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Book 1. (5 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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1 97 Feeling rather foolish, I took out the can opener I had used on the chili can and attempted to force the metal point through the envelope.
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2 196 This conjecture, the seeking of holiness, however, seemed to me to fit not well with the sickening fate apparently awaiting those who attempted the mountains.
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5 23 My father, in his office as Administrator of Ko-ro-ba, had attempted to develop an alliance against Ar, but the free cities of Gor had, in their pride and suspicion, their almost fanatical commitment to protecting their own independent destinies, refused the alliance.
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9 151 His face was white beneath his helmet as he wildly attempted to parry my devastating attack.
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16 155 Indeed, I was momentarily overwhelmed with the cunning of Pa-Kur and rejoiced that I had followed something of Kazrak's counsels of patience and caution, that I had not disclosed my identity, that I had not attempted to cut my way to her side and bring her out by the blade of the sword.
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Book 2. (3 results) Outlaw of Gor

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21 78 Had I attempted to free her, it would have been as much an act of theft as if I had driven off the tharlarion wagon.
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23 135 One hand attempted to clutch his weapon but the sheath had been emptied.
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24 146 And should the warriors have attempted to use the tarns merely to fire down on the crowd, they would suddenly have found the streets deserted, until the shadow of the bird had passed and the rebels could move another hundred yards closer to the palace.
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Book 3. (2 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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14 155 To my human mind, used to the cruelties with which selfish men can implement their schemes, I saw nothing incomprehensible in the fact that Sarm would have attempted to engineer Misk's death.
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34 159 "Perhaps," said the Older Tarl, "she attempted to reach her father, Marlenus, in the Voltai".
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Book 4. (16 results) Nomads of Gor

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7 73 The translation, as you might expect, was a difficult task, but I attempted to convey as much as I could of what the girl, piteously, the words tumbling out, attempted to tell me.
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3 17 I knew that had I moved, or shown fear, or attempted to flee, I would now be dead.
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9 94 Indeed, to the annoyance of Elizabeth Cardwell, who had spent her nights under the wagon in the last weeks, there were two such in our own wagon, the girl Dina, whom I had snared in the contests of the bola, and her companion, the fine wench who had bitten the neck of Kamchak's kaiila and had attemp...
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9 432 "Have you no shame?" The girl attempted to rearrange the folds of the veil, but could only hold it before her face, for Kamchak had ripped away the pins by which it was customarily fastened.
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11 400 "Do you not recall," asked Kamchak, "the affair of the tiny bottles of perfume and the smell of bosk dung—how nobly you attempted to rid the banquet hall of that most unpleasant and distasteful odor?" "Yes," said the girl, very slowly.
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15 8 Several times also, hosts of tharlarion had attempted to protect caravans leaving the city, or advanced to meet scheduled caravans approaching Turia, but each time in spite of this support, the swift, harrying, determined riders of the Tuchuks had forced the caravans to turn back, or man by man, bea...
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15 44 I did not speak to Kamchak of my intention, for I was confident that he would have, and quite properly, objected to so foolish a mission, and perhaps even have attempted to prevent my leaving the camp.
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16 314 The matter of the message collar had been a clever way of attempting to gain that end but, because of the shrewdness of Tuchuks, who seldom take anything at its face value, it had failed; they had then attempted to bring me down among the wagons with a Paravaci quiva, but that, too, had failed; I gr...
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21 171 There was no objection to this on the part of anyone, provided entry into the guard stations was not attempted.
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22 117 There were musicians present and they, to the best of their ability under the circumstances, attempted to provide music for the feast.
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23 197 Neither wished the other to withdraw secretly and do for them what they together had done for the Paravaci, and what the Paravaci had attempted to do to the Tuchuks.
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24 8 Aside from these there remained few pockets of organized resistance in the city, though here and there, in alleys and on roof tops, small groups of Turians furtively and sporadically attempted to carry the war to the invaders.
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25 576 Then fully and for much time, she kissed me, with increasing determination, yet attempted subtlety, then anxiety, then woodenly, and then she dropped her head.
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26 87 Once or twice I heard swords ringing from within the walls, as perhaps some men, loyal to Saphrar, or to their codes, attempted to prevent their fellows from leaving the compound, but I gather, judging from the continued exodus from the walls, that those who were this loyal were scattered and few in...
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26 377 The pool then attempted to dessicate itself and retreat into its hardened shell-like condition but the fire within the closing shell burst it apart and open and then it was again like a lake of burning oil, with portions of the shell tossed like flaming chips upon it.
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26 454 Such a venture would not in all likelihood have been attempted by one who labored only for gold.
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Book 5. (8 results) Assassin of Gor

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13 232 I expect the fact that I walked as a Warrior, a sword at my side, perhaps dissuaded individuals who might otherwise have attempted to cut a purse or threaten a throat were they not rewarded for leniency.
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13 306 The first time I attempted to use the harness, though I was aware of the danger, I overdrew the strap and the suddenness of the bird as it veered in flight threw me against the two narrow safety straps; the small, broad, rapid-beating wings of the racing tarn permit shifts and turns that would be im...
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15 121 Four times Claudia Tentia Hinrabia had attempted to kill one of the girls but the others would easily overpower her; and the Hinrabian must endure her bath and her perfuming; when finished the girls would lock her raiment in a chest and then draw a slave hood over her head, locking it in place, and ...
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16 225 They had not exactly attempted to become friends with me, but they had not avoided me; and often where I was I found them about.
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18 72 "A moment ago," I charged, "you attempted to kill me".
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21 290 The four remaining men attempted to retain the picket.
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22 515 He attempted, in moving through the rings, to force us to the left, into the heavy edge, but before he could do so, we had passed him.
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22 528 I whipped out the Tuchuk bow and, in the instant, found myself wheeling and fighting in the midst of more than a dozen tarnsmen, while many others, wheeling about, attempted to press in upon me.
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Book 6. (9 results) Raiders of Gor

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8 107 If boarding were attempted toward the center of the line, the boarding party could thus be crushed on both flanks by warriors pouring in from adjacent barges.
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9 203 I attempted to kiss her, but she had turned and, not crying, left me.
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9 205 He had slain men who had attempted to climb to his saddle.
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10 241 I attempted to treat them fairly.
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11 240 Could it be, I asked myself, that Cos and Tyros were not implicated in the attempted coup? "What of Cos and Tyros!" I demanded of the wretch fastened on the rack.
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11 422 "I suspect," Samos was saying, "that Cos and Tyros are implicated in the attempted coup of the House of Sevarius".
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17 320 I knew tarns had destroyed riders who had attempted to ride them out over Thassa from the shore.
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18 621 "Claudius!" So that, I thought, was Claudius, who had been regent for Henrius Sevarius, and who, doubtless, had attempted to have him killed.
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18 841 "You never again attempted to contact me," I said.
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Book 7. (2 results) Captive of Gor

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11 1376 And when I had attempted to steal that of the Lady Rena of Lydius, unseen by Rena, Ute's hand had closed on my wrist.
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13 121 She had much fallen in love with him, but she had, as she had told me, once attempted to bend him to her will.
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Book 8. (11 results) Hunters of Gor

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5 57 If we had permitted Tina to run free, as with Cara, I think she might have attempted escape.
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5 118 The penalty for attempted flight by a slave girl, for the first offense, is commonly a severe beating.
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6 612 She attempted to run but one of my men seized her by the arm, and flung her back before us.
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8 306 I fell again, and again stumbled to my feet and, unsteadily, attempted to run.
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11 100 The punishment was so light because it was the first time the girl had attempted to run away.
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11 333 "She attempted to serve as a slave," said Marlenus, "to put us off our guard".
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11 834 She attempted to lift her lips, delicately, to his, but his hand prevented them from touching his.
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18 641 "Is this the first time you have attempted to escape?" he asked.
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19 198 "Who but a madman would have attempted such work? Who but a madman could have succeeded in it?" "His fees were large?" I asked.
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20 153 I saw two more men of Tyros fall, one with Sarus, one with those who had attempted to flee.
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22 149 "So," inquired Marlenus, "this slave attempted to escape?" "Please do not lash me, Masters," whispered Hura.
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Book 9. (5 results) Marauders of Gor

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1 453 I had not attempted to stop her.
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6 400 The Kurii not unoften fed on men, and men, of course, in consequence, attempted to hunt and slay, when they could, the beasts.
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8 101 I attempted to conceal one vial, which we had not permitted her to sample.
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10 51 "I should have known!" Though I attempted to console him, he remained much put out with himself, and for more than an Ahn afterward.
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10 94 Sometimes, in the south, female slaves are dressed in the robes of free women, even veiled, and taken by their masters to see tarn races, or games, or song-dramas; many assume that she, sitting regally by his side, is a companion, or being courted for the companionship; only he and she know that the...
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Book 10. (6 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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4 202 A common problem with slave girls was petty thievery, as they attempted to steal pastries or sweets.
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7 337 "But you," said he, "who attempted to assassinate our noble Suleiman Pasha, will not be given light assignments".
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10 66 Surely, in but a few days, word that Aretai tribesmen had destroyed, or attempted to destroy, a well at Two Scimitars would spread like fire across the desert, inflaming and outraging men from Tor to the Turian outpost, merchant fort, and trading station of Turmas.
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14 652 None attempted to flee into the desert.
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21 224 I no longer attempted to remove particles from them.
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25 99 There I saw, from the wall, on the desert below, prisoners being herded back to the kasbah, men who had attempted to flee the walls and escape into the desert.
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Book 11. (8 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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4 966 He was, I supposed, considering my punishment, for having attempted to escape.
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4 967 I did not know at that time what was commonly done to a girl who has attempted to escape, and has been recaptured.
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4 1042 I attempted to escape.
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4 1106 I had knelt and, with hands and mouth, kissing and touching, attempted to please the free man.
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8 237 "You attempted to escape," he said.
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12 441 "I attempted to improve my time," said the man.
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18 103 Whereas the first penalty is commonly only a severe beating, the second one often involves hamstringing, or the cutting of the tendons behind the knees; this cripples the girl and makes her generally useless save as a pathetic example to her sisters in bondage of the foolishness of attempted escape.
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18 106 The most interesting attempted escape which I know of, however, took place in a locked tavern, not unlike the Chatka and Curla.
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Book 12. (2 results) Beasts of Gor

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9 210 To be sure, such impostures are almost always attempted not by an Earth female enslaved but by a Gorean female enslaved.
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35 385 I had not attempted to kill or detain their keeper.
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Book 13. (4 results) Explorers of Gor

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2 38 They would not understand a world in which dirty jokes had point, a world in which a woman's attractiveness was supposedly a function of the utilization of certain commercial products, or a world in which men and women were taught that they were the same, and in which they attempted to believe it, a...
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4 719 I did not think she should have attempted to inconvenience honest citizens.
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48 20 It had been he, with his confederate, Sasi, who had attempted to attack me in Port Kar, along the side of the canal leading to the pier of the Red Urt.
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53 156 Msaliti had already attempted one attack on his life, that in which Jambia, the assassin, died by the osts, that same attack in which he sought to implicate you".
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Book 14. (1 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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5 217 "Lola should not have attempted to embroil you in difficulties with me," she said.
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Book 15. (5 results) Rogue of Gor

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6 89 Too, the penalties even for attempted escape are often severe.
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8 119 He himself had neither supported nor attempted to deter the fellow who had threatened me.
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19 30 Though men stood about none had attempted to steal the purse of the merchant, which lay nearby.
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22 115 How zealously earnest she had been to dress in certain ways and behave in certain ways, to deny her beauty and its meaning, how desperately she had tried to live up to ideological strictures foreign to her needs; how pathetically she had dutifully repeated slogans; how sincerely she had tried to bel...
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23 132 I had not attempted to respond to him, truly, but had only defended myself.
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Book 16. (2 results) Guardsman of Gor

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12 84 Alerted thusly to their danger they would have attempted to withdraw.
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16 339 Swiftly he attempted to draw his blade.
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Book 17. (3 results) Savages of Gor

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3 167 I attempted to press a tarsk bit into his hand, but he pushed it back.
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8 501 As I had not volunteered to accompany one or the other of them back to her master's tavern they should have attempted, after a bit, to apply their beauty and enslaved wiles to the enticement of a more likely prospect.
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17 212 Certainly the savages would have anticipated an attempted escape in the sector where they had appeared to position what, in effect, was their temporary infantry.
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Book 18. (4 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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1 231 Had he attempted to do so he would have been, without a saddle, dragged literally from the back of the kaiila.
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12 231 "In the herd," I said, "you attempted to conceal yourself from me".
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25 79 Ropes stretched between lodges can interfere with low-flight attacks and impede attempted landings.
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28 219 Similarly, if we attempted to protect ourselves from aerial fire, by lifting our shields, we would be exposing ourselves to the Yellow Knives' plane of attack.
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Book 19. (6 results) Kajira of Gor

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8 87 This is a device to control the movements of free women in the house and a precaution against the attempted escape of slave girls pretending to be free women".
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13 89 But he had not abducted me, nor attempted to do so.
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14 100 I attempted to pull the cloak forward more, and averted my face, that my features might not be seen.
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33 60 I attempted to assert a persistent influence in the directions of harmony and peace.
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33 132 He could not very well inform the assemblage of the exchange he had attempted to effect earlier in the throne room.
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36 1242 I was pleased that neither Susan nor myself had attempted to falsify or attenuate the matter.
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Book 20. (2 results) Players of Gor

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14 275 I knew that even strange urts were often torn to pieces when they attempted to approach a new pack.
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14 364 That would explain why a strange urt, though even of the pack's own species, would be fallen upon and killed if it attempted to join the pack.
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Book 21. (6 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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13 80 There searches are made, lest it be attempted to carry valuables from the city".
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18 160 "Such a fate might have been yours," I said, "had we attempted to reach Ar across country".
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25 490 "It was merely that she attempted to elicit my pity, to win my choice, telling me that if she was not chosen tonight she would be whipped".
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25 557 As yet, as nearly as I could tell, no one had attempted to contact me.
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25 2345 I had waited, but no one, it seemed, had attempted to make contact.
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26 1087 "What you attempted to do would earn a slave a beating at least," I said, "if her hands were not cut off, or if she were not fed to sleen".
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Book 22. (5 results) Dancer of Gor

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1 21 This, in a sense, was the third such garment I had attempted.
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6 611 Here men were not tolerant of attempted escapes.
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11 916 I teased them, dancing close to them, swaying, my belly alive for them, with the jangling metal pieces, the anklets clashing on my ankles, the bracelets sliding and ringing on my wrists, and then, as they attempted to seize me, drew back, backing away, or whirled, with a swirl of beads, away from th...
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11 1198 Perhaps mollified then to some extent by my placatory behavior in kissing the whip he had decided to take the time to make test of my virginity rather than simply and with terrible force utilizing me, moving aside whatever obstacle, if any, might have attempted to impede the progression of his maste...
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11 1305 Something within me that I now sensed, something deep in my belly but which seemed to radiate out through my whole body, now hinted obscurely of something different, of sensations and feelings, of yieldings and submissions such that I hastily attempted to drive even the thought of them from my mind.
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Book 23. (8 results) Renegades of Gor

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2 71 If it were true, however, why had Ar's tarnsmen not attempted to interdict these supply routes? If they had, I had heard nothing of it.
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2 345 "There seems a point then in having you chained here," I said, "aside, of course, from such things as having you brought to the attention of fellows who might redeem you and making clear the inn's disapproval of attempted fraud, namely, that you might serve as a warning to other free women, women wh...
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5 162 Also, I think he was not too pleased with women such as we, who had attempted to do fraud and dupery within his inn".
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10 146 I shook the leash and Lady Klio, naked, attempted to perform.
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15 905 I think that her bonds, the security of her gag, her inability to dislodge the hood, its effectiveness in concealing her, the ease with which her attempted escape had been dealt with, had all combined to make clear to her her utter helplessness, that she could not, in the least, by her will or actio...
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21 653 "You attempted to escape," he said.
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21 1328 She had attempted to take advantage of the fact that she had not yet been branded and collared.
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21 1329 She had attempted to pass herself off as a free woman.
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Book 24. (10 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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14 39 "You attempted to escape today," he said.
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16 112 Columns must by now have attempted to escape from the delta, I thought.
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27 138 "My mistake, it seems, was to have attempted to have been of service to Ar".
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35 11 We had attempted to teach the new fellows, those who had been pursuing Marcus, both by instruction and example, such things as the concealment of camps and survival in an enemy area.
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37 172 These are usually attended by, and embedded within, a panoply of psychological apparatus, such as gesture, expression, tone of voice, attempted intimidation, threats, innuendoes, policing the means of communication, power seizure, managing hiring policies, general oppression, pervasive censorship, c...
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37 372 "I think for a moment," said Liadne, "you attempted to resist the slave orgasm".
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46 261 Indeed, he had attempted to do so.
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46 280 Where, I asked myself, might such a wench hide? She might, I thought, have attempted to hide in the infirmary.
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46 363 If I were thinking to hide, as a man, I might have attempted to reach the roof.
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47 205 Had that been the case I would have attempted to cast doubt on the value of the note.
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Book 25. (7 results) Magicians of Gor

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2 378 Similarly the penalties for attempted escape, particularly for a second attempt, are severe, usually involving hamstringing.
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4 94 "Yes, I suppose you could," I said, "and probably without much difficulty, but if your intent is its rescue, and not your death in its attempted rescue, this is not the time to strike".
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7 18 Some citizens had attempted to interfere with this, but were discouraged with clubs and blades.
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8 274 For example, when we had passed by various open-air markets, shelf markets, and such, many of the girls, nude in their chains, usually fastened by the neck or ankle to heavy iron rings, had clearly, to the fury of Phoebe, in posings, and by means of subtle glances, and such, attempted to call themse...
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9 163 There was suddenly a scuffle near the far ramp and a guardsman seized a woman who had suddenly turned about and attempted to run.
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25 57 As Appanius, crying out again with rage, again attempted to circle about, so that he could strike the girl, the fellow became tangled in the net and could no longer protect her.
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25 678 Too, I recalled he had, to the best of his ability, attempted to shelter her from the blows of the irate Appanius.
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Book 26. (9 results) Witness of Gor

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4 408 I wondered, though I attempted to prevent the thought from occurring, sensing its immediate and inevitable appearance, what it might be to be in his arms.
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7 847 I had not, as far as I knew, at least clearly, attempted to call myself again to his attention.
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7 848 I had not attempted, or had I, to solicit such commands? There are, of course, ways in which women such as I, subtly, wordlessly, with a tiny movement of the body, a seemingly inadvertent placement of ourselves, a lifting of the bosom, a catching of the breath, the shyest of glances, the tiniest mov...
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8 134 I attempted, instantly, to govern my emotions, to marshal them, and break them, and align them in accordance with the dictates to which I had been subjected all my life.
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9 46 One of the guards attempted to distract her, calling her attention to a new model of a pleasure rack.
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9 277 How, I wondered, did those who concerned themselves with such things, to whom they were doubtless a matter of business, assess such potentialities? Did they imagine me naked, or how I might look in silk, moving sensuously, or kneeling, in chains, such things? And how did they know about my secret he...
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11 928 Should I have tried to be unresponsive and frigid, and thus, in some absurd or perverted sense, have attempted to uphold the honor of the women of Earth? And it was not merely that in the pens many of my inhibitions had been forcibly removed from me and that my natural sexuality had been freed and e...
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14 1572 One might, of course, merely be told that curiosity is not becoming in a kajira, which, I had learned, is something of a saying on this world, but, more likely, one might be cuffed or beaten, and then one might have one's hands bound behind one and one's question written on, say, the interior of one...
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20 8 I had never again attempted to taunt him, as I had once.
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Book 27. (8 results) Prize of Gor

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27 1468 Had she feared or resented men? Had she delighted in frustrating or tormenting men? Had she scorned men? Had she attempted to use them for her purposes? Had she attempted to twist their needs and use these needs, like knives, against them? In any event, the maneuverings, the fencings, the negotiatio...
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14 112 Another, at the mere snapping of fingers or an imperious gesture, receives from she whom he has never taken the time or interest to truly know, she whom he has never questioned as to her depths and needs, she to whom he has never intimately and truly spoken, she whom he has never attempted to unders...
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17 315 She, in keeping with her lingering Earth values, and fearing to become merely another slave girl on the world of Gor, had attempted to remain as cold and inert as possible, trying to distract herself with irrelevant thoughts, trying not to feel, trying not to respond.
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17 1201 Where was his gentleness, his tenderness, his sensitivity? Surely he could not know my crimes against men on my own world, how I foolishly, deluded by the madness of propaganda, attempted to abet their destruction? Doubtless I have much to pay for! I wonder if the men of Earth will one day make the ...
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24 605 Then, with ever greater desperation, she attempted to stir his interest, to inflame his passion, and as a piteous, now-aroused, begging, needful slave.
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26 119 "I attempted to dissuade them," said Selius Arconious.
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27 1229 He easily pierced, it seems, the facades of falsification and fabrication within which she had attempted to hide the slave of her.
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27 1711 To be sure, they probably would have been fired upon if they had either attacked, or attempted to flee.
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Book 28. (6 results) Kur of Gor

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3 26 "You attempted to rescue me," she said.
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18 124 Had his pursuers been unwary and unsuspecting men, or such beasts of another sort, he might have circled about and attempted, undetected, from the rear, to eliminate them one by one, certainly were they in single file and suitably separated.
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32 164 "I saw how you attempted to display yourself to this fellow in the container, how you turned, seemingly so innocently, to exhibit your figure, how you held your head, at this attitude or another, how you extended your legs, and held your arms, how you pointed your toes to curve your calves in that d...
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47 149 Neither attempted to free their weapon.
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55 274 "It is true," said Lord Grendel, "that we had attempted to assure her of the harmlessness of cattle humans".
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63 125 The leader of the cattle humans, of course, was not privy to the machinations of Agamemnon's minions, nor would he have understood their concerns even had they attempted to explain them to him.
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Book 29. (9 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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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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5 741 The others then, though doubtless some with misgivings, for a woman is extremely vulnerable before a male when she is in "position," attempted, to a greater or lesser extent, to duplicate the posture and bodily attitude of the girl to whom I had called their attention.
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10 449 For example, he would presumably have attempted to duplicate the diffident, half-apologetic body language of the man of Earth, and the subdued discourse of the typical, reduced male of Earth, culturally engineered to betray his natural power and manhood.
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10 477 She introduced herself, engaged in conversation, even light-hearted banter, and subtly attempted to suggest, from the very first, that she found me physically attractive.
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10 630 "No," she cried, "no!" "I entered it myself," said Thrasilicus, "and, as noted, on the very afternoon of the aforementioned business luncheon, following which, you may recall, you attempted to entice me to join your list of clients, that line of naive fellows begging for your attention, those eager ...
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19 186 Once withdrawn I stationed my men about the stable, encircling it fully, lest any makeshift exit be attempted.
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28 459 "Both may have attempted the work of the assassin," I said, "but neither, I fear, are of the Assassins".
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33 73 "But these strange men," said Lord Nishida, "attempted to rule us".
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35 111 "You released an attempted assassin, Licinius Lysias of Turmus," said Lord Nishida.
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Book 30. (14 results) Mariners of Gor

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3 1277 ' Later, as I attempted to comprehend the pain, my back afire, my eyes red from weeping, my wrists bound over my head, the leader's voice was heard, at my ear, but as though from afar.
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5 104 "Five days ago," said Seremides, addressing himself to the seeming rabble about, "without provocation, we were attacked by Cosian pirates, who attempted to burn our ship.
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7 68 A mariner had attempted to do so, in the wind and rain, in darkness, after the twentieth Ahn, but was apprehended by the deck patrol, and, by order of Tersites himself, was put under the lash, the snake, twelve strokes.
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12 461 The slut had not cried out, had not attempted to warn me.
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12 463 To be sure, I could well understand why the bound slave would not have attempted to warn me of danger, even were she aware of it.
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13 146 "Why has it not been attempted?" asked Cabot.
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21 808 So why would this slave have attempted to conceal her face? "Position," I said to her, soothingly.
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28 280 I attempted to scorn and detest her.
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30 145 Seremides had, of course, attempted to use the failure of the desertion, naturally enough, as an opportunity to embroil Tereus, whom he feared, with the Pani.
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36 67 "You will recall the attempted desertion, which you did something to delay, and may have fatally impaired, at the gate.
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36 72 Suspicion, in our search for the leaders and organizers of the attempted desertion, fell naturally on armsmen, and, in particular, on those who were, or had been, high armsmen.
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36 75 More than a hundred armsmen who had attempted desertion were questioned, several unpleasantly.
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36 195 "Lord Nishida expresses his appreciation for your work at the gate, at the time of the attempted desertion, and both he and Tarl Cabot, the tarnsman, salute you, in the matter of the ship".
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36 360 I recalled, from the tale of the stranger, that some evidence had suggested that Tyrtaios, who may have had much to do with the attempted desertion, and who had disappeared from the castle of Lord Temmu, might be of the Assassins.
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Book 31. (5 results) Conspirators of Gor

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7 641 I attempted to tear the hood from my head, but such are not meant to be removed by such as I.
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30 78 He made an angry noise, which pleased me, though I attempted to conceal my pleasure.
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49 42 If none had attempted escape, Grendel would have seen to it that food, in the usual manner, would have been delivered to the larl.
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52 172 Should investigations not be initiated? Should some surveillance, of a type, where possible, not be attempted? Were such suspicions foolish? One does not suspect sleen and larls of intrigue and infamy.
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52 561 "Restlessness, desire, curiosity, a helplessness one attempted to dismiss," I said.
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Book 32. (4 results) Smugglers of Gor

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14 217 Two fellows had attempted to incite mutiny.
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15 728 I must hate them all, all, even he whom I had unsuccessfully attempted to banish from my least thoughts.
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29 164 Sometimes free women, miserable and unhappy in their lives, resentful of the conventional constraints commonly imposed on them in the cities and towns, fleeing unwanted matches, debtors hoping to escape the law, and such, attempted to join a band of Panther Girls.
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52 573 "I would have attempted to intervene," he said.
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Book 33. (8 results) Rebels of Gor

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19 237 I noted no blemish which she might have attempted to conceal.
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21 55 Four days ago, following the slaying of the reader of bones and shells, Tatsu, and the attempted assassination of Lord Yamada, Tajima and Pertinax had left the palace grounds and, as far as I knew, returned safely to the encampment beyond the holding of Lord Temmu.
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23 254 "Unfortunately, noble one," he said, "as wise as your hope might be, that rendezvous was attempted, and failed, which intelligence I have also from the aforementioned peasant, a trap having been laid and sprung.
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25 63 Haruki, I gathered, had attempted to reach the cot, where he would attempt to attach my tiny message, in English, to the leg of one of the vulos captured by Yamada's men from the surprised and seized secret cot, remote from the palace, which vulos would doubtless, for identificatory purposes, be ind...
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30 319 It would be inconvenient, if you attempted to escape".
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61 16 I learned he had often patrolled the perimeter of that camp, in the sleen's territorial manner, as we had hoped, this much increasing its security, and he had on more than one occasion dealt with interlopers, or spies, who had attempted to infiltrate its precincts.
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61 312 Neither the shogun nor any of his guards attempted to detain him.
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61 589 Licinius Lysias, long ago, in a training exercise at Tarncamp, from tarnback, had attempted the assassination of Lord Nishida.
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Book 34. (8 results) Plunder of Gor

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5 10 Unattended, even handcuffed together, might we not have attempted flight? But I was afraid that Paula, even given such an opportunity, might have dallied, or, if she ran, it would have been merely for my sake, that I might not have been impeded.
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9 57 I had then, later, when he again addressed his attentions to me, fearing I might succumb, attempted to hold myself inert.
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42 206 I attempted, wildly, irrationally, in sudden panic, to spring to my feet, but, my ankles bound, I fell heavily to the flooring, before the door.
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52 266 "I attempted to interest another master," I said.
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56 88 "As I understand it," said Drusus Andronicus, "something of that sort was attempted, on Emerald".
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57 67 Whereas, given the collaring, clothing, and marking of a girl, the closely knit nature of the society, the acceptance and approval of bondage in the culture, and the culture's unquestioned support of, and enforcement of, the rigors of the institution of bondage, there is no escape for the Gorean sla...
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65 399 Then I recalled the wrong I had done to Paula, how I had attempted to steal the affections of Drusus Andronicus, not because I wanted him, but because, in my vanity, I had been jealous of her.
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66 59 I was again overcome with misery and guilt, that Paula knew nothing of my indiscretion, or betrayal, when I had attempted to sway the manhood and lust of Drusus Andronicus in my favor.
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Book 35. (7 results) Quarry of Gor

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3 162 Had I attempted to deceive him, however, or if I had tried to present a response which was not genuine, I am sure I would have felt the leather, and well.
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20 119 And penalties for attempted escape could be not only painful, but grievous.
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23 22 What had become of me? I had not attempted to run, or escape, but how could I prove that? Would Ho-Tosk, or his men, or guardsmen, believe my story of abduction and interrogation? I felt oddly, cumbersomely, uncomfortably clothed.
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25 53 I did not, of course, know what his plans were, other than, I supposed, the attempted acquisition of Adraste, the beautiful former Lady Julia Leta, of Ar.
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39 235 "He might be legitimately seized for the attempted destruction of property," said the officer.
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40 324 But, I thought, to preserve the charade that she had attempted to flee the tavern, a beating might be in order, lest suspicions be aroused otherwise.
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41 109 This suggested to me that the men of the holding had attempted to challenge the intruders on the third level, but unsuccessfully.
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Book 36. (6 results) Avengers of Gor

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13 25 Three of the raiders had attempted to swim away from our attack, but had been unsuccessful.
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41 6 Several times in the early days of the siege, the enemy had attempted to apply a tactic brilliant in the manuals but hazardous in the field.
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41 78 On the fourth day of the siege, Thrasymedes and the council attempted to negotiate a withdrawal of the corsairs, offering them fifty stone of gold for their departure and a pledge never to return, and then, later, a hundred stone of gold for their simple departure.
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45 120 I shall not report the order in which I received the reports, but rather the nature of the five acts, or attempted acts, reported in what would seem to be the order, or near order, in which they took place.
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45 121 It seemed likely that all the acts, or attempted acts, were the result of the activities of a single individual.
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49 36 Had they attempted to attack us here, or nearby, here on land, they would have risked losing us.
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