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Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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3 71 Perhaps this was to discourage them from exploration or to develop in them a habit of relying on common-sense prejudices—something of a social control device.
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4 108 It was chilly to the touch now, because I had set the chronometric temperature device to turn to cold an hour before the first light.
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6 88 I then saw for the first time that strapped to his abdomen was a translation device, not unlike those I had seen in Ko-ro-ba.
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6 91 One of the insect's legs twiddled with a knob on the translation device.
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9 52 Once, however, Talena dragged me to the side of the road, and, scarcely able to conceal our horror, we watched while a sufferer from the incurable Dar-Kosis disease, bent in his yellow shrouds, hobbled by, periodically clacking that wooden device which warns all within hearing to stand clear from hi...
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12 151 I poked through the other contents of the saddle pack, delighted to find my old maps and that device that serves Goreans as both compass and chronometer.
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18 91 Yet no lever, handle, or device of any kind revealed itself.
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Book 2. (6 results) Outlaw of Gor

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2 25 Normally the Gorean shield is painted boldly and has infixed in it some device for identifying the bearer's city.
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10 69 My wrists were held in position, and the device closed on my throat and wrists.
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12 19 The yoke was not simply a device to secure a man, but to humiliate him, to treat him as if he were a beast.
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14 171 I wondered sometimes if that bird, my Ubar of the Skies, that tarn of tarns, of a race of birds spoken of by Goreans as Brothers of the Wind, might have considered himself as above the goad, resented its shocks and sparks, resented that that puny human device would pretend to teach him, he, a tarn o...
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20 118 A similar device, I supposed, might prevent the entry of high tharlarions, the saddle lizards of Gor, into the mountains.
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21 100 Perhaps it is merely a device for merchants who must have some such means for tracing runaway slaves, which would otherwise constitute a costly hazard to their trade.
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Book 3. (28 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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8 40 It might be possible, of course, to use some type of penetrating beam which if subtly enough adjusted might permit the reception of signals through walls and then relay these to a distant screen, but I doubted that such a device, though perhaps within the capacities of the Priest-Kings, would be use...
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8 43 But of course the device could be in any of the bulbs.
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8 237 I regarded the ruined sensors in the portal and the wreckage of the surveillance device which had been concealed in the energy bulb.
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9 78 I looked about the room, at the chests against the wall dim in the reduced light of the energy bulbs, at the walls, at the shattered device in the ceiling, at the broken sensors, at the great, empty portal that led into the passageway beyond.
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9 242 About its neck there hung a small circular device, a translator of some sort, similar to but more compact than those I had hitherto seen.
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9 250 A moment after I spoke I sensed another set of odors, which emanated doubtless from the device which hung about the neck of what stood before me.
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13 88 "Why have they not given her a transportation device?" I asked.
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13 107 "Long ago it functioned in the Nest," said one of the slaves, "as a sewerage device, but it has not served that function in many thousands of years".
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14 1 The Secret Chamber of Misk The arms of the metal device seized me and I found myself held helplessly by the arms suspended some feet above the floor.
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14 18 I would learn later that practically the entire wall which faced me was such a device, being in effect a very large scent-reinforcer.
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15 95 This device you see then is merely a contrivance for producing these charges and microstates without the necessity for the time-consuming external stimulation".
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15 114 How else could learning take place? This device is merely a comparatively considerate, swift and efficient means to an end that is universally regarded as desirable by rational creatures".
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16 27 "Occasionally on Gor we destroy a city, selecting it by means of a random selection device.
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16 84 "We implant humans with a control web and transmitting device.
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16 172 "When you broke the surveillance device in the chamber," said Misk, "I felt I had to act quickly".
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17 75 To get comparable definition in an extra-atmospheric surveillance device would require more refined equipment".
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17 102 "Yes," he said, "the pupils of his eyes have been replaced with lenses and a control net and transmitting device have been fused with his brain tissue.
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17 107 I wondered of the man through whose eyes I was now seeing, who he was, what he had been, that unknown Implanted One who now walked some lonely road somewhere on Gor, a device of Priest-Kings.
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17 110 Accordingly with humans themselves so plentiful the construction of such a device would be nothing but an irrational misuse of our resources".
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17 149 Sometimes we must wait until others are using the device for purposes of war and then destroy many men.
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20 56 Now I knew the purpose of the device in the room—why it was there and what it did—but why had Mul-Al-Ka and Mul-Ba-Ta brought me here? A panel to the side slid open and two plastic-clad Muls entered.
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22 52 My eye fell on a metal device, a square rod with some tiny projections at one end.
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22 53 The device hung from a hook about a foot out of Misk's reach.
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22 56 "Good," I said and walked over a few bars to get the device, and returned to Misk's side.
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22 83 There were several of these, I noted, around the walls and they seemed obviously intended to hold Mul-Torches or some similar illuminating device.
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25 43 When I came to the portal where I had entered I found it closed as I had known it would be and there was, as I knew, no handle or obvious device for opening the door on this side, for no one returned, supposedly, from the tunnels of the Golden Beetle.
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30 63 It turned out that Misk, not trusting Sarm from the very beginning, had prepared a disruption device which he would not have used had it not been for Sarm's employment of that devastating weapon.
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35 90 "Then you are voluntarily giving up a valuable surveillance device," I said.
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Book 4. (4 results) Nomads of Gor

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7 13 There were also, among the other goods, two girls, blonde and blue-eyed, unclothed, chained; they had perhaps been a gift to Kutaituchik; or had been the daughters of enemies; they might have been from any city; both were beautiful; one was sitting with her knees tucked under her chin, her hands cla...
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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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9 65 This would be impractical, naturally, save for the detestable device of the golden bowl and tufted banquet stick, dipped in scented oils, by means of which the diner may, when he wishes, refresh himself and return with eagerness to the feast.
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25 677 I had little doubt that I could bring Miss Cardwell around quickly enough, if she thought me in earnest, for example, by a stroke or two of the slave lash, and would then have her crawling to me, to fearfully kiss the whip, lest she once more feel it, crawling to me aghast, petitioning to kiss that ...
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Book 5. (8 results) Assassin of Gor

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5 219 A Priest-King named Serus, whom I had not known in the Nest War, but who had been of the cohorts of Sarm, had developed an interesting device for slave control, which I might mention.
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5 225 "Had Sarm this device at his disposal," said Serus to me, "the Nest War would have turned out differently".
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5 242 Accordingly we developed this device, not too difficult with the single, rather simple brain of the human, which so orders the brain that it can recognize letters, in various forms, and words.
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7 150 With a wrench device each of the cylinders was opened and its occupant drawn forth by the hair and placed on the rocky shelf.
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7 167 This is a device used, when transporting slaves in open baskets, to prevent one from struggling to her feet and in flight throwing herself over the side of the basket.
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12 202 The rack, however, is a useful device, preventing a blurred brand".
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18 169 They wander the countryside in shroudlike yellow rags, beating a wooden clapping device to warn men from their path; some of them volunteer to be placed in Dar-Kosis pits, several of which lay within the vicinity of Ar, where they are fed and given drink, and are, of course, isolated; the disease is...
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24 134 "In attempting to enter the compartments of Cernus he triggered a pit-lock device, and plunged twenty feet into a smooth-sided capture pit.
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Book 7. (8 results) Captive of Gor

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4 120 "This device," he said, "transmits a signal, which can be picked up by our equipment at a distance of one hundred miles".
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4 122 "A similar such device," he said, "was concealed beneath your automobile".
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4 161 The radar-screening device, within, is more sophisticated.
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9 2 The choke leash is a useful device for controlling a bound slave.
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10 236 "The device," said he, "is not much larger than this".
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10 275 I remembered, too, that on Earth, at the location called point P, before I had boarded the ship, a heavy steel anklet, doubtless an identification device of some sort, had been locked on my left ankle.
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11 799 By means of this device I continued, generally, to run southward.
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13 666 In both positions her hair is thrown forward, that it not be interposed between her body and whatever admonitory device it is to which she is to be subjected.
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Book 8. (9 results) Hunters of Gor

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15 283 It may be used to chain a girl to anything, the ankle ring closed on her ankle, and the locking device at the termination of the device being easily fastened, looped, say, about a tree, or stanchion, or the ankle of another girl, and then locked about its own chain, or through one of the links of it...
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15 281 Fourth, this chain terminates in a locking device, which may then be snapped shut, if one wishes, through the welded, closed loop on the back of a second ankle ring.
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15 284 The chain, of course, may also be looped about, say, a tree, or a pillar in a public building, and the locking device snapped into the welded ring on the back of the girl's own ankle ring.
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15 293 I closed the heavy metal ankle ring about her ankle, snapping it shut, and extended its chain, with its locking device, to her right.
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15 295 I then took the locking device at the termination of the first girl's ankle ring and snapped it shut, through the closed, welded loop on the back of the second girl's ankle ring.
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15 298 I then locked the third girl's ankle ring on her, and then snapped the locking device on the chain of the second through the welded, closed loop on the third girl's ring.
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15 316 But, that it not impede the girl, I picked it up and, with the locking device through one of the links in the chain, fastened it about her left wrist.
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19 295 The blindfold is a simple and common device of slave control.
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22 6 At their anchors, fore and aft, some quarter of a pasang from shore, swung the Rhoda, in her yellow, now dim in the grayness of the morning, and the Tesephone, on her flag line, snapping, an ensign bearing the following device, the head of a bosk, in black, over a field of white, marked with broad s...
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Book 9. (4 results) Marauders of Gor

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1 528 Such a device, like the poisoned arrow, was not only against the codes of the warriors, but, generally, was regarded as unworthy of men.
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10 142 The duel is a device by which many disputes, legal and personal, are settled in Torvaldsland.
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10 572 Accordingly, I supposed, this very night, on Earth, there were completely unsuspecting beautiful girls, thinking it a night like any other, who would undress themselves and snap off the light, and retire, not knowing that they had been, perhaps for weeks, scouted by slavers; I wondered if they would...
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17 227 It was by such a device that the Kurii had recognized their confederates in the men of Thorgard of Scagnar.
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Book 10. (16 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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1 218 This was a "common chain," sometimes called a "march chain" or "trekking chain"; it was not a "display chain"; in the "display chain," or "selling chain," the arrangement of the girls may be determined by a variety of considerations, aesthetic and psychological; for example, blondes may be alternate...
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1 642 Another device, common in Port Kar, is for the girl to kneel before the master and put her head down and lift her arms, offering him fruit, usually a larma, or a yellow Gorean peach, ripe and fresh.
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2 12 The water flowed into the cup through a tiny vent-and-spigot device, which wastes little water, by reducing spillage, which was tied in and waxed into a hole left in the front left foreleg of the verr skin.
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6 5 Their ankles were roped to the foot of the device.
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14 183 This slave hood does not come fitted with a gag device.
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21 402 In its right paw it held a small device.
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21 442 The ring concealed a light-diversion device, encircling the orbit of its wearer with a field.
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21 448 Such a device would have been useless among Priest-Kings, for they do not much depend on their visual sensors.
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21 483 It could be no accident that this Kur and not another had received this dreadful assignment, to protect the device of a planet's destruction until its detonation.
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22 10 Presumably there would be routine provisionings or communications with Kurii agents, though not by radio or any similar device which might attract the attention of listening stations in the Sardar.
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23 158 About my neck, on a leather string, I wore the ring of the Kur, it containing the light-diversion device.
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25 538 I tightened the handles more and put in the locking device, that they might not slip back.
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25 611 Rather, now, she herself would be subject to such a device.
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26 812 There I took her down to the fourth level, the lowest level, and, throwing the tiny garment into a cell, whence it would be retrieved later, I took her to the branding chamber, threw her into the device, and locked it on her thigh.
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26 1220 When this had occurred I had been at the steel tower in the Tahari, the half-buried ship which had housed the destructive device.
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26 1223 The ship, for example, which had housed the destructive device had penetrated the weakened defenses of the Priest-Kings.
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Book 11. (7 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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2 50 So small a thing it seems, perhaps, that this convention should on this world not be acknowledged or respected, indeed, that, at least in my case, it did not exist, but it is not, truly, a small thing; no, to me the crumbling of this artifice, this protective device, this convention, was catastrophi...
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3 289 Whether the slender, supple disciplinary device would be used often in the game depends much on the skill of the girl player.
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4 491 Suddenly I heard the hiss of the switch behind me and, almost at the same time, felt the supple disciplinary device, to the amusement of the men, strike me swiftly and hotly below the small of the back.
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5 284 Richly did she lay the disciplinary device to the back and body of the embonded wench, well punishing her for her lascivious indiscretion.
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6 142 Most men, no more than a woman, could use such a fearsome device.
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25 119 "Do you feel the enemy would risk a code book, or code device, on Gor?" asked Samos.
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26 193 I removed it carefully, lest it contain a needle or other device of which I might be unaware.
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Book 12. (25 results) Beasts of Gor

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37 112 A nuclear device, or a nuclear-type device, it seemed, had been involved in the destruction of the complex.
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12 270 In a culture where the gracious exchange of mates is commonly practiced this device, a civilized courtesy, provides the husband's friends with information that may be pertinent to the timing of their visits.
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14 366 This is a device which helps to keep a slave girl quiet in her ecstasies.
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28 176 "It seems to be controlled by some sort of device which regulates its intensity".
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28 216 By means of a ratchet and pawl arrangement the device is fitted to the individual girl.
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29 78 I saw no translation device in the vicinity.
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32 42 The lights, apparently a natural phenomenon, are thus used as a signaling device to Kur groups and their human compatriots".
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35 65 A voice, in Gorean, was speaking urgently on the device, inquiring as to what was occurring.
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35 120 "It is my intention, Imnak," I said, "to locate and detonate the device concealed in this complex which is intended to prevent the supplies here from falling into the hands of enemies".
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35 132 "Did he ever speak to you of a device to destroy the complex?" I asked.
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35 181 I pushed in the button which was more raised than its fellow on the panel of the device.
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35 314 I did not think any of the humans in the complex would be likely to know the location of the device for which I sought.
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35 348 The destructive device I sought, I was confident, would lie in an area beyond the reach of the overhead track system and, I conjectured, in an area not public to the surveillance system.
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35 349 I recalled that no such device had been revealed by the monitors in the private chamber of Zarendargar, Half-Ear, war general of the Kurii.
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35 745 Her small wrists twisted futilely behind her in the encircling, knotted sandal string, that simple device which constituted her bond.
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35 771 I had speculated that the destructive device would lie beyond the reach of slaves, and in an area secret to the monitoring system, which might be available at times to humans.
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35 833 "I had thought the destructive device, if it exists, would be here," I said.
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35 835 "If you trip or trigger the device," said the girl, "we will all be killed!" "The invasion must be stopped," I said.
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35 836 "The device must not be detonated," she cried.
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35 897 "Perhaps there is no destructive device," said Drusus.
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35 1018 "We have failed to find the destructive device," I said to Imnak.
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35 1225 There was a small device near him.
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35 1238 He indicated, holding it, the small metallic device which had lain beside him on the dais.
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35 1268 It fondled the metal device, looking at me.
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35 1305 "The device is set on Kur chronometry, synchronized to the rotation of the original world".
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Book 13. (18 results) Explorers of Gor

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1 546 I thought such a device might be of use to agents of Priest-Kings.
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1 734 "The pole and platform below, on which is held prisoner our lovely guest," said Samos, "was suggested to me by a peacekeeping device of Bila Huruma.
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4 768 The metal worker then, with a wheel, tightening it, locked the device in place, so that it could not turn.
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5 656 She, I felt, was the key to the mystery, that device whereby I might locate Shaba and the fourth ring, one of the two remaining light-diversion rings, the secret of which had apparently perished long ago with Prasdak, the Kur inventor, he of the Cliff of Karrash.
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7 17 It is a device often used by slavers.
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11 163 She apparently had little sensitivity to the aesthetic incongruities involved or, perhaps, she wished merely to reassure herself by this device that she was truly of Earth and not Gor.
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12 85 I had not known about the simple device of the threads and peas.
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14 559 The wire loop, too, or rod, when it emerges from the ear and, by one device or another, fastens the ring upon her, may suggest her bondage.
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16 59 When one adds to this certain additional drum signals corresponding, in effect, to keys to the message or to certain consonantal ciphers, one has, in effect, a direct, effective, ingenious device at one's disposal, given the drum relays, for long-distance communication.
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16 61 Needless to say Bila Huruma had adopted and improved this device and it had played, and continued to play, its role in the effectiveness of his military machine and in the efficiency of the administration of his ubarate.
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16 62 As a communication device it was clearly superior to the smoke and beacon ciphers of the north.
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18 150 It had to do with seeing that a robe was made for him which contained such a device.
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32 680 "It is a device for maintaining a differential tension in the body of a beaten girl".
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32 938 'The disk, of course,' he said, 'is a personal identificatory device.
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34 418 That sort of admission, automatic, expected, and innocuous, serves often not only in lieu of an authentic emotional admission but serves often, too, as a psychological device whereby just such an honest concession to the needs of one's deeper nature may be avoided.
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42 12 It, in its ruggedness, its expanse, its tranquillity, its rages, was like a key to unlock a great portion of a burgeoning continent, a device whereby might be opened a new, fresh world, green, mysterious and vast.
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48 109 Well might she have cried out in vehement protest and contempt had she been able to do so, had she not been silenced by a man's device, a gag of Gor.
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50 91 Her gag, no longer necessary on her as an instructional or disciplinary device, was that which now packed the pretty face of the dark-haired girl, she who had been her second in command, who now brought up the rear of the coffle.
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Book 14. (11 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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1 80 The ideal of the person was the antithesis to honest sexuality, a device to inhibit and reduce, if not destroy, it.
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1 903 They could decide matters, by the device of granting or withholding their favors.
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2 181 I saw then that the device was indeed a steel anklet.
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2 184 Her ankle was then locked in the device.
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2 214 I saw the hinged side of the crate swung shut, enclosing Miss Henderson within it, a steel anklet, numbered, apparently an identificatory device, locked on her left ankle.
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5 206 Can you not see that you have been conditioned into a morality of weakness, an invention of the weak to undermine and inhibit the strong? Is not the social utility of such a device, so congenial to the fears of the small and weak, obvious? Can you not see that a morality designed to cripple and thwa...
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18 149 Also, however, interestingly, it functions as a slave control device.
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19 324 He did occasionally use shearing, however, as a disciplinary device.
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30 59 A leash, it might be mentioned, aside from its convenience in controlling a slave, particularly the choke leash, is an extremely useful training device.
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30 65 This is presumably a function of such things as its actual restraint, which is quite real; its message to her that she is an animal, a slave; and its making clear to her, by a device, such as a bracelet, a brand or collar, what is the order of nature, who it is who controls her and who it is whom sh...
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32 42 It is interesting, the effect that a device such as a leash can have on a woman.
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Book 15. (7 results) Rogue of Gor

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2 142 "Touch me, I beg you!" "The pleasure rack is an interesting device," I said.
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2 144 In virtue of the axes of the device and the various gears and pinions, and the joints, braces, fitted, sliding boards, notches and lock points, it can be adjusted to a variety of positions.
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2 146 This device, like some of the others, had doubtless been brought from the city, perhaps dragged forth by shackled men of Vonda hauling on wagon ropes.
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2 156 I then, as I had grown more proficient with the device, used it for one of its two major purposes, that of exhibiting and displaying its helpless prisoner.
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7 158 It is by means of these clips that the chain can be transformed from a simple piece of slave jewelry into a sturdy and effective device of slave restraint.
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31 24 When inserted into the windlass they are normally locked within it, as they were now, by a pin-and-lock device.
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31 26 When moving about, the pin-and-lock device opened, the men will carry the pole with them.
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Book 16. (5 results) Guardsman of Gor

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18 541 It is a most useful disciplinary device for women.
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19 121 She sees the door, a device by means of which she gains access to her dwelling, but can it have the same meaning to her as to one who has been helplessly carried through it, as a slave? Similarly, the free woman passes through that door whenever she wishes.
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19 435 It is the bondage device, particularly on a girl, par excellence.
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19 444 Lastly, many animals wear collars; that is not a matter of simple happenstance; the throat is the natural place, for a variety of reasons, on which to place an animal's identificatory control and guidance device; all owners and trainers agree on that; and the slave girl, too, of course, is an animal...
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19 445 Thus it seems appropriate that she, too, wear her device in the same place.
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Book 17. (15 results) Savages of Gor

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2 93 To place a woman in the device or remove her from it, the forward plank is freed and slid forward; to fasten her within the device, it is moved backward and secured in place.
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1 231 He crouched down and extracted a tiny fire-maker from his pouch, a small device containing a tiny reservoir of tharlarion oil, with a tharlarion-oil-impregnated wick, to be ignited by a spark, this generated from the contact of a small, ratcheted steel wheel, spun by a looped thumb handle, with a fl...
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1 536 The creature then detached, from the broad strap which hung diagonally about its body, from its right shoulder to the left hip, an instrumented, metallic, oblong, boxlike device, which it placed on the table.
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1 549 The smaller of the two creatures then busied itself with the device on the table.
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1 596 To be sure, a linguistic talent of no mean degree is required to design and program such a device.
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1 600 For example, if one were to utter nonsense syllables into the device the same nonsense syllables, unless an accident or a coincidence occurred, would be played back.
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2 92 Thus, when the moving plank is slid back against the fixed plank, the device provides, in virtue of the matching semicircular openings, five sturdy, wooden enclosures for the small, lovely throats of women.
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2 94 When tenanted the device is usually locked shut, though simple pins are as effective for holding purposes as the women cannot reach them.
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12 106 In this latter sort of device the girl's ankles, fastened at the far ends of the pole or board, need not be untied and retied.
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13 763 My hands were fastened behind me in some sort of metal restraining device.
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13 769 "A boxlike device was then placed near my head," she said.
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14 300 Such a device, the poles crossing over the withers of the kaiila, reduces the animal's speed but makes it possible for it to transport a heavier weight.
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14 473 As it was, the kailiauk hide was presumably a device to arouse the interest of a possible buyer.
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15 178 It is not unusual for a woman, at any rate, who has looked into the eyes of a man in that fashion to discover, later, that she is looking into his eyes in quite a different fashion, that whereas she once may have regarded him directly, and insolently, she now, perhaps kneeling stripped at his feet, ...
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17 604 "Are they not insane?" "By carefully chosen definitions, I suppose we could define them into sanity or into insanity, depending on whether we approved of them or not, but it is difficult to derive satisfaction from victories which are achieved by the cheap device of surreptitiously altering a concep...
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Book 18. (7 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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1 254 It has been my considered judgment that Canka, in doing this, had hoped to draw attention to the location, that he hoped by this device to attract others to the spot, who might free the lad, or perhaps to mark it for himself, that he might later, accepting exile and outlawry at the hands of the Isbu...
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9 695 This device, forcing the slave to furnish an audible analogue or correlate for her sensations, has three principal utilities.
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12 181 It can snap about a link or ring in its own leash, the leash then functioning as a self-contained collar-and-leash device, or about such things, say, as a collar, collar ring or neck bond, perhaps of rope or chain.
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25 36 Then the shield was again calm, again seemingly no more than a device of leather, one painted with designs and ornamented with feathers.
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25 75 Your warriors, too, might adopt that device.
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34 360 It, too, was belted tightly, with a belt of rolled cloth, which device served well to accentuate the delicate lineaments of her lovely figure.
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37 43 Yet as a slave is clothed her clothing is often less of a concealment than it is a device to make her seem more vulnerable, more helplessly, whether she wishes it or not, tantalizingly attractive.
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Book 19. (14 results) Kajira of Gor

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1 23 I had then been, to my puzzlement, photographed several times, from the neck up, front view and profile, against a type of chart, on which appeared various graduated lines, presumably some type of calibrating or measuring device.
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1 109 It might be an emblem of membership in an organization or a device whereby a given personage might be recognized by another.
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1 184 "There might, then," I asked, looking up from the magnifying device, "be a large number of other objects like this somewhere?" That I found a very interesting thought.
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2 404 There had been no mistaking the heavy, efficient snap with which the device's closure had been registered.
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2 514 There was no handle or device for opening it on my side, and, even had there been, I could not, restrained as I was, have begun to reach it.
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3 687 I gathered that such a device might be used upon me as well.
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3 688 And I had little doubt that the magnificent, beastlike male before whom I lay exhibited and supine would not think twice before applying that device as he might wish, or saw fit.
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3 820 Perhaps I could somehow use it as a prize which I might award for gain, or as a bargaining device in some negotiation in which I might be involved.
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3 919 "A device such as that with the fresh fruit," she said, "is more appropriate to a free woman.
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8 87 This is a device to control the movements of free women in the house and a precaution against the attempted escape of slave girls pretending to be free women".
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13 52 It was clearly a device by means of which a slave, or perhaps any female, might be led.
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13 65 She then, at a sign from Miles, led by the thong, in the grip of a soldier, hurrying, almost running, that she did not place the least stress on the device in her nose, was being conducted rapidly from the room.
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17 263 He then replaced the stern, supple disciplinary device on his belt.
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34 202 It was, I gathered, a device by means of which slavers, or those in league with Beasts, or those opposed to Priest-Kings, marked women brought to Gor for their purposes.
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Book 20. (7 results) Players of Gor

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1 737 It seemed then she withdrew modestly, frightened, behind the hair, drawing it like a cloak or sheet about her, as though by means of this piteous device she might hope desperately to conceal at least some minimal particle of her beauty from the rude scrutiny of masters.
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2 405 That device, not really very common in such masks, makes possible a change of expression without having recourse to a new mask.
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6 288 The device of the invisible cloth, or invisible object, a stone, a sword, a garment, a house, a boat, supposedly visible only to those with special properties, is a commonplace in Gorean folklore.
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11 43 Similarly her beauty has not, as yet at least, as you can see, been graced by the imprinting upon it of some delicate emblem indicative of the status of property, some device recollective of the unmistakable, transforming kiss of the blazing iron! As advertised, as proclaimed, as announced earlier, ...
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12 426 In originally looking at the papers I had interpreted them simply as a device for identifying or listing the games or game fragments.
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18 199 The tenant's tenure of occupancy in such a device, incidentally, as the tenant, bound and gagged, soon comes to realize, is going to be determined not by his own efforts, but rather, purely, by the convenience, and pleasure, of others.
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21 324 "Do you still have the device I gave you?" asked Lecchio.
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Book 21. (17 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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24 637 Most such harnessing is not uncomfortable, and does not impede in any way the girl's movements, but there are commonly adjustments that may be easily made, with the snaps, straps, clips, and such, which will convert the harness into a device of restraint ranging from nothing much different from a si...
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1 184 Also, of what value would the lash be as a corrective device if it was somehow savored? It would fail as an instrument of discipline.
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7 99 But she did not attempt to dislodge the device by means of which, in accordance with the will of men, she had been silenced.
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16 1327 "I do not know," she said, "but it must be some sort of an identificatory device, perhaps indexed to an address or a passenger list".
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24 325 The disk also had some device on it, as did Boabissia's, but I could not see it well from the distance.
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25 1696 The slave tube is a device for force-feeding a slave.
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25 1697 It is not a pleasant device.
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25 1720 A woman's hair is not only beautiful, but it also affords a man a useful control device.
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25 2231 And this will remain true, always, in its own place, and in its own terms, regardless of the lies taught children, the restriction of educational posts to adherents, the pervasive propaganda, the selective allocation of research grants, the denial of freedoms and the suppression of alternative views...
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26 334 They are unmistakable, even with the gagging, that stern impediment to expression which her captor, or captors, had chosen to impose upon her, that device, inflicted upon her, by means of which it had been decided that she would not be able to speak.
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26 349 I recalled the device that my hostess had used in communicating with the slave, Lale, a not uncommon one, or, at least, one of a not uncommon type, for females put in the modality of the she-quadruped.
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26 621 It is a standard flint-and-wheel device, with its tiny wick and reservoir.
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26 622 Goreans do not smoke, of course, but, as they commonly use natural flame for cooking and light, they find such a device, and others like it, utilizing springs and pyrites, with cartridges of oil-saturated tinder moss, and such, of great utility.
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26 624 The chemistry involved in such a device, interestingly enough, is forbidden on Gor.
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26 696 It was one of her tools, a useful device for the instruction, correction, discipline, and punishment of slaves.
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26 2041 I usually do not keep it on the collar because in that way I am free to use it independently as a binding device or, doubled, as an admonitory lash.
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26 2053 In such a device, girls, after the first moment or two, follow without resistance.
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Book 22. (18 results) Dancer of Gor

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1 122 It was, in its way, a convenience for the male, indeed, even an invitation to his predation; too, similarly, it was, to her, to the so-dressed female, a mnemonic device, and a symbol of her vulnerability, and nature, reminding her of what she was, and her meaning.
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3 615 Perhaps no one can conjecture my feelings, truly, who has not been, too, the helpless prisoner of such a device.
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3 886 This device, to which the chain was attached, where it now exerted its force, was now under my jaw, to my right.
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5 35 There was little danger I would be penetrated while wearing this device.
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5 239 The belt, accordingly, equipped with this device, and locked so closely upon me, so fixedly upon me, would be likely, I thought, to frustrate or discourage a male, unless, of course, he had its key, or a tool to remove it.
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6 395 It is a secure, effective device.
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7 73 More than once, they had investigated, and tested, and seemingly to their anger and disappointment, the obduracy and effectiveness of the metal device in which I had been fastened.
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8 314 "You have it?" asked the man with the cylindrical marking device, some sort of grease pencil, to another, who held a clipboard, with attached papers.
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10 155 The scar at the side of his face had been wrought, I supposed, by some primitive device or weapon, perhaps even, though it seemed hard to believe for a female of Earth, in combat.
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10 361 I did not know in what sort of device I was located.
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11 948 The kaska player, alert to this, reduced the volume of his drumming, and then, five times, smote hard upon the taut skin, almost like the cracking of a whip, to which I reacted, turning to one side and another, as though such a disciplinary device had been sounded menacingly, on all sides, in my vic...
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11 1084 I could not see under the device, at all.
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11 1514 The whip is an absolutely marvelous instructional device for improving female conduct.
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15 61 This device would be secured in place by a broad, mouth-covering strap, with three smaller straps attached to it, one to secure the broad strap at the upper lip, another to secure it across the mouth, pulling it back between the teeth, and one to secure it at the chin.
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25 202 The shield, so small, so beautiful, was perhaps more an artifact for display, I think, than a device of war.
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29 50 This railing, in front of the remains of what had apparently once been a long low building, perhaps a stable, or bunk house, or ranch house of sorts, was a hitching device, for beasts, probably tharlarion.
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29 63 By this device, too, of course, with the lengths dropped to them, Mina and Cara were kept quiet in their ascent.
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34 606 I remembered that when I had been placed on the library table, long ago, prior to having the rubberized mask placed over my face, through which the chemicals had been put which had forced me to unconsciousness, the silk, which had been being used as a gag, a mnemonic device reminding me I must be si...
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Book 23. (19 results) Renegades of Gor

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10 301 On the other hand, its relationship to the Earth device may be merely a coincidental one, a white cloth, in effect, a blank flag, seeming to be a reasonably natural device to signify neutrality.
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1 158 Too, it often functions as an attention-garnering device, a signal, so to speak, preparing the beast for the sequent issuance of verbal commands, to which it is trained to respond.
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1 159 Too, of course, like a staff of office, a rod, a baton or scepter, it is an authority device.
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1 160 To be sure, the device has its authority largely in virtue of what it genuinely stands for, and what it can do.
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5 787 It is an excellent correctional device for female behavior.
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6 101 She did not try to dislodge the silencing device I had placed in her mouth but she lifted her hands, shamed, before her face, to conceal her countenance from me.
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10 299 That such a cloth may be used upon Gor as a truce cloth may have a direct historical connection with the similar device on Earth.
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16 45 The effectiveness of such a device, however, given the weights involved, and the loss of force in the draw, is much compromised by the necessity of extreme proximity to the target.
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16 51 This device also, however, tends to be ineffective except under rather optimum, special conditions.
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17 95 Their backs strained, turning the windlass, winding that huge torsion-powered device taut.
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19 29 To lift such a device for Ehn at a time, and receive blow after blow upon it, bearing up under them, in time makes the arm desperately tired and sore.
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21 108 The device permits of numerous adjustments.
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21 114 She was exploring the device.
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21 120 The device had been only put on her a few moments ago.
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21 1297 Accordingly the female slave, just as her free sister, is undeniably possessed of that same superb device of woman for winning her way, her subtle, skilled and lively tongue.
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22 99 "The whip is an excellent device for taking pride from a woman," I said.
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23 251 Too, of course, one might by such a device ready the crowds for bidding on a certain female, raise up her price, and so on.
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24 712 Needless to say, recourse to so convenient a random-selection device as a spinning coin has often prevented bloodshed.
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24 730 To be likened to such a beast, or to be gambled for with such a device, low denomination or not, one bearing its image, is not to be construed as a compliment.
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Book 24. (13 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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24 139 "And yet," I said, "there is yet another device, a similar device, not chains and such, which is often utilized in the keeping of women on a barge such as this.
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17 283 The stoppage of the gag, however, even had I chosen to scream, would have permitted me only the tiniest of noises, little more than the customary, tiny, helpless whimpers to which one who wears such a device is ordinarily limited.
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19 66 The sight of a woman struggling against bonds, as the sight of one in bonds, even in so simple a device as slave bracelets, is sexually stimulatory, of course.
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19 223 It was my intention to gather some dry rence and light it with the fire-maker, a simple device, little more than a wheel and flint, from my pouch.
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19 1071 So simple a device as a raft might increase one's chances of survival in the delta a hundredfold.
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21 41 The hood tends to be more effective than the blindfold as a security device.
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21 45 The half hood is a device intended to couple something of the effectiveness of the full hood with the various exploitable advantages of the mere blindfold.
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24 121 The ankle stock is a simpler device, as the rear board is part of the bench.
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28 590 It is unusual for a free female to be gagged or put under a device of speech impedance, of course.
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28 601 The simplest device for attaining this end is when she is "gagged by her master's will," which simply means that she is prohibited from speaking until given permission to do so.
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39 42 To be sure it is sometimes regarded as amusing to take a sophisticated urban woman in a net, a device usually reserved for the acquisition of rustic maids.
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39 288 The key to the collar and the lock ring, it responding to the same key, was, like the shackles' key, on a string, suspended from the same peg from which I had removed the restraining device.
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46 333 Removed from such a device then, for sale, or processing, or whatever, no time would be lost in placing chains on their fair limbs.
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Book 25. (11 results) Magicians of Gor

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3 287 It was clearly a device designed for such a purpose.
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4 29 It is a simple device, not unlike the slave boxes used in certain storage areas.
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9 69 A similar device, incidentally, though not one employed by Dietrich of Tarnburg, at least to my knowledge, is to recruit such forces from the dregs of a city itself, utilizing their resentment of, and their hatred for, their more successful fellow citizens to constitute a vain, suspicious and mercil...
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9 843 The whip cracked again, this time quite close, as the fellow with the device had been approaching, stopping here and there.
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12 36 Then, perhaps after a fierce snap of the disciplinary device, she scurries to the furs, joyfully, to await him, he who may chain her helplessly for his pleasure, should he wish, her master.
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14 285 The whip is an excellent mnemonic device.
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16 39 Indeed, many sudden and unexpected blows had I received in lusty sport from that device in his hands.
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20 321 The whip is an excellent mnemonic device.
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21 331 The device, of course, may be eventually removed by appropriate tools, but it is embarrassing for the free woman to have this done.
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24 93 The hood is an effective device.
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27 269 "It is perhaps the simplest, most practical device for such purposes.
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Book 26. (27 results) Witness of Gor

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10 1002 How well I had been controlled by the leash, even though my hands were free! I lay there prone, trembling, sweating on the stone, the tunic tight between my teeth; he then put his foot on my back, holding me down, pressing me to the stone, and, leaning forward, pulled up the leash, the leather again...
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34 95 The device in the quarters of the pit master was an outflow device.
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4 541 He who was nearest to me had such a device hooked on his belt.
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4 546 I watched the device, as he loosened the coils a little, arranging them, in almost hypnotic fascination.
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8 122 I was in no neck ring, or such device.
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8 367 I had not really expected the gate to open, but I had thought I might be able to lift it a little, assuming some counterweights were engaged, at least an inch or so, until it was stopped by some device, say, some lock, or bolt or holding bar.
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8 751 Perhaps, in my eagerness and curiosity to see them, for I had not seen free women of this world before, I had allowed some imperfection in my position, say, with respect to the angle of my body, the backs of my hands beside me, resting on the stone, the touching of the stone with my forehead? But th...
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9 166 I had tried the bars some days ago, to lift them even an inch or so, before they would strike the bolt, or locking device, but had been unable to do so.
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9 167 The beast, that with six legs, had lifted them with its snout some three or four inches before they had struck the bolt or locking device.
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9 169 To be sure, there might be a lever or some such device outside which was unknown to me which would have put the task within even my strength, unaided.
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9 195 This homely device is, of course, a great convenience to the master, and, too, of course, there are very few things which so clearly help us to keep in mind our condition.
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10 176 But I would soon learn how wrong I was! I would soon learn how much that simple device, the leash, had to teach me! He was looking at me.
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10 226 The sirik is a common custodial device for a female, and is quite flexible in its possibilities.
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10 1011 Another device which can be used for training, display, control, or such, is the slave harness, to which a leash may be attached.
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11 1860 Had I been free I might have controlled my descent in such a device but I was bound.
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11 1891 The device had been closed, it seemed, by my weight.
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14 1216 The most common device for improving a girl, of course, is the switch or whip.
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23 76 I made a tiny noise of protest as the leather pad, a part of the device, was thrust in my mouth.
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23 77 In a moment, with small adjustments, the entire device, of leather and metal, was fitted to me.
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23 94 To be sure, if the girl is disciplined, such a device is not necessary.
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23 160 It had been put on me in the usual way such a device is put on a slave—not cruelly, nor in such a way as to hurt her, but simply with a snug, tight, perfect efficiency.
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23 164 The blindfold is another such device, of course.
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24 586 Every trap, every secret device, was sprung upon them.
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34 100 If this were not the case the passage of the water, over time, even in stone, would enlarge the aperture, deregularizing the device.
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37 124 I do not think that it is simply a device to clear the bladder prior to strenuous activity, for example, to avoid discomfort in the chase.
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37 965 One could not climb from the pool to the walkway without a rope, or some such device, the tunnels to the walkway having been earlier sealed.
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42 89 It was a sturdy metal box, and is, in itself, its own security device.
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Book 27. (57 results) Prize of Gor

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20 201 In this device, if the slave's hands are braceleted before her, the free ends of the device are closed and locked behind her, at the small of her back.
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27 2460 The device is swung shut about the ankles; it is held shut on the left by the hinge; on the right, there are projecting perforations, one on each plate, with matching apertures; the tongue of a padlock is passed through these two apertures; the padlock is then snapped shut, and this closes the devic...
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2 259 Doubtless it was a medical device of some sort, designed to strengthen, to lend support to, the injured ankle.
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3 53 She jerked at the device, trying to remove it from her ankle.
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3 55 She realized, with anger, and a sinking feeling, that its removal was not in her power, that the device had been closed, and locked.
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3 60 The grasp of the device was close, obdurate and perfect.
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3 61 She realized that such a device had not been designed to be removed by its wearer.
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3 62 The wearer of such a device has no choice in these matters.
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3 70 Then she drew the gown upward a tiny bit, the better to see the device, she told herself.
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4 73 It was to conceal the device on her ankle, which had not been removed.
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4 74 It seemed that Tutina might be no more capable than she of removing the device, and, too, that she might be kept within it much as a matter of course.
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4 75 Too, the older woman was alarmed, and troubled, by the sudden, prompt, immediate, graceful response of Tutina to the utterance "Anklet!" It was as though she had been trained to present the device for easy view, and immediately, gracefully, beautifully, upon the utterance of that word, which, it see...
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4 511 She had never worn such a device.
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4 512 She did not understand such a device.
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4 515 Such a device, she thought, in its obduracy and beauty, is inappropriate for me.
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7 119 That device now, due to the absence of footwear and the shorter nature of her new garment, appeared even more striking, more meaningful and lovely, on her ankle.
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12 14 She, too, was naked, except for one device, other than her collar, which had been locked upon her.
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12 87 Ellen was thankful for the device she wore, though sometimes she felt like crying out in misery, because of discomfort, its weight and heat.
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12 94 These three parts of the apparatus were then fitted together, the two side straps over a staple welded to the central portion of the device which had been lifted up between her legs and was now at the small of her back.
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12 103 Because of the narrowness of her waist, and the natural flare of her hips, she could not hope to elude the device.
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12 107 He had thrown her to her side and examined, in detail, the device she wore.
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12 110 Ellen, lying frightened on her side, locked in the device, at his feet, had no delusions with respect to the work-master's displeasure.
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12 233 She felt the heavy device locked on her body.
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17 196 "Perhaps, it, too, is a slave marking device.
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17 1093 She was then steadied on the shoulder with one hand and he began to move upward, climbing, surely ascending a ladder or ladderlike device.
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19 356 One advantage of this carry is that the slave cannot see to what device, or accommodation, or destination, she is being borne.
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20 202 If the slave's hands are braceleted behind her, the free ends of the device are closed and locked before her, at her waist.
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20 600 Ellen knew that sometimes even desiderated slaves, before a submission ceremony, were put on a simple camp rope and led about, that they would better understand their condition and status, that of a domestic animal, but in her case the rope was not symbolic in nature, but effected a simple utility, ...
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21 23 In this way the slave does not see the device until it is upon her, and then, of course, it is too late; she is locked within it.
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22 620 Men might find their way among the tents with the aid of a lantern, a torch, or such, but she had no such device.
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25 47 The cage was of the sort commonly used for a disciplinary device, one in which an errant slave might be incarcerated pending the subsidence of a master's ire.
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25 48 In such a device her contrition quickly becomes authentic, her lessons are learned and her ways mended.
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25 50 It is the sort of device into which a proud free woman might be thrust but out of which creeps a humbled, self-acknowledged slave, asking only to be permitted to please, in any way the master might wish.
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26 48 It is an efficient control device.
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26 50 She lifted her right hand and touched the ring on the front of the device, to which a leash might be attached.
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26 313 Too, at home, after, say, her attendance at a dinner or cocktail party, or such, she might remove the device in fear, recalling how men had, perhaps for the first time in her life, at least in that particular way, in so unsettling and predatory a way, looked upon her, and approached her, and had cir...
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26 315 But perhaps she would one day see her master and put on the device and approach him, and kneel before him, handing him the key.
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26 440 Ellen recalled that she, too, in the house of Mirus on Earth, had found herself ankleted, but she had not, of course, at that time, understood the significance of the device.
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27 106 * * * * Or was it that a lashing might be no more than merely another prosaic mnemonic device, one among many, reminding the slave, lest she might forget it, that she was truly a slave.
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27 1002 She feared that the smallest movement, the tiniest sound, the most diminutive influence, might prove critical, like the smallest jarring, or jostling, like a small thing which might tip a balance, a carelessly dislodged pebble that releases an avalanche, the particle of static electricity which trig...
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27 1791 "One such device must be still missing," said Portus Canio.
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27 1835 "One lightning bolt allegedly lies within the nearest device.
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27 1836 One device seems to be missing".
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27 2045 "There is some left!" "Supposedly a single bolt," said the officer, "in the nearest device, over there".
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27 2074 "If our vanished friend, who claimed to be first here, who fled the camp, was correct, that device contains but one more bolt of lightning," said the officer.
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27 2082 "If I were you," said the officer to Tersius Major, "I would rather face such a device than touch it".
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27 2458 This particular device consisted of two hinged plates of metal, matching in their way, each of the two plates containing two hemispheric curvatures.
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27 2462 The slave can stand in such a device, though often with difficulty, and can walk, though, too, with difficulty, taking slow tiny steps.
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27 2463 Since the device is of rude iron and the plates are closely joined, hinged at one side and locked at the other, movement can abrade the ankle.
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27 2465 Commonly one does not move in such a device.
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27 2468 Such a device then immobilizes a slave even more effectively than the straight-plated variety in which Ellen was placed.
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27 3347 It is an effective correctional device, and it will be quite adequate for a new slave, only a frightened girl.
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28 107 This device had been constructed the preceding evening, their trek having come to a small grove of dark temwood, bordering a tiny stream.
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28 329 On this device, too, were placed the shared supplies and the weaponry.
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29 162 There was no mistaking the device in the hands of Selius Arconious.
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29 223 Did she think he was so simple, a fool? But theirs were not the hands on the butt of a stern, corrective device.
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30 676 Someone may be thoughtfully considering how you might look in sirik, that striking custodial device with its collar, the connecting chains, the wrist and ankle rings, or conjecturing, taking notes, on your likely value, as he watches you, what you might be expected to bring on the slave block, first...
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Book 28. (34 results) Kur of Gor

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19 116 There was a flash of metal plating and joints as the device leapt past Cabot, pouncing on the startled, suddenly rearing sleen, its weight striking against it, then half crushing it, and then the machine, rising up slowly, pinned the sleen in place with its left forefoot and the right forefoot of th...
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1 1 The Containment Device He thrust violently against the close, curving, transparent walls, howling with rage.
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1 93 He may not have recognized this, or, if he suspected it, he might have supposed that somehow sounds from within the container might be conveyed, doubtless by means of some listening device, to some point at which they might be audited, or recorded, for future audition.
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1 1176 In certain cultures one supposes women might pay a great deal of money to obtain such a device, though perhaps one more akin to those one might expect to find on high slaves, say, colored, enameled, ringed, bejeweled, of precious metals, and such.
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1 1179 Clearly, all in all, the collar is an attractive device which much enhances the beauty of a woman.
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1 1305 It, too, this gesture or act, is often used not simply as a device of placation, but as a way of petitioning to be caressed.
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4 20 The device may then be carried or not, as one desires, and, when carried, does not impede movement.
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8 46 "We have long been eager to make your acquaintance," came from the device.
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8 49 "Doubtless you have many questions," came from the device.
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8 54 "Surely no longer," came from the device.
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8 56 "Excellent," said the device.
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8 59 "It is surely so," came from the device.
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8 62 "We have the benefit of informants," came from the device.
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8 64 "If you like," came from the device.
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8 67 "Perhaps you may tell us of the interior precincts of the Sardar one day," came from the device, "of the nature of Priest-Kings, and such".
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8 69 "Who knows the nature of gods?" "True," came from the device, after a moment.
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8 71 "Yes, free, how unfortunate," said Agamemnon, either from within the device, or somehow, in communication with it.
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19 28 The living Kurii in the clearing, their weapons lowered, stepped aside, to allow the advance of the device.
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21 345 Kurii, however, might play with such a device as with a wand, or as a brawny peasant might with his stout, well-grasped defensive staff, a punishing implement which, well used, might overcome a blade.
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21 406 But Grendel who had anticipated this device hurled himself to the sand below this flighted granular torrent, and swept his bar across the sand, striking the now-again-turned attacker frontally across the legs, some inches above the ankles, and the attacker, with a bellow of agony, fell forward into ...
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35 15 One gathers that ka-la-na wood, common on Gor from her wine trees, would have been preferable for the launching device, or bow, which Cabot had prepared, carved into its gentle arc with a sharp stone, but such are not found in the world.
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35 17 The string for this launching device, or bow, the string from which the missile, the arrow, is flighted, was easily obtained from remnants of the raft's rope, parted, unraveled, and rewoven, those remnants by means of which Cabot and the slave had been enabled to survive the storm, by means of which...
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35 18 On Gor the string for the launching device is commonly encircled, bound and smoothed, being whipped with silk, this reducing fraying and wear, but Cabot, lacking this luxury, had prepared a number of strings, replaceable as needed.
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35 19 With these the device, or bow, might be strung and restrung as desired.
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35 20 The launching device, or bow, is left unstrung when not used, this retaining its resiliency, by avoiding material fatigue.
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40 118 Cabot cautioned her to silence, and held the device to his right ear.
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43 194 "Where is the tool, to free me of this hated device?" said the Lady Bina, indicating the unwelcome encirclement which graced her slim neck.
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64 144 But then, suddenly, the switch, for he had now obtained such a device, useful for the control of women, of an angered Cestiphon fell amongst them, and they went to all fours, and cowered, sobbing under the blows.
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64 152 The stick was a makeshift device, crude and barbarous; the switch was an artifact, a boon of civilization, a tested, refined, efficient implement, one explicitly and intelligently designed for the management and improvement of slaves.
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68 29 Cabot wondered at what might be the contents of the metal box, which contained, he supposed, some artifact, some device, perhaps some treasure.
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70 23 Ramar crouched back, watching, while Cabot, with a considerable effort, struggled with the huge spring which, if one of its several pedals was tripped, would fling shut the sharpened teeth of the device.
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79 266 That simple, supple, tool is an excellent device for encouraging attention, care, and dutifulness in a girl.
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79 306 She sees the simple device, always present in her milieu, suspended on its peg.
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79 453 "I was your slave when first I looked upon you," she said, "long before you closed that device upon me".
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Book 29. (12 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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4 108 "Doubtless you would look well, carrying water in such a device".
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5 108 I did not inquire of Sullius Maximus the location or fate of an appropriate translator, for I was confident he knew nothing of such a device.
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10 283 The prisoner of such a device can make only tiny, miserable sounds.
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10 314 It was doubtless he who had supplied the device to his colleague.
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10 354 "When I expressed my indignation, and warned him that I would see to his punishment, the hideous, degrading device you saw but moments ago was forced into my mouth and fastened in place, and then I was put to my knees, to my knees, though a free woman, and must then wait outside, unable to speak, an...
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17 59 The enemy, to his relief, would often assume the danger past as the bird passed, only to be struck from behind by the backward flighted arrow, a device familiar to the Tuchuk.
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18 136 They, like Gorean warriors, wore no visible body armor, as this defensive device was contrary to the rulings of Priest-Kings.
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18 173 A variant on this theory, though one less benign, or misguided, is that the regulation from the Sardar was intended to help keep the numbers of human beings on the planet in check, that it functioned, in a sense, as a populational control device.
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20 148 Surely such might seem an attractive female stratagem to a naive, conniving slave, particularly to one of Earth origin, to whom such a device might seem plausible.
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32 17 It is sometimes used in Pani warfare as a battle horn, a signaling device to regulate the movements of troops.
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32 18 I had trained the cavalry, it might be recalled, to respond to the notes of such a device, a war horn.
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38 569 In such a device its prisoner is disoriented, and helpless, dependent for movement and direction on its custodian.
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Book 30. (11 results) Mariners of Gor

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3 44 It was not, then, the sort of device, or housing, in which a female slave, designedly, is well apprised of her bondage.
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3 170 Indeed, the Ubara had used this device to avenge herself on many free women, who might have scorned her during her sequestration under Marlenus, or might merely have been alleged as rivals to the Ubara in the way of beauty.
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3 357 How men might see a woman in such a device! I feared I knew! I was terrified, and furious, that I, a free woman, might be seen as a slave, but, at the same time, I was terrified that I might not be seen as a slave, for my life itself might well depend on the success or failure of this deceit.
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3 1053 The young man looked at the device approvingly.
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12 79 Are they not both females, both fittingly the possessions of men, merely that one is collared and one not? Why does the free woman so hate the slave? Does she envy the trembling slave that lovely band fastened about her throat, proclaiming her beauty and desirability? Does she envy her her happiness...
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12 233 "Switch!" I called, and one of the amused slaves darted to a peg on the wall, retrieved the slender, supple implement, and hurried to me, where she knelt, and, head down between her extended arms, lifted the device to me.
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16 181 I wondered at the arm which might have flung such a device so high, so far.
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16 190 Once this was done, they were difficult to dislodge, for the stress on the device, and the chain.
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20 163 "It is a useful device in improving a slave," I said.
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25 157 "The whip," I said, "is an excellent device for encouraging dutifulness in a slave, and a desire to please, a zealous desire to please.
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37 280 The vertical chain may function independently, as well, as a chain leash, or a tethering device, by means of which the slave might be secured to a slave ring, a tree, a stanchion, or such.
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Book 31. (33 results) Conspirators of Gor

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32 57 Something, however, somehow, was surely controlling the device, expressing itself through the device, perhaps perceiving through the device.
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8 239 It was the result of a blow not from some child's makeshift implement, a plaything, a pretended disciplinary device, but from an actual device of the sort his diversion mimicked, a supple, nicely crafted leather switch, an instrument designed to improve the discipline and service of a female slave.
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4 71 Notations were made, on some sort of device.
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5 50 The collar may be viewed as a simple contrivance, a device prescribed by Merchant Law, identifying a slave and, if the collar is engraved, often her master.
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8 1392 Soon I would forget I wore such a device, but it was there.
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9 114 "Some think they are a decoration, a thing of vanity, like a beauty mark, to call attention by contrast to the exquisite beauty of what is not blemished, others consider them an identificatory device, a subtle one, by means of which a slave may be recognized".
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9 336 But, strangely, it seemed no ordinary noise, some sort of signal, or a revelation of a mood, but a subtly articulated stream of sound, and scarcely had it ceased than I heard Gorean, the words clearly sounded, but oddly spaced, produced, apparently, by means of some sort of device, some sort of mach...
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9 370 I could now see its furred chest, and could see, against the chest, the small device, the translator, which was slung about its neck.
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9 406 A key was thrust into the lock on my manacle, and it was turned, moving the bolt, after which the sides of the device were opened, on their hinges.
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10 13 Yet I had gathered from the utilization of the device, or translator, which still hung from its neck, I could see the loose chain, it was rational.
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10 71 "In the Tarsk Market," I said, "the device, the translator, transformed your language into Gorean, but it did not translate the masters' Gorean into your language.
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10 74 How could one speak the language of a jard, a vart or tharlarion, even if they had a language? The beast reached to the small device on its chain, slung about its neck.
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10 75 It pressed a portion of the device, at its center.
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10 76 I had the sense that the device had been deactivated.
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10 79 "Use the device, the translator.
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10 725 "They will have such a device," he said.
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17 167 The Lady Bina was already familiar with the device.
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17 178 I had sometimes stayed by the two beasts while they spoke in Kur, turning on the translator, but lowering the volume, putting my ear to the device.
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17 451 The device, twice wrapped and then knotted, had been put about my head broadly, in the Gorean fashion.
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18 648 Even the proudest and most recalcitrant of slaves, usually a recent free woman, of high caste, is quickly broken in such a device, and emerges a readied, humbled, and trembling slave, fearful only that she will not be found fully pleasing, and in all ways.
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27 242 It is an identificatory device, of course, which proclaims her bondage, and often identifies her master.
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29 23 He carried a large bow-like device, with four tiered, horizontally placed quarrel guides, each guide containing its missile.
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29 24 There were four triggers on the device.
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30 61 Another subtle device is the simple bondage knot, loosely tied in the hair.
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35 205 There are much more complex and subtle ways to conceal meaning, of course, but the device I have explained to you is simple, easily understood, and likely, as far as they know, to be secure.
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35 261 "Perhaps it is an inferior device," I said.
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37 147 The device was very large, and doubtless heavy.
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38 31 If the barbed darts with their thin cables had been fired, they had now been withdrawn into the torso of the device.
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41 31 Kurii concealed nearby were then to rush forth and attack the device with axes.
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41 172 Yet so simple a device might confine a captured, stripped Ubara as well.
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42 64 There was then, by means of the device, a fearsome connection between us.
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43 12 Thanks to him, we later managed to adopt the very Kur device, the card codes, to our own purposes.
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49 87 The major effect which this damage seems to have had on Agamemnon was the damage to that portion of the device by means of which the ensconced brain was enabled to generate a visual consciousness.
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Book 32. (30 results) Smugglers of Gor

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21 261 Tyrtaios reached within his tunic, and handed a folded paper to the beast with the device, who put the device to one side, near the fire, and perused the paper.
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10 35 The common military ensign is a metal standard, raised on its pole or staff, bearing its device, and, usually, identifying a unit, whether it be an army, a division, or a company.
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14 41 It is a heavy device.
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21 90 One blow from that huge, long-handled, broad- bladed, double-bladed device might have felled a small tree.
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21 212 "What is the concern of your companion?" asked the beast with the device.
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21 225 The second beast, he not with the device, slipped the small animal from the spit.
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21 226 "Your companion is correct," said the beast with the device.
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21 230 "Pulling the fur out, too, bit by bit, before placing it on the spit, this producing chemical alterations associated with pain, improves the flavor, as well, or so I am told," came from the first beast, its words emerging from the device.
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21 232 "We hoped to please you," came from the device.
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21 242 "Do you still wish the fire?" asked the beast with the device.
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21 248 "Can you trust your companion?" inquired the beast with the device.
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21 256 The sounds which emerged from the device, however, were even, and noncommittal.
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21 274 These words came from the device, now lying to one side.
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21 275 I thus noted two things; first, with interest, that the device, to be effective, need not be in hand, and, second, with some apprehension, that the hands, or paws, of the beast were now free.
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21 304 "I wonder if that is true," came from the device.
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21 311 "It is tarn disks, gold, of double weight," came from the device.
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21 315 "Stop, wait," came from the device.
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21 317 "You have passed the test well," came from the device.
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21 329 "Have you not forgotten something?" came from the device.
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21 334 "Did you forget?" came from the device.
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21 353 It then shut off the device, abruptly.
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21 358 Tyrtaios pointed to the first beast, that which had managed the communication device, and held the bottle toward it.
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21 437 There was no device, no speaking machine.
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21 498 I have discarded the speaking device".
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37 193 By means of this device I conveyed our proposal and specified, as well, a secret meeting place, should he be interested.
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39 130 Here, as we were not free, it was little more in our case than a procedure or device to improve slave stock.
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40 28 A cofifle of a hundred naked, neck-chained beauties from the Polluted World might be marched openly between cities, whereas a small communication device, or a weapon small enough to be held in one hand, capable of emitting small metal projectiles, would court the conflagration of the Flame Death, wh...
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41 322 But no sound came from the device.
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41 330 Then he put the whistle to his lips, and, as far as I could tell, exerted great force on the tiny device.
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47 82 A slave is seldom permitted to handle such a device.
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Book 33. (12 results) Rebels of Gor

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15 50 On the other hand, I would later learn, interestingly, that this lack of an obvious warning arrangement, first, was intended to encourage an approach through the garden to the courtyard, which would then facilitate the entrapment of intruders between the double walls, those of the courtyard and thos...
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2 87 If she should fail to surrender any such device she is slain instantly.
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2 88 If she responds negatively, and is found to have lied, such a device being found, she is also slain instantly.
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3 55 The branch on which I had stepped was isolated; it was no prepared device of warning, a signal meaningful to one who might be alert, even in sleep, to that particular tiny sound.
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13 33 "I am now needful!" "It is interesting," I said, "on Earth you could use the mere suggestion of sex, with its smiles and movements, as a weapon, a tool, as a device of business, use it in the interests of sales, contracts, and accounts, in the interests of opportunity, promotion, and advancement, an...
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14 104 "Do you find the device equivalent to your 'glass of the Builders'?" he asked.
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15 23 "It is edged," he said, calling attention to the razorlike brink of the device.
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15 98 He had his eyes on the device in the hand of the daimyo.
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15 102 "Behold," said Lord Akio, and he flighted the device, spinning in its blaze of blurred color, toward the sapling.
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15 103 There was quick, hard sound, and the device quivered, vibrating, like a startled bird, trapped some two or three horts in the wood.
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15 106 Lord Akio removed the device from the tree, and, shortly thereafter, it might have been again mistaken for a fashionable accessory.
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17 113 I had taken the key to her collar from her and cast it into the chill waters of Thassa, that she might, whether free or not, know that the device was locked on her neck, and that she had no means wherewith to remove it.
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