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Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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3 9 His desk, a vast wooden table, was piled with papers and pots of ink, and pens and scissors and leather fasteners and binders.
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3 158 It sunk eight inches into the heavy wooden beams behind me.
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9 52 Once, however, Talena dragged me to the side of the road, and, scarcely able to conceal our horror, we watched while a sufferer from the incurable Dar-Kosis disease, bent in his yellow shrouds, hobbled by, periodically clacking that wooden device which warns all within hearing to stand clear from hi...
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11 49 There Talena watched, thrilled, as girls, several of whom she had known in the caravan, were placed on the large, rounded wooden block and sold, one by one, to the highest bidder.
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11 61 I had noticed that there was among the crowd one tall, somber figure who sat alone on a high, wooden throne, surrounded by tarnsmen.
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15 13 On the summit of the rampart, where it was completed, were numerous archer blinds, movable wooden screens to shield archers and light missile equipment.
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15 17 Also, half buried in the sands among the stakes and set in wooden blocks would be iron hooks, much like those used in ancient times on Earth and sometimes called spurs.
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Book 2. (8 results) Outlaw of Gor

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14 28 Through this portal, in two long lines, lashed by overseers, yoked slaves harnessed in chains drew a great wooden platform mounted on heavy wooden wheels.
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6 80 He sits in the midst of his family, his closest well-wishers, his sword comrades, cross-legged on the floor in the Gorean fashion behind the long, low wooden table, laden with food, which stands at the head of the room.
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9 81 He did not approach, but remained behind the wooden counter, slowly, deliberately wiping the puddles of spilled Kal-da from its stained surface.
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14 106 I leaped to the heavy wooden platform on which it stood.
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20 7 I examined the low, wooden buildings which dotted the ugly landscape in the vicinity of the mines.
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20 28 The ugly grounds of the compound, its lonely wooden huts, its brown soil and bare hard rocks, were deserted save by the dead.
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23 4 Men seeking the mountains, men tired of life, young idealists, opportunists eager to learn the secret of immortality in its recesses, would use the gate at the end of the central avenue of the Fair, a double gate of black logs mounted on giant wooden hinges, a gate that would swing open from the cen...
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24 1 The Barricade I ducked my head and shoved open the heavy wooden door of the Kal-da shop.
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Book 3. (3 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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14 98 Inside the cube there were canisters of Mul-Fungus, a bowl, a ladle, a wooden-bladed Fungus-Knife; a wooden-headed Fungus-Mallet; a convenient tube of Mul-Pellets, which discharged its contents one at a time following my depressing a lever in the bottom of the tube; and a large, inverted jar of wate...
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6 31 I felt, for some months, rather awkward, rather unsteady perched on a little wooden platform supported by four narrow sticks.
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27 61 I drove the disk about a half pasang away and stopped it by an open portal within which I could see busy Muls stirring vats of bubbling plastic with huge wooden paddles.
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Book 4. (14 results) Nomads of Gor

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2 74 * * A consequence of the chronological conventions of the Wagon Peoples, of course, is that their years tend to vary in length, but this fact, which might bother us, does not bother them, any more than the fact that some men and some animals live longer than others; the women of the Wagon Peoples, i...
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8 54 * * * * On the back of the kaiila, the black lance in hand, bending down in the saddle, I raced past a wooden wand fixed in the earth, on the top of which was placed a dried tospit, a small, wrinkled, yellowish-white peachlike fruit, about the size of a plum, which grows on the tospit bush, patches ...
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12 214 One of the instruments was an eight-stringed czehar, rather like a large flat oblong box; it is held across the lap when sitting cross-legged and is played with a horn pick; the other was the kalika, a six-stringed instrument; it, like the czehar, is flat-bridged and its strings are adjusted by mean...
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13 19 I spied Elizabeth Cardwell approaching the wagon, two leather water buckets fastened to a wooden yoke she carried over her shoulders.
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13 149 Behind them another four haruspexes, one from each People, carried a large wooden cage, made of sticks lashed together, which contained perhaps a dozen white vulos, domesticated pigeons.
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17 48 "Fetch the wooden shield," commanded Saphrar.
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17 56 This train of observation was interrupted by the arrival of Saphrar's two men-at-arms bearing a wooden barrier of sorts, about four and a half feet high and twelve feet wide, which they set between myself and my captors, and Saphrar, the Paravaci and those with the crossbow.
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17 111 "When is it that I meet the monster?" Over the surface I heard Saphrar, standing behind the wooden shield, laugh.
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18 21 If my arm should fly forward he would have time to leap below the wooden frame.
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18 22 Now he was putting his chin on the wooden shield and watching me again, once more giggling.
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19 90 Harold was now fishing about, still chewing on the fruit, in a wooden chest at one end of the table.
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20 80 I then climbed up a wooden ladder to the next level, which was empty, and then another level and another, and another.
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21 113 Downstairs the wooden screens that had separated the shop from the street had been splintered apart; the counter had been broken and the ovens ruined, their oval domes shattered, their iron doors twisted from their hinges; even the top stones on the two grain mills had been thrown to the floor and b...
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22 65 By this time I had followed Harold over to a corner of the courtyard wall, which was heaped high, banked into the corner, with precious metals, plates, cups; bowls of jewels; necklaces and bracelets; boxes of coins and, in heavy, wooden crates, numerous stacked cubes of silver and gold, each stamped...
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Book 5. (21 results) Assassin of Gor

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2 16 Kuurus pointed to a fruit on a flat-topped wagon with wooden wheels, drawn by a small four-legged, horned tharlarion.
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5 16 On Gor, though most locks are of metal, wooden locks are not altogether unknown.
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5 17 In the most common variety there are two sets of matching pins, one fixed on a wooden spatula-like key and the other set, movable, falls into the bolt, securing it.
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6 67 One of them carried a large pitcher of the diluted Ka-la-na wine and stepped behind us, climbing the two steps to the broad wooden dais on which our tables were set.
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9 43 At such private auctions, conducted secretly, Gorean slavers sometimes find it convenient to dispose of important, High Caste women without trace, sometimes even from the city of Ar itself, perhaps women who have lived proudly, luxuriously, not more than a pasang or two from the rounded, wooden bloc...
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12 43 On the low wall, some seven or eight feet in height, some forty feet in width, which divided the track, I could see that only three of the great wooden tarn heads remained on their poles, indicating that only three laps remained in the race.
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13 315 The painted, wooden tarn heads, used for marking laps of the race, stood lonely and dark on their poles.
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15 397 "Caste sanctuary!" cried Portus, shaking himself free of the guards and stumbling forward and falling on his knees before the wooden dais on which sat the table of Cernus.
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18 169 They wander the countryside in shroudlike yellow rags, beating a wooden clapping device to warn men from their path; some of them volunteer to be placed in Dar-Kosis pits, several of which lay within the vicinity of Ar, where they are fed and given drink, and are, of course, isolated; the disease is...
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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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19 82 Philemon led the way to the box of Cernus, the largest and most impressive in the amphitheater, shielded on both sides and the back from the rest of the boxes and seats by heavy wooden screens; there, on a marble dais on which sat a low, thronelike chair of marble, I was forced to kneel.
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19 105 As well as I could, given the wooden screens about the box of Cernus, I examined the interior of the amphitheater.
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19 152 Her movements were wooden.
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19 202 I even heard some angry pounding on the wooden screens surrounding the box of Cernus.
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22 123 I saw six wooden tarn heads mounted on poles at each end of the dividing wall, indicating the laps remaining.
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22 174 He pointed to a spot about a hundred yards away, on a small wall, built itself on the dividing wall, near the pole of the wooden tarn heads.
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22 416 I looked at the poles bearing the twenty wooden tarn heads, signaling the circuits of the track to be made.
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22 468 At the beginning there had been, on each set of poles, twenty wooden tarn head, five to each pole.
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22 539 Two wooden tarn heads now surmounted the high poles.
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23 2 Before me, on the wooden table, there lay my sword.
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24 273 I stopped suddenly, regarding one of the small, narrow wooden doors, giving entry surely only to the quarters of a slave.
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Book 6. (17 results) Raiders of Gor

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4 179 Some utensils were in the bowl, a wooden stirring stick and a wooden ladle, both carved from rence root.
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11 226 I gestured for the two slaves at the rack windlass to again rotate the heavy wooden wheels, moving the heavy wooden pawl another notch in the beam ratchet.
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1 77 The root, which is woody and heavy, is used for certain wooden tools and utensils, which can be carved from it; also, when dried, it makes a good fuel; from the stem the rence growers can make reed boats, sails, mats, cords and a kind of fibrous cloth; further, its pith is edible, and for the rence ...
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3 6 It is dangerous to enter the water to make a tether fast because of the predators that frequent the swamp, but several men do so at a time, one man making fast the tether and the others, with him beneath the surface, protecting him with marsh spears, or pounding on metal pieces or wooden rods to dri...
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5 144 I had carried about bowls of cut, fried fish, and wooden trays of roasted tarsk meat, and roasted gants, threaded on sticks, and rence cakes and porridges, and gourd flagons, many times replenished, of rence beer.
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8 108 This arrangement, in effect, transformed the formerly isolated barges into what was now, for all practical purposes, a long, single, narrow, wooden-walled fort.
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8 345 As I, in the chair of the oar-master, faced the bow of the vessel, he, as slave at the benches, faced its stern, and the chair of the oar-master, that which now served me as Ubar's throne, in this small wooden country lost in the marshes of the Vosk's delta.
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8 532 Here, on this wooden land lost in the delta marshes, I was Ubar.
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10 58 But still, even in the face of such reputed odds as he had faced, there were those in Port Kar who smiled behind his back, thinking to themselves how he had gone forth with so fine a showing and had returned with little more than his life, a handful of terrified men, and a narrow wooden punt.
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11 104 Wooden structures, such as her numerous sheds and roofed storage areas tend to be separated from one another.
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11 106 Many of these basins, near which, in red-painted wooden boxes, are stored large numbers of folded leather buckets, are expressly for the purpose of providing a means for fighting fires.
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11 179 Above us, in the chamber of the Council of Captains, I could hear feet moving about on the wooden floor, chairs scraping.
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13 289 He would mark the rowing stroke with blows of wooden, leather-cushioned mallets on the head of a huge copper-covered drum.
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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 8 She is carvel-built, and her planking is fastened with nails of bronze and iron; in places, wooden pegs are also used; her planking, depending on placement, varies from two to six inches in thickness; also, to strengthen her against the shock of ramming, four-inch-thick wales run longitudinally abou...
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17 205 In places ships were crowded together, in tens and twelves, like floating wooden islands in the sea.
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18 278 Heavy wooden mantelets, mounted on posts, were nearby, under which we might protect ourselves from crossbow fire from tarnsmen.
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Book 7. (25 results) Captive of Gor

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8 254 I could see a long wooden ramp leading up from the pier to a long wooden road winding between the crowded warehouses.
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4 50 The men unloading the truck began to unsnap the sides of the large wooden boxes placed near the open hatch on the ship.
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8 6 Through the fog we could see men moving about, here and there, some low wooden huts.
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8 12 In the doorway of one of the small wooden huts I saw a slave girl, in a brief brown tunic, regarding us.
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8 29 The wagon then rolled forward onto a wooden pier.
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8 38 Then, naked, unchained, we were herded to the river edge of the wooden pier.
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8 117 I could now see, fairly clearly, the wooden buildings of Laura.
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8 196 Almost all had roofs with wooden shingles, painted black.
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8 258 We, and the wagons, passed between wooden sleds, with leather runners, on which there were squared blocks of granite, from the quarries east of Laura; and between barrels and hogsheads of fish and salt; and between bales of sleen fur and panther hides, from the forests beyond.
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8 302 After we had eaten we continued on our way, climbing the wooden streets, tied together by the neck beside the wagons.
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8 862 Then she was released to go to the kitchen, where, with some others of the northern girls, their arms immersed to the elbows in wooden tubs of heated water, she set about washing the pans.
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11 1 Soron of Ar I knelt on the low wooden platform, while one of the leather workers, with a long needle, approached my face.
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11 78 Inge, terrified, was now thrust onto the wooden platform.
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11 146 The last of the girls, her ears pierced, fled from the low, wooden platform, running to crouch among us, weeping, at the wall.
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11 165 I did not care particularly for the wooden bowls of stew and bread we commonly had at the public pens, but I was hungry and ready to eat even such, and with enthusiasm.
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11 176 Quickly I leaped up and ran to the low wooden platform, and knelt again upon it.
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11 303 We knelt in a circle, eating from the wooden bowls of bread and stew.
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11 330 I had scarcely touched the stew in the wooden bowl.
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11 1290 In a few minutes I, pleased, knelt, naked, on the wooden platform in the large room in the public pens of Ko-ro-ba.
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12 140 I peeped again through the tiny opening between the canvas and the wooden side of the wagon.
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13 176 How pleased I was when I saw the small, pointed stick whirling in its wooden pit, and saw the dried flakes of leaves suddenly redden and flash into a tiny flame, which we then fed with leaves and twigs, until it would burn sticks.
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13 1165 At night, unclothed, when not being used, they were commonly chained in log kennels, small, low, sunken wooden kennels; the interior of these kennels would be a yard or so in height, and a yard or two in width; their length would be longer, to accommodate more girls; the girls would normally be mana...
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15 289 The smooth board was set before me, mounted on two wooden blocks.
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15 290 A bowl of water was nearby, and a fire, over which, on an iron plate fixed on stones, there were, heating, five, small, flat-bottomed, rounded, wooden-handled Gorean irons.
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15 483 Rask of Treve threw the girl one of the oysters, from a silver plate on the low, wooden table.
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Book 8. (8 results) Hunters of Gor

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1 157 "Builder to Ubara's Scribe Six," said Samos, moving a tall wooden piece toward me on the board.
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2 78 In it the water which is inevitably shipped between the caulked, tarred, expanding, contracting, sea-buffeted wooden planking is gathered.
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2 95 The wooden tarn head, surmounting the prow of the Tesephone, with its large, carved, painted eyes, turned slowly toward the beach.
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3 75 Too, from Laura, much in evidence, were great barrels of salt, stacks of lumber, and sleds of stones, on wooden runners, from the quarries to her east.
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3 276 A judge climbed, on wooden stairs at the back of the wagon, to its surface.
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3 310 She then stood beside her judge, barefoot on the flat-topped, wooden wagon.
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5 364 The carved, painted wooden eyes on the tarn head turned toward Laura.
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7 320 On a wooden spit, set on sticks, grease dropping into the fire and flaming, was a thigh of tabuk.
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Book 9. (30 results) Marauders of Gor

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2 29 One that I had heard of had been boiled alive in one of the great sunken, wooden-lined tubs in which meat was boiled for retainers.
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2 131 Even the tarnhead at the ship's prow had been swung back on the great wooden hinges.
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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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2 170 But now they hung at the ship's sides, tied by their straps to the wooden bars inside the gunwales.
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2 205 Its roof, wooden-shingled, is supported on the walls, and two rows of squared pillars.
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2 324 The High Initiate then began to intone a complex prayer in archaic Gorean, to which, at intervals, responses were made by the assembled Initiates, those within the railing originally and now, too, those twelve, still carrying candles, who had accompanied the body from the ship through the dirt stree...
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4 109 The lookout stood upon a broad, flat wooden ring, bound in leather, covered with the fur of sea sleen, which fits over the mast.
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4 114 The wooden ring is reached by climbing a knotted rope.
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4 177 The girl went to the opened planking and fell to her knees beside it, the wooden scoop in her hands.
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4 220 She then went to one of the large, wooden, covered water buckets, roped to the deck, and in it submerged a water-skin.
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4 254 The slender blond girl, who had been giving the men water from the skin bag, was now given the work of filling small bowls from the large wooden bowl, for the bondmaids.
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6 67 The Forkbeard himself now, from a wooden keg, poured a great tankard of ale, which must have been of the measure of five gallons.
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6 249 Two, who were armed with shield and spear, smote the spear blade on the wooden shield.
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8 60 "Who," I asked myself, "is Hilda, the daughter of a barbarian, of a rude, uncouth northern pirate, living in a high wooden fortress, overlooking the sea, to so demean the perfumes of Ar?" One might have thought she was a great lady, and not the insolent, though curvaceous, brat of a boorish sea rove...
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8 166 He went to the high window of her room, high in the wooden fortress, on its cliff, overlooking the dark bay below.
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9 258 Some pounded their plates on the heavy boards of the wooden table.
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10 329 Soon she, barefoot, was climbing the wooden steps to the platform.
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10 330 This is a wooden walkway, about five feet wide and one hundred feet long.
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10 343 And it was Gunnhild who was thrown the pastry, to the delight of the crowds, shouting, pounding their spear blades on their wooden shields.
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10 433 There, from one of several small wooden boxes projecting at intervals from the wall, he took an opened padlock.
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10 547 He tossed the padlock, open, into one of the wooden boxes projecting from the right wall.
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10 667 When I retrieved my arrows, to the shouting of the men, the lifting of bows, the lifting of axes, the pounding of blades on wooden shields, the girl had already been unchained from the block.
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11 257 He carried a wooden bucket, and another object, wrapped in leather.
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12 16 On the wooden dais, draped in purple, set on the contest fields, in heavy, carved chairs, sat Svein Blue Tooth and his woman, Bera.
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12 20 Svein Blue Tooth rose to his feet, standing before the heavy, carved wooden chair.
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12 47 Spear blades struck the surfaces of the round, painted, wooden shields.
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14 3 The wooden shields of Torvaldsland no more stopped the great axes than dried skins of larma fruit, stretched on sewing frames, might have resisted the four-bladed dagger cestus of Anango or the hatchet gauntlet of eastern Skjern.
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14 275 Then we were standing on the wooden-shingled blazing roof of the hall of Svein Blue Tooth.
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17 158 Four days ago I had seen a girl drive in which several sleen, fanning out over a large area of territory, had scented out scattered, hiding slave girls and, from various points, driven them into a blind canyon, where a waiting Kur had swung shut a wooden gate on them, fastening them inside.
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22 2 We stood on the wooden boards of the wharf.
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Book 10. (15 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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2 113 It is the valley, naturally, which, irrigated, usually by hand, though sometimes with clumsy wooden machinery, supports the agriculture.
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2 254 It was reached by climbing a narrow flight of wooden stairs between closely pressing walls, and opened off a narrow corridor, lit by a hanging tharlarion-oil lamp; off this corridor, too, were the doors of several similar rooms.
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2 255 As soon as the wooden door was shut, the bar dropped in place, I turned to regard Miss Blake-Allen.
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2 356 I looked up at skeins of wool hanging from the wooden poles between the flat roofs.
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3 323 I then turned and began to climb the narrow wooden stairs to my compartment.
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6 23 Her wrists, and those of the other girl, as the long wooden handles turned, were pulled up and over her head.
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6 31 At a sign from the judge the handle moved once, dropping the wooden pawl into the ratchet notch.
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8 84 When it dropped, the heavy wooden bowl, more than a foot deep and eighteen inches in diameter, tipped.
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8 91 These tents, typical nomad tents, were small, some ten feet in depth, some ten to fifteen feet wide; they were supported on wooden frames; the ground, within them, leveled off, was covered by mats.
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12 554 Near the red silk I had cast aside, when donning the desert garments of the guard, on the tiles, I saw the vulgar, wooden, rounded, yellow slave beads, the necklace, which I had not chosen to permit being placed upon me.
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15 37 It is dragged through the sludge and lifted, the free water running from the vessel, leaving within the sludge of salt, thence to be poured into the retaining vessels, huge, wooden tubs.
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15 132 Water at Klima is generally carried in narrow buckets, on wooden yokes, with dippers attached, for the slaves.
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16 23 Each raft contains a low frame, within which are placed the retaining vessels, large, wooden salt tubs, each approximately a yard in height and four feet in diameter.
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16 33 These, drawn and pushed on carts, fitted onto wooden, iron-sheathed rails, are transported to the hooked lift ropes.
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16 53 Then I lifted the cone and deposited the sludge in the retaining vessel, the large wooden tub behind me and to my left.
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Book 11. (24 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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4 351 She carried, in her hands, several strings of beads, simple necklaces, with small, wooden, colored beads.
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4 354 Then, with her finger, moving them on their string, she indicated the tiny, colored wooden beads.
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4 367 Then, from another box, Eta produced another necklace, one with cheap glass beads, and another with simple, small wooden beads.
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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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8 53 The cage was in a sleen training pit, surrounded by a low, wooden wall and floored with sand.
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8 285 On my hands and knees, miserable, in the hot sand, the rope on my neck, I looked about the training pit, at the rack of whips and ropes, the sleen tethers, the cages, the wooden barrier about the training area, and then, on my hands and knees, made my way through the sand and out of the training are...
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9 161 Within there was a wooden, round-runged ladder, for climbing out of it.
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9 163 Wooden planks, covered with straw, lay over the bars on the bottom.
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9 166 The gate then resembled a wooden trap, with bars on the bottom.
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9 650 It was hard for me even to carry water to the fields, struggling under the great wooden yoke over my shoulders, with its attached buckets.
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9 701 Once I cried out with misery, for I saw Melina watching, from behind the wooden wall.
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12 549 The keys were kept in a shallow wooden box in that room, a box the key to which was generally in Sucha's keeping.
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16 159 With four other girls, later, with buckets, I emptied the bilge, which lies below and at the center of the floor of the hold, under a removable wooden grille.
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17 3 The room was long, and wide, and low, with many square wooden pillars.
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18 3 It is built on four levels, a large, open court, wooden floored, an encircling dais, some twenty feet deep, and, over the dais, two encircling balconies, each some ten feet deep.
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18 8 I brushed against other girls, and customers, coming and going on the wooden ramps; I managed the tray with care; it is not well to drop a tray; many girls worked at the Chatka and Curla, more than one hundred; I climbed carefully; the ramps have raised, slatted ridges; these are spaced some twenty ...
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18 39 I was some twenty-five feet or more above the wooden flooring.
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18 40 Dancers in the Chatka and Curla, and there are several, move between and among the tables; sometimes a dancer, if she is indeed superb, is displayed solo in the center of the scarlet wooden flooring, within the painted, yellow ring of the slave circle.
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18 180 I felt the sack being lifted through the opening, and then it was dragged along a wooden-floored passage; then he threw it lightly to his shoulder, and began to descend short flights of stairs.
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19 48 I saw that at the foot of the dais, before me, before where I now knelt, released by the men who had held me, there was a low table, and, on this table there were strands of thread and, in small cups, beads, wooden slave beads, beads of various colors, of many colors.
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19 49 I looked down at the low, wooden table, the beads in the tiny cups.
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22 61 I reached into a wooden bucket and took a tospit, bit it open and began to suck at the juice.
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22 79 He stood, barefoot, on the lookout platform, high on the tall, single mast, well above the long yard and the billowing, triangular sail; the lookout platform is a wooden disk, fixed on the mast; his hands were on a ring, also encircling the mast.
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28 82 I sat back on the long wooden bench.
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Book 12. (23 results) Beasts of Gor

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3 8 The area is enclosed by a low wooden wall, and spectators observe.
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3 11 These pits are circular, marked off with a small wooden fence, sand-bottomed, and sunk some two feet below the surface of the "field".
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3 382 I would look at the goods on the long wooden platforms.
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3 415 On a rounded wooden block a naked slave girl knelt, her wrists braceleted behind her.
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4 75 That of Ar was on the right, for Scormus had won yellow in the draw; it had been his hand which, under the scarlet cloth, had closed upon the tiny, wooden, yellow spearman in the helmet, the possession of which determined the first move and, with it, the choice of opening.
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8 12 I lay on a wooden floor, of heavy, rough boards.
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9 8 On our side of the wall was the compound, with the hall of the commander, the long houses of the guards and hunters, and the roofed, wooden pens of the laborers.
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10 120 "Rouse up! Rouse up!" called a guard, beating on the wooden bars of the pen with his spear.
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10 135 In making our way to the cook shack we passed the large, wooden dais on which the whipping frame had been erected.
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10 144 We were given wooden bowls.
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11 44 He, with his men, some forty, who had taken refuge in the wooden hall, that serving as the headquarters of the wall commander, filed tensely between the ranks of my men.
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12 225 Imnak and I, too, applied our strength to the haul, thrusting at the wooden uprights at the back of the sled.
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14 102 The object, wooden-handled, with a stone head, is used for pounding blubber to loosen the oil in the blubber, which is used in the flat, oval lamps.
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16 13 Imnak's knife had a wooden handle, some fourteen inches long.
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20 44 The ulo, or woman's knife, with its semicircular blade, customarily fixed in a wooden handle, is not well suited to carving.
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22 9 At my right, alongside the outer edge of the circular wooden frame, bound with sinew, within which I sat, lay the long lance.
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22 39 With a tube he had blown air under the skin of the sleen and, with wooden plugs, closed their wounds.
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22 291 With wooden plugs he began to stop up the wounds.
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29 4 The weapons had carved wooden stocks, reminiscent of a time in which rifles were the work of craftsmen.
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30 42 "Place each of you your right heel on the wooden rim of the sand oval," then said the man in the center of the sand.
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30 110 "Place each of you your right heel on the wooden rim of the sand oval," he said.
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30 233 "Place each of you your right heel on the wooden rim of the sand oval," he said, grinning.
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38 169 How far she was now from the naive, chained beauty in a brief, white platform tunic, exhibited on a wooden slave shelf, long ago, at the Fair of En'Kara, first learning what she now was, a slave, and that she must fear and obey men.
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Book 13. (28 results) Explorers of Gor

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1 382 The walkway's front edge was about a yard from the tiny, wooden, metal-sheathed, circular platform, mounted on the wooden, metal-sheathed pole, that tiny platform on which the girl knelt, that narrow, tiny platform which held her but inches from the tharlarion-filled water.
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1 352 The two guards then, reaching upward, with some chains, attached above the door, lowered a heavy, wooden walkway to the surface of the water.
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1 363 In the center of the cell was a wooden, metal-sheathed pole, some four inches in diameter.
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1 365 About this pole, encircling it, and supported by it, was a narrow, circular, wooden, metal-sheathed platform.
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1 368 One of the guards, carrying a long, wooden pole, thrust it down, into the water.
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4 126 The praetor placed the coin on his desk, the surface of which was some seven feet high, below the low, solid wooden bar.
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4 129 The wooden bar before the desk's front edge makes it impossible to see what evidence or papers the praetor has at his disposal as he considers your case.
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6 184 The line which Shoka now tied around her crossed wrists was already strung through a large, metal, gold-painted ring, one of two, which were mounted in the huge wooden ears of the kailiauk head which, high above the water, surmounted the prow.
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7 85 A small wooden hut, with a roof thatched with palm leaves, at one corner of the compound, served as house and office for Uchafu and, I suspect, dormitory for his assistants.
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8 59 She lay down on the wooden floor.
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11 1 Shaba The girl stood at the heavy, wooden door, on the dark street, and knocked, sharply, four times, followed by a pause, and then twice.
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11 32 I could see cracks of light between the wooden slats.
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11 41 The girl took the bit of wadded yellow pleasure silk she carried in her hand and, straightening it a bit, slipped it on a narrow wooden rod in an open closet.
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11 139 The man then left the small anteroom, closing its door behind him, and the woman reached to the wooden rods in the closet, on which garments hung.
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11 142 Most of the buildings of Schendi have wooden ventilator shafts at the roof, which may be opened and closed.
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11 161 On her feet were wooden clogs.
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11 247 Watching through the wooden slats above, I smiled.
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11 324 I then slipped back from the wooden slats, moved back on the roof and, quietly, lowered myself to the first roof, a low one, and, from there, down to the street.
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11 340 I followed him into the building, through the small anteroom and into the larger room, which I had seen through the wooden grille in the ceiling.
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14 135 "Oh," she said, "oh," suddenly, rudely, returning to a slave's reality, then understanding that she lay in straw, her back on a wooden floor, held in the arms of a man.
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19 43 I heard fingernails scratching at a wooden surface and the turning and thrashing of a body.
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23 397 I tied shut the door of the wooden shelter, to keep it from being pushed inward by tharlarion which might crawl to the surface of the small island.
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27 107 The results of our trading had been two baskets of dried fish, a sack of meal and vegetables, a length of bark cloth, plaited and pounded, from the pod tree, dyed red, a handful of colored, wooden beads, and, most importantly, two pangas, two-foot-long, heavy, curve-bladed bush knives.
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29 89 He then, from a sack brought from the canoe, threw her two strings of colored wooden beads, blue, and red and yellow, which we had obtained in trade from the fishing village earlier.
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29 118 I had also given her, as Kisu had Tende, two strings of wooden beads.
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32 1082 Both strings were of small, simple wooden beads, suitable for slave girls.
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53 67 The moat had been crossed by a small, floating wooden bridge, tied at each end.
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55 12 And then it was quiet, save for the water lapping against the landing and the sides of the wooden vessels.
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Book 14. (13 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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1 549 She placed a quarter in the small wooden bowl on the counter.
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7 7 On the table was a bowl of cheap wine, some wedges of yellow bread and a wooden bowl containing vegetables and chunks of meat.
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7 89 I took another piece of meat from the wooden bowl.
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7 260 There was a wooden bucket there, with slatted sides, hooped with iron.
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12 44 The wooden cubes sprang immediately, briefly raging, into flame.
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16 355 I heard its wooden gate slide down into place.
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16 359 In a few moments I could feel the movement of the iron-rimmed, wooden wheels of the wagon over the stones of the alley.
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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 63 She put down her head, and went to a water-filled wooden bucket in the corner of the barn.
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19 397 It is then carried, in yoked buckets, to great wooden tubs in certain of the stables.
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21 111 Commonly this is a pleasant time for the girls, kneeling on cloths on the wooden floor, sewing and chatting, but today they were quiet and, heads down, worked and did not speak.
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21 376 "No, Master!" she cried and leaped to her feet, hurrying to the water, in its wooden bucket, at the side of the shed.
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25 129 He reeled, struck in the side of the head, against the wooden palings at the side of the pit of sand.
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Book 15. (6 results) Rogue of Gor

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31 4 I, sweating, chained, pressed my bare feet against the flat, wooden slats nailed on the large, raised wooden disk, the treading platform, some five feet above the floor, encircling the windlass.
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2 143 I examined the wooden wheels, the levers.
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7 156 It was decorated sensuously with colorful wooden beads, semiprecious stones and bits of leather.
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9 18 Inside, sitting on a wooden bench, behind stout, closely-set bars, miserable, clutching sheets about themselves, some with glazed eyes, sat some ten girls.
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10 10 I saw the sales disk removed from her collar and put in a small, wooden box.
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33 128 I looked over the rail, to the great wooden, iron-shod ram, which protruded, in part, from the water.
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Book 16. (5 results) Guardsman of Gor

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4 191 The ringing of the copper-covered drum struck with the fur-wrapped wooden mallets suddenly rang out behind us.
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10 5 In a river galley, of the construction of the Tina, her legs fell on either side of the heavy, wooden concave slope of the bow to the water and ram.
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17 779 I heard the bell, and the creak of the narrow, wooden wheels of the cart of the vendor of bosk milk, nearby.
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17 787 He then, ringing his bell, leaning into the traces, attached to two wooden handles, drawing his two-wheeled cart behind him, proceeded up the street.
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19 1016 A girl who is sold in a prestige market and, in the afternoon before her sale, placed with other lovely inmates within the chromed, ornate bars of an exhibition cage, has moved and posed upon the instructions of prospective bidders, is almost certain to bring a higher price than another girl, who by...
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Book 17. (18 results) Savages of Gor

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1 355 She then, like the others, after having been issued her slave gruel, and after having finished it, and washed the wooden bowl, would be assigned her chores for the day.
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2 78 I moved on the low wooden bench, one of several aligned perpendicularly to the interior port wall of the enclosed barge.
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2 92 Thus, when the moving plank is slid back against the fixed plank, the device provides, in virtue of the matching semicircular openings, five sturdy, wooden enclosures for the small, lovely throats of women.
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2 144 They can be most easily closed, of course, by moving the narrow, vertically mounted, central wooden lever, but this lever, as would be expected, is on the outside.
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2 340 In the bow of the boat, crouching there, nude and shivering, she coiled, in careful circles, in the shallow, wooden rope bucket beside her, the central length of the rope, that between her neck and the bow ring.
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4 1 We See Smoke; We Encounter Soldiers I thrust my shoulder against the giant wooden wheel of the slave wagon.
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4 4 Knee deep in the mire I thrust, slipping, against the thick wooden wheel.
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4 59 It was little more than a sleen cage, of heavy, wooden poles, lashed together, its rear gate fastened with a chain and padlock, set on a flat wagon bed.
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4 217 The officer, slowly, rode around the wagon, looking through the wooden bars at our bound cargo.
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6 1 Kailiauk I looked down into the broad, rounded, shallow pit, leaning over the waist-high wooden railing.
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6 65 Who would buy them? The compound also contained several larger and smaller wooden structures, primarily holding and storage areas, barracks for men and various ancillary buildings, a cook house, smithy, discipline shack, and such.
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6 66 The entire compound is enclosed by a wooden palisade.
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7 1 Ginger "Barbarians! Barbarians for sale!" called the fellow, standing on the circular wooden platform, outside the opened gate of the large, palisaded enclosure.
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7 36 "Barbarians! Barbarians for sale!" now continued to call the fellow on the wooden platform outside the gate to the compound of Ram Seibar.
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8 890 It was wooden-floored and the narrow floor boards were laid lengthwise.
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13 719 It was controlled by two narrow wooden handles, in his hands".
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13 727 "In a few moments, the man made an adjustment in the chain, spinning one of the wooden handles.
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17 282 The other drew back a heavy club, the termination of which contained a heavy, wooden, ball-like knob.
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Book 18. (15 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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2 27 Cuwignaka thrust back the flap at the entrance to the lodge, on its wooden frame.
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2 237 These cradles, most of them, are essentially wooden frames on which are fixed leather, open-fronted enclosures, opened and closed by lacings, for the infant.
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2 238 The wooden frame projects both above and below the enclosure for the infant.
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33 8 At one edge of the field a crude wooden platform had been erected, some seven or eight feet high, its surface reached by a ladder.
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33 11 Beneath the canopy, one with a string of pans and cups tied together, the other with a wooden spoon and a flat, metal pan, were two Waniyanpi women.
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33 12 One was shouting and gesticulating, shaking the pans and cups; the other was shouting and pounding on the flat, metal pan with the wooden spoon.
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36 23 The turf knife is a wooden-bladed, saw-edged, paddlelike tool.
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40 172 The blond girl had brought out wooden bowls and spoons.
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40 238 I handed the residue of my porridge, in its wooden bowl, back to Mira.
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43 455 The large wooden hook dangled from the girth rope of his tarn.
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43 467 The wooden hook was no more than four or five feet from the surface of the rock.
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44 116 "They were lifted only a bit, at irregular intervals, I think, to permit the placing of food in our mouths, the holding of a wooden bowl of water to our lips.
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44 449 The stakes, anchored by the timbers, were tied together like fierce wooden stars.
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44 499 The barricade at the summit of the trail, with its sharpened wooden stakes, with their bloodied points, was even temporarily removed, to permit the rolling down the trail of a great boulder.
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47 447 I saw Alfred struck down from behind with the heavy, balled knob of a carved wooden canhpi.
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Book 19. (6 results) Kajira of Gor

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3 34 On my right, and several feet away, there was, too, a heavy wooden door.
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19 3 I stood with my back against the wooden wall.
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23 63 In a few moments he returned with a small wooden bowl filled with dried, precooked meal.
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23 273 I did not think they, like Speusippus, for example, would be likely to use a wooden trunk for a slave kennel.
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30 373 "No!" Before me was a wall, with a high wooden gate.
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31 357 He made me do such things as grind my belly against the wall of the room and throw myself, on my belly and back, over the great storage chest, wooden and iron-banded, at one side of the room.
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Book 20. (18 results) Players of Gor

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1 14 It consisted of ten small, cylindrical wooden beads strung on a wire.
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2 287 Who would accept the Comic Father if he did not have his Turian accent, or the Desirable Heiress if she did not speak in the soft accents of Venna, north of Ar? What would the Timid Captain be if he did not, beneath his long-nosed half-mask, have those fierce mustaches to twirl, the formidable woode...
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2 793 There were two sorts, refined, adjustable strap racks, with beddings of flat, soft, crisscrossed straps, with sturdy stud-and-eyelet securing straps, and simple net racks, little more than sturdy wooden frames within which was slung a netlike webbing of rope.
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6 1105 Some markets, of course, are rather open, and consist of little more than wooden platforms, or, in the cities, of cement, tiered shelves, lined against a wall, sometimes covered, if the girls are fortunate, with an awning.
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8 71 I really doubted that Petrucchio's huge, clumsy wooden sword, no more than a comic theatrical prop really, would be likely to turn the tide of battle.
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10 3 She knelt, her wrists tied together over her head, fastened by a short strap to a transversely mounted, sturdy wooden bar.
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10 126 When Boots had finished he untied the strap that had fastened her bound wrists to the wooden bar.
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10 130 She then lay on her belly in the dust, collapsed, near the wooden bar to which she had been tied for her beating.
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13 161 This pit was encircled with several tiers of bleacherlike wooden benches.
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14 22 We were prodded with the points of spears through a heavy wooden door.
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15 13 Petrucchio, with the great wooden sword he used in playing the parts of the "Captain," stood resolutely by.
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16 30 "Ho, varlets, craven churls, away!" cried lanky Petrucchio, drawing his great wooden sword from the preposterous sheath which dragged behind him.
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16 58 "Hah!" cried Petrucchio, skeptically, but he rested the point of the great wooden sword on the platform, and, with one hand, beneath that long-nosed halfmask, he characteristically began to twirl one half of that huge, fearsome mustache.
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16 653 Tremble! Shudder! Quake in terror, for I, Petrucchio, draw upon you!" He then began to try to pull his great wooden sword from its lengthy sheath, dragging behind him.
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16 655 Chino, and then Lecchio, too, helped Petrucchio, bit by bit, to free that mighty wooden blade.
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20 409 I, below, heard men walking about on the tilings, and on the wooden tiers.
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21 183 "Can you imagine that? A mere player, a member of a troupe, daring to cross swords with me?" "You have done well against one untrained in arms," I said, "one who dared to face you with only courage and a wooden sword.
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21 257 "That would not be that tall, thin fellow, the one with a wooden sword, would it?" asked the caped figure.
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Book 21. (7 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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3 97 He released the brake, pulling its wooden handle back on its pivot with his left hand, freeing its leather-lined shoe from the left front wheel.
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3 99 I watched the wagon for a moment or two, trundling down the road on its wooden-spoked, iron-rimmed wheels.
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15 354 As he had her head pulled back her back was pulled back against the short, horizontal wooden post behind which her arms were hooked.
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19 25 Less obviously, but more deviously, the blade could be tightened, or even fastened, in the sheath by an enemy, by such means as a tiny wooden shim or plug, or a fine wire looped below the hilt.
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20 73 I did not permit her to touch it with her hands, but, reaching between the thick wooden bars, some six inches apart, to where she knelt among the packs and boxes at the back, fed her by hand.
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24 421 "Would you rather have been exposed in the Voltai," he asked, "a wooden skewer through your heels?" She shook her head, frightened.
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26 789 There were some treadmills there, and some wooden platforms, with chain holes in the planks, where, in good weather, girls might be secured for tanning.
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Book 22. (33 results) Dancer of Gor

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9 2 We could see it on the other side of the barred gate, the narrow, wooden ramp, with the low, wooden walls, open at the top, with the two gates, one for the shoot itself, to control the number of animals entering it, the other, slanting, behind which men might stand, which, when closed, given its dia...
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1 67 Surely she might better have cooked meat in the light of a cave fire, the thongs on her left wrist perhaps marking whose woman she was, or with sistrum and hymns, under the orders of priests, welcomed the grand, redemptive, sluggish flows of the Nile; better she had run barefoot on a lonely Aegean b...
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5 11 I knelt before a wooden feeding trough, with other girls.
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5 15 He then threw my head forward again, over the wooden rim of the trough, and pushed my face down again, deeply, submerging it, to the ears, in the gruel.
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5 26 I then bent down and tried to wipe my closed eyes and face on the wooden edge of the trough.
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6 279 It seemed, now, too, to be moving on a level, on a wooden, planked surface.
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6 742 I was then lifted up, and down, onto another wooden surface, this one as smooth as a floor.
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6 790 I then heard a sound like the beating of a mallet on a wooden surface, slowly, regularly, every few seconds.
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8 1 The Platform; The Annex to the Sales Barn I sat on the long, heavy, wooden platform, raised about a foot above the dirt, one of several in this exposition area, in this annex to the sales barn, naked, my feet tucked back, near my left thigh, my ankles crossed, my left hand on my left ankle, my weigh...
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8 54 * * * * I sat on the long, heavy, wooden platform, raised about a foot from the dirt, one of several in this exposition area, in this annex to the sales barn, naked, my feet tucked back, near my left thigh, my ankles crossed, my left hand on my left ankle, my weight muchly on the palm of my right ha...
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8 82 We had come to a long, narrow, wooden, caulked, semicircular tanklike container, about two feet wide and ten feet long, half buried in the dirt, its forward edge reached by a low ramp.
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8 150 We were very pleased to follow him into a large, wooden building.
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8 167 "Comb your hair," said a man, bringing out a box of wooden combs, "and then you will be fed".
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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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8 350 * * * * I sat, waiting, on the long, heavy, wooden platform, raised a foot or so above the dirt floor of the exposition area, it located in the annex to Teibar's sales barn, he of Market of Semris, a dealer in tarsks, as they said, four-legged and two-legged.
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8 355 I had awakened here, on the platform, feeling its heavy, sturdy, smooth wooden surface beneath my body.
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9 42 They were on all fours, crawling up the wooden ramp.
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9 84 I observed the long, narrow, low-walled wooden conduit, leading up and forward.
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9 96 I looked at the slanting wooden ramp, beyond it.
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9 105 At the gesture of one of the pointed sticks I went to all fours on the wooden ramp.
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9 143 I again addressed myself to this journey on the wooden surface.
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9 165 I looked through the wooden slats of the gate.
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9 166 I could see to my left what looked like a part of a muchly trodden circular dirt area, within a solid wooden railing.
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9 168 Directly before me, and to my right, there was a low, wooden wall, about four feet high.
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9 171 A man opened the gate and motioned me out, still on all fours, onto a small wooden platform.
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9 185 I moved forward on my knees, nearer the wooden wall in front of me.
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9 199 From my left, from the rounded, wooden surface, there had come the snap of a whip.
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9 554 Here, however, the low wooden wall was to my left and front.
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11 226 She was naked, except for her collar, and some beads, colorful, cheap wooden beads, slave beads, and her bells, on her left ankle.
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11 233 About my neck had been slung several strands of beads, large, colorful wooden beads, slave beads, of different lengths.
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16 2 I was on my back on a wooden table.
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24 29 I was pleased when the contents were depleted, for the weight was less, but then, soon, I must hurry back to the wooden tank, to submerge the bag again and, as the bubbles streamed up to the surface, and broke there, refill it.
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30 41 Its door, in the back, was reached by a short flight of broad, wooden stairs.
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Book 23. (16 results) Renegades of Gor

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1 15 Ahead, and on the plateau of the inn, I saw the large wooden sign, on its chains, jerked in the wind, striking about, pelted with rain.
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1 348 The principle of the hand quern is similar, but it is usually turned with a small wooden handle.
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1 350 The sifter usually is made of hide stretched over a wooden hoop.
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4 82 "Aiii!" cried the fellow in the tub, seized, and, in a moment, flung over its edge to the slotted wooden bath floor.
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5 617 From her mouth, on its looped string, dangled the small, closed, hinged, wooden, waxed tablet which would contain the bill.
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5 621 There was a small sound as the small wooden tablet, on its string, touched the floor near the table, as the Lady Temione put down her head, doing obeisance.
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10 70 "Keep a lookout," said one of the men to another, one standing on a low wooden platform, at the forward edge of the trench.
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10 283 Even the fellow from the low wooden platform, which gave him a vantage over the top of the trench, had joined them.
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10 383 I could see it here and there, from the embankment, in the openings between the wooden coverings.
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15 1011 They are wooden structures, frameworks, covered on three sides with light wood, sometimes even hides.
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16 70 With these, too, there were some wooden quarrels, blunt-headed, such as boys sometimes use for bringing down birds.
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17 19 What is more often done when time permits is to build portable wooden walls, some fifteen feet, or so, in height, with defensive walkways and loopholes for missiles, which are then moved in the path of the towers.
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17 263 Even the blunt-headed wooden quarrels, suitable for stunning birds, were gone.
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19 54 Some of these lengths had turned, and hewn pilings, in an inch or two of water irregularly moving about over the now-upturned undersides of the lengths, like heavy, coarse wooden points, jutted up.
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23 275 Then she descended and he swung the heavy wooden grating back in place and padlocked it shut.
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24 733 Tarsk is found upon the golden plates of Ubars, amongst the triumphs of their chefs, as well as on the simple wooden trenchers of peasants.
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Book 24. (9 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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1 381 The shelving on the rack was of narrow wooden rods.
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1 1188 And they, such deliciously vain creatures, know well how to use them, adorning themselves, enhancing their beauty, making themselves even more excruciatingly desirable! Among slaves a handful of glass or wooden beads may confer a prestige that amongst free women might not be garnered with diamonds.
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18 94 Too, the key was kept on a string, with a tiny wooden float.
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21 81 I bent down and drew the lovely wooden piece, fashioned in the likeness of the neck and head of a gant, from the sand.
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21 126 I then thrust the large wooden piece, carved in the likeness of the neck and head of a gant, out into the marsh.
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46 177 From each termination of both yokes there was suspended a large wooden bucket of wastes.
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46 319 There the girls lay on wooden pallets, on the ground, chained to them by the wrists, ankles and neck.
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46 346 From this vantage, too, of course, I could look about, over the vast floor of this open structure, beneath its wooden roof, supported on numerous tall, squared pillars.
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47 40 Girls may be attached to this sort of bar, often anchored in concrete or bolted to a wooden floor, in various fashions.
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Book 25. (7 results) Magicians of Gor

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7 557 For the most part the platform was held together by wooden pegs, pounded through prepared holes.
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11 374 It interested me that she lay as quietly within her small, stout wooden prison as she did.
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19 334 In the softness of the dust, then amongst the vines, moving across the field, our tharlarion in stately gait, we approached the girl, she at the large wooden tank, filling the vessels which would be slung over her yoke.
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19 384 The wooden vessels would be heavy in themselves for such a small, lovely creature, let alone when weighted with a filling of liquid.
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22 620 For example, a large, wooden image of a paga goblet may hang outside a tavern, a representation of a hammer and anvil outside a metal-worker's shop, one of a needle and thread outside a cloth-worker's shop, and so on.
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24 31 It was activated by a simple wooden lever, from an adjoining room.
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25 2 An instant or so before I had seen the face of Appanius grow livid with rage at the observation portal and he had seized at the wooden lever and thrown it, dropping the net with its weights over the couch.
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Book 26. (5 results) Witness of Gor

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7 909 Sometimes we heard even, to angry cries, and the cracking of whips, cries of weariness, and misery, and effort, of such as we, cries mingling with the sounds of the tightening and slackening, and tightening, of harness, the groaning of heavily laden wagons, the creaking of large wooden wheels turnin...
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8 83 I was then removed, so bound and so enveloped, from the wagon; I was carried for a time, over a shoulder, my head to the rear, which somehow seemed, vaguely, to be the way I should be carried, however shameful or embarrassing I might find it to be; and I was then, at the end of this peregrination, p...
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10 357 I heard a grinding sound from above and saw a wooden platform, in which there was a rectangular aperture, slide out from the wall.
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11 1824 I then heard what sounded like a wooden trap being lifted, one which had perhaps been hidden beneath the flaggings.
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12 688 I was lifted from my feet, and sat upon the wooden floor.
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Book 27. (17 results) Prize of Gor

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7 143 There was a low, horizontal wooden bar there, raised some six inches above the floor, by means of metal mounts at each end.
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7 153 Lying on her back, no longer held but her ankles still bound to the wooden bar, unable to rise, she looked up, apprehensively, at the switches.
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10 56 She had been knelt and held, her head forced back, and cruelly held so by the hair, and her mouth forced open, and the spike of the wooden funnel forced between her teeth.
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13 19 On the broad, circular roof, some fifty yards in diameter, there were numerous, sturdy, tiered racks of poles on which levels of laundry might be dried, and, between these racks, were numerous swaying lines, from which a great deal more wash, like flags, shook, flapped and fluttered in the wind, hel...
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13 507 Ellen, with the wooden pins, hung a garment on the line.
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17 829 Ellen could hear, too, now and then, the clack of high, wooden, platformlike, cloglike footwear, such as is sometimes worn by free women, particularly of high caste, which lift the hems of their gowns a bit from the ground, and serve to protect delicately slippered or sandaled feet from dust and mud...
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17 1101 She was then led for several yards across this level, some sort of open, wind-blown, flat surface, and then found herself suddenly out of the wind, and, in moments, some yards within some straw-strewn, wooden-floored room, or area.
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17 1146 She was on straw, certainly, and, it seemed, given low wooden walls to her left and right, in some sort of open stall.
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17 1151 What manner of place can this be? What animals, what beasts, what creatures, could be kept here, so high? As she explored, with her body, legs and fingers, behind her, as she could, hooded, her small wooden-floored, straw-strewn housing, which seemed clearly to be some sort of stall, she discovered,...
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18 307 So, too, the sight of a place she remembers, a grassy knoll, a place behind a shed, a ditch, a stall, the surface of a long, narrow wooden bench, the floor, fur-strewn, at the foot of the master's couch, she not permitted on its surface, that privilege usually reserved for free companions, or perhap...
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20 603 In the boat were two wide, shallow, wooden buckets, each half filled with wet, glistening leeches, taken from the water, often from the stems of water plants, such as rence.
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21 89 Here and there there were tiny, wooden bridges over the stream.
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22 3 She carried the wine in a red-figured pitcher, refilled by dipping as needed, and frequently, from a large vat of red ka-la-na on a wooden stand.
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24 248 It is difficult to convey the psychological impact of this on a woman, say, standing, kneeling or sitting in a shallow wooden tub, perhaps out of doors, pinioned, while her body is being carefully and thoroughly washed by a man.
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27 377 Ellen, the wagon stopped, climbed one of the large, bronzeshod rear wheels, and, clinging to the side of the bed, her bare feet on a heavy, wooden, rounded spoke, looked backward.
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27 1492 Too, if the slave should be standing, her hands chained over her head, nude on a sales shelf, or be nude, half kneeling, half lying, chained on a heavy, wooden platform, or such, it is easy to see how she might feel, finding herself the object of a male's scrutiny.
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30 297 He then released her from the ring, and she collapsed to the dark, polished, narrow wooden boards beneath it.
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Book 28. (9 results) Kur of Gor

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3 7 It had a wooden floor, which was covered with a heavy layer of straw.
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3 305 "A passageway, wooden, between them.
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11 23 "This might be a tavern in a high city," he said, "the counter, the vats of paga, the square of sand for the dancers, the polished wooden floors, the low ceiling, the hangings, the cozy dimness, the small lamps, the curtained alcoves, such things".
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35 2 Cabot was working with the missile, or arrow, straightener, a short wooden tool, some eighteen inches in length, with a small, round hole cut in one end.
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36 28 It is accurate to two hundred yards and, at that range, can sink an iron-piled shaft four inches into a wooden stump.
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36 111 They can treasure simple things, too, a ribbon, a bangle, a bracelet, a string of colorful glass or wooden beads.
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42 106 Then, as it rested on its knuckles, its hind legs scratched at the wooden floor.
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75 15 The door was then swung open; she saw the shadows of the bars moving on the wooden floor.
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79 736 Her movements now were stiff, almost wooden.
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Book 29. (12 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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3 241 Constantina, irritably, was placing food on the trenchers, flinging it onto the simple, wooden surfaces.
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12 326 His head was bowed, and before him, on the platform, was a curved wooden sheath, which contained, doubtless, a knife.
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14 1 Tajima and I Hold Converse "You are quick," said Tajima, lowering the wooden blade in the dojo.
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14 3 Several of the Pani sat about, cross-legged, at the interior wall of the open-walled, wooden-floored structure.
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14 33 In such case one slash reddening a wooden blade might be used to pay for another.
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14 38 It is one thing to face a fellow with a wooden sword, say, who will hold his stroke, or try to do so, and quite another to face a fellow armed with finely edged steel who has every intention of killing you.
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16 112 I had substituted, instead, flighted targets, small, wooden disks, slung on ropes, carried beneath carrier tarns.
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23 75 Hot bread with honey was on the table, on wooden trenchers.
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23 110 Pertinax's Jane bore a large wooden plate of roast suls.
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35 3 My sword had been kept at the entrance to the wooden pavilion, which was the largest building in the camp.
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38 28 These would be devastating at sea, as on the 25th of Se'Kara, and perhaps effective against tents and wooden buildings, but I feared they would not seriously discommode an infantry.
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38 386 Fire at sea, particularly in wooden ships, is a hazard which must be taken with the utmost seriousness.
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Book 30. (6 results) Mariners of Gor

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1 41 One might have heard the clink of a goblet now and then, the scraping of a wooden trencher on a low table, sometimes the crack of a kaissa piece being struck down on a board in an aggressive move.
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7 15 Too, off certain corridors, from behind heavy wooden doors, each with its tiny, sliding, rectangular viewing panel, one could hear the lamentations, the weepings, of female slaves.
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9 196 There were three rows of wooden-barred cages, or stalls, in each area, each extending for much of the length of the cot area, these three rows being separated by two aisles.
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9 240 In the narrowness of the aisles some had broken a wing and, with beak and long, curved, vicious talons, as thick as a man's wrist, in their confusion, rage, and pain, attacked anything within reach, the thick wooden bars of cages, one another, the bodies of men.
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9 266 He cast it toward me, and, a foot or two from me, almost within my reach, it sank into one of the broad, rounded wooden, postlike bars, some five horts thick, of a tarn cage.
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25 207 When I regained consciousness I found myself stripped and chained, with others, in a wooden stockade, somewhere in the northern forests, in the power of these strange, inexplicable men, Pani.
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Book 31. (14 results) Conspirators of Gor

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8 1432 Sometimes I twisted in my chains at night, moaned, and scratched at the straw and the wooden flooring, remembering one or another of them.
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8 1537 I was holding a large platter of strips of roast bosk, fastened in threes with wooden skewers, one of the choices for the second ostrakon.
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8 1821 Your bridges, slender and graceful, are often arched and curved, almost like branches in a forest, for you have an aesthetic sense, it seems, in so much that you do, evinced in things as intricate as the soaring melody of a skyline to things as simple as the carving on an oar or a wooden spoon.
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10 35 With a last, wary look about the room, before which the men shrank back, he backed through the portal, and I could not gain my feet, and was dragged from the room, my shoulder abrading on the wooden floor, and then I was on the stones of the street.
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15 82 The platform is reached by a set of wooden steps.
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15 127 The wooden sides of the stall were comforting.
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16 198 I crawled forward, to the back of the wagon box, the chain sliding along the wooden floor, along the metal bar.
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17 446 I was collared! How excited was the crowd! How often might a kajira have the opportunity to see such things? Did I prefer the shackles looped about a central bar, and the tied-shut canvas of a wooden slave wagon? Too, this was all new and different, and thrilling, to me.
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22 44 The roast done, Lykos, with a two-edged blade, cut portions which he placed, from the knife, on wooden trenchers borne by myself and Eve.
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27 150 Its floor was also yellow and formed of what appeared to be smoothed wooden beams, fitted closely together.
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27 156 After a time, weary from the trail, and perhaps worn from the fear and amazement generated by our new surroundings, we lay on the beams of the yellow wooden flooring.
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31 21 She had been a free woman of Cos, captured at sea by a corsair from Port Kar, as had been the girl from Tabor with whom I had been sold in the Metellan district, though much farther from shore, had been sold to rencers in the delta of the Vosk, who had sold her at a profit to a camp of slavers at th...
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52 80 In one corner, there was a small reservoir, with a slatted wooden lid.
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52 85 At the rear of the courtyard was a small, opaque, wooden gate.
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Book 32. (10 results) Smugglers of Gor

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5 132 I was naked, and on my stomach, lying on a hard, wooden floor.
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5 178 When I awakened on the wooden floor, in the high-ceilinged, spacious room, naked amongst others, and was positioned so that I might be conveniently bound, I realized that I, and these others, had been selected.
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8 400 From the yard of a dark building, behind the wharves, through a double wooden gate, wide enough to exit a wagon, a scribe, in his blue work tunic, carrying a tablet, had emerged.
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15 6 At the entrance to the slave house, that rude, long, low-ceilinged, wooden building, the visitors are given a small lamp, or a taper, in its holder, and a switch.
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15 180 We envied the freer girls who might be permitted a wooden tub in the open air.
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49 194 "Is that why one slave sells for more than another, why one slave's price might purchase a ship, and another a wooden bowl and spoons, why one slave is bartered for a city, and another for a she-tarsk, why one girl is purchased to be chained at the foot of a Ubar's throne and another to carry water ...
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50 355 To one side, there was a steep wooden stairway, with broad steps, leading up from the beach to the level, where I could see something of the higher parts of the walls, and the roofs, of several small buildings, and the carved points of the palings of the stockade.
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50 362 A tug on my leash ring informed me that I was to follow my captor, who, to my relief, chose to avail himself of the wooden walkway.
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50 366 I was soon at the height of the stairway, on the broad, wooden platform from which the stairway descended.
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52 32 This tendency may be expressed in innumerable ways, from the design of cities to the bright colors of buildings and walls, and porches and pillars, from long garden paths, a pasang in length, characterized by a planned music of scent as well as a scenic melody of blossoms, to the shaping of vases an...
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Book 33. (17 results) Rebels of Gor

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15 34 We continued on our way, occasionally crossing a rivulet of water on a small, railed wooden bridge, between flowering shrubs and patches of bright flowers, some of which were terraced amongst steps of rocks.
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15 77 The fellow had a long-handled, wooden-toothed rake with which he was dressing the sand near the path we had recently traversed.
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19 70 The bars of the pen were some three or four horts in thickness, and six horts apart; they reached from the wooden flooring of the shed to the low roof; they were reinforced with crossbeams lashed in place, one a foot Gorean from the ceiling, one a foot Gorean from the floor, and one, about three and...
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19 280 Then suddenly a slave rushed to the wooden, polelike bars, and pressed herself against them, as though she might slip through them, or burst them, reaching out, piteously, to Pertinax.
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19 303 I could see the marks of the wooden bars on her body where she had pressed herself closely against them.
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24 5 The handle of a tool, a wooden hinge, a gatepost, the prow of a fisherman's humble craft, the threshold of a peasant's simple hut, may be models of carving.
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25 106 Will there be a next, uncertain, fearful step, or has the board ended? Perhaps his balance is in jeopardy, and he might not even prolong his life to the end of that narrow, wooden, fateful path, might not even reach the end of the board, and how long is the board, he does not know, and how many step...
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25 197 "Proceed," said one of the two Ashigaru on the platform to the distraught criminal on the narrow wooden path, "lest the shogun become impatient".
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27 106 Tajima, I recalled, had been annoyed at the lack of Pani slaves held behind those stout wooden bars.
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29 1 We Will Depart from a Yamada Village I swung open the small, rickety, slatted gate of the hut, awry on its wooden hinges, and peered within.
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32 115 I heard the heavy wooden bars removed from their mounts at the back door to the inn.
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34 1 Yasushi and Kazumitsu Hold Converse; This Occurs in the Vicinity of a Prison Pen "I fear these are not those whom you seek," said Yasushi, addressing himself to a taciturn, attentive Kazumitsu, outside the vertical wooden bars, the palings, of the prisoner pen in which we were incarcerated, a tempo...
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36 6 "Enjoy your millet," I encouraged Tajima, wiping the last bit of grain out of the wooden bowl with my finger.
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49 6 Near the sleeping mat had been one of the heavy, rounded, wooden Pani pillows.
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55 96 Tajima lifted up a charred painting, on a wooden panel, of a delicate forest scene, with a pond, and cranes.
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58 190 * * * Following the tiny swordlike scratches on the tiles, landings, and stairs, scratches which were spaced at different intervals, we had descended from the fourth level to the second level, and, eventually, had arrived at what seemed a stout wooden wall.
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60 309 The matter is done! We had held the bridge well, our narrow, wooden field of battle giving our smaller number the equalizing advantages of height and narrowness of access.
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Book 34. (18 results) Plunder of Gor

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5 58 I was taken into someone's arms, powerful, masculine arms, and lifted from the van, and placed on a wooden surface.
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5 74 We were conducted along a wooden walkway.
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5 78 Shortly thereafter I heard a door, I think a wooden door, swung back, and we were led within what I supposed might be a shed.
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9 801 An hour or so later, as the day continued to warm, the blanket was drawn away from me, and I was handed a wide-toothed wooden comb.
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10 335 After perhaps some thirty minutes he stopped before a heavy wooden door, chained shut.
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10 381 The floor was of wooden planking.
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13 1 I, kneeling, with the thick, wooden blade, scraped the grease from the pan.
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15 215 Then the wagon, drawn, swaying and bobbing, was lifted by the water, and sheets of water drained from the wagon bed, and I lay then in no more than two or three inches of water, which quantity would remain in place, the wagon, as any wooden object, displacing water, having found its equilibrium in t...
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15 326 There was suddenly a great crack, as of the smiting of wind, like the crack of sails, like the snapping of a mighty banner, or whip, and the very basket in which I was held shook, and then, suddenly, the ropes were taut, and the basket, as I screamed in fear, thrown back, helpless in my bonds and st...
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24 60 I heard a rattle of chains and the striking of some heavy object, wooden, I think descending, on stones.
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26 236 The other two, the purpose of which I was uncertain, were a wooden rod terminating in a collar, and what seemed to be a dark, narrow, bandage.
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28 81 Soup, usually thick, sometimes with suls, as in sullage, but commonly comprised of other vegetables and noodles, would be ladled into wooden bowls.
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33 374 I shuddered, for the creature shuffled forward, claws scraping on the wooden floor of the crate.
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33 575 I heard claws moving on the wooden flooring.
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36 117 I placed the last dish in the wooden drying rack.
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37 1 I put down the wooden pail, which I had just filled.
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40 10 The shop of the potter, Epicrates, like most Gorean shops, was open to the street during the day and would be closed at night, usually by means of heavy, folded wooden screens, secured with chains or rods.
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41 68 I had crossed the street, to be less conspicuous when I had passed the shop of Epicrates, which was now open, the wooden screen folded back and secured.
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Book 35. (16 results) Quarry of Gor

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2 35 Sometimes they are stiff, and wooden.
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8 752 An officer, departing the side of the captain, who held his position aft, came between the benches, and looked up, to the fellow at the height of the mast, the lookout, he on his wooden platform, standing within the waist-high metal ring, who had first seen the stranger, who had first sounded the al...
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11 39 To my left was the canal; to my right were buildings, some portaled with stout, carved doorways, their associated barred gates now open, to be closed at dark, and several housing open-sided stores and shops, furnished with folding, wooden screens, to be shut after the time of business, which, as wit...
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11 89 The hunter is armed with an urt spear, which is essentially a light harpoon with its attached rope, the coils of which are layered in a wooden bucket near the bow of the craft.
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11 136 Sometimes stairs led up to a second floor where coins might be weighed and changed, or loans made; there is no designated "Street of Coins" in Port Kar; one could ascend stairs, too, to visit one or more physicians, or, if one wished, to solicit the services of a scribe, perhaps to have a letter rea...
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11 532 The wooden sign which jutted out, from over the door of the tavern, was a placard on which, crudely, were represented, as one would expect, a whip and chain.
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20 133 I grasped the wooden handle which is designed to fit the irons, inserted it into one of the irons, and set to work.
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21 69 Far off, ahead, I could see one of the small, narrow, colorful, wooden bridges spanning the canal.
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24 119 As many shops were now closed, or closing, the shopsmen drawing the folding wooden screens across their shop fronts and chaining them in place, and many individuals were moving about, returning to homes or proceeding to one diversion or entertainment, or another, the street before the Lesser Al-ka M...
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30 49 Within the enclosure were circular tiers of wooden benches.
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30 51 In the center of the enclosure, below the tiers of benches, sunken in the earth, was a wooden-walled pit, floored with sand, of some forty yards in diameter.
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30 52 Wooden steps, associated with aisles, led down into the pit.
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30 53 There were also some doors in the wooden walls themselves, connecting presumably with tunnels, through which individuals might come and go.
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30 74 An individual was now on the sand, a young fellow, having doubtless entered upon the sand from one of the doors in the wooden wall.
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30 86 I did see the individual withdraw, exiting through one of the doors in the wooden wall.
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33 643 But what had struck my back had seemed inert, wooden, thick, wide, afloat, and curved.
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