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Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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1 48 That evening I dropped my pack near a rock platform and set about gathering some wood for a fire.
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1 52 I put down the wood I had gathered and approached the object, more curious than anything else.
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1 117 I rolled over and threw some wood on the fire and reached for the envelope.
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3 10 There was no square foot of the chamber that did not contain racks of scrolls, and others, hundreds perhaps, were piled like cord wood here and there.
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10 96 From the wagon came the sound of rolling bodies, slamming and cracking against the sides, and the rattle of chains on wood, pierced by squeals of pain and anger.
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10 204 In the early afternoon, when the caravan halted, she would help Kazrak and me set up our tent and would then gather wood for a fire.
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18 186 In a moment he had burst through the obstruction as if it had been made of kindling wood.
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Book 2. (14 results) Outlaw of Gor

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1 40 He spun like a tiger with a sudden cry of rage in some strange tongue and I found myself seized in hands like steel and with great force hurled helplessly across his knee, my spine an inch from being splintered like kindling wood.
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2 28 It is a terrible weapon and, abetted by the somewhat lighter gravity of Gor, when cast with considerable force, can pierce a shield at close quarters or bury its head a foot deep in solid wood.
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3 34 His stature and burden proclaimed him a member of the Caste of Carriers of Wood, or Woodsmen, that Gorean caste which, with the Caste of Charcoal Makers, provides most of the common fuel for the Gorean cities.
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3 43 The whiskers had been scraped from his face, probably by the blade of the broad, double-headed wood ax bound on top of the bundle.
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3 57 "What do you want?" asked the carrier of wood, who must now have noticed that my shield and accouterments bore no insignia, and would have concluded that I was an outlaw.
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3 86 The broad-chested carrier of wood was grinning from ear to ear.
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3 106 The great fists holding the cords of the bundle of wood turned white; the sticks rattled in the bundle.
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3 110 His hands fumbled on the cords and the great bundle of wood loosened and clattered to the stone flooring of the road.
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4 4 Yet why was the road untended? Why had it not been traveled? Why had Zosk of the Caste of Carriers of Wood acted as he had? Why did my shield, my helmet, my accouterments not bear the proud sign of Ko-ro-ba? Once I shouted in pain.
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9 60 The gates, bound with their bands of steel, studded with brass plates dull in the mist, the black wood looming over me in the dusk, were closed.
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14 144 A spear sank into the wood of the platform.
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14 146 Another spear struck the wood, closer than the first.
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14 148 Another spear struck the wood, creasing my leg.
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26 36 The wood of the great gate has been polished and its brass burnished.
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Book 3. (3 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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2 31 The blood vessels in their necks and legs and arms began to distend until I feared they might burst open through the tortured flesh; the agonized muscles of their straining knotted bodies, like swollen leather, seemed to fill with pain as if pain were a fluid; their flesh seemed to fuse with the woo...
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3 30 There was no wood in the Sardar with which to build a fire.
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31 171 He swung this lightly, as easily as I might have lifted and moved a stick of wood.
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Book 4. (23 results) Nomads of Gor

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1 33 These barges, constructed of layered timbers of Ka-la-na wood, are towed by teams of river tharlarion, domesticated, vast, herbivorous, web-footed lizards raised and driven by the Cartius bargemen, fathers and sons, interrelated clans, claiming the status of a caste for themselves.
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5 5 Tuchuk women, unveiled, in their long leather dresses, long hair bound in braids, tended cooking pots hung on tem-wood tripods over dung fires.
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5 56 Each is drawn by a double team of bosk, four in a team, with each team linked to its wagon tongue, the tongues being joined by tem-wood crossbars.
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5 57 The two axles of the wagon are also of tem-wood, which perhaps, because of its flexibility, joined with the general flatness of the southern Gorean plains, permits the width of the wagon.
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5 58 The wagon box, which stands almost six feet from the ground, is formed of black, lacquered planks of tem-wood.
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5 64 These wheels are carved wood and, like the wagon hides, are richly painted.
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6 94 She stood held in place by the lance, her throat bound to it with the wood behind her neck, her wrists thonged behind her back.
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10 9 The standard bearer, holding aloft on a lance a representation of the four bosk horns, carved from wood, rode near us.
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11 347 Kamchak then removed the quiva from his belt and hurled it across the room until it struck in one of the poles of the frame supporting the wagon hides, two inches in the wood, beside the throat of the girl.
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12 211 The fire, I was pleased to note, was not of bosk dung but wood, timber and planking, I was less pleased to note, torn and splintered from a merchant's wagon.
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12 217 There was also a second drummer, also with a kaska, and another fellow, a younger one, who sat very seriously before what appeared to me to be a pile of objects; among them was a notched stick, played by sliding a polished tem-wood stick across its surface; cymbals of various sorts; what was obvious...
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14 58 The sewn, painted boskhides that had covered the domed framework over the vast wagon of Kutaituchik hung slashed and rent from the joined tem-wood poles of the framework.
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14 80 I saw here and there, among the rugs and polished wood bristling with white arrows, overturned boxes, loose jewels scattered, torn robes and tapestries.
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15 12 Also, perhaps not unimportantly, many of Turia's mercenary tarnsmen found themselves engaged in the time-consuming, distasteful task of supplying the city from distant points, often bringing food and arrow wood from as far away as the valleys of the eastern Cartius.
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18 18 "I have even seen them reach for vines a spear's length above their head and think they could reach them!" Saphrar's two golden teeth, like yellow fangs, showed as he put back his head and howled with pleasure, his fat little hands pounding on the wood of the shield.
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18 107 It was locked but we kicked it open, splintering the bolt from the wood, and emerged on a narrow, unrailed balcony.
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19 36 Besides several of the flower trees there were also some Ka-la-na trees, or the yellow wine trees of Gor; there was one large-trunked, reddish Tur tree, about which curled its assemblage of Tur-Pah, a vinelike tree parasite with curled, scarlet, ovate leaves, rather lovely to look upon; the leaves o...
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20 75 I struck again and the other rope burst from my stroke and the bridge swung rapidly back against the wall of the building opposite with a clatter of sticks and cries, knocking the remaining, clinging guardsmen from it, dropping them like wood senseless to the foot of the wall.
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21 4 I had found Kamchak, as I had been told I would, at the wagon of Kutaituchik, which, drawn up on its hill near the standard of the four bosk horns, had been heaped with what wood was at hand and filled with dry grass.
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21 17 In a few minutes the great pole of the standard had been mounted on the wagon and was descending the hill, leaving on the summit the burned wood and the black ashes that had been the wagon of Kutaituchik, surrendering them now to the wind and the rain, to time and the snows to come, and to the green...
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21 24 Kamchak rode his kaiila up the hill until he stood, that cold dawn, at the edge of the burned wood and ashes of Kutaituchik's wagon.
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23 212 The hangings were torn down, the wood of the wagon scratched and marred.
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24 50 The structures about the compound had been fortified by Tuchuks, and walls of stone and wood had been thrown into the streets and openings between the buildings, thus enclosing the compound.
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Book 5. (31 results) Assassin of Gor

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1 44 At last, when the wood burned only here and there, and what had been the pyre was mostly ashes and glowing wood, the men of a dozen castes, each carrying a jar of chilled wine, moved about, pouring the wine over the fire, quenching it.
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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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1 14 There were hundreds of them, trimmed and squared, mostly of Ka-la-na wood, from the sweet-smelling wine trees of Gor.
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1 18 Even from where Kuurus waited he could smell the perfumed oils, the unguents and spices, which the women, climbing and moving about the pyramid slowly, as though on stairs, sprinkled about or poured over the wood.
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1 19 Beyond the wood, toward the city, Kuurus could see the procession.
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1 34 The procession and those who had been earlier at the pyre now stood back from it, some fifty yards or so, for the oil-impregnated wood will take the torch quickly and fiercely.
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1 36 Kuurus saw the torch lit and then, with a cry of pain, thrown by the Warrior onto the small mountain of oiled wood.
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1 37 The wood leaped suddenly alive with a blaze that was almost a burst of fire and the three men staggered backward, their forearms thrown across their eyes.
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1 43 After about half an Ahn the pyre, still fearful with heat and light, had collapsed with a roar, forming a great, fiercely burning mound of oil-soaked wood.
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1 55 Only one man remained near the smoking wood.
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1 61 When the man near the smoking wood turned to face him, Kuurus descended the hill.
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1 71 Only a bit of wood now, here and there, missed by the chilled wine, clung to flame; some of the logs, however, still smoked, and others held as though within themselves the redness of the fire they remembered; but most were simply charred, now dead, stained with the oil, wet from the wine.
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2 137 Then a coin of gold struck the table before the Assassin, ringing on the wood.
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5 5 I had closed the door, which was of wood and heavy, and barred it with the double beam.
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5 7 Otherwise one would have to cut through the wood.
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9 37 The block itself, interestingly, as tradition required, was rounded and of wood.
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9 40 It is good for the girl to feel wood and sawdust beneath her feet, it is said.
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11 39 There was also an anvil in the room, resting on a large block of wood.
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13 238 The perches were actually a gigantic, curving framework of tem-wood four stories high, and following the circular wall of the cylinder.
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13 247 With an agility that could come only from years in the cots he clambered about the tem-wood beams, sometimes forty feet from the floor, checking this bird and that; perhaps because I was slightly drunk I followed him; at last we had come to one of the four great round portals which give access to th...
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13 265 I turned about and walked back on the perch and again stood on the thick, beamed framework of tem-wood that formed the vast housing for numerous racing birds.
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13 285 He moved over the tem-wood beams until he came to two sets of racing saddles and harness, and he threw me one, indicating a brown, alert racing tarn two perches away.
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15 133 The training room was floored with wood, laid diagonally across beams for additional strength; one twelve-foot area of the room was a shallow pit of sand; against one wall were various chests of raiment, cosmetics and retention devices, for girls must be trained to wear chains gracefully; certain da...
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18 289 Behind it I heard an enraged, frustrated roaring, weird and terrible; I heard clawing at the wood; I saw the heavy door, as if struck with great force, buckle out against the beams.
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20 244 The tables roared with laughter, and the men pounded with their fists on the wood so pleased were they.
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20 396 "Pretty, pretty wood," he giggled.
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20 511 "Impossible," whispered Cernus, trembling, staring at the small pieces of wood, the intricate pattern, the field of red and yellow squares.
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20 544 In one small hand he held clutched a tiny piece of yellow wood, the Home Stone of Cernus.
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23 64 I had taken my seat on the chair of Cernus; I had drawn my sword, and laid it across the wood before me.
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23 73 As the men burst into the room I stood behind the table, in the half-darkness, setting the point of my sword in the wood, holding the hilt with both hands, surveying them.
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23 134 The knife struck the back of the chair before which I stood, striking through the wood, stopping only with the hilt.
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Book 6. (28 results) Raiders of Gor

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10 221 In these first voyages I was content, quite, to carry tools and stone, dried fruit, dried fish, bolts of rep-cloth, tem-wood, Tur-wood and Ka-la-na stock, and horn and hides.
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10 300 Tur wood is used for galley frames, and beams and clamps and posts, and for hull planking; Ka-la-na serves for capstans and mastheads; Tem-wood for rudders and oars; and the needle trees, the evergreens, for masts and spars, and cabin and deck planking.
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13 220 The shops were shuttered with wood, and the wood was still stained dark from the night's rain.
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1 4 I took the triangular-bladed tem-wood paddle and moved the small craft, light and narrow, large enough scarcely for one man, ahead.
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1 16 I had the Gorean short sword in its scabbard, my shield and helmet, and, wrapped in leather, a Gorean long bow of supple Ka-la-na wood, from the yellow wine trees of Gor, tipped with notched bosk horn at each end, loose strung with hemp whipped with silk, and a roll of sheaf and flight arrows.
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1 27 I looked down at the long, heavy, leather-wrapped bow of supple Ka-la-na wood in the bottom of the rush craft.
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1 35 Further, the heavy, bronze-headed spear and the short, double-edged steel sword are traditionally regarded as the worthy, and prime, weapons of the Gorean fighting man, he at least who is a true fighting man; and, similarly traditionally, archers, who slay from a distance, not coming to grips with t...
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1 49 I flicked a salt leech from the side of my light rush craft with the corner of the tem-wood paddle.
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2 10 Then, letting it drift, I put the tem-wood paddle across the craft, resting my hands on it, and watched her.
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3 39 Ho-Hak looked at the garb of the warrior, the helmet and shield, the sword with its scabbard, and the leather-wrapped bow of supple Ka-la-na wood, with its roll of sheaf and flight arrows.
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3 81 By that time most of the year's rence will have been cut, and great stocks of rence paper, gathered in rolls like cord wood and covered with woven rence mats, will have been prepared.
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3 105 Ho-Hak seemed intent on regarding the leather-wrapped bow of supple Ka-la-na wood.
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7 13 The rence paper was loaded forward, carefully, in stacks, like corded wood, that it not be damaged.
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7 60 I heard the oar-master cry out and I saw the oars, with a sliding of wood, emerge from the thole ports.
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8 379 I examined the broad arm of the chair, and, in the right arm, I found a sliding piece of wood, which I slid forward, it extending beyond the chair arm.
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9 287 Thura, the large, blond girl, gray-eyed, knelt near a pile of wood shavings.
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9 291 Piles he had already commissioned from a smith; and Thura, on his command, this afternoon, with a bit of stick, had struck down a Vosk gull, that the shafts he fashioned, whether from Ka-la-na or tem-wood, would be well fletched.
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11 50 No more men were trying to climb the wood of the barricade.
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11 109 The large basins, just mentioned, are of two types: the first, unroofed, is used for the underwater storage and seasoning of Tur wood; the second, roofed, serves for the heavier fittings and upper carpentry of ships, and for repairs that do not necessitate recourse to the roofed dry docks.
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11 195 It amounted to the destruction of one roofed area where Ka-la-na wood was stored, and the partial destruction of another; one small warehouse for the storage of pitch, one of several, had been destroyed; two dry docks had been lost, and the shop of the oar-makers, near the warehouse for oars, had be...
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11 199 There was a creak of wood, the sound of the pawl, locking, dropping into a new notch on the ratchet, a hideous scream.
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11 227 Again there was a creak of wood and the sound of the pawl, locking, dropping into its new notch.
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11 382 He looked at me, and then, with a cry of anger, drew his blade from the papers and wood, slammed it back into its sheath, and turned and strode from the room.
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11 410 Other studies, the results of which would be kept similarly private to the council, dealt with the city defenses, and her stores of wood, grain, salt, stone and tharlarion oil.
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13 428 Obediently the oars slid outboard, and suddenly, all along the starboard side there was a great grinding, and the slaves screamed, and there was a sudden ripping of planks and a great snapping and splintering of wood, the sounds magnified, thunderous and deafening, within the wooden hold.
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14 23 The sternpost is high, and fanlike; it is carved to represent feathers; the actual tail feathers of a tarn, however, would be horizontal to the plane, not vertical; the prow of the tarn ship resembles the ram and shield, though it is made of painted wood; it is designed and painted to resemble the h...
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15 311 And, as the torches burned lower in the wall racks, the singer continued to sing, and sang of gray Pa-Kur, Master of the Assassins, leader of the hordes that fell on Ar after the theft of her Home Stone; and he sang, too, of banners and black helmets, of upraised standards, of the sun flashing on th...
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18 615 Again and again the great line blasted shafts of pile-tipped tem-wood into those packed at the foot of the keep.
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Book 7. (25 results) Captive of Gor

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6 235 In places the wood was splintered.
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7 5 Laura is a small trading city, a river port, whose buildings are largely of wood, consisting mostly it seems of warehouses and taverns.
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7 6 It is a clearing house for many goods, wood, salt, fish, stone, fur and slaves.
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7 316 It was as though I was made of wood.
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8 75 They were mounted on large circles of wood, which could rotate.
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8 219 The broad circles of wood on which the wagons were mounted were now rotated, so that the wagon tongues faced the pier.
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8 220 The bosk, now, bellowing and snuffing, and scuffing at the wood with their hoofs, were being backed toward the harness.
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8 256 I liked the smell of Laura, the fresh fields before the forests, even the smell of the river and the wood.
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8 563 I loved its ramps going down to the river and winding among the warehouses, the painted, carved wood on its buildings, the black shingles, the smell of bosk on the ramps and the creak of wagons, the smell of fish and salt, and glistening tharlarion, from the river, the smell of hides and fur, and sa...
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8 755 He had then taken it from me and hurled it into a block of wood, head deep, more than a hundred feet away.
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8 756 He sent me to fetch it for him and I had scarcely been able to work it free of the wood.
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8 1101 Another of the girls threw wood on the fire.
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8 1172 "Put more wood on the fire," commanded Verna.
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10 617 Suddenly there was a horrifying squeal and a splintering of wood.
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10 631 Then the man picked up a piece of wood, kindling, from near the fire, and struck the sleen.
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10 632 The wood broke across its neck.
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10 637 Wildly the man bent down to the fire and picked up a piece of wood from the fire, burning, and thrust it toward the sleen.
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10 639 Then it caught the wood in its teeth and wrenched it away.
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11 34 I saw her kneel, very straight, on the wood, and watched the needle pass through her right ear lobe.
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12 190 Inge was now looking again, out of the tiny opening between the canvas and the wood.
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12 333 How arrogant and superior she seemed! How I hated her, and hated her! A spear butt struck at the wood of the wagon, near where we peeped out.
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13 175 Perhaps the most extraordinary thing Ute did, to my mind, was, with sticks, a flat piece of wood and some binding fiber, make a small fire drill.
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13 205 The Gorean woodsman, it might be mentioned, before he will strike a tree with his ax, speaks to the tree, begs its forgiveness and explains the use to which the wood will be put.
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13 252 Ute worked for more than fifteen minutes, bowing the drill, sweating, her eyes fixed on that tiny, blackened pit in the wood.
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13 861 He struck again and the spear shaft, with a scattering of wood, split apart.
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Book 8. (28 results) Hunters of Gor

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2 562 In the stern quarter, behind the open kitchen, the girls were chained by the neck to the deck, to iron rings set in the heavy, sanded wood.
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3 11 I saw a blond giant from Torvaldsland, with braided hair, in shaggy jacket; a merchant from Tyros, hurrying, perfumed and sleek; seamen from Cos, and Port Kar, mortal enemies, yet passing one another without thought in the streets of Lydius; a black woman, veiled in yellow, borne in a palanquin by e...
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3 109 Those of Lydius pretend to much civilization, and are fond of decorating their houses, commonly of wood, with high, pointed roofs, in manners they think typical of Ar, of Ko-ro-ba, of Tharna and Turia, but to settle points of honor they commonly repair to a skerry in Thassa, little more than forty f...
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6 398 Reluctantly Thurnock heaped more wood on the fire, until the interior of the perimeter was well illuminated in the darkness.
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7 2 At my hip was slung the quiver, with sheaf arrows, twenty of them, of black tem wood, piled with steel, winged with the feathers of the Vosk gull.
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7 134 It hit with a solid, hard sound, and I saw the shaft, feathered, quiver in the wood.
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8 40 It is not unknown for them to be hunted down and burned alive, their ashes scattered in expiation by mourning Goreans among the charred wood and blackened stumps.
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11 6 He had, too, taken two sleen alive, and four panthers, and these were in stout cages of wood, lashed together with leather.
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18 168 They placed this wood at a point on the beach some twenty yards above the line of high tide, forming with it a great beacon.
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18 185 Across the open side, wood was gathered for animal fires, facing the beach.
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18 194 There was a great cheer as, in the falling darkness, the torch thrust down into the oil-soaked wood.
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18 241 I noted that, as I would have supposed, and had been anticipating, that the girls driven forth now to gather wood for the fire were not panther girls.
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18 246 They had been tied together earlier to hunt wood, and were isolated in the slave line between Sheera and Grenna, both panther girls.
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18 257 "Gather wood, quickly, and return!" cried the fellow guarding Cara and Tina.
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18 263 Weeping, the two girls sprang to their feet and ran to the edge of the forest and, trying not to enter into its shadows, rapidly, weeping, began to break branches and gather wood.
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18 278 "Gather more wood, Girls," said he to them.
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18 288 They fled to the darkness of the trees and began to break and gather wood.
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18 328 The wood we left behind us on the beach.
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18 335 I then dragged it down to the beach and threw it on the great pile of wood which I, and Cara and Tina, had accumulated.
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18 345 Then we had not stopped to rest, but had begun to gather wood.
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19 37 Further, they might then have shielded their work with slaves, or, perhaps, used selected wood from the front of the palisade.
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19 39 They could shield themselves, either with wood or slaves, from the forest.
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19 154 A man of Tyros threw more wood on a fire inside the stockade, well illuminating the interior.
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20 132 The two men working at the spear jerked it free of the wood and the body, impaled, was rudely thrown aside.
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20 213 "Gather," said he, "wood".
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20 216 "There is wood within the circle," said Hura.
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20 218 Within the circle, obediently, the women, in the light of the torch, gathered wood, mostly the remains of the original fire, which I had destroyed earlier.
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21 220 The beacon of Sarus was now only reddish stones of wood, like the eyes of beasts, looming in the darkness, lying on the sand.
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Book 9. (42 results) Marauders of Gor

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10 54 Perhaps the most serious incident of the contests had occurred in one of the games of bat and ball; in this contest there are two men on each side, and the object is to keep the ball out of the hands of the other team; no one man may hold the ball for more than the referee's count of twenty; he may,...
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10 314 We saw thralls, too, in the crowd, and rune-priests, with long hair, in white robes, a spiral ring of gold on their left arms, about their waist a bag of omen chips, pieces of wood soaked in the blood of the sacrificial bosk, slain to open the Thing; these chips are thrown like dice, sometimes sever...
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1 133 To be sure, carved in wood, high on the chair, was the helmet with crest of sleen fur, the mark of the captain, but I could not rise from the chair.
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2 60 Kassau is a town of wood, and the temple is the greatest building in the town.
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2 71 In it, fine Ka-la-na wood, for example, and supple temwood, cannot grow.
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2 73 A hall built with Ka-la-na wood, for example, is thought a great luxury.
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2 129 And on its mast, round and of painted wood, had hung the white shield.
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2 146 It fitted into two blocks of wood, and was wedged in the top block by means of a heavy, diagonal wooden plug, driven tight with hammers.
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2 148 It was an all-purpose sail, hung straight from a spar of needle wood.
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2 168 The shields were round, and of wood, variously painted, some reinforced with iron bands, others with leather, some with small bronze plates.
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3 199 "In the north, my pretty maids," Ivar assured them, "the burdens you carry will be more prosaic, bundles of wood for the fires, buckets of water for the hall, baskets of dung for the fields".
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4 162 It is made of wood.
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5 169 Their shields, like those of Torvaldsland, are circular, and of wood.
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5 322 I heard the thole-port caps turned back, and the oars thrust through the wood.
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6 53 Against one wall of the cliff was a long, low shed; in that the small bosk, and the verr, might be housed in the winter, and there, too, would be stored their feed; another shed, thick, with heavy logs, in the shadow of the cliff, would be the ice house, where ice from the mountains, brought down on...
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6 325 At one end was a cooking compartment, separated from the rest of the house by a partition of wood.
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6 352 "That is one reason," said he, "that my hall is not of wood".
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6 367 Surely you could have a hall of wood, if you wished".
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6 495 Then from his chests, within the hall, he had given me a long, swirling cloak of the fur of sea sleen; a bronze-headed spear; a shield of painted wood, reinforced with bosses of iron; the shield was red in color, the bosses enameled yellow; a helmet, conical, of iron, with hanging chain, and a steel...
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6 522 About each log, fitting snugly into deep, wide, circular grooves in the wood, were several iron bands.
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7 84 This is a stout post, outside the hall, of peeled wood, with an iron ring near the top, to which the wrists of a bondmaid, crossed, are lashed over her head.
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7 224 The brains, too, had been scooped, with a piece of wood, from the skull.
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9 112 The bondmaids, laughing, dragged Hilda to the post, stout, of peeled wood, which stood outside the hall.
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9 297 She lay on her side, in misery, across great blocks of ice; she could lift her head and shoulders no more than six inches from the ice; she could draw her ankles toward her body no more than six inches; small chips of wood, in which the ice is packed, clung about her body; she was bound, hand and fo...
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10 49 Prior to his winning the swimming he had won talmits for climbing the "mast," a tall pole of needle wood, some fifty feet high, smoothed and peeled; for jumping the "crevice," actually a broad jump, on level land, where marks are made with strings, to the point at which the back heel strikes the ear...
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10 165 The camp was of wood, surrounded by a palisade, built on an island in an inlet, called the inlet of Thorstein Camp, formerly known as the inlet of Parsit, because of the rich fishing there.
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10 652 The chain slid on the wood.
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10 666 I put twenty sheaf arrows into the target, until it bristled with wood and the feathers of the Vosk gull.
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11 50 The handle of the ax was of carved, green needle wood, round, some four inches in diameter.
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11 276 The Kur looked upon the loaf, as we might have looked on grass, or wood, or the shell of a turtle.
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12 26 He had won a talmit for climbing the "mast," a tall pole of needle wood; it was some fifty feet high, and was peeled and smoothed; he had won one for "leaping the crevice," which was actually a broad jump, performed on level ground; one for walking the "oar," which was actually a long pole; two in c...
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13 1 Visitors in the Hall of Svein Blue Tooth The hall of Svein Blue Tooth was of wood, and magnificent.
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13 173 When the Forkbeard himself rose, of course, the camp became quite active, and the slaves were put about many menial labors; the thrall, Tarsk, was unchained from Thyri, and set about the sawing of wood; Thyri herself, adjusting her kirtle, was ordered to pound grain to make flour; she could not even...
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14 81 The axes behind me were the axes of men, and striking on wood.
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14 183 Like panic-stricken urts thirty-five or forty men thrust through the hole, sometimes jamming themselves momentarily within it, some tearing the flesh from their bodies and the sides of their faces on the splintered wood.
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14 243 The two axes hit the heavy beams simultaneously, exploding wood in great chunks between the walls, shattering it as high as the ceiling itself.
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14 251 Hand over hand I crawled up the chain; then the chain shook, wildly; I struggled to hold it; the fire at my right sleeve snapped back and forth; I lost my breath; I feared my neck would break; blood was on the chain; I held it; Kurii howled beneath me; I moved further up the chain; then the chain st...
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14 261 The ring, through which the chain passed, unable to bear longer the weight of Kurii, splintered free of the wood.
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15 376 The shoulder was like wood.
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17 27 Captains and rovers, farmers, fishermen, hunters, weavers of nets, smiths, carvers of wood, tradesmen and traders, men with little more than leather and an ax to their name, and jarls in purple cloaks, with golden pommels on their swords.
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17 279 He bit at the rim of his shield, tearing the wood, splintering it with his teeth.
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18 389 A heavy block of wood had been thrust into its jaws and, with leather, bound there.
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Book 10. (14 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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4 9 The wood of the frame is tem-wood.
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11 471 Two arrows struck the wood, splintering needles of wood into my cheek; then the shutters were pulled closed, fastened; another arrow burst half through one, hanging on our side.
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1 171 You will be taught to move like a woman, not a puppet of wood".
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1 633 Men at the table clapped their hands on the wood, and looked at me.
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2 363 I passed a fellow inlaying wood, and the shop of a silversmith, and stalls filled with baskets, some of which, grain baskets, were large enough to hold a man.
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2 366 He spins the wood with bow and string, held in his right hand.
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10 180 * * * * "More, Masters?" asked the girl, kneeling beside the low, tem-wood-inlaid table.
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14 56 The heavy door, beams of wood, sheathed with plates of iron, together some eight inches thick, closed.
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16 192 We heard the raft bumped, felt the movement in the wood.
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16 205 I heard splintering wood, the retaining vessels, the salt tubs, struck and shattered, flung bounding and rolling from the frame.
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16 207 I threw myself on my stomach into the remains of the splintered frame, clutching at torn wood.
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17 249 It came by surprise, from the back, from beneath the surface, then without warning men screaming wood splintering amongst us seeing it striking me others too tumbling gone then men crying out arms in the water one lamp only tiny alive in that blackness.
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17 313 The dagger was thrust in the wood beside me.
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23 242 He carried a leather, black, lacquered buckler on his left arm, a slim, black, tem-wood lance in his right hand.
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Book 11. (60 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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16 80 Each girl thus has to herself a small, rectangular cage area, surrounded on four sides by mesh, on the bottom by the slatted wood of the tier, and on the top by the wood of the tier above her, unless she is on the sixth tier, and then she has above her, of course, the ceiling of her cubicle, the bot...
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22 682 Then he lifted my flanks from the wood, and then thrust me back, holding me to the wood.
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3 129 Outside the camp I was set to picking berries and gathering armloads of wood.
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4 69 Water must be fetched, wood must be brought from the piles, the morning fires must be made, breakfast must be prepared.
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5 219 He put his hands on either side of her body, resting them on the wood.
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6 109 In the center of the hut was a large flat, circular piece of metal, on which, on legs, might sit braziers or the small, flattish cooking stoves, using pressed, hardened wood, common in the villages north and west of Ar.
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6 119 The frame of such a hut is constructed of Ka-la-na and Tem wood.
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6 138 It was now unstrung, but the string, of hemp, whipped with silk, lay ready, looped loose upon the broad, curved yellow wood.
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7 591 I pressed my body and cheek against the wood.
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7 592 I stepped back and, hands on the wood, looked up.
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7 889 They then turned her to her back and marked on her body with some burnt wood from the fire, probably putting their ownership marks on her, marking her as theirs for the night.
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8 40 Though there is a wooden floor to the cage, the wood is placed over bars.
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9 119 He found an ankle stock of heavy wood near the perimeter of his camp area.
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9 121 The stock consisted of two heavy, oblong pieces of wood, each about four inches thick, joined together by hinged iron.
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9 127 He laughed at me derisively and then, crouching beside me, threw my ankles into the stock and closed it, one of the two four-inch blocks of wood on each side of my ankles, and flung the hasp over the staple, which would hold the blocks shut.
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9 171 It made a harsh sound of metal and wood.
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9 517 My hand felt straw, and wood, and a steel bar, and the dirt beneath it.
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9 519 I lay awake, looking up at the bars and wood above me.
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9 545 A wedge was driven between the interior edge of the socket and the staff to tighten the wood in the socket.
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9 546 In some such hoes the socket is drilled and the staff is held in place by means of a pin, usually of wood, sometimes of metal.
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9 547 But even so, as the wood will wear against the socket, a wedge may be used, as well.
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9 569 There is water to be carried, wood to be gathered and fields to be tended.
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9 915 My fingernails tore at the wood.
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9 954 He touched me, and I cried out, tears in my eyes, squirming, thighs grasping the post, turning my head, biting at the wood with my teeth.
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9 1613 "Then," asked Thurnus, "it will be the test of knives?" In this the two men leave the village and enter, from opposite sides, a darkened wood.
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9 1625 The wood of our land will decide".
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9 1765 There was a fierce ringing of wood.
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9 1980 She screamed wildly, branded, and, her thigh released, cleanly marked, moaned and twisted on the wood.
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10 134 They were of wood, and cheap and pretty.
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12 529 I saw wood breaking in, splintering, and an arm reaching through, to unlatch the door.
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13 6 I looked at the worn stairs of solid wood, leading in their spiral upward.
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13 134 Suddenly, angrily, he threw me to the wood at his feet.
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16 5 My hands, too, were chained, the two chains running to a heavy ring over and above my head, in the slatted wood of the tier on which I lay.
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16 7 I screamed and thrashed; I could tell my ankle was bleeding, from the feeling of the wound and the wetness about my shin and on the wood.
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16 19 I twisted on the slatted wood.
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16 44 I thrashed on the wood.
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16 47 I writhed on the slatted wood, screaming.
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16 61 "I was bitten!" I twisted on the wood, trying to see him.
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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 72 The mesh is cleated to the wood of each tier.
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16 83 The open spaces between the tin-sheathed, wood slats on the first tier are covered, from the bottom, by cleated mesh, which prevents urts from entering from the bottom.
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16 112 In a few minutes, the man gone, I heard the urt, it or another, moving about on the wood between the meshes.
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20 332 When I recoiled back from the hot wood the chain on his wrists had looped about me, and I was his, held to him by the chain about his wrists.
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22 177 I screamed and saw the new ship, suddenly large, seem to lift itself in the water, and then heard the shattering splintering wreckage of wood and the loud swift swirl of water the ship struck and men screaming and saw the lines loose wild the yard and sail leaning awry the deck shifting and becoming...
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22 512 About a quarter of an Ahn later, suddenly, we heard the screaming of men and, not more than three or four Ihn afterwards, to our horror, the wall of the hull, opening into the hold, with a wrenching sound of rupturing wood, suddenly burst inward, toward us.
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22 516 The attacker backed his oars and the ram, its work done, splintering more wood, withdrew and settled away from us.
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22 671 It struck in the wood, sinking four inches deep, beside me.
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22 689 He crouched again beside me and jerked the knife free from the wood.
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22 691 Then he thrust the knife again into the wood, a foot from me.
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23 1 The Raft I lay in the arms of Clitus Vitellius, my master, under the bright stars of Gor, under the white moons and the black sky, on the rough wood, in the midst of that great, lonely sea.
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23 17 He seized me by the arms and flung me to my back on the wood.
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23 96 He then removed the knife from his sheath, plunged it into the wood a few feet from him, and lay down.
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25 139 It is not, for example, a strange message written upon a scrap of paper, calling attention to itself as a secret communication, challenging the curious to its unraveling, but apparently only an innocent necklace, beaded with wood, common, vulgar and cheap, fit only for the throat of a lowly female s...
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27 240 "It is not proper that you should attack with steel those who defend themselves with wood".
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28 8 You feel the wood of the block with your feet, and the sawdust upon it.
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28 38 An interesting feature of the block is that about it, on the semicircular side, facing the crowd, tall and serene, carved in white-painted wood, evenly spaced, are the figures of nine slave girls.
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28 187 Her fingernails dug into the wood of the bench.
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28 298 He struck the butt of his great spear on the heavy wood.
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28 345 He untied the strings of the pouch and, crying out with pleasure, spilled coins of gold to the wood.
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28 349 I cried, tears falling to the wood of the block, mixing in the sawdust.
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Book 12. (31 results) Beasts of Gor

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25 43 Ice will adhere to this coating, which is plastered thickly on the wood, as it will not to the wood alone.
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2 323 Some said that Thassa was endless, and there was no world's end, only the green waters extending forever, gleaming, beckoning the mariner and hero onward, onward until men, one by one, had perished and the lonely ships, their steering oars lashed in place, pursued the voyage in silence, until the ti...
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2 718 And one who plays Kaissa may find it in the arrangements of tiny bits of wood on a board of red and yellow squares.
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4 679 Would one risk one's throat and blood for a toy of wood or an ivory carving? "In that, and that alone," said the merchant, pointing to the object which the thief had held, and which he had dropped in our struggle.
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6 6 She carried a short, yellow bow, of Ka-la-na wood, which could clear the saddle of the tharlarion, its missile being easily released to either side.
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6 604 The wood was gathered by my slave, whom I named Constance.
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6 730 Constance put more wood on the fire.
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8 125 It was high, and of wood, and with an arched roof.
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8 129 There was a hearth to one side, in which wood burned.
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8 234 "Now you will, in your humble way, contribute, if only by carrying stone and wood, to our cause".
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10 141 It was to the lower ring that the prisoner's feet, some six inches above the wood, crossed and tied, might be bound.
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10 389 They fell and some, even, on the backs of the closely massed animals, were carried for dozens of yards, wood floating and churned, tossed on that tawny, storming river, that relentless torrent of hide and horn, turned toward the north.
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11 49 They had not at that time, however, realized that nine of our men, peasants, gripped bows of yellow Ka-la-na wood.
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11 57 The arrow flighted from a diving tarn, allied with gravity and the momentum of the winged beast, can sink a foot into solid wood.
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11 247 Interestingly he had also placed much wood on the sled, both boards and poles, for it is of great value in the north.
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11 248 Wood can be used for sleds, and tent frames and the frames of kayaks and umiaks, the large, broad vessels which can hold several individuals, sometimes used in whaling.
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11 249 Trees do not flourish in the land of Imnak and their needs for wood must largely be satisfied by occasional finds at the shore, driftwood, from hundreds of pasangs south, dragged from the chilled water.
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11 346 I fitted an arrow, of black tem-wood, with a pile point, to the string of the yellow bow.
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11 433 She sank to the wood of the platform.
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12 380 The northern yoke is either of wood or bone, and is drilled in three places.
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12 381 The one Thistle wore was of wood.
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13 8 Wood is scarce in the north and the peasant bow, or longbow, is not known there.
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13 187 "I gave them to Kadluk, too," said Imnak, "and most of the wood".
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18 21 Its major shaft was of wood, but it had a foreshaft of bone.
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20 30 Its frame is generally of wood and its cover, of hide, usually tabuk hide, is fixed on the frame by sinew.
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20 50 He sang a kayak-making song, customarily sung to the leather, wood and sinew, with which he worked, that it not betray him in the polar sea.
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25 41 The runners of our sleds were of wood.
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25 42 At the beginning of the season, usually in the late fall, a paste, a muck, formed of earth, and grass and moss, for solidity, is shaped and placed on the wood, some five to six inches to thickness.
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30 254 A moment later there was a burst from under the sand and sand and wood splinters blasted upward.
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31 25 Looking up I saw above me, beginning some ten feet from the floor, a network of widely placed wood and steel rods.
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35 1103 But most simply hurried past him, more content to rely on their tools of wood and bone.
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Book 13. (32 results) Explorers of Gor

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32 161 One may also, with pangas, hack away the wet wood of fallen trees, until one can obtain the dry wood beneath.
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1 766 It closed and locked, and I waited for the outer gate, that of iron-sheathed wood, to be opened.
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12 356 When the girl had finished serving Shaba she straightened up and came about the table, to where her cup rested on the low wood.
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18 259 He had sat upon a royal stool, of black, lacquered wood, mounted on the crossed, tied, horns of kailiauk.
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21 41 We then heard a thrash in the water, as a tharlarion, perhaps the same one which had thrust its snout against the bars of our cage, struck against wood in the darkness, some twenty yards from us.
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23 241 In moments, using this crude saw, or cutting tool, we had cut through the bark of the log and had begun, rhythmically, to gash and splinter the harder wood beneath.
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23 243 There was an occasional squeak of the metal on the wet wood but the work, for the most part, was accomplished silently, the sound being concealed under the surface of the water.
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23 268 A bit of wood, moved by the chain, splintered up by my feet.
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23 271 I had little doubt that soon, perhaps in moments, with sufficient leverage, we could lift and break the log, snapping it apart, breaking through the remaining inches of the wood.
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23 283 The water lifted the ends of the log, this buoyancy concealing the rupture in the wood.
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24 277 I heard wood crack, but not break.
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25 62 I lay in the canoe, on one elbow, under the moons of Gor, the canoe like a tiny bit of wood in the vastness of the shimmering lake.
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25 142 I heard her fingernails dig at the wood of the canoe.
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29 106 "Gather some wood for the fire.
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32 151 "Gather wood for the fire," I told her.
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32 155 The blond-haired barbarian regarded me, and then lowered her eyes, and put a bit more wood on the fire.
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32 160 One searches for wood beneath rock overhangs or under fallen trees.
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32 165 It is the fantastic oxygenation produced by the vegetation, conjoined with the humidity and heat, and the smell of plant life, and rotting vegetable matter and wood, that gives the diurnal jungle its peculiar and unmistakable atmosphere, an encompassing, looming, green, warm ambiance which is both b...
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32 420 The blond-haired barbarian put a bit more wood on the fire.
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32 1094 "Are blue and yellow beads then," she asked, "not appropriate for me, for I am a slave?" "They are very nice," I said, "but any simple, cheap beads, say, of wood or glass, will do as well for a slave".
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38 8 "Was she not gathering wood?" "No," I said.
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40 2 I listened to the jungle noises, and the small, quiet crackle of the burning wood in the campfire.
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48 300 He had thought it might have been Janice, gathering wood.
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48 349 Tears fell from her eyes, staining her thighs and the wood of the canoe bottom.
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51 124 "Perhaps," said Janice, "if you gather wood for me, and wash clothing for me, with the exception of that of my master".
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51 202 "Put wood on the fire," said Kisu.
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51 205 She rose to her feet and fetched wood, which she placed on the fire.
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53 232 The table on which reposed the map case and notebooks of Shaba seemed to explode in two, wood splintering and flying to the sides, the map case and notebooks, scattering, showering upward.
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53 354 We fell back from the stones, literally swept from our rampart by the irruption of the wood and the flood of massive, charging bodies.
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53 362 I slipped free as the animal screamed and reeled about, then fell, falling among the stones and wood, scratching at the stone.
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55 15 Then the fires, no longer sustained by the heat of the blast, one by one vanished, unable to overcome the living freshness of the wood.
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57 4 A tight belly chain, locked on her, running to a heavy ring in the wood, about a foot from her, secured her in place.
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Book 14. (13 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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12 42 She signaled to an attendant, a burly fellow, who brought forth and set at one side of the platform a large, shallow bronze dish, containing cubes of wood.
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12 43 He set a torch into this wood, which had apparently been soaked with oil.
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12 50 He threw it into the dish of burning, oil-soaked wood.
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12 51 He then removed, similarly, my jacket, which, too, he threw into the dish of burning wood.
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12 203 She then walked to the side of the platform and discarded the tie in the shallow bowl of burning wood.
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12 259 I placed the T-shirt I had removed from my body in her hand and she went to the shallow bowl of burning cubes of wood and discarded it.
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12 411 I saw the Lady Tima throw what garments I had just torn from my body into the shallow bowl of burning wood.
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12 423 I could feel the smooth wood of the platform beneath the palms of my hands.
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12 472 Though it was she who stood there it was they who, in their imaginations, wore the shameful Ta-Teera and stood upon the wood of a slave platform.
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16 347 Inside I saw a slave sack and, formed of wood, a small, stout, cord-bound, thick-barred slave cage.
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19 1 Taphris The training beam, about a foot Gorean square, sunk a yard deep in its wood-lined well, braced, too, within the wooden-floored, high-roofed barn, shook with the blows struck against it.
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19 34 The ceiling of the high-roofed barn and its walls rang with the sound of the blows on the weakening wood.
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26 305 We heard another breaking through the glass and wood at the window.
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Book 15. (7 results) Rogue of Gor

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6 106 The floor areas are commonly wood except for a central strip of dirt some twenty feet wide.
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6 109 Straw is scattered at the edges of the room, on the wood.
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12 98 The bolt with its brackets was splintered from the heavy wood.
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21 121 I again looked at the ceiling of the alcove, at the roughened texture, and the tiny cracks, of its plaster and wood, reddish in the flickering light of the tiny lamp.
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24 241 You have not struck me to silence, nor put a block of wood in my mouth, or gagged me.
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29 270 The men were now in the water, swimming from the scattered wood, darting arrows piercing the water about them, then bobbing upward.
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29 277 I could see some shattered wood, floating in the moonlight.
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Book 16. (46 results) Guardsman of Gor

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1 7 I saw it, fascinated, black, dripping water, glistening, slide up the bow, splintering wood and tearing away paint.
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1 25 I heard again, twice, the slippage of air, sliding and divided, marked by what I now recognized was the passage of slender, flighted wood.
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1 89 I heard more wood breaking as we back-oared from the vessel, the ram moving in the wound.
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1 146 The wicker shields of our own archers were now bristling with feathers and wood.
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1 163 I heard the chain scraping at the side of the Tina, then the shearing blade on our starboard side, swinging to starboard, struck the wood of a longboat.
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2 23 "Wait! Bucklers and swords! Bucklers and swords, Lads!" Almost at the instant that he had spoken grappling irons looped over the bulwarks and snapped back, the points anchoring in the wood.
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2 149 The longboat, almost noiselessly, the oars muffled, the wood wrapped with thonged fur at the fulcrum points, the oarlocks similarly served, moved away.
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3 32 The Tina, shuddering, backing, with a splintering of wood, freed her ram.
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4 51 "We must be a floating fortress of wood," said the officer.
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4 57 In an Ahn your floating fortress of wood could be a wreckage, awash, of timbers and chains".
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4 131 This time it was their intention to force our line apart with consistent pressure, not as a shattering bolt, but as a flood, a pressing, an avalanche of wood and steel, regulated, controlled, responsive to the tactical situation instant by instant.
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4 153 Her ram took the lead ship in the stern, tearing away wood and breaking loose the starboard rudder.
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4 154 Almost at the same time the seven ships of Port Cos, fanning out, each choosing an undefended hull, exposed, helpless before the hurtling strike of the ram's brutal spike, to the tearing of wood, the rushing of water, the screaming of men, made contact with the enemy.
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4 168 Again, and again, hunting as single marine predators, the Tais and her sisters, prowling the outskirts of that confused, sluggish city of wood, almost at will, almost fastidiously, selected their victims.
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4 195 That island of wood in the midst of the Vosk, those grating, striking ships, twisted at the chain.
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5 2 With the blade I slashed down, cutting the rope taut on the grappling hook caught over the wood.
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5 124 "Oars outboard!" called the oar master, and we slid the wood through the thole ports.
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5 146 How attractive, how inviting, they must appear to the predators of the Voskjard! A mighty rock, then, suddenly, not more than ten feet from my bench, plummeted through our deck, splintering the wood upward, exploding it upward, in a shower of sharpened fragments.
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6 6 Our own ram, as she passed, gouged a furrow, the length of a spear, the wet wood squeaking, in her flank.
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6 77 I watched one of our archers, with a knife, removing an arrow from the wood of the stem castle.
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6 86 We slid the wood through the thole ports.
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7 15 It was like a lake of bloody wood in the center of the Vosk.
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7 57 They had managed, almost like a fortress of wood, three ships jammed together, surrounded, under fire, beleaguered, to repel assault after assault, pouring over the rails of enemy vessels.
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8 8 These were high, and formed of a lacing of wood and glass.
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8 27 With a shattering of glass and wood I crashed into the cabin.
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8 183 By her wrists, temporarily caught in the coils of the whip, I jerked her back and to the side, and she fell, stumbling, among the glass and wood, to my right.
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8 214 I heard wood and glass suddenly move, as she scrambled across the cabin floor, on her hands and knees, toward the leaden sheets.
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8 216 The stroke caught her across the back and buttocks and struck her to her stomach on the floor, amidst the wood and glass.
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8 221 She lay there, on her stomach, in the wood and glass, absolutely quietly.
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8 248 This spike had been sitting in an aperture cut in the shelf, that the bowl might sit evenly on the wood.
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8 250 She set the spike into this hole and, again, the silver bowl rested evenly on wood.
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8 512 My knife was thrust, point deep, in the wood above the berth, and to one side, to my right, where I might reach it, if need be.
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8 532 I removed the knife from where I had wedged it in the wood above the berth, to one side and to the right.
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8 578 He struck the heavy wood with his fist.
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8 613 As I leapt to the water I heard the men outside the cabin begin to hurl their shoulders against the wood.
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9 164 I could feel the wet wood beneath my bare feet.
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9 178 I heard it cut into the wood at my left almost at the same time that I turned and, in the darkness, slashing, cut at it.
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9 370 There was a rending of wood, a jarring and ripping of timber.
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9 400 Through wood and men I swam to the side of the Tamira.
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16 200 I heard a ram strike a ship nearby, with a great splintering of wood.
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16 215 With the heel of my right hand under his chin I smashed his head back into the wood of the stem castle.
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16 220 I thrust the sword into the wood above me, where I could seize it, and, putting my feet and hands into the ornate carving of the stem castle, climbed a yard and a half from the deck.
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16 232 I drew the sword from the wood and leaped down to the deck.
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16 313 I got my hand to the wood beside the thole port.
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16 388 I then thrust my hand through the wrist sling of the sword and, seizing it, withdrew it from the wood.
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20 2003 She saw now that the chains had been the loops of a single, graceful body chain, sinuous and glossy, closely meshed and dark, ornamented with colorful beads of wood, semiprecious stones and bits of leather.
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Book 17. (19 results) Savages of Gor

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1 1023 Similarly, old-growth wood, or second-growth wood, which is tougher, is preferred over the fresher, less dense first-growth, or new-growth, wood.
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1 1020 The shafts of the kaiila lances are black, supple and strong; they are made of tem wood, a wood much favored on Gor for this type of purpose.
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1 1022 Such wood, in the long process of smoking and drying over the lodge fire, which consumes several weeks, seasoning the wood and killing any insects which might remain in it, seldom splits or cracks.
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1 202 At one time it had been a huge, convex, cagelike lacing of mighty branches, lashed together, a high dome of fastened, interwoven wood, but now, after years of disrepair, and the pelting of rains and the tearings of winds, little remained of this once impressive and intricate structure but the skelet...
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1 735 The iron bolts of these devices, weighing about a pound apiece, were capable of sinking some four inches into solid wood at a range of some twenty yards.
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1 831 Blues can be obtained from blue mud, gant droppings and boiled rotten wood.
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1 832 Greens can be obtained from a variety of sources, including earths, boiled rotten wood, copper ores and pond algae.
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1 1053 This conserves the resilience of the wood and the tightness and strength of the sinew string.
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4 158 I slapped the wood of the wagon box with pleasure.
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8 44 "How can you sell an unbranded woman?" asked a fellow of a slaver's man, indicating a freckled, fairly complexioned, red-haired barbarian kneeling frightened on a nearby block, the palms of her hands down on the wood.
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8 148 The auctioneer signaled to an attendant who, from a side of the hall, brought forth a shallow copper bowl, some two feet in diameter, filled with slender cylinders of oil-impregnated wood.
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8 149 In a moment, with a fire-maker, of flint and steel, he had ignited this wood.
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8 738 Then she lay on her stomach on the block, sobbing, the collar and chain on her neck, her fingernails tight in the wood.
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9 10 It was of peeled Ka-la-na wood and, from its top, there dangled two long, narrow, yellow, black-tipped feathers, from the tail of the taloned Herlit, a large, broad-winged, carnivorous bird, sometimes in Gorean called the Sun Striker, or, more literally, though in clumsier English, Out-of-the-sun-it...
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9 44 The blades, of course, may also be fitted into carved handles, of wood and bone.
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11 8 Ginger and Evelyn had been freed from the coffle, to gather wood and cook, and attend to the chores of the camp.
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11 24 It was of wood, a flexible branch, about a yard long, cut by Grunt from one of the trees amongst which we camped.
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12 76 "There is not enough wood about to burn these bodies," I said.
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14 535 "There is water nearby," he said, "and wood".
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Book 18. (21 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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47 171 There were snappings, as of wood breaking, but it was not wood.
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2 351 More broadly, of course, it can refer to any piece of burning wood.
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3 112 Five last blows were struck, cutting the last fibers and wood, and the trunk, freed, laid level, a yard above the ground, held in place by branches and foliage.
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3 127 In this type of application of paint, on wood, over a large surface, or bands of a large surface, a brush of chopped, twisted grass is used.
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3 253 Winyela now knelt on the pole and bent backwards, until her hair fell about the wood, and then she slipped her legs down about the pole and lay back on it, her hands holding to the pole behind her head.
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3 255 Her red hair hung about the smooth, white wood.
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4 144 They were of tem wood which dries evenly and is long-lasting.
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12 192 Too, of course, they are useful in twisting grass for tinder and gathering wood and kailiauk chips for fuel.
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18 366 I fell to my knees, my head covered, my body shuddering under the lashing and jabbing of the wood.
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22 5 There was a shiver of wood as the two lances, Cuwignaka's on the inside, struck twisting against one another.
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22 146 "How horrifyingly they tie us, and put us about, as though we might be cord wood".
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24 50 The rider jerked at the lance and it tore against the palms of Cuwignaka's hands, blood at the wood.
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26 56 It went half through him, his force driving his body along the wood.
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30 35 They were made of wood and leather.
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30 43 "We do not fear wood and leather!" I smiled to myself.
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30 47 "Do not fear it! It is only wood and leather!" I smiled again to myself.
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30 94 It is only wood and leather!" A horrifying sound came then from the ranks of the Yellow Knives and soldiers.
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33 340 "There is wood and water.
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40 3 Hci, Cuwignaka and I sat behind a fire, in the center of the large, half-sunken, earthen-and-wood lodge of the Waniyanpi.
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44 608 Return fire, in the face of such unrelenting sheets of flighted wood, was almost unthinkable.
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47 125 The feathers on my tem-wood lance lashed backwards, like flags snapping in the wind.
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Book 19. (12 results) Kajira of Gor

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4 620 I lifted my head and put my finger tips to the heavy wood.
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7 21 Only an inch of wood separated me from such a man.
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12 5 Earlier I had stood frightened behind the door, now kept locked, my ear to the wood.
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20 225 It was a trunk, made of wood, banded with iron.
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21 4 It had taken me two nights, with the sharp stone, to cut through the wood, under the blanket, in the trunk.
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22 11 I felt the wood of the wagon bed, beneath a blanket, or blankets, beneath my knees.
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30 419 In some places, low platforms of polished wood, often roofed, serve a similar purpose.
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31 358 I remember the feel of the wood and iron.
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31 742 I felt the wood of the chest, and the iron bands.
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31 743 The key about my neck, on its string, made a small sound as it struck the wood.
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31 780 My tears were on its wood.
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35 102 I could see, in the light, a dark, crescentlike shadow on one side about its rim, on the wood.
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Book 20. (12 results) Players of Gor

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1 156 Many goods, in particular wood, wood products, and hide, make their way westward on the Laurius, eventually landing at Lydius, later to be embarked to the south on the ships of various cities, lines and associations.
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2 16 It was ringed with booths, and platforms, and stages and stalls, and booths, and platforms and stalls, too, with colorful canvas, with their eccentrically carved wood, with their fluttering flags, and signs, like standards, illuminated by lamps and torches, throngs gathered about them, and flowing b...
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8 165 Then he threw some more wood on the fire.
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10 663 I need a girl to cook for me, and to dust, to launder and iron, and sew, to run and fetch, to perform menial chores, to gather wood, and water, to tend fires, to wash utensils, to tidy the wagon, and such".
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10 890 She had probably never before, in all her life, dirtied her hands, fetched upon command, gathered wood, tended fires, cooked, aired blankets, made up bunks, washed and ironed, carried water, cleaned harness, or fed and scrubbed down tharlarion, such things.
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12 172 Moving little pieces of wood about on a flat, colored board! How stupid! How absurd! How foolish!" "Perhaps you have some duties to attend to elsewhere," I speculated.
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12 187 "Perhaps that is all it is, after all," he said, "the meaningless movement of bits of wood on a checkered surface".
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16 309 They are usually of painted wood or glass.
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16 1003 She kissed the wood twice before his feet.
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16 1114 They were tall, and of weighted, painted wood.
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21 92 In a very simple case, for example, a given word, say, "Cibron," the name of a wood worker of Tabor, might occur.
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21 108 The wood was not worn smooth and stained with the oil of fingers; the surface of the boards showed little sign of wear, or use, such as tiny scratches or even the subtle indications, the small rubbing marks, of polishings.
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Book 21. (8 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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3 98 "Ho!" he cried to the tharlarion and, with a crack of the whip, a creak of wood, a rattle of chain traces, and a grunt from the beast, was on his way.
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4 323 "You could not use that blade, even for chopping wood," said Genserix.
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15 2 The blade moved past me and with a solid sound, followed by a sturdy vibration, lodged itself in the heavy wood of the door.
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15 9 I removed the blade from the wood behind me, over my shoulder, not taking my eyes off the fellow behind the desk.
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16 230 "Do you think that means my body is now like ice or wood," she asked, "that I am not a human female, that I do not have feelings, that I do not have needs?" "You cannot have needs," wept the girl.
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22 348 Their structure is primarily wood and brick.
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25 773 We then began to move slowly toward a distant wood, that of Nina.
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26 2028 Sometimes he places a ball or block of wood in her mouth, which is to remain there at his discretion; if it is dropped, or removed before receiving his permission, she will be whipped.
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Book 22. (13 results) Dancer of Gor

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6 769 I heard the sound of ropes being drawn aboard, and a noise like that of wood pushing on wood.
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3 303 I fleetly crossed the open space of the central section of the library and ran up the iron, iron-and-wood-banistered stairs to the upper level, where we keep biographies and fiction.
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6 759 I heard the sound of a long, heavy board, being drawn over wood.
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6 772 I heard some metal apparatus put down on wood, near me.
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6 774 I heard the creaking of wood.
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6 775 I then heard what sounded like a number of poles thrust through wood.
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7 90 I delighted to look out through the crack between the wood and the canvas and silk.
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8 179 The combs were of yellow wood, and had long teeth.
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8 205 * * * * I sat on the long, low wooden platform, in the annex to the sales barn, in the exposition area, naked, my feet tucked back, near my left thigh, my ankles crossed, my left hand on my left ankle, my right hand supporting most of my weight, the chain on my neck dropping down to the wood, to my ...
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9 45 There, at its opening, on the wood, they were ordered to all fours.
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9 123 I lay there on the wood.
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9 130 The wood, too, was indented in innumerable places with the marks of their hoofs.
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9 556 In a moment I was again crawling on the wood.
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Book 23. (2 results) Renegades of Gor

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17 251 He struck the point free from the wood, gouging the wood, but before the ladder could fall again against the wall, I shifted and caught him under the arm and pushed back more.
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17 587 There was a great splintering of wood from above us and, over the hill of sand and such, packed behind the door, suddenly, bursting wood apart, there protruded, black, over five feet thick, and of solid iron, like some mythological monster, a great form, with curled-back horns, cast in the likeness ...
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Book 24. (2 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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14 325 Arrows, of tem wood, like the ka-la-na wood of their bows, not native to the delta, are precious to the rencers.
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30 9 As I have mentioned, the arrows, of tem wood, are precious to the rencers, that wood not being indigenous to the delta.
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Book 27. (1 results) Prize of Gor

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30 152 I have been mastered! As she knelt to the side and the men spoke, not considering her, her mind drifted back, several days ago, weeks ago, to the approach to the Viktel Aria, north of Venna, and to a wood, and to an abandoned tarsk pen in that wood.
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Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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2 67 To guarantee a supply of valuable, suitable timber, for example Tur trees for strakes, keels, and planking, needle trees for masts, and tem wood, the rare yellow tem wood, for oars, the arsenal claims and badges selected trees within given ditched areas in the northern forests, which supplies, large...
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Book 33. (2 results) Rebels of Gor

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59 6 The boards of the flooring, and those of the dais, were of dark, polished wood, and the walls, also of dark wood, were ornamented by numerous characters, designs, and images of light wood, inlaid in the darker wood.
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38 67 It was raw from the wood, and slick now with rain, as was the wood.
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Book 35. (3 results) Quarry of Gor

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7 48 There would be a silence, and then, a moment later, a sound, as of wood striking wood, coming ever closer.
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7 70 "Excellent, excellent!" cried the newcomer, and I heard wood strike wood, sharply, thrice, as, I gathered, he approached more closely.
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7 75 "You shall have it!" I heard two more strokes of wood on wood.
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