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Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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12 30 Just as the tiny object, black against the blue sky, reached its apogee, I heard the click of the trigger, the vibration of the string, and the swift hiss of the quarrel.
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Book 2. (3 results) Outlaw of Gor

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8 43 If a sale had been made, the steward would take a number of pierced coins, threaded on a string hung about his left shoulder, hand them to the vendor, pick up his article and depart.
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12 27 Her hair, which was reddish brown, was bound behind her head with a coarse string.
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14 179 But I knew even as I cried out that I was not free, and I burned with shame that I had so bespoke myself, for how could I be free when others in that gray city were bound? There was the girl, warm-eyed Linna, who had been kind to me, whose auburn hair was knotted with coarse string, who wore the gra...
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Book 3. (4 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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27 41 His head was garlanded by a wreath of green leaves as had been that of Sarm, and also, like Sarm, there was about his neck, as well as his translator, the ceremonial string of tiny metal tools.
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27 149 Slowly the Priest-Kings began to circle one another in a ritual more ancient perhaps even than the Feast of Tola, a ritual perhaps older than even the days and objects celebrated by the string of metal tools that hung jangling about the neck of Sarm.
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27 170 Then, with a force that might have been that of clashing, golden glaciers, Misk's jaws tightened and turned and suddenly Sarm was thrown to his back beneath him and in the instant Sarm struck the floor Misk's jaws had slipped their grip to the thick tube about which hung the string of Tola's silveri...
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27 174 Though the translator which still hung about Sarm's neck with the string of silverish tools was not turned on I would not have needed it to interpret the desperate odor-signal emitted by the First Born.
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Book 4. (13 results) Nomads of Gor

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3 73 But no arrow was set to the string.
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7 21 Kutaituchik absently reached into a small golden box near his right knee and drew out a string of rolled kanda leaf.
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7 23 Kutaituchik, not taking his eyes off us, thrust one end of the green kanda string in the left side of his mouth and, very slowly, began to chew it.
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7 30 Now, from the right side of his mouth, thin, black and wet, there emerged the chewed string of kanda, a quarter of an inch at a time, slowly.
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7 33 Kamchak and I waited until the string had been chewed.
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9 370 I remembered that two years before, as I had learned, he had brought Aphris of Turia a five-string diamond necklace, which she had scorned, and had, according to her report at least, given to a slave.
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9 387 I then suspected that she had not actually given the five-string diamond necklace to a slave.
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10 10 At the head of our line, on a huge kaiila, rode Kutaituchik, his eyes closed, his head nodding, his body swaying with the stately movement of the animal, a half-chewed string of kanda dangling from his mouth.
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12 6 Even on my kaiila I was certain I could be outdistanced by numerous riders, each leading, in the Tuchuk fashion, a string of fresh mounts.
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12 506 He turned and ran, and I, drawing my sword, ran stumbling after him but in less than a moment or two I found my pursuit cut short by a string of tied kaiila being returned after having been released to hunt on the plains.
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12 508 All I received for my trouble were the angry shouts of the man leading the kaiila string.
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18 84 The crossbowmen were each winding their string tight for a new quarrel.
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21 350 Already I saw a Tuchuk with a dozen silver cups tied on a string to his saddle.
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Book 5. (12 results) Assassin of Gor

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5 6 When not barred it might be opened from the outside, if the latch string were thrust through the latch hole.
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5 8 I reminded myself to remember and put the latch string through when I left the room.
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5 9 The disadvantage of such a door, naturally, is that when no one is in the room and the latch string is out, anyone might enter, and either search the room or wait within.
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5 38 I was not altogether without an expedient, however, as, upon examination, I discovered that the door had, as well as the latch string hole, another small hole bored below the latch bar, doubtless put there by someone who had used the room before myself.
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5 46 "String," I said, "or cord, anything".
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5 56 "Then," she said, "you would have tied the latch bar down, so it could not be lifted with the latch string".
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15 225 In the beginning, when moving about the house, the girls had been permitted only the garb customarily worn in the sweat and motion of the training, a rectangle of silk, about a foot long, thrust into a silken string knotted about the waist; Virginia and Phyllis would not even leave their cells so cl...
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17 509 A bit of scarlet cord had been knotted about her waist, into which was thrust a long rectangle of red silk; her hair had been unbound; her wrists were braceleted behind her back; the key hung on a string about her neck; the slave bells were still locked on her left ankle, but her finery was gone; no...
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17 572 As she stood in the room I took the key on its string from about her neck and removed the bracelets.
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17 663 She tied the string at the neck, closing the high collar.
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19 112 Those with string instruments began to tune them; there was a czehar player, the group's leader, some kalika players, some flutists, players of the kaska, small drums, and others.
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22 513 The man was beating his tarn unmercifully with the tarn goad, the bone talisman on its string flying behind his neck.
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Book 6. (20 results) Raiders of Gor

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3 139 Then Ho-Hak took, from among the arrows on the mat, the leather bracer and fastened it about his left forearm, that the arm not be lacerated by the string, and took the small tab as well, putting the first and second fingers of his right hand through, that in drawing the string the flesh might not b...
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3 49 He had brown hair, and brown eyes; the hair, long, was tied behind his head with a string of rence cloth.
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3 118 "String it," said he to her.
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3 120 She seized the bow in her left hand and braced the bottom of it against the instep of her left foot, taking the hemp cord whipped with silk, the string, in her right hand.
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3 129 "String it," said Ho-Hak.
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3 134 Ho-Hak looked at it and then set it against the instep of his left foot, taking the bow in his left hand and the string in his right.
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8 12 Mixed in with the arrows were the leather tab, with its two openings for the right forefinger and the middle finger, and the leather bracer, to shield the left forearm from the flashing string.
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8 57 My feet were spread; my heels were aligned with the target; my feet and body stood at right angles to the target line; my head was sharply turned to my left; I drew the sheaf arrow to its pile, until the three half-feathers of the Vosk gull lay at my jawbone; I took breath and then held it, sighting...
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8 124 I picked up the bow and set to its string one of the ten remaining arrows.
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8 130 And then I heard one cry out "They are aboard! We are boarded! Fight!" Telima had poled us some thirty yards out into the marsh, and I stood there, arrow to string, in case any should bring another torch.
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8 198 I had Telima pole us back away from the barge and I stood regarding it, for some Ehn, the great bow quarter-drawn, arrow to string.
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8 230 I knew she could not string the bow.
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8 250 It was also possible that they had eventually realized that boarders were not among them or, if they had been, were no longer, but they did not wish to remain trapped in the marsh, to fall victim to thirst, or the string-flung arrows of the yellow bow.
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9 341 Clitus, too, had brought two bottles of Ka-la-na wine, a string of eels, cheese of the Verr, and a sack of red olives from the groves of Tyros.
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10 52 I smiled to myself, looking upon the bearded, dour countenance of the officer, his long hair tied behind his head with scarlet string.
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11 11 Then I saw Lysias, his hair tied behind his neck with the scarlet string, rise.
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13 164 He had long black hair, tied behind his neck with a scarlet string.
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18 612 As one their arrows leaped to the string, as one the great bows bent, and I saw Ho-Hak on the height of the wall bring down his arm with a cry, and I saw, like sheets of oblique rain, the torrent of gull-feathered shafts leap toward the keep.
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18 617 And now archers were running down the side walls, and leaping to other roofs, that every point at the foot of the keep might be within the assailing orbit of the string-flung missiles, and the girls, and the men, too, flung stones from the top of the keep down on the men trying to hide behind it, an...
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18 618 For an instant, white-faced, wild, I saw below Lysias, with his helmet with its crest of sleen hair, and beside him, with the string of pearls of the Vosk sorp about his forehead, the rencer Henrak, who had, long ago, betrayed the rencers for the gold of Port Kar.
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Book 7. (3 results) Captive of Gor

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8 796 Others faced one another, kneeling, and, with string and their fingers, played an intricate cat's-cradle game.
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8 965 It is attached to the bota by a leather string.
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12 122 Some carried heavy baskets of fruits and nuts on their shoulders, or strings of gourds; others bore wicker hampers of flowers, or carried brightly plumaged forest birds, tied by string to their wrists.
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Book 8. (11 results) Hunters of Gor

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5 82 I saw one of them, the fellow who had first seized her, read the note tied on its string about her neck.
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5 86 The note, on its string, was no longer about her neck.
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5 179 It contained a very cheap, but very lovely, necklace of tiny shells, threaded on a string of leather.
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7 158 At the hemp string, whipped with silk, was a temwood arrow, piled with steel, fletched with the feathers of the Vosk gull.
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7 187 I carefully fitted the black, steel-piled temwood shaft to the string.
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8 246 I found a black temwood arrow, a sheaf arrow, and fitted it unsteadily to the string of the great bow, the yellow bow, from the wine trees of Gor.
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8 251 The arrow fell from the string.
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9 15 She wore ornaments of gold, an armlet, and anklet, a long string of tiny, pierced, golden cylinders looped four times about her neck.
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12 201 I set the arrow to the string.
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14 13 Bending over I found a string of cheap beads, formed from the shell of the vosk sorp, broken.
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22 799 "She had a bow," I said, "with an arrow to the string.
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Book 9. (5 results) Marauders of Gor

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3 330 Eight held bows, with arrows at the string; none had dared to approach the ship; the short bow of the Gorean north, with its short, heavy arrows, heavily headed, lacks the range and power of the peasant bow of the south, that now, too, the property of the rencers of the delta, but, at short range, w...
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3 363 Eight bows were trained on me; eight arrows lay ready at the taut string.
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8 35 It was tied with golden string.
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8 130 Ivar tore the golden string from her hair, loosening it.
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17 232 Swords were withdrawn from scabbards; arrows were fitted to the string, spears more firmly gripped.
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Book 10. (10 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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2 366 He spins the wood with bow and string, held in his right hand.
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4 35 "Yes, Master," she said, and, holding the veil with one hand, groped on the cushion for the tiny golden string with which she might fasten it upon her.
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4 531 The girl, fingers behind the back of her head, at the golden string, lowered her veil.
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4 532 Her body had lifted beautifully when her hands had sought the string behind her head.
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5 346 As she knelt on her hands and knees in the gravel, looking up, terrified, a warrior, behind her, on kaiila, thrust the tip of his lance beneath her veil, between the side of her head and the tiny golden string, and, lifting the lance, ripped the veil from her, face-stripping her.
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14 199 These hoods, used on the march to Klima, have a tiny flap, closed and tied with a leather string, at the mouth, through which, several times during the day, opened, the spike of a water bag, carried by kaiila, is thrust.
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21 385 With a bit of leather string, from the wrappings on my feet, I tied it about my neck.
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23 4 I moved the kaiila, with the string of pack animals, over the crest of the hill.
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23 158 About my neck, on a leather string, I wore the ring of the Kur, it containing the light-diversion device.
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24 25 I fingered the ring of the Kurii, which hung about my neck on its leather string.
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Book 11. (9 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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4 354 Then, with her finger, moving them on their string, she indicated the tiny, colored wooden beads.
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4 362 I took from the chest a string of pearls, then one of pieces of gold, then one of rubies.
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4 389 Of what importance could be a string of slave beads? Why might they have been put on me in the first place? And where, if they had been put on me, had they gone? Who would want them? And why should men come through a wilderness to obtain them? What could be their importance? What could be their secr...
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6 102 Most slave girls wear their hair long and loose, though sometimes it is held back with a headband or tied behind the head with a string or ribbon, in a ponytail.
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6 138 It was now unstrung, but the string, of hemp, whipped with silk, lay ready, looped loose upon the broad, curved yellow wood.
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8 29 They responded to a key, slung on the string about the neck of Thurnus.
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10 123 He held up a string of slave beads.
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10 138 Too, once I had had a strange dream that dealt with slave beads, a meaningless dream I had not understood, in which I had been asked, strangely, to string such beads.
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22 444 To be sure, there are other collars which might be removed, if given the master's permission, sometimes a leather string, for example, or a bit of ribbon.
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Book 12. (16 results) Beasts of Gor

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35 639 I looped the intimacy veil about the back of her neck and crossed it above her breasts and drew it to the sides, over her breasts, and then took both lengths around her body and behind her back, again crossing them, then looping them about the sandal string tight on her waist; I then took the two lo...
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3 1319 A string was knotted about her waist.
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3 1320 Over this string, in the front, there was thrust a single, simple narrow rectangle of vulgar, white rep-cloth, some six inches in width, some twelve inches in length.
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9 168 The two girls now, however, wore fur wrapped on their feet, tied with hide string, and brief fur tunics.
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9 169 The hair of each was tied behind her head with a red string.
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11 346 I fitted an arrow, of black tem-wood, with a pile point, to the string of the yellow bow.
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11 347 The string was of hemp, whipped with silk.
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12 273 Imnak sometimes did give Thimble and Thistle a pretty string or ribbon, usually red or yellow, to tie back their hair, but often he did not; he did with them what he pleased, and they did for him what they were told.
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12 274 He usually gave them the string or ribbon when he took them out with him, as a way of showing them off.
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13 2 I followed Imnak's example, crawling on my belly, after him, the horn bow in my hand, an arrow loose at the string.
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35 632 A sandal string is more than sufficient to hold a female.
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35 633 The other sandal string I tied snugly about her belly.
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35 645 "Note the slip knot on the sandal string," I said.
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35 646 "The string may be removed by a simple tug".
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35 745 Her small wrists twisted futilely behind her in the encircling, knotted sandal string, that simple device which constituted her bond.
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35 1088 Karjuk stood near the entranceway, his strung bow of layered horn in his hand, an arrow at the string.
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Book 13. (11 results) Explorers of Gor

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19 62 Each of these, startlingly, had tied to it a thin string.
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19 130 He held the last of the osts on its string, suspended, about five feet from the floor of the pit.
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19 134 I saw the small ost, red with its black stripes, on its string, near my face.
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19 139 The snake twisted on the string.
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32 1075 "Master," she asked, pointing, "may I also have that string of beads".
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32 1078 I handed her the second string of beads and put the others back in the sack.
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32 1079 She had already put the first string, that of red and black beads, about her throat.
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32 1081 The second string of beads was blue and yellow.
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32 1083 "Master," she asked, holding out to me the blue and yellow beads, "would you not, please, put this string upon me?" "Very well," I said, standing behind her, looping them twice, one loop smaller than the other, about her throat.
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32 1085 "Why did you want this string?" I asked.
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57 47 About my neck, on a leather string, inside my tunic, I wore the Tahari ring.
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Book 14. (6 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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11 300 "Where is the clothing?" She went to the side of the room and picked up a bag, fastened with a drawstring, the knot on the string sealed with a wax plate, the plate bearing the imprint of a stamp.
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13 749 I slipped, unnoticed by the man in the palanquin and his servants, behind the blond-haired girl, she who had told me she had once been free, who was the last in the right-hand coffle, that lovely string of chained women.
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16 183 About my neck, on a leather string, was tied a small sack.
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16 289 I again put down my head and he put the sack, on its leather string, about my neck.
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19 7 Too, it is similar to the loosened arrow, which has its greatest swiftness, and maximum striking power, immediately after being sprung from the string, immediately after leaving the bow.
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19 321 "Put a string on this and put it in the sack," he said to Barus.
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Book 15. (4 results) Rogue of Gor

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6 83 I stepped aside as a string of chained girls, stripped to the waist, was herded past me.
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7 55 I stepped aside as a string of eight peasants, with bundles of Sa-Tarna grain on their shoulders, made their way toward the wharves.
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8 147 "Paga!" A blond girl, nude, with a string of pearls wound about her steel collar, ran to the table and, from the bronze vessel, on its strap, about her shoulder, poured paga into the goblet before the seated man.
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14 71 I put it in my sack, with its two keys, tied to it with a string.
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Book 16. (5 results) Guardsman of Gor

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4 147 He set an arrow to the string of a short ship's bow.
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4 265 Another fellow, near me, lifted his bow, an arrow fitted to the string.
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4 266 He bent the bow, drawing the string back, the arrow at a sharp angle.
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4 267 Then he relaxed the bow, but did not remove the shaft from the string.
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21 523 "Perhaps a nose ring would be nice, with a dangling leading string".
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Book 17. (15 results) Savages of Gor

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1 715 It was very light in color, almost white, and tied with string.
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1 1053 This conserves the resilience of the wood and the tightness and strength of the sinew string.
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1 1056 One he fits to the string.
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1 1059 "The man, on his snowshoes, descends the slope between himself and his enemies," said Kog, "his arrow to the string".
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3 32 There was often too little work for them to thrive in a given town but an ample employment for their services and goods in a string of such towns.
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7 53 It was belted upon her with a doubly looped, tightly knotted rawhide string.
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7 54 Such a string is more than sufficient, in its length, and in its strength and toughness, to tie a woman in a number of ways.
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7 60 They usually use high, beaded collars, tied together in the front by a rawhide string.
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8 176 About her throat was a single string of pearls, doubtless simulated, or they would have been removed from her by her first captors.
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8 201 He then resheathed his dagger and, extending his hand, locked his fingers about the string of pearls on the girl's throat.
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8 206 "Doubtless some Master will soon find something more suitable with which to enclose that lovely neck than a string of pearls," he speculated.
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8 1049 I myself tended to prefer, on the whole, long, loose hair on a slave, tied back, if at all, with a headband or, behind the head, with a cloth or string.
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17 457 "Better to be stripped and have a string of hide tied on one's neck!" said the girl, angrily.
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17 458 A mere string of hide may serve, of course, as a slave collar.
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17 465 It could be as simple as a narrow roll of knotted scarlet silk, or white, if the slave is at that time a virgin, or a piece of string or cord, or strip of leather, tied shut, perhaps looped six times about the throat, each time for one of the letters in the word 'Kajira', the most common expression ...
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Book 18. (37 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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24 12 Needless to say the arrow may be moved much more swiftly from the bow hand or the mouth to the string than from the quiver to the string.
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40 43 She wore a brief halter of Waniyanpi cloth which, by design, did little to conceal the beauty of her breasts; about her waist a string was tied; two pieces of Waniyanpi cloth, about a foot wide and two feet long, were thrust over and behind the string, one in front and one in back; these two pieces ...
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1 124 About his neck was a string of sleen claws.
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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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2 137 It could always be replaced with a rawhide string looped six times about her throat and tied, or even once about her throat, and then tied.
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2 321 Her braided hair, glossy and long, was bound with silver string.
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3 14 It was tied with golden string.
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7 613 In sewing, commonly, among the red savages, a roll of rawhide string is held balled in the mouth, and played out, bit by bit.
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7 614 The warmth and saliva in the mouth keeps the string moist and pliable.
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7 618 With the ball of hide string in the mouth, of course, it is difficult to speak.
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12 195 "Sometimes we deliver a string of five or six into the camp for that purpose," said the first lad.
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12 196 "Does this wench," I asked, indicating the girl on my tether, "often occupy a place in such a string?" "No," laughed one of the lads.
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12 698 I must then be hobbled and, a rope on my neck, my hands tied behind me, be picketed with my string.
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15 5 One held a string of twenty kaiila.
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15 104 He then, firmly, took the lead rope of the kaiila string from the Sleen Soldier who held it.
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15 150 "And the kaiila are yours," smiled Canka, handing the lead rope of the kaiila string to one of the Sleen Soldiers with Hci.
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15 181 He was followed by his fellows of the Sleen Soldiers, the lead rope of the kaiila string in the hands of one of them.
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18 228 This is done with a dampened rawhide string, dipped in sand, and drawn again and again, patiently, across the stone.
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18 232 "Today," said the man, drawing the rawhide string across the stone, "Mahpiyasapa is in sorrow.
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18 236 "I think it is because Canka tried to kill him," said the man, watching the movement of the string.
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18 243 "Interesting," he said, dipping the string again in water, and then in sand.
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18 253 "Is it your understanding that Wopeton accompanied Mahpiyasapa?" "That is what I think," said the man, drawing the wet string, sand adhering to it, firmly and slowly, carefully, across the stone.
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22 46 I took two arrows in my hand, with the bow, and set another to the string.
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22 131 Nearby, in the dirt, its tying string cut away, lay a leather, beaded collar.
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23 6 It must be made swiftly enough for the carrying force of the small bow not to be dissipated; it must be made from a distance sufficient, given the spacing of the riders and the sound of the kaiila's paws, to cover the sound of the string.
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23 7 I then fitted another arrow to the string.
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24 9 I fitted another arrow to the string.
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24 11 In the warfare of the red savages the first feed is usually from the bow hand or from the mouth to the string; the second feed is from the quiver to the hand or the mouth.
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29 143 Some five warriors, of the Napoktan Kaiila, each drawing a string of kaiila, pulled up near us.
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33 11 Beneath the canopy, one with a string of pans and cups tied together, the other with a wooden spoon and a flat, metal pan, were two Waniyanpi women.
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33 16 She who had first seen us then put down her string of pans and cups and, hastily, descended from the platform.
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42 81 I put one arrow to the string.
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47 229 As soon as I had entered the clouds I whipped out my small bow and put an arrow to the string, and held two in the bow hand, and, reseizing the reins, brought the tarn about, and yet it seemed it needed no guidance.
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47 273 I fitted an arrow to the string of my bow.
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47 378 I fitted an arrow to the string of my bow.
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47 454 An arrow was fitted to the string.
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47 466 It leapt from the string, speeding toward the naked, roped beauty.
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Book 19. (12 results) Kajira of Gor

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3 719 Then I saw him take a string from about his neck.
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3 720 On this string there was a tiny key.
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3 724 He stood there then, looking down at me, the anklet, string and key in his hand.
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6 177 Each was being drawn by two strings of harnessed male slaves, about twenty slaves in each string.
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6 311 These were apparently originally shells or pieces, shards, of pottery, but now were generally small clay disks, with a hole for a string near one edge.
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12 13 The wagon seemed to be drawn by two strings of male slaves, twenty in each string, as is common.
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22 68 "She doesn't even have a string on her belly," said another.
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26 34 On our left ankles we each wore a tied string of slave bells.
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31 670 He showed me a key, on a string.
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31 671 He slung the string over my head and, by it, hung the key about my neck.
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31 682 Sometimes a girl, particularly a new girl, must strive for days to earn even a narrow strip of cloth and a piece of string.
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31 743 The key about my neck, on its string, made a small sound as it struck the wood.
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Book 20. (10 results) Players of Gor

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2 1678 Another way of wearing such a garment is to use the string as a belt and put the garment over the string in front, and take it down between the legs, and then pull it up, snugly, under and over the string in the back.
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10 899 Folded, in its length, held in place by a knotted string, it would make an excellent slave strip, tucked over the string in front, drawn back and behind, and put over the string in the back, the whole then being yanked snugly tight.
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2 218 I removed my hands from the string, but held her in place, facing away from me, by the waist.
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2 1501 My hands were at the string holding the cloth about her hips.
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2 1504 I undid the string.
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2 1676 It was about a foot in width and five feet in length, and could be secured with its string.
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2 1681 In such an arrangement the apparent security of a nether closure is a sham, of course, for the string is fastened with a slip knot at the left hip, convenient for a right-handed man, who may then strip the woman, commonly a slave, utterly, with as little as a casual, insolent tug.
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7 216 "Are you pleased with your buy?" I asked Boots later, when we were leaving the market, the girl following behind us, heeling us, her wrists tied behind her back with a string.
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12 491 It had been recorded in the ordering of a string of slave beads.
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12 761 Many other girls learn swiftly to be grateful for as little as a strip of cloth suspended from a knotted string about their waist.
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Book 21. (9 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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3 344 I looked at the string of wagons ahead.
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16 25 This was attached to the collar by a small, closed-loop string.
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16 1432 He had a mustache, like string, and narrow eyes.
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16 1480 The small fellow with the narrow eyes and the mustache like string was ahead of us.
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16 1847 I noticed the small fellow with narrow eyes, he with the mustache like string, nearby.
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17 14 "Does one need papers?" the small fellow with the mustache like string was asking the soldier.
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19 404 From the upper lip, on either side, the two ends of the mustache dangled back, as the head hung, on the sides of the neck, like two pieces of oiled string.
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24 322 He put to one side, taking it from a shallow pocket within the book's cover, a punched copper disk, on a string, rather the size of that which Boabissia had worn, and put it next to Boabissia's.
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25 811 They then untied me, but only to string me up by the ankles to a tree branch.
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Book 22. (8 results) Dancer of Gor

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20 81 I did have an errand capsule, a capped, narrow leather cylinder, such as may be used for carrying notes, messages, and such, on a string about my neck, the string over my collar.
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24 36 About my neck, on a long string, threaded through the handle, hung a metal cup.
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24 163 I removed the metal cup on its string from about my neck.
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24 554 I arose with difficulty and retrieved the cup, on its string, which I put about my neck.
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24 601 You should wear a string of silk and be kissing and licking at a man's feet".
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24 820 I carried a metal cup on a string about my neck, and the water bag, on its strap, over my shoulder.
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25 215 He had taken advantage of me, even warning me to silence! Was it not my master's fault, for letting me go out of the tent in what was little more, in effect, than a collar and a G-string? To be sure, I did yield well, but what was I to have done? What did Aulus expect? I was a slave! Surely in his o...
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29 939 Its head was loose on its shoulders, almost like a toy on a string.
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Book 23. (3 results) Renegades of Gor

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5 617 From her mouth, on its looped string, dangled the small, closed, hinged, wooden, waxed tablet which would contain the bill.
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5 621 There was a small sound as the small wooden tablet, on its string, touched the floor near the table, as the Lady Temione put down her head, doing obeisance.
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15 332 The veil was fastened with a string and Lady Claudia, with two hands, lifted it gently from the head of our prisoner.
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Book 24. (13 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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18 94 Too, the key was kept on a string, with a tiny wooden float.
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18 138 He pulled the key, on its string, out of the tunic.
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18 151 "It seems to me a trade to your advantage," I said, "a bit of metal, on a string, for your fellow".
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18 172 He drew the key, on its string, from about his neck.
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18 223 He had, I supposed, been trying to cut the string.
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18 233 I turned about and saw the float and its string lifted on the back of the shark, resting on it, then sliding back into the water.
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18 234 I clutched the string.
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18 236 The key was still on the string.
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39 279 The key to the shackles, on a string, was on the same peg from which I had removed the shackles.
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39 288 The key to the collar and the lock ring, it responding to the same key, was, like the shackles' key, on a string, suspended from the same peg from which I had removed the restraining device.
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47 200 "The gold," said Octantius, angrily, lifting a pouch, on its string, from within his tunic, "is here!" "Aii!" cried more than one man, pleased.
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47 212 He slipped the gold, on the strung pouch, the string about his neck, back in his tunic.
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47 277 "Why did you not stay in the camp? How were we supposed to know where to find you?" He was tearing open the tunic of Octantius, and then he jerked the gold, on its string, from Octantius' neck.
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Book 25. (1 results) Magicians of Gor

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9 845 "The beads are on the string," said the second fellow, he who was checking the security of the chain.
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Book 26. (21 results) Witness of Gor

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7 591 It was tied shut with a tiny string, the ends of which are loose, that they might, with a casual tug, be freed, the vest then ready to be slipped away, to the back.
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7 1123 Was there such a difference between us? Was she so loftily garbed? Was she not in her way almost as naked as I? Was there truly so much more to her attire than mine, other than the necklaces, and the jewelry, the earrings, and such, richer than mine? Was there so much, for example, to the silk she w...
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11 588 Looped about it was a string, on which there were two tiny keys.
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11 600 She then hurried back to the dais and the man in the chair opened the collar and slipped off the keys and string.
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11 1652 The leather worker put his tiny kit of tools down beside me, and, undoing a string, opened it, and spread it out.
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13 472 Not even a string had been given to her to dress it.
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13 1279 In time the beast, the monster, closed the scroll, tying it shut with a string.
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14 292 I had the key to the cell on a string.
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14 1035 "I love it!" "Perhaps," I said, somewhat maliciously, "the next time, if the pit master permits us a repetition of this adventure, I will march you through the streets as a bare-breasted slave, permitted only a string and slave strip".
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15 167 "But with respect to her duties here, in connection with this prisoner," said the leader, "she is to be bare-breasted, and is to be given, at most, a string and slave strip".
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16 626 "In a string and slave strip, if that".
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17 37 "It is one thing," said the pit master, "to appear bare-breasted, in a string and slave strip, before guards, before soldiers, before free men, serving their feasts, crawling at their feet, licking their thighs, dancing before them, and quite another before a prisoner.
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18 145 Men in this city, whatever city it was, whereas they might have regarded our tunics as "appealing," would certainly not have regarded them as scandalous; if anything, for this city, they might have seemed a bit decorous; indeed, many men in this city, I had noted, seemed to enjoy displaying their sl...
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24 724 Other paraphernalia may also be included, depending on the scribe, string, ostraka, wire, coins, even a lunch.
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31 140 The keys are here! They are on a cord, about his neck!" The leader of the helmeted men reached inside the tunic of the pit master and pulled forth keys, on a string.
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31 141 He broke the string, jerking it against the back of the neck of the pit master, freeing it.
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37 44 It was sealed, and the seal, with its dangling string, had not been broken.
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38 24 The sack was then closed, and was later sealed, with a wax disk and string.
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42 103 But could they not, if this were their intent, strangle me first, utilizing some convenient string or cord, or smother me with a blanket or cushion, one easily found, perhaps one almost at hand, or even enter a blade swiftly, mercifully, into my heart? Surely that would not be difficult.
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43 54 She was in her silks, again, the sleeveless, silken scarlet vest, tied shut with a mere string, and the belly silk, scarlet, too, in the Harfaxian drape, fastened at the left hip with a golden clasp.
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43 94 Frenziedly Aynur fumbled with the string at her vest, at last jerking the vest open and slipping it back.
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Book 27. (10 results) Prize of Gor

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12 53 How different it was from the small tunics, the camisks, common and Turian, the scandalous ta-teeras, or slave rags, the slave strips, little more than a shred of cloth and a string, so frequently allotted to slaves, assuming that they were permitted clothing.
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14 60 The key to the bracelets was on a tiny string looped about her collar, not that this did Ellen any good.
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14 77 Sometimes no more than a string, nose-ring and thumb cuffs are used.
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18 453 Then from his pouch he drew forth a small message capsule, about a half inch in width and two and a half inches in length, with its screw lid and the loop of string by means of which it might be looped about, or tied to, a slave's collar.
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19 481 Tersius Major would come third, with the third basket, but, from his tarn's harness, a long line extended to the fourth tarn and basket, and from the harness of that tarn, with its basket, there ran another line to the fifth tarn, and so, too, to the sixth and seventh tarn, this forming a string of ...
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26 65 Then they were tied behind her back, it seemed with some loops of a leather string.
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26 427 "Yes, Master," she said, pulling at the tight loops of leather string that bound her wrists, hot and sweating, the one to the other.
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26 429 "Assuredly, Master," she said, "front-braceleted!" She felt his fingers forcibly widen a space between the loops of leather string that held her wrists behind her.
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26 432 And only then were the loops of leather string removed from her sweating wrists, only after her wrists had been securely enclosed in slave bracelets.
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26 443 Although he had not seen fit, in the master's prerogative, to accede to her request for front-braceleting, she was nonetheless grateful for her braceleting, for the encircling metal wristlets were far more comfortable than the tight loops of leather string had been.
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Book 28. (20 results) Kur of Gor

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21 330 "A string of coins against a string of rubies seems a strange wager," smiled Cabot.
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35 17 The string for this launching device, or bow, the string from which the missile, the arrow, is flighted, was easily obtained from remnants of the raft's rope, parted, unraveled, and rewoven, those remnants by means of which Cabot and the slave had been enabled to survive the storm, by means of which...
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20 133 From hunters who pursued me I learned they were contemplating feasting on her, and had left her secured, that her meat be fresh, fastened to a tree near the shuttle port, her arms braceleted behind her, the key to the bracelets on a string about her neck".
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21 323 "I will wager a string of coins," said Peisistratus, "on the challengers".
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35 18 On Gor the string for the launching device is commonly encircled, bound and smoothed, being whipped with silk, this reducing fraying and wear, but Cabot, lacking this luxury, had prepared a number of strings, replaceable as needed.
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35 24 Kurii, as is well known, are fond of ornaments, and not unoften string their bodies with them.
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35 27 In virtue of this hole, you see, the pendants might have been strung on a string or cord, for looping about the neck, or wrists, of their wearers.
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36 9 "Lita," called Cabot, "fling the garland!" Lita removed the garland from her hair and tossed it away from her, and scarcely had it left her hand than the string of the bow of Lord Grendel leaped forward, and then vibrated with that sudden, intense purr, the bow's music, signaling a flight.
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36 20 It requires great strength even to string the bow, let alone to draw it and fire the projectile.
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36 111 They can treasure simple things, too, a ribbon, a bangle, a bracelet, a string of colorful glass or wooden beads.
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36 194 "I will put it on a string, about my neck".
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38 2 Cabot had an arrow to the string.
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39 91 He put another arrow to the string.
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41 13 He bent his bow, and set an arrow to the string.
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47 108 He took the bow from Statius, and the quiver, and grasped four arrows and the bow in his left hand, and set an arrow to the string.
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47 121 Cabot heard the clawed feet of a purple scarf touch the ledge, and then, rather as the two leaves of a mighty gate might swing open, outwardly, the left wing of Lord Grendel, and the right wing of Lord Statius, swung toward their bodies, and Cabot released the first shaft, point-blank, through the c...
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55 226 Cabot then, bow strung, an arrow to the string, a quiver at his hip, laden with the birds of death, emerged from the forest.
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67 77 He had feared to string the bow for days, for fear it would snap in the cold.
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73 21 Once Cabot had worn it about his neck on a string, and he had given it to Mitonicus who, later, had returned it to Lord Arcesilaus, who had been the early champion of the revolution, and the chief conspirator who had brought it to its beginning, before he had been betrayed to Agamemnon by a shapely ...
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74 87 On a nearby post hung a damp, bulging bag, and, on a nail driven into the same post, on a small string, hung a small metal cup.
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Book 29. (13 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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5 94 "Anyone," I said, "might fix a ring of gold on a leather string".
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5 98 I was not interested in the ring, of course, but the leather string, for leather can absorb certain substances, such as oil, or the exudates of a communicative organ.
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5 104 The string, in which I was primarily interested, was bunched in my hand, close to the ring, and I took its scent.
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5 109 It was lighter now, and I examined the string, visibly.
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5 111 "The string is soiled," I said.
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5 234 "If I accept an office anew from Priest-Kings, they will doubtless provide a new signature string, with the appropriate scent".
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5 235 "Thus you would clean the soiled string?" "Yes," he said.
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5 253 Certainly I had no idea what might have been the message of the string.
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5 413 Sometimes such properties, so linked, are spoken of as a "slaver's necklace," pretty beads, so to speak, on a common string.
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6 36 This morning, to her consternation, I had fashioned a hood for Constantina, from opaque cloth, which artifact, once it was well on her, and completely enclosing her head, I fastened in place with some string about her throat.
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16 67 I gave the signal for putting arrows to the string, and drew my tarn up, over the cavalry, to better observe the outcome of the exercise.
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19 275 Arrows are to remain at the string.
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22 503 Sometimes a slave must perform well, even to be granted a string and slave strip.
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Book 30. (8 results) Mariners of Gor

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26 48 One threads one or more such coins on a string, the string fastened about the bottom and top coin, or loops a string through several coins, and ties the loop shut above the top coin.
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3 431 When I reached the vestibule I was horrified to see a number of slaves, doubtless from the lower floors, mostly tower slaves and sandal slaves, naked and on all fours, fastened together, like beads on a string, by a single long rope, successively tied and knotted about the neck of each.
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15 129 Would it not embarrass the city to publicly expose so abominable and craven a wretch upon her lofty walls? Surely better the bow string in the darkness of a prison's cellar.
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21 651 There, suspended by their neck buckles, placed over hooks, were several slave hoods, each with a small padlock and key, the padlock about the buckle, the key on a string, dangling from the lock.
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37 780 In some dwellings, of a somewhat better sort, such as mine, the signature-knot fastening is combined with a latch or bolt arrangement, in which the drawing of a latch string, put through a small hole in the door, moves the latch or bolt.
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37 781 When one is absent, or within and, say, expecting company, the latch string may be left free, outside the door.
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37 782 When one wishes, one draws the latch string within, which prevents the door from being opened, except from the inside.
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37 786 Callias undid his knot, drew the latch string, freeing the latch, and opened the door.
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Book 31. (3 results) Conspirators of Gor

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8 128 Not uncommon, too, might be a line of roped verr, a string of tethered kaiila, or such.
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8 1846 A smile, an ankle seemingly inadvertently extended, colored string wound about it, a touching of one's collar, a shy glance, a way of turning, of looking over one's shoulder.
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10 279 A literate slave may deliver messages placed in a small leather tube, tied by a string about her collar.
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Book 32. (6 results) Smugglers of Gor

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9 401 Each held a strung, but not drawn, bow, a large bow, with an arrow, a long arrow, light at the string, as though it might be ready for flight.
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15 386 We had been issued woolen materials, woven from the fleece of the bounding hurt, with awls and string, from which we were to fashion winter garmenture for ourselves.
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34 52 He drew from his tunic a whistle, looped on a string about his neck.
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43 907 "You are intruders, you are caught, trapped! A hundred bows are drawn, a hundred shafts set to the string.
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52 133 "I would have done as much for a tethered verr," he said, "or an urt on a neck string".
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52 979 It is a powerful bow, capable of rapid fire, like any string bow, and is designed for use from a saddle, which it may easily clear, from any side, or front and back".
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Book 33. (18 results) Rebels of Gor

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30 80 On this string were seven or eight copper disks, each penetrated by a small, square opening, through which the string was threaded.
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1 77 We used the supple temwood lance and a bow modeled on the Tuchuk saddle bow, the lance lighter and longer than the spear, exceeding its reach, and the string bow capable, of course, of firing several missiles to one of the traditional crossbow.
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10 234 "When the enemy is nearly within arrow range, eagerly near, ready to put arrows to the string, you may sound assembly and one-strap.
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17 41 Lord Yamada lifted the grip of the bow, with arrow to the string, slowly carefully, above his head, and then slowly, carefully, evenly, considering the target, paralleling it to that objective, lowered it gracefully.
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17 56 Then, after a moment of meditation, it is at peace with the bow, the string, and target.
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17 214 I noted he had withdrawn one arrow from the stand and put it to the string of the bow.
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30 79 Haruki removed a string from about his neck, and drew it forth, from beneath his long, gray shirt.
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31 132 "Here!" called one of the intruders, tearing the string of coins, not many coins, to be sure, from the neck of Haruki.
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46 371 It was no wonder that he, though of the peasants, had a string of coins.
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47 208 Lord Yamada then put the arrow to the string.
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47 266 The final arrow, the twelfth arrow, was handed to him, and the shogun set it to the string.
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47 270 It was difficult even for the shogun, with his considerable strength, to draw back that string.
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47 273 "Fire!" But the shogun was in no hurry to release the string.
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61 102 Sometimes the arrow must rest on the string; at other times, the bow is to be drawn, and the arrow loosed.
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61 157 "Arrows to the string!" called a fellow.
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61 335 A long string of stripped, neck-chained, back-braceleted slaves, mostly barbarians, but some Pani, was being boarded.
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61 904 "Tal," said Pertinax, leading his string of three fair beasts, back-braceleted, strung on a tandem-collared leash.
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61 1113 "Tarsk!" "The key to your bracelets, I take it," I said, "is on a string around your neck".
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Book 34. (9 results) Plunder of Gor

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13 69 Arrows were put to the string.
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13 75 Arrows were removed from the string.
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40 3 A small pouch, on a string, was slung about my neck, over my collar.
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40 167 "So," said Epicrates, kindly, "what is this all about, lovely kajira?" "I may not touch the pouch, on its string, about my neck," I said, "but Master may open it".
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40 183 Epicrates reached down and lifted the loop of string, with its pouch, over my head.
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40 240 Epicrates then replaced the empty pouch on its string about my neck.
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63 390 It is not a string of a dozen or so girls, or a handful or two, chained in a slave wagon".
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68 457 A slave girl shopping, for example, will almost always carry the buying coins in her mouth, or clutched in her hand, perhaps wrapped in a handkerchief or, in the case of some coins, threaded on a string.
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68 459 Most free Goreans will carry a purse, or wallet, usually slung on a string, strap, or cord, commonly attached to a belt, or girdle.
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Book 35. (2 results) Quarry of Gor

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10 115 I saw one fellow, with a string, tie the hands of a girl behind her, and gesture her to the alcove in which she was to await him while he finished his conversation, and his meal and drink.
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41 69 "Five mighty tarns, draft tarns, each with a string of ten men, hovered at the parapet.
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Book 36. (8 results) Avengers of Gor

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20 143 Those unfamiliar with the bow have little understanding of the force it imparts to the string, and the released string to the freed arrow.
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7 91 "We cannot hold him responsible for what a patron may jabber at a table, or for what a dancer may string on her belt.
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15 31 "Not every time is the time to string a bow," I said.
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20 77 I noted that he had now strung his bow, and had an arrow fitted to the string.
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20 146 If I were to release the string, I doubt that even you, my fraudulent, unwelcome, intrusive friend, could follow the flight of the arrow to your heart".
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32 62 Well before the signal arrow had begun its descent, Thurnock had set a fresh arrow to his string and no sooner had the missile begun its descent than one of the corsairs, one in a crested helmet, knelt in the road, perhaps unclear as to what had occurred, and then collapsed.
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44 25 Near me, Thurnock fitted another arrow to his string.
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57 66 Across the water, the speaking tube fell to the deck and Thurnock refitted another arrow to his string.
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