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Book 1. (3 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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4 132 Benches of stone, on which the members of the Council sat, rose in five monumental tiers about the walls, one tier for each of the High Castes.
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4 133 These tiers shared the color of that portion of the wall behind them, the caste colors.
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4 135 In order, the ascending tiers, blue, yellow, green, and red, were occupied by representatives of the Scribes, Builders, Physicians, and Warriors.
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Book 3. (2 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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25 101 I also noted, against the far wall of the brilliantly lit area, tiers and tiers of plastic cases, much like the one I had occupied in Misk's compartment.
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27 263 To one side I saw the bladed projection lying at the foot of one of the low stone tiers on which Priest-Kings stood.
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Book 5. (41 results) Assassin of Gor

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13 321 Mip on his tarn, Green Ubar, seemed a swift, dark movement against the white sand and tiers, the shadow coursing behind them, seeming to break geometrically over the tiers.
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19 79 Here in the area of the exhibition cages there were various citizens of Ar milling about, some meeting their friends, before taking their seats in the tiers; some seats in the tiers, the better ones, are reserved by number, but many are simply available on a first-come-first-served basis; those citi...
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19 80 Philemon, I and the guards emerged from the exposition area to the interior of the sales amphitheater; the entire house was now lit by energy bulbs; later, the block alone would be illuminated; the seats rose in tier after tier, largely circling the block, though a passage lay open behind the block;...
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21 321 The crowd began to press against the spears of the Taurentians in the tiers, who, at the edge of the tiers, at the top of the wall overtopping the sand, resolutely held them back.
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2 256 "These councils," said Portus scornfully, "know well the way the lower castes yelp in the tiers".
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9 35 The tiers in the room were of marble.
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11 7 The expression "kennels" is sometimes used similarly, but more often it refers to a kind of small, cement cell, customarily about three feet by three feet by four feet, with an iron gate, which can be raised and lowered; similar cells, but entirely of bars, are also common, and are to be found in th...
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12 13 "Gold! Gold!" cried a man two tiers away from me.
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12 20 "Oh Priest-Kings," cried a man nearby, a Leather Worker, "speed the wings of red!" Everyone in the crowd seemed to be on their feet, even those who sat in the marbled tiers beneath the awnings of purple silk.
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12 109 "Candies!" I looked down and was startled to see, some four tiers below, not seeing me, the pathetic, stubby, bulbous little body of Hup the Fool, limping and hopping about in the aisle, his large head on the fat little body lolling one way or another, the tongue occasionally, suddenly, unexpectedly...
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12 367 * * * * I left the tiers of the racing stadium and began to walk down the long, sloping stone ramp, level by level.
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12 385 "Perhaps you did not enjoy the races?" It was the voice of the man who had sat behind me in the tiers, before I had changed my seat to avoid recognition by the small fool Hup, he who had spoken poorly of the Hinrabian on the throne of Ar, and who had purchased a candy from the fool.
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13 312 The long, curving terraces of tiers gleamed white in the light of Gor's three moons.
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13 313 There was some litter about in the tiers, which would be removed before the races of the next day.
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16 189 When she stood ready to return to the tiers she put her back to him and extended her wrists behind her.
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17 195 While the men of Cernus did their work in the paga taverns, and on the streets and in the market squares, and on the ramps and in the tiers of the games and races, the gold of Cernus, and the steel of Cernus, was apparently plied elsewhere.
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17 227 Cernus had been proclaimed, as the Taurentians lifted their swords in salute and the members of the High Council had stood on the tiers of the Council Chamber and cried out and applauded, Ubar of Ar.
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17 433 "It is sometimes difficult to make an appraisal from the high tiers," she said.
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19 65 From the outside it resembles several tiers of disks, surrounded by a circling portico with lofty, fluted columns; the predominant colors are blue and yellow, the traditional colors of the Gorean slaver; around the outside there are large numbers of well-wrought mosaics set in the walls, and on the ...
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19 77 I saw no merchandise in my passage through the rear halls of the Curulean; the girls are generally kept, prior to their sale, in holding cells, lit by energy bulbs, beneath the ground level; soon, however, I was passing by the exposition cages, which are accessible to the public; these cages were no...
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19 84 I had seen that many of the seats in the higher tiers, those not reserved, had already been filled with citizens, many of whom were doubtless prospective buyers.
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19 110 I'm not sure what the seating capacity of the amphitheater was, theoretically, but I would guess that it would be in the neighborhood of four to six thousand; counting those crowded into the tiers, and standing and sitting in aisles, it might now have held twice that many; the air was hot with bodie...
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19 181 The auctioneer, apparently losing his temper, responded angrily to some critics in the first tiers, and was himself hooted and decried.
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19 353 In the crowd men cried out with pleasure; I heard even gasps from women, perhaps amazingly, startled that their sex was capable of such beauty; the eyes of some of the women shone with ill-concealed admiration and excitement; I could mark the quickness of their breath in their veils; the eyes of oth...
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21 1 The Stadium of Blades Outside, as though from a distance, I could hear the roar of the crowd packed into the tiers of the Stadium of Blades.
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21 75 There was a distant roar again from the crowd in the tiers far above.
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21 381 I now saw fights in the audience in the tiers, some between Taurentians and citizens, others between citizens themselves.
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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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21 384 I saw Hup bounding and skipping on the tiers, crying out, and saw men throwing off cloaks, revealing blades, and rushing to meet Taurentians.
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21 403 He pointed to the top of the tiers.
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21 408 Murmillius spread his hand over the crowds on the sand and in the tiers.
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21 411 In an instant I was racing up the long tiers.
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21 414 I looked back down the long valley of stone tiers to the sands far below, seeing there in the circle of the arena, seeming small, Murmillius, Ho-Sorl, Relius, Ho-Tu, the milling, stirring crowd.
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22 1 The Stadium of Tarns I brought the tarn down behind the tiers in the Stadium of Tarns, in the Readying Compound of the Steels.
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22 291 The caste colors of Gor seemed turbulent in the high tiers.
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22 369 "There are those of ours among the tiers".
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22 419 "Ride!" cried those of the tiers.
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22 424 The tiers, like startled horizontal lines, flashes of blurring color, fled behind me.
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22 575 Men began to stand in the tiers, singing.
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22 585 "Stop singing!" But the song continued, growing stronger as more and more men took it up, and soon the tiers themselves rang with the sound.
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22 587 There was only the song, and more and more voices, and more men standing in the tiers.
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Book 6. (4 results) Raiders of Gor

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11 2 Great chairs fell bounding down the tiers of the council chamber.
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11 362 "Power to the council!" cried the men in the tiers.
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11 369 There was much enthusiastic shouting from the tiers.
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11 609 And then I turned to the captains on the tiers.
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Book 7. (5 results) Captive of Gor

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4 199 I was thrust weeping and kicking through the ship, between tiers of piping and plating.
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4 200 Then I was in a curved area, where, to my horror, I saw, crowded together, closely set tiers of metal racks.
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4 202 There were narrow walk spaces between the tiers.
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5 77 The interior of the ship was compactly organized, with often only small spaces between tiers of tubing, piping and meters.
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11 157 We trained, during the day, commonly in private facilities, under the tutelage of pleasure slaves, but, in the evening, we would be returned to the long tiers of cages in the public pens.
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Book 9. (1 results) Marauders of Gor

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10 575 I was chained in a slave ship, with many other girls, on tiers in the hold.
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Book 11. (8 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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13 179 There were aisles at the side, and two aisles in the tiers, with steps.
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13 180 The tiers were crowded, and, on them, men ate and drank.
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13 428 To make matters worse the women in the tiers, because of the bidding, now saw me, and understood me, as a girl destined for the taverns, hot, spiced meat, delicious to men, a delectable accompaniment, like the music, to the tawny fire of paga.
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16 53 Suddenly, in the dim light, falling through the opened hatch, I could see the musty tiers and their helpless, fair occupants.
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16 66 There were eight slave platforms in the hold, each with six tiers.
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16 71 The slatted wood of the tiers, on which the girls lay, permits cage mesh to pass unimpeded from the roof of the sixth tier to the bottom of the first tier.
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16 87 Of the six tiers in my platform, I was on the fourth.
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28 211 From where I stood, at the end of the tunnel, I could see the ceiling of the Curulean, and some of the buyers, crowded in the higher tiers.
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Book 12. (23 results) Beasts of Gor

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3 672 Scormus, it was said, walked the tiers of the amphitheater, alone, restlessly, eagerly, like a pacing, hungry beast.
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4 79 * * * * There was a great cheer in the amphitheater and men stood upon the tiers, waving their caps and shouting.
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4 100 Indeed, generally the great amphitheater is not used for Kaissa, and the Sardar matches are played in shallow fields, before lengthy sloping tiers, set into the sides of small hills, many matches being conducted simultaneously, a large vertical board behind each table serving to record the movements...
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4 110 Also, of course, there were hundreds of men in the tiers who would simultaneously, unofficially, be recording the match.
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12 230 There are tiers of mountains, interlaced chains of them, both east of Torvaldsland and north of her.
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20 181 I looked at the high meat racks, some with tiers, some twenty feet or more in height, to protect the meat from sleen, both those domesticated and the wild sleen that might prowl to the shores as the hunting, the leems hibernating, grew sparse inland.
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30 14 One of the men of the Kurii stepped down from the tiers into the sand, between and before the two platforms.
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30 106 One or two of the men in the tiers cried out approval.
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30 141 He knew it and I knew it, but I was not sure those in the tiers knew it.
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30 160 I then administered to him, and to those in the tiers, a lesson in the use of the Gorean blade.
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30 200 She turned, still kneeling, to the tiers.
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30 204 "Wait!" said a man on the tiers.
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30 212 I looked about the tiers.
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30 217 Ram, too, looked about the tiers.
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30 234 I looked about the tiers.
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30 240 I leaped into the tiers, slashing and striking.
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30 249 Two men leaped on me, causing me to fall down the tiers.
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30 273 A steel dart, fired from one of the riflelike weapons, caromed about the steel walls, and then suddenly, twisting about, wheeling end over end, burst between the tiers and the wall, leaving an explosive scar of blackened metal in the wall, a foot long, and scattering about a shower of flaming splint...
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30 281 I saw a man topple unconscious from one of the tiers.
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30 282 Another man I saw groping for one of the dart-firing weapons, it fallen on the tiers.
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30 287 Some four men now sank to their knees and sprawled among the tiers.
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30 293 The man on the tiers had lifted the weapon to his shoulder but he did not fire it.
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32 58 Clearly the complex was tiers in depth and pasangs in width.
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Book 13. (4 results) Explorers of Gor

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1 305 We passed barred alcoves, and tiers of kennels, and rooms for processing, training, and disciplining slaves.
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32 189 In the rain forest we may distinguish three separate ecological zones, or tiers or levels.
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32 190 Each of these tiers, or levels or layers, is characterized by its own special forms of plant and animal life.
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32 872 He then directed me to walk to my left, and I walked upon one of the broad terraces, many feet from the ground, which, like tiers, were integral to the structure of the edifice.
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Book 14. (29 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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12 82 In the back of the tiers I saw two guards, with spears, go to the top of one of the aisles, whence they might descend quickly into the tiers if it should be necessary.
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11 667 I could not see too well into the tiers but I could see, dimly, that they were filled with robed, veiled women.
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11 675 I looked up into the tiers.
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12 12 "Remove them!" cried more than one lady, laughing, from the tiers.
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12 46 "We are ready now, are we not," asked the Lady Tima, "to remove his clothing?" There were affirmative shouts from the tiers.
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12 61 Many in the tiers struck their left shoulders with the palms of their right hand, in Gorean applause.
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12 78 I think the women in the tiers, and the Ladies Tima and Tendite, too, had not realized this.
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12 155 Some of the women, too, uncertainly, in the tiers, struck their left shoulders.
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12 240 Some of the women in the tiers had laughed, seeing my quickness in obeying the Lady Tendite.
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12 241 Too, I was conscious of the women in the tiers regarding me with renewed interest, though caution.
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12 250 What if, truly, he should not be tame? Then how would they be treated? What would be done to them? Would they not, in effect, be made his slaves, in the way of nature? But, too, I was apprehensive, for, in looking out on the tiers, I realized that one of these women could buy me, and that I would th...
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12 412 I was aware of applause, Gorean applause, from the tiers.
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12 466 The Gorean women in the tiers seemed for a moment taken aback.
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12 471 The women in the tiers, almost overcome with excitement, were identifying with the Lady Tendite.
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12 475 I looked out on the women in the tiers.
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12 489 The women in the tiers, clearly, were identifying with the Lady Tendite, and her beauty, as a collared slave girl.
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12 523 "Yes, Mistress," I said, loudly, knowing that I must speak so that I could be heard in the tiers.
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20 5 I heard the screams of the crowd, in the tiers.
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20 120 We walked around, behind the tiers, still pressing through an admiring throng.
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20 122 "Back," begged Kenneth, "back! Return to the tiers!" We were now near the corridor gate leading from the small arena, to the stables where we were prepared for combat.
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20 240 Back, behind the gate, from the tiers, I could hear shouting.
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25 16 The women present at the pit of sand, whether at the gate leading into it, or in the tiers looking down upon it, were excited.
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25 26 "Krondar!" cried free persons in the tiers.
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25 28 I looked to the tiers and there saw the proud and regal figure of Miles of Vonda.
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25 68 "When Krondar is through with him," laughed a man in the tiers, "a she-tharlarion would not have him for a silk slave!" There was laughter at this.
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25 136 "Taken!" called a man in the tiers.
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25 150 There was a cheer at this from many in the tiers.
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25 184 "There are champions in Vonda!" cried a man in the tiers.
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25 212 I saw free women in the tiers, their eyes wild, half glazed, over their veils.
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Book 15. (1 results) Rogue of Gor

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24 675 She is intensely aware, of course, of their presence, in the crowds, in the tiers.
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Book 17. (2 results) Savages of Gor

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2 200 One girl lay on her stomach, on her elbows, her head down, the heavy iron collar on her neck visible beneath her hair; a short, weighty chain of thick dark links connected this collar, by its collar ring, to a wide, stout ring, anchored deeply in the cement, almost beneath her chin; the chain was no...
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13 1691 And thus was the former Miss Millicent Aubrey-Welles, once of Earth, once a debutante, once a lesser scion of position and station, of wealth and power, once an element ensconced within an economic and social elite, once a lovely occupant of society's highest tiers, now a property on a beautiful, sa...
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Book 19. (1 results) Kajira of Gor

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6 388 I had sat on the tiers, close to the fenced enclosure, thrilled.
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Book 20. (11 results) Players of Gor

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2 272 Given the superb acoustics of many of these theaters, however, in which a coin dropped on the stage is clearly audible in the upper tiers, I feel the practice is more closely connected with tradition, or jealousy, than acoustics.
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13 161 This pit was encircled with several tiers of bleacherlike wooden benches.
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16 77 I had seen him only once before, in a royal box, set among the tiers at the baiting pit.
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20 1 The Baiting Pit; I Make the Acquaintance of a Gentleman; I Will Return to the Apartments of Belnar "Stop!" I cried, from the height of the tiers surrounding the baiting pit.
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20 112 "I know!" "Look!" I heard, a cry from near the top of the tiers.
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20 116 The rim at the top of the tiers seemed suddenly alive with helmets, with spear points and plumes.
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20 127 "Stand!" called a fellow, stepping down the tiers towards us.
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20 157 "Approach warily, men," said a man, one on the tiers, descending with others.
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20 207 The fellows who had been descending the tiers were now on the sand, ringing us.
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20 283 I then ascended to some of the tiers before the ubar's box and stood there, as though directing the operation.
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20 409 I, below, heard men walking about on the tilings, and on the wooden tiers.
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Book 21. (1 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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27 58 In a situation of that sort, then, some men may be at the foot of the block, crowding around it, and so on, but most will be in the tiers.
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Book 22. (5 results) Dancer of Gor

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9 211 I saw, now, being lifted, that there were tiers behind the standing area, extending back and toward the back of the building.
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9 215 There must have been some four or five hundred men in the building, in the tiers alone, not counting those crowded by the low railing.
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9 241 Various men at the rail and in the tiers rustled papers, or glanced at notes, held in their hands.
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9 269 I suddenly wondered, wildly, my hands high, held fast in the manacles, if Teibar, my Teibar, might be out there somewhere among those men, perhaps high in the tiers, in the darkness, waiting to bid on me! Then I realized how foolish that would be.
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9 369 Men were calling out, from behind the railing, and some from the tiers.
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Book 24. (6 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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46 168 I passed between tiers of cages, several of which had women in them, huddled back, chained, behind the bars.
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46 169 I looked behind some of these tiers.
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46 340 "The killer!" cried one of the fellows up on the tiers.
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46 359 She was doubtless shaken from her rude trip from the upper tiers.
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46 374 I then descended from the tiers.
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46 387 It seemed to me that I was trying to think of something, something which had nearly occurred to me on the height of the tiers.
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Book 25. (3 results) Magicians of Gor

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11 108 In the back there were many ceramic articles about, vessels of numerous sorts, on tiers, and stacks of shallow bowls.
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17 6 There were tiers behind us for those who wished to pay two tarsk bits, rather than one, for the entertainments.
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17 278 Those on the tiers rose to their feet, applauding.
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Book 26. (1 results) Witness of Gor

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7 282 Sometimes we are moved in special ships, constructed for us, with narrow, slatted tiers, on which we lie down, chained, closed off from one another with narrowly meshed steel screens.
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Book 27. (12 results) Prize of Gor

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13 45 In the distance, too, between the cylinders, many of which must have been twenty or thirty living tiers, or stories, high, she could see walls.
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19 710 In public places fountains often have several tiers, and almost always at least two, the bottom tier usually no more than a few inches from the ground or pavement, and, as would be expected, slaves, leashed verr, pet sleen, and such, are expected to drink from the lower level.
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25 106 The auditorium, so to speak, was open to the air, and consisted of several ascending tiers of closely spaced benches, these arranged in semicircles on a shallow hill, at the foot of which was the block.
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25 870 It is, of course, easier to see a girl in the exhibition cage, where, if she is not restrained, one may even call her to the bars, than from most of the positions in the tiers, at night, as she is shown illuminated in the torchlight of the sales block.
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25 1033 The auctioneer gestured to the side of the block and one of the assistants there hurried through the tiers.
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25 1053 Surely he must be a sought man, surely guardsmen would enter the tiers at any moment and put hands upon him.
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25 1059 Indeed, no rational man, without guards, outside of a caravan, would carry about such wealth! I do not have the coins at hand, but I can give you a note, my note, for more!" There was a roar of laughter from the tiers.
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25 1069 There was more laughter in the tiers.
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25 1073 He then stormed away, making his way through the tiers, pressing away through the crowd, followed by some four men, he who had placed his hand warningly on his arm and three others, all of these having been seen by Ellen earlier in the tent.
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25 1079 "Is she incognito?" inquired a fellow from the tiers.
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25 1177 In a moment she was at the left of the block, as one would look toward the tiers, among other girls.
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27 1477 She does not even know who bought her, for the light was not on the tiers, with their observers and bidders, but upon the block, where she was well exhibited, illuminated for the buyers.
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Book 28. (26 results) Kur of Gor

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20 70 Already in the tiers many six-digited paws were clasped about the handles of their knives, but, Cabot noted, many jurors were crouched down, knuckles on the tiers, their knives untouched.
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1 73 From where he was contained, the human in question, Tarl Cabot, could see several tiers of similar containers, several of them occupied.
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2 2 Then, suddenly, each of the tiered containers in the long hallway shook, and several broke from their stems, and tumbled, rolling from the tiers which, themselves, were twisting from the walls.
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9 17 "Forgive me," said Peisistratus, his hands on a portal, half swung open, "I should have warned you, the passageways occasionally lead to open ledges, tiers of caves, and such".
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20 6 The jury was a thousand Kurii, ranged on tiers.
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20 53 The prosecutor turned about, and, high in the tiers, above the jurors, a small light glowed briefly, twice.
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20 81 "And let this, too, be so recorded, and I speak as Kur," called Pyrrhus, his voice rising from the cement pit, in which, to rings, he was chained, "I am guilty of no treason against the species or the world!" This caused a considerable stir on the tiers, for it was clear Lord Pyrrhus had spoken as K...
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20 86 "Agamemnon may not have his majority," said Peisistratus, looking about the tiers.
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20 106 "I do not think," said Peisistratus, scanning the tiers, "that Lord Agamemnon will have his needful numbers".
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20 112 Daggers were sheathed, and the Kurii stirred restlessly, eagerly, on the tiers.
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20 115 "Kur to Kur!" The Kurii on the tiers leaped up and down, howling with pleasure.
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21 17 Then he pointed to an entryway, high in the tiers, across the arena, with its sand.
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21 19 There were flags and banners about, and the tiers were muchly filled.
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21 24 Several of the Kurii in the tiers were moving oddly, some swaying.
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21 71 One could now hear Kurii, moving in the tiers, eager, expectant.
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21 90 Cabot saw necklaces of strung coins being exchanged in the tiers.
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21 284 Many sounds of disapproval from the tiers, encompassing hissings and snarls, had greeted this pair upon their appearance.
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21 348 The challengers turned about in the sand and lifted their simple weapons in salute to the crowd, which incited still more approbation in the tiers.
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21 621 There was then another thunder of drums, and the tiers turned to face a great part of the wall.
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21 636 "Lord Arcesilaus, across the way," said Peisistratus, "is leaving the tiers".
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21 652 "Many have left the tiers," observed Cabot.
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21 662 Even in the tiers one could hear the bones breaking, the muscles and flesh ripping and tearing.
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21 664 Fur and blood spattered even to the walls of the tiers.
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21 669 "The tiers are muchly emptied," said Cabot.
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21 681 A Kur then came, and unlocked the cage, and Cabot and Peisistratus left the tiers.
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69 93 "Our forces," said a Kur, "waited, surrounded by loyalists, rung in tiers about us".
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Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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38 400 Racks of these tiers stretch substantially from wall to wall in the hold, with only a tiny walk space between and about them.
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Book 31. (12 results) Conspirators of Gor

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8 492 This was surely not the Curulean, a market of which I had been apprised, a palace of an emporium with its statues, carvings, columns, fountains, tapestries, and cushioned tiers, with its exposition cages of silver bars, with its great, torch-lit, golden auditorium which might hold more than two thou...
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8 681 There is much to be said for this, particularly when one might be sold at night, under torchlight, and one cannot well make out the buyers, save for some on the first tiers.
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8 1465 Accordingly, in the social circles of an exclusive, prestigious institution, located high in the tiers of a subtly hierarchical society, one given to denying its hierarchicality, and are not all societies inevitably hierarchical, we, and others, competed for the attentions of promising young men.
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17 20 We were in the high tiers.
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17 44 Many filed down the tiers, to place new bets.
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17 69 He then departed, to seek the betting tables beneath the stadium tiers.
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17 143 * * * * The crowd milled about, some descending the tiers, others climbing them.
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17 241 People were now beginning to return to the tiers.
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17 304 I followed his direction, and, in two places, I saw a slave on a tier, one below and well to my right, and another down, four tiers, to my left.
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17 306 I then saw another slave, looking down the tiers toward a vendor, which slave suddenly stiffened, fighting a blindfold wrapped about her face.
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17 523 At the end of the day we were making our way from the tiers, descending toward the broad open area between the rail and the stands, from there to exit toward the wagon-and-cart yard, some adjacent inns, and some of the closer camps.
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18 50 * * * * The day's races had been recently finished and our party, the Lady Bina, Astrinax, Lykos, Desmond, and myself, had descended the tiers, and were preparing to leave the grounds when we had encountered a neck-chained, matched set of slaves, both barbarians.
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Book 32. (8 results) Smugglers of Gor

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4 63 I scrutinized her, from the middle tiers.
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4 133 It was late, and several had left the tiers.
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4 207 The tiers were now half emptied.
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4 236 She was then held before the tiers, facing them, squirming, helpless, sobbing.
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4 238 There was laughter from those remaining in the tiers.
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4 243 Several of those remaining in the tiers laughed at the discomfiture of the slave.
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4 255 "Forty-five!" called a fellow from the tiers, below me and to my right.
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9 334 I could not well see into the tiers.
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Book 33. (1 results) Rebels of Gor

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24 88 There were also hundreds of Ashigaru about, though standing before the tiers of the stands.
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Book 34. (21 results) Plunder of Gor

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60 2 To our left, as we emerged from the chute, and into the light, we saw a small set of tiers, on these tiers, bright with festive regalia, mostly in the colors of the upper castes, but subdued, and restless, were perhaps two hundred men, doubtless mostly those who had been at the feast.
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12 12 It is one thing to hear of the whip, and another to be struck with it; it is one thing to think of chains, and another to have them locked on one's limbs; it is one thing to consider a sale, or even to view one, and another to feel the sawdust beneath your bared feet and hear the bids shouted down f...
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16 105 Why are you not, amongst the porticoes and colonnades, chatting and gossiping with your collar sisters, seeking news, a word dropped in the tiers of the Central Cylinder becoming common knowledge by nightfall, not comparing collars and masters, not complaining about the recent quality of the tunic c...
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31 3 I knelt beside him, at his knee, as he sat in the tiers, savoring the sales of women, below.
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31 43 "Ninety-two!" called another, not far from where we were in the tiers, about two-thirds of the distance between the raised, torch-lit block, and the last row, against the back wall.
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31 103 Who will bid more? See her in your chains, kneeling at your slave ring! Who will bid more?" "A silver tarsk ten is too much for a slave!" called a fellow from the darkness of the tiers.
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31 113 "Is the slave vital?" called a man from the tiers.
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31 133 There was laughter from the tiers.
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31 172 How I had leaped, startled! How I had, unexpectedly, unmistakably, revealed myself as appropriately collared! "Surely, Masters," called the auctioneer to the crowd, "you have seen enough!" Bids stormed forth from the tiers.
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31 198 Surely I had seen the eyes of masters on me, a slave is aware of such things, surely as much as a free woman with a slackened veil or an exposed ankle, when we, I heeling my master, had approached the market, when we had entered the market, when we had climbed the tiers and found our place, even as ...
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60 5 Also, on the tiers, mixed in with the men, crouching, I saw several Kurii, in bright harnessing.
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60 6 There were also several Kurii, also in bright harnessing, on the ground, before, and to the sides of the tiers.
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60 9 The scene of the entertainment, as it had been spoken of, was not an arena or a theater, but it was, in effect, a closed area, closed on one side by the tiers, to my left, and, on another side, that behind me, by the house of Decius Albus.
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60 12 In the center of the tiers, to my left, there was what, garlanded and ribboned, I supposed, might count as a box, or reserved area, in which were three men and two Kurii.
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60 16 I saw a great vat at the foot of the tiers, on their left, as I faced it.
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60 33 At the height of the tiers, on a separate platform, raised above the last tier, there was a helmeted fellow in the garb of the House of a Hundred Corridors, who stood near a stand on which there was fixed a large trumpet.
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60 144 I moaned, for the five occupants of the box, Master Albus, Drusus Andronicus, Tyrtaios, and two Kurii were making their way down the tiers, to approach us.
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61 24 "Consider your station!" But Aelius had left the box, and was making his way, lightly, for his bulk, down the tiers of the stand.
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61 70 "Lift up your ax!" cried Surtak to Aelius, who had drawn back to the tiers of the stand.
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61 252 The headless corpse of Aelius was below the box, sprawled across three of the lowest tiers.
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61 286 Others descended through the tiers and sought to escape, away from the stands and field.
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Book 35. (46 results) Quarry of Gor

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2 2 I could hear, as though from far off, the calls of the auctioneer, bids called down from the tiers, responses from the crowd.
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2 194 In any event, angrily, I resolved to do better than well, and show the tiers goods for which bids would be fierce, goods which could be removed from the block only dearly.
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2 205 There were many empty places in the tiers.
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2 208 Some of the men sitting on the tiers had slaves with them, kneeling at their feet.
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3 62 There was laughter from the tiers.
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3 66 "Where she belongs," called a man from somewhere in the tiers.
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3 67 "Yes!" called more than one man from the tiers.
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3 80 There were cries of rage from several in the tiers.
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3 105 Could it be that under all the pretenses and lies, under all the conventions and cloaks, there might lurk the hereditary coils of a form of being which, in an honest world, need not be denied and suppressed, but might thrive and flourish, might lift its head, look about, and find itself once more in...
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3 112 We mark them, fit them with collars, and sell them!" "Good!" called several men from the tiers.
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3 136 I looked out, and up, into the darkened tiers.
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3 138 And I knew there were others here and there in the tiers, some even with their own slave, kneeling beside them.
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3 173 Have we not seen it happen, amusing to the tiers but, I assure you, unpleasant on the block".
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3 187 There was a murmur of interest from the tiers.
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3 204 "Is she not a splendid catch? Consider her! Regard the beauty of her face, the fineness of her features, her sweet throat, encircled closely with locked metal, the dark, brown hair, too short now, but it will grow, the loveliness of her shoulders, the softness of her bosom, the narrowness of her wai...
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3 210 "She is only a barbarian!" called another fellow from the tiers.
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3 212 "She is a she-tarsk!" called a voice from the tiers.
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3 214 "All barbarians are she-tarsks," called a woman's voice from the tiers.
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3 215 "Yes!" called more than one woman from the tiers.
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3 220 Some of the women in the tiers laughed.
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3 222 There were few women in the tiers, perhaps fifteen or sixteen free women, and perhaps four or five slaves, who were silent, who knelt at the knees of their masters.
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3 298 "Who will bid more?" There was silence in the tiers.
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3 305 "Noble masters," called the auctioneer, "this female was brought to Gor for your pleasure! Think on that!" "They all are," called a fellow from the high tiers.
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3 311 It is hard not to be aware, as a purchasable object, of the desire and lust in the tiers, against which one will be helpless to defend oneself.
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3 318 In an early sale, however, aside from humiliation, as a new slave may be more sensitive to such things, it can be frightening to be facing away, unable to see the tiers.
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3 328 I now realized I was supposed to be heard in the tiers.
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3 336 There was laughter from the tiers.
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3 373 The supposed free women of the slave world, such as this now-stripped barbarian before you, are exploitative, mercenary creatures bartering their beauty for gain!" There were cries of anger from the tiers.
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3 386 "And see her now," he said, turning to the tiers, "owned, a property, exhibited as we wish, on sale!" "Good!" called more than one fellow.
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3 412 "Oh!" I cried, for the auctioneer had seized me by the hair, turned my right side to the tiers, and bent me backward, holding me cruelly in the "slave bow".
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3 438 The block is high, and I was several feet from the tiers.
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3 440 There might be several interested men in the tiers, making this impractical, and the merchants are eager to keep the sales moving, one item after another.
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3 453 Who will bid three fifty, and higher?" But the tiers were silent.
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3 462 I then knelt at the auctioneer's feet, facing the tiers.
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3 486 I was a slave, only a slave! "Three copper tarsks, forty tarsk-bits, of Brundisium!" called a fellow from the tiers.
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3 489 Who will bid more? Who will bid more?" The tiers were silent.
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3 493 There was no response from the tiers.
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3 498 But the tiers were still silent.
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3 505 Why should he pay attention to a slave? He seemed to be examining the tiers.
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3 523 "I know," said the auctioneer, looking out again, toward the tiers.
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3 527 At the foot of the block, on its right side, as one would face it from the tiers, a slaver's man pulled me to my feet.
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4 19 I had seen some tonight, in the tiers, with escorts.
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13 117 "I suppose," said he, "in the light of torches, exhibited, it is hard for a slave to look into the darkness of the high, far tiers".
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30 49 Within the enclosure were circular tiers of wooden benches.
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30 51 In the center of the enclosure, below the tiers of benches, sunken in the earth, was a wooden-walled pit, floored with sand, of some forty yards in diameter.
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47 135 I rose quickly to my feet, and went to the side, to a chest with four tiers, and two shelves, to fetch goblets and a decanter.
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