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Book 1. (3 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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12 57 The current soon caught it, and it began to spin in slow circles farther and farther out into the midst of that vast force of nature called the Vosk.
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13 22 The hunting cry was answered from elsewhere in the peaks and then again from a farther distance.
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19 86 The men, of both sides, fell back even farther.
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Book 2. (1 results) Outlaw of Gor

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24 218 "You are Stam," she said, "first guardsman of the north gate and can cast your spear farther than any man of Tharna.
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Book 3. (1 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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10 17 For example, an odor can carry, to the sensory appendages of a Priest-King, much farther than can the shout or cry of a man to another man.
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Book 4. (10 results) Nomads of Gor

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1 19 Even past me there thundered a lumbering herd of startled, short-trunked kailiauk, a stocky, awkward ruminant of the plains, tawny, wild, heavy, their haunches marked in red and brown bars, their wide heads bristling with a trident of horns; they had not stood and formed their circle, shes and young...
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2 90 It would not, of course, be to the benefit of Turia, or the farther cities, or, indeed, any of the free cities of even northern Gor, if the isolated fierce peoples of the south were to join behind a single standard and turn their herds northward—away from their dry plains to the lusher reache...
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6 137 "Farther even than Thentis?" asked Kamchak.
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6 139 "Farther even than the islands of Cos and Tyros?" he asked.
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8 47 Still farther north, another hundred pasangs, there was no snow and the peoples began to sing and once more dance about their fires of bosk dung.
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8 50 "The bosk are safe," they had cried, and the cry had been taken up by the women and carried from wagon to wagon, "The bosk are safe!" This year, perhaps because it was the Omen Year, the Wagon Peoples did not advance farther north than was necessary to ensure the welfare of the herds.
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9 25 Larger varieties are found farther out to sea.
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9 134 In donning the camisk the girl will tie the camisk behind the back of her neck; the rather vertical bar then falls before her, and she will then pull it to the sides, and tie it behind her back, this providing some shielding, though not much, for the beauty of her bosom; the farther part of the bar,...
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10 289 I had also been informed by Kamchak that this places the girl farther from her own people.
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26 262 The animals raged against the chain leashes, maddened as they were drawn farther from Saphrar, their prey.
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Book 5. (7 results) Assassin of Gor

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19 393 "Put your head back, no, farther back, farther! Are you stupid? Now turn, slowly, unworthy slave, for the noble buyers of Ar!" Startled, Phyllis did precisely as she was told, beautifully.
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2 193 Their whereabouts were unknown, but it was thought they had hoped to found a colony on one of the islands of Thassa, farther north than even Cos and Tyros.
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13 255 I stepped farther out on the tarn perch.
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15 58 Her head went farther back, as her hands moved on the arms of the Warrior, as though once to press him away, and then again to draw him closer, and her head then touched the furs, her body a cruel, helpless bow in his hands, and then, her head down, it seemed she struggled and her body straightened ...
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22 195 I saw Green Ubar begin then to hold his lead, his wings striking with the accelerating, timed frenzy of the racing tarn, each stroke seeming to carry him swifter and farther than the last.
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22 458 Menicius, on Quarrel, was moving farther ahead each circuit.
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23 6 Word had apparently reached the House of the doings at the Stadium of Blades before it had come to the Stadium of Tarns, much farther away.
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Book 6. (9 results) Raiders of Gor

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14 229 From time to time I observed the distant ship growing farther and farther away.
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1 1 The Blood Mark I could smell the sea, gleaming Thassa, in the myths said to be without a farther shore.
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1 109 I was not to proceed farther.
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7 2 The men of Port Kar had set fire to the two islands, beginning at the farther edges, to drive any who might be concealed on them, perhaps having cut burrows into the rence or hiding in the center oar wells, across the bridges toward the central island, on which had been the pole of the dance, Telima...
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7 81 A flock of marsh gants, wild, took flight, circled, and then, seeing I meant them no harm, returned to the island, though to its farther shore.
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11 64 "And those," I asked, indicating other wharves, farther to the south, "are those of Nigel and Sullius Maximus".
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13 249 Unsteadily he went elsewhere, to examine others farther along the market chain.
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14 36 Accordingly their inboard ends are farther aft than their outboard ends.
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14 230 But after about an Ahn and a half, when I again raised the glass, I saw that she was not much farther away than she had been when last I had looked.
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Book 7. (2 results) Captive of Gor

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7 11 It does not have the breadth and current which are the terrors of the titanic Vosk farther to the south, well below Ko-ro-ba, though well above Ar, which is said to be the greatest city of all known Gor.
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13 156 When I dared to open my eyes again, the creature was again at the farther fence of wands, motionless, facing me.
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Book 8. (4 results) Hunters of Gor

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7 291 "Farther out," I told her.
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9 62 "You got farther than any other in the forest," she said.
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15 399 Behind me I could hear her quick, light steps, and, behind me, farther back, I could hear the chain of the slave coffle.
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18 409 We three stood together on the beach, on the sands, among the stones, and observed Thassa, the murmuring, gleaming, elemental vastness, Thassa, the sea, said in the myths to be without a farther shore.
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Book 9. (2 results) Marauders of Gor

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3 133 Many of those of Torvaldsland, however, take its borders to be much farther extended than the Torvaldsmark.
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13 24 Thus, it was not the case that one at a long side table, who was above the salt, would be farther away from the high seat than one at one of the center tables, who was "below" the salt.
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Book 10. (5 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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10 137 "Head back! Hands behind head! Bend backwards! Farther! Farther!" He turned to us.
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10 142 "Hands on hips! Be insolent! Hands behind back! Hands crossed before you, as though bound! Hands at throat, as though chained to collar, fingers before mouth! Fall to the floor! Kneel! Head down! Head up! Bend backwards! Farther! Roll to the floor, on your side, on your back, right leg high, now fle...
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19 85 Unfortunately Four Palms was farther from Klima than Red Rock.
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19 89 Beyond this, though Four Palms lay farther from Klima than Red Rock, its route, it seemed, would bring one sooner out of the dune country than the route to Red Rock, and into the typical Tahari terrain of rock and scrub, where some game might be found, occasional water and possible nomadic groups no...
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21 48 Other pieces, farther from the eaten areas, more exposed to the sun, he gave me.
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Book 11. (6 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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1 129 I could see farther and with greater detail than had been possible before in the clouded, contaminated atmosphere in which I had been raised.
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9 662 The cart of Tup Ladletender, the itinerant peddler, was now much farther down the road, on the dirt road leading to the great road, formed of blocks of stone, leading to Ar.
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12 484 These places, I remembered, were farther down the passageway, on the other side of a steel door.
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22 564 The horns were now farther off.
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28 51 He then went to the next girl, she on my left, farther down the tunnel toward the pens.
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28 123 "The sales go rapidly," said a girl farther down, to my left.
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Book 12. (6 results) Beasts of Gor

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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 14 I stood in the midst of fields south of the Laurius river, some forty pasangs inland from the shore of Thassa, some one hundred and twenty pasangs south-southeast of the river port of Lydius, lying at the mouth of the Laurius river, on its farther side.
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11 83 They had come east from the farther portions of the wall.
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13 20 I cursed inwardly, as the tabuk trotted a few yards farther away, grazing.
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23 254 "We learned from Sarpelius, from what he had learned from Drusus, that there was a headquarters farther north, one which could be reached only in the late spring, summer, or early fall".
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34 14 It would extend, below the surface, much farther, probably some seven thousand or so feet.
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Book 13. (8 results) Explorers of Gor

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1 212 Few knew well the lands on the east of the Voltai and Thentis ranges, for example, or what lay west of the farther islands, near Cos and Tyros.
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6 187 Schendi itself lay farther to the south, about the outjutting of a small peninsula, Point Schendi.
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7 40 I moved farther down the row.
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7 79 "Why do you put so many girls together? Would it not be better to space them farther apart, for purposes of display?" "It is easier to feed and clean them this way," he said.
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14 545 For example, if she is somewhat farther away, it is easier for her to display herself in all her beauty; if she wishes to wheedle for his caress she may approach quite closely; if she is receiving instructions she may kneel a few feet away; if she is begging to serve his pleasure she may kneel at hi...
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25 70 Then we had been far out on the lake, much farther away from the shores than any canoe would be likely to travel.
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27 14 Other men, too, some eight or nine of them, and some seven or eight boys, of various ages, came out farther on the platform, balancing themselves expertly over the flowing waters, to bid us be on our way.
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47 19 It extended ahead through the jungle and behind through the jungle farther than I could see in either direction.
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Book 14. (1 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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1 931 Although the driver was not facing us I could tell that he reacted angrily when I gave him my address, which was farther from the restaurant.
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Book 15. (2 results) Rogue of Gor

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3 336 There, farther to the left, in the brown mask, is Zadron, the dealer in silver.
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10 268 Tonight my life had been saved by a dissolute fellow, a man called Callimachus, perhaps from Port Cos, farther west on the river, a derelict.
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Book 17. (1 results) Savages of Gor

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13 128 "Oh!" she said, her head forced farther back, my grip tightened.
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Book 18. (3 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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42 71 Cuwignaka and Hci, each moment, were speeding farther and farther away.
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8 48 Grunt pulled down his hat farther on his head, an interesting gesture, one about which he was apparently not really thinking.
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19 214 "It is like the old stories, told long ago by travelers, warriors who had ridden farther than others".
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Book 19. (2 results) Kajira of Gor

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8 126 In a few moments, from a side door, a few yards farther down the corridor, another young man emerged.
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30 174 Then I felt his foot kick my feet yet farther apart.
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Book 20. (7 results) Players of Gor

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7 323 "There are, of course," I said, "infinite horizons and varieties of such responses, ranging from ravishings in which the slave, by one means or another, is driven almost to the point of madness by the pleasures inflicted upon her, ravishings in which the master, in his cruelty, and despite her will,...
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2 977 It begins from farther back and thus makes it difficult to use the left hand or arm to secure the target.
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2 980 The blade that has only six inches to move, with a full weight behind it, other things being equal, effects a deeper penetration than a blade which must move farther and has behind it primarily the weight of a shoulder and arm.
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5 196 With the aid of the lamp taken from the table, about which the guards now lay sprawled, I soon located, in one of the farther alcoves, what I was looking for.
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5 363 I picked up the things, lying to one side, which I had taken from the farther alcove.
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5 379 "Free the men, take the gold, burn the camp, but do not touch that packet!" "Oh, yes, this," I said, lifting the leather packet which I had taken from the farther alcove.
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8 13 Boots grunted as his head was jerked farther back.
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Book 22. (4 results) Dancer of Gor

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4 74 "Farther back," he said.
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4 75 I put my head farther back.
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4 244 "Farther back".
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20 193 Usually, as it is their caste policy, the farmers or villagers seek new land, usually farther away, to start again.
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Book 23. (7 results) Renegades of Gor

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1 25 The wagon was moving north on what, in this latitude, was usually called the Vosk Road, but farther south was generally known as the Viktel Aria.
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1 256 I could see others lit, farther back in the arrested line.
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2 121 I had little doubt they would become more so as I proceeded farther northward.
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2 152 By now, in the normal course of events, given Ar's start, and the typical marches of armies, she would have had time to reach not only Ar's Station but even Brundisium, much farther away.
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9 150 In the last few weeks, too, given the fighting at the rafts, and in the harbor, predictably, river sharks, usually much farther to the west, had made their appearance.
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19 93 Indeed, I was sure that many of them, with bodies, and parts of bodies, in their jaws, had sped away, toward the piers, or had gone out farther in the harbor, beyond them, or had even returned to the river, perhaps sometimes followed by several of their brethren.
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21 1532 I then proceeded farther forward, taking my way beside free women, and some children, and climbed to the tiny bow deck, forward of the stem castle, immediately behind the prow.
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Book 24. (5 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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16 55 "It is farther from Ar, from our allies.
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17 130 "Lead us!" "We will go no farther westward!" screamed a man.
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17 316 I moved the raft farther away from them, deeper into the rence.
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46 393 This one, however, farther down the line, was on its back, so that its gate was up, like a lid.
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47 33 "Hurry!" I heard another, farther off, cry.
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Book 25. (5 results) Magicians of Gor

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3 943 They reason that if one fellow can see farther than another, and such, why can't someone, similarly, be able to "see" thoughts.
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5 90 Marcus thrust Phoebe's head farther down, she covered totally by the blanket.
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7 104 The ringing of the bars then ceased, first those of the Central Cylinder and then those near it, and then those farther away, about the city.
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7 406 We could trace the withdrawal of the Cosians by the sounds of the crowd, ever farther away.
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7 421 We could still hear the ringing of other bars elsewhere in the city, farther away.
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Book 26. (10 results) Witness of Gor

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4 148 Other doors opened, farther down the hall, behind me.
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4 694 At that moment words were again spoken, farther ahead in the line.
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4 697 I saw those before me, farther down the line, begin to move.
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10 320 "Kajira!" called more than one man, in a given cell, as we passed them, seemingly to alert those in cells farther down the trail as to our passage.
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10 804 This extended in the corridor, from side to side, for the width of the corridor, perhaps for some five to seven yards, until it terminated several feet before the farther door, at the end of the passage.
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24 427 One of the fellows with a sword was well to my left, much farther down the wall.
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24 429 The farther fellow went to his right, the nearer one to his left, approaching us.
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24 521 The slave girls edged farther away.
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46 59 "Farther," he said.
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46 71 My head was pulled back, farther.
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Book 27. (10 results) Prize of Gor

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27 2008 She shrank back a little, on her knees, an inch or so farther from the beast, an inch or so farther from the sandals of Selius Arconious.
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17 93 "Turn to the side, as you are, kneeling, put your hands on the cement behind you," said the boy, "lean back, arch your back, have your head back, farther".
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18 611 And she stepped farther away, and stood straight.
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21 84 The pools, she had heard, would be in the vicinity of this stream, some nearer, some farther.
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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 40 Now it seems I shall learn! The scribe was then well behind her, farther back down the line.
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25 242 Lanes on both sides of Ellen's lane, nearer or farther away, had been emptied and refilled, some more than once.
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25 1012 "Do not do so," called the other man, several yards farther way than Mirus, but to his left, and Ellen's right.
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27 39 But when she had crawled toward it, not having been permitted to rise, he had kicked it farther away from her.
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27 228 From the height of the wagon he could see much farther than was possible from the level of the ground.
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Book 28. (3 results) Kur of Gor

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55 220 Lord Grendel was then between the fleeing figure and the herd, and, farther back, the killer humans.
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67 96 Two days later Cabot had arrived at the abandoned camp of Lord Grendel, that in the more remote recesses of one of the world's farther forests, that from which they had long ago departed.
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81 197 "But the rumored coordinates," said Grendel, "suggest not Port Kar, but a location farther north, a remote beach, far from civilization, in the vicinity of the northern forests".
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Book 29. (11 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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5 296 There were, of course, some islands beyond Tyros and Cos, some smaller islands, spoken of, commonly, as the Farther Islands.
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5 297 I supposed, thus, that the "mariner," if he were a mariner, must be from one of the Farther Islands.
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5 1110 There was little, as far as we knew, beyond Tyros and Cos, some small islands, of course, usually spoken of as the Farther Islands, but nothing else, lest it be the World's End, the edge of the sea, supposedly the plunge into the abyss, nothing.
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5 1111 Few ships, as far as I knew, had ventured west of the Farther Islands, and of those, as far as I knew, none had returned.
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12 222 Elsewhere in the open area, which was, it seems, a training plaza, some tarns were out, some with wings bound, others, farther along in their training, hobbled, a heavy log chained to a taloned foot, and, in each case, held in ropes, so that if the tarn charged one trainer, it could be restrained by...
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17 12 The temwood lance, on the other hand, light, lengthy, and supple, handled more easily than the heavier weapon, and had a farther reach.
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25 194 I did not suppose that the world ended a bit beyond the waters of Tyros and Cos, or beyond the Farther Islands, even far beyond them, that at some point, some brink, Thassa plunged a thousand pasangs downward, like a planetary waterfall, only to be lifted by fiery Tor-tu-Gor, Light Upon the Home Sto...
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30 45 "Beyond even the Farther Islands," I said.
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33 49 "You were on Cos, or Tyros, or one of the Farther Islands?" I said.
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40 8 Many in the farther ranks broke ranks, to press forward, to witness so unaccountable a sight, as though a city might be afloat.
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44 131 Beyond these island ubarates would be some small, farther islands.
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Book 30. (34 results) Mariners of Gor

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6 1 The Farther Islands Fall Astern "There," said Tarl Cabot, "do you see them, the three of them, the farther islands, Chios, Daphna, Thera?" They were dim, in the distance, in the snow, but one could make them out.
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2 17 Thus are the farther islands sheltered, protected from illicit trade, and the wealth of Cos and Tyros conserved.
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2 107 It is rumored that there were gigantic dragons of the sea, prodigious monsters, lurking beyond the farther islands, aquatic prodigies guarding the end of the world, set there by Priest-Kings, as one might post guard sleen about the perimeter of a camp, but this thing, in the glimpse we had had, was ...
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2 117 Our common concern, or prey, were small boats, with a crew of four or five, tiny merchantmen, or smugglers, if you like, hoping to run the blockade to the farther islands.
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3 723 "Perhaps Teletus, Tabor, or Chios, of the farther islands," I suggested.
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3 1374 I do not know its destination, perhaps the farther islands, surely not beyond.
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4 106 "If you had been rescued by another," said Lord Nishida, "say, a galley of Tyros, it is our speculation that a dozen ships, within days, in the vicinity of the farther islands, would have sought us, to our inconvenience and distraction".
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4 113 "You are hence to the farther islands?" I asked.
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4 118 "None return from beyond the farther islands," I said.
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4 173 A galley of Tyros was to rendezvous with us, but that was days ago, and, if you are sailing to the farther islands, much to the east.
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5 369 Legends of the mad, half-blind shipwright, Tersites, I did not doubt, had reached even the farther islands.
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6 10 Did she not understand we would soon be west of the farther islands? When she had heeled her master to the rail, where he had joined me, I had examined her, as men will a slave, insofar as was possible, given her furs.
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6 58 She did not realize the import of being beyond the farther islands.
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6 113 "It seems not everyone wishes to go beyond the farther islands," I said.
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7 60 Lately, given the miseries of the weather, the constant rolling and pitching motion of the ship, the distance from shore, the uncertainty of the voyage, their terror at realizing themselves now being taken beyond the farther islands, and fearing perhaps to plunge any moment from the edge of the worl...
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7 231 "None have returned from beyond the farther islands," said a fellow at the nearest pump.
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8 27 In the land of the Red Hunters, farther north, north even of Torvaldsland, it was said that night would reign unremitting for weeks, from passage hand to passage hand, and to passage hand again, as in their summer, oddly, Tor-tu-Gor would never set.
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8 490 Who, after all, would think to seek him beyond the farther islands? Or perhaps he wished to seek a fortune in a new, untried venue, a fortune, like many, obtainable by sword skill? Perhaps, on the other hand, he sought the former Lady Flavia of Ar.
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9 45 I knew little of tarns, the control of such monsters, their dispositions and habits, their ranges of flight, and such, but it seemed improbable, given our conjectured position, so far west of even the farther islands, that one might reach land, say, Torvaldsland, before the tarn might, even with the...
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9 234 In the melee, farther on, the mixing was such that I could not tell, except for the occasional Pani, who might be mutinous and who not.
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11 4 To be sure, we had seen no land since the farther islands, and the last of those, Chios.
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11 5 And how might one expect to see a sail this far at sea, for we had come farther than any vessel had formerly come, at least to our knowledge.
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11 6 To be sure, many ships had ventured beyond the farther islands.
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12 54 We had had two hail storms of great severity when farther north, storms such as those which, in the Barrens, north and east of the Voltai, sometimes decimate flocks of migrating birds, striking them from the sky, flocks which, obedient to their hereditary imperatives, refuse to land and seek shelter...
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14 66 The other galleys, too, farther to starboard, must have held their position, as the great ship behind us neither moved, nor was drawn to the side.
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14 159 The wreckage of the galley of Seremides seemed farther away now.
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15 27 The border, so to speak, as far off as it might be in any case, tended to move, and with some periodicity; it was thus sometimes closer, sometimes farther away.
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15 28 Charts, prepared on the basis of the reconnaissances of the tarn scouts, plotted these movements, and we moved toward the border, or edge, which, on the whole, was often closer than farther.
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21 510 Doubtless she had thought to torment a common soldier, one farther beneath her than the very dust beneath her slippers.
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22 325 The flood stopped, and, like startled, turned verr, the enemy began to mill, and fearful words were carried to farther ranks, and men who could not even see us received reports so magnified that they must exceed the horror of reality.
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33 202 I, with others, desiring to return to civilization, were put ashore at Daphna, of the farther islands, and we made our way severally, as we would".
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33 335 "I do not think Tersites would risk her east of the farther islands, because of Cos and Tyros, and it would be madness to bring her as far as Brundisium.
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37 762 My domicile was not far away, but it always seemed farther than usual at night.
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37 783 In more prosperous areas, generally farther from the waterfront and the warehouse district, metal locks, answering to metal keys, are more common.
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Book 31. (7 results) Conspirators of Gor

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2 32 Many of you, as I understand it, disbelieve in the existence of Earth, or, if you give some credit to the stories, you speculate that it lies to the east, beyond the Voltai, or far to the south, perhaps far beyond Bazi and Schendi, or west, like the Farther Islands.
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5 242 I extended my head to him, to take the bit of sandwich, but he drew it back, a little, so that I must reach farther forward to take it.
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15 339 To be sure, it is hard to run farther than the length of the chain on one's ankle.
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27 93 The earlier attempt on the part of Kleomenes and his hunters to dissuade us from proceeding farther into the Voltai and the attack, if it were an attack, and not an unanticipated consequence of the hunting, of the wild tarsk at the Wagons, suggested that, at that time, the blind Kur had not made con...
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29 167 I then heard from a second translator, apparently back a little farther than the first.
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31 21 She had been a free woman of Cos, captured at sea by a corsair from Port Kar, as had been the girl from Tabor with whom I had been sold in the Metellan district, though much farther from shore, had been sold to rencers in the delta of the Vosk, who had sold her at a profit to a camp of slavers at th...
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43 71 Had he not spoken of a steel world, one flung farther away than Tor-tu-Gor itself? Was he testing me, somehow? I supposed he might well not be aware of how such worlds might be reached.
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Book 32. (24 results) Smugglers of Gor

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47 17 Meanwhile, the little fool would be moving farther and farther away.
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6 111 Some said they came from the World's End, but, as is known, the world ends at the farther islands, and beyond them is nothing.
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8 505 I would wait until the ship departed, and see it disappear, a bright speck, outside the farther breakwater.
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9 17 In some places, farther south, there are women in the forest who do not belong to men.
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12 3 Too, I had, somehow, not made my way to Daphne, of the farther islands, to rendezvous with one of the sky ships.
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14 483 "Beyond Cos and Tyros," he said, "beyond the farther islands, at the World's End".
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14 488 "I do know," I said, "that ships do not return from beyond the farther islands".
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15 375 "At this time of year there is already ice farther north".
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21 149 Ships which pass the farther islands do not return.
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21 288 He dares dispute the will of Thassa, known for a thousand years, that none may venture beyond the farther islands.
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24 35 "You are going to run?" "I fear of the edge of the world, the sea beyond the farther islands, the plunging cliff, as much as the next fellow," I said.
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25 377 Some bands, I had heard, roamed in the vicinity of the Laurius, much farther south.
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29 78 Had not ice been noted in the Alexandra? One thinks of Panther Girls much farther south, perhaps in the basin and environs of the Laurius, not the Alexandra.
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29 123 A bit later a similar cry was heard, farther down the trail.
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38 280 Who knows about the depths of the sea, the farther mountains?" "A trap?" asked the leader, warily.
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49 17 "They bought a large number of women and, I think, not primarily for the use of mariners and mercenaries, but for sale, or use as trade goods, somewhere, where I am not sure, presumably wherever the great ship makes its eventual landfall, doubtless one of the farther islands, for who would dare vent...
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49 19 "No ship has ventured much beyond the farther islands and returned".
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50 182 There is a rumor abroad, hopefully false, that mad Tersites and the Pani intend to take the great ship past the farther islands, seeking the World's End.
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50 466 I was no more than a local convenience for his lust, a convenience no farther from him than the length of my leash.
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50 901 "I do not want to sail to the farther islands," said a girl.
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52 66 Were they not slaves, goods, to be sold or traded at the World's End, or the farther islands, whatever might be the destination of that mighty frame now poised for its journey downriver to Thassa? Why, I wondered, had they been hooded? Surely it was not necessary for purposes of security.
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52 282 There were two I now saw, farther west on the beach.
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52 1013 "Am I as far now," he called, "as was the tarnsman on the beach?" "Farther," I called back.
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54 193 "By now," he said, "it has either been destroyed at the mouth of the Alexandra, where it debouches into Thassa, or it is somewhere abroad on Thassa, its course set for the farther islands, and, I fear, beyond, to the World's End".
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Book 33. (11 results) Rebels of Gor

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1 27 Desertions had occurred, some in the vicinity of the farther islands, particularly Daphna and Thera; later a mutiny had occurred which, though suppressed, had cost men, a mutiny in the wake of which still lay division.
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21 87 But how could that defeated remnant of the forces of Temmu, removed to a far coast, return to the war, whose fields lay across the vast, turbulent breadth of Thassa, beyond even the Farther Islands, from whose waters no ship had returned? Let there be then a ship, a great ship, an unusual ship.
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21 88 Could it, unaided, make its way to that board on which the dice were to be cast, the islands beyond the Farther Islands? If not, is the game not done? And if perchance such a ship, a large ship, a transport for men and tarns, as no other before it had done, might brave the perils of Thassa, what the...
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23 112 "Yes," I said, "and if to the house of Temmu, perhaps others might transmit them farther thence".
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25 221 I could almost sense Sumomo trembling, and trying to breathe, teetering on the narrow, unstable support which held her from the pool far below, that bending, narrow, unsteady bridge lacking a farther shore.
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28 25 Farther north, where we are unlikely to be sought, such precautions will not be necessary.
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47 215 I had had ample evidence before of the skill of Lord Yamada with the implement in hand, though before he had placed himself considerably farther from the target.
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47 237 He then advanced to a marker farther down the court, which would be not forty, but thirty, paces from the target.
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59 36 Many, officers and warriors, have fled to lesser, farther islands.
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60 225 I sent Tajima and Yasushi to hold the farther portion of the bridge, that nearest the far wall, and the supper pavilion.
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61 424 Once I had arranged the peasants, and set them about their diversions, and had arrested the progress of Lord Yamada, in such a way as to suggest he was fully ready for battle, but hoped to lure the invasion force farther south, perhaps deeper into a trap, I had contacted Lords Nishida and Okimoto un...
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Book 34. (12 results) Plunder of Gor

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32 102 "From farther than Torvaldsland, from farther than Schendi?" said the voice.
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9 242 "A thousand paces farther, Master," said the dealer, pointing to his right, with a shaking hand.
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27 8 The southern piers, I had been told, are farther from the oversight of the harbor authority.
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27 12 Many are the markets of Gor, and some are supplied by contraband merchandise, of dubious origins, and evasive of taxes and harbor fees, such as rogue silver from the mines of Tharna, to be exported to Cos and Tyros, and the Farther Islands, even to the World's End; the beans from which Black Wine is...
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27 154 We can put you in thongs and a slave bit, sell you, and you will be on your way to the Farther Islands by the Twentieth Ahn.
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30 196 "He mocks you, that you chose the name 'Tenrik of Siba' as a concealing name," I said, "for it is foolishly and clearly close to that of 'Kurik', and he finds it pathetically inept that you should have claimed to be from Siba, for that is merely another town on the Vosk, as is your true town, Victor...
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49 55 "Behold Lord Grendel," said Decius Albus to the gathered assembly, indicating Kurik of Victoria, "ambassador and plenipotentiary of the great Ubar, Lord Arcesilaus, of rich Mytilene, amongst the Farther Islands, well beyond Cos and Tyros, come to establish ties of friendship and commerce between tha...
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49 57 As far as I knew, there was no ubarate, Mytilene, amongst the Farther Islands, or elsewhere.
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56 38 I even knelt farther away than custom would prescribe.
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57 31 I recognized some of the men, from the Commerce Court, one of several receiving chambers, I had gathered, in that palace known as the House of a Hundred Corridors, when my master had been introduced under the name of Tenrik of Siba, a representative of a Lord Grendel, a trade envoy from Mytilene, a ...
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61 511 And others shrank even farther back, that they not interfere with the large, pelted thing that followed her, light-footed, docile in her wake, which thing bore a large, flat box.
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64 320 The others, in the night, his cohorts, had apparently withdrawn farther.
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Book 35. (10 results) Quarry of Gor

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2 57 Others would doubtless be purchased for export to the Farther Islands, or, even beyond them, to the World's End itself.
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6 130 Brundisium is a major port, her mighty harbor berthing vessels from a thousand ports, vessels large and small, square-rigged and lateen-rigged, clinker built and carvel built, ships mercantile and naval, round ships and long ships, come from as far as Schendi in the south, and Torvaldsland to the no...
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8 422 "You are fortunate she is not now on her way to the Farther Islands, in chains," said the other male voice.
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8 709 "And he, too, then, is farther from the shore".
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29 1 We Arrive at the Skerry of Lars "It is said," said a fellow, "he is from the Farther Islands, say, Chios or Thera".
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30 14 Farther down the street, perhaps a quarter of a pasang away, I could see the red-and-yellow walls of some sort of enclosure.
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38 116 Another had him engaged in burning and raiding towns amongst the Farther Islands, west of Cos and Tyros.
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40 152 "To his ears rumors came that Bosk of Port Kar, he himself, was spreading terror west of Cos and Tyros, that he was mercilessly preying upon the towns and shipping of the Farther Islands, Chios, Daphna, and Thera".
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40 365 He was apparently at sea, looking into reports that he himself was at large, preying on shipping and ravaging towns on the Farther Islands.
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46 15 It was ten days since the repelled attack on the holding of Bosk of Port Kar, who was apparently still at sea, supposedly in the vicinity of the Farther Islands, intent on investigating depredation and carnage wrought in his name.
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Book 36. (99 results) Avengers of Gor

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7 3 "He is of a smitten village, Nicosia, on Chios?" said Nicomachos, dark-haired, and impatient of manner, First Captain of Sybaris, High Officer of Cos, Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, Thera, Chios, and Daphna, leaning forward, an action which caused the medallion and chain of his office ...
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32 57 The arrow, with its shrill whistle, sped upward, farther and farther.
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59 92 "I am the finest dancer in Sybaris and the most beautiful woman in all the Farther Islands!" "You will do for the Farther Islands," I said.
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1 66 We were on Chios, the closest of the three 'Farther Islands', Chios, Thera, and Daphna, those islands beyond Tyros and Cos, once taken as marking the end of a world, beyond which lay only terror and mystery, and the devouring, waiting, stirring vastness of turbulent Thassa, the sea, fierce summoner ...
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3 101 "Last year," he said, "the Fair of the Farther Islands was held in Sybaris".
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4 59 Surely we had heard in Sybaris, and elsewhere, that the sea lanes between the maritime ubarates, Cos and Tyros, and the Farther Islands, were being terrorized by the supposed Bosk of Port Kar.
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6 227 "It seems that civilization has come to the Farther Islands," I said.
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7 27 Four times the fleet of the Farther Islands itself has put to sea".
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7 32 "It seems so," said Nicomachos, High Officer of Cos, Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands.
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7 45 "I do not have the fleet of Cos at my disposal," he said, "only the fleet of the Farther Islands, only twenty heavy ships, and several smaller vessels, all diversely oared".
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7 52 Instead, I am posted to the Farther Islands!" "Do not resign your commission, dear friend," said Archelaos.
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7 72 "I am not speaking of the Farther Islands," I said.
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7 142 "The Farther Islands would be much deprived if all mercantile traffic must first be routed through the corrupt, grasping bureaucracy of Telnus".
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7 145 "And I have heard rumors," said Archelaos, unpleasantly, "that even the First Captain of Sybaris, Nicomachos, High Officer of Cos, Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, has profited from such clandestine emoluments".
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7 171 Archelaos, governor of Thera, and Nicomachos, First Captain of Sybaris, Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, rose, too, to their feet.
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7 181 How much better for us that the authorities of Thera, or Cos, whose legal charge it was, utilizing the weapon of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, some twenty ships or so, should locate, engage, and destroy the corsair fleet.
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8 50 We now know that one or the other, or both, of the High Officers of Sybaris, either the governor of Thera or the Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, or both, command the foe or are high in the command of he who does so.
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9 24 "There are hundreds of villages on the Farther Islands," said Thurnock.
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11 128 "Your accent," he said, "is not of the Farther Islands, nor, I think, of Cos or Tyros".
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12 9 In drawing up the false map, which I had arranged to have stolen in The Living Island, I had located the spurious Village of Flowing Gold on Daphna, the least populated of the Farther Islands, in a desolate area, where the raiders might be most easily isolated and discomfited, no civilized enclaves ...
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12 10 Though there are some silver mines on Thera, presumably contributing to the wealth of Sybaris, the Farther Islands were not noted for their mineral resources.
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13 13 These small, strong-winged birds are not native to the wilds of the Farther Islands.
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13 70 "Behold, and know this," I said I to them, "we are the avengers, the retaliators, the free men of the Farther Islands, the Friends of Nicosia, and other decimated and razed villages.
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15 1 Disturbing Reports have been Received; Tab Learns of the Fair of the Farther Islands; The Tesephone will Depart with the Tide In my tent, high amidst the crags of the Cove of Harpalos, I angrily thrust aside the reports of several selected men, chosen from the crews of the Dorna and Tesephone, thes...
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15 35 New ships will be provided, perhaps even from the naval fleet of the Farther Islands.
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15 43 "Have you heard of the Fair of the Farther Islands?" I asked.
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16 178 I think it is a village corruption of 'Chloe', which is a familiar name in Cos, Tyros, and the Farther Islands.
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16 200 "In the Farther Islands," she said, "vulos have been selected and bred for generations for just such an aptitude".
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17 41 It seemed, however, that they were less esteemed on the Farther Islands.
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17 422 "Have you heard of the Fair of the Farther Islands?" I asked.
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18 145 "Have you been to a Fair of the Farther Islands?" he asked.
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18 172 "This year," said Sakim, "Nicomachos, Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, is expected to be in attendance".
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18 177 "I think it is in connection with his office as Admiral, assigned by Cos to guard the seas of the Farther Islands.
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19 76 It is quite another thing, however, given the accents involved, to try to pass oneself off as an Eiron of Naxos when one's accent is not only not that of Naxos, a town on Daphna, but would be unusual in the Farther Islands themselves, where accents tended to be much like those of Cos and Tyros.
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19 166 "Farther than the spear can be cast, far beyond the reach of the sword," said the second.
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19 194 "Who would most wish the villages and towns of the Farther Islands to be defenseless?" I asked.
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19 209 "It is unfortunate," said Thurnock, "that Nicomachos, Admiral of the Farther Islands, contrary to announcements and expectations, is not in attendance at the fair".
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20 55 Much of the news in the Farther Islands is carried afoot, in the packs of peddlers, so to speak.
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20 105 "He knows little, and cares less, about the Farther Islands, save what he can tax and what his officers can steal for him".
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21 1 I Visit with Nicomachos, Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands.
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21 2 "I know you," said Nicomachos, Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, rising, angrily.
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21 32 I represent a consortium of merchants in Brundisium, concerned with the safety of the seas between Cos and the Farther Islands".
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21 35 "I fear the governor is less quick than the Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands".
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21 36 "He is a larcenous bureaucrat, crude and without subtlety," said Nicomachos, "well posted to the Farther Islands".
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21 39 "Rumors suggest," I said, "that even you, Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, sometimes accrue profits in wily ways".
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21 82 Did not the fleet of the Farther Islands seem inert much of the time, and had not its searches for the raiders proved invariably futile? Few thieves arrest themselves.
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21 118 Such a hair color is unusual in the Farther Islands.
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21 156 Too, could I really suppose that the Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, the First Captain of Sybaris, High Officer of Cos, could not tell the difference between a decent wine and a ka-la-na worthy at best to fortify common kal-da?" I then took both goblets and emptied them into the dirt fl...
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22 71 "Vessels of the Fleet of the Farther Islands?" I said.
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22 79 It seemed incredible that he would attend to such seemingly trivial matters as abetting corsairs afflicting the Farther Islands.
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22 164 There are few things which may not be purchased somewhere in that city of tents which constituted the vast, transitory metropolis of a Fair of the Farther Islands.
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23 6 We had posted agents, in guises such as that of peddlers and itinerant workers, in several of the larger towns of the Farther Islands.
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23 56 "I seek one called Aktis," he said, "who, I understand, spoke of unsettling matters at the Fair of the Farther Islands".
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23 81 "Before the Fair of the Farther Islands," said Xanthos, "the village of Seleukos was amongst the richest villages on Thera".
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24 38 Farther away were the remains of the blackened, burned palings which had constituted the village's palisade.
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27 57 "Why should Cos support corsairs who ravage the Farther Islands, from which tax revenues are derived?" asked Clitus.
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29 16 Several, aside from the 'Three Ubaras', were present, primarily ships' officers, and others associated in one way or another with our enterprise amongst the Farther Islands.
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29 172 "I decided, some days ago," I said, "after a certain incident at the Fair of the Farther Islands, that it was dangerous to keep the original contents of such a bottle about.
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33 1 The Parley "You are, I take it," I said, "the dreaded Bosk of Port Kar, come from that port known to many as the Scourge of Thassa, that Bosk of Port Kar come to mercilessly pillage and plunder the innocent, peace-loving Farther Islands of Thassa, Thera, Chios, and Daphna?" "I am indeed he, Bosk, o...
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33 63 Consider the value of a mighty alliance between you, the Peasantry of the Farther Islands, and the sea-scouring navies of Port Kar, the Jewel of Gleaming Thassa".
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34 16 A provincial governor might well be corrupt, even to the extent of supporting and protecting raiders, but the elaborate hoax of identifying the raiders as the minions of a foe from faraway, of whom many in the Farther Islands might well have never heard suggested a darker, higher politics.
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34 21 "That we do not know," I said, "perhaps it is Nicomachos, First Captain of Sybaris, a High Officer of Cos, Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands".
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36 126 Both Archelaos, governor of Thera, and Nicomachos, Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, are patrons.
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36 203 "That is a town on Chios," said Margot, "where this year's Fair of the Farther Islands was held".
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37 52 There are two harbors at the port of Sybaris, the great harbor, serving the city, and much of Thera, and the smaller harbor, the naval harbor, base of the vessels of the Fleet of the Farther Islands.
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37 53 From where we were, we could look across the harbor and see the low wall behind which several ships of the Fleet of the Farther Islands lay at anchor.
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38 6 Here he is only the commander of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, of only some twenty heavy vessels, and a miscellany of minor vessels.
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39 1 I Fail to Contact Nicomachos, Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands "Away, be off, both of you," said the officer of the guard.
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39 7 We were at the high, heavily barred gate to the Cosian naval base on Thera, the base of the Fleet of the Farther Islands.
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40 29 "I do not think your crews are of the Fleet of the Farther Islands".
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41 16 The machinery had most likely been put together somewhere on the Farther Islands.
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41 49 That color was seldom seen on the Farther Islands.
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41 145 I do not even think you are of the Farther Islands.
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42 98 "Convey the word," said another voice, one farther off.
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43 27 "It must be farther away," said Thurnock.
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43 123 I heard steel sound, too, to my right, and then farther to my right.
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47 6 When contingents of mercenaries would leave their ditched fortress to attack the peasants, they found they could not close with them, for the peasants would withdraw before them, leading them farther from their fellows and isolating them from support, where, soon, ambushed and wearied, surrounded an...
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53 217 I had thought it would have been Nicomachos, Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, posted in Sybaris.
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53 266 "Let it get farther from the mother ship, say, midpoint between the mother ship and the four closer ships".
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57 219 Not long afterward, she drew farther away, and was joined by the ship which had attacked the Dorna.
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58 199 "I count twenty," I said, "every ship in the fleet of the Farther Islands".
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58 201 "Nicomachos, Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, returned from patrol, and received my message," I said.
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58 228 "But, happily, Nicomachos departed with the entire fleet of the Farther Islands, eager to wipe the fleet of Bosk of Port Kar from the sea, and thereby restore himself to station and favor with Lurius of Jad, Ubar of Cos".
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58 259 "It would not have been well had the Fleet of the Farther Islands passed us, unknowingly," I said.
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59 32 "Due to the valor and skill of the noble Nicomachos, Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, all hail to the sublime Lurius of Jad, Ubar of Cos, the fleet of the notorious pirate, Bosk of Port Kar, predator to shipping, burner of villages, ravager of towns and cities, has but recently been surp...
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59 140 At that point, a small gong rang, the sound emanating from behind a closed door farther down the corridor.
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59 242 "His blood belongs on the Farther Islands," said another.
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59 271 "A fine parade," said Thurnock, "—for the Farther Islands".
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59 278 About us the crowd had begun to dissipate, men wending about, in one direction or another, but farther down to our left, we could still see clusters of people, some sort of roiling crowd.
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59 394 "How came it about," I asked, "that Nicomachos, Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, encountered the corsair fleet near Mytilene on Chios?" "I do not know," he said.
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60 14 Who were we, really? What did we want? What did we know? Did we have a role in these dark games? Might we not have something to sell the governor? Information? Silence? "There are six more, hooded, farther away," said Clitus, "those fellows carrying amphorae".
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60 71 "Harbor sharks!" These are a breed of sharks which, as far as I know, are found only in the Farther Islands, small sharks, seldom more than a foot in length, but they can vary from three or four inches, a size one could hold in one's hand, to a foot and a half.
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62 33 He will have his ceremony, and receive his decoration, and then, to his dismay, be put to what amounts to exile, be consigned to practical banishment, be sent to be again Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands".
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62 63 "At least," I said, "to associate such villainy with some figure, any figure, remote from the Farther Islands, that to divert suspicion from Thera, and, for such a purpose, Bosk of Port Kar, I suppose, would do as well as any other".
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62 73 "We think," said Archelaos, "he is somewhere on the Farther Islands, in any one of a hundred ports".
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62 78 "I am sure that he, the true Bosk of Port Kar, is somewhere in the Farther Islands," said Archelaos.
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62 101 Accordingly then, Bosk of Port Kar was duped, lured to the Farther Islands, to deal with raids and ravaging allegedly perpetrated by him".
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63 51 "Turia is farther away," said Sakim.
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63 74 "In a few days," said Clitus, "I expect Nicomachos, Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, to return to Thera".
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