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Book 1. (39 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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14 118 "The tarn death is an ugly death".
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2 137 "Yet there is a hierarchy of Home Stones, one might say, and two soldiers who would cut one another down with their steel blades for an acre of fertile ground will fight side by side to the death for the Home Stone of their village or of the city within whose ambit their village lies.
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2 168 "Is not a creature beyond death, of immense power and wisdom, worthy to be so spoken of?" I was quiet.
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2 188 My own speculation, which I judge as likely or unlikely to be true as the more popular superstitious stories, is that it is death to learn the secret of the Priest-Kings".
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2 210 "It is Flame Death merely to possess a weapon of the interdicted sort.
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2 211 Sometimes bold individuals create or acquire such war materials and sometimes for as long as a year escape the Flame Death, but sooner or later they are struck down".
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4 14 I seized the short mounting ladder swinging wildly from the saddle and climbed it, seating myself in the saddle, fastening the broad purple belt that would keep me from tumbling to my death.
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5 135 If death was easy, I might seek life less strenuously.
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6 45 I couldn't afford to carry the extra weight, but neither could I bring myself to cut the ladder free and send the girl hurtling to her death.
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6 114 "I was tricked by her I supposed to be the daughter of the Ubar, thrown from my own tarn, and saved from death only by your web.
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6 215 She shuddered at the memory, and I pitied her for what must have been a horrifying experience, lashed helpless to the saddle of a giant tarn reeling in a death struggle for the mastery of a flock, high over the trees of the swamp forest.
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7 12 Perhaps your death will be made easier in consequence".
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7 113 She was screaming wildly, all control lost in the face of the slow, ugly death awaiting her.
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8 24 "Do not fear—though there are many in Ar who rejoice in your deed, your death will not be pleasant or swift".
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9 12 It would be death for us both.
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9 149 Hooded, she cowered there, the prize, her ears filled with the sudden violent ringing of blade on blade as two warriors fought to the death to possess her.
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12 34 "And you will die the death of a fool," he said.
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12 45 "It was her wish that you die the death of a villain," he said, "on the Frame of Humiliation, unworthy to stain our weapons".
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12 58 The death would not be a pleasant one.
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12 69 The image of the treacherous, beautiful Talena, in her dancing silks, as she had lain in my arms, tormented me—she who would gladly give her kisses to the cold Pa-Kur for a place on the throne of Ar, she whose implacable hatred had sent me to this terrible death, not even permitting me the ho...
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13 57 With a convulsive shudder, the great head rolled to one side and the eyes half closed, leaving a milky slit of death between the lids.
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14 1 The Tarn Death Shackled in a kneeling position, my back open and bleeding from the lash, I was thrown before the Ubar.
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14 18 I did not expect that I would be granted a swift death.
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14 67 I felt numb, even my back, which presumably would have been a riot of pain if I had not felt myself near death.
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14 101 "Has this warrior not earned his right to the tarn death?" "He has indeed," said one of the tarnsmen, who held a wadded lump of tunic over his slashed rib cage.
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14 113 "No man can escape the tarn death," said one of the men.
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15 248 "You are the only man who has ever escaped the tarn death," he said, something of wonder in his voice.
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16 33 Above them, tarnsman met tarnsman in battles to the death.
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16 95 I felt a choking sensation in my throat and asked myself if I had sent my friend to his death.
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18 78 I did know that sometimes the pathetic inmates of Dar-Kosis Pits, repenting their decision to be incarcerated, had managed to cut footholds in the walls and escape, but the labor involved—a matter of years—the death penalty for being discovered, and the very risk of the climb made such...
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19 91 "If it is the will of the Priest-Kings," I said, "to bring about the death of an innocent girl, then I challenge their will".
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19 95 "Die the Flame Death," he said.
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19 96 I had heard of the Flame Death from my father and from the Older Tarl—that legendary fate which overtook those who had transgressed the will of the Priest-Kings.
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19 100 On the back of my tarn, I waited, not knowing if I was to be singled out for the Flame Death, not knowing if I, like the mysterious blue envelope in the mountains of New Hampshire, so long ago, was doomed to explode in a devouring blue flame.
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19 101 "Die the Flame Death," repeated the old man, once again jabbing that long finger in my direction.
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19 104 "I have decreed the death of the girl," cried the old man wildly, his robes fluttering around his bony knees.
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20 22 The sentence of death passed upon him by the usurping government of the Initiates was rescinded, but because his imperialistic ambition was feared, he was exiled from his beloved city.
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20 24 Accordingly, the Ubar, tears in his eyes, was publicly refused bread and salt, and, under penalty of death, was ordered to leave Ar by sundown, never again to come within ten pasangs of the city.
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20 72 Who or what are the Priest-Kings that they should so determine the lives of others, that they should rule a planet, terrorize the cities of a world, commit men to the Flame Death, tear lovers from each other's arms? No matter how fearful their power, they must be challenged.
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Book 2. (23 results) Outlaw of Gor

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14 8 Hideous though the death might seem to the silver masks of Tharna, they did not know that I was a tarnsman, and knew these birds, their power, their ferocity; that in my way I loved them; and that as a warrior I would not find a death by tarn ignoble.
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1 45 I knew that I had been an instant from death.
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1 130 How many are there here who would die for this city? How many who would defend to the death its perimeters? How many who would submit to torture on its behalf?" "You're drunk," I said, smiling.
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2 17 The Priest-Kings, Keepers of the Holy Place in the Sardar Mountains, seeming knowers of all that occurred on Gor, masters of the hideous Flame Death that could with consuming fire destroy whatever they wished, whenever they might please, were not so crudely motivated as men, were not susceptible to ...
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3 29 One to be feared even more perhaps was the tiny ost, a venomous, brilliantly orange reptile little more than a foot in length, whose bite spelled an excruciating death within seconds.
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4 40 It glided away into the darkness, perhaps not fully convinced that it was not alone, a young animal ready to neglect and overlook those slight traces that can spell the difference between death and survival in Gor's brutal and predatory world.
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6 63 It would be to invite the Flame Death of the Priest-Kings for one or the other, perhaps both of us.
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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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6 129 Such relationships are not entered into lightly, and they are normally sundered only by death.
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11 211 I gathered the sentence to the mines was equivalent to a sentence of death.
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11 228 Should I have thrown them away?" "These coins," said Lara, holding the tiny sack in her hand, gloved in gold, "were to buy my death".
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11 240 "Someone is apparently willing to pay highly for my death".
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11 241 "Not your death," I said.
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12 76 He has his role to play in the social structure, celebrating battles and histories, singing of heroes and cities, but also he is expected to sing of living, and of love and joy, not merely of arms and glory; and, too, it is his function to remind the Goreans from time to time of loneliness and death...
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12 88 Nine cities, long after his death, claimed the man who, centuries ago, had called Ko-ro-ba the Towers of the Morning.
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13 153 I wondered if my death would be quick.
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14 7 Perhaps the Amusements of Tharna were not spoiled at all; perhaps the best was yet to come? Surely my death beneath the beak and talons of a tarn would provide a gratifying spectacle for the insatiable masks of Tharna, adequate compensation for the disappointments of the afternoon, for the disregard...
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14 10 Like most members of my Caste, more than the monstrous tarns, those carnivorous hawklike giants of Gor, I dreaded such creatures as the tiny ost, that diminutive, venomous reptile, orange, scarcely more than a few inches in length, that might lurk at one's very sandal and then, without provocation o...
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14 114 I knew that the warriors of Tharna would have to kill two of us, for the tarn would defend me to the death.
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19 55 Cell after cell was emptied of its wretched chained occupants, only to be refilled with shackled guardsmen and Whip Slaves, men who knew that the least sign of resistance would bring only a swift and bloody death.
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19 156 Yes, I knew that the power of the Priest-Kings—rumored even to extend to the control of gravity—could lay waste cities, scatter populations, separate friends, tear lovers from one another's arms, bring hideous death to whomsoever it might choose.
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20 29 Among the litter of pillaging—papers, opened boxes, broken staves, split boards and wire—there lay, sprawled frozen in stiff, grotesque postures, the unsubtle shapes of death, the scattered, contorted, slashed bodies of naked men.
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26 62 Also it should be noted that it was not realistic to offer the silver masks the alternative of exile, for that would simply have been to condemn them to violent death or foreign enslavement.
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Book 3. (38 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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1 51 If I should meet him I knew he would thrust himself upon me and insist on being taken into the Sardar, though he would know it would mean his death, and I would have to bundle him in his blue robes, hurl him into a rain barrel and make my escape.
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1 61 Contests of arms, fought to the death, whereas they may not take place at the fairs, are not unknown on Gor, and are popular in some cities.
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1 67 The contests at the fairs, however, I am pleased to say, offer nothing more dangerous than wrestling, with no holds to the death permitted.
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1 99 He had disobeyed and he had been destroyed, immediately and with grotesque dispatch, but the important thing was, I told myself, that he had disobeyed, that he could disobey, that he had been able to disobey and choose the ignominious death he knew must follow.
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1 102 I am of the Caste of Warriors, and it is in our codes that the only death fit for a man is that in battle, but I can no longer believe that this is true, for the man I met once on the road to Ko-ro-ba died well, and taught me that all wisdom and truth does not lie in my own codes.
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2 85 I advanced, my spear ready for its cast, my shield ready to be thrown over my body to protect it from the death throes of the thrashing beast should the cast be successful.
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2 125 For some reason I did not fear death but felt only anger that these beasts might prevent me from keeping my rendezvous with the Priest-Kings of Gor.
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8 5 I had meant to scare her half to death and I was pleased to see that I had.
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12 185 Had it been combat to the death in that brief instant I would have finished him, leaping over him and gouging my heels into his stomach, rupturing the diaphragm.
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14 148 "It seems to me," I said, "that you should not blame yourself for the girl's death, but Sarm".
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14 155 To my human mind, used to the cruelties with which selfish men can implement their schemes, I saw nothing incomprehensible in the fact that Sarm would have attempted to engineer Misk's death.
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15 128 "Do Priest-Kings believe in a life after death?" I asked.
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16 79 For example, if there is a violation of our weapons laws we usually, sooner or later, discover it and after determining the coordinates put into effect the Flame Death Mechanism".
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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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17 83 "I once saw a man die the Flame Death," I said.
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17 85 "The projection points for the Flame Death are located in the surveillance craft," said Sarm, "but the coordinates are fixed and the firing signal is relayed from this room.
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18 99 With one brush of a foreleg he might have sent me hurtling to my death some hundreds of feet below.
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18 124 I wondered if hurling my weight against Sarm I might have tumbled him from that platform to his death far below.
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20 185 "You will not go to the tunnels of the Golden Beetle," said Mul-Ba-Ta, "because it is death to do so".
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22 40 "In the lower abdomen there is a dorsal organ which serves to circulate the body fluids but since our tissues are, on the whole, directly bathed in body fluid, injuring it would not produce death for some time, at least not for a few Ehn.
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23 16 Her body, though rigid in the appearance of recent death, did not have the coldness I would have expected.
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23 35 I found nothing that could have caused her death unless perhaps a small puncture on her left side, through which some poison might have been injected.
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27 33 I supposed my best way of serving Misk might be to abandon him to his death and try to protect the young male, but these were matters in which I had little interest.
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27 35 Had they not destroyed my city? Had they not scattered its people? Had they not destroyed men by Flame Death and brought them, willing or no, to their own world on the Voyages of Acquisition? Had they not implanted their control nets in human beings and spun the hideous mutations of the Gur Carriers...
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27 111 I looked at the golden rows of Priest-Kings, alert, immobile, their heads wreathed in green leaves, about their necks dangling the tiny, primitive, silverish tools telling of a distant, simpler time before the Scanning Chamber, the Power Plant and the Flame Death.
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27 151 I knew the unusual strength of Priest-Kings and I could well imagine the stresses and pressures that throbbed in the frames of those locked creatures as they rocked back and forth, to one side and another, each pressing and seeking for the advantage that would mean death to the other.
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27 195 Among the words I heard were "He must die," "Kill him," "Death to the Mul".
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28 2 After the death of the Mother, Sarm and those who followed him, most of the Priest-Kings for he was First Born, fled from the chamber to fetch, as it was said, silver tubes.
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28 3 These were charged, cylindrical weapons, manually operated but incorporating principles much like those of the Flame Death Mechanism.
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29 61 In a moment there would be no avenue of attack which would not mean sure death.
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31 51 Sarm had disappeared and with his disappearance, and presumed death, the opposition to Misk evaporated, for it had been held together only by the dominance of Sarm's mighty personality and the prestige that was his in virtue of being First Born.
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31 176 I could not leap to the sides, for there was only the smooth sheer curve of the blue globe and I would slide to my death and fall like one of the stones from the roof above to the dusty, smoking rubble below.
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31 215 More rock dust drifted between me and the pair locked in the embrace of death.
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31 224 Priest-Kings, I knew, had few pleasures, and now I guessed that foremost among them might be death.
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31 229 Then in the last spasmodic throb of death Sarm's body broke free of the jaws of the Golden Beetle and reared up once more to its glorious perhaps twenty feet of golden height.
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33 36 Perhaps they expected me to be cut down by the Flame Death before their very eyes.
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33 50 He was, I gathered, correctly as it turned out, the High Initiate of Ar, he who had been appointed to fill the post of the former High Initiate whom I had seen destroyed by the Flame Death years earlier.
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35 133 "But in the end," said he, "life is as real as death and there will be a return of the ultimate rhythms, and a new explosion will cast forth the primitive particles and we shall have another turn of the wheel, and someday, sometime, in eons which defy the calculations even of Priest-Kings, there may...
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Book 4. (25 results) Nomads of Gor

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2 49 I hoped that I would be granted death in battle, if death it must be.
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2 37 Who knew with which people the object might have been placed? Perhaps it had been hidden away and forgotten? Perhaps it was now a sacred object, little understood, but revered—and it would be sacrilege to think of it, blasphemy to speak its name, a cruel and slow death even to cast one's eyes...
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2 53 It is said they remove the hood only when the sentence is death, so that it is only condemned men who have seen whatever it is that lies beneath the hood.
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7 188 Now I understood, as I had only suspected before, why an English-speaking girl was necessary to bear the collar, that she might be the device whereby I would be singled out from the hundreds and thousands among the wagons, and so be marked for death.
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7 208 Besides this, as far as I knew, Misk, who was my friend and between whom and myself there was Nest Trust, was still the highest born of the living Priest-Kings and the final authority in matters of importance in the Nest; I knew that Misk, if no other, would not have wished my death.
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9 173 Saphrar was not related to the girl, but had been appointed by the Turian merchants, on whom he undoubtedly exercised considerable influence, the guardian of the girl following the death of her father in a Paravaci caravan raid several years before.
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9 311 "It is one thing to order the death of a Tuchuk," he said.
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9 435 I was pleased, though I would not have admitted it, at Kamchak's boldness, for it was a face for which a man might risk much, even death in the torture dungeons of Turia, utterly beautiful though now, of course, transformed with rage, far more beautiful than had been that of the most beautiful of th...
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10 182 For all his uproarious stomping about the wagon last night, paga bottle in hand, singing gusty Tuchuk songs, half frightening Miss Cardwell to death, he seemed in good spirits, looking about, whistling, occasionally pounding a little rhythm on the side of his saddle.
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10 475 "I want him slain," she cried, "cut into tiny pieces, the death of a thousand cuts!" "Withdraw," I advised Kamchak.
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10 530 "Better, my friend," I said, "that than death".
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10 531 "No," said Kamchak, and his eyes were like steel, "better death than shame".
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12 254 It would not have been wise, of course, for even were she successful, her consequent hideous death at the hands of the Clan of Torturers would probably, all things considered, have made her act something of a bad bargain.
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12 257 Also, she may have feared more than death that if she failed in an attempt to slay him she would be plunged in the sack again which lay ever ready near the back, left wheel of the wagon.
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13 106 The punishment of a runaway slave is often grievous, sometimes culminating in death.
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15 57 Since the death of Kutaituchik, Kamchak had turned ugly in manner.
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16 241 I wondered what death he might have in mind for me.
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17 62 I certainly had nothing in mind so ridiculous as to hurl at enemies the one weapon which might mean life or death to me in my struggle in the Yellow Pool of Turia.
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18 19 The quiva had turned itself in my hand and my arm flew back, that I might take with me in my death the tormentor, Saphrar of Turia.
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21 55 It is a nerve-wracking business, the negotiation of an enemy city, knowing that discovery might bring torture or sudden death, at best perhaps an impalement by sundown on the city's walls, a warning to any other who might be similarly tempted to transgress the hospitality of a Gorean city.
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21 117 In attempting to defend against this attack both her father and her two older brothers had been beaten to death.
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23 191 Already the bosk were growing uneasy at the smell of death and already the grass about the camp was rustling with the movements of the tiny brown prairie urts, scavengers, come to feed.
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25 158 "Yes," she said, "I will reveal myself, but know that I will fight you to the death".
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26 390 Kamchak grinned at me, the first time since the death of Kutaituchik.
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27 187 "It was after her death," said Harold, "that Kutaituchik first tasted the rolled strings of kanda".
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Book 5. (19 results) Assassin of Gor

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2 187 It was argued that the citizens of Ar could scarcely remain strong and fearless unless accustomed to the sight of blood, of danger and death.
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4 93 He had come to the allied city of Ko-ro-ba, and had there found his death, for no reason that was clear to me other than the fact that he had had the misfortune to resemble me.
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5 524 "Forgive me!" When one who is slave strikes a free person the penalty is not infrequently death by impalement, preceded by lengthy torture.
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7 77 "To speak of what you see is, of course, death," said he.
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10 120 "Do not be curious, Killer," said he, "for commonly those who look upon the beast do so only in death".
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12 78 Marlenus, because he had lost the Home Stone and because the men of Ar feared him and his ambitions, had been publicly denied bread, salt and fire, exiled from the city and forbidden to return on pain of death.
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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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15 79 I learned such things as the pacing of the bird, the model trajectories for negotiating the rings, techniques of avoiding birds and blocking others, sometimes forcing them to hit or miss the rings; racing could be, and often was, as dangerous and cruel as the games in the Stadium of Blades, where me...
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15 97 Sometimes men wrestle to the death or use the spiked gauntlets.
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15 113 For one thing he never slew an opponent, though the man often could never fight again; the afternoon I had seen him the crowd cried for the death of his defeated opponent, lying bloodied in the sand, pleading for mercy between his legs, and Murmillius had lifted his sword as though to slay the man, ...
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16 231 Throughout the stands, startling those multitudes, unsettling the other birds being drawn by the horned tharlarion on the low carts, there was heard the sudden shrill, ringing challenge scream of a tarn, unhooded, a giant tarn, black, a wild mountain cry of one of Gor's fiercest, most beautiful pred...
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18 173 "There is nothing holy about disease, about pain, about death".
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19 136 "Verbina, she is," called he, "who so fears a man that she would flee him, at the risk of death and torture, White Silk and never before owned, yet certified ready for the chain of a master who would use her as she so richly deserves!" The crowd roared with amusement, enjoying the sport of the aucti...
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21 245 With a cry of rage he threw himself at me and the cry died in his throat, he sprawling in his astonishment, his death and his blood, crosswise in the sand.
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22 73 Do not approach the tarn now or it will mean your death".
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22 86 The tarn, the great, fierce saddlebird of Gor, is a savage beast, a monster predator of the high, blue skies of this harsh world; at best it is scarce half domesticated; even tarnsmen seldom approach them without weapons and tarn goad; it is regarded madness to approach one that is feeding; the inst...
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22 376 I noted, to my surprise, that the padding on the rings had been removed by attendants, and replaced with bladelike edges, used not in races but in exhibitions of daring riding, stunts in effect, in which riders appear to court death at the rings.
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23 238 "What is death?" I asked him.
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23 241 "If death is nothing," I said, "then the little that life is must be much indeed".
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Book 6. (15 results) Raiders of Gor

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3 295 How could I face myself, or anyone? I had chosen ignominious bondage to the freedom of honorable death.
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3 301 I had chosen ignominious bondage to the freedom of honorable death.
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3 340 "I should have thought," said he with the headband, formed of the pearls of the Vosk sorp, "that you might have preferred a man for a slave, one who is proud and does not fear death".
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3 346 I had feared death.
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4 78 I had chosen ignominious bondage to the freedom of honorable death.
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8 160 I knew myself for one who had chosen ignominious slavery over the freedom of honorable death.
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8 169 My last thought before the sweet darkness of sleep was the remembrance that I was one who had chosen ignominious slavery to the freedom of honorable death, and that I was alone.
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8 338 I had chosen ignominious slavery over the freedom of honorable death.
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9 70 And it was in this city, now mine, that I belonged, I who had lost myself, who had chosen ignominious slavery to the freedom of honorable death.
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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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17 155 What would they think of me as they fell beneath the cold waters of Thassa or reeled from the blows of sword blades, their death's blood in their mouths? Would they sing me then? And what guilt must I bear for each of those deaths, for it had been my words, those of an ignorant fool, which had sent ...
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18 121 "At what age," asked he, "is a man ready for death?" "To go where I am to go," I told him, "and do what I must do, is the action of a fool".
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18 614 There was a great screaming from the siege ladders, and I heard men crying out with death, and terror, and heard the scraping of the ladders and then their falling back, showering bodies on those crowded below, waiting to scale them.
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18 893 "We anticipated," said Samos, "that your humanity would assert itself, that faced with a meaningless, ignominious death in the marshes, you would grovel and whine for your life".
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18 896 "You chose," said Samos, "as warriors have it, ignominious bondage over the freedom of honorable death".
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Book 7. (7 results) Captive of Gor

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9 111 "One of these," said Verna, "or myself, you will fight to the death".
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13 103 Such an exile, commonly for a Gorean, is equivalent to enslavement or death.
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17 68 And, too, in various nights, he had spoken to me of himself, and of the death of his parents, and of his training as a boy in Treve, and his learning of the ways of tarns and of the steel of weapons.
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17 143 "Please, no, Master!" And in her shame, writhing to his least touch, the once selfish, self-centered, haughty, spoiled Elinor Brinton, again conquered, found her joy, and glory, and then she again accepted herself as what she was, a slave girl, and in this acceptance, she lost all shame, and yielded...
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17 270 Death by ost venom is among the most hideous of deaths.
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17 307 I had been told there was enough there to bring a hundred men to an excruciating death.
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18 47 I knew that I was one who had once chosen ignominious slavery over the freedom of honorable death.
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Book 8. (4 results) Hunters of Gor

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1 99 I recalled, angrily, with a burning shame, the delta of the Vosk, when I, though of the Warriors, once, on my knees, begged the ignominy of slavery to the freedom of honorable death.
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22 223 "Is there any among you," she said, "who wish to fight me to the death?" They shook their heads.
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22 227 "Do you wish to fight me to the death?" demanded Verna.
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22 828 "You are to fight to the death," I told her.
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Book 9. (27 results) Marauders of Gor

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1 26 He was a pirate, and a cutthroat, but he was not unhappy in his death; he had died by the sword, which would have been his choice, and before he had died he had looked again upon gleaming Thassa; it is called the death of blood and the sea; he died not unhappy; men of Port Kar do not care to die in ...
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1 25 I had dealt Surbus his death blow, but, before he had died, I had, on the urging of the woman, she moved to pity, carried him to the roof of the tavern, that he might, before his eyes closed, look once more upon the sea.
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1 28 After the death of Surbus, the woman had been mine.
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1 31 To my astonishment, however, by the laws of Port Kar, the ships, properties and chattels of Surbus, he having been vanquished in fair combat and permitted the death of blood and sea, became mine; his men stood ready to obey me; his ships became mine to command; his hall became my hall, his riches mi...
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1 106 There, merely to save his miserable life, he had chosen ignominious slavery to the freedom of honorable death.
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1 141 Was honor not a sham, a fraud, an invention of clever men to manipulate their less wily brethren? Why had I not returned to Port Kar and left Marlenus to his fate, to slavery, and doubtless, eventually, to a slave's death, broken and helpless, under the lashes of overseers in the quarries of Tyros? ...
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1 383 "You betrayed your codes! You are a coward! A fool! You are not worthy of me! That you dare ask me if I could care for such as you is to me, a free woman, an insult! You chose slavery to death!" "Why did you tell her of the delta of the Vosk?" I asked Samos.
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2 28 Sometimes those who insisted on retaining the old ways, or were caught making the sign of the fist, the hammer, over their ale, were subjected to death by torture.
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2 54 It was said that he wished, in regret for the wickedness of his life, to be carried in death to the temple of Priest-Kings in Kassau, that the High Initiate there might, if it be his mercy, draw on his bones in the sacred grease the sign of the Priest-Kings.
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2 55 It would thus indicate that he, Forkbeard, if not in life, had in death acknowledged the error of his ways and embraced the will and wisdom of the faith of Priest-Kings.
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2 56 Such a conversion, even though it be in death, would be a great coup for the Initiates.
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2 99 The invisible barrier about the Sardar is evidence of that, and the policing, by flame death, of illegal weapons and inventions.
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2 120 For example, if they could fuse their superstitions and lore, and myths, with a genuine moral message, of one sort or another, they might appeal more seriously to the general population; if they spoke more sense people would be less sensitive to, or disturbed by, the nonsense; further, they should t...
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2 236 Ivar Forkbeard, in death, if not in life, was making pilgrimage to the temple, that his bones might be anointed at the hands of the High Initiate, would he so graciously deign to do so.
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2 241 Ivar Forkbeard, the unregenerate, the raider, the pirate, he who had dared to make the fist of the hammer over his ale, would come at last, in death if not in life, humbly to the temple of Priest-Kings.
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2 293 He comes in death to the temple of Priest-Kings, that his bones may be anointed with the grease of Priest-Kings.
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2 313 It was incredible honor that was being shown to these men, that they might, themselves, on the platform of crossed spears, carry the body of Ivar Forkbeard, in death penitent, to the high steps of the great altar.
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2 330 But Ivar Forkbeard had come in death, if not in life, to the temple of Priest-Kings, betraying the old gods, to have his bones anointed at last with the grease of Priest-Kings.
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3 152 I shall first choose death!" "Very well," laughed the Forkbeard.
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6 58 They did not leave the fields; such a departure, without permission, might mean their death; they were thralls.
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10 42 Immersion in the waters of the Ax Glacier country, unprotected, will commonly bring about death by shock, within a matter of Ihn.
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11 114 "Even now," said the Kur, the skin drawing back from its fangs, "there are those among you who wish our death, who urge our destruction".
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13 373 For a bondmaid to speak in such a situation might be to invite a sentence of death.
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13 419 Never in the north had there been such a coup of honor! Though it might mean the death of us all, those who followed the Forkbeard, and that of perhaps hundreds of the men of Svein Blue Tooth, we cheered.
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17 219 As slaves, they were commanded; as slaves, did they fail to comply, they would be put to death.
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21 254 "If he dies," he said, "your death will be neither swift nor pleasant".
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22 195 As a note, it might be added, that the slave female, in her master's arms, must, if he so commands, under the threat of the whip or death, vocalize her sensations, thus ventilating and reinforcing, multiplying, deepening, and increasing and intensifying them.
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Book 10. (17 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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1 476 It would not have been a pleasant death.
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3 11 In thirty-two I had been adjudged victorious, nineteen times to the death cut.
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7 300 So struck, four times, I found it not difficult to believe that the animal, even if unfound, would have sought a dark place, and there, in silence, bled to death.
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7 428 "The message collar," said Ibn Saran, "failed to bring about your death, the termination of your quest for the last egg of Priest-Kings".
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7 659 "And Hamid," I said, "by intent, did not strike Suleiman to the death, but feigning clumsiness, wounded him only".
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10 190 I did not think it would take her long to remove her clothing, draw her warm kaiila-cloth blanket about her and, drawing her knees up, fall asleep on the straw of her cell, which, under pain of death, she would shut behind her, locking it.
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10 294 They will, presumably, be put to death".
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11 314 The man of the Tahari, conquered, stands ready, his scimitar returned to him, to defend his conqueror to the death.
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14 252 "Your death would be swift".
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17 32 How was it, he holding the precarious sovereignty of our kennel, that he dared to sleep among slaves, who might win his kaffiyeh and agal, though they were only rep-cloth, so simply as the dagger, slipped from his sash, might enter his throat? The kennel master, though slave, too, is Ubar, with powe...
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18 16 "In return, you ask only your own death?" "No," I said.
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19 98 The alternative to the gamble was not security but certain death.
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21 142 It would be madness and death to enter them.
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23 44 "Do you wish to fight me to the death?" I asked him.
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23 82 "Do you wish to fight me to the death?" I asked.
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24 316 "No such honorable death would be yours.
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25 637 Your death would surely be one of the deaths of a slave girl, who has not been pleasing".
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Book 11. (4 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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7 1348 "I must yield, Master! I cannot help myself! I cannot help myself but yield to you!" "Must you yield," he asked, "even though it might mean your death?" "Yes, Master!" I cried.
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9 1518 Were she not so she would be subject to severe punishment, including even torture and death, should it be the master's wish".
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20 302 To be caught looking upon a free woman could mean death for them.
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27 145 Rather than permit himself to be seen in tavern work by Thurnus, Caste Leader of Tabuk's Ford, I thought he might choose death.
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Book 12. (15 results) Beasts of Gor

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11 105 "Fight to the death! Fight to the death!" I knew then I had won.
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3 9 When a male is forced beyond the wall he is removed from the competition and may not, upon pain of death, re-enter the area for the duration of the contest.
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3 478 She is subject to the whip, and torture, and even death should the master please.
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3 1145 As hunters they live with blood and death.
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6 176 There is a swiftness, a sorcery, a savageness in his steel which in a hundred fights to the death I have never encountered.
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9 53 Death was too good for her.
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20 198 "There is no one in the feasting house who is of my people, who is not a child," he said, "who has not seen people starve to death.
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23 244 "Their information was not so precious to them that they preferred to retain it in the face of death by torture," said Ram.
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26 308 "Imnak," said Poalu, "does not fear the sleen of death".
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26 348 A sleen can kill itself in this manner, licking at the blade until it bleeds to death.
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26 350 But no sleen that night bled to death, a victim of the simple, cruel trap, for there were too many animals present with too great a hunger to permit this to occur.
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29 61 The recognition and comprehension of a detail, sometimes subtle, can sometimes make a difference between life and death.
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33 7 If I was found, it would be conjectured that the death, violent though it might have been, was not one unnatural for the Gorean north.
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35 59 Not only was dispatch of tactical significance but exposure to the arctic winter could bring a swift death on the summit of the ice island.
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36 269 "In the disruption consequent upon this place's destruction," I said, "his death would be hideous".
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Book 13. (7 results) Explorers of Gor

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1 571 In the sacking of his city, which took place some two years after his death, the rings were found".
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18 82 The askari was ordered to be speared to death by one of his own kin.
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44 143 They wished me, for some reason, to leave her there, helpless, unable to free herself, lying there at the mercy of the jungle, surely either to starve or thirst to death, or, more likely, to fall victim to some new predator.
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47 62 There is no quick death for those who fail to escape the column.
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48 87 "Insubordination," I said, "will be punished with death".
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48 228 Surely death is a thousand times more preferable".
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53 159 "When I fled there would be no reason for Msaliti to plot his death.
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Book 14. (10 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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2 341 "The termination of his miserable existence," said one of the men, "death".
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2 344 "Let the sentence be death," said another one of the men.
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7 729 Disrespect in a slave can be punished by death.
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12 181 She, and those who were masters, held the power of life and death over me.
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14 48 To so much as touch one of the mistress' slave girls without her permission could be punished by death.
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15 39 "I could have you beaten to death," she said.
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15 53 "I could have you beaten to death, or tortured, and slain," she said.
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18 140 She held over them, of course, the power of life and death.
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18 152 On the other hand he knows that such an act can be punished by death.
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19 41 One might kick but holds to the death were not permitted.
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Book 15. (3 results) Rogue of Gor

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11 197 "Of course," she said, "they hold over me the power of life and death".
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23 250 Such men, of course, held over her the total power of life or death.
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25 228 Though the Gorean coin girl is commonly one of several girls, one of a stable thereof, so to speak, sent daily into the streets to earn money as the chattels they are for their master, under the penalty of whippings or tortures, or death, if their day's work does not prove sufficiently lucrative, it...
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Book 16. (1 results) Guardsman of Gor

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15 72 I feared I might bleed to death.
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Book 17. (12 results) Savages of Gor

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2 269 "The Death Squad is already on Gor," I said.
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2 314 "He may not know that the Death Squad has landed on Gor," I said.
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4 10 "It can be death to enter them".
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14 61 It is death to a slave, incidentally, to remove such a collar without permission.
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14 682 In the camps, and among the tribes, our red masters keep women such as I in our collars, to remove one of which without permission is death".
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16 10 "Much death might lie about in the grass".
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16 54 "Death," I said.
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16 55 "But no common death".
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16 193 "Are you so brave," I asked, "that you faced the beast so calmly?" "What is life? What is death?" he asked.
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16 271 "Death holds few terrors for those who have never known life," said Grunt.
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16 272 "What is life? What is death?" asked the fellow.
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17 299 Better death! I refused.
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Book 18. (19 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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1 326 It is death, incidentally, for a slave to remove such a collar without permission.
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11 90 For too long had I been inactive in my true mission in the Barrens, that of attempting to contact the Kur war general, Zarendargar, Half-Ear, and warn him of the death squad, determined remnants of which still survived, that was hunting him, that commanded by Kog and Sardak, the latter a Blood, a hi...
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12 432 He may then decide whether or not your least difficulty or disobedience is to be punished by death.
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14 72 She had been in political command, under Kog and Sardak, of a force of approximately a thousand mercenaries, the human contingent accompanying Kog and Sardak, and their death squad, into the Barrens.
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22 73 "Yes," I said, "but death will not.
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26 37 Some men have bled to death from wounds of which they, in the heat of battle, in the excitement and press of combat, were scarcely aware.
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27 28 Many sang their death songs.
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29 125 "It is fortunate that you did not bleed to death," I said.
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30 113 It was Sardak, the leader of the death squad from the steel worlds.
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32 35 This gave me a figure of seventeen Kurii in the original death squad, including its leaders, Sardak and Kog.
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32 54 I did not think that any one Kur, singly, would be likely to look forward to meeting Zarendargar, Half-Ear, in a battle to the death.
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35 151 It takes a long time to starve to death, weeks.
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39 165 "That we may, at our master's whim, be subjected to miseries or terrors, even to torture and death, if he wishes, makes clear to us that we are truly slaves, that we are truly owned, that the domination to which we are subject is truly total and absolute".
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40 707 "Claim her, and then punish her with death," said a man.
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41 155 "Sing my death song," he said.
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50 61 "This being a slave," said Mahpiyasapa to the members of the council, standing about him, "clearly it is not fitting that she be subjected to the honorable death of a free woman".
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50 92 "No longer is it fitting that they be subjected to the honorable death of free women".
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56 64 The sentence of death, according to the beast, had been rescinded against Zarendargar.
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56 93 "In this fashion I sought to draw the Death Squad into the Barrens where they might be dealt with and sought, too, to enlist your aid in my battle with them".
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Book 19. (1 results) Kajira of Gor

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31 142 Did he truly think that an agonizing death, writhing on a high, narrow impaling spear, some twenty feet in height, unable to free myself, in a public square, or on the walls of Argentum, in public view, to the jeers and cries of a vengeful crowd was not to be feared? "I am Tiffany," I said, weakly, ...
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Book 20. (10 results) Players of Gor

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1 295 "In spite of the fact that I am willing to accord you the dignity of a swift and honorable death, one fitting for a free woman, you would choose instead, and prefer, the degradation of slavery?" "Yes," she said.
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2 1183 "I wished to warn him of the Death Squad searching him out.
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11 59 Such a behavior would be likely to be followed by hideous punishments, if not death by torture.
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12 691 If intent is involved in such an omission, it can be an occasion for death by torture.
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12 698 "Death? A thousand lashes?" "I beg to be permitted to become a perfect slave, in all things!" she wept.
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12 720 "What punishments, in lieu of death, then, do you suggest for her?" asked Boots.
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16 132 "Do you doubt my capacity to defend these damsels to the death, against even armies?" asked Petrucchio.
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16 689 "Then," said Chino, "we must substitute a duel to the death".
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16 690 "To the—death?" inquired Petrucchio.
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16 703 I have never yet lost a fight to the death with them".
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Book 21. (18 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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2 98 "It would be death for you to be found".
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3 196 It constitutes, in effect, a set of corridors of death through which the cavalry must ride, in which it is commonly decimated before it can reach the main lines of the defenders.
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3 268 She had just escaped death or crippling.
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5 266 "That would be a fate a thousand times worse than death".
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9 63 The choice between riches and death is one that few men will ponder at length.
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15 177 I suspected it might be death to cross his will.
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15 234 In this, although the original meanings are perhaps lost in antiquity, most commentators see symbolized the servility and sensuousness which, as they are to be slaves, is henceforth, upon pain of death, to be required of them.
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16 778 It is punishable by death".
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19 491 Letters of safety, indeed! They had not been letters of safety so much, it seemed, as death warrants, or orders for execution, laden with mortal peril for any so bold or foolish as to carry them.
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19 493 He had sought to steal protection but had purloined only death.
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25 189 I have been able to sense here the ecstasies of bondage, the ecstasies of a life obligatorily sensual, a life under strict discipline, a life where I must obey, a life where I will, and must, surrender myself totally and, subject to penalties, and even death, if I am displeasing, live thenceforth so...
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25 2237 Who knows what conflagrations and explosions may be consequent upon the denial of nature? Or will the end be only a continual weakening, a sickness, and then death? Only one thing seems reasonably clear.
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26 234 "It is a matter of life and death".
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26 776 Their message, according to the fellow who had been on the right, had been a matter of life and death.
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26 780 But it had turned out to be a matter of my life and their death.
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26 1049 "You have saved me from an unspeakable fate," she said, "one worse than death, that of a man having his way with me, against my will".
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29 127 "It appears," said Hurtha, unshouldering his ax, "that a battle to the death is in order".
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29 134 He enjoyed being on good terms with fellows he was preparing to fight to the death.
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Book 22. (12 results) Dancer of Gor

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3 232 I danced for some time, lost in my delights, and I danced, or tried to, as would have, as I had planned, a mere slave, needful and fearful, before those who held over her the power of life and death, before her masters.
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6 55 Here amongst masters and slaves were literally instituted the practices and relationships, and required of me, under the threat of terrible punishments, and even death, which in my heart I would have longed to bestow of my own free will on men, or at least men so free and proud, so much the natural ...
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11 1608 And failure to obey, and be pleasing, can be cause not only for grievous punishment, but death.
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13 76 Some free women, captured, when such stuff is thrown to them, profess to prefer death to putting it on, but when this choice is that which is actually offered to them they put it on quickly enough.
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13 874 When a girl's most secret thoughts can be read as easily as slave numbers written on her breast her only viable option is total honesty, and as complete submission was required of Gorean slave girls her only practical recourse under such stringent circumstances is either to choose death or become in...
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13 875 In short, as deception is impossible, the girl must either choose death or the reality of true bondage.
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19 23 "Better death in the streets, or a collar, than that I should so demean myself, and my station, as to avail myself of your generosity".
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28 102 In the case of a master's death the slave, like other property, passes to the heirs, or, if there are no heirs, to the state.
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29 755 "I will defend her to the death!" cried Mirus.
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33 199 They had lain contorted in death.
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33 356 It was a release from the fear of death, it was a thanksgiving for fate and fortune, it was an affirmation of life, it was the cry of a wild verr in the mountains, the leaping of a fish in the sea, the roar of the larl, the hiss of the sleen, the scream of a tarn in the sky.
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33 357 Only to those who have been closest to death is the value of life most clear.
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Book 23. (8 results) Renegades of Gor

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1 128 "Do not condemn us to death!" begged the leader.
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11 329 "Hanging is too swift a death for a spy".
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16 100 Two were cut down and a third climbed back over the wall and leapt away, plunging to its foot, preferring to risk the consequences of such a fall rather than face certain death on the walkway.
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17 115 But if eye contact is made, then there is not unoften a fight to the death.
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17 320 A false step on the narrow battlements might have plunged her to her death.
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21 821 "Even a fate 'worse than death'?" he smiled.
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21 863 "If it were truly a fate worse than death," I said, "or even so miserable or unfortunate a lot, it seems it would be very hard to understand their happiness, their emotional fulfillments, their ecstasies, their willingness to die for their masters".
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21 864 "Perhaps then," he said, "for all its demands and duties, it is not truly a fate worse than death".
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Book 24. (7 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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3 528 "No," he said, "they purchased death".
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20 37 "Such things, upon occasion," I said, "might be the difference between life and death".
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27 212 Surely death to the men of Ar, I thought.
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35 16 If he were stopped, of course, and it were found in his pack it might be regarded as equivalent to a death sentence.
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43 43 Marcus normally tended, of course, to be a somewhat moody fellow, taking things somewhat more seriously, such as life and death, than seemed necessary.
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47 177 I hoped, of course, if Octantius did not have the gold with him, that there would now be doubt, in the event of the death of Saphronicus, as to its eventual appearance.
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49 13 The nature of his death remains somewhat mysterious, and there are many rumors concerning it.
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Book 25. (16 results) Magicians of Gor

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4 94 "Yes, I suppose you could," I said, "and probably without much difficulty, but if your intent is its rescue, and not your death in its attempted rescue, this is not the time to strike".
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5 33 "Ar will be defended to the death," said a man.
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6 2 "Ar will defend herself to the death," said a man.
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6 144 "We will fight to the death," said another.
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6 176 "We must fight to the death," said a man.
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8 555 They see only what they think is before their eyes and adamantly refuse to consider either the general impact of their views or their inevitable spawn in the future, stagnation, imprisonment, mediocrity, misery, poverty and death".
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8 836 This permits outflanking, the engagement by one, the death stroke by the other.
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9 351 "Kill the Hinrabian! Death to her! Let her be impaled! Weight her ankles!" "And at night, do you serve your masters in the furs?" inquired Claudia.
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9 354 "Death to the Hinrabian!" cried men.
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10 450 It is like vulos legislating for tarns, the end of which legislation is the death of the tarn, or its transformation into something new, something reduced, pathological and sick, celebrated then as the true tarn".
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13 79 "But how are we to explain the Weapons Laws, the Flame Death?" he asked.
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16 233 "I think his broken bones, his bruises, his blood, his groans, his gibbering, his accounts of what occurred, his terror, such things, would better serve the Delta Brigade than his death".
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18 151 "You realize," said Marcus, "that the fellow may elude us, over the roofs, or climb out on a ledge, and fall to his death, or lower himself by means of a rope to the alley from the room?" "Or disappear into thin air?" I asked.
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18 319 "It is also one in which, if you fail, you will be apprehended and subjected to ingenious, lengthy and excruciating tortures, to be terminated doubtless only months later with the mercy of a terrible death".
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18 499 "Even though you should fail in this enterprise and die a horrible death, I want you to know that you have the gratitude of Ar's Station!" "Thank you," said the fellow.
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21 234 "'It could mean his death if it were so much as glimpsed by one of the Council, or by Seremides, or Myron, or his master, or perhaps any free man,' she said.
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Book 26. (10 results) Witness of Gor

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11 1230 Indeed, being able to please and placate a male can sometimes mean the difference between life and death, between being ordered to the furs, there to be incontestably ravished and subjugated, there, gratefully, to be totally conquered—and being hurled to ravening sleen.
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19 1204 The failure to confess might mean far worse punishment, perhaps even my death.
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24 615 "And many," he said, "in receiving their death strokes, cried out 'Glory to Ar!'" Dorna was silent.
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24 664 But, too, after men have risked death, it often pleases them to be served by naked women.
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37 196 A blade then found its heart, and in its death throes, not releasing its new prey, it rolled and shook, and half of it fell free to the side.
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37 524 A normal Gorean male, I was sure, would have defended a jeopardized kajira to the death.
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40 246 "One cannot leap to one's death every day".
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44 226 We are permitting you to dictate the manner of an enemy's death.
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44 240 "It is neither mine to prescribe, nor dictate, the manner of another's death.
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46 32 You would surely suspect that you would be marking him out for death.
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Book 27. (13 results) Prize of Gor

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1 31 But the clock is indifferent to what it counts; it considers with equanimity the antics of the foolish, the ecstasies of saints, the sweet, lovely nonsense of dreamers, the delusions of realists, the comings and goings of nations and empires, the passing of immortal faiths and eternal truths, life, ...
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1 42 What is being suggested here, or better, I think, noted, is that time does not dictate reality, or life or death, or change, but measures it, and that it is indifferent to what it measures, that it is independent of what it measures.
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17 976 It is death to conceal weapons.
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20 608 The "leech death" is not a pleasant one.
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22 163 Had primitive women been feminists the human race would have been extinct thousands of years ago; it is the ideology of death.
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22 257 And, of course, the least bit of resistance, recalcitrance or such may invoke severe discipline, even death.
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26 698 "Death to the traitress!" said a man.
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26 699 "Death to the Ubara!" "She shall know the penalties for betraying the Home Stone, those to be suitably inflicted upon a traitorous free person," said a man.
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27 158 They range from death to such lesser penalties as the amputation of a foot, the breaking of the teeth out of a jaw, and such.
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27 2078 "If he should kill me, see then that he dies a lengthy, unpleasant death".
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27 3178 "A lengthy, unpleasant death," said one of the soldiers, menacingly.
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27 3501 "As I understand it," said Mirus, who now joined the group, "the Priest-Kings enforce their laws by the Flame Death".
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29 356 "Mirus spoke to me of monstrosities of indiscriminate death, contrived by the clever and mindless, of crowdings, of manipulations, of hatreds, pollutions, diseases and famines.
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Book 28. (47 results) Kur of Gor

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1 140 When it became clear that Zarendargar had survived the destruction of the staging area, a death squad was dispatched from the Steel Worlds to hunt him down and kill him, for he had, after all, failed the people.
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1 141 The policies and decisions connected with the transmission of the death squad were controversial, incidentally, in the councils of the Steel Worlds, and the decree of termination, some months later, would be rescinded.
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1 142 This, of course, could not have been anticipated by the personnel of the Death Squad.
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1 143 Representatives of the Death Squad contacted Samos of Port Kar, clearly an agent of Priest-Kings, and Tarl Cabot, for assistance in hunting down and executing Zarendargar.
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1 146 Tarl Cabot, however, instead of lending his assistance to the Death Squad, himself entered the dangerous Barrens to warn Zarendargar and, if possible, protect him.
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1 147 This effort, of course, was not only contrary to the desires of the Death Squad, but, too, seemed clearly to be an act not in the best interests of Priest-Kings.
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1 657 Surely the Flame Death does not explain itself, but simply strikes.
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11 265 "He was intent to rescue a friend, with whom it is told he had once shared paga, to save him from death or dishonor at the hands of Priest-Kings, a noble endeavor, but instead he brought him unwittingly into the grasp of Agamemnon".
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19 90 The gift of life is a loan, as the Kur commonly sees it, a loan for which one is grateful, a loan which, when due, is to be willingly repaid with the coin of death.
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20 75 "Did you or did you not seek the death of the human, Tarl Cabot?" "I did," said Pyrrhus.
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20 87 "He confessed to seeking my death," Cabot reminded Peisistratus.
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20 118 The hereditary coils have cast their countless lots, and nature has made her innumerable decisions amongst them, according to her mysterious wills and ways, denominating her fortunes of extinction and prosperity, of defeat and victory, of death and life.
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23 137 "You will be done with in horror, put to death in unspeakable ways".
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24 69 "You are bringing us all to death!" she said.
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31 53 "It is death to be on the lake," she whispered.
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31 54 "It may be death to be on the beach," said Cabot, "if discovered".
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36 42 "It is not for nothing the arrow is sometimes spoken of as the bird of death.
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37 32 "And a moment's hesitation may mean one's death.
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39 43 Cabot, however, at the moment of becoming aware that his assault from the rear was discerned, looked for those individuals most ideally positioned for surveying the terrain, those not on the ground, and so the perceptive Kur on the pole, scarcely raising his paw to point, fell from the pole some twe...
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39 72 Kurii, he trusted, are rational animals and would seldom choose certain death.
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41 44 "It will bleed to death, or it will starve.
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43 439 "It may amuse the allies to treat you as you deserve, to subject you to a lengthy and hideous death by torture".
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43 465 "Do not move," he told her, "for there is an opening here, and if you fall, it will be to your death".
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45 177 "Several of them," he said, "have urged your death by torture".
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46 21 "We must fight! We must fight to the death!" "We are too few, too weak," said one of the Kurii.
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46 54 Do you wish to fight to the death?" "No," responded the Kur.
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47 23 For a Kur it seemed clear this climb would be death.
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47 89 "Few of the birds of death are left," said Statius.
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47 226 "I will defend her, to the death," said Lord Grendel.
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50 78 "Death, power weapons, fire, the screaming," said Peisistratus.
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51 10 "Doubtless he died of his wounds, and animals, smelling blood and death, dragged the body from the cave," said Cabot.
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55 226 Cabot then, bow strung, an arrow to the string, a quiver at his hip, laden with the birds of death, emerged from the forest.
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55 365 "I will stand by you to the death," said Statius.
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57 120 "And when," said Flavion, anxiously, "shall she be put to death?" "Do you not think it best that she be interrogated first?" asked Lord Grendel.
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60 4 "The men of Mitonicus have entered the theater of death," said Flavion.
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60 11 Great Agamemnon, in an act of seeming mercy, has called them to the theater, that of death, where they expect to be forgiven, and their penalties revoked, merely for joining his forces".
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60 23 "They filed like docile verr, slowly, in long lines, heads down, to the theater of death," said Flavion.
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60 97 "We brought concealed weapons to the theater of death, and when they readied their weapons, to fire upon us, it was we who first fired, and attacked.
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61 22 "Or a mad rush to certain death, either on our part or on that of Agamemnon".
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61 113 "Too," said Cabot, "it is clear he wants the death of the Lady Bina, on whom many are eager to impose justice, indeed, of a most hideous sort, and he may, thus, use your dalliance in this matter, and your reluctance to expeditiously prosecute her, as further grounds to undermine your authority, to i...
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61 126 "You must permit the torture and death of the Lady Bina," said Statius.
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61 196 "Is it not well past the time the traitress was judged, found guilty, and put to an appropriate death?" Kurii present murmured assent.
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65 23 He will be put to death if we do not slay ourselves.
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67 21 The hunters, of course, wary of the birds of death, it should be noted, would not go into the forests subjecting themselves to the self-imposed limitations to which they had been accustomed in the sport world.
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67 139 The tastes may originally have been randomly allotted in a population, distributed with indifference, but the consequences of these tastes would weigh quite differently in the scales of life and death.
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67 140 A trail of misery and death in one case, and of health and vitality in another, lies at the roots, here and elsewhere, of what might seem to be a thousand matters of coincidence, but are no more coincidences, or inexplicable accidents, than the scimitarlike sharpness of the larl's fangs, or the erra...
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77 267 For example, it would presumably have been easy enough for Cabot, bow in hand, and a quiver filled with the birds of death, to have slain Flavion days ago, in the forest.
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Book 29. (33 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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26 46 Commonly the price of a death is another death, or more.
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1 189 And, after that, I do not know what fate they might have planned for me, perhaps a hideous death, perhaps a wandering life of exile, beggary, and shame.
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2 140 One might balance, say, freedom, misery, and death, against bondage, happiness, and life.
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4 13 With equanimity, not caring, it brings forth life and death, flourishing and destruction, growth and decay.
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5 55 Life and death sometimes hung on the outcomes of a kaissa match, and war or peace.
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5 917 And better, surely, the degradations of collars and their fair lips pressed to the feet of masters than the slow, lingering death of the impaling pole.
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7 218 "If you possessed such a weapon, you would be in violation of the weapon laws of Priest-Kings, and liable to the flame death".
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10 171 His action was so quick that I, familiar with the reflexes of warriors, which often spell the difference between life and death, must admire it, and Pertinax, startled, gasped, his blade still haplessly lowered.
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12 135 A thousand arrows could be loosed in an instant, like death rain, on a foe, and then the riders were gone.
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12 136 And then, again, the storm of death might appear on another horizon, tiny dots on the horizon, and then, in moments, be upon one again.
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12 271 The male which retreats one day, of course, may not retreat another day, and then a fight to the death, or to the disabling of the defeated, is likely to take place.
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12 383 "One recovers honor in life," I said, "not in death.
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13 176 "Does the proscription list not mean death?" she asked.
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13 177 "Strictly," I said, "it means apprehension, but it is true, that it is commonly a warrant for death, certainly for males, and often for women, free women".
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14 10 In this engagement no mortal blows were to be dealt, of course, and when a stroke which would have spelled death or disablement was held up short, the adjudicator pronounced his verdict, and one of the fellows would politely withdraw from the contest, in effect having been ruled dead or, one suppose...
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14 29 Understandably, a reasonable amount of care was taken in the dojo to reduce injury and, certainly, to prevent death, the holding of strokes, and such, but, nonetheless, bloodshed was not infrequent, and broken limbs, wrists, and arms, were not unknown.
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15 393 "One does not sell life and death," he had informed Tajima.
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15 414 "One who has faced death at the point of a sword has an elevated understanding," said Pertinax.
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16 78 I suppose, to many, certain things might seem dreadful, the blast of the war horn, the thunder of tarn drums, the soaring descent to the attack, the scream of the tarn, the music of the bowstring, blood's lyre, with its song of death, but, too, to some, there is little which so speaks of life as the...
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18 28 When charged they melted away only to reform again in a circle of death, where the turning warrior, confused and frightened, could defend himself on only one side.
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18 144 One supposes that some warriors might have supposed, as well, that their foes might have been intimidated by their scorn for body armor, or perhaps they regarded, interestingly, body armor as effeminate or unworthy a courageous warrior, who should not fear wounding or death.
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18 178 They do enforce them, however, mercilessly, with the Flame Death.
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19 33 I have never much favored tharlarion in combat, as, if they are confused, or wounded, they become uncontrollable, and are as likely to turn about and plunge into their own troops as those of the enemy, thereby, indiscriminately, wherever they trod or roll, whether amongst friends or foes, spreading ...
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25 102 They were not dupes, fools, madmen, too stupid to understand how they had been manipulated by others, young men drunk with the wine of death, who think they will somehow thrive in the cities of dust.
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25 140 There is a saying among warriors that he who attacks a shadow plays with death.
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28 451 "He bled to death," said a mercenary.
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32 46 One of the Pani, of the entourage of Lord Okimoto, advanced before the platform and addressed the assembled, massed pairs, reiterating the terms of the contest, that each pair would do battle to the death, and the survivor would receive a tarn disk of gold.
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33 65 That would be the Flame Death.
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35 126 "Treachery is punishable by death," said Lord Nishida.
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36 22 "What," I asked, "was the cause of his death?" "His health was poor, and for a long time failing," said Aëtius.
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38 447 During the raid the English girl, hoping to avoid death, had declared herself slave.
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40 24 It had been death to man those engines.
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43 169 The fires of life burn brightly at the edge of death.
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Book 30. (35 results) Mariners of Gor

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3 1216 'Death by the impaling spear,' she said, 'is a terrible death.
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3 1507 "Death by impalement," I said, "is doubtless a most miserable death, and not the swiftest.
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30 6 "On the continent the desertion of a single man is usually punished by his death, the desertion of a unit, its impermissible flight from the field, not routed, its refusal to engage, or such, by decimation, putting to death every tenth man, this determined by lots".
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2 165 Its talons can clasp a kaiila and carry it aloft, to drop it to its death, thence to land and feed on the meat.
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5 124 I recalled how he had so persistently urged my death in the meeting below decks yesterday.
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5 179 "This Cosian sleen," said Seremides to Lord Nishida, while not taking his eyes off me, "is an enemy, to be put to death, one who wished us harm, not to be tolerated amongst us".
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5 196 "To put to death this enemy," said Seremides.
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5 248 So let my death soil him, and cling to him in the eyes of men, marking him, proclaiming him for what he is in fact, a wretch, a dissembler, a fugitive, a criminal, a coward, a butcher".
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5 282 Now I was to be matched, to the death.
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7 83 To be sure, unless honor is thought to be involved, which may lead to blood and death, such matters are usually resolved amicably, perhaps by an apology and the payment of a use coin, A's putting one of his slaves, B's choice, at the disposal of B, or such.
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8 493 But what might that be? Also, as she could recognize him, her death might be worth far more to him than the gold her delivery to Ar might bring.
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9 236 I saw disruption, confusion, blood, carnage, and death, both of men and beasts.
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9 272 Yes, I thought, yes! It was the sort of blade to which one might grow accustomed, the sort of blade to which one might entrust one's life, placing its sharp, narrow wall of agile metal between oneself and death.
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9 289 He was fond of such death play.
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9 302 But such an effort would be irrational, and would presumably conclude not with a sack of gold, but with the death of both on the ice.
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9 407 "Disloyalty," said Lord Okimoto, "is to be punished by death.
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12 347 The mistake was tiny, but it was enough to assure his death.
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12 468 It is hers, is it not, as an animal, to await the outcome, and learn her disposition? To meddle may be to invite death.
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14 372 "He will bleed to death," said another armsman.
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16 207 Meanwhile, in accord with the instructions of Lord Okimoto, the great ship had come about, toward the warning ship, and there was a rending crash, as the great ship crushed the smoldering remains of our galley, almost at water level, and eight or ten of the small boats, caught between the grinding h...
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19 142 Had we not been on the ship, I feared we might not have escaped death.
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21 200 The Priest-Kings, on the other hand, by various manifestations of their power, doubtless the Flame Death, and such, had made clear the wisdom of retaining Gorean.
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22 79 The arrow, ignorant of its purpose, might with equanimity bestow indiscriminate death.
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22 169 Had these lines of skilled, hardened men, selected with care by the Pani, veterans, mercenaries, killers, bandits, brigands, and pirates, from enlisted crews, rural gangs, disbanded cohorts, and scattered free companies, not checked the enemy, few if any of our forces would have escaped death.
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22 179 Indeed, in some cities, men returning with such wounds are put to death.
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22 313 The leading, confused ranks of our foes probably did not understand what killed them, but they fell, and succeeding rows, four or five, stumbled over them, fell, rose, climbed over them, and met death.
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22 327 Had we had stakes and trenches before us, the trenches would have been filled, the stakes heavy with the impaled meat of death.
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22 330 Some of our bowmen climbed over bodies, and from the grisly height of such hills, formed of inert or bleeding men, plied their craft, playing, as it is said, tunes on the lyre of death.
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23 80 It was apparently only a tiny remnant of a once mighty force, driven about, harried, fought, defeated again and again, some seven or eight hundred men, perhaps a thousand, which, exhausted, bloodied, and starving, on a gray, cold morning, surrounded save for the sea, awaiting an onslaught they could...
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23 115 Our men, who are mercenaries, and hired as such, save for the Pani, prefer to choose their wars intelligently, to weigh odds, to balance gold carefully against blood, to fight for a presumed victory, with loot and pay in the offing, not for defeat, not for the chains of a slave, not for a likely dea...
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24 171 Surely it is an honorable death.
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25 56 Was their treasure not aboard? What had they to hope for here, other than uncertainty, danger, and possible death? I sensed there was much secret speaking amongst the men.
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28 87 If one were concerned to protect an endeavor such as our common enterprise, or forestall or thwart a conspiracy which might result in the ruination of that enterprise, whatever it might be, and perhaps the death of hundreds, subtlety seemed advisable.
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36 107 "He was to see to your death, for your role in foiling the desertion".
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36 323 "I regret the death," said the stranger.
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Book 31. (2 results) Conspirators of Gor

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14 119 If you do not obey with perfection, you will undoubtedly die a quick and most unpleasant death.
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15 27 Why was I obeying the beast? Was I moving to my death? But, if so, why had he given me the instructions he had? Would that not have been meaningless, and excessive, or might it have been calculated, to assuage my anxieties, to put me off my guard? He had informed me that I would not be hurt, unless ...
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Book 32. (1 results) Smugglers of Gor

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43 942 When I lower it, a wind of death will spring from the forest, a raging blast of feathered death.
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Book 33. (1 results) Rebels of Gor

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1 239 "That is a death for heroes, a noble death, scorning life, preferring honor.
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Book 34. (1 results) Plunder of Gor

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51 56 "It can be death to a slave who is not a serving slave to touch them," I said, "and it can be death to any slave who dares to wear them".
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