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Book 1. (11 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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1 15 Like a large number of young men, I found myself passably educated, able to parse a sentence or so in Greek, and familiar enough with the abstractions of philosophy and economics to know that I would not be likely to fit into that world to which they claimed to bear some obscure relation.
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1 154 I did not know how much time I had, but even if it was only a few hours, I might be able to reach some highway or stream or perhaps a cabin.
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2 275 Enough humanity remains in them, if they are human, for we have never seen them, to be vain; enough vanity remains in them to wish to inform you of their existence, if only in a way that you will not accept or be able to consider seriously.
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3 268 Later, of course, the adult birds are not fastened, but the conditioning given them in their youth usually holds, except when they become abnormally disturbed or have not been able to obtain food.
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5 114 On a Warrior's allowance I would not have been able to afford her.
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7 176 "I like it better," I said, "being able to see the face of my enemy.
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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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12 79 I remember being afraid that I would never be able to use my hands and feet again, that they would never withstand the punishment of the ropes.
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18 2 I thought of Marlenus who, if he survived, might be able to see much of the same sight from the arrow ports of the Central Cylinder.
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18 41 I was not, of course, concerned with facilitating the entry of Pa-Kur's tarnsmen, who, as far as I knew, did not even constitute a portion of the garrison force, but I was concerned with opening the sky over the city in case I, and others, might be able to utilize it as a road to freedom.
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18 121 I knew that when I entered the palace my presence would be inexplicable to the guardsmen and that I would not long be able to pass myself off as a herald of Pa-Kur, certainly not when it became clear that it was my intention to depart with Marlenus.
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Book 2. (8 results) Outlaw of Gor

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4 47 By now it seemed to me that I should be able to see the lights of the cylinder city of Ko-ro-ba.
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4 52 I should now be able to see the lights of Ko-ro-ba.
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6 37 I wondered if I might be able to secure a tarn in the intriguing city of Tharna.
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14 32 It would not be able to fly, but it could move about, dragging the bar of silver.
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14 117 It would be able to move, dragging that weight, but it could not fly.
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15 39 Tharna did not maintain large cavalries of tarns, but it would surely be able to launch at least some squadrons of tarnsmen to rescue and avenge its Tatrix.
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15 71 I did not think I would be able to work any reform in her harsh ways, but I did hope to sue for the freedom of Linna and Andreas, and perhaps for that of the poor wretches whom I had met in the arena.
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23 109 The silver masks of Tharna, when they were able, had escaped to the portions of the city still in the command of the soldiers.
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Book 3. (25 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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22 102 "What was sad," said Misk, "was that I might not have been able to give Gur to the Mother, and that thought troubled me grievously for the days in which I retained Gur, but now thanks to you I will be able to give Gur to the Mother and I will stand forever in your debt until I am slain by Sarm or su...
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1 24 Smith has had the pleasure of knowing Cabot personally, having originally met him several years ago in New England and having been able to renew the acquaintance briefly in New York City something over a year ago.
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1 30 In so far as I have been able I have checked into these matters with great care.
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1 99 He had disobeyed and he had been destroyed, immediately and with grotesque dispatch, but the important thing was, I told myself, that he had disobeyed, that he could disobey, that he had been able to disobey and choose the ignominious death he knew must follow.
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8 164 And then we laughed together, neither of us able to restrain ourselves.
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10 78 "They are timid creatures," said the Priest-King, "and I am afraid they have never been able to accustom themselves to the sight of your kind".
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11 99 I would never find myself fully able to adjust to the incredible stillness with which a Priest-King can stand.
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19 1 Die, Tarl Cabot Now once again I would have my sword in my hands and at last I would be able to find Misk, for whose safety I feared.
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20 20 "You will note," said Mul-Al-Ka, "that we are standing in such a way that you might, without our being able to stop you, hurl us both from the transportation disk".
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20 221 "No," I said, "for I think you will be able to help me in other matters".
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21 10 I was not sure that Misk would have been allowed to retain his translator and I wished to be able to communicate with him.
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23 18 I wondered if in the darkness she would have been able to see what had attacked her.
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24 44 I hoped, considering the size and shape and probable weight of the creature, and the comparative tininess of its legs, that it would not be able to move quickly, at least not for a sustained period.
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24 54 How horrible I thought it would be to be trapped in these tunnels, waiting for the Beetle, able to avoid it perhaps for hours, perhaps days, but not daring to sleep or to stop, not knowing if one were going down a blind passage, if the Beetle were suddenly to confront one at the next turn.
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25 41 Now, by touch, I was able to retrace my journey.
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25 51 I knew the tunnels of the Golden Beetle, like those of the Nest itself, were ventilated and I hoped to be able to use one of the shafts to leave the tunnels undetected.
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26 142 She stood back against the rear of the case scarcely able to stand.
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27 7 I had not walked far from the Vivarium before I was able to regather my general directions in the Nest and, as I walked impatiently along, I spied a transportation disk docked, so to speak, hovering on its cushion of gas, outside one of the tall steel portals of the Hall of Commissaries.
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27 30 I hoped they might be able to hide and find or steal enough food to live.
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27 45 His reactions were almost those that a human might have had if he could hear something in the room with him but had not yet been able to see it.
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27 220 I hoped I would be able to see his attack.
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31 21 When he was still out of range of the silver tube of Sarm but close enough, I hoped, to be able to hear me, I ran forward, throwing my hands high.
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31 118 Now Misk and his engineers would be able to enter the room.
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31 122 Running irregularly, dodging bursts of fire, I ran to the side of the dome where Sarm, from his position somewhere above, would not be likely to be able to reach me with his fire.
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33 11 From where Vika and I stood together on the rocky trail, now scarcely able to keep our feet on the path, we could see vast crowds, robed in all the caste colors of Gor, clustered outside the remains of the palisade, looking fearfully within.
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Book 4. (21 results) Nomads of Gor

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2 83 For example, every male of the Wagon Peoples is expected to be a warrior, to be able to ride, to be able to hunt, to care for the bosk, and so on.
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2 47 I knew they spoke a dialect of Gorean, and I hoped I would be able to understand them.
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5 34 She would be allowed no garments, that she might not be able to conceal a weapon; the bells would mark each of her movements.
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8 32 Indeed, when I had learned this, it had fired my hopes that I might be able to approach the city in the near future, hopes which, as it turned out, were disappointed, though perhaps well so.
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8 115 On the dais of Kutaituchik I had feared that she might not be able to survive, that she was too weak for the world of Gor.
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8 461 But he had not; the fine little Turian wench who had been able to bite the neck of the kaiila, thereby risking her life incidentally, had seen to that.
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10 451 I gather that the Wagon Peoples, if they wanted sabers or regarded them as valuable, would be able to acquire them, in spite of the fact that they have no metalworking of their own; there might be some attempt to prevent them from falling into the hands of the Wagon Peoples, but where there are gold...
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10 567 Kamras, exhausted, scarcely able to lift his arm, staggered backward.
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12 327 She seemed barely able to kneel and, at last, I permitted her to lean against me, and she did, her chin on my right shoulder.
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13 200 Kamchak had never been able to pronounce her name, which he regarded as of barbarian length and complexity.
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14 3 Each warrior of the Wagon Peoples, and that means each able-bodied man, is a member of an Or, or a Ten; each ten is a member of an Orlu, or Hundred; each Orlu is a member of an Oralu, a Thousand.
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16 169 "Do you think," asked Harold, "you will be able to make me cry for mercy?" "If I choose," said the man.
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18 77 I knew I would not be able to elude his quarrel.
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19 150 "You will soon be able to serve me—and I shall see that you shall do so superbly".
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21 257 In a moment I would be able to see the kaiila, the flash of light from the lance blades.
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23 71 We would remain close enough that small parties would not be able to approach the bosk with impunity again.
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24 180 "I was afraid," I said, "that without you I would not be able to find my wagon".
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25 37 Even those who could read, or pretended to be able to, would affix their sign on the collar as well as their name, so that others who could not read could know to whom the slave belonged.
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25 164 I could scarcely believe that the proud creature who stood chained before me was she whom Kamchak and I had referred to as the Little Barbarian; whom I had been able to think of only as a timid, simple girl of Earth, a young, pretty little secretary, one of nameless, unimportant thousands of such in...
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25 595 "I love you," she said, "but even so, you will not be able to conquer me, for I shall not permit myself to be conquered—not even though I love you!" "If you love me," I said, "perhaps I would not wish to conquer you".
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26 523 "I am very pleased," I said, "that she is alive and well—and I gather that you were able to purchase her from Albrecht of the Kassars without difficulty".
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Book 5. (18 results) Assassin of Gor

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21 22 They will be able to see you but you will not be able to see them".
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2 116 At last, bleeding and scarcely able to whine, Hup curled himself into a small, trembling ball, his head between his legs, his hands holding his ankles.
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3 99 And further, having the first move, he would probably be able to carry the initiative of the aggressor several moves into the game, perhaps to the conclusion.
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4 132 I wished to be able to work closely with Vella in the House of Cernus.
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8 179 "You have always been able to make me eat out of your hand, Tarl Cabot," said she, "you big beast".
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11 77 "No," said Ho-Tu, "that way she will not be able to rid herself of the gruel".
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11 89 "It is important for them," added Ho-Tu, "from time to time to be able to cry and scream".
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13 85 The thought went through me, bubbling to the roar of water passing my ears, that tomorrow I would scarcely be able to move; each breath was a cruel explosion in my lungs.
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14 56 It was thought that I, as a mercenary in the house, or Elizabeth, as a staff slave, might be able to locate and seize the documents in question.
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15 124 There had been nothing clandestine about her sale, and it was unlikely that she would not be able to convince her master, eventually, that she was of high family in Ar and might be richly ransomed.
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17 156 Some of the best swordsmen of Ar, even Warriors of High Caste, eager to be the one to best the mysterious Murmillius, had dared to enter the arena against him, but each of these bold gentlemen he seemed to treat with more scorn than his common foes, playing with them and then, it seemed when he wish...
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17 457 After the work of Caprus and myself was finished I would be able to join her, probably in Ko-ro-ba, for a time, before we arranged to return her to Earth; I assumed, naturally, she would wish to return to her native planet.
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19 126 I wondered how much the girls would be able to see from the block.
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19 130 Once Elizabeth had told me that Sura had informed them that they would, after a time, be able to see faces from the block.
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19 131 That was apparently important, being able to see the eyes of men, the attitude of their bodies, the movements of their shoulders.
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20 114 This was done to the Hinrabian girl, who, stricken with horror, seemed scarcely able to move.
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20 444 When he places his Home Stone you will be able to seize it in five moves".
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24 278 My fingers scarcely seeming mine, scarcely able to move, touched the knot.
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Book 6. (18 results) Raiders of Gor

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18 117 How else, I asked myself, had he been able to take an oar on the longboat in the canals when I had gone to the hall of the Council of Captains, or been able to board the Dorna, or taken his place in the longboat that had ferried me to the round ship? I, too, was not unfond of the boy.
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1 18 It is the height of a tall man; its back, away from the bowman, is flat; its belly, facing the bowman, is half-rounded; it is something like an inch and a half wide and an inch and a quarter thick at the center; it has considerable force and requires considerable strength to draw; many men, incident...
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3 181 The man with the headband, he who had not been able to bend the bow, laughed.
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3 203 The girl beside me laughed, and so, too, did the man with the headband, he who had not been able to bend the bow.
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10 22 In a round ship this means she would be able, in Earth figures, to freight between approximately one hundred and one hundred and fifty tons below decks.
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10 25 A medium-class round ship should be able to carry from 5,000 to 7,500 Gorean Weight.
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11 415 One might not always be able to count on the rallying of the men of individual captains to protect the council, as had been the case this afternoon.
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14 250 I had little doubt that the Dorna, a somewhat lighter ship, with better lines and shorter keel, would be more responsive to her helm than the other ship and that, sooner or later, as the circles grew smaller, she would be able to wheel and take her foe in the stern quarter or amidships.
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14 280 Some of the enemy ships, however, in turning back from the chase, had been able to regroup and somewhere, abroad on Thassa, there was doubtless a fleet of some ten enemy tarn ships, still a possible threat.
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15 204 He was a spare, strong-limbed lad, and perhaps might, if trained, be able to handle a blade.
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16 92 And I recalled, now puzzled again, that she, though a rence girl, had been able to read the lettering on the collar I had placed on her one night long ago.
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16 237 They would not have been able to.
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17 41 Each of my fifty sets of attacking tarn ships would be followed, by some half of an Ahn, by another pair of my tarn ships, which, hopefully, would be able to take a number of these come-about ships of Cos and Tyros from the rear.
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17 58 Thus the round ships might, hopefully, be able to envelop their formation, surround it, and attack on the flanks, with their not inconsiderable barrage of flaming javelins, heated stones, burning pitch and showers of crossbow bolts.
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17 62 Besides having large numbers of unchained, armed men in their rowing holds, these round ships, moreover, were, below decks, and in the turrets and the stem and stern castles, crowded with armed, able-bodied men, citizens of Port Kar who had swarmed aboard, that they might fight.
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17 172 As they deepened their lines I could now see the borders of their fleet, as I had not been able to before.
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18 372 Surely she knew the fleet, as well as I, had been driven pasangs south, and would not be able to reach the harbor of Port Kar for another two or three days, at the least.
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18 931 "Both of you now know yourselves as you did not before, and in knowing yourselves you will be better able to know others, their strengths and their weaknesses".
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Book 7. (24 results) Captive of Gor

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3 265 Why had I not been able to turn him away? Why hadn't he looked away? Why hadn't he turned away, shamefaced, embarrassed, and hurried on in the opposite direction? He hadn't.
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6 58 It seemed to me not impossible that I might be able to live on this world.
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6 183 It was as though he expected anyone to be able to understand his strange language, whether it was their native language or not.
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6 367 I seemed scarcely able to stand.
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7 286 A man might look upon an attractive free woman, and want her, but, on the whole, she will be inaccessible, little more than a brief, troubling torment, but when a man looks upon a slave girl he knows that it is quite possible that he may obtain her, that she is quite likely to be obtainable, for a s...
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8 756 He sent me to fetch it for him and I had scarcely been able to work it free of the wood.
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8 757 His shield I had barely been able to lift.
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9 402 "Is it still there?" asked one of the girls, the one who had been able to detect the sleen earlier.
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10 202 I apologize! It was only a joke, a joke!" He was never able to meet my eyes again.
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10 204 Then, doubtless, I, reduced to a slave girl, would not have been able to meet his eyes.
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10 484 I might yet be able to arrange for my return to Earth.
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11 987 They would not have been able to follow my trail after the rain.
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12 95 We looked at one another, scarcely able to restrain ourselves.
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12 233 I had thought myself able to beat her, if I might choose, but now I knew that she, if she chose, could beat me.
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12 402 The only difference between myself and the kept girl of Earth, I speculated, was that I would not be able to choose who it was who would keep me.
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12 694 She had not been able to chew it through.
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13 28 We had run for perhaps an Ahn, when, gasping, exhausted, scarcely able to move, we had reached the edge of a large Ka-la-na thicket.
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13 215 I had never been able to master it.
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13 475 I would continue my journey to the village of Rarir, which I thought I might now be able to find.
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13 491 It was far superior to what I had been able to snare.
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15 292 Behind the kitchen shed, I had not been able to see the alighting of the tarns.
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15 809 Then, by the hair, she stumbling, scarcely able to stand, he dragged her to the small, square iron box which sat near the whipping pole, and thrust her within.
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16 136 Had I been able I would have cried outside his tent, struggling even with the guard for entrance.
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16 139 I would then be gagged, and have my wrists taken behind me, and bound there, together, behind the post, to the tying ring, that I might not even be able to rise to my feet, that I might be well held in place, on my knees, until it might please masters to free me, perhaps to work, perhaps to be beate...
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Book 8. (17 results) Hunters of Gor

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2 356 I was not interested in the purchase of men, but I was interested in whatever information I might be able to gather from panther girls.
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2 457 I expected however, under interrogation, to be able to obtain it from the helpless girls, at my mercy, on the Tesephone.
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2 459 I had learned enough at the exchange point to confirm my original information, to add to it somewhat, and to be able, in the light of it, to evaluate the responses of my captives on board the ship.
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2 689 Had they been able to see, they would have seen men returning to the Tesephone, with water kegs, and Thurnock and Rim returning, too, Thurnock carrying an object on his back, bulky but apparently not particularly heavy.
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4 353 It did not seem to me impossible that I might be able to obtain her for ten.
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5 24 The girl is not supposed to be able to see to undo the knot.
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5 26 If she should untie it, it is unlikely she will be able to retie it properly.
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5 209 About a half inch is left between each pair of boards, that men, glancing in, might be moved to interest, but would be able to fully satisfy their curiosity only by actually stepping within.
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7 73 I hoped to be able to scout Verna's camp before nightfall, so that we might arrange our attack, with nets, for dawn.
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11 19 He had not been able to handle me as well as he liked on the board.
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11 21 He had not been able to do so.
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13 34 At point-blank range the temwood shaft can be fired completely through a four-inch beam; at two hundred yards it can pin a man to a wall; at four hundred yards it can kill the huge, shambling bosk; it fires nineteen arrows in a Gorean Ehn, some eighty Earth seconds; a skilled bowman, and not an unus...
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13 288 I might be able to use these slaves.
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13 294 I had not expected to be able to do so.
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15 250 Some of what they had abandoned I thought I might be able to use.
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16 250 "Then, with your skills, you should be able to return undetected to your place in the camp".
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20 195 We shall then be able to see you.
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Book 9. (11 results) Marauders of Gor

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8 210 He wanted her to be able to cry out; her cries, of course, would be muffled; they would not be discernible on the height of the fortress; they might, however, be heard by Gorm and those in the boat; too, he wanted her to be able to thrash about; this, too, would help Gorm to locate her in the darkne...
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2 104 He is also confronted with a socially and economically powerful caste that pretends to be able to intermediate between Priest-Kings and common folk.
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2 125 Most Goreans took with some seriousness their claim to be able to placate and influence Priest-Kings.
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2 151 I doubted that such a ship could sail as close to the wind as a lateen-rigged ship but the advantages of being able to shorten or let out sail in a matter of moments were not inconsiderable.
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6 38 From his vantage, high on the cliff, on his belly, unseen, he would have been able to see far down the inlet.
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8 50 She had worn, in her degradation, golden loops in her ears; she had not been able, even, to finish her dance; at a sign from Marlenus she had been seized, thrown to the tiles on which she had danced, and raped by more than a hundred men.
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11 37 Suppose that, at some zoo, the tiger, in its cage, should look at you, and, in its rumbles, its snarls, its growls, its half roars, you should be able, to your horror, to detect crude approximations of the phonemes of your native tongue, and you should hear it speaking to you, looking at you, utteri...
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15 57 Not only would the decision to halt the invasion be in violation of the practices and commitments of Priest-Kings, which would doubtless create dissension in the Nest, producing a leverage the Kurii might be able to exploit, but, if the invasion were halted, it being a large movement, and complex, i...
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16 60 I knew him able to read some rune markings.
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18 5 Similarly the marine predator attacking a school of shimmering, flashing bodies makes fewer successful strikes than he would if he were able, undistracted, to single out individual quarries.
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18 570 I had little doubt that he could beat the arm of a man to weakness, and then, when it was slowed, tired, no longer able to respond with sureness, with reflexive swiftness, in a great attack, he would hack through to the body.
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Book 10. (13 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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1 604 "It may not, of course, be able to articulate Gorean.
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5 641 Only a rich man, I speculated, would be able to afford her.
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5 703 Beneath the light veil, as she had knelt before me, I had not been able to read the lettering on her collar, which would tell who owned her.
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12 88 I had not been able, of course, to well judge, in her mannish garb, and burnoose, the lineaments of her body.
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12 428 She rose from the bed, scarcely able to stand, bent over, so much was her need upon her.
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14 31 From where we were chained, I had been able to see, some two pasangs to the east, Tarna's kasbah.
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14 33 She had not, however, been able to hold Hassan and me.
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14 475 I struggled to my feet, pulling against the chain with my neck, wild, not able to see.
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20 8 We had not been able to move far in the storm.
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21 235 I took it, with the sand, licking at it, now able to swallow it.
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21 238 "It will not be necessary to carry me, should you be able to do this, or to bind me, leading me as a prisoner.
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21 481 I made certain that the Kur within, if he could hear aught, would be able to tell that someone ascended the side of the ship, dragging an inert weight, presumably a body.
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24 19 At best we might be able, failing to take the kasbah, to invest it with a smaller force that it would be practical to supply with water from Red Rock.
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Book 11. (18 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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1 187 All a dream! Then to my misery I remembered the man, being seized from behind, not able even to see him, my struggles, being held so helplessly, the cloth over my mouth and nose, his waiting for me to breathe, at last my gasping helplessly for breath, the terrible fumes, nothing else to breathe, not...
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3 249 The girl is hooded in order that she not be able to influence the outcome of the sport.
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3 477 Before I had been able to put off boys with a glance, a gesture, a sharp word, but what if, now, they should see me as I now was, wearing a brand.
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4 14 On the interior of my left thigh, reddish brown, dried now, lay a streak of blood, my virgin blood, which never again would I be able to shed.
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4 268 I hoped, of course, that I might be able to choose whose collar I would wear.
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4 338 I had not been able to understand, or satisfy them.
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5 98 I was able to formulate simple sentences by myself.
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7 1000 But I had not been able to help myself.
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7 1013 I recalled his anger at my helpless yielding to the soldier; I was only a slave; I had not been able to help myself; yet he had been angry; too, he himself had commanded the man to address himself to the work of my rape; yet he had been angry; too, his concern with Marla seemed to me rather sudden a...
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7 1096 But does she truly understand her slavery?" "Forgive me, Master," I said, barely able to speak, "but any woman who is a slave truly understands her slavery".
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9 1093 They are said to be able to work wonders.
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11 45 I would not be able to remove it.
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12 550 If the box were not open I might be able to break it, or its small lock, and thus obtain the keys.
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13 93 "Do the masters not want their slaves healthy and better able to serve them?" "It is true," I said, "Sucha".
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20 30 Even had I been able to open it, I would not have dared to go through it.
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25 152 "If we should be able to seize him who is spoken of as Belisarius, do you think we could derive the cipher key from him?" "Perhaps," said Iskander, "but I suspect that a spoken word, uttered by Belisarius himself, would, by suggestion, remove the cipher key from his mind".
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26 755 He toyed with her resistance, sometimes permitting it to become stronger, sometimes even letting her think she might be able to withstand him, but then again he would begin to induce in her, subtly, the surrender spasms of the female slave.
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27 609 "How strong and marvelous he is! I fear only I will not be able to love him enough!" I kissed her.
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Book 12. (13 results) Beasts of Gor

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20 40 It is expected that every man will be able to make up songs and sing them, just as every man is supposed to be able to carve and hunt.
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3 149 I hoped the fellow from Torvaldsland would be able to buy a good piece of meat at the market.
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3 760 No longer would they be able to conceal themselves if their tunics were opened.
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3 1280 I had not been able to place at that time his identity.
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4 126 Also, it was felt preferable by many for a player to be able to decide for himself, under the conditions of a given game, the duration of his speculations on a given move.
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4 127 He is thought by many better able to govern his own play when there is only a single time pressure to be considered, that of the full two Ahn.
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6 476 "Do you think that you, afoot, will be able to elude a mounted archer, be she even female?" I asked.
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6 845 "You will now be able to run," he said.
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11 52 Only five of his men had been able to reach the bowmen.
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12 615 The machine has not yet been able to eradicate them from your brain.
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17 144 "Then we will not be able to find him," said Imnak.
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23 328 I thought it true what she had said, not only from her asseverations and the fact that I had come to be able to read with facility her face and body in the months I had owned her, but from the general circumstances of the situation.
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35 537 She would more quickly be able to understand and please a master in the subtleties of his pleasure, once she was totally owned by one.
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Book 13. (25 results) Explorers of Gor

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1 85 A few months ago she had not been able to speak Gorean.
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4 784 "She should be able to feel the mark".
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6 485 She had not been able to conceal her from me.
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7 4 It was thus appropriate, I suppose, that the blond-haired barbarian, ignorant and untrained, scarcely able to speak Gorean, little more than raw collar meat, should have been taken there.
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12 644 He did not wish her, of course, to be able to find her way again to this place.
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13 184 She rose to her feet and, scarcely able to move, numbly, went to the alcove.
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13 373 "And you will not be able to go back," I said.
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13 499 I will not be able to stand it.
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13 745 "I will not be able to help myself, Master," she smiled.
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14 68 I wonder if he, ever, truly, will be able to fathom the nature and depth of the emotions of the woman who kneels at his feet".
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14 445 "But I am afraid you will not be able to help yourself".
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16 151 There is nothing in these terrains which is likely to be able to meet it in open battle".
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17 43 Almost no one present will be able to understand Gorean.
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18 79 That his fingers be removed was accounted mercy on the part of Bila Huruma, that he be able to cling less long to the pole and his miseries be the sooner terminated.
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18 251 "It is my hope to be able to persuade him to do so," I said.
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20 61 I would have thought that Sasi might have been able to elude capture longer than she had, but I had been mistaken.
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20 113 In a series of villages, each village may be able to understand those proximate to it, but perhaps those in the first village cannot understand at all the speech of the tenth village.
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24 203 The girl must be able to keep up.
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27 37 Then I was to where I thought, given my speed, he should be, or to where I thought I might be able to see him.
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32 835 I think that no one will ever again be able to lie to me about women.
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48 109 Well might she have cried out in vehement protest and contempt had she been able to do so, had she not been silenced by a man's device, a gag of Gor.
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49 10 If it became necessary to expedite our passage we wished each member of our party, whether free or bond, to be able to lend his strength to this work.
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50 8 From the falls at the edge of this unnamed lake we had been able to see far behind us.
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53 477 I admired the Kur commander, that he had been able to instill in his fierce beasts such discipline.
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57 114 Oars were then thrust in their hands, four girls to one oar, that they might be able to move the levers.
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Book 14. (8 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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1 1054 "Help me!" I turned from her and, with my fingers, tried to find some crack or crevice between glass and steel, to the side and in front of me, anything that I might be able to exploit.
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2 150 "You will better be able to adjudge the truth of that matter later," he said, "when you awaken chained in a Gorean dungeon".
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2 264 The men, thus, had not apparently been concerned that we would, at a future time, be able to identify either themselves or the interior of the large structure in which we had found ourselves.
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3 71 "I wish that I had been able to get my hands on her," she said.
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11 297 I would not have been able to remove it.
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12 216 "Why then," I asked, "did you fear you might not be able to deceive me?" "Is it not obvious?" she asked.
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19 412 I gathered that Kenneth would have been willing to let me read it, had I been able to do so.
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30 39 "I fear," she said, "that I will never be able to make the transition between a free woman and a slave".
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Book 15. (9 results) Rogue of Gor

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30 226 Had I been able to see her then as I was now enabled, by my Gorean experience, to see her now, I would have been able to see instantly through the trappings of her freedom to the slave beneath.
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3 313 I hoped to be able to arrange for transportation to the vicinity of Lara.
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4 216 It had been some days, I gathered, since she had been able to afford or had had wine.
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4 469 Soon, too, at least in the high cities, they may be able to put away the tunic of boyhood and don their first robe of manhood.
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5 29 I pretended that I was exhausted, dazed, scarcely able to stand.
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8 66 I knew I did not have time to turn and clutch at the weapon in its sheath on the table, with my pouch and clothes, and even had I been able to reach it and remove it from the sheath I did not think it would do me much good.
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24 224 "That you do not speak to me must also be intended to conceal your identity! You would not wish me to be able to recognize even your voice!" She trembled.
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30 228 Then, as now, though I was not able to recognize it clearly then, Beverly Henderson was the sort of woman who belonged to men, the sort of woman who should be put naked upon the block and sold to the highest bidder.
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33 19 "If the Voskjard attempts to cross the chain in force," said Callimachus, "we will not be able to stop him".
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Book 16. (15 results) Guardsman of Gor

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1 59 The Voskjard had not been able to break the chain.
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3 68 It was only these, we feared, who might be able to match the forces of the Voskjard in even combat.
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3 206 "Do you think you will be able to sleep before the engagement?" he asked.
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4 30 We had not been able to make a determination on the ships west of the chain in our sector.
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10 43 I did not think that even Sirnak, who was a captain of Policrates, he who, with Reginald, had waylaid the Flower of Siba, should he still be in the holding, would be likely to be able to identify him, to detect in the bearded ruffian on the stem castle of the Tuka the former refugee landowner from V...
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12 164 "The Earth beauty," I said, "by our intent, in her servings of us, was seldom so placed as to be able to overhear our deliberations".
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15 56 I was able to move some inches down the blade, but could not free myself.
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15 59 I hoped I might be able to loosen the ropes.
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16 111 It had not been able to fasten its jaws on me.
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16 484 "You will be able to hear, from the wharves at Victoria, the ringing of a hammer, pounding on iron, on an anvil.
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17 550 The girl came then near to me, and leaned forward, that I might, from my reclining position, be able to reach the coin box chained on her neck.
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19 82 I had decided that it might please me to see her mouth, to note the trembling and movement of her lips as she spoke, and to be able to kiss those lips, or be kissed by them, if I should choose to permit this.
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20 63 I was fortunate, thus, to have been able to obtain them when I did.
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20 2070 I had also, however, purchased a set of lock clips, which are useful in some chaining situations or out-of-doors, where, say, one would not wish a stranger to be able to gag the slave, undo the clips and carry her off from where, perhaps, she has been chained to a post.
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21 602 In any event, wealth seldom enters into the master/slave relationship, except that richer fellows, obviously, are able to bid more, if they wish, for the lovely nude animals—often exhibited writhing in the torchlit markets—who might best please them.
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Book 17. (26 results) Savages of Gor

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15 107 In this way she may be able to better read his moods, and desires, and, accordingly, be able the better to serve him, in the process perhaps saving herself a few cuffings and beatings, such as might be garnered by a less alert, more slothful, laxer girl.
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1 235 It was only through slatted windows that I had been able to follow our passage.
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1 1375 They had restrained themselves as long as they had been able to.
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2 396 "I may be able to aid him".
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6 155 I was angry that I had not been able to locate Grunt, the trader.
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8 524 "She will not be able to help herself, no more than we," said Evelyn.
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8 1052 "I will be able to get five hides of the yellow kailiauk for her," said the man.
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9 80 They, too, at least as yet, would not be able to understand where they were being taken, what was being done to them, not fully, not yet in its full meaning.
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12 166 "I might, from someone, be able to get something for them".
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13 58 I saw that I would not be able, at least for the time, to communicate with her in Gorean.
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13 65 It is not necessary, of course, to be able to communicate verbally with a woman to teach her that she is a slave.
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13 1515 One expects a red-silk girl, for example, not only to be able to find her way about the furs, but, subject to the whip, owned and dominated, perhaps chained, to prove herself a sensuous treasure within them".
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14 63 It is thus, for most practical purposes, impossible to remove and replace such a collar without the master, in his checking of the knot, by untying and retying it, being able to tell.
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14 99 Too, if they thought the goods sound, they might think they had been paying too highly for them in the past, or expect that future dealers would deal with them similarly, which, of course, they would not be likely to do, nor be able, realistically, to afford to do.
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14 884 Had he any notion of this it was difficult to imagine that he would be able to rest until he had once again fastened his beaded collar on her throat.
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14 937 "If I learn some Dust Leg, I should be able, to some extent, to communicate with Kaiila," I said.
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14 938 "Very easily," said Grunt, "for they are much the same, and, too, you would be able to make yourself understood to the Kailiauk, and, to some extent, to the Fleer".
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14 949 There is no substitute for being able to converse with these people in their own language.
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14 1193 The red savages, I speculated, if they wished, with their numbers, and their unity, conjoined with an approximate technological parity in weapons, should be able to hold the Barrens indefinitely against white intrusion.
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15 106 What can be understood of the glances of masters and slaves by those who have been united only in lesser relationships? Too, to be sure, from the practical point of view, it is useful for a girl to be able to look into the eyes of the master.
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16 343 Too, they would have been less able, presumably, to defend themselves than the soldiers.
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17 197 The savages on foot would not be able to stop the cavalry, and the pursuers from the south or southeast might be detained at the wagons.
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18 144 He rolled to his side, scarcely able to move.
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19 696 "He may not be able to walk for days," said Grunt.
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19 757 "In a few moments, I shall be able to do so," he said.
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19 784 Few tribes, most of which are usually dispersed in scattered bands, would be likely to wish to, or be able to, bring a force against them, some three or four hundred mounted men.
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Book 18. (22 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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1 276 This was something which Canka, as Blotanhunka, or war-party leader, of the All Comrades, had, of course, not been able to overlook.
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4 113 They know that it makes them more attractive to men, and significantly so, and, too, they relish being able, with earrings, to make themselves even more beautiful and exciting.
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4 199 In his club, so to speak, he might be able to find a bit of peace and quiet which seems to have eluded him at home.
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4 266 "Then maybe you will be able to get one beast," she said.
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11 93 If I could find the owner of this shield I might then, hopefully, be able to locate Zarendargar.
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12 50 If danger should threaten we wish to be able to move them quickly into the vicinity of the camp".
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12 280 "That is good," she said, "to be able to speak!" "You may thank me," I informed her.
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13 228 How marvelous and beautiful are women! How glorious it is to own them, to be able to do what one wishes with them and to love them! But then I thought soberly of she who had once been the Lady Mira, of Venna, who had once, as the agent of Kurii, been my enemy.
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18 188 "If he is in the council," she said, "you will not be able to see him either".
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18 381 I had not been able to speak to them.
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22 215 She might be able to tell such things.
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28 113 An additional advantage of long hair in a female slave, incidentally, is that it gives the master additional power over her, for, as he is the master, it is his decision whether or not she shall be able to keep it.
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28 337 Somehow they had come into league with the Kinyanpi and, perhaps through them, and in virtue of some special considerations, the nature of which I suspected I knew, been able to make contact with, and enlist the aid of, Yellow Knives.
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29 10 When the thongs sprang apart, leaping from the knife, I saw deep red circles in the girl's ankles I doubted that she would even be able to rise to her feet for a few Ehn.
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29 186 Hopefully many will be able to escape from the camp, riding or afoot".
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37 443 Fearfully, scarcely able to move, she crawled out of the pit.
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39 505 I did not doubt, however, that the girl, not having to pull, would be able to keep up with us.
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43 178 "Would you like to tell us that we will not be able to get away with this?" asked Hci.
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44 26 Not only would the girls command an excellent view of the prairie, especially to the west, and of the main trail to the summit, but those who might approach from this direction or ascend the trail should, similarly, be able to entertain an excellent view of the girls.
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44 580 "You are finished!" In the way of defenders we had only some two hundred men, what we had been able to gather of the remnants of the Kaiila bands after the battle of the summer camp.
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45 54 Enough men must be allowed to attain the surface to convince the enemy that their approach was undetected, that the orders for continuing the climb be transmitted, but not enough men that they might effectively hold a position behind which further climbers, in numbers, might be able to complete thei...
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46 108 They would certainly be able to do so, at least for a time.
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Book 19. (31 results) Kajira of Gor

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1 176 "You may not be able to detect them with the naked eye," he said.
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1 386 I sensed that this might be the opening to a career of great interest to me, one in which I might be able to capitalize, and significantly, on my beauty.
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1 508 "When will you be able to make your decision?" I asked.
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2 227 I conjectured that I, with my strength, would scarcely be able to move it about.
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2 553 Even under ideal conditions, fully conscious, and with an abundance of possible rescuers in the vicinity, any girl confined and gagged as expertly as I was would be able to do very little to call attention to her captivity.
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4 55 It is good for the people of a Tatrix to be able to look lovingly and reverently upon her.
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4 240 Too, you will always be able to find frustrates who, excusing themselves, will seek to lay their failures and shortcomings not at their own door but at the gate of their city".
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4 337 It is good for her people to be able to look upon their Tatrix!" "As Lady Sheila wishes," he said, bowing.
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4 540 The head is usually kept raised; this precludes the necessity of a specific command to lift the head; in the head-lifted position she has no choice but to bare her facial beauty to the viewer; too, her least expression may be read; too, of course, she can see who is in the room with her and is thus ...
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4 641 I had not been able to do what I wished.
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5 123 She had hardly been able to keep her eyes from him.
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5 176 "It is about the worth of your Tatrix, I think, in so far as I am now able to assess her.
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6 206 I wondered what it might feel like to wear shackles, to have my ankles chained in proximity to one another, to have the chain looped about such a bar, so that I might not, even if I wished, be able to pull my ankles more than a few inches from it.
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6 222 Generally I had been able to see little or nothing, usually only the narrow, gloomy doors, often of iron, of grim, almost fortresslike buildings, but, sometimes, there would be an open-air market or some girls, as displays, would be chained outside.
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6 565 "That is stupid, stupid! She is wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong!" Only later had I been able to wash and compose myself, and prepare to accompany Drusus Rencius to the height of the walls, to enjoy the view, as we had planned.
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12 91 "You will not be able to open them".
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13 191 From within the cage, it suspended thusly, I would not even be able to touch anything outside of the cage.
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14 20 I had not been able to even begin to understand the hatred of the people.
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15 9 The sleen, I had little doubt, had been able to detect my approach, and had led the guardsmen to my vicinity.
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15 230 Such low women, I supposed, might not be able to help themselves.
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21 12 I had then, tipping and lifting the trunk, been able to slip between the two iron bands which reinforced its strength, bands which joined with the hardware of the two locks, making it impossible to cut or saw around the locks.
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21 29 To be sure, there were no sleen at the campsite and Speusippus might not be able to rent one for days.
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25 21 If it had been, then I would have been bound and gagged within it, that I might not be able, by fingernails or teeth, to attack seams or cut through the leather.
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28 95 "We will never be able to be so beautiful".
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30 240 I did not know the streets by name in this area and even had I been able to read the signs, there were none written here on the corners of the buildings.
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30 397 "Hurry!" Shaking, scarcely able to stand, I followed Claudia, and Crystal and Tupa, into the yard.
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30 544 I remembered, too, that I had never been able to understand, really, the fear and hatred with which the Tatrix was viewed.
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30 564 Thousands would be able to identify me as the Tatrix! But their plans had gone awry.
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31 405 After a moment or two I realized I would not, eventually, be able to resist him, even if he were to give me permission to try.
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33 16 The guests, on the other hand, given the closeness of the beading and their greater distance from it, could detect my presence there only with difficulty, and, even then, presumably, they would be able to tell little other than the fact that the individual there, as might be discerned from the vague...
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36 1581 It is not necessary for you to be able to read your collar.
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Book 20. (29 results) Players of Gor

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1 869 She had spoken obediently, and volubly, but she had been able, all in all, to help us but little.
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1 919 Neither Samos nor myself had been able to question them.
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2 1098 "Then she probably would not be able to give helpful witness," he said.
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2 1105 I doubt that Vart would be able to help us.
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2 1657 "Certainly you did not think to be able to compete with a slave," I said.
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3 262 "Most men would not be able to afford you".
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4 290 "If he is there, I think I will be able to determine it," I said.
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4 344 She had not yet been able to cope with the sensations which I had induced in her.
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6 270 "I wonder if you will be able to see it," he said.
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6 272 "But, of course, you will be able to see it," he said, "for you are obviously a free woman!" "I do not understand," she said.
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6 619 "Still," said the newcomer, "you might have been able, nonetheless, to recognize her.
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6 1129 "I have it here," said Boots, supposedly producing it, "but you, of course, now that you are a slave, will not be able to see it".
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6 1299 "Whatever shall I do without a Brigella?" "I do not know about your Brigella," I said, "but I think I might be able to help you with another of your problems".
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6 1332 "Now," he said, "as I recall you were mentioning that you might be able to help me with some problem".
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6 1334 "As I mentioned, I do not think I can help you with your Brigella problem, at least certainly not now, but I think I do know where you might be able to get your hands on a splendid candidate for a 'golden courtesan.
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6 1357 On the other hand, I had tried to arrange it earlier in such a way that she would not be sold until the eighteenth Ahn, at least, by which time I expected to be able to get Boots Tarsk-Bit to look at her.
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7 119 "I may not be able to get the buyer here until then," I said.
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7 264 I was sorry that I had not been able to join Boots's troupe.
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12 417 I had hoped, of course, that the player might be able to help me with this sort of thing, that he, ideally, might be familiar with the ciphers, or their keys.
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12 588 I had been fortunate enough to have been able to witness that game.
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13 2 I stood on a table which I had dragged to the side of the wall, in order to be able to look out.
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13 157 I stood on a table which I had dragged to the side of the wall, in order to be able to look out.
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13 225 The first day in this captivity I had lurked near the bars, hoping to be able to get my hands on the jailer.
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13 359 Not being chained, and because of the table, I had been able to witness the cruel spectacle in the courtyard.
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14 248 I did not think that even sleen would be able to make it through them.
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18 398 "Surely," said another, uneasily, he who had spoken fearfully earlier, "if he had been able to reach one of the doors, he would not have had the time to pause and let himself in".
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18 518 With luck I might even be able to commandeer a few soldiers, to form my own search party.
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19 14 If all went well I hoped to be able to use it in my plans.
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21 328 "Remember not to look down at your feet," he said, "for you will not be able to react that quickly, but to look ahead of you, where you are going".
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Book 21. (23 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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1 324 Too, I might be able to find her something which might function as a cloak.
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3 227 It seemed likely to me that I could handle these more docile, sluggish beasts, if I had been able to handle their more agile brothers, the saddle tharlarion.
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3 370 Perhaps her tarnsmen had not been able to reach the wagons.
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3 406 Too, with it, or its residue, she might be able to make her way to a distant village, far from the trekking of armies, where she could use it as a bride price, using it, in effect, to purchase herself a companion, a good fellow who could care for herself and her child.
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11 136 "There were four other poems sold! I shall never be able to recover those poems! They are gone, gone!" He put his head again in his hands, sobbing.
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11 137 "I shall never be able to find all those fellows again.
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11 139 Now I shall never be able to find them again and appeal earnestly, fervently, to their better selves, and higher natures, to take back their filthy money.
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15 286 "I may be able to use it sometime".
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15 308 I do not think you will be able to fight your way out.
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15 435 Too, left behind they might well have been killed, absurdly enough, by the Cosians, an unnecessary and foolish waste of able men, in my opinion, whereas I now have four more grateful, loyal fellows in my ranks, any one of whom I think would willingly die for me".
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16 7 Too, as an unknown fellow, it seemed I might be able to enter her gates without great difficulty.
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19 267 "How will we be able to pass?" whispered Boabissia, whom I helped down, through the cart gate.
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19 499 "Perhaps from the night's camp you will be able to see her lights".
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24 41 "She thinks she may have found the house of her people," said Feiqa, "that she might enter, that incredible fortune might be hers, that she might be able to claim her patrimony".
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24 207 "Had I made a counterfeit, I would have done it, not knowing any better, in your modern fashion, and then you would have been able to detect, from the time involved, that the disk was a forgery, that it was fraudulent".
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24 619 I am sure that I will be able to get at least two silver tarsks for her".
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25 169 Too, it is not likely that it would even be fully meaningful to her, as she is free, and would thus not be able to understand it as it is meant to be understood, in the helpless depths of an owned belly".
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25 189 I have been able to sense here the ecstasies of bondage, the ecstasies of a life obligatorily sensual, a life under strict discipline, a life where I must obey, a life where I will, and must, surrender myself totally and, subject to penalties, and even death, if I am displeasing, live thenceforth so...
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25 1486 "But I have never been able to bring myself to part with it," she said.
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26 334 They are unmistakable, even with the gagging, that stern impediment to expression which her captor, or captors, had chosen to impose upon her, that device, inflicted upon her, by means of which it had been decided that she would not be able to speak.
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26 606 I thought perhaps the free woman might be able to use it.
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26 1908 Similarly, you, and others, such as masters, will be able to tell, presumably, and with some accuracy, whether or not you are more beautiful, or more intelligent, than your chain sisters.
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26 2010 There are few things as frustrating, and miserable, for a woman as not being able to speak.
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Book 22. (32 results) Dancer of Gor

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5 100 Too, I think I was trying to find out the limitations within which I was functioning, what I might be able to do, and might not be able to do.
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3 19 Then, later, mercifully, when I gradually began to understand how foolish my fears were, I was able to return my attention to the important routines of my life, my duties in the library, my reading, my shopping, and so on.
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3 1066 I could not even bring my hands to the mask, and had I been able to do so, I would have been too weak to push it away.
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9 99 She had been able to stand up even to Ila.
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10 352 My struggles, I now realized, had been foolish, but at the time I had not seemed able to help myself.
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10 364 Were there fields down there? Rivers? Forests? Would I be able to see the shadow of our passage, fleet and rippling, on the terrain below? What was the nature of the beast, or bird, that drew this carriage so swiftly through the sky? I wished I could see.
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10 679 Ah, greetings, Borko! How are you, old fellow!" I would have screamed and reared up, but I was thrust back, helpless, half strangled, scarcely able to utter a sound, to the step.
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11 7 Sometimes, I had heard, before nights such as this, a girl is kept in close chains, sitting or lying, scarcely able to move.
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11 177 I would then, when the order was rescinded, be able to call the girls, with the exception of the "first girl," by their own names.
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11 891 In the arms of no other sort of man could I be fulfilled! Too, let Teibar cry out with anguish if he could find out how desired I would be, and what an excellent slut, what superb slave meat, I, his despised "modern woman," proved to be! I would become a high slave! I would cost a great deal of mone...
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11 1010 I turned crimson, my head down, kneeling there, scarcely able to believe what I had heard.
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13 696 I would still have been able to look about, and select one out, one suitably incendiary to the wholeness of my need, and then prostrate myself before him.
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13 1184 Though you will not be able to use your hands I expect that you will enjoy it, just the same".
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14 80 If one is a male, and has, occasionally, perhaps on the street, or, say, on a bus or in a subway, seen a woman whom one found attractive, perhaps one has considered, with pleasure, what might be within the power of a master, an owner of the female in question, what it might be to be able to say, sim...
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14 82 Those to whom such considerations are incomprehensible, because they have low-level sexual drives, or their sexuality has been suppressed by, or inhibited by, a particular conditioning program, one they have doubtless been conditioned to approve of, will, I suppose, except perhaps on a theoretical, ...
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14 251 To be sure, when they returned, bruised and shuddering, scarcely able to walk, to the slave quarters, they had little doubt as to their femaleness or the power of their master.
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14 326 "When I said that you were very beautiful, several weeks ago, the first time that I said it, you considered whether or not that might indicate an interest, or weakness, on my part, and whether or not you might be able to exploit it".
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14 362 How perceptive was this man! Earlier, weeks ago, once, and only briefly, I had considered, swiftly in fear putting the thought from me, that I might be able to use his interest in my favor, perhaps manipulating him, or, in virtue of it, somehow improving my lot.
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14 412 I think I understood, then, how it was that girls came back to the slave quarters scarcely able to move.
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16 160 Had Mirus still been with the tavern, I do not think she would have been able to secure the tiny coins.
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19 129 I would not even have been able to disrobe, among free women, to an underrobe, or sliplike robe.
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20 280 I supposed that he might be able to use it.
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20 336 As it had turned out, though she had sold me, she had not been able to keep the money.
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25 216 Then I might have been able to better conceal what had been done to me.
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27 301 I had the distinct feeling that the thing, even in this darkness, might be able to see.
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29 418 I take it, it did not care to accept the fact that a man might be able to follow it.
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29 767 "I do not think you will long be able to stand.
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29 1168 "If ever I should be able, I shall seek you out.
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29 1420 I had not been able to help him.
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29 1541 Even Fulvius, whom I knew from before was a master of defense, had not been able to stand before him.
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32 35 None of these, I supposed, would be able to recognize him again, unless perhaps by his skill with the sword.
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34 493 Then I was again at the branch, still thonged, helpless, gasping, scarcely able to stand.
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Book 23. (23 results) Renegades of Gor

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2 102 I expected Dietrich to be able to hold Torcadino through the winter, but little longer.
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6 589 If the fellow coming up the steps was indeed who I expected it was, and had rented the space near me, and if things proceeded as I expected, I thought I might be able to enlist the support of the fellow in the corner.
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8 485 Too, of course, if the woman is a captive, or slave, one may not wish her to understand where she is, or be able to retrace her route, or know where she is being taken.
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9 43 I had hoped, of course, somehow, ideally, to be able to enter Ar's Station on tarnback.
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9 134 I had thought that perhaps I might have been able to ascend the walls of Ar's Station on one of the scaling ladders, in a morning attack, but I had soon thought the better of it.
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10 43 Still, in her way, she was a property, and, accordingly, I was not displeased to be able not only to utilize her in my plans but also make some money on her.
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13 304 "I do not think I would be able to eat it, anyway," she said.
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14 123 The noncombatants, the able-bodied men, the soldiers, the garrison, what is left of it, will then be forced to withdraw to the wharves and piers.
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15 819 "That she not be able to make her identity known," I said.
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15 1036 If she had heard us, I did not think she would have been able to make out our words, or, probably, even whose voices she heard, or their location, except with respect to her, she doubtless by now helplessly disoriented in the hood.
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16 456 "I will not be able to protect you here," I said, "nor, in a few moments, will these others".
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17 146 It is better for the attackers, usually, to have the tower isolated, back from the wall, and to be able to control its bridge without concern for the defenders.
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17 498 My defenders would probably be able to withdraw more easily, close portals and block passages.
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18 54 I had not been able to see this from the cell, of course, but I did not doubt but what it was true.
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18 335 Some of the Cosians, many just coming forth from the citadel, not yet entered into the fighting, indeed, not being readily able to reach it, for their fellows, had turned aside to attend to the females there.
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19 137 By now there were probably not more than two or three hundred able-bodied men.
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21 723 He did not want her to be able to get her fingers on the spear which, in their futility and helplessness, might delay, or deepen or prolong the agony of impalement.
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21 1026 One hopes, in such a case, that he will be able to afford her.
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21 1420 "That way, if they are too initially dismayed, they will not be able to throw themselves overboard".
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23 34 She sobbed wildly, helplessly, poignantly, not able to understand her own behavior, shamed.
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24 332 "He will not be able to do so," said Marcus.
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24 395 Already, too, from the piers, it would be able to be seen that two slaves hung from the outjutting display beams on either side of the concave bow of the Tais.
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24 645 "The expeditionary force of Cos will never be able to slip between them and the river," he said.
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Book 24. (29 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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4 11 If he had been able to get his thumbs to the creature's eyes, he might have been able to utilize those avenues, to reach the brain.
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1 301 Two, naked, were in tiny cages, cramped, hardly able to move.
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1 508 They kept him as he was for two or three days, teasing him, and making him suffer much, raising his anxieties that they might not be able to scrape together his redemption fee, or that they had done so, but had then lost it in gambling, and such things, and also discussing, as you might well imagine...
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1 602 It seemed to me that she might be able to use some reassurance as to her femininity, even if she was a mere free woman.
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1 943 I did not think he would be able to get her even as far as one of the small alcove tents within the enclosure.
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1 1094 I had not been able to make out what he had been howling upward, crouching there, chained, what with the wind, and the beating of the tarn's wings.
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3 46 Similarly, I confessed to them my pleasure at being able to profit, at least for a time, from their protection.
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3 49 It was also nice to be able to move openly, during the day.
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3 99 By now, too, it seemed likely, over the winter, that Myron would have been able to rebuild his vast stores.
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12 58 "It seems to me unusual," I said, "that such a woman, disowned, disinherited, surely once sequestered in the central cylinder, in disgrace, should be able to post an observer in the delta".
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13 215 They had not been able, it seemed, to rally, or reform.
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13 480 For several Ehn I was able to keep to the thickest of the rence.
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14 92 "I think he is a very able commander".
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15 3 It had been a supposition of my keeper that I might, somehow, be able to communicate, perhaps by glances or such, with rencers.
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15 24 Bit by bit, from the reports of men from other units, sometimes coming across us, sometimes found wandering in the marsh, sometimes half mad, we had been able to build up a picture of what was occurring in the delta.
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16 28 If I listened carefully, my captors perhaps being less careful than before, given my hooding, I might be able to determine to whom the key was delivered.
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20 140 Though you may not be able to be heard more than a few feet away I do not think there will be a problem.
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24 116 "Although the prisoner is unable to reach any of the devices of closure another might be able to do so.
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27 384 "Yes," she said, "I think I might be able to act".
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31 64 They would understand, and correctly, that such a lad, large, strapping and strong, might even now be able to draw the great bow, and if not now, then in a year or two.
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36 9 Brundisium is not to be blamed for not being able, or willing, to quarter so many within her walls".
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36 29 After I had assured myself of the relative safety of Marcus and Ina, of course, it was my intention to venture to Torcadino, where I hoped to be able to convey intelligence of the affairs in the north to Dietrich of Tarnburg.
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40 60 Few, proportionally, would be able to escape back through the tunnel, and, of course, as they might strive to do so, in panic, screaming, hacking at one another, and such, further slaughter, and then of a simple sort, could be wreaked upon them.
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46 11 I might even be able to switch her for another girl, one outbound on a slave wagon, keeping the other hooded for a time, to deceive pursuers.
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46 78 I did not think, now, that I would be able to switch Ina in the slave camp.
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46 364 I did not think, however, that Ina would have been likely to have been able to reach the roof, or, if she could, that she would be likely to think of such a place, one so vast and open.
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46 369 Indeed, when I had started out for the camp this morning I had hoped to be able to conceal her in just such a fashion, and, hopefully, have her elude her pursuers, perhaps as a hooded girl in a slave wagon or a shaved-headed beauty bound for a shelf on a slave ship.
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47 113 In both of these plans I wished to encounter Octantius, in the first, by a bold ruse, if he did not have the gold with him, to convince him of the dubiousness of his receiving it, thereby hopefully at least buying time, and, in the second, if he had the gold with him, perhaps to lure or shame him in...
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47 256 I wondered if I would be able to follow them in flight.
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Book 25. (25 results) Magicians of Gor

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2 362 Groaning, scarcely able to stand straight, so wrought with need she was, she stood.
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3 656 A fellow, for example, who cannot afford a certain kaiila might be able to capture it, and then, once he has his rope on its neck, and manages to make away with it, it is his mount.
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3 943 They reason that if one fellow can see farther than another, and such, why can't someone, similarly, be able to "see" thoughts.
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3 949 Similarly, on Gor, as on Earth, there is a clientele, particularly in uncertain, troubled times, for those who claim to be able to read the future, to tell fortunes, and such.
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3 964 I had not been able to get on the skin.
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4 116 We may not even be able to regain entrance to the city".
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8 418 I had not been able to obtain admission ostraka for that performance, as it was apparently restricted.
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8 419 I had lingered by her path to the theater, with others in a crowd, but I had been able to see only her palanquin, its curtains drawn, borne not by slaves but by stout fellows apparently of the staff of the Central Cylinder.
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8 942 Of what dreadful value are such skills? Of what value, really, is it to be able to bring down a running man with the great bow at two hundred yards, to throw the quiva into a two-hort circle at twenty paces, to wield a sword with an agility others might bring to the handling of a knife? Of what use ...
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12 108 He would like to be able to show her off to them.
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13 160 There was some talk of greater "respect" for slaves, that they might be permitted to drink from the higher bowls at the public fountains, even the insanity that one might not be able to make use of them without their permission, thus turning the master into a slave's slave.
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14 505 The girl, her hands still bound behind her, her head down, her hair about her face, shuddering, scarcely able to walk, her upper left arm in the grip of a fellow, by means of which grip she was being muchly supported, was being conducted into our presence.
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14 509 Whereas it had confined her with perfection, she had not been able, of course, to reach either of the ends by means of which the knot could be expeditiously undone.
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16 121 I bent down and pushed the prisoner's ankles together, and then looped a thong about them, that they might not be able to move more than a hort or two apart.
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17 363 I might even be able to do them.
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18 136 For example, it is not unknown for one fellow, desiring the slave of another, to advance his fellow money, perhaps for gambling, in the hope that he may not be able to pay it back, in which case the creditor, in accord with the contractual arrangements, may claim the slave.
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18 480 Marcus had hardly been able to speak, so overcome he was.
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19 508 "Did you think to be able to compete with such women?" "I did not know!" she wept.
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20 61 "You know I shall not be able to resist you," she said.
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21 104 A prisoner is not likely to be able to pull away from two leashes.
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21 319 "It would be as fixed upon her as upon me! She would be as helpless in it as I! She would be no more able to remove it from her neck than I!" "No," I said.
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22 132 In virtue of it, I thought I might be able to defend Lavinia, if necessary, without calling too much attention to myself, in particular, without identifying myself as her likely master.
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22 319 It had been all right for her to carry it in her hand, I had thought, when we had hoped that she would be able to deliver it almost immediately, say, behind the theater, but it seemed now she would have to wait a little, say, until our quarry reached Tarn Court, which, if I had anything to do with i...
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22 615 Too, it would have been difficult for him, I supposed, as he was a well-known actor, to have learned parts without being able to read.
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24 11 I wished her to be able to disrobe on an instant's notice.
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Book 26. (1 results) Witness of Gor

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4 167 Even if I had been able to get loose from my collar, that by means of which I had been fastened to the wall of my chamber, even if I had been able, somehow, to get through the heavy door which kept me in my chamber, I would, I supposed, have soon encountered another barrier, that which, presumably, ...
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Book 27. (1 results) Prize of Gor

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26 1058 Perhaps I will be able to dominate him? Then she fearfully put aside that thought, for she knew she would never be able to dominate Selius Arconious, or any Gorean male.
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Book 30. (2 results) Mariners of Gor

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3 338 They would not be able to see what I did, nor would they be able to speak, until relieved of their gags.
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3 363 Too, as it turned out, I would not have been able to reach them, and, had I been able to reach them, it would have been difficult, or impossible, to transport them from the city".
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Book 31. (1 results) Conspirators of Gor

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18 1028 Had I been able to speak, I would scarcely have been able to form words.
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Book 33. (1 results) Rebels of Gor

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41 89 He at point, he first in our group, should be able, easily, and at a distance, to detect the approach of a squad of searchers, and will be able to signal us, enabling all of us, if all goes well, to disappear amongst the tents.
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