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Book 1. (8 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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4 6 The effect was startling: there was the sudden bright flash of yellow glittering light, the splash of sparks, and a scream of pain and rage from the tarn as he immediately beat his wings, lifting himself out of my reach in a rush of air that nearly forced me over the edge of the roof.
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6 8 My heart began to beat wildly, and I considered the facility with which I might yet wing my way from Ar.
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9 127 "You should beat her," said the warrior, but responded to the girl.
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11 99 Her heart beat wildly against my breast.
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15 236 "Well, then," said Marlenus, smiling, "perhaps I would only beat her and throw her naked to my tarnsmen".
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16 102 I began to walk with a quickened pace, my heart began to beat powerfully, and I felt the elation of decision.
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17 78 The procession resumed to the beat of the tarn drums and Talena, bound in chains of gold, walked, slowly, with dignity, beside the tharlarion of her captor, Pa-Kur, the Assassin.
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18 1 In the Central Cylinder As the tarn climbed, I saw the camp of Pa-Kur, the ditches, the double walls of Ar with siege engines like leeches fastened to the inner wall, and, approaching the city, Pa-Kur's long lines of chanting garrison troops, the morning sun flashing on their metal, their march mea...
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Book 2. (4 results) Outlaw of Gor

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14 111 I wondered if it too recalled the thunder of the wind, the clash of arms as tarnsmen dueled in flight, the sight of Gor's tarn cavalries wheeling in formation to the beat of the tarn drums, or the long, steady, lonely soaring flights we had known together over the green fields of Gor.
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20 43 He offered no resistance, he showed no anger, when I leaped to his back and cried, as before, "One-strap!" at which signal, with a shrill cry and a mighty spring, those gigantic wings cracked like whips and beat their way aloft in the glory of flight.
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20 90 I took the tarn as high as I could, until his wings beat frantically against the thin air, but could see nothing in the Sardar Mountains that might be the habitation of Priest-Kings.
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22 58 "Remember once you told a man not to beat me.
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Book 3. (6 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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9 116 "He locked me in my chambers, but the High Initiate of the City came with warriors and they broke into our compartments and beat my father until he could not move and I went gladly with them".
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9 118 "Oh how pleased I was when they beat him and he cried out," she said, "for I hated him—so much I hated him—for he was not a true man and even though of the Caste of Physicians could not stand pain.
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24 62 Bending my ear to her heart I was pleased to detect its faint beat.
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25 75 I could hear the clear beat of her heart, and the pulse was now strong.
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26 193 "Beat me if you wish," she begged, "but please—please—take me with you".
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28 16 And yet there was not an instant's pause in that singing nor the dropping of a beat or tempo.
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Book 4. (15 results) Nomads of Gor

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8 357 She had not, for example, timed her counting, for long hours, under the tutelage of a master, against the heartbeat of a kaiila, he keeping the beat but not informing her what it was, until she had called the beat.
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1 42 Overhead a wild Gorean kite, shrilling, beat its lonely way from this place, seemingly no different from a thousand other places on these broad grasslands of the south.
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8 317 The girl was fast and that meant time for us, if only perhaps a beat.
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8 385 "He will not beat twenty-five," said Conrad.
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8 479 I rode at full speed, for there was not a beat to lose.
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8 485 I would release the bola in another beat as she took her second sprint to the left.
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8 494 Only perhaps a beat or two before the kaiila leapt into the circle had I finished the knots that confined her.
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11 167 "If she does not work well," called Kamchak cheerily, "beat her".
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20 30 Then overhead in the darkness we heard the beat of a tarn's wings and saw one of the monstrous birds pass above us.
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20 148 Immediately the huge bird's wings began to beat and it sprang skyward.
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24 215 "As it was," said Harold, "I scarcely beat you".
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24 216 "I thought I beat you," I said.
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24 219 "How do you know I didn't beat you?" "Well," said Harold, "I don't know—but that would certainly seem unlikely, would it not?" "Yes," I said, "I suppose so".
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25 858 "You will not beat me too often will you, Master?" she asked.
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26 533 "I have heard," said Harold, "that she does nothing but sing around the bosk and in the wagon all day—I myself would probably beat a girl who insisted on making all that noise".
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Book 5. (10 results) Assassin of Gor

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5 114 Then, eyes closed, not moving, except the heel of the right foot, which beat the rhythm, she began to hum a Tuchuk slave song; on the second measure, her hands came to her hips and she opened her eyes, looking at me; on the third measure, her body began to move and, to the melody, she began to sway ...
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5 633 She had threatened to invent a knot with more than fifty-five turns but when I had threatened to beat her she had yielded to reason.
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11 228 "No!" "I see," said Flaminius, sadly, "it will be necessary to beat you".
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16 187 Ho-Sorl did not beat her but rather, after removing the slave bracelets from the railing of the ramp and from her wrist, putting the bracelets in his belt, simply pulled her to her feet.
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20 188 He would not be easy to beat.
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20 262 "I beat you once".
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20 471 "Beat him!" cried Cernus.
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22 21 We beat them off".
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22 196 Then, to my horror, I saw the wings miss their beat and the bird screamed in pain, and began to turn in the air, Mip spinning with the bird, trying to control it.
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22 502 My tarn was locked, talon to talon, with a nonfaction bird; each was tearing at the other; the tarn goad of the rider struck me, almost blinding me with pain; for an instant my consciousness seemed nothing but a blinding shower of yellow, fiery needles; his tarn struck for me and I beat its beak awa...
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Book 6. (53 results) Raiders of Gor

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9 143 Could not Port Kar be attacked from the sea? The music of the musicians began to beat in my blood, reeling there.
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13 338 "Full sail! Maximum beat!" As soon as the Rena had swung to her original course, the oar-master cried "Stroke!" and the mallets of the keleustes began to strike, in great beats, the copper-covered drum.
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13 356 But already the keleustes was pounding maximum beat.
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13 357 And doubtless that beat could not be long maintained.
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13 377 The beat was, even now, scarcely being made.
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13 378 "Decrease the beat by five points," said the oar-master to the keleustes.
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13 381 "Maximum beat!" he screamed to the keleustes.
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13 382 Again the rhythm was that of the maximum beat.
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13 384 Maximum beat.
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13 388 The men, many of them, could no longer maintain the beat of the keleustes, and they had no guide for a stroke they could draw.
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13 391 Then he spoke to the keleustes, wearily, "Ten from maximum beat".
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13 392 We took up this beat, and again the Rena moved.
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13 396 "You will die!" As the keleustes kept his beat, the oar-master, trembling, mouth bloody, walked between the benches.
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13 415 The rest of the men were startled, but they maintained the beat.
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14 91 Then, rather bravely, the music drifting over the water, our oars at only half of maximum beat, we moved across the gleaming waters toward the large fleet.
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14 119 "Oar-master, half beat".
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14 131 The Dorna had now come about and, at half beat, was moving southeast, directly away from the pursuing ships.
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14 136 We were now moving, of course, at only half beat.
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14 146 "Three quarters beat," I recommended to our oar-master.
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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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14 165 "You did not even call maximum beat".
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14 172 "Come about," I said, "and maximum beat".
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14 175 She was now moving away, perhaps at half beat.
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14 182 "Stroke! Maximum beat!" The stern of the enemy ship was already under water as we slipped past her.
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14 193 Both were fleeing at maximum beat.
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14 194 "Half of maximum beat," I told the oar-master.
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14 196 As the beat dropped, I took out the glass of the builders and scanned the horizon.
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14 205 As I had expected, he had now begun to draw substantially ahead, since I had reduced to half of maximum beat.
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14 207 He would be assuming, of course, that I, in pursuing him, was at maximum beat, as he was.
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14 208 I had held my beat to half of maximum.
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14 209 My oar-master had been calling the beat, this time, by mouth from the center of the rowing frame.
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14 210 When I saw the tarn ship ahead, its captain doubtless confident of his speeds and distances, lift her oars, preparing to come about, I called to the oar-master, "Now!" Without the loss of a stroke he, at the center of the rowing frame, began to call maximum beat, "Stroke! Stroke! Stroke!" The Dorna,...
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14 216 "Maximum beat," said the oar-master to his keleustes, and then came to stand beside me on the stern castle.
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14 226 "Three quarters beat," I heard him tell the keleustes.
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14 231 My own men were still drawing a strong three quarters beat.
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14 235 "Apparently," I said, "she has had to reduce her beat".
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14 237 One cannot maintain maximum beat that long.
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14 255 His oars took up maximum beat and his heavy ship, the crest of the ram dividing the water before the concave bow, the tarn's beak just below the water line, plunged toward us.
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14 266 "Maximum beat!" The ram of the other ship did not find us.
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14 274 "Half beat," said I to the oar-master.
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15 143 The kitchen master had had to beat him often.
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16 402 "Bind that slave and beat him!" cried the scribe.
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17 20 "I told you," I cried, "to remain ashore!" "Beat me later," said he, "Captain".
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17 175 Astern of the Dorna, not hurrying, at half beat, came fifty tarn ships, their masts high, storm sails bound to their long, sloping yards.
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17 238 Chung had been forced to beat his way northward against the wind.
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17 248 Feeling the wind and the cold suddenly strike them they threw back their heads and beat their wings, pulled against the chains that bound them to the keel timbers.
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18 39 "Stroke! Stroke!" The beating of the copper drum of the keleustes took up maximum beat.
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18 142 From time to time the bird, tiring, its wings wet, cold, coated with sleet, would drop sickeningly downward, but then again it would beat its way on the level, half driven by the wind, half flying.
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18 144 Once the bird fell so low that the boy's feet and the bottom of the rope on which he stood splashed a path in the churning waters, and then the bird, responding to my fierce pressures on the one-strap, beat its way up again and again flew, but then only yards over the black, rearing waves, the roari...
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18 412 These other girls, some of them rence girls themselves, would often beat me, for they knew what freedom I had had in the house, and they knew, as was true, that I had regarded myself as far superior to such as they, only common girls, simple merchandise.
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18 414 For days, though the other girls would beat me for it, I begged the Slave Master, the guards, to be taken before Samos.
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18 585 "If we do not please you, beat us or slay us!" A crossbow quarrel swept overhead.
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18 587 "If I do not please you," she screamed, "beat me or kill me!" He kissed her swiftly, and turned to defend a wall.
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Book 7. (37 results) Captive of Gor

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12 233 I had thought myself able to beat her, if I might choose, but now I knew that she, if she chose, could beat me.
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13 714 But I did not want to be beaten! And then I thought, wildly, pathetically, yes, beat me, beat me, Master, impress your ownership upon me! It was not that I wanted the pain, but rather that I would then understand myself his, subject to his categorical domination, a slave at his will, mastered, owned...
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7 45 We did what she told us to, for otherwise she would beat us.
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7 48 But, beyond this, she might bully us, or beat us, as much as she pleased.
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7 229 Another girl leaped up and pretended to beat her while Lana wiggled, and squirmed and howled, in mock pain.
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7 355 It was raining outside, and I could hear the rain beat on the squarish roof of red rain canvas stretched over our heads.
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8 366 Beyond the compound of Haakon of Skjern I could see the compound of his tarns, where, hobbled, the great birds beat their wings, threw back their heads and screamed, and tore at the great pieces of bosk thrown before them.
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8 444 The guard did not beat me but he slapped me twice, bringing blood to my mouth.
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8 451 I had seen him, once or twice, tell a girl to ask a guard to beat her.
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8 477 "Please, no, Master!" He then beat me, soundly, with the stinging flat of his hand, until I cried for mercy and wept.
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8 568 And I smiled again to myself, for I knew he would beat me if I did not.
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8 791 I raced Inge to the end of the compound and back, and beat her.
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8 803 They could beat us all.
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8 813 I was quite successful at this game, and I could beat most of the girls.
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8 814 I could even beat Inge, who was of the scribes.
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8 816 Ute, however, of all those I played with, I could not beat.
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9 20 Gagged, I shook my head, No! "Cut switches and beat her," said Verna.
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11 600 She was only a naked, dancing slave girl, exciting, writhing in the sand, her body throbbing to the beat of a man's pleasure drums.
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11 653 "Don't beat me," I wept.
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11 1231 My heart skipped a beat.
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11 1321 He will not beat you".
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12 370 I recollected with satisfaction my witnessing of the captivity of Verna, the panther girl, but I recollected with much less satisfaction what had occurred in the slave wagon, when Inge had so decisively bested me; when I had learned that she could beat me, if she pleased, and would, should it please...
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12 398 "Address them as Mistress," said Inge, "or I will beat you".
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12 550 "She would beat me".
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12 715 Another would fly low and to the side of the running girl, and a beat of the tarn's great wings would send her rolling and sprawling for a dozen yards across the grass.
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13 538 They were too close together, there were too many of them! A child saw me and he cried out and began to beat more loudly on his pan.
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13 547 They no longer shouted, they no longer beat on their kettles and pans.
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13 719 I felt the one-strap of the tarn harness jerk tight across my body, and, suddenly, taking my breath away, the great bird screamed and began to beat its wings, and the saddle pressed up against my back, and I, upside down, saw the conical huts of the peasants drop away below us, and the bird, stroke ...
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13 948 "I—I would beat her," I said.
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13 954 "Do not beat me!" I begged.
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13 955 "Do not beat me!" He laughed.
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15 675 "Now," said Ute, "ask a guard to brand and beat you".
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15 758 "Do not beat me! I cannot stand pain! You do not understand! I am not a common girl! It hurts me! I am too delicate to be beaten!" I heard the men and girls about laughing.
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15 805 "Now," said Rask of Treve, "I shall beat you until it pleases me to stop".
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17 118 Even performing small, homely tasks for a master, such as polishing his leather, laundering and ironing his tunics, cleaning his domicile, bringing him his sandals, crawling, in her teeth, can be sexually stimulating to her; she licks humbly the confining loops of leather on her wrists; she humbly l...
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17 207 The tarn screamed and began to beat its wings.
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17 246 They did not beat me, nor threaten me.
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Book 8. (17 results) Hunters of Gor

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2 520 "Half beat," said I to Thurnock.
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2 522 "Half beat! Stroke!" As one, the oars dipped cleanly into the water, and drew against gleaming Thassa, and the Tesephone, lightly, began to turn in the water, her prow seeking the south, and Lydius.
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5 368 "Quarter beat.
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6 190 I heard the beat, over the water, of the copper-covered drum of the keleustes, marking the time for the oars.
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6 650 "It seems," said Rim, "that we must now beat her".
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9 389 "Beat him," said Verna.
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9 390 She beat me.
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11 472 "I do not care if you beat me," said Verna, in pain.
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14 226 There was a long silence, of some Ihn, and then, at a nod from Hura, who threw her long black hair back and lifted her head to the moons, the drum began again its beat.
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15 383 Would I have the red-haired girl beat her? "Forgive me, Master," she whispered.
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15 841 "Let me beat her," said the blond girl, one of the panther girls, in her ankle ring.
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15 847 She knew well how to beat a slave.
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18 350 I had no wish to beat them.
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18 524 "Please do not beat me," she whispered.
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22 850 "Please do not beat me!" she wept.
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22 851 "Please do not beat me, Mistress!" "I do not choose," said Rissia, "to comply with the request of a slave".
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22 852 She beat Ilene until Ilene wept and screamed, and then could weep and scream no more.
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Book 9. (7 results) Marauders of Gor

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3 233 "Unless you are quite good, I shall beat you".
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3 347 It smote the air with its wings, and beat its way into the smoky skies of Kassau.
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4 330 "They will beat us!" Gorm was then at her, and struck her five times with his knotted rope.
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6 161 "I shall beat him," said Ottar.
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7 147 "Beg the first free man who passes to beat you".
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10 305 In some cities, once a day, a girl must kneel and kiss the whip which, if she is not sufficiently pleasing to her master, will be used to beat her.
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18 570 I had little doubt that he could beat the arm of a man to weakness, and then, when it was slowed, tired, no longer able to respond with sureness, with reflexive swiftness, in a great attack, he would hack through to the body.
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Book 10. (10 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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1 291 I have seen girls whom the auctioneer had to beat from him with his whip, merely in order to display them adequately.
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5 570 "Have you had to beat her often?" I asked Seleenya.
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11 555 If Hassan survived, he would, I suspected, well beat her for this lapse.
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23 163 I heard the drums change their beat; I saw the lines of riders ordering themselves; I saw pennons, the pennons of preparation, lifted; I assumed that when they lowered the pennons of the charge would be lifted on their lances, and then that the lances would drop, and with them the lance of every rid...
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24 825 "Tell his heart not to beat".
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25 68 "I could always beat you," he said.
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26 648 "It is not necessary to beat a woman of Earth to teach her a lesson, should that be perhaps, amusing and preposterous though it is, what is in your mind.
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26 657 It will not be necessary to beat me".
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26 1228 The drums of the march increased their beat.
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26 1273 The drums began the beat of the march.
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Book 11. (17 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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4 1144 Then, as I lay there, bound, with Eta nearby, I asked myself why I should be ashamed? Was it wrong for a woman to yield helplessly to a man? Was it wrong for the heart to beat, to breathe, to feel? If the nature of the man were conquest and victory, what might then be the nature of the woman; could ...
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5 714 "It will not be necessary to beat me".
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5 717 "It will not be necessary to beat you," he acknowledged.
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7 438 Counting the time it would take to fix the torch in the earth and for her heart to beat two hundred times, I conjectured that we would have a lead on our pursuers of some three minutes.
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7 520 "The free woman," said my master, "was doubtless well within her rights to beat the girl".
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7 525 "The slave girl whom she beat is, too, in this camp," said my master.
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7 685 They might beat me with ropes if I were not pleasing to them.
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9 409 "It will not be necessary to kick or beat me," I said.
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9 1515 "Then," said Thurnus, "it will not be necessary for me to beat or slay her".
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9 1773 "Beat him!" cried Bran Loort, pointing out Thurnus.
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9 2413 "Will it be necessary to beat you?" he asked.
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12 54 It was not that I had fought, for there were few girls there whom I suspected could not beat me, but that the matter had been determined by Sucha.
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12 68 "If you beat me, the master will not be pleased," is not a threat to be taken lightly in the slave quarters, particularly if it is thought to be true.
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14 190 My heart skipped a beat.
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29 90 "Do not beat me, Master," I begged.
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29 182 I hoped he would not now beat me.
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29 222 He did not beat me.
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Book 12. (11 results) Beasts of Gor

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6 125 "Beat him," she said.
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9 325 Secure him there and beat him well.
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13 87 "Another time," he said, cheerfully, "she beat me with a stick, calling me a good-for-nothing".
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14 197 Her small fists beat rapidly on my back.
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21 182 "I would like to beat her," said Arlene.
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21 186 "I can beat her," said Arlene.
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21 188 "Perhaps she could now beat you".
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22 240 Somewhere in that great body, apparently lifeless in the water, there still beat its heart.
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23 279 "I will fetch her back, and then, if I wish, I will give her away, or beat and sell her".
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35 212 I did not beat her.
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35 247 I would not beat her for not having a pleasing name.
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Book 13. (12 results) Explorers of Gor

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1 153 "She is only a slave, only a thing to serve, and to beat and abuse, if it should please me".
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11 201 "Please do not beat me again".
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12 389 "Are you going to beat her?" she asked.
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23 338 I suppose then one or the other of us would have had to beat or kill the other.
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24 267 I beat it back with the paddle.
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30 15 If they did not we would beat them.
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31 115 I hope that you would not beat me, if I so disturbed your rest".
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33 43 "I could not in battle beat Bila Huruma," said Kisu.
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34 847 Beat me, if you must".
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34 926 "You could beat me, if you wished, couldn't you?" she asked.
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35 135 "Please do not beat me".
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48 57 "Sometimes they would beat me and mount me," he said.
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Book 14. (11 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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7 239 "You are not going to beat me, are you, Master?" she asked.
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7 741 Now will you not, cruelly, punish me for being insufficiently beautiful, for not having yielded in your arms as an abject slave, and for having shown you disrespect? Will you not now throw me to your feet and kick and beat me mercilessly, venting your displeasure upon me?" "Of course not," I said.
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13 239 A squadron of Ar's tarn cavalry, the stroke of their wings synchronized with the beat of the drum, passed by, overhead.
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15 57 "Beat him," she said.
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15 71 "Beat him," she said.
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16 307 "Must I beat you from the shop with a whip?" he asked.
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16 325 "Beat me, and let me go, please".
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20 88 I must beat the sand.
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20 102 "I shall have a champion who can beat your Jason!" cried Miles of Vonda, from the side of the wall.
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25 66 "Beat and mark his face well, Krondar!" called Miles of Vonda to his slave.
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26 189 I beat her well for being troublesome.
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Book 15. (4 results) Rogue of Gor

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1 233 Perhaps she, a foolish Earth girl, had asked him, and he had not been in the mood to beat her.
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13 162 "Then beat me and rape me," she said, "and put me under discipline".
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26 262 "Krondar," said Miles of Vonda, indicating me, "beat him".
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26 263 "I shall attack him if you wish, Master," said Krondar, "but I cannot beat him".
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Book 16. (6 results) Guardsman of Gor

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17 588 "Could you beat me?" she asked.
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19 213 There are many ways to beat a girl.
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19 244 To be sure, whatever its purpose, it makes it very clear to the slave that she is fully under discipline, and that the master may, if he wishes, beat her how, when and as much as he pleases.
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19 746 "Please, Master," she wept, "do not beat me further".
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20 198 At her least pretension or lack of deference any free person might beat her.
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20 1784 Not until the last of the tiny birds disappeared to the south did the shield signals flash and the drums beat, the tarns take wing, the tharlarion begin to tread, and infantrymen march.
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Book 17. (3 results) Savages of Gor

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13 858 The repetition of a direction or command is normally taken as a cause for discipline, but, as she was new to Gor, and frightened, and clearly eager to obey, and please, I decided not to beat her.
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13 1642 Perhaps I shall merely, for my amusement, beat you senseless".
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14 823 To allay these charges he, in his anger, would berate me publicly, and even beat me in the presence of others.
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Book 18. (24 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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1 415 "If she does not please you," said Hci to Grunt, "beat her, as you would any other woman".
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4 358 "If she wastes meat, I will beat her," said Canka.
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4 360 "If she wastes meat, I will beat her," said Canka.
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5 55 He will never beat me".
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5 62 "Maybe Canka will not beat you," said Wasnapohdi, "but I assure you that I would have no compunction in doing so.
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5 103 "Canka will never beat me," she said.
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5 112 "Canka will never beat me," she called after me.
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5 140 If you did not work well I would beat you".
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7 1 Bloketu and Iwoso Come Visiting "He beat me," wailed Winyela, running up to me.
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7 2 "He beat me!" "You are in the presence of a free man," I said, indicating Cuwignaka.
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7 12 "He beat me!" she said.
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7 122 "He beat me".
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7 254 "I did not think that Canka would beat me," she said.
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7 259 "He beat me," she said, poutingly.
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7 278 "He beat me!" "Yes, he did," I said, "and well".
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7 280 "You wanted him to beat you," I said.
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7 307 I love him, more than anything!" "But he beat you," I said.
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13 164 "If I do not please you, beat me," she said.
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14 507 "Whip me, beat me, if you wish," she said, "but pay attention to me as a woman.
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18 364 "Beat him," said Watonka to the two Isanna warriors.
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39 49 For example, tonight it will not be necessary to beat you again, with coiled ropes.
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40 786 Beat me if you wish".
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47 320 The Yellow Knives, on the western side of Council Rock, prevented by the mountain from knowing what had occurred in the air to the east, and on the eastern faces of the rock, singing their medicine, their hearing throbbing with the beat of drums, had not desisted in their procession to the summit; t...
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54 240 "When he took me to his lodge he was angry and beat me.
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Book 19. (4 results) Kajira of Gor

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15 204 "Forgive Tula! Do not beat her!" "Keep those legs wide, Tula," said the first voice.
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15 282 "You will not beat me though, will you?" wheedled the girl.
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15 286 "You said you would not beat me!" protested the girl.
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19 272 Speusippus, awakened, came over to the trunk, and, frightening me, beat on its top with something heavy, perhaps a staff or club.
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Book 20. (13 results) Players of Gor

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2 355 He is so successful that the courtesan soon begins to pant and call the merchant, who, eagerly, rushes back, only in a moment, unfortunately, to be forced to beat a new retreat to the pot.
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2 819 Beat me, if you wish".
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6 138 "So beat her!" said the free woman.
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6 139 "I see no reason to beat her," said Boots.
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6 143 If she were not being obedient, then I would beat her, then I would see to it that she were suitably and lengthily lashed".
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6 144 "Beat her!" demanded the free woman.
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6 145 "Shall I beat her?" inquired Boots of the crowd.
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6 189 "Beat her!" called a man.
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6 652 The tops of her toes, as she knelt, beat up and down in helpless frustration.
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6 653 "I see that I shall have to draw you forth and beat you," he said.
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10 39 "You would not dare to beat me," she said.
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10 49 "If you were going to beat me," she said, "you would have already done so by now".
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12 572 "Perhaps you might even, upon occasion, beat him," I said.
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Book 21. (7 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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4 247 He would probably be satisfied to beat me unconscious.
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6 37 My heart suddenly began to beat with great alarm.
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16 679 It was not necessary to beat her for not having responded promptly to my question.
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16 1182 I did not think, under the circumstances, it would be necessary to beat her.
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25 850 There were then two to abuse, and beat.
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25 1551 "Perhaps you should beat her," she said.
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25 2087 "But if I am not pleased with it, I may beat you".
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Book 22. (9 results) Dancer of Gor

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3 871 Similarly I had not the least doubt that if he wished to beat me, he would do so.
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9 412 I hoped he would not beat me, because the bids were now down to two.
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11 98 I had been afraid they would beat me.
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11 1495 I knew that Tupita was having her sport with me, but, too, I knew that she might beat me tomorrow, in the slave area.
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14 348 "I have not chosen to beat you for what you cannot help," he said.
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22 63 "Kick her, and beat her," he said, dispassionately.
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29 1512 My heart began to beat wildly.
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31 302 "See that you serve him well! If you do not serve him well, I will beat a bucket of slave oil out of you!" "Yes, Mistress," I called to her.
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34 637 "I love you my master," I cried, suddenly, trembling, sobbing, "and I am your love slave! I confess myself your love slave! It is true! Now beat me or slay me, if you must".
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Book 23. (11 results) Renegades of Gor

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1 226 A common punishment where this mitigating feature obtains is to strip the victim, tie him to a post, beat him with rods and then behead him.
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2 463 "You would beat me?" she asked.
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5 559 Perhaps she thought that I might beat her, or have her beaten, if she omitted these courtesies, particularly after I had taken the time to explain them to her.
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6 714 If he wished to beat her, he should have requested my permission.
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8 902 "You will not beat me, will you?" she said.
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8 904 "Do not beat me," she said.
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15 1051 To be sure, one does not need a reason to beat a slave.
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18 542 Why should one beat a pleasing slave? To be sure, there are no bargains, contracts or arrangements in these matters, and the slave may be beaten whenever the master pleases, with or without a reason.
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20 392 The other beat her with the stick.
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24 882 "I have known that I was a slave since puberty, and I never pretended to be otherwise, perhaps because I feared someone might see through me and beat me".
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24 890 He then beat me, and bound me, and sold me".
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Book 24. (9 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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1 459 Swiftly, on all fours, the fellow beat a hasty retreat.
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2 31 Similarly, a private master would not be likely to beat you for parting your silk before him or for putting yourself to his feet and writhing there piteously, in begging need, and such.
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19 202 But the ul did not beat its wings.
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19 404 I did not beat them.
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19 795 The great wings no longer beat frenziedly.
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19 807 It recovered in a moment and then, with the wing itself, began to beat, and thrust, at me.
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25 41 I even struggled a little, but please do not beat me for it!" "Not this time," I said.
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26 309 "Please do not beat me," she said.
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27 619 "And that is why I do not now severely beat you, or slay you," I said.
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Book 25. (11 results) Magicians of Gor

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1 293 "Beat her for me," said the man.
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3 894 "Verr" is not a bad throw but it was not good enough to beat "larls".
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8 253 "You may beat me tonight, if you wish," she said.
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8 254 "I may beat you any night, if I wish," he said.
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10 150 And what do the men of Ar do? They smile, they hasten to give up their riches, they beat their breasts, they lament their unworthiness, they cannot sufficiently praise those who despoil them, they rush to sacrifice at the great temples.
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12 53 She may then say, "Beat me or caress me".
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16 221 "And we shall beat it well with our staffs," said a fellow, grimly, "as we tenderize the sacked meat of tarsks".
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20 66 And then she began to twist and moan, and try to remain still, and thrust against me, and to hold my head where it was not letting it go and her fingers were tight in my hair and this hurt but I did not beat her but relished her so moaning and then bucking and trying to remain still and thrusting ag...
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22 176 If he did not catch her I would have to beat her tonight, for having disobeyed a command of that sort, from a free person.
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22 279 For most practical purposes, you see, you are primarily mine to cuff, or beat, as I might please, and not others".
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25 607 "Apparently Master wishes to beat his slave," she said, uncertainly.
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Book 26. (14 results) Witness of Gor

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12 876 "Beat her! Beat her!" she called toward the walkway, that behind the wall.
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9 22 I did not think he would beat me, but I did not know.
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9 26 In any event he did not beat me.
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12 344 Perhaps if I were very pleasing, he would not beat me, or sell me.
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12 887 "Beat her!" screamed the free woman.
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13 65 "Beat her!" called the free woman from the cage.
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13 151 "Beat her!" cried the free woman.
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13 152 "Beat her!" She wrung her hands.
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13 1346 Even if I screamed and cried out, and struggled, and wept, and pulled futilely against my chains, and beat on the bars of my cage, nothing would be changed, save that I would be whipped to silence.
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14 1253 "Beat me, instead!" I had, after all, felt the whip, and the switch.
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14 1356 "He might have been afraid that she did not know how to beat a slave," I said.
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19 579 "They will beat you".
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24 162 In measured flight, tarn drums may also supply the cadence for the wing beat.
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45 228 "Beat me," I said, "if you are not pleased".
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Book 27. (24 results) Prize of Gor

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10 258 "I think I will beat you," he said.
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10 260 "Please do not beat me, Master," she begged.
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10 263 "Please do not beat me, Master!" "I think I will name you," he said.
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10 333 "I think I will beat you," he said.
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10 354 Beat me, that I may truly know I am a slave! He stood behind her, not speaking.
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11 203 "She is well ready!" "Beat her and throw her to a master," called another.
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15 771 Let him kick and beat me.
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18 345 She wondered if he would use the switch, or a whip, on her, if he would beat her.
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19 642 Better a collar on Gor than a throne on Earth! How glorious to be a woman and live upon a natural world, a world in which I must occupy my rightful place in the order of nature, my place at the feet of masters! The beat of the tarn's wings above her was steady, and smooth.
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20 108 They would beat me.
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20 301 Moving in the basket, facing forward, peering again through the wicker, she saw the first tarnsman who had approached the train swoop beneath it, beat his way forward, and then seize the long rope dangling better than a hundred feet from the harness of the first tarn, that which had been the fourth ...
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20 371 Different birds beat their way, confused, frightened, in different directions, and were then jerked up short, and lines began to twist, and the birds to scream.
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20 441 The tarn behind him tried to beat its way forward, too, and this urged the first to make another attempt.
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20 443 Then, one by one, the six tarns, as though recalling the order of the train, began, following one another, screaming, to plunge and beat their way behind the first tarn.
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22 449 She was shocked, she felt weak, her heart beat wildly, she feared her legs would give way beneath her, she was vulnerable, she was stripped, she felt giddy, and feared that she might faint.
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23 326 "Will it be necessary to beat you further?" asked the lad.
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24 412 I am that sort of woman, she who is, and knows herself to be, a man's slave, only that! Please do not beat me! Then she rose to her feet and put her veil about her head, wrapping it closely about her head and shoulders, concealing even her face.
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25 272 "I tried! They beat me!" wept the woman.
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25 383 "They would beat me," she said.
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25 765 "They do not have to beat me, to have me show myself to the crowd," she thought.
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26 728 "Did you not want me, just a little, if only to beat and whip me?" "Think," said he, "stupid little slut".
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27 2442 She hoped that, if she survived, he would not kill her, that he would do no more than beat and sell her.
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30 255 "Beat her well," she said.
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30 314 The reason for this, of course, was not that her master was weak, but that she had become an excellent slave, and thus there was little, if any, reason to beat her.
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Book 28. (9 results) Kur of Gor

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3 269 "Then I will beat you," he said.
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3 270 "Beat me?" "Yes".
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3 272 "—Beat me?" "Yes".
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3 276 "You would beat me?" "Certainly".
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21 55 They speak of the beat and insistence of life".
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21 56 "They are used on Gor to marshal and control tarn cavalries, and set the cadence of the wing beat, of the flight," said Cabot.
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21 180 The drums then beat again.
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47 60 As they neared, discernible became the slow, rhythmic beat of gigantic canvas wings, harnessed to massive bodies.
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70 142 "Perhaps, to teach her that she is a slave, a mere slave, and nothing else, and then beat and sell her".
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Book 29. (3 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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4 153 "Yes," she said, "that is it!" "But you feared to be caught, unengaged in labors, lest Pertinax, your master, beat you for dalliance?" "You have found me out," she said, sadly.
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15 228 "Did you beat her?" he asked.
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17 106 Looking downward I saw a swooping, riderless tarn seize a fellow in its talons and beat its way upward.
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Book 30. (11 results) Mariners of Gor

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2 80 We plied our levers, at a ten-beat, which strong men can maintain for as much as an Ahn, and continued this beat for something like twenty Ehn, and then the keleustes, warned to silence, put aside his hammers.
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2 40 Another gesture from the captain, this to the keleustes, increased the beat.
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2 85 The beat need not be rung, of course, but may be called softly, from amidships, if appropriate.
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3 65 On some ships they time the stroke of oars, but this is more commonly done by mallets on a copper-headed drum, or, if silence is in order, by calling the beat, from amidships.
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5 28 It takes time, usually, to beat a fellow bloody and senseless, and he is likely to recover sooner or later, and perhaps put an end to the quarrel over a jug of paga, but an angry word, a swift movement, and a flash of steel, and one may well have lost a shipmate, and eventually, given the friendship...
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15 103 "If you would beat someone find a whole man".
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15 245 "If you wish, kajira," I said to the girl, "you may abuse him, scorn him, taunt him, beat him, speak to him and treat him however you may wish".
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21 747 "Beat her, Master!" urged one.
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22 161 Given the irregularity of the beat, I took it that its role was tactical, signaling orders.
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22 292 The beat of the drum increased.
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32 14 A drum began to beat.
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Book 31. (11 results) Conspirators of Gor

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8 186 "If you would beat a slave, buy your own!" There was laughter, from adults about.
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8 255 "There are better things to do with little vulos than beat them," said a fellow.
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8 1097 If there is anything in it, and if it should be true, even obviously so, to an informed view, it may be only that the women of my world, in baring their faces, and such, in presenting themselves as attractive objects, thus encouraging men to their acquisition, are more open about their nature than y...
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8 1206 If you despise us for this I would suggest you put your precious, priceless, exalted, lofty free women at a slave ring and see if they are any different! Please, Master, do not beat me for this observation.
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10 895 I had no doubt that many a fellow's breath came faster, and his heart beat more rapidly, when he received such a note.
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18 373 "She would tear out my hair, and beat me," I said.
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18 666 "Beat her".
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18 680 "Beat her," said Lykos.
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21 155 The struck beast rolled in the dirt, bleeding, blood coming in gouts from its mouth, as the heart might beat, reddening the tusks, and then, after a time, it lay still, beside the wagon.
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28 39 "Please do not beat me, Mistress!" I begged.
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33 8 "The masters, their hands!" "Shall we beat her?" asked one of the guards to the other.
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Book 32. (16 results) Smugglers of Gor

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6 430 Intent on their work, presumably to beat their victim senseless and convey him, bound, to some predesignated location, the fellows were oblivious of my approach.
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8 110 "Beat her more!" called one of the other slaves.
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8 150 "Beat her well!" called a slave.
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9 19 If they capture us they beat us and sell us.
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20 96 A moment later we heard a torrent of rain beat against the low roof of the kennel.
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20 135 They will not ravish you or shackle you, or beat you, or sell you to another.
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20 172 The rain continued to beat heavily on the roof.
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22 140 There will not be enough left of her to beat.
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24 114 "Then have her, and beat her, and tire of her, and sell her," said Tyrtaios.
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35 154 "Please do not beat us, Mistress," said Tula.
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38 18 I must remember to beat her.
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39 385 "Beat her," he said.
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40 35 It is almost never necessary to beat her, though she understands it will be done to her, and routinely, if she is not fully pleasing to her master.
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43 948 I must beat Asperiche, I thought.
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52 56 "Beat us, sell us, take us elsewhere!" begged a slave.
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53 145 "Please do not beat me!" He held the whip, two hands on the staff.
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Book 33. (12 results) Rebels of Gor

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2 60 I had been at the holding, idle, waiting, doing nothing! I cried out with rage, startling the bird, which swerved to the left, and lost a beat of the great wings.
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2 62 Again the mighty appendages found their beat, and the bird again sped, with no altered signal from the straps, on the course I had set.
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2 94 What is this? Yes! The beat changes.
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12 441 Beat and bloody him.
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29 457 "Let us beat her," said Haruki, the cluster of knotted ropes once more dangling from his hand.
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29 458 "Please do not beat me, Master," said the slave.
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30 280 Sometimes a slave will even beg the whip, that she be reassured that her master still cares for her, if only enough to beat her.
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30 475 I will be solicitous to please! I will crawl to you! I will bring you the whip in my teeth! I will kneel before you! I will beg to kiss your feet! I will tie sandals, and wash clothing! I will polish leather, I will try to sew, I will cook! Do not beat me! Be merciful! I am only a slave!" I will mak...
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30 654 I suspected, by now, the lightning, set to the bowstring of the heavy, dark, surging, turbulent clouds, was prepared to flash, the thunder to roll forth, to the beat of its drums, roaring like an avalanche in the Voltai, precipitating its tons of falling rocks to the valley below.
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44 205 It does not have the wing beat of a tarn".
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44 212 It is not the wing beat of a tarn.
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54 269 The beat of its wings drives the currents of destiny; its approbation dignifies and ennobles houses; its frown foretells stricken futures.
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Book 34. (11 results) Plunder of Gor

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1 2 "Beat me, if I am not pleasing," I said.
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8 74 My master showed little inclination to beat me, but I had no desire to do anything that might prompt him to do so.
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9 475 "There are better things to do with a slave than abuse them, beat them, hate them, and torture them".
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14 179 "She is not one of us! She is not trained! She is not skilled! Please, Masters, do not beat the rest of us, for her fault!" "Be quiet," said Lysander.
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16 2 "Beat me," I had said, "if I am not pleasing".
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28 144 "It would seem a shame to beat her".
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29 14 Occasionally they will gratuitously, and fiercely, beat an unattended slave fastened at a public ring.
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30 379 Why then had I begged this man to beat me? I suspect, upon reflection, puzzling on this anomaly, that this act convinces the slave that she is truly owned, is truly under the whip, that she is truly a slave, and of this man.
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33 111 Beat her, cuff her, or, if you wish, I shall have the five-stranded disciplinary device brought, and put to a richly deserved use".
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40 92 I did not think it likely that Epicrates, who seemed a gentle, pleasant-­enough fellow, would be likely to set upon and beat anyone, let alone a visitor, and fellow caste member, to his shop.
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52 262 As I lay at his feet, lashed, sobbing, my skin aflame, my greatest pain, by far, was my remorse, my bitter shame and grief, that he had seen fit to beat me.
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Book 35. (15 results) Quarry of Gor

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8 404 "Let me beat her now".
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8 703 We have realized we could not beat the corsair to the shore, so we have no choice but to risk all on flight".
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8 737 "The beat increases," I said.
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8 747 Twice in that time our beat had been increased.
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8 812 Doubtless the men would beat her for that, if it should later prove convenient to do so.
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15 77 "Beat her," said another woman.
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15 107 "Let her master find out, and he will beat her pretty hide off her bones," said another.
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33 169 We are at the mercy of the strength of birds, the stamina of kaiila, the beat of the long oars and the accommodations of congenial winds.
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39 183 "Have mercy! Beat me! Lash me! But free me of the ropes! Cut away the cloths! I beg it! It hurts! It hurts! It burns! It burns!" "Perhaps you are now docile, and are prepared to be cooperative?" asked Miles.
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43 283 "I hear no beat of the keuleustes," said Vas of Anango.
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46 239 "They will beat me!" said Euphrosyne.
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46 245 On your way!" "They will beat me," said Euphrosyne.
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46 624 "If she shows the least sign of impatience, annoyance, recalcitrance, or displeasure, I will beat her," said Florian.
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46 644 Addison Steele turned about, but did not drag me forward, or throw me from my feet and then kick or beat me.
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47 263 "If Gorean girls know I am a barbarian," I said, "they may beat me".
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Book 36. (30 results) Avengers of Gor

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26 1 The Flight from Mytilene "Keep the beat, lads, keep the beat!" I called down from the stern deck.
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54 13 The first beat is the least taxing for the oarsmen whereas the fifth beat is the most taxing.
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4 33 The cyphers, substitution cyphers naturally, are correlated, in one way or another, with letters in the Gorean alphabet, a long beat followed by two short beats, say, standing for a given letter, and so on.
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6 207 "Beat her," said Thurnock.
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20 20 It is not treachery to cling to honor!" "Beat him and cast him forth," called a man.
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26 2 The beat is regulated by the keleustes, commonly on a drum or bar, but sometimes by voice.
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26 8 Sometimes, too, particularly when silence is important, the keleustes times the beat by means of a flag, cloth or wand; at night a shielded lantern, opened and closed, may be used.
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26 10 A smooth beat, however it is timed, is important, particularly in battle, as an awkwardness or mixing of oars can lead to an impairment of maneuverability.
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45 12 A common punishment in such cases is to bind and hood the thief and then beat him to death.
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51 62 "The beat increases," said Thurnock.
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53 167 "Is this a suitable beat?" inquired Sakim.
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53 181 For the next twenty Ehn, the Tesephone and the Dorna rowed abreast, like a larger and smaller waterfowl, the beat set by my charge to the Tesephone's keleustes.
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53 196 Fifteen Ehn later I signaled the keleustes to cease the beat, and the Dorna and the Tesephone rocked on the water.
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53 282 Needless to say, once we were ahead of the pursuers, and had established a sufficient interval, the keleustes put away his mallet and, descending to the benches, called the beat by voice.
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54 3 We moved at first beat.
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54 9 "Second beat," I called to the keleustes.
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54 10 "Second beat," he responded.
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54 12 My ships, the Dorna and Tesephone, and those others at sea or docked in the arsenal at Port Kar, used a five-beat system.
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54 14 The fifth beat cannot be satisfactorily maintained over more than twenty or so Ehn.
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54 16 Accordingly, the fifth beat is usually reserved for situations in which ramming or shearing is imminent.
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54 20 They prefer a living keleustes who can see the benches and heed the action of the oars and, consequently, adjust the beat, subtly, as necessary, to optimize the performance of the vessel, subject to actual conditions.
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54 23 "Not at second beat," I said.
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54 24 "The Dorna cannot keep up with us if we go to third beat," said Thurnock.
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54 29 "Third beat," I called to the keleustes.
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54 30 "Third beat," he responded.
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54 31 An Ahn following the transition to third beat we had maintained much the same distance between us and the foe.
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54 44 "Could we not, at third beat, do so indefinitely?" asked Thurnock.
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54 48 They could bring fresh oarsmen to the benches every ten Ehn if they wished, even at the fifth beat".
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55 42 "They are at beat four".
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58 262 "Next afternoon," said Sakim, "when the lights are no longer too bright for the crew, when the noises are no longer too loud for them, when the slightest move no longer torments them, when the clouds no longer scream and beat on their heads, what course shall we set?" "Sybaris," I said, "there are d...
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