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Book 1. (11 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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5 68 Surely there was enough to frighten any girl—the height at which she found herself, the savage mount on which she rode, the prospect of the terrible fate that she believed to await her at our journey's end.
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5 174 Or perhaps I should bless the fighting spirit of that plumed giant, my war tarn, that terrible thing the Older Tarl had called a tarn of tarns.
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12 69 The image of the treacherous, beautiful Talena, in her dancing silks, as she had lain in my arms, tormented me—she who would gladly give her kisses to the cold Pa-Kur for a place on the throne of Ar, she whose implacable hatred had sent me to this terrible death, not even permitting me the ho...
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12 101 I was conscious in that mad, terrible instant of the flash of steel-shod talons at the breast of my bird, and then my bird shook as though seized with a convulsion and opened his talons.
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13 32 It crouched, holding its long, terrible body close to the ground.
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14 37 Marlenus set the Home Stone on the ground before him and drew his sword, which he laid across his knees; he looked like some remote and terrible god of war.
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14 39 "This is a terrible truth," he said, "and so consider it carefully".
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15 205 We faced each other for a long, terrible moment; then Marlenus threw back his head and laughed his great lion laugh, slamming his sword back into its sheath.
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17 13 These were terrible days for me.
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18 169 I remember them pressing downward, so many, and my blade, terrible, moving as if wielded by a god, meeting their steel, cutting its path upward.
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19 174 Thousands of the great birds, their wings clapping like thunder, were descending on the city, flying onto the bridges and down to the streets, darting among those spires no longer protected with the terrible defense of the tarn wire.
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Book 2. (12 results) Outlaw of Gor

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2 28 It is a terrible weapon and, abetted by the somewhat lighter gravity of Gor, when cast with considerable force, can pierce a shield at close quarters or bury its head a foot deep in solid wood.
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5 66 I lifted my spear, and felt that I could have slain the robed figure so calm and terrible before me.
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13 106 We moved cautiously, occasionally feinting with the terrible yokes.
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14 11 Among warriors, the bite of an ost is thought to be one of the most cruel of all gates to the Cities of Dust; far preferable to them are the rending beak, the terrible talons of a tarn.
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14 96 I knew that I gazed upon one of the great and terrible predators of Gor.
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14 115 It lifted its huge, terrible head, scrutinizing the stands.
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14 149 The tarn thrust its head over me and uttered a piercing, fierce scream, a terrible cry of rage that must have shaken the hearts of all within the confines of the arena.
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15 180 "Warrior," she said, her head lifting piteously, "must you exact so terrible a vengeance on me?" I smiled to myself.
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19 54 No! We climbed to the second mine! How terrible those moments for the guards and Whip Slaves, to suddenly see, unchained and irresistible, the avalanche of wrath and vengeance that broke in upon them! Dice and cards and game boards and drinking goblets scattered to the rocky floors of the guard cham...
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19 74 "Let her tremble!" cried Kron of Tharna in a terrible voice.
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21 94 When the iron is pulled away and she knows the pain and degradation and smells the odor of her burned flesh, she is supposed to tell herself, understanding its full and terrible import, I AM HIS.
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23 86 I did not move and that great terrible beak closed gently on my arm.
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Book 3. (5 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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4 60 I lifted the spear and my eyes which must have been terrible in the apertures of my helmet were fixed on the heart of the man who sat upon the throne.
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9 229 I watched Vika and suddenly she seemed too to know and her head lifted and her eyes widened with horror and she crept to her knees, her hands before her face as though to shield herself and she shuddered and suddenly uttered a wild, long, terrible scream of abject fear.
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20 103 I lunged forward but Mul-Al-Ka and Mul-Ba-Ta, sensing my intention, seized my arms and before I could shake them off I heard, muffled but agonized from within that terrible metal globe, the cry of a branded slave girl.
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23 20 Yet I myself I knew would have preferred to see the assailant and so I found myself wishing that this brief, terrible privilege had been Vika of Treve's, for I remembered her as a woman of courage and pride.
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27 146 Before the Platform of the Mother, facing Misk, rearing perhaps two feet over him, Sarm stood with what, even for a Priest-King, seemed a most terrible quietude.
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Book 4. (3 results) Nomads of Gor

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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 98 The face of the Paravaci, rich with its terrible furrowed scars, contorted with rage.
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21 9 He was terrible to look upon and I, though his friend, did not dare to speak to him.
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Book 5. (4 results) Assassin of Gor

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17 146 The great bird he rode was no racing tarn but its size, its swiftness, its sureness, its incredible power and ferocity made it a terrible foe in the wars of the suspended rings; indeed, never had it lost; many of the other tarns of the Steels, as well, were not bred racing tarns, but war tarns, ridd...
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18 289 Behind it I heard an enraged, frustrated roaring, weird and terrible; I heard clawing at the wood; I saw the heavy door, as if struck with great force, buckle out against the beams.
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23 86 My face must have been terrible to look upon.
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24 195 "Yes, Master," she said, her head down, not daring to lift it, to gaze into the terrible countenance of Marlenus, her Ubar.
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Book 6. (2 results) Raiders of Gor

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17 197 And then I had seen fleet ships, in their fifties, come about to move against what they had taken to be a new wave of round ships, only to be taken off-guard by the rams and shearing blades of ships as swift and terrible as their own.
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18 37 When it was it was like a fist striking the sail and the mast screamed, and the bow, for a terrible moment, dipped in the water and then, dripping the cold waters, the bow leaped up and tilted to the sky.
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Book 7. (21 results) Captive of Gor

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5 137 When I had cried, I went to the flat, metal container, that sprung open and exposed, that from which the ugly, terrible, silken animal had been feeding.
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7 74 Two days out of Ko-ro-ba, crossing the fields northward toward Laura, the sky had darkened with a flight of outlaw tarnsmen, more than a hundred of them, under the command of the terrible Rask of Treve, one of the most dreaded warriors on all Gor.
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7 308 I had a terrible, sinking feeling.
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8 453 And the guard uses not the handful of leather straps with which Lana, only with her woman's strength, had struck me, but the five-strap Gorean slave whip, wielded with the full, terrible strength of a man.
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11 255 "The most terrible thing you do not mind.
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11 262 "The piercing of the ears is far more terrible," said Ute.
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11 762 Besides, for all I knew, they might be even more terrible, and fierce, than those of the black ship.
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11 776 My thoughts strayed back to that terrible night, when I fled from the hut, into the darkness, leaving the beast feeding on the carcass of the destroyed, bloodied sleen.
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11 1086 Koroban tarnsmen flew at all hours, in the high sun, in the cold morning, at dusk, even when the beacon fires burned upon the lofty walls, flew patterned sorties, and irregular sorties, but never did they find the elusive, marauding band of the terrible Rask of Treve.
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13 69 It was too terrible to feel! With a slap of its tail it slithered free and darted away, downstream, but then, halted by the barrier of wands, turned and, under the water, motionless, faced me.
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13 531 The din became loud, terrible, and the shouting.
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13 852 I again heard the terrible, startling scrape of the spear blade diverted by the seven-layered, metal-bound boskhide shield.
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13 976 How terrible to be a collared slave! But it is not, really, of course, you know.
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13 979 It is not terrible, really, at all, to wear a collar.
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14 211 I suspected there were few men as fierce and terrible as those of Treve, dreaded throughout Gor, and yet they enjoyed their wine warmed and were fond of so simple a thing as smoothing the hair of a girl.
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15 734 I could feel the terrible heat of the iron, even inches from my body.
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15 756 I had always feared, but never felt, the five-stranded Gorean slave lash, wielded with the full, terrible strength of a man.
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15 784 There had been the terrible sound of the leather, and then the pain.
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15 1515 Never had I seen such eyes, terrible and dark, keen, those of a warrior.
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17 83 Whereas I wanted him, more than anything, to like me, to care for me, if only a little, I realized, too, only too well, the terrible dangers implicit in this for me.
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17 231 It was the small man, who had touched me intimately when I had lain bound in my own bed on Earth, the small man who had threatened me in the hut in the northern forests, who had been the mountebank, the master, I had thought, of the strange beast, the terrible beast.
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Book 8. (6 results) Hunters of Gor

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3 344 The girl gave a terrible scream.
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12 204 I recalled, with savage understanding, with an understanding as sudden and terrible as that of a lightning flash over Torvaldsland, that this Hesius, this tavern keeper of Laura, had, free of charge, as a gesture of good will, included wine with the shipment of girls to my camp.
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14 293 They were terrible, and beautiful, in the streaming, flooding light of the looming, primitive moons of perilous Gor.
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18 21 The days and the nights of their terrible dream, he surmised, were now behind him.
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18 552 "I was stolen from Bosk of Port Kar," wept Tina, "by the terrible Sarus of Tyros".
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18 570 "Only do not return me to the terrible Sarus," she wept.
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Book 9. (13 results) Marauders of Gor

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6 389 The Kurii I knew were beasts of fierce, terrible instincts, who regarded humans, and other beasts, as food.
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9 233 "They are terrible beasts, using girls as their prey!" She looked about at the bondmaids.
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14 217 He looked red and terrible in the reflection of the flames; the veins on his forehead looked like red cables; his eyes, almost like those of the Kurii themselves, blazed.
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14 251 Hand over hand I crawled up the chain; then the chain shook, wildly; I struggled to hold it; the fire at my right sleeve snapped back and forth; I lost my breath; I feared my neck would break; blood was on the chain; I held it; Kurii howled beneath me; I moved further up the chain; then the chain st...
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16 229 Slowly, his visage terrible, the Forkbeard lifted his arm, the arrow in his fist.
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17 196 We saw her fleeing before them, trying to escape the swift, terrible jaws.
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17 244 Then the eyes opened, and no longer were they vacant, but deep within them, as though beginning from far away, there seemed the glint of some terrible light.
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17 274 His breathing was deep and terrible.
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17 286 And the touch of these gods, like their will, was terrible.
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18 25 I stood mighty and terrible, the ax ready, my clothes drenched with blood, the Kur rolling and jerking at my feet.
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18 204 Our lines buckled but, again, after minutes of terrible fighting, they fell back.
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18 346 She watched the two beasts, contesting her, the Kur and the human beast, terrible with the bloodied ax, Wulfstan of Kassau.
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22 98 They were terrible foes.
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Book 10. (16 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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5 149 "Was he not a terrible beast?" asked Alyena.
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5 150 "Yes, a terrible beast," I agreed.
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5 163 "He was a terrible beast, was he not?" she asked.
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5 495 "He is a beast! He is a terrible person! Did you not see how he abused me?" "In his arms," I laughed, "he would treat you only as a slave".
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5 496 "Terrible," she wept.
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7 68 Sand storms in the Tahari, incidentally, though upon occasion lengthy and terrible storms, may rearrange dunes, but they seldom bury anything.
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8 228 It punishes with a terrible efficiency, and does not leave the girl permanently marked.
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11 24 "A terrible storm," I said.
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13 386 The true nature of the Kurii might elude them, almost physiologically, like a menacing color they could not see, a terrible sound to which their sensors were almost inert.
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15 186 "Klima," said T'Zshal, slowly, "may seem to you a fierce and terrible place.
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20 45 I supposed men had few enemies as terrible as the fearsome Kur, unless it be other men.
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21 606 I saw its uplifted face, its terrible eyes, the fangs, the ears laid back against its head.
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24 191 "I was cruel, and terrible," she said, "and petty".
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24 850 "What if, Tarl," she asked, "I should have these feelings, these terrible, unworthy feelings? What if I should, in my heart, desire domination by men?" "A healthy society," I said, "would make provision for the satisfaction of these feelings".
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25 116 I feared that Hassan had made a terrible mistake.
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25 321 "It is too horrifying, too terrible, too utterly degrading, too sensual," I said.
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Book 11. (18 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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1 187 All a dream! Then to my misery I remembered the man, being seized from behind, not able even to see him, my struggles, being held so helplessly, the cloth over my mouth and nose, his waiting for me to breathe, at last my gasping helplessly for breath, the terrible fumes, nothing else to breathe, not...
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2 111 I did not know what they might do, these mighty and terrible men, so unpredictable, so uncompromising and primitive, so different from the men of Earth, if they were not completely and fully, and absolutely, pleased with me.
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2 434 How terrible he was! How proud, how magnificent he seemed! I thought I knew then, with horror, the nature of men.
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2 511 In a swift, though measured fashion, he had exercised himself, sharply and well, respecting his foe, not permitting the foe to understand his full power with the blade, the devastating and subtle skill which now seemed to lend terrible flight to the rapid steel.
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2 780 Then I castigated myself for my terrible thoughts.
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5 430 This is regarded as an extremely serious offense, fit to be followed by terrible punishments.
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9 231 What was I, truly? All the misery and shame of Earth suddenly swept through me! How unworthy, how contemptible, how despicable, how terrible I was! The negativistic conditioning of a world, of years of pathological conditioning, swept through me, that I might, as intended, be a stranger to myself, t...
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12 252 Why do many men fear manhood? I do not think it would be so terrible.
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12 413 They were fierce, swift men, efficient, terrible.
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15 173 "It is humiliating, degrading and terrible.
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20 372 He had made me serve him! He had made me love him, and had then, when it pleased him, his sport done, thrown me aside, giving me to peasants! A bold plan, relentless and terrible, formed in my mind.
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20 583 And as Earth spoke in me, I felt reflexively, dutifully, what I had been told I should feel, what I had been taught I ought to feel, what it had been programmed into me I must feel if I were to satisfy pre-established cultural criteria, if I were to be smiled upon and commended, too, lest I bear the...
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22 164 Its lack of height in the water had not indicated a weight of freighting, buts its design, swift and terrible, like a mighty racing shell.
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23 33 He had terrible strength.
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24 95 Yet I had, I knew, in fact, in a terrible moment, betrayed my beloved master.
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26 61 It was terrible".
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26 68 "Terrible, Mistress," I said.
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26 70 "Yes, terrible!" said the Lady Elicia of Ar, my mistress, of Six Towers.
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Book 12. (9 results) Beasts of Gor

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2 401 They were cunning, and fierce, and terrible.
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2 621 Winds and tides broke the ice, crushing and piling it in fantastic shapes, wild, trackless conformations, the sport of a terrible nature at play, the dreaded pack ice of the north.
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5 52 A journey so far and terrible could be undertaken by none but volunteers.
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12 553 "How terrible I am!" she said.
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14 251 "Imnak is a lazy fellow! Imnak is a terrible hunter! I am fortunate not to be Imnak's woman.
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20 214 "I am a terrible hunter," he said.
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21 189 "That would be terrible," said Arlene.
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34 105 A soft vapor, like steam, clung about its form, then wafted away, where the cold air had made contact with the warmth of that large, terrible body.
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37 15 For a terrible instant it had seemed as bright as day, with a brightness that most of the People, in their northern regions, had never known, a brightness that might have struck the white sands of the blazing Tahari or the green jungles of the rain forests of the eastern Cartius.
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Book 13. (5 results) Explorers of Gor

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5 774 How terrible I am!" She sobbed.
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6 568 The equatorial farmer, incidentally, often moves his fields after two or three seasons as the soil, depleted of many minerals and nutriments by the centuries of terrible rains, is quickly exhausted by his croppage.
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25 104 "Is honesty so terrible?" I asked.
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31 112 Then she said, "How terrible I am.
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53 326 Each would be used to fighting alone, terrible and solitary, hunting its own kills in the ancient manner.
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Book 14. (4 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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1 632 "You are terrible," she said, head down, smiling.
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1 1067 "Do you, who are owned," I asked, "think to bargain with masters?" Did she not know that she, if her captors wished, was theirs in her entirety? Why had I been so angry with her? Why had such terrible words sprung up so wildly and spontaneously from hitherto unfathomed depths within me? I looked at ...
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3 429 "I am not so terrible," she said.
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20 91 Then spitting blood from my mouth, my legs covered to the knees with sweat and sand, pounding, laughing, exultant, terrible, I saw the post shatter away, falling from me.
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Book 15. (13 results) Rogue of Gor

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1 405 "Do you now think it is so terrible a thing to fulfill the needs of a slave?" she asked.
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3 60 "Is it such a terrible thing to be a woman?" I asked.
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3 62 "No," I said, "it is not terrible.
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4 502 Indeed, it is regarded as a grievous insult to a girl, and a terrible humiliation, for her to be freed.
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10 183 "She is a terrible person!" said Miss Henderson.
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10 238 "Terrible! Disgusting!" "Some men," I said, "buy such girls and send them out into the streets.
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10 241 "Terrible! Disgusting!" said Miss Henderson.
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11 342 We are not so terrible, really.
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21 240 "Nature is harsh, but it is not so terrible, truly," she said.
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22 331 There was a terrible fury in his eyes.
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22 366 "No," he said, with a terrible ferocity.
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33 65 His voice was grim, and terrible.
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33 148 "An engagement upon the water must be a terrible thing," I said.
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Book 16. (8 results) Guardsman of Gor

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2 79 "Such thoughts are too terrible to think," I said.
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17 12 "Disgusting! Disgusting! Terrible! Disgusting!" she had said.
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17 138 What sorry costs might attend such words! I wondered if truth was really so terrible.
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17 276 Was that so terrible? But how fearful to slip outside the prescribed travesties and see oneself as one is! So few dare that.
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17 289 "I beg you, I beg you to have me for a tarsk bit!" "I thought that you regarded Coin Girls as filthy, as terrible, as disgusting".
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20 611 How unacceptable, how terrible, for a free woman! Better to be in an alien city, helpless, naked, kneeling, collared, at the feet of an enemy.
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20 1571 The first punishment, of course, and sometimes the second, is merely a terrible whipping.
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21 585 "Perhaps if she knows nothing about him," she said, "but I think not, for it is terrible to be one woman lost in the slave pens of a palace, perhaps never even seeing her master.
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Book 17. (5 results) Savages of Gor

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1 675 Logical, and terrible, they would not be likely to find the fallacy of the single virtue, the hypothesis of social reductivism, alluring.
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13 440 "Nature is not so terrible," I said.
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13 495 How can that be understood? Why did I not have the feelings I should have had? Am I so ill-educated and uninformed? What a terrible woman I was to have such dreams!" "Not at all," I said.
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13 535 How terrible it would be to confuse a mere slave, a lowly slave, with a glorious free woman.
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14 344 How terrible I must be".
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Book 18. (13 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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14 399 It was a particularly terrible punishment, of course, for a woman such as she, one who had some idea of the possibilities of life and feeling.
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17 117 It must be a terrible thing for a father to realize that his beloved son has betrayed his codes.
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20 80 The sky itself seemed blotted out with swift torrents of terrible forms.
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22 68 It is too terrible a thing".
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22 237 Truth is not terrible; it is merely real".
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26 19 They may also have a role to play in the intimidation, and consequent inhibition, of the enemy, perhaps in virtue of making one seem a more fearsome or terrible foe.
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33 111 "Terrible!" said one of the Waniyanpi women, though I do not think she believed it.
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44 502 It took perhaps a dozen men from the trail and then bounded down the rock face and, a few Ihn later, skipping and leaping almost like a pebble, possessing such terrible forces, yet seeming so small from this height, it caromed off the foot of the rock face and then landed, rolling and bounding, amon...
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44 527 The man halted his kaiila only yards from the barricade, with its terrible, bloody points.
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45 89 I could only conjecture how many might have fallen in the darkness, essaying that treacherous, terrible ascent.
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47 132 My lance took a rider from his mount, tearing him back out of the girth rope, and then he was spinning, wildly flailing, screaming and turning, growing smaller, journeying with terrible, accelerative force, seemingly eccentrically, to the turf below, it seeming to rock and shift with my movements, l...
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47 148 Could it be that, after all these years, the tactics of combat on tarnback remained so fresh, so vivid, in the eager, dark brain of my mighty mount? Could they be retained so perfectly, with such exactness, seemingly as terrible and sharp as in the days when they were first imprinted, high above gra...
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47 280 The arrow, fired from not more than fifteen feet away, entered the body of the rider on the right below the left shoulder blade and almost at the same instant Ubar of the Skies, screaming, with those hooklike, terrible talons tore the body of the rider on the left from the girth rope.
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Book 19. (10 results) Kajira of Gor

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3 335 "Terrible," I whispered.
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6 574 How pleased I was that I was free! How frightful, how terrible, it would be, to be a slave! "Is Lady Sheila crying?" he asked.
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6 785 Then why would you have so suddenly, so belatedly, have found my suggestion agreeable? Had something happened to make you change your mind? Why, too, earlier, did you seem so distracted, as though your thoughts were elsewhere? Too, of all these places on the wall, why did you bring me here, so close...
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9 212 "He thinks, then, that it will be a terrible punishment for you?" I asked.
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15 138 How terrible, I thought, to be a slave! "Would you like to be sent again to his tent?" asked the other girl.
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15 231 How terrible to be a slave! "You may now beg to be used," said the first man.
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18 150 "This has been such a terrible experience for you.
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23 160 Could it be that what lay at their feet was, after all, no more than a common slave? Could I be one of those unworthy, terrible women who needed a man, who could find her happiness only at the feet of one, wanting to be his in all ways, desiring to please him, and to love and serve him with her whol...
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31 518 It made clear to me, once again, the delicious, terrible domination to which I was subject on Gor.
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36 1482 If she breaks such a position, of course, she is subject to terrible discipline.
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Book 20. (9 results) Players of Gor

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1 92 Who knows what things, visible or invisible, might be abroad during that terrible time? In many Gorean cities, accordingly, the Twelfth Passage Hand, the five days preceding the Waiting Hand, that time to which few Goreans look forward with eagerness, is carnival.
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2 922 This is a terrible blow to their beauty, vanity and self-esteem.
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2 1169 Some terrible mistake must surely be involved".
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10 82 Without permanently marking the girl it punishes with excruciating, terrible efficiency.
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13 351 "Bad men want do terrible thing to Bosk," it said.
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16 424 "You, Tana, behind her, identically postured, and you, Bana, behind her, same position!" "I assure you," said Rowena, "you are making a terrible mistake.
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20 146 To beasts moved only by meat, and the pressure of blows, the hungers of higher and more terrible organisms will remain always exceedingly mysterious.
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20 317 For one terrible moment it had seemed as though the air itself had burst into flame.
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20 386 Then it went down, bloody and terrible, again, beneath the weight or iron, and men.
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Book 21. (22 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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16 322 How terrible I am! I was not taught so! How could I feel such things! How terrible I am! I was naked, I could not break the chain.
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11 95 "Alas," said Hurtha, coming up to me, disconsolately, "I fear I have made a terrible mistake".
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11 113 "It was a terrible mistake," said Hurtha.
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11 127 I saw then how terrible was the thing I had done, selling my poems, my own poems, my precious, priceless poems! They now belonged to another! Better I had torn my heart out and sold it for a tarsk bit!" "Perhaps," I said.
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16 151 "Have I truly touched something so deep in you, so familiar, so recurrent, yet so frightening, that you dare not face it," she asked, "that you would lash out so at me?" "You are a terrible person!" said the daughter.
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16 288 "As a free female you might, if you wished, for whatever purposes, hatred or envy, the seeking of power, or whatever it might be, attempt to do them such hurt, such insidious and grievous injury, but such terrible and grotesque crimes, for which legal penalties are not even prescribed, my lovely dau...
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16 326 "That you may meet yourself?" "Mother!" "That is not so terrible," she said.
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16 347 "I am a terrible person," said the girl.
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16 987 "How terrible I am," whispered the girl.
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16 1098 "How terrible it must be to be a slave," said Boabissia, "and have to submit to whatever men choose to do to you".
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19 494 He had been caught like some tiny insect in a dark and terrible web, one whose existence he had not even suspected.
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22 1 The Insula of Achiates; Feiqa Will Be Punished; The Whip Will Be Suitable for the Purpose "The stench is terrible," said Boabissia.
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22 305 "This is a terrible place," said Boabissia.
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22 330 "This is a terrible place," she said.
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22 356 "This is a terrible place," said Boabissia.
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25 344 This doubtless has something to do with the naturalness of the institution, for it is a civilized enhancement of a fundamental biological complementarity, and the tendency of the slave, categorically dominated and uncompromisingly possessed, as she longs to be, to fall in love with the master, and t...
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25 1322 "How terrible you must think me," she said, wiping away another tear, it seemed, from the corner of her eye.
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25 1324 I certainly did not think her terrible at all.
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25 1346 There is no doubt that slaves without private masters, say, slaves in work gangs, slaves in mills and factories, in the mines, in the laundries, in tower service, in street work, in great holdings, in large households, field slaves, state slaves, and such, may experience terrible loneliness.
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25 1468 "I think the real reason," she said, "under everything, as you may have suspected, is that I was driven here, almost helplessly, a woman in desperate need of love, daring to enter this terrible place, but one where I knew men were, by my desire to meet a kindly man, by my loneliness".
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26 864 "What a grim and terrible place it seems," she said.
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26 877 "It is not really a terrible place at all," I said.
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Book 22. (33 results) Dancer of Gor

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1 12 Could I be so weak and terrible? Could I be truly so different from others? Surely there could be no one in the world so degraded, so shameful and terrible as myself.
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8 125 He held me there, under that terrible, foul, stinging, cold fluid, for a terrible second or two, and then released me.
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1 100 Surely only a terrible woman, a low woman, a shameful, wicked, worthless woman, a reproach to her entire sex, one with depths and needs antedating her century, one with needs not indexed to political orthodoxies, one with needs older and deeper, and more real and profound, more ancient and marvelous...
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1 190 How shameless, how meaningless, how terrible, how worthless she was, that girl in the mirror, that writhing, astounding, uncontrollably sensuous little bitch! She continued to dance.
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2 5 It brought out things too deep and marvelous, too shameful and terrible, too precious and beautiful in me.
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3 81 "No! No! I would be terrible!" One or another of the other girls, then, would be contacted, and they would go.
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4 24 The whip seemed still, hot and terrible, to burn on my body.
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5 127 I was pleased to learn, terrible though it may sound, how strong these men were, and how, with them, I was totally helpless.
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6 55 Here amongst masters and slaves were literally instituted the practices and relationships, and required of me, under the threat of terrible punishments, and even death, which in my heart I would have longed to bestow of my own free will on men, or at least men so free and proud, so much the natural ...
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6 150 To be sure, interestingly, I did not really object to these various things, neither to the anomalies, if anomalies they were, nor to what might be the more typical or standard subjugations, rigors and strictures, fierce and terrible though they might be, to which I was subjected.
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6 274 Yet even we, I am sure, sensed the terrible, frightening hostility, the hysteria, the fury, of the woman outside.
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8 253 A wave of sudden terrible hatred swept over me.
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9 492 What a terrible woman I was, to want to make men happy.
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9 513 Too, what if, horrifyingly enough, I was not permitted resistance but must, under the sanction of terrible penalties, under the command of masters, open myself fully to feeling, if I were forced to yield, and fully, and was forced, thusly, to collaborate in my own conquest? There was one thing which...
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10 697 Clearly he was inordinately fond of that terrible beast, and perhaps it of him.
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11 278 Some girls, rather cynical ones, I suspect, speculate that the masters give it to them more often than necessary just because they enjoy watching them down the terrible stuff.
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11 1198 Perhaps mollified then to some extent by my placatory behavior in kissing the whip he had decided to take the time to make test of my virginity rather than simply and with terrible force utilizing me, moving aside whatever obstacle, if any, might have attempted to impede the progression of his maste...
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13 648 And complementary, of course, to the pain of such deep needs, the other side of the coin, so to speak, are the incredible fulfillments of having them satisfied, fulfillments in the light of which the anguish of the needs, terrible though it was, then seems negligible.
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14 9 Somewhere in the dark, simple, terrible brain of that beast my name and scent had been imprinted.
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27 40 It seems, once again, that he would take suitable precautions against me, that the hardness of his heart, set so against me, not be softened, that the iron of his intent be neither diminished nor imperiled, that there be no possible weakening of his terrible resolve.
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27 254 It was a beast, and a terrible one, that much I could tell even in the terror of the darkness, but, too, I sensed, from its control, and patience, and the way it had rendered me helpless, it was in some indefinable way, some terrifying way, other than a beast, too, or more than a beast.
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29 4 It was almost as though the right side of his face had been abraded by some terrifying, fierce passage, by some swift, lengthy, terrible friction, as of being dragged over rock.
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29 230 Almost instantly another of the men had begun to draw his sword, but the beast, before the blade was half from the sheath, on all fours, scrambling, tearing the grass behind it, moving with incredible swiftness, not like anything on two legs, seized him and tore open his throat with a single slash o...
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29 433 For my blood he had dared even to follow so terrible a beast.
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29 493 "You are in terrible danger!" I tightened in the binding fiber, shuddering.
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29 627 It had the same stature, and shoulders, and mighty arms, but it was now a bronzed, leaner Hendow, one even more terrible and fierce than I had known, one who held now in his hand a bloodied sword.
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29 643 "Kneel," said Hendow to her, with terrible, savage authority.
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29 722 "Run!" "Remain on your knees, slave," said Hendow, in a terrible voice.
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29 790 I realized, suddenly, they did not fear even a thing as terrible as a sleen.
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29 1374 He was so terrible, so fierce.
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29 1375 Yet it seemed he had not in truth followed me to recapture me and punish me, visiting upon me the terrible severities to be suitably visited upon a runaway slave.
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34 329 Perhaps I was a terrible person, but I did not mind the thought of being exciting and beautiful.
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34 738 Is tenderness so terrible? Is it truly a weakness to admit a fondness, even for one who may be nothing, only a slave? One would not dare to hope for love.
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Book 23. (19 results) Renegades of Gor

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2 406 "Terrible!" cried the fourth woman, but the excitement, the eagerness and envy in her own voice were only too clear.
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5 664 "Terrible!" whispered the Lady Temione.
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6 146 "This is a terrible mistake," she whispered.
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6 159 "You agreed this was a terrible mistake," she whispered.
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6 348 "I dare not even speak them, they are so terrible," she whispered.
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6 369 "Then," she said, "he could keep me here as long as he wants! I could be kept here at his mercy, in this terrible place, as long as it is his will!" "You might, of course, be redeemed," I pointed out.
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6 422 Yet I think the nature of truth is not that terrible.
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6 504 "I must! Else something terrible might happen".
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6 508 "Do you think such a terrible thing could happen to me?" she asked.
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6 895 "He has a terrible temper," he said, "and, under such circumstances, it would be hard to blame anyone for being cranky".
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8 888 How terrible they cry, that a woman should be so much the slave of men, so much the prisoner of her passions! And that they should be purchasable, and owned, owned, as well! Certainly they are slaves, slaves.
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11 299 "Do you really not know how long and bitter has been this siege? Do you not know how lengthy and terrible has been the fighting? Do you not know the losses of Cos, as well as ours? Do you really think we do not know what fate would await us if we opened the gates?" I was then held even more sternly,...
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13 70 It would be terrible".
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15 468 I would find that disgusting and terrible, as well as ultimately barren and miserable.
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15 1019 "They are terrible things," she said.
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18 66 "It will be a terrible slaughter," he said.
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20 204 "Both Port Cos and Ar's Station fought on the river, in terrible and bloody battles, hull to hull.
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21 820 "You have no objection then," he said, "in view of her guilt, if a terrible and grievous penalty is inflicted upon her?" "Of course not," I said.
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24 1035 His voice had been low, but it had been terrible in its menace.
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Book 24. (9 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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1 74 "It was done by a terrible person, one named Liadne, put over us as first girl, though we were free and she a mere slave!" I remembered Liadne.
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12 236 "It is terrible," she admitted.
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18 40 The first wave is never the most dense, the most terrible.
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19 425 For a time, days, it seemed terrible flies were everywhere.
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27 732 "But I have these terrible and frightening thoughts," she said.
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27 733 "Now I want to love and serve men!" "They are not such terrible thoughts," I said.
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35 39 It was as though he had abandoned them in favor of transforming those parts of himself into some terrible tool, one for which there could be no conceivable purpose.
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46 33 My voice must have been terrible with menace.
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48 203 "I can live for vengeance, deep and profound, terrible, vengeance against Cos and all things Cosian!" "Certainly," I said.
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Book 25. (4 results) Magicians of Gor

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18 319 "It is also one in which, if you fail, you will be apprehended and subjected to ingenious, lengthy and excruciating tortures, to be terminated doubtless only months later with the mercy of a terrible death".
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19 751 I knew I had done wrong, but I had not understood that it was so terrible.
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25 641 "It was terrible," he said.
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26 530 Free me! This is all some terrible misunderstanding! Bring Appanius here! I demand it!" "But what has Appanius to do with this?" asked Tolnar.
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Book 26. (51 results) Witness of Gor

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15 8 In such a place, in such a corridor, I think he, with his terrible strength, and almost like a four-footed animal, would have proved a terrible foe to almost any man, even those of this world.
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4 238 Can their aspect be so terrible, or hideous, I wondered.
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4 247 It was too terrible to even consider.
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4 361 Why did they not permit us to look upon them? Could they, for some reason or another, be so terrible to look upon? Who were they? Or, what were they? They seemed men, to be sure, but they did not seem men in the sense, or in the ways, in which I had grown accustomed to think of men.
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4 714 How could we possibly know what that meant? There was suddenly, from well behind me, yards back, back down the line, a sharp, cruel crack, almost as clear and terrible, in the narrow corridor, as the report of a rifle.
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4 729 Instantly as there was again that terrible sound I struggled to my hands and knees, hurrying forward.
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4 731 "Harta!" But we were hurrying! How could we go more swiftly? Again came the terrible crack of that snapping coil! Gasping, crying out, sobbing, we moved even more swiftly! We were terrified by the very sound of those supple implements.
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4 735 Somewhat behind me, to the side, I heard again that terrible sound, that sharp, fearful crack of leather.
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7 981 But, then again, there is terrible risk in such matters.
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8 47 There were terrible smells.
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8 596 But how terrible was this world! In it I had once actually been put in a collar, a steel collar, which I could not remove! How I had treasured it! Oh, there were dangers here, doubtless.
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8 645 I suddenly then heard again, this time so much closer and terrible, from somewhere to the right, perhaps no more than a hundred yards away, that dreadful shrill birdlike cry or scream.
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8 853 But I saw the snout of that terrible triangular head, perhaps two feet wide at the base, push it up three or four inches and then it struck against some bolt, some bar or holding lever.
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8 916 It was long-bodied, large and terrible.
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10 581 But where was the end of this? Were the older ones real either? Could it be that the older ones, too, were waiting? Were they embarrassed to admit this? Were the parents real? Had they learned, in their longer lives, secrets they refused to reveal? It is a terrible thing to look behind a mask and se...
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11 693 It is to be clearly distinguished from many other forms of whip, in particular, from the "snake," a terrible whip used sometimes on men, beneath the blows of which even a strong man might die.
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11 1403 If we made good slaves it did not have ultimately to do with the fact that we were from Earth, even given its terrible conditioning programs, but that we were women.
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12 14 It was not woven of those terrible ropes, sometimes used in punishment ties, in which a disobedient slave might find herself swathed from head to foot, ropes within which, in misery, she scarcely dares to move.
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13 114 "I could tell from her accent, which is terrible".
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13 1071 "The free woman said that my accent was terrible.
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13 1072 Is it terrible?" "How vain you are!" she smiled.
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13 1082 "My accent is not terrible?" I asked.
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14 280 Who would want to be thrown, for example, to those terrible creatures in the pool? The pit master then turned about, and began to withdraw down the corridor.
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14 1853 "And surely," she said, "I ought to quaff slave wine!" "It is terrible stuff," I said.
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15 42 That is a terrible thing.
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19 344 The seduction of such a fellow, I supposed, would count as a terrible offense, one perhaps endangering even the city itself.
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19 985 "—to satisfy their terrible, ferocious lusts!" "Be pleased," I said, "that on this world men are so free, so healthy, so strong.
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24 107 It was a strange feeling, being where I was, where it seemed so quiet, the sky so blue and calm, the clouds moving overhead, unhurried, knowing that not far away some terrible action might be ensuant, perhaps at the pens.
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24 175 "Run!" Suddenly, overhead, only yards above us, there was a terrible sound of screaming tarns, and a blasting storm of wings.
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24 176 I heard a terrible scream of a tarn and saw one of its wings cut from its body by the almost invisible, swaying tarnwire.
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24 439 How terrible were these men, how desperate, how determined! One, or, at least, one who was free, who might know an entrance, it seemed, would have been well advised to reveal it.
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24 492 His eyes were terrible.
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24 593 Indeed, he seemed there at night, by the wall, in the torchlight, and the light of the small lamps, a very terrible figure.
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30 52 "Ar must fall," said the officer, in a terrible voice.
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31 34 It seemed that, as tenacious and terrible as sleen, they would take their repose on the very trail they followed.
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31 40 They were silent, frightening, terrible men.
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31 416 He uttered a low, terrible sound, not like anything even an animal might manage.
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31 423 He strained against the chains, uttering terrible sounds, like no human.
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35 15 How could we help then but be pleasing? Unless perhaps we were insufficiently quick, if approached, to kneel and put our heads down to the stone? Certainly I felt safer on the wall chain, bound, unnoticed, out of mind, than I had serving, trembling, fearing I might make a mistake, amongst those moro...
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36 49 More than one of them, I am sure, suspected that the alarm had been a false one, occasioned by the trepidation of Gito, awakening from some terrible dream.
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37 82 Might it not have been better, I thought, if he had died in his chains yesterday morning, in the cell, by the knife? How terrible to die beneath the fangs of beasts! "Be silent!" said the pit master.
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37 386 The peasant, I assumed, from the horrifying cry I had heard, must be beneath that terrible living hill of beasts.
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37 468 It is terribly dangerous, of course, to trap an urt against a barrier, as it will then fight with terrible ferocity.
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37 1064 But it might have been to his advantage had he paid closer attention to the figure in the water for suddenly the thing behind Abnik rose up in the water and, at the same time, we saw the quarrel of a bow emerge and the cable snapped forward and the quarrel took the lieutenant in the side of the thro...
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37 1135 "Oh?" "How could they make such a terrible mistake?" "Perhaps they did not make a mistake," said the pit master.
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38 21 The point then, with terrible slowness, as Gito squirmed like an impaled urt, moved upward, behind the ribs, until it entered the heart.
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38 73 I fear his vengeance would be terrible".
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40 8 Too, it was here that I had trod, hooded, a plank, one extending out, unbeknownst to me, over a terrible drop, hundreds of feet down, to jagged rocks below.
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40 11 Later, bound hand and foot, I had been carried to the wall again, that I might realize what could be done with me, that I might be cast down from that terrible height.
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45 132 How terrible seemed his anger! "I love you!" I said.
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45 141 In his voice there seemed terrible menace.
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Book 27. (38 results) Prize of Gor

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10 361 "Do not those of your ideology dare to use that sacred, holy, terrible word, that word for nature's last and fiercest arbiter, that maker and unmaker of states, that creator and destroyer of cultures, singing songs of armies, and blood and steel, that ultimate and terrifying tribunal, with all the m...
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12 349 How terrible that would be if I should become like that! How terrible that would be if I should become sexually helpless in a man's arms! I must never let myself become like that.
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17 290 How terrible to be such, she thought, how terrible to be so sexually alive, to be so vital, to be so needful.
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27 2423 What a terrible sentence, too, it would be, what a terrible condemnation, even to bring a Gorean free woman to Earth.
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2 153 As her body grew older, and began to dry, and wither, and tire, and began to regard her ever more reproachfully, and sadly, in the mirror, and she went through her change of life, which had been a terrible and troubling time for her, in her loneliness, and in her lack of love and children, she remai...
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4 484 Surely she had gone too far! Was she feminine? She must not be feminine! Surely it would be wrong for her to be such, to be so female, so simply, so radically, so vulnerably female! Was such not a mere social artifact? But what if it were not a mere social artifact? What if it were something very di...
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9 128 A terrible insult, on this world, to a free woman, is to tell her she is not worth a collar.
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12 3 How could a master care for them? She and the other girls, you see, in this terrible place, were not permitted lotions.
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12 222 Why had her master put her here, in this terrible place, she wondered.
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12 228 No, she said, I am here because it amuses him to put me here, his former teacher, one he perhaps found, to his irritation, troublesomely, even disturbingly attractive, to put me here in this terrible place, here in the laundry, miserable, sweating, no more than a naked work-slave, set to the meanest...
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12 328 Ellen wondered if she were a terrible woman, because she wanted love, because she wanted to serve, wholly and helplessly, because she was eager to be devoted and dutiful, because she wanted to make a man happy, to please a master, because she wanted to literally be his, to be owned by him, to be his...
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12 329 She wondered if it were such a terrible thing, to desire to surrender herself inextricably, wholly to love.
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12 357 Then, when they have made me such, when they have triggered and ignited my needs and, by their decision, and perhaps to their amusement, made me the helpless victim of them, those profound, terrible, wonderful, overwhelming, irresistible, ecstatic needs, when I must weep, and go half mad with desire...
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16 790 She, too, here, was for sale, up for sale in this cheap, miserable market, in this terrible place.
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17 113 "Don't look at those terrible, nasty, dirty things in their collars and chains!" she scolded.
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17 847 You must not be a woman, you must not be so alive, you must not be so needful! You must not desire to love and serve! Castigate such temptations! Ridicule yourself for such tender, animal realities! Think yourself because of them small and disgusting! Seek redemptive frigidity! Praise inertness! Sin...
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17 851 How terrible, how unworthy I am, she thought.
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17 853 I will do anything for them! How terrible, how wicked I am! Mirus, Mirus, she thought, what have you done to me? It was a slave orgasm, she thought, or something like one.
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18 702 "How terrible they are! How wicked they are! They have branded us, and collared us, and made us slaves!" "Yes," smiled the other girl.
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20 238 How terrible you are, she castigated herself.
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22 98 Surely I must warn her, thought Ellen, cruel and imperious as she is, of the danger in which she lies! Surely, as I, too, am a woman, I must warn her, that she not risk falling into the miserable fate, the helpless and terrible fate, in which I find myself implicated, that of a slave! Then Ellen lau...
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22 245 What a terrible misfortune for her! How unfortunate! And then Ellen smiled, and laughed to herself.
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24 90 "There is a terrible mistake.
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24 95 "It is a mistake, a terrible mistake! I am not even a dancer! Ai! Ai!" She had heard of the al-ka and ba-ta circles, named for the first two letters in the Gorean alphabet.
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25 270 "I am the Lady Melanie of Brundisium! I am a free woman! A terrible mistake has been made! They seized me, yesterday evening! They have chained me! They think I am a slave!" "You are pretty enough to be a slave," said Ellen.
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25 271 "I am Melanie, of Brundisium! The Lady Melanie of Brundisium! How can I convince them of this? How can I correct this terrible misunderstanding!" "Explain the matter to the masters," suggested Ellen.
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25 786 How shamed you should be, Ellen! But you tramp, you slut, you tart, you are not! How terrible you are! There was no mistaking the interest of the buyers.
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26 625 Too, there were the beasts, the terrible beasts.
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27 378 It was a scent she had experienced once before, on Targo's sales shelf in the Kettle Market, though then it had been so suddenly, so unexpectedly, upon her, almost stifling, almost overwhelming, so hot, so suddenly close and terrible.
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27 1889 Yes, yes, she thought, they speak truths, mighty truths, lovely truths, deep truths, incontrovertible truths, precious truths, yes, such as I are indeed for the entertainment of men, for the sport of men, of masters! It is that for which we exist, and desire to exist, the pleasure of men, the entert...
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27 2424 She might not understand, for a time, what a terrible thing had been done to her.
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27 2425 But sooner or later she would doubtless learn, and try to find those who had done this terrible thing to her and, if successful, tear away her clothes before them and beg them, on her belly, lips to their boots, to return her to Gor, and as no more than a naked, collared slave, to be disposed of in ...
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27 3119 They had little to fear from sleen, they more terrible individually than most common sleen.
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28 144 He called Bosk of Port Kar, that fearful larl of a man, drew then his blade and went behind the beast, seized the fur of its head, thus holding the head, and then, with two terrible strokes of that small, wicked weapon, cut away the head.
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28 241 It was all a terrible mistake.
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30 92 Know what it is to crawl fearfully to him, your master, bearing the whip in your teeth! Where are your brands and papers, dear free sisters? And have you ever stood stripped on an auction block, to be bid upon, as the property you are? On Earth Ellen had seldom, if ever, worn cosmetics, regarding th...
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30 593 I am deeply grateful to my master for permitting me to write this, and to that unusual, complex gentleman, Bosk of Port Kar, scholar and warrior, master of weapons and slaves, sometimes so fierce and terrible, sometimes so thoughtful and gentle, uncompromising but understanding, for suggesting that ...
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Book 28. (23 results) Kur of Gor

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1 825 She was doubtless trying to explain, too, that some terrible mistake had been made, that there must be someone to whom to appeal, and so on.
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20 13 "One supposes it is possible," said the prosecutor, "that a terrible mistake is involved in all this, for the defendant is Kur".
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29 19 "If power weapons were permitted in the cylinder, they would have nothing to fear," said Cabot, "but they are not, and these things, I understand, are far more terrible than Kurii, though on land they do not move quickly".
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42 19 "I had a terrible thought," she said.
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43 132 "Get this terrible bell, and chain, off my neck!" demanded the Lady Bina, sitting on the platform, rubbing her rope-burned ankles.
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44 157 She stepped forward, and lifted a loop of the rope, to sling it about Lord Grendel's neck, but suddenly, his arms lifted, claws protruding, he uttered a roar that was unexpected, hideous, and terrible, like nothing that Cabot had ever heard, and Cabot fell back, startled.
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55 316 She must be put to the slowest and most terrible of all deaths.
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57 45 I saw them descend, our terrible foes, in their thousands, into the vale, heavily armed.
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63 11 His visage was terrible.
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63 30 It was terrible to look into the raging eyes of Lord Grendel.
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64 69 "What could they do to her now that she would not welcome?" It would be injudicious, and certainly unnecessary, in a reportorial narrative of this sort, to delineate in any detail the terrible moments which were spent by the Lady Bina in the clutches of the cattle humans.
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67 93 The weapon of the weather, a very effective and terrible weapon, with its devastating impact on the insurrectionists' human allies, and surely even its seriously inconveniencing impact on its Kur allies, might now be put aside.
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69 120 "What is the name of this foreign general, so adept, so feared, so renowned and terrible?" asked Cabot.
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73 85 Lord Grendel's body shook, and Cabot feared, once more, as he had once feared it in the camp, that he might become something other than he would recognize, something terrible, fanged, merciless, stormlike, predatory, something unmitigatedly and primitively Kur, Kur as Kur might once have been, emerg...
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75 67 Does he not know what was done to me before, how my body has been changed? My mind cries 'free woman'! My belly cries 'slave'! How foolish is my mind! How wise my belly! Dear mind, how you desire to dictate to me! Do you still listen only to others, dear mind, and not to me? Why do you not look upon...
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77 29 I felt abandoned! You did not take me with you! You left me in the camp! Better you had bound me, and whipped me, to hurry me before you! Better you had put me on a chain and dragged me behind you! I could not bear to be left behind! Could you not better have burdened me and struck me with switches ...
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77 66 I made a terrible mistake.
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77 298 "You are human! I am Kur!" At that moment there was a terrible sound, a crashing and splintering of wood, and then another such crashing and splintering, and then another, and Cabot backed away, and looked wildly behind him.
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77 300 Then, to his amazement, he saw parts of palings thrust to the side, and there was a mighty roar, and a terrible figure stepped into the compound through the great, jagged, wrought aperture in the wall.
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77 301 "I am Kur!" it cried, in a terrible voice.
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78 156 "For the sake of Priest-Kings, finish him!" Lord Grendel seemed transformed into something alien and terrible.
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79 426 If you were to touch me, I would cry out, and sob, and squirm in the dirt beside you! My belly is hot, and begs! Please touch me, Master! Give me the surcease my body pleads for! I am your slave! I knew I was your slave from the first moment I saw you, in that cruel container, in that terrible place...
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Book 29. (9 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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4 12 It is beautiful but, too, it is awesome and terrible.
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5 922 "It was a terrible march," said a fellow.
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10 670 "Yes, Gregory, Gregory! Please, Gregory, explain to them that a terrible mistake is taking place".
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11 380 "The stable was terrible".
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12 9 At that moment, from afar off, perhaps two hundred to two hundred and fifty yards to our right and ahead, there was a terrible roar, surely of a larl, followed, a moment later, by a harrowing scream.
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12 231 When it flung its head about, it was struck a terrible blow on the side of the head.
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19 129 "A single, terrible thing," said another.
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22 78 Punishments are terrible.
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25 68 A true slave will never betray her master, for she understands the terrible gravity of such a thing, and her absolute vulnerability.
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Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor

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3 1216 'Death by the impaling spear,' she said, 'is a terrible death.
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14 162 There is restlessness in the Vine Sea, as in any sea, and swells, and local currents, and the sea itself, tangled and beautiful, oppressive, and terrible, despite its vastness, moves from time to time, seasonably, predictably, even hundreds of pasangs, as might any object, large or small, afloat on ...
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21 127 How keenly, I thought, would so proud, and once so terrible, a man, have felt his reduction, its humiliation.
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22 323 The strike of the Tuchuk bow, short, of curved horn, requiring much strength to draw, is heavy, and, at close range, terrible, capable, like the thrust spear, of penetrating the typical four-layered shield.
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26 239 "There are terrible things between us," she said.
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29 100 "There will be terrible bloodshed on the wharf," I said to Lord Nishida.
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37 283 "The visage of Master is terrible," she said.
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Book 31. (15 results) Conspirators of Gor

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4 168 This is terrible, terrible! You are an insult to the house, to your sisters, to the national organization.
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4 260 It struck me as strange that she had used the expression 'in this world'? What other world could there be? Could there be another world, one in which one need not strive to ignore or repudiate what one truly was? Was it so wrong, to be true to one's nature, whatever it might be? Was nature so terrib...
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7 455 How terrible, I thought, to be feminine! "Yes," said another.
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8 22 What terrible things might happen to her, were she to be mistaken for a free woman! I then felt another collar, a coffle collar, for one could sense the weight of the attendant chain, a light chain, for we were women, snapped about my neck.
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8 234 How detestable, think the free women, are slaves! How horrifying to want to be owned, to want to belong to a man, wholly, and desire to love and serve him, forever, abjectly, and unquestioningly, to the best of one's ability! And how terrible men are that they should unaccountably prefer a cringing ...
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10 696 It was my first experience of the sudden rage of that form of life, a rage easily aroused, swift, unexpected, unpredictable, terrible and overwhelming, a rage almost impossible to subdue.
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15 198 What then, I wondered, is wrong with this terrible thing, scarcely a body's length away? Why is it so tentative, so uncertain? Then again, as it had from time to time, one of the moons, white and cold, the only one now visible, was discernible, if only for a moment, but the moment was enough to tell...
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22 52 Many women of my old world would have scorned me for this, castigated me for being what I was, myself, would have insisted instead that I share their views and values, would have dictated to me, with terrible social and economic sanctions for noncompliance, would have demanded that I emulate them, a...
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29 27 It seemed to me a terrible weapon, one which might splinter beams, perhaps shatter rocks, but, also, I supposed that it complied with the weapon laws of the Priest-Kings.
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37 215 Consider the terrible centrality of sensation in that brain, the enormity of ambition which might linger, the rage at the loss of its body, the force of a focused, extraordinary rationality, unwilling to accept compromise or limitation, a will determined to have its way, a ruthless mind resolved to ...
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43 100 I recalled Grendel, roped, being led down the hall, preceding his captors, bearing their primitive but terrible weapons.
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48 122 Some of the newcomers rushed upon the defenders with axes, and limbs and heads were smote away, but Kurii loyal to Agamemnon threw themselves on the assailants, seized axes, and there were terrible struggles for the weapons.
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48 330 Grendel stepped forward, to the center of the room, and Lucius, with a cry of rage, unintelligible in the translator, rushed forward and his ax, bright and double edged, described its swift, terrible arc, and in a moment might have cut away a head and part of a shoulder, but it was suddenly arrested...
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51 249 I knew I had not been pleasing, and it is a frightening and terrible thing for a slave not to be pleasing to her master.
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52 179 I must make her mine! I must own her! But what was her relationship to the Lady Bina and the monster? Surely she was a shapely thrall, but what else? I feared she might be in some terrible danger".
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Book 32. (23 results) Smugglers of Gor

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3 6 At last I was free! In a thousand dreams, had this not been done to me? Had I not, in a thousand dreams, been so marked, so designated, so proclaimed, so identified? Am I terrible? Perhaps, perhaps not.
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5 231 Is this so terrible? Is it wrong to be oneself? Perhaps, perhaps not.
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6 13 Do they hate it so? If not, why do they neglect and injure it? Have they another world at hand, a secret one, better and more convenient? Would they not insult and despoil it, as well? What is so terrible about trees and grass, white clouds and blue skies? Perhaps they do not care for such things.
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11 101 How estranged from nature it was! Was nature so fearful that it must be denied, and betrayed? In whose interest was this treason? Was the biography of a world so terrible that gates must be barred against it? Were there not green fields, bracing winds, and a warm sun outside the gates? You can burn ...
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14 414 "But I have heard they are large, and terrible".
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15 697 What had freedom to offer, which might compare with the fulfillments of belonging to, of being possessed by, a master? I had heard of slaves, pathetic collared animals, mere properties, who had undertaken long journeys, undergone terrible hardships, and braved fearful dangers, to find their way back...
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16 80 "She for whom you have come to this strange, terrible wilderness".
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17 32 How deplorable, how terrible! But only one girl, I had learned, had received more offers! I did not know who had made the offers, and thus, had one been accepted, I did not know to whose feet, hooded, I would be put.
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20 95 Some of the girls, however, particularly those of the First Knowledge, deemed lightning, at least upon occasion, the cast, fiery missile of angered Priest-Kings, and its successor, thunder, as proclaiming, for all to understand, the fact of its terrible passage.
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20 138 "It is a terrible night," said a girl.
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21 172 How formidable, how terrible, I thought, must be Priest-Kings.
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21 435 How large the thing was, and, in its way, how terrible.
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23 107 I wondered if some terrible secret was housed here, in this strange place, seemingly lost in the northern forests.
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25 40 And I was thrilled to be such, such as could be owned, and sold, and then I forced such terrible thoughts from my mind.
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39 142 I wanted to be a slave at my master's feet! How such thoughts tormented me! How I tried to fight them, and thrust them from me! How terrible I must be! Could I be so degraded a creature? Surely I was alone, terribly alone.
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39 207 It was planned then to dispatch a small, but swift, terrible force, perhaps only two hundred men, to destroy this ship before it could reach Thassa".
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43 864 Those are not terrible odds, when the alternative is sure death.
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44 32 Almost at the same time, Master Axel, his mien terrible, had cried out and loosed his hideous beast, setting it on the assailant.
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44 40 This was my opportunity, terrible as it was, come unexpectedly.
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48 48 Then the beast stood up fiercely, like a threatening, pulsating mountain, broad and braced, seething, its chest expanded, its paws spread, stood up to each tiny increment of its height, lifted its large, shaggy head angrily to the afternoon sky, and roared, a terrible roar, much like those we had he...
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52 545 "The sleen is a terrible beast," said Axel, "but, too, it has a long memory, and it is capable of affection".
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52 860 I have acknowledged a mighty wanting of you, fierce as the tides of Thassa, and as irresistible and inalterable, that I have fought to free myself from this inexplicable, terrible wanting, and have failed to do so.
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52 933 How small the man appeared next to this terrible, winged monster, its broad wings restless, its head, with its fearful beak, high above the beach, moving alertly about, the large, wicked, round, shining, black eyes.
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Book 33. (10 results) Rebels of Gor

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1 97 Had they not expected something that terrible they would doubtless have recoiled at the very sight of such a creature.
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11 290 "Now you are wary of revealing his identity, fearing disbelief, fearing terrible consequences, possibly lacking adequate proof".
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12 263 "The bones and shells do not lie," said Daichi, in a terrible voice, pointing to the objects in question.
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19 284 "Do you not see what has been done to me? Take me out of this terrible place! Take me out of this pen! It is a pen! A pen! Take me out of this pen! It is a pen for slaves, for slaves! Do you not know what is done with us here, what is expected of us, what we must do! Do you not understand the dirt, ...
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20 187 "How terrible it must be," she said, "serving men, knowing that you are their beast, and will be punished if not found pleasing".
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45 21 "If it were frequently seen it would be obvious that, however awesome it is, it is not a living, breathing dragon, no egg-sprung beast of flesh and blood, but a contrivance of sorts, terrible though it may be.
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45 23 "It is terrible enough," said Haruki.
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54 135 "This is a terrible thing," said Tajima.
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60 244 The spinning war fan is a terrible weapon, but once discharged, it is not easily recovered.
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61 233 The tarn, an aggressive, terrible bird, senses diffidence, hesitation, and fear.
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Book 34. (16 results) Plunder of Gor

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25 35 He wore the somber robes and dark chaplet of the others but seemed more dour, more formidable, more terrible, surely in a way the others did not.
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33 571 These things were fearful, and, in a terrible way, they were graceful.
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33 611 How terrible, and fearsome, seemed that form of life! What could stand against such things? Might not such things rule worlds? My comprehension, and the horror of it, seemed far more grievous than the impact I had sustained.
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33 638 But they struck her, those terrible, mighty things, until she whimpered and cringed, and then they hooded and bundled her in the very sheet of canvas in which Kurik had expected to conceal her, to take her through the streets of Brundisium in the night.
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33 712 "They are terrible things," I said.
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33 757 "The animals, the beasts," I said, "how fearsome they are, such terrible things".
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40 132 "Abandon these terrible games".
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41 138 "It is hideous, dangerous, terrible! I did not know such things could exist! I saw only the woman at first.
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51 162 "I assure you, you are in dreadful danger, terrible danger," said Kurik.
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53 119 Did I not know how dear Drusus Andronicus was to her, how she rejoiced at his feet? How could I, supposedly her friend, have done what I had done? With what contempt and amusement, with what disgust and loathing, she must now view me, and with such terrible justification! "Follow us," said Kurik.
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54 56 "I am not ugly, I am not terrible?" she asked.
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54 58 "You are not ugly, you are not terrible.
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56 196 "It is a frightful, terrible thing," said Lord Grendel.
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61 385 You are in terrible jeopardy.
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63 235 It remained, thus, a secret, my terrible secret, a secret that, daily, grew harder to bear.
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66 6 Why, I wondered, can one not be left alone, to learn oneself and find oneself? Is that so terrible, to be what one is? Some profit, I supposed, from laws that would make nature illegal.
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Book 35. (27 results) Quarry of Gor

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1 94 How I had fought this suspicion, the dreams and reveries, this whispering, pressing conviction that I was a slave, a natural slave! Was I such that I should be a rightless possession? Did I long to be owned, to have a master? Did I long to love and serve, surrendered and vulnerable, helpless, owned,...
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1 241 If I was so terrible a person, I did not care.
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1 243 On the other hand, it did not seem terrible to me.
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2 154 "This is all a terrible mistake! Clothe me! Take this collar off my neck! I should not be here! This is not my world! I do not belong here! I cannot be sold! I am a woman of Earth! Of Earth! I cannot be sold! I am free, free!" He looked at me, puzzled.
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7 87 The men were masked, with the exception of the newcomer, whose visage, as he glared down at me, was terrible with rage.
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7 143 I sensed that, if he had been whole, and armed, he might have moved with a terrible swiftness, and that none of my abductors, though they were ten in number, would have left the chamber, which I now saw to be a cabin, alive.
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7 213 I sensed he was capable of terrible violence.
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8 535 "What fate could be so horrible," I asked, "that to it you would prefer so frightening, so terrible, a fate?" "I hoped to reach the shore," she said.
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8 908 "The lesson taught must be terrible and unmistakable".
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8 933 "I heard speak," I said, "of a lesson, terrible and unmistakable".
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9 45 On the other hand, less happily, they are also designed to punish, and with terrible effectiveness.
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17 145 "He was once whole," I said, "and, I fear, terrible".
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21 85 It was a dread, terrible object.
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21 90 Was this some accident? Had I been mistaken for someone else? Who would wish to attack me? Who would wish to kill me, and why, I, a helpless slave? What had I done? Was this some terrible mistake? Was I, unknown to myself, involved in intrigues, plots, or schemes about which I knew nothing? Was I th...
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23 31 Would it not be terrible to place a slave in such garmenture, and then arrange to have her, so compromised, discovered? Who could so hate a slave? Perhaps a free woman? Perhaps the Lady Dorna? I pulled at the clothing, and feared I knew what it was, and then I rose and went closer to the small lamp ...
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24 248 Then I realized again, suddenly, the terrible danger in which I stood.
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27 139 He now, supported by the crutch, glowering, terrible in size and mien, faced the third man.
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33 261 I was terrified in the bow of the tiny rence craft, so near now to the canal boat, and the dread thing of such terrible mien, illuminated in the light of the two lanterns.
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33 540 I tried to force such terrible memories from my mind, but could not do so.
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33 607 I had managed to escape, I was sure, from terrible danger.
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36 73 I still remembered the terrible tunic of pain and the noxious fumes she had inflicted on me in her apartment.
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38 275 Of what value would my life be had I had complied with her request? Too, even if I could be free of the house to wander about, there would have been terrible dangers attendant on such an action.
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40 158 "The wrath of Bosk is a terrible thing," said Miles.
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41 77 These swift, terrible, broad-winged monsters were rare in the vicinity of Port Kar.
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43 158 There was a sudden rending of wood and the iron-reinforced prow of our canal boat rose out of the water, climbing the gunwales of the other boat, and then, after a terrible moment, plunged back into the water, scattered planking and timbers on each side.
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43 174 Fear rather terrible ships yet unseen, narrow ships, swift and long oared, even now coursing in our wake".
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46 554 If I was a slave, why should I not be as a slave? Why should the essence of my being be denied, or disguised? Is honesty so fearful? Is truth so terrible? No longer was I ashamed, for I wanted my slavery and loved my slavery.
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Book 36. (7 results) Avengers of Gor

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1 240 As unpredictable and terrible as might be the raids, as anomalous as might be the vanishing of ships, as elusive as might be the raiders, one thing was sturdily, unmistakably clear, he against whom blame was levied.
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1 262 "What place is this, so far and terrible?" I asked.
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3 39 "It is a fearful, terrible weapon," said Aktis.
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13 76 "You are wrong! That is not true! We are not adherents of the terrible Bosk of Port Kar! We are not of Port Kar! We are not the men of Bosk, not he of Port Kar! That is a pretense, a sham, a disguise!" "I do not believe you," I said.
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18 15 "That is the part of the story I did not tell," he said, "the terrible part, the part I would dare not tell, the part I was ashamed to tell".
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19 161 "The terrible bow," he said, "from which fly the birds of death".
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21 160 Nicomachos, I was sure, for better or for worse, would have died a terrible death.
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