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Book 1. (18 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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1 223 For a moment it looked like a falling star, but then it suddenly became clear and substantial, like a broad, thick disk of silver.
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3 70 For example, the population as a whole, the castes below the High Castes, were encouraged to believe that their world was a broad, flat disk.
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3 272 He fastened himself in the saddle with a broad purple strap.
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4 14 I seized the short mounting ladder swinging wildly from the saddle and climbed it, seating myself in the saddle, fastening the broad purple belt that would keep me from tumbling to my death.
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5 31 As soon as we had taken flight, I had unfastened the restraining straps on her legs and wrists, leaving only the broad belt which lashed her securely to the back of the tarn.
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6 70 When I opened my eyes, I found myself partially adhering to a vast network of broad, elastic strands that formed a structure, perhaps a pasang in width, and through which at numerous points projected the monstrous trees of the swamp forest.
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6 72 My flesh adhered to the adhesive substance of the broad strands.
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9 60 What I would do when we reached the Margin of Desolation and the broad Vosk River, I didn't know.
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9 176 Behind them, stretching into the distance, came a long line of broad tharlarions, or the four-footed draft monsters of Gor.
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10 8 A bejeweled, curtained platform slung between the slow, swaying bodies of two of the broad tharlarions appeared.
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10 116 The high tharlarions, unlike their draft brethren, the slow-moving, four-footed broad tharlarions, were carnivorous.
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12 88 The Vosk became a broad, glimmering ribbon in the distance.
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12 134 As he stalked forward, oblivious of the spear, I hurled the broad-headed weapon deep into his breast.
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14 103 The loose ends of the fiber were then attached by broad leather straps to two tarns, one of them my own sable giant.
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15 59 Glancing about to see that no one was watching, I lightly climbed the fence of woven branches and dropped down inside among a group of the broad tharlarions.
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15 62 Their more dormant relatives, the broad tharlarions, barely lifted their snouts from the feed troughs.
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18 69 There were several, easily visible from above because of their broad, circular form, much like a great well sunk in the earth.
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18 125 At the top of a broad series of stairs I saw the door that must lead to the Central Cylinder and noted with satisfaction that its dimensions were large enough to permit the passage of a tarn.
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Book 2. (23 results) Outlaw of Gor

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14 155 What I would have given for a tarn saddle and the broad purple strap that fastens the warrior in the saddle! As soon as it felt my weight, the tarn cried again and with an explosion of its broad wings sprang into the air, climbing in dizzy circles.
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3 43 The whiskers had been scraped from his face, probably by the blade of the broad, double-headed wood ax bound on top of the bundle.
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3 48 The shaggy creature, broad, powerful, monstrous in the proud deformation of his craft, stood before me, his feet planted firmly on the road.
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3 71 He regarded me, and I thought the trace of a smile cracked through the stubbled leather of his broad face.
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3 86 The broad-chested carrier of wood was grinning from ear to ear.
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3 95 The low-slung, broad frame seemed to stiffen.
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3 114 With the ax in his hands, suddenly he seemed to remember his caste, and he crouched in the road, there in the dusk, a few feet from me, like a gorilla clutching the broad-headed ax, breathing deeply, sucking in the air, mastering his fear.
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4 78 It was a thing I could see, could feel, could fight! With an eagerness and a lust that matched that of the beast itself, I rushed forward in the darkness and when I judged its leap I lunged forward with the broad-headed spear of Gor.
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5 5 Whereas Ar was glorious, a city of imposing grandeur, that acknowledged even by its blood foes; whereas Thentis had the proud violence of the rude mountains of Thentis for its setting; whereas Port Kar could boast the broad Tamber for its sister, and the gleaming, mysterious Thassa beyond, I thought...
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8 10 Even men of a caste as low as that of the Tarn-Keepers were intolerably proud of their calling, for who else could raise and train those monstrous birds of prey? I supposed Zosk the Woodsman was proud in the knowledge that he with his great broad-headed ax could fell a tree in one blow, and that per...
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9 59 The two giant beams that barred it were in place, beams that could only be moved by a team of broad tharlarion, draft lizards of Gor, or by a hundred slaves.
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10 28 After we had walked for perhaps some twenty minutes through the drab, graveled, twisted streets of Tharna, its gray citizens parting to make way for us and to stare expressionlessly at the scarlet-clad prisoner, we came to a broad winding avenue, steep and paved with black cobblestones, still shiny ...
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10 34 It was a far cry from the broad-portaled central cylinders of many of the Gorean cities, through which a brace of golden-harnessed tharlarion might be driven with ease.
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11 5 We emerged in a broad but dim hall.
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11 19 On the broad steps leading to the throne, there were curule chairs, on which sat, I supposed, members of the High Council of Tharna.
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11 248 "No," screamed the Tatrix, and, to the astonishment of all, herself descended the broad steps of the dais.
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13 110 Suddenly the foot of Kron swept through the white perfumed sand, bright with mica and red lead, and kicked a broad sheet of particles toward my eyes.
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15 48 In the distance, perhaps some forty pasangs away, I saw a set of ridges, lofty and steep, rearing out of a broad, yellow meadow of talenders, a delicate, yellow-petaled flower, often woven into garlands by Gorean maidens.
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17 30 Before we had been ushered into the cell, outside, in a broad, rectangular chamber, two of the mine attendants had poured a tub of bread and vegetables into the feed trough fixed in the wall, and the slaves had rushed upon it, like animals, screaming, cursing, pushing, jostling, trying to thrust the...
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17 86 * * * * In the morning, though I knew it was morning only by the curses of the Whip Slaves, the cracking of the whips, the cries of the slaves and the rattle of chains, I and my fellow prisoners crawled from our cell, emerging again into the broad, rectangular room which lay directly beyond.
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23 89 I slapped its beak and tossed Lara to its broad back and leaped up beside her.
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24 133 I saw before us once again that broad, winding but ever narrowing avenue which led to the palace of the Tatrix.
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24 266 He unslung his shield and the long, broad-headed spear from his left shoulder.
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Book 3. (5 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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2 67 The larl's head is broad, sometimes more than two feet across, and shaped roughly like a triangle, giving its skull something of the cast of a viper's save that of course it is furred and the pupils of the eyes like the cat's and unlike the viper's, can range from knifelike slits in the broad daylig...
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2 1 In the Sardar I looked down the long, broad avenue to the huge timber gate at its end, and beyond the gate to the black crags of the inhospitable Sardar Range.
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12 93 They had wide, fine heads, strong, broad bodies, and a carriage that suggested calmness and strength.
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20 10 Mul-Al-Ka stepped on the accelerator strips and guided the disk from the vicinity of Misk's portal and out into the broad, smooth thoroughfare of the tunnel.
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27 103 I did not know at the time but Gur is a product originally secreted by large, gray, domesticated, hemispheric arthropods which are, in the morning, taken out to pasture where they feed on special Sim plants, extensive, rambling, tangled vinelike plants with huge, rolling leaves raised under square e...
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Book 4. (18 results) Nomads of Gor

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1 21 On the north they claimed lands even to the rush-grown banks of the Cartius, a broad, swift flowing tributary feeding into the incomparable Vosk.
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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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1 51 They are among the proudest of the peoples of Gor, regarding the dwellers of the cities of Gor as vermin in holes, cowards who must fly behind walls, wretches who fear to live beneath the broad sky, who dare not dispute with them the open, windswept plains of their world.
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2 132 About the neck of the fourth rider there was a broad belt of jewels, as wide as my hand.
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3 85 Last to approach me was the warrior of the Paravaci, with his hood and cape of white fur, and the glistening broad necklace of precious stones encircling his throat.
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5 110 Kamchak laughed, the colored scars wrinkling on his broad face.
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7 19 Kutaituchik lifted his head and regarded us; his eyes seemed sleepy; he was bald, save for a black knot of hair that emerged from the back of his shaven skull; he was a broad-backed man, with small legs; his eyes bore the epicanthic fold; his skin was a tinged, yellowish brown; though he was strippe...
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7 92 With him had been a tall, strange man, broad of shoulder with large hands, a grayish face, eyes almost like glass.
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7 194 A small smile touched the broad face of Kutaituchik.
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7 201 "Do you think Priest-Kings would use a Turian message collar?" He pointed his broad finger at Elizabeth Cardwell.
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17 7 Besides the designs there were also, growing from planting areas recessed here and there in the marble walkway, broad-leafed, curling plants; vines; ferns; numerous exotic flowers; it was rather beautiful, but in an oppressive way, and the room had been heated to such an extent that it seemed almost...
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19 68 Here we climbed several low, broad marble steps and passed down a columned porch and entered the central building, finding ourselves in a dim, lamp-lit hall, bestrewn with carpets and cushions and decorated, here and there, with carved, reticulated white screening.
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20 150 As quickly as I could I then unhobbled the other bird and climbed to the saddle, fastening the broad safety strap.
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21 172 Indeed, the broad walk, some thirty feet wide, within the high walls of Turia, with the view over the plains, is a favorite promenade of Turian couples.
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21 200 "It is unfortunate," she said, "that you do not have a swift kaiila and then you might, in broad daylight, hurtle past the guards and make your way into the prairie".
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26 16 He seemed humped in the half darkness, short of neck, broad of shoulder.
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26 126 In the main hall he looked about and then, Harold and I following, and the man with the two sleen, and the slaves with gold, and his archers and other men, he began to walk his kaiila forward, across the broad marble tiles, following the terrified Saphrar of Turia.
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28 23 I would fasten about myself the broad safety strap, usually purple, which is an invariable portion of the tarn saddle.
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Book 5. (23 results) Assassin of Gor

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19 80 Philemon, I and the guards emerged from the exposition area to the interior of the sales amphitheater; the entire house was now lit by energy bulbs; later, the block alone would be illuminated; the seats rose in tier after tier, largely circling the block, though a passage lay open behind the block;...
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24 106 At times we walked up swirling gradients, at times stairs, swirling and broad, leading higher and higher into the cylinder; sometimes we walked through marble-floored passageways, in which, through narrow windows, designed to be too small for a body to pass, but large enough for use as crossbow port...
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1 35 There were three who stood near the pyre; one wore the brown robes of the Administrator of a City, the humblest robes in the city, and was hooded; another wore the blue of the Caste of Scribes, a small man, almost tiny, bent now with pain and grief; the last was a very large man, broad of back and s...
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5 128 At this I swept her from her feet and carried her to the broad stone couch in the room, where I placed her on the piles of furs that bedecked it.
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5 239 Further, that she not become terrified and attempt to struggle or leave the table, she was secured to it by several broad metal bands, plus ankle, leg, wrist and arm clips.
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5 733 Ho-Tu was a short, corpulent man, broad-shouldered, stripped to the waist.
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5 736 He had a broad leather belt, with four buckles.
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6 67 One of them carried a large pitcher of the diluted Ka-la-na wine and stepped behind us, climbing the two steps to the broad wooden dais on which our tables were set.
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9 18 The House of Cernus, which is a broad, many-storied cylinder, has a number of facilities which any large slave house must have.
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12 9 I could see the netmen expertly moving across the broad stands approaching them, loops in their hands to tie together the bird's beak, to bind its curved, wicked talons.
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12 11 Its rider took the saddle and control straps from the still-quivering bird and dropped with them through the broad strands of the net, to the sand some six feet below.
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12 12 The other bird was apparently only stunned, and it was being rolled to the edge of the net where it would be dropped into a large wheeled frame, drawn by two horned tharlarion, onto a suspended canvas, where it was immediately secured by broad canvas straps.
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12 384 As I was passing under the main arch of the stadium, going to the broad street beyond, called The Street of Tarns because of its proximity to the stadium, I heard a voice behind me.
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12 388 Facing me, clean-shaven, but with a massive, regal face concealed in the hood of a peasant, his gigantic body broad and powerful in the coarse rep-cloth garment of what is thought to be Gor's lowest caste, there stood a man whom I could not mistake, even though it had been years since I had looked u...
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13 42 Her blond hair was cut very short to protect it from the water; even so, in swimming, such girls often wrapped a long broad strap of glazed leather about their head, in a turban of sorts.
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13 292 On the racing saddle there are two small straps, rather than the one large strap on the common saddle; both straps fasten about the rider and to the saddle, in a sense each duplicating the work of the other; the theory is that though smaller straps can break more easily the probability of both strap...
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13 306 The first time I attempted to use the harness, though I was aware of the danger, I overdrew the strap and the suddenness of the bird as it veered in flight threw me against the two narrow safety straps; the small, broad, rapid-beating wings of the racing tarn permit shifts and turns that would be im...
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13 316 The sand of the stadium seemed white in the moonlight, as did the broad dividing wall.
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16 255 The vast, long black wings, broad and mighty, opened and struck against the air, hurling a storm of dust and sand on all sides, almost tumbling the small, hooded Tarn Keeper from the low wagon.
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19 46 I stumbled again, on one of the large, broad, flat stepping stones, and fell forward and was jerked by the chain tearing at the back of my neck, and struggled again to my feet, hearing through the thick layers of leather in the slave hood the laughter of the guards, as though far away.
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19 325 About his left shoulder he wore the knotted ropes of Port Kar; his garment was simple, dark, closely woven; the hood was thrown back revealing a broad, wide head, close-cropped white hair; the face was red from windburn and salt; it was wrinkled and lined, cracked like leather; in his ears there wer...
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19 368 Never has a slave girl escaped from canaled Port Kar, protected on one side by the interminable, rush-grown delta of the Vosk, on the other by the broad tides of the Tamber Gulf, and beyond it, the vast, blue, gleaming, perilous Thassa.
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22 113 I strode from the bird's side and made my way through the readying compound of the Steels until I climbed the stairs inside the low wall separating it from the area leading out onto the broad path leading to the starting perches; I dropped over the wall and made my way across the sand until I came t...
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Book 6. (27 results) Raiders of Gor

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1 37 I heard a bird some forty or fifty yards to my right; it sounded like a marsh gant, a small, horned, web-footed aquatic fowl, broad-billed and broad-winged.
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1 57 The bargemen of the Vosk will not take their wide, broad-bottomed craft into the delta.
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1 67 About his left shoulder, in the manner of his city, he had worn the knotted ropes of Port Kar; his garment had been simple, dark and closely woven; the hood had been thrown back, revealing his broad, wide head, the close-cropped white hair; the face had been red from windburn and salt; it had been w...
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3 43 He had been a slave, doubtless, and, doubtless, judging by the collar, and the large hands and broad back, had served on the galleys, but he had been an unusual slave, a bred exotic, doubtless originally intended by the slave maters for a destiny higher than that of the galley bench.
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3 70 He had a broad head, with a heavy, calm face.
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3 280 I saw only contempt on that broad, calm face.
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3 331 "Your back is broad," she said.
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8 243 Had I used a broad-headed arrow, or the Tuchuk barbed arrow, one would, in removing it, commonly thrust the arrow completely through the wound, drawing it out feathers last.
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8 277 With the first length of binding fiber I tied her wrists behind her back; I then carried her and placed her, on her knees, on the second of the broad steps leading up to the tiller deck, two steps below that in which is fixed the chair of the oar-master; she now knelt below that chair, and to its le...
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8 310 Telima, haltered, bound hand and foot, kneeling on the second broad step of the stairs leading up to the tiller deck, looked up at me.
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8 362 It was a large, broad man, with yellow, shaggy hair.
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8 379 I examined the broad arm of the chair, and, in the right arm, I found a sliding piece of wood, which I slid forward, it extending beyond the chair arm.
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10 308 They would be deep-keeled round ships, with mighty holds, and high, broad sails.
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12 46 I let it free and as it snapped at me I thrust its jaws up and slipped behind it, my left arm locked about its broad, furred throat.
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13 57 Broad tiles lay beneath my feet.
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14 249 Accordingly, in such a combat situation, involving only two ships at sea, both ships commonly described the broad starboard circle, prowling about one another like wary sleen, exchanging missiles, watchful for the opportunity to engage with ram and blades.
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15 108 Even now, in my feast of celebration, hours after the meeting of the council, I still wore about my neck the broad scarlet ribbon with its pendant medallion of gold, bearing the design of a lateen-rigged tarn ship, the initials in cursive Gorean script of Council of Captains of Port Kar in a half cu...
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15 249 I fingered the broad scarlet ribbon and the medallion, pendant about my neck, bearing its tarn ship and initials, those of the Council of Captains of Port Kar.
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15 817 "You, too," she said, "wear a collar!" I tore away from my throat the broad scarlet ribbon, with its pendant medallion, with the tarn ship and the initials of the Council of Captains of Port Kar.
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16 153 I picked up the broad scarlet ribbon, with its medallion, that with the tarn ship and the initials of the Council of Captains of Port Kar.
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16 213 "Thassa is broad," said another officer.
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16 286 Outside the holding, on the broad promenade before the holding, bordering on the lakelike courtyard, with the canal gate beyond, I ordered a swift, tharlarion-prowed longboat made ready.
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16 342 Even before the man in the bow had tied the tharlarion-prowed longboat to a mooring post at the piazza, I had leaped up to the tiles and was striding, robes swirling, across the squares of the broad piazza toward the great door of the hall of the Council of Captains.
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16 418 They followed me, and I left the chamber of the council, and, in a few moments, stood on the top of the broad marbled steps leading up to the hall of the Council of Captains.
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17 220 Even they, broad-beamed and deep-keeled, pitched and bucked in the roiling waters of late Se'Kara on Thassa.
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17 325 It screamed as I fastened the broad purple safety strap.
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18 804 Ho-Hak turned and I saw the broad back of the ex-galley slave move through the door.
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Book 7. (23 results) Captive of Gor

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13 768 He was broad chested, and broad shouldered.
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3 226 Far below, on the steel-reinforced, broad cement stairs, ringing hollowly in the shaft, I heard the footsteps of two men, climbing.
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6 31 Once, looking up, I saw a flight of large, white, broad-winged birds.
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6 362 And about her body, in a broad loop, passing over her left shoulder and across her right hip, was a wide, heavy leather strap, which was bolted into the wagon tongue.
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6 460 Sobbing, crying out inwardly, I pushed against the broad leather strap with all my might.
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7 506 Her arms, over her resplendent robes, were bound to her sides with a broad leather strap.
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8 49 A broad, low-sided barge began to back toward the pier.
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8 58 They were harnessed to the broad barge.
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8 77 The fog had begun to lift and the surface of the river, broad, slow-moving, glistened here and there in patches.
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8 93 Strangely, a broad swath had been shaven lengthwise on their head.
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8 191 We were now better than two thirds of the way across the broad river.
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8 210 The tharlarion now turned slowly in the broad river, near Laura, and, under the stick, and cries, of their driver, began to back the barge against its pier.
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8 219 The broad circles of wood on which the wagons were mounted were now rotated, so that the wagon tongues faced the pier.
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12 97 Our wagon pulled over to one side of the broad avenue, Ko-ro-ba's Street of the Field Gate.
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12 147 How straight walked the huntsmen, how broad their backs, how straight their gaze and high their head, how large their hands, how keen their gaze! They were masters! They had made slaves even of men! What would a mere woman be in their hands? I detested them.
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12 597 The strap was broad, and a little damp, on the inside.
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12 661 The straps we wore about our throats were broad, and the strap, too, that joined us.
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12 662 But, about the throat, the broad strap, for each of us, was perforated in two places, and it was by means of narrow binding fiber, passed several times through the perforations and knotted, that it was fastened on our throats.
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13 840 He was met with another war cry, and suddenly, only feet from us, another tarn streaked past, and I heard the forcible, tearing scrape of a broad, bronze spear blade, its blow turned, sliding across the metal-bound, layered, boskhide shield of my captor.
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13 841 The other tarn streaked away, and its rider, standing in his stirrups, braced in the saddle, held to it by the broad safety strap, was redrawing his crossbow, a quarrel held in his teeth.
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13 883 I saw the broad blade of his sword but an inch from my face, for one terrifying instant of immobility, the other's blade, edge downward, resting on it, stopped.
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15 791 "The straps are too broad.
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15 1428 I did so, and he, spilling some from the broad rim of the crater, I feeling it on my chin, and throat, as it trickled under the collar, and body, poured the remainder of the wine down my throat.
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Book 8. (11 results) Hunters of Gor

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1 306 He belted the broad belt, with its large buckle.
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1 384 At the broad, bronze-linteled portal I turned.
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3 195 The other, sitting cross-legged with him, was the broad-shouldered, blond giant from Torvaldsland whom I had seen earlier.
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3 275 The wagon stopped on the broad street, before the wharves, where the crowd could gather about.
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5 1 We Enter Upon the River It was now four days following my arrival, the master of the Tesephone, in the harbor of Lydius, near the mouth of the broad, winding Laurius River.
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9 6 I could see them, on all sides, at the edges of the clearing, rising beautifully a hundred, two hundred feet toward the blackness of the Gorean night, the brightness of the stars, and then, almost at the top, exploding into a broad canopying of interlaced branches.
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11 754 He was broad and strong.
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13 88 I did not need, as with the broad arrow or the Tuchuk barbed arrow, to thrust the point through in order to free it.
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18 10 Then, as the water moved again, in the stirrings of Thassa, the sea, in its broad swirling sweep touching the beach, he lifted his head and stood upright, the water about his ankles.
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18 135 I heard the cry of sea birds, broad-winged gulls and the small, stick-legged tibits, pecking in the sand for tiny mollusks.
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22 6 At their anchors, fore and aft, some quarter of a pasang from shore, swung the Rhoda, in her yellow, now dim in the grayness of the morning, and the Tesephone, on her flag line, snapping, an ensign bearing the following device, the head of a bosk, in black, over a field of white, marked with broad s...
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Book 9. (24 results) Marauders of Gor

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1 13 No musicians played; no cup companions laughed and drank, lifting their goblets; on the broad, flat tiles before me, under the torches, barefoot, collared, in scarlet silks, bells at their wrists and ankles, there danced no slave girls.
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2 210 The high altar, of marble, setting on a platform, also marble, of three broad steps, was surmounted by a great rounded circle of gold, which is taken often as a symbol of Priest-Kings.
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2 333 He was of incredible stature, perhaps eight feet in height and broad as a bosk.
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3 302 Forkbeard then, grinning, slung his ax over his left shoulder, dropping it into the broad leather loop by which it may be carried, its head behind his head and to the left.
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3 303 This loop is fixed in a broad leather belt worn from the left shoulder to the right hip, fastened there by a hook, that the weight of the ax will not turn the belt, which fits into a ring in the master belt.
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4 7 The stream of Torvald is a current, as a broad river in the sea, pasangs wide, whose temperature is greater than that of the surrounding water.
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4 109 The lookout stood upon a broad, flat wooden ring, bound in leather, covered with the fur of sea sleen, which fits over the mast.
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6 193 To one side, tall, broad-shouldered, stood a young male thrall, in the thrall tunic of white wool, his hair cropped short, an iron collar on his throat.
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6 258 I saw the young, broad-shouldered thrall, who had been standing to one side, go to the slender blond girl.
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6 495 Then from his chests, within the hall, he had given me a long, swirling cloak of the fur of sea sleen; a bronze-headed spear; a shield of painted wood, reinforced with bosses of iron; the shield was red in color, the bosses enameled yellow; a helmet, conical, of iron, with hanging chain, and a steel...
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7 36 "Now, twice more," said Ottar to me, his hand on his broad black belt inlaid with gold.
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7 98 In it, his back to us, hoeing, was the young broad-shouldered thrall, in his white tunic, with cropped hair.
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7 158 The snake is to be distinguished from the much more common Gorean slave whip, with its five broad striking surfaces.
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9 87 "Broad in the beam!" laughed another girl.
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9 106 She had a fair throat, good shoulders; she was marvelously breasted; her waist was such that one could get his hands on it well; she might have been a bit broad in the beam but I had no objection to this; in the north it is called the love cradle; it was well adapted to cushion the shocks of an oars...
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10 49 Prior to his winning the swimming he had won talmits for climbing the "mast," a tall pole of needle wood, some fifty feet high, smoothed and peeled; for jumping the "crevice," actually a broad jump, on level land, where marks are made with strings, to the point at which the back heel strikes the ear...
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10 54 Perhaps the most serious incident of the contests had occurred in one of the games of bat and ball; in this contest there are two men on each side, and the object is to keep the ball out of the hands of the other team; no one man may hold the ball for more than the referee's count of twenty; he may,...
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11 83 Blue Tooth was a large man, bearded, with a broad, heavy face.
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12 26 He had won a talmit for climbing the "mast," a tall pole of needle wood; it was some fifty feet high, and was peeled and smoothed; he had won one for "leaping the crevice," which was actually a broad jump, performed on level ground; one for walking the "oar," which was actually a long pole; two in c...
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15 183 It has the shape of a spear blade, broad, which has been bent near the tip.
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16 195 Its feathers were five inches long, set in the shaft on three sides, feathers of the black-tipped coasting gull, a broad-winged bird, with black tips on its wings and tail feathers, similar to the Vosk gull.
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17 174 Below us, in the broad valley, the camp of the Kurii lay still in darkness.
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17 255 I saw him suddenly thrust his left forearm against the broad blade of his spear.
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20 108 It was a Kur ax, its handle some eight feet in length, the broad head better than two feet in sharpened width.
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Book 10. (19 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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1 2 The entire floor of the chamber, shining, richly mosaiced, broad, reflecting the torchlight, was a map.
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2 292 Yet I did not look with pleasure on the prospects of a broad-scale conflict in the Tahari.
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2 609 There were steps, broad, flat, worn, in concentric circles, leading down to the water.
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5 100 It had been given to her by an agile, broad-shouldered, handsome young nomad.
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8 225 The soft, pliant, broad-bladed five-strap lash had been used.
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13 20 The path is broken by a kaiila, whose long, haired legs, with broad pads, break through, and lift themselves free, of the crusts.
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14 42 The stones were broad, heavy blocks, cool, wet in places, over which lay a scattering of damp straw.
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14 494 Such birds, broad-winged, black and white, from afar, follow the marches to Klima; their beaks, yellowish, narrow, are long and slightly hooked at the end, useful for probing and tearing.
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14 626 We stood on a crest, overlooking a broad, shallow valley.
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14 628 "There," he said, pointing into the broad valley.
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16 114 We saw the broad, blunt head, eyeless, white.
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16 164 The polemen seized up the broad levers near the retaining vessels.
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19 43 They were wild vulos, tawny and broad-winged.
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23 172 In his right hand he held a high lance, from which fluttered a broad and mighty pennon, scarlet and white, that of Haroun, high Pasha of the Kavars.
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24 27 She combed, with a broad, curved comb of kailiauk horn, her long, dark hair.
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24 35 She knelt on broad, smooth scarlet tiles.
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24 85 I wondered if she entertained Ibn Saran, upon occasion, on the broad, lovely surface.
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24 770 By the arm I thrust her again into the room where I had first found her, where there were the broad, scarlet tiles, the vanity, the mirror, now a single tharlarion-oil lamp at the side of the mirror.
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26 624 You know you cannot do it!" I opened the whip, letting the broad, soft leather fall loose.
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Book 11. (14 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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24 15 A large man, broad-shouldered, yet lithe, with large hands, a broad face, grayish blue eyes and unruly, shaggy, windswept reddish hair, stood at the rail.
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2 413 It had a long, heavy shaft, some two inches in width, some seven feet in length; the head of the weapon, including its socket and penetrating rivets, was some twenty inches in length; the killing edges of the blade began about two inches from the bottom of the socket, which reinforced the blade, tap...
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2 614 His face, in a broad, coarse way, was brutally handsome.
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6 34 Thurnus was a shaggy haired fellow, with yellow hair, big, broad-shouldered, large-handed, clearly in his bones and body of the peasants.
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6 128 It is, I suppose, given its nature, a military road leading to the north, broad enough to accommodate war tharlarion, treading abreast, and the passage, two or three, side by side, of thousands of supply wagons and siege engines, without unduly, for more than several pasangs, extending and exposing ...
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6 138 It was now unstrung, but the string, of hemp, whipped with silk, lay ready, looped loose upon the broad, curved yellow wood.
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9 110 The first team of bosk was hitched up, two of the great animals, broad, shaggy, with polished horns.
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9 1950 With an awl, brought by a man, he punched two holes, vertically, in the leather strap, and thrust the twin buckle-claws through the holes; he then took the long, loose end of the strap, for the sleen has a large neck, thrust it through the four strap loops, thick and broad, and then, with a knife, c...
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10 19 It is broad, fairly smooth, and built like a wall, sunk in the earth.
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18 13 My hair had begun to grow out, from having been shaved away for the voyage on the slave ship, but it was still quite short; I wore a broad Koora, which, kerchieflike, covered most of my head.
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19 41 It was floored with purple, glossy tiles, broad and shining.
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22 50 Its appendages were like broad paddles.
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22 172 It was a broad flag, white, with vertical bars of green.
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22 520 The ship rocked back and we saw the sky and the water stopped flowing inward, and then it rocked back again, and the water, smoothly, in a broad flow, swirled in.
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Book 12. (13 results) Beasts of Gor

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3 197 He was squat and broad, powerful, apparently very strong.
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6 875 Their nostrils were flared, their ears laid back against the sides of their broad, triangular heads.
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11 248 Wood can be used for sleds, and tent frames and the frames of kayaks and umiaks, the large, broad vessels which can hold several individuals, sometimes used in whaling.
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12 191 Thimble and Thistle bent down and each looped the broad band of her trace across her body.
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12 227 Would a white trader not pay more to rent one if she could understand his commands? The nose of the sled tipped upward and then fell to the level on the glacial pebbles, and Ax Glacier, like the broad blade of a Torvaldsland ax, lay behind us.
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14 4 It was a very broad face, with high cheekbones, and very dark, bright eyes, a face framed in cut, blue-black hair, with bangs across the forehead.
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20 117 I wanted to sing about the great sea, the mountains, the lovely stars, the broad sky".
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22 130 "It is a broad-head, and they are rare in these waters in the fall.
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22 155 "That is a rogue broad-head, and I think he has been hunted before".
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22 187 The animal was an adult, large-sized broad-head.
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22 241 "It is a broad-head," said Imnak.
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35 988 We entered a recessed, broad room, which gave access to one of the hatchways that led to the outside of the complex.
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35 1059 We then heard pounding on the outside of the broad hatch.
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Book 13. (25 results) Explorers of Gor

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5 84 The second officer now returned to the kneeling girl and, standing behind her, loosely, with a movement of the slave whip, looped the five broad blades of the whip about her neck.
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10 7 He was sitting, cross-legged, on a flat, rectangular stone, broad and heavy, about a foot high, at the western edge of the large Utukufu, or Glory, square.
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15 126 "You do not trust our broad-shouldered courier?" he asked.
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18 272 His face had been broad, and the eyes widely spaced.
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21 44 One pushed down with a spear, forcing the broad head of the tharlarion away from the vessel.
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25 9 More than once Kisu had struck her across the shoulders with his broad-bladed, ornately carved paddle when she, weary, arms aching, had faltered in the rhythm of the stroke.
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25 12 Then the marsh reeds parted and I saw, before us, sparkling in the sun, broad and shining, the waters of Lake Ngao.
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25 56 We then set forth, paddling calmly, on the broad, shining waters of Ngao.
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27 143 With the ring he might have slipped to a thousand more secure safeties on the broad surface of Gor.
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32 579 At the end of the street, before a group of men standing on the wide steps and the surface of a broad, stone platform, some ten feet in height, we stopped.
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32 872 He then directed me to walk to my left, and I walked upon one of the broad terraces, many feet from the ground, which, like tiers, were integral to the structure of the edifice.
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32 879 I turned about, facing him, and knelt down, on the hard, broad stone of the terrace.
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34 84 From the base of one of its broad leaves I gathered a double handful of fresh water.
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50 3 We guided our canoe over the shining, placid waters of a broad lake.
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50 30 Before us, more than four hundred yards in width, was a broad expanse of stone, at the eastern edge of the huge lake.
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51 137 The room was reached by a broad flight of stairs.
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51 138 And, in the rear of the room, there was another broad flight of stairs, leading upward to another landing and walk.
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53 19 While the rest of our two parties, including Bila Huruma, had waited within the threshold, I was conducted across the broad stone court to its center, where, on a huge stone couch, of ancient design, lay Shaba.
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53 59 Too, about this enclosure, at the foot of stairs leading from it, was a broad, shallow moat.
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53 189 At other places, too, I saw the heads of Kurii, broad and fanged, eyes blazing, arms and paws thrust over the wall.
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53 257 Its broad head was cut open to the neck.
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53 483 Between myself and the beasts there lay the broad, uneasy moat, some forty feet across, stirring with the movements of the crowded fish.
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54 4 We stood now on a broad level.
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54 5 To it led the several flights of broad stairs, ascending from that vast marble landing, with its marble mooring posts, which lies at the western edge of the ancient city, that landing to which we had first come, days ago, after our crossing of the lake.
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54 108 We do not even know who raised and aligned these stones, forming walls and temples, and laying out gardens and broad avenues.
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Book 14. (8 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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3 140 Their chests, bare, were large and broad.
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3 218 I saw the raking of broad claws, exposed, curved and white, pass sweeping below me.
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13 183 It slid a transparent membrane upward, covering its eye, as a broad-winged insect crawled on its lid.
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13 192 The broad avenue was beautiful, with its width, its paving and fountains, the buildings, the trees, the central cylinder in the distance.
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13 207 One of these wagons had a cover of blue and yellow canvas, buckled shut with broad straps.
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14 58 I glanced at the broad, furred couch, and the cunning chains upon it, which had so often confined me for her pleasure.
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21 170 There was a reference to the rivalry of Ar and Cos for the markets and resources of the broad regions drained by the Vosk.
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26 125 I then flung her on her back, on the broad bed.
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Book 15. (3 results) Rogue of Gor

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7 49 She carried candies on a tray, held about her neck by a broad strap.
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23 2 Policrates, sitting beside me, behind the broad, low table, musingly fitted together the two pieces of yellowish, brown stone, the two halves of the once-shattered topaz.
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32 209 The men moved back, around us, clearing a broad circle.
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Book 16. (12 results) Guardsman of Gor

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3 88 She slipped behind us on the waters of the broad, muddy Vosk.
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8 4 I then had my feet on the broad blade of the rudder and grasped the upright shaft.
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8 406 Accordingly, not speaking, I tore a broad strip from the scarlet sheet and, folding it five times, encircling her head with it, tied it tightly behind the back of her head, blindfolding her with it.
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10 121 He was waiting on the broad walk, near the iron door leading within the holding, for Miles of Vonda.
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12 134 Vessels of clay, spreading broad sheets of flaming oil, shattered on the decks of the vessels in the yard.
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15 84 I could see the broad, lateral width of the concourse behind them.
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18 148 * * * * I sat upon a great curule chair, on a broad, three-stepped, carpeted dais in the house which I had borrowed from a friend, a citizen of Victoria, for the past few days.
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18 252 Head down, then, on all fours, to the small sounds of the slave bells on her wrists and ankles, and collar, she slowly ascended the three broad steps of the carpeted dais.
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18 301 I then dried my hands on her hair, and she knelt back, kneeling on the broad carpeted dais before me, in the position of the pleasure slave.
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18 698 Her right leg, and her right arm and hand, were on the broad stair, leading to the height of the dais.
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18 723 Later, I had her again, more methodically, her head hanging down, over the dais, on the broad stair leading to its height.
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18 759 Then, using the cord and eyelets, I laced the two ends of the broad, flat binding surface, to which, in the front and the center, the wadding was attached, tightly together behind the back of her neck.
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Book 17. (42 results) Savages of Gor

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1 6 Twice had he struck on the bars of the sea gate, each time with the Ka-la-na shaft of his spear, not with the side of its broad tapering bronze point.
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1 470 There was a broad leather strap, too, running from the right shoulder to the left hip of the smaller of the two creatures.
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1 536 The creature then detached, from the broad strap which hung diagonally about its body, from its right shoulder to the left hip, an instrumented, metallic, oblong, boxlike device, which it placed on the table.
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1 638 Yet I saw no flicker of doubt or uneasiness in his eyes, nor any incipient lifting of the broad ears.
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1 1225 Further, we find little reason to believe that the artist could have been, or would have been, mistaken about the nature of those events, at least in their broad outlines".
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2 199 The merchant was chaining his girls on the broad, tiered, cement display shelves.
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6 1 Kailiauk I looked down into the broad, rounded, shallow pit, leaning over the waist-high wooden railing.
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8 79 "I shall take this one," said a short, stocky, broad-shouldered fellow, in a wide-brimmed hat.
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8 482 One of the fellows there was the short, muscular fellow who wore the low, broad-brimmed hat.
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8 520 "Good," said the fellow near me, he in the broad-brimmed hat.
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8 602 "Well done!" said the fellow in the broad-brimmed hat.
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8 613 "The two leading fellows there," said the man with the broad-brimmed hat, "were Max and Kyle Hobart, from the Bar Ina.
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8 665 "Can you communicate with these other slaves?" asked the fellow in the broad-brimmed hat of the two stripped tavern girls.
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8 673 Ginger then turned to the fellow in the broad-brimmed hat.
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8 678 "Yes," said the girl, pulling at her bonds, "yes!" "Yes," said Ginger to the man in the broad-brimmed hat, in Gorean.
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8 816 I saw the fellow in the broad-brimmed hat, behind Ginger and Evelyn, make a sign to the auctioneer.
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8 821 The fellow in the broad-brimmed hat, I gathered, had influence in Kailiauk.
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8 829 The fellow in the broad-brimmed hat then pointed to the girl on the central block.
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8 843 "Six nine," he said, looking at the fellow in the broad-brimmed hat.
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8 850 "Very well," said the fellow in the broad-brimmed hat.
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8 862 No one, it seemed, cared to bid against the fellow in the broad-brimmed hat.
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8 867 "She is yours," said the auctioneer to the man in the broad-brimmed hat.
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8 886 "Come with me," said the fellow in the broad-brimmed hat.
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8 929 The fellow in the broad-brimmed hat had opted, of course, for the first arrangement.
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8 953 The fellow in the broad-brimmed hat, for example, was typical, in opting for this arrangement.
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8 1009 An attendant, holding them by the arms, brought them forward, and then, at the indication of the fellow in the broad-brimmed hat, knelt them down over the yellow line, in front of the hitherto first girl in the coffle.
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8 1019 I then, with materials supplied by the fellow in the broad-brimmed hat, added Ginger and Evelyn to the coffle.
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8 1026 "She is a beauty," I said to the fellow in the broad-brimmed hat.
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8 1030 Rudely she was thrust down to her knees, where the fellow in the broad-brimmed hat indicated, at the head of the coffle.
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8 1046 The man in the broad-brimmed hat lifted her hair, displaying it to me.
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8 1055 "Please, no! Please, no!" The man in the broad-brimmed hat bent down and, one after the other, untied the wrists of Evelyn, Ginger and the red-haired girl.
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8 1063 The fellow in the broad-brimmed hat then removed the blindfolds from Ginger and Evelyn.
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8 1084 "Position," snapped the man in the broad-brimmed hat.
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8 1089 "It surely seems so," granted the fellow in the broad-brimmed hat.
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9 10 It was of peeled Ka-la-na wood and, from its top, there dangled two long, narrow, yellow, black-tipped feathers, from the tail of the taloned Herlit, a large, broad-winged, carnivorous bird, sometimes in Gorean called the Sun Striker, or, more literally, though in clumsier English, Out-of-the-sun-it...
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9 14 Grunt now turned back on his kaiila to look out, eastward, over the broad grasses and low, rolling hills.
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11 296 He still wore the broad-brimmed hat.
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14 34 She beamed, her teeth strong and white in her broad, reddish-brown face.
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14 288 "Three," she said, suddenly, beaming, the fine, strong teeth bright in her broad, reddish-brown face.
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14 596 "What did Grunt, who is your master, the fellow in the broad-brimmed hat, call you?" I asked.
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19 24 "Hopa," said one of the Kaiila warriors, one mounted, a tall, broad-shouldered fellow, with long braids, tied with red cloth, looking down on the red-haired girl.
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Book 18. (16 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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1 490 Grunt, short-bodied, thick and muscular, still wore the broad-brimmed hat I remembered so well.
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3 264 It seemed to me not unlikely, for many reasons, having to do with sexual selection, in particular, that such behaviors were, at least in broad outlines, genetically coded.
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4 76 The common Gorean slave whip has five soft, broad strands.
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8 26 Grunt wore the broad-brimmed hat, that one with which I was so familiar.
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26 119 There you will find a white man, who wears a broad-brimmed hat.
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29 113 It was the first time that I had ever seen Grunt without the familiar, broad-brimmed hat.
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29 151 Grunt, I noted, had drawn on his broad-brimmed hat.
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30 32 The masks they wore were large, almost as broad as their shoulders.
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32 78 Cuwignaka looked down from the small rise, onto the broad, firelit spaces of the revels and feasts.
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32 253 "Look," I said, gesturing to the broad, firelit spaces below us.
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33 282 Cuwignaka slipped from the broad, over-the-shoulder strap he had used to exert leverage on the travois and then helped the girl to adjust it on her body.
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34 461 It was a broad, savage head.
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35 46 "Let us continue on," said Kisu, and, again, the river before us, broad between the moist, tangled green thickets of the banks, backed on each side by the enclosing jungle, we dipped our paddles into the muddy, sluggish water.
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43 313 Without haste, muchly concealed in the robe, I moved the kaiila out into the broad, empty lane between the Yellow-Knife lodges, almost a busy, triumphal way.
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43 322 Surely not in the lodges on each side of that broad thoroughfare.
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43 330 When I came to the end of the thoroughfare I turned the kaiila in a broad circle, not to foul the lines to the sacks, and began to retrace its length, even more quickly.
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Book 19. (18 results) Kajira of Gor

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2 390 Something rounded and leathery was then thrust in my mouth, something attached at the back of a broad, leather rectangle, by one of the men behind me.
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2 504 A broad leather strap was then drawn tightly about me.
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2 543 The broad leather strap, buckled shut, pressed, too, deeply into my belly, holding me in place.
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3 4 I lay on my stomach on the soft, broad, red-silk surface.
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3 639 He had broad shoulders and long arms.
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4 96 At one time, later, we passed by a set of low, broad, recessed-from-the-street, cement steps or shelves.
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4 404 He shook out the long, broad, pliant blades of the whip.
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5 235 I remembered the sight of the silver tarsk from Argentum, in the hand of Miles of Argentum, and the way it had looked, on the soft carpeting of the dais, on one of the broad steps leading up to the throne.
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6 183 It was drawn by a single tharlarion, a broad tharlarion, one of Gor's quadrupedal draft lizards.
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7 9 I put the small garment on the broad, dark-stained, polished boards of the floor near my feet, behind the screen.
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15 316 On it there seemed to be two broad, leather skids.
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24 195 It was thus, in a broad sense, a company tunic.
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29 78 His back was broad and the muscles of his arms and shoulders were large and powerful.
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30 402 Its portal was sturdy, not unusual in a Gorean house, and was reached by a high, narrow flight of stairs, this leading to a broad landing.
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32 294 I knew that I loved him, and had loved him, even from so long ago as the corridors, the chambers, the stadiums, the theaters, the high, broad walls, of Corcyrus.
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35 7 "Yes, Master," I said, and knelt, on the broad stair leading up to the serving dais in the private dining room in the palace at Argentum.
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35 12 I knelt on the broad stair, embarrassed, holding the slave silk about me.
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36 640 Compartments, or at least many of them, tend to be light and airy, and often have bright walls and a flooring of broad, multicolored tiles.
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Book 20. (14 results) Players of Gor

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2 1256 I looked at the man on the floor of the booth, he twisted there, awry, on the closely woven, thin, flat carpet, it spread over the broad, stony tiles of the piazza, he in whose heart I had left his own knife.
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2 1306 Frightened, she crawled upon it, and then lay on it, on her back, on the broad, soft, flat, smooth, comfortable interlaced straps.
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2 1377 She twisted her head angrily, in frustration, to the side, on the surface of broad, soft, interlaced straps.
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2 1386 She lay back on the straps, and lifted her knees, and put her hands above and behind her, hooking her fingers in the interstices of the broad straps.
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2 1510 It would then be rather like a broad, soft belt.
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2 1538 Then she lay back on the soft, broad straps, moaning.
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3 66 "You have broad shoulders," she said, "a narrow waist.
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6 1292 In a few moments the Brigella, her small wrists braceleted behind her, had taken her way from the area, eagerly heeling, almost running to keep up with him, her new owner, a stalwart, broad-shouldered, blond-haired fellow.
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9 116 Something such as she, exposed, vulnerable, defenseless, afoot, alone, trekking broad fields, wandering overland, is not likely on Gor to remain long at large; it cries out for the taking.
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9 236 That Boots is a broad-minded fellow, I have often heard it said.
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14 76 In that broad, sweeping, concave area I could see what Nim Nim called the "people".
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16 110 "Of course, the great Petrucchio!" "Was it not he who single-handedly carved broad swaths through the legions of ten cities in the seven meadows of Saleria?" asked Chino of Lecchio.
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16 998 In its nature it would be a prank, a practical joke, perhaps a somewhat cruel one, at the least a broad Gorean jest.
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21 238 A tall, broad-shouldered, imposing, caped figure stood there.
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Book 21. (13 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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1 130 "I think it will do you good to feel this," I said, shaking out the five, soft, broad blades.
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4 2 Genserix, broad-shouldered and powerful, in his furs and leather, with his heavy eyebrows, his long, braided blond hair and long, yellow, drooping mustache, looked up from the fire, about which we sat.
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4 107 "Do not mind Parthanx and Sorath," said a tall, broad-shouldered fellow sitting cross-legged beside me.
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4 219 He was a bit shorter than I, but was extremely broad and powerful.
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7 22 "Surely he would have something to say about your broad-minded attitudes toward schedules, your unconscionable delays, your neglect of your duties.
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14 3 We were at the foot of the low, broad steps of the Semnium, the hall of the high council, which building, it seemed, might now serve as the headquarters of the new masters of Torcadino.
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14 39 Passageways and stairways led variously from this broad vestibule.
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20 39 I had not forgotten the streets, the baths, the shops, the broad, noble avenues, with their fountains, the narrow, twisting streets, little more than darkened corridors, shielded from the sun, of the lower districts.
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21 234 It is a broad avenue with fountains.
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22 420 There were five of them, pliant and broad.
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23 32 "An ax much like this," said Hurtha, holding the great, broad blade before the fellow's face, from behind.
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24 184 There was a broad desk.
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25 431 I considered the movements of her sweetly broad love cradle.
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Book 22. (19 results) Dancer of Gor

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15 61 This device would be secured in place by a broad, mouth-covering strap, with three smaller straps attached to it, one to secure the broad strap at the upper lip, another to secure it across the mouth, pulling it back between the teeth, and one to secure it at the chin.
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1 109 What did it mean, that we were not the same as men, that we were so different? Was this really totally meaningless, a unique accident in the history of a world, a random paragraph written in the oceans, in the records of steaming swamps, in the journals of primeval forests, in the annals of the gras...
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10 5 I had climbed, on all fours, up the broad, carpeted steps of the dais, and now lay, on my belly, half on its surface, the lower part of my body, my right knee flexed, across the final two steps before its height.
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10 29 His shoulders, too, were broad, like the beams of a house.
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10 180 The man who owned me might indeed be, as I had first perceived him, in Market of Semris, he free, looking up at the slave block where I, a naked slave, displayed in high manacles, was being vended, too corpulent, too broad of girth, too gross, too scarred, too loathsome, too hideous, but now that I ...
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10 318 A broad belt then, perhaps some five or six inches in width, was put about my waist, drawn snug, and buckled shut.
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10 684 Its broad head was triangular, almost viperlike, but it was furred.
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11 55 It was a broad, low-ceilinged room, with pillars.
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11 202 I had never cared too much for the term "exotic dance" as that term seems to me too broad, in that it covers not only "ethnic dance," if, indeed, it really covers that, but many other forms of dance as well, which seem to have little in common other than their capacity to be sexually stimulatory.
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13 298 Similarly, and perhaps for similar reasons, Gorean men tend, on the whole, it seems, to prefer normal-sized, lovely breasted, sweetly thighed women, with broad love cradles, as opposed to unusually tall, breastless, narrow-thighed women with narrow hips.
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13 480 But my breasts were but an inch from his broad, strong chest.
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14 16 I climbed the broad, carpeted steps of the dais, and knelt before him.
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20 277 He wore a short cloak, fastened by a large bronze pin at the right shoulder, high, bootlike sandals, and a broad-brimmed hat.
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20 281 The hat, with its broad brim pulled down against the sun, with its attendant shadow, muchly concealed his features.
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26 204 How formidable the figure had seemed, so tall, so broad-shouldered, so purposeful, so menacing, in its remnants of a work tunic.
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29 303 There it moved the coins about, in the palm of one broad paw, by means of a digit on the other paw.
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29 1570 He was broad-shouldered and narrow-waisted.
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30 41 Its door, in the back, was reached by a short flight of broad, wooden stairs.
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Book 23. (5 results) Renegades of Gor

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1 43 Rain was pouring over the broad brim of his felt hat.
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1 73 I took the lantern from the fellow in the broad-brimmed felt hat, and handed it to the fellow of the driver.
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11 6 To one side of the curule chair, kneeling below it, on one of the broad steps, collared and briefly tunicked, was a pale, blond slave.
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16 102 I hurried up the broad stone steps to the surface of the platform over the main gate.
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21 1350 Slaves, of course, are not only trained in a broad spectrum of sexual arts, such as how to kiss and caress, and such, but much attention is given, too, to their own responsiveness and pleasure.
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Book 24. (2 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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1 437 "Let the festivities begin!" called the newcomer, a large, broad-shouldered, heavily bearded fellow, flinging a heavy purse on its strings into the stomach of he whom I took to be Philebus, the taverner, who clutched at it, but failed to secure it, as it was jerked back on the strings.
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2 65 "But then I am a tolerant, broad-minded fellow," I pointed out.
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Book 25. (3 results) Magicians of Gor

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1 82 It is the sort of place, far enough from the broad avenues of central Ar, where assignations, or triflings, might take place.
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10 164 "In broad daylight?" I asked.
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22 630 On the other hand, I suspect that they fear too broad a dissemination of the caste knowledge.
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Book 26. (29 results) Witness of Gor

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11 301 The broad-shouldered, large-handed man looked down upon me.
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11 674 The jailer was there, and was shaking out the five strands of a broad-bladed slave whip.
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11 692 I had heard of this whip before, the broad-bladed, five-stranded lash, designed for use on such as I, but never before had I felt it.
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12 651 I then felt a broad band of leather put about me.
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12 670 "He then put his hands to my head," she continued, "I helpless before him, confined in the broad band of leather, held in place by the rope on my neck.
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12 823 It seemed a large, broad thing, but it had tiny legs.
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14 66 I looked up and down the broad stairs.
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14 73 "It is more modest to kneel," I said, kneeling on the broad step, my legs together.
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14 950 "I would not, as the sort of slave I am supposed to be, be kneeling thus, would I?" We were kneeling on the broad steps leading to the upper terraces.
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18 59 Just as a city prides itself on the ebullience, variety, and colorfulness of its architecture, on its spacious plazas and broad avenues, on its numerous parks and gardens, so, too, it prides itself on the number and beauty of its slaves.
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19 544 "I wish he had," snapped one of our number, the largest, a broad-bodied girl in a coarse rep-cloth tunic.
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19 549 The broad-bodied girl went to stand near the free woman, looking down upon her.
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19 555 "It is you who are on your knees," said the broad-bodied girl.
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19 564 But she did not rise up, despite the broad-bodied girl's provocation.
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19 566 "Yes, you, lashed," said the broad-bodied girl.
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19 568 "Give me one!" "No," said the broad-bodied girl.
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19 570 "No," said the broad-bodied girl, taking a goodly bite from one of the apricots.
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19 572 "You are shackled, and you have a chain on your neck," said the broad-bodied girl.
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19 577 "Call them," said the broad-bodied girl, biting again into the apricot.
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19 582 "Your time of ordering people about is over," said the broad-bodied girl.
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19 624 "I must leave now," said the broad-bodied girl to the free woman.
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19 626 Suddenly the broad-bodied girl kicked her in the side and then, biting on the apricot, holding it in her mouth, took the free woman by the hair with both hands and jerked her head back and forth.
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19 628 The broad-bodied girl then took the apricot from her mouth and bit into it again.
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24 594 He was tall and broad-shouldered.
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24 939 In a few moments then we were making our way across the terrace to the broad steps far from the wall.
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24 941 It seemed very broad.
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28 7 A broad, scarlet marble circle was before the high desk of the praetor's officer, and the Lady Constanzia was conducted to its center, the guards then withdrawing, moving back, several feet, leaving her there, alone, on the circle.
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37 13 Their heads, broad at the back, tended to taper toward the snout, rather like those of vipers.
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39 106 In a moment he had left the bed and thrown a robe about his broad shoulders.
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Book 27. (12 results) Prize of Gor

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11 557 A broad, flat wagon was there, too large to fit flat through the smaller door, that leading from the room to the corridor and kitchen.
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13 19 On the broad, circular roof, some fifty yards in diameter, there were numerous, sturdy, tiered racks of poles on which levels of laundry might be dried, and, between these racks, were numerous swaying lines, from which a great deal more wash, like flags, shook, flapped and fluttered in the wind, hel...
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16 91 At the other side of the square, down a narrow street threading its way between buildings similar to those about the square, she could glimpse what seemed to be a high, broad wall.
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16 670 But Barzak had already emerged from the building and, in his hand, he carried the five-stranded, broad-bladed Gorean slave whip, designed for use on females, to punish terribly but not to mark, or permanently mark, thus perhaps reducing the value of the errant, punished slave.
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16 1125 A tall, broad-shouldered man in scarlet, massively handsome, had approached the shelf.
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16 1416 The fiery lesson of the broad-bladed, five-stranded Gorean slave whip, designed to be applied to such as she, had not been lost on her.
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18 287 Now she looked at the broad, smooth, glossy, rounded surface and blushed.
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19 611 Below her, too, here and there, were broad thoroughfares, lit by torches.
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25 105 Ellen's cage, and some similar cages, but most much larger, some even like exhibition cages, containing several girls, were within a large, canvas-walled area, the canvas strung upon and held upright by poles, behind and adjacent to the sales area itself, with its great block at one end, a block som...
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25 727 In a moment she was being dragged up the broad steps to the surface of the large block from which livestock, fleshstock, such as she was being vended.
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27 208 "What are they doing now?" asked Fel Doron, looking forward, over the broad, scaled back of the draft beast in the traces.
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30 210 The wagon then left the camp and, shortly thereafter, trundled onto the heavy, broad, fitted stones of the Viktel Aria.
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Book 28. (16 results) Kur of Gor

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8 25 Cabot stepped back, for he saw in the parting of the curtain a wide face, a broad form, a long form, the end of which he did not discern.
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8 191 The head of the metal object, heavy and broad, with a small sound, lifted itself a little, and the apertures behind which Cabot could detect no eyes, focused on him.
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9 4 Here and there in the passageways there were openings, commonly low, and broad, to accommodate the movements of Kurii.
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12 83 Cabot slipped from the simple garment and placed it in Pyrrhus' broad, extended paw.
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13 101 But Archon thrust the knife through a broad leather band of the Kur harness, unwilling to trust it again to its strange, recalcitrant sheath, and approached Cabot, and, putting out his arms, embraced him.
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19 25 It has a broad skull, rather triangular in shape, and is fanged, and clawed.
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19 120 "This," it said, stirring the body with its broad, metal-clawed foot, "was Kalonicus, cousin to Pyrrhus".
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21 281 The first, broad and powerful, half bent over, alert, looking from side to side, was Grendel.
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30 155 "There is a broad sense of the term 'slave rape', of course," said Cabot, "in which all usages of a slave, all uses of her, are in a sense slave rape, as her usages are not at her will but solely at the will of the master".
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55 5 The groups then, unless otherwise informed, would meet at the place designated, which was a broad, sloping, shallow place known as the Vale of Destruction, from an incident which had occurred there more than a hundred years ago, between rival factions for the Theocracy, adherents of the Tenth and th...
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56 22 They were in a broad, shallow valley, rather like a gentle, expanded, wide bowl of grass.
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56 229 Then Cabot looked about, at the broad field.
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61 98 In accord with the orders of Lord Grendel she had now been freed of the thick, broad, heavy, hammered-shut waist belt, with its heavy chains; had been cleaned, and brushed and combed; had been clothed, however excitingly and minimally; and had now been given an ample and nourishing diet, though one ...
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77 273 A Kur smile, grimacelike, contorted the broad muzzle of Flavion, and moist fangs protruded from the sides of his jaw.
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79 84 When he did return she could see that he carried a five-stranded Gorean slave lash, with broad blades.
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80 20 This conversation, and meeting, was taking place outside the palace, on its broad porch, to which led a long flight of wide stairs, some fifty yards in width.
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Book 29. (15 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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3 204 I had encountered the tarn again, years later, in the Barrens, and we had again been one, but at the end of local wars I had freed him again, that he might again take his place as the master of a mighty flock, that he might be again awing in broad, lonely skies, be again a prince amongst clouds, a l...
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4 4 It was very pleasant near the shore, with the smell of Thassa, with the cool, penetrant air, the sense of the salt of her churning waves, the sound of the surf, the incoming tide, the wash of sea weed on the shore, the water with its soft, fluid rush across the sand and amongst the stones, and then ...
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5 22 He had been infected with his own toxin, which produced, in time, a broad paralysis, that he might prepare, if time permitted, its remedy.
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5 564 '" "'Bring me a banner,' he said, 'one large, and broad.
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8 31 The Tuchuks are, on the whole, short and broad, strong fellows, agile riders.
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8 87 The Tuchuk face is commonly swarthy and broad.
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16 25 He was armed, as the others, with the small bow, and broad quivers on each side of the saddle.
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16 77 The war horn's blast burst out from beneath me and I saw the cavalry, in its diving, wedgelike, suddenly widening, formation, to allow for a broad front of arrow fire, rank behind rank, deploy.
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16 123 Each rider, as indicated, had two broad quivers at his disposal, in each of which was a hundred arrows.
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16 131 Further, given the quantity of arrows housed in the two broad quivers, whereas the ammunition of the crossbowman would be exhausted in ten Ehn, the ammunition of the other fellow, he with the short bow, even at the increased rate of fire, would last twenty-five Ehn.
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17 70 I saw another net fall gracefully, like a broad, circular, open veil, on a bird starting to climb from the plaza, and the bird fluttered back to the earth, screaming, protesting, rolling in the dust, the rider caught in the safety straps, and then the helmeted head was twisted about, and the body wa...
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18 14 I saw an Anangan dart lodge itself in a fellow's throat, who tried to pull it free, and, blood bursting from the neck, he sprawled into the dust, the vessel of the artery exposed, as it had caught behind the point of the dart, which point is broad, and barbed.
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19 32 If they become slowed, or are milling, they can be attacked by special troops, with broad-bladed axes, designed to disable or sever a leg.
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29 86 The river, broad and apparently navigable, lay some pasang or so in the distance.
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35 15 He was resplendent, broad and leaden, now in a scarlet kimono, with a yellow obi, or belt.
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Book 30. (9 results) Mariners of Gor

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2 155 These are large, broad-winged birds, which occasionally fish three and four hundred pasangs from the delta.
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4 43 He was a large, broad-shouldered, sinewy man, with a wind-burned complexion.
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8 71 Perhaps the tarns themselves, now unhobbled, unwilling to return to the imprisonment of the cramped cots below, where they had seen their fellows die, now drunk with their sudden freedom, in the cold, fine, piercing air, exhilarated, and exultant, had chosen to reclaim for themselves their rightful ...
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8 92 One caught at a pole and snapped it apart with one swift, wrenching closure of its wide, double-fanged jaws, like a toothed trap door set low in that broad, viperlike head.
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9 266 He cast it toward me, and, a foot or two from me, almost within my reach, it sank into one of the broad, rounded wooden, postlike bars, some five horts thick, of a tarn cage.
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9 474 His face was broad, his eyes bright.
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14 347 "Aiiii!" I heard, a sudden, startled, weird, hideous cry, and the knife arm, and the head, and the torso of Seremides suddenly disappeared beneath the water, which churned, rocking the mat of vines, lifting and scattering the broad blue and yellow blossoms amongst the foliage.
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21 106 Hands, too, amongst the higher Pani, are often concealed in the broad sleeves of their robes.
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32 35 An ax was thrust into my hands, and I rushed to one of the long, mooring lines, cutting it, even striking sparks from its broad cleat, anchored in the deck.
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Book 31. (21 results) Conspirators of Gor

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5 58 Do we not serve in the paga taverns, sometimes nude and belled? Do we not, sedately tunicked, as serving slaves, assist free women with their complex ornaments, their perfumes, robes, and veils? Do we not gather gossip for them, and carry messages for them in their petty intrigues and assignations; ...
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5 201 The floor had some broad grooves.
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7 211 I am sure the beating was light, and intended to be more informative than anything else, but, still, I had, for the first time in my life, felt the flexible, broad-bladed, five-stranded Gorean slave lash, designed specifically for the discipline of female slaves, a lash designed to punish but not to...
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8 1795 He was stocky, broad-shouldered, and powerful.
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8 1825 In many respects Ar is a city of wonder, of beauty and grace, of soaring towers, large parks and gardens, and broad boulevards.
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9 365 A hairy, large, paw-like thing had come from under the cloak and brushed back the hood, revealing a broad, furred head, perhaps a foot in width, with large eyes.
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11 141 "Too, some thieves, some well known, in broad daylight, even within view of the praetor's platform, pushing aside a grating, rushed from a sewer, to be shortly apprehended by rings of spear-bearing guardsmen.
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15 166 Broad ears, pointed, like lifted hands, seemed to emerge from that head, against which they must have been laid.
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15 176 I was aware of a broad, deep chest, hot and covered with damp, matted hair.
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15 179 I heard again the snuffling sound and felt the broad, distending nostrils of the beast moving about my neck and shoulders.
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16 156 I could see, over the wagon box, the broad, arched back of the plodding tharlarion which was drawing the wagon.
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17 157 Far below, on the broad, level area, inside the rail, I saw two girls, in tunics of yellow and blue, the Slaver's colors, back-braceleted as other slaves, but also, interestingly, joined together, neck to neck, by a yard of chain.
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17 244 I saw one slave in a short tunic which was white, with broad, diagonal black stripes.
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17 523 At the end of the day we were making our way from the tiers, descending toward the broad open area between the rail and the stands, from there to exit toward the wagon-and-cart yard, some adjacent inns, and some of the closer camps.
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18 1104 He thrust me back against the broad, high wagon wheel, and I saw the point of a knife at my lips.
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20 56 Who did not know that? It had been fortunate that my boldness, my lapse, had not been rewarded with a whipping! I rubbed the oil, in small, firm circular motions, into the broad harness.
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27 105 Long and broad were the corridors, high the ceilings, refulgent the lighting.
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32 2 I heeled him into the large room, and, when he crouched down, at ease, before the broad dais, I knelt behind him, on his left.
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40 12 Its paws were broad and thickly matted.
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40 24 It did put its broad face near the bars.
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42 83 Our eyes met, but I could read no expression in that dark, broad countenance.
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