and the rest of his men, several with torches, even the slaves with gold.
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26 256 He then waved them, and the others, with the exception of Harold and myself, and the sleen keeper and his animals, back several yards.
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26 356 Saphrar screamed in agony and moving beneath the yellow glistening surface of the pool I saw several of the filamentous fibers encircle his legs and begin to draw him deeper into the pool and beneath the surface.
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28 7 There were several people gathered about, near the wagon of Kamchak, among them Tuka's master, and the girl herself.
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Book 5. (87 results) Assassin of Gor

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12 50 Several were going about seeking the odds Merchants, several of whom wandered in the stands, but others of whom kept their tables at the foot of the stands, on the sand itself, almost under the nets beneath the rings.
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19 30 I fell down several times but the cart did not stop; each time I managed to regain my feet, though sometimes I was dragged for several yards before, nearly strangling, I managed to get up once more.
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1 91 There are several such factions, who control the racing and compete among themselves, the greens, the reds, the golds, the yellows, the silvers.
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2 178 Kazrak, who had been Administrator of the City for several years, had finally been deposed, largely due to the agitations of certain factions among the Initiates and Merchants, who had had their various grievances against the Administrator.
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3 7 I had not been in Ar in several years.
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3 61 The Player was a rather old man, extremely unusual on Gor, where the stabilization serums were developed centuries ago by the Caste of Physicians in Ko-ro-ba and Ar, and transmitted to the Physicians of other cities at several of the Sardar Fairs.
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3 99 And further, having the first move, he would probably be able to carry the initiative of the aggressor several moves into the game, perhaps to the conclusion.
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3 126 When I saw the excitement of the Vintner and the calm, stoic placidity of the Player I felt sad, for I recognized, as did several of the others, that this game, expensive though it might be, was to be the Vintner's.
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3 137 At one point, when the Vintner seemed hard pressed, I, and several of the others, noted that his hand strayed to the board, moving his Second Spearman to Builder Four from Physician Four, thus placing him on an open column.
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4 5 Cernus of Ar wore a coarse black robe, woven probably from the wool of the bounding, two-legged Hurt, a domesticated marsupial raised in large numbers in the environs of several of Gor's northern cities.
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4 7 The House of Cernus, I had heard, had interests in several of the Hurt Ranches near the city.
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4 9 When I had spoken several of the men-at-arms of Cernus had shifted uneasily.
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4 17 The room was lit, and grayly, by sunlight now filtering in through several narrow, barred windows set very high in the thick stone of the walls.
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5 14 The small, heavy lock on a girl's slave collar, incidentally, may be of several varieties, but almost all are cylinder locks, either of the pin or disk variety.
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5 26 Some locks, on the compartments of rich persons, or on the storehouses of merchants, the treasuries of cities, and so on, are knife locks or poison locks; the knife lock, when tampered with, releases a blade, or several of them, with great force, sometimes from behind the individual at the lock.
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5 43 There were several chests in the room, including the iron-banded one with its heavy lock.
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5 139 At certain times of the year several such booths are set up within the courtyard of a slaver's house; in each, unclothed, chained by the left ankle to a ring, on furs, is a choice Red Silk Girl; prospective buyers, usually accompanied by a member of the Caste of Physicians, in the presence of the sl...
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5 239 Further, that she not become terrified and attempt to struggle or leave the table, she was secured to it by several broad metal bands, plus ankle, leg, wrist and arm clips.
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5 531 A number of people had gathered about, among them several free women.
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5 591 The hair caused him no little agitation, and he must have washed it several times in the day he was with us.
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5 667 I then illustrated, she cooperating, several other common knots, among them the Karian anchor knot, the Pin hitch, the double Pin hitch, the Builder's bend and the Builder's overhand.
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7 136 "Ah," said one of the tarnsmen, seeing the man on the ship hand out the first of several heavy squares of gold.
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7 159 Several of the others laughed.
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7 176 A further precaution, and an independent one, was a long strip of leather, looped several times about the throat of each and threaded through the wicker.
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8 153 "He manages several Scribes," she said, "but they do not work closely with him.
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10 10 In the room, which now had no occupant, I saw an open wardrobe closet, some chests of silks, a silken divan of immense size, several choice rugs and cushions about, and a sunken bath to one side.
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10 32 On the way down the stairs to the lower portions of the cylinder, several floors of which, incidentally, are below ground level, we passed the office of Caprus.
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10 34 Seeing me she fell to her knees and put down her head, managing somehow to retain her hold on the several scrolls.
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10 52 "You already have several in the pens?" I speculated.
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11 1 Two Girls After having passed through several doors of iron, each with an observation panel, descending on a spiral ramp deeper and deeper beneath the ground level, I could at last, clearly, smell the stink of the pens.
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11 2 In the cylinder there are several varieties of retention areas, ranging from the luxuriousness of the cell shown to me earlier by Ho-Tu, in which Cernus was accustomed to keep Special Captures, to the iron pens.
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11 5 But the pens, of which there were several sorts, boasted no such luxuries.
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11 101 "Right now several of them doubtless believe they have gone insane".
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11 179 The girl on the left had her hair cut rather short; the slavers would, in all probability, not permit her to continue to wear her hair in that fashion; her face was delicate, fragile, rather thin and intellectual; her body was thin; I expected her new masters would put some weight on her; her eyes w...
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11 381 "They resemble one another in several ways and yet each is quite different.
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12 75 Marlenus, who had been Ubar of Ar many years ago, had founded the Empire of Ar, and had extended the hegemony of luxurious Ar over several of the cities of the north.
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12 81 Kazrak, who had been Administrator of the City for several years, had been popular but his straightforward attention, after he had put aside the Red of the Warrior and donned the Brown of the Administrator, to numerous and complex civil and economic matters, such as reform of the courts and laws and...
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12 125 I found a seat several yards away, and, after a bit, noted Hup making his way down another aisle in the opposite direction.
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12 145 As I did so I passed several chained slave girls kneeling on a stone tier.
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12 157 The girls were neither of the House of Cernus nor of Portus, but of one of the several lesser houses on the Street of Brands.
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12 173 For about fifteen days Virginia and Phyllis, while the other captive Earth girls had been removed to an iron pen, remained in the tiny cement, iron-gated cages, so constructed that the inmate cannot at any one time fully stretch her body; over a period of time this builds up a considerable amount of...
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13 53 The first time I had seen Nela, several days ago, she had been playing in the pool alone, rolling about.
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13 225 I bought the paga, and several times we refilled our cups.
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13 236 The tarncot in which Mip worked was the largest and, I was pleased to note, he was the senior Tarn Keeper in the place, though there were several employed there.
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14 136 Several minor houses had shut down; there were others, but small houses, scrabbling for the thirty percent of the trade still left them.
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15 76 During the season of the races I had often attended them, and, on several occasions, had met the small Tarn Keeper Mip afterwards, with whom I had occasionally sat table.
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15 77 Several times we had taken racing tarns from the cot.
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15 98 Sometimes slave girls are forced to fight slave girls, perhaps with steel claws fastened on their fingers, or several girls, variously armed, will be forced to fight a single man, or a small number of men.
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15 134 To one side there was a set of mats for Musicians, who almost invariably were present at the sessions, for even the exercises of the girls, which were carefully selected and frequently performed, are done to music; against one wall were several bars, also used in exercise, not unlike a training room...
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15 135 Near the chests of raiment and such were several folded mats and sets of love furs.
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15 142 There were several men, including myself, who visited the training area with some frequency.
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15 175 The first week, surprisingly, consisted of nothing but the girl kneeling before the great mirror, in the position of a Pleasure Slave, for several Ahn a day.
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15 213 The sixth week of the training was spent, as several of the former, before the mirror, but this time repeating over and over, aloud, "I love being a slave girl.
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15 365 But perhaps more importantly he had been spreading rumors throughout the city of the desirability of trained barbarians, of which he now had several in training, those who had been brought to Gor with Virginia and Phyllis, some who had been brought to the pens earlier and not sold off immediately, a...
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15 381 Several of the guards and staff had left the tables, retiring.
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16 138 Ho-Sorl, after several races, gave Phyllis a coin, ordering her to find a vendor and buy him some Sa-Tarna bread smeared with honey.
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16 227 I heard several in the crowd cry out in amazement.
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17 96 There were tears in the eyes of several of the girls.
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17 129 "Kajuralia," I said to her gently, and turned, and with the Warrior and the Tarn Keeper, arm in arm, with garlands of talenders, which had been several times replaced, woven about our necks, left the Street of Pots.
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17 170 "I say," said the disguised guard, "Ar could do worse than have such a man as Cernus on the throne!" To my amazement, several about the table, who were undoubtedly common citizens of Ar, began to nod their heads.
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17 207 I had known Maximus Hegesius Quintilius only briefly several years ago, when he had been a captain, in 10,110 from the Founding of Ar, in the time of Pa-Kur and his horde.
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17 228 Processions took place on the bridges; there were tournaments of the game organized; poets and historians vied in praising the day, each more ecstatically than the last; but, perhaps most importantly, holiday was declared, and great games and races were sponsored without cessation for the next sever...
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17 298 Several of the men and girls at and about the tables approvingly observed the two girls rolling and scratching, biting and tearing on the floor, first White Silk on top, and then Red Silk, and then White Silk again.
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17 299 At last Virginia Kent, to the cheers of several of those present, sat atop Lana and was pummeling her mercilessly, until Lana, throwing up her arms and shrieking, crying out, begged for mercy.
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17 327 Near the pit of sand several slave girls, dancers, in Pleasure Silk were kneeling back on their heels and clapping their hands with glee.
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17 334 "Serve me wine," Ho-Sorl ordered Phyllis Robertson, though she was far across the room, and there were several girls nearer.
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17 541 Several of the men laughed with relief.
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17 579 There were several chests there, doubtless containing silks, cosmetics, jewelry; there were also rich furs, on which I gathered she slept; in one corner there leaned a six-stringed kalika, long-necked, with its hemispheric sound box; I knew she played the instrument; on one wall, some feet away, han...
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17 583 Her black hair was quite marvelous, long and unbound, falling as it did over her shoulders; her eyes were dark and deeply beautiful; her body, as the slave masters had intended, was tormentingly magnificent; the features of her face and lips showed to my eye, which had become more discerning in the ...
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18 169 They wander the countryside in shroudlike yellow rags, beating a wooden clapping device to warn men from their path; some of them volunteer to be placed in Dar-Kosis pits, several of which lay within the vicinity of Ar, where they are fed and given drink, and are, of course, isolated; the disease is...
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18 196 "Before the next passage hand," said he, "armed men broke into the Cylinder of Physicians; the floors we worked on were burned; the Cylinder itself was seriously damaged; our work, our records, the animals we used were all destroyed; several of my staff were slain, others driven away".
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18 217 "Everything was gone," said Flaminius, "the records, our equipment, the animals; several of my staff had been slain; those who survived, in large part, did not wish to continue the work".
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18 323 There were several yards of sausages hung on hooks; numerous canisters of flour, sugars and salts; many smaller containers of spices and condiments.
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18 361 There were several corridors lined with small cells with iron doors, each with an observation panel.
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18 396 The key box was about a yard to the left of the keyhole; and about four feet from the observation panel; it is a small, heavy metal box bolted to the stone of the wall; it opens and shuts to the left, by means of a round-knobbed screw, which must be turned several times before the small metal door o...
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18 423 I looked on that small, trembling, skeletal body, the straggly hair, the sores; the mutilated ear; angrily I rose to my feet and searched about, finding some loose stone which, with my foot, I wedged into the several crevices through which the urts had darted.
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19 22 It was hot in the slave hood, of several layers of thick leather, stifling, locked under my chin and about my throat; further, this hood, like many, was so constructed as to ensure silence in a prisoner; I could not spit out the thick leather wad that was packed in my mouth nor, because of the strap...
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19 65 From the outside it resembles several tiers of disks, surrounded by a circling portico with lofty, fluted columns; the predominant colors are blue and yellow, the traditional colors of the Gorean slaver; around the outside there are large numbers of well-wrought mosaics set in the walls, and on the ...
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19 80 Philemon, I and the guards emerged from the exposition area to the interior of the sales amphitheater; the entire house was now lit by energy bulbs; later, the block alone would be illuminated; the seats rose in tier after tier, largely circling the block, though a passage lay open behind the block;...
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19 122 Among the crowd, though it was predominantly male, there were, as I might have mentioned, several women, perhaps one in ten or fifteen; many of these were doubtless rich, and of High Caste; some of them were probably interested in picking up a serving slave; kettle wenches, so to speak, would probab...
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20 385 She screamed and fled and Hup stopped and turned around several times rapidly in the center of the room until, dizzy, he fell down on his seat and wept.
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21 211 Men in these games, in actual blind helmets, often, not really knowing, exchanged opponents; sometimes several would join in a slashing melee.
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22 131 I had seen him use this several times before.
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24 121 Many years ago, in Ar and Ko-ro-ba, and several of the other northern cities, the common slave livery had been white but diagonally striped, in one color or another; gradually over the years this style had changed; the standard livery was also, now, commonly, slashed to the waist; as before, it rema...
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24 255 In the room of the Ubar's court, I briefly saw Nela, who had been of the baths, and several of the other girls.
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24 257 I also saw Phais and several of the girls of the Street of Pots.
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24 259 Further, at their request, they had been given several of the guards of the House of Cernus, including Vancius.
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Book 6. (50 results) Raiders of Gor

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1 75 The plant itself has a long, thick root, about four inches thick, which lies horizontally under the surface of the water; small roots sink downward into the mud from this main root, and several "stems," as many as a dozen, rise from it, often of a length of fifteen to sixteen feet from the root; it ...
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1 97 There was not much water left in the gourd now, and it was the last of several I had brought with me.
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2 19 Rep is a whitish fibrous matter found in the seed pods of a small, reddish, woody bush, commercially grown in several areas, but particularly below Ar and above the equator; the cheap rep-cloth is woven in mills, commonly, in various cities; it takes dyes well and, being cheap and strong, is popular...
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2 55 With the pole she began to propel my rush craft through the sedge, the several other craft accompanying us, on one or the other side, or following.
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2 58 This was answered from various points about us, most of which were several yards away.
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3 5 To prevent an unwanted movement of the island there are generally several tethers, of marsh vine, to strong rence roots in the vicinity.
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3 6 It is dangerous to enter the water to make a tether fast because of the predators that frequent the swamp, but several men do so at a time, one man making fast the tether and the others, with him beneath the surface, protecting him with marsh spears, or pounding on metal pieces or wooden rods to dri...
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3 15 At a given point, when it is felt safe, several of these skiffs will be tied together, forming a platform on which rence may be woven, and a new island will be begun.
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3 76 There were several reasonably important looking individuals gathered about, and, as it turned out, these were headmen from various other rence islands in the vicinity.
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3 78 The men from several of these islands had cooperated in my pursuit and capture.
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3 116 The bow was taller than several of the men present.
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3 204 Several of the others laughed as well.
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4 36 At the edge of the rence island, where her rence craft was drawn up on the shore, as well as several others, together with some rafts for transporting cut rence, she stopped, and turned, and faced me.
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5 99 At last, after an Ahn or so, the group, the girls, the men watching, the judges, turned their several rence craft toward the island, beaching them and fastening them on the woven-mat shore.
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7 4 We saw several running across the bridges, crying out, being whipped toward the torches by those of Port Kar.
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8 110 That the punt might be used to bring men behind attacking rencers was quite improbable; further, had it been used, presumably it would have encountered rencers in their several rence craft and been thereby neutralized or destroyed.
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8 191 We remained beneath it for several Ehn.
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8 281 Several of the warriors struck by the arrows had plunged into the water; others had been thrown overboard by their fellows.
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9 85 Several men laughed.
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9 93 Those buildings which face outwards, say, either at the delta or along the shallow Tamber Gulf, have no windows on the outward side, and the outward walls of them are several feet thick, and they are surmounted, on the roofs, with crenelated parapets.
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9 100 Politically, Port Kar is chaos, ruled by several conflicting Ubars, each with his own following, each attempting to terrorize, to govern and tax to the extent of his power.
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9 116 Further, it was open to attack from the air by means of the cavalries of mercenary tarnsmen of Port Kar, of which she has several.
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9 602 Several of the men around the tables, roused by the flash of steel, had awakened.
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10 191 He had wanted to deepen the keel, to add a foremast, to change the rowing to great oars, each handled by several men, rather than one man to an oar; he had wanted even to raise the ram above the waterline.
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10 213 There were several such islands.
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10 276 Those I did not wish, for one reason or another, to free, I sold to other captains, or exchanged them for slaves whom I might free, several of whom, when freed, also agreed to serve with me.
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10 287 In the northern forests Port Kar already had several such preserves.
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11 22 To one side, cowering, stood several of the page boys.
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11 54 Several of the pages, incidentally, and some of the scribes had also fled through that door.
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11 195 It amounted to the destruction of one roofed area where Ka-la-na wood was stored, and the partial destruction of another; one small warehouse for the storage of pitch, one of several, had been destroyed; two dry docks had been lost, and the shop of the oar-makers, near the warehouse for oars, had be...
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11 408 Several committees were formed, usually headed by scribes but reporting to the council, to undertake various studies pertaining to the city, particularly of a military and commercial nature.
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11 452 The captains looked at one another in puzzlement, and then they began to smile, and then several laughed.
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11 466 Several of the captains then laughed.
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11 491 Several in the council chamber gasped.
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13 46 Several of the others in the court laughed as well.
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13 318 We had rowed for several Ahn this morning.
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13 449 In a moment I heard someone board the Rena, and then two others, and then several more.
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13 514 With gold won by sword at sea I purchased extensive wharfage and several warehouses on the western edge of Port Kar.
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13 519 I think I knew the shipping, the cargoes and the schedules of those two island Ubarates, and several of their allies, as well or better than many of the members of their own high councils.
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14 55 The use of the extended rowing frame, permitting the leverage necessary for the great oars, and the seating of several oarsmen, each with his own oar, on a given bench, conserving space, are important in this regard.
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14 135 It seemed probable, with a decent start, which we had, we could stay ahead of the pursuing ram-ships, if we chose, either indefinitely, or, if they were faster, which I doubted, at least for several Ahn.
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15 120 At any rate, for the first time in several years, there was now a single, effective sovereign in Port Kar, the Council.
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15 123 For the first time in several years one could count on the law being the same on both sides of a given canal.
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15 477 Even several of the slaves, about the edges of the room, behind the tables, had gathered to look upon her.
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16 345 Candles were lit on several of the tables.
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17 169 Several of the ships in the lines near the point where my task force had struck were now coming about to meet their enemy.
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17 294 There was one other who had been in Port Kar, whom I thought might, too, have undertaken the risks, but he, with his thousand men, had not been in the city for several weeks.
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18 195 In that instant I heard, from down a passageway, a sharp whistle, and the sound of running feet, those of several men.
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18 199 Several men rushed forward, some of them with torches.
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18 333 Several of them, men of Samos, were unknown to me, but others, mine, I had cared for.
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Book 7. (49 results) Captive of Gor

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1 124 My most lucrative assignment was to be to model several pieces in a new line of swimwear being brought out by a rather well-known company, the name of which is, however, unimportant for purposes of this narrative.
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3 333 I drove lights off for several minutes, following the double yellow line in the center of the road by the moonlight.
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3 464 It was several hundred yards behind me, moving rather slowly.
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4 237 Then, after a time, I seemed pressed against the side of the tube, rather cruelly, for perhaps several minutes.
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4 248 There were several other similar dials, beneath various switches, doubtless one for each of the containers.
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5 72 The piping, in several places, had ruptured.
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6 65 Several of the fanged seedpods lifted, like heads, sensing me, moving back and forth gently.
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6 130 On his small, fat hands, there were several rings.
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6 222 Several of them, besides the small swords, carried a knife as well, this attached to a leather belt.
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6 234 It was also scarred in several places, as though it had been struck with sharp objects.
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7 76 I had seen several such thickets when I was wandering alone in the fields.
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7 232 Several of them looked at me, to see my reaction.
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7 237 Several vied to comb and brush Lana's hair.
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7 526 Several of the girls gasped.
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7 540 Her left thigh, particularly, was lashed tightly to it, with several straps of leather, binding leather.
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8 7 Several of the men must be fishermen, already returning with a first catch, who had hunted the river's surface with torches and tridents at night.
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8 28 We sat there for several minutes, and then, eventually, we heard Targo haggling with a barge master for passage across the river.
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8 46 Several of the girls looked after it, the fin cutting the waters and disappearing in the fog on the surface.
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8 271 I could feel his hand on my leg for several minutes.
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8 309 There are several such.
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8 324 Targo's other girls, for he had now purchased several of these, of whom I was one, all wore their hair long and combed, straight.
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8 372 Sometimes when one of the great birds screamed, several of them would scream, too, and run, huddling away against our bars, or flying into their log dormitory.
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8 411 When he was finished he mixed several powders in three or four goblets, adding water to them and stirring them.
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8 424 They left me secured to the table for several minutes and then the physician returned to check the shot.
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8 670 Several of the girls screamed.
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8 683 Indeed, they had six digits, several jointed, almost like tentacles, which terminated in clawlike growths, which had been blunted and filed.
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8 784 Ute, and several of the girls, I realized, were laughing at themselves, and us.
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8 789 Several of the girls began to sing.
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8 912 They were swifter than we, of course, so each of us, from our particular herdsman, one to each of us, before reaching the goal, would feel the strap several times.
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9 288 Several had their eyes closed, their fists clenched.
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10 650 The paws were six-digited, several jointed, almost like furred tentacles, surmounted by clawlike growths, blunted, filed.
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11 1021 I knew several of them by their step.
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11 1449 I now saw, in his hand, coiled, several slender loops of braided leather.
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12 662 But, about the throat, the broad strap, for each of us, was perforated in two places, and it was by means of narrow binding fiber, passed several times through the perforations and knotted, that it was fastened on our throats.
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12 681 Several of the wagons were now flaming.
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13 366 When I was several yards away, silently, bending over, noiselessly, I slipped away.
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13 902 On the left side of his arm, running from the wound, there were several almost horizontal, reddish lines, where, but moments before, tiny trickles of blood, unable to flow downward, had been whipped backward by the wind.
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14 25 It is not uncommon, where several girls are concerned, to put a woman over them.
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14 124 Treve, I knew, was, nominally, at war with several cities.
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14 174 My fingers would have still been several feet beneath the points.
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15 220 Several of my workmates were sold, and others, captured, brought in on tarnback, took their place, perhaps to be sold as well in their turn.
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15 263 From the chest I took forth several of the garments, small, clean and neatly folded.
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15 264 I had washed several myself, and, sprinkling them with water, and sweating, had pressed them on a smooth board, using the small, heavy, rounded Gorean irons, heated over fire.
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15 900 Thus even families who cannot afford to own and feed a slave often have the use of several such unfortunate girls, commonly captured from hostile cities.
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15 1090 I stood there for several moments, in tumult, clutching the bit of silk against me, the bells within it.
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15 1372 Several of the chests were open, and from some of the sacks, onto the rugs, spilled pieces of gold.
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15 1377 I stopped, head down, several feet from him.
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16 187 She indicated a kneeling figure several yards away, bent over, facing the other direction.
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17 27 It was passed several times about my throat and then drawn through the wicker behind me and to my right.
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Book 8. (46 results) Hunters of Gor

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2 539 Gorean galleys commonly carry several sails, usually falling into three main types, fair-weather, "tarn," and storm.
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5 213 There were several low, roofed platforms, mostly arranged about the walls.
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5 237 There were several girls fastened to it.
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5 361 Several had paused in their work, to watch the Tesephone moving away from the wharf.
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6 260 Above Laura, north of her, there lie several slave compounds.
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6 261 It had taken the better part of the morning, but Rim and I, and Thurnock, had found the blazed tree, blazed with a spear point, several feet high on the trunk.
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6 352 It was quite possibly the same camp he had used several months ago, when, as recreation from the duties of the Ubar, he had gone hunting in the northern forests, a sporting trip in which he had captured a large number of animals, and, as well, Verna, a famed outlaw woman, and her entire band.
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6 604 From the garment, to the sand about her ankles, there fell several small Gorean plums, a small larma fruit and two silver tarsks.
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6 607 "And his father!" Several men had gathered round.
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6 966 I struggled with myself for several Ahn, fighting myself.
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7 10 Overhead were several birds, bright, chattering, darting, swift among the branches and green leaves.
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8 134 Several of the men looked at one another with pleasure.
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8 144 And one might, in such an attempt, outside the stockade, lose several of the girls.
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8 312 I opened my eyes and saw about me the ankles of several panther girls.
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9 24 Several bands of binding fiber fastened each limb to its heavy stake.
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9 152 Mira, too, like several of the other panther girls, was beautiful, but her beauty was hard, and there was a cruelty in it.
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9 205 Doubtless in Tyros there will be several who would not be displeased to have in their pleasure gardens one who was once the daughter of Marlenus of Ar".
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11 365 I pretended to purchase several rolls.
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11 412 There were several more girls, armed, behind her.
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11 523 Sometimes tavern keepers gather several such unfortunates together, enslave them, and keep their beggings for themselves.
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14 30 Beyond the palisade several bodies had been dragged.
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14 45 He would also hold, of course, several female slaves, Sheera, Cara, Tina and Grenna, taken from my camp; Verna and her women, taken from the camp of Marlenus; and the girls of Marlenus, taken, too, from his camp.
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14 93 There were several large campfires in the clearing.
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14 297 Several had already, oblivious of the presence of the men of Tyros, torn away their skins to the waist, others completely.
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14 334 "Brand him!" Several panther girls, their skins torn away in the dance, held the thigh of Marlenus.
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15 84 I then took the binding fiber and, looping it several times about the throat of each captive, tied them together by the neck.
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15 310 There were tears on the cheeks of several.
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16 189 He circled her, several times.
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16 228 In my camp, there were several bottles of wine, which had been taken originally from Verna's camp by Marlenus, and then from his camp by the men of Tyros and the girls of Hura.
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16 276 Sarus, leader of the men of Tyros, ordered several to do so but none would strike, not wishing themselves to fall.
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16 300 Mira had, under Vinca's strict questioning, told us that it would render a man unconscious for several Ahn, usually a half a day.
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17 91 With a long length of slave chain, however, and several sets of slave bracelets I completed the coffle.
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17 127 I had reduced that number, over several days, to fifty-six.
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18 57 The long set of chains and collars, securing them, had been fastened about several trees, in a great circle.
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18 178 Meanwhile, in good order, with confidence, several men of Tyros entered the forest and cut large numbers of stout saplings.
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18 300 I did not expect he would awaken for several hours.
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18 459 They cannot sail as close to the wind as the southern ships with lateen rigging, but, on the other hand, the square sail makes it possible to do with a single sail, taking in and letting out canvas, as opposed to several sails, which are attached to and removed from the yard, which is raised and low...
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18 651 Several of the men thrust the longboat back out into the water.
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19 165 Most Gorean cities are, in effect, governed by the influence, direct or indirect, of several important families.
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20 105 Several of them stood with blades drawn.
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21 147 Several held, by the arms, or hair, a stripped, squirming panther girl.
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21 158 She had, in a matter of Ahn, found the place where Sarus had left several men of Marlenus, and some of my men, chained.
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22 10 Several were armed well, with weapons taken from those of Tyros.
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22 83 I had looked up and seen, several feet above me, the height of the cylinder.
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22 437 I had seen it several times, once on one who worked for the mysterious Others, a member of a crew of a black ship, once encountered in the mountains of the Voltai, not far from great Ar itself.
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22 580 Several of their women, too, nude and chained, would grace his triumph as lovely slaves.
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Book 9. (43 results) Marauders of Gor

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13 172 Honey Cake, like many shy, introverted, timid girls, fearing her own sexuality and fearing that of men, sensing them in terror as her natural masters, was the mistress of secret, incredible depths of repressed sexual emotion and feeling; the Forkbeard, of course, a rude barbarian, was not in the lea...
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1 11 No longer did the several torches, bristling and tarred, burn in the iron rings at the wall.
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2 147 The northern ship carries one sail, not the several sails, all lateens, of the southern ships, which must be removed and replaced.
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2 244 Several of these stood on raised platforms, on the right, near the front of the temple.
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3 198 Several staggered under the weight of the riches they bore.
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3 274 Several of them began to follow us, lifting flails and great scythes.
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6 27 In several seconds an answering blast echoed between the cliffs.
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6 34 Then the ship turned a bend between the cliffs, and, to my astonishment, I saw a dock, of rough logs, covered with adzed boards, and a wide, sloping area of land, of several acres, green, though strewn with boulders, with short grass.
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6 60 Several came from within the palisade.
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6 248 Several of his men cried out with pleasure, others struck their left shoulders with the palms of their right hand.
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6 413 I saw several of the bondmaids in the arms of Ivar's men.
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6 522 About each log, fitting snugly into deep, wide, circular grooves in the wood, were several iron bands.
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7 211 Outside were gathered several men, both of Ivar's ship and of the farm.
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10 314 We saw thralls, too, in the crowd, and rune-priests, with long hair, in white robes, a spiral ring of gold on their left arms, about their waist a bag of omen chips, pieces of wood soaked in the blood of the sacrificial bosk, slain to open the Thing; these chips are thrown like dice, sometimes sever...
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10 402 Then she strode away, followed by several men-at-arms.
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10 424 Dagmar had, two months ago, stolen a piece of cheese from Pretty Ankles; she had been beaten for that, at the post, fastened there by Ottar and switched by Pretty Ankles, until Pretty Ankles had tired of switching her; too, she had not been found sufficiently pleasing by several of the Forkbeard's o...
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10 433 There, from one of several small wooden boxes projecting at intervals from the wall, he took an opened padlock.
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10 517 On Earth she had taught ancient history and classical languages at a small college on Earth; to many she might then have seemed a rather blue-stocking, forbidding girl; Gorean slavers, however, with greater perception perhaps then her fellow Earthlings, had seen her potential; she had been, one of s...
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12 53 On the other hand, if it is heated slowly, over a tiny fire, this same process consumes several hours.
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13 118 Several of his men laughed.
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13 439 I, too, and several of the others, at the same time, detected it.
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14 49 I saw several of the Forkbeard's men manage to slip into one of the side rooms.
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14 76 The Kur who had taken the girl then took another leash from the interior of his shield, where there were several wrapped about the shield straps, and surveyed the hall.
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14 199 He held the leashes, several in each hand, of more than forty catches.
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14 201 The leashes were some fifteen feet in length, allowing in this radius one Kur to hold several captives at once.
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15 13 Several Kurii, not feeding, carrying shields, axes, moved to and fro.
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15 151 The Forkbeard and I had lost several Ehn in circling such obstacles.
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15 227 He went to a corner of the ledge where, heaped, there were several large stones.
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15 229 "I found several on the ledge, some I found higher".
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16 8 This time the sparks fell into a heap, one of several, each about five inches high and four inches wide, of minuscule, lacelike moss twigs.
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17 78 They slept, curled, several in each shelter.
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17 94 The herd numbered some several thousand.
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17 101 They had failed, several days ago, in the Thing Assembly, to intimidate the men of Torvaldsland into furnishing them provisions for their march.
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17 142 The Kurii, as I may have mentioned, consist of several "Peoples".
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17 158 Four days ago I had seen a girl drive in which several sleen, fanning out over a large area of territory, had scented out scattered, hiding slave girls and, from various points, driven them into a blind canyon, where a waiting Kur had swung shut a wooden gate on them, fastening them inside.
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17 214 In that herd, I surmised, were several of our women, Thyri, Aelgifu or Pudding, Gunnhild, Olga, Pouting Lips, Pretty Ankles, the former Miss Stevens of Connecticut, now Honey Cake, the girl named Leah, from Canada, whose last name was of no interest, and others.
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18 31 Many were the men of Thorgard who fell beneath the teeth and steel of Kurii, and several were the Kurii who fell to the weapons of Thorgard's men, as they fought madly to defend themselves.
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18 115 Several fell in the mud and filth of the verr pens themselves, the bleating animals, frightened, darting about, leaping over the bodies.
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18 376 Now he would see that she served him completely, deliciously, helplessly, and as a mere bondmaid, an article of his property, his to do with as he wished, and perhaps serve him as only one of several such lowly wenches.
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18 543 The Forkbeard gestured to the several captive slave girls, loot from Thorgard's tent, kneeling, wrists bound behind their backs, in their brief, mired silk, in throat coffle, those girls Olga, light-heartedly, had secured for him.
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18 632 "Several," he said, "but I think the men of Torvaldsland now need fear little the return of any Kur army".
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19 3 Many men stood about, armed, several with torches.
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22 72 Among the girls, too, I saw Bera, she one of the Blue Tooth's girls, one of several, who had been placed under the orders of Wulfstan to assist in the loading.
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Book 10. (5 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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4 42 The sand kaiila, or desert kaiila, is a kaiila, and handles similarly, but it is not identically the same animal which is indigenous, domestic and wild, in the middle latitudes of Gor's southern hemisphere; that animal, used as a mount by the Wagon Peoples, is not found in the northern hemisphere of...
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5 76 Her more serious training had taken place over the last several days at the oasis, which is, in effect, a town in the desert, with a population of several thousand.
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15 137 "Is it your intention," inquired T'Zshal of Hassan, "to purloin several bags, fill them, battling guards, and walk your way out of Klima?" Even, of course, if one could obtain several such bags, and fill them with water, it did not seem likely that one could carry enough water to find one's way afoo...
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1 411 It is bound to the head by several loops of cord, the agal.
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1 708 On the map at our feet, where we stood, where Samos had indicated, was a representation, several feet in extent, of a vast desert, the greatest desert of known Gor.
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Book 12. (1 results) Beasts of Gor

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11 14 We lost some of these as they fled south but others we captured and chained, acquiring several longbows, which might be used at the latitude of the wall, and several hundred arrows.
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Book 13. (2 results) Explorers of Gor

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1 13 It bears a distant resemblance to the printed letter 'K' in several of the Western alphabets of Earth, and I suspect, in spite of several differences, it may owe its origin to that letter.
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27 87 We had learned that three boats, with more than one hundred and twenty men, several in blue tunics, had passed this village several days ago.
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Book 14. (1 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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13 443 Behind the palanquins, as behind several of the others I had seen this day, were several chained girls, briefly tunicked and ribboned.
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Book 17. (1 results) Savages of Gor

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8 74 The time it takes to brand several women can be reduced by the common expedient of heating several irons, but most iron masters will not work with more than two or three irons at a given time.
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Book 19. (1 results) Kajira of Gor

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33 477 For example, in an area where there are several sleen and several keepers, the keepers are likely to know the signals specific to the given beasts.
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Book 20. (1 results) Players of Gor

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12 75 Many players of Kaissa, not even of the caste of players, incidentally, know several openings, in numerous variations, several moves into the game.
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Book 21. (1 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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14 42 Within the hall were several soldiers, and several officers, at tables, conducting various sorts of business.
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Book 22. (1 results) Dancer of Gor

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20 146 He had several, the "red chain," the "green chain," "the yellow chain," and so on, each of which boasted several hundred men.
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Book 23. (1 results) Renegades of Gor

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1 108 It contained several coins, the loot, probably, of better than several days' work.
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Book 24. (2 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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2 252 I folded one scarf over several times, forming a narrow rectangle, several folds thick.
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46 324 In a moment or two I saw several of the fellows who had been after Ina angrily thrusting small, tiered slave cages about, some of them even climbing amongst them, several feet above the ground.
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Book 25. (3 results) Magicians of Gor

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3 590 Once in Ar, several years ago, several free women, in their anger at slaves, and perhaps jealous of the pleasures of masters and slaves, entered a paga tavern with clubs and axes, seeking to destroy it.
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8 619 The legal principle was clear, and had been upheld in several courts, in several cities, including Ar.
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9 621 I wondered if the Ludmilla in question was the woman who owned several slave brothels on the street known as The Alley of the Slave Brothels of Ludmilla, the street receiving its name, of course, from the fact that several of its slave brothels were hers.
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Book 26. (3 results) Witness of Gor

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4 224 There were several in front of me, and doubtless several, given the doors opening and closing, behind me.
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7 248 I was then wrapped in several folds of a blanket, it tied about me at several places, the ankles, knees, belly, breasts and neck.
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12 27 Obviously there are several kinds, and they serve several purposes.
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Book 28. (3 results) Kur of Gor

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1 73 From where he was contained, the human in question, Tarl Cabot, could see several tiers of similar containers, several of them occupied.
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14 1 The Forest Seems Quiet For several Ehn the forest group, one of several in the sport cylinder, though these avoided one another as roving groups are accustomed to do, moved swiftly from the clearing where they had encountered Cabot, he now with them, accompanied by the two gifts which had been give...
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48 25 It had then been decided, shortly after the defeats of the preceding days, on a variety of fronts, that eight of the several groups, of which Lord Grendel's was one, would have one weapon apiece, this at least, hopefully, acting as some deterrent for several of the groups, or bands, against a too ra...
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Book 29. (2 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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5 398 It was at this time that I, facing the sea, looked to my left, several hundred yards down the beach, and, too, several yards out to sea.
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19 189 I also sent several men to the training area, to storage sheds which were adjacent to several of the improvised tarn cots.
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Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor

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21 532 There were several fellows about, and several slaves.
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Book 31. (2 results) Conspirators of Gor

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12 81 "At most you would be well lashed, perhaps several times, over several days, and warned not to speak of it again".
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17 197 He had several fathers, interestingly, as the genetic materials of several male Kurii were injected into, and fused within, a single human egg, which was eventually brought to term in the human female from whom the egg had been originally extracted.
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Book 32. (3 results) Smugglers of Gor

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7 79 There were several of us in the cage, perhaps more than was appropriate for suitable viewing, but the sale, I had gathered, was a large one, which would last several Ahn.
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38 110 I was surprised at the remark of the leader, as a sleen, a trained sleen, is commonly worth several slaves, just as a tarn is commonly worth several more.
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50 285 At the edge of the shore, there were several small boats tied in place, to stakes anchored in the beach, some, long boats, propelled by several oars, and others, smaller boats, propelled by a pair of oars.
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Book 33. (2 results) Rebels of Gor

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24 78 Several hundred were in the stands, mostly men of rank, high followers of Lord Yamada's ten daimyos, who had been summoned to the gathering, several with their warriors, Ashigaru, porters, and servants.
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31 117 As there were several thousand men involved, hundreds of warriors and a great many Ashigaru, I supposed it must be several.
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Book 34. (2 results) Plunder of Gor

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11 32 Gorean sharks, in their several varieties, of course, are much more common in the waters of Thassa herself, particularly near the shallower banks, where sunlight encourages the growth of plants, and the plants attract several varieties of smaller fish, the parsit and others, on which the sharks feed...
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39 77 I could see buildings about, and, in the distance, several of the lofty towers of Ar, lights in many of the narrow windows, not wide enough to admit the passage of a body, and several of the narrow, graceful, lamp-lit bridges that, like delicate traceries, at various levels, linked the towers.
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Book 35. (3 results) Quarry of Gor

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30 133 Several of these houses, among them the House of Hesius, are institutions several generations old.
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31 42 Too, several times before my purchase, I later learned, he had frequented the Gambles and familiarized himself with the bouts of several contestants, though then refraining from betting, perhaps to avoid calling attention to himself.
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35 53 I was then placed again on my feet and, a hand on my arm, was guided through several doors and down several passages.
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Book 36. (2 results) Avengers of Gor

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13 22 Several of the raiders had fled, presumably seeking to follow the route which had been taken by the raiders' main force, but they had encountered several of my men.
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57 58 Then, suddenly, there was a splintering of wood in several locations and the grapnels leaped backward with force, several even striking the corsair ship itself, others disappearing between the hulls, splashing into the water.
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