| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 4 |
Such a connection seems unlikely for a number of reasons, among them the fact that my people were simple tradesmen of Bristol, and uniformly fair-complexioned and topped with a blaze of the most outrageous red hair. |
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| 2 | 158 |
There was a sect among the people that worshipped the sun, I later learned, but it was insignificant both in numbers and power when compared with the worship of the Priest-Kings, who, whatever they were, were accorded the honors of divinity. |
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| 3 | 22 |
Among these things, unfortunately, was berating those like myself who were hapless enough to fall within the ambit of his wrath. |
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| 3 | 209 |
I had begun to dream in Gorean and to understand easily the small talk of my teachers among themselves when they were speaking for one another and not for the ears of an outlander. |
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| 4 | 81 |
For themselves, particularly among the Lower Castes, they often have a real name and what is called a use-name. |
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| 5 | 25 |
But, as my father knew, strife among the free cities would be the very madness which Marlenus of Ar would welcome most; better even that Ko-ro-ba should suffer the indignity of being thought a city of cowards. |
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| 6 | 3 |
Flying among the cylinders were tarnsmen, cavalry warriors reveling in the undisciplined liberty of the feast, racing one another, essaying mock passages at arms, sometimes dropping their tarns, like thunderbolts toward the bridges, only to jerk them upward just inches above the terrified heads of t... |
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| 7 | 171 |
Among the trees, on the clover, I threw her to my feet. |
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| 8 | 46 |
She stepped from the pile of filthy garments at her feet and stood proudly among the trees, the wind slightly moving her long dark hair. |
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| 9 | 114 |
"Now, while the men of Ar fight among themselves for the cylinders, an army is gathering from fifty cities, massing on the banks of the Vosk to invade Ar. |
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| 10 | 94 |
"See if you can slip the ankle ring," laughed Kazrak, and led me back among the supply wagons. |
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| 10 | 106 |
* * * * The next few days were among the happiest of my life, as Talena and I became a part of Mintar's slow, ample caravan, members of its graceful, interminable, colorful procession. |
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| 11 | 42 |
That night I took Talena into the City of Tents, and by the light of torches set on lances we walked arm in arm through the crowded streets, among the colorful tents and market stalls. |
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| 11 | 48 |
Reluctantly I took Talena to the great tent of blue and yellow silk, and we pressed in among the hot, smelling bodies of the buyers, forcing our way toward the front. |
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| 11 | 61 |
I had noticed that there was among the crowd one tall, somber figure who sat alone on a high, wooden throne, surrounded by tarnsmen. |
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| 12 | 93 |
And somewhere in that vast array, among the flags and the booming of tarn drums, would have been the girl who had betrayed me. |
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| 13 | 12 |
Shielded among the crags of the Voltai, invisible except from directly above, I saw four or five small cooking fires, such as might mark the camp of a mountain patrol or a small company of hunters, perhaps after the agile and bellicose Gorean mountain goat, the long-haired, spiral-horned verr, or, m... |
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| 15 | 4 |
Across the city, from the walls to the cylinders and among the cylinders, I could occasionally see the slight flash of sunlight on the swaying tarn wires, literally hundreds of thousands of slender, almost invisible wires stretched in a protective net across the city. |
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| 15 | 17 |
Also, half buried in the sands among the stakes and set in wooden blocks would be iron hooks, much like those used in ancient times on Earth and sometimes called spurs. |
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| 15 | 22 |
Here and there among the tents siege towers were being constructed. |
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| 15 | 59 |
Glancing about to see that no one was watching, I lightly climbed the fence of woven branches and dropped down inside among a group of the broad tharlarions. |
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| 15 | 105 |
"In a hundred generations, among the thousand chains of fate," said Kazrak, "there is but one strand like yours". |
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| 15 | 173 |
"You are willing," I asked, "to turn the city over to Pa-Kur—that his horde should swarm into the cylinders, that the city may be looted and burned, the people destroyed or enslaved?" I shuddered involuntarily at the thought of the uncontrolled hordes of Pa-Kur among the spires of Ar, butcher... |
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| 16 | 121 |
Inside the second wall, I was escorted among the tents by a tower slave, a black girl whose livery was golden and who wore large golden earrings that matched a golden collar. |
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| 17 | 55 |
The thousand most beautiful women of Ar would be given as pleasure slaves to Pa-Kur, for distribution among his highest officers. |
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| 17 | 58 |
Children under twelve would be distributed at random among the free cities of Gor. |
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| 19 | 36 |
And, dark among these shapes, like shadows, I could see the somber black of members of the Caste of Assassins. |
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| 19 | 174 |
Thousands of the great birds, their wings clapping like thunder, were descending on the city, flying onto the bridges and down to the streets, darting among those spires no longer protected with the terrible defense of the tarn wire. |
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| 20 | 26 |
There, I suppose to this day, in that inhospitable vastness, he reigns; in the scarlet mountains of the Voltai, Marlenus still rules, a larl among men, an outlaw king, to his followers always the Ubar of Ubars. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 195 |
Perhaps, as Tarl Cabot once remarked, "The agents of the Priest-Kings are among us". |
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| 2 | 31 |
I regretted, however, that no bow was among the weapons at my disposal, as I had, in my previous sojourn on Gor, developed a skill with such weapons, and admittedly a fondness for them, a liking which had scandalized my former master-at-arms. |
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| 3 | 83 |
Indeed, a cringing whelp of a man, who would never think of lifting his eyes from the ground in the presence of a member of one of the high castes, a crushed and spiritless churl, an untrustworthy villain or coward, an avaricious and obsequious peddler often becomes, in the place of his own Home Sto... |
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| 4 | 19 |
They are primarily dangerous to children and small animals, but a grown man who might lose his footing among them would not be likely to survive. |
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| 4 | 92 |
The raw meat, hot with the blood of the animal, nourished me, and I crouched beside my kill on the road to Ko-ro-ba, another predator among predators. |
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| 5 | 5 |
Whereas Ar was glorious, a city of imposing grandeur, that acknowledged even by its blood foes; whereas Thentis had the proud violence of the rude mountains of Thentis for its setting; whereas Port Kar could boast the broad Tamber for its sister, and the gleaming, mysterious Thassa beyond, I thought... |
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| 5 | 31 |
In pools of cold water lying among the stones of the road I could see the three moons of Gor. |
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| 5 | 39 |
I looked at this man, seeming to be a man among other men, yet more. |
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| 5 | 104 |
The morning light flashed briefly on something golden among the white shards. |
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| 6 | 30 |
There were many things supposedly strange about Tharna, among them that she was reportedly ruled by a queen, or Tatrix, and, reasonably enough in the circumstances, that the position of women in that city, in contrast with common Gorean custom, was one of privilege and opportunity. |
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| 6 | 79 |
He returns to his place among the tables that line the low-ceilinged chamber, hung with glowing brass lamps. |
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| 6 | 198 |
I admired the simple maneuver, executed without command, almost a matter of reflex, and sensed why Tharna, in spite of being ruled by a woman, had survived among the hostile cities of Gor. |
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| 8 | 21 |
Each of these women wore resplendent Robes of Concealment, rich in color and workmanship, standing out among the drab garments of the men, but instead of the veil common with such robes the features of each were hidden behind a mask of silver. |
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| 8 | 27 |
I missed the shrill, interminable calls of the vendors, each different; the good-natured banter of friends in the marketplace exchanging gossip and dinner invitations; the shouts of burly porters threading their way through the tumult; the cries of children escaped from their tutors and playing tag ... |
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| 13 | 32 |
Some seemed to be conversing among themselves, perhaps laying wagers of one sort or another, but most sat still on the stone benches, glum and silent in their gray robes, their thoughts not easily read. |
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| 14 | 11 |
Among warriors, the bite of an ost is thought to be one of the most cruel of all gates to the Cities of Dust; far preferable to them are the rending beak, the terrible talons of a tarn. |
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| 14 | 52 |
It recalled the tarn cots of Ko-ro-ba and Ar, the Compound of Mintar in Pa-Kur's City of Tents on the Vosk, the outlaw encampment of Marlenus among the crags of the Voltai Range. |
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| 14 | 152 |
"The bird is chained! Attack! Kill them both!" In that instant the bolt gave, and the nut spun from the shaft! The tarn, as if it understood it was free, shook the hated metal from its leg and lifted its beak to the skies and uttered such a cry as must have been heard by all in Tharna, a cry seldom ... |
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| 15 | 41 |
Yet I knew there would be tarnsmen in Tharna, and good ones, for her name was respected among the martial, hostile cities of Gor. |
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| 15 | 153 |
I watched the clouds scudding across the darkening sky, listened to the wind whistling among those lonely ridges. |
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| 15 | 162 |
"You will be simply another slave girl among slave girls," I said, "neither more nor less". |
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| 16 | 109 |
His fellow stood near me, among the tarns, perhaps to watch me, perhaps to steady and soothe the excitable giants. |
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| 18 | 72 |
"Who among you," I asked, "would be free?" "I," said Andreas of Tor. |
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| 19 | 59 |
I climbed one of the great chains to the huge windlass set above the shaft and found myself among hundreds of cheering men, their chains struck off, their hands boasting weapons even if only a piece of jagged rock or a pair of shackles. |
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| 20 | 29 |
Among the litter of pillaging—papers, opened boxes, broken staves, split boards and wire—there lay, sprawled frozen in stiff, grotesque postures, the unsubtle shapes of death, the scattered, contorted, slashed bodies of naked men. |
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| 20 | 92 |
What of the interminable prayers of the Initiates, the sacrifices, the observances, the rituals, the innumerable shrines, altars and temples to the Priest-Kings? Could it be that the smoke of the burning sacrifices, the fragrance of the incense, the mumblings of the Initiates, their prostrations and... |
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| 20 | 112 |
Why did I not leap again to his back and once more cry "One-strap!" Why did we not try once more? I slapped his beak affectionately and, digging among his neck feathers with my fingers, scratched out some of the lice, about the size of marbles, that infest wild tarns. |
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| 21 | 3 |
Now I was among the trees, moving rapidly, but cautiously. |
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| 21 | 8 |
I slowed to a walk and entered the clearing among the tents. |
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| 21 | 134 |
From among the domed tents, wearing a swirling robe of broadly striped blue and yellow silk, with a headband of the same material, there approached a short, fat man, Targo the Slaver, he who was master of this small caravan. |
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| 21 | 223 |
Angrily Targo led the way to the grassy clearing among the trees. |
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| 23 | 114 |
It was true that we could see tarnsmen and their mounts here and there among the cylinders, but none came to challenge us. |
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| 24 | 56 |
Other girls now appeared among the tables, clad only in a camisk and a silver collar, and sullenly, silently, began to serve the Kal-da which Kron had ordered. |
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| 24 | 236 |
Rebels and defenders mingled gladly in the street and brother sought brother among those who had minutes before been mortal foes. |
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| 26 | 15 |
Her ruler—the gracious and beautiful Lara—is surely one of the wisest and most just of rulers on this barbaric world, and hers has been the torturous task of reuniting a city disrupted by civil strife, of making peace among factions and dealing fairly with all. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 37 |
Sometimes they provide a common ground on which territorial and commercial disputes may be amicably resolved without loss of honor, plenipotentiaries of warring cities having apparently met by accident among the silken pavilions. |
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| 1 | 38 |
Further, members of castes such as the Physicians and Builders use the fairs for the dissemination of information and techniques among Caste Brothers, as is prescribed in their codes, in spite of the fact that their respective cities may be hostile. |
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| 1 | 43 |
In differences among members of my own caste, that of the Warriors, it is easier to tell who has carried the day, for the defeated one often lies wounded or slain at the victor's feet. |
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| 1 | 73 |
I passed among wines and textiles and raw wool, silks, and brocades, copperware and glazed pottery, carpets and tapestries, lumber, furs, hides, salt, arms and arrows, saddles and harness, rings and bracelets and necklaces, belts and sandals, lamps and oils, medicines and meats and grains, animals s... |
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| 1 | 77 |
This pilgrimage to the Sardar, enjoined by the Priest-Kings according to the Caste of Initiates, undoubtedly plays its role in the distribution of beauty among the hostile cities of Gor. |
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| 1 | 82 |
This, incidentally, is one of the more frequent causes of war among these cities. |
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| 2 | 76 |
But on what could it live among these barren crags? For I had seen nothing on which it might prey, unless one might count the men who had entered the mountains, but their bones, scattered, white and frozen, were unsplintered and unfurrowed; they showed no evidence of having suffered the molestation ... |
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| 2 | 84 |
One among them, an old man who had originally been one of the party that had captured the animal, identified the place. |
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| 6 | 92 |
In one of the chests against the wall I had found, among the garments of various other castes, a warrior's tunic. |
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| 8 | 151 |
Cities, of course, would pursue the raiders from Treve, and carry the pursuit vigorously as far as the foothills of the Voltai, but there they would surrender the chase, turning back, not caring to risk their tarnsmen in the rugged, formidable territory of their rival, whose legendary ferocity among... |
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| 8 | 159 |
Among the Voltai crags it would be worth one's life to come within twenty yards of one. |
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| 11 | 52 |
"If the one whom you call the Mother is chief among you, I wish to see her". |
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| 12 | 4 |
Among them I saw men and women, barefoot with shaven heads, clad in short purple tunics that reflected the various lights of the plaza as though they might have been formed of some reflective plastic. |
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| 14 | 117 |
"Did you know," said Misk once to me, "that humans are among the most intelligent of the lower orders?" "I'm glad to hear it," I said. |
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| 18 | 142 |
"Precisely," said Sarm, "and yet there is one among us—himself incredibly enough a Priest-King—who could betray his own kind, who would be willing to see this glory vanish". |
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| 21 | 19 |
There was a rustling among the dark, distended shapes that clung to the ceiling. |
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| 23 | 13 |
In one corner there were scattered bones and among them the shards of a human skull. |
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| 24 | 42 |
When the creature, following me, crawled over the pile of soiled moss and stems on which Vika had lain, it stopped and began to poke about among the shattered remains of the eggs I had crushed. |
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| 26 | 261 |
As I thought of our primeval ancestor standing in the mouth of his cave one hand gripping a chipped stone and perhaps the other a torch, his mate behind him and his young hidden in the mosses at the back of the cave I wondered at the genetic gifts that would ensure the survival of man in so hostile ... |
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| 26 | 264 |
That she might survive it seemed plausible that evolution would have favored not only the woman attractive to men but the one who had an unusual set of traits—among them perhaps the literally instinctual desire to be his, to belong to him, to seek him out for her mate and submit herself to hi... |
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| 27 | 90 |
I wondered if, among Priest-Kings, he would have helped her, or if there would have been others from the former Nest, or if she alone would have fallen to earth, to eat the wings that had borne her, and to burrow beneath the mountains to begin the lonely work of the Mother, the creation of the new N... |
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| 27 | 143 |
Now there was no movement among the rows of Priest-Kings and they stood in that uncanny frozen stance regarding Sarm. |
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| 27 | 195 |
Among the words I heard were "He must die," "Kill him," "Death to the Mul". |
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| 27 | 311 |
I wondered how long the scent-message, whatever it was to be, would linger in the air before fading into an unrecognizable blur of scent to be drawn through the ventilator system and dispelled somewhere far above among the black crags of the treeless, frozen Sardar. |
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| 27 | 337 |
"But their cities fell to warring," said the withered ancient one, "and these men in battle slew one another and with them died the secret as far as it was known among men". |
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| 28 | 6 |
Perhaps there were only a hundred Priest-Kings who rallied to the call of Misk and among them there were no more than a dozen silver tubes. |
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| 28 | 188 |
Rumor had it that the only Muls whom Sarm had not ordered slain on sight were the Implanted Ones, among whom would be such creatures as Parp, whom I had met long ago when first I entered the lair of Priest-Kings. |
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| 28 | 241 |
To be so inhibited among a field of foes, none of whom suffered from the same inhibition, seemed to me a good way to get one's head burned off. |
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| 29 | 68 |
Two hypotheses would seem most likely to explain this phenomenon to them, first that I had fled the complex, second that I was nestled among them, and I smiled to myself, for I was certain that the second hypothesis would never occur to a Priest-King, for it was too improbable and Priest-Kings were ... |
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| 29 | 109 |
In the cover of the drifting remains of the ship shattered above me I darted among the streets of the complex and rose behind the last ship. |
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| 30 | 8 |
So it was he, I said to myself, who formed Al-Ka and Ba-Ta, he the biologist who was among the first in the Nest. |
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| 30 | 20 |
I might be sent back among them to spy, to foil their plans, perhaps even to destroy, perhaps even to slay Misk, Al-Ka and Ba-Ta and other leaders, my friends all. |
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| 31 | 224 |
Priest-Kings, I knew, had few pleasures, and now I guessed that foremost among them might be death. |
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| 31 | 236 |
Far below, at the door to the chamber, I could see the golden figures of Priest-Kings, Misk among them. |
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| 32 | 4 |
I looked to the body of Sarm, golden and broken, lying among the rubble on the floor, half covered in the powdery dust that hung like fog in the room. |
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| 32 | 16 |
I turned back only in time to see Misk leap from the panel and rush to the body of Sarm lying among the rubble. |
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| 32 | 18 |
Still Misk tugged at the broken body of Sarm among the rubble. |
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| 33 | 64 |
Then he began to mumble prayers very quickly in archaic Gorean, a language in which the Initiates converse among themselves and conduct their various ceremonies. |
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| 33 | 66 |
Let this sacrifice please your nostrils and now consent to hear our pleas! It is offered by Om, Chief among all the High Initiates of Gor!" "No!" cried a number of other Initiates, the High Initiates of various other cities. |
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| 34 | 153 |
The probability of so beautiful a woman as Talena finding her way through the cities of Gor, over the lonely roads, among the open fields to at last return to Ko-ro-ba was not high. |
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| 34 | 199 |
I regret that among them was not the dour, magnificent, yellow-haired Kron of Tharna, of the Caste of Metal Workers, who had been my friend. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 3 |
Some years before, perhaps between two and five years before, as the culmination of an intrigue enduring centuries, two men, humans from the walled cities of Gor, had, for the sake of Priest-Kings, undertaken a long, secret journey, carrying an object to the Wagon Peoples, an object bestowed on them... |
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| 2 | 5 |
But later, shortly after the completion of their journey, in a war between their cities, each had in battle slain the other, and thus among men, save perhaps for some among the Wagon Peoples, the secret had been lost. |
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| 2 | 69 |
It was said a youth of the Wagon Peoples was taught the bow, the quiva and the lance before their parents would consent to give him a name, for names are precious among the Wagon Peoples, as among Goreans in general, and they are not to be wasted on someone who is likely to die, one who cannot well ... |
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| 5 | 14 |
I suppose the Tuchuks worship nothing, in the common sense of that word, but it is true they hold many things holy, among them the bosk and the skills of arms, but chief among the things before which the proud Tuchuk stands ready to remove his helmet is the sky, the simple, vast beautiful sky, from ... |
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| 5 | 46 |
Among the Wagon Peoples, to be clad Kajir means, for a girl, to wear four articles, two red, two black; a red cord, the Curla, is tied about the waist; the Chatka, or long, narrow strip of black leather, fits over this cord in the front, passes under, and then again, from the inside, passes over the... |
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| 7 | 209 |
And finally, I reminded myself again, was I not now engaged in their work? Was I not now attempting to be of service to them? Was I not now among the Wagon Peoples, in peril perhaps, on their behalf? But, I asked myself, if this message was not from Priest-Kings, from whom could it be? Who would dar... |
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| 9 | 18 |
There would be something, of course, to be said for such a claim, for the merchants are often indeed in their way, brave, shrewd, skilled men, making long journeys, venturing their goods, risking caravans, negotiating commercial agreements, among themselves developing and enforcing a body of Merchan... |
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| 10 | 449 |
In all my time among the wagons I had not seen one of the Gorean short swords, so fierce and swift and common a weapon among those of the cities. |
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| 10 | 454 |
The saber, incidentally, is not only unpopular among the Wagon Peoples but among the warriors of Gor generally; it is regarded as being too long and clumsy a weapon for the close, sharp combat so dear to the heart of the warrior of the cities; further it is not of much use from the saddle of a tarn ... |
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| 21 | 344 |
I saw a woman, unveiled, hair streaming behind her, twisting, buffeted, among the kaiila, somehow managing to find her way among them and rush between two buildings. |
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| 26 | 99 |
And following him, among the warriors, were several Turian slaves, clad in chains and the Kes, among them Kamras, Champion of Turia, and Phanius Turmus, the Turian Ubar, all of whom carried large pans filled with sacks of gold. |
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| 1 | 51 |
They are among the proudest of the peoples of Gor, regarding the dwellers of the cities of Gor as vermin in holes, cowards who must fly behind walls, wretches who fear to live beneath the broad sky, who dare not dispute with them the open, windswept plains of their world. |
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| 2 | 7 |
Now I supposed that I alone, of humans on Gor, with the possible exception of some among the Wagon Peoples, knew the nature of the mysterious object which once these two brave men had brought in secrecy to the plains of Turia—and, to be truthful, I did not know that even I—should I see... |
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| 2 | 71 |
The Wagon Peoples war among themselves, but once in every two hands of years, there is a time of gathering of the peoples, and this, I had learned, was that time. |
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| 2 | 89 |
I suspected that this might be due to the hostilities and bickerings of the peoples among themselves; where people did not wish to unite, where they relished their autonomy, where they nursed old grievances and sang the glories of vengeance raids, where they considered all others, even those of the ... |
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| 5 | 2 |
Nearly were we run down by six riders on thundering kaiila who, riding for sport, raced past us wildly among the crowded, clustered wagons. |
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| 5 | 3 |
I heard the lowing of milk bosk from among the wagons. |
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| 5 | 17 |
As we passed among the wagons I leaped back as a tawny prairie sleen hurled itself against the bars of a sleen cage, reaching out for me with its six-clawed paw. |
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| 5 | 21 |
I was startled by the sound of slave bells and saw a girl, stripped save for bells and collar, carrying a burden among the wagons. |
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| 5 | 22 |
Kamchak saw that I had noticed the girl and chuckled, sensing that I might find it strange, seeing a slave so among the wagons. |
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| 5 | 103 |
I gathered from this remark that Kamchak was a man of no little importance among the Tuchuks. |
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| 5 | 116 |
I was about to press Kamchak on this matter when we heard a sudden shout and the squealing of kaiila from among the wagons. |
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| 6 | 1 |
To the Wagon of Kutaituchik Kamchak strode among the wagons, toward the sound, and I followed him closely. |
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| 6 | 3 |
We suddenly emerged into the center of what seemed to be a wide, grassy street among the wagons, a wide lane, open and level, an avenue in that city of Harigga, or Bosk Wagons. |
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| 6 | 5 |
Among them, too, were soothsayers and haruspexes, and singers and musicians, and, here and there, small peddlers and merchants, of various cities, for such are occasionally permitted by the Tuchuks, who crave their wares, to approach the wagons. |
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| 6 | 60 |
I was thunderstruck that a girl, apparently of Earth, who spoke English, should be brought to the Tuchuks at this time—at the time that I was among them, hoping to discover and return to Priest-Kings what I supposed to be a golden spheroid, the egg, the last hope of their race. |
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| 6 | 75 |
It then occurred to me that it might have been for just this purpose that she had been sent to the Tuchuks, to single out the one man from among all the thousands with the wagons who could understand her and speak with her, thus identifying and marking him. |
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| 7 | 11 |
Among these men, sitting cross-legged, was Kutaituchik, called Ubar of the Tuchuks. |
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| 7 | 13 |
There were also, among the other goods, two girls, blonde and blue-eyed, unclothed, chained; they had perhaps been a gift to Kutaituchik; or had been the daughters of enemies; they might have been from any city; both were beautiful; one was sitting with her knees tucked under her chin, her hands cla... |
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| 7 | 156 |
I would have expected the message to have been written either on stout, glossy-surfaced linen paper, of the sort milled in Ar, or perhaps on vellum, or a grosser parchment, prepared in many cities and used commonly in scrolls, the process involving among other things the washing and liming of skins,... |
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| 7 | 188 |
Now I understood, as I had only suspected before, why an English-speaking girl was necessary to bear the collar, that she might be the device whereby I would be singled out from the hundreds and thousands among the wagons, and so be marked for death. |
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| 8 | 33 |
The Wagon Peoples, though enemies of Turia, needed and wanted her goods, in particular materials of metal and cloth, which are highly prized among the Wagons. |
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| 8 | 38 |
The Wagon Peoples sometimes are also willing to barter silks to the Turians, but commonly they keep these for their own slave girls, who wear them in the secrecy of the wagons; free women, incidentally, among the Wagon Peoples are not permitted to wear silk; it is claimed by those of the Wagons, del... |
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| 8 | 93 |
He was, of course, aware that no girl, Gorean or otherwise, could be expected to take lightly a sudden reduction to an abject and complete slavery, particularly considering what that would mean among the wagons. |
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| 8 | 142 |
He did not permit her, of course, to bind or dress her hair; it must be worn loose; that alone, naturally, was sufficient to mark her slave among the wagons. |
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| 8 | 237 |
Among the wagons he was nothing. |
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| 8 | 239 |
He was called Harold, which is not a Tuchuk name, nor a name used among the Wagon Peoples, though it is similar to some of the Kassar names. |
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| 8 | 254 |
I supposed that the young man would never be likely to wear the scar, without which, among the stern, cruel Tuchuks, he would be the continuous object of scorn, ridicule and contempt. |
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| 8 | 255 |
Indeed, I knew that some among the wagons, the girl Hereena, for example, who seemed to bear him a great dislike, had insisted that he, though free, be forced to wear the Kes or the dress of a woman. |
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| 8 | 256 |
Such would have been a great joke among the Tuchuks. |
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| 8 | 359 |
One of the best among the wagons I had heard was a Kassar slave, a swift Turian wench whose name was Dina. |
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| 8 | 463 |
Even the Turian girl, Dina, perhaps the best slave among all the wagons in this sport, was laughing, hanging on the stirrup of Albrecht, looking up at him. |
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| 9 | 17 |
Indeed, secretly among themselves, I have heard, they regard themselves as the highest caste on Gor, though they would not say so for fear of rousing the indignation of other castes. |
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| 9 | 93 |
Among the Wagons, clad in a brief bit of cord and leather, branded, wearing nose ring and Turian collar, could be found many of the beauties of Turia. |
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| 9 | 105 |
I observed the banquet tables, laid out in an open-ended rectangle, permitting slaves to enter at the open end, facilitating the serving, and, of course, allowing entertainers to perform among the tables. |
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| 9 | 114 |
"I see," he said, "that you were not raised among the wagons". |
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| 9 | 197 |
The musicians, at a signal from the Feast Steward, took up their instruments again and the acrobats rushed back among the tables, tumbling and leaping about. |
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| 9 | 306 |
"We have many girls among the wagons quite as good," said Kamchak. |
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| 9 | 325 |
"Ho!" cried Aphris of Turia, summoning the Feast Steward to her, through the turning bodies of the girls dancing among the tables. |
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| 10 | 1 |
Love War It was early in the morning, several days after Saphrar's banquet, that Kamchak and myself, among some hundreds of others of the Four Wagon Peoples, came to the Plains of a Thousand Stakes, some pasangs distant from lofty Turia. |
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| 10 | 11 |
Beside him, but as Ubars, rode three other men, whom I took to be chief among the Kassars, the Kataii, the Paravaci. |
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| 10 | 18 |
It was one of the highest prices ever paid among the wagons for a slave and I judged that Albrecht had sorely missed his little Tenchika; the high price he was forced to pay for the girl was made even more intolerable by Kamchak's amusement at his expense, roaring with laughter and slapping his knee... |
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| 10 | 125 |
Kamchak! Free a slave! And, I told myself, even if I myself owned Elizabeth, and not Kamchak, I could not free her—for what would it be to free her? If she approached Turia she would fall slave to the first patrol that leashed and hooded her; if she tried to stay among the wagons, some young ... |
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| 10 | 126 |
And I myself did not intend to stay among the wagons. |
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| 10 | 199 |
Moving boldly now among the Wagon Peoples were vendors from Turia, selling their cakes, their wines and meats, even chains and collars. |
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| 10 | 204 |
Among the Tuchuks, though dismounted, I saw the young man Harold, he whom Hereena of the First Wagon had so sorely insulted at the time of the wagering with Conrad and Albrecht. |
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| 10 | 207 |
He had, as I mentioned, blond hair and blue eyes, not unknown among the Tuchuks, but unusual. |
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| 10 | 211 |
It might be mentioned, incidentally, that without the Courage Scar one may not, among the Tuchuks, pay court to a free woman, own a wagon, or own more than five bosk and three kaiila. |
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| 10 | 229 |
Some were haggling with the vendors, others were talking among themselves. |
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| 10 | 247 |
In a moment, to a thunder of kaiila paws on the turf, racing between the lines of stakes, scattering sand, there came a great number of riders, their black hair swirling behind them, who pulled up on their mounts, rearing and squealing, between the stakes, and leaped from the saddle to the sand, rel... |
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| 10 | 248 |
They were marvelous, the many wild girls of the Wagons, and I saw that chief among them was the proud, beauteous Hereena, of the First Wagon. |
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| 10 | 252 |
I saw Hereena notice the young man Harold among the warriors and she pointed her finger imperiously at him, gesturing him to her. |
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| 10 | 258 |
"Hah!" said Kamchak, seeing now the lines of tharlarion part for a space of perhaps forty yards, through which could be seen the screened palanquins of Turian damsels, some on the shoulders of chained slaves, among them undoubtedly men of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 10 | 259 |
Now the excitement of the throng seemed mostly to course among the warriors of the Wagon Peoples as they rose in their stirrups to see better the swaying, approaching palanquins, each reputedly bearing a gem of great beauty, a fit prize in the savage contests of Love War. |
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| 10 | 260 |
The institution of Love War is an ancient one among the Turians and the Wagon Peoples, according to the Year Keepers antedating even the Omen Year. |
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| 10 | 264 |
The secret justification, I suspect, however, is that the Turian warrior is fond of meeting the enemy and acquiring his women, particularly should they be striking little beasts, like Hereena of the First Wagon, as untamed and savage as they are beautiful; it is regarded as a great sport among Turia... |
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| 10 | 277 |
Judges were now circulating, each with lists, among the Wagon Peoples and the Turians. |
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| 10 | 285 |
This meant that she was quite possibly the most beautiful woman in Turia, certainly at least among those in the games this year. |
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| 10 | 297 |
The selection of the girls, incidentally, is determined by judges in their city, or of their own people, in Turia by members of the Caste of Physicians who have served in the great slave houses of Ar; among the wagons by the masters of the public slave wagons, who buy, sell and rent girls, providing... |
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| 10 | 366 |
"There are probably several better among the stakes," said Kamchak. |
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| 10 | 396 |
Sometimes men fight among themselves for this honor, but such combat is frowned upon by both the Turians and those of the Wagons, being regarded as somewhat disgraceful, particularly in the presence of foes. |
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| 11 | 117 |
* * * * Some two hours later we reached the encampment of the Tuchuks and made our way among the wagons and the cooking pots and playing children. |
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| 11 | 154 |
"For," said Kamchak, "among your other tasks, my dear, you will perform for this barbarian the duties of a female serving slave". |
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| 11 | 182 |
It was too bad, I thought, but at least I supposed there would be one fellow among the wagons, the young man Harold, he whom the girl had so abused, he who had not yet won the Courage Scar, who would be just as pleased as not that she, with all her contempt and spleen, was now delightfully salted aw... |
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| 11 | 240 |
Among such rocks it would not have been noticed. |
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| 12 | 26 |
At that time Kutaituchik and other high men among the Tuchuks, doubtless including Kamchak, would be afield, on the rolling hills surrounding the Omen Valley, in which, on the hundreds of smoking altars, the haruspexes of the four peoples would be practicing their obscure craft, taking the omens, tr... |
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| 12 | 32 |
I supposed he was curious about me, not a Tuchuk, not a merchant or singer, yet among the Wagons. |
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| 12 | 202 |
Kamchak was fishing about among his paraphernalia and he came up with two wrist-ankle hobbles. |
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| 12 | 208 |
I saw among them even some Kassars and Paravaci, and one of the rare Kataii, seldom seen in the encampments of the other peoples. |
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| 12 | 217 |
There was also a second drummer, also with a kaska, and another fellow, a younger one, who sat very seriously before what appeared to me to be a pile of objects; among them was a notched stick, played by sliding a polished tem-wood stick across its surface; cymbals of various sorts; what was obvious... |
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| 12 | 219 |
Among Gorean musicians, incidentally, czehar players have the most prestige; there was only one in this group, I noted, and he was their leader; next follow the flutists and then the players of the kalika; the players of the drums come next; and the farthest fellow down the list is the man who keeps... |
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| 12 | 490 |
Then, shrugging, I too left the enclosure, thinking that perhaps I should wander among the wagons for a few hours, before returning. |
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| 13 | 9 |
"She would have hidden among the wagons last night," Kamchak said. |
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| 13 | 15 |
"Cut off her feet," said Kamchak, "and her nose and ears, and blind her in one eye—then release her to live as she can among the wagons". |
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| 13 | 81 |
Then, before I could realize what he intended, he had subjected Miss Cardwell to what, among slavers, is known as the Whip Caress. |
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| 13 | 85 |
The Whip Caress is commonly used among Slavers to force a girl to betray herself. |
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| 13 | 107 |
He would do no more to Elizabeth Cardwell than was commonly done to female slaves among the wagons, even those who had never dared to speak back or disobey in the least particular. |
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| 13 | 127 |
While near Kutaituchik's wagon, on the dais, he also conferred with several other high men among the Tuchuks. |
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| 13 | 142 |
Among the animals I saw many verr; some domestic tarsks, their tusks sheathed; cages of flapping vulos, some sleen, some kaiila, even some bosk; by the Paravaci haruspexes I saw manacled male slaves, if such were to be permitted; commonly, I understood from Kamchak, the Tuchuks, Kassars and Kataii r... |
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| 13 | 177 |
Clerks, with parchment scrolls, were circulating among the altars, presumably, I would guess, noting the names of haruspexes, their peoples, and their findings. |
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| 14 | 31 |
Among these but to no Ten or Hundred did Kamchak ride. |
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| 14 | 55 |
Among the wagons the tarnsmen would have found only slaves, women and children, but not a wagon had been burned or looted. |
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| 14 | 57 |
A few arrows from those who followed us looped weakly up after them, falling then among the wagons. |
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| 14 | 80 |
I saw here and there, among the rugs and polished wood bristling with white arrows, overturned boxes, loose jewels scattered, torn robes and tapestries. |
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| 15 | 48 |
The afternoon among the wagons was a busy one, for they were preparing to move. |
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| 15 | 99 |
* * * * I searched among the wagons long before I found, sitting cross-legged beneath a wagon, wrapped in a worn bosk robe, his weapons at hand folded in leather, the young man whose name was Harold, the blond-haired, blue-eyed fellow who had been so victimized by Hereena, she of the First Wagon, wh... |
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| 16 | 141 |
It was he who had hurled the quiva at me among the wagons, who would have been my assassin save for the sudden flicker of a shadow on a lacquered board. |
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| 16 | 159 |
"Let there be no ill will among friends". |
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| 16 | 162 |
"I would introduce our hooded friend," explained Saphrar, "but even I do not know his name nor face—only that he stands high among the Paravaci and accordingly has been of great use to me". |
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| 16 | 197 |
"Among friends," said Saphrar, "perhaps we can speak frankly, particularly seeing that the tales we tell will not be retold. |
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| 16 | 243 |
"Also, I was certain there could not have been two among the Tuchuks with hair such as yours". |
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| 16 | 314 |
The matter of the message collar had been a clever way of attempting to gain that end but, because of the shrewdness of Tuchuks, who seldom take anything at its face value, it had failed; they had then attempted to bring me down among the wagons with a Paravaci quiva, but that, too, had failed; I gr... |
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| 18 | 83 |
There, quiva in hand, uttering the war cry of Ko-ro-ba, feet first, I leaped from the framework and shattered through the blue surface landing among my startled enemies. |
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| 19 | 15 |
"You are aware, of course," I mentioned, "that the Pleasure Gardens of so rich a man as Saphrar of Turia may contain a large number of female slaves—not all of whom might be trusted to keep silent—and some of whom will undoubtedly notice something as unusual as two strange warriors wan... |
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| 19 | 37 |
Besides the trees there were numerous shrubs and plantings, almost all flowered, sometimes fantastically; among the trees and the colored grasses there wound curved, shaded walks. |
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| 19 | 61 |
I then followed Harold along one of the smooth, stone paths leading among the trees, brushing our way through the clusters of blossoms, skirting the edge of the nearer blue pool. |
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| 19 | 63 |
They were beautiful shining among the green and white blossoms on the water. |
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| 19 | 80 |
I had not kept count but we must have passed by more than seven or eight hundred girls, and still, among all these riches of Saphrar, he could not seem to find the one for which he searched. |
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| 20 | 162 |
Risking arrows, I, followed by Harold, descended to alight among the wagons. |
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| 21 | 49 |
As I hobbled through the city of Turia, one eye half shut, staring at the street as though I hoped to find a lost copper tarn disk among the stones, I made my way toward the compound of Saphrar of Turia. |
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| 21 | 100 |
Then I realized that I had heard it among the wagons of the Tuchuks. |
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| 22 | 60 |
Indeed it was true, for the next level beneath a Ubar among the Wagon Peoples is that of the Commander of a Thousand. |
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| 22 | 110 |
I saw among them Kamras, Champion of Turia, and another, on Kamchak's right hand, a heavy, swollen, despondent man, who could only have been Phanius Turmus himself. |
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| 22 | 118 |
Sometimes one of the serving girls would be seized by an ankle or arm and dragged screaming to the cushions among the tables, much to the amusement of the men and the Tuchuk girls. |
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| 23 | 21 |
He did not, on the other hand, approve of the fact that the raid had taken place during the Omen Year, which is a time of general truce among the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 23 | 56 |
Hundreds of the wagons were burning and fighting was taking place among them. |
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| 23 | 60 |
I knew that in little more than fifteen or twenty Ehn his forces would be lost, dissipated among the wagons, and yet surely the Paravaci must be met and fought there as well as on the prairie. |
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| 23 | 68 |
In an instant we were embroiled among angry men—the half-formed, disorganized Hundreds of the Paravaci—striking to the left and right, shouting the war cry of the Tuchuks. |
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| 23 | 73 |
Among the bosk I ordered my men to rest. |
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| 23 | 86 |
That night I met with Harold, whose men had been fighting among the wagons. |
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| 23 | 87 |
He had cleared several areas of Paravaci but they were still, here and there, among the wagons. |
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| 23 | 99 |
Harold and I determined to appear to meet the Paravaci in the open—before the wagons—and then, when they charged, to withdraw among the wagons, and close the wagons on their attacking front, halting the charge, then at almost point-blank range hopefully taking heavy toll of their force... |
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| 23 | 101 |
The battle was joined at the seventh Gorean hour and, as planned, as soon as the Paravaci center was committed, the bulk of our forces wheeled and retreated among the wagons, the rest of our forces then turning and pushing the wagons together. |
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| 23 | 152 |
And even the sky seemed dark for a moment as, from the left and right, thousands upon thousands of arrows fell like dark rain among the startled, stumbling, turning Paravaci. |
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| 23 | 181 |
"Those that pleased us—both of goods and women," remarked Conrad, "we carried off—of goods that did not please us, we burned them—of women that did not please us, we left them stripped and weeping among the wagons". |
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| 23 | 182 |
"This will mean war," I said, "for many years among the Wagon Peoples". |
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| 23 | 190 |
In the morning the warriors remaining of the two Thousands who had ridden with Harold and I would, with the help of other Tuchuks surviving among the wagons, move the wagons and the bosk from the field. |
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| 24 | 12 |
I knew that Kamchak was in constant touch, by means of riders, with the wagons of the Tuchuks, and so I did not speak with him of the looting of his wagon, nor of the fate of Aphris of Turia, nor did I deem it well to speak to him of Elizabeth Cardwell, for it seemed evident that he had sold her, an... |
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| 24 | 138 |
He added, "Your own wagon, you will be pleased to hear, was among the wagons untouched by the Paravaci—as was mine". |
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| 24 | 174 |
Muttering I jerked loose the reins of my kaiila from the column to which I had tethered it, leaped to the saddle and raced after Harold, not wishing to be left behind somewhere in the streets of Turia or among the dark wagons beyond the gate, pounding on wagon after wagon to find which one might be ... |
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| 25 | 633 |
Then she bent to find for herself among the riches of the wagon yellow Pleasure Silks. |
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| 26 | 191 |
We have need of such men among the wagons". |
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| 26 | 438 |
He added, "It was wise of them, for the Wagon Peoples are among the farthest and most fierce of the Goreans, living free hundreds of pasangs from all cities, save Turia". |
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| 27 | 16 |
As a matter of course various goods and riches were heaped about his throne, and among them, as part of the booty, there knelt some of the most beautiful of Turia's maidens, clad only in the Sirik, but at his right knee, unchained and clad Kajir, there knelt Aphris of Turia. |
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| 27 | 50 |
Behind them were some others, among whom I saw Albrecht of the Kassars, and behind him, to my astonishment, clad in brief leather, not collared, was Tenchika, who held a small bundle tied in cloth in her right hand. |
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| 28 | 7 |
There were several people gathered about, near the wagon of Kamchak, among them Tuka's master, and the girl herself. |
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| 28 | 11 |
There shortly thereafter followed a vigorous and dusty broil among the wagons, involving much rolling about, biting, slapping, scratching and, from time to time, the easily identified sound of a small fist, apparently moving with considerable momentum, meeting with various partially resistant, proto... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 29 |
It might be mentioned that the game, as I shall speak of it, for in Gorean it has no other designation, is extremely popular on Gor, and even children find among their playthings the pieces of the game; there are numerous clubs and competitions among various castes and cylinders; careful records of ... |
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| 5 | 608 |
Then, whistling, Al-Ka would pull the wagon out of the grove and Elizabeth would be on her way to Thentis, for delivery to the House of Clark, only another slave girl, naked and chained, perhaps lovelier than most but yet scarcely to be noticed among the many others, each day, delivered to so large ... |
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| 7 | 56 |
It dropped among the peaks and, moving delicately among the rocks, neared our shelf. |
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| 9 | 26 |
It is a great mark of prestige among slave girls to be selected for sale from the great block in the Curulean, and girls tend to compete viciously among themselves for this honor. |
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| 17 | 225 |
Strangely, with perhaps one exception, each of the Hinrabians had had his throat cut, even the women; this was unusual, for the women of a captive caravan, regarded as portions of its booty, are almost always enslaved; the one Hinrabian whose body was not found among the dead, scattered on the plain... |
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| 19 | 173 |
It was perhaps the plainest of all the barbarians who had been brought on the black ships; though I knew the girl to be among the most intelligent, and also, I had heard, among the most responsive. |
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| 24 | 53 |
"Was a girl named Nela," I asked, "of the Pool of Blue Flowers, among the agents of Marlenus?" "She was chief among them," said Hup. |
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| 1 | 20 |
He was surprised for, judging from the colors of the garments of those who marched, it contained men of many castes, perhaps all castes of the city, only that he did not see among them the white of the Caste of Initiates. |
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| 1 | 91 |
There are several such factions, who control the racing and compete among themselves, the greens, the reds, the golds, the yellows, the silvers. |
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| 2 | 51 |
From where she knelt she could see the low-hanging tharlarion oil lamps of the main portion of the paga tavern, the men, the girls in silk who, in a moment, belled, would move among them, replenishing the paga. |
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| 2 | 178 |
Kazrak, who had been Administrator of the City for several years, had finally been deposed, largely due to the agitations of certain factions among the Initiates and Merchants, who had had their various grievances against the Administrator. |
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| 2 | 184 |
It was from this time that Kazrak might clearly have been said, particularly among the lower castes, to have lost the confidence of the city. |
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| 2 | 185 |
He was further in danger by virtue of his controlling measures restricting certain monopolies important to certain factions among the Merchants, in particular those having to do with the manufacture of bricks, and the distribution of salt and tharlarion oil. |
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| 2 | 186 |
He had further imposed restrictions on the games and contests of Ar, such that the loss of life had become infrequent, even among competing slaves. |
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| 2 | 194 |
The new Administrator of Ar was a man named Minus Tentius Hinrabius, an unimportant man except for being of the Hinrabian family, prominent among the Builders, having the major holdings in the vast, walled Hinrabian kilns, where much of Ar's brick is produced. |
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| 2 | 199 |
It is not well to walk among the cylinders after dark without torches and steel". |
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| 3 | 14 |
As I could I put these thoughts from my mind, but I could not fully escape them, for among them was the memory of a girl, she, Talena, the daughter of the Ubar of Ubars, Marlenus, who so many years before had been the Free Companion of a simple Warrior of Ko-ro-ba, he who had been torn from her at t... |
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| 3 | 52 |
Further, there is a harsh competition among themselves, for positions in certain streets and on certain bridges. |
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| 3 | 54 |
These positions, or territories, are allotted by the outcome of games among the Players themselves. |
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| 3 | 68 |
At any rate, disease is now almost unknown among the Gorean cities, with the exception of the dreaded Dar-Kosis disease, or the Holy Disease, research on which is generally frowned upon by the Caste of Initiates, who insist the disease is a visitation of the displeasure of Priest-Kings on its recipi... |
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| 3 | 100 |
Players, when playing among themselves, with men of equal strength, frequently play for a draw when they do not have the first move. |
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| 3 | 128 |
He was actually quite skilled, and would have played well among even gifted Goreans, to whom the game is almost second nature, but he was not of Player caliber, by far. |
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| 3 | 188 |
"Do you wish to reconsider your last move?" he asked, offering a rare concession among players of the game, and one I had never expected the Vintner, from what I had seen of him, to offer. |
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| 4 | 133 |
I was gambling on the unpleasant sense of humor not uncommonly found among slavers. |
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| 4 | 179 |
The ponderous bosk, on which the Wagon Peoples live, among which are numbered the Kassars and the Tuchuks, also wear such rings, but there, of course, the ring is much larger and heavier. |
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| 4 | 239 |
I then began to suspect that my gamble, based on the often unpleasant sense of humor common among slavers, might begin to bear fruit. |
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| 5 | 160 |
I looked on that great golden head and its two large, circular, disklike eyes, compound, and the light seemed to flicker among the multilensed surfaces. |
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| 5 | 202 |
"She was not among those who returned to the city," came from Misk's translator. |
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| 5 | 228 |
Also, in the Nest, I met the male, who had no name, no more than the Mother has a name among the Priest-King kind. |
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| 5 | 296 |
"There is controversy among Priest-Kings," Kusk remarked, "as to whether or not humans should be taught to read". |
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| 5 | 353 |
We have noted that among the Others who have been settled on Gor there has been, once out of the ship, a degeneration of interrelated roles, resulting in anarchy until the institution of authority resting on superior strength and fear". |
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| 5 | 505 |
We crossed the partially rebuilt walls, Elizabeth and I, and found ourselves among cylinders, many of which were in the process of reconstruction. |
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| 5 | 531 |
A number of people had gathered about, among them several free women. |
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| 5 | 585 |
I do not know whether or not Elizabeth's continued presence in Ko-ro-ba would have initiated a revolution among the city's free women or not. |
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| 5 | 612 |
Month names differ, unfortunately, from city to city, but, among the civilized cities, there are four months, associated with the equinoxes and solstices, and the great fairs at the Sardar, which do have common names, the months of En'Kara, or En'Kara-Lar-Torvis; En'Var, or En'var-Lar-Torvis; Se'Kar... |
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| 5 | 667 |
I then illustrated, she cooperating, several other common knots, among them the Karian anchor knot, the Pin hitch, the double Pin hitch, the Builder's bend and the Builder's overhand. |
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| 6 | 6 |
"These men are the champions among male slaves at hook knife," said Cernus. |
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| 7 | 1 |
The Ship I could see the black disk now, moving swiftly, but not at great altitude, passing among the night clouds, under the three moons of Gor. |
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| 7 | 121 |
Among them was a high-powered rifle with telescopic sights. |
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| 7 | 139 |
There was a large quantity of this gold, perhaps forty squares, which were distributed among the four tarn baskets remaining on the ledge. |
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| 7 | 185 |
I turned and observed the black disk, which had now silently lifted itself from the rocky ledge and was moving horizontally away, vanishing among the peaks of the Voltai. |
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| 9 | 131 |
She will be revived at the height of the Ubar's victory feast, commonly to find herself unclothed in a cage of male slaves set up among the tables". |
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| 10 | 41 |
She will be numbered among those in the first set". |
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| 11 | 23 |
Mating among slaves is carefully supervised. |
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| 12 | 94 |
The differences among these tarns are not simply in the training, which does differ, but in the size, strength, build and tendencies of the bird. |
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| 13 | 101 |
In a secluded place, among the planted grasses and ferns, sheltered from view, I had lifted Nela from the pool and placed her on a large piece of orange toweling on the grass, near which I had left my clothes and pouch. |
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| 13 | 280 |
Perhaps it had been preserved as an act of sentiment, for such is not unknown among the partisans of the factions. |
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| 13 | 305 |
Mip took his tarn streaking among the cylinders and I, on my tarn, followed him. |
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| 15 | 95 |
Usually those most skilled with this set of weapons are from the shore and islands of distant, gleaming Thassa, the sea, where they doubtless originally developed among fishermen. |
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| 15 | 120 |
These girls, under the instructions of Cernus, were extremely deferential, save that they were continually to amuse themselves at the prisoner's expense, making sport of her shaved head, laughing and joking about it among themselves. |
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| 15 | 171 |
Indeed, sometimes the girls would be forced to compete among themselves, with small candies as prizes, and each would find herself, to her subsequent horror, striving eagerly to outdo the others, that it might be she to whom Sura would throw the sugared pellet. |
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| 15 | 182 |
In the third week, the education became somewhat more subtle and Flaminius visited the girls for their training hours, and discussed, with ingenious subtlety, first in English and then in Gorean, certain views of history, of natural right, of orders of human beings and of relations among the sexes. |
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| 16 | 217 |
Further, it is common among older factions not to hire riders who have ridden for the new factions, though sometimes, in the case of a particularly excellent rider, this practice is waived. |
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| 16 | 231 |
Throughout the stands, startling those multitudes, unsettling the other birds being drawn by the horned tharlarion on the low carts, there was heard the sudden shrill, ringing challenge scream of a tarn, unhooded, a giant tarn, black, a wild mountain cry of one of Gor's fiercest, most beautiful pred... |
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| 17 | 144 |
The duel for the lead in racing hung suspended among three factions, the Greens, the Yellows and the Steels, the new faction. |
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| 17 | 157 |
Condemned criminals and men of low caste, fighting for gold or freedom in the arena, he treated with the harsh courtesies obtaining among sword brothers. |
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| 17 | 789 |
I had played the game often and was considered, even among skilled Goreans, an excellent player; yet I found myself fighting for my life with my beautiful, excited opponent. |
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| 17 | 796 |
Also, of course, had I not even known her I would have supposed her a remarkable person, for she was said to be the finest trainer of girls in the city of Ar, and that honor, dubious though it might be, would not be likely to have been achieved without considerable gifts, and among them most certain... |
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| 19 | 8 |
These games are among the most heavily attended and important of the year. |
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| 19 | 122 |
Among the crowd, though it was predominantly male, there were, as I might have mentioned, several women, perhaps one in ten or fifteen; many of these were doubtless rich, and of High Caste; some of them were probably interested in picking up a serving slave; kettle wenches, so to speak, would probab... |
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| 19 | 266 |
She was a woman who could well have stood among the most marvelous of Gor. |
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| 19 | 371 |
I would not admit to myself, even in speculation, that such a fate might befall the helpless prizes now upon the block of Ar, years of miserable, unrelieved servitude, to live at the beck and call of masters among the most cruel of Gor, existing only to give pleasure to one to whom they would be alw... |
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| 20 | 22 |
I felt now in my plight that I had betrayed not only Elizabeth, and the other girls, and the Priest-Kings, but perhaps allies even unknown to me, among them perhaps Relius, Ho-Sorl, Sura, others. |
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| 21 | 264 |
In a moment I fought surrounded by Taurentians, said to be among the finest in the guard. |
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| 21 | 295 |
Indeed, the Torian Squares, which I have mentioned, common among Gorean infantries, with their superior mobility and regrouping capacities, had, long ago, made the phalanxes of such cities as Ar and, in the south, Turia, obsolete. |
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| 21 | 298 |
Yet, in the day of the tharlarion and tarn, one still finds, among infantries, the Torian Square; the phalanx, though its impact could be exceeded only by the tharlarion wedge or line, is now unknown, except for a defensive relic known as the Wall, in which massed infantry remains stationary, heroic... |
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| 21 | 300 |
I backed among the bodies of the fallen Taurentians. |
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| 21 | 391 |
Among them, shouting orders, were dozens of men, apparently of all castes, each with a scarf of silk of imperial purple wrapped about his left arm. |
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| 21 | 392 |
Murmillius and I stepped back and, among the bodies, Relius, Ho-Sorl and Ho-Tu, standing to one side, regarded one another. |
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| 22 | 338 |
The strike was made doubtless from the back of a racing tarn, a small swift tarn, maneuverable, darting among the bridges". |
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| 22 | 352 |
Then the bird threw back its head and opened its wings, and, eyes gleaming, as though among the crags of the Thentis Range or the Voltai, uttered the challenge scream of the Mountain Tarn, shrill, wild, defiant, piercing. |
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| 22 | 369 |
"There are those of ours among the tiers". |
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| 22 | 397 |
The small bow, interestingly, has never been used among tarnsmen; perhaps this is because the kaiila is almost unknown above the equator, and the lesson of kaiilaback fighting has not been much available to them; perhaps it is because of tradition, which weighs heavily in Gorean life, and even in mi... |
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| 22 | 399 |
Some of the riders of the Steels, I recalled, seeing it among the belongings of Gladius of Cos, had jested with me about it, asking if it were a toy, or perhaps a training bow for a child; these men, of course, had never, on kaiilaback, and it is just as well for them, met Tuchuks. |
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| 23 | 203 |
I saw on the part of a body lying among the bones the chain and medallion of Cernus, now stained with blood, the tarn, gold, slave chains in its talons. |
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| 24 | 27 |
I thought of the magnificent Marlenus, swift, brilliant, decisive, stubborn, vain, proud, a master swordsman, a tarnsman, a leader like a larl among men, always to those of Ar the Ubar of Ubars. |
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| 24 | 29 |
Marlenus was like a god and a beast among men, inspiring the most fanatic loyalties, the most intense of enmities. |
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| 24 | 76 |
These things, together with the dissatisfaction of men with the governance of the city and the safety of their homes, coupled with the memories of Ar's greatness when Marlenus had worn the medallion of supreme office, of Ar's splendor when she had stood in his day feared, foremost, magnificent and g... |
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| 24 | 226 |
I remember among this business arose the matter of more than one hundred exotic slaves from the House of Cernus, the white-robed girls who had been raised without the knowledge of the existence of men. |
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| 24 | 242 |
"She stands high among the Physicians of the city," he said. |
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| 24 | 304 |
"It was clear months ago that Cernus would attempt to market the girls, among other barbarians, on the Love Feast in the Curulean". |
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| 24 | 394 |
I stood before him, and looked into the eyes of Marlenus, that larl among men, Ubar of Ar, he, Ubar of Ubars. |
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| 8 | 294 |
As I walked back, from barge to barge, I walked as well among bound rencers, heaped and tied like fish among the benches of slaves. |
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| 11 | 573 |
"Antisthenes is wise," I said, "and understands the risks involved, but many of the words Samos has addressed to us seem to me sound and true, and chief among them his assertion that it should be a captain who conducts this mission, for how else could we so easily prove the seriousness of our intent... |
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| 1 | 11 |
It was difficult to see more than a few feet ahead; sometimes I could see no further than the lifted prow of my small craft, as it nosed its way among the rushes and the frequent rence plants. |
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| 1 | 32 |
Peasants, incidentally, are seldom, except in emergencies, utilized in the armed forces of a city; this is a further reason why their weapon, the long bow, is less known in the cities, and among warriors, than it deserves to be. |
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| 1 | 60 |
The most important reason for not finding a guide, of course, even among the eastern rence growers, is that the delta is claimed by Port Kar, which lies within it, some hundred pasangs from its northwestern edge, bordering on the shallow Tamber Gulf, beyond which is gleaming Thassa, the Sea. |
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| 2 | 5 |
It is not a boomerang, which would be largely useless among the sedges and rushes, but it would, of course, float, and might be recovered and used indefinitely. |
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| 2 | 19 |
Rep is a whitish fibrous matter found in the seed pods of a small, reddish, woody bush, commercially grown in several areas, but particularly below Ar and above the equator; the cheap rep-cloth is woven in mills, commonly, in various cities; it takes dyes well and, being cheap and strong, is popular... |
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| 3 | 12 |
I had heard there had not been general hostilities among rence growers for more than fifty years; their communities are normally isolated from one another, and they have enough to worry about contending with "tax collectors" from Port Kar, without bothering to give much attention to making life mise... |
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| 3 | 19 |
My ankles had been unbound only long enough to push me stumbling from the rush craft, among the shouting women and men and children, to the throne of Ho-Hak. |
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| 3 | 28 |
Now, years later, he had come to a position of authority among them. |
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| 3 | 106 |
The women of rence growers, when in their own marshes, do not veil themselves, as is common among Gorean women, particularly of the cities. |
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| 3 | 139 |
Then Ho-Hak took, from among the arrows on the mat, the leather bracer and fastened it about his left forearm, that the arm not be lacerated by the string, and took the small tab as well, putting the first and second fingers of his right hand through, that in drawing the string the flesh might not b... |
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| 3 | 144 |
The arrow seemed lost, as though among the clouds, and so far was it that it seemed vanished in its falling. |
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| 5 | 174 |
Then the other girls, too, began to join her, and at last even the shiest among them moved pounding, and stamping and turning about the circle. |
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| 6 | 8 |
A woman was screaming among the refuse of the feast. |
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| 6 | 26 |
Suddenly there fell among us a rain of crossbow bolts. |
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| 6 | 41 |
I heard then from another side of the island as well the terrifying cry, "Nets, nets!" Then, as we milled and ran, here and there among us were men of Port Kar, warriors, some with helmet and shield, sword and spear, others with club and knife, others with whips, some with capture loops, some with c... |
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| 6 | 42 |
Among them ran slaves, carrying torches, that they might see to their work. |
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| 6 | 53 |
My arm about Telima's shoulder, I moved her away, losing ourselves among the shouting rencers, the running men and women. |
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| 6 | 103 |
From time to time a warrior would add further booty to this catch, dragging or throwing his capture rudely among the others. |
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| 6 | 106 |
Among these I saw the tall, gray-eyed girl, weeping and pulling at her bonds. |
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| 7 | 1 |
I Will Hunt Lost among the rushes and sedge, out in the darkness of the marsh, some hundred yards from the rence islands, two of which were burning, Telima, bound, and I, a garland of rence flowers bloodied in my hair, watched the movement of torches, listened to the shouts of men, the screams of wo... |
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| 7 | 138 |
Before I left I noted, among the broken rence and other paraphernalia, some throwing sticks and such, the tunic of rence cloth which she had slipped off before me the night previously, before commanding me to serve her pleasure, before we had heard the cry "Slavers!" I picked it up and carried it, w... |
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| 7 | 204 |
"And among my weapons," I said, "bring me the great bow, with its arrows". |
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| 8 | 58 |
The shaft, at the distance, passed completely through his body, flashing beyond him and vanishing among the rushes and sedges in the distance. |
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| 8 | 69 |
Telima, silently, poled us back further among the rushes, skillfully turning the small craft and moving again toward the last barge. |
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| 8 | 70 |
As we silently moved among the growths of the marsh we heard the wild cries of men, and the screaming of the girl bound to the prow, until, by a whip slave, she was lashed to silence. |
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| 8 | 144 |
When the rence craft was lost, some hundred yards from the barges, among the reeds and sedge, I had her secure the craft. |
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| 8 | 170 |
* * * * I awakened stiff in the cold of the marsh dawn, hearing the movement of the wind through the dim sedges, the cries of an occasional marsh gant darting among the rushes. |
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| 8 | 250 |
It was also possible that they had eventually realized that boarders were not among them or, if they had been, were no longer, but they did not wish to remain trapped in the marsh, to fall victim to thirst, or the string-flung arrows of the yellow bow. |
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| 8 | 285 |
Again the slaves, chained at their benches, facing the stern of each barge, did not so much as move as I passed among them. |
10 |
| 8 | 296 |
None recognized the warrior who walked among them. |
10 |
| 8 | 321 |
I am one man armed and strong among many chained and bound. |
10 |
| 8 | 400 |
"Find among the bound slaves, the rencers," I said, "the one who is called Ho-Hak". |
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| 8 | 484 |
"Take him away!" I ordered Thurnock and Clitus, and they dragged Ho-Hak from my presence, taking him back somewhere on the second barge, among other bound slaves. |
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| 9 | 56 |
It was well known among the pirate captains of Port Kar, scourge of gleaming Thassa. |
10 |
| 9 | 72 |
There was a girl's scream and, from the alcove into which Surbus had dragged her, the girl, bleeding, fled among the tables, he plunging drunken after her. |
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| 9 | 192 |
It is mine as much as yours!" It would be hard, certainly, for her to leave this world, beautiful, bright and green, but perilous, for the cities of Earth, to breathe again its air, to live in its cubicles, to move jostled among her uncaring crowds, to lose herself again in its mercantile grayness, ... |
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| 9 | 220 |
They fought in the square of sand among the tables. |
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| 9 | 229 |
"Kill him!" But the other fellow, drunk and bleeding, to great laughter among the tables, stumbled backwards, turned, and fell unconscious. |
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| 9 | 231 |
"Kill him!" But the other man, bleeding, shaking his head, had now crawled from the patch of sand and now, some yards off, had collapsed among the tables, quite as unconscious as the first. |
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| 9 | 246 |
Then she was among the tables, her slave body glistening, sensuous and swaying. |
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| 9 | 507 |
Somewhere I heard the squealing and thrashing of two of the giant urts fighting in the water, among the floating garbage. |
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| 9 | 515 |
Here and there some lay among the tables, their tunics soiled with paga. |
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| 10 | 26 |
The Weight and the Stone, incidentally, are standardized throughout the Gorean cities by Merchant Law, the only common body of law existing among the cities. |
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| 10 | 68 |
He may have seen me that night, among the rencers on the island, but he did not place me, one who now sat on the Council of the Captains of Port Kar. |
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| 10 | 135 |
The following figures pertain to medium class or larger vessels: The five Ubars of Port Kar, Chung, Eteocles, Nigel, Sullius Maximus and Henrius Sevarius, control among themselves some four hundred ships. |
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| 10 | 212 |
My four commercial voyages had been among the exchange islands, or free islands, in Thassa, administered as free ports by members of the Merchants. |
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| 10 | 214 |
Three, which I encountered frequently in my voyages, were Teletus, and, south of it, Tabor, named for the drum, which it resembles, and, to the north, among the northern islands, Scagnar. |
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| 11 | 157 |
If so, they might control, among themselves, a force of about one hundred and fifty ships, most of which were still at sea. |
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| 11 | 365 |
"Further," said Samos, "I propose that the council decree that all bonds among clients and patrons in Port Kar be now dissolved, to be reestablished only on the basis of mutual consent and explicit contract on the part of the parties involved, which documents, in copy, are to be placed with the coun... |
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| 11 | 434 |
"As you know," said Samos, speaking evenly, "Port Kar is not the most loved, nor the most greatly respected nor highest honored among the cities of Gor". |
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| 11 | 441 |
"Would it not be trebled if we were accounted, among Gorean cities, a city of love, of peace?" There was a guffaw of laughter at this, and men pounded the arms of the curule chairs. |
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| 11 | 508 |
The captains murmured among themselves. |
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| 11 | 516 |
It then seemed to me, so simply, that there was for the first time the possibility of peace on Thassa, among her three major Ubarates. |
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| 11 | 563 |
"It only seems to me," said I, "that so single an honor, and a role so weighty, ought to be reserved for one more august than I, indeed, for he who is most prominent among us, one who could truly negotiate on equal footing with the Ubars of powers so mighty as those of Cos and Tyros". |
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| 11 | 566 |
There was laughter among the chairs. |
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| 13 | 162 |
A man stepped from among a group of robed dignitaries, standing to one side of the Ubars' thrones. |
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| 13 | 219 |
It had rained the night before and, here and there, there were puddles among the stones of the street. |
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| 13 | 310 |
We were passing a water skin about among us. |
10 |
| 14 | 15 |
It is common among Gorean seamen to beach their craft in the evening, set watches, make camp, and launch again in the morning. |
10 |
| 14 | 203 |
Of the twelve ships in my diversion, five were my fastest and seven were among the fastest in the arsenal. |
10 |
| 14 | 285 |
Two had been permitted to escape, and one lay, even now, penned in among the round ships. |
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| 14 | 301 |
Round ships, like ram-ships, differ among themselves considerably. |
10 |
| 14 | 314 |
Penned in among the twenty-three round ships was a long galley, a purple ship, flying the purple flag of Cos. |
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| 14 | 356 |
"Surely enough," said he, "to make us all among the richest of men!" "More wisely spent," said I, "these goods would go to increase the arsenal fleet of Port Kar". |
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| 14 | 407 |
"Take then those that were with her," I said, "and distribute them to the extent of their number among our other ships, the twenty most beautiful to our twenty tarn ships now with the fleet, and the most beautiful of that twenty to the prow of the Dorna, and the other twenty set at the prows of twen... |
10 |
| 14 | 455 |
Beyond this, I will give you, from among our prisoners, ten free men, six seamen, two helmsmen, an oar-master and a keleustes. |
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| 15 | 12 |
There are the fools, and there are the wise, and I could now surely, perhaps for the first time, count myself securely among the latter. |
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| 15 | 20 |
Near me, chief among my prizes, exposed to the crowds, their hootings and jeerings, bound on the prow, ankles and wrists, neck and belly, like a common slave girl, was the Lady Vivina, who was to have been the Ubara of Cos. |
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| 15 | 41 |
I stood among the falling flowers, my hand lifted to the crowds. |
10 |
| 15 | 377 |
She was thus imprisoned among them, each holding a thong that bound her. |
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| 15 | 478 |
I saw the slave boy, Fish, among them. |
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| 15 | 480 |
She had been chief among my prizes. |
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| 15 | 482 |
They had been beautiful, in silver throat coffle, their wrists bound behind their backs in golden slave bracelets, kneeling as pleasure slaves among the jewels, the piled gold, and the heaps of silk and kegs of spices. |
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| 15 | 510 |
Perhaps I should distribute them among my officers, or give them to my men. |
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| 16 | 29 |
In that overcrowded desert of hypocrisies and hysterical, meaningless violences, she would surely wither and blacken, like some rare and beautiful plant of the marshes uprooted and thrust down among stones to die. |
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| 17 | 265 |
Treve is a bandit city, high among the crags of the larl-prowled Voltai. |
10 |
| 17 | 270 |
The men of Treve are said to be among the proudest and most ruthless on Gor. |
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| 18 | 12 |
Men ran to signal ships among the reserves, that they might draw toward our engaged fleet, recalling it. |
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| 18 | 148 |
We took the shuddering bird down among the trees. |
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| 18 | 395 |
I had friends among other girls in the house, who were also much free, though not as free as I. |
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| 18 | 420 |
The girls among whom I had been first would no longer even condescend to speak to me. |
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| 18 | 516 |
Telima had found it among my belongings, and had brought it to the keep, that it might be waiting for me there. |
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| 18 | 742 |
I would let her remain there for two days without food and water, in among the gold and the jewels. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 370 |
I recollected with satisfaction my witnessing of the captivity of Verna, the panther girl, but I recollected with much less satisfaction what had occurred in the slave wagon, when Inge had so decisively bested me; when I had learned that she could beat me, if she pleased, and would, should it please... |
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| 13 | 814 |
Among such riches, I, Elinor Brinton, realized that to such a man, a warrior, a tarnsman among tarnsmen, I was of little account, only another girl and perhaps a poor sort of one at that. |
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| 1 | 11 |
Women, among other goods, are acquired and brought to the markets of this strange world. |
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| 4 | 21 |
I stood among them. |
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| 6 | 45 |
Here, among the rocks, I found a tiny pool of rain water. |
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| 6 | 253 |
I regarded myself as a fantastically beautiful woman, one among perhaps tens of thousands. |
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| 6 | 420 |
The other girls, I among them, laughed. |
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| 6 | 436 |
But I was Elinor Brinton, of Park Avenue, of Earth! She had been rich, beautiful, smartly attired, tasteful, sophisticated; she had been well educated and traveled; she had been decisive, confident; she had carried her wealth and her beauty with élan; and she had deserved her position in society;... |
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| 7 | 90 |
Lana, Ute and Inge had, of course, been among them. |
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| 7 | 157 |
None of us wished to be unclothed among others clothed, that we, nude, might seem more the slave than they. |
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| 7 | 256 |
My two favorites among the girls were Ute and Inge, who was of the scribes. |
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| 7 | 391 |
The girls from the other wagon, ahead of us, Lana among them, were already on the grass, looking. |
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| 8 | 496 |
I suddenly realized, climbing the ramps of Laura toward the compound, leashed, under guard, carrying a jar of wine on my head, balancing it with my right hand, among my sisters in bondage, breathing the fantastic air of Gor, that I was happy. |
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| 8 | 504 |
Sometimes I would be pleased when, among the other girls, they would throw me their leather or sandals to clean. |
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| 8 | 539 |
I returned to my work, Elinor Brinton, one slave girl among others, primitively washing the clothes of masters at the edge of that swift stream on a beautiful, distant world. |
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| 8 | 563 |
I loved its ramps going down to the river and winding among the warehouses, the painted, carved wood on its buildings, the black shingles, the smell of bosk on the ramps and the creak of wagons, the smell of fish and salt, and glistening tharlarion, from the river, the smell of hides and fur, and sa... |
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| 8 | 606 |
His older girls, among whom I numbered myself, were excellent goods. |
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| 8 | 897 |
They were among my favorites. |
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| 8 | 1168 |
I stood as only a bound slave among them. |
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| 9 | 85 |
"We do not accept slave girls among the women of the forest," said Verna proudly. |
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| 9 | 154 |
Again the metal and leather collar slid shut on my throat, and, with a gasp of anguish, wrists bound behind my back, not permitted clothing, I followed at my tether, not as they, the proud women of the forest, but only as I could be among them, Kajira. |
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| 9 | 209 |
Among such women I could be but the object of their scorn, what they despised most, only Kajira. |
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| 9 | 210 |
And among them I felt myself to be only Kajira, one fit to be tethered and led, scorned as an insult to the beauty and magnificence of their sex. |
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| 9 | 225 |
They contain great numbers of various species of trees, and different portions of the forests may differ considerably among themselves. |
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| 9 | 338 |
She was not other than they, but first among them! She danced savagely, clad only in her gold and beauty, beneath the moons. |
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| 9 | 342 |
She danced first among them, their leader. |
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| 11 | 146 |
The last of the girls, her ears pierced, fled from the low, wooden platform, running to crouch among us, weeping, at the wall. |
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| 11 | 239 |
He threw me, half stumbling, into the wall, among the other girls. |
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| 11 | 343 |
In the evening, at the private pens, we were fed well and our group, myself, Ute, Inge and Lana, were among those groups given pastries following their meal. |
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| 11 | 591 |
We were pierced-ear girls, among the most exciting of slaves. |
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| 11 | 1005 |
On the other hand, there is a Gorean saying, not voiced I suppose before free women, but heard among men, that all women are slaves, and it is merely that not all of them are in collars. |
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| 11 | 1093 |
Targo, as I knew, had fled into a Ka-la-na thicket with his men, saving his gold and nineteen of his girls, Inge, Ute and Lana among them. |
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| 11 | 1105 |
It lay somewhere among the lofty, vast terrains of the rugged Voltai, perhaps as much a fortress, a lair, of outlaw tarnsmen as a city. |
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| 12 | 120 |
Here and there, among the wagons, leashed, clad in short woolen skirts, heavy bands of iron hammered about their throats, under the guard of huntsmen, cowled in the heads of forest panthers, there walked male slaves, male outlaws captured by Marlenus and his hunters in the forest. |
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| 12 | 123 |
The other girls, too, watched excitedly, all of them coming to my side of the wagon, wedging among us, lifting up the rain canvas, peeping out. |
10 |
| 12 | 206 |
I lay twisted among the other girls, chained. |
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| 12 | 237 |
Almost immediately I sensed the shift of power in the wagon, among the girls. |
10 |
| 12 | 581 |
In training I, and the others, among many other things, had been accustomed to being secured, fastened, bound, in a variety of fashions. |
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| 12 | 658 |
Tarnsmen now struck the earth, leaping from their birds, to the east of the wagon square and, swords drawn, rushed among the burning wagons. |
10 |
| 12 | 680 |
More warriors dismounted now and rushed among the wagons. |
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| 12 | 722 |
In moments her garments flutter down among the towers and she is his, bound on her back across the saddle before him, his prize. |
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| 13 | 322 |
I slipped from the soft, gentle, green path between the trees and brush, and fell to my stomach, concealed among the brush and grasses. |
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| 13 | 751 |
Ar, among others, had made her claims. |
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| 14 | 2 |
When his tarn had dropped, wings beating, into the clearing among the tents, they ringed with a palisade of sharpened logs, some twelve feet high, there had been much shouting, much welcome. |
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| 14 | 4 |
I saw, too, among the warriors, slave girls, collared, in brief rep-cloth tunics. |
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| 14 | 120 |
I supposed it to be somewhere in the realm of Ar, perhaps to its northeast, among the foothills of the Voltai range. |
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| 14 | 125 |
Strife is common among the Gorean cities, each tending to be belligerent and suspicious of others. |
10 |
| 14 | 436 |
When a free woman is captured and carried off the news spreads rapidly among the slave girls of a city. |
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| 14 | 721 |
Among the warriors, the flat of sword blades and the blades of spears rang on shields. |
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| 15 | 18 |
I knew this meant that she had authority among the girls. |
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| 15 | 19 |
Ena was high girl in the camp, but I suspected that Ute might be first among the work slaves. |
10 |
| 15 | 49 |
There had been dissensions, factions, among the girls, each wanting one of their own party to be first girl. |
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| 15 | 56 |
I had indeed expected to live in the tent of the women, not in a dark shed, among work girls. |
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| 15 | 157 |
Yet she treated me no differently than the other girls, scarcely recognizing me in my work tunic among the others. |
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| 15 | 190 |
Once Rask of Treve, from the saddle, looked directly at me, finding me among the mere work slaves, in their work tunics. |
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| 15 | 193 |
How magnificent he seemed, how mighty among those mighty warriors, he, their fierce leader. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 15 |
I could see, high on the map, Ax Glacier, Torvaldsland, and Hunjer and Skjern, and Helmutsport, and, lower, Kassau and the great green forests, and the river Laurius, and Laura and Lydius, and, lower, the islands, prominent among them Cos and Tyros; I saw the delta of the Vosk, and Port Kar, and, in... |
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| 2 | 374 |
Among them I saw rough-fibered slave mats, and among those, the coarsest of all, submission mats, on which the female slave may be forced to perform for her master. |
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| 10 | 376 |
The girl, one among thousands less fortunate, had encountered a male, surely, too, one among thousands, who could be, and was, to her and for her, her absolute and natural master, the ideal and perfect male for her, dominant and uncompromising, who could, and would, demand and get her full, yielding... |
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| 10 | 379 |
The dominant male is thus selected for in mate competition; the undominant male tends, statistically, to lose out to his stronger, more intelligent foe; correspondingly, evolution selected for the female who responds to the dominant male; she who fled such men either mated with weaker men, her child... |
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| 21 | 294 |
I did not think it would be desirable, among Kurii, to be among a party which had fallen from power. |
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| 23 | 96 |
Behind the Kavar lines, among the tents, with the kaiila and other goods, the man would be chained, to await his disposition among masters. |
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| 26 | 526 |
The very beauty which made her prized among men would make her an object of hostility and loathing among women. |
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| 3 | 83 |
If this were so why then did I feel so small and slight among the Gorean men, and tremble when they put their hands upon me? Among the men of Earth, thoughtful, and cute and kind, I had not felt small and slight, nor did I tremble when they put their hands upon me; I had felt only irritation, and wo... |
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| 4 | 952 |
Among slave girls, however, ear piercing, inflicted upon them by the will of their masters, is becoming widespread on Gor; one might say it is gaining considerable popularity among masters, which accounts, of course, for its growing frequency in the female slave population of the planet; it is a cus... |
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| 5 | 29 |
In some cities, and among some groups and tribes, it might be mentioned, though this is not common, veils may be for most practical purposes unknown, even among free women. |
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| 20 | 318 |
I knew that male dominance was pervasive among mammals, and that it was universal among primates. |
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| 35 | 115 |
Whereas rivalries among men can be serious and dangerous, the most that rivalries among slave girls can be is petty and vicious; that is to be expected; they are, after all, only small, lovely animals. |
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| 48 | 96 |
"Which among them pleases you most?" "That one," said he, indicating the slender-legged, dark-haired girl who had been, as we had determined, second in command among the talunas. |
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| 1 | 614 |
What would the Council of Captains know of such creatures, or of the warrings among worlds? He had not identified himself as being among the party of those forces arrayed against the ravaging, concupiscent imperialism of our savage colleagues. |
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| 2 | 329 |
Just as human beings often found it difficult to distinguish among various Kurii, so, too, many Kurii, apparently, often found it difficult to distinguish among various human beings. |
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| 14 | 272 |
The same frigidity which may be accounted a virtue among free women, figuring in their vanity competitions, how well they can resist men, is commonly among slaves an occasion for the imposition of severe discipline; it can even constitute a capital offense. |
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| 19 | 728 |
"The lot of a slave among the Kaiila, as among our peoples generally," said Cuwignaka, "is not an easy one". |
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| 1 | 377 |
Hci doubtless held Canka responsible, in some fashion, for Cuwignaka's freedom, and his presence among the Isbu, a presence which many among the Isbu, including Hci, found infuriating and shameful. |
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| 22 | 307 |
Such practices among most peoples are not as institutionalized as among the red savages but I think that those who know war, on whatever remote fields, will not find themselves unfamiliar with the counterparts of such practices. |
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| 43 | 446 |
Slave sacks, as you may have gathered, are known not only among the red savages but also among the men of the cities. |
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| 43 | 449 |
Such sacks, however, do have a utility among the men of the tower cities which they are not likely to have, or would seldom have, among the bold savages of the Barrens. |
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| 15 | 412 |
"Among these petitioners came one fellow bringing with him the promise of a gift of wine, a wine supposedly secret, the rare Falarian, a wine only rumored among collectors to exist, a wine supposedly so rare and precious that its cost might purchase a city. |
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| 25 | 31 |
On this street, too, of course, among many other sorts of establishments, such as shops and stalls, and smaller residences, are several insulae, among them the insula of Achiates. |
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| 8 | 885 |
But this pathology, except sometimes among recently embonded free women, is seldom found among slaves. |
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| 17 | 114 |
I have sometimes seen a man walk among combatants, threading his way here and there, almost as though among crowds in a market, no one bothering to challenge him or pay him the least attention. |
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| 21 | 747 |
"It was thought by many in Ar, seemingly Marlenus among them," said Aemilianus, "that entry into the league would appear to accept the principle that Ar was but one power among others on the river, and not the sole mistress of the waterway, as she would be. |
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| 1 | 716 |
She was a slave, and totally! She moved about, away and among the men, in her moment in the parade of slaves, on that dirt circuit among masters, Goreans, larls among men, uncrippled, unsoftened, untamed beasts, categorical, uncompromising owners of women, and she a woman, unutterably desirable and ... |
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| 6 | 119 |
"Are such things also of interest to you?" asked he who was first among those of the house, first, at any rate, among those present. |
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