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Victory

Book 1. (3 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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13 4 Yet my victory, if victory it was, brought me no satisfaction.
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5 17 The power of Marlenus, or much of it, lay in the mystique of victory that had never ceased to attend him, acting like a magic spell on his soldiers and the people of his city.
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20 21 Marlenus, in spite of his heroic role in the victory, submitted himself to the judgment of Ar's Council of High Castes.
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Book 2. (4 results) Outlaw of Gor

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3 116 I could not understand his fear, but I was proud to see him master it, for fear is the great common enemy of all living things, and his victory I felt somehow was also mine.
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14 212 And so for an instant stood the tarn, its head and beak extended, its wings snapping, its prey locked in its grasp, and uttered the terrifying capture scream of the tarn, at once a scream of victory, and of challenge.
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20 63 But so far there has been no military victory of Ar over other cities and, accordingly, free of the sword, the Initiates of each city regard themselves as supreme within their own walls.
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22 70 "It would be victory for a man to have you on his chain," I said.
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Book 3. (5 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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28 245 If we had used it immediately, decisively, we might have wrought great damage, but neither of us wished to take the enemy by devastating surprise if victory might be won without bloodshed.
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30 85 To these proposals he added the very definite considerations that his forces still substantially outnumbered those of Misk in both number of Priest-Kings and firepower, and that victory would be his inevitably, and that it would be well at such a time to be in his good favor.
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30 86 Whereas I would not have abandoned Misk and freedom to join the forces of Sarm, I was forced to admit that the probable victory in the end would be his, and that his proposals might well be attractive to some former Muls, particularly those who had occupied a position of some importance in the Nest ...
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30 107 "He will be delivered to you only after my victory," said Sarm.
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33 68 I surmised that, pending some form of military victory of Ar over the other cities or some form of large-scale political reordering of the planet, the Initiate of Ar's claims would remain a matter of dispute.
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Book 4. (4 results) Nomads of Gor

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5 15 It is to the sky that the Tuchuks pray when they pray, demanding victory and luck for themselves, defeat and misery for their enemies.
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8 278 She would have contributed to the victory of a Kassar over a Tuchuk.
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8 574 "I claim victory and the woman!" shouted Albrecht.
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23 188 Harold and I sent a rider back to Kamchak with news of the victory.
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Book 5. (29 results) Assassin of Gor

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22 281 "I remember only," said he, "the victory perch, Mip lifting his hands, the tarn's scream of victory".
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3 36 They are men who commonly have an extraordinary aptitude for the game but beyond this men who have become drunk on it, men lost in the subtle, abstract liquors of variation, pattern and victory, men who live for the game, who want it and need it as other men might want gold, or others power and wome...
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9 127 "Normally the agent of a Ubar who has been victorious in battle will purchase one, for his high officers, to be brought to the victory feast".
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9 131 She will be revived at the height of the Ubar's victory feast, commonly to find herself unclothed in a cage of male slaves set up among the tables".
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12 44 In a few moments, with a cry of victory, the rider of the Yellow brought his tarn to the first perch, followed closely by the Red and the Green.
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13 219 About the walls, here and there, were lists and records, inked on narrow boards; there were also, here and there, hanging on the walls, some memorabilia, such as saddle rings and tarn harnesses, suitably labeled as to their origin; there were also representations of tarns and some drawings of famous...
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15 110 It was not known if he had been originally slave or not, but had he been he surely would have won his freedom ten times over and more; again and again, even after he would have won his freedom had he first been slave, he returned to the sand of the arena, steel in hand; I supposed it might be the go...
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15 193 I expect both, and I am certain that Flaminius, recognized the errors and exaggerations of their own position, but neither was concerned with the truth; both were concerned only with victory, and pleasing themselves.
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17 210 He was given a full military funeral; his ashes had been scattered from tarnback over a field where, as a general some years before, he had led the forces of Ar to victory.
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20 189 "But," said Cernus, smiling, "since you are scarcely likely to be as skilled as I, I feel that it is only just that you be represented by a champion, who can play for you and give you some opportunity for victory".
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21 407 "The Steels must have victory!" "What of you?" I asked.
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22 214 When the bird came first to the perches of victory there was no sound from the crowd, that vast multitude totally silent.
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22 215 Second was the startled Menicius of Port Kar, the palm of victory snatched from his grip.
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22 218 The bird lifted its head, resplendent, fantastic, and uttered the victory scream of the tarn.
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22 235 "It was victory," he said.
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22 241 Mip lay dead across the neck of the bird he had ridden to victory.
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22 279 "He and Green Ubar died in victory," said one of the men present.
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22 356 But I remembered him only now as he had held the saddle of Green Ubar, dying, but his hands lifted, in victory.
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22 386 Another man, one of the Steels, who had ridden to victory earlier in the day, ran to the foot of the perch.
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22 427 I was certain their riders had had orders from the box of Cernus to see that I did not win; it would be difficult for a single tarn to block a ring, but two together might well manage; further, in not taking the lead immediately, which I believe I could have done, I hoped to postpone the entry into ...
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22 436 The seventh rider was a nonfaction rider, but a veteran rider, who, upon orders from the Ubar or not, did not intend to wheel his tarn to face me, thus surrendering his opportunity of victory.
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22 519 The bird gave a great scream and the wings began to strike the air with the fury of victory.
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22 524 "Victory will be ours!" I cried to him.
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22 565 With a curse he jerked savagely at the control straps of Quarrel and that fine bird instantaneously responded and together Quarrel and Ubar of the Skies passed through the final ring; with a snap of his great wings Ubar of the Skies struck the winner's perch, seized it in his steel-shod talons and t...
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24 123 One of the decrees of Marlenus, uttered at his victory feast, yesterday evening, to rounds of drunken cheers and applause, had been to decree a two-hort, approximately two and one-half inch, heightening of the hemline in the already rather briefly skirted livery of female state slaves; this morning ...
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24 230 I had been given the thousand double tarns of gold for the victory in the Ubar's race.
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24 245 Of the two hundred remaining double tarns from the victory in the Ubar's race I gave all but one to free Melanie, who had served in the kitchens of Cernus, and arrange a livelihood for her.
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24 247 The one double tarn remaining from the victory gold I pressed into the hands of blind Qualius, the Player, who stood at the court of the Ubar, having been, like Hup, of the party of Marlenus.
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24 249 "Yes," I said, "he who was Kuurus, and the double tarn I give you now I give for your victory over the Vintner long ago near the great gate of Ar.
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Book 6. (15 results) Raiders of Gor

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18 43 I did not know if the victory we had won, for victory it surely seemed to be, was decisive or not, but I well knew that the twenty-fifth of Se'Kara, for that was the day on which this battle had been fought, would not be soon forgotten in Port Kar, that city once called squalid and malignant, but wh...
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15 51 I had only placed them there in victory, and now, again, for the entry to Port Kar.
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15 102 In this very afternoon the formal presentations and accountings of the victory and its plunder had taken place in the chamber of the Council of Captains.
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15 107 And now, in this very afternoon, my glories had been climaxed in the chamber of the Council of Captains, in which had taken place the formal presentations and accountings of the victory and its plunder, in which had taken place the commendation of the Council for my deeds and the awarding of its mos...
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15 243 Now, at my victory feast, I drank more paga.
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15 271 And it was thus that Luma, she of perhaps greatest importance in my house, saving its master, with us, yet chained and alone, apart, shared my feast of victory.
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15 350 It was indeed a feast of victory.
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15 441 I had arranged a surprise for my retainers on this night of feasting and victory.
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16 273 And there was a belonging, and a victory, and a meaningfulness, and cries, and the clashing of weapons, and tears and, in that instant, love.
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18 20 There could be no question of following up what had appeared to be the victory over the fleets of Cos and Tyros.
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18 24 "The victory draught," said the oar-master.
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18 49 And I recalled another victory, in another time, on a distant world.
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18 155 * * * * The boy, Fish, and I now stood in the dimly lit great hall of my house, where, the night before, had been celebrated the feast of my victory.
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18 234 "Victory is ours," I told him.
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18 467 "Where is the collar I took from your throat on the night of the victory feast?" I asked.
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Book 7. (4 results) Captive of Gor

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6 173 It amused me that I had won this small victory.
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11 1058 I turned about again, grasping the bars, filled with a sense of triumph, with vindictive victory.
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15 203 I would lie there and, through the crack beneath the heavy plank door, hear the music, the laughing, protesting screams of the girls, the laughter, the shouts of satisfaction, of victory of the men.
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15 1177 At the head of the feast sat the magnificent Rask of Treve, in his victory.
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Book 8. (5 results) Hunters of Gor

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12 17 Their first duty, naked and collared, is to serve the conquerors at their victory feast.
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21 51 In the very Ahn he had lost his victory, his certain triumph.
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21 268 Marlenus' was the victory, not mine.
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22 70 "Victory is ours!" cried my oarsmen, hurling their cups into the air.
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22 72 "Victory is ours!" "Let us hunt tumits," suggested Kamchak.
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Book 9. (13 results) Marauders of Gor

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1 35 After the victory of the 25th of Se'Kara, over the fleets of Tyros and Cos, I had freed her.
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1 187 I know of no prouder, more self-reliant, more magnificent creature than the free Gorean, male or female; they are often touchy, and viciously tempered, but they are seldom petty or small; moreover they do not hate and fear their bodies or their instincts; when they restrain themselves it is a victor...
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2 57 I could sense the triumph of the High Initiate on his throne, though his cold face betrayed little sign of his victory.
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6 72 It was the victory ale.
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8 45 After the restoration of Marlenus of Ar, in 10,119 Contasta Ar, from the founding of Ar, he had at his victory feast decreed a two-hort, about two and one half inches, shortening of the already briefly skirted garment of the female state slave.
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8 47 Proving that I myself am not above fashion I had had this scandalous alteration implemented in my own house; surely I would not have wanted my girls to be embarrassed by the excessive length of their livery; and, in fact, I did the Ubar of Ar one better, by ordering their hemlines lifted by an addit...
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10 153 When the first blood touches the cloak the match may, at the agreement of the combatants, or in the discretion of one of the two referees, be terminated; a price of three silver tarn disks is then paid to the victor by the loser; the winner commonly then performs a sacrifice; if the winner is rich, ...
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15 322 There had been danger, there had been the struggle, the challenge, and then, here, suddenly, torturously purchased, humbling me, exalting me, was a victory which I felt was not mine so much as that of a world, that of vision, that of beauty.
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17 102 After their devastating victory of the night of Svein Blue Tooth's feast, in which his hall was burned, and the Thing encampments laid waste, they had formed their own camp, and set methodically about gathering supplies for their southern march.
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18 668 Ivar Forkbeard and Svein Blue Tooth might congratulate themselves on their victory.
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18 693 "In four days, when supplies can be gathered," said Svein Blue Tooth, "we shall have a great feast, for this has been a great victory".
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18 694 "Yes," I said, "let us have a great feast, for this has been a great victory".
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21 166 They had fought against the united fleets of Tyros and Cos and, without their help, doubtless Port Kar could not have won the great victory of the 25th of Se'Kara, in the first year of the reign of the Council of Captains, in the year 10,120 Contasta Ar, from the Founding of Ar.
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Book 10. (13 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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9 181 These arrangements, I suspected, had to do with the attempt of cities to protect their free women who, in numbers, seldom fall to the enemy, unless the city itself should fall, and then, of course, they would find themselves, like slaves, under the victory torches, their clothing removed, completely...
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7 455 Indeed, who would want to collar any other sort of woman? To take the most brilliant, the most imaginative, the most beautiful women, and put them at your feet, impassioned, helpless slaves, is victory.
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11 315 The conqueror, by his might and cunning, and victory, has won, by the right of the Tahari, a soldier to his cause.
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12 47 On receipt of this signal a pennon, a victory pennon, was raised on the gate tower.
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13 371 Only you are less wise than I, for you do not serve upon that side which will taste the salt of victory".
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14 180 One gains a victory, one loses an enemy".
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14 244 "One gains a victory," said Ibn Saran, "but one loses an enemy".
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24 13 We did not pursue him but consolidated our victory.
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24 289 "It could mean the loss of Earth and Gor, the ultimate victory of Kurii".
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24 465 They refuse to accept the loving service of one who longs to serve lovingly; they will not accept the obeisance of one who yearns to yield it; they deny submission to she who longs to submit; they draw to her feet she who, weeping, longs to kneel; they deny the animal in her, the wonderful gift of e...
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25 72 "One gains a victory," I said.
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26 64 I had also made use of her a few times in the greater kasbah, after our victory, before the organization of the march to Tor.
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26 1198 One gains a victory; one loses an enemy.
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Book 11. (16 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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2 768 I remembered the simplicity and audacity with which, after his victory, he had examined me.
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2 1192 He had fought with savage steel to possess me; he had candidly, upon his victory, to my horror, appraised my flesh; he had kept me bound for hours; he had made me carry his shield, and heel him like an animal; he had cuffed me, and put me under discipline! He had not treated me as the free and right...
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3 277 Women from the victorious city who may have been captured are, of course, upon the victory of their city, freed.
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3 278 Women from the conquered city, on the other hand, are not; they are kept; they are turned over to the young males of the capturing city; in the game in which the first hundred captures decides victory this means there is a girl for each participating young man, usually one he himself brought bound t...
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4 16 He had taken it on his finger and thrust it roughly in my mouth, smearing it across my lips and tongue and teeth, making me take into my own body the consequences of his victory, my ravishing, my deflowering, and then, as he held my head in his hands, forcing me to look into his eyes, swallow.
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4 560 He was then unhooded and led away in his triumph to drink the paga of victory.
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4 1144 Then, as I lay there, bound, with Eta nearby, I asked myself why I should be ashamed? Was it wrong for a woman to yield helplessly to a man? Was it wrong for the heart to beat, to breathe, to feel? If the nature of the man were conquest and victory, what might then be the nature of the woman; could ...
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5 846 Her victory had been cheaply won.
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9 1822 "But first, Thurnus, my love," said Melina, speaking now from the doorway of their hut, "let us drink to the victory of the night".
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9 1827 "I bring you the brew of victory".
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9 1841 "Drink to your victory, and mine".
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9 1858 "It is our common victory," said Thurnus.
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9 1862 Then she said, "It is first your victory, then mine, my love".
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16 192 Port Kar lacked the power and shipping to follow up its victory.
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20 492 I put down my head, so that he might not see the smile of victory, of triumph, that suffused my features.
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28 166 Normally, of course, the conquering Ubar would keep such a regal wench, now collared and debased to slavery, in his own pleasure gardens, as a delicious memento of his victory, and as a woman.
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Book 12. (13 results) Beasts of Gor

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32 173 "What can compare," it asked, "with the joy of real victory? Of true victory? When one has risked one's life openly and then, after a hard-fought contest, has one's enemy at one's feet, lacerated, and bleeding, and dying, and can then tear him in victory and feast in his body, what can compare with ...
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2 428 "Men seldom recall who it was who brought them the fruits of victory".
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2 438 "Is our struggle, if successful," he asked, "to issue only in the victory of defeat, the triumph of the trivial and placid, the glorification of mediocrity?" "Perhaps," I said.
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4 120 The clocks improve tournament play which otherwise could become contests not of Kaissa but of patience, the victory perhaps going to him who was most willing to outsit his opponent.
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4 179 Scormus of Ar, though almost universally a versatile and brilliant player, was particularly masterful in this opening; he had used it for victory in the Turian tournaments of the ninth year of the Ubarate of Phanias Turmus; in the open tournaments of Anango, Helmutsport, Tharna, Tyros, and Ko-ro-ba,...
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4 181 Some regarded winning the city championship of Ar as tantamount to victory at the Fair of En'Kara.
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4 324 They felt they would be cheated of the victory were it so fraudulently surrendered to them.
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4 465 But I succumbed to the temptation of victory".
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4 476 The night at the fair was one of joy and triumph for the victory of Cos and her allies.
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11 48 Others, however, under the command of Sorgus, had boldly rallied to turn the tides of victory in their favor.
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35 1242 "Let us drink to your victory," he said.
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35 1244 "A victory to men and Priest-Kings".
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35 1246 "But a victory is not a war," he said.
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Book 13. (12 results) Explorers of Gor

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6 62 Thus Lake Ushindi might be thought of as Lake Victory or Victory Lake.
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6 80 The Gorean word for victory is "Nykus," which expression seems clearly influenced by "Nike," or "Victory," in classical Greek.
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6 61 Ushindi means Victory.
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6 63 It was named for some victory over two hundred years ago won on its shores.
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6 64 The name of the tiny kingdom or ubarate which had won the victory is no longer remembered.
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6 79 In that sense, I suppose, one might think of Schendi, though it has no real meaning of its own, as having an etiological relationship to a word meaning 'Victory'.
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12 188 "To victory," said Shaba.
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12 189 "To victory," we said, and drank.
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12 191 Each of us may not have had in mind the same victory, of course.
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16 186 "Our only hope," said the man to my left, "is a victory by the forces of Kisu".
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16 220 On this, methodically, an askari drummer, with two long sticks, was beating out, again and again, the message of victory.
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34 621 Or is it rather nature's way of calling men to the destiny to which she has intended them, to victory, and the mastery? You are a challenge of fortune, the player, and the stake, in the game that only one can win.
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Book 14. (9 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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8 50 How then, once having dared to taste meat and blood, and victory, could I again surrender so preciously recollected a birthright? I knew that men must not be men.
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20 98 I was dragged to the center of the sand and my hands, one by the referee, the other by Kenneth, the trainer, were lifted in victory.
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20 107 This victory had not set well with Miles of Vonda.
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20 171 "Again, Jason," said the Lady Florence, turning away from Kenneth, "permit me to congratulate you on your victory".
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22 587 "You remember, Jason," said the Lady Florence, "when after your victory over Kaibar, of the stables of Shandu, I ordered that you not be given a woman".
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22 626 It was then that the Mistress, pausing in her meal, looked at me and said, "Congratulations on your victory over Kaibar, of the stables of Shandu".
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22 636 "Your victory over his champion gave me great pleasure".
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25 209 I felt my bloody, leather-bound fists raised in victory.
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26 90 "My congratulations on your victory," she said.
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Book 15. (2 results) Rogue of Gor

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2 1 The Victory Camp "Greetings, Lady Tima," I said.
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2 17 This is a victory camp, one for loot and pleasure".
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Book 16. (15 results) Guardsman of Gor

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8 98 "Reginald, I take it," I said, "anticipates victory".
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9 103 "I plan not only escape," I said, "but victory".
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9 104 * * * * We could hear the shouting, as though of a pirate victory, coming from over the water.
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10 11 Preferably, of course, a stripped free woman hangs at the prow of the ship, that the degree of the victory may be made even more keen and manifest, but we were forced to make do with mere slaves.
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11 3 It was the night of our victory, that in which we had taken the holding.
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12 210 "Victory is yours," I told Callimachus.
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12 211 "Had we ampler forces," said Callimachus, "our victory might have been more complete".
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15 32 Tomorrow, as a participant in our naval exercises, in our projected maneuvers, designed to celebrate our victory, perhaps we shall permit you to return to your post upon the shearing blade".
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16 399 The alarm bar was ringing in Victoria, but now in token of victory.
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16 555 There the alarm bar was ringing in victory.
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18 603 Further, it was made clear to him, and to me, that my body would be physically examined for the explicit signs of his victory.
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20 32 She was one of three women whom I had had following our victory over the pirates, the other two being Lola and the former Miss Henderson.
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20 357 "And it was here that the decisive victory was won," said Calliodorus.
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20 1146 He would draw forth from her by his skills rhapsodies of movements, cries, moans, utterances and admissions, a music to the ears of both the conquering master and the delicious, yielding slave, she who finds, and can find, her most glorious victory only in her most complete and devastating defeat.
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20 1647 In the mingling of remains and ashes there is no victory for either.
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Book 17. (4 results) Savages of Gor

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1 1132 The typical act of war is the raid, conducted usually by a small group of men, some ten to fifteen in number, which enters enemy country, strikes, usually at dawn, and makes away, almost as soon as it came, with scalps and loot; sometimes, too, a woman or two of the enemy is taken; men of most tribe...
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2 134 The monument, of course, commemorates this victory.
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12 58 "I think," said Grunt, "that it is done in the joy and lust of victory, that it ventilates powerful emotion, that it expresses vengeance and hatred, and, indeed, pleasure and life, and that it is done, too, to show contempt for the enemy and to humiliate him, thereby demonstrating one's own superior...
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14 373 Some, I supposed, might upon occasion hear, perhaps in still hours, far off, old songs, the songs of the hunt, of capture, of victory, of the heart.
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Book 18. (17 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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1 148 The Fleer, eventually, had left the scene of battle, feeling the cost of obtaining a victory over such men would be too high.
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22 302 In a sense it was a celebration of relief, of life, of victory, of jubilation and triumph.
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28 237 We turned our kaiila about and, slowly, not hurrying, well pleased with ourselves, tired, but quietly jubilant in our victory, made our way back toward our camp.
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30 51 On the other hand, if the medicine of the enemy was false medicine altogether, then what had he to fear? The test for the stronger medicine, incidentally, implicitly, appears to be victory or success.
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30 155 The Yellow Knife's lance took him low in the left side, hurling him from the kaiila, and then the Yellow Knife, with a whoop of victory, whirled away.
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31 17 We could hear the sounds of revels in the distance, where, together, Yellow Knives, soldiers and Kurii celebrated their victory.
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32 256 "They will celebrate their victory," said Cuwignaka.
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44 240 To be sure, perhaps a world of guilt, anxiety, self-denial, misery, pain, confusion, scratching, clawing, scrambling, bickering, neurosis, and hatred is superior to a world of victory, confidence, health and fulfillment.
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47 327 It was his intention, however, I gathered, to participate in the anticipated resolution of the siege, in his forces' climactic victory.
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47 386 He flung his head up to the sun and howled his victory.
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47 390 The sun and sky were again saluted by the victory cry of the Kur.
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48 3 I looked down from the escarpment to the victory camp below, where, yesterday, the Yellow Knives had had their encampment.
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51 22 When Cuwignaka and I had spied on the victory celebration of the Yellow Knives and soldiers at the summer camp we had counted only seven Kurii there, including Kog and Sardak.
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54 101 We were now in a great victory camp, near water, within sight of Council Rock, some seven or eight pasangs in the distance.
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54 111 Already various groups, in small numbers, had begun to withdraw from the victory camp.
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56 34 We were on a rise near the victory camp.
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56 112 Yesterday, early, Zarendargar and his companion had left the victory camp.
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Book 19. (9 results) Kajira of Gor

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9 74 "I have come to report another glorious victory," said Ligurious.
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9 94 "It was prominently displayed in the victory parade several weeks ago, that over which we presided".
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9 106 "It seems that our first victory, after the seizure of the mines, occurred on the Fields of Hesius," I said.
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9 257 I had been out, of course, in the grand victory parade, staged shortly after the seizure of the mines.
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13 106 There was a sudden cry of pleasure and victory from the crowd.
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31 558 I was merely Tiffany, a feast slave, brought to Argentum with others to serve at the victory feast.
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31 785 "Tomorrow night, at the great victory feast," he said, "you will be turned over to Claudius, my Ubar, and the high council".
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33 21 "This feast," said Claudius, "is one of victory, one of triumph.
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Book 20. (10 results) Players of Gor

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1 29 A major victory in this matter was secured a few years ago when the caste of Merchants, which organizes and manages the Sardar Fairs, agreed to a standardized version, proposed by, and provisionally approved by, the high council of the caste of Players, for the Sardar tournaments, one of the attract...
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1 42 Squat, brilliant Chung and tall, long-haired Nigel, like a warlord from Torvaldsland, had fought with us against the fleets of Cos and Tyros, participating with us in the victory of the Twenty-Fifth of Se'Kara, in Year One of the Council of Captains; they remained in Port Kar as high captains, admir...
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1 703 To be sure, the Gorean warrior usually prefers to steal his own, such a feat being regarded as a coup, a bold affrontery to an enemy, and a victory for himself, the successful culmination of a stimulating adventure, quite apart from the pleasures of enjoying the female.
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4 273 "What a victory! Getting Bosk of Port Kar in my chains! Then delivering him, almost in passing, as a casual surprise, to Flaminius".
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9 303 Victory has been ours.
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12 84 "I doubt that I myself would be likely to find in one victory an adequate compensation for a hundred somewhat embarrassing defeats".
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12 118 I had waited a very long time for this victory, and I would savor every move until capture of Home Stone.
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15 127 "Imagine this," cried Boots, expansively, with a great gesture, his eyes lighting up, "an incredible banquet, a glorious feast, a feast of victory, a triumphal feast, the most abundant and delicate viands, the finest of entertainment, and then, at the climax of this great feast, you bring forth a gr...
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16 1075 These women, during the course of a victory feast, are caressed by whips, or beaten by them, until they beg, though free, to serve the tables as slaves.
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21 564 Too, at that time, I had taken and chained naked at the prow of my flagship, as a trophy of my victory, the lovely young Vivina, who was being brought to Telnus, the capital of Cos, to be entered into companionship with him, then to be his royal consort.
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Book 21. (4 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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15 47 These feelings, like those of glory and victory, to which they are akin, are their own reward.
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15 321 The victory of either means the end of the free companies".
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26 1437 She is, you see, like the sleen and kaiila, part of the clearly understood spoils of victory.
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26 1449 "And they serve well, naked, in the victory orgies," I said.
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Book 22. (6 results) Dancer of Gor

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13 70 Usually it is only in the meanest, the cheapest and lowest of taverns that the girls serve naked, much as would the females of a conquered city at the victory feast of their conquerors, now, or soon to be, their masters.
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17 119 To one side there was a sculptured group, perhaps celebrating some triumph or victory, of five heroic male figures, with shields, helmets and spears, and at their feet, amidst apparent spoils, perhaps captives, or slaves, kneeling, two nude female figures.
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17 138 In the fifth, and last division, we saw a victory feast.
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17 144 "Interestingly," said my master, "this monument celebrates a victory in which Market of Semris was only indirectly involved.
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17 192 I recalled, too, the last portion of the frieze, where she had sat beside the victor, in her tiara, gracing his victory feast, half stripped, while women of her city, totally naked, served and danced.
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31 332 I did not tell him that, truly, we were both victorious, that he was victorious in his victory, and I, a woman, was victorious in my utter defeat.
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Book 23. (9 results) Renegades of Gor

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2 133 Some had even told me that men and women they knew had followed the army northward, as though confident of its victory and returning to their homes.
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8 956 "Because of the glory and victory of what I truly am, and now know myself to be!" she wept.
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11 235 "He prefers the victory of neither.
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11 236 Any such victory, with its achieved hegemony, might end, and would surely threaten, the existence of the free companies.
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11 270 "Lurius is willing, I suspect, to gamble the gold of Cos on victory, and recoup his investment a thousandfold in the future".
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11 274 "From cities interested in a Cosian victory," I said, "and, too, I suspect, from Ar herself".
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16 223 What a repugnant triumph would be such a charade! In such a victory, were it possible, she would bring about only her own ruin.
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20 205 After the final victory over the pirates, which took place at Victoria in 10,127 C.
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20 445 Glory is its own victory.
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Book 24. (15 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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1 268 Too, these men were flushed with victory, after the fall of Ar's Station, to the east.
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11 1 A Victory is Claimed "So this," said the officer, "is our spy".
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11 43 In a moment we heard men crying out that a great victory had been won on the right.
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11 47 "There, you see? Victory itself, won with the steel of Ar, has gainsaid your seditious intimations!" The men behind me cheered.
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12 84 "Today," she said, angrily, "we have won a great victory".
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12 119 Victory was ours.
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12 126 "It was a great victory," she said.
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13 108 "A great victory," I commented.
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13 307 "Was that not the "great victory"?" I asked.
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17 43 "Surely you made them pay dearly for their victory," said a man.
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17 85 "We have won a great victory!" conjectured yet another.
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17 88 Indeed, if it were not for some such thing, say, a decisive victory on the part of Ar, or perhaps a hasty flight at her approach, the apparent absence, or withdrawal, seemed unaccountable.
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17 102 "Have we not won a great victory?" asked a fellow.
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26 214 That between Harfax and Besnit had concluded, however, with a practical victory for Harfax.
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28 95 "In that way," said a fellow, "the final victory will be hers".
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Book 25. (18 results) Magicians of Gor

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3 210 "Victory for Rarir!" cried a man.
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3 1078 Out there, somewhere, were the forces of Cos, their appetites whetted by victory.
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6 100 I suspected that he was at worst a dupe, a trusting man, perhaps even one of considerable talent, who had found himself, through no real fault of his own, a pawn in games of state, games in which there seemed to be no rules other than survival and victory.
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7 432 "With victory for Cos," said Marcus.
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7 433 "Complete victory," I said.
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7 442 "But doubtless you rejoice in her victory," he said.
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8 71 "Do you think," he asked, "that just because I did not slay you on the day of the victory of Cos, that I am weak?" "No, Master!" she said.
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8 903 "Now," I said to Marcus, "perhaps the victory of Cos is clearer to you".
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8 956 It is rather, I think, primarily, the contest, and that for which all is risked, victory.
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11 264 "We did not win this victory in storm and fire, surmounting walls, breaching gates, winning Ar street by street, house by house.
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11 274 That is no honest victory for Cos, won at the walls, at the gates, in the streets.
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11 275 That is not a victory of which we can be proud.
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11 276 That is a victory not of steel, but by poison".
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13 222 Some had scorned them as embarrassments and failures, as defeated men and fools, tricked, humiliated and decimated in the north, men who had dared to return to Glorious Ar without the crown of victory.
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16 91 A murmur of victory, of elation, coursed through the crowd.
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16 155 Whereas presumably there were few in the crowd who were not prepared to resent, and as possible, oppose, Cos, not all were convinced of the depth and extent of the treason which had contributed so significantly to her victory.
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19 851 Whereas a number of dispositions are possible, these girls, who are quite expensive, are not unoften purchased by victorious generals and ubars who use them as a portions of their victory feasts.
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26 64 Long ago when I was a girl it was the same, and then, in my time of troubles, after the misunderstanding with my dear father, Marlenus, I was sequestered, and then, later, now that the war has been concluded to the mutual benefit of Ar and Cos, with victory for us both, thanks to the mercies of Cos,...
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Book 26. (3 results) Witness of Gor

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45 186 The victory has come to Cos, but for various reasons, having to do primarily with the volatility of mercenary forces, it is thought that the permanence of this victory is not assured.
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13 904 "Oh!" His victory was at hand.
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29 908 The free woman laughed merrily, understanding the pit master's decision as constituting for her some sort of victory, particularly given the disgruntlement of the guard.
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Book 27. (11 results) Prize of Gor

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21 130 How complete was the victory of Cos! And what a small part of their victory was the slave called 'Ellen', as incidental to it as an appropriated tarsk! Ellen quickly turned her head away from the kneeling captives, or slaves, put it down and brushed her hair to the side.
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11 255 It was not then simply a matter of display, but of triumph, of the sweet taste of total victory, as well.
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11 343 Would she not have screamed in terror, and fled? "You are perhaps also aware that at the victory feasts of conquerors not unoften the women of the enemy, the women of the conquered, and, ideally, those formerly of the highest station, the most aristocratic of the enemy's women, those of the richest ...
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11 364 Thusly, compatible with historical precedent, I have her serve at my feast, my victory feast, naked".
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11 864 But would most not wish weak foes? Only Goreans, she supposed, desired strong foes, perhaps that they might be the better tested, that an ensuing victory might be the more worth winning.
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17 444 They may, for example, have had a long, frustrating hunt and desire an elating, compensatory victory of blood and feasting; or they may just be ravenously hungry.
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20 973 Victory to Cos! There will be feasting.
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20 980 Then, profoundly disturbed by this news of some victory by Cos, though its nature seemed uncertain, Ellen lay again down in the dust to seize what rest she might.
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21 70 She was mere property! She was slave! How she was looking forward to the opportunity to clean her body, after the heat, the dust, the coffle! There was to be a festival camp, celebrating yet another victory of invincible Cos.
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21 133 No need for him to see his former slave as she was now, now merely another evidence of the victory of his foes, now no more than another article amongst the loot of his enemies, now merely another item in the abounding wealth of Cos.
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27 138 Portus Canio and the others, then, would presumably turn southeast, toward Ar, hoping to reach the great southern road, the Viktel Aria, Ar's Victory.
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Book 28. (35 results) Kur of Gor

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73 62 "Should we not now remove his victory stele from the Vale of Destruction," said a Kur, "and put there our own, to commemorate our victory?" "No," said Lord Arcesilaus, "let his victory there, of more than a century ago, be recalled.
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12 67 "A victory ill bought is an ill-gained victory," said Cabot.
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1 350 Such, it is supposed, would present a normal male with an interesting, unusual, and naive object of desire, one which could be interestingly exploited, and conveniently and ruthlessly ravaged, doubtless to her bewilderment, and consternation, rather like the young female slaves who are raised in iso...
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8 142 "Too," said Agamemnon, "our human allies would not be forgotten in the morning of our victory, but would be well repaid for their efforts, efforts which, in large part, were exerted on their own behalf".
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8 163 "And what would take place on this morning of victory?" "Gor would belong not to Priest-Kings," said Agamemnon, "but to humans".
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12 63 He would expend humans, swarming them into the Sardar to exterminate Priest-Kings, thus robbing Kurii of the glory of victory".
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12 69 "But it is a victory".
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12 71 "Too," said Cabot, "after such a victory you would have to share Gor with your allies".
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20 117 The passion for truth, and the seeking of justice, in the Kur heart, is linked more closely with victory than deliberation, with triumph than balloting, with blood than mind.
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20 118 The hereditary coils have cast their countless lots, and nature has made her innumerable decisions amongst them, according to her mysterious wills and ways, denominating her fortunes of extinction and prosperity, of defeat and victory, of death and life.
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21 567 Grendel put back his head and howled in victory, a Kur's cry of triumph.
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33 110 They must wait to learn if they are to be rejoicing guests at a victory banquet or stripped slaves serving it.
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47 1 How the Tarns of Victory Came to Surmount the Standards of Agamemnon It was a long, weird cry, from Cabot's left, and he reached out his hand, wildly, but could not grasp the outstretched, clutching hand of the human, one from the cages, to his left.
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52 11 Kurii tend not to be tolerant of defeat, and feel that only the blood lines of victory should be maintained and propagated.
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56 24 At one end of the valley was a simple, memorial stele, recounting what had once occurred there, something over a hundred years earlier, a victory in which the forces of a Tenth Face of the Nameless One had succumbed, and those of an Eleventh Face of the Nameless One had emerged victorious.
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56 149 "For victory," said Lord Grendel.
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56 192 "It is victory, is it not?" he asked.
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56 198 "It is to you we owe this victory," said Lord Grendel.
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56 281 "Because," said Lord Grendel, "they have now tasted victory".
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57 9 "But Agamemnon would surely follow up his victory and press a determined, vengeful pursuit".
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57 25 "The victory was ours," said Grendel.
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57 56 "The victory was ours," said Statius.
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57 61 "Afterward," said Statius, "they withdrew to their place of ignominious gathering, the place of ropes or knives, and we could not follow up our victory".
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60 96 "Victory!" he gasped.
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61 119 "And that," said Statius, "would guarantee the victory of Lord Agamemnon".
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61 143 "That is my hope for victory," said Lord Grendel.
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61 198 "But that may wait until tomorrow, after our secret march, our assault on the palace, and the glory of our inevitable victory," said Flavion.
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62 14 "Had the secret march been undertaken, victory would have been Agamemnon's.
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62 22 "Perhaps," said Flavion, "but many feel that it is now the only chance for victory, and despise Grendel for not ordering the assault".
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67 40 If there were to be such messages he would have expected them to be, say, warnings to Kur loyalists, even nondominants, to beware of humans, or renegades, or calls to humans, or others, if there were others, to come in and surrender, perhaps to be spared for lowly services, groomings, and such, or, ...
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67 92 The unnatural winter, Cabot supposed, had cessitated, as it was now no longer necessary, or, perhaps better, useful, given Agamemnon's victory.
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73 105 "I found that out, in the victory".
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73 108 After the victory she was brought to the habitats".
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73 212 Nonetheless, as this was not known to Cabot and Lord Grendel, or not known for certain, Lord Grendel, by means of intermediaries, guards, and such, made certain that the slave was well aware of the victory of Lord Arcesilaus, the appearance of Lord Grendel in the capital, that of a human commander, ...
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78 160 "Remember the Lady Bina," Lord Grendel had whispered to the fallen, shuddering Kur, and then he had straightened up, and backed away, and lifted his head to the far ceiling of the world and howled, as a primeval Kur might have howled, a cry of rage, of hatred, of victory, and satisfaction.
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Book 29. (16 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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19 258 "Victory is the fruit of victory," said Tajima.
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19 261 "Men desire fruits of victory other than victory herself," I said.
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5 492 Meanwhile the citizens of Ar were to believe their loss was a gain, their defeat a victory.
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14 15 Courtesy is one thing, but courtesy at the expense of victory seemed to me a dubious tactical election.
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16 163 Victory is often less the fruit of valor than of information, patience, calculation, and cunning.
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17 89 There is little pleasure for the warrior in pursuing broken, terrified men, defeated and almost defenseless, though he can recognize the military value in doing so, following up the victory.
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17 90 It is good to consolidate a victory, to prevent regroupings and rallies, to further dispirit a foe, and such, and, obviously, any fellow one brings down today need not be met tomorrow.
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17 95 "Victory!" cried Torgus, grinning.
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17 96 "Victory!" "War!" I cried, and gestured downward, toward the plaza of training.
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18 404 "Now," smiled Lord Nishida, "it seems a feast, a victory feast, would be in order, when things are done, and matters cleared, of course, a feast in, say, a day or two, after the day's work.
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18 414 It is one of the pleasures of victory.
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18 503 Sometimes overconfident forces do bring free women with them, camp followers, courtesans, and such, and, even, not unoften, highly placed free women, to companion high officers, preside over victory feasts, have the first chance to bid amongst the women of the enemy for serving slaves, and such.
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18 505 If unable to observe actions from remote, secure, and convenient heights, by means of the glasses of the Builders, they remain behind, in their silken tents, awaiting the announcements of victory, in the keeping of camp guards.
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19 257 "Surely the fruits of victory are desirable," I said.
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20 82 Some commanders, well aware of this dynamic, increase the depth of their left wings, a tactic which often leads to victory.
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25 183 Our victory would doubtless gain some time, but one did not know how much.
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Book 30. (14 results) Mariners of Gor

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4 153 Indeed her victory as a female lies in her utter and unconditional defeat as a contestant in that unnatural, strange war.
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12 141 This was no Ubar's victory feast, in which the daughters of the conquered, still free, must serve naked.
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23 115 Our men, who are mercenaries, and hired as such, save for the Pani, prefer to choose their wars intelligently, to weigh odds, to balance gold carefully against blood, to fight for a presumed victory, with loot and pay in the offing, not for defeat, not for the chains of a slave, not for a likely dea...
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23 123 "Have they not then already been paid, have they not already acquired more loot than war might augur?" "Particularly," said Cabot, "if the war seems foolish and dangerous, and the prospects of victory thin, if not hopeless".
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27 1 The Victory of the Exploratory Force; There Will Be Feasting I heard the drums, and emerged from the barracks.
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27 136 A set of feasts were to be prepared, served in dozens of rooms, and barracks, and in the courtyard, at long tables, celebrating the victory of the exploratory force.
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27 138 "It seems," said Turgus, "victory is ours".
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27 139 "What victory?" said Philoctetes.
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27 145 "They will see it as a victory feast," said Aeacus.
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27 197 "Hail the victory of the exploratory force," said Aeacus.
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28 271 What a glorious victory had been that of the exploratory force! I would ascend to the parapet.
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29 25 These events augured no simple and speedy route to victory.
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34 50 Do not then pretend to victory, but be deferent, and grateful, that mercy has been taken on you".
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35 44 "But one wonders why Lord Yamada, rich with resources, with many ashigaru, with many ships, with many villages and rice fields, with his war well in hand, on the brink of victory, would send a single ship to Brundisium, or even, say, to Kasra or Telnus".
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Book 31. (11 results) Conspirators of Gor

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10 868 The usual ensuance in such matters is that the conquered Ubara will be marched naked in the triumph, chained to the stirrup of the victor's tharlarion or kaiila, after which she, and the women of her court, similarly paraded, will serve naked at the victory feast, during which they will be enjoyed, ...
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10 1009 Such exhibitions I would later learn may, with slight variations, betoken enthusiasm or jubilation, high spirits, the appreciation of a deft witticism, an excellent move in a game, pleasure at unexpectedly glimpsing a friend, a fine shot in archery, a victory in the arena, one's foe slaughtered at o...
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17 217 Sometimes a favorite will balk, and an unknown bound to victory.
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22 137 "We have," said Kleomenes, "a rare liqueur of Turia, which we were saving for the night of victory, the celebration of a successful hunt".
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22 150 "It is your victory, your hunt celebration," said Master Desmond.
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29 188 "Mercenaries who know nothing, who do not look beyond their fee," he said, "or fools who believe they would be enriched by a Kur victory, in a world to be shared".
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30 117 He thinks, rather, following a Kur victory, after which she would no longer be needed, she would be enslaved or eaten".
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35 54 Let us also suppose that this conspiracy's projection is threefold, one of alliance, one of extermination, or virtual extermination, and one of ultimate victory".
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41 28 The greatest victory of the insurgents had occurred on the ninth day of the insurrection, when they had managed to trap, attack, and destroy the most recent body of Agamemnon, the large, mobile, crab-like machine which had been, as it turned out, fearsomely effective in the halls.
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48 214 It will manifest the success of our cause, the absoluteness of our victory.
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48 218 "I have waited long for this day," said Lucius, "years of secret thoughts, of hypocrisy, and deception, months of planning, days of strife, weeks of withdrawal, of hiding in tunnels, and waiting, and then, by means of an unexpected, bold, and glorious stroke, victory!" He then signaled to his two co...
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Book 32. (6 results) Smugglers of Gor

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9 252 A common test for a young tarnsman is to steal a free woman from an enemy city, bring her home, brand and collar her, and have her serve and dance before his family and friends at his victory feast.
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10 12 I was sure he would shepherd his men, and nourish them, but, as a dark player might, regarding not only the board, and a particular victory, but the larger game, a different game, one not played on a board.
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20 187 "What do men prize most," asked Relia, "after gold, after victory in war, after fine kaiila, and loyal sleen?" "Beautiful, fearful, obedient, docile slaves," said another.
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25 20 The bars may also mark other Ahn, depending on the city, and may serve as a signal of alarm, of sorrow, of victory, of celebration, and such.
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35 90 Victory is ours.
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43 504 All I had cared for, of course, was the mere capture of the quarry, which objective had obviously been attained, but, for some reason, the victory seemed, if not empty, at least incomplete.
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Book 33. (29 results) Rebels of Gor

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1 240 Would not rushing about, when all is hopeless, and known to be such, be undignified, even shameful, an act of desperation, contemptible, base, and disgraceful, like the bound tarsk squirming and squealing on the sacrificial altar? If our foes break into the holding and discover, to their dismay, onl...
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9 47 In the field manuals the common lesson is to pursue an advantage to the end, to follow up on the victory, never to stop with an incomplete victory, but the field manuals are written with the care and leisure which might accompany kaissa.
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1 44 Had the encampment been one of an infantry, an isolated outpost, this exploitation of the element of surprise, and the precision of the ensuing encirclement, might have resulted, for most practical purposes, in a victory merging on wholesale extermination.
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1 256 The tarn cavalry, on which we were to rely for victory, has been discovered, surprised, and put to rout.
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1 518 Obedience is a common path to victory; but it may lead as well to defeat.
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2 143 Death need not be a defeat; to die well is the final victory.
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6 239 "When none live," said Lord Okimoto, "it is then that the greatest victory is won".
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6 241 "There is one victory of which we cannot be deprived," said Lord Okimoto.
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9 28 My question is this, is it appropriate to lift the ritual knife when success, survival, even victory, is still possible?" "In such a case," had said Lord Okimoto, "lifting the ritual knife would be not only premature, but would be an error of action; indeed, it would be improper, and thus forbidden"...
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13 152 It was not surprising to me that victory was no stranger to his warriors and Ashigaru.
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14 70 "With Tarl Cabot, tarnsman," he said, "goes the cavalry; with the cavalry goes the sky; with the sky goes victory".
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15 45 Too, I supposed that the garden walls would be similar to those of the courtyard itself, and, if this should be so, attaining their summit might constitute a dubious victory.
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21 75 It was obvious, given the technologies involved in such a suspension of consciousness and such a methodology of transition that either the Priest-Kings or the Kurii, or both, had chosen to intervene in what might otherwise have been regarded as little more than a final battle in a minor war in a far...
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21 83 Victory sat upon their banners.
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22 46 "Final victory then," I said, "would not be soon at hand".
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25 295 At his victory feast she dances, and serves him, he first, of all present.
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30 372 "Such things are not only for the stripped high women of a conquered city serving the victory banquets of conquerors".
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31 179 And in war, of course, women, on the islands, and certainly on continental Gor, are accounted loot, and what loot could be lovelier, or more desirable? One of the delights and remunerations of victory is appropriating the most beautiful of the enemy's women for your slaves, to have them collared at ...
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44 181 "Victory is upon our banners," said Lord Temmu.
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44 186 "Sound the horns of victory!" "Hold!" cried Tajima, the glass of the Builders trained on the horizon.
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45 95 "With so much at stake," I said, "in effect, a planet, for Kurii would not long be likely to peaceably share a world with Priest-Kings or any others, and surely Priest-Kings would realize the danger of admitting a technologically advanced, aggressive species like the Kurii to their world, it seems p...
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52 25 This victory is yours!" "We do not know Kur," said Tajima.
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57 40 Despite Lord Yamada's announcements of a great victory in the north, it soon became clear that his armies had been thrown into disarray.
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59 265 When one extends to the attack, one exposes more of the body, and risks more, but without risk there is no victory, only eventual defeat.
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60 300 "One's victory is another's defeat.
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60 301 Each must strive for his own victory".
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61 154 What had begun as an unopposed march to claim an uncontested and inexpensive victory had suddenly, within an Ahn or so, turned into an apparently desperate situation, sustaining a possible siege without the benefit of suitable defenseworks against a foe which might be present in overwhelming numbers...
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61 421 My ultimate goal, naturally enough, under the circumstances, was to bring the situation between the rival houses of Temmu and Yamada to the point where neither house could achieve, or plausibly claim, victory.
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61 503 * * * As you may suppose, Lord Temmu, with victory almost in his grasp, was furious with the withdrawal, and return, of the small invasion force sent south.
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Book 34. (9 results) Plunder of Gor

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14 100 Along these lines, when a city falls, the women of the enemy, before their embonding, stripped, often serve at the victory feast of the conquerors, even to the extent of being put rudely to the pleasure of the victors late in the feast.
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26 50 In the case of the dark caste, however, there is no devotion to the codes of honor, which might spare a disabled foe, which might temper victory, say, with the recognition of opposed valor, no generous companionship of the blade, no brothers in arms.
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53 230 "Surely you know the fate of many Kur females, females of the party of Lord Agamemnon, following the victory of the usurper, Lord Arcesilaus?" "What has that to do with me?" she said.
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58 23 Nature favors victory, and the storms of sex.
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59 103 There is the thrill of the chase, the apprehension of the quarry, the kill, the relishing of the hot, living, bloody meat of victory.
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59 121 It is common in arena sports, in the killing games, the beast fights, in the tarn races, the races of kaiila and tharlarion, as in the contests of dramas, of choral song, of music, and poetry, to include kajirae amongst the winnings, amongst the spoils of victory.
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60 72 "That would make the victory theirs," he said.
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60 92 To do this he must supplant Surtak, by which victory he would hope to clear the way for his scheme, and win prestige and power amongst such disaffected Kurii as hope to profit from the reduction or fall of Surtak".
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60 272 The two Kurii who were in the box of Decius Albus, those of high station, who had accompanied Surtak in Brundisium, howled with pleasure and leaped about within the box itself, in what might be some bestial dance of victory, of triumph, of joy.
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Book 35. (6 results) Quarry of Gor

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3 370 And so one has a world of men at war with themselves and women at war with themselves, a war in which victory is identified with one's own loss and defeat.
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20 8 I knew that I had wanted to be defeated; in being vanquished, I was freed; in being conquered, I found the reassurance and victory for which I longed.
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30 69 He has stood twice in the sand, victory on his blade".
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43 160 "Now, on, on, through the gate, to victory, to safety and riches, to the Skerry of Lars! Stroke, lads, stroke!" I looked back.
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46 528 Did it not bespeak his triumph and victory? Did it not remind me, by contrast, of my fathomless reduction and absolute subjugation, of my total meaninglessness, that I was now less than the dust beneath a free man's sandals, that I was now a slave? How he had smiled! He knew I could not dance.
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47 175 She is often, at first, exhibited as a trophy of victory, in triumphs, civil celebrations, court occasions, and such, but later may be simply put with other female slaves of the victor".
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Book 36. (27 results) Avengers of Gor

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42 56 "It is victory," said Thrasymedes, breathing heavily, two hands grasping the long handle of a double-bladed ax, one blow of which might have split the common shield or cleaved a helmet to the chest, "victory, quick and terrible".
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1 234 "They made their identity well known," he said, "in cries of war and shouts of victory".
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5 64 A judicious commander wishes to assure himself of victory, and that is best assured, where practical, by bringing an overwhelming force to bear".
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6 361 Later she would learn that her defeat, total and uncompromising, was her salvation, that her loss, complete and unredeemable, was her victory.
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15 21 The victory was ours".
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15 22 "Our victory was barren," I said.
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15 24 "Our victory was complete.
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15 25 It is merely that the expected consequence of the victory did not materialize".
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27 51 "How naive we were," said Thurnock, "thinking that the victory was ours".
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27 53 "We had every right to suppose that the victory was ours.
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42 57 "It is not victory," I said, "until the sword's work is done".
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42 155 "Victory, again," he said.
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46 65 "Are not the victory feasts of generals, commanders, and Ubars," said a man, "served by the women of the enemy, stripped, branded, and collared, terrified that they might not be found pleasing?" "It is common practice," I said.
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46 113 It is one thing to look ahead to the morrow, having in view the prospect of victory.
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48 19 Who could help villagers but villagers themselves? To whom else could they look? Then, second, a startling torch, an unexpected, glad victory, suddenly flamed in the darkness.
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48 40 "Victory is ours," said a man.
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48 62 When a battle has been successfully fought, and the enemy driven from the field, it is not uncommon for the victors to mark the field in such a way as to commemorate their victory.
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48 63 If a tree is available, suitably situated, and of an appropriate size, it is cleared of bark, leaves, and smaller branches, and then used as a mount or frame on which to hang paraphernalia proclaiming the victory, usually helmets, shields, insignia, banners, standards, broken weapons, and such, take...
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48 161 I had not ordered them to the harbor at Mytilene, for I feared, despite our victory, that the harbor might yet be under surveillance.
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49 67 Given the victory of Mytilene and the control of the fields by our Peasant cohorts, we may rule out an attack by land.
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49 84 His victory on the beach would have been slight and, for most practical purposes, empty.
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56 12 "Their officers are heartened; they are sanguine with victory; they can feel it in their grasp, they can smell it in our shed blood, see it in our weakness and paucity, hear it in the groans of our wounded, note it in the confidence and jubilation of their troops".
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57 122 "Victory is ours!" cried a man.
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59 39 "Surely he should claim credit for this magnificent victory," said the man.
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59 46 "The noble Nicomachos does not attribute victory to the wisdom, astuteness, guidance, and leadership of the governor?" asked the man.
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59 61 "It is another benefit of the victory," I said.
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62 29 "You must rejoice," I said, "in the victory of your friend, Nicomachos, over the corsairs".
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