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Book 1. (72 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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16 50 Marlenus and several men had entered the city, it seemed, but had been discovered—and sealed off in the very cylinder of the Home Stones—indeed, in that cylinder that had been his palace in the days of his glory.
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19 33 The Cylinder of Justice was a lofty cylinder of pure white marble, the flat roof of which was some hundred yards in diameter.
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3 235 We ascended a spiral staircase inside the cylinder and climbed for what must have been dozens of apartment levels.
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3 236 At last we emerged on the flat roof of the cylinder.
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3 253 One stroke of those wings would hurl me yards from the top of the cylinder.
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3 254 The tarn dropped to the roof of the cylinder and regarded us with his bright black eyes.
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3 280 Almost immediately from somewhere, perhaps from a ledge out of sight, rose a fantastic object, another giant tarn, even larger than the first, a glossy sable tarn which circled the cylinder once and then wheeled toward me, landing a few feet away, his talons striking on the roof with a sound like hu...
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4 2 I seized it, using it like a puny stick, striking at the great snapping beak that was trying to seize me, as if I were a scrap of food on the high, flat plate of the cylinder's roof.
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4 8 The tarn was circling the cylinder, uttering piercing cries; then he began to fly away from the city.
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4 13 At last, with a wild cry of rage, the tarn returned to the cylinder.
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4 56 In a dizzying minute or two we had passed the Older Tarl, to his amazement, and had settled again in a flurry of wings on the top of the cylinder from which we had departed a few minutes before.
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4 93 There were shouts, and, rushing to the window, I saw several answering bolts leave the cylinder and fly in the direction of the retreating assailant, who was now almost half a pasang away and making good his escape.
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5 9 As I passed the cylinder in which Torm kept his scrolls, I was happy to catch a glimpse of the little scribe standing at his rough-hewn window.
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5 45 The Home Stone of Ar, like most Home Stones in the cylinder cities, was kept free on the tallest tower, as if in open defiance of the tarnsmen of rival cities.
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5 54 Most significantly, while these members of the High Castes perform their portions of the ritual, the Guards of the Home Stone temporarily withdraw to the interior of the cylinder, leaving the celebrant, it is said, alone with the Priest-Kings.
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5 56 The member of the Ubar's family then prays to the Priest-Kings for an abundant harvest and returns to the interior of the cylinder, at which point the Guards of the Home Stone resume their vigil.
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5 59 According to the plan of the Council of Ko-ro-ba, exactly at the time of the sacrifice, at the twentieth Gorean hour, or midnight, I was to drop to the roof of the highest cylinder in Ar, slay the daughter of the Ubar, and carry away her body and the Home Stone, discarding the former in the swamp co...
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5 60 The girl, Sana, whom I carried on the saddle before me, would dress in the heavy robes and veils of the Ubar's daughter and return in her place to the interior of the cylinder.
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5 129 Her white arm was lifted, and her blond hair was swept behind her on the windy roof of the cylinder.
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6 1 Nar the Spider I had a little difficulty making out the tallest tower in Ar, the cylinder of the Ubar Marlenus.
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6 20 As I descended, I saw the wide, round roof of the cylinder.
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6 35 She struck at me and pursued me to the tarn, which was excitedly shaking his wings, preparing to forsake the tumultuous roof of the cylinder.
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6 62 In the sickening instant of falling I realized I had not fastened my own saddle belt in the wild flight from the roof of the Ubar's cylinder.
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8 151 I recalled the attempt on my life in the cylinder of my father, an attempt that would have been successful except for the alertness of the Older Tarl.
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12 14 "The cylinder at Ko-ro-ba," I said.
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15 191 "Strike for the Home Stones of those cities tributary to Ar—they are kept on the Central Cylinder.
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16 51 Marlenus and his men apparently had command of the top floor and roof of the cylinder, but there was little hope he could use the Home Stones that now lay within his grasp.
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16 53 Moreover, the ubiquitous tarn wire heavily netted in the area of the Central Cylinder would ward off any attempts at rescue, unless perhaps by a large force.
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16 59 I was confident that there would be cisterns and canisters of water in the palace, and I supposed that Marlenus, as an enlightened precaution, in view of the unstable politics of Ar, would have outfitted his cylinder as a keep, laying in stores of food and missile weapons.
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17 14 In addition to my own failures, I received no word from Kazrak, and reports from Ar on the stand of Marlenus in the Central Cylinder became obscure and contradictory.
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17 15 As nearly as I could determine, he and his men had been overcome, and the height of the Central Cylinder was again in the hands of the Initiates.
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18 1 In the Central Cylinder As the tarn climbed, I saw the camp of Pa-Kur, the ditches, the double walls of Ar with siege engines like leeches fastened to the inner wall, and, approaching the city, Pa-Kur's long lines of chanting garrison troops, the morning sun flashing on their metal, their march mea...
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18 2 I thought of Marlenus who, if he survived, might be able to see much of the same sight from the arrow ports of the Central Cylinder.
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18 46 "In the Central Cylinder," growled the man.
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18 51 "What of the roof of the cylinder," I asked, "when the tarn wire is down?" "Marlenus will not escape," repeated the officer, adding in a surly tone, "unless he can fly".
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18 54 "Where," I asked, "shall Pa-Kur take the daughter of the false Ubar to be executed?" The officer pointed to a distant cylinder.
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18 55 "The Cylinder of Justice," he said.
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18 57 The cylinder was white, a color Goreans often associate with impartiality.
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18 62 I noted with repulsion that on the roof of the Cylinder of Justice there shimmered a public impaling spear of polished silver, some fifty feet high, gleaming, looking like a needle in the distance.
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18 64 I had managed to bring down the tarn wire of Ar; I had learned that Marlenus still lived and held a portion of the Central Cylinder, and I had found out when and where the execution of Talena was supposed to take place.
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18 124 Surely I was now beneath the Central Cylinder, and the embattled Marlenus and his men were somewhere above me, sealed off by the guardsmen of Ar.
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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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18 128 I climbed the stairs that led to the portal into the cylinder, turned the valve, and as soon as the portal began to move, raced down to the tarn cot and swung open that barred gate which lay nearest the foot of the stairs.
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18 140 The other tarns, poking out of the tarn cot, seemed to hesitate and then to notice the open door into the cylinder.
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18 141 At that moment, to his own misfortune, a passing guardsman of Ar discovered the opened door that had mysteriously appeared in the wall of the first floor of the Central Cylinder.
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18 148 The tarns, all of them, entered the cylinder, the palace of Marlenus.
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18 156 Those who had survived had fled from the room, perhaps up the long, wide, circling stairwell that climbed the inside of the cylinder.
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19 1 The Duel Marlenus and his men and I raced down the long stairs to the main hall of the Central Cylinder, where we came on the remains of the grisly feast of the tarns.
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19 6 We led our tarns to one of the large circular ports of the cylinder.
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19 7 I climbed to the saddle of my own sable beast and brought it soaring into the air beyond the cylinder.
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19 9 In a minute we had attained the roof of the Central Cylinder and had all Ar and the surrounding countryside spread beneath us.
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19 11 He swore violently when I told him of the proposed fate of Talena, yet refused to accompany me when I announced that I would attack the Cylinder of Justice.
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19 24 None left the roof of the cylinder to seek his safety beyond the city.
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19 29 I brought the tarn to flight and set its course for the Cylinder of Justice.
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19 34 There were about two hundred people on the cylinder roof.
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19 37 The high impaling post, normally visible on the top of the cylinder, had been lowered.
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19 39 I was over the cylinder and dropping the tarn to its center.
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19 43 The tarn's steel-shod talons struck the marble roof of the cylinder with a flash of sparks.
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19 53 Instead I called out to the men of Ar on the cylinder.
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19 73 Almost as if by magic, the men of Ar had separated themselves from the others on the cylinder.
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19 93 Except for the wind, there was no sound on the great cylinder.
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19 113 Not even a scream came from that fierce blue combustive mass that had been a human being, and in a minute the flame had departed, almost as quickly as it had come, and a dust of ashes scattered from the top of the cylinder in the wind.
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19 119 The Initiates had vanished from the roof of the cylinder.
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19 162 As we fought, the men of Ar, fighting brilliantly for their city, their honor and loved ones, pushed back the men of Pa-Kur again and again, but from the interior of the cylinder swarmed more men of the Assassin.
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19 164 It was only a matter of time before the last of the men of Ar would be forced over the edge of the cylinder.
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19 166 During this time Talena, though bound hand and foot, had struggled to her knees, and she watched us fight, her hair and the folds of her robe blown by the wind that whipped across the roof of the cylinder.
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19 168 Suddenly there was a sound like thunder and a great shadow was cast across the roof of the cylinder, as if the sun had been obscured by clouds.
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19 184 Kazrak's tarn had alighted on the roof of the cylinder, and a moment afterward my father's and perhaps fifty others.
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19 193 As we fought and I forced him back step by step toward the edge of the lofty marble cylinder, I said calmly, "I can kill you".
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19 209 I walked slowly to the edge of the cylinder.
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19 210 There was only the sheer wall of the cylinder, broken once by a tarn perch some twenty feet below.
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20 19 Oddly enough, the body of Pa-Kur himself was never recovered from the foot of the Cylinder of Justice.
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Book 2. (15 results) Outlaw of Gor

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26 20 These poor creatures were hunted from cylinder to cylinder, from room to room.
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2 48 This love of their city tends to become invested in a stone which is known as the Home Stone, and which is normally kept in the highest cylinder in a city.
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2 63 This blade had fought its way up the stairs of the Central Cylinder of Ar, when I had rescued Marlenus, embattled Ubar of that city.
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2 64 It had crossed with that of Pa-Kur, master assassin, on the roof of Ar's Cylinder of Justice, when I had fought for my love, Talena.
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4 47 By now it seemed to me that I should be able to see the lights of the cylinder city of Ko-ro-ba.
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5 11 I longed for my city, and for my father, the magnificent Matthew Cabot, once Ubar, now Administrator of Ko-ro-ba, and for my friends, the proud Older Tarl, my master-at-arms, and Torm, the cheerful, grumbling little scribe who regarded even sleep and food as part of a conspiracy to separate him from...
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5 86 "On the Cylinder of Justice I fought with you against Pa-Kur and his assassins".
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6 64 I had seen a man die the Flame Death, the High Initiate of Ar on the summit of Ar's Cylinder of Justice, consumed in the sudden burst of blue fire that bespoke the displeasure of the Priest-Kings.
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8 59 They were scarcely distinguishable from one another, an aggregate of grays and browns, so different from the thousand gay colors that gleamed in most cities, where each cylinder in towering splendor lodged its claim to be the bravest and most beautiful of all.
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9 14 He turned on his heel and still clinging to the railing on the bridge scurried to the threshold of the cylinder, his comrade before him.
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9 28 "Welcome to Tharna!" he said, and fled across the bridge and into the cylinder.
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9 32 I left the bridge, and descended through the spiral stairwell of the cylinder, soon finding myself on the streets again.
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9 64 * * * * In wandering through the streets, I came at last to a squat portal in the wall of a cylinder.
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25 70 Its ratlike scamper was incomprehensibly swift and almost before I could set myself for its charge it had crossed the cylinder roof in two or three bounds and pounced to seize me in its bared fangs.
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25 154 Perhaps she might be purchased for the scullery in a Gorean cylinder and discover her life to be bounded by the tile walls and the steam and soap of the cleaning tubs.
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Book 3. (14 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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20 62 In the cylinder, save for her head which was held in place by a circular opening in the top of the cylinder, was a girl, clad in the traditional robes of concealment, even to the veil, whose gloved hands pressed helplessly against the interior of the cylinder.
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16 80 I had once seen a man die the Flame Death, the High Initiate of Ar, on the roof of Ar's Cylinder of Justice.
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20 60 On the disk there was mounted a narrow, closed cylinder of transparent plastic.
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20 88 One of them climbed onto the disk beside the plastic cylinder.
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20 91 She gave a long, frantic, terrified, wild scream and squirmed about in the cylinder, her small gloved fists striking futilely at the strong, curved plastic walls that confined her.
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20 93 She trembled in the cylinder, pressing her small hands against it, and wept.
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20 99 While the globe did its work, and held the girl's head in place, the attendant at the cylinder unlocked the five latches which held it shut and swung it open.
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20 100 Swiftly and efficiently he placed her wrists in retaining devices mounted in the cylinder and, with a small, curved knife, removed her clothing, which he cast aside.
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20 115 He then sprung her wrists free of the retaining devices and reclosed the plastic cylinder, locking her inside once again.
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20 120 As well as she could, sobbing and trembling, the girl looked downward through the transparent top of the plastic cylinder and regarded herself.
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20 137 Obediently the attendant on the disk lightly jumped down and began to push the disk and its cylinder from the room.
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20 138 As it passed from the chamber, followed by the attendant who had operated the wall panel, I could see the dazed, confused girl, sobbing and in pain, trying to reach the collar through the plastic of the cylinder's top.
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32 323 Parp stood framed in the doorway holding that tiny silver lighter with which it seemed I had seen him fumble and light his pipe a thousand times, that small cylinder I had once mistaken for a weapon.
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32 324 Parp reversed the cylinder and leveled it at the breast of the nearest larl.
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Book 4. (2 results) Nomads of Gor

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20 32 Harold and I then got up and, with Hereena under one of his arms, we circumspectly made our way from roof to roof until we saw the keep, rising like a dark cylinder against one of Gor's three moons.
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26 402 "Pa-Kur," I said, "defeated in personal combat on the high roof of the Cylinder of Justice in Ar, turned and to avoid capture threw himself over the ledge.
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Book 5. (68 results) Assassin of Gor

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5 15 In a girl's collar lock there would be either six pins or six disks, one each, it is said, for each letter in the Gorean word for female slave, Kajira; the male slave, or Kajirus, seldom has a locked collar; normally a band of iron is simply hammered about his neck; often he works in chains, usually...
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9 21 Less impressive perhaps but even more essential to the operation of the House were its kitchens, its laundries, commissaries and storerooms; its medical facilities, in which dental care is also provided; its corridors of rooms for staff members, all of whom live in the House; its library, its record...
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13 222 There had apparently been no tarns near the central cylinder during the time, and, according to report, no strangers were known to have entered the cylinder.
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13 237 The cot was a huge room beneath the roof of the cylinder, taking up what normally would be four floors of the cylinder.
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17 140 Gangs of men, often armed, roamed streets and bridges, apparently undisturbed by Warriors, their depredations not curbed; and, startlingly, when captured and sent to the Central Cylinder, or to the Cylinder of Justice, pretexts would be found for their release, customarily on legal technicalities or...
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18 196 "Before the next passage hand," said he, "armed men broke into the Cylinder of Physicians; the floors we worked on were burned; the Cylinder itself was seriously damaged; our work, our records, the animals we used were all destroyed; several of my staff were slain, others driven away".
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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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2 8 Tarl of Bristol himself on the windy height of Ar's Cylinder of Justice had defeated Pa-Kur, Master of the Assassins.
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3 29 It might be mentioned that the game, as I shall speak of it, for in Gorean it has no other designation, is extremely popular on Gor, and even children find among their playthings the pieces of the game; there are numerous clubs and competitions among various castes and cylinders; careful records of ...
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3 42 I myself, when Centius of Cos was in Ko-ro-ba, might have played him on the bridge near the Cylinder of Warriors for only a pair of copper tarn disks.
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3 50 There is also some money for the masters in the annotation of games, printed on large boards near the Central Cylinder, in the preparation or editing of scrolls on the game, and in the providing of instruction for those who would improve their skills.
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3 55 In Ar, the high bridge near the Central Cylinder, housing the palace of the Ubar and the meeting place of the city's High Council, was held, and had been for four years, by the young and brilliant, fiery Scormus of Ar.
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4 38 Then, found acceptable, she had knelt while agents of the House signed the receipt of her delivery and endorsed her papers, retaining one set, giving one set to the seller's agent, for forwarding to the Cylinder of Documents.
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4 62 "A knife on the high bridge," said I, "in the vicinity of the Cylinder of Warriors—at the Twentieth Ahn—in the darkness and the shadows of the lamps".
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4 65 I myself felt bitterly about a poorly lit bridge in the vicinity of the Cylinder of Warriors—and about a certain hour on a certain day—for it was on that bridge that a young man, of the Warriors, had walked perhaps not more than a quarter of an Ahn before I myself would have passed tha...
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5 14 The small, heavy lock on a girl's slave collar, incidentally, may be of several varieties, but almost all are cylinder locks, either of the pin or disk variety.
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7 49 At a gesture from Cernus the birds took wing, and I felt my basket on its heavy leather runners slide across the roof for a few feet and then drop sickeningly off the edge of the cylinder, only to be jerked up short by the ropes, hover for a moment as the tarn fought the weight, and then begin to sa...
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7 145 Each was marked and sealed, but in each, at two points, there were valve openings, through which in flight I supposed two tubes might pass, one perhaps for oxygen and another gas used to sedate the occupant, and one to draw the carbon dioxide from the cylinder.
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7 147 Each cylinder contained a beautiful girl, unclothed and unconscious.
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8 107 Elizabeth led me to a room off a kitchen on the third floor of the cylinder.
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8 142 I was troubled for a moment, but it passed, recalling that the Warrior who had been slain presumably in my stead on the bridge in the vicinity of the Cylinder of Warriors in Ko-ro-ba had been of Thentis.
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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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10 32 On the way down the stairs to the lower portions of the cylinder, several floors of which, incidentally, are below ground level, we passed the office of Caprus.
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11 2 In the cylinder there are several varieties of retention areas, ranging from the luxuriousness of the cell shown to me earlier by Ho-Tu, in which Cernus was accustomed to keep Special Captures, to the iron pens.
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12 144 There were various races to follow but the afternoon sun was now below the roof of the central cylinder in the distance and I decided to leave the races.
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13 5 It seemed she had vanished from the central cylinder, in those portions of it devoted to the private quarters of the Administrator and his family and closer associates, almost under the very noses of Taurentian guardsmen.
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13 10 On the roof of the Cylinder of Initiates the High Initiate, Complicius Serenus, offered sacrifices and prayers for the speedy return of the girl and, failing that, that she might be found slain, that she might not be reduced to the shames of slavery.
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13 27 If Marlenus had wished to strike the Hinrabians he presumably would have flown his tarn to the central cylinder itself and cut his way to the throne of the Administrator.
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13 132 She had first been sold for eight silver tarsks to a keeper of one of the public kitchens in a cylinder, a former creditor of her father, who had in mind making a profit on her; she worked in the kitchen for a year as a pot girl, sleeping on straw and chained at night, and then, as her body more ade...
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13 182 "When he was publicly refused bread, salt and fire on the height of the central cylinder, when he was exiled from Ar, not to return on pain of death, do you know what he said?" "No," I said, "I do not".
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13 234 The cot was one of six in a vast and lofty cylinder containing many of the offices and dormitories of those associated professionally with the Greens.
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13 235 Their records and stores, and treasures, are kept in this cylinder, though it is only one of four they maintain in the city.
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13 238 The perches were actually a gigantic, curving framework of tem-wood four stories high, and following the circular wall of the cylinder.
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13 379 In a few Ehn I had left the cylinder and was returning to the House of Cernus.
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14 86 "Also," I said, "I would like to find out who slew the Warrior from Thentis, he who died on the high bridge in Ko-ro-ba near the Cylinder of Warriors".
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15 434 "Put him in chains," said Cernus, "and take him to the cylinder of Minus Tentius Hinrabius".
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16 34 On the first day of En'Kara much of the old year had been forgotten, but there were three who could not forget it; Portus, who lay chained in the dungeons of the Central Cylinder; Claudia Tentia Hinrabia, now free, but who had endured the shame of slavery, and would perhaps never again permit hersel...
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17 22 I dodged a hurled larma fruit which splattered on the wall of a cylinder near me.
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17 45 We stopped when I was pushed stumbling into a large room, in which there were numerous baskets and harnesses hanging about, apparently a storeroom of sorts in an unimportant cylinder.
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17 215 The Scribes of the Central Cylinder examined the records and, to their horror, discrepancies were revealed, in particular payments to members of the Hinrabian family for services it was not clear had ever been performed; most outstandingly there had been a considerable disbursement for the construct...
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17 247 I was further cheered by the thought that Caprus had informed me his work was coming along very well and he hoped to have the documents and maps copied by the beginning of Se'Kara; I gathered that now with Cernus spending much of his time in the Central Cylinder as Ubar, Caprus' opportunities for wo...
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18 181 "For many years," said Flaminius, "and this was even before 10,110, the year of Pa-Kur and his horde, I and others worked secretly in the Cylinder of Physicians.
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18 184 The Cylinder of Initiates demanded that the High Council of the Caste of Physicians put an end to our work, not only that it be discontinued but that our results to that date be destroyed.
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18 187 The Cylinder of the High Initiate then petitioned the High Council of the City to stop our work, but they, on the recommendation of Marlenus, who was then Ubar, permitted our work to continue".
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18 208 "The men who attacked the Cylinder," I said, "who were they?" "Doubtless henchmen of Initiates," said Flaminius.
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18 234 "I left the Cylinder of Physicians and the next day took service in the House of Cernus, where I have been for many years.
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18 304 And Caprus, now that Cernus was often in the Central Cylinder, attending to the numerous duties of Ubar of the city, had more time for his work.
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18 337 Grimly, the paga bottle in my hand, I went back into the corridor and found the stairs that took one to lower floors in the cylinder, and eventually to its depths.
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18 338 Lower and lower I went into the cylinder, the thought pounding in my brain: You, Killer, would never make a Player.
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18 346 I passed through the level on which interrogations take place, the level of the kennels, and went lower in the cylinder, now far below ground, past even more iron pens and levels.
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18 349 Descending a last spiral of iron stairs I came to the lowest level of the cylinder.
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19 42 Some girls, whom the House had determined late would be sold, arrive at the Curulean with a small leather cylinder tied about their collar, which contains their papers, which girl is then, by the staff of the Curulean, assigned a lot number.
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20 27 The Slaver who had been chief competitor to the House of Cernus was brought forward, doubtless from the dungeons of the Central Cylinder of Ar, on order of its Ubar, Cernus, once of the Merchants, now of the Caste of the Warriors.
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20 91 "How could the men of Portus enter the Central Cylinder and carry you away?" he inquired.
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23 186 Outside the room, mounted in the wall of the cylinder of Cernus, was a tarn perch.
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24 1 The Court of the Ubar In the Central Cylinder of Ar, that in which the Ubar has his palace and holds his court, in a room assigned to me, I drew upon my body the tunic of a Warrior.
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24 105 We began the long journey through the halls of Ar's great Central Cylinder, almost a city in itself.
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24 108 There were now no Taurentians in the Central Cylinder.
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24 111 Saphronicus, their Captain, with other high officers, including Seremides of Tyros, who had replaced Maximus Hegesius Quintilius as leader of the forces of Ar, now lay chained in the dungeons of the Central Cylinder.
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24 115 Most of the individuals in the Central Cylinder were men of lower caste, attending to their duties, with the exception of numerous Scribes.
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24 215 "That you may be kept locked in a compartment of the Central Cylinder, not as slave but prisoner, a high-born woman, to be mated in the future as best accords with the politics of Ar, as I see fit?" There were tears in her eyes.
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24 268 There was a darkness in my heart as I walked alone in the halls of the Central Cylinder of Ar.
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24 487 "I will file the papers in the Cylinder of Documents," said Hup.
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24 489 Together we ascended the stairs to the roof of Ar's Central Cylinder and looked across the many towers of the city, at the bright clouds, the blue sky, the ridges of the scarlet Voltai in the distance.
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24 493 Hup stood there on the roof of the cylinder, the wind blowing his hair, his eyes, of uneven size and color, looking up at us.
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24 522 I drew on the one-strap and the tarn, wings beating, lifted itself beautifully from the cylinder.
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24 523 We circled the cylinder once.
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24 525 I looked down and saw now that another figure stood on the roof of the Central Cylinder of Ar, a giant figure, one who wore the purple of the Ubar.
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Book 6. (2 results) Raiders of Gor

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10 27 The official "Stone," actually a solid metal cylinder, is kept, by the way, near the Sardar.
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15 311 And, as the torches burned lower in the wall racks, the singer continued to sing, and sang of gray Pa-Kur, Master of the Assassins, leader of the hordes that fell on Ar after the theft of her Home Stone; and he sang, too, of banners and black helmets, of upraised standards, of the sun flashing on th...
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Book 7. (4 results) Captive of Gor

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4 119 Inside there was a tiny cylinder, fused to a round, circular plate, covered with tiny, copperish lines.
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4 216 I screamed and screamed, pushing and kicking at the cylinder.
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6 38 I remembered the men, my attempts to escape, my flight through the woods on Earth, the ship, the thick, transparent cylinder, or tube, of some sort of plastic, I supposed, in which I had been placed.
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18 54 I remembered her as I had seen her, in the swamp forest, south of Ar, with Nar the spider, and in the Ka-la-na grove, where I had freed her from the chains of a slave, only to put mine upon her; and in the caravan of Mintar, of the Merchants, in her collar, mine, and slave tunic, with Kazrak, my swo...
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Book 8. (7 results) Hunters of Gor

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1 122 I recalled her from the fields near the Swamp Forest south of Ar, in the caravan of Mintar, at the great camp of Pa-Kur's horde, as she had been upon Ar's lofty Cylinder of Justice, as she had been in lamp-lit Ko-ro-ba, when, with interlocking arms, we had drunk the wines of the Free Companionship.
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11 113 Long ago, more than a year ago, when he had first captured Verna on a hunting expedition, prior to her escape and acquisition of Talena, and her return to the forests, he had intended to bring her to Ar in triumph and there, in the great square before Ar's central cylinder, publicly enslave her.
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14 301 The coals in the brazier formed a blazing cylinder in the firelit darkness of the circle.
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22 66 The wind had been cold, too, on the height of Ar's cylinder of justice.
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22 76 I stood at the edge of the Cylinder of Justice of Ar and looked down.
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22 79 I could see crowds milling at the foot of the cylinder.
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22 83 I had looked up and seen, several feet above me, the height of the cylinder.
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Book 9. (1 results) Marauders of Gor

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1 447 I knew that Marlenus would keep her sequestered in the central cylinder, that her shame not reflect upon his glory.
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Book 10. (10 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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1 417 Each cylinder, roped to others, weighed in the neighborhood of ten stone, or some forty pounds, a Gorean "Weight".
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2 32 At the oasis will be grown a hybrid, brownish Sa-Tarna, adapted to the heat of the desert; most Sa-Tarna is yellow; and beans, berries, onions, tuber suls, various sorts of melons, a foliated leaf vegetable, called Katch, and various root vegetables, such as turnips, carrots, radishes, of the sphere...
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9 178 Beautiful slave girls, barefoot, bangled, in scandalously brief slave livery, well displaying their considerable charms, collared, hair free, flowing in the wind, vital, walking exhileratedly, were common on the high bridges of the city, extending between the numerous cylinder towers, whereas free w...
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15 55 Each cylinder is marked with its quality, the name of its district, and the sign of that district's salt master.
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21 327 I opened my eyes, and saw, briefly, before me, not more than a hundred yards away, in a fleeting gap in the storm, swiftly closed again by the hastened, stinging sand, crooked, leaning to one side, half buried in the sand, a cylinder of steel; it was perhaps twelve feet in diameter, perhaps forty fe...
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21 334 Was it real? Is it some sort of illusion, or mirage? Then, for a brief moment, I saw again the cylinder of steel, and then, again, it was gone, lost in the blackness of the driven sand.
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21 534 In the cylinder above me, in the portal, his paw at the disk, stood the Kur.
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21 554 I looked upward, in the inclining cylinder of the ship.
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21 567 I crouched on a steel beam athwart the cylinder, opposite the six dials.
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26 316 There she lived, free but of no status; she was no longer recognized, in the sight of its Home Stone, as a citizen of Ar; she had not even the collar of a slave girl for her identity; she was kept sequestered by Marlenus in the central cylinder, that his shame not be publicly displayed upon the high...
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Book 11. (1 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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26 40 Often she would send me shopping, my hands braceleted behind my back, a leather capsule, a cylinder, tied about my neck, containing her order and coins.
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Book 12. (2 results) Beasts of Gor

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2 111 Originally, in its preparation, the message ribbon is wrapped diagonally, neatly, edges touching, about a cylinder, such as the staff of a marshal's office, the shaft of a spear, a previously prepared object, or so on, and then the message is written in lines parallel with the cylinder.
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2 115 Whereas there is some security in the necessity for rewrapping the message about a cylinder of the original dimension, the primary security does not lie there.
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Book 14. (6 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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13 143 This shop is located on the great avenue of the Central Cylinder, which is more than four hundred feet wide, an avenue used in triumphs, dominated by the Central Cylinder of Ar itself, which stood at one end of it.
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13 118 Then I wish to proceed to the avenue of the Central Cylinder, to examine the silks in the shop of Philebus".
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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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13 193 It was in that cylinder, as I understood it, that were housed many of the bureaus and agencies of Ar, many of the departments important to the functioning of the state; in it, too, met various councils; in it, too, were the private compartments of the Ubar of Ar, a man called Marlenus.
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13 319 I looked down the avenue of the Central Cylinder, down which the troops had disappeared.
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13 801 I stood on the stones of the avenue of the Central Cylinder.
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Book 17. (1 results) Savages of Gor

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1 337 "The original contact was made by a pointed, weighted message cylinder, found upright two days ago in the dirt of my men's exercise yard," said Samos.
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Book 18. (3 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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4 85 She lived now, free, but sequestered and dishonored, in the city of Ar, in the Central Cylinder itself, perhaps the most fortified, best-defended tower or keep in that huge city.
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4 89 In the Central Cylinder, if nowhere else, she was surely safe from the bracelets and nooses of marauding tarnsmen.
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35 3 A cold wind swept across the flat summit of Ar's Cylinder of Justice.
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Book 19. (6 results) Kajira of Gor

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30 56 "We received commands from the Central Cylinder itself, from the very palace itself, not to do so.
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30 74 * * * * I turned from the Street of Hermadius into Silver Street and ran from there to the avenue of the Central Cylinder.
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30 85 I saw sleen, and those with them, turning onto the avenue of the Central Cylinder.
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30 90 I had come west from the avenue of the Central Cylinder on Clive.
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30 97 I had gone to the avenue of the Central Cylinder and had kept to busy streets in the hope that the sleen would lose my scent, it being mingled with that of so many others.
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30 208 "You are not now on Hermadius or the avenue of the Central Cylinder".
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Book 21. (22 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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21 203 "The audiences are held near the Central Cylinder, on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder," he said.
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21 314 The chair and soldiers were making their way north on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder, toward the Central Cylinder.
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12 145 "Do you see the cylinder there?" he asked.
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12 147 "That is the central cylinder of Torcadino," he said, "the administrative headquarters of her first executive, whether it be Administrator or Ubar".
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14 56 "Why is it not being administered from the central cylinder, or its arsenal?\".
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14 60 "Your captain, however," I said, "is doubtless reigning in the central cylinder".
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20 23 "There is the Central Cylinder!" said a man, pointing.
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21 20 "What about east of the Avenue of the Central Cylinder?" I asked.
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21 139 "He is as loyal as the stones of the Central Cylinder itself".
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21 156 For years she has lived in obscurity, sequestered in the Central Cylinder.
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21 181 "One does not simply walk up to the Central Cylinder and knock on the door," he said.
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21 191 Who could one trust? Too, I surely had no wish to attempt to cut my way through the corridors of the Central Cylinder to effect a private audience with the regent.
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21 259 I led them east on Venaticus, to the Avenue of the Central Cylinder.
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21 269 "The Avenue of the Central Cylinder," I said.
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21 345 I watched the chair move down the street, toward the Central Cylinder.
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21 376 We could go south on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder, some four or five pasangs, and then make a left on Wagon Street, taking it over to the Avenue of Turia.
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23 4 He was having difficulty falling, however, unconscious though he might be, for the press of folks about the far end of the velvet rope, leading to the Central Cylinder, fighting for places on it.
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24 17 Hurtha and I had returned around noon to the insula, after leaving the area before the Central Cylinder.
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25 558 I assumed that they would attempt to make the first contact, either having seen me, presumably near the Central Cylinder, or having some sort of description.
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25 1351 Too, it can doubtless be lonely in the house of a slaver, especially when the guards do not choose to amuse themselves with you, or have you perform for them, or, say, when you find yourself alone at night, perhaps a scrubbing slave, in the basement of a cylinder, chained in a cement kennel.
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25 2348 Presumably the individual, or individuals, would be familiar with my appearance, either from the plaza near the Central Cylinder or from a description.
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26 1941 They can be easily defended, and, if wished, broken away, this isolating the cylinder in such a way as to transform it, in effect, into an almost inaccessible, well-provisioned fortress or keep.
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Book 22. (1 results) Dancer of Gor

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20 81 I did have an errand capsule, a capped, narrow leather cylinder, such as may be used for carrying notes, messages, and such, on a string about my neck, the string over my collar.
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Book 23. (14 results) Renegades of Gor

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24 266 "It is under guard near the Central Cylinder, on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder," he said.
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2 104 In the intrigues of the time, and to divert suspicion, Gnieus Lelius, high councilor, and first minister of Ar, he who was acting as regent in the absence of Marlenus, Ubar of the city, had even had me brought to the Central Cylinder under guard, as though I might have been arrested, and was to be e...
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2 115 I had then been kept in Ar for weeks, a guest in the Central Cylinder, waiting, and waiting.
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8 508 After she had been returned to Ar by Samos, of Port Kar, into whose chains she had fallen, Marlenus, shamed, had had her sequestered, freed, but statusless, in the Central Cylinder.
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11 35 He had, with him, on his lap, the diplomatic pouch, opened, and the letter cylinder, taken from my pouch.
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11 278 "You do not know the message in the letter cylinder," he said.
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11 280 "Did you see the regent close the cylinder, and affix his seal upon it?" he asked.
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11 287 "'The bearer of this cylinder, who calls himself Tarl, of Port Kar,'" read Aemilianus, "'is a Cosian spy.
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12 262 The regent's message, I was sure, had been removed from, or had never been inserted in, the letter cylinder.
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12 263 A substitution had been made, doubtless, of the contents of the cylinder or of cylinders themselves.
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12 264 I had not, of course, seen the regent place the message in the cylinder and seal it.
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12 267 Normally they simply receive the sealed letter or closed cylinder, or such, from a subordinate, later, and are on their way.
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24 12 On the other hand, whatever might have been the contents of the sealed leather cylinder delivered into his hands with signs and countersigns I did not know.
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24 746 Some coins of Port Cos, for example, have the pharos as the "head," and some of Ar the image of her central cylinder, and so on.
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Book 24. (1 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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12 58 "It seems to me unusual," I said, "that such a woman, disowned, disinherited, surely once sequestered in the central cylinder, in disgrace, should be able to post an observer in the delta".
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Book 25. (97 results) Magicians of Gor

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7 65 This platform could be ascended by two ramps, one in the back, on the side of the Central Cylinder, and one in front, opposite to the Central Cylinder, on the side of the Avenue of the Central Cylinder.
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8 159 "The decorative marbles on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder, and those about the Central Cylinder itself, and on the Cylinder of Justice are still there," he said.
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2 105 This was done in the vicinity of the Central Cylinder, on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder.
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4 18 The enclosure was within sight of the Central Cylinder, on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder.
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7 63 "Look, too, the Central Cylinder!" cried a man! At the edge of the circular park, within which rears the lofty Central Cylinder, a platform had been erected, presumably that thousands more, gathered on the streets, could witness what was to occur.
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8 164 Many of the functions originally discharged within its precincts had long ago been assumed by the newer Cylinder of Justice, located in the vicinity of the Central Cylinder.
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23 2 "Let it be spattered with the spew of urts!" He seized up the Home Stone from the plank on which it sat, the plank resting on two inverted wastes vats, of the sort used in insulae, in the park of the Center Cylinder, within which lies the Central Cylinder.
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1 79 It was in the Metellan district, south and east of the district of the Central Cylinder.
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5 58 "Long was she sequestered in the Central Cylinder," said another.
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5 65 She still lived, as I understood it, in the Central Cylinder, a surmise which, it seemed, given one of the fellow's remarks, was now additionally confirmed.
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6 15 These boards, however, were along the Avenue of the Central Cylinder, and were state boards, on which official communiqués, news releases, announcements and such, could be posted.
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6 148 Now, moving south on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder, toward the great gate of Ar, were several riders of tharlarion.
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6 188 "Hiding in the Central Cylinder," said another.
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6 226 Then, in a moment, we left, retracing our steps, moving north on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder, past shops, fountains, columns and such, until we would make our left turn, toward Emerald Street, Phoebe heeling him, her hands now fastened behind her in the bracelets.
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6 227 "Look," I said, while still on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder, pointing upward.
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7 13 It was in the open area near the Central Cylinder, which loomed in the center of a circular park, the territory open enough for defense, midway in the avenue.
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7 19 There had even been sporadic mutinies of small contingents of guardsmen, determined to hold their posts, but these for the most part dissipated when it became clear that the orders were from the Central Cylinder itself.
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7 93 He pointed in the direction of the Central Cylinder from which, but moments before, Gnieus Lelius, and his escort, had emerged.
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7 95 Seremides, whom I had not seen this clearly since long ago in Ar, in the days of Minus Tentius Hinrabius, and Cernus, of Ar, with others, members of the High Council, I gathered, now, from the side of the Central Cylinder, ascended the platform.
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7 103 Then the High Council stood to one side, and Seremides himself returned to the point on the platform where the rear ramp, that near the Central Cylinder, ascended to its surface.
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7 104 The ringing of the bars then ceased, first those of the Central Cylinder and then those near it, and then those farther away, about the city.
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7 105 This happened so quickly, however, that it was doubtless accomplished not by the fellows at the bells apprehending that those most inward in the city had ceased to ring but rather in virtue of some signal, presumably conveyed from the Central Cylinder, a signal doubtless relayed immediately, success...
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7 109 I did not doubt, however, that the approach north on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder was still in progress.
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7 339 "She, in her own name, and in the name of the people and Home Stone of Ar, gives thanks to our friends and brothers of Cos, for the delivery of her city from the tyranny of Gnieus Lelius and for the liberation of her people!" At this point, doubtless by a prearranged signal, the great bars of the Ce...
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7 356 He fell twice in my view, after which incidents he was struck by spear butts and pulled rudely again to his feet, to be again hastened, with more blows, on his way south on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder.
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7 420 Too, at this time the great bars in the Central Cylinder ceased their ringing.
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7 533 It now seemed quiet at the park of the Central Cylinder, save for the sounds of the workmen, striking apart the boards of the platform.
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8 419 I had lingered by her path to the theater, with others in a crowd, but I had been able to see only her palanquin, its curtains drawn, borne not by slaves but by stout fellows apparently of the staff of the Central Cylinder.
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9 3 There were cheers, and applause, the striking of the left shoulder, from the crowd standing about the edges of the huge, temporary platform, the same which had earlier served near the Central Cylinder for the welcoming of Myron, in his entrance into the city.
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9 190 The Home Stone is safe! The Central Cylinder stands! How shall we make amends to our Cosian brother? What gift would be great enough to thank him for our Home Stone, our lives and honor? What sacrifice would be too much to express our gratitude?" "No gift would be too great!" cried men.
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9 277 For several years, she had been a resident of the Central Cylinder.
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9 313 "I stood higher in the Central Cylinder than you," she said.
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9 316 No longer had you even citizenship! Because of what you once had been, the daughter of Marlenus of Ar, you were permitted to live in the Central Cylinder.
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9 429 "In the Central Cylinder," said Claudia, "I have been lonely, more lonely than I ever knew a woman could be.
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9 626 At that point the bar for the fifteenth Ahn sounded from the Central Cylinder, across the city.
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9 652 "Captain," said Talena, "in the room of the Ubar, in the Central Cylinder, we are planning a small supper this evening.
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9 875 When I had threaded the chain back through the arms of Claudia Tentia Hinrabia, incidentally, I did not mention to her that she had been selected to entertain at a late supper to be given by Talena of Ar, her Ubara, in the room of the Ubar, in the Central Cylinder.
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10 8 Marcus and I were on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder, the major thoroughfare in Ar.
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10 15 At last, in view of the distinct unrest in the city, and the possible danger of riots and demonstrations, a communication was received from the Central Cylinder, jointly presented by Talena, Ubara of Ar; Seremides, captain of the guard; Antonius, executive officer of the High Council; Tulbinius, Chi...
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10 97 "Interesting," said Marcus, "that they would parade them so publicly down the Avenue of the Central Cylinder".
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10 100 It would be as though the Central Cylinder wished to conceal the fate imposed upon them, as though they were afraid of its becoming public, as though it might not be legitimately defensible.
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10 104 "Those in the Central Cylinder are clever," said Marcus.
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10 130 "The Central Cylinder," I said, "seems now to be very sure of its power".
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10 135 We watched the coffle of prisoners move away, south on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder.
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10 183 We walked on then, not speaking, south on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder.
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10 405 So Marcus and I watched the free woman make her way back down the Avenue of the Central Cylinder, hobbled, wrists back-bound, face stripped.
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11 476 "Enough to take the Central Cylinder?" he asked.
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13 3 Marcus and I, some days after the incident of the shop, were strolling on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder, which is, I suppose, in a sense, the major thoroughfare in Ar.
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13 4 It is at any rate her most famous, if not busiest, avenue, and it gives access to the park of the Central Cylinder, which edifice is itself, of course, located within the park of that name.
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13 170 The mistake of the Central Cylinder in this case, of course, was in attempting to impose such reductionism on adult males, even defeated ones, who actually understood what was involved.
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14 741 Marcus and I turned about then, and continued as we had been originally, south on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder.
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15 9 This afternoon, on the Avenue of Turia, a cart, putatively carrying the records of the veterans of the delta, supposedly on its way from the house of records to the war office in the Central Cylinder, had been surrounded by a group of youths, crying out against the veterans of the delta, almost as i...
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15 22 It had been he who, some days before, had cut the defiant delka deeply into one of the public boards on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder.
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15 62 "Where is she, then?" "In the Central Cylinder, I would conjecture," I said.
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15 100 "What if the records are in the Central Cylinder," he asked, "already at the war office?" "That is where I expect they are," I said.
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15 103 "You are not planning on burning down the Central Cylinder, are you?" he asked.
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16 225 "In the morning see that it is found on the steps of the Central Cylinder".
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16 285 "Not if you do not know the truth," I said, "but have at your disposal only the propaganda of Cos and the lies of a traitorous government in the Central Cylinder".
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18 387 "You wish the Central Cylinder moved? You wish the walls of Ar rebuilt overnight? You wish a thousand tarns tamed in one afternoon?" "He is a magician!" said Marcus.
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20 333 Its legend read, "RETURN ME TO THE WHIP MASTER OF THE CENTRAL CYLINDER".
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20 595 This street actually entered the Avenue of the Central Cylinder, from the west.
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21 66 "Tell me of what occurred in the Central Cylinder," I said.
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21 68 "I approached the Central Cylinder.
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21 81 She had, of course, reported to the guards at the Central Cylinder back-braceleted, with the message tube about her neck.
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21 89 I had removed the bracelets from her and the thong, the tube attached, from about her neck, of course, when we had had our rendezvous, after her departure from the Central Cylinder.
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21 111 "I was then conducted by five guards within the double gate of the Central Cylinder," she said.
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21 117 I had no idea where I was in the Central Cylinder.
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21 133 It must have been well within the cylinder.
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21 203 "'He has given performances in the Central Cylinder,' I continued, 'readings, and such.
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21 583 "RETURN ME TO THE WHIP MASTER OF THE CENTRAL CYLINDER" read the legend on the collar.
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22 503 Could she bear a message from someone in the Central Cylinder, say, from one of the many free women in the entourage of even the Ubara? Too, they may have remembered her from the theater, and from Aulus.
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23 68 We then walked away, across the park and thence across the Avenue of the Central Cylinder.
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23 87 "Surely you remember his recounting of his powers? Surely you remember him asking if I wished the Central Cylinder moved, if I wished the walls of Ar rebuilt overnight, if I wished a thousand tarns tamed in one afternoon!" "Yes," I said.
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23 90 "Perhaps you should have asked for the Central Cylinder to be moved, instead," I said.
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23 91 "Purloining the Home Stone would be child's play," he said, "compared to moving the Central Cylinder".
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23 98 "He only asked you if you wished the Central Cylinder moved, and such things.
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23 103 "It is obviously one thing for him to find out if you wished to have the Central Cylinder moved, and quite another for him to move it".
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25 489 "As this was the morning of the putative assignation, I supposed it might be a disguise prescribed by her Mistress, that the curious, if they saw her in this neighborhood, would not be likely to link her with the Central Cylinder".
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26 55 "You will never believe the difficulty I had in escaping from the Central Cylinder!" she said.
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26 176 About her neck, on a leather thong, there was a small, capped leather cylinder.
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26 213 She fingered the small, capped cylinder at her neck.
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26 217 Then she thrust it back in, triumphantly, and recapped the cylinder.
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26 221 She tapped the tiny cylinder twice.
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26 355 "That I could do in the Central Cylinder," she said.
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26 451 "You can attest to my identity! You have seen me in the Central Cylinder! So, too, has that slut of a slave!" "Stand," said Tolnar to Lavinia, who immediately complied.
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26 524 "While," said Tolnar, "another woman, suitably coached, and veiled, would take your place in the Central Cylinder.
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27 612 "He will think only that you were foolish enough to leave the Central Cylinder without guards and perhaps fell in with brigands and were robbed.
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27 625 "I will be in the Central Cylinder!" she said.
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27 712 "Although this doubtless does not compare with the provender of the Central Cylinder," I said, "which is reputed the best this side of the palace at Telnus, it is such that you should not come to expect it as a slave".
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27 868 "Besides," I said, "it amuses me to think of you in the Central Cylinder".
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27 1072 "No!" "And what good would you be in a paga tavern, or brothel, if the slave fires were not ignited in your belly?" "I shall be safe in the Central Cylinder," she said, "surrounded by walls, ringed by guards!" "Perhaps after I come to collect you," I said, "I will rent you to a brothel, perhaps one ...
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27 1131 "Tomorrow," I said, "guardsmen will come to free you of your bonds, and return you to the Central Cylinder.
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27 1132 You must not forget, of course, even in the Central Cylinder, that you are my slave girl.
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28 46 I had already arranged that a sealed message, conveyed by courier, would reach the Central Cylinder tomorrow, after the tenth Ahn.
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28 50 How frantic would then be the Central Cylinder.
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28 56 They would then convey her back to the Central Cylinder, secretly, that none in Ar might know what had occurred.
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28 103 To be sure, Cos could certainly count on those who regarded their best interests as being served by Cosian rule, and many of these were highly placed in the city, even in the Central Cylinder.
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Book 26. (3 results) Witness of Gor

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10 358 Through this aperture there soon appeared a dangling rope, with one or more things attached to it, which, perhaps released from the cylinder of a windlass, began, swinging, to descend rapidly toward us.
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19 188 Signet rings, cylinder seals, and such, impressed their marks into the warm wax.
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41 55 It was said he was welcome, even, in the central cylinder of the city.
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Book 27. (13 results) Prize of Gor

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7 201 The duties she was taught were common to most women of her sort, of whatever variety, but tended to be especially associated with such as served in the towers, in the high cities, in the cylinder cities.
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11 697 A rather different sort of slave, familiar in the "high cities," in the "cylinder cities," one more domestically oriented, is the "tower slave".
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13 87 It would not do, of course, to allow a garment to fall to the surface of the cylinder.
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13 242 "It is locked!" cried a girl, tugging at the ring that might otherwise have lifted and opened the hatchlike portal that led to the interior of the cylinder.
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13 517 "We could not return to the interior of the cylinder.
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18 78 Selius Arconious, as we recall, at the time of his accosting a young slave, had been in the vicinity of the great portal, that leading outward to the long, curving platform, outside, ledgelike, about the cylinder or tower, with its several perches.
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18 148 How could she, with her background, her antecedents, her education, her former status and station, her delicacy, her beauty, her shyness, her inhibitions, even think of leaving the cylinder, of going forth as she was? Then, after that time, sobbing, fearing she might be whipped for dallying, she ste...
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18 351 Surely she should serve in a mansion or palace, or a great cylinder, in rich quarters.
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18 479 Ellen descended, carefully, her wrists fastened behind her, the long spiral staircase within the cylinder, and, at the ground level, thrust open the swinging portal with her shoulder, and went into the streets.
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19 39 "Talena will address the population from the Central Cylinder," said Selius Arconious.
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19 644 She passed over the roof of a small cylinder.
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28 299 "Perhaps she is already a slave, and even now waits in terror, on her throne, in the loneliness of her chamber, in the empty halls of the Central Cylinder, startled by the least sound, even imagined, fearing to be claimed by her master".
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30 643 It is said she hides within the fortresslike Central Cylinder.
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Book 28. (107 results) Kur of Gor

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61 6 The industrial cylinder and the two agricultural cylinders were largely automated; the pleasure cylinder, with its sealed locks and ports, was effectively emptied; and the sport cylinder, commonly used in less troubled times for the hunting pleasure of Kurii, was now depopulated of its human game, t...
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5 382 "There is a hunting cylinder, muchly forested, where we may go for the pleasures of hunting, and we maintain, for our human confederates, a pleasure cylinder, such things".
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12 5 The largest of these are the agricultural cylinders, of which there are two; the next largest is the forest world, or game world; the next is the industrial cylinder; and the pleasure cylinder is by far the smallest.
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26 197 It was he who had been dispatched earlier, shortly after Cabot's arrival in the cylinder, for the strings of coins, Cabot's winnings from the arena, which had once been strung loosely about the throat of an unclaimed cylinder slave, who, however unworthy, had been permitted to pose and dance for Cab...
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44 39 Certainly they had managed to bring humans from the sport cylinder into Agamemnon's cylinder, the main world, and had released, for better or for worse, the killer humans from their cages and training areas.
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79 49 Certainly this was a rhetorical question, for she would have learned this position in the pleasure cylinder, and Cabot, himself, in the pleasure cylinder, near Lake Fear, and elsewhere, had put her in it often enough.
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1 1094 Tarl Cabot lifted his head, for he had detected the feeding signal, the odor connected with the liquid food dispensed through the tube at the height of the cylinder.
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5 2 In the cylinder it seemed there were four long valleys, in one of which they stood; some yards outside the stable, and on the left and right, far off, on each horizon, as though in the sky, there was another valley, and another, dim, far off, lay directly overhead.
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5 17 "This habitat, as many, is a cylinder," said Arcesilaus, "but many, too, are spherical".
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5 354 "Out industrial cylinder," said Pyrrhus, "has several divisions in which work may be efficiently accomplished, some of it, when appropriate, under degravitized conditions".
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8 99 "By evening, I can send him a whip and a chain of ten beauties from the pleasure cylinder".
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8 198 "I can send you better women from the Pleasure Cylinder," said Peisistratus, "naked, in sirik, with switches tied about their necks".
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9 12 "You would like the Pleasure Cylinder," said Peisistratus.
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10 43 "One pet may easily be replaced with another, for example, with a slave from the Pleasure Cylinder".
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10 45 "And this knowledge," said Peisistratus, "encourages our girls in the pleasure cylinder to be muchly concerned to be found pleasing to the masters".
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10 254 If you do not wish to keep her, give her to me, and I will take her to the Pleasure Cylinder, where she may be whip-trained and, silked, taught to serve paga properly, taught to squirm in the alcove, and such".
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11 28 The Pleasure Cylinder, as other subsidiary cylinders to the Steel World in question, those for sport, industry, and agriculture, is reached by an automated shuttle, which departs from and docks at predesignated portals.
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11 35 "Those commonly in attendance, to monitor the cylinder, are not present".
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11 154 Cabot had been curious about the collars of the slaves in the cylinder.
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11 158 "It says, Master," said the girl, "that I am a slave of the Pleasure Cylinder".
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11 254 "There are others," said Peisistratus, "from the cylinder, even from the cattle pens.
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11 272 "Are there weapons here, in the Pleasure Cylinder?" asked Cabot.
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14 1 The Forest Seems Quiet For several Ehn the forest group, one of several in the sport cylinder, though these avoided one another as roving groups are accustomed to do, moved swiftly from the clearing where they had encountered Cabot, he now with them, accompanied by the two gifts which had been give...
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14 6 The cry, as of the call of a bird, had surely been a warning, that a hunting party had entered the cylinder.
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16 46 How will Kurii regard her, after this evening? Will she be torn to pieces? Will she be dragged to the shuttle port and eaten alive? Will they remand her to the cattle pens, she fully aware, awaiting perhaps for weeks her turn on the slaughter bench? Perhaps they will give her to Peisistratus, for hi...
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18 133 He could see forest over his head in the cylinder, as well as about him.
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18 134 Sunlight, gathered and focused, was brought into the cylinder, as into at least the main habitat, by mirrors, from Tor-tu-Gor, or Sol, as these are the same star.
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20 9 The testimony of Peisistratus, taken through translators, had made it clear that Lord Pyrrhus had intended to take the human, Tarl Cabot, hunting in the sport cylinder, which seemed upon the surface, if tasteless considering some of the game available, at least sufficiently innocent.
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20 10 Other testimony had made it clear that Lord Pyrrhus had returned from the sport cylinder without Tarl Cabot, and that, later, a hunting party of eight Kurii, three of whom were womb brothers, and two of whom were egg brothers, to Lord Pyrrhus had entered the sport world with sleen, and had been arre...
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20 32 "Lord Pyrrhus took you to the sport cylinder and abandoned you there, to be hunted down and killed by his cohorts," said the prosecutor.
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20 37 "You could not have reached the sport cylinder alone," said the prosecutor.
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20 250 "When Pyrrhus expected you to die or be slain in the sport cylinder, he was no longer interested in a simple slut, a mere human, one whom he had acquired primarily to provoke you".
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20 261 "What has been done with her?" "She has been taken to the Pleasure Cylinder," said Peisistratus.
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20 263 "Unless from those who monitor the cylinder," said Peisistratus.
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20 269 "Few in the cylinder speak English," said Cabot.
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20 285 "Surely the cylinder could do so, publicly," said Cabot.
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21 268 Some of these were game humans who had been netted in the sport cylinder, but most were killer humans, bred for savagery, raised for the arena.
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23 3 He was no longer in the Pleasure Cylinder.
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24 152 "I was drunk, in the Pleasure Cylinder," said Cabot, bitterly.
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24 193 At that point, in the distance, a bar began to ring, and its ringing was taken up by other bars, and the cylinder itself seemed to ring.
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24 256 "If you are fortunate," said Cabot, "you will be sent to the Pleasure Cylinder, to be branded and collared, and learn to please men".
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25 9 Too, many of the guards of the cylinder, and most of its military personnel, had departed with the fleet, on whatever dark mission it had embarked.
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25 23 "She is to be returned to the Pleasure Cylinder immediately.
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25 61 "We are going back to the Pleasure Cylinder," said Cabot.
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25 149 "To the shuttle lock, that appertaining to the Pleasure Cylinder.
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26 10 I did not realize one was in the cylinder.
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26 12 If we betrayed you, it was simply in not contesting your removal from the cylinder, at the risk of our own destruction".
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26 55 "You have access to the codes to the sport cylinder, and can access the barracks of the killer humans, and the cattle pens".
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26 76 "There is little or no gravity there, but an atmosphere, of course, as elsewhere in the cylinder, and thus wing harnesses, of canvas and leather, reinforced by stays, may be used to negotiate those spaces.
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26 115 The fire in a single holster might incinerate a hundred men, without damage to the cylinder".
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26 170 "After two days?" "If he were not, would not guards have come to the cylinder by now?" "Probably," said Peisistratus.
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26 182 "It may even be dangerous to leave the cylinder".
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27 105 "I learned from Peisistratus," he said, "that shortly after coming to the cylinder you were given slave wine and the inoculations pertinent to the stabilization serums".
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27 156 "A man of Peisistratus will attempt to contact Lord Arcesilaus in the morning, in the cylinder day, openly, a fellow not to be suspected by Kur guards, as I might be".
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28 12 "She seems prettier now than yesterday, in the cylinder".
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28 22 She lowered her skirt, and smoothed it, delicately, carefully, and then knelt beside her burden, supplies from the cylinder, which she would bear, as her master's lovely beast.
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28 32 Corinna, as one might recall, was a cylinder slave, one perhaps favored by Peisistratus.
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29 2 Cabot sorted through the residue of the supplies brought from the Pleasure Cylinder.
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29 19 "If power weapons were permitted in the cylinder, they would have nothing to fear," said Cabot, "but they are not, and these things, I understand, are far more terrible than Kurii, though on land they do not move quickly".
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29 225 * * * * Later the cylinder lights were lowered, to simulate dusk.
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29 227 There was no simulation of moonlight in the cylinder that night.
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29 232 Some days earlier they had been in that area, now above them, the more populated area of the cylinder, where were found many of the domiciles of Kurii, the arena, the palace, and such.
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29 293 "Yes, Master, from the cylinder".
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30 4 This was a function not of fans but of the differential heatings of cylinder surfaces.
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30 5 The cylinder world, you see, is much like a natural world.
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30 9 Many Kurii had never been outside the cylinder.
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30 69 "I learned something of that in the cylinder," she said.
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32 275 At the nineteenth Ahn the cylinder was illuminated with artificial moonlight, simulating that of Gor's major moon.
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32 457 "I have never forgotten your kiss, by the lock in the sport cylinder," she said.
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33 86 "It is in the area where such things can propel one, where there is little fastening to the cylinder surface".
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33 94 They had seen nothing further in the sky above them, save for the forests and meadows overhead, on the other side of the cylinder.
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34 213 "Lord Grendel speculates that Agamemnon trusts that cold is no longer necessary to his plans, and thus, one supposes, that the temperature of the world may be returned to an equable level, one suitable for this season of the cylinder year".
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34 217 It is within the cylinder.
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35 122 "Peisistratus and his men have ferried the game humans from the forest cylinder to the world, hundreds, and he has freed the killer humans, hundreds, too, from their pens and barracks.
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36 142 In the pleasure cylinder, she had been taught to so proffer items to a free person.
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36 232 "That was clear," she said, "from the pleasure cylinder".
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36 260 "I was publicly chained in the pleasure cylinder," she said, "and I was not unaware of the approbatory glances of masters.
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36 267 "Do you think you were the most beautiful woman in the pleasure cylinder?" he asked.
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36 275 Certainly the girls of the pleasure cylinder had been carefully selected, chosen with the pleasure of his crews in mind.
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36 301 "How would you know these things?" "In teaching me Gorean," she said, "the girls in the pleasure cylinder told me much of Gor".
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40 114 It boomed within the cylinder, and must have carried even to the camps of the fleet survivors, to the remoter villages, and perhaps even to the shores of Lake Fear.
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40 141 The simple message continued to resound throughout the cylinder.
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40 153 "And power weapons may now be utilized within the cylinder," said Lord Grendel.
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40 156 "They are at the flat ends of the cylinder?" asked Cabot.
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40 166 Again and again, in a metallic, droning, reverberating Kur, the message of Agamemnon resounded, again and again in the cylinder.
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44 37 No contact had been made, despite the several days of the revolution, with the pleasure cylinder, and the men of Peisistratus.
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44 63 "If the humans from the sport cylinder learn the bow, the arena humans will not be far behind".
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46 150 The ends of the world, then, were the flat caps, or poles, closing the cylinder, at each end.
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47 2 He did see him descending, moving in the air, for some seconds, but did not see him strike the side of the cylinder, as he disappeared through the greenery, hundreds of yards below.
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47 5 Few had managed to climb more than ten to fifteen yards onto the cap, from the cylinder surface.
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47 15 "Come with us!" cried a fellow, one from the forest cylinder.
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50 82 "The pleasure cylinder has been breached," said Peisistratus.
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58 21 These had impacted the shielding, but had not penetrated to the interior of the cylinder.
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66 113 It would be broadcast throughout the cylinder, throughout the world, even to the shores of Lake Fear.
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67 110 He thought of the forest humans, of the men of Peisistratus in the pleasure cylinder, of killer humans, bred for arena games, of the ponderous cattle humans, bred for stupidity and meat.
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69 182 "I have not seen Corinna dance since the pleasure cylinder," said Cabot.
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74 59 Some female slaves, who had been of the pleasure cylinder, danced, to music supplied by the men of Peisistratus.
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79 15 "I believe," he said, "you received some training in the pleasure cylinder".
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79 18 "I believe you were taught one of these in the pleasure cylinder".
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79 38 "I was switched, more than once, in the cylinder," she said.
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79 85 She had seen such a thing in the pleasure cylinder.
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79 250 She then, frightened, for she did not know why she had been summoned, and she had felt his whip, stood before him, stood as she had been taught in the pleasure cylinder, as a slave before a master, soft, graceful, and submissive, sweetly lissome, supple, and lithe, displaying for his appraisal a pro...
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79 296 But how the whip hurt! If he cared to admonish her in the future, she hoped he would be content, at least for the most part, to use a stroke or two of the switch, as had the girls in the pleasure cylinder, charged with improving her Gorean.
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79 595 "In the garb of a free woman?" "Did the girls in the pleasure cylinder not speak to you of such things," he asked, "when they were measuring you for a tunic, teaching you how to belt a camisk, and such?" "Yes, Master," she said, "slaves must be distinctively garbed, that there be no mistaking them f...
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80 14 Matters go well in the agricultural cylinders, and in the industrial cylinder.
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80 149 Lord Grendel, with others, including Cabot, turned then toward the large doors, of heavy timber, better than a foot thick, perhaps brought from the northern forests of Gor, adorned with mighty brass studs, doubtless from the industrial cylinder.
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81 2 Cecily's eyes were wide, and we fear she was uneasy, but Corinna was similarly secured, near her, and so, too, were several others; all were girls who had been in the pleasure cylinder.
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Book 29. (28 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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1 292 That had been done later, weeks later, in the Pleasure Cylinder, a small adjunct or auxiliary world to the Steel World at that time ruled by Agamemnon, Theocrat of the World, Eleventh Face of the Nameless One.
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1 300 The ships of Peisistratus, incidentally, were docked within the Pleasure Cylinder.
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1 354 She had received, I saw, some training in the Pleasure Cylinder.
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2 136 Cecily, whom we have met in the preceding pages, was subjected to the serums not on Gor but in the Pleasure Cylinder associated with the Steel World ruled at that time by Agamemnon, Eleventh Face of the Nameless One.
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3 712 What she had in mind was doubtless a common arrangement in a Gorean dwelling, of which she had been apprised by other slaves while in the Pleasure Cylinder associated with the Steel World from which we had recently departed.
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3 746 Even in the Pleasure Cylinder the slave fires had been well lit in Cecily's lovely, helpless, vulnerable little belly, and she had soon found herself, as is common with female slaves, their victim and prisoner.
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5 481 Could they not heed the plaints of refugees, hear the drums of spearmen, sense the ponderous tread of war tharlarion? It soon became clear to many that conspiracy and treachery reigned within the Central Cylinder, and that the throne itself might now be festooned with the promises and wealth of the ...
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5 482 Ar, pathetic, confused, disorganized, and distraught, was unable to muster more than the feeblest of resistances, and these were muchly betrayed by commands from the Central Cylinder.
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5 553 What an insult, profound and grievous, was this to his blood, and to the throne of Ar! He thus disowned her as his daughter, and had had her sequestered in the Central Cylinder, that her shame might be concealed from the city and the world.
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5 757 I recalled that several women had been brought publicly, on various days, before the judgment of Talena, in her open-air court on the platform near the Central Cylinder.
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11 181 On the common Gorean collar it might be a city, a district, even a cylinder.
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13 243 "But, as of the Serisii, whose fortunes were closely intertwined with those of Cos and Tyros, I, and others, were often entertained in the Central Cylinder".
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13 267 Indeed, Claudia's claim to stand high in Ar was far sounder than that of Talena herself, who had been disgraced, and sequestered shamefully, in effect imprisoned, in the Central Cylinder, while Marlenus carried on the business of the state, prior to his hunting trip to the Voltai, in which it had be...
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13 274 She was never again, of course, permitted by the polemarkos to dance at the entertainments in the Central Cylinder.
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13 304 She would not leave the Central Cylinder.
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13 335 The Central Cylinder was surrounded even before the bars sounded the rising".
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13 338 I was sure the Central Cylinder would have been examined with care, each chamber, even to measurements of the thickness of walls, and such, being considered.
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13 341 "By tarnflight, from the Central Cylinder," I suggested.
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15 22 "I was entertained many times in the Central Cylinder itself!" said the slave, her face judiciously to the floor.
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23 228 I recalled one I had met, long ago, on the height of the Central Cylinder in Ar, Pa-Kur, master of the Assassins.
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23 229 He had leapt from the height of the Cylinder and the body, it seemed, had been lost amongst the crowds below.
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26 206 We held her, to make use of her, to use her as a counter, if necessary, in bargaining for our lives, our tarns ready, the crowds crying out below, the rebels climbing upward, on the height of the Central Cylinder".
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26 207 "The Central Cylinder!" I said.
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26 262 When it became clear that Marlenus had indeed returned, he recognized by some meaningless female slave in the city, and that the rising would be successful, we took our way to the height of the Central Cylinder, from which point we hoped to either escape or negotiate our way to freedom, turning the ...
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26 326 Either Priest-Kings or Kurii must have taken Talena from her captors on the height of the Central Cylinder.
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27 108 Surely she could have been taken as she had been taken, from the very height of the Central Cylinder, if Seremides' account was at all correct, only by means of either Kurii or Priest-Kings.
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28 389 But how could someone or something think they had a hold over me, in virtue of one such as she, a false Ubara, now deposed, last seen bound on the height of the Central Cylinder in Ar, kneeling at the feet of men, fearing apprehension, fittingly placed in the rag of a slave? How could anyone, or any...
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28 393 Later, at the first opportunity, escaping her sequestration in the Central Cylinder of Ar where she, disowned by her father, had been confined in dishonor, having begged to be purchased, a slave's act, in the northern forests, she had betrayed her Home Stone, conspiring with the forces of Cos and Ty...
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