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Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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7 9 She looked at me, stunned, and backed away, being careful to avoid Nar by a safe distance.
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Book 2. (2 results) Outlaw of Gor

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5 113 He had told me to throw myself upon it, to avoid my shame, to frustrate for once the will of the mighty Priest-Kings of Gor.
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25 76 I clung to the neck to avoid the snapping jaws, those three rows of sharp, frenzied white lacerating teeth that sought to bury themselves in my flesh.
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Book 3. (2 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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18 44 I swung the transportation disk in a graceful arc to one side of the tunnel to avoid running into a crablike organism covered with overlapping plating and then swung the disk back in another sweeping arc to avoid slicing into a stalking Priest-King who lifted his antennae quizzically as we shot past...
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24 54 How horrible I thought it would be to be trapped in these tunnels, waiting for the Beetle, able to avoid it perhaps for hours, perhaps days, but not daring to sleep or to stop, not knowing if one were going down a blind passage, if the Beetle were suddenly to confront one at the next turn.
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Book 4. (7 results) Nomads of Gor

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4 22 I was later to learn that kaiila are trained to avoid the thrown spear.
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9 481 Moreover, to avoid legal complications and free the assets for investment and manipulation, the transfer is asymmetrical, in the sense that the individual, even should he somehow later recover his freedom, retains no legal claim whatsoever on the transferred assets.
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12 507 By the time I could manage to avoid their buffeting bodies and crawl under the rope that joined them, my assailant was gone.
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19 66 Harold left the walk and stepped carefully to avoid trampling a patch of talenders, a delicate yellow flower, often associated in the Gorean mind with love and beauty.
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21 300 I managed to slip my blade through the ribs of one man and twist to avoid the thrust of the other.
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23 85 In the morning, however, they would presumably avoid the herd, find a clear avenue of attack, and strike, perhaps even through the wagons, pinning us against our own herd.
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26 402 "Pa-Kur," I said, "defeated in personal combat on the high roof of the Cylinder of Justice in Ar, turned and to avoid capture threw himself over the ledge.
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Book 5. (2 results) Assassin of Gor

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12 385 "Perhaps you did not enjoy the races?" It was the voice of the man who had sat behind me in the tiers, before I had changed my seat to avoid recognition by the small fool Hup, he who had spoken poorly of the Hinrabian on the throne of Ar, and who had purchased a candy from the fool.
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22 563 The Red, cursing, tried to force us up, where we might strike the unpadded bar; at our speed we might be cut in two; my tarn struggled to avoid the bar, not turning to do battle, but persisting in his race; I was suddenly aware of the arm of Menicius flying forward and I instinctively threw myself f...
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Book 6. (1 results) Raiders of Gor

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14 150 After two Ahn, sometimes increasing the beat, sometimes decreasing it, depending on whether or not we wished to avoid being actually overtaken or we wished to encourage our pursuers, we had spread them behind us in a long, straggling line, its spacing an index to the speed of their individual ships.
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Book 7. (4 results) Captive of Gor

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4 146 "You ran always to avoid it".
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10 67 It was all I could do to avoid clenching my knees together, as though that pathetic little gesture would provide any defense against the forceful, dividing, booted sandal of a master.
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15 158 When I could, of course, I managed to avoid tasks, or perform them in a hasty, slipshod manner, that I might save myself inconvenience and labor.
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16 266 The slave strives to avoid the whip, but is thrilled to know that she is subject to it.
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Book 8. (1 results) Hunters of Gor

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15 29 That a girl may have fought to the last moment with the last ounce of her strength to avoid being conquered is of no interest to the panther girl.
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Book 9. (2 results) Marauders of Gor

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2 96 And many men, who suspect that the Initiates, in their claims and pretensions, are frauds, will nonetheless avoid coming into conflict with the caste.
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14 250 I heard a Kur below me scream with pain; I looked down, and hauled myself up to avoid the stroke of an ax; one Kur reeled about; the left side of its furred head, wet, drenched in oil, was aflame; it screamed hideously; it clawed at its left eye.
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Book 10. (5 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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1 298 Passion, it is thought, deprives the free woman to some extent of her freedom and self-control; it is frowned upon because it makes her behave, to some extent, like a degraded female slave; free women, thus, to protect their honor and dignity, their freedom and personhood, their individuality, must ...
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4 261 To avoid the deprivation of food, the whip, she obeyed perfectly, but outwardly.
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8 33 Once, the lofty palms small behind me, I had to turn aside, to avoid being buffeted by the return of the last of the search parties.
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11 411 Caravans with goods tend to travel the western, or distant eastern edge of the Tahari; caravans do, it might be mentioned, occasionally travel from Tor or Kasra to Turmas, a Turian outpost and kasbah, in the southeastern edge of the Tahari, but even these commonly avoid the dune country, either movi...
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11 442 Indeed, they would tend to avoid Aretai and Aretai-dominant oases, at least until they could come in force, paying the respects of the Tahari with steel.
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Book 11. (5 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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5 317 Too, my master had told me to avoid capture.
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9 2177 Had I sought the position it would have seemed to all that I did so for your ambition and to avoid the lashing of your tongue".
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16 171 The evidence, if evidence it is that such an agreement exists, is that the black slavers tend to avoid preying on shipping which plies to and from Schendi.
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27 204 "Yes," said Clitus Vitellius, moving his head to one side to avoid a flying bottle.
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27 381 I was to avoid eye contact.
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Book 12. (6 results) Beasts of Gor

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7 224 It is a matter of pride for members of that caste to avoid the use of poisoned steel.
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11 366 The tarnsman to my left drew back on the one-strap to avoid fouling straps with his ally.
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14 101 I thought I could probably avoid or fend its blows.
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24 123 "Avoid them then at all costs," she said.
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35 80 Ship Kurii, crashed or marooned on Earth, have usually made their way to remote areas, not simply to avoid human habitations but to secure access to a less polluted, more tolerable atmosphere.
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36 75 "I ran away from Copper Cliffs to avoid an unwanted match," she said.
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Book 13. (6 results) Explorers of Gor

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1 240 "It might avoid, too, the dangers of shipment upon Thassa," I said, "and provide, as well, a road to conquest and the acquisition of new territory".
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3 67 One of the most practical strategies for those who would avoid guardsmen, of course, is to follow them in their rounds.
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24 40 "Let us avoid them".
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31 86 "Why have they remained strong and proud, joyful and mighty, and free, so unlike the men of my world? Have they not been taught that it is wrong for them to be true men, that it is wrong for them to fulfill themselves and be happy? Have they not been taught that frustration, and conflict and misery,...
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32 218 These, on the whole, however, avoid men.
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48 147 Women will do much to avoid it.
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Book 14. (1 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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7 514 I had little doubt but what many specialists on Earth were familiar with such facts, facts they found it politically pertinent to suppress, or, should one say, politically pertinent to avoid bringing forward for general attention.
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Book 15. (4 results) Rogue of Gor

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6 142 "Avoid Victoria," he said.
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6 146 "Then avoid Victoria," he said.
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7 46 I had gone a pasang inland to avoid river tharlarion and proceeded, paralleling the river, toward Victoria.
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10 213 In general, the Gorean female slave lives in mortal fear of the Gorean free woman and usually endeavors, as much as possible, to avoid them.
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Book 16. (6 results) Guardsman of Gor

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4 107 The first galley, isolated behind our lines, was trying to swing to the southeast, to avoid the chain and find the open water to the east.
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9 218 I fled Port Cos to avoid an unwanted companionship.
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16 299 The greatest danger to a swimmer, incidentally, is not the blade itself, for its lower curve is usually at least a foot out of the water, and it is not difficult to avoid it.
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17 20 Free women, incidentally, tend to avoid the Street of the Writhing Slave.
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20 1766 How could a girl avoid that, when she kneels to him, ties his sandals, cooks for him, bathes him, launders for him, wears his chains, and so on.
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20 1769 Certainly a girl in time hopes to please her master, not simply to avoid punishment, but because she wants him to accept her, and approve of her.
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Book 17. (8 results) Savages of Gor

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1 985 Similarly it is common for lone travelers or small parties to avoid open spaces without cover, where this is possible, and where it is not possible, to cross them expeditiously.
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2 114 The safest course for a merchant captain to follow, whether of Port Kar or not, if he is not moving in convoy, with attendant ramships, is to avoid all contact with other vessels between ports.
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2 227 Thus we might avoid the precedent of a direct subsidy to a subcaste.
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8 980 "Avoid them, then," he said.
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10 43 "To raise dust like that, in this terrain," said Grunt, "you must ride across draws, rather than avoid them, and you must ride in a cluster, where the dust will rise, cloudlike, rather than rise and fall, in a narrow line, swiftly dissipated by the wind".
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10 51 They would avoid, where possible, grassless, dry areas, and they would ride at intervals, in single file.
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13 322 "I wished to avoid the imminent and obvious fate of the debutante," she said, "to be bartered for position and power on the marriage market".
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17 592 "What if a society is mistaken, and takes pains to avoid rectifying its errors, what if it refuses, in the light of evidence, to correct its mistakes?" "Evidence can usually be explained away or reinterpreted to accord with treasured beliefs," I said.
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Book 18. (7 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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2 150 A beautiful slave will often go well out of her way to avoid such.
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9 431 "Do not whip me!" But I laid the quirt to her well, five times, first striking her from her hands and knees to the robes, and then, as she twisted and rolled, helpless to avoid the blows, lashed her upon them.
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28 260 Red savages, on the whole, prefer to avoid fighting in darkness.
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28 262 Some savages, too, prefer to avoid night combat for medicine reasons.
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28 303 I saw another man toward the rear, an archer, discharge an arrow, and leap to the side, to avoid a rider.
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47 233 A trained tarnsman is taught to avoid it.
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50 82 "She lies merely to avoid the rocks," said a man, sneeringly.
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Book 19. (1 results) Kajira of Gor

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15 21 Already it seemed to me that there were more people about than before, more men to avoid.
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Book 20. (5 results) Players of Gor

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1 708 It is little wonder that Gorean free women avoid paga taverns, and hurry past them.
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2 923 They know they are susceptible to this punishment, and will do much to avoid it.
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6 688 "Try to avoid being eaten by sleen," said Boots.
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8 146 At such times, annually, it is usually necessary only to avoid them.
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12 349 I had been awaiting only a judicious opportunity, one in which the topic might seem to be broached naturally, in such a way as to avoid arousing his curiosity or suspicion.
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Book 21. (10 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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1 180 Accordingly, a slave will commonly go to great lengths to avoid its kiss.
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5 476 In a city, after a few switchings, I was sure Feiqa would learn a common lesson of slave girls, namely, that compared to free women she was less than dirt beneath their slippers, less than garbage in the sewers, that she would learn to avoid them if at all possible, and, if addressed, kneel before t...
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7 11 If one kept one's eyes closed it was easier to avoid the glare from the light on the stones.
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13 305 But let her dread and avoid, as she can, free women.
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22 375 They avoid looking in the most likely places, in biology, in nature.
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25 1011 But perhaps they concealed themselves, to avoid being pointed out, set upon, lacerated and destroyed.
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26 185 I prefer to avoid it.
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26 2046 This leash pressure, in testing, of course, either is done with the ring in the front position, to avoid damage to the throat, even if the collar is then to be turned and she is to be back-controlled, or, if the ring is left in the back position, in such a way, say, with a thumb or fingers inserted ...
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26 2047 The general consideration here, of course, is to avoid pressure to the front of the throat.
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26 2048 It is general Gorean practice to avoid even the slightest of pressures here.
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Book 22. (2 results) Dancer of Gor

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9 274 Was that all my training in the house counted for, I wondered, rising so early, retiring so late, the busy days, the long lessons, their frequency, variety and intensiveness, administered to us morning, noon and night? I then wondered if this, like the claims made with respect to my Gorean, were int...
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11 1509 She is reassured of the intent and seriousness of the command if, for example, she is asked if the command need be repeated, which eventuality she will presumably be anxious to avoid.
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Book 23. (11 results) Renegades of Gor

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8 263 "Perhaps you will avoid such mistakes in the future," I said.
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8 705 A tactic in this procedure to help her become aware of herself as a sexual creature is to describe her to herself in terms she may have dreaded aforetimes, to use words to her which she may have been conditioned to avoid, and find offensive, and so on.
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18 58 In actuality, of course, I surmised that many would be distributed to continental markets, if only to take a quicker profit on them and avoid deflating the market on the islands.
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18 83 "There is even a greater reason to avoid the walkway," said another man, bitterly.
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20 93 "My word is sacred to me," said Surilius, "but so, too, are the terms of my word, and they require only that I do not permit you to fall, when you yourself could not avoid it, into the hands of Cosians.
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21 431 A woman will do much to avoid a peasant master.
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24 54 She takes great pains to avoid it.
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24 167 Also, interestingly, they will usually take pains on their own behalf to avoid such areas.
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24 330 "But if you were the Cosian commander in the north," I said to Aemilianus, "you would surely, if possible, avoid engaging the main body of Ar".
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24 470 Why would it not stop hurting? Would its flames consume her? Much would she do now, I saw, to avoid any repetition of the burning terror of its kiss.
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24 760 Presumably this is to avoid incurring the disfavor of Priest-Kings.
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Book 24. (10 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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1 431 Most girls avoid feeling it, at least generally, by striving to be excellent slaves.
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13 447 I must escape! Somehow I must avoid the fate into which they seemed bound to fall.
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16 62 "They will expect you to take just that course, to avoid the crossing of the Vosk".
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18 299 The chances of running into rencers in thousands of square pasangs of the delta were not high, particularly if one were concerned to avoid them.
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22 23 This was very different from her early days in my keeping, when she, as a typical free woman of high station had regarded herself as too good for the performance of such homely tasks, addressing herself quickly enough to them only to avoid the imposition of sanctions upon her, attendant on her condi...
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28 98 To avoid this fate, of course, some barbarians take care to preserve their barbaric heritage, training their male youth in arms and hardship, and keeping themselves aloof from the subject population, that as befits its sovereign overlords, indeed, keeping the subject population much as herdsmen migh...
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31 314 To be sure, I would not recommend them for the pièce de résistance at an important diplomatic banquet, if only to avoid war.
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36 121 In this fashion, they have more land, obtain cheaper rentals, avoid certain local taxes, and so on.
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48 128 "That is one way to avoid having to clean it after use," I said.
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48 572 Our first treks would be at night, and we would, at least in this vicinity, avoid roads, paths, waterways, agricultural areas, villages, communities, and such.
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Book 25. (7 results) Magicians of Gor

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1 358 Initiates also avoid meat and beans.
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8 33 It is true, of course, that sometimes wagons would congregate at meeting places near gates, the wagons, say, of various manufacturers and merchants, and then travel on the roads in convoys, as a protection against brigandage, but in such a case the wagons, having different points of origin, would no...
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11 283 "We must avoid incidents.
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12 67 Accordingly, she is usually concerned to avoid it if at all possible.
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13 51 "Men avoid them.
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13 52 Even some women avoid them.
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22 43 Doubtless they wished in their haste to avoid stirred dust, hoping to keep it from their robes.
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Book 26. (10 results) Witness of Gor

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45 25 It is one thing never to acknowledge oneself; it is one thing to pretend and hide; it is one thing to avoid meeting oneself; but it is quite another to forget oneself once one has met oneself; one cannot, so to speak, then unmeet oneself; one may hide from the truth; one may attempt to avoid it; one...
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10 1002 How well I had been controlled by the leash, even though my hands were free! I lay there prone, trembling, sweating on the stone, the tunic tight between my teeth; he then put his foot on my back, holding me down, pressing me to the stone, and, leaning forward, pulled up the leash, the leather again...
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11 1579 I would sometimes go to great lengths to avoid them, even though I must then hasten, gasping, running, on my errands, the message tube tied about my neck, my hands braceleted behind me, that I might not have been thought to have dallied.
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12 24 Even the dreaded five-bladed slave whip is designed in such a way as to avoid marking the slave in any permanent fashion.
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19 277 I noted, spying on their progress, that the members of the procession were fastidiously careful, even scrupulously careful, to avoid any contact with the captives, even so much as the casual brushing of a bared foot, a shackled ankle, a small shoulder, a lovely thigh, with the hem of a robe.
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19 389 The Initiate was careful to avoid me, and, indeed, even free women.
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31 89 He had, I gathered, thought it best to avoid the depths this day.
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31 98 By myself, or with the pit master, I could avoid the water, keeping to the higher parts of the floor, but it was not easy to do so now, I muchly in line, with the other girls, the men about.
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37 124 I do not think that it is simply a device to clear the bladder prior to strenuous activity, for example, to avoid discomfort in the chase.
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37 838 One tries to avoid placing oneself between them.
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Book 27. (12 results) Prize of Gor

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8 110 How she would hate and despise men who were too weak for the mastery, who would fearfully seek to avoid its privileges, powers and responsibilities! No, he, and others like him, were far from weak! They were strong, much stronger than the timid, boring weaklings so endemic, like bacteria, on her for...
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14 75 Some are quite plain, and these might be preferred by some men for their slaves, perhaps for reasons of instruction, or economy, or to avoid an appearance of ostentation, or such.
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16 926 Ellen supposed that Targo and Barzak might have been in the vicinity during the scene with the guardsmen, but, doubtless wisely, wishing to avoid further unpleasantness, if not actual danger, did not step forward and identify themselves.
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18 144 Even though they might be several feet wide in places, Ellen tended to avoid them.
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18 660 Normally heavy wagons and such were allowed in the streets only after dark, to avoid congestion.
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18 666 He was in the employ of Portus Canio, her master, and, given her duties, there was no way she could avoid doing his laundry.
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22 646 At such places she must most particularly endeavor to avoid detection.
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23 109 "Their appearance in such places," the man continued, "being a useful, and common, disguise, permitting them to travel anywhere, to make suitable contacts, to avoid suspicion, and such".
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25 403 "If your bondage is important to you, and you understand it as your one possibility to obtain your total fulfillment as a female, you may always again expose yourself to the risk of the collar, disarranging a veil, walking lonely bridges at night, lifting the hem of a garment, as though to avoid soi...
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26 1467 "To save your worthless hide? To ingratiate yourself with me? To practice your wiles, to ensnare me with pleasure, to purchase an easier life, to avoid beatings and chainings?" "I do not know," wept Ellen.
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27 108 Interestingly, too, though Ellen feared the lash, and would go to great lengths to avoid it, she, in the complex subtleties and ambiguities of the master/slave relationship, in which she was so obviously implicated, and despite her constant explicit reassurances to herself that she must hate her mas...
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29 208 She cast about, wildly, in her mind, for some way to allay his anger, to put him from his purpose, to avoid the punishment which, in her heart, she knew she deserved, and only too well.
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Book 28. (12 results) Kur of Gor

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1 1214 She would have done her best to assure her, cringing, terrified and pleading, not only that she constituted no threat to her but that she would try to avoid her to the best of her ability and, in any disputed matters, would instantly retire and yield her first place.
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1 1324 He wants me, she thought, trying to hold her head very still, quite aware that if she made any sudden movement or made the least attempt to escape, it would hurt even more, and that he, if he wished, with a mere tightening or twist, could subject her to the torment of hundreds of tiny scalding knive...
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18 219 "She may have stolen a tunic, in order to avoid being eaten," said another.
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18 288 Sometimes, too, house slaves, tower slaves, palace slaves, and such, unaccustomed to more demanding slaveries, will flee, hoping to avoid sharing the chains of more common slaves.
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25 8 Certainly, if they had been informed of the escape of some human from, say, the breeding shackles, it did not seem likely this could be he, for would such a human not conceal himself from them? Would such a human not avoid them at all costs? Would such a human not have been in hiding, naked, and ter...
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37 11 It was difficult to avoid these small camps, which were numerous, and the senses of Kurii, as is well known, tend to be acute.
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53 196 Cabot moved a bit to the side, to avoid stepping on what he took to be something dropped in the tunnel, a wad of cloth, a crumpled rag, a lump of tissue.
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53 203 "Just avoid it.
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55 353 "You had the wisdom to avoid the children, did you not?" he asked.
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67 76 When he resumed his journey, he would avoid such ground, insofar as it was possible.
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79 130 "Accordingly, it is my hope that in the future you will go to great lengths to avoid incurring repetitions of this experience, at least too frequently, and will be muchly concerned to monitor and improve your behavior, that in such a way as to better serve and please your master, in all ways, to the...
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79 132 "To be sure," he said, "it is often difficult for the slave to avoid displeasing her master, even inadvertently.
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Book 29. (12 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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1 396 Do not even free women sometimes inadvertently disarrange their veils? So, many slaves, at least in the absence of free women, before whom they are likely to grovel and cower, and wisely, to avoid being beaten, luxuriate and rejoice in their beauty and its display.
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10 462 "Men would do much to please her, to win a smile, a glance of gratitude, to avoid a frown, a tear, a trembling lip.
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16 156 One should avoid the application of force, if possible, except against lesser force, and, ideally, much lesser force.
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17 113 Lord Nishida, in his attempts to conceal his project, or to at least reduce a cognition of its extent, had wished to avoid any unusually large purchase of domestic tarns.
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18 268 "She will learn to fear, and will then attempt to avoid, the stoke," he said.
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18 484 "I am confident she will be eager to leave the stable, and will strive desperately, in all ways, to avoid being returned to it".
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22 513 Would Pertinax avoid looking upon her? Would he look upon her, and, if so, how, obliquely or openly, and, if openly, with disapproval or with, say, the unfeigned interest and delight of a Gorean master? Masters think nothing of nudity in slaves.
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23 152 It was no wonder she wished to avoid him.
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28 8 Sometimes trees were felled to widen the road, to avoid the miring.
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30 60 The usual galley could easily avoid such devices.
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38 447 During the raid the English girl, hoping to avoid death, had declared herself slave.
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41 19 To be sure, many storms cover the sea for hundreds of square pasangs and one can no more avoid them than the sea herself.
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Book 30. (11 results) Mariners of Gor

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3 712 I would avoid Ko-ro-ba and Thentis as they did not favor those of Ar.
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7 43 Surely better to attend to the curfews and avoid the byways of darkness.
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8 177 They will go to great lengths to avoid its kiss.
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8 194 The whip hurts; a slave will commonly do much to avoid it.
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8 495 I had taken care to avoid being alone with him.
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17 120 The female slave who is a female, and the most female of all females, is often a vain creature, and will do much to avoid her shearing.
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20 165 "Perhaps you would do much to avoid it," I said.
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20 237 "I will do anything to avoid its stroke".
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34 189 Knowing it is there, she will commonly do her best to avoid its stroke, will commonly do her best to be pleasing, fully pleasing.
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34 190 Usually, of course, the girl, after a bit of time at the slave ring, does her best to be pleasing not to avoid the whip or switch, which is a rather prudential, mercenary motivation, after all, but, rather, because she wants to be pleasing to her master.
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36 409 Would one not rather strive to avoid a resumption of that perilous journey, at all costs? What sort of men would dare to journey to the World's End? "You would be killed," said the Captain.
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Book 31. (13 results) Conspirators of Gor

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4 706 She retained our confiscated books, and might, we knew, at any time, initiate the proceedings which we were desperate to avoid.
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7 364 This was internal to me, not merely a pretence or calculation, designed to avoid the whip's fiery, encircling coils.
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8 1740 The slave, subject to the whip, and knowing herself so, is careful to avoid it, insofar as it lies in her power.
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10 982 I had been pleased, incidentally, that I had seen nothing of the offensive Metal Worker, for whom I had looked, the better to avoid him, of course.
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10 1021 I had taken a roundabout way to Six Bridges, to avoid encountering the laundry slaves of the establishment of the Lady Daphne, a private laundering house in the vicinity of Six Bridges.
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10 1099 "Perhaps we could avoid the district of Six Bridges," I said.
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10 1105 Once more I was hoping to avoid the laundry slaves of the establishment of the Lady Daphne.
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10 1122 They would avoid my face, I was sure, lest I be permanently marked or damaged.
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15 238 Kurii, I would later learn, tend to avoid constricted spaces, and will seldom enter a space which has but a single opening.
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20 308 "In particular," he said, "you are not to avoid Trachinos".
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22 102 I had tried, in my serving, to catch the eye of Master Desmond, to avoid the eye of Master Trachinos.
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29 199 "To avoid that," I said, "you would do much".
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33 108 To avoid that, I had speculated that he might do much.
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Book 32. (19 results) Smugglers of Gor

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7 174 She held her head still, extremely still, to avoid more agony, for the guard's hand was tight in her hair.
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7 253 Having felt it I feared it, and would do anything to avoid it.
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14 190 Some of the higher sort had been collaborators in Ar, who had fled the city to avoid impalement.
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15 44 In my training, as brief as it was, I had been taught the lash of the switch and, once, the stroke of the whip, and would go to great lengths to avoid both.
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16 147 Shortly after reaching this point, to avoid the danger of a slipping or an uncontrolled wagon, the girls tied behind the wagons had been freed, and herded down the slope.
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20 128 "Avoid the wands," said Janina.
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27 4 I must avoid recapture at all costs.
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28 32 It did not even know enough to avoid leech plants.
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29 21 This surprised me, for the switch is unpleasant and one will do much to avoid it, and the whip, of course, is worse.
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43 574 Let her try now, if she would, to avoid me.
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44 29 Tula, Mila and I, and, I think, others, as well, even the men, had been startled when Master Axel had suddenly cried out, and Master Genserich, warned, had moved in such a way, so quickly, so suddenly, spinning about, as to avoid receiving a cast javelin in his back.
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44 54 Indeed, I had been grateful to have been afforded the opportunity to gather Tur-Pah so close to the wands when I had, this facilitating my flight, for one of the reasons I wished to escape, and soon, was to avoid incarceration, with others, within those mighty timbers when her mooring lines were fre...
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46 72 No, I knew enough now of Panther Women to avoid them.
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46 107 I knew I must, even if I crossed the river, avoid villages, and certainly cities.
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48 94 It is clearly in the interest of the territory master, wherever possible, to avoid combat.
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50 290 I squirmed, trying to avoid the pebbles.
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52 302 "Or I did not wish to dull the edge of a fine dagger, or I preferred to avoid the task of cleaning the blade, or such".
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53 2 We will avoid Laura, for I fear partisans may linger there.
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54 168 Interestingly, though I much fear the whip, and would do much to avoid it, I was not displeased to have felt it then.
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Book 33. (12 results) Rebels of Gor

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1 524 It would not do, of course, to systematically avoid the correct line, for what practice might more explicitly call attention to that line? I had every reason to suspect that the intelligence of the enemy was considerable, and acute.
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12 273 "It is only required, to avoid ruin," said Daichi, "that Lord Temmu yield".
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14 52 Thus, he would gratify me, avoid the flight of the iron dragon, and retain his cavalry".
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16 95 "Many beasts," I said, "prefer to avoid the rain".
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19 217 When the Kur raid had taken place on the Prison Moon the English girl, hoping to avoid being eaten, had pronounced herself slave, after which pronouncement, whether she understood it well or not, she was slave.
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20 246 Slaves, as other beasts, know the whip, and will do much to avoid its stroke.
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20 358 "My friend would do much to avoid impugning his honor," I said.
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21 192 "Slaves are trained," I said, "to follow docilely on their leashes, as beautiful beasts, the draw, if necessary, always at the back of the neck, to avoid injury".
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21 446 If you did not wish his attentions, why did you not simply avoid him, or ignore him? It was almost as though you wanted to intrude yourself into his thoughts and dreams.
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27 43 They will avoid the searching torches".
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29 360 Why should she have treated him so, so derided and hated him? Should she not, at least, have been flattered by his interest? Would it not have been enough to ignore him or avoid him? Is civility so costly? "Remain as you are," he said.
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43 171 More Ashigaru were about now, and I made it a point to avoid their eyes.
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Book 34. (14 results) Plunder of Gor

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4 21 I would do much to avoid it.
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7 411 I determined to do much to avoid its stroke.
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7 412 Later, once I had felt it, I would be shudderingly, keenly, desperately anxious to avoid its stroke.
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9 300 I thought it best to avoid a woman who was in the company of a male.
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9 309 Too, if I had been more aware, and more familiar with Gor, I would have noted that the slaves, as much as possible, went to great lengths to avoid finding themselves in the proximity of such women, often turning about, and hurrying away, or slipping to the side, sometimes even hastening to conceal t...
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9 550 I was now prepared to accept the views of my instructresses, to avoid free women, and placate, cultivate, and please free men.
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22 38 Too, to preserve her virtue, she is to be dealt with succinctly, this to avoid prolonging any possible embarrassment or humiliation.
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26 150 As we continued on our way, even men tended to avoid us.
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35 180 "Hiding in a doorway," she exclaimed, "hoping to avoid detection! I should bind you, hand and foot, and leave you for the rounds of guardsmen!" A slave is not permitted to resist her securing.
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42 190 More likely, if only to avoid offense, it would be sequestered in some remote corner of a steel world.
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51 345 Knew I so little of Gor? What man would be fool enough to care for a slave? How he would be mocked by his peers! Would he not be the butt of many a merry jest? Chagrined he might, for a time, avoid the gymnasium, the baths, the gaming tables, the tarn races, the song dramas.
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54 122 "I could not avoid it," said Kurik.
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63 101 This is in order to avoid congestion.
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63 420 One heels on the left, presumably, to avoid any possible interference with the master's weapon hand, which, in most cases, is the right hand.
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Book 35. (13 results) Quarry of Gor

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1 279 Also, having a far more sensitive body, she is much more responsive to punishment, which she will feel much more keenly than a more phlegmatic, duller woman, and will, accordingly, strive zealously, with all her intelligence, wit, beauty, and charm, to avoid it, by striving, to the best of her abili...
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7 262 Perhaps Bruno of Torcadino is a relative, and wishes to recover her, to restore her to the glories of her freedom, but, to avoid shame and scandal, wishes to do so surreptitiously.
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8 321 Why, I wondered, as the other was presumably not hooded, had she not been able to avoid me, or warn me? Within the hood, I could not see, save for the sense of light or darkness.
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8 371 I could not avoid Mistress.
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14 214 I would, however, if only to avoid being thrown to the urts in one canal or another, try to remain alert to any plots or potential plots, suspicious allusions, or such, which might involve Adraste.
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17 22 This was unusual because urts commonly avoid sharks and tharlarion, often fleeing from their presence.
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22 42 "It seems Mistress was fortunate to escape in time," I said, "to avoid the collar".
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27 147 I need only avoid your first blow, feinting and circling, staying outside its compass, for you will have no opportunity for a second.
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31 42 Too, several times before my purchase, I later learned, he had frequented the Gambles and familiarized himself with the bouts of several contestants, though then refraining from betting, perhaps to avoid calling attention to himself.
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31 122 "Avoid him," said the leader of the judges.
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33 682 I must avoid Rencers.
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38 254 If he knew you were in the keeping of his enemies, what would your life be worth? In such a case, I would avoid the windows, for a quarrel, sped from the saddle of a gracefully soaring tarn might slip between the bars.
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39 9 Occasionally I stepped to one side, to avoid puddles.
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Book 36. (8 results) Avengers of Gor

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5 53 "What would you do, dear Thurnock," I asked, "if you saw a tiny serpent, one which could fit in the palm of your hand, with bright orange scales?" "I would avoid it at all costs," said Thurnock.
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17 273 Thus, local authorities might do well to avoid him.
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18 6 "To avoid being sighted?" he said.
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19 25 Few fishermen will risk a long cast for two reasons, first, the extra bit of an Ihn that the net is in the air gives the opponent that much more time to avoid the net, and, second, the net, if avoided, may be lost.
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19 129 The slaves took care to avoid the free women, often crossing to the other side of the street, and keeping their heads down.
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41 23 In short, after several mishaps or mistakes, such as great stones falling short, falling amidst advancing mercenaries, or mercenaries arriving too early at the wall and being afflicted with their own fire, or mercenary contingents lagging or holding back to avoid such fates, thus subverting the whol...
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42 118 Visitors sensing the huge, slow, heavy movement of the gate, scrambled wildly, crying out, to be inside or outside the leaves, anything to avoid being caught between them.
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60 247 "Just avoid the spines".
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