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Book 1. (9 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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3 19 His blue robes were worn through in a dozen spots, only two or three of which had been ineptly attacked by thread.
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5 3 On each side of the saddle hung a missile weapon, a crossbow with a quiver of a dozen quarrels, or bolts, on the left, a longbow with a quiver of thirty arrows on the right.
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5 20 Indeed, it seemed their confidence had been well placed, for now Ar, instead of being a single beleaguered city like so many others on Gor, was a central city in which were kept the Home Stones of a dozen hitherto free cities.
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8 3 The soldier, beginning at the high, ornate collar of the girl's robes, began to break the braided loops, ripping them loose from their hooks; methodically he tore her robes apart and pulled them down and over her shoulders; in half a dozen tugs the heavy layers of her garments had been jerked downwa...
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11 15 We fought off three groups of raiders from the camp on the river, two of them small, undisciplined contingents of mounted warriors, but the other a lightning strike of a dozen tarnsmen on the weapons wagon.
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13 117 Almost instantly the whistle had been answered by other whistles, responding from a dozen places in the nearby mountains.
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18 114 The floor of the tarn cot was littered with the bones of perhaps two dozen tarns.
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18 153 Some fifteen tarns were feeding on the remains of a dozen or so guardsmen, detaching and devouring limbs.
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18 175 I became dimly aware that I was bleeding from minor cuts in a dozen places.
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Book 2. (7 results) Outlaw of Gor

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4 58 Yes, and by now I should have been challenged a dozen times by Ko-ro-ba's night patrols! A monstrous chain of lightning exploded in the night about me, deafening me with the shock and roar of its thunder, splitting the darkness in violent fragments, breaking it to pieces like a clay bowl struck with...
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15 257 "Who would be fool enough to carry away the Tatrix of Tharna when she might be ransomed for the gold of a dozen Ubars?" I looked at her.
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17 36 "Be quiet, you fool!" hissed a thin, terrified voice from perhaps a dozen feet away.
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18 94 That night the slaves who brought the tub of food were accompanied by a dozen warriors.
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19 11 "No," cried a dozen voices.
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19 35 We heard his body hit the sides a dozen times, and his frightened scream fading, only to be silenced by the distant, hollow splash in the water far below.
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23 181 In another dozen steps the six spears would fly hurled from that swift even pace.
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Book 3. (9 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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25 6 I leaped forward and thrust my hand under the wing shell and seized the short, tufted antennae and with one hand on them twisting and the other beneath the shell I slowly managed, lifting and twisting, to force the struggling creature onto its back and when it lay on its back, rocking, its short leg...
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28 6 Perhaps there were only a hundred Priest-Kings who rallied to the call of Misk and among them there were no more than a dozen silver tubes.
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28 176 It unnerved the Priest-Kings to pass unknowingly within feet of, say, a pale, agile fellow from the Fungus Chambers, who might be crouching in a nearby ventilator shaft with a heat torch, who might have burned their antennae for them if he had pleased; or to suddenly find themselves surrounded by a ...
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28 181 Another time a Priest-King braved the fire of a dozen silver tubes to rescue one of the spidery Gur Carriers who had been injured.
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30 168 The latter, of course, terrified, bewildered, would be of little service themselves, but they were offered as inducements to the males of Misk's forces to encourage their desertion; the girls were, so to speak, a bounty for treachery, and since the beauty of Chamber Slaves was well known in the Nest...
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30 191 Growing more desperate, Sarm rallied his forces and armored six dozen transportation disks and swept into Misk's domain.
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31 15 I myself was forced to walk perhaps a dozen paces in front of Sarm, who held his grasping appendage near the control box which would, he supposed, activate the golden net he believed to be fused into the tissues of my brain.
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31 152 At last I stood not more than a dozen yards from the Priest-King.
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32 59 "We have made many trips," said Al-Ka, "and so have others in the other ships, for the Nest is broken in a dozen places and open to the sky".
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Book 4. (21 results) Nomads of Gor

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26 179 In that moment, uttering the Turian war cry, the young man rushed forward with his sword on Kamchak and the dozen arrows flew simultaneously, striking him a dozen times, turning him twice.
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3 23 At last the Tuchuk detached himself from the other three warriors and pranced his kaiila to within a dozen yards of me.
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4 12 I fell from some dozen feet to the grass and saw the animal snarling and biting on the shield; then it shook it and hurled it far and away behind it.
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7 4 The wagon itself was the largest in the camp, and the largest wagon I had conceived possible; actually it was a vast platform, set on numerous wheeled frames; though at the edges of the platform, on each side, there were a dozen of the large wheels such as are found on the much smaller wagons; these...
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8 200 Indeed, it is not unknown that a Tuchuk will bet his entire stock of bosk on the outcome of a single kaiila race; as many as a dozen slave girls may change hands on something as small as the direction that a bird will fly or the number of seeds in a tospit.
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9 70 On the pack animals were strapped boxes of precious plate, gems, silver vessels, tangles of jewelry, mirrors, rings, combs, and golden tarn disks, stamped with the signs of a dozen cities.
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9 73 Kamchak told me, a sort of secret I gather, that some of the things he carried had been exchanged back and forth a dozen times.
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9 229 Kamchak, though sitting cross-legged, seemed to bounce twice on the cushions, slapping the small table, rattling dishes for a dozen feet on either side.
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10 555 In this chase, rather undignified, Kamras had struck a dozen times and each time, astoundingly, the off-balance Kamchak, holding his sword now like a physician's pestle, had managed somehow to meet the blow.
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13 149 Behind them another four haruspexes, one from each People, carried a large wooden cage, made of sticks lashed together, which contained perhaps a dozen white vulos, domesticated pigeons.
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21 16 I observed a special wagon, drawn by a dozen bosk, being pulled up the hill, into which the standard, when uprooted, would be set.
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21 248 "Run!" I kissed her savagely and turned her about and thrust her a dozen feet down the walkway inside the wall.
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21 348 Some dozen dismounted Tuchuks were now at the great windlass on its platform slowly opening the gates to their maximum width, and when they had done so the Tuchuks, howling and waving their lances, entered the city in ranks of twenty abreast, thus only five ranks to the Hundred.
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21 349 I could now see smoke down the long avenue leading from the gate, in a dozen places.
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21 350 Already I saw a Tuchuk with a dozen silver cups tied on a string to his saddle.
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23 1 The Battle at the Wagons Kamchak had had his flying columns followed by some two dozen of the wagons, mostly containing supplies.
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23 106 At a distance of little more than a dozen feet thousands of arrows were poured into the trapped Paravaci and yet they pressed forward, on and over their brethren, and then, arrows spent, we met them on the wagons themselves with lances in our hands, thrusting them back and down.
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25 437 "Would it not have added a dozen gold pieces to my price?" "Yes," I said, "it would have".
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26 119 "Kill him!" Silently a dozen Tuchuk bowmen, with the short horn bow, stood afoot before Kamchak's kaiila, their arrows trained on the hearts of the two guards.
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26 174 He then threw, one after another, a dozen bags of gold to the floor.
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26 278 The Paravaci suddenly cried out in uncanny fear and shuddered and, to my horror, the golden sphere, which he had succeeded in wresting from Saphrar, was thrown a dozen feet across the room, and shattered on the floor.
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Book 5. (12 results) Assassin of Gor

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1 44 At last, when the wood burned only here and there, and what had been the pyre was mostly ashes and glowing wood, the men of a dozen castes, each carrying a jar of chilled wine, moved about, pouring the wine over the fire, quenching it.
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3 125 I myself, in Ko-ro-ba, had seen Centius of Cos playing his own opening more than a dozen times and he had never drawn back the Ubara's Spearman at that point.
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4 14 Set in the wall to my left, as in the base of the stone platform, were slave rings, a dozen or so.
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7 5 There were perhaps a dozen of us there.
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9 68 Ho-Tu turned into a side corridor and we found ourselves, to my surprise, looking through a huge rectangle of glass, some twelve feet high and perhaps fifteen feet wide; it was one of a dozen such panels I could see in the corridor.
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13 173 "Minus Tentius Hinrabius," she said, "has a dozen times sent prides of a hundred Warriors to the Voltai to seek him out and slay him, but never have they found him".
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13 270 It had been famous in Ar a dozen years ago.
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16 168 I bounded down the ramp, three turns, and managed to seize a fellow by the neck and arm and fling him some dozen feet to the next landing below, who had been rushing on Ho-Sorl from behind.
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17 167 "My admission to the races," said another man, a Miller, "has been paid a dozen times by the House of Cernus".
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20 229 With hook knife in hand, against a dozen blades, Ho-Tu would probably have rushed upon Cernus.
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21 343 Another dozen Taurentians pressed forward.
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22 528 I whipped out the Tuchuk bow and, in the instant, found myself wheeling and fighting in the midst of more than a dozen tarnsmen, while many others, wheeling about, attempted to press in upon me.
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Book 6. (10 results) Raiders of Gor

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1 75 The plant itself has a long, thick root, about four inches thick, which lies horizontally under the surface of the water; small roots sink downward into the mud from this main root, and several "stems," as many as a dozen, rise from it, often of a length of fifteen to sixteen feet from the root; it ...
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3 61 "And I brought to the marshes with me," said he, "the memory of a dozen years on the galleys, and a hatred for all things of Port Kar".
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8 488 He had shown himself a dozen times more man than me.
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8 490 Ho-Hak had been bred a slave, a degraded and distorted exotic, and had served even in the darkness of the stinking rowing holds of the cargo vessels of Port Kar, and yet, before me, he had shown himself a dozen times more man than me.
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9 155 Raids of one upon the other, involving a few dozen ships, were not infrequent, whether on the shipping of Port Kar, or beaching on Cos or Tyros, but major actions, those which might involve the hundreds of galleys possessed by these redoubtable maritime powers, the two island Ubarates and Port Kar, ...
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10 128 As I have mentioned, the warfare between Cos and Tyros and Port Kar had been, for years, small-scale, seldom involving more than a few dozen galleys on a side.
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10 147 It was voted that another dozen covered docks be raised within the confines of the arsenal, that the caulking schedules of the grain fleet might be met.
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10 231 But two who challenged me for the captaincy I slew within a dozen strokes, and the others, thus given pause, chose to confine their disgruntlement, if any, to their cups and conclaves.
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12 47 I got the knife from between my teeth and, with it, sometimes half out of the water, sometimes beneath it, thrashing and twisting, thrust the blade a dozen times into its hide.
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15 124 Lastly, the forces of Henrius Sevarius, under the regency of Claudius, once of Tyros, had been driven by the Council forces from all their holdings, save one, a huge fortress, its walls extending into the Tamber itself, sheltering the some two dozen ships left him.
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Book 7. (3 results) Captive of Gor

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8 78 A few dozen yards to my right a fish leaped out of the water and disappeared again, leaving behind him bright, glistening, spreading circles.
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12 715 Another would fly low and to the side of the running girl, and a beat of the tarn's great wings would send her rolling and sprawling for a dozen yards across the grass.
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12 735 She was jerked from her feet into the air, screaming, a dozen feet above the rushing grasses beneath her, and then was dragged to the saddle.
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Book 8. (2 results) Hunters of Gor

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14 27 At the height of the feast some dozen or so panther girls would have overpowered the guards at the gate, presumably drunken, and opened the gate.
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18 196 In a moment, like a wind-torn explosion, flame leaped in a breadth of a dozen feet on the still shores, on that lonely beach, of Thassa.
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Book 9. (6 results) Marauders of Gor

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5 323 I could see, from the shore, black and dark, more than a dozen small boats, containing perhaps ten or fifteen men each, moving towards us.
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14 13 I was carried in the panic-stricken throng a dozen yards in one direction, then, meaninglessly, carried back in the other.
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14 266 A beam fell, not more than a dozen feet from them.
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18 55 Its head half to one side it rose to its feet and ran for a dozen yards before it slipped, falling sideways, rolling into the fur and burning leather of one of their lodges.
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18 385 We passed a dozen men emptying a keg of ale.
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18 622 She cried out, startled, sobbing, and stumbled more than a dozen steps before she regained her balance.
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Book 10. (11 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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2 3 He came to me, bent over, tattered, swarthy, grinning up at me, the verrskin bag over his shoulder, the brass cups, a dozen of them, attached to shoulder straps and his belt, rattling and clinking.
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2 48 A nomad boy of fifteen will often have eaten meat no more than a dozen times in his life.
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2 600 There are often ten to a dozen strips of tanned, dyed leather in a single rein.
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4 56 About some of these water holes there were a dozen or so small trees, flahdah trees, like flat-topped umbrellas on crooked sticks, not more than twenty feet high; they are narrow branched, with lanceolate leaves.
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5 743 The veil, floating, wafted away, a dozen feet from her, and gently, ever so gently, settled to the tiles.
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13 102 At the foot of the great stairs, marble and spiraling, leading to the upper rooms, we, and our guards, those accompanying us, some dozen men, paused.
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14 6 My left leg broke through a dozen layers of crust, breaking it to the side with a hundred, dry, soft shattering sounds, the rupture of innumerable fine crystalline structures.
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17 194 Then, suddenly, at the port side, aft, he erupted from the water a dozen feet away, and fell back, spattering torrents of water over the raft.
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17 252 We saw the Old One emerge from the water, rising up, more than a dozen feet of that great, mighty body rearing upward, water streaming from it, in its jaws the body of T'Zshal.
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18 100 About us, in a dark cloud, scimitars drawn, were more than a dozen men.
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26 34 A dozen kaiila moved past in stately line, laden with water.
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Book 11. (2 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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5 309 I had gone no more than a dozen steps when I heard one of the guards at the camp cry out, "Halt! Stand! Name! City! Stand!" I did not stop, but pressed on.
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24 295 This ship alone, I gathered, carried the ransom of a dozen Ubars.
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Book 12. (2 results) Beasts of Gor

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4 453 Who would not cheerfully trade a dozen such fortunes to witness one such game.
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18 25 Suddenly, not more than a dozen feet from the boat, driving upward, rearing vertically, surging, expelling air in a great burst of noise, shedding icy water, in a tangle of lines and blood, burst the towering, cylindrical tonnage of the black Hunjer whale.
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Book 13. (7 results) Explorers of Gor

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15 285 A dozen or more men were there waiting, beside the building, on either side of the door.
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16 12 Its gigantic tail thrashed, striking a man, hurling him back a dozen feet.
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31 29 I doubt that anyone in the village knew more than a few dozen words of Ushindi, but Ayari, with his Ushindi, his gestures, his quick wit and a stick, with which he drew in the dust of the village, not only conducted his trading in a brisk and genial fashion but managed to gather valuable information...
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32 41 Too, he had lost a week, with the illness of several of his men, a dozen or so, as we had learned, at the village at which we had recently traded.
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44 66 There, ringing a depression, were more than a dozen small men.
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53 275 I blocked his blow with the panga and was, from the force of it, thrown back a dozen feet.
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53 288 The beast sank to its knees and snapping crawled toward the retreating askari for more than a dozen feet until it collapsed on the stones.
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Book 14. (3 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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4 103 When I looked up, confused, frightened, my body stung in a dozen places.
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13 610 He stopped some dozen feet or so from me.
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17 130 I owe the merchants of a dozen cities".
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Book 15. (4 results) Rogue of Gor

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4 89 "It could be any one of a dozen towns," said Oneander.
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21 178 The last time the pirates of the dark stronghold had carried fire and sword to a dozen wharfed ships.
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26 260 Before he could have reached me a dozen blades might have cut him down.
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30 130 Bikkie wore, like one or two of the other girls still on the dais, only threads of leather, some dozen or so, depending from a leather sheathing encasing the locked, steel collar on her throat.
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Book 16. (16 results) Guardsman of Gor

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5 204 Pirates rushed to the planked road bearing ingress to their ship, but a dozen spears, and then another dozen, hurled by running men devastated resistance, and then, on the run, swords drawn, their shields struck by arrows, buffeting, slashing, driving men into the water, the soldiers of Ar rushed ov...
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1 158 Not more than a dozen feet away I could see a pirate longboat behind the chain, protected by wicker shields.
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2 26 They were emerging from longboats and must climb up and over the bulwarks; they could not, bulwark to bulwark, leap to our deck; the advantages were fully ours; only one reached the deck, and we threw his lifeless body, thrust through in a dozen places, back into the Vosk, after its retreating fello...
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3 30 The impact had slid me back on the deck for a dozen feet.
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6 12 There was a grinding astern and a dozen men from one of the Voskjard's pressing ships, close in the crowded waters, leapt aboard.
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9 88 "The very wall may be dismantled," said Callimachus, "opened, in a dozen places".
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9 401 A dozen feet of planking, lengthwise, and some three planks vertically, had been lost.
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12 73 The Tamira, we were informed, had been sunk while valiantly defending herself against an attacking fleet of a dozen ships.
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16 34 I saw a dozen pirates break and run for their ships.
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16 44 A dozen more pirates, here and there, in their ragged lines, turned about and broke for their ships.
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16 45 Then a dozen more! "Withdraw!" shouted Policrates.
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16 100 The flagship of Policrates moved backward a dozen feet or so, and then again, striking against another ship, or the same, came again to a stop.
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16 228 I saw the colors, there, of more than a dozen towns.
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16 279 A dozen ships off the wharves must have been in flames.
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20 577 Indeed, it is a common Gorean belief that a trained girl, with her hands bound behind her back, can give a master a great deal more pleasure than a dozen free women.
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20 1839 She is only a slave! How insulting, to suggest that he, a free man, might care for a mere slave! He can buy a dozen like her in the market! But perhaps he accepts her as his love slave, and she, to her joy, realizes he is now her love master.
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Book 18. (9 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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5 106 From where we stood I could see at least a dozen fallen animals, their bulk, like dark mounds, dotting the plains.
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12 355 "I was taken in a girl raid by the Isanna, with two-dozen others," she said.
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24 37 His weapon was a dozen feet away.
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28 230 Scarcely a dozen arrows had fallen amongst us.
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28 318 The archer, struck by the rider, was carried a dozen feet on the lance, before the blade, twisting, with the weight of the kaiila behind it, was dragged loose.
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32 157 He, laughed, hurled the red slave away from him, a dozen feet away, into the dust.
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44 502 It took perhaps a dozen men from the trail and then bounded down the rock face and, a few Ihn later, skipping and leaping almost like a pebble, possessing such terrible forces, yet seeming so small from this height, it caromed off the foot of the rock face and then landed, rolling and bounding, amon...
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44 612 By now, surely, ordinary quivers would have been emptied a dozen times.
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47 427 Fighting took place at a dozen places on the trail.
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Book 19. (1 results) Kajira of Gor

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17 22 It would have held, I was sure, a dozen men.
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Book 20. (3 results) Players of Gor

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2 106 In at least a dozen places on the great piazza there must have been groups of musicians.
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16 824 "I do! I do!" cried more than a dozen men.
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20 362 The beast seized at spears, slapping them away, seizing some, breaking them, taking others, perhaps a dozen, in its body.
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Book 21. (6 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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6 115 He did not have a dozen guardsmen at his back, for instance.
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13 25 "In more than a dozen buildings we have seen it".
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14 41 One depicted the laying of the first stone in Torcadino's walls, an act which presumably would have taken place more than seven hundred years ago, when, according to the legends, the first wall, only a dozen feet high, was built to encircle and protect a great, sprawling encampment at the joining of...
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15 217 If they did not care for them, this would be a dark lesson, and one favoring Ar, to every wavering or uncommitted village, town and city within a dozen horizons".
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19 287 "No," said Hurtha, "already there are more than a half dozen.
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21 110 "Any one of our lads could best a dozen Cosians".
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Book 22. (1 results) Dancer of Gor

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13 747 That was the purpose of such places, whether they were within lofty towers, reached by graceful bridges, or near the wharves, close enough to hear the tide lapping at the pilings, whether they had a dozen musicians or only a single, dissolute czehar player, alone with his music, whether the girls we...
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Book 23. (6 results) Renegades of Gor

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8 625 The ascendancy of the cavalry would remain unchallenged until the achievement of revolutions in infantry tactics and missile power, such things as the coming of the massed pikes, and the flighted clothyard shafts of a dozen fields.
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8 746 I then tested it in a dozen ways, to speeds, to flights, to turns.
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9 273 The paucity of women, relatively, rent slaves even bringing a copper tarsk a night, had largely to do with the coming and going of the slave wagons, which tended to carry off most of the captures, apprehended refugees, women who had fled from Ar's Station for food, giving themselves into bondage for...
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16 201 I could fling her a dozen feet away at my will, or, if I wished, with a judicious blow, little more than a quick tap on the diaphragm, have her instantly on her back helpless, gasping for breath.
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19 6 Indeed, the walkway for a dozen yards, closer to the landing, was covered by these boats, until the camp commander sent his own crossbowmen out on the walkway, to keep them their distance.
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19 251 A moment or so later a dozen or so Cosians crowded the charred end of the walkway.
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Book 24. (10 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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1 520 In a camp of thousands, of course, in which there might be two dozen paga enclosures, I had had, it seems, to pick just this one.
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3 100 Too, now, the winter over, he could bring his numerous mercenaries together again, recalling their standards from a dozen winter camps.
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4 3 The fellow had been taken from the rence craft before me, the comparatively small, less than a foot in breadth at its thickest point, triangular-jawed head, on the long, muscular, sinuous neck, lifting suddenly, glistening, dripping water, from the marsh, turning sideways, and seizing the fellow, th...
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8 31 "In the delta, one could hide a dozen armies," said another.
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18 160 "I need only call out," he said, "and there will be a dozen men here".
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18 167 He only stopped when he was a dozen feet from us.
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19 786 Its left side bled in a dozen places.
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40 53 "The night came," said our narrator, "and, precisely as Myron's informant, Mincon, had assured him, a dozen tarns took wing from the roof of the Semnium.
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46 83 But then, he, too, was silent, as he observed the cloud of fellows behind us, now more than four or five, now something closer to a dozen, their numbers having been added to in our progress.
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49 14 I have heard, for example, that he was beset by a larl, far from its accustomed habitats, that he was torn to pieces by a tarn, and that his head was torn, or partly torn, from his body by a dozen madmen armed with hooks of steel.
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Book 25. (1 results) Magicians of Gor

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7 70 Being dragged along the side of the platform, conducted by a dozen chains, each attached to, and radiating out from, a heavy metal collar, each chain held by a child, was a pathetic figure, stumbling and struggling, its ankles shackled and its upper body almost swathed in chains, Gnieus Lelius.
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Book 26. (10 results) Witness of Gor

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10 142 There must have been more than a dozen such trails and ledges, several below, some above.
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11 1125 You might be put in a dozen chains and flung into the deepest dungeon in the city.
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11 1210 Between the man she feared and this place she might have changed hands a dozen times, as any property.
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12 347 And I gave nothing! One lesser known begged me to attend a rendezvous in a jeweler's shop, one which had but recently opened its doors in the city, that I might there pick for myself the finest of a dozen ruby necklaces, which he would then purchase for me.
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12 357 In this room, in the lovely light of golden lamps, were the dozen necklaces displayed.
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19 94 It was seized by a dozen hands.
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24 346 But if it were mere massacre that was upon the mind of these men, if simple butchery was their intent, why did they not fall upon the huddled, kneeling group as a whole? Why did they not, in some two dozen fierce, merciless strokes, make the terrace run red with blood? Indeed, why had they bothered ...
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29 136 Much did the house of William suffer, in its resources, and more, in its reputation, in its very name, honored for generations in a dozen cities.
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29 140 But, know that even now, now, in a time in which our fortunes have been recovered and more, in a time in which our name shines again, and more brightly than ever, in a dozen cities, in a time in which we have become first among the houses of our caste in Harfax, we still remember that name.
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31 598 "Lanterns up!" A dozen blades must have left sheaths.
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Book 27. (4 results) Prize of Gor

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16 1312 I am prepared to let any of these unparalleled beauties go for as little as a dozen silver tarsks!" "Shelf girls!" snorted a man, turning away.
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18 646 There were several slaves similarly engaged, perhaps two dozen, here and there, about the small pools, and, as there were no guardsmen in the vicinity, these were quite vocal, gossiping, chatting delightedly, exchanging small secrets, playing, splashing water, and so on.
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19 442 "Cos, in consort with Tyros, she under the Ubarate of Chenbar, the Sea-Sleen, extend their hegemonies, and lay tribute on more than a dozen cities".
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26 250 "No alarms have been sounded! There has been no attack on us!" All of this made little sense to Ellen, for she had supposed that the confiscated, gathered wealth of a dozen cities, and hundreds of smaller communities, destined for the troops of Cos and Tyros, and the regiments of mercenaries in Ar a...
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Book 28. (16 results) Kur of Gor

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51 28 Better, if regroupings should occur, to gather intelligence on a dozen camps, on a dozen leaders, on a dozen strategies.
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6 82 "My fathers were Kur," he said, "how many I do not know, perhaps a dozen, nor do I know their properties, whose hereditary coils were meshed with the matrix".
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17 19 And about the top of the defile were now better than two dozen humans again hurling stones downward, stones easily the size of a man's head.
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21 332 "I shall make it a dozen strings of coins, and throw in a pet".
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21 562 "I owe you a dozen strings of coins," said Peisistratus.
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33 198 There might then have been six, or seven, saurians, curious, aggressive, within a dozen yards of the raft.
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34 54 The raft was lifted a dozen feet into the air, again and again, and dropped, and was flung from side to side.
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34 69 The slave lost her grip and cried out, but Cabot seized her by the hair and pulled her to him, and then both were clinging to a rope wrapped about a single log, and the raft might then, for all they knew, have been a dozen yards away.
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36 27 A sense of the range of the weapon is given by the fact that a peasant can fire a dozen missiles into the air before the first falls back to earth.
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36 233 "And," he said, "some men would give a dozen tarns to bring a particular woman, say, one who had not treated them well, into their chains".
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48 11 Lord Grendel's group was now small, consisting of some dozen Kurii, and some seven humans.
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50 74 Behind him straggled a dozen or more humans, some helmeted, all garmented in cloth.
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63 161 With Statius and Archon were more than a dozen Kurii and humans, armed with power weapons.
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68 11 Perhaps a dozen bows might be trained upon them.
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69 132 "But even his own Kurii, elsewhere in a dozen places, surrendered themselves, and the charges which had been committed to them, rather than perform so hideous and monstrous a deed".
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77 280 It could have split apart the palings of the stockade, could have shattered the gate of the compound into a dozen pieces.
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Book 29. (12 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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13 237 A capture and impalement of such consequence would surely have been noted, and broadcast, I thought, throughout a dozen cities and a hundred camps.
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13 241 Too, I thought his capture would be a coup of considerable dimension, and one whose fame would be soon registered on the public boards of a dozen cities, whispered about a thousand campfires, even as far north as the forests, but, here, too, I had, as yet, heard nothing.
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13 269 We feared the slave would be instantly slain, and she was flung to the floor, under a dozen blades, and it was only the hand of her master, Myron, the polemarkos, interposed, which saved her.
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16 268 How can the eye see itself, and even in water, or burnished plates, or bright mirrors, it sees but an image of itself, and who knows what lies behind it? "Tarnsmen," said Lord Nishida, "have been recruited from better than two dozen cities".
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17 32 And what man does not want one at his feet? Lord Nishida had informed me that these tarnsmen had been recruited in more than two dozen cities.
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17 72 The tarnsman was carried a dozen yards before he slipped from the lance, to the stirred dust below.
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18 34 But then he fell, pierced by a dozen arrows.
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18 47 I called to my side Tajima and Pertinax, and some dozen or so mercenaries, who well knew the sword.
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18 81 I then, with some dozen or so men, mercenaries, together with Tajima and Pertinax, addressed myself to the path which led to the housing area.
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18 82 We had not been on the track for more than a handful of Ihn, however, moving rapidly but circumspectly, lest crossbowmen be about, when we heard shouts before us, and we saw some dozen or so of the Pani Ashigaru, with their glaives, approaching.
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40 2 A dozen small boats, unable to escape, many fastened together, were crushed in the passage of the mighty bow of the great ship, and she brushed others aside, dozens, brushed them aside as the limb of a stately, insouciant larl might sweep leaves from its path, scarcely noticing this consequence of i...
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43 142 "We are greatly honored," said Lord Nishida, "that so high a personage, drawn from so remarkable a background, whose sword might purchase gold in a dozen cities, would present himself for our service".
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Book 30. (15 results) Mariners of Gor

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3 88 Her loss could be replaced indifferently with that of any one of a dozen, or hundred, similar beasts.
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3 186 Otherwise the Ubara, captive, might change hands, from brigand to brigand, a dozen times before being brought before the Ubar's throne.
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3 738 It passed within a dozen yards of me, rapidly, its snout to the ground".
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4 106 "If you had been rescued by another," said Lord Nishida, "say, a galley of Tyros, it is our speculation that a dozen ships, within days, in the vicinity of the farther islands, would have sought us, to our inconvenience and distraction".
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7 122 That accident alone had brought water to a dozen companionways.
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8 271 "For the bounty on your head, pretty kajira," I said, "one might purchase a galley, and a dozen slaves whose beauty would shame yours, as yours, such as it is, might shame that of tarsk sow".
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9 316 Why could I not forget her? Had I not, even from Ar, dreamed of her small wrists fastened behind her, in my bracelets? The bounty might win me a dozen slaves, even more beautiful than she, perhaps even a galley, but would these, together, the gold washed with blood, be of greater value to me than a ...
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12 725 The reward for her return to Ar was considerable, amounting to a dozen wealths, which might purchase a city or hire a hundred free companies.
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14 122 I had heard those words, sensed the eagerness in the voice before, more than a dozen times, in the early morning, in the dampness and cold, in a park, or in the Plaza of Tarns, long ago, in Ar.
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14 300 In a flash of thought I recalled Seremides, from a dozen times and places, images rushing upon me, a goblet lifted, a door opened, a hand gesturing, a pen in hand, signing an order, a sword, reddened, held over an adversary's throat in the early morning.
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15 24 That border which might lie within a dozen pasangs on one day might, as one sought it, given the shifts in wind and current, lie twenty or thirty pasangs away the next, and what had been further might now be nearer.
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22 82 We were some dozen or so feet from the beach.
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30 39 At best, from the trail, they might see the wharf, and the great ship moored there, on a dozen lines, the ship they were unable to reach.
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32 68 There was a cheer from a dozen mariners.
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37 628 "This one pearl," I said, "I would estimate at a dozen silver tarsks".
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Book 31. (10 results) Conspirators of Gor

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10 16 It was no more than a dozen feet from me.
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10 689 And the knots had been warrior knots! I was scarcely aware of its movements so swift it was, and I felt myself seized up, lifted, in mighty paws, and I sensed nails within them, and heard a roar of rage, and I was flung a dozen feet across the room, striking into a wall.
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10 839 How could she understand so little? Might it not have been better if she had undergone some frustrations and disappointments? Had she no sense of her place, or her limitations, or that limitations even existed? Did she think that only a dozen or so individuals might be involved, as in a tiny village...
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15 283 The Metal Worker was flung a dozen paces to the side, to strike amongst chests and boxes beside a stall.
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22 77 It is even possible gangs of ruffians are about, seeking refuge in the wilderness from the guardsmen of a dozen cities".
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23 12 In the third wagon there had been some weaponry, some spears, two swords, a crossbow with a dozen quarrels.
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45 91 At one point I cried out in fear, and clutched the beast's fur, for, not more than a dozen paces from us, over a shelf of rock, I saw the lifted head of a larl, broad, triangular, quizzical.
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46 6 A dozen armed search parties were dispatched, over a period of several days.
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48 44 He struck it twice before Timarchos seized him, lifted him, and threw him, knife in hand, a dozen feet from the dais.
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48 103 "Die, Agamemnon!" cried Lucius, and from diverse translators in the chamber, those activated, perhaps more than a dozen, there broke forth a startled medley of Kur and Gorean, producing a confused storm of sound.
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Book 32. (11 results) Smugglers of Gor

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4 41 Yet, how beautiful they are, even so! Things are much different, of course, with the slave who knows her collar, who has knelt and kissed a dozen whips.
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7 281 Membership in the Merchants, of course, might range from itinerant peddlers to the masters of great houses, dealing with a dozen cities.
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8 580 "They were set upon in the darkness," he said, "pummeled, and robbed, by a dozen assailants".
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17 104 Even Gorean males who may have a dozen servitors and own a hundred women, and be followed by a score of clients, will step from her path, and defer to her.
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21 62 "They can detect the tread of a field urt through grass at a dozen paces".
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37 176 Indeed, he had, in the absence of other intelligence, organized a small army, recruited from a dozen cities, to close the mouth of the Alexandra, to prevent the exiting of this ship, should it exist.
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43 921 It may have weighed as much as a dozen panthers, three forest bosk.
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47 33 I recalled her about the camp, in a dozen ways, fetching water, assisting Tula, tending the fire, serving the men.
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50 873 "I hope masters burn a dozen brands into her leg," said a slave.
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51 18 "Do you not want a ubarate, or ubarates? Perhaps you might be given Cos or Tyros, Ar or Turia, a dozen cities?" "I find this hard to believe," I said.
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51 37 "You could have had a dozen quarrels in your back an Ahn after your return to Shipcamp," he said.
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Book 33. (16 results) Rebels of Gor

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4 174 "Control the monster," said the voice, "or a dozen arrows will slay the beast at my mere word".
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4 180 He had spoken of a dozen arrows.
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4 181 Then I supposed there might be a dozen bowmen, and perhaps others, as well.
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9 76 But a line of Pani interposed themselves and a dozen others cut men away from the threshold and swung shut the gate.
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20 368 "We have eleven varieties of rice here," said the shogun, "variously prepared, in stews, pastes, and cakes, and variously seasoned, with a dozen sauces and herbs.
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23 45 Do you not think it improbable that he could have ventured through a dozen corridors and thresholds and not be noticed?" "The stealth of such assailants is legendary," he said.
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44 235 A dozen tarns, from the sides, swept toward the seemingly patient, still thing, in the sky, quiet as though waiting, and arrows and Anango darts struck sparks and rang against it.
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44 272 Where is Nodachi? His sword is worth a dozen swords".
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44 273 "Even a sword worth a dozen swords," said Lord Temmu, "is useless against a thousand swords".
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46 245 The officer's head rolled a dozen yards before it was arrested in the dirt, the eyes staring up at the sky, as though startled.
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46 355 "For what you have done," said Eito, "slaying Izo, the scourge of a dozen villages, the village itself would not suffice".
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47 279 "Twelve!" cried more than a dozen throats in the crowd.
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47 285 At the same time at least a dozen arrows were trained on Nodachi.
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60 373 "What will you have, a golden chain, ten flocks of verr, ten herds of tarsk, a house, a dozen slaves?" "I would that I might be permitted to tend your garden," said Haruki.
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60 401 "How can you, a bandit, object to banditry," asked Tajima, "whether that of a dozen greedy rovers or that of an army?" "When an army passes," said Arashi, "there is little left to steal".
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61 451 "And I will give you a dozen slaves to help you in the garden!" "But, great lord," said Haruki.
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Book 34. (10 results) Plunder of Gor

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25 10 Some dozen or so men, in black dinner robes, were reclining on the supper couches; some attending to the circle of sand, others differently occupied, chatting, sipping ka-la-na, sampling assorted viands proffered by the serving slaves.
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33 601 I myself was seized by another of the beasts and flung rudely to the other side, a dozen yards away, skidding and rolling, into a line of boxes.
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40 60 "Does it appear to be the shop of a master potter? Where is the yard, the dozen ovens, the jars of pigments and glazes, the slaves and apprentices at their wheels?" "He will not trust work to menials," said Lady Delia.
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40 71 I saw no vessel there for which might be exchanged a dozen slaves or a tarn.
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50 94 "I suspect," said Lord Grendel, "that a thousand Kurii on a dozen steel worlds would kill to have lovely Lyris so before them".
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54 148 As it had held Lyris, it might, as well, have held a dozen male Kurii.
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61 153 Aelius had climbed toward the box but, before he could enter it, Lucilius, two hands on the great haft, wielded the ax, and the sundered head of Aelius spun far away, a small, dark cloud raining blood, and blood from the decapitated corse, sped by the fierce pressure generated by the frantic poundin...
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61 584 "I have bitten lice out of the fur of a dozen such beasts who would not permit him to do so much as polish their claws".
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61 860 You are fortunate that parts of you were not nailed to a dozen gates".
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63 390 It is not a string of a dozen or so girls, or a handful or two, chained in a slave wagon".
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Book 35. (5 results) Quarry of Gor

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11 234 "I have heard that she has been seen in Tabor and Anango, and in Bazi, and in the valley of the Ua, and in far Skjern, and that she has been apprehended by a dozen bounty hunters who scheme to keep her capture secret, lest she be stolen from them, before she can be brought to Ar.
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25 96 And would not one barbarian be better for such purposes than a dozen barbarians, in turn, could they be obtained, which anomaly might attract unwanted attention? I did then, and shortly, learn you were indeed a barbarian, and then that you had been shipped to Port Kar, to be a paga girl in a tavern ...
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27 148 I could be about you a dozen times, keeping you turning, unsteady, uncertain.
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33 10 How often I had hoped to flee from him! It was not merely that I was leashed, but, when passersby were about, or we forded crowds, a simple cry from Bruno of Torcadino, "Stop her," or "Running slave," or such, would have put a dozen men, swift, long-legged brutes, after me.
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45 48 "See the horizon! Ships approach, rowed with earnest purpose! A dozen craft will land within Ehn! The longboat will pull away!" Vas of Anango growled with fury, but, wavering, uncertain, did not approach us more closely.
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Book 36. (14 results) Avengers of Gor

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17 20 The daily garmenture of a free woman might clothe a dozen slaves.
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20 54 I myself supposed that there must have been at least a dozen such onslaughts, but it was not surprising to me that many in the room knew little, or nothing, about such incidents.
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24 3 It has already been a week since young Xanthos, of the village of Seleukos, departed with a dozen bows".
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24 6 "But should a mountain choose to move," said Thurnock, "who will stand against it?" "Of what value are a dozen bows?" asked Clitus.
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24 7 "A dozen bows may turn into a thousand," said Thurnock.
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27 71 In the crowded room there were more than two dozen tables devoted to various games of chance.
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41 107 "To transport it would require a dozen round ships".
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42 38 When I heard the second beam begin to move, slowly, and heavily, in its brackets, I called, "Lamps!" At this point a dozen men on the wall above the gate thrust the wicks of tharlarion-oil lamps into the flames of their then unshuttered dark lanterns, and lowered the lamps, on their cords to a heigh...
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42 53 A dozen men, at my cry "Lamps!" had simultaneously invaded the house of Tarchon, to seize him, if he were there, and prevent any fugitives from retreating through the tunnel.
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51 164 As it turned out, its intentions, despite an undoubted adherence to orders, were frustrated, three, massive, whiplike coils of the monstrous hith wrapping themselves about the boat and, tightening, reducing in as little as a dozen Ihn the boat and certain occupants to little more than floating debri...
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56 1 One Makes Use of What Means are at Hand A dozen ladders struck against the starboard-side hull of the Tesephone.
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56 35 Shortly thereafter, scarcely had war sandals been pressed on the first rungs of the braced scaling ladders, than a sudden, hideous tremor shook the beast, a violent stream of air and water exploded upward from its breathing hole, and its enormous body reared a dozen feet from the water, scattering l...
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59 330 I trust that a hundred gold staters of Brundisium, or a dozen gold tarns of Ar, will be acceptable".
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62 75 "We have noted over the months a dozen traces of his work," said Archelaos.
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