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Book 1. (10 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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3 237 The wind swept across the flat, circular roof, tugging one toward the edge.
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4 6 The effect was startling: there was the sudden bright flash of yellow glittering light, the splash of sparks, and a scream of pain and rage from the tarn as he immediately beat his wings, lifting himself out of my reach in a rush of air that nearly forced me over the edge of the roof.
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4 7 I was on my hands and knees, trying to get back on my feet, too near the edge.
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6 84 When freed, I was lifted lightly in the mandibles and carried to the edge of the web, where the spider seized a hanging strand and scurried downward, placing me on the ground.
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6 124 "I will take you to the edge of the swamp if you like," said the insect.
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7 126 I shoved the log back and finally, carrying the filthy body soaked in its absurd garments, made my way to a ledge of green, dry land at the edge of the swamp.
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12 6 Dimly I felt spear butts thrust against the side of the hollow frame, ready to edge it out into the current.
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19 164 It was only a matter of time before the last of the men of Ar would be forced over the edge of the cylinder.
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19 193 As we fought and I forced him back step by step toward the edge of the lofty marble cylinder, I said calmly, "I can kill you".
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19 209 I walked slowly to the edge of the cylinder.
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Book 2. (3 results) Outlaw of Gor

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15 58 I set her down gently against the far wall of the cliff, as far from the edge as I could.
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15 242 While I fed on the tarn's gift, the Tatrix stood near the edge of the rocky shelf, gazing out on the meadow of talenders.
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17 31 Revolted, I had not joined in this wretched contest, though by my chains I had been dragged to the very edge of the trough.
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Book 3. (3 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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19 21 He bent it outward and downward and then, with one of the pieces of metal hanging from the necklace at his throat, he scraped at the front edge of the door and bent it a bit outward; following this he attacked the interior edge of the cabinet similarly.
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27 266 I saw that several Priest-Kings who stood behind him began to edge forward.
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34 134 The Older Tarl's eyes, like mine, ran the edge, and I saw that he approved.
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Book 4. (28 results) Nomads of Gor

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4 52 To the head came the flashing bola moving in its hideous, swift revolution almost invisible in the air and I, instead of lowering my head or throwing myself to the ground, met instead the flying weighted leather with the blade of a Koroban short sword, with the edge that would divide silk dropped up...
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6 101 The bound girl watched helplessly as the woman carried her clothing, all that she had of her old world, to a cooking fire some yards away, near the edge of the wagons.
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7 14 At the edge of the dais Kamchak and I had stopped, where our sandals were removed and our feet washed by Turian slaves, men in the Kes, who might once have been officers of the city.
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8 262 Kamchak raced his kaiila over to the edge of the crowd, entering into swift negotiation with a warrior, one whose wagon followed ours in the march of the Tuchuks.
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10 542 Kamchak was looking at the edge of his sword, turning it about, apparently noting with pleasure the play of sunlight on the blade.
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13 140 There were a large number of tethered animals about the outer edge of the circle, and, beside them, stood many haruspexes.
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14 29 In no more than a few Gorean Ihn we had come to the interior edge of the herds.
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14 91 "Surely," said Kamchak, "for who could hire tarnsmen but Saphrar of Turia—or arrange for the diversion that drew fools to the edge of the herds?" I was silent.
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16 70 Harold had already taken up a position, looking about, near the edge of the well.
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17 1 The Yellow Pool of Turia At the edge of the Yellow Pool of Turia Harold and I stood, now freed of the slave bar, but with wrists tied behind our backs.
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17 10 Around the edge of the pool there were eight large columns, fashioned and painted as though the trunks of trees, one standing at each of the eight cardinal points of the Gorean compass; from these, stretching often across the pool, were vines, so many that the ceiling could be seen only as a patchwo...
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17 94 To my surprise the pool, at least near the edge, was not deep.
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18 2 I cried out suddenly in alarm horrified at my predicament and struggled to turn back and wade to the edge of the marbled basin that was the cage of the thing in which I was, but the fluid, tightening about me, now seemed to have the consistency of a rich yellow, hot mud and then, by the time I had r...
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18 35 I could see it rippling, and splashing a bit against the edge of the marbled basin.
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18 36 Indeed, it was even lower toward the edge now, and had humped itself in my vicinity, as though in time it might climb my body and, in some hours perhaps, engulf me.
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18 38 I pushed now, with all my might, not toward the edge of the marbled basin, but rather toward the deepest part of the pool.
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18 56 By the time I had reached the level of my waist on the opposite side I could, once again, no longer move toward the edge of the pool.
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18 82 I ran over the iron framework until, judging by the distance and curve of the dome, I had reached a point above where Harold and I had waited at the edge of the pool.
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19 61 I then followed Harold along one of the smooth, stone paths leading among the trees, brushing our way through the clusters of blossoms, skirting the edge of the nearer blue pool.
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20 15 Although the wall was several feet from the top of the tree I managed, by springing on one of the curved branches, to build up enough spring pressure to leap to where I could get my fingers over the edge of the wall.
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20 16 I slipped with one hand and hung there, feet scraping the wall, some fifty feet from the ground, for a nasty moment, but then managed to get both hands on the edge of the wall and hoist myself up.
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21 24 Kamchak rode his kaiila up the hill until he stood, that cold dawn, at the edge of the burned wood and ashes of Kutaituchik's wagon.
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21 103 Cautiously I poked my head over the edge of the roof.
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23 213 Most of the gold and jewels, and precious plate and cups and goblets, were missing, except where here and there a coin or stone might lie missed at the edge of the wagon hides or at the foot of one of the curved wagon poles.
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26 4 Kamchak stood in the half darkness, his palms on the wall running about the edge of the roof of the building on which we stood.
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26 341 At its marbled edge, hissing and quivering with rage, throwing their heads now and again upward and howling in frustrated fury were the two tawny hunting sleen, their maddened round eyes blazing on the pathetic figure of Saphrar of Turia, blubbering and whimpering, sobbing, reaching out, his fingers...
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26 366 We stood silently there for a time, until Kamchak saw small, white bones, like bleached driftwood, rocking on the sparkling, now watery surface, being moved bit by bit, almost as if by tides, to the edge of the pool, where I gathered attendants would normally collect and discard them.
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26 371 The torch was brought, and the pool seemed to discharge its vapor more rapidly, and the fluids began to churn, and draw away from our edge of the pool.
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Book 5. (19 results) Assassin of Gor

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5 50 She knelt and watched me as I took one of the thongs and sat cross-legged by the door, and split it carefully over the edge of my sword.
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7 49 At a gesture from Cernus the birds took wing, and I felt my basket on its heavy leather runners slide across the roof for a few feet and then drop sickeningly off the edge of the cylinder, only to be jerked up short by the ropes, hover for a moment as the tarn fought the weight, and then begin to sa...
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7 110 The bird stalked out from under the overhang, poised itself on the edge of the shelf, and then, with a leap and a beating of its wings, entered its element.
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8 46 I kicked the love furs halfway across the room and sat down on the edge of the stone couch.
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12 3 The tarn, screaming, its wing useless, tumbled uncontrollably from the edge of the large, open, padded ring suspended over the net on the track, plunging into the net, its rider cutting the safety straps and leaping from its back in order that he not be slain beneath the bird struggling in the net.
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12 4 The other bird, which had buffeted it against the edge of the ring, spun awkwardly through, turned in the air, and under the savage command of its control straps, and responding to a yellow flash of the tarn goad, regained its control and sped toward the next ring.
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12 12 The other bird was apparently only stunned, and it was being rolled to the edge of the net where it would be dropped into a large wheeled frame, drawn by two horned tharlarion, onto a suspended canvas, where it was immediately secured by broad canvas straps.
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12 305 Awkwardly, painfully, they did so, stumbling to the edge of the room, then leaning against the wall, taking a step at a time.
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13 61 "Look," I said, pointing to the far end of the curving pool, some hundred and fifty yards away, "if I do not catch you before you reach the edge you will have your freedom for the day".
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13 77 She was about half of the way to the far edge of the pool when she straightened herself in the water, and looked back at me.
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13 81 Then she rolled onto her stomach and began to stroke easily toward the far edge, looking back now and then.
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13 90 I now sensed her but feet from me, swimming desperately, the pool's edge long yards away.
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18 374 I strode back to him, stepping aside not to brush against a wet, silken, blazing-eyed urt scampering along the edge of the corridor wall.
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18 443 He then indicated behind himself, on the wall, a large number of tiny, regularly formed scratches in the stone, perhaps cut there by a pebble or the edge of the tin drinking dish.
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20 521 The little fellow was sitting on the edge of the dais, swinging his feet.
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21 321 The crowd began to press against the spears of the Taurentians in the tiers, who, at the edge of the tiers, at the top of the wall overtopping the sand, resolutely held them back.
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22 444 The wind racing against me, I shuddered, for striking such a ring edge, at the speed of the racing tarn, might well cut a man or bird in two.
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22 515 He attempted, in moving through the rings, to force us to the left, into the heavy edge, but before he could do so, we had passed him.
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24 6 Sitting on the edge of the stone couch I bent down to tie my sandals.
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Book 6. (18 results) Raiders of Gor

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1 60 The most important reason for not finding a guide, of course, even among the eastern rence growers, is that the delta is claimed by Port Kar, which lies within it, some hundred pasangs from its northwestern edge, bordering on the shallow Tamber Gulf, beyond which is gleaming Thassa, the Sea.
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1 84 Sometimes rence merchants, on narrow marsh craft rowed by slaves, enter some pasangs into the delta to negotiate the transactions, usually from the western edge, that bordering the Tamber Gulf.
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3 82 Between Se'Kara and the winter solstice, which occurs on the first of Se'Var, the rence will be sold or bartered, sometimes by taking it to the edge of the delta, sometimes by being contacted by rence merchants, who enter the delta in narrow barges, rowed by slaves, in order to have first pick of th...
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4 36 At the edge of the rence island, where her rence craft was drawn up on the shore, as well as several others, together with some rafts for transporting cut rence, she stopped, and turned, and faced me.
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6 94 We came to an edge of the island.
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6 120 With a slave knife he cut the rence tunic from her and threw her, still partly tangled in the net, over his shoulder, and carried her toward one of the dark, high-prowed barges in the shadows at the edge of the island.
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6 181 I lifted him over my head and threw him screaming into the jaws of tharlarion churning the marsh at the edge of the island.
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6 223 I jerked loose the last two fastenings, and tore rence from the edge of the island, heaping it on the raft, covering Telima.
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9 652 We came to the roof, and there, near its edge, holding Surbus between us, we waited.
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10 40 It lay on the eastern edge of Port Kar, backing on the marshes; it opened, by means of a huge barred gate, to the canals of the city; in its courtyard were wharved his seven ships; when journeying to Thassa the great gate was opened and they were rowed through the city to the sea.
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11 58 We soon found ourselves on the sloping roof of the hall of the council, shielded by turrets and decorative embrasures at its edge.
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11 87 At the far edge of the piazza, in one of the bordering canals, nosing forward to take a berth between two tiled piers, we saw a ram-ship, medium class.
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12 11 Slowly they made their way toward the edge of the canal.
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12 19 I, followed by Clitus and Thurnock, and others, leaped over the wall and ran toward the edge of the canal.
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12 23 The others, now at the edge of the canal, with a heave, flung the sack far out into the water.
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12 41 I brought it to the edge of the canal and one of my men, lying on his stomach, extending his hand downward, caught him under the arm.
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13 514 With gold won by sword at sea I purchased extensive wharfage and several warehouses on the western edge of Port Kar.
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15 703 I walked slowly about in the room, and then I sat on the edge of the stone couch, on the furs, and put my head in my hands.
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Book 7. (25 results) Captive of Gor

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4 187 I saw the sun's rim at the edge of my world, rising, touching it.
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7 75 Fortunately for Targo he had managed to bring his caravan to the edge of a vast Ka-la-na thicket just before the tarnsmen struck.
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7 387 One by one, we slid along the bar and to the back edge of the wagon, where the gate had been dropped.
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8 38 Then, naked, unchained, we were herded to the river edge of the wooden pier.
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8 47 I huddled back from the edge of the pier, between Inge and Ute.
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8 261 There were men who came to stand along the edge of the road to watch us pass.
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8 519 I listened to them chat gaily together, pounding and rinsing the fabrics, in the sunlight, at the edge of that swift stream.
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8 539 I returned to my work, Elinor Brinton, one slave girl among others, primitively washing the clothes of masters at the edge of that swift stream on a beautiful, distant world.
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8 950 Beyond the fire, in the distance, like an irregular margin, a torn, soft, dark edge hiding the bright stars of Gor, I could see the lofty, still blackness of the borders of the northern forests.
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9 5 The girls moved swiftly, single file, through the brush and small trees at the edge of the forest.
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9 271 At the edge of the clearing, you will find a post.
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9 279 After some hundred yards I came to the edge of a clearing.
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9 284 The girls of Verna's band stood about the edge of the circle.
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11 861 I was pulled from the edge of the stream, where I had waded.
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12 103 I turned about, kneeling, twisting the ankle chain, and dug with my fingers under the edge of the rain canvas.
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12 105 I lifted up an edge of the rain canvas and peeped through.
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13 28 We had run for perhaps an Ahn, when, gasping, exhausted, scarcely able to move, we had reached the edge of a large Ka-la-na thicket.
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13 293 * * * * We moved southwestward through the great thicket, and then, finally came to its edge.
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13 306 Together, at the edge of the thicket, we ate the remains of our meal, which I had carried.
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13 358 "At the edge of a thicket to the northeast, days ago," said the second man, "we found the bones of brush urts!" "Yes," said the first man, "and, nearby, in this thicket, there is a small game trail".
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13 525 I began to run in that direction, toward the edge of the thicket, but then I was afraid.
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13 546 The peasants had stopped at the edge of the Ka-la-na thicket, in their great numbers.
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13 559 The Ka-la-na thicket was yellow in the distance, the peasants standing at its edge, not moving.
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13 883 I saw the broad blade of his sword but an inch from my face, for one terrifying instant of immobility, the other's blade, edge downward, resting on it, stopped.
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16 285 Her bondage adds a particular dimension, a thrilling vividness, an edge, a special reality to her life, one unknown to free women.
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Book 8. (27 results) Hunters of Gor

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1 211 When they wearied of me, I was taken, leashed and manacled, to a lonely beach, at the edge of Thassa, bordering on the western edge of the forests".
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2 48 The man whom Rim had identified as Arn, an outlaw, now came forward, passing before the two frames, closer down to the beach's edge.
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4 166 "So you arrived at the edge of the forests," I said, "and released the tarn".
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5 104 I recalled how swiftly, how expeditiously, even Elizabeth Cardwell, who was a free woman, had been taken by them, and had been, when her vulnerable, helpless femininity was recognized, humiliatingly exhibited, bound to a pole, at the river's edge, where she had been purchased by Sarpedon, in whose t...
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5 337 When we reached the Tesephone, less than a hundred yards from the slave market, the tide was at a knife's edge of its crest.
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7 287 "Edge out on the limb," I told her, "and lie down upon it, on your back, your head to the trunk of the tree".
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9 102 I again felt the edge of the sleen knife on my throat.
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9 307 Some of the panther girls, at the edge of the clearing, with their spears, stood restlessly, watching me.
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11 533 I saw the edge of the blade touch the right tendon.
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13 37 They ran toward me as I had wanted them to, near the edge of the river, in the shortest line, away from the trees.
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15 507 I turned my head to one side and saw, some yards away, at the edge of our camp, in her yellow silk, Ilene.
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15 828 "Go to that tree," said the red-haired girl, indicating a slender-trunked tree at the edge of the camp clearing.
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18 25 Beyond the breakers, and the white caps, there was only the calm placid line of gleaming Thassa, its vastness untroubled, meeting the bright, hard blue sky in a lonely plane, as unbroken and simple as the mark of a geometer's straight edge.
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18 31 Yet on the trackless beaches, lining the western edge of the great northern forests for hundreds of pasangs, below the bleakness of Torvaldsland, it would not be easy to make rendezvous.
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18 35 His men, fifty-five men of Tyros, some falling, made their way down the beach, across the stones, to the edge of the water.
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18 47 Now, sullen, angry, at the edge of the forest, I saw a slave chain of twenty-one men.
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18 152 My enemies, and their prisoners, stood at the water's edge.
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18 161 Under the orders of Mira, the twenty-four slave girls in their coffle knelt on the sand, near the water's edge, in the position of pleasure slaves.
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18 167 * * * * During the afternoon I observed the slave girls, tied in pairs, by the neck, each pair under the guard of a man of Tyros and a panther girl, gathering driftwood and, from the forest's edge, broken branches.
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18 223 I washed with a bit of water from a stream, ate some tabuk strips from my wallet, and went again to the edge of the forest.
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18 263 Weeping, the two girls sprang to their feet and ran to the edge of the forest and, trying not to enter into its shadows, rapidly, weeping, began to break branches and gather wood.
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18 354 "To the edge of the forest, Slaves," I told them.
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18 496 I took Cara into the woods, a hundred yards or so from the forest's edge.
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18 503 I returned to the edge of the forest.
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19 112 The women, too, of Hura, stood at the edge of the circle, among the men of Sarus.
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19 128 "Kill him!" screamed Hura, her dark hair before her eyes, crouching at the edge of the circle, to which, after my kiss, I had spurned her.
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22 76 I stood at the edge of the Cylinder of Justice of Ar and looked down.
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Book 9. (15 results) Marauders of Gor

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1 80 Wounds had I at the shore of Thassa, high on the coast, at the edge of the forests, when one night I had, in a stockade of enemies, commanded by Sarus of Tyros, chosen to recollect my honor.
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1 146 I could not recover my honor, but I could, and did upon one occasion, recollect it, in a stockade at the shore of Thassa, at the edge of the northern forests.
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3 138 "Yes," she said, hurrying to its edge.
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3 288 The single-bladed edge of the great ax lay at Aelgifu's throat; her head was bent back.
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9 369 I collected nine tarn disks and two pieces of broken plate, plundered two years ago from a house on the eastern edge of Skjern.
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12 86 "Swear, too," he suggested, "by the side of the ship, by the shield's rim, by the sword's edge".
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12 92 "Very well," said the Blue Tooth, "I swear by the ship's side, the shield's rim, the sword's edge, the fires of my hearth, the timbers of my hall and the pillars of the high seat in my house".
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14 191 The only portion of the wall that was clearly afire, however, and threatening to cave in, was the eastern edge of the southern wall.
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14 281 He disappeared over the edge of the roof.
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15 231 I looked over the edge.
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15 385 I leaped to my feet and ran to the brink of the edge.
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16 6 "There is cut moss against the edge," said the Forkbeard.
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16 157 He sat down on the edge of the couch, on the black fur, and put his head in his hands.
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18 293 His charge was unleashed while the last of the bosk were still striking the western edge of the square, and other animals were streaming, bellowing, goring, through it.
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19 26 Then, holding the pieces of the ax over his head, he departed, escorted by armed men from the fire, to the edge of the camp, past the guards.
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Book 10. (26 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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11 411 Caravans with goods tend to travel the western, or distant eastern edge of the Tahari; caravans do, it might be mentioned, occasionally travel from Tor or Kasra to Turmas, a Turian outpost and kasbah, in the southeastern edge of the Tahari, but even these commonly avoid the dune country, either movi...
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2 383 The petals of veminium, the "Desert Veminium," purplish, as opposed to the "Thentis Veminium," bluish, which flower grows at the edge of the Tahari, gathered in shallow baskets and carried to a still, are boiled in water.
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2 446 He leaned back against it, sitting on its edge.
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10 148 He stepped to the edge of the circle.
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11 13 Once, when a rising edge of blackness, whipping with dust, had risen in the south, we had dismounted, hobbled our kaiila and turned their backs to the wind.
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11 516 Hassan and I met them, fiercely, forcing them back over the edge, into the crowded, dark, screaming throng below.
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11 526 "Tarna!" Hassan went to the edge of the wall looking down into the now-blazing stable yard.
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11 528 They vaulted the edge of the roof, striking below in the stable yard.
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11 530 I could now see fire, in a bright, geometrical, right-angled line, glowing from below, about the trap door's edge.
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11 535 We ran again to the other edge of the roof.
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11 538 "On my signal," said Hassan, "have them throw open the gate to the stable yard, and ride!" I went to the edge of the roof overlooking the burning yard.
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11 569 "Be off! There is time! Be off!" Instead I joined him at the edge of the roof.
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11 577 "Tarna!" They reined in, almost below the edge of the roof.
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12 332 She sat, on the edge of the couch, and sipped it.
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14 7 I could feel blood on my left leg, over the leather wrappings, where the edge of a crust, ragged, hot, had sawed it open.
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14 168 A rider, on kaiila, was moving toward us, on the sand about the edge of the wall.
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15 65 I hid the bit of silk in the crusts, at the edge of one of the low, white plastered buildings.
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17 125 He examined the long blade of the lance, running his finger along the edge of the blade.
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17 138 "Stand back from the edge of the raft," he said.
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17 227 Almost at the edge of the raft the great body lifted in the water, turning to its side, jaws dropping open, lunging, falling, biting, onto the beams, thrashing.
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18 46 Each player has nine pieces of equal value which are originally placed on the intersections of the nine interior vertical lines with what would be the rear horizontal line, constituted by the back edge of the board, from each player's point of view.
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19 104 We had come to the edge of the dune country.
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19 128 Hassan and I stood at the edge of the ditch, looking eastward.
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20 150 Already, loping, then turning back, then moving ahead again, the Kur moved before me, back toward the long ragged edge of dunes which lay on our left.
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21 506 I counted slowly, five thousand Ihn, that the reflexes of the Kur within be drawn to a hair-trigger alertness, that the whole nervous might of the beast might be balanced on a razor's edge of response, that every instinct and fiber in his body would scream to press the trigger at what first might mo...
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24 353 She could feel its edge.
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Book 11. (19 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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2 220 I felt the delicate, razor-sharp edge of the dagger on my throat.
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2 247 What rivals we had been! I felt the edge of the dagger anchor itself in the outer layer of skin on my throat, preparing for its slash.
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2 505 The shield fell on its edge to the grass, and then tipped and rocked, then was still, large, rounded, concave inner surface tilted, facing the sky.
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2 1146 We stood at the edge of the trees.
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3 128 To my humiliation, too, I was taught to wash clothing on rocks, pounding and rinsing, on my knees, at the edge of the tiny stream which moved through the camp.
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3 648 Furtively, I looked at the man over the edge of the copper bowl.
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5 299 Then the knife's edge, I feeling it, thin, obdurate, pressed at my jugular.
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7 870 They had circled our camp area, between it and the edge of the palisade, and were now returning to the center of the village.
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9 543 Its head is iron, and heavy, some six inches at the cutting edge, tapering to four inches where it joins the staff.
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9 545 A wedge was driven between the interior edge of the socket and the staff to tighten the wood in the socket.
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9 1778 Sandal Thong stood at the edge of the circle, in each fist the leash, a short leash, of a sleen.
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12 784 Slowly then I made my way, inch by inch, through encumbrances, through the close, flame-lit darkness of the basket, the flickering light from outside oddly in small moving patches illuminating the flesh, the gold, within, to the edge of the basket, so that I might see out more easily through the int...
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13 118 The auctioneer came to the edge of the block.
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16 1 A Sail I screamed wildly in the darkness, jerking back my ankle from the edge of the sturdy mesh about me.
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18 25 If they are not pleased, the girls are informed; a slave ring, with thongs, is fixed in the edge of every table; we strive to wait the tables well.
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26 25 She then went to the edge of the sunken bath, and slipped her toe within the water, and then stepped down into the bath and reclined, leaning back.
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26 305 He released her wrist and arm, and taking her by the hair, thrust her on her stomach on the tiles, at the edge of the bath, her head over the water.
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29 100 He slung his shield upon his back, and tied his spear, too, beneath the shield's edge, upon his back.
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29 114 I still, of course, did not dare to drink from the same edge of the cup as he, the master.
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Book 12. (27 results) Beasts of Gor

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4 333 Yellow's pieces, as they are arranged, begin from their placements at the lower edge of the great board, red's pieces from their placement at its upper edge.
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2 62 He gestured to a guardsman, who fetched and spilled open a bundle of garments on the edge of the table.
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2 320 The world's end was said to lie beyond Cos and Tyros, at the end of Thassa, at the world's edge.
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2 326 Others said, similarly, that the end of the world was sheer, and that a ship might there plunge over the edge, to fall tumbling for days through emptiness until fierce winds broke it apart and the wreckage was lifted up to the bottom of the sea.
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3 430 The slaver's beauties, chained together by the neck, knelt at the edge of the platform.
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3 1020 Frightened, they, on their knees, crept forward to the edge of the platform.
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3 1034 They were placed in such a way as to be a quarter of an inch over the edge of the platform.
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3 1101 Tenalion of Ar, the slaver, their master, stood now at the edge of the platform.
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4 96 Centius of Cos walked to the edge of the stone stage, some five feet above the pit, and lifted his hand to the crowd.
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4 142 His brilliance, his competitive edge, must be at its peak.
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4 144 The edge must be sharp, the resolve must be merciless, the instinct to kill must in no way be blunted.
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4 313 "Kill him! Kill him!" Guardsmen at the stage's edge, with shields, buffeted back a man who, with drawn knife, had tried to climb to the level where sat the table of the game.
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4 314 Centius of Cos seemed not to notice the man who had been struck back from the edge of the stage.
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4 329 Guardsmen, with spear butts and cruel shield rims, forced back two more men from the stage's edge.
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4 631 A peasant came about the edge of the booth.
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5 85 He indicated the western edge of the map, the terra incognita beyond Cos and Tyros, and the scattered, farther islands.
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6 35 I walked about the edge of the pond, to meet them.
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6 535 The free woman was at the edge of the pond.
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6 723 He went over to the edge of the pond, and, kneeling down beside the water, drank.
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12 107 Some five days after I had acquired the slave girl, Arlene, following the herd of Tancred, generally climbing, I came to the edge of Ax Glacier.
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12 203 More than once we heard gigantic crashes as hundreds of feet or more of ice broke away from the glacial edge and tumbled roaring into the sea.
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12 236 Four days after leaving the northern edge of Ax Glacier, we climbed to the height of the pass of Tancred, the mountains of the Hrimgar flanking us on either side.
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12 238 It is thousands of pasangs in width, and hundreds in depth; it extends, beyond horizons we could see, to the southern edge of the northern, or polar, sea.
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22 9 At my right, alongside the outer edge of the circular wooden frame, bound with sinew, within which I sat, lay the long lance.
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26 121 He had begun to take snow blocks from the drift and place them in a circle, within the edge of the area I was trampling down.
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26 331 He ripped the meat from the blade, making away with it, his jaws cut by the knife's edge.
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31 57 The animal, on all fours, withdrew from the edge of the basin.
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Book 13. (31 results) Explorers of Gor

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1 366 It was some ten inches on all sides, from the circumference of the pole to the edge of the platform.
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1 382 The walkway's front edge was about a yard from the tiny, wooden, metal-sheathed, circular platform, mounted on the wooden, metal-sheathed pole, that tiny platform on which the girl knelt, that narrow, tiny platform which held her but inches from the tharlarion-filled water.
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4 62 I went over to the edge of the pier, some hundred yards or so away, to where the Palms of Schendi was moored.
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4 129 The wooden bar before the desk's front edge makes it impossible to see what evidence or papers the praetor has at his disposal as he considers your case.
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10 7 He was sitting, cross-legged, on a flat, rectangular stone, broad and heavy, about a foot high, at the western edge of the large Utukufu, or Glory, square.
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10 61 He ran his finger about its edge to determine that it had not been shaved.
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15 232 At the edge of the silver plate, that held in the ring's bezel, there was indeed a minute scratch.
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16 2 The edge of the shovel struck, cutting, at the side of its snout.
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19 132 I was dragged to the edge of the pit.
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21 14 Suddenly the snout of a tharlarion, half lying on the edge of the raft, thrust against the bars.
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21 17 It kept its snout for a time on the edge of the raft.
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23 146 Tende rose gracefully to her feet and descended from the cushions and dais, to stand at the edge of the platform, over Kisu.
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23 442 "What is going on here?" asked Mwoga, returning from the eastern edge of the platform of planks fixed over the four canoes.
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25 42 It floated free now, fully, at the outer edge of the Ngao waters.
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27 9 We could see women on the shore, some with bowls, come out to the edge of the river to see what was occurring.
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32 733 Then I was drawn to the very edge of the pool.
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43 13 She ran down to the edge of the water.
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44 22 Immediately I spun about and ran to the edge of the trees.
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44 56 I went to the water's edge.
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44 81 I went to the edge of the depression.
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44 95 I slid down the side of the depression to the edge of the net.
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44 125 The small men then stood again about the upper edge of the depression.
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44 137 The small men, I recalled, had originally stood about the upper edge of the depression, impassively observing Janice's predicament.
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47 8 I had heard it before on the edge of the lagoon, but had not understood it.
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48 121 But instantly several of the small men leaped forward and threw the hair of more than one of the prisoners forward over the trunk of the tree, and laid the edge of the rusty pangas at their necks.
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48 200 She and the dark-haired girl had followed us to the edge of the river.
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48 203 Then we were at the edge of the water.
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49 94 Scarcely had we beached the canoe and dragged it into the brush than the first of the many canoes rounded the southern edge of the island.
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50 8 From the falls at the edge of this unnamed lake we had been able to see far behind us.
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50 30 Before us, more than four hundred yards in width, was a broad expanse of stone, at the eastern edge of the huge lake.
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54 5 To it led the several flights of broad stairs, ascending from that vast marble landing, with its marble mooring posts, which lies at the western edge of the ancient city, that landing to which we had first come, days ago, after our crossing of the lake.
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Book 14. (12 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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1 543 I saw that Miss Henderson had a sharp edge to her.
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3 173 Then it was lifted up and swung, on a set of ropes, over the edge of the barrier and toward the center of the circular, sunken enclosure, whence it was lowered.
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3 183 I had been held by the two men at the edge of the barrier, to see the attack on the first piece of lowered meat.
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7 320 My hands, angrily, gripped the edge of the table.
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7 399 I looked at the edge of the bowl, containing the wine, pressed back, into her flesh.
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8 54 On its top it had two sets of rings, each set placed along an edge of the top, through which long carrying poles might be thrust.
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9 3 We were at the edge of what appeared to be a square in a city.
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19 262 She struggled up and then, carefully, that her tunic not be drawn upward, put her legs over the edge of the wagon bed and lowered herself to the ground.
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21 32 We watched Taphris, on her hands and knees, carry a stick to the edge of the flame ditch and, shutting her eyes, drop it in, then quickly draw back.
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21 140 We had been placing sharpened posts, leaning inward, braced with abutments, at the edge of the meadow.
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21 210 Barus was relieved at the edge of the southeast meadow at noon, and he, wanting help later in the incubation shed, returning to the stables, took me with him.
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22 593 Melpomene stood at the edge of the love furs.
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Book 15. (10 results) Rogue of Gor

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1 101 Busebius, proprietor of the tavern, stood at the edge of the sand.
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3 216 There, at the edge of the straw, standing, was a large, uncouth fellow, in the garments of the Tarn Keepers.
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19 22 I then turned him about again and, holding him by the back of the neck, ran him to the edge of the wharf where, seizing his ankle, and holding his neck, I upended him into the water below.
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24 167 I then sat on the edge of the couch, at its bottom, the palms of my hands resting on its furs, and looked upon her.
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24 532 She stumbled, in the blindfold, against the edge of the couch, crying out, bruising herself.
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24 541 Then I thrust her up, half sitting, half lying, against the edge of the tub.
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30 17 It took the edge of the stair beautifully, for such silk is very fine.
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32 282 They hesitated and Kliomenes felt the edge of the steel, set to slide on his throat.
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32 307 In a few moments, walking along the parapets, we had come to the edge of the west gate tower, that which houses, in its lowest level, the chamber of the windlass.
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32 317 I glanced over the edge of the wall.
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Book 16. (7 results) Guardsman of Gor

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7 25 I got the knife from my teeth and, under the water, thrust it, edge up, into his abdomen, and then drew it, deeply in him, diagonally, upward and to the right.
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10 190 Then ahead of him another ship was at the walk's edge.
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15 83 There the pirates, at the edge of the concourse, some hundred yards from the office of the wharf master, set back on the concourse, had gathered, preparatory to their attack on the town.
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16 29 I saw some five pirates thrust back off the edge of the concourse into the water.
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16 193 I sawed apart the rope joining my wrists on the cutting edge of the great blade.
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16 402 At the front edge of the concourse, near the wharves, pirates, in rows, stripped and bound, lay on their bellies.
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18 691 She trembled, lying transversely on the carpeting near the edge of the dais, before the curule chair, her hands beside her head, her fingers clutching at the piling.
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Book 17. (15 results) Savages of Gor

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1 59 I withdrew from her then, and sat on the edge of the couch, the furs about me.
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1 88 I then returned to the couch, and sat upon its edge.
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1 195 We were in the remains of a half-fallen, ruined tarn complex, built on a wide platform, at the edge of the rence marshes, some four pasangs from the northeast delta gate of Port Kar.
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1 833 The pigments, commonly mixed with hot water or glue, are usually applied by a chewed stick or a small brush, or pen, of porous bone, usually cut from the edge of the kailiauk's shoulder blade or the end of its hip bone.
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2 233 No white man, incidentally, at least as far as I know, has ever penetrated to the eastern edge of the Barrens.
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3 31 It was not unusual for the border towns, along the eastern edge of the Thentis mountains, to be served by itinerant tradesmen and artisans.
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3 151 It lies almost at the edge of the Ihanke, or Boundary.
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4 164 I gripped the edge of the wagon box.
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11 3 I stood at the edge of our small camp, in a few trees, nestled beside a small stream.
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14 31 She put some of these things on her edge of the blanket.
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14 1044 He held his left hand with the palm in, before his chest, and placed the index and second finger of his right hand astride the edge of his left hand.
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14 1051 He placed his left fist in front of his mouth and sliced between it and his face with the edge of his opened right hand.
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15 190 The Fleer let the hair fall from the lance, and then he laid the side of the metal point of the lance on the edge of the girl's collar, the metal touching the right side of her neck.
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18 2 I joined my party on the crest of a small rise, at the eastern edge of the field of battle.
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19 764 Other marks upon it, which might have signified an owner, had been scratched away, probably with the edge of a knife.
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Book 18. (45 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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1 133 The expression, for most practical purposes, signifies a certain type of gap, such as, for example, might occur in the edge of a trade ax, or hatchet, for use in drawing nails, an occupation for which the red savages, of course, have little use.
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9 562 How closely it fitted about her lovely throat! There was a small shadow on her neck at its top edge.
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12 706 She picked it up and brought it to the edge of the robe.
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13 237 "In the lower end of the camp, at the edge of the camp," said Cuwignaka, "where the drainage is worst".
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18 155 "The western edge of the camp, then, is unguarded," I said.
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19 136 The inner circle, I think, would have had the edge of the shadow reach it or fall within it about noon".
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27 37 Archers concealed under robes and hidden among lodges lay between the Kinyanpi and our main forces, at the western edge of the camp.
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33 8 At one edge of the field a crude wooden platform had been erected, some seven or eight feet high, its surface reached by a ladder.
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33 29 In a few moments we had reached the edge of the maize field, near the platform.
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40 402 "Hidden, near the edge of the maize field," said Carrot.
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43 173 There is also an interior edge, some twelve to eighteen inches in height, on each sack.
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43 174 This edge, however, we had left folded in.
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43 175 By means of this edge, and its own eyelets, which are aligned with the lower eyelets, to make lacing in the lower position convenient, the sack may be, if one wishes, brought out to its full length and closed completely over the head of the girl.
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44 20 The posts, too, because of their position near the edge of the escarpment, commanded a fine view of the main, sloping trail leading up to the summit.
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44 138 I then, turning away from the ledge, not facing the west, began to coil some rope which was lying about, one of several such lengths which seemed, purposelessly, to be scattered near the edge of the escarpment.
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44 142 I had seen it when I had first come to the edge of the escarpment but, to be sure, from the scouts, I had known where to look.
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44 423 "Why else do you think that you and your miserable slave have been brought forth and roped so prominently to these posts at the edge of the escarpment? That you may, as it amuses us, see what you have brought about!" "No!" cried Iwoso.
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44 458 Men fought to escape the edge, cutting at one another even with knives.
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44 459 But those at the edge, often, other Yellow Knives pressing forward, were thrust, even fought, from the trail.
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44 461 Bodies, those of kaiila and Yellow Knives, slipped from the edge, plummeting downward.
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44 478 Others, with their hands, and levers, began to roll larger stones, even boulders, toward the edge of the escarpment.
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44 485 Then began the lethal hail of stones, hundreds flung from above, dozens rolled and toppled over the edge.
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44 494 Dozens of men and animals, buffeted, losing their footing, crowded from the edge, slipped, scratching and screaming, down the rock's steep face.
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44 565 The second barricade was defended by a fusillade of arrows sped from the small bows of Kaiila warriors suddenly appearing at the upper edge of the escarpment.
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44 568 And as they lowered their shields to defend themselves against the almost point-blank fire of the Kaiila other Kaiila archers, from above, over the edge of the escarpment, fired down upon them.
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44 592 From the lodges near the edge of the escarpment men again drew forth travois.
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44 631 Hci joined us at the edge of the escarpment.
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44 833 Cuwignaka, Hci and I then sat cross-legged at the edge of the escarpment.
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44 895 After a time, after I had secured the girls, hooded and tied, wrists to ankles, in the prison lodge, I returned to the edge of the escarpment.
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45 17 We were then about four or five feet from the edge.
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45 31 "Let us hide under kailiauk robes near the edge," said Hci.
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45 62 We watched the darkness grow at the edge of the rear escarpment.
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45 92 These flaming bundles, on their ropes, were then hurled over the edge, to hang burning against the rocky face.
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45 93 I again looked over the edge.
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46 88 I looked at the ropes left lying at intervals along the edge of the escarpment.
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46 132 Hci, Cuwignaka and I then hurried along the edge of the escarpment, about three hundred feet to our left, joining others, already waiting there.
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46 134 The forty men in his party, including myself and Cuwignaka, then, on the ropes left along the edge of the escarpment, held by the members of the fourth group, under the command of Kahintokapa, lowered ourselves to the trail below.
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46 166 I looked over the edge of the trail.
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47 88 We crouched down, dust and rocks flying past us, that we not be forced from the edge of the escarpment by the turbulent blasts of those mighty, beating wings.
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47 313 Then tarns, screaming, talons raking, wings beating, hurtled among the startled soldiers on the ledge, seizing and tearing at them, blasts of wind even from the wings forcing some back over the edge.
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48 8 We had brought the girls to the edge of the escarpment, near the posts.
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50 29 Cuwignaka forced her inexorably, implacably, to the edge.
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50 34 Mahpiyasapa made a sign and Cuwignaka, at the very edge of the surface, released Bloketu.
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50 35 She fell to her knees and scrambled back from the edge, her knees abraded on the rock.
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54 92 At the edge of the Ihanke, when it was reached, some weeks from now, he would be tied and beaten with switches, as though he might be a slave girl.
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Book 19. (13 results) Kajira of Gor

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1 92 "Do you see how this part of the object, at the edge, seems flatter, or straight, different from the rest of the object's circumference?" "Yes," I said.
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2 373 I sat on the table, at one of the small ends, that nearest the dishwasher, puzzled, my feet dangling over the edge.
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3 654 He came to the edge of the bed and looked down at me.
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3 657 He said something to Susan and she sprang up and came to the edge of the bed.
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6 311 These were apparently originally shells or pieces, shards, of pottery, but now were generally small clay disks, with a hole for a string near one edge.
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7 39 I came forth, from about the edge of the screen.
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16 99 At its edge there was a deep ditch.
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17 161 I called him "Master" for he, like the young men who had caught me at the edge of the Viktel Aria, had made it clear to me that I was to address him, whether I was free or not, with a slave's respect.
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19 96 I had not yet even come to the edge of those stinking furs.
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20 221 Then, when no one was looking, I bent down and picked up a small, sharp stone from the edge of the stream.
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29 46 Kasra lies west of Tor, which lies at the northwestern edge of the Tahari, the great desert, the Wastes.
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30 75 Then I was running along the western edge of the concourse, under the trees.
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34 161 "Please, Master! Please!" I lay on my side, at the edge of the furs, near them.
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Book 20. (27 results) Players of Gor

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16 1243 He drew her head back by the hair, gently, and lifting up her collar slightly with the edge of the knife, with a tiny scraping sound, let her feel the blade lightly, but unmistakably, against her throat, just under the steel edge of the collar.
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1 12 It was, looking at the tiny counter at the edge of the board, his tenth move.
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1 278 The fellow laid the edge of the blade gently on the back of her neck, and then he lifted the blade away and upward.
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1 783 She crawled, head down, on her hands and knees, to the edge of the table.
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1 785 Then, rising up a little and approaching further, still on her hands and knees, she turned her head, delicately, and kissed the edge of the table, her lips touching partly the surface of the table, partly its side.
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4 44 The fellow, clad in dark garments, with a cape spread behind him, sitting cross-legged at the edge of the cloth, she kneeling across from him, turned to look at me.
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6 455 "Who might have conjectured that our problem could have succumbed to so deft a solution!" "I bundle my clothing," she said, "and place it herewith beneath the edge of the veil, that you may see it".
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6 1095 The advantage of a girl pit, from the point of view of the seller, is that the merchandise cannot be seen unless one comes to the edge of the pit, perhaps standing behind the railing, and looking down.
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7 25 We were some two hundred pasangs west of the fairgrounds, at the edge of the woods of Clearchus, just off the road of Clearchus.
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7 43 I held her there, on the brink, for a time, as it pleased me, sometimes permitting her to subside a bit, and then again, when I wished, with the cruelty of the master, almost as though beckoning her, a command she could not refuse, bringing her back to the edge, where, almost in madness, she quivere...
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7 280 We were some two hundred pasangs west of the fairgrounds, at the edge of the woods of Clearchus, just off the road of Clearchus.
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7 283 He had, this afternoon, at the edge of the woods, for local villagers, given his first performances since the fair, from which, as we had anticipated, he had been duly expelled, that following from various complaints lodged with the fair's board of governance by a certain free woman, the Lady Telits...
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8 18 "Bring the two tent sluts here, bound, to the edge of the fire," said the leader of the brigands.
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11 20 "Help! Help!" One of the men pulled the top edge of her lower garment out and down a bit from her body, peering within.
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12 129 Her foot was on the edge of the monster's robes, as he sat before the board, cross-legged.
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13 253 The representative of the urt people then scurried to his food and, by one edge of the tray, with a scraping noise of metal on stone, dragged it quickly over to his straw.
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14 52 It did pull up a bit at one edge.
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14 206 You will go to the edge of the urt pack.
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14 230 I went to within a few yards of the edge of the pack.
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14 328 He tried to run between them, to reach the edge of the pack.
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14 330 By the time he came near the edge of the pack he had lost a foot and a hand.
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14 345 I now stood, breathing heavily, at the edge of the pack.
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14 412 Such thoughts had run through my mind earlier, when I had first come to the edge of the pack.
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14 469 I could see Flaminius, and his men, on the other side of the pack, quite near, now, to its edge.
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16 1258 Some men then, near the back of the hall, using poles, brought in a giant vat of tharlarion oil, mounted over a large, flattish, curved-edge iron plate.
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22 29 I hurried about the wagons, until I came to that place, near the edge of the trees, on a clifflike projection of the hill, rearing above Thassa, where was the wagon of Andronicus.
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22 254 We stood for a long time, all of us, on the summit of that hill, near its clifflike edge, the water below striking at its foot, overlooking Thassa, with Brundisium in the distance.
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Book 21. (8 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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2 8 I could see the dark sky, with the moons, over its jagged, serrated edge.
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2 67 I approached her very slowly, and drew back the edge of the coverlet about the child.
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4 96 On the face of Genserix, and on the faces of those about us, the males, were the thin, white, knife-edge lines, the narrow scars, by which it might be known that each had, in his time, undergone the same ceremony.
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5 186 "Hold!" I said, suddenly, to Mincon, as we came to the edge of the road.
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7 12 One could hold onto the edge of the wagon bed with one hand.
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9 49 I pulled at an edge of the blanket.
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16 1728 "We have now come to the edge of the camp," I said.
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27 59 Sometimes a low fence, set out a few feet, discourages crowding near the edge of the block itself.
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Book 22. (18 results) Dancer of Gor

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3 332 I leaped up and fled away from him, utilizing the narrow space at the edge of the porchlike upper level, between the safety banister and the shelves, to the second stairs, on the east side of the upper level, leading down to the main floor.
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3 482 It was near the western edge of the parking lot, by the sidewalk, fixed there, mainly, I suppose, to illuminate the street running at the side of the library.
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3 965 I heard the movement of the chain, behind me, where it dangled over the edge of the table.
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5 26 I then bent down and tried to wipe my closed eyes and face on the wooden edge of the trough.
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7 11 We had thrust up the canvas and silk, an inch or two, at the top edge of the wagon bed, and, turned and kneeling, some half sitting, half lying, eager, curious, our ankle chains twisted, were peeping out.
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8 82 We had come to a long, narrow, wooden, caulked, semicircular tanklike container, about two feet wide and ten feet long, half buried in the dirt, its forward edge reached by a low ramp.
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9 43 Two men along the edge of the shoot, standing outside it, with pointed sticks, spaced them, and informed them, one at a time, when to move ahead.
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9 183 I could see the forward edge of a large, rounded block, about five feet high, set back on the dirt, a few feet within the railing.
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11 563 I now stood back about a third from the front edge of the dancing floor.
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11 590 She guided me to the right, where I must stand at the edge of the floor, there, and then further to the right, and back.
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11 595 I was near the edge.
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11 603 A man, sitting near the edge of the floor, had put out his hand and held my left ankle.
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20 100 I remembered the knife of my master's man, the point entered ever so slightly into my belly, the edge of the knife turned in such a way that I knew it could open me like a larma.
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24 609 "If we are outside the defense perimeter or near its edge," I said, "is there not a danger that the chain might find itself under attack?" "For what?" she asked.
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25 67 I went toward the back edge of the tent.
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29 1194 I felt the edge of the sword at the back of my neck.
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33 168 They tend to trust the edge on the weapon to no one but themselves.
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34 614 He then rose to his feet and walked a few feet away, to the edge of the camp, and then turned and regarded me.
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Book 23. (20 results) Renegades of Gor

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6 204 Space 97, for example, did have one edge, the top edge, on the wall.
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1 48 I stood on the road, at its edge.
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1 112 I located the stones which were missing from the edge of the road.
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1 196 I saw it now above me, mostly on the road, though, tilting, the left wheels were still over the edge of the stones.
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1 345 The upper stone has two holes in it, in the center a funnel-shaped hole through which grain is poured, and, near the edge, another hole into which one end of the turning pole is placed.
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4 82 "Aiii!" cried the fellow in the tub, seized, and, in a moment, flung over its edge to the slotted wooden bath floor.
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8 580 I moved the harness, drawing the straps evenly, and the bird, anticipatory, alerted, stalked to the front edge of the landing platform, outside the portal of the tarn gate.
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10 70 "Keep a lookout," said one of the men to another, one standing on a low wooden platform, at the forward edge of the trench.
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14 182 There seemed a narrow fringe of lightness in the darkness, at the edge of the high window.
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17 29 The second great pole was tied on two crosspoles and, by ten men on each crosspole, was thrust in place as soon as that bridge fell, and was held at an angle, like a railing, its sturdy barrier diverting the stream of attackers, causing many on the outside edge to be buffeted by their comrades to th...
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17 65 At both bridges, following the success of the devices of the fishermen and huntsmen, the temporary consternation of hesitant successors permitted defenders to take their place, too, on the shaking bridge, where, in moments, they had pressed their way back even to the edge of the flooring, that of th...
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17 86 I saw one of Ar's Station run through, and slip to one knee, and then disappear back, over the interior edge of the walkway, probably to plunge to the rubble there, and then roll down to the court, behind the wall.
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17 241 I thrust again, this time against the edge of the right upright.
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17 244 The spear, given the trembling of the ladder, from the movement and weight of the men upon it, and its twisting, slid loose from its precarious anchorage in the upright's edge, and the ladder, twisting, plunged forward again, again crashing against the wall.
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17 473 I then drew her to her feet and, turning her a few times, unwrapping some of the rope, stood her near the courtyard edge of the walkway.
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17 503 For an instant it had been hard to get my hands on the rope, it was moving so, over the edge of the walkway, but, a moment or so after she had struck the hill of debris, I had it in my hands and began to descend it, rapidly, hand over hand.
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17 634 The bloody metallic configuration burst through again and this time, as soon as it had entered, before it could swing back, I rolled a rock from the debris between it and the lower edge of the rupture.
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18 291 I could see, too, the backs and fins of sharks crowded about the lower edge of the walkway, near the landing.
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18 297 I saw more than one woman, struck from the walkway, reaching out, seizing the walkway, pulled again, screaming, to its safety, even in the midst of the frenzy at its edge.
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20 312 I moved away from the crowd about Aemilianus and walked along the outer edge of the piers.
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Book 24. (33 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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24 147 I then slid the matching board in place, frontally, in the framework, until its back flat edge was flush against the flat front edge of the rear board.
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1 490 The other girl, the one near him, in the dirt, made as though to edge away.
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1 1145 These were located at the southern edge of the camp, that direction in which lay, presumably, the main forces of Ar.
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1 1225 There was also, to one side, at the edge of a carpet, a heavy stake driven deeply into the ground.
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10 120 Some torches were fixed there, at intervals, near the water's edge.
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13 12 At my throat, too, my chin now lifted, my head back against the yoke, I felt the edge of a knife.
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13 27 I felt the edge of his knife at my throat.
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13 45 Then he turned the blade a little so that I felt its side and not its edge.
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13 48 Then, in an instant, the blade was turned again, so that the edge was again at my throat.
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16 46 Too, your columns must reach the edge of the delta.
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17 120 Three columns had essayed the edge of the delta.
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17 124 How many fell at the delta's edge, to the north, I could not learn.
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17 279 Too, I feared tharlarion, though now, in the heat of the day, many might be somnolent, in the water, mostly submerged, or on bars, at the water's edge, perhaps half hidden in the rence.
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17 284 I began to cut with the hood against the forward edge of the raft.
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18 44 As soon as I had seen the first edge of the new darkness, those new clouds, like a black rising moon, emerge on the horizon, over the rence, to the west, I had taken the rence tube, already prepared, and returned to the vicinity of the men of Ar.
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19 89 "Go away! Go away!" screamed the girl to the large creature at the edge of the beach.
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19 358 "I was robbed," she said, "and put here by brigands!" "Why did they not sell you at the delta's edge?" I asked.
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19 392 "True," I said, "if brigands had taken you, they would have bound you hand and foot and taken you to the edge of the delta, there to sell you off as a slave".
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19 740 Then I again saw her plunging through the marsh, pushing her way through rence, approaching the edge of the island.
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24 33 She stood at the edge of the rence, within which we had concealed the raft.
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27 6 Most quicksand, of course, is not particularly dangerous, as often one can turn about and scramble back, out of it, or reach in one's struggles a more solid footing, or its edge, or it is only two or three feet deep.
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27 28 "Fellow soldier of Ar! Help!" I stood forth, at the edge of the pool of sand.
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27 224 The odds of being detected, by rencers, by a patrol, by a tarn scout, by a guard at the edge of the delta, by someone, increased considerably with each addition to the party.
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28 203 "But perhaps you intend to lead us into an ambush at the delta's edge, and deliver us for bounty gold?" "That is an excellent idea," I said.
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30 5 Trees, generally not common in the marshy delta, were more common now, as we were approaching its southern edge.
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30 20 I guessed we were still some four or five days from the edge of the delta.
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32 23 It is the edge of the delta!" "Good," said more than one man about, but surely they, as I, knew that the most dangerous part of the journey lay ahead of us.
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32 29 I would scout out the edge of the delta, at night, trying to find an avenue of escape for myself, for Ina, and the others.
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33 4 Two nights ago, wading, we had reconnoitered the edge of the swamp.
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33 5 There, in the rence, near the delta's edge, we had found two bodies, half afloat, partly rotted, partly eaten, presumably by small fish and tharlarion.
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35 1 Farewells "And what will you do?" I asked Labienus, in the hut of the brigands, near the delta's edge.
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39 8 I thought I detected the shadows which had been with us since the camp, darknesses in the darkness, moving furtively to the side, to the edge of the buildings.
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43 37 "You are just in a bad mood," I said, "because I have brought you to the edge of the Cosian camp, thus needlessly placing your life in extreme jeopardy".
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Book 25. (3 results) Magicians of Gor

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3 987 There, at the edge of the circle, emerged from the darkness, there was a large man, bearded, in a tunic and cloak.
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6 172 "Do not respond to that," I said to Marcus, and drew him back a bit from the public boards, to the edge of the crowd.
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7 63 "Look, too, the Central Cylinder!" cried a man! At the edge of the circular park, within which rears the lofty Central Cylinder, a platform had been erected, presumably that thousands more, gathered on the streets, could witness what was to occur.
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Book 26. (17 results) Witness of Gor

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7 455 I had, of course, in chains, and in ropes, learned what such as he could do to me, how they could bring me again and again, gently, surely, cruelly, as it might amuse them, to such a point, to such a delicate, exact point, to the very threshold of release, to the very edge of ecstasy, to where I was...
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10 145 I stepped back, dizzy for a moment, from the edge of the trail, and touched the rock to my right.
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10 443 I did edge back from the opening.
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11 1822 I might have been somewhere near the center of the surface; I might have been at an edge; I did not know.
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12 565 ' I crept to the edge of the palanquin, to the threshold.
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16 443 He then sat at the edge of the divan, the palm of his left hand on the divan, resting on it, across my body.
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16 485 He rose from the edge of the divan and picked up the length of chain looped beside it.
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19 189 I was on all fours, at the front edge of the crowd.
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23 209 At the very edge of the terrace, the Lady Constanzia turned about and waved to me.
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24 187 Even so, I was buffeted by people fleeing, seeking the edge of the wall.
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29 71 Angrily, with a swirl of robes, the man turned about and came to the edge of the circle.
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29 77 The clerk then looked to the fellow at the edge of the circle.
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29 126 She obeyed and he, for his part, went back to the edge of the scarlet circle, rather on our side of it.
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37 385 Some scampered about the edge of the group, as though seeking some avenue of approach, some entrance into that heap of squirming, frenzied animals, some ingress into that broiling tumult of glistening fur and slashing fangs, that they, too, might feast.
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37 633 The man carefully confirmed this, looking about the edge of the wall.
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37 857 Tensius and Abnik swam to the edge of the pool, to our right.
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46 73 Then I felt its edge, like a fine, hard line, at my throat.
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Book 27. (19 results) Prize of Gor

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21 197 Ellen, the rope on her ankle, went with them, she, too, eager, to the edge of the wall, and, with them, first sitting on the edge of the wall, rather at the level of the ground, in her turn, slipped into the water.
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2 50 She was then again, it seemed, in the aisle, near the exit, at the edge of the empty row.
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3 48 Swiftly she drew her feet up on the bed, and sat there, at its edge.
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13 7 "Do not go too near the edge," said Laura.
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13 64 "I am only a slave, but I am here, and now this world is mine, too! It is mine, too! You are mine, too, dear world, and I love you, though on you I am but a slave! But on such a world what could a woman such as I be but a slave? On such a world a woman such as I could be only, and am worthy to be on...
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17 57 She was in first position, or in something rather like it, rather near the front edge of the shelf, the chain attached to her shackle ring trailing behind her to its ring.
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17 1021 In a moment, still carried, helplessly hooded and bound, her head to the rear, as a slave is carried, she felt herself brought again into the sunlight, and up the few steps to the surface of the shelf, where she was knelt down, she thought near the forward edge of the shelf.
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18 95 "I fear them so!" Saying nothing he had dragged her to her feet, she half bent over, his hand in her hair, twisted there, painfully, cruelly, and she then, bent over, thus controlled, this being a common slave leading position, was hurried stumbling out onto the platform, to its very edge, where she...
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18 100 "Do not kill me, Master! Forgive me, Master! Please forgive me! Please, Master, show me mercy!" He drew her back a yard from the edge and released her.
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22 182 There were several such circles in the camp, each with its flag on a wand at one edge of the circle, each flag being of a given shape, square, rectangular, forked, triangular, and so on, and color or mixture of colors.
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22 733 There had been five crates she remembered, remembering it from somewhere, vaguely from about the edge of her consciousness.
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24 660 Ellen, dancing, circumambulated the interior edge of the dancing sand, sometimes closer, almost within an arm's reach of the men, sometimes farther back.
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25 756 Some men were standing literally at the front edge of the block.
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27 880 The man's hand moved toward his holstered weapon, but then he lifted it, and held it away from the holster, as the edge of the blade tightened at his throat.
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27 905 He did not wish even to speak aloud, lest he inadvertently cut his own throat, so close against his throat was set the narrow edge of Arconious's blade.
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27 1809 He paused at the edge of the camp.
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27 1942 But he, and his fellow, ran to the edge of the camp, blowing piercing blasts on the whistles.
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27 2061 Tersius Major went to the edge of the camp.
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27 2800 "Put it with the others, at the edge of the camp, while there is still time.
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Book 31. (1 results) Conspirators of Gor

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10 1088 Later, inch by inch, I crawled on my belly to the edge of the bridge and looked over the edge.
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Book 34. (1 results) Plunder of Gor

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55 30 The charging Kur was struck fully on the side of the neck by that storm of chain, and I screamed for the headless body, blood pumped by that mighty heart showering into the air, staggered toward us, two, and then three, steps, paws outstretched, and then fell before Lord Grendel, who swept the trunk...
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