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Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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2 235 There was another possibility I mentioned to my father—perhaps the planet had been in our system all the time, but had been undiscovered, unlikely though that might be, given the thousands of years of study of the skies by men, from the shambling creatures of the Neander Valley to the brillia...
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13 10 To the southwest I could see dimly the evening light reflected from the spires of Ar, and to the north, approaching from the Vosk, I could see the glow from what must be thousands of cooking fires, the night's camp of Pa-Kur.
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15 4 Across the city, from the walls to the cylinders and among the cylinders, I could occasionally see the slight flash of sunlight on the swaying tarn wires, literally hundreds of thousands of slender, almost invisible wires stretched in a protective net across the city.
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15 10 Some hundreds of yards from the wall, just beyond crossbow range, a gigantic ditch was being dug by thousands of siege slaves and prisoners.
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15 14 Between the ditch and the walls of the city, under the cover of darkness, thousands of sharpened stakes had been set, inclined toward the walls.
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16 66 "The siege might be lifted," I said, "if a force could take Pa-Kur by surprise, a force of some thousands of warriors attacking from the unprotected side of the camp".
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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. (2 results) Outlaw of Gor

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13 145 As I stood there in the center of the arena, alone, silent, aloof, not seeming to hear them, those hundreds, rather thousands, who wore the silver masks understood that their will had been spurned, that this creature alone on the sand beneath them had thwarted their pleasure.
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14 194 The awnings had been struck, but the stands were still filled, as the thousands of silver masks of Tharna waited for the golden Tatrix herself to be the first to leave that scene of the macabre amusements of the gray city.
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Book 3. (6 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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4 10 It had been polished by the sandals of countless men and women who had walked before where I now walked, perhaps thousands of years ago, perhaps yesterday, perhaps this morning.
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12 48 He turned to the walls behind him, which were covered with thousands of tiny illuminated knobs.
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13 11 Scents, of course, will fade in time, but the specially prepared synthetic products of the Priest-Kings can last for thousands of years and, in the long run, will surely outlast the fading print of human books, the disintegrating celluloid of our films, perhaps even the carved, weathering stones so ...
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13 107 "Long ago it functioned in the Nest," said one of the slaves, "as a sewerage device, but it has not served that function in many thousands of years".
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26 259 As the girl spoke and I tried to lightly dismiss her words, I wondered at the long processes of evolution that had nurtured over thousands of generations what had in time become the human kind.
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33 77 There were thousands of cheers and cries of gratitude to the Priest-Kings.
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Book 4. (32 results) Nomads of Gor

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23 144 Suddenly rising over the crest of rolling hills, like black floods, from both the left and the right, I saw on racing kaiila what must have been thousands of warriors, thousands upon thousands.
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23 118 There we could see new thousands forming, the standards of Hundreds and Thousands taking up their position.
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23 149 And I looked and saw suddenly and my heart stopped beating and then I uttered a wild cry for from the left, riding with the Thousands sweeping over the hills, I saw the standard of the Yellow Bow, and on the right, flying forward with the hurtling Thousands, its leather streaming behind its pole, I ...
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23 152 And even the sky seemed dark for a moment as, from the left and right, thousands upon thousands of arrows fell like dark rain among the startled, stumbling, turning Paravaci.
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3 119 I could now see the herds quite clearly, making out individual animals, the shaggy humps moving through the dust, see the sun of the late afternoon glinting off thousands of horns.
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5 54 The wagons of the Wagon Peoples are, in their hundreds and thousands, in their brilliant, variegated colors, a glorious sight.
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6 75 It then occurred to me that it might have been for just this purpose that she had been sent to the Tuchuks, to single out the one man from among all the thousands with the wagons who could understand her and speak with her, thus identifying and marking him.
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7 89 Miss Cardwell was little different from thousands of lovely working girls in the great cities of Earth, perhaps more intelligent than many, perhaps prettier than most, but essentially the same, girls living alone or together in apartments, working in offices and studios and shops, struggling to earn...
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7 188 Now I understood, as I had only suspected before, why an English-speaking girl was necessary to bear the collar, that she might be the device whereby I would be singled out from the hundreds and thousands among the wagons, and so be marked for death.
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8 43 Thousands of the Wagon Peoples, free and slave, dug in the snow to find a handful of grass to feed their animals.
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14 2 War lanterns, green and blue and yellow, were already burning on poles in the darkness, signaling the rallying grounds of the Orlus, the Hundreds, and the Oralus, the Thousands.
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14 30 There on a front pasangs in length, already the Thousands had nearly formed, and long lines of riders, few gaps in their ranks, waited, lance in hand, their eyes on the war lanterns.
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14 48 When we had passed through the ranks, which had remained still, those thousands of warriors simply turned their kaiila, the last of them now first, and followed us.
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14 65 Literally thousands of arrows had been fired through the dome into the wagon.
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21 45 I was hardly questioned by guards at the gates of Turia, for the city is a commercial oasis in the plains and during a year hundreds of caravans, not to mention thousands of small merchants, on foot or with a single tharlarion wagon, enter her gates.
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21 360 He was flanked by officers of the Tuchuks, commanders of Thousands, mounted as he was and armed.
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22 21 It was invested by better than two of the Thousands.
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23 57 We found thousands of bosk slain in the grass, their throats cut, their flesh rotting, the golden nose rings chopped or torn away.
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23 63 But then we could see, forming on the crest of a hill, thousands of Paravaci warriors, apparently held in readiness in case reinforcements should come.
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23 76 Thousands of animals were already turned toward the approaching enemy and beginning to walk toward them when the Paravaci suddenly realized what was happening.
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23 97 Shortly after dawn we discovered the Paravaci forming in their Thousands away from the herd, preparing to strike the wagons from the north, pressing through, slaying all living things they might encounter, save women, slave or free.
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23 106 At a distance of little more than a dozen feet thousands of arrows were poured into the trapped Paravaci and yet they pressed forward, on and over their brethren, and then, arrows spent, we met them on the wagons themselves with lances in our hands, thrusting them back and down.
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23 129 We heard the bosk horns of the Paravaci signaling to the assembled Thousands.
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23 158 "To your animals!" And in an instant it seemed the wagon lashings had been cut by quivas and our hundreds of warriors, the pitiful remnant of our two Thousands, swept forth upon the Paravaci, riding as though they had been fresh rested and ready, shouting the wild war cry of the Tuchuks.
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23 190 In the morning the warriors remaining of the two Thousands who had ridden with Harold and I would, with the help of other Tuchuks surviving among the wagons, move the wagons and the bosk from the field.
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24 40 Still I was not altogether satisfied, for, on the whole, it seemed to me that Turia might yet have survived even had Kamchak's forces wrought much greater destruction than they had—for example, opening but a single gate and permitting only a few hundred, rather than thousands to escape the ci...
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25 164 I could scarcely believe that the proud creature who stood chained before me was she whom Kamchak and I had referred to as the Little Barbarian; whom I had been able to think of only as a timid, simple girl of Earth, a young, pretty little secretary, one of nameless, unimportant thousands of such in...
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26 23 "My own recommendation," Harold was saying, "would be first to fly my tarn cavalry over the walls, clearing them with thousands of arrows, and then, in a second wave, to fly dozens of ropes of warriors to the roofs of the main buildings, to seize them and burn the others".
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26 66 The House of Saphrar was encircled literally by thousands of warriors.
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27 7 I recalled that never before had Turia fallen, not since the founding of the city, perhaps thousands of years ago.
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27 147 "That," said he, "the Kataii and the Kassars—and, too, in time the Paravaci—would see how we might be divided against ourselves and singly destroyed—and would thus recognize the need for uniting the standards, bringing together the Thousands under one command—" "That they...
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28 58 These were year names—which would be remembered by the Year Keepers, whose memories knew the names of thousands of consecutive years.
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Book 5. (20 results) Assassin of Gor

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5 192 For many months, while you labored in our service in the Land of the Wagon Peoples, thousands upon thousands of those of Ko-ro-ba have returned to the city.
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4 100 "There are thousands of such in Ar".
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4 106 "It is unlikely though," said Cernus, "for those who favor the Greens are numbered in the thousands and come from all the castes of Gor.
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5 322 "For some thousands of years they have, except for continual probes, usually tests to prove the sex of their Dominants, remained beyond the fifth ring.
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5 627 In such a small thing as these knots I was again reminded of the central differences in sex and personality that divide human beings, differences expressed in thousands of subtleties, many of which are often overlooked, as in the way a piece of cloth might be folded, a letter formed, a color remembe...
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9 13 Slavers are angry, incidentally, when a city does fall, for then the market is likely to be depressed for months, due to the influx of new slaves, sometimes numbered in the thousands.
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16 136 At the races Relius and Ho-Sorl unsnapped the slave leashes and, though in the stands, amid thousands of people, Virginia and Phyllis were free.
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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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19 145 The northern forests, the haunts of bandits and unusual beasts, far to the north and east of Ko-ro-ba, my city, are magnificent, deep forests, covering hundreds of thousands of square pasangs.
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19 418 "Is there a man here," asked Elizabeth, "who would not wish to take me in his arms?" The deafening response, "No!" shouted from thousands of voices, shook the amphitheater.
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19 420 "I!" came the thousands of responses, making the very walls ring with their pleasure.
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20 48 I gasped, for it was Claudia Tentia Hinrabia, once the spoiled daughter of a Ubar of Ar, now a rightless wench in bondage, not unlike thousands of others in Glorious Ar.
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21 38 "The very fact that Cernus appears to be of the faction of the Greens influences thousands of our citizens; it itself, with the frequent victories of the Greens, is enough to make the Greens generally favored in the betting.
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21 383 Now those Taurentians left in the stands suddenly failed to restrain the crowds and thousands of citizens were leaping into the arena and others were swarming across the tiers toward the box of the Ubar.
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21 390 The crowds, in their thousands, began to swarm over the walls, dropping to the sand screaming.
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22 588 Then gates leading onto the sand burst open and thousands of citizens, come from the Stadium of Blades, marching and singing, entered the Stadium of Tarns, at their head, helmeted and mighty, sword in hand, the magnificent Murmillius, hero of the Stadium of Blades.
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22 594 And then, followed by his thousands, singing, across the sand, strode Murmillius.
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22 610 Once again the thousands in that place began to sing.
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24 67 "Through the Steels we wished to have a faction that would, like Murmillius, in the Stadium of Blades, sway the imagination of men, and win the allegiance of thousands of those of Ar.
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24 74 Then Marlenus, as Murmillius, entered the Stadium of Tarns, followed by his hundreds, followed by their thousands.
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Book 6. (8 results) Raiders of Gor

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9 159 Tarnsmen, aflight, might annoy her with arrows or fire, but it did not seem they could seriously harm her, not unless they come in thousands upon thousands, and not even Ar, Glorious Ar, possessed tarn cavalries so great.
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16 340 And I heard men behind him cry, "There is a Home Stone in Port Kar! There is a Home Stone in Port Kar!" This cry was taken up by thousands, and everywhere I saw men pause in their flight, and boats put about, and men pour from the entryways of their buildings onto the walks lining the canals.
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16 341 I saw bundles thrown down and arms unsheathed, and behind us, in throngs of thousands now, came the people of Port Kar, following us to the great piazza before the hall of the Council of Captains.
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16 390 Torches! Thousands!" "What is it that they cry!" demanded Bejar.
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16 420 "It is Bosk, Admiral!" I looked out into the thousands of faces, the hundreds of torches.
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16 426 "I have seen it! The Home Stone of Port Kar!" "The Home Stone of Port Kar!" cried thousands.
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17 2 It was a very beautiful sight, the great lines of ships in the distance, extending to the ends of the horizons, the sails like yellow and purple flags, in their thousands, in the sun of the ninth Gorean hour, an Ahn before noon.
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17 147 There were so many thousands of factors, impossible to foresee, so much that might alter, or shift unaccountably.
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Book 7. (7 results) Captive of Gor

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2 56 I could see thousands of windows, some with the sun reflecting from them, in the unreal golden haze.
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3 139 Through the open curtains I could see the tens of thousands of bright rectangles of windows, many of them still illuminated.
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6 253 I regarded myself as a fantastically beautiful woman, one among perhaps tens of thousands.
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9 224 The forests of the northern temperate latitudes of Gor are countries in themselves, covering hundreds of thousands of square pasangs of area.
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13 787 On Gor I did not doubt but what there were thousands of women, slaves, at least, who were far more beautiful than I.
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13 1115 It had been different on Earth! Certainly there thousands of men must have been thrilled to see the sight of me, and conjecture the nature of the luscious but cold secrets concealed within the elegancies of those expensive, artfully arranged habiliments.
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17 480 This house has withstood a siege of thousands, within the last two years, in the time of the warrings of the Ubars and the Council of Captains, and the great engagement between the fleet of Port Kar and that of Tyros and Cos, on the twenty-fifth of Se'Kara, 10,120 Contasta Ar, from the Founding of A...
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Book 8. (5 results) Hunters of Gor

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1 222 The great merchant galleys of Port Kar, and Cos, and Tyros, and other maritime powers, utilized thousands of such miserable wretches, fed on brews of peas and black bread, chained in the rowing holds, under the whips of slave masters, their lives measured by feedings and beatings, and the labor of t...
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11 166 "If you will observe," said Marlenus, who had studied thousands of women, "she seems ready, even marvelous, but yet there is a subtle unreadiness, a subtle stiffness in her body.
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18 11 He turned to face the Sardar, thousands of pasangs away.
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22 696 There are hundreds of thousands of women who are also slaves.
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22 707 In Gorean thinking man and woman are natural animals, with genetic endowments shaped by thousands of generations of natural and sexual selection.
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Book 9. (7 results) Marauders of Gor

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11 213 This march might be the first step in an invasion, to culminate with the beaching of silver ships, in their thousands, raiders from the stars, on the shores of Gor.
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12 34 Thousands entered the contests.
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15 23 There might have been hundreds; there might have been thousands.
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17 77 Below us, in the valley, we could see the coals of thousands of fires in the camp of the Kurii.
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17 330 The thousands of the men of Torvaldsland, on either side of the valley, made ready.
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17 333 The breathing of thousands of men, waiting to be unleashed, to plunge to the valley, for an instant was held.
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18 641 The Forkbeard and I, it had been, who had found the arrow of war in the Torvaldsberg, who had touched it to other arrows, which, in hundreds of villages and camps, over thousands of square pasangs of rugged, inlet-cleft terrain, had been carried to the free men of the north, that they might fetch th...
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Book 10. (13 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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10 376 The girl, one among thousands less fortunate, had encountered a male, surely, too, one among thousands, who could be, and was, to her and for her, her absolute and natural master, the ideal and perfect male for her, dominant and uncompromising, who could, and would, demand and get her full, yielding...
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1 483 "How well did he know the desert? How much water had he?" The man might have come thousands of pasangs before the kaiila had died, or fled.
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1 818 The area, in extent, east of Tor, was hundreds of pasangs in depth, and perhaps thousands in length.
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2 21 These communities, sometimes quite large, numbering in hundreds, sometimes thousands of citizens, depending on the water available, are often hundreds of pasangs apart.
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2 79 It was headquarters for thousands of caravan merchants.
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8 74 By the time word of the raid reached Nine Wells the raiders might be thousands of pasangs away.
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10 379 The dominant male is thus selected for in mate competition; the undominant male tends, statistically, to lose out to his stronger, more intelligent foe; correspondingly, evolution selected for the female who responds to the dominant male; she who fled such men either mated with weaker men, her child...
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11 70 The main swarms had passed but, clinging about us, like crawling spots on our garments, and in and among the hairs of the kaiila, in their thousands, crept the residue of the infestation.
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14 238 "Inadvertently," he said, "thousands of warriors, preparing, hasten even now to do my bidding, to fly at one another's throats".
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15 2 Thousands serve there, held captive by the desert.
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23 193 The veiled figure, robed in white, with the lance and pennon, nodded his head, accepting the command of these thousands of fierce warriors.
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25 485 She had thousands of pasangs to go, but we had made a start with her, enough to get her through the halls.
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26 817 One iron, properly cared for, can mark thousands of women.
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Book 11. (13 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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2 316 It was as though, in asking for chains of iron, I had cast off thousands of invisible chains, which had held me from myself.
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2 782 Biology, and a nature, the product of harsh, exacting thousands of generations of evolution, of time, and breeding and animal history, was unimportant.
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3 530 In the fall of the city of Turia, some years ago, thousands of its citizens had fled, many of them merchants or of merchant families; with the preservation of the city, and the restoration of the Ubarate of Phanius Turmus, many of these families returned; new contacts had been made, new products dis...
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6 128 It is, I suppose, given its nature, a military road leading to the north, broad enough to accommodate war tharlarion, treading abreast, and the passage, two or three, side by side, of thousands of supply wagons and siege engines, without unduly, for more than several pasangs, extending and exposing ...
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6 129 Such roads permit the swift movement of thousands of men, useful either in the defense of borders, the meeting of armies, or in the expansions of imperialism, the conquests of the weak.
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7 504 She was now no different from thousands of other girls who shared her condition, that of total bondage.
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9 886 In Ar alone, each year, thousands of such girls are vended and procured in the slave markets".
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9 1005 Though there are doubtless difficulties involved with caste structure the caste situation lends an individual identity and pride, allies him with thousands of caste brothers, and provides him with various opportunities and services.
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19 129 It seemed to be indistinguishable from thousands of necklaces which I had seen on the throats of slave girls.
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22 361 In any event, the Gorean culture is designed to celebrate and enhance nature, not to frustrate her, not to sicken and poison her; in nature there is complementarity; there is dominance and submission; that is in the genes of a thousand species, including our own; if the dice of genetics ever, long a...
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24 53 "There are thousands better," he said.
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25 85 "It is based upon letter counts," said Bosk, "over thousands of words in varieties of manuscripts".
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28 39 They represent, supposedly, the first nine girls taken, thousands of years ago, by the men of a small village, called Ar.
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Book 12. (17 results) Beasts of Gor

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1 16 It began, I suppose, some thousands of years ago when Kurii, in internecine wars, destroyed the viability of a native world.
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1 39 The Priest-kings, for thousands of years, had defended the system of the yellow star against the depredations of the prowling Kurii.
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2 224 Did she think her sex, her richness and beauty, and needs, were mere contigencies, tangential to her being? She seemed much the victim of the neuterizing propagandas of a dry, thin, intellectually ugly world, the dupe of lies designed to conceal herself from herself, whose intent was to enlist her a...
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3 1294 Thousands were at the fair.
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4 432 I could not even hear the shouting of the thousands outside the amphitheater.
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6 697 "Indeed, thousands of birds migrate each spring to the nesting cliffs of the polar basin".
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7 126 "On the wharves," I said, "there are thousands of hides".
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9 6 Beyond the wall there milled thousands of tabuk, for it had been built across the path of their northward migration.
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9 12 "Hides," she said, "thousands, not yet shipped south".
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9 47 He turned away, to look out over the railing on the platform, and out over the high wall, to the thousands of animals, like cattle, beyond.
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10 265 On the other side of the wall there were thousands of tabuk.
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10 266 New thousands arrived each day, from the paths east of Torvaldsland.
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10 285 "You are mistaken," I said, "our allies number in the thousands".
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12 238 It is thousands of pasangs in width, and hundreds in depth; it extends, beyond horizons we could see, to the southern edge of the northern, or polar, sea.
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12 335 It, or thousands of its animals, fleeing the drivers, pour toward the large, open end of the funnel.
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15 851 "But over a large population," she said, "there would be literally thousands".
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24 204 On this world there are hundreds of thousands of men fully capable of mastering you.
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Book 13. (15 results) Explorers of Gor

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32 360 You are the result of thousands upon thousands of women who have pleased men.
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1 376 Such tiny, swift tharlarion, in their thousands, can take the meat from a kailiauk in an Ehn.
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1 485 The delta of the Vosk, for most practical purposes, a vast marsh, an area of thousands of square pasangs, where the Vosk washes down to the sea, is closed to shipping.
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1 565 "This is information which I have received but recently from the Sardar, but it is based on an intelligence thousands of years old, obtained then from a delirious Kur commander, and confirmed by documents obtained in various wreckages, the most recent of which dates from some four hundred years ago.
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2 96 On Gor, of course, she would be only another of hundreds of thousands of delicious slaves.
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7 93 Thousands of men have already died.
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7 103 Those walls were built to keep back animals and bands of brigands, not an army of thousands of men.
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12 466 We shall ignore thousands of infractions and insubordinations in the past, presumptions, and speakings, and actions, and consider only the past few moments.
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16 88 The eventual intent of Bila Huruma was not only to open the rain forests of the deep interior, and whatever might lie within the system of the Ua and her tributaries, to commercial exploitation and military expansion, but to drain the marshes between the two mighty lakes, Ushindi and Ngao, that that...
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29 7 It lived on the white ants, or termites, of the vicinity, breaking apart their high, towering nests of toughened clay, some of them thirty-five feet in height, with its mighty claws, then darting its four-foot-long tongue, coated with adhesive saliva, among the nest's startled occupants, drawing tho...
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32 169 In the night, in the darkness, one senses the almost indefinite extension of the jungle, thousands of pasangs in width and depth, about one.
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34 676 The movements are not dissimilar perhaps to those of women who, thousands of years ago, danced in firelit caves before their masters.
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50 7 We must be thousands of feet Gorean, given the length of the river, the numerous plunging cataracts, and the plateaus and levels we had ascended, above sea level, above the entrance points, west of Ngao and Ushindi, of the brown Kamba and Nyoka into the green waters of Thassa.
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53 61 In it, as had been demonstrated, by the hurling of a haunch of tarsk into the waters, crowded and schooling, were thousands of blue grunt.
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57 67 One could then, for thousands of pasangs, follow the Ua until one reached its terminus in Lake Shaba.
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Book 14. (6 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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1 204 "Many thousands of individuals think in terms of the world, its nature and promise," I said, "not in terms of slogans and verbal formulas.
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1 313 "Thousands of planes and ships, year in and year out, safely traverse the Bermuda Triangle," I said.
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13 471 Objectively, I suppose, she was no more beautiful than thousands of other girls, but to me she was the most exciting woman I had ever seen.
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22 383 The institution of female slavery on Gor is doubtless thousands of years old; accordingly it is natural that there should be great complexity and refinement in such a delicious art form as slave dance.
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27 113 Needless to say, the institution of female slavery is a familiar one on Gor, with a tradition behind it, it seems, of thousands of years.
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32 268 "They did so for thousands of years," I said.
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Book 15. (4 results) Rogue of Gor

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6 118 How could one hope to find one girl among thousands, even tens of thousands, scattered throughout the cities and towns, the fields and villages, of Gor.
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9 159 And in this she was surely not other than thousands of other frightened, confused, unhappy women, ordered to deny themselves, to betray their sexuality, women fearing to question propounded absurdities, struggling to be thoughtlessly, uncritically obedient to the dictates of fanatics.
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18 100 "There are thousands," I said.
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21 196 "There must be hundreds of girls from Earth, perhaps some thousands, who wear their collars on Gor," she said.
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Book 16. (3 results) Guardsman of Gor

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17 274 She was a female, with her own nature, rich, complex, and deep, with thousands of years behind her of sexual selection and genetic coding, of choices and love, not a piece of vacuous clay to be twisted into a grotesquerie by the intolerant and unhappy, not an empty vessel to be mindlessly filled wit...
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18 321 In coming here I have found myself, for the first time, in a world such as that for which I, thousands of years ago, was bred.
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19 1007 She must do her best, now little different from thousands of others, many regarded as more beautiful than she, to make herself something special to a master, lest she prove less than fully pleasing, and be fed to sleen.
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Book 17. (11 results) Savages of Gor

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1 260 Such stories, for they were very old on Gor, probably go back thousands of years, dating from the times of very early Voyages of Acquisition, undertaken by venturesome, inquisitive creatures of an alien species, one known to most Goreans only as the Priest-Kings.
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1 789 Such creatures, perhaps thousands of years ago, had, it seemed, destroyed their own world.
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4 88 The perimeter was thousands of pasangs long.
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5 77 "There are thousands of savages in the Barrens," I said.
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6 24 Under the roofs of these open sheds, on platforms, tied in bundles, are thousands of hides.
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6 35 Besides these major herds there are several smaller, identifiable herds numbering in the hundreds of thousands of animals.
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6 40 These herds, too, interestingly enough, appear to have their annual grazing patterns, usually describing a gigantic oval, seasonally influenced, which covers many thousands of pasangs.
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6 44 It does not, for example, like certain flocks of birds, venture annually in roughly linear paths from the north to the south, and from the south to the north, covering thousands of pasangs in a series of orthogonal alternations.
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13 571 "Do you think that any women on my world are held in bondage?" "Certainly," I said, "hundreds of thousands".
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13 1032 You share it with thousands".
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16 103 This trove was the object of the patient industry of ants, thousands of them, from perhaps a hundred hills about.
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Book 18. (2 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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9 100 "On Gor thousands of beautiful women, branded, and in collars, serve, and must serve, their masters with the fullness of their female perfections".
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39 233 "How laughable and delicious would the little collared chits find it that I, who so scorned them, am not only now, too, a slave, but a low slave, one with only a leather collar, one not even permitted clothing, a cheap, inexpensive slave, thousands of pasangs from civilization, a meaningless slave i...
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Book 19. (8 results) Kajira of Gor

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4 636 Thousands, perhaps millions of women on Earth, I thought, must secretly pine for such men.
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6 350 It had been pleasant to walk through the cool halls of the libraries, with their thousands of scrolls organized and cataloged, and through the galleries on the avenue of Iphicrates.
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9 101 My features, it seemed, would be well known to thousands.
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13 41 "Your features," said Miles of Argentum, "are surely well known to hundreds, if not thousands".
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17 41 And in Corcyrus, and the camp of Miles of Argentum, thousands must have seen me! Muchly did I bemoan my fate.
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17 48 It is one way amongst thousands, I suppose, in which a woman's figure may be appealingly exhibited.
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30 564 Thousands would be able to identify me as the Tatrix! But their plans had gone awry.
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36 862 For thousands of years the needs, the appetitiveness, the dangerousness, the tempting seductiveness of the female have been recognized, in myths, in stories, in teachings, in folk lore, in histories, in practices.
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Book 20. (7 results) Players of Gor

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1 237 I had seen thousands of slave girls who were more beautiful than she but, to be sure, there was no doubt about it; she was quite beautiful.
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2 1662 Similarly you do not have her socio-natural vulnerability, that of the legal slave, helplessly so, in a society in which the institution of slavery is accepted, ingredient, pervasive, and honored, an unshakable matter, for thousands of years, of policy, tradition, and law".
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6 41 Carrying a tarn goad and moving about the stage in a certain manner suggests that one is riding a tarn; a kaiila crop, or kaiila goad, and a change of gait suggests that one is riding a kaiila; a branch on the stage can stand for a forest or a bit of a wall for a city; standing on a box or small tab...
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6 1365 "There are thousands of girls for sale here, in the care of hundreds of owners".
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10 657 "Thousands of slaves," said I, "are your superior in beauty".
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21 29 I recalled that I had once told the Lady Yanina that there were thousands of slaves more beautiful than she, but she had dismissed this observation on the grounds that it was a pointless irrelevance, as the slaves could be bought and sold.
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22 208 Thousands of men, trained to perfection in both Cos and Tyros, embark upon vessels.
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Book 21. (13 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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4 180 "Thousands," I informed him.
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10 42 "But the sky over the city is crisscrossed with thousands of strands of tarn wire.
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15 184 "It covers thousands of square pasangs.
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16 519 "But nature is the best breeder, and she has been breeding slaves for men for thousands of years.
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18 127 "Because it is the greatest city in thousands of pasangs," she said.
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18 128 "Because it is rich and busy, populous and thriving, a hub of commerce, the mistress of thousands of pasangs of arable soil and verdant pasture land".
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20 30 Within the gamut of those gleaming walls, so lofty and mighty, rose thousands of buildings, and a veritable forest of ascendant towers, of diverse heights and colors.
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21 3 "Thousands of you are in the city," he said, "from Torcadino and other places".
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21 363 "Why not any one of thousands of others?" "She was of high family," said a man.
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22 307 "Thousands live in them".
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23 23 Do you think we want folks streaming in from thousands of pasangs about to rob us of our places?" "I suppose not," I said.
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25 930 "The daughter of a ubar may bring ten thousand pieces of gold in a private sale," said the hostess, "but, as a woman, as a mere female on a chain, she may be worth far less than thousands of wenches one might lead home for a few copper tarsks".
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25 1400 A hitherto frigid woman, even one smug in her arctic hauteur, one evincing an icy disdain, one complacently proud of her cool, pinioned passion, one contemptuous of her less inert, more vital sisters, once collared, once mastered, undergoes a radical transformation, one startling to those who might ...
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Book 22. (10 results) Dancer of Gor

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3 208 Surely not! Nowhere! Nowhere! But I knew, of course, that men had, and commonly had, in thousands of places, for thousands of years, treated us, or some women, at least, perhaps luckless, unfortunate ones, exactly as they had pleased, holding them and keeping them, as no more than dogs and chattels.
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3 777 I had walked upon that carpet thousands of times.
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3 858 On the other hand, I had little doubt that many women in the past, in such places, and in thousands of others, had had their behavior corrected with perfection by just such instruments and their kin, such as the switch, the strap, the bastinado.
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6 337 In this culture it seemed that slavery, bondage such as mine, at least, was an essential ingredient, that it was unquestioned, or, if it had been questioned, that the questions had been resolved long ago, and in favor of the collar, that it was a matter of tradition, perhaps a tradition of thousands...
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10 411 Too, thousands of females from Torcadino alone, over the recent months, in virtue of one coup or another, have been put into the market.
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34 179 "I am sure there are thousands, perhaps millions, like me," I said.
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34 339 Could I not then, though it was I who was in a collar, make use of his feelings to own him? Too, he had followed me for months, over thousands of pasangs.
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34 556 "The best slaves," he said, "are often those who on Earth are the quiet, soft, gentle, shy women, sometimes even those who fear they are unattractive, having imbibed absurd criteria from a mechanistic, pathological society, and do not know how exciting and desirable they are, the natural woman, sele...
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34 688 Yet surely the masters knew the effect of bondage, and a collar, on a woman! Surely the masters well knew that thousands of their girls were love slaves, ready to die for their masters.
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34 722 Should that not count for something? I recalled that he had sought me, for thousands of pasangs, not resting until he had brought me within his sovereignty.
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Book 23. (16 results) Renegades of Gor

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1 143 It ran from the pitched surface of the road downward, in tiny rivers; it struck into the swirling ditch water, lashing it into foam, dashing it upwards, its impact registered in thousands of overlapping circles and leaping crowns of water.
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2 65 "I have heard there are thousands of Cosians, their auxiliaries, and their mercenaries, at Ar's Station," he said.
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6 472 It was decided for you before you were born, indeed, thousands of generations before you were born.
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10 236 Perhaps they are, to some extent, like slave dance, instinctive, the biological template, or genetic dispositions for them, having been selected for thousands of years ago, the most pleasing of captive women, perhaps those squirming best on their tethers, or in their bonds, tending to be utilized fo...
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11 264 After all, it is not easy to conceal the whereabouts of thousands of men from a foe with tarn scouts.
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14 193 When the trumpets had rung out there had been, too, from before the citadel, raised the war cries of thousands of men.
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15 525 Almost simultaneously there were raised thousands of cheers.
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15 654 Such things speak to them of their place in nature, that they by right, and by ancient genetic decree, belong to men, that they are of a sort which, with all their beauty and desirability, over thousands of generations, have been bred for masters.
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16 110 I considered the approaching towers, the thousands of men I could see in the field, the ladders being carried, the supporting engines.
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18 37 "Still," I said, "there must have been thousands in the city when the investment lines were closed".
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20 45 But then one hears many names, thousands of names, here and there.
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21 917 She then looked about herself, frightened, now no more than another lovely slave amongst men, one of hundreds of thousands such as she, this one kneeling chained before Aemilianus.
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21 1294 How hard it is to withstand the lovely dangers of their discourse! Have not countless thousands fallen victim to the toils of their cleverly cast nets? What cunning she-sleen they are! How skilled they are with so subtle, surprising and keen a weapon! There is a Gorean saying to the effect that a la...
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21 1354 The slave, because of her training, her emotional freedom, thousands of times greater than that of a free woman, the discipline she is under, and such, can attain orgasm much more quickly than a free woman, sometimes, particularly if she has been deprived for a time, almost immediately.
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21 1460 The slave girl, as Claudia and Publia would come to learn, has thousands of uses.
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24 200 "Thousands must know the falsity of such allegations!" cried another man.
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Book 24. (6 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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1 520 In a camp of thousands, of course, in which there might be two dozen paga enclosures, I had had, it seems, to pick just this one.
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1 1123 It is one of the thousands of ways in which it may be expressed.
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2 90 "And now," she asked, "as a slave?" "Thousands of times more attractive," I said.
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18 299 The chances of running into rencers in thousands of square pasangs of the delta were not high, particularly if one were concerned to avoid them.
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32 65 To be sure, she was thousands of pasangs from Ar, and if she ever returned to Ar presumably she would do so only as a scantily clad slave, her former wealth, identity, station and position irretrievably removed from her, no different from other such slaves in the city.
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36 110 This had to do, presumably, with the war, and the large numbers of females taken in its prosecution, some thousands from Ar's Station, and its vicinity, alone.
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Book 25. (24 results) Magicians of Gor

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27 939 I did not doubt but what there were thousands of unowned slaves on Earth, thousands longing for masters, thousands dreaming of collars.
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11 220 Are we not all the victims of hearsay, even with respect to many of our most profound "truths"? Of our thousands, and hundreds of thousands, of such "truths," how many have we personally earned? How many of us can determine the distance of a planet or the structure of a molecule? "I will have a wago...
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21 495 "She has been said to be the most beautiful woman on Gor," I said, "but there are thousands upon thousands of incredibly beautiful women on Gor, perhaps millions, most of whom are in collars where they belong".
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23 350 "Yes, but there are thousands upon thousands like her on Gor," I said, "and it is not like armies of tarnsmen would be launched to acquire her".
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3 369 The dance in the circle, as one might have gathered, was not the stately dance of free maidens, even in which, of course, the maidens, though scarcely admitting this even to themselves, experience something of the stimulatory voluptuousness of movement, but slave dance, that form of dance, in its th...
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4 73 Furthermore, it had had the winter to restore its siege train, the original train burned in Torcadino, fired by Dietrich of Tarnburg, and, because of its recent success in the field, west of Ar, it could draw on thousands of square pasangs for its logistical support.
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7 63 "Look, too, the Central Cylinder!" cried a man! At the edge of the circular park, within which rears the lofty Central Cylinder, a platform had been erected, presumably that thousands more, gathered on the streets, could witness what was to occur.
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7 203 Similarly, should the troops wheel to the sides, charging, blades drawn, they might have slaughtered thousands, harvesting the crowds, trapped by their own numbers, like sa-tarna.
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7 397 Thousands of small Cosian pennons, together with pennons of Ar, appeared, waving.
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8 415 To be sure, thousands of sorts of women make excellent slaves, each in their different ways.
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8 443 "About the walls, here and there, thousands apply themselves," he said.
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8 770 There are thousands of intelligent, pretty women who would be eager to serve you.
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8 781 On the other hand, despite the niceties involved in such matters, the allocations of power, the legalities, and such, I had little doubt that Phoebe, and, indeed, thousands of other slaves, had a great deal to do with whether they were kept or not.
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16 45 It is in virtue of that weapon that thousands of villages on Gor have their own Home Stones.
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20 115 "There have been slaves for thousands of years," I said.
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20 382 Her body was covered with red blotches, from the recent racing of her blood, the excited distention of thousands of capillaries.
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21 411 And now, of course, she was not even free, but only a slave, and no more than some thousands of other unknown, unrecognized, embonded wenches, and that in Ar alone, serving in their collars.
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21 520 "If she were a captured Ubara," I said, "and auctioned before Ubars, doubtless her price would be high, perhaps thousands of tarn disks, but if she were unknown, and only one slave on a chain with others, and it were she alone, the girl alone, only herself, so to speak, who was to ascend the block, ...
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22 443 Gorean tastes in women, you see, while surely accepting of a diversity of symmetries, tend toward the normal female, luscious, vital, sensuous, and feminine, woman as nature in thousands of generations has designed her for the comfort and pleasure of man.
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26 247 "You are the idol of thousands of women in Ar," she said, "but it is my beauty which has conquered you".
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27 43 To be sure, when one sees one woman as beautiful, it is easy to see the beauty in thousands of others.
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27 413 "Accept me! I will make it worth your while! I will give you thousands of gold pieces.
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27 445 "Thousands of gold pieces!" she said.
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27 1089 "And so," I said, "I think you should hope to wear your collar elsewhere, and in obscurity, and under another name, and hope to be no more than just another slave, unnoticed, insignificant and unremarked, to be as routinely coffled and marketed as thousands of others from whom you will then be no di...
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Book 26. (18 results) Witness of Gor

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5 100 One required for that a full world, with its thousands of ramifications and perils.
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6 151 Had I moved thusly long ago, in a former life, before a prince of some royal house on the Nile, before some caliph in his cool, white palace abutting the slow waters of the Tigris, in the house of some oligarch overlooking the Tiber? Or were these things locked in the very cells of my body, in the m...
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7 159 There were doubtless many in the city, even thousands, I supposed, who wore the same, or a very similar, mark.
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7 529 "I am not different from thousands of others".
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7 535 You are, in your essentials, in what you are, no different from thousands of others".
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7 567 I was no different from thousands of others, save, perhaps, in being such that I might, in certain situations, bring a higher price than certain others.
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7 739 There must be thousands with such names.
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7 792 I was not different from thousands of others.
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13 131 Too, I would be ignorant of thousands of things which would be common knowledge to natives of this world.
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13 425 "Such negotiations, if there are such, would be conducted elsewhere, perhaps even thousands of pasangs away".
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14 1341 Did she not know that he must have handled hundreds, perhaps thousands, like herself, in their chains and collars, appraising them, determining their order of sale, taking his profit on them? They were now well across the terrace.
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19 369 This is not to deny, of course, the expected and appropriate meetings of eyes in thousands of contexts and times, as in attempting to read one's fate in the eyes of the master, in examining them to learn if one is in favor or disfavor, in meeting them when commanded to do so, as when he examines us ...
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19 1177 After such a bout with thousands of tiny, swarming, crawling visitors, sometimes almost obscuring her, the slave is much improved.
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24 220 Any who knew it might later be a guide to thousands.
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24 714 Might she not be anywhere? On this world were there not hundreds of cities and thousands of slaves? No, from him she would in all likelihood be safe, unless her present master, if she might prove somewhat displeasing, might decide, perhaps as a joke, to return her to him.
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35 42 It is one familiar to thousands of loving slaves.
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37 128 Over thousands of generations of sleen this behavior has, I suspect, been selected for, as it contributes to the survival of the animal, and its consequent capacity, obviously, thereafter, to replicate itself.
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40 99 "So, too, have others, thousands of others!" "I have betrayed my trust, my post.
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Book 27. (32 results) Prize of Gor

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30 328 "To be sure," he said, "there are thousands, thousands upon thousands, who are much more exciting, and attractive".
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1 24 So perhaps then I should write of myself as an object, for that is what I now am, as a simple matter of fact, an object, no longer a person, that no longer, if I were once that, but an object, to be sure, a very particular object, but one of countless hundreds, perhaps thousands of such, I do not kn...
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2 234 She was, as thousands, and millions of others, though perhaps a bit short, and a little slim, a normal human female, of a sort greedily selected for in countless generations of matings and prizings.
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4 341 First, human beings were apparently brought to such a world from many different areas and over a period of many hundreds, indeed, presumably even thousands, of years.
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4 356 Incidentally, these are only some simple general things, out of thousands, which I might tell you about this supposed world.
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7 7 In her lifetime, of course, she had been before thousands of males, in the sense of standing within their vicinity, and such, but this seemed muchly different.
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8 84 There are thousands like her in the markets.
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10 342 Doubtless thousands of times.
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11 49 It is doubtless the name of thousands of individuals.
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11 173 So, thought Ellen, I have been given a common brand, that appropriate for any low girl! So that is how he thinks of me! That is how he rates me! But it is beautiful! And it is doubtless, if it is indeed the most common brand, worn by thousands, at least, of girls on this world.
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11 312 "Surely you are aware," said Mirus, her master, to the woman whom she did not know, she in the lovely off-the-shoulder gown, "that in the history of Earth, for thousands of years, slavery was an accepted, approved, and prized institution".
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11 779 The sight of a woman like you, and thousands like you, will enflame a man.
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11 791 In each of these ages, she had little doubt that men, thousands of men, would have enjoyed having her before them, rendering slave obeisance.
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13 540 As she is priceless, there is a sense in which even thousands of female slaves would not be as valuable as one free woman.
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15 745 "But there are thousands in the markets as lovely, or lovelier, than you," he said.
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15 798 But, instead, after but a moment, I find you an exquisite little slab of collar-meat, a willing, content, obedient little piece of flesh-trash, no different from thousands of other meaningless, silken little she-urts.
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17 654 "But thousands of things are done everyday, even to free women, and free men, without their consent," he said.
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19 429 "Ambush and kill a Cosian sentry, precipitate the taking of hostages and reprisals by Cos? They could burn districts, slay thousands".
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19 733 After all, in the past months thousands of slaves in Ar had been confiscated, and hundreds of free women put in the collar.
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22 156 It is quite likely that, in the history of the human species, thousands of women have begged for their lives by dancing naked before severe captors, and that the case even in historical times, before Chaldeans and Hittites, Assyrians and Babylonians, Greeks and Romans, Goths, Mongols, Crusaders, Tur...
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22 163 Had primitive women been feminists the human race would have been extinct thousands of years ago; it is the ideology of death.
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25 561 You are here because you have been brought here, by men, as women for centuries, and doubtless on thousands of worlds, have been brought to such places.
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26 183 The thought crossed her mind that the sexual needs of her sisters on Earth, in their countless thousands, in their millions, in the loneliness of their empty, sterile freedoms, were similarly, commonly left unsatisfied.
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26 260 "Much gold would it take to weight their purses!" "Thousands of gold pieces," said a man.
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26 856 "In the morning, after the alarms of the night, if all goes well, we will make our way to the wagons and, with thousands of others, unnoticed in the general thronging, leave the camp".
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26 1383 We must count on their confusion, until the camp is broken, and thousands are scattered in a hundred directions".
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26 1684 "There are thousands of men in the camp, Master," she said.
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27 10 By the time, several pasangs away, the nature of the diversion was understood, the flighted tarns being regained, or it being understood that most, if not all, had been riderless, it had become morning and the vast camp, bit by bit, shortly after dawn, had been broken, the thousands of men, their go...
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27 3305 Yes, she thought, cooking and such things well reminds me that I am a woman, but such things are only amongst thousands of other such things, other reminders which I welcome and in which I rejoice, such as my tunic, so unmistakably and publicly exhibiting my differences from men, my brand, marking m...
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28 405 She thought of the hundreds of cities and towns merely in known Gor, in which thousands of women such as she, tunicked and collared, served masters.
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28 409 The Viktel Aria is one of the great roads of known Gor, extending north and south of Ar for thousands of pasangs.
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29 7 The road is, in effect, a sunken wall, and such a road will last for hundreds, even thousands, of years, with little repair.
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Book 28. (22 results) Kur of Gor

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1 794 The Priest-Kings could have placed any of thousands of collar sluts in the container.
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2 252 Lastly, recall that the Priest-Kings had selected her out, perhaps from thousands, for their purposes, and that our own esteemed confederates, who are specialists in such matters, would have, had they discovered her, unhesitantly entered her on their acquisition lists.
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8 136 "Some, surely," said Agamemnon, "but not thousands, not armies".
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10 178 "On Gor there are doubtless hundreds of thousands who are her superior".
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20 295 "I know a world," said Cabot, "where there are untold thousands of unclaimed slaves".
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20 296 "I know that world, as well," said Peisistratus, "but I would say untold hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of unclaimed slaves".
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21 568 In the stands, after a silence, first one, and then another, and then thousands, smote their thighs in approbation.
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22 153 "So, too, are thousands of others," said Cabot.
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24 65 "Thousands do not love you," said Grendel.
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29 104 Few would have been accounted slaves, perhaps, but that was, in effect, what they were, the lovely daughter of a peasant, sold for sheep, the orphaned beauty put to work in the stables, the pretty domestic servant summonable to the manor's lord's bed, and such, and, earlier, thousands of beauties so...
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29 186 "Because it is such a lovely name for a slave!" "Thousands of slaves are given the simple name, 'Lita'," he said, "as they are such names as 'Lana', 'Mira', 'Tuka', and such".
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33 272 Beneath the surface there seemed thousands of flashing, shimmering, lights, darting about, flickering.
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35 125 One Kur can destroy with his hands a hundred humans, and one with power weapons can slay thousands".
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45 37 "But there are thousands in the Gorean markets who are as beautiful".
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51 86 "In the history of the world of which we may be speaking," said Cabot, "for thousands of years women were recognized, and even feared, for the intensity of their sexuality.
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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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79 188 She had been selected with care by Priest-Kings, doubtless from many thousands, with him in mind.
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79 500 "There are doubtless thousands who would be as special to me," said Cabot.
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79 548 "Put such daughters aside! Leave them in their collars! Let them be sold thousands of pasangs away! Their bondage must not be allowed to besmirch a noble house! Let them not be spoken of, seen, or heard of again! Leave them on their chains.
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79 695 Thousands of times I screamed aloud in my mind against the quiet, insistent whisper, the amused, mocking whisper, which came, again and again, from the mind beneath my mind.
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80 274 To be sure, her collar was no different, essentially, from that worn by thousands of other slaves.
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80 354 "There are thousands of women on Gor as beautiful as you, if not more so, and a great many of them are in cages, on shelf chains, and in coffles".
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Book 29. (15 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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1 264 Indeed, I have little doubt that she had been selected for me, with great care and skill, perhaps from amongst thousands, that she had been matched expertly to my inclinations, preferences, and needs, inclinations, preferences, and needs of which I might not even have been aware.
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2 47 "She is not muchly trained," I said, "and there are doubtless thousands who would bring higher prices".
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5 610 They had little time to form, as enraged thousands, many now armed with captured weapons, rushed forth from the city to deal with them".
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5 624 "And thousands did not," said another.
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9 451 I did not doubt but what ancestors of theirs, from hundreds of years ago, or perhaps thousands, might have been brought to Gor by Priest-Kings on the Voyages of Acquisition, as had representatives, or, perhaps better, specimens, of a number of other backgrounds and cultures.
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12 38 This made sense to me, as whatever might be afoot in the forest would not be likely to be of sufficient size and potency to effect much success against Gorean cities with their own tarn forces, which might number in the hundreds and, as of old, in Ar, in their thousands.
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14 119 "We will need two hundred bows, at least, saddle bows, thousands of arrows," I had informed Lord Nishida.
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19 321 I lay down and thought of the hundreds, nay thousands, of slave girls I had seen on Gor, many of them deliciously helpless, fully at a man's mercy, roped, braceleted, chained, collared, and such.
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25 194 I did not suppose that the world ended a bit beyond the waters of Tyros and Cos, or beyond the Farther Islands, even far beyond them, that at some point, some brink, Thassa plunged a thousand pasangs downward, like a planetary waterfall, only to be lifted by fiery Tor-tu-Gor, Light Upon the Home Sto...
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28 171 Also, certain recognition devices are portions of a secret tradition within Pani clans, the members of which may be separated by thousands of pasangs, and these are either permanent, or relatively so.
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28 409 Yes, she was beautiful, but there were thousands more beautiful than she.
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33 95 It had to do, doubtless, with those left behind, not in the camp, not at the edge of the sea, but others, for whom they had fought, perhaps hundreds of vulnerable thousands of others, townsmen, retainers, peasants and such, in undefended districts, then perhaps at the undisputed mercy of some disapp...
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40 30 There was shouting from the shore, as we passed, of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of men, and a drumming, rhythmic, that carried over the cold, green waters of gleaming Thassa.
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40 170 On the shores of the river, to the left and right, we saw hundreds, perhaps thousands of spears raised.
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44 49 Indeed, had she not already been a slave, she would then, as thousands of other women, not self-proclaimed slaves, have become a slave.
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Book 30. (17 results) Mariners of Gor

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1 418 "Thousands, hundreds of thousands, have seen her".
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11 55 They fatten before each migration and, thousands of pasangs later, arrive, like migratory birds, lean and hungry, at familiar banks, thousands of pasangs from each other, where they are welcomed, again, with abundances of food.
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24 309 A similar claim might have been made of thousands of free women, and with considerably more justification, given their revelatory garmenture, their total lack of veiling, and such, of tens of thousands of slaves.
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1 386 "Thousands before, hundreds even now, of bounty hunters," said a man, "in hundreds of towns and cities, in hundreds of hamlets and villages, seek the former Ubara, Talena of Ar".
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3 1130 'Search parties emanating from Ar and leagued cities use many such places as the village of Ragnar, scattered over thousands of pasangs,' he said, 'in their endeavors to track and apprehend fugitives.
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3 1249 'So, too, have thousands of others,' said the officer, angrily.
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7 149 Why had he not performed, or had performed, the simple ceremony of pacifying Thassa, of seeking to smooth her waves with a bit of oil, of mingling man's salt with hers, to plead kinship, friendship, even alliance, of giving her some wine, that she might be warmed, and pleased? Would it not have been...
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8 299 However far above me she was then, I was now thousands of times higher than she, for she was now slave.
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9 455 It was the fall of night that saved the few of us, no more than seven hundred, not even that, from the thousands with which we had begun.
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13 45 What had seemed a single blaze in the darkness, far off, was now attributed to the luminescence of a gigantic swarm of lamp flies, in their hundreds of thousands, of which swarms, we later learned, here in the Vine Sea, there were several.
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18 92 Who here could bring you to Ar? How could it be done? Her walls are thousands of pasangs away".
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19 211 Thousands of times I, and others, had done so.
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21 52 How splendid that the former Lady Flavia of Ar should bear in her thigh, now that of a slave, the most common of Gorean slave marks, the tiny, tasteful, cursive kef, as did many thousands of others.
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25 148 Thousands, I supposed, would be pleased to think of the once-proud Talena, of Ar, now a slave, bound, and writhing under the lash, the slave lash, now appropriately to be applied to her.
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27 115 "I have learned," said Turgus, "from Lord Nishida, that this holding can withstand a siege of thousands, and has done so more than once".
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37 125 "Thousands," I said.
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37 1236 "Sometimes thousands," she said.
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Book 31. (10 results) Conspirators of Gor

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4 146 What might I learn, what might I find? I did know that I was a scion of a series of species bred for thousands of generations for a world quite different from the one in which I found myself, a world less populated, greener, more open, more perilous perhaps, and certainly more beautiful.
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4 270 Many thousands know of these things, here and abroad, in Europe and Asia, and elsewhere.
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7 44 Who were others, to tell me who I was? How was this a freedom, to be told how to be? How strangely false and unsatisfying seemed the culture to which I was expected to conform, and that which I was expected to perpetuate! Was I truly an artifact, a meaningless, unhappy puppet of a dismal world, resp...
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8 1321 I recalled that it had been estimated, even on Earth, that I would go from between forty and sixty, an amount which I had then mistakenly interpreted as dollars, thousands of dollars, a form of Earth currency.
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10 815 For all I knew she might be, but, too, I had little doubt that there were thousands of other quite beautiful women who entertained the same suspicion, if not conviction.
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10 818 Too, I had little doubt there were thousands of fellows about who thought that their companion or slave was the most beautiful woman on all Gor, for any woman, even ones whose appearance might frighten tharlarion, may appear beautiful when seen through the eyes of love.
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10 840 Her population consisted of hundreds of thousands of citizens.
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17 2 I leaped to my feet, with thousands of others.
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20 236 "And thousands of places where there are no trails," said Desmond.
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48 317 "Before thousands," cried the Lady Bina, "he bespoke himself my champion".
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Book 32. (7 results) Smugglers of Gor

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6 80 And some said that like a storm at sea, one without warning, the red waves of revolt had surged into the streets, pouring forth from hovels and sewers, from taverns and stables, from cellars and insulae, that thousands of citizens, many armed only with clubs and stones, had rushed forth, intent upon...
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6 84 Were it not for the ruination of her walls, thousands might have been unable to escape the city, to the open fields beyond.
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8 32 Surely she was no different from thousands of others, and less than most.
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8 471 She was a worthless piece of collar meat, no different from tens of thousands of others.
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15 690 On the other hand, many, it is said, "court the collar," and it seems to be the case that "tree captures," in their hundreds or thousands, as in the wars, the raids of slavers, the seizures of caravans, the depredations of pirates, the fall of cities, and such, once collared, once owned, find fulfil...
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41 215 Doubtless there are thousands of ways in which a woman may call herself to the attention of a man, even if one is an exalted free woman.
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50 568 And what is wrong with being what you are, and want to be? What have females been to males, and women to men, for thousands of generations? Have we not been fought for and led away, on ropes, haremed and herded, bargained for and exchanged, bought and sold, for millennia? Have not the attractive bee...
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Book 33. (20 results) Rebels of Gor

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7 356 "So are thousands upon thousands," I said.
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61 779 "There are thousands upon thousands of women on Gor as beautiful as you, or more beautiful, and mostly in collars".
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1 238 "Might it not be a grander gesture to unsheathe the ritual knives, in their thousands?" asked Lord Okimoto.
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1 374 "Lord Yamada must have the majority of his land forces, thousands, committed to the siege".
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10 43 Even a will of the might of that of Lord Yamada would be unable, indefinitely, to hold thousands of starving men in place.
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13 367 "There are thousands of women on Earth as beautiful as I," she said.
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19 204 Thousands of tiny strands in our biographies, consciously or unconsciously, would be shared.
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22 57 "Hundreds of raids, thousands of fires?" he said.
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27 21 These are more dangerous than many understand, particularly at a short distance, and in great numbers, when a sheet of missiles in their thousands can strike foes as might a deadly hail.
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27 142 "He is unlikely to postpone the march of thousands of men for such a purpose," said Haruki.
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30 36 "One cannot conceal the movements of thousands of men," said the leader.
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44 50 "It could withstand a siege for thousands of years".
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45 65 The Kurii, long ago, it seems, destroyed their native world, and the remnants of their warring races migrated into a number of steel worlds, artificial habitats, which lurk within the cover of thousands of the great stones of space, which, on Earth, we speak of as the asteroid belt.
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53 46 Indeed, lacking wings, or seeming wings, this remarkable machine might not have been instantly identified, in the minds of thousands, with the fabled iron dragon of legend.
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54 288 "What he knows," I said, "is likely to be little different from what is known by thousands of others, namely, that the iron dragon favored the house of Temmu, and then disappeared, perhaps to return to its mysterious realm of origin".
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57 47 Terror had been cast into the hearts of thousands of brave men, men who would face a common, charging, comprehensible foe with readiness and resolve, with bow and lowered glaives, but who had no heart to withstand the singular and incomprehensible, the mysterious, unnatural, and weird.
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57 64 The thousands of Lord Yamada were disorganized and routed, in chaotic retreat, unnerved by panic and superstition, having no stomach for standing against an enemy on whose behalf had flown the iron dragon.
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61 41 "You see your danger," I had said to Lords Nishida and Okimoto, "thousands of warriors and Ashigaru".
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61 68 "Yes," I said, "and commands his army, of thousands".
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61 1190 "Doubtless thousands from Ar, and her environs, for a thousand pasangs about, will come to see you, to witness the fate of a traitor and false Ubara, to insult her, to jeer her, to mock and curse her, to spit upon her, to add their flaming twig or tiny splinter to her torments".
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Book 34. (14 results) Plunder of Gor

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2 76 I am sure, if it exists, that hundreds, perhaps thousands, on this world know of it, even have dealings with it".
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9 145 It is rather as if thousands were encouraged to run in a race that could, in the nature of things, have few winners.
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9 492 I would later learn that the taste of Gorean men, rather as that of most men throughout Earth's history, given the evidence of mosaics, statues, paintings, and such, tended to favor the more familiar forms of womanhood, the statistically familiar woman, young, lovely, nicely curved, apparently the r...
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15 305 There were doubtless hundreds, if not thousands, of girls on Gor named 'Lita'.
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27 33 Was I not only another slave? What was different about me, different from thousands of others? And what if he should recognize me? My very appearance in Brundisium might suggest danger to him.
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33 167 Thus, over millennia, in thousands of venues, the female with suitable linguistic aptitudes entwined within her hereditary coils will tend to be favored by the stern choices of a harsh world.
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34 121 Gor has been stocked with thousands of life forms from throughout the galaxy.
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34 186 "So a plan was formed," he said, "to produce a form of life to bridge that chasm of mistrust and terror, to produce a form of life more acceptable to humans, one that might enlist the aid of thousands of humans, suitably armed, to rise against and overthrow Priest-Kings, thus unwittingly to do the w...
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35 79 My collar was indistinguishable from thousands of others, a quite common collar.
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49 109 Thousands of tiny defts, a small, flocking, gray, migratory bird, undistinguished in its plumage and not noted for its song, on their way to the shores of the Cartius, had been caught in the storm, as well, and, paralyzed with cold, with wings coated with ice, unable to continue their journey, had f...
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49 151 "There are thousands better," said my master, which remark seemed to me unnecessary.
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51 205 "Very much so," he said, "but so, too, are thousands of others, a thousand times more plausibly poised to realize such an ambition".
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51 258 "There are thousands better," he said.
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55 15 Much was doubtless learned from the wolf, with which species, and its scions, humans would form their bond of thousands of years.
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Book 35. (9 results) Quarry of Gor

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2 117 "Following the defeat of Ar by Cos, Tyros, and their allies, mercenaries and others, and before the restoration of Marlenus, thousands of women of Ar were taken as spoils and distributed throughout hundreds of markets".
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2 123 Why, I wondered, should she fear being sold in Ar, and from such a famous block as the central block in the Curulean? Might not thousands of slaves dream of such a sale? Too, I had gathered that the wealth of Ar, hub of trade in the northern hemisphere of this world, was being recouped.
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13 208 I was pleased that I knew this, at least, for I was acutely conscious of my ignorance of thousands of things Gorean.
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13 280 They would know thousands of things I do not.
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14 33 Why not charge a native Gorean girl with such a task? She would know thousands of things I would not about this world, its culture, history, customs, and politics.
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25 133 What I did not understand was why a crime, serious as it might be, against a minor banking house in Ar, far away, thousands of pasangs away, should provoke so much interest in so many parties, and generate so seemingly relentless a pursuit of its perpetrator.
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33 209 Who would have dared to conceal the most coveted of jewels in the setting of a metal collar? And who, while thousands sought her in secret places, would dare to place her where she would least be suspected, in public, in a public tavern, almost within his purview, as a common slave?" "Few would know...
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34 100 "You are no different from thousands of others," he said, "dark-haired, shapely meat, block goods, begging, moaning beasts, juicing at a snap of the fingers, melting and ready as soon as a master deigns to look upon you.
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42 70 "Those will be few compared to thousands in the city," called the defender.
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Book 36. (10 results) Avengers of Gor

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1 158 On the continent, there are thousands of villages, sovereign and proud, prosperous and free, too costly to attack, defended by flights of the birds of death".
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6 166 Have not thousands of generations bred them to belong to us? "Master?" she said.
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18 82 It seems probable that, long ago, thousands of years ago, the nemesis of the hith was less the carnivorous tharlarion with which it thought to dispute its world, but an unexpected adversary, smaller and weaker, more vulnerable and fragile, but less forgiving and tolerant, more determined and tenacio...
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18 83 But nature is not without its resources; amongst thousands of changes in form and behavior, small and otherwise, some favor the replication of genes and others do not.
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18 160 "Thousands come, in hundreds of crowded ships and small boats, from throughout the islands," said Sakim, "and then they are gone".
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22 131 "And thousands here are of the Peasants, many of whom are new to colored placards, cupped dice, and whirling wheels, let alone marked placards, weighted dice, and manipulable whirling wheels".
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34 50 "You suspect, dear Thurnock," I said, "that the corsairs doubt the strength of our numbers, doubt that we number in the thousands?" "If they believed that," said Thurnock, "the beach would be clear and the ships under sail".
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36 206 "We know no more of Mytilene than thousands of others".
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41 175 "Nor do they have thousands of men".
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63 171 "No more than thousands of others," he said, "others who are not selfish, vindictive, arrogant, and cruel, others who have not bartered honor and betrayed friends, who have not betrayed Home Stones".
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