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Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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1 16 I was not, however, reconciled to ending up on the shelves of my aunt's shop, along with the cloth and ribbon, and so I embarked upon a wild, but not too wild, adventure, all things considered.
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Book 2. (9 results) Outlaw of Gor

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9 1 The Kal-Da Shop Standing there on the bridge, in the rain, facing the obsequious, hooded conspirator, I felt suddenly sad.
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9 149 The Kal-da flowed free that night and thrice the oil in the hanging tharlarion lamps needed to be renewed by the sweating, joyful proprietor of the Kal-da shop.
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23 228 Thus borne aloft, from street to street, in the midst of joyous shouting, weapons raised on all sides in salute, my ears ringing with the plowing song, once a song of the freeholds of Tharna, long since supplanted by the Great Farms, I found myself brought to that fateful Kal-da shop I remembered so...
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24 1 The Barricade I ducked my head and shoved open the heavy wooden door of the Kal-da shop.
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24 5 This time the shop was crowded.
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24 8 It might have been a Paga Tavern of Ko-ro-ba or Ar, not a simple Kal-da shop of Tharna.
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24 10 The shop itself was now hung with perhaps half a hundred lamps and the walls were bright with the caste colors of the men who drank there.
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24 22 I wondered what impression the Kal-da shop would have on the true Tatrix of Tharna.
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25 153 Perhaps she would find herself confined within the walls of some warrior's Pleasure Gardens, to be dressed in silk of his choosing, to have bells locked on her ankles and to know no will other than his; perhaps she would be purchased by the master of a Paga Tavern, or even of a lowly Kal-da shop, to...
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Book 3. (2 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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3 59 If one had encountered him in the eighteenth century, one might have taken him for a jolly, snuff-sniffing, roisterous country squire, knowing himself the salt of the earth, not above twitting the parson nor pinching the serving girls; in the nineteenth century he would have owned an old book shop a...
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29 74 My heart leaped! Ground fire! I could imagine Misk hastening to his tools and the vast assemblage of instrumentation in his shop, or perhaps sending an outraged Priest-King to some secret arsenal where lay a forbidden weapon, one to which Misk would never have had recourse were it not for the hideou...
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Book 4. (15 results) Nomads of Gor

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12 216 The three flutists were polishing their instruments and talking together; it was shop talk I gathered, because one or the other would stop to illustrate some remark by a passage on his flute, and then one of the others would attempt to correct or improve on what he had done; occasionally their discu...
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16 202 "I was once," continued Saphrar, "a perfumer of Tyros—but I one day left the shop it seems inadvertently with some pounds of the nectar of talenders concealed beneath my tunic in a bladder—and for that my ear was notched and I was exiled from the city.
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21 84 By that time I had rounded a corner and leaped to a window, pulled myself up to the next window, and hauled myself up again and onto the flat roof of a shop.
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21 111 * * * * I stayed four days in the rooms above the shop of Dina of Turia.
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21 113 Downstairs the wooden screens that had separated the shop from the street had been splintered apart; the counter had been broken and the ovens ruined, their oval domes shattered, their iron doors twisted from their hinges; even the top stones on the two grain mills had been thrown to the floor and b...
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21 114 At one time, I gathered from Dina, her father's shop had been the most famed of the baking shops of Turia, most of which are owned by Saphrar of Turia, whose interests range widely, though operated naturally, as Gorean custom would require, by members of the Caste of Bakers.
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21 115 Her father had refused to sell the shop to Saphrar's agents, and take his employment under the merchant.
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21 116 Shortly thereafter some seven or eight ruffians, armed with clubs and iron bars, had attacked the shop, destroying its equipment.
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21 120 "Would you not like to hire men and reopen the shop?" I asked.
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21 137 "I shop for wealthy women," said she, "for pastries and tarts and cakes—things they will not trust their female slaves to buy".
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21 156 Once two guardsmen came to the shop, searching it as I expect most other structures in the city were searched.
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21 157 During this time I climbed out a back window facing another building, and hoisted myself to the flat roof of the shop, returning by the same route when they had gone.
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21 164 The Caste of Bakers is not regarded as a high caste, to which one looks for nobility and such; and yet her father and her brothers, outnumbered, had fought and died for their tiny shop; and this courageous girl, with a valor I might not have expected of many warriors, weaponless, alone and friendles...
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21 165 When Dina was about her own business, shopping for her clients, usually in the early morning and the late afternoon, I would remain in the rooms above the shop.
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27 90 "I shall reopen the shop of my father and brothers".
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Book 5. (2 results) Assassin of Gor

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3 2 A few moments later I emerged, descended the ladder and went to the proprietor of the shop, throwing the bit of soiled Pleasure Silk and the slave chains to the counter.
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24 246 With the money remaining over from her purchase price, which was negligible, she, who had been of the Cloth Workers, could open a shop in Ar, purchase materials, and hire men of her caste to aid her in the work.
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Book 6. (1 results) Raiders of Gor

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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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Book 7. (1 results) Captive of Gor

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13 118 I wondered if he had wanted her to help in the shop.
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Book 8. (1 results) Hunters of Gor

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5 84 Then, flanking her, and preventing her from going anywhere but where they wished, they escorted her to the shop of the bakers.
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Book 10. (6 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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2 335 I looked into a shop where pottery was being turned.
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2 338 The kilns were in the back of the shop.
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2 363 I passed a fellow inlaying wood, and the shop of a silversmith, and stalls filled with baskets, some of which, grain baskets, were large enough to hold a man.
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2 365 I passed a boy in a shop using a bow lathe.
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2 597 Then I passed a shop where the high, light kaiila saddles were being made.
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5 793 What if she had gone to Earth? I thought of her briefly amidst the hypocrisies and pollutions of Earth, on the pavements, reflected in the shop windows, in miniskirts or tailored suits, seeming a woman and yet in that raging, mechanistic, politically pathological culture, brought about by the organi...
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Book 11. (2 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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14 78 He carried the table past us, which he had taken to the shop of a carver and enameler, to be inlaid with a Kaissa board.
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26 42 At other times my mistress would shop and I would follow her, deferentially, to carry her purchases, eyes cast down, lest I should be caught so much as looking upon a man.
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Book 12. (3 results) Beasts of Gor

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4 678 Surely there was little in a shop of curios to interest a thief.
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7 35 I walked through the streets of Lydius until I came to the small metal-worker's shop, one out of the main ways of the city.
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7 36 I entered the shop.
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Book 13. (15 results) Explorers of Gor

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2 56 Usually girls, if not marked by a slaver, are marked in the shop of a metal worker.
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4 294 "Let her be taken to the nearest metal shop and branded," said the praetor.
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4 295 "Then let her be placed on sale outside the shop for five Ehn, to be sold to the first buyer for the cost of her branding.
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4 609 From some eighty or so yards away, from the tiny shop of a metal worker, I heard a girl scream.
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4 709 "Then bring her to the shop of the metal worker.
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4 711 Bring, too, a pole and cage to the shop".
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4 714 I followed him to the shop of the metal worker.
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4 715 Outside the shop, stripped, weeping, chained by the neck to a ring, freshly branded, was the girl who had been the Lady Sasi, of Port Kar.
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4 730 I looked out the door of the shop.
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4 744 One of the seamen had thrown her over his shoulder and was bringing her toward the shop.
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4 755 The girl was brought into the shop and stood in the branding rack, which was then locked on her, holding her upright.
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4 865 I then left the shop of the metal worker.
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5 33 When more than one slave girl stands in a relationship of slave girls, as when they serve in the same shop or house, or adorn the same rich man's pleasure gardens, it is common for the master, or masters, to appoint a "first girl".
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12 139 I had taken a large room on the ground floor, behind a cloth-worker's shop, just off the Street of Tapestries.
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27 188 Should one concern oneself with cattle? Let them know no more than that one day they are themselves, as they recall themselves, perhaps in many cases tense, petulant, intemperate, self-seeking, frustrated, miserable, and bored, in familiar quotidian surroundings, in a predictable and routine reality...
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Book 14. (53 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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16 1 The Perfume Shop of Turbus Veminius; I am Captured I knelt in the cool recesses of the shop of Turbus Veminius, a perfumer in Venna.
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16 92 I smelled the perfumes of the shop, many of which were being blended by hand from signature recipes in the back of the shop.
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17 107 Once I, too, could shop at the shop of Veminius".
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1 283 "If you shop around you will doubtless find someone who will tell you what you wish to hear, whatever it is".
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13 63 "Do you come often to shop in Ar?" asked the Lady Melpomene.
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13 117 "I wish to purchase veil pins at the shop of Publius.
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13 118 Then I wish to proceed to the avenue of the Central Cylinder, to examine the silks in the shop of Philebus".
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13 142 We were stopped now before the shop of Philebus, which specializes in Turian silk.
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13 143 This shop is located on the great avenue of the Central Cylinder, which is more than four hundred feet wide, an avenue used in triumphs, dominated by the Central Cylinder of Ar itself, which stood at one end of it.
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13 151 There were slave rings, a foot or so from the sidewalk, in the front wall of the shop of Philebus.
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13 167 She swiftly turned and went into the shadowed, cool recesses of the shop.
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13 176 I led the tharlarion into a small, sanded, sunny area near the shop of Philebus, looping its reins twice about a tharlarion ring there.
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13 187 I returned to the area before the shop of Philebus.
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13 194 I leaned against the wall of the shop of Philebus.
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13 200 There was, in the shop of Philebus, such a court at the back, whence goods might be taken to be viewed in natural light, should the customer wish.
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13 217 I glanced to the slave girl who was, by the shortened neck-leash, chained at one of the rings in front of the shop of Philebus.
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13 237 I then returned to the shop of Philebus, to continue to wait for my mistress.
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13 243 My mistress was long in the shop.
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13 258 "Where is the shop of Tabron, who is the worker of silver?" she asked.
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13 265 I got again to my feet, and leaned against the wall of the shop of Philebus.
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13 340 I looked down to the girl who, wrists bound, on the shortened neck-leash, sat at the slave ring in front of the shop of Philebus.
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13 772 I knew I should return to the shop of Philebus.
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13 773 If my mistress emerged from the shop and I was not there, she would not be pleased.
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13 817 Then I turned about, to hurry back to the shop of Philebus.
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13 893 A man, accompanied by a servant, appeared at the door of the shop.
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13 909 He managed his shop, however, in Ar.
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14 24 "I purchased it at the shop of Philebus, in Ar".
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14 142 The only girl I had truly had on Gor was a slave who had been leashed to a ring outside the shop of Philebus in Ar.
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16 4 I could smell perfumes and their mixings in the long shop behind the counter.
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16 24 "My thanks, Lady Teela," said Turbus Veminius, proprietor of the shop, accepting coins and handing to a robed woman a tiny vial of perfume.
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16 55 "Is the perfume of the Lady Kita of Bazi ready?" Turbus Veminius called to the back of the shop.
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16 72 The Lady Kita turned about and hurried, followed by her guards, from the shop.
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16 76 Yet, in spite of the gruff, authoritarian way in which they might be handled, and the rude, peremptory fashion in which they might be addressed, women, and high-caste women, for no reason that was clear to me, flocked to his shop.
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16 80 "Will the perfume of the Lady Kita be ready at the fifteenth Ahn?" Turbus called back to someone in the shop.
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16 124 "Is the perfume of the Lady Kita of Bazi ready?" he called to the back of the shop.
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16 128 Turbus then left the counter, and went to the back of the shop.
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16 129 It is not unusual, on Gor, incidentally, for the articles sold in a shop to be manufactured on or near the premises.
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16 134 One tends, usually, to go from one shop to another, garnering what one needs from a place which specializes in that sort of product.
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16 144 Turbus Veminius was still at the back of the shop.
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16 145 I, glancing to the side, saw two men, large, in brown tunics, in the doorway of the shop.
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16 146 They seemed an unlikely pair of fellows to be patrons of the shop of Veminius.
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16 147 They glanced at me, and then to the back of the shop.
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16 150 Then they turned about and left the shop.
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16 165 He had with him a small vial of perfume which he had obtained in the back of the shop.
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16 192 Twice earlier, too, I had been the only one in the shop but, still, I had not been waited on.
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16 207 "Ah," said Turbus Veminius, as the Lady Kita, with her two guards, entered the shop.
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16 261 "We do not sell perfume for slave sluts in the shop of Veminius," he said, sternly.
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16 263 "Try the shop of the Steel Bracelets," he smiled.
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16 276 She hurried then from the shop, followed by the guards.
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16 307 "Must I beat you from the shop with a whip?" he asked.
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16 314 "Run, Slave!" I ran from the shop.
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17 105 "It was purchased, as you perhaps know, at the shop of Veminius".
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22 109 "That from the shop of Turbus Veminius in Venna".
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Book 15. (5 results) Rogue of Gor

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4 69 "You may recall me, from the streets of Ar, some months ago, in the neighborhood of the shop of Philebus.
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10 41 "I remember the girl at the shop of Philebus, in Ar," she said, "she who, wrists bound, was neck-leashed to the ring.
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12 41 "Were you not to shop?" I asked.
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14 69 Also on the way home I purchased her a slave tunic and stopped at the shop of a metal worker, where I had her measured and purchased a collar for her.
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14 185 You will shop, and cook and serve.
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Book 16. (6 results) Guardsman of Gor

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17 724 "You are now tied, or muchly so," I said, "as was the girl on the walk, outside the shop of Philebus, in Ar".
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17 974 I heard the long, horizontal shutters of a shop being flung upward, over the counter.
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17 975 This opens the shop to the street.
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17 976 It was the shop of a leather worker.
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18 774 For all she knew she was being taken to a butcher shop, there to be dismembered for sleen feed.
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20 618 The shop of every metal worker will have several.
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Book 18. (5 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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39 112 "Not far from my apartments there was a pastry shop.
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39 113 Marvelous smells used to come from the shop.
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39 114 In the evening, when the shop was closing, slave girls, in their brief tunics and collars, would come and kneel down, near the hinged opening to the open-air counter.
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39 118 "But, too, I sometimes wondered if the pastries I bought at that shop tasted so good to me as those the girls had begged did to them.
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39 122 "If I were a slave in Ar," she said, "and I were permitted to do so, I think I should go to that pastry shop and, in my tunic and collar, kneel there with the other girls, hoping that I, too, might receive such a pastry".
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Book 19. (11 results) Kajira of Gor

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30 225 For example, at one end people might think of it as the street where Vaskon, the leather worker, has his leather shop, and, at the other end, people will think of it as the street where Milo the Baker has his pastry shop.
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1 405 ' He then pressed into my hand the round, heavy, yellowish object which I had later taken to the shop of a numismatist, and then, later, on the advice of the numismatist, to the office of a specialist in the authentication of coins.
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18 251 Indeed, perhaps I was being conducted even now to the shop of a metal worker, there to be marked and receive, and have locked upon me, measured and fitted, a suitable, inflexible, identificatory circlet of bondage.
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20 182 Would it not be a splendid jest, now, to take Sheila, the Tatrix of Corcyrus, to the shop of a metal worker, to see her writhe and scream under the iron, to have her fitted with a collar and then lock it on her throat, to make her an actual slave? But he did not seem to have any intention of doing s...
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24 43 While others were in the holding area I was taken by Tenrak, which was, as I had later learned, the name of the leader of the two drivers, to the shop of a metal worker.
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30 27 I saw a slave girl, in a brief, brown tunic, standing near a wall, outside of a shop.
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30 29 I thought, then, she might belong to the owner of the shop.
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30 30 Perhaps she had just emerged from the shop.
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30 222 Some streets are known informally by descriptions such as "the street where the leather worker Vaskon has his shop," "the street where the poet, Tesias, wrote such and such a poem," "the street where you can find the house of the general, Hasdron," "the street of the tarsk fountain," and so on.
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31 718 What a tribute to their attractiveness, and their skills as a slave! How they must compete with one another, I thought, to become the favorite! But how much better, I thought, to be the single slave of one's master, and to learn him, and serve him, with heat and devotion, regularly, day in and day o...
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32 131 That stop, I now realized, must have been the shop of a metal worker.
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Book 20. (1 results) Players of Gor

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16 553 "We were," said Chino, "but Lecchio here forgot a ball of yarn, having left it in a Kal-da shop".
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Book 21. (2 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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25 1508 She had probably purchased it in an import shop on the Avenue of Turia, which was nearby.
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27 136 "The smallest tasks in your life, how you clean your master's leather, how you set out his clothes, how you cook, and sew, how you shop, how you clean and launder, even the tiniest and most servile tasks, all such things, will become sexual, all will become expressions of your femaleness, fitting an...
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Book 22. (2 results) Dancer of Gor

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13 107 Indeed, most often, whether in only a simple tunic, before she hurries forth to shop, or in luscious slave silk and exciting adornments, before she is to welcome and serve her master's guests, displaying herself as one of his treasures, she is expected to present herself before him, for his inspecti...
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17 107 An open barbers' shop, with five stools, was to one side.
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Book 24. (2 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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45 63 "Typically, she will cook and clean for him, and shop for him, and launder and sew for him, such things".
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47 34 "What of my curtains? What of my shop!" wailed the merchant.
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Book 25. (37 results) Magicians of Gor

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11 146 "They came pretending to be collectors," said the merchant, "to rob me under this pretense, and dissatisfied with my inability to fill their purses, set out to destroy the shop and goods, and then two fellows whom I did not know, their features concealed in wind scarves, entered and did what you see...
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22 620 For example, a large, wooden image of a paga goblet may hang outside a tavern, a representation of a hammer and anvil outside a metal-worker's shop, one of a needle and thread outside a cloth-worker's shop, and so on.
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11 3 "My shop, my wares, ruined!" "Aii," said another of the guardsmen with the officer.
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11 6 They were looking about the shop, one of ceramics.
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11 23 "These fellows entered the shop," he said.
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11 41 "Angry at the pittance they obtained they began to wreck the shop".
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11 43 "My shop! My beautiful wares!" he moaned.
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11 45 "It was then that two fellows entered the shop, in silence, like darkness and wind, behind them," he said.
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11 82 "Those assailants who slew these poor lads and wrecked your shop, surely several of them, not two, could you recognize them?" "There were but two, as I said," said the tradesman, "and it was not they but those who now lie about, drenched in their own blood, who disturbed my wares".
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11 97 "Search the shop," said the officer.
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11 98 Three guardsmen then went into the back of the shop, and one climbed the ladder to the second floor.
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11 109 The ruffians who had assaulted the shop had not reached the rear room.
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11 123 "But when the ruffians came to the shop she was in the back and I told her to hide in the chest".
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11 139 "Turus, Banius," said the captain, addressing two of the men, "clear the front of the shop, remove the bodies, put them on the street".
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11 140 "May I submit, Captain," I said, "that it might be preferable to leave the bodies in the shop until they can be properly disposed of.
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11 145 "It seems that some good fellows of Cos, esteemed mercenaries, in the service of her Ubar, with all good will and innocence, entered this shop, to purchase wares for loved ones, and were treacherously set upon by assailants, some twenty in number".
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11 155 "I suspect," said the captain, overturning a stack of bowls, treading upon several of them, "you are in league with the brigands, that your shop served as a trap!" "No!" cried the shopkeeper, anguished.
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11 184 He then, followed by the rest of us, including the two fellows with the chest, threaded his way through the front of the shop and to the street outside.
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11 191 As it might be recalled, Marcus and I had entered the shop after the captain and his men, having been on our rounds in the neighborhood.
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11 193 I did not doubt but what some of these folks had peeped within the shop and seen the bodies about.
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11 194 That would have been easy enough to do when we were in the back of the shop.
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11 279 He turned and looked at the shop.
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11 280 "When the bodies are removed," he said, "I think I shall have this shop burned".
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11 344 He glanced at the chest on the street, outside the door of the shop.
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11 382 "Why did you not wish the bodies placed outside the shop?" Marcus asked of me, when the officer with his small squad had departed.
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11 387 "Better that the carnage wrought within the shop should seem such that those of Cos feared it to be known, that they were concerned to conceal it from the public".
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11 390 The shop is muchly open.
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11 478 He looked at the delka, scratched on the exterior wall of the shop.
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12 2 We were in a deserted alleyway, about two pasangs from the shop, rather between it and the Anbar district.
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12 476 "Surely Marcus," I said, "you would not begrudge the fellow a certain dismay over the destruction of his shop and the grievous impairment of his means of livelihood".
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12 524 "Do you think he would not recognize our builds," I asked, "our clothing, our sandals? Do you think this would be so hard to do, within moments of having seen us before?" "If you feared this," he asked, "why did you reenter the shop?" "Because of the patrol," I said.
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12 525 "I feared they might kill him, in vengeance for the carnage wrought in the shop.
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12 590 When we reached the vicinity of the shop I would take her around the back, to conceal her delivery.
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12 593 In time we had come to the vicinity of the shop and I directed her to the alley behind it.
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12 594 We paused before the rear door of the shop.
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13 3 Marcus and I, some days after the incident of the shop, were strolling on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder, which is, I suppose, in a sense, the major thoroughfare in Ar.
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14 428 Men were assigned to follow up on each slave the next morning and report back to a certain metal-worker's shop.
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Book 26. (12 results) Witness of Gor

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12 347 And I gave nothing! One lesser known begged me to attend a rendezvous in a jeweler's shop, one which had but recently opened its doors in the city, that I might there pick for myself the finest of a dozen ruby necklaces, which he would then purchase for me.
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12 352 "I would meet him at the new shop, that very afternoon, secretly," she said.
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12 354 I then made my way afoot, by circuitous, devious paths, though it was more than a quarter of a pasang, to the shop".
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12 356 "In a rear room in the shop, shut away from the sunlight and bustle of the street, he met me amasked, I veiled.
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12 419 "I went then through the shop, to the street outside.
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12 576 He who had lured me to the shop was there, and still masked.
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12 677 These words reminded me, of course, of my own, in the shop.
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14 444 How different was her appearance now, I thought, from what it must have been when she had long ago entered the fateful shop in Besnit.
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14 1569 To be sure, one may, kneeling, innocently request certain sorts of information, such as the directions to a shop or given street, or such, but to ask about something which is either sensitive or presumed to be generally known can be frowned upon.
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28 55 "It seems to be that which I selected in the shop of a jeweler in Besnit, before my abduction," she said.
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28 58 "And was it not to obtain such a thing that you went to the jeweler's shop?" "It was, your honor," she said.
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28 64 "Why did you enter the shop?" he asked.
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Book 27. (4 results) Prize of Gor

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18 136 Ellen was expected to run errands below, to shop, to do the laundry at the public laundering pools, and such.
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18 483 In a few minutes she had come to the open shop of Bonto and knelt before him.
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19 1 What Occurred in the Tarn Loft; One Must Make Haste "The shop of Bonto has been burned! He himself has been seized by Cosians!" cried Fel Doron, he of the employ of Portus Canio, bursting into the loft area, from the interior door.
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19 10 "The shop of Bonto has been burned," said Portus.
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Book 30. (10 results) Mariners of Gor

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3 945 There was, for example, from the signs, a wainwright's shop, mostly for repair, I supposed, a Leather Worker's shop, probably for harnesses and traces, a Metal Worker's shop, probably mostly to furnish wagoner's hardware, and such.
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3 246 This was no simple riot, spontaneous and disorganized, as one protesting the burning of a shop, a scarcity in the markets.
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3 959 It was a Metal Worker's shop, and it was empty.
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3 1003 He then went to the cord dangling from the bell which hung near the door leading from the shop, presumably to the private quarters of the Metal Worker.
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3 1023 So, too, did three or four of his men who had now entered the shop.
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3 1056 It was surely far different from the dark, cheap, plainer, common collars I saw hanging on a projecting spindle at the side of the shop.
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3 1089 ' "I was freed of the rack by the two young men, and, each holding an arm, they assisted me, half carrying me, for I could barely walk, back through the shop, and the private quarters, toward a rear entrance, from which one might approach the stable yard of what had been the Inn of Ragnar.
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3 1151 He remained in the vicinity of the basket, and two of the leader's men, not the leader, now come through the back of the Metal Worker's shop, went to join him.
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3 1152 At the same time the leader turned about, and, moving measuredly through the darkness, returned to the shop.
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37 1026 She was not collared, but such an oversight may be remedied quickly, at the shop of any Metal Worker.
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Book 31. (33 results) Conspirators of Gor

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15 8 I feared he wanted me to proceed some distance from the shop of Epicrates, and then, when I was far enough away, away from the neighborhood of the shop, he might appear from the side, about a corner, or drop down beside me, from a roof, and, before I could cry out, bite through the back of my neck.
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8 9 That had been removed in the house's metal shop the morning following my red-silking.
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8 201 Many Gorean streets have no names, really, other than, say, the street of the "smithy of Marcus," the alley "where Decius the cobbler has his shop," and so on.
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8 477 I was suddenly reminded of a shop window on Earth, a window before which passers-by might stop, and, at their leisure, peruse what might be for sale.
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10 206 The front of the first floor, facing the street, was the shop of a pottery merchant, Epicrates, who, with his family, lived in the rear.
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10 589 I do not know what she received for the stone, as I was not permitted in the shop.
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10 593 One would scarcely, for example, bring a kaiila into a shop.
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10 621 So, it was thus that it had taken up residence over a small shop on Emerald.
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10 641 Delia would collect coins from some customers, the richer ones, and others, the ones less well off, would deliver the coins to the shop of Epicrates.
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10 729 Who knew when a slave, perhaps near the shop, at a fountain, on the street, might be displeasing? Free women, abroad, often have a switch about their person.
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12 2 It is at the intersection of Clive and Emerald, and is the nearest fountain to the shop of Epicrates.
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12 61 I recalled he had identified himself as such, on the very evening he had brought me to the domicile, the first floor of which held the living quarters and shop of Epicrates.
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12 121 * * * * I was readying myself to return to the shop of Epicrates, with the two buckets, freshly filled, when I became aware of a shouting about, and I saw several citizens hurrying to join a cluster of others, gathered near the double doorway of an insula on Clive, not more than a hundred paces from...
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12 198 "No, Mistress!" I then seized up the handles of the buckets and, step by step, slowly, carefully, for the weight, and that no water be spilled, frightened, miserable, made my way toward the shop of Epicrates.
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14 33 "We shop there, frequently," said the Lady Bina.
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15 9 I supposed, were I clever enough, I would have remained in the doorway of the shop of Epicrates, forcing him to kill me on the premises, or to refrain from doing so, for the proximity to his own domicile.
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15 23 Why was I obeying the beast? Why was I moving, as I could, toward the market of Cestias? Would it not have been better to flee anywhere else? Why would he want me there, rather than somewhere else? Was it in the market, near the praetor's platform that he wished to apprehend me? Was I proceeding bli...
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15 89 Girls such as I may be chained to them, while masters shop, or otherwise pursue their various concerns.
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15 319 I then began to make my way, preceding the monster, on its leash, toward the shop of Epicrates.
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15 346 He drew me back, into a small side street, little more than a space between buildings, from which we had just emerged, for I had sought a most clandestine, unfrequented route to the shop of Epicrates, and, holding me tightly against him, covered my mouth tightly with one vast paw.
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15 353 We reached the shop of Epicrates well before the bar signifying the end of curfew.
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15 355 It was with relief that I, on the beast's leash, it following me, slipped into the doorway to the left of the shuttered front of the shop, and climbed the stairs to the domicile of the Lady Bina and Lord Grendel.
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35 310 Surely she was expected to do more than cook and clean, shop, fetch sandals on all fours, bringing them to a fellow in her teeth, and such.
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49 287 You will seek the shop of Amyntas, the wine merchant.
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49 404 We have let the importance of the wine shop of Amyntas be known in certain quarters.
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50 25 The wine shop of Amyntas remained a station in this exchange, but only one, to which I would deliver a message or from which I would receive a message, to be returned to the Lady Bina or Lord Grendel, almost always Lord Grendel.
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50 28 To my apprehension, particularly at first, I would deliver and receive these messages as I had at first, when I had been robbed on my way to the wine shop of Amyntas, that robbery which had placed false information in the hands of the conspirators, namely, with the sack tied about my neck, closed wi...
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50 55 You will then put the deck in its normal order and deliver it to the wine shop of Amyntas".
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50 60 It was now a month and a passage hand after I had been robbed on the way to the shop of Amyntas.
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50 71 Late that afternoon I arrived at the shop of Amyntas, entered, knelt, put my head to the floor, then knelt up, and, at his gesture, rose to my feet.
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50 86 Amyntas then summoned an assistant to mind the shop, while he took, I suppose, the cards into the back, to work out the message.
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51 104 "Allison has recently brought a package from the shop of Amyntas.
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51 119 Moreover, I remembered the differences attendant on my last visit to the shop of Amyntas, at which visit I had received the sack just opened.
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Book 32. (3 results) Smugglers of Gor

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8 355 The proprietors and workers commonly live on the premises, above or behind the shop, and breakfast is commonly taken in the shop itself, while waiting for business.
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8 360 I then left the shop, heeled by the slave.
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20 232 Some of the lower scribes set up awnings, or set up shop under a trellis, near a market, or in an inn or tavern, or such places, at given times, and make themselves available to read letters, write them, and so on.
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Book 34. (35 results) Plunder of Gor

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17 14 "My master," she said, "is Camillus, he whose shop is on Emerald".
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20 6 Her master had a shop on Emerald, which dealt largely with harnessing, harnessing for tharlarion, for kaiila, for slaves.
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20 14 On her back was a sign which, I supposed, must advertise his goods and shop.
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20 85 "It leads upstairs, to the rooms over the shop of Epicrates, the pottery vender".
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20 118 Near us a shopkeeper drew down a screen of boards, closing his shop.
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28 93 A tall man was standing outside the shop.
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28 135 "You are on the street of Crates, near the food shop of Bion," said Kurik, of Victoria.
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28 190 He will be known, here and there, by that name, surely at least by description, in some insula, at a cook shop, somewhere.
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40 10 The shop of the potter, Epicrates, like most Gorean shops, was open to the street during the day and would be closed at night, usually by means of heavy, folded wooden screens, secured with chains or rods.
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40 11 I could see he whom I took to be Epicrates in the back of the shop, who had looked up from his wheel.
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40 12 Shelves lined the walls of the shop, laden with an assemblage of diverse platters, craters, bowls, dishes, pitchers, and vessels.
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40 13 There were several other larger vessels, amphorae, and such, stacked, inverted, in the corners of the shop, and toward its rear.
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40 28 In one corner of the shop there was an oven in which, I supposed, materials might be treated, might be fired and glazed.
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40 37 At this point he whom I took to be Epicrates rose to his feet, as though curious, and came to the front of the shop, where I knelt.
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40 59 "Look at my shop," he said.
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40 60 "Does it appear to be the shop of a master potter? Where is the yard, the dozen ovens, the jars of pigments and glazes, the slaves and apprentices at their wheels?" "He will not trust work to menials," said Lady Delia.
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40 70 But I saw little evidence in the shop of Epicrates, despite its pleasantness and attractiveness, of the higher reaches and glory of the potter's art.
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40 91 His proposal is so contrived as to assure him an untoward advantage, and he fears, doubtlessly justifiably, that he would be scorned, and beaten from the shop".
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40 92 I did not think it likely that Epicrates, who seemed a gentle, pleasant-­enough fellow, would be likely to set upon and beat anyone, let alone a visitor, and fellow caste member, to his shop.
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40 159 "You will go to the pottery shop of Epicrates," he had said.
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40 165 I recalled the shop, and the woman, and the beast, for I, long ago, had seen these things.
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40 194 I do not wish to sell the shop".
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41 61 Certainly I had seen none about in my journey whom I deemed suspicious, nor did I see any about now, here in the vicinity of the shop of Epicrates, who seemed other than what one might expect at such an Ahn on such a street.
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41 68 I had crossed the street, to be less conspicuous when I had passed the shop of Epicrates, which was now open, the wooden screen folded back and secured.
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41 71 The screen may have been folded back and the shop opened as early as the Fifth Ahn, for the shops of craftsmen commonly open early, and commonly close in the late afternoon, which economy conserves on candles and lamp oil.
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41 72 Breakfast and lunch, by the craftsmen, are often taken in the shop itself.
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41 77 I had stationed myself in such a way that I could see the stairwell at the side of the shop of Epicrates, which would lead upstairs to the dwelling quarters on the second floor.
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41 80 I had also taken care to position myself in such a way that I could not be seen from the shop itself unless one went to its fronting and surveyed the street.
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41 205 I looked to the stairwell leading up to the second floor of the building in which Epicrates had his shop.
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46 329 "It seems Master rented a pay wagon, and lingered in the vicinity of the shop of Epicrates," I said.
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47 11 Lord Grendel crouched on the floor of the apartment, above the shop of Epicrates.
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52 69 Drusus had called at the apartment above the shop of Epicrates, where Lord Grendel, ax at hand, saw fit to be found.
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53 82 It was yesterday morning that Drusus Andronicus, coming to the apartment above the shop of Epicrates, had brought to Lord Grendel word of Surtak's acceptance of his proposal, that of an even exchange of prisoners, Lyris for Eve, Eve for Lyris.
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56 10 We were in the apartment over the shop of Epicrates.
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64 60 On the way through the wagons I noted several kitchens where food might be purchased, a clothing emporium, a barbering shop, two bakeries, four wine shops, two outlets of houses on the Street of Coins in Ar, sheds for wagon repair, an infirmary or clinic, under the green sign of the caste of Physici...
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Book 35. (39 results) Quarry of Gor

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11 132 There were shops for clothing and footwear for the free; the robings and veilings for free women were particularly rich, abundant, luxurious, and colorful; I suspect that there are fewer free women in Port Kar than in most cities; this doubtless has something to do with the history of the city; I am...
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1 163 Have our suppliers gone blind? Were they all drunk? I have seen better slabs of meat hung in a butcher shop.
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8 235 It would be risky for us to have it removed at a metal worker's shop, and madness for us to sell you with it on your neck.
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11 133 Outside the cloth worker's shop was a bin for irregular cloths, discarded patches, strips, shreds, and such; some masters, doubtless of a thrifty sort, avail themselves of such a trove to outfit their slaves; patches, even small patches, may be sewn together, to repair, or even form, a garment, say,...
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11 138 One shop dealt with weapons of various sorts, swords, daggers, balanced throwing knives, spears, darts, javelins, and such.
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11 142 One could also have edges ground or honed at that shop; sometimes I could see sparks flying from the spinning sharpening stone.
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11 144 Another shop specialized in grades of tharlarion oil, and another in perfumes, and another in flowers.
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11 145 I hurried quickly past a shop featuring binding straps, switches, and whips, many of the latter items colorfully beaded.
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11 153 I now passed a small pottery shop.
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11 263 He then turned away, back toward one of the shop's ovens.
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11 347 Surely it could not be! A few yards ahead, standing before a street bin of cheap rence-paper scrolls, on the walkway, in front of the scroll shop, chatting, in street robes, were two men.
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11 414 I was sure of it! He adjusted the street robe, shifted the position of the wallet which hung over his shoulder, and, clearly, was preparing to leave the vicinity of the bin of scrolls, the venue of the scroll shop.
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15 1 What Occurred on the Walkway "Down on your knees, slut," said the master of the scroll shop on the Thieves' Way South.
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15 7 But this was the first time he had stormed forth from the shop, between the street bins, to speak to me.
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15 19 This lenience had been motivated, we gathered, in virtue of the opening of a new tavern on Palace Street, The Silken Rope, and, possibly, the renovation and enlargement of the Whip and Chain, which was not far from the scroll shop itself.
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15 27 "And why," asked the master of the scroll shop, "would Leander give you a roll?" "He is fond of me," I said.
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15 61 "I thought so," said the master of the scroll shop.
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15 65 "You stole a roll from Leander," said the master of the scroll shop, "one with honey".
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15 75 "On whose behalf do you act?" asked the master of the scroll shop.
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15 80 "I have often seen you about," said the master of the scroll shop.
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15 81 "Why do you linger near my shop?" "I walk, I often pass by," I said.
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15 85 "Am I to understand, noble Brindlar," said a male voice, "that this comely slave sometimes dawdles in the vicinity of your shop?" I caught my breath.
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15 86 "Too frequently, noble Addison," said the master of the scroll shop.
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15 92 "Watching, waiting for a chance to make off with a scroll," said Brindlar, master of the scroll shop.
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15 96 "The vicinity of your shop, or, say, one close by, offers some coign of vantage, to lure one fellow or another, or, more likely, constitutes some agreed-upon point of rendezvous.
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15 118 "Is it true, slave," asked Brindlar, master of the scroll shop, "that you loitered about, to meet someone?" "Yes, Master," I said.
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15 138 I will no longer loiter by your shop.
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15 143 "You may linger by my shop as much as you wish," he said.
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15 144 "Let them associate you with my shop".
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19 23 I had no doubt that he had come at last, perhaps unable to help himself, agonized and contrite, to see me, to beg my forgiveness, to apologize for his summary treatment of me weeks ago on the Thieves' Way South, in the vicinity of Brindlar's Scroll Shop, and later in the Whip and Chain.
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20 96 Its contents were as follows: To the slave Zia, Paga Girl at the Golden Chain, Slave of Ho-Tosk, of Port Kar: You are herewith instructed to be on the Walkway of the Thieves' Way South, between the Scroll Shop of Brindlar, of Port Kar, and the paga tavern, the Whip and Chain, on this day, that of th...
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21 38 I would hurry past the shop of Leander the Baker and that of Brindlar, the dealer in scrolls.
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21 45 Near Brindlar's scroll shop I waited a little, until a customer entered between the street bins.
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21 47 Then, the scroll shop some yards behind me, I stopped.
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21 48 The message had told me to be between the scroll shop and the Whip and Chain at the Twelfth Ahn.
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24 119 As many shops were now closed, or closing, the shopsmen drawing the folding wooden screens across their shop fronts and chaining them in place, and many individuals were moving about, returning to homes or proceeding to one diversion or entertainment, or another, the street before the Lesser Al-ka M...
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30 21 One shop specialized in both the buying and selling of garmenture and footwear.
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30 22 There seemed to me little point in such a shop here.
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30 23 I also saw two paga taverns and a kal-da shop.
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