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Book 1. (3 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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4 72 You will live in an armed truce with the tarn.
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4 166 Aside from candidates for the status of Warrior, none of my caste was permitted to enter the Council armed.
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4 167 Had they been armed, my caste brothers in the last tier would have struck their spear blades on their shields.
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Book 2. (9 results) Outlaw of Gor

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3 105 Zosk, I felt, would have faced a larl armed only with his ax, but yet, here, he seemed frightened.
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6 47 On Gor a woman normally travels only with a suitable retinue of armed guards.
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9 78 None of the men appeared to be armed.
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13 31 Several were armed warriors, perhaps stationed there to keep the peace, but many must have been common citizens of Tharna.
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16 11 I noted that he and his fellows were armed.
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19 38 Armed only with ore and the picks that chip the ore from the walls we stormed into the quarters of Whip Slaves and guardsmen, who had scarcely time to seize their weapons.
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23 77 Angry men, armed with whatever tools of destruction they might find, prowled the land, evading the sorties of Tharna's soldiers, hunting for granaries to rob, for buildings to burn, for slaves to free.
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24 144 Many of them had cut longbows and many of them were armed with the spears and crossbows of fallen warriors.
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24 263 On the steps before the throne there stood a warrior, fully armed, who held in his hands the blue helmet of his city.
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Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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5 143 "Yes," she continued, "I, armed with my beauty, would come to the Sardar and wrest the riches and power of the Priest-Kings from them, for men had always sought to serve me, to give me what I wanted, and were the Priest-Kings not men?" People had strange reasons for entering the Sardar, but the reas...
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25 140 I knew that she was faithless, vicious, and treacherous, and because of her glorious beauty a thousand times more dangerous than a foe armed only with the reed of a Gorean spear and the innocence of sword steel.
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28 10 On the second day of the second week of battle, after the forces of Sarm had withdrawn, I, armed with sword and silver tube, mounted a transportation disk and swept through the no man's land of unoccupied tunnels toward the Vivarium.
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28 167 Intrigued by the hardness of the cage plastic encountered in the Vivarium I spoke to Misk and he and I, together with other Priest-Kings and humans, armored a fleet of transportation disks, which would be extremely effective if a silver tube were mounted in them and which, even if not armed, might y...
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28 175 Originally some of them had objected to this but after a few had almost stepped on the silent Gur Carriers, or wandered unbeknownst beneath them, some of the spidery humanoids being armed perhaps with silver tubes, their opinions changed and they became zealous to have the letter painted boldly and ...
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31 131 I knew that somehow I must try to stop Sarm but what could I do? He was armed with a silver tube and I with nothing but the steel of a Gorean sword.
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35 166 He was joined by two or three more of the men from the camp below, who were also armed.
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Book 4. (10 results) Nomads of Gor

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1 10 Though I was of the caste of warriors and he of peasants, and I armed and he carrying naught but a crude tool, I would not dispute his passage.
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6 2 Many others, too, rushed to the sound, and we were jostled by armed warriors, scarred and fierce; by boys with unscarred faces, carrying the pointed sticks used often for goading the wagon bosk; by leather-clad women hurrying from the cooking pots; by wild, half-clothed children; even by enslaved Ka...
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8 249 He had armed himself with castoff weapons, with which he practiced in solitude.
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8 554 Save for armed combat, lance and tospit with the living wand is the most dangerous of the sports of the Wagon Peoples.
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9 339 Several of the men had leaped from behind the tables, including Kamras, but they hesitated, seeing Kamchak so armed.
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13 122 The kaiila and its master fight in battle as one unit, seemingly a single savage animal, armed with teeth and lance.
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16 19 I followed him, armed with quiva and sword.
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21 64 To my chagrin I was not admitted into the compound, but my pitiful stock of almost worthless stones was examined outside the gate by a steward in the company of two armed warriors.
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21 116 Shortly thereafter some seven or eight ruffians, armed with clubs and iron bars, had attacked the shop, destroying its equipment.
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21 360 He was flanked by officers of the Tuchuks, commanders of Thousands, mounted as he was and armed.
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Book 5. (17 results) Assassin of Gor

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15 100 Beasts are also popular in the Stadium of Blades, and fights between various animals, half starved and goaded into fury by hot irons and whips, are common; sometimes the beasts fight beasts of the same species, and other times not; sometimes the beasts fight men, variously armed, or armed slave girl...
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2 88 Then, a moment later, four men, armed, brawny men, with a streamer of blue and yellow silk sewn diagonally into their garments, burst through the door and entered the room.
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12 30 I could see him a few feet behind the throne, wrapped in a scarlet cloak, a tall, spare man, long-armed and narrow-faced, whose head moved restlessly, surveying the crowd.
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15 89 Matches are arranged between single armed fighters, or teams of such.
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15 98 Sometimes slave girls are forced to fight slave girls, perhaps with steel claws fastened on their fingers, or several girls, variously armed, will be forced to fight a single man, or a small number of men.
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17 140 Gangs of men, often armed, roamed streets and bridges, apparently undisturbed by Warriors, their depredations not curbed; and, startlingly, when captured and sent to the Central Cylinder, or to the Cylinder of Justice, pretexts would be found for their release, customarily on legal technicalities or...
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17 223 Then, together, the Hinrabians, with an armed retinue, set forth in caravan for Tor, envoys of which city had granted their petition for refuge.
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17 224 Unfortunately the caravan, not more than two hundred pasangs from the Great Gate of Ar, was attacked and plundered by a large armed force, but of unknown origin.
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17 230 I saw in his elevation a portion of the plan of Others being unfolded; with one of their own on the throne of Ar, they would have a remarkable base in Ar for the advancement of their schemes, in particular the influencing of men, the recruitment of partisans in their cause; as Misk had pointed out, ...
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18 196 "Before the next passage hand," said he, "armed men broke into the Cylinder of Physicians; the floors we worked on were burned; the Cylinder itself was seriously damaged; our work, our records, the animals we used were all destroyed; several of my staff were slain, others driven away".
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18 466 Standing in the doorway, four guards armed with crossbows with him, stood Cernus, of the House of Cernus.
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21 185 The man was one of those slaves who, garbed in black, armed with iron hooks, drag the dead, human or beast, from the sand.
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21 382 In some places armed Warriors, of common rank, stood against the purple-clad Taurentians.
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22 3 As my bird, with a flash of wings, struck the sand of the compound, four men armed with crossbows rushed forward.
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22 152 My fellow, now, instead of watching the race, stood, armed, with his back to mine, his crossbow ready.
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22 176 There I saw a Taurentian, armed with a crossbow, lifting it, preparing to fire as Mip passed through the third of the far end rings.
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24 113 Their helmets and cloaks were no different from those of the armed forces of Ar generally.
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Book 6. (14 results) Raiders of Gor

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17 62 Besides having large numbers of unchained, armed men in their rowing holds, these round ships, moreover, were, below decks, and in the turrets and the stem and stern castles, crowded with armed, able-bodied men, citizens of Port Kar who had swarmed aboard, that they might fight.
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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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1 105 Accordingly, frequently, bands of armed men, maintaining allegiance to one or the other of the warring, rival Ubars of Port Kar, enter the delta to, as they say, collect taxes.
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3 11 Ironically, it is not of much use against an organized attack of well-armed warriors, such as those of Port Kar, and those against whom it might be fairly adequate, other rence growers, seldom attack communities like their own.
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5 164 Then the rence girls, vital, eyes shining, breathing deeply, barefoot, bare-armed, many with beads worn for festival, and hammered copper bracelets and armlets, stood all within the circle.
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6 99 We turned and saw some four warriors, armed with nets and spears, running toward us.
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8 321 I am one man armed and strong among many chained and bound.
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9 109 Further, of course, it is next to impossible to bring large bodies of armed men through the delta of the Vosk, or, under the conditions of the marsh, to supply them or maintain them in a protracted siege.
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9 695 There, waiting for us, standing, armed, were seventy or eighty men.
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17 60 Each was rowed either by citizens of Port Kar or by eager slaves, armed and unchained, that they might, if they chose, fight for their freedom and the Home Stone of a city.
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17 63 There were crews on these ships armed with grappling irons and each of the ships carried two or more "grappling bridges".
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17 68 But now I expected, to the surprise of attacking ram-ships which might attempt to board them, they would find themselves boarded, and their decks overwhelmed with swarms of armed, free men.
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17 69 We had crowded far more armed men into each of these round ships than would be carried even in the normal crew of a heavy-class tarn ship.
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17 196 Hundreds of ships had turned to destroy these clumsy intruders, but, of these hundreds, great numbers discovered, too late, that they fought not common round ships but floating fortresses jammed with armed men, eager to engage.
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Book 7. (4 results) Captive of Gor

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9 138 The other girls similarly armed themselves, preparing to depart.
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9 201 They were armed, and could protect themselves, and did not need men.
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9 322 Then there were none who had not entered that savage circle, save Verna, the band's leader, proud and superb, armed and disdainful, and Elinor Brinton, a bound slave.
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13 329 They were clad in leather, and armed.
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Book 8. (8 results) Hunters of Gor

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1 359 Rim wished to be armed.
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3 1 I Buy a Thief A girl bumped into me, black haired, briefly skirted in brown, bare armed, barefoot, tanned, a small, sensuous wench, free.
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4 173 Then, one morning, when I was lying on my stomach beside a stream, drinking, I lifted my head to find myself surrounded by armed panther girls.
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4 175 How pleased I was to see them! They seemed so proud, and strong, and were armed".
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7 356 Yet, if Grenna was to be believed, following this Hura were a hundred or more armed women.
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8 27 The girls usually emerge armed and dangerous, rapidly scattering.
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11 412 There were several more girls, armed, behind her.
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22 10 Several were armed well, with weapons taken from those of Tyros.
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Book 9. (11 results) Marauders of Gor

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20 128 Where one may not go armed, there it is well to go armed.
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6 249 Two, who were armed with shield and spear, smote the spear blade on the wooden shield.
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10 72 The Forkbeard, too, and his men, were armed.
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10 74 The man of Torvaldsland never leaves his house unless he is armed; and, within his house, his weapons are always near at hand, usually hung on the wall behind his couch, at least a foot beyond the reach of a bondmaid whose ankle is chained.
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10 77 Most of the men at the Thing were free farmers, blond-haired, blue-eyed and proud, men with strong limbs and work-roughened hands; many wore braided hair; many wore talmits of their district; for the Thing their holiday best had been donned; many wore heavy woolen jackets, scrubbed with water and bo...
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11 52 The speaker was not armed, save by the natural ferocity of his species.
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18 30 Now, however, indiscriminately, they sought to destroy all armed male humans.
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18 567 Suddenly, crying with rage, his beard wild behind him, Thorgard of Scagnar, a mighty foe, now armed, rushed upon the Forkbeard, who fended away the blow.
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19 3 Many men stood about, armed, several with torches.
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19 26 Then, holding the pieces of the ax over his head, he departed, escorted by armed men from the fire, to the edge of the camp, past the guards.
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22 222 There were many men there, armed, and wenches, too.
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Book 10. (8 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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8 72 On foot, on the trail, they would have only enough water to reach the tiny oasis of the Lame Kaiila, where there would be for them doubtless sympathy, but little aid in the form of armed men.
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10 292 Trade will be disrupted, armed men will roam, strangers will be more suspect than normally.
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12 8 "Hurry, Slave," said the tall, dark-haired girl, bare-armed, in an ankle-length, flowing white garment.
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12 82 * * * * "Hurry, Slave," said the tall, dark-haired girl, bare-armed, in her ankle-length, flowing white garment.
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12 143 At this point I had been summoned by the two bare-armed, white-garbed girls, for my bath.
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15 88 Behind him, armed with scimitars, stood two guards, they, too, bare-chested, in flat rep-cloth turbans.
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21 401 It was armed.
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26 190 I wondered if it were wise to have armed the men of Klima and put them in the saddles of kaiila.
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Book 11. (12 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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2 418 They stood, not moving, each clad in scarlet, each helmeted, each similarly armed.
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2 740 I had been rescued by a chance male, armed and skillful, who had happened in the fields at the time.
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2 742 By his own reactions I had gathered he knew nothing of the men he had met there, and had behaved as he might have with any others, similarly of his scarlet-clad, helmeted, armed sort.
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2 1152 Ten men, armed, on each side, flanked the march.
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2 1154 Some five men, armed, preceded the march, some three followed.
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2 1155 Some ten or twelve other armed men, here and there, occupied positions in the march.
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2 1209 Four of these were bare-armed, but garbed in flowing, classic white.
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4 238 With what else might a slave girl be armed? Eta kissed me, and I kissed her.
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8 202 She was a large, long-armed, freckled girl, of peasant stock.
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9 291 "Do not break the position of the pleasure slave," warned the largest of the girls, she, Sandal Thong, a long-armed, freckled giantess of a peasant wench.
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9 1616 Few men, I thought, would care to meet Thurnus in the darkness of the woods armed with steel.
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12 401 Helmeted, armed men thrust their way into the room.
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Book 12. (15 results) Beasts of Gor

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2 529 The war persisted but now both players had been brought to the Sardar by armed men from their respective cities, under a special flag of truce, agreed upon by Lurius of Jad, Ubar of Cos, and Marlenus of Ar, called the Ubar of Ubars, who ruled in Ar.
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6 30 Each was veiled but bare-armed.
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6 81 The two slave girls, bare-armed and veiled, quickly glanced to one another.
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6 457 "Those well-armed and mounted can afford nobility," he said.
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9 39 "Release him," said he to my captor, "that I may with blades, he, too, armed, dispatch him".
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11 75 I positioned my archers at the openings to the hall, with armed men to defend them.
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11 89 Now there were some three hundred and seventy men encircling the hall, all armed in one way or another, some even with stones.
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14 43 "Is Kadluk armed?" I asked.
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23 87 The other figure was that, clearly, shambling, long-armed, of a white-pelted Kur.
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26 269 Then Imnak and I stood within that small, low rampart, each armed with a lance.
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30 15 He was armed with the Gorean short sword.
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30 236 Most of the men, however, were armed, as were Ram and myself, with the short sword.
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31 5 Neither of them was armed, nor was I.
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35 37 I may have heard or sensed it the object cutting the fur of the parka and lodging a foot behind me in the ice and I flung myself away from it and the ice shattering and exploding outward and the blast and ice pushing me like a hand and I struck a projection of ice and slipped downward, and then I sa...
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35 190 They were led by a lieutenant and were all armed.
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Book 13. (10 results) Explorers of Gor

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7 104 We are not an armed city, not a fortress, not a land power.
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16 22 Another askari, at his side, armed with a lance, gripping it with two hands, shouted, too, ready to support his fellow.
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18 143 "Are you armed?" asked Msaliti, both in the inland speech, some of which I had learned from Ayari, and in Gorean.
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18 148 Such sheaths are common in the Tahari but, in the equatorial interior, where men are commonly bare-armed, I gathered that they were an interesting novelty.
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18 258 Bila Huruma, indeed, had been an extremely large man, and long armed.
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23 289 I saw the light, a small torch, in the bow of another canoe pass us, one containing ten armed askaris.
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41 9 We brought the canoe against the net, so that I and Kisu, too, each armed with a panga, might slash at the woven wall which had, on vine ropes, sprung from shore, lifted up before us.
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43 122 From the brush about her appeared numbers of girls similarly clad and armed.
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48 114 Had she been free and armed with a quirt or lash I did not doubt but what she would have fallen fiercely and implacably upon her helpless, frightened, dark-haired, lovely lieutenant.
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51 225 Askaris had entered the room, perhaps two hundred of them, armed.
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Book 14. (11 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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10 49 This entrance was protected by two guardsmen, armed with spears and swords.
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10 82 I knew he had not been armed, but, still, I had feared and obeyed him.
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11 414 One result of this attitude is that most wars, most armed altercations, tend to be very local.
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13 52 Jealousies and strifes, rivalries, even armed conflicts, tend often to separate Gorean cities.
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18 213 These were barefoot and bare-armed, and wore brown tunics which, as they now had them belted, with binding fiber, would have fallen to their knees, rather demurely for slave girls, had they stood up.
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21 132 "They are doubtless well fixed and can afford armed escorts".
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21 172 Small cities and towns, usually ruggedly independent, even belligerently so, along the river, such as Ven and Turmus, found themselves, to their discomfort, half coerced by armed might, half enticed with alliances and treaties, embroiled in the struggles of major powers.
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22 482 They would be, secretly, armed.
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25 358 I then realized that what I saw in the sky, in the distance, were birds, indeed, but tarns, and that doubtless mounted upon them, armed and purposeful, were men.
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26 312 And I was armed, for now the steel of Orgus, the brigand, hung at my left shoulder.
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33 4 In the late morning we had asked directions from a surly, armed fellow herding two trussed women, a stick bound behind the back of their necks.
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Book 15. (6 results) Rogue of Gor

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4 555 I saw five armed men running down the street.
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8 22 All were armed.
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8 80 "Do you, Fellow," said he, addressing me, "desire a champion?" The man was armed.
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21 37 In these the girls are usually marched naked, in single file, chained together by the neck, under the surveillance of armed guards.
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32 185 Armed men surrounded me.
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32 329 By that time, of course, the men would be again on the wall, doubtless some of them armed, and with bows.
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Book 16. (6 results) Guardsman of Gor

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2 115 "We are armed! Approach at your own risk! Identify yourselves!" I smiled, discerning his fear.
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8 58 As she was not a free woman I did not expect her to be armed, but there was no point in taking chances.
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9 364 She was an armed merchantman.
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10 181 They shrank back against the wall, armed men moving past them.
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16 227 To starboard, from upriver, the river bristled with armed merchantmen.
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20 94 "She is a pretty one," said Glyco, indicating the slave in bluish gauze, barefoot and bare-armed, who was deferentially serving us.
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Book 17. (7 results) Savages of Gor

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1 734 They were armed with crossbows.
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1 1063 The most highly regarded battle exploit among most tribes, for which the highest honors are accorded, is not to kill an armed enemy but to touch or strike one with the open hand.
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1 1066 It is thus understandable that touching an armed enemy with the open hand counts among most tribes as a first coup.
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4 75 "It is interesting," I said, "that you do not have an armed escort".
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6 99 "Settlers, armed, with two hundred wagons, crossed the Ihanke," he said.
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13 721 "It is to be distinguished sharply from the standard garrote, which is armed with wire and can cut a throat easily.
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16 165 "You see, he is not similarly armed".
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Book 18. (9 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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51 15 As we had not been similarly armed, it alone, afoot, and I with Grunt, he with an armed crossbow, and as it had not rushed upon me, I had not contested its withdrawal from the field.
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25 22 "How is it that a slave is armed?" asked Hci, regarding me.
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26 72 They are long enough to outreach a dagger-armed opponent and short enough, and maneuverable enough, to work their way, beating and thrusting, behind the guard of longer, heavier weapons.
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30 101 Behind it, on each side, similarly armed, came others.
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34 17 "Are they armed?" I asked.
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39 283 "Surely one warrior of the Kinyanpi would not wish to challenge three armed men".
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39 289 "I will go a bit behind the path of the bird's approach," said Hci, exercising the tension in the small bow he had armed.
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47 401 Kaiila warriors had now appeared on the ledges beside me, and were visible now, armed, at the barricade.
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47 470 Lightly, moving swiftly, discarding his shield, armed now only with his knife, he made his way from our position, to the trail summit, and to the barricade.
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Book 19. (2 results) Kajira of Gor

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6 65 He might have been any mercenary, or armed servant, in attendance on a lady.
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30 67 With him were some armed men, probably his.
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Book 20. (2 results) Players of Gor

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10 885 Either would be as first girl to her, and both would be armed with switches.
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14 9 "Urts find way!" "Strip, enter the cubicle of the bathing cisterns," had said our jailer, five of his fellows, armed, behind him, before dawn.
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Book 21. (13 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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3 147 They are often little more than armed rabbles.
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3 168 If one owns one's own weapons, of course, one need not be armed at the expense of the company.
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3 180 Sometimes the mercenary captains, whose negotiated, signed contracts call for the furnishing of certain numbers of armed men for their various employers, have little choice but to impress some reluctant fellows, that their obligatory quotas may be met.
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3 194 In this formation spikes of archers, protected by iron-shod stakes and sleen pits, project beyond the forward lines of the heavily armed warriors and their reserves.
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3 214 Then again the ponderous, earthshaking, bellowing, grunting, trampling tharlarion ground cavalry charged, this time breaking through the walls like dried straw, followed by waves of screaming, heavily armed spearmen.
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4 293 Had we been using real axes, the handles armed with iron, I might have finished him several times.
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4 296 To be sure, had the handles been armed perhaps he would have addressed himself to our match with much greater circumspection.
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4 319 An ax, a typical Alar ax, long-handled, armed with its heavy iron blade, was handed to the girl.
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4 457 Had the handle been armed, of course, one might, from such a position, sever the backbone or remove the head.
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9 23 Such camps, of course, are common with Gorean armed forces, set at march intervals.
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16 1218 I, too, then, I fear, had she been armed, might have had to defend myself.
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19 142 "He is armed," said one of the fellows to the trussed captive.
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26 249 "Are you armed?" I asked.
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Book 22. (3 results) Dancer of Gor

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26 205 But, now, too, I was sure it was armed.
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29 785 Both were rough, grim-looking men, armed with blades.
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29 791 Armed only with their own teeth and jaws they regarded themselves as superior to it.
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Book 23. (11 results) Renegades of Gor

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2 139 Its primary purpose was to provide a reliable, nearly indestructible surface for the rapid movement of armed men.
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6 649 I frankly doubted that the keeper would be keen to mix into such an altercation, particularly one involving an armed mercenary, a fellow of the company of Artemidorus.
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8 615 It is little wonder that peoples knowing not the horse fled in terror when they first encountered riders, taking the rider and his mount for one thing, something half animal, half human, an awesome, unbelievably swift, gigantic, armed chimera, something that could not be outrun, that seemed to fly u...
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15 984 Light-armed troops hurried forward, slingers and archers, and javelin men, to keep defenders back, as they could, from the crenels.
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16 344 There was no way their discharge, their rushing, armed effluxes could be stayed by the men here.
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17 57 At the bridge of the huntsmen loops of tarn wire were cast over the armed, halted efflux which the foe, to his horror, trying to extricate himself, felt draw tight and then he, too, snared, was dragged from the bridge.
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17 224 Armed with the spear, which is some fifteen feet in length, like a third- or fourth-rank phalanx spear, I reached over the wall and managed to get it against the top rung of the ladder.
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18 298 Among the free women running to, and on, the walkway, under the partial cover of the shields, I saw slave females, too, barefoot and bare-armed, in their tiny skirts, their necks in their light steel collars.
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20 203 Cosians attempting to climb to the piers there would encounter fresh, dangerous armed men, in hundreds.
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20 409 Fifteen ships, mostly of Port Cos, were now at the piers, which, now, except for armed men, were mostly empty.
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20 412 In orderly fashion, unchallenged, the numerous soldiers, guardsmen, armed oarsmen and such who had lined the inner side of the piers, facing the inner harbor, withdrew to the fifteen waiting ships.
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Book 24. (8 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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3 227 All seemed dangerous, all were armed.
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3 314 Many mercenary companies consist of little more than rabbles of armed ruffians, others, like those of Dietrich of Tarnburg, Pietro Vacchi and Raymond, of Rive-du-Bois, are crack troops, as professional as warriors of Ar or Cosian regulars.
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18 286 In a few Ehn I then lay, fed on biscuit and meat, armed with blade and dagger, clothed in a tunic of Ar, on the raft.
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18 325 I was armed.
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19 923 I did not doubt but what she would recall that she had, back on the other island, days ago, when she had had power, the backing of numerous armed men, been the issuer of such instructions, not their recipient.
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32 157 Oddly, none seem armed.
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46 88 Our menacing companions, armed and surly, like shadows, were still with us.
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49 14 I have heard, for example, that he was beset by a larl, far from its accustomed habitats, that he was torn to pieces by a tarn, and that his head was torn, or partly torn, from his body by a dozen madmen armed with hooks of steel.
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Book 25. (21 results) Magicians of Gor

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22 344 Actually I was not armed today, as I was not in uniform, not wearing, that is, the armband of the auxiliary guardsman, and I did not want to be stopped by guardsmen, line or auxiliary, as being in possible violation of the injunction against unauthorized weapons in the city, that injunction which pl...
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1 308 The ugliness of the crowd, its hostility, and such, was, I think, a function of recent events, which had precipitated confusion, uncertainty and terror in Ar, in particular the military catastrophe in the delta, in which action, absurdly, the major land forces of Ar had been invested, and the news t...
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3 748 Then, the dance ended, men striking their left shoulders in Gorean applause, shouting their vociferous approval, some armed warriors striking their shields with spear blades, she sank to the ground, on her back, breathless, breasts heaving, covered with a sheen of sweat, before her master, her left ...
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7 20 Two of these armed reluctances, yielding neither to reason nor orders, were quelled bloodily by Taurentians.
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7 233 He was personally armed with the common gladius, the short sword, the most common infantry weapon on Ar, and a dagger.
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7 529 Indeed, with Ar vulnerable and helpless, nullified militarily, if the power of Cos should collapse, a new barbarism might ensue, at least within the traditional boundaries of Ar, a lawless barbarism broken here and there by the existence of minor tyrannies, places where armed men imposed their will.
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8 51 Instead of having one driver, or a driver and a fellow, a relief driver or one to help with the unloading, and perhaps a lad to help through the city in the darkness, each wagon had at least four or five full-grown men with it, armed, usually two or three on the wagon box, and another two or three o...
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8 319 "You are armed," said the voice.
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8 331 The armed forces of Ar had been disbanded, of course, both foot and cavalry, both tharlarion and tarn.
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8 591 "You are armed," she suddenly said, perhaps then for the first time really noting this homely fact.
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8 839 "You are armed," he said.
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8 868 Did he think that the color of a fellow's garments was what made him a warrior? Surely he must realize that one not of the warriors might affect the scarlet, and that one who wore the grimed gray of a peasant, one barefoot, and armed only with the great staff, might be of the scarlet caste.
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15 34 "It was not an armed attack," I said.
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16 41 But still I would not have cared to meet him, or such a fellow, in earnest, each of us armed only in such terms.
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18 146 "There are two fellows calling for him, who do not wish him to know they are guardsmen, one of whom is his friend, and one of whom is not, and both of whom are armed, and seem ready to unsheath their weapons at a moment's notice, if not earlier".
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18 489 "Unless you have a better idea, or seventy armed men, or something".
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22 343 "He is armed!" said the fellow I had met earlier.
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22 347 To be sure, had I been really armed, I would not have cared to be he, calling the bluff.
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24 289 A major advantage of this, of course, is that it entitled us to go abroad openly armed.
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24 297 Other than this, however, in accord with the weapons laws, they were not armed.
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28 133 Normally this sort of thing is done with two or three men, one or two trying to burst in the door, in one attack upon it, and the other following, immediately, armed, to strike.
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Book 26. (17 results) Witness of Gor

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2 137 Could one not plead with them, armed in all the vulnerable panoply of one's tears, of one's utter helplessness and need? Could one not beg them for mercy? Might one not even consider, in such a desperate predicament, the almost unthinkable option of kneeling before them, and lifting one's hands to t...
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7 56 He did not appear to be armed.
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13 564 Given the narrowness of the bridges a single man, armed, could have defended them against several foes, for they could approach him only singly.
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19 40 Few, incidentally, except in armed parties, traverse the mountains on foot.
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30 39 "Are you armed?" asked the pit master.
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31 303 "At least we have the common sense to go armed," said the lieutenant.
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31 305 "You should not be armed in our city".
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31 346 "He is armed!" said the lieutenant.
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31 368 "He is armed!" said the lieutenant.
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34 17 In the case of the first man, the pit master had reminded the leader of the strangers that various security devices in the corridors were armed, especially in view of the incursion of the raiders earlier, and reiterated his offer to furnish expert guidance.
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34 49 Three crossbows, armed, rested on the table.
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34 78 The crossbows had been armed, the men tense.
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34 91 The passages were armed, but they had not been, oddly enough, closed, their gates locked down.
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35 122 In a moment we were thrust out into the corridor, men, most with drawn swords, some with armed bows, behind us.
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37 464 I was, at the time, confused, sick, afraid, almost unable to stand, waiting there in the darkness, with the others, not knowing if something, an urt, or the prisoner, armed, intent, might suddenly be upon us, perhaps slashing to one side or the other, in some eagerness to get at the men.
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37 1118 "It is interesting," said the officer of Treve, "that so many of the gates in the passages were unlocked, but the passages remained armed".
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42 104 They were armed! "Before such things are considered," said one of the men, "we must make certain that she is the correct slave".
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Book 27. (16 results) Prize of Gor

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1 31 But the clock is indifferent to what it counts; it considers with equanimity the antics of the foolish, the ecstasies of saints, the sweet, lovely nonsense of dreamers, the delusions of realists, the comings and goings of nations and empires, the passing of immortal faiths and eternal truths, life, ...
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7 234 On Earth there might have been many ways to respond to such attentions, a sneer, a chilling stare, a look of contempt, a scornful dismissal, a demeaning question, a nasty, caustic word, a haughty, supercilious shrug and a turning away, many ways to respond, and to all of these she had had recourse a...
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16 805 She saw two men pass, guardsmen, or such, helmeted, armed, in matching tunics, and many in the crowd drew back, sullenly, to let them pass.
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16 809 She saw four women, their hands chained behind their backs, their necks fastened together with a chain, being prodded through the square by three armed men, helmeted and tunicked as had been the other two.
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20 292 These were professional soldiers, uniformed, organized, disciplined, well-armed.
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27 495 What do you want here? We are poor men, but note that we are armed men.
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27 844 "They are armed," said another.
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27 848 "We are all armed, and can dart lightning upon you," said he who had spoken.
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27 983 "The beasts are not armed," said Portus Canio.
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27 985 "Why are the beasts not armed?" asked Portus Canio.
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27 1053 Cosian men at arms, some armed with short bows, such as may be used with convenience from tarn baskets, which may clear the bulwarks and fire amongst the ropes, saddle bows, actually, such as are favored for similar reasons by tarnsmen, were drawing away, afoot.
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27 1757 "Also, I will determine if you are armed".
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27 2750 "There is little to fear if we are armed, and alert," said the officer.
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27 3010 They had sought out, and attacked, first, the soldiers, for these were armed, and the most obviously dangerous.
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27 3041 The soldiers now, and Portus Canio, and Fel Doron, had gathered together, in one place, armed.
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29 283 Do you know the penalty for such truancy? You did not kneel when entering our presence! Do you know the penalty for such disrespect? You deserve to be left in the forest for sleen! On the road, itself, earlier, you ran beside a slave and discomfited her, and risked calling the attention of armed men...
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Book 28. (30 results) Kur of Gor

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1 104 This is a high caste, doubtless because it is armed.
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4 17 Cabot's interlocutor surely wore Kur harness, though he was not armed, not even with the small throwing ax, or night ax, commonly used in approaching isolated sentries, and such.
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5 37 He was not armed, for humans are not permitted arms in the habitat, save in the areas reserved for them.
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6 93 "They wish humans as allies?" "Certainly, to abet our projects, to advance against Priest-Kings, to help us, properly armed, to win Gor".
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13 45 None were armed.
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18 252 "Lend me your spear, if you wish me better armed," said Cabot.
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19 12 About the clearing, armed with weapons outlawed within the sport world, were at least fifty Kurii.
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19 13 Two Kurii, other than the hunters, had been penetrated by spears, with which the hunters had been armed.
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21 97 "They are not armed," said Cabot.
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21 267 The beast fights were largely amongst fighting humans, variously armed.
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26 90 "Thus armed," said Peisistratus, "we seem to be of little interest to Priest-Kings".
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26 208 "How so?" "An unidentified armed human might be slain on sight".
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32 13 "And are you armed?" "With a sharpened stick, to serve as spear," said Cabot.
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32 18 "I trust you are better armed," said Cabot.
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42 116 "They are not armed".
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44 36 The humans at the disposal of the rebels were ill-armed, most with sharpened sticks, and many of the killer humans, bred for the arena games, were not only unspeeched, but dangerous to their Kur allies and to one another, as well.
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44 41 For example, dozens of humans, armed with their stones and pointed sticks, suddenly swarming upon isolated Kurii were something seriously to be reckoned with.
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46 162 "It is from it that Agamemnon has armed his minions".
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50 73 "Open the gate!" Flavion, armed, staggered into the camp.
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56 179 "They are coming over the rim, hundreds, multiply armed.
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56 194 "Those from the small camps, the survivors of the fleet's disaster, in their hundreds, are now with us, and have armed themselves with the weapons of our foes.
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57 45 I saw them descend, our terrible foes, in their thousands, into the vale, heavily armed.
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59 3 "My colleagues," said Flavion, glancing to the left and right, "are armed".
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63 117 "Do not follow him! Remain here!" Concealed amongst the cattle humans were somewhere between twenty and twenty-five Kurii, these picked minions of the elite of Lord Agamemnon's forces, each armed with a power weapon.
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63 161 With Statius and Archon were more than a dozen Kurii and humans, armed with power weapons.
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66 104 "Perhaps they would do so if the ramparts were held by humans, half blinded, scarcely able to move, but we have many of our folk here, well armed, strung along the ramparts.
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68 1 An Encounter in the Forest "Do not loose your arrow, if you are so armed!" called the Kur.
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69 90 It is quite another for what are in effect no more than armed brigands, concealing themselves like vermin amongst beasts, to suddenly, unexpectedly, rise up to slay a single, unarmed foe, one not set for battle".
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77 160 They were now, the males, free men, dangerous, formidable, and armed.
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78 143 Whereas Cabot, as a human, had shortly found himself in immoderate difficulties with the Kur, Flavion, adept with a great Kur ax, Flavion, himself, found himself at a severe disadvantage when unexpectedly confronted with Lord Grendel, who was much larger than Flavion, much stronger, was similarly ar...
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Book 29. (32 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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1 206 Later, in the insurrection, he, and other sleen, as Agamemnon grew more desperate, uncertain, and frightened, had been freed, that they might hunt down, destroy, and devour his foes, in particular ill-armed humans who might be party to the rebellion.
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1 208 A Kur, armed, has little to fear, unless taken unawares.
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2 8 "You do not appear to be armed," I said.
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2 104 It must not be lost sight of in these matters, of course, that nonsense is often well armed.
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2 267 "Why are you not armed?" I asked.
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2 443 These men were armed variously.
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3 372 Long ago, in Turia, it is said that a free woman, armed with a dagger, disguised as a slave, attempted to assassinate a Ubar in his cups.
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5 145 But the shield of Priest-Kings was concerned not only to protect their own world from the potential dangers of an eventually advanced and technologically armed humanity, mostly, originally, brought over millennia to Gor in Voyages of Acquisition for its biological interest, as were many other forms ...
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5 403 Indeed, while I had been with him, yesterday, one such ship had disembarked a number of armed men.
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5 422 Too, I was armed.
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5 479 I recalled that Dietrich of Tarnburg had fought a tenacious holding action at Torcodino, to delay the advance on Ar, to give her time to meet the avalanche, the swift confluences, of armed men who would descend upon her.
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5 486 These troops, as planned, had been decimated in the delta of the Vosk, and largely lost, the prey of heat and insects, of salt water and quicksand, of armed rencers, of serpents and tharlarion.
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5 610 They had little time to form, as enraged thousands, many now armed with captured weapons, rushed forth from the city to deal with them".
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5 698 I had gathered that the arrivals of these mysterious, armed visitors was surreptitious.
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10 39 Behind Lord Nishida, at the back of the platform, stood six of the "strange men," each armed with a glaive, the blade of which, socketed in its stout pole, was some two-and-a-half feet in length, and curved.
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10 155 Four fellows now stood there, two armed with glaives, two with swords.
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14 28 Sometimes an unarmed individual was to engage an individual armed, say, with a sheathed dagger.
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14 38 It is one thing to face a fellow with a wooden sword, say, who will hold his stroke, or try to do so, and quite another to face a fellow armed with finely edged steel who has every intention of killing you.
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14 71 Evolution, on whatever world might be that of the tarn's origin, had armed it well.
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14 99 There are, for example, war nets, so to speak, such as the nets of the "fishermen" in the arena, who are armed with net and trident, and capture nets, such as are used by hunters for small animals and by slavers for women.
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16 25 He was armed, as the others, with the small bow, and broad quivers on each side of the saddle.
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16 204 It would have been a much more likely target for a stationary archer, armed with the peasant bow.
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17 37 To be sure, more important than simple numbers was firepower, and our two hundred possessed the firepower of a group much larger, if the larger group was armed in the usual manner.
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18 405 Is it not the Gorean way?" "Perhaps," I said, "if a watch is kept, and sufficient men are armed and at hand, to prevent unpleasant surprises, and such".
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19 77 There was blood on his loose, short-armed robe.
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24 16 "You have come here, uninvited, in the midst of darkness, hastily, armed," he said.
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25 150 To be sure, risks are involved, as the male animal is usually wary, alert, aggressive, large, and armed, so to speak, wickedly horned, sharply hoofed, and such.
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25 293 "Too, a ten is armed, and asaddle".
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30 86 "And you yourself, as I understand you to be Bosk, of Port Kar," he said, "have armed the ship most devastatingly".
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32 13 The place of killing was the beach, a corridor between the soft flow of the Alexandra and the platform, on which were found Lords Nishida and Okimoto, with its fronting and flanking, extended mass of armed observers, almost wholly Pani.
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32 20 In response to this signal a long column of men, in rows of ten, mercenaries, armed and accoutered, came about the platform, made its way to the beach, spread itself along the water's edge, in five rows of pairs, and then turned, so that these rows of pairs, of which there was a large number, faced ...
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40 22 The attentions of our tarnsmen had been divided between the artillery, the ballistae, the mangonels, the catapults, the springals, on the shore, armed with their missiles and fire, and several galleys offshore.
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Book 30. (45 results) Mariners of Gor

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16 98 The boarding party below had been armed, of course, but on the great ship itself, on deck, few were armed, only the officers, some guards, and the deck watch.
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16 106 And armed men, in their dozens, were pouring onto the deck, having armed themselves below in the weapon rooms.
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1 362 The citizens, rallied, armed with whatever they could find, shovels, axes, even stones, and rose en masse.
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3 230 "Those of Ar had risen, everywhere, it seemed, from doorways and cellars, from within the cylinders and on the bridges, rushing forth, seizing up as weapons things so simple as clubs, poles, staves, and rocks, overwhelming in their numbers even armed men".
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3 632 They were not professional soldiers and I did not think they could stand before well-armed, desperate mercenaries, though they might hold them long enough for more effective troops, summoned by the bar and the horns, to arrive, even tarnsmen flighted from the city.
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3 1055 I had seen to that in preparing my disguise, which I began on the first day of the uprising, when the outcome was muchly unclear, a rudely armed populace rising against a professional soldiery.
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5 23 "As I understand it," said Tarl Cabot, the tarnsman whom I had encountered the preceding day during my interrogation, "you were not armed when found".
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5 25 "On a Cosian warship only the officers are armed, until an engagement is imminent, and then weapons are distributed".
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5 34 I saw that the fellows about, and there were several, were all armed.
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5 238 "Prepare to die," said Seremides, "armed or unarmed".
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9 19 "No! To the weapon room!" The Pani were still armed, and officers, and various guardsmen.
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9 28 Most likely the lamp, in the low-ceilinged passageway, had been jostled in the passage of armed, rushing men.
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9 112 "Armed, you may be mistaken for a mutineer".
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9 114 "Wait," said Philoctetes, "until all are armed".
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9 230 The Pani, silently, swiftly, their long-hilted, tasseled swords grasped in two hands, fell upon armed men from behind.
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9 275 He had armed me.
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9 327 Certainly they had not hoped to stand against united Pani, loyal to their lords, and better than a thousand men who might have been armed and brought into the fray from below.
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12 115 In such times, of course, I was armed.
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12 390 Neither he nor Tyrtaios were armed with a crossbow.
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12 686 "I would be armed," I said.
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12 687 "You are not an officer," he said, "and not all officers are armed".
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12 688 "I would be armed," I said.
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15 70 Seremides was no longer armed, for he was no longer an officer.
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16 119 Many men were now armed.
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16 207 Meanwhile, in accord with the instructions of Lord Okimoto, the great ship had come about, toward the warning ship, and there was a rending crash, as the great ship crushed the smoldering remains of our galley, almost at water level, and eight or ten of the small boats, caught between the grinding h...
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16 316 Within a handful of Ehn forty riders of the tarn cavalry were at the rail, each armed with the small Tuchuk bow, used by the tarn cavalry, a weapon of considerable power, which may be swept easily from one side of a saddle to the other.
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21 124 Several had tried to goad him into seizing up a sword, placed before him, and entering into the games of steel, but he had not done so, enduring rather abuse and jeers, insults and ridicule, the raillery of many, and some, fools who, in his day of power, would have feared to speak before him, or com...
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21 164 More Pani now appeared on deck, armed, as they always were.
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21 288 "The men must be armed," said Lord Nishida.
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21 308 "Many are secretly armed now," said Lord Nishida.
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21 353 I saw men moving about, now armed.
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22 53 I and the others were armed, as we had obtained weapons, in the issuance, hoping to go ashore in our turn.
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22 103 "Let tarnsmen, armed, who dare, return with you," said Cabot.
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23 17 In any event, in his service, I was entitled to be legitimately armed on board.
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23 23 Who will deny to the tiny ost the shield and threat of its venom, who convince the tarsk boar to put aside his short, curved tusks? How will the unarmed larl defend his territory, or life; how would the unarmed sleen defend its burrow, its brood, its life? Who most desires you to be disarmed? He who...
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23 24 Who, unarmed, is wise to dispute the will of the armed? Who wishes you to be most vulnerable, most helpless? He who will not make himself so.
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24 2 Ashore the men were armed.
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24 94 We were men; we were armed.
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24 417 "You are armed," I said.
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29 5 Behind him were a large number of armed men.
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36 55 "I am pleased that you are armed," said the captain.
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37 623 "You are fortunate," I said, "that my caste codes discourage robbing armed warriors".
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37 695 "He is armed," she said.
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37 716 "He is armed," she reminded me.
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37 884 "You wish me to wait, a bit," I asked, "and you, armed, would accompany me? I would be grateful, and that is thoughtful, but it is not necessary.
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Book 31. (29 results) Conspirators of Gor

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50 63 Attempting to withdraw, they found the building surrounded by a large number of armed men, many armed with crossbows, and some, Peasants, armed with the great bow, the Peasant bow.
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3 22 The least of them, the weakest and most defective, armed with engineering, technology, and weaponry, could destroy the finest bands and prides of your Scarlet Caste, could reduce the mightiest walls to rubble, burn your ships like kindling, demolish to dust the loftiest of your fortresses.
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6 48 In a moment I sensed fire, and, through the door, saw wild shadows cast on the walls, of armed men, breaking tables, hurling them to the center of the room.
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8 150 As the city or state is managed by men, and is armed, it is feared.
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8 220 Is it not, ultimately, in the mass that the power lies? Who else, at a word, might swarm into the streets, armed with paving stones and clubs? Woe to the former free Gorean woman of high caste who, enslaved, might fall into the power of her hitherto despised "inferiors".
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8 1834 One thing I did not realize originally about your bridges is the military utility involved in their design, that they may be blocked and defended by small groups of armed men; five may defend against a hundred, because of the hundred only five can engage at a time.
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10 664 Many would prefer not to count the Warriors as a high caste, but there are few who would openly deny their title to the status, as they are armed.
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12 94 "The true Kur is beautiful, large, agile, proud, long-armed, glossy, wide-nostriled, with six-digited appendages, with a voice a larl might envy.
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18 185 He was seldom visibly armed, but I supposed that he would have a weapon somewhere, perhaps in his pack, at least a knife, as few male Goreans are likely to be without a weapon of some kind.
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24 147 "Why should one attend to one who is not armed?" asked Trachinos.
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27 250 From the wagons, days before, we knew the sort of men who might dare to mount and manage the bipedalian hunting tharlarion, the sort of men who, armed with a slender lance, would match themselves against Voltai tarsk.
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29 30 The guard, backed now by the second Kur, the armed Kur, motioned that Lord Grendel should retreat to the rear of his cell, which he did.
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29 222 "I think they thought there were two of you, armed, whole, and dangerous".
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38 17 "Four Kurii, armed, passed us, a moment ago," said Desmond.
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42 42 There were two guards, as usual, but, rather back and to the side, there were two other Kurii, each armed with one of the large, four-quarreled crossbows, which I had seen in the place of cells, weapons which a man could have hardly lifted, let alone load and accurately fire.
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45 116 It was clear to me that it would not be practical for Tiresias, blind, to attack two armed Kurii, let alone across an expanse of relatively flat rock in daylight.
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46 6 A dozen armed search parties were dispatched, over a period of several days.
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46 10 It was supposed then that the fugitives, ill-armed and ill-provisioned, perhaps lost and disoriented, had perished in the Voltai.
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48 99 "Repudiate Agamemnon! How can he be Kur? He has no body! I know his world! It rejected him! He is no Kur! He is only the brain that once inhabited a Kur body! Now he is an artificial thing, a brain armed with a hundred artificialities, an artifact of your wondrous science.
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48 101 It was not clear for a moment what then occurred, but a concealed portal, at the rear of the audience chamber had opened, and some fourteen armed Kurii, led by Lucius, thrust their way into the room.
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48 104 As weapons were not permitted in the audience chamber, only the newcomers, Lucius, and his cohorts, were armed.
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48 107 On the other hand, the Kurii in the nearby halls would not be armed, either.
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48 108 The armed Kurii were mostly posted in the far halls, where it was thought that Lucius and his followers might emerge, presumably in an attempt to escape the Cave.
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48 109 The nearest armed Kurii would be at the great portal, and they would doubtless be summoned.
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48 136 The doors to the audience chamber were pulled open from the outside and four armed Kurii, the guard from the great portal, entered the room.
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48 145 I supposed mercenaries, even if armed, if they knew at all of this small war, would not regard it as their affair.
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48 222 None in the halls are armed.
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48 324 "He is not armed".
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50 62 A number of men, apparently several, masked and armed, perhaps two hundred, had converged on a given barn outside the city, had broken into it, and found it empty.
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Book 32. (21 results) Smugglers of Gor

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4 200 The shading of their skin and the cast of their eyes suggested Tuchuk blood, but they were not armed as Tuchuks, and seemed, too, in so far as such things might be ascertained, unfamiliar with bosk, kaiila, and the terrains of the south.
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4 203 They had attracted attention, for their apparent wealth, for buying slaves and hiring ships, and taking men into fee, many of them refugees, armed mercenaries, escaped from Ar, given the sudden, devastating, bloody restoration of Marlenus, Ubar of Ar, sometimes spoken of as the Ubar of Ubars.
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6 80 And some said that like a storm at sea, one without warning, the red waves of revolt had surged into the streets, pouring forth from hovels and sewers, from taverns and stables, from cellars and insulae, that thousands of citizens, many armed only with clubs and stones, had rushed forth, intent upon...
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6 93 The common price for their license to accompany armed, fleeing men, unwilling to accept the burden of conducting free women, was their stripping and the collar.
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6 100 Some, armed with clubs, hunted urts by the wharves.
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6 118 Some ships, with crews, and complements of armed men, have already left port, bound north.
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8 181 If any inquire after me, tell them I may be found at the wharves, and will be armed".
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9 266 "We all know of defeat and flight," he said, "the sorry fate of the occupational forces, of the rising of the men of Ar, of screaming crowds, diversely armed, of fires, of the decimation and disruption of troops, the desertion of officers, the stranding of units, of frequent withdrawals under fire, ...
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10 54 The long ships, of course, the armed war knives of the sea, seldom depart with slaves aboard, though they may return with them.
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21 69 "They are not armed".
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23 142 And the vessels of war were like knives in the water, swift, low, multiply oared, and concave prowed, armed with deck engines, rams, and crescent-like blades, which might shear away timbers and oars.
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23 146 It would be like a city at sea, a dangerous, armed city, walled with wood, with sails which might challenge clouds.
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25 360 Older animals, of course, may be reduced to hunting slower, less-desirable prey Where the sleen ranges, peasants, foresters, and such, commonly remain indoors at night, or, if venturing out, are likely to do so in armed groups.
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33 32 Too, my chances of survival were much higher here than if I were alone, here with these armed, skilled, dangerous, and mighty women, almost like creatures of the forest themselves, who could detect sign and move with stealth, whose passage would be little marked by the forest floor, who could read t...
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36 9 "How many would be armed then?" I asked.
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38 64 I counted four more of the newcomers, also armed with spears.
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43 998 "He did not expect a sizable party of armed men".
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43 1128 An armed force, I had gathered, waited at the mouth of the Alexandra, to prevent the great ship from reaching the sea.
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46 20 What a transformation of fortune was there! He was then free, and armed.
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52 285 From the trees and brush nearby an armed figure had emerged.
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52 977 "Our tarnsmen," he said, "are differently armed.
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Book 33. (30 results) Rebels of Gor

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1 55 I learned later of the nature of the attack, the silent, signaling smoke arrows coordinating the four prongs of the attack, from four passes, the following blasts of conch horns, and the rolling of drums, the streaming into the valley of armed men, the small, narrow, rectangular banners of Lord Yama...
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1 76 As a tarn force it was superbly trained and uniquely equipped for aerial combat, far more so than the usual tarn forces of known Gor, which usually consisted, in effect, of mounted infantry, spear bearing, and armed with a saddle-clearing crossbow.
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1 82 As well, of course, an aerial arm had much to offer from a number of points of view, such as raids, reconnaissance, communication, and, in limited numbers, the rapid and clandestine movement of small groups of armed men.
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9 73 At this signal hundreds of hitherto prostrate Pani, armed, sprang up, and began to fall on the looters, many of whom had cast away weapons, that they not be encumbered in bearing away their booty.
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9 103 It was just as well, for there would be little purpose in bringing the cavalry to the holding, and, in addition, I was reluctant to see the disposition allotted to the trapped looters, many of whom were not even armed, their greed having encouraged them to disburden themselves of the inconvenience a...
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10 102 Hardly had the first notes rung out than we heard another sound, the war blast of the horagai, and blades in their dozens thrust up through the canvas of dozens of wagons, cutting and ripping, and, emerging from the shreds of rent canvas, were screaming, armed men, many of two swords.
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10 105 From other wagons arose Ashigaru, armed with glaives.
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12 303 Also, there were two large Ashigaru, armed, behind me.
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14 4 Ashigaru were about, several armed with bows.
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15 46 From the sparkle of sunlight by day, and the glint of moonlight by night, I had determined that the courtyard wall, at least that portion which I could see from my quarters, was armed.
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15 50 On the other hand, I would later learn, interestingly, that this lack of an obvious warning arrangement, first, was intended to encourage an approach through the garden to the courtyard, which would then facilitate the entrapment of intruders between the double walls, those of the courtyard and thos...
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23 44 "The assailant," I said, "was armed, and clad darkly.
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23 61 Their crests are armed with glass, with blades and shards".
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30 103 Sometimes, of course, such schemes might be more successful, as when a paper currency might be used, which can then be multiplied and produced in any amount deemed useful by an appropriate, armed authority.
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30 702 Too, it is difficult to assess the nature of armed men, and their interests, particularly in troubled times.
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32 95 Arashi turned, wildly, seeing Yasushi, armed.
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32 108 "A warrior, a warrior inside, is armed," cried one of the fugitives from the eating hall.
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32 152 Both warriors then, Yasushi and young Tajima, were soon armed with their own weaponry.
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37 63 "The camp is armed," said Haruki.
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42 46 I fear they might have been unkind to Haruki, but they had little opportunity to do so, as Tajima and I, armed with the tent pegs, or stakes, if you will, approaching from different sides, struck them, from behind, heavily.
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48 8 Behind three of us, Tajima, Pertinax, and myself, stood an Ashigaru, armed with a large, weighty beheading sword.
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50 3 Two of us were armed with a glaive, Tajima and Pertinax, and each of us had in his sash, that of a common Ashigaru, a tanto.
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50 135 Too, I suspected that vital parts of the machinery would be sealed away from the curious, and armed in such a way that any attempt to examine them would result in the destruction of the equipment and, doubtless, the release of a quantity of lethal energy, either in radiation or explosiveness, which ...
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52 52 "They may be armed".
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52 61 This control apparatus, however, I suspect, is not armed.
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54 143 "It must be armed in such a way, some way, to protect this technology from discovery and imitation".
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61 260 "Those sighted were not uniformed, and were diversely armed.
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61 289 The whereabouts of Arashi were not known, but it was rumored he, with a handful of armed fellows, haunted the towns, roads, and villages of the north.
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61 596 Eventually he was freed of his chains and, during the traumas and exigencies of the ensuing months, particularly once the islands had been reached, and the need for armed men became more desperate, he had been allowed to serve with our mercenary contingents, rather as though he had been originally r...
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61 1024 "This man has been recently sought," said a Pani guardsmen, armed with a glaive, as were two others behind him.
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Book 34. (33 results) Plunder of Gor

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34 157 "And that humans, suitably armed, can be as dangerous as any other aggressive, stupid, self-seeking territorial form of life, similarly armed".
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55 44 "But," responded Lord Grendel, "it is a human armed, and a human armed is a human who must be reckoned with".
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1 478 But how could I receive a locksmith, clad as I was, armed with no excuse that might not border on the inane or transparently meretricious? Too, might he not suspect my motivations? Might he not even fear a fraud, a scandal or extortion, of some sort, a girl who might suddenly struggle and scream, th...
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11 141 It is men who carry spears and maintain walls; it is men who encounter the violence of the enemy; it is men who stand, armed and resolute, between the Home Stone and its desecration or destruction; it is men, the masters, who will decide what respect and privileges will be accorded women.
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23 232 He had been armed, a short sword in its scabbard slung from the left shoulder, rather than across the body.
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26 25 Given such considerations, and the consequent difficulty, frequently recognized, of obtaining justice, satisfaction, or vengeance, as the case may be, one can well understand the existence of an order of men, itinerant, independent, dedicated, armed, and skilled, for hire.
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29 71 "He is armed," I said.
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33 95 "Let us kill it, before it attacks us," said one of the men with an armed crossbow.
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33 667 How had he dared to place himself, armed with naught but that sliver of a knife, between a Kur and its quarry? The largest Kur, it whom I took to be their leader, it with the two rings on its left wrist, to whom the others had seemingly deferred, stood near the fallen lantern, and looked about.
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34 112 Suppose, rather, it was the world of a considerably different form of life, a mysterious, powerful form of life, about which we know little, that within its caves and dens, so to speak, quiescent until aroused, armed and wary, lurked beasts between whose paws worlds might be crushed".
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34 186 "So a plan was formed," he said, "to produce a form of life to bridge that chasm of mistrust and terror, to produce a form of life more acceptable to humans, one that might enlist the aid of thousands of humans, suitably armed, to rise against and overthrow Priest-Kings, thus unwittingly to do the w...
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45 34 "To the noble Lord Grendel!" called a large, handsome, long-armed, reclining, red-robed fellow at one of the two tables closest to the dais, lifting a wine goblet toward the dais.
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45 39 The long-armed, red-robed fellow who had first lifted his cup to Lord Grendel, initiating this gesture of recognition and esteem, signaling out and honoring him, was the same as he who had first cordially saluted him upon his entrance into this house, apparently one of several owned by Decius Albus.
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49 19 Clearly they were armed, their scabbarding presumably hosting that short, wicked blade known as the gladius.
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49 35 Commonly, popularly, there are five high castes, the Warriors, which claims sword right to the status, and who would deny that right to armed men, the Physicians, Builders, Scribes, and Initiates.
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53 25 For example, in some cities, a victorious general is not permitted to bring armed troops within the pomerium.
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54 133 "They are armed," said Kurik.
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55 11 Those about now, however, were armed, with axes, and thus could not use all their limbs in their running.
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57 32 What rendered me more apprehensive was the positioning of several guards, clearly armed, with spear and sword, about the fringes of the sheltered area.
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57 46 Neither he nor Lord Grendel, given the nature of the event, had come armed.
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57 137 "He determined," he said to Lord Grendel, "that I was not armed".
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57 208 But there could be no larl here, no forest panther, so close to Ar! And there were armed guards about, and it did not seem they were engaged.
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60 10 The other two sides, that before me, and to my right, were closed with armed guards, of which there might have been seventy or eighty.
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60 15 On his right was Drusus Andronicus, long-armed, handsome, and stalwart, in suitable scarlet, betokening his caste, who stood high in the house, and, on his left, clad openly, brazenly, unapologetically, in the hues of the night, was Tyrtaios, of the caste whose members acknowledge no Home Stone, the...
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60 158 "They are not soldiers, they are not armed," said Master Albus.
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60 213 "Let him be unchained, and armed".
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61 55 He was confident he could rely on his armed men, the guards, the soldiers.
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61 179 But now Surtak had returned, armed.
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61 187 The soldiers, armed, held their posts, as before, now uneasily, in two lines, closing off the two open edges of the field, that opposite the house, and that opposite the stands.
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61 491 "We are armed," said Drusus Andronicus to Kurik.
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61 644 "They are armed!" cried a man.
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61 748 "These are members of the entourage of Decius Albus, armed retainers, consider their livery, contingents within a small, personal army, a private army, that of the trade advisor to the Ubar".
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61 931 "Surely," said Surtak, "think of feeding, but think, too, of the men about, armed humans, who have other uses in mind for the collared she-beasts, men who outnumber you twelve to one.
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Book 35. (17 results) Quarry of Gor

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1 95 One is torn between convention, armed and aggressive, and socially coercive, and truth, between formulas and words and one's heart and blood.
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3 224 Presumably they were accompanied, even perhaps, waiting outside, by armed men.
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7 143 I sensed that, if he had been whole, and armed, he might have moved with a terrible swiftness, and that none of my abductors, though they were ten in number, would have left the chamber, which I now saw to be a cabin, alive.
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8 684 "And, even if we were willing to risk villages of rapacious peasants, armed with the great bow, we could not reach the shore".
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8 771 Surely the foe was a well-manned ship, a ship of war, so to speak, doubtless staffed and armed, prepared for such a contingency.
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8 791 "So here, now," he said, "we have four stalwart warriors, formidably armed".
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11 89 The hunter is armed with an urt spear, which is essentially a light harpoon with its attached rope, the coils of which are layered in a wooden bucket near the bow of the craft.
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11 245 The occupying forces, in days of terror and blood, overwhelmed by a massive revolt of a swarming populace, armed sometimes with no more than pointed sticks, staves, clubs, torches, and fragments of pavement, fled.
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17 161 Cripple that he was he had braved and defied, even intimidated, men both armed and dangerous.
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18 168 Then, threatened by taverner's men, armed with clubs and staves, amidst calls for guardsmen, he departed the tavern".
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33 271 We must have vessels, too, shallow-drafted and broad of beam, some large enough for the conveying of men, some small enough and quick enough for close work, armed with springals to launch javelins of fire, some sturdy enough to support catapults, for boulders and cauldrons of flaming oil".
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33 368 Two others, with armed crossbows, surveyed the water from the canal boat.
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33 672 I suspected that, together, and armed, they would survive.
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34 84 "As there were several of them, and armed, I suspect that some, at least, managed to return to the city".
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36 39 The chair at the literal head of the table, a large, sturdy, armed chair, was empty.
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45 146 At the same moment I heard shouting, and a note from a guardsman's trumpet, and two or three boats sliding against the pier, and saw men scrambling out of them, variously armed.
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46 670 Even now the taverner's men, armed with clubs and ropes, might be searching for us.
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Book 36. (3 results) Avengers of Gor

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2 54 "Any state which fears an informed, armed citizenry," I said, "any state which wishes to own, manipulate, and exploit its citizenry with impunity".
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2 133 "Perhaps we need only locate them," I said, "and then let the justice and vengeance of Cos, armed with fleets, inimical to piracy, sweep them from the sea".
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5 118 At that point, our lookout, armed with a Builders Glass, from the small, ringed platform on the raised mast, called out "Land, land, ho!" "The Cove of Harpalos," I said.
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