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Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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2 28 The building in which I found myself was apparently one of an indefinite number of towers, like endless flat cylinders of varying sizes and colors, joined by narrow, colorful bridges that arched lightly between them.
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Book 2. (2 results) Outlaw of Gor

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3 6 The Gorean, having little idea of progress in our sense, takes great care in his building and workmanship.
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12 2 At last I had entered a building and had descended a long, swirling ramp, through dank passages.
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Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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29 100 A building on my left seemed to leap into the air and vanish.
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Book 4. (18 results) Nomads of Gor

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26 102 Kamchak stopped inside the compound and looked about, his dark, fierce eyes looking from building to building, examining with great care the roof tops and windows.
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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 4 "Probably," I said, "on the highest roof of the highest building in the House of Saphrar".
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20 34 The bridge permitted access to the tower from the building on the roof of which we stood.
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20 44 Almost immediately I heard a shout from the building.
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20 49 A guardsman had emerged, carrying a crossbow, framed in the light of the threshold at the entrance to the bridge from the building.
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20 57 Two swordsmen now rushed from the building, leaping over the fallen crossbowman, and raced along the bridge toward me.
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20 72 The bridge began to rock and sag on its ropes and several men from the building began to thunder across towards me.
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20 74 A quarrel now struck the flooring of the tower at my feet and skidded into the building.
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20 75 I struck again and the other rope burst from my stroke and the bridge swung rapidly back against the wall of the building opposite with a clatter of sticks and cries, knocking the remaining, clinging guardsmen from it, dropping them like wood senseless to the foot of the wall.
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21 157 During this time I climbed out a back window facing another building, and hoisted myself to the flat roof of the shop, returning by the same route when they had gone.
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21 347 The roof of a building on the left was afire and smoke and sparks were being hurled into the sky and swept by the wind across the adjoining buildings.
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21 353 The wall of a building off the main avenue collapsed flaming to the street.
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22 23 Doubtless rocks and large pieces of building stone had already been piled behind the gates.
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24 195 "To the right!" I looked to the right but could see nothing but the side of a brick building.
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24 197 "It is," cried Harold decisively, "the side of a brick building!" I turned to look at him.
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26 2 Kamchak, Harold and I stood with several others on the roof of a building across from the compound.
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26 4 Kamchak stood in the half darkness, his palms on the wall running about the edge of the roof of the building on which we stood.
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Book 5. (4 results) Assassin of Gor

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9 49 One of them held the sheet up inspecting it, and I saw that it was a bill, which might be pasted against the wall of a public building, or on the public boards near the markets.
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19 47 The girls, when brought to the Curulean, are braceleted and naked; they have been chained in slave wagons; they are brought to a large, heavy, barred gate in the rear of the large building, through which they are led; the bracelets are, of course, to secure them; the lack of clothing is simply to sa...
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19 59 When it was free I was jerked to my feet and, stumbling in the midst of my guards, was led from the street, around the back of the building, where we entered through a small, private gate.
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19 146 Slave girls who escape masters or some free women, who will not accept the matches arranged by their parents, or reject the culture of Gor, occasionally flee to these forests and live together in bands, building shelters, hunting their food, and hating men; there are occasional clashes between these...
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Book 6. (8 results) Raiders of Gor

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9 101 Nominally beneath these Ubars, but in fact much independent of them, is an oligarchy of merchant princes, Captains, as they call themselves, who, in council, maintain and manage the great arsenal, building and renting ships and fittings, themselves controlling the grain fleet, the oil fleet, the sla...
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9 651 I bent and put the arm of the dying man about my shoulders and, lifting him, with the girl's help, went back through the kitchen of the tavern and, one by one, climbed the high, narrow stairs to the top of the building.
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10 29 The "Stone" of Port Kar, tested against the official "Stone" at the Sardar, reposed in a special fortified building in the great arsenal, which complex was administered by agents of the Council of Captains.
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10 37 Port Kar's Merchant Foot, like her "Stone," is kept in the arsenal, in the same building as her "Stone".
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10 174 Building fine and beautiful ships gives them great pleasure.
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10 178 This is not to say that they would have any objection to being rich; it is only to remark, in effect, that it has never occurred to them, no more than to most Goreans, to take very seriously the pursuit of wealth as their universal and compelling motivation; being ignorant, it seems, they, like most...
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13 222 I recall seeing, crouched against the wall of a building near the postern gate of the palace of Lurius, a coarse-robed figure, foolishly come too early to sell his vegetables, suls and tur-pah, near the palace.
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14 309 There are in the building of ships, as in other things, values to be weighed.
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Book 7. (5 results) Captive of Gor

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8 387 But, interestingly, at a given building, one guard would separate me from the others and together, the guard and I, we would go into the building, while the others continued on to the market.
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2 110 But some fifteen feet below me was a small terrace, one of hundreds projecting from the sides of the building.
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8 388 Returning from the market they would call at the building, at which time I and my guard would go outside.
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8 394 The building where I would wait on these days was the house of a physician.
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15 1460 I am of the planet Earth! I belong in New York City! I live on Park Avenue, in a great building! I am rich! I am educated! On my world I am an important person! I am of Earth, of Earth! You cannot treat me as a simple slave!" Then I put my head in my hands.
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Book 8. (2 results) Hunters of Gor

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15 284 The chain, of course, may also be looped about, say, a tree, or a pillar in a public building, and the locking device snapped into the welded ring on the back of the girl's own ankle ring.
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19 34 There was little opportunity to use the great bow, either against the stockade or to prevent the building of the rafts.
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Book 9. (6 results) Marauders of Gor

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1 171 We can say, "This building is beautiful," but we do not learn the beauty of the building from the words; the building it is which teaches us its beauty; and how can one speak the beauty of the building, as it is? Does one say that it has so many pillars, that it has a roof of a certain type, and suc...
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1 169 Do we not learn to live by doing, as we learn to speak by speaking, to paint by painting, to build by building? Those who know best how to live, sometimes it seems to me, are those least likely to be articulate in such skills.
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2 60 Kassau is a town of wood, and the temple is the greatest building in the town.
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11 184 Moreover, they knew little of the craftsmanship of building a seaworthy ship.
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16 214 "In building this chamber," I said, "it was not the intention of Torvald that it should be he who was awakened within it, but rather those who came to seek him".
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17 323 I felt a surge of frenzy building within me.
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Book 10. (6 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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11 522 Another building, this time to our left, caught fire.
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11 613 I saw the body of one of the inn boys to one side, against the wall of the opposite building.
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13 431 On Gor, they have at last the opportunity to meet men of a sort they had only dreamed of before, in furtive, secret dreams, dreams which thrilled and frightened them, virile, uncompromising, powerful men, masters of women, men before whom they could only find themselves slaves, and they find themsel...
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17 6 Even in the shadow of Klima's Keep itself, the squarish, stout, fortresslike building which houses the weaponry, domicile and office of the Salt Master himself, did we recruit our crew.
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24 808 On Earth men have succeeded in building a complicated trap from which they may perhaps be unable to escape.
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25 154 I looked to the central building of the kasbah.
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Book 12. (2 results) Beasts of Gor

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6 603 I assumed the couple might be chilled upon emerging from the water and so I took the liberty of building a fire.
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21 39 It is harder to heat a building with windows, of course.
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Book 13. (17 results) Explorers of Gor

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4 345 Too, it would, given the construction of the buildings of Port Kar, be difficult to attain the roof of one from the outside of the building.
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4 346 I did not think she would try to gain admittance to a building.
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11 145 In a few moments I had hoisted myself up to the low roof and then, again, climbing, I eased myself onto the roof of the building in which the man and woman had been conversing.
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11 340 I followed him into the building, through the small anteroom and into the larger room, which I had seen through the wooden grille in the ceiling.
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12 597 There, in the anteroom, one of them retrieved the tiny scrap of yellow pleasure silk the girl had brought with her, wadded in her hand, when she had come earlier to the building.
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15 285 A dozen or more men were there waiting, beside the building, on either side of the door.
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32 865 I walked through the city and then, coming to a great temple, or building, with stone steps, I was told to stop.
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32 871 I found the building, somehow, familiar.
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32 875 In the daylight the building, or temple, must be incredibly barbaric and colorful.
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32 887 I knew then why the building seemed so familiar.
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32 956 ' I looked about, from the high tier on the temple, or building, on which I knelt.
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50 34 At the height, on that level, set far back, was a great, ruined building, with stairs and white columns.
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50 39 At places, and flanking the huge building at the top of the flights of stairs, were more of the huge figures of warriors, with shields and spears.
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51 193 I joined Kisu at the small fire in the ruins of the great building.
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52 173 The voice came from the height of the stairs behind me, and to my left, that leading to a higher level in the building, an open court, which lay above us.
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54 6 The great building, with its tall columns, some broken, fallen aside, in its ruins, lay behind us.
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54 105 Bila Huruma turned away and looked back at the ruins of the huge building, at the great stone statues, worn and covered with vines, and at the city, lost and forgotten, lying to the east.
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Book 14. (6 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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2 8 The light in the building was furnished by four bulbs overhead.
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12 440 It was there that she had laid the snares and set the traps, earning my trust, building up my hopes, which had made me so additionally vulnerable to the humiliations and miseries of my sale.
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16 338 I was thrown brutally, back first, against a building near the wagon.
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19 4 First, they strengthen the muscles of the shoulders, back and arms, building up incredible strength; second, when they are removed, it seems as though the hands, relieved of such weights, can fly like hornets.
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19 229 Barus put aside his tallying board and marking stick, and went into a nearby small building, an equipment shed.
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34 226 Was I to seek for her in every city and village and town on Gor, in every building, in every tent, on every barge? In what stray corner might she be chained? On what obscure square of sand might she be squirming for masters? "I do not anticipate difficulties," I said.
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Book 15. (3 results) Rogue of Gor

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9 55 I waited, as the bidding grew more heated, and as more men entered the building.
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27 113 Carefully, I removed one of the heavy granite blocks of stone, building stone, rectangular, some six inches by six inches, by eighteen inches, from the tiered pile of stones.
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27 114 It was building stone brought in by a quarry galley several weeks ago.
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Book 16. (1 results) Guardsman of Gor

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16 9 "Then, Lads," cried Policrates, "take Victoria! She is yours!" Then, at that very instant from atop the frame building housing the office of the wharf master the alarm bar began to ring.
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Book 17. (7 results) Savages of Gor

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1 197 The complex consisted of a tarn cot, now muchly open to the sky, with an anterior building to house supplies and tarn keepers.
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1 199 We were now within the anterior building.
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1 220 He looked about himself, at the dilapidated, ramshackle building.
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1 356 We heard, again, the screaming of the ul outside the building.
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1 733 I was pleased that, outside, on the platform of this anterior building of the tarn complex, there were several guards.
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6 67 On the largest building, the sales barn, about seventy feet wide and a hundred and twenty feet in length, there flies the pennon of Ram Seibar, a yellow pennon on which, in black, are portrayed shackles and a whip.
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13 690 I was driving back to my building.
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Book 18. (1 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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37 258 Thus, if the offspring is female, she is likely to be attractive, and thus, eventually, she should prove to be of value on the auction block, and if the offspring is male he is likely to be powerful, and thus of greater utility in the performance of heavy tasks, for example, in haulage, in digging a...
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Book 19. (10 results) Kajira of Gor

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8 335 "Deirdre! Two years ago in Ar we lived in the same building!" He looked at her, not speaking.
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17 7 Behind this area, at the back of the display area, was a gloomy building with barred windows.
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17 8 It was in this building that the slaves were kept at night.
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17 9 The Archon's man also had his office in this building.
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30 143 Certainly I left that building in the morning and returned to it in the evening.
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30 377 There was no opening here to the Wall Road, which must, judging from the proximity of the wall, be only forty or fifty yards behind the building.
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30 401 The dwelling within, which fronted on the yard, was a two-story building of dark, fitted stone.
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30 410 In a few moments the door was shattered, and, axes discarded, the five men, blades drawn, entered the building.
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30 438 The woman threw her hands before her face, and tried to turn back, to run into the building.
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30 441 The woman was not permitted to re-enter the building.
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Book 20. (3 results) Players of Gor

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1 970 "The building of ships in Tyros continues," he said.
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7 42 Then, in moments, building on her earlier sensitivity, I conducted her perforce to a height where she might sense, but not yet experience, a new horizon.
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22 77 I struck the wall of a building with great force".
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Book 21. (14 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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13 18 From the high, opened window of another building, some four or five feet below the sill, some forty feet or so above the street, its back against the stuccoed surface of the wall, there hung a body.
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13 52 It was fixed in the side of a building, fastened to its bolted plate, about a yard above the level of the street.
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13 113 There, some fifty yards away, kneeling, huddled together against the brick wall of a public building, the wall composed of the flat, narrow bricks common in southern Gorean architecture, was a group of some one hundred to one hundred and fifty females.
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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 4 These steps extended before the building, for the entire length of its portico.
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14 53 "Is the city being administered from this building?" I asked.
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14 57 \"This building supplies an appearance of civic normality," he said.
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14 61 "No, he is conducting business in this building," said Mincon, continuing down the hall.
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16 1108 Its original meaning is apparently "Meeting Place," and its application to a building, or a hall for the meeting of councils, is, it seems, a later development.
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16 1141 I saw a naked slave girl kneeling to one side, at the side of a building, on the stones, her hands chained behind her to a slave ring.
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22 95 "Do you have insurance on this building?" I asked.
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22 98 He would then not be likely to have the building fired to collect on the policy.
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22 207 "He lives in the building," said the proprietor.
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26 785 In a moment I had left the building, pulling the captive behind me, her head held down at my waist, in leading position.
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Book 22. (15 results) Dancer of Gor

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3 335 I darted between tables, toward the first-floor shelves on the east side of the building, where we keep most of our reference materials.
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3 486 The building was warm.
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8 150 We were very pleased to follow him into a large, wooden building.
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8 153 I hardly heard him, so eager I was to get within the building.
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8 154 Within, in the center of the building, in the center of its dirt floor, was a fire pit, in which blazed a cheerful fire.
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9 211 I saw, now, being lifted, that there were tiers behind the standing area, extending back and toward the back of the building.
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9 214 The only females in the building, I supposed, might be females such as myself, naked females, up for vending.
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9 215 There must have been some four or five hundred men in the building, in the tiers alone, not counting those crowded by the low railing.
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9 218 It was a lofty, raftered building.
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9 222 It was a barnlike building.
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17 165 There was a building there.
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19 116 Then my back was at the end of the alleyway, a closed alleyway, a cul-de-sac, against a building.
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29 50 This railing, in front of the remains of what had apparently once been a long low building, perhaps a stable, or bunk house, or ranch house of sorts, was a hitching device, for beasts, probably tharlarion.
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30 52 Earlier in the evening, in the frontward portion of the meadow, near the ruins of the long, low building, indeed, only a few feet in front of the rail, to which at that time Tela, Mina and Cara had still been fastened, Sempronius had fed me.
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32 291 We had gone down by the long building, beyond the well, in the meadow, where the beasts lay.
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Book 23. (11 results) Renegades of Gor

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2 223 I was now on the left side of the front of the two-part main building, as one would face the building.
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13 20 The defenders, sometimes fighting street by street, and building to building, and those who could reach it, had now withdrawn to the citadel, bringing with them what belongings and supplies they could.
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2 178 "The keeper's desk, and the paga room," said he, "are in the building to the right".
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2 200 I looked at them, exposed as they were, and in the downpour, and then circled about the building.
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2 214 I then made my way back to the main building.
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8 21 I looked back, toward the main building.
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8 764 In my second pass I hovered near the front of the inn building on the left, as one would enter.
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15 989 "I thought I saw a building move," she said, "back by the other buildings".
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16 82 He was crouching beside a pile of stones, building stones, and tiles.
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17 18 The most effective, but generally impractical, as it consumes much time and materials, is to raise the wall itself, building it higher, so that they can serve as little more than ladder platforms.
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18 459 "Considering that it was struck with a large piece of building stone with great force at close range, splendid," he said.
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Book 25. (15 results) Magicians of Gor

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8 161 The building we had just passed was an extremely old building.
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1 279 He seized her by the arms and lifted her from her feet, thrusting her back against the wall of the building.
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4 53 In such a room, assuming slaves are allowed in the building, there are usually two of these, one at the wall and one at the foot of a straw-filled pallet.
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8 140 "The wall seems very bare there," said Marcus, as we passed a public edifice, a court building.
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8 449 There were many uses for such stone, but most had to do with materials for building, paving and fill.
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11 185 "Captain!" said one of the men outside, pointing to the exterior wall of the building.
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15 80 "To approach the house of records over adjoining roofs, eschewing the use of patrolled streets," I said, "then to hurl the iron and rope from the roof of a nearby building to the roof of the house of records, and thence, later, by means of its displuviate atrium, to obtain entrance".
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15 93 "I plan on burning the entire building," I said.
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18 29 At the foot of the stairs, as is common in insulae, there was a great wastes pot, into which the smaller wastes pots of the many tiny apartments in the building are emptied.
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18 77 Many folks who lived regularly in insulae had had the experience of hastily departing from their building in the middle of the night.
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18 81 "It is not my building," said the fellow.
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18 102 "This will quite possibly save me burning down the building".
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18 104 I think he did not relish the thought of being on the landing if the occupants of the building should suddenly, in their hundreds, begin to stream forth in vigorous, or even panic-stricken, haste, down the stairs.
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18 131 She, and perhaps one or two others, I did not know, were in this very building, or elsewhere, chained or caged, as a surety for the lodging fees.
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19 297 From where we were, over the white-washed wall, we could see the veranda of the main building, where it was nestled back, in the side of a hill.
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Book 26. (7 results) Witness of Gor

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24 249 But I did not think they could burn the city, not unless they were prepared, in effect, except perhaps for certain districts, to enter and torch it, building by building.
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12 141 Are we, familiar with the rise and fall of empires, who have witnessed the building of the pyramids and walked the streets of Babylon and Nineveh, who have heard the tread of the legions and watched the armada set forth, to take our moment, our brief afternoon, to be the summit and meaning of eterni...
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24 244 He hurried into an adjacent building.
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24 246 What could be the purpose of these men here? I had just seen the fellow with a torch enter a building.
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24 328 I saw two more slave girls flee out of a building.
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24 346 But if it were mere massacre that was upon the mind of these men, if simple butchery was their intent, why did they not fall upon the huddled, kneeling group as a whole? Why did they not, in some two dozen fierce, merciless strokes, make the terrace run red with blood? Indeed, why had they bothered ...
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43 12 We had entered a building.
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Book 27. (18 results) Prize of Gor

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11 305 It had been denied to them for centuries by one sort of fanatics and now it was again being denied to them, on her own world, by a new form of fanatics, building on the insanities, cruelties and envy of their predecessors, utilizing the poisons of the past in the interests of unnatural, self-serving...
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13 41 The building on whose roof she stood, and it had been a long climb to the roof from the laundry, bearing the heavy basket, was very similar to most of the other buildings she saw in the city.
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16 12 Why could they not be quiet, these voices which must be in her dream? What a strange dream! It crossed her mind that she might complain to the building superintendent.
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16 93 She was on a narrow cement shelf, backed by a building on which it abutted, rather like a porch.
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16 97 To the left of the shelf, as one would face it, there was a door at the ground level, through which access to the building was obtained.
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16 102 There were seven sockets behind the shelf in the wall of the building, overhead, in which horizontal poles might be fixed, and there were matching sockets near the front of the shelf, into which vertical poles might be placed, from which arrangements of poles, joined together and reinforced by addit...
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16 103 At present, however, the poles, with their awnings, were not set, reposing rather in a storeroom of the low brick building, the tenement, or insula, as the shelf, without the awnings, rented for a lower price.
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16 323 He went to the left of the platform as one would face it, and entered the building.
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16 513 Mercifully the sun was lower now, and, although the shelf was still in full sunlight, the sun should, in a few minutes, descend behind the building across the square.
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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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16 712 She did not know how long she lay there, but the sun had descended behind the building across the way, and she could sob no more.
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16 935 Indeed, two torches had even been lit on the building behind the shelf, one rather at each end.
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16 1283 "Buy me, Master!" Barzak conducted his new charge into the building.
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16 1362 Ellen, between Lydia and Cichek, descended the shelf steps and, in a moment, entered the building.
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17 134 Did they fear it? Would any of them, she wondered, know what to do with a whip and a woman? The thought crossed her mind of the superintendent in her apartment building.
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17 1009 Within the welcome coolness of the building, Barzak faced her away from him and, with a short thong, casually, tied her hands tightly behind her back.
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30 247 One time, however, several days ago, he did strip her, tie her wrists together before her body and conduct her down the stairs to the hall of the building, where it opened at the street level.
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30 252 A free woman then entered the building, who had been shopping.
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Book 28. (4 results) Kur of Gor

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1 445 Animals, such as she, and others, were incapable of such things, just as they were incapable of building pens, making rooms light and dark, burning objects at a distance, and such.
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39 2 There were perhaps a hundred Kurii about the building, with its walled enclosure.
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42 105 Its eyes, like dark moons in the great building's dim light, regarded them.
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80 87 One sort of building in which slaves are never permitted, and may be slain if found within, are temples.
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Book 29. (9 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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11 2 The stable was a long, large building, with a towering roof, to contain the longer-necked tharlarion.
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12 175 There was a larger building, too, which had a plank floor and an open wall.
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18 216 It had been a small, but a beautiful, and exotic, building, and might have been more suitably situated not in a rude camp, but, withdrawn, in a sheltered garden.
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19 21 A small building of wood, as were most of the camp structures, would not fare well against the bulk and momentum of a distressed, uncontrolled, rapidly moving tharlarion.
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29 96 "What is that large building, that structure near the shore?" I asked.
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30 1 I Speak with Aëtius I felt small, standing on the shore, beside that towering, mighty body, that massive structure, held in its building frame, sloping down to the water.
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35 3 My sword had been kept at the entrance to the wooden pavilion, which was the largest building in the camp.
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35 4 Lord Nishida and I were now in the vestibule of this building.
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37 56 An extra tenth of a pasang had been allotted for the turn, in building her wharfage downstream.
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Book 30. (6 results) Mariners of Gor

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1 354 Some of these veterans of the delta campaign, now embittered, realizing how they had been betrayed, and dismayed at the Ar to which they had returned, formed the nucleus of a resistance, the "Delta Brigade," the natural symbol of which was the letter "Delka," scribbled or scratched secretly, in bold...
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2 186 Clinging to a remnant of the bulwarks, half in water, I saw the hull of the monster towering above me, fifty feet or more, like a several-storied building of wood, a moving insula, wet and glistening, moving.
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3 947 Its auxiliary buildings, its stables, its stable yard, and such, like the main building, seemed similarly fallen into a state of forlorn desuetude.
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3 958 Then he drew on my leash and I followed him, and found myself brought into a small building, one of those few in which a lamp had been burning, visible through the window.
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9 396 I did not doubt, however, that they had been in close communication during the building of the great ship.
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37 768 My domicile was reached by an external stairway, leading to a long balcony, off of which were several common-wall dwellings in a single long, elevated building, on pilings, facing the harbor.
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Book 31. (6 results) Conspirators of Gor

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7 44 Who were others, to tell me who I was? How was this a freedom, to be told how to be? How strangely false and unsatisfying seemed the culture to which I was expected to conform, and that which I was expected to perpetuate! Was I truly an artifact, a meaningless, unhappy puppet of a dismal world, resp...
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10 463 I did not know how many Ehn might be left, perhaps two, perhaps three? Suddenly an arm, abruptly, startling me, blocked my way, the palm of its hand on the side of the building.
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23 60 More interestingly the hunters must have prepared for the evening's work, either by, over time, building up an immunity to the drug, or, more likely, by imbibing a counteragent to its effect, prior to its distribution at our camp.
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27 113 A building, for example, with its halls, may resemble a maze of tunnels.
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50 63 Attempting to withdraw, they found the building surrounded by a large number of armed men, many armed with crossbows, and some, Peasants, armed with the great bow, the Peasant bow.
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50 65 Fires were set about the building to further discourage any projected withdrawal.
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Book 32. (14 results) Smugglers of Gor

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52 100 Men would be setting such fires, which would spread from building to building, and, possibly, to the stockade.
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1 48 I looked up, and saw the ceiling of the large building, like a warehouse, and the lights, not now on.
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7 35 It seemed that this building, which I took to be large, judging from the size of the basement, or dungeon, was some sort of depot, from which supplies, and such, at least currently, would be taken north.
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7 345 We would not be able to recognize the inside of the building, its outside, the streets about, or such.
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8 400 From the yard of a dark building, behind the wharves, through a double wooden gate, wide enough to exit a wagon, a scribe, in his blue work tunic, carrying a tablet, had emerged.
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8 403 The coffle would be halted outside the building, where it would wait, until it was met by an officer from one of the ships.
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8 513 A coffle from a different building was already stowed in that fashion in the base hold of the second ship.
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9 346 "It was at his feet that I lay bound and naked, in a warehouse, a large building, in the barbarian lands".
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14 37 "You are building a fort at its head waters, for trading inland?" I asked.
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15 6 At the entrance to the slave house, that rude, long, low-ceilinged, wooden building, the visitors are given a small lamp, or a taper, in its holder, and a switch.
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15 7 The offerings, on their mats, are aligned on the two sides of the building, with an aisle between them.
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15 421 Much of the building dock within which it had been constructed had been dismantled, but one could note, here and there, several remaining ribs of what had been the supporting framework and some timbers of the slide leading to the river.
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44 18 I resolved to go far enough inland to elude pursuit, and then, when sure of my escape, somehow cross the river, perhaps stealing a boat, perhaps building a raft, bound with vines, or even clinging to debris.
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50 169 This was the long, low, log-built building, which I shared with several others, in which we would be chained at night.
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Book 33. (3 results) Rebels of Gor

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30 406 What of slave shelves, public cages, sales racks, sales wagons, exhibition poles, and such? Is not any slave in a coffle or on a rope exhibited? What of leashed slaves on promenade? What of those chained to the throne of a Ubar? Is not any girl fastened to a public slave ring exhibited? What of the ...
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56 5 If she was a free woman, as we speculated, she might in such times fear to leave the building.
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61 39 Accordingly, given the nature of men, life began to form itself again in the ancient patterns of coming and going, farming and hunting, fishing and gathering, gaining and losing, accumulating and squandering, building and destroying, planning and plotting, loving and hating.
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Book 34. (42 results) Plunder of Gor

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32 51 The front of the building was some ten yards in height, suggesting that the building contained levels.
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32 54 Near this door, to the side, on the right, as one would face the building, on the wall of the building, was a small, lidded tharlarion-oil lamp.
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32 56 When we approached the building more closely, I noted that there was a small, sliding panel in this door, which, if opened, would allow someone within the building to peer outward without opening the door.
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1 129 I then regretted some short, tart, uncomplimentary remarks I had made to some of my friends, friends of a sort, other girls, other employees, working in the same building, with whom I often lunched.
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1 130 These remarks had appertained, largely, to my views of the firm, my employers, and some of the other gentlemen in the building, with some of whom our firm had dealings.
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1 497 I knew several of the girls who worked in the same building that I did.
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1 533 Once, early in our luncheons, held in one restaurant or another, but usually in the restaurant on the fourth floor of the building, we had exchanged numbers.
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7 145 I wondered if they were deliberately lowering the lights in the building.
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7 197 What would the point of building such a thing? What could it be for? We were still now.
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8 398 How could these lustful, powerful brutes of Gor not see that? Indeed, I was clearly the most attractive of our luncheon group, which met in the cafeteria in the building where we worked.
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10 53 "Thus, I need neither buy nor rent a building, a shelf, a cell," said the dealer.
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23 42 How far I was, from the receptionist's desk, from the office, from the firm, from the building, from my former world! "According to records," he said, "to which I was made privy, albeit somewhat reluctantly, you were, on the slave world, named Phyllis Rodgers".
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32 53 Within this larger gate, in the right leaf of the gate, as one would face the building, there was a smaller opening, a door, by means of which individuals might come and go.
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33 676 His two cohorts had left the building.
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33 706 He then began, I coughing and stumbling in his grip, to hasten toward the back of the building.
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33 709 Through the open door in the back of the building we could see the fire raging inside.
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33 723 "Hurry," he said, drawing me with him, hurrying down the alley behind the building.
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39 23 "We must depart the building!" I said.
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39 40 We could not well then descend to the ground floor and attempt to avail ourselves of the rear exit to the building, even if we had wished to do so.
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39 49 "We must flee the building," I said.
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39 54 "The building is afire!" I said.
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39 58 "What if they fear we might have left the building?" I saw no hope, now, save in some frantic rushing forth, attempting to descend the flaming stairs and bolt into the night and into whatever might be there, if anything, waiting for us.
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39 96 "May I recall to Master," I said, "that the building is afire.
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39 114 "The building is afire," I said.
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39 130 There was a crash from within the building.
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39 148 "But," he said, "given the fire, the hot ash, the dangers of collapsing wood, it will take some time for them to make their way into the building".
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39 191 "While our friends are scouting the ashes," he said, "we shall descend, into this building, and, shortly, exit from its back entrance".
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39 201 "The building is done," said a voice.
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39 207 "Perhaps the building was unoccupied," said another.
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39 211 At this point there was a cry of awe, and alarm, from the throng, for, with a great crash, the roof of the building we had just abandoned collapsed, and a torrent of smoke, sparks, and flame roared upward.
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40 105 Before we had descended into the interior of the building that we had reached by means of the narrow tem-wood bridge, and while the fire was still raging, and while we were waiting for it to subside, when, we anticipated, those of the faction of Lord Agamemnon would proceed to investigate the smolde...
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40 162 The upper floor of the building is occupied by a free woman, whose name is Bina.
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41 65 Those who had set the fire, and perhaps waited outside to strike us, if we fled the building, would by now have determined, presumably to their chagrin, that no charred bodies lay amongst the debris.
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41 66 I thought it even possible that they might have reported to their superiors that their mission had been successfully completed, or, more likely, more judiciously, that we had not been in the building.
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41 205 I looked to the stairwell leading up to the second floor of the building in which Epicrates had his shop.
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42 70 "May I ask," I said, "what was the import of the message delivered by my predecessor, who lately exited the building?" "What a pretty thing she was," said the Lady Bina.
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49 3 The building was large, but I doubted that it contained one hundred corridors.
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52 191 He then lifted and turned me, placing me, seated, against the wall of the building, near the foot of the stairs.
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63 32 Several of us who worked in the same building had often lunched together.
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63 33 The cafeteria was in the same building, and it was convenient.
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64 57 An administration building was prominent, nearly fronting on the Viktel Aria.
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64 59 Near the administration building was an inn, where one might eat and lodge, though few of the guests, proportionately, availed themselves of this luxury.
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Book 35. (8 results) Quarry of Gor

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5 106 As a precaution, the building will be evacuated.
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6 96 This may have had to do with a shift in the wind, easily marked at the docks, but not evident where we were, on the street between buildings, or, perhaps, it was occasioned when the fire reached different materials in the affected building or buildings.
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6 111 When we had been brought into the street the coffle had soon been turned, that it might, later, be conducted more expeditiously back into the building.
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7 65 "Indeed, we did not even need to fire a building last night as planned, that the slaves of the house of Anesidemus be brought into the street.
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32 24 Perhaps someone was confused or mistaken, had entered the building by mistake, but the sounds had suggested stealth.
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32 78 So why then, when he returns, will he find you still here? Perhaps the slave thief is a rank amateur, hoping to find you unsecured, as slaves often are, or the keys conveniently about, in the apartment, perhaps in a drawer or chest, perhaps dangling just outside your reach? More likely, he was inter...
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33 119 Some speculate that the humans who had long ago taken to the vast, formidable delta marshes, perhaps fleeing to them, might have realized the possibility of rence islands from the nest building of the marsh kite.
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47 50 Whereas there was some provision in the apartment for light cooking and cleanliness, elsewhere in the building one might find a public kitchen and general lavatory facilities.
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Book 36. (4 results) Avengers of Gor

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7 119 Consider the fighting, from building to building, from room to room.
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35 167 "I had hoped," I said, "that with communication and cooperation amongst the villages, the building and manning of watch towers, the arming of peasants with an effective weapon, that the land would be closed to the raiders, this protecting both villages and towns".
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37 161 "What town is thinking of building a wall?" I asked.
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41 227 "Too, we are dealing with mercenaries, not disciplined troops, used to labor, as in building ditched and palisaded fortress camps, as well as fighting.
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