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Book 1. (8 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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2 119 It was carved with the family sign and was called the Home Stone.
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3 27 With annoyance, Torm poked through one of the enormous piles of scrolls and at last, on his hands and knees, fished out one skimpy scroll, set it in the reading device—a metal frame with rollers at the top and bottom—and, pushing a button, spun the scroll to its opening mark, a single ...
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3 28 "Al-Ka!" said Torm, pointing one long, authoritative finger at the sign.
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5 46 It was, of course, kept well-guarded and at the first sign of serious danger would undoubtedly be carried to safety.
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9 18 What would happen to Talena if we did, by some outstanding stroke of fortune, reach Ko-ro-ba? Would she be publicly impaled, returned to the mercies of the Initiates of Ar, or would she perhaps spend the rest of her days in the dungeons beneath the cylinders? Perhaps she would be permitted to live a...
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16 148 She gave no sign of recognition.
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16 149 I sought for some glimmer of awareness in those green eyes, for the slightest sign of affection or welcome.
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19 211 There was no sign of the Assassin.
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Book 2. (7 results) Outlaw of Gor

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2 26 If this shield were intended for me, and I had little doubt it was, it should have carried the sign of Ko-ro-ba, my city.
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3 2 I recognized it, and even had I not, the cylindrical pasang stones that marked its length were each inscribed with the sign of the city and the appropriate pasang count to its walls.
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4 4 Yet why was the road untended? Why had it not been traveled? Why had Zosk of the Caste of Carriers of Wood acted as he had? Why did my shield, my helmet, my accouterments not bear the proud sign of Ko-ro-ba? Once I shouted in pain.
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4 71 The thought crossed my mind that it was a sign from the Priest-Kings that I should turn back.
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19 55 Cell after cell was emptied of its wretched chained occupants, only to be refilled with shackled guardsmen and Whip Slaves, men who knew that the least sign of resistance would bring only a swift and bloody death.
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24 2 The sign 'Kal-da sold here' had been repainted in bright letters.
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26 49 By this sign alone men of other cities can now recognize a man of Tharna.
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Book 3. (11 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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4 141 There was no sign of Parp.
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11 27 Upon occasion, undoubtedly as a sign of irritation, the tips of the forelegs were inverted, and I caught my first glimpse of the bladed, hornlike structures therein concealed.
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23 23 Holding her wrist I felt for the slightest sign of a pulse.
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23 47 I continued to search the stony passages of the tunnels of the Golden Beetle but I saw no sign of the creature.
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23 49 When I made a turn I would take the hilt of the sword, in order to protect the blade, and scratch a small sign indicating the direction from which I had come.
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23 52 But still, as the Mul-Torch burned lower and I yet encountered no sign of the Golden Beetle, my thoughts turned ever and again to the still form of Vika lying in the cavern of the Golden Beetle.
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27 123 If Sarm were disturbed at finding Misk, whom he thought to have had killed, at his side, he gave no sign to this effect.
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28 11 Although constantly on the alert, I saw no sign of enemy forces, nor even of Muls or Matoks of various kinds.
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31 7 When I was unchained I was informed by Sarm that the small box he carried activated my control net and at the first sign of disobedience or difficulty he would simply raise the power level—literally boiling my brain away.
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31 115 I saw no sign of Sarm.
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33 49 His left hand, fat and soft, wore a heavy ring set with a large, white stone, carved with the sign of Ar.
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Book 4. (17 results) Nomads of Gor

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25 49 The engraving on the Turian collar consisted of the sign of the four bosk horns and the sign of the city of Ko-ro-ba, which I took it, Kamchak had used for my sign.
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2 174 The effect of the scars, ugly, startling, terrible, perhaps in part calculated to terrify enemies, had even prompted me, for a wild moment, to conjecture that what I faced on the Plains of Turia were not men, but perhaps aliens of some sort, brought to Gor long ago from remote worlds to serve some n...
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3 3 So gambling all on the respect of the Wagon Peoples for the courage of men, I made no move to defend myself but, heart pounding, blood racing, yet no sign visible of agitation on my face, without a quiver of a muscle or tendon betraying me, I stood calmly erect.
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3 13 The four riders exchanged glances and then, at a sign from the heavy Tuchuk, rode a bit away from me.
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7 19 Kutaituchik lifted his head and regarded us; his eyes seemed sleepy; he was bald, save for a black knot of hair that emerged from the back of his shaven skull; he was a broad-backed man, with small legs; his eyes bore the epicanthic fold; his skin was a tinged, yellowish brown; though he was strippe...
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8 108 I supposed that on the morrow Kamchak would call for the Tuchuk Iron Master, to brand what he called his little barbarian; the brand of the Tuchuk slave, incidentally, is not the same as that generally used in the cities, which, for girls, is the first letter of the expression Kajira in cursive scri...
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9 153 I began to tremble, but held the table, and, I believe, betrayed no sign of my inward excitement.
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9 205 She gave them no sign that she recognized their existence.
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9 363 The back and head of Aphris of Turia were rigid with fury, but she gave no sign that she had heard him.
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13 137 On one side of this altar I saw the sign of the Tuchuks, and on the others, that of the Kassars, the Kataii and the Paravaci.
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20 79 The room in which I found myself contained an unconscious guard, but no further sign of Harold or Hereena.
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22 112 At a sign from Kamchak, as the men well knew, their throats would be immediately cut.
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23 204 There was no sign of either Aphris or Elizabeth, either about the wagon, or in the overturned, broken sleen cage in which, when I had last seen them, Kamchak had confined them.
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25 36 For that matter many Tuchuks could not, and the engraving on the collars of their slaves was often no more than a sign which was known to be theirs.
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25 37 Even those who could read, or pretended to be able to, would affix their sign on the collar as well as their name, so that others who could not read could know to whom the slave belonged.
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25 38 Kamchak's sign was the four bosk horns and two quivas.
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27 104 Elizabeth had watched but she had shown no sign of anger or irritation.
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Book 5. (11 results) Assassin of Gor

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2 10 Yet none would stand in the way of Kuurus for he wore on his forehead, small and fine, the sign of the black dagger.
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2 11 When he of the Caste of Assassins has been paid his gold and has received his charge he affixes on his forehead that sign, that he may enter whatever city he pleases, that none may interfere with his work.
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4 20 Behind Cernus, on the wall, there hung a large tapestry, richly done in red and gold, which bore the same sign.
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4 23 I revealed no sign of surprise.
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5 269 "What is that sign?" I asked, pointing to one.
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5 506 In an instant we were surrounded by Warriors on tarnback, the guard, and I raised my hand in the sign of the city, and drew on the four-strap, taking the tarn down.
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7 8 Though doubtless Ho-Tu was well known to the guards at the tarncot, he nonetheless showed them a small, flat rectangle of glazed clay, white in color, marked with the sign of the House of Cernus.
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12 63 When I had left the House of Cernus I had removed the livery of the black caste and had washed the sign of the dagger from my forehead.
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19 272 "A hundred and twenty," said another, soberly, matter-of-factly, this man, too, a professional Slaver, he wearing on his left shoulder the sign of Tyros.
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19 321 "Three hundred and ten!" announced the Slaver who wore upon his shoulder the sign of Tyros.
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24 485 I signed them, my name in Gorean script, followed by the sign of the city of Ko-ro-ba.
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Book 6. (2 results) Raiders of Gor

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1 110 I moved the small, light craft through the rushes, past the sign.
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14 214 It showed no sign of turning.
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Book 7. (11 results) Captive of Gor

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5 43 But there seemed to be no sign of life about it.
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5 66 There was no sign of life.
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7 493 If one was careful to keep the juices inside there was no telltale sign on the lips and chin.
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12 332 She gave no sign that she had noticed either those who had so rudely assailed her, or those who had protected her from them.
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12 426 Two I placed in my mouth, carefully, that no sign that I had tasted them be evident.
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15 1342 It is a sign that they find you desirable.
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15 1343 It is a sign of their interest, and passion.
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16 276 Without the reality of the whip how can she be a slave? Indifference on the part of the master is often a sign that she is soon to be led to the market.
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17 407 The sign of Treve was cut into each of the stakes".
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17 484 When Rask of Treve demanded that I be given to him, Bosk, my master, first sword in Port Kar, drew his own blade and, for answer, drew on the tiles of the piazza a sign, that of the city of Ko-ro-ba.
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18 108 Each bore the sign of the city of Treve.
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Book 8. (7 results) Hunters of Gor

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2 53 "I hate them!" I returned the trading gesture, and the man on the shore lifted his arms, acknowledging my sign, and turned back, walking again, heavily in the sand, back up the beach.
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8 104 "There is no sign of panther girls," he said.
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11 531 A fifth huntsman, at a sign from Marlenus, stepped behind the girl.
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14 12 There was no sign of the gate's having been splintered or broken.
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14 223 At a sign from Hura the man from Tyros thrust the iron back into the brazier, to draw it forth again at her signal.
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17 17 Once more there was the sign of a rout.
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17 47 Giving no sign I continued as before, looking about the camp.
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Book 9. (31 results) Marauders of Gor

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3 216 It was not only a sign of defiance to Priest-Kings, but the fist, the sign of the hammer.
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6 69 It was the sign of the hammer, the sign of Thor.
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16 104 "The sign, the name-sign, of Torvald".
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18 173 Not ten yards before the clash took place, Svein Blue Tooth and his lieutenants before the running line, as the girls, under the whips of Kurii, fled, terrified, seeing the axes, the leveled weapons, toward them, made a sign no bondmaid of the north mistakes, the belly sign.
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2 28 Sometimes those who insisted on retaining the old ways, or were caught making the sign of the fist, the hammer, over their ale, were subjected to death by torture.
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2 54 It was said that he wished, in regret for the wickedness of his life, to be carried in death to the temple of Priest-Kings in Kassau, that the High Initiate there might, if it be his mercy, draw on his bones in the sacred grease the sign of the Priest-Kings.
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2 57 I could sense the triumph of the High Initiate on his throne, though his cold face betrayed little sign of his victory.
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2 278 Inside the Initiates, and the boys, at a sign from the High Initiate, a lifted, clawlike hand, were silent.
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2 310 To the amazement of the crowd, at a sign from the High Initiate of Kassau, two lesser initiates opened the gate to the white rail.
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2 311 Another Initiate, sleek, fat, his shaved head oiled, shining in the light of the candles, carrying a small golden vessel of thickened chrism went to each of the four men of Torvaldsland, making on their foreheads the sign of the Priest-Kings, the circle of eternity.
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2 331 No more would he make over his ale, with his closed fist, the sign of the hammer.
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3 217 It was the sign of Thor.
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6 198 "Please, my Jarl," she cried, "do not mark your girl!" At a sign from the Forkbeard, the iron was pressed deeply into her flesh, and held there, smoking for five Ihn.
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8 27 Hilda sat in a great curule chair, carved with the sign of Scagnar, a serpent-ship, seen frontally.
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8 39 It is not a difficult sign to forge.
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8 50 She had worn, in her degradation, golden loops in her ears; she had not been able, even, to finish her dance; at a sign from Marlenus she had been seized, thrown to the tiles on which she had danced, and raped by more than a hundred men.
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13 452 Then, other Kurii behind it, crowding about it, past it, it shrieked, lips drawn back, with a hideous sound, which, somehow, from its lips and mien, and mostly from its eyes, I took to be a sign of pleasure, of anticipation; I would learn later that this sound is instinctively uttered by Kurii when ...
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15 103 There was no sign of life.
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15 156 When snow gave way to patches of rock they would pause, momentarily, nostrils lowered, reading sign that would have been undetectable to a human.
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16 80 "There is one sign here, of course," said the Forkbeard, "which any fool might read".
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16 81 He pointed to the sign.
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16 93 Over the arch, deeply incised in the stone was the single, mighty sign, that which the Forkbeard had not explained to me.
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16 100 He lifted his torch, to the sign over the door.
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16 101 "Do you not know that sign?" he asked.
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16 102 "I know what sign it must be," I said.
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16 103 "What sign?" asked he.
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16 109 "This," said the Forkbeard, looking up at the sign, "is the chamber of Torvald".
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16 199 "And what sign is this, carved on its side?" I asked.
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16 200 "The sign of Torvald," he whispered.
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18 409 Over the helmet Ivar doubled and held his fist, making the sign of Thor.
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19 2 It held, in sign of truce, over its head, the two parts of a broken ax.
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Book 10. (10 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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1 859 He gave a sign.
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5 316 Then the tent, as men held torches, at a sign from Shakar, was thrown back.
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6 31 At a sign from the judge the handle moved once, dropping the wooden pawl into the ratchet notch.
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7 56 Each sign was clear.
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7 66 There was no sign about of picked bones, or of the work of scavengers.
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15 55 Each cylinder is marked with its quality, the name of its district, and the sign of that district's salt master.
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19 30 I found no sign of a beast.
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20 106 It gave no sign that it could understand me.
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24 889 On her left thigh, rather high, small and deep, was the sign of the four bosk horns.
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26 370 She looked about, from face to face, finding in them no sign of emotion, and then again she faced me.
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Book 11. (22 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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22 725 But on the flooded decks, as my men called out for me to return, I, to my fury, found no sign of her, no sign of the cringing, treacherous little slave slut from the Chatka and Curla in Telnus.
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1 134 It had been only less murky, less dismal, only a sign of what a world might be.
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2 721 If she is thusly placed it is commonly a sign she is in disfavor.
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4 425 He gave a sign.
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5 129 The sign of a man of Tharna is two yellow cords carried at the belt, suitable for the binding of the hands and feet of a female.
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5 218 I think she must have been aware of his presence but she gave no sign of this awareness.
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7 107 My master gave a sign and a man, from behind, lifting her feet, one by one, slipped her sandals from her.
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7 213 At a sign from my master the man who had been her guard freed her of the slave bracelets.
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7 385 She would then sign a document of enslavement which, after her signature was affixed, she would be powerless to alter or break, for she would then be only a slave.
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7 953 Once, in the early morning, when I had lain chained with the other girls, I awakened, but gave no sign that I had awakened.
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12 635 On the leaf, indented in, was a sign, and some tiny printing.
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12 636 "Do you know this sign?" asked the man.
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12 638 "It is the sign of Treve," he said.
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12 674 "It is with these devices," said the man, holding up the tiny leaf, with its wire, sign and printing, "that we of Treve, in our various ventures of raiding, mark our booty".
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13 27 On another ledger, one kept by one of Rask's men, this figure was also entered, with a sign following it, indicating him to whose private account the amount was to be credited, he who had taken me, Rask, the warrior of Treve.
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14 36 I stood beneath the sign of the Belled Collar, which swung above me, a large collar, from which hung bells.
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18 54 Strabo, the floor master, at a sign from Aurelion, the proprietor and master of the Chatka and Curla, hurried to the combative couple, thrusting them apart.
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18 117 In leaving the tavern the disguised slave girl, to cover her retreat, placed a discipline sign on the alcove occupied by the helpless free woman.
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22 716 No sign of a slave there! Others of her crew, and survivors, were in the water, making for Cosian vessels.
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22 717 No sign of a slave then in the water either did I detect.
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28 124 That was a good sign.
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29 234 "It is a sign that you are vigorous and sound, neither psychologically crippled nor diseased".
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Book 12. (20 results) Beasts of Gor

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3 137 An initiate in the lead carried a standard on which was mounted the sign of the Priest-Kings, a golden circle, that which has no beginning or end, the symbol of eternity, the symbol of Priest-Kings.
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3 360 "Done," said he, "Captain!" I signed his sheet with the sign of the bosk.
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9 153 If her tenure of authority were to be soon terminated there was as yet no sign of it.
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9 217 Too, a filling found in a tooth is usually a sign of an Earth girl.
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9 218 It is not an infallible sign, however, for not all Earth girls have fillings and some dental work is done upon occasion by the caste of physicians on Gorean girls.
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11 570 It was an excellent sign.
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12 5 At the left hip they bore the sign of the looped binding fiber, sewn in them with red-dyed sinew, which identified them as the garment of one who was an owned beast.
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12 19 Each, in its side, wore the sign of the looped binding fiber.
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12 43 At the left shoulder, prominently, it bore the sign of the looped binding fiber.
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12 416 I gave no sign of response.
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13 86 "That is a hopeful sign," I said.
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21 145 "Is this a sign that I am truly a slave?" she asked.
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27 197 Then its lips drew back, in the Kur's sign of anticipation, of pleasure, of amusement.
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27 205 "Surely it is a sign that we should turn back," said Poalu.
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27 207 "Do you not think it is a sign?" she asked.
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27 208 "I think it is a sign," he said.
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27 211 "Is it not a sign that we must turn back?" she asked.
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29 44 Its lips drew back from its fangs, a Kur's sign of amusement or pleasure.
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29 69 "Too, in the journey, from time to time, Imnak and I found sign, and occasionally even glimpsed this beast," I said, indicating the white Kur, "paralleling or following our trail".
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37 12 The lips drew back, exhibiting the Kur's fearful sign of pleasure.
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Book 13. (24 results) Explorers of Gor

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19 33 That, I took it, was his sign to his askaris that I was within the room, his sign to them that they were then to surround it.
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1 18 'Shu' is represented by a sign which seems clearly oriental in origin and 'Homan', I speculate, may derive from Cretan.
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1 336 Samos uttered the sign for the evening, and was answered by the countersign.
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4 583 The praetor made a small sign to one of the guardsmen.
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4 603 It had five palms on it, and the sign of Schendi, the shackle and scimitar.
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4 833 It had five palms on it, and the sign of Schendi, the shackle and scimitar.
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6 615 But our eyes were not yellowed nor was there sign of the broken pustules in our flesh.
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10 65 He had, too, pressed his thumb against the coin, on both sides, feeling the ship, and, on the reverse, the sign of Port Kar, its initials, in the same script that occurred on her Home Stone.
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12 570 "That is an excellent sign," he said.
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14 545 For example, if she is somewhat farther away, it is easier for her to display herself in all her beauty; if she wishes to wheedle for his caress she may approach quite closely; if she is receiving instructions she may kneel a few feet away; if she is begging to serve his pleasure she may kneel at hi...
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15 245 Such a sign would make identification simple".
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18 134 Shaba gave no sign that he recognized me.
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19 45 I saw no sign of Msaliti.
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19 53 Other lamps, too, at a sign from the ubar, were lit.
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20 82 The men behind us, at our sign, moved with us.
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23 31 She did not dare to give any sign that she recognized me.
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31 25 I made a sign and we advanced, Alice pulling the blond-haired barbarian forward, away from the men.
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32 581 A sign was given, by one of the men on the height of the platform.
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32 585 Another sign was given.
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32 710 I looked up at my master, piteously, searching his face for the least sign of kindness.
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32 740 He must have given a sign, perhaps raising his hand, for the wrist leashes, tight on my small wrists, no longer pulled me forward, but neither did they let me move an inch back.
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52 116 "What sign have you seen of Shaba?" inquired Bila Huruma.
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53 451 It was a sign of Kur triumph, or pleasure.
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57 264 She still wore a brief work tunic from the tavern, with the sign of the tavern, a flute, on its back.
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Book 14. (8 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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4 209 Then Lola, at a sign from the Lady Gina, struck me with the quirt.
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10 8 I saw a woman, stern and cruel, in black leather, with leather wristlets, sign a paper.
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11 685 She gave a sign and an attendant, at one side, struck a gong with a hammer.
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12 83 I was pleased though, breathing heavily, I gave no sign of this.
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13 342 I was surprised to see, though I gave no sign of this, that she had been looking at me.
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16 173 I saw no sign of the two men in brown.
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22 84 "I herewith publicly sign," said the Lady Melpomene, "this loan note, made out to the Lady Florence of Vonda, for the full sum of one thousand, four hundred and twenty tarns of gold".
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22 85 "And I," said the Lady Florence, "herewith publicly sign this draft, marked in the same amount, drawn on the bank of Reginald in Vonda, and properly certified, made out to Philebus of Venna".
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Book 15. (5 results) Rogue of Gor

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4 467 Indeed, this sort of thing is one of those things that Gorean boys look forward to as it is not only pleasant in itself, but is, in its way, a sign that they are now regarded as having grown up.
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6 84 They were being taken to one of the stout log warehouses, whose doors were marked with the Kajira sign, to be held for sale.
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6 99 On the way down to the river I passed four of the log warehouses whose doors were marked with the Kajira sign.
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20 11 There had been no sign of forced entry or struggle.
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23 159 I was relieved, though I gave little sign of it.
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Book 16. (5 results) Guardsman of Gor

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10 60 It had shown no sign of combat or damage.
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18 352 But I displayed to her no disapprobatory sign.
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20 121 "I regret only that I was not permitted to sign the treaty on behalf of Ar's Station".
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20 351 "Salt," I said, "can be a sign of life, and luck".
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20 1829 Many men thusly feel that to care for a slave is a sign of weakness, that such feelings are unworthy of them, are beneath them.
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Book 17. (78 results) Savages of Gor

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14 1029 "Such a woman may be designated as follows," he said, "by use of the sign woman, followed by the sign for the red savages, followed by a bondage sign".
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14 1121 The sign for the Yellow Knives had been the sign for knife, followed by the sign for fleer.
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14 980 "You will note, however, that the same finger, the index finger, is used in the sign, as in the sign for man.
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14 1019 "The same sign then," I said, "that sign, stands for both white woman and female slave?" "Yes," he said.
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15 233 He then made the sign for "all" and the sign for "good," in that order.
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15 241 The sign for past, incidentally, is also the sign for "before".
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15 242 The sign for "time," predictably, enters into the sign for "before," but, in this case, it is followed by the thrusting forth and drawing back of the right hand.
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1 860 This is presumably a favorable sign.
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1 895 "That he, earlier, during the day, saw sign of the medicine helper, but only in the dream interpreted it".
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1 1100 "Of course," said Kog, "but he has given no sign".
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1 1101 "No sign," I said, "which was read by the mounted hunters".
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4 19 "Too, he knows sign".
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4 20 "Sign?" I asked.
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4 25 Hand sign, I suspected, was the key to the capacity of the tribes to unite and protect their territories against outside encroachment, that and what they called the Memory.
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4 26 "Various traders, I suspect, know Hand Sign," I said.
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4 34 "Communication is largely conducted in Sign, then," I said.
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4 38 "If various traders know Sign and some, too, have some smattering of some of these languages, what makes Grunt so special? Why is it he alone who is permitted to venture so deeply into the Barrens?" "Perhaps the savages feel they have nothing more to gain from Grunt," laughed the young man.
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5 96 He can speak with Dust Legs, and knows sign".
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6 108 Why did you not sign articles with the troops who left this morning?" I did not respond to him.
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8 816 I saw the fellow in the broad-brimmed hat, behind Ginger and Evelyn, make a sign to the auctioneer.
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8 978 "Do you know any of the languages? Do you know even Sign?" he asked.
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11 82 I gave no sign that I understood the red-haired girl's question.
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12 224 At the least sign of refractoriness or insubordination on the part of either one of you, both will be slain.
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13 661 The collar, in its way, is a symbol of quality, a sign of merit, a mark of value, a badge of superiority, a lovely and distinguishing token of female excellence".
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13 968 "It is a good sign," I said.
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14 1 It is a Good Trading; Pimples; I Learn Something of the Waniyanpi; Corn Stalks; Sign; Grunt and I Will Proceed East The red-haired girl cried out in pain and fear, struck from her knees back in the grass by the plump, scornful woman of the red savages, a sturdy-legged matron of the Dust Legs.
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14 904 Grunt and the Fleer spoke largely in sign, this being easier for them than the attempt to communicate verbally.
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14 942 "Mostly," I said, "you spoke to Corn Stalks in sign".
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14 946 "To learn sign," he said, "would probably be more useful to you, all things considered, than learning a smattering of Dust Leg".
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14 947 "Teach me sign," I asked.
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14 950 Sign, as far as I know, is common to all the tribes of the Barrens".
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14 958 In four or five days you can learn most of what you would need of sign".
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14 959 "I would like to learn something of Dust Leg and Kaiila, and also sign," I said.
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14 974 "What is the sign for a red savage?" I asked.
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14 976 "The general sign for a man is this," he said.
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14 978 He then repeated the sign for the red savage.
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14 979 "I am not clear on the specific rationale for the sign for the savage," he said.
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14 982 Some think the sign for the red savage has a relation to the spreading of war paint.
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14 985 This is the sign for friend".
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14 991 "You have seen Dust Legs make that sign," he said.
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14 996 "That is the sign for a domestic sleen," he said.
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14 1016 "The second sign indicates bondage," he said.
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14 1018 "Yes," said Grunt, "but, more generally, it is another sign which may stand for any white woman, and is often used in this way".
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14 1031 He had illustrated his words with the sign.
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14 1035 He then made the sign for woman, followed by a downward striking motion, as though holding a switch.
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14 1036 "Sometimes, too," he said, "when the context is clear, this sign alone may be used".
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14 1055 Then one cuts a bite from the meat, to eat it, thus the sign for knife".
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14 1058 I had seen Corn Stalks make this sign in his talk with Grunt.
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14 1060 "It is the sign for the Kaiila," he said, "the Cutthroat Tribe".
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14 1062 "You may have seen this sign," said Grunt.
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14 1067 He repeated the sign.
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14 1071 "It is the sign for soldiers".
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14 1072 He then added to it the sign for riding, that of the kaiila in motion.
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14 1120 The sign for the Sleen tribe had been the same as that for the sleen, the resting of the middle fingers of the right hand on the right thumb, extending the index and little finger, this suggesting the animal's pointed snout and ears.
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14 1122 I later learned the sign for knife alone would suffice for this tribe.
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14 1123 In the compound sign fleer presumably occurs as a modifier in virtue of the bird's coloration.
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14 1124 Adjectives in sign commonly, though not always, follow the noun, so to speak.
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14 1129 The sign for Kailiauk, as I had expected, was to hold up three fingers, suggesting the trident of horns adorning the shaggy head of this large, short-tempered, small-eyed, lumbering ruminant.
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14 1143 I followed this with the sign for many, and then the signs for white man and white woman, and for soldiers, and kaiila soldiers, or cavalry.
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14 1145 "What is this sign?" I asked.
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14 1148 "It is the sign for fire," said Grunt.
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14 1150 "It preceded this sign," I said.
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14 1153 "This latter sign, as I recall," I said, "signifies wagons".
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14 1273 The two feathers may be a talisman, or a luck sign.
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14 1279 "It is easier to interpret sign, which can occasionally be difficult, than to interpret a story hide.
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15 56 This, too, is used by some tribes as a sign for friend.
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15 70 ' The fellow regarded us, not speaking, either verbally or in sign.
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15 236 "Thank you," was the meaning of this sign.
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15 239 The first portion of this sign means "time," and the second portion indicates, presumably, the forward movement of time.
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15 240 Literally this sign, in both its portions, indicates "future," but it is used also for "good-bye," the rationale being perhaps similar to that in locutions such as 'I'll be seeing you' or 'Until we meet again'.
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18 230 I knew they were looking for the least sign of anger or resistance.
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19 72 "The sign of the Urt Soldiers," said Grunt, "a society of the Yellow Knives".
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19 84 "The sign for the All Comrades," I said, "is the heart and lance".
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19 86 "They are sometimes known, too, from the sign, as the Fighting Hearts.
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19 151 I saw that he was not pleased, but he gave little sign of it.
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19 275 This, in sign, signifies "I," "Me," or "Mine," depending on the context.
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19 406 "It is only a sign of manhood.
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19 662 That a girl is wearing even a rag is usually a sign that she has pleased her master, and quite significantly, too.
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Book 18. (21 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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37 156 Then I discovered they were cursive Kefs, the common Kajira sign, sometimes called the staff and fronds, that sign which marks the thigh of so many enslaved Gorean beauties.
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1 194 Hci angrily gestured to the string of sleen claws about his neck, the sign of the Sleen Soldiers.
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1 456 Others might have welcomed it as a sign of bravery, a revelatory token of courage in close combat.
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2 108 The fact that necklaces, and such, are very common among Earth women is usually taken as a sign of their readiness for, and desire for, the collar.
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7 607 She can speak with them, other than in sign, which we cannot.
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11 49 There is, incidentally, no common, often-used sign for a captured male, comparable to that for the captured female.
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12 54 At the first sign of danger, such as the appearance of an enemy party, they were to bring the herds back to the village, sending one lad ahead to sound the alarm.
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23 87 I saw no sign of approaching Yellow Knives.
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23 142 "This sign, too," I said, "invariably indicates the presence of sexual pleasure in the human female".
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40 571 At a sign from Seibar Carrot and Cabbage lifted her to her feet.
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40 585 At a sign from Seibar they permitted her to fall to her knees.
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43 227 "I could, of course, hold a knife point at your throat," I said, "and at the slightest sign of trickery or refractoriness plunge it into your throat".
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43 437 There was no sign of Cuwignaka or Hci.
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44 639 "Do you see any sign of the beasts?" asked Cuwignaka.
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46 58 "Do you see any sign of the beasts?" I asked.
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50 34 Mahpiyasapa made a sign and Cuwignaka, at the very edge of the surface, released Bloketu.
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54 23 He, originally conversing in sign, had subsequently learned their language.
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54 27 Commonly Dust Legs and Fleer, when they meet in peace, communicate in the lingua franca of the plains, sign.
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54 210 This, in effect, was a mixture of sign and Gorean convention.
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54 211 Crossing the arms over the breast indicates love in sign.
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54 296 There I saw Seibar, who had once been Pumpkin, of the Waniyanpi, trading, in sign, with a Dust-Leg warrior.
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Book 19. (25 results) Kajira of Gor

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2 371 The man made a sign to his two assistants and they took the table and turned it, lengthwise, in the kitchen.
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4 18 "Let the churl be stripped," I had said, imperiously, "and a sign be put about his neck, proclaiming him a fraud.
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6 296 I was not a slave at his feet, half naked in a collar, fearful of his whip, piteously suing for the least sign of his favor.
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6 314 The unglazed back of the disk bears the date of the event or performance and a sign indicating the identity of the original vendor, the agent authorized to sell them to the public.
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12 82 "Is there any sign of the men of Cos?" I heard a man ask behind us, from the anteroom.
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13 65 She then, at a sign from Miles, led by the thong, in the grip of a soldier, hurrying, almost running, that she did not place the least stress on the device in her nose, was being conducted rapidly from the room.
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13 127 They lifted me up, then, at a sign from Miles of Argentum.
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13 160 At a sign from Miles of Argentum a soldier picked me up, lightly, in his arms.
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17 94 I wondered if it might have something to do with the fact that I was not branded, or collared, or if it had to do perhaps with the sign on the post.
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17 95 No one had told me what the sign said, and I could not read it, being illiterate in Gorean.
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17 242 "I wanted her to read the sign posted over my head," I said.
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17 266 "Why did you not tell me what the sign said?" I asked.
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17 298 He must not have seen me! "Let the churl be stripped," I had said, imperiously, "and a sign be put about his neck, proclaiming him a fraud.
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18 3 He glanced up at the sign over my head.
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18 176 "Can you read the sign that was posted over my head, please?" "Yes," said he.
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18 182 On the sign, it seemed, it had been presupposed that I was a slave.
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21 27 An additional reason for keeping to the road was that I thought, on the hard, wet surface, it might be more difficult to follow my sign, if sleen were later used.
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21 28 Also, of course, my sign would be confused, or I hoped it would, with that of other travelers.
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26 21 I went then, at a sign from Teela, after replacing the wine vessel on the serving table, to the side of the room, where I knelt down beside Emily.
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26 92 I did not have to wear the mill uniform, bearing the sign for the enterprises of Mintar, but wore, instead, usually, a light, white house tunic, similar to that often worn by tower slaves.
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28 185 At a sign from the coffle master, the larger of the two men, he who had not carried the loops of chain, we stepped forth with our left foot, as is common in beginning movement in a coffle.
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30 131 I saw no sign of the sleen or the crowd on Emerald.
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30 594 I tried to give no sign of this, but I was almost overwhelmed with relief and gratitude.
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33 270 "As the reports have it," said Miles, "you were marched naked from the city, before the spears of guards, a sign about your neck, proclaiming you a fraud".
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36 1359 Is it not a symbol, in a sense, of approval, a badge betokening excellence, a sign of coveted, discovered quality, an image or emblem of authentic approbation? She has been found worthy of being put in a collar.
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Book 20. (13 results) Players of Gor

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1 766 She searched his face fearfully, for the least sign of her fate.
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2 876 Interestingly enough, on Booth Seventeen, there was a sign pinned on the front of the booth, near the entrance curtain.
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2 1665 That is an excellent sign".
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3 169 "You and your fellows remain legally free, of course," she said, "though totally in my power, as complete captives, until a sign of bondage is burned into your pretty hides, or you are appropriately collared, or otherwise legally enslaved".
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6 1201 The Brigella, at a sign from Boots, knelt on the stage.
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10 343 There was no sign of the metal having been tampered with, for example, scratched about the lock, or marked on the bands, as though having been struck futilely with a stone.
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14 358 There was no sign of Nim Nim.
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14 467 This was the only concrete sign I had to suggest that there might be urt people traveling with the pack.
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19 175 There is no sign of a beast".
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19 176 "There is at least one sign," I said.
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20 300 "The pouch bears the sign of Belnar," said the man who had found the pouch.
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20 343 Too, the ears were not laid back, which is an almost invariable sign among Kurii of readiness to attack, of intent to do harm.
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21 108 The wood was not worn smooth and stained with the oil of fingers; the surface of the boards showed little sign of wear, or use, such as tiny scratches or even the subtle indications, the small rubbing marks, of polishings.
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Book 21. (16 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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3 420 This was the first sign I had had today, that there were truly soldiers ahead of us on the road.
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13 21 "There is a sign on its neck.
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15 784 He began to sign various documents.
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16 9 To be sure, if I wished to enter the presence of the first minister, or the high general, they might be of some use, but the letters for them, sealed with the sign of the silver tarn, might do as well.
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16 1142 About her neck hung a sign on which was written, "Free for Use".
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16 1541 On the outside surface of the horizontal beam, the side facing us, there were two hooks, over which there hung a sign.
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16 1543 This sign read, "I was not fully pleasing to my master of the night.
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24 47 "The tiny sign near the call rope," said Feiqa.
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24 198 "Is it not the same as the sign on your house?" asked Boabissia.
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24 203 "It is, however," he said, "what the sign was, some years ago, before its style was slightly changed".
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24 253 Surely the sign on the disk is meaningful to you.
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24 367 On it was a year number, one dating back twenty-two years, and two sets of numbers, separated by a span sign.
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25 521 My hostess made a sign and Lale was leashed.
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25 1236 Some girls thrive best with uncompromising barbarian masters who will put them on the oar or under the whip at the least sign of their being displeasing and others find that they did not truly understand helplessness and submission until they found their chain fastened to the couch ring of a gentlem...
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26 1375 He might have you sign a slave document, in the presence of witnesses.
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26 1378 He might merely have you utter a formula of enslavement, though, again, doubtless in the presence of witnesses, who might sign a paper certifying their witnessing of your declaration.
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Book 22. (7 results) Dancer of Gor

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3 639 "I am a virgin!" He made a sign and the chain was unwrapped from my ankles and the collar turned again on my neck.
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3 770 The fellow before me made a sign and Taurog removed his heel from my back.
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11 1591 I had then sunk back in a paroxysm of humiliation and embarrassment on the furs, overcome with shame, from my grotesque anti-sexual Earth conditioning, in which female merit is regarded as being threatened or diminished by any sign of truly deep sexual needs, or any evidence of intense, genuine inte...
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17 36 The "sign of the Priest-Kings," similarly, is made with a closed, circular motion.
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20 411 I saw the first of my master's men make the sign, the signal of designation.
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24 216 "Forgive me, Master!" The fellow before whom I knelt gave a sign and one of the men, a brawny fellow, lifted me up from the back, by the upper arms.
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30 218 Certainly he had given no sign of knowing me.
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Book 23. (15 results) Renegades of Gor

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1 622 In a flash of lightning, illuminated clearly for a moment, I could see, over the palisade, hanging from its chains, from the crosspiece on the high pole, swinging in the storm, the huge sign with its emblematic representation of a bird, that with the vulturelike neck and the distorted, grasping righ...
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6 235 "It resembles the sign within the palisade then," I said, "that which is visible for a pasang or so, down the road, the sign of the 'Crooked Tarn.
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1 15 Ahead, and on the plateau of the inn, I saw the large wooden sign, on its chains, jerked in the wind, striking about, pelted with rain.
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2 474 Perhaps in more normal times, perhaps even while they were still fully clothed, and veiled, they might have found eager fellows to make good their bills, perhaps at the first sign of distress, even the moistening of an eye.
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3 57 That agreed with the sign.
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3 122 "Your sign," I said.
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5 547 There was no sign now, at any rate, of the porridge in her hair, or about her face, neck, shoulders and breasts.
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8 23 The great sign, on its chains, hanging from the supported, horizontal beam on the huge pole was quiet now.
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9 431 I have removed one slave strip as a punishment, and a sign of my power over you.
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14 94 "It is a good sign," I said.
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14 95 "It is a very good sign".
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16 350 The condition of slavery does not require the collar, or the brand, or an anklet, bracelet or ring, or any such overt sign of bondage.
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21 132 Was she unaware of her slave curves? Could she not sense how she would look, vended naked from a block? Aemilianus made a small sign to Calliodorus.
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21 643 He made a small sign.
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24 62 Among them, with no special sign of her status, as being the preferred slave of Aemilianus himself, was Shirley, only one slave amongst others.
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Book 24. (15 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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1 1223 Everyone likely to see that sign, I gathered, would know who "Borton" was.
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1 1224 I was pleased to see the sign, as it confirmed that I was in the right place.
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1 1246 I did, before I left the tent, hang the slave beads I had shown the fellow outside over the nail in the tent pole to which Borton had attached his warning sign.
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3 62 But I had seen no sign of him.
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3 515 The leader made a small sign.
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13 9 He made a sign.
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13 111 There was no sign that the area had been recently occupied.
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14 125 Perhaps enough to leave sign, enough to lure Ar further westward.
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17 311 There was no sign of the men of Ar.
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24 127 A slave, of course, being a domestic animal, cannot sign papers, not in a legal sense, no more than a tarsk or sleen.
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29 119 I saw she understood the significance of the sign.
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29 151 This was, I suppose, the first time she had ever thought of herself in exactly that light, a woman being looked upon, who wore a Kajira sign.
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29 160 "As a rencer," he said, "you probably do not know the meaning of that sign".
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31 163 "There is no sign of others about," he said.
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42 64 He whom I thought I recognized recognized me, as well, though he then gave no sign of it.
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Book 25. (26 results) Magicians of Gor

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19 137 Also I did not detect, beneath her dampened tunic, any sign of the close-fitting apparatus, no sign of either its horizontal component, usually a bar or metal strap tightly encircling the waist, nor of its vertical component, usually hinged to the horizontal component in front and swung up, then, be...
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1 220 I could no longer see any sign of the fellow who had been in the room, the magistrates, or the guardsmen, with their shapely prisoner.
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3 346 One wore a sign that said, "I am for sale".
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3 388 The girl who wore the sign, "I am for sale," danced before us, as she had before others, displaying her master's proffered merchandise.
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3 410 I continued to watch the female, the sign about her neck, dance.
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3 415 Even as I considered the matter she received a sign from a fellow, her master, I suppose, and she tore open her silk, and danced even more plaintively before one fellow and then another.
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3 441 I saw that the girl with the sign about her neck had taken a leaf from the book of the blonde, and cunningly, too.
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3 694 That so many of them could even feel their pain was, I supposed, a hopeful sign.
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6 40 In defense I might point out that I can print Gorean fairly well, and can sign my name with a deftness which actually suggests to those who do not know better that I am fully literate in the language.
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6 78 "'If Ar desires peace, and would survive, if she desires peace, and would be freed of the onerous yoke of a tyrant, let her deliver to my plenipotentiary, Myron, polemarkos of the continental forces of the Cosian ubarate, some sign of her desire for peace, some evidence of her hope for reconciliatio...
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6 108 "Apparently she wants some sign of our desire for peace," said a fellow, looking up at the posting.
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8 167 I might also mention, in passing, if only to make the controversy concerning the "Aurobion marbles" more understandable, that many Gorean artists do not sign or otherwise identify their works.
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9 448 Talena made an angry sign and a guardsman withdrew his blade from its sheath.
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9 452 Talena made another sign, and the fellow who held Claudia's hair pulled her head up, that she might see Talena.
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10 125 The sign about his neck had that name on it, and also the word, "Traitor".
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11 179 I will sign anything, anything!" The room rang with the blows of the hammers.
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11 324 "This sign turns up frequently in the city, and more often from day to day," he said.
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11 354 If it had not been overtly intentional, consciously arranged, so to speak, it had surely been covertly so, unconsciously so, a pathetic sign manifested outwardly of a dawning sexuality and an innate need whose first powerful promptings were doubtless felt even now.
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12 350 On the lid of the chest he carved a delka, and then set the lid against the remains of the chest, that the sign might be prominently displayed.
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13 149 "This is a sign," he said, 'that the virility of the men of Ar is reviving".
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13 197 This, too, in its way, was a sign that manhood, or the suspicion of it, might be reasserting itself in the streets of Ar, that masters, or some of them at least, and perhaps many, would now no longer take for granted the safety of their girls in the streets.
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13 231 "A hopeful sign," said he, "if Ar, if only in her youths, should once again begin to look after herself".
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14 298 "You do not know the meaning of that sign?" I asked.
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16 60 "There is one hopeful sign here," said Marcus.
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25 20 There was no sign that either had been hastily removed.
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26 615 "I shall sign the papers," I said to Tolnar.
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Book 26. (25 results) Witness of Gor

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41 149 The sign, of course, had been the sign, or name, of the city, Ar.
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2 39 There was no sign of a place for the insertion of a key.
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7 94 "Do you recognize this sign?" he asked.
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7 96 "It is the sign of the city".
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7 111 But I could not! Would he not know that? Of course I could recognize that one sign.
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7 132 It would have been utterly improbable that that mark, or some equivalent sign, would not have been upon me, and most likely in that place.
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8 202 I wore it, in my body! It marked me! There was no mistaking that small, beautiful sign.
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8 878 I saw no further sign of it.
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10 354 The original signal and its response constituted the exchange of a sign and countersign.
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10 644 A panel was slid back, a sign and countersign exchanged, and the door opened.
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11 18 Perhaps he had received some sign from the dais to do so.
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19 245 The circle I would later learn was the sign of the Priest-Kings, the symbol of eternity, that without beginning or end.
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19 359 This circular gesture, it seems, reminiscent of the circle surmounting the staff, the symbol of eternity, was the "sign of the Priest-Kings".
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24 441 Again and again he had given the sign that had brought the sword down on a bared neck.
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24 623 A sign was given and one of the soldiers went down the wall, permitting what slaves were there to leap up and speed from the terrace, some through buildings, some over the bridge, others, crossing the terrace, to descend by the far steps.
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24 645 At a sign from the officer, the soldier released my hair.
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29 32 I did not doubt but what one set was papers of the court, stamped with the sign of the court, and certified with the signature of a praetor's officer, if not the praetor himself.
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29 242 But I must conduct my business! I must ransom the slut, Constanzia of Besnit! I must sign the letters of credit to the state of Treve to redeem her, rather than use them to negotiate for she who is to me beyond compare, who is to me above all others.
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29 973 I then, at a sign from the pit master, brought the free woman forward and, shortly thereafter, she flanked by the guards, I holding her leash, the pit master leading, we left the court of the commercial praetor.
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31 491 The officer from Treve observed this, and did not observe the sign that was given by the leader of the black-tunicked men.
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34 21 In the third case, the man had apparently not noted the small fanglike sign carved into the wall of the corridor, some two inches above the floor.
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37 798 There seemed no sign of the peasant.
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41 148 He had wanted to know if I could read a certain word, which I could not, and if I could recognize a certain sign.
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44 47 I gather he may have received some sign from the newcomer.
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46 145 "I love you!" "You gave no sign of this, Master," I said.
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Book 27. (19 results) Prize of Gor

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2 18 Too, if we are selected, or often are, at least in part, on the basis of our intelligence, one supposes that we would be more likely to be more alert, more sensitive, more inventive, more attentive than might otherwise be the case; we would be likely to be better, for example, one supposes, at readi...
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2 181 He looked at her with no sign of recognition.
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3 18 There was no sign of it.
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10 110 She looked at him, trying to read in his visage some glimmering of emotion, some small sign of his feelings.
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17 321 But still, even as she was congratulating herself on her success in achieving a pretense of inertness, on giving no outward sign of responsiveness, it was hard to forget the feel of the fellow's strong hands on her small, soft body.
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17 433 "The quarry, if recalcitrant, is killed and eaten, almost at the first sign of resistance".
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17 473 "You give every sign of one who is going to wriggle well, and so you would not be likely to be staked out unless you displeased your master".
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19 575 She could read no sign of emotion in that calm, large, still figure.
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19 652 As it was night tarn wire might have been strung but here there was no sign of it.
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20 297 It was not the sign of Cos, familiar to her from Ar.
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20 300 Cos, she thought, Cos! There was no sign of Tersius Major.
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21 234 Two more blows, at a sign from the subcaptain, were laid upon Fel Doron.
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22 119 There were some marks, scuffings, perhaps the sign of a struggle, near the overturned stool.
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22 684 A heavy, beastlike, musky odor came from the box, but she could detect no sign of life within it.
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26 972 Too, she knew that there was to be no sign of his pleasure found on his body in the morning.
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27 935 At a sign from the first rider, a fellow in the back suddenly cried out to the sleen, "Now!" Ellen screamed as the two gray bodies scrambled past her.
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27 1376 The collar soon comes to be viewed not as an emblem of degradation but as a badge of quality, a symbol of female excellence, which, to be sure, she cannot remove, a testimonial to her desirability, a sign that she has been found of interest to men, that she is a woman of the sort men want.
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27 2181 Do you understand?" They gave no obvious sign that they could comprehend speech, but from one, Kardok, it seemed there might have emanated some small, scarcely audible bestial sound, a half-heard growl, something which, if it were speech, could have been constituted by no more than two or three syll...
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27 3038 There was no sign of the sleenmaster, who, it seemed, had fled.
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Book 28. (17 results) Kur of Gor

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2 83 He would later learn that that movement of the mouth, the exposure of the fangs in that fashion, without the laying back of the ears, without the warning rumbling, was not a sign of hostility, at all.
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2 86 And is the human smile not, in its way, similar? Is it not a baring of the teeth, a way of saying, I could bite you, and tear you, but I will not, because I like you? Is it not in its way a threat behavior revoked, withdrawn, as a sign of good will, perhaps even affection? The long, dark tongue of t...
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2 384 It was a signal, doubtless, perhaps of warning, of alarm, perhaps a sign of urgency, perhaps a signal for recall, for regrouping or retreat.
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10 67 He was hunched down, and tense, which in the Kur is commonly a sign of hostility.
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29 24 "We have seen no sign of Lord Grendel," she said, "nor of Lady Bina".
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29 243 This trove of combustibles had been fetched earlier by the slave, while Cabot had investigated the beach, and prowled within the forest, discovering however no sign of Lord Grendel or the Lady Bina.
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43 70 She looked up at him, but he gave no sign he saw her.
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44 150 Cabot noted the other Kurii behind her, at this sign of rage, or displeasure, or whatever it might be, drew back, timidly.
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45 17 "It is another sign that you are not to be trusted.
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51 12 "There is no sign of a struggle," said Cabot.
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64 5 "If there should be any sign of enemy activity," had said Lord Grendel, "I am to be notified, immediately".
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72 10 Cabot detected no sign of chains or cages.
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72 13 What he had sought, something soft, in a collar, was clearly not here, nor any sign that it had been.
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72 14 Nor was there any sign of coffers, or sacks, which might have bulged with coin.
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74 55 Cestiphon's chosen sign for his females, the petal of a flower, was on the collar.
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79 168 Who but barbarians would poison their foods, pollute the air they breathed and the water they drank, would live lives of unhealthy deprivation and misery, would wrap their bodies in clumsy, malformed, constricting garments, would congratulate themselves on denying themselves the natural gratificatio...
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80 246 At a sign from Peisistratus, Corinna did so, as well, and the other slaves, even the Kur female slaves, did so, as well.
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Book 29. (20 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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6 21 I did not know the sign but it appeared here and there, each sign usually visible, some fifty yards or so, from the vantage point of the previous sign.
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5 570 '" The unfurling of a furled banner, in given circumstances, when this is accomplished deliberately, slowly, and ritualistically, is far more than a sign of war; it is a sign of unappeasable purpose, of unmitigated intent, of implacable resolution.
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5 1017 "The sign," said Torgus, "the sign".
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7 162 I examined the last sign, the one beyond which we noted no other sign.
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7 170 Each sign had been reasonably obvious from the vantage point of the preceding sign.
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3 718 It is a sign of favor with the master for a slave to be allowed to share the surface of the couch.
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5 79 "You have some token, some sign, some credential, or such, which might testify to your legitimacy here, something which might certify your authenticity?" "Certainly," he said, reaching within his tunic.
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5 84 The golden circle, incidentally, is taken as the sign of Priest-Kings.
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5 90 The blessings of Initiates are accompanied by the sign of Priest-Kings, a circular motion of the right hand.
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5 661 "If she is in Cos, Lurius will deliver her to Marlenus as a peace offering, as a sign of reconciliation and proposed amity".
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5 986 "I await the sign".
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5 990 "Give us the sign," said another.
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5 993 "The sign, I have," I said, "is 'Tarns aflight'".
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5 996 "That is not the sign I was to expect, nor to answer with my countersign".
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7 133 "There is the next sign," said Pertinax, pointing.
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7 155 I looked ahead, and some yards to the right, deeper into the reserve, where another sign, in its yellow, indicated our route.
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7 163 It was clear, and, as yet, showed no sign of fading.
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7 164 It seemed unlikely then that the next sign, if there had been one, would have become undetectable.
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9 215 The palms, then, so offered to the master, with their exposed, sweet, sensitive cupping, the backs of the hands down on the thighs, as though bound to them, as though not permitted to leave them without permission, present a sign not difficult to read.
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10 78 They were looking upon Cecily, but I saw no sign of envy, hostility, or jealously.
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Book 33. (1 results) Rebels of Gor

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60 116 "See the sign, the sign of the lotus!" "I am no avenger," said Nodachi.
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Book 34. (1 results) Plunder of Gor

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1 462 Too, how could I dare to appear before them, as I was? How could I explain my appearance, lightly gowned, my wrists in handcuffs? Would they take my plight seriously? Would they dismiss it, would they scorn me, with wise looks, would they find it amusing, no more than an embarrassing contretemps? An...
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Book 35. (2 results) Quarry of Gor

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3 535 My cage, and each of the others, as well, had a sign, each the same sign.
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33 365 I was standing! The water was only to my waist! I saw no sign of Bruno of Torcadino, and I saw no sign of the metal monster, so like an aquatic tharlarion.
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