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| 15 | 129 |
A brief exchange followed, like a chain reaction, neither man considering his moves for a moment; First Tarnsman took First Tarnsman, Second Spearman responded by neutralizing First Tarnsman, City neutralized Spearman, Assassin took City, Assassin fell to Second Tarnsman, Tarnsman to Spear Slave, Sp... |
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| 15 | 2 |
Its splendid, defiant shimmering cylinders loomed proudly behind the snowy marble ramparts, its double walls—the first three hundred feet high; the second, separated from the first by twenty yards, four hundred feet high—walls wide enough to drive six tharlarion wagons abreast on their... |
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| 1 | 7 |
You may remark my first name, and I assure you that it gave me quite as much trouble as it might you, particularly during my early school years, when it occasioned almost as many contests of physical skill as my red hair. |
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| 1 | 21 |
One of the colleges to which I applied, one perhaps somewhat less perceptive than the rest, a small liberal arts college for men in New Hampshire, entered into negotiations, and I had soon received what was to be my first and, I suppose, my last appointment in the academic world. |
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| 1 | 27 |
I liked America very much, though I was quite busy the first semester, smashing through numerous texts in an undignified manner, attempting to commit enough English history to memory to keep at least a reign or so ahead of my students. |
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| 1 | 32 |
But after the term papers, the tests, and the grading of the first semester, I was afflicted with a rather irresistible desire to chuck the British Empire and go for a long, long walk—indeed, even a camping trip in the nearby White Mountains. |
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| 1 | 39 |
The first thing I did was check my compass, as if I knew what I was up to, and then proceeded to leave the highway well behind me. |
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| 1 | 41 |
Bristol, as you know, is a heavily urbanized area, and I was not well prepared for my first encounter with nature. |
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| 1 | 194 |
For the first time since I had opened the envelope, I began to lose my control. |
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| 1 | 210 |
For the first time in my life I had felt full, unreasoning fear, and it had gripped me like the paws of some grotesque predatory animal. |
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| 2 | 24 |
My first thought was that this must be the earth and the sun's apparent size an illusion. |
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| 2 | 139 |
It encloses a handful of soil from the Earth, a handful of soil that I first brought with me when I came to this world—a long time ago". |
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| 2 | 155 |
As he spoke, my father often referred to the planet Gor as the Counter-Earth, taking the name from the writings of the Pythagoreans who had first speculated on the existence of such a body. |
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| 3 | 35 |
At first only Torm and my father were my teachers, but as I began to master the language of my new home, numerous others, apparently of Earth stock, assumed responsibility for my lessons in special areas. |
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| 3 | 72 |
On the other hand, the High Castes, specifically the Warriors, Builders, Scribes, Initiates, and Physicians, were told the truth in such matters, perhaps because it was thought they would eventually determine it for themselves, from observations such as the shadow of their planet on one or another o... |
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| 3 | 73 |
I wondered, however, if the Second Knowledge, that of the intellectuals, might not be as carefully tailored to preclude inquiry on their level as the First Knowledge apparently was to preclude inquiry on the level of the Lower Castes. |
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| 3 | 80 |
"In fact, in the First Knowledge, there is a story told to the young in their public nurseries, that if a man from Lower Caste should come to rule in a city, the city would come to ruin". |
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| 3 | 132 |
Earth origin, incidentally, was not a part of the First Knowledge, though it was of the Second. |
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| 3 | 133 |
"Torm," I once asked, "why is Earth origin not part of the First Knowledge?" "Is it not self-evident?" he asked. |
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| 3 | 149 |
I had not seen the girl since the first day. |
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| 3 | 151 |
One of the first lessons I was taught on Gor was that concern for a slave was out of place. |
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| 3 | 166 |
If there was one outstanding impression I gathered of the Older Tarl in that first terrifying meeting it was that he was a proud man, not arrogant, but proud, and rightfully so. |
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| 3 | 191 |
He slapped me on the shoulders, proud as a father who has taught his son chess and has been defeated for the first time. |
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| 3 | 248 |
It is said that a tarn knows who is a tarnsman and who is not, and that those who are not die in this first meeting. |
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| 3 | 249 |
My first impression was that of a rush of wind and a great snapping sound, as if a giant might be snapping an enormous towel or scarf; then I was cowering, awe-stricken, in a great winged shadow, and an immense tarn, his talons extended like gigantic steel hooks, his wings sputtering fiercely in the... |
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| 3 | 280 |
Almost immediately from somewhere, perhaps from a ledge out of sight, rose a fantastic object, another giant tarn, even larger than the first, a glossy sable tarn which circled the cylinder once and then wheeled toward me, landing a few feet away, his talons striking on the roof with a sound like hu... |
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| 4 | 32 |
I had never experienced anything like this, and if man ever felt godlike I suppose I did in those first savage, exhilarating moments. |
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| 4 | 79 |
I was surprised, for this was the first time I had known that my father had been War Chieftain of the city, or that he was even now its supreme civil official, or, for that matter, that the city was named Ko-ro-ba, a now archaic expression for a village market. |
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| 4 | 83 |
On the level of the First Knowledge, it is maintained that knowing the real name gives one a power over a person, a capacity to use that name in spells and insidious magical practices. |
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| 4 | 84 |
Perhaps something of the same sort lingers even on our native Earth, where the first name of a person is reserved for use by those who know him intimately and presumably wish him no harm. |
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| 4 | 108 |
It was chilly to the touch now, because I had set the chronometric temperature device to turn to cold an hour before the first light. |
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| 5 | 6 |
It was Sana, the Tower Slave whom I had seen on my first day in Gor. |
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| 5 | 13 |
I felt little of the exhilaration I had felt in my first soaring venture on the back of the tarn. |
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| 5 | 46 |
It was, of course, kept well-guarded and at the first sign of serious danger would undoubtedly be carried to safety. |
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| 5 | 80 |
I was frightened my first time". |
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| 5 | 85 |
"You said you were frightened—when you first rode a tarn," she said. |
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| 5 | 142 |
During the first day, sheltered in the occasional knots of trees that dot the border plains of Ar, I slept, fed on my rations, and practiced with my weapons, trying to keep my muscles vital in spite of the stiffness that attends prolonged periods on tarnback. |
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| 5 | 144 |
At first even the countryside was depressing, for the men of Ar, as a military policy, had devastated an area of some two or three hundred pasangs on their borders, cutting down fruit trees, filling wells, and salting the fertile areas. |
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| 5 | 165 |
I think the first of my pursuers had not realized I would turn the bird. |
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| 6 | 88 |
I then saw for the first time that strapped to his abdomen was a translation device, not unlike those I had seen in Ko-ro-ba. |
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| 8 | 170 |
For the first time since she had learned of the fall of Marlenus, the daughter of the Ubar seemed stunned. |
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| 9 | 29 |
I allowed Talena to bathe first, which seemed to surprise her. |
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| 9 | 150 |
Kazrak of Port Kar was a superb swordsman, but in the first moments we both knew that I was his master. |
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| 10 | 13 |
"So," said the merchant, "Kazrak of Port Kar has met his match?" "It is the first challenge I have ever lost," replied Kazrak proudly. |
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| 10 | 14 |
"Who are you?" asked Mintar, leaning forward a bit, inspecting first me and then Talena, whom he regarded with small interest. |
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| 10 | 113 |
These gigantic lizards had been bred on Gor for a thousand generations before the first tarn was tamed, and were raised from the leathery shell to carry warriors. |
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| 10 | 160 |
"No," begged Talena, now, for the first time, frightened. |
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| 11 | 6 |
For the first time in days her eyes filled with anger. |
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| 11 | 17 |
I saw Mintar again, the first time since I had joined the caravan. |
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| 12 | 42 |
"She would die first," I said. |
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| 12 | 47 |
I should have known that the proud Talena, daughter of a Ubar, would leap at the first chance to return to power in Ar, even though it be at the head of a plundering host of brigands. |
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| 12 | 90 |
Near one of the green stretches I saw what I first thought was a shadow, but as the tarn passed, it scattered into a scampering flock of tiny creatures, probably the small, three-toed mammals called qualae, dun-colored and with a stiff brushy mane of black hair. |
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| 12 | 149 |
The first thing I did was unseal one of the two water flasks and open the dried rations. |
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| 13 | 35 |
As it moved, for all its speed, it placed each paw carefully on the ground, first the toes and then the ball of the foot, as silently as the wind might bend grass, in a motion that was as beautiful as it was terrifying. |
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| 14 | 3 |
Yet this was the first time since I had saved his life that I had seen him. |
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| 14 | 52 |
"First the sword—" he said, "then government—then law—then justice". |
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| 14 | 92 |
I engaged and dropped the first of the tarnsmen to reach me and wounded the second, but was pressed back toward the rear of the cave. |
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| 14 | 146 |
The first guess would be that my body had torn in two, and the darkness would conceal the truth for a moment, until the tarnsman himself would try the ropes, to test the weight of their burden. |
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| 14 | 161 |
In the first streak of the early light I saw a few hundred yards away what I had hoped to find—the saddle and twisted body of the tarnsman. |
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| 15 | 75 |
Still I would not speak, not while he controlled a weapon; unfortunately, the first thing a Gorean warrior is likely to do to the stranger in his tent is kill him, the second is to find out who he is. |
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| 15 | 186 |
How many would rally to the banner of an outlaw? No, the power of the Initiates must first be broken". |
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| 15 | 215 |
For the first time Kazrak spoke. |
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| 15 | 219 |
Mintar was idly arranging the pieces on the game board, first in one pattern and then in another. |
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| 16 | 13 |
Occasionally I would climb halfway up one of the siege towers under construction and observe the city of Ar and the skirmishes that took place between it and the first ditch. |
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| 16 | 27 |
After some four days of bombardment, which probably had small effect, if any, the first assault was mounted. |
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| 16 | 30 |
After dark, in the light of torches, the first tower reached the walls. |
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| 16 | 31 |
Within the hour three others had touched the first wall. |
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| 16 | 116 |
Within the first wall of black silk, there was a second wall, but this time of iron bars. |
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| 17 | 17 |
The siege was in its fifty-second day, and the forces of Pa-Kur had breached the first wall. |
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| 17 | 19 |
Moreover, hundreds of light "flying bridges" were being constructed; at the moment of the final assault these would be extended from the first wall to the second, and the men of Pa-Kur would scramble upward toward the looming ramparts of Ar's last defense. |
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| 17 | 39 |
In a short time Pa-Kur appeared on the first wall, opposite the Supreme Initiate, and performed the same gestures. |
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| 17 | 43 |
The first condition for their surrender was that Pa-Kur grant a general amnesty for themselves and their temples. |
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| 17 | 59 |
As for the slaves of Ar, they would belong to the first man who changed their collar. |
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| 17 | 60 |
Near dawn, to the brave sound of tarn drums, a mighty procession left the camp of Pa-Kur, and as it crossed the main bridge over the first ditch, I saw in the distance the great gate of Ar slowly opening. |
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| 17 | 114 |
Then, with the first flush of joy I had felt in weeks, I brought the great bird soaring into the sky. |
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| 18 | 16 |
But first, as part of my plan, I raced my tarn directly for the walls of Ar, swiftly passing the slow procession on the plains below. |
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| 18 | 108 |
The first time I hauled on the one-strap, the bird would not move; the second time he lifted into flight, almost immediately scraping the ceiling of the tunnel with his wings, protesting shrilly. |
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| 18 | 130 |
In less than a few seconds the first of the scraggy tarns had lit on the floor of the cot and poked his ugly head through the door. |
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| 18 | 141 |
At that moment, to his own misfortune, a passing guardsman of Ar discovered the opened door that had mysteriously appeared in the wall of the first floor of the Central Cylinder. |
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| 19 | 30 |
I noted grimly, as I flew, that large portions of the horde of Pa-Kur were crossing the great bridges over the first ditch and moving toward the city, the sunlight flashing on their weaponry. |
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| 19 | 130 |
He then began testing elsewhere, methodically, using his sword almost as a physician might use a stethoscope, applying it first to one area and then to another. |
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| 19 | 150 |
He had begun much as at first, moving toward the same area, only with more familiarity, more rapidity. |
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| 19 | 167 |
Seeing her and the fear for me in her eyes, I seemed to gain redoubled strength, and for the first time it seemed to me that Pa-Kur was not meeting my attack as surely as he had previously. |
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| 19 | 228 |
"Yes," he said, as if he might have seen his daughter for the first time, "she is fit to be the daughter of a Ubar". |
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| 20 | 23 |
Such a man as Marlenus can never be second in a city, and the men of Ar were determined that he should never again be first. |
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| 20 | 37 |
He was wearing a new robe and sandals, perhaps for the first time in years. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 22 | 124 |
For the first time in my life my senses were kindled—for the first time I could feel the movements of clothing on my body, for the first time I noticed how an eye opens and what, truly, is the feel of a hand's touch—and I knew then that I was no more nor less than he or any other livin... |
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| 1 | 1 |
The Statement of Harrison Smith I first met Tarl Cabot at a small liberal arts college in New Hampshire, where we had both accepted first-year teaching appointments. |
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| 11 | 257 |
"I am a woman of Tharna," she screamed, "First in Tharna! First!" Then, beside herself with rage, holding the whip in both hands, she lashed madly at me. |
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| 23 | 217 |
It was he who had been first on the chain in the mines, he who had of necessity been first to climb the shaft from the slave kennel to freedom. |
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| 24 | 136 |
Once more I noted that the walls bordering the avenue rose as the avenue narrowed, but this time, long before we neared the small iron door, we saw a double rampart thrown across the avenue, the second wall topping the first and allowing missiles to be rained down on those who might storm the first ... |
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| 1 | 13 |
To my consternation and that of the college, Cabot disappeared shortly after the conclusion of the first semester. |
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| 1 | 68 |
It was late one night, in early February, and we were drinking once more at that small bar in which we had had our first drink that incredible sunny afternoon some months before. |
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| 1 | 138 |
First he brewed a pot of strong coffee, an act for which my swirling senses were more than grateful. |
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| 1 | 149 |
Then I noticed his ring, almost for the first time, though I had seen it a thousand times. |
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| 1 | 155 |
I arose, now conscious for the first time of a lost night of sleep, the effects of the drinking, and of the several cups of bitter coffee. |
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| 2 | 3 |
I rose slowly to my feet, my fibers alive in the wind, my hair torn by its blasts, my muscles each aching and rejoicing in their first movements in perhaps weeks, for I had again entered that silver disk in the White Mountains which was the ship of the Priest-Kings, used for the Voyages of Acquisiti... |
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| 4 | 98 |
I sensed that I was irrational, perhaps a bit drunk after the kill and the first food I had had in several hours. |
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| 6 | 34 |
Indeed, in Ko-ro-ba, a woman might even leave her quarters without first obtaining the permission of a male relative or the Free Companion, a freedom which was unusual on Gor. |
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| 6 | 68 |
Something of the nature of the institution of capture, and the Gorean's attitude toward it, becomes clear when it is understood that one of a young tarnsman's first missions is often the capture of a slave for his personal quarters. |
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| 6 | 151 |
I knew that this might be the first time a man had looked upon her face, except perhaps a member of her own family, if she had such. |
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| 6 | 164 |
For the first time, she seemed startled. |
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| 6 | 194 |
One, not their officer, approached me directly; another, a few feet behind the first and on his left, followed him. |
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| 6 | 195 |
The first, if necessary would engage me, and the second drive in on my right with his spear. |
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| 7 | 1 |
Thorn, Captain of Tharna With one sound three blades sprang from their sheaths, mine, that of the officer and that of the warrior who would first engage me. |
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| 7 | 2 |
The man on the right would not draw his blade but wait until the first warrior had made his attack and would then strike from the side with the spear. |
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| 7 | 4 |
But it was I who attacked first. |
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| 9 | 148 |
Soon, pounding the time on the table with the butt of my spear, I was leading a raucous round of songs, mostly wild drinking songs, warrior songs, songs of the encampment and march, but too I taught them songs I had learned in the caravan of Mintar the Merchant, so long ago, when I had first loved T... |
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| 10 | 22 |
In all likelihood three spears would have transfixed my body within my first few steps toward freedom. |
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| 10 | 37 |
I was facing the door, first in the narrow passage. |
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| 10 | 62 |
It was a giant urt, fat, sleek and white; it bared its three rows of needlelike white teeth at me and squealed in anger; two horns, tusks like flat crescents curved from its jaw; another two horns, similar to the first, modifications of the bony tissue forming the upper ridge of the eye socket, prot... |
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| 11 | 71 |
"Do you give orders to she who is First in Tharna?" asked the Tatrix. |
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| 11 | 105 |
He did not take his eyes from the Tatrix, wanting to strike at the first instant she permitted the blow. |
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| 11 | 218 |
"Sometimes, Stranger," she said, "it is hard to be First in Tharna". |
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| 12 | 43 |
She reached into the cistern, first scraping the surface of the water to clear it of the green scum that floated there, and then, in the palms of her cupped hands, carried water to my parched lips. |
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| 12 | 62 |
"Tell me about him," I said, "but first tell me your name". |
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| 12 | 101 |
"For how then would the ranks of Field Slaves be replenished?" "I see," I said, now understanding for the first time something of the motivation behind the hospitality of Tharna. |
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| 13 | 36 |
I looked above the wall and saw, vested in her robes of gold, regal on a golden throne, she who alone might wear a golden mask, she who was First in Tharna—Lara, the Tatrix herself. |
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| 13 | 48 |
"First," said the voice, "there will be the Contests of Oxen". |
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| 13 | 59 |
Our driver was the man in wrist straps, he from the Chamber of Urts, who had first brought me into the presence of the Tatrix. |
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| 13 | 67 |
Savagely, our backs breaking, stinging under the frenzied lashing of our driver, cursing the colorful sands of the arena that mounted before the block as we dragged it foot by foot about the course, we managed to come first within the zone of the golden wall. |
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| 13 | 149 |
The first man to reach me was the man in wrist straps, his face livid with rage. |
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| 14 | 146 |
Another spear struck the wood, closer than the first. |
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| 14 | 176 |
Something of the same exhilaration which I had felt in my first wild flight on a tarn, this very giant, now thrilled in me again. |
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| 14 | 187 |
This was the first time I had called "Tabuk!" but the bird would have been conditioned to the call by the tarn-keepers of Ko-ro-ba years ago, and might still respond. |
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| 14 | 194 |
The awnings had been struck, but the stands were still filled, as the thousands of silver masks of Tharna waited for the golden Tatrix herself to be the first to leave that scene of the macabre amusements of the gray city. |
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| 16 | 97 |
Slowly, though no strength returned to my body, my vision cleared, first in the center, and then gradually toward the edges, until I could once again see the pillar, the sky beyond and my foes. |
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| 17 | 75 |
As the slave works the tunnel, he crawls on his hands and knees, which bleed at first but gradually develop calluses of thick, scabrous tissue. |
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| 17 | 112 |
What consolation would it be to him if the entire mine were flooded, if he had first perished with my chain about his throat? I turned to the men. |
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| 18 | 80 |
"First," I said, "we must have the chamber flooded". |
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| 18 | 125 |
"First on the chain!" I called. |
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| 18 | 144 |
Then the first man on the chain supported his own weight, and the second, chains rattling, began to ascend the vertical tunnel, supported by he who was third, who now stood on the back of the fourth man, and so it continued. |
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| 18 | 145 |
Once the second man slipped, dragging the first down with him, and causing the third to lose his grip, but by now there was a solid chain of men in the tunnel, and the fourth and the fifth men held. |
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| 18 | 146 |
The first began his torturous ascent once more, followed by the second and third. |
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| 18 | 154 |
The first man on the chain had now ascended the tunnel to the very source of the water, another tunnel. |
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| 18 | 170 |
I clutched the first man by the shoulders. |
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| 19 | 95 |
"Let it be done," said the men, first one and then another, until there was a sober chorus of assent, quiet but powerful, and I knew that never before in this harsh world had men spoken thus. |
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| 19 | 96 |
And it seemed strange to me that this rebellion, this willingness to pursue the right as they saw it, independently of the will of the Priest-Kings, had come not first from the proud Warriors of Gor, nor the Scribes, nor the Builders nor Physicians, nor any of the high castes of the many cities of G... |
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| 20 | 20 |
In the first streak of light, now gleaming through the dusty hut window, I saw that the scabbard was set with six stones. |
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| 20 | 53 |
What would have been enough to satisfy her? * * * * It was now the month of the vernal equinox on Gor, called En'Kara, or The First Kara. |
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| 20 | 54 |
The full expression is En'Kara-Lar-Torvis, which means, rather literally, The First Turning of the Central Fire. |
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| 20 | 58 |
As might be expected there are related expressions for the months of the solstices, En'Var-Lar-Torvis and Se'Var-Lar-Torvis, or, again rather literally, The First Resting and the Second Resting of the Central Fire. |
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| 20 | 59 |
These, however, like the other expressions, usually occur in speech only as En'Var and Se'Var, or The First Resting and The Second Resting. |
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| 20 | 67 |
Chronology in Ar is figured, happily enough, not from its Administrator Lists, but from its mythical founding by the first man on Gor, a hero whom the Priest-Kings are said to have formed from the mud of the earth and the blood of tarns. |
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| 20 | 74 |
Before the mountains, in a panorama of silk and flags, I saw the pavilions of the Fair of En'Kara, or the Fair of the First Turning. |
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| 20 | 76 |
I looked upon those mountains which I now saw for the first time. |
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| 20 | 94 |
The bird's eyes, perhaps for the first time in his life, were filled with terror, blind uncomprehending terror. |
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| 21 | 251 |
It had been the first time the girl had uttered the ritual phrase. |
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| 22 | 9 |
"First," she said, "you will use me, will you not?" "No," I said. |
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| 22 | 59 |
Remember once you said it was hard to be first in Tharna. |
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| 22 | 107 |
"Because when I first saw you I knew you from a thousand forbidden dreams". |
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| 23 | 73 |
"It is hard to be first in Tharna," I said, and led her down the hillock, away from the Sardar Mountains. |
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| 23 | 82 |
It lit some fifty yards from us and we ran to its side, I first and Lara after me, she still apprehensive of the beast. |
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| 23 | 225 |
It was the plowing song I had first heard from the peasant in the mines. |
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| 24 | 35 |
Even the foul Kal-da to them, reveling in the first intoxication of their freedom, was the rarest and most potent of beverages. |
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| 24 | 69 |
"I am going to the Sardar," I said, "but I first have business in Tharna". |
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| 24 | 86 |
"You would have to kill me first," said Kron. |
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| 24 | 129 |
It was the sound of the plowing song, as slow and irresistible as the breaking of ice in frozen rivers, a simple, melodic paean to the soil, celebrating the first breaking of the ground. |
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| 24 | 138 |
The first rampart was perhaps twelve feet high, the second perhaps twenty. |
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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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| 24 | 219 |
You were first in the military games of En'Kara in the second year of my reign". |
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| 24 | 243 |
The rebel who had been first on the chain in the mines thrust a torch in my hands. |
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| 25 | 32 |
The voice, for the first time, spoke through the mask. |
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| 25 | 101 |
"Insolent beast!" she screamed at him, then she ordered the other warrior to slay the first. |
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| 25 | 104 |
"Were you to stay and die at the foot of your throne we would follow you and die by your side," said the first warrior. |
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| 26 | 68 |
After the six months, however—perhaps she has been reluctant to seek a master?—her initiative in these matters is lost and she belongs to the first man who encircles her throat with the graceful, gleaming badge of servitude. |
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| 26 | 71 |
Thus each silver mask will in time belong to a beast, though at first she is given some opportunity to determine whose yellow cords she will feel, on whose rug the ceremony of submission will take place. |
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| 26 | 73 |
It was not her intention to condemn her sisters of Tharna into interminable and miserable bondage but to force them to take this strange first step on the road she herself had traveled, one of the unusual roads that may lead to love. |
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| 1 | 31 |
There was indeed a Tarl Cabot, answering the description of these accounts, who was raised in Bristol, and who attended Oxford and taught in the small New England college referred to in the first book, and who subsequently rented an apartment in midtown Manhattan at dates congruent with the accounts... |
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| 2 | 91 |
Normally they do this in single file and he who leads the file is called First Spear, for his will be the first spear cast. |
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| 2 | 102 |
First Spear is normally the best of the spearmen because if the larl is not slain or seriously wounded with the first strike, the lives of all, and not simply that of Last Spear, stand in considerable jeopardy. |
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| 11 | 61 |
"They are the Anniversary of the Nuptial Flight," said Misk, "the Feast of the Deposition of the First Egg and the Celebration of the Hatching of the First Egg". |
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| 27 | 120 |
I gathered that perhaps this was the culmination of the Feast of Tola, the giving of Gur by the greatest of the Priest-Kings, the First Five Born, save that of that number there were only two left, the First Born and the Fifth, Sarm and Misk. |
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| 27 | 316 |
"I wanted to be," said the brown, dying creature, "the only Mother of Priest-Kings, and I listened to my First Born who wanted to be the only First Born of a Mother of Priest-Kings". |
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| 32 | 202 |
Then I found myself in the first Nest Complex, where first I had laid eyes on the Nest of Priest-Kings. |
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| 1 | 18 |
This is also the case, perhaps it should be mentioned, with the first book, Tarnsman of Gor, and the present book, Priest-Kings of Gor. |
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| 1 | 25 |
Indeed, our first account of the Counter-Earth, Tarnsman of Gor, was entrusted to Smith personally by Cabot, who shortly thereafter disappeared. |
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| 2 | 17 |
I would not be the first, of course, to enter the Sardar. |
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| 2 | 62 |
Some four days into the mountains I heard for the first time in my journey the sound of a thing other than the wind, the sighing of snow and the groaning of ice; it was the sound of a living thing; the sound of a mountain larl. |
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| 2 | 89 |
I was First Spear, for there were no others. |
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| 4 | 144 |
It clattered noisily against the first step. |
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| 5 | 36 |
I took it and first drank from it and then set it on the stone platform before me, and washed. |
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| 5 | 136 |
"Long ago," she said, "when I first came to the Sardar and found the Hall of Priest-Kings, I was a young and foolish girl. |
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| 5 | 155 |
Those of the High Castes of Gor are permitted by the Priest-Kings only the Second Knowledge, and those of the lower castes are permitted only the more rudimentary First Knowledge. |
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| 6 | 11 |
First she boiled and simmered a kettle of Sullage, a common Gorean soup consisting of three standard ingredients and, as it is said, whatever else may be found, saving only the rocks of the field. |
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| 6 | 30 |
Indeed, when I had returned to Earth from my first trip to Gor I had found that one of the minor inconveniences of my return was reaccustoming myself to the simple business of sitting on chairs. |
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| 6 | 98 |
"You are not going to leave the chamber, are you?" asked Vika, the first words she had said to me since the meal. |
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| 7 | 22 |
The first girl was a short, sturdy wench with thick ankles and wide, exciting shoulders, probably of peasant stock. |
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| 8 | 67 |
It was the first kiss I had taken from the lips of my slave girl, and it had been a kiss of mad joy, one that astonished her, that she could not understand. |
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| 8 | 94 |
"I am Tarl Cabot of Ko-ro-ba," I said to her, telling her my name and city for the first time. |
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| 8 | 95 |
"My city is Treve," she said, for the first time telling me the name of her city. |
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| 9 | 128 |
"You are the first of the men in this chamber," she said, "who have spoken to me of these things". |
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| 11 | 5 |
I would later learn to do so easily but at first I was often confused. |
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| 11 | 27 |
Upon occasion, undoubtedly as a sign of irritation, the tips of the forelegs were inverted, and I caught my first glimpse of the bladed, hornlike structures therein concealed. |
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| 11 | 43 |
"I am Sarm," it said, "beloved of the Mother and First Born". |
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| 11 | 55 |
"None may see the Mother save her caste attendants and the High Priest-Kings," said Sarm, "the First, Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Born". |
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| 11 | 90 |
It was at this time that I first saw how Priest-Kings breathed, probably because Sarm's respiratory movements were now more pronounced than they had been hitherto. |
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| 12 | 35 |
"I am the First Born," said Sarm. |
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| 12 | 73 |
"I should have been consulted," said Sarm, "for I am First Born". |
9 |
| 12 | 101 |
The expressions 'Al-Ka' and 'Ba-Ta' are the first two letters of the Gorean alphabet. |
9 |
| 12 | 249 |
"I have feelings," said the first man. |
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| 12 | 252 |
"Of course," said the first man, "for we are human". |
9 |
| 12 | 254 |
"Which of you," I asked, "has been synthesized?" "We do not know," said the first man. |
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| 12 | 258 |
"Follow me," said the first man and turned, and I followed him, leaving the room, the second man falling into stride beside me. |
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| 13 | 10 |
"To protect the Nest from contamination," said the first. |
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| 13 | 23 |
First, I did not know then how Priest-Kings learned. |
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| 13 | 51 |
"Oh," said the first slave. |
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| 13 | 55 |
I looked directly at the first slave. |
9 |
| 13 | 64 |
"No," said the first slave. |
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| 13 | 78 |
"The journeys between portals are timed," said the first slave, "and if she dallies she will be given a record-scar". |
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| 13 | 80 |
"A record-scar," I said, "is some sort of mark on your records?" "Yes," said the first slave, "it is entered on your scent-tape and also, in odor, inscribed on your tunic". |
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| 13 | 82 |
"Yes," said the first slave, "otherwise I am afraid we would appear much alike to them". |
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| 13 | 85 |
"Of course," said the first slave, "but there is no better way, for Muls are extremely inexpensive and are easily replaced". |
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| 13 | 89 |
"She is only a Mul," said the first slave. |
9 |
| 13 | 113 |
"It scavenges on the kills of the Golden Beetle," said the first slave. |
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| 14 | 75 |
In the first meal, Mul-Fungus is ground and mixed with water, forming a porridge of sorts; for the second meal it is chopped into rough two-inch cubes; for the third meal it is minced with Mul-Pellets and served as a sort of cold hash; the Mul-Pellets are undoubtedly some type of dietary supplement;... |
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| 14 | 85 |
The first odor I came to recognize was Misk's name, and it was delightful to then discover, as I became more practiced and sensitive, that the odor was the same as his own. |
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| 14 | 115 |
Occasionally after we got to know one another better, he would even allow me to groom him, and the first time he allowed me, with the small grooming fork used by favored Muls, to comb his antennae I knew that he trusted me, and liked me, though for what reason I could not tell. |
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| 14 | 156 |
I would learn later, however, that this simple fact was indeed almost incomprehensible to Priest-Kings, and that Misk, though he readily accepted it as a fact in his mind, could not bring himself, so to speak, in the furthest reaches of his heart to acknowledge it as true, for were not both he and S... |
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| 14 | 157 |
The first five born of the Mother are the High Council of the Nest. |
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| 15 | 61 |
"It is the first male born in the Nest in eight thousand years". |
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| 15 | 84 |
"And there must be a new Mother, and there must be the new First Born. |
9 |
| 16 | 33 |
"Why when first I came to Gor, more than seven years ago, did you not do this?" I asked. |
9 |
| 16 | 98 |
He first came to Gor more than six hundred years ago". |
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| 18 | 8 |
On the first time they accompanied me I obtained a marking stick, used by Mul clerks in various commissaries and warehouses, and inscribed their appropriate letters on the left shoulders of their plastic tunics. |
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| 18 | 67 |
"Yes," said Mul-Ba-Ta, "we would like that very much!" "But first," asked Mul-Al-Ka, "will you not show us how to be human?" "Why, how foolish you are!" scolded Mul-Ba-Ta. |
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| 19 | 5 |
Why had we not gotten on directly with the business at hand? In the morning, after the hour of the first feeding, Sarm entered Misk's compartment, where I was waiting for him. |
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| 19 | 6 |
To my surprise his head was crowned with an aromatic wreath of green leaves, the first thing green I had seen in the Nest, and about his neck there hung, besides the invariable translator, a necklace, perhaps of accouterments, perhaps of pure ornaments, small pieces of metal, some shallow and rounde... |
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| 19 | 97 |
"In the accomplishing of this matter you do a great service to the Nest and to Priest-Kings, and thereby will you gain great glory for yourself and a life of honor and riches, the first of which will be the slave girl Vika of Treve". |
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| 20 | 75 |
"Friendship between Muls is forbidden," said the first attendant. |
9 |
| 20 | 81 |
"Of course," said the first attendant. |
9 |
| 20 | 84 |
"That is always annoying," said the first attendant. |
9 |
| 20 | 86 |
"True," agreed the first attendant. |
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| 20 | 101 |
Bending to a panel in the disk he took out three objects: the long, classic, white garment of a Chamber Slave, which was contained in a wrapper of blue plastic; a slave collar; and an object of which I did not immediately grasp the import, a small, flat boxlike object which bore the upraised figure ... |
9 |
| 20 | 184 |
"True," said Mul-Al-Ka, "it is the first mistake I have known Sarm to make". |
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| 22 | 58 |
"Frankly," said Misk, "it would be my recommendation to slay me first and then unlock the band and dispose of my body, for otherwise I might be tempted to defend myself". |
9 |
| 22 | 167 |
If the swordsman with a longer weapon could not finish the fight in the first thrust or two he was a dead man. |
9 |
| 24 | 3 |
It was about the size of a rhinoceros and the first thing I noticed after the glowing eyes were two multiply hooked, tubular, hollow, pincerlike extensions that met at the tips perhaps a yard beyond its body. |
9 |
| 25 | 91 |
Thus carrying her I climbed the sword belt and soon had attained the first ring. |
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| 25 | 110 |
When one of the does moved I saw that moving beside her with dainty steps were two young tabuk, the first I had ever seen, for the young of the tabuk seldom venture far from the shaded, leafy bowers of their birth in the tangled Ka-la-na thickets of Gor. |
9 |
| 25 | 172 |
"I have dreamed," she said, "since first I met you, Tarl Cabot, of wearing—your collar and your chains. |
9 |
| 25 | 173 |
I have dreamed since first I met you of sleeping beneath the slave ring—chained at the foot of your couch". |
9 |
| 26 | 51 |
Vika, I was pleased to note, was considerably shaken by his appraisal, and I supposed it was the first time a man had ever looked upon her with disfavor. |
9 |
| 26 | 139 |
"I'll starve first". |
9 |
| 26 | 198 |
I wondered if this were perhaps the first time in her life in a matter of importance to her that she had not had her way with a man. |
9 |
| 26 | 266 |
I smiled to myself as I thought of the small things on my old world that at such remoteness perhaps reenacted the ancient ceremony of the caves, the carrying of the bride over the threshold, perhaps as a prisoner, the tiny wedding bands, perhaps a small reminder of the primitive thongs that bound th... |
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| 26 | 270 |
"When first I saw you, Cabot," she said, "I knew you owned me". |
9 |
| 27 | 16 |
Outside I thrust the red plastic garment I had worn into the first disposal chute I found whence it would be whisked away pneumatically to the distant incinerators that burned somewhere below the Nest. |
9 |
| 27 | 106 |
I was perhaps the first human who had ever beheld this ceremony. |
9 |
| 27 | 121 |
As it turned out later I was correct in this surmise and the moment of the ceremony is known as the March of the First Five Born, in which these five march abreast to the Mother and give her Gur in inverse order of their priority. |
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| 27 | 124 |
Together, in silence to human ears but to the swelling intensities of scent-music, in stately, stalking procession the two Priest-Kings approached the Mother, and I saw Misk, first, dip his mouth to the great golden bowl on its tripod and then approach her. |
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| 27 | 127 |
Now did Sarm, the First Born, approach the Mother and dip his jaws too to the golden bowl and stalk to the Mother and place his antennae gently on her head, and once again the old creature's antennae lifted but this time they seemed to retract. |
9 |
| 27 | 168 |
Sarm seemed to tremble and he struck with his other foreleg but this one too Misk seized with his other foreleg and once again they stood rocking on their posterior appendages, for Misk, having learned their strengths in the first grappling, and lacking the swiftness of Sarm, had decided to close wi... |
9 |
| 27 | 174 |
Though the translator which still hung about Sarm's neck with the string of silverish tools was not turned on I would not have needed it to interpret the desperate odor-signal emitted by the First Born. |
9 |
| 27 | 175 |
It was, indeed, though shorter and more intense, the first odor-signal that had ever been addressed to me, only then it had come from Misk's translator in the chamber of Vika. |
9 |
| 27 | 188 |
I sensed a signal from the Mother, the first I had sensed, and it was scarcely detectable. |
9 |
| 27 | 206 |
"I am the First Born," said Sarm. |
9 |
| 28 | 2 |
After the death of the Mother, Sarm and those who followed him, most of the Priest-Kings for he was First Born, fled from the chamber to fetch, as it was said, silver tubes. |
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| 28 | 4 |
Unused, they had lain encased in plastic quivers for a matter of centuries and yet when these quivers were broken open and the weapons seized up by angry Priest-Kings they were as ready for their grim work as they had been when first they were stored away. |
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| 28 | 9 |
In such war the much larger forces of the First Born tended to be neutralized and a situation of infiltration and counterinfiltration developed, marked by frequent sniping and occasional skirmishes. |
9 |
| 28 | 15 |
The energy bulbs, for the first time in centuries perhaps, had been shut down. |
9 |
| 28 | 45 |
It was the first time I had ever seen the two men separated. |
9 |
| 28 | 174 |
Somewhat to their embarrassment but for their own safety the Priest-Kings who had joined Misk wore painted on the back and front of their thorax the block letter which in the Gorean alphabet would be the first letter of Misk's name. |
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| 28 | 188 |
Rumor had it that the only Muls whom Sarm had not ordered slain on sight were the Implanted Ones, among whom would be such creatures as Parp, whom I had met long ago when first I entered the lair of Priest-Kings. |
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| 28 | 229 |
Perhaps one should not expatiate on this matter but the sensation tends to be an unsettling one, particularly at first. |
9 |
| 28 | 232 |
Needless to say, although ironically, the first transportation disk prepared for flight was a ship of war. |
9 |
| 29 | 48 |
The first craft began to turn slowly, uncontrollably, in the air and then plunged toward the ground. |
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| 29 | 68 |
Two hypotheses would seem most likely to explain this phenomenon to them, first that I had fled the complex, second that I was nestled among them, and I smiled to myself, for I was certain that the second hypothesis would never occur to a Priest-King, for it was too improbable and Priest-Kings were ... |
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| 29 | 75 |
The first ship to near the exit seemed to burst into a cloud of powder but the next four ships, and myself, who had fallen into line with them, pierced the veil of powder and found ourselves coursing through the tunnel back toward Sarm's domain. |
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| 29 | 129 |
Another Priest-King followed the first and I pressed the firing switch again but there was no response. |
9 |
| 29 | 158 |
Moreover, if I could bring it to the first Nest complex, Misk would probably destroy it on sight with his own disrupter. |
9 |
| 30 | 8 |
So it was he, I said to myself, who formed Al-Ka and Ba-Ta, he the biologist who was among the first in the Nest. |
9 |
| 30 | 87 |
I should not have been surprised, but I was, when the first deserter from the forces of Misk proved to be the treacherous Vika of Treve. |
9 |
| 30 | 88 |
My first knowledge of this came one morning when suddenly I awakened in my chains to the fierce bite of a leather lash. |
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| 30 | 187 |
This transfer of allegiance was apparently the result of long discussion and consideration by the group of Priest-Kings who had followed Sarm because he was First Born, but had at many points objected to his conduct of the War, in particular to his treatment of the Muls, his use of the gravitational... |
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| 31 | 7 |
When I was unchained I was informed by Sarm that the small box he carried activated my control net and at the first sign of disobedience or difficulty he would simply raise the power level—literally boiling my brain away. |
9 |
| 31 | 51 |
Sarm had disappeared and with his disappearance, and presumed death, the opposition to Misk evaporated, for it had been held together only by the dominance of Sarm's mighty personality and the prestige that was his in virtue of being First Born. |
9 |
| 31 | 76 |
"Do you wish to live?" asked Al-Ka of the first girl. |
9 |
| 31 | 110 |
I climbed over the fallen stones and ran from the room and leaped on the first transportation disk I could find. |
9 |
| 31 | 162 |
"No," he said, "there is only one Priest-King, the First Born, Sarm—he who did not betray the Nest, he who was beloved of the Mother, he who kept and honored the ancient truths of his people". |
9 |
| 31 | 178 |
If his first blow missed perhaps I could get close enough to strike but it did not seem probable his blow would miss. |
9 |
| 32 | 33 |
"And he was First Born," said Misk. |
9 |
| 32 | 212 |
I had found the elevator which had originally been used by Parp, whom I had learned was a physician of Treve, and who had been my host in my first hour in the domain of Priest-Kings. |
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| 32 | 214 |
When he had first spoken to me I knew now he would have been under the control of Priest-Kings, that his control net would have been activated and his words and actions dictated, at least substantially, from the Scanning Room below, but now the Scanning Room, like most of the Nest, was demolished, a... |
9 |
| 33 | 2 |
It was a strange but rapid journey, and as we leaped chasms and seemed almost to swim in the cold air I told myself that Misk and his Priest-Kings and the humans that were engineers in the Nest were losing the battle that would decide whether men and Priest-Kings might, working together, save a worl... |
9 |
| 34 | 68 |
I took the small stone in my hands and kissed it, for it was the Home Stone of the city to which I had pledged my sword, where I had ridden my first tarn, where I had met my father after an interval of more than twenty years, where I had found new friends, and to which I had taken Talena, my love, t... |
9 |
| 34 | 167 |
I thought his sword might indeed have been welcome, but I knew his first duty lay to his city. |
9 |
| 35 | 38 |
The body of Sarm, I learned, had been burned in the Chamber of the Mother, according to the custom of Priest-Kings, for he had been First Born and beloved of the Mother. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 223 |
In the crowd, on the back of a kaiila, I noted the girl Hereena, of the First Wagon, whom I had seen my first day in the camp of the Tuchuks, she who had almost ridden down Kamchak and myself between the wagons. |
10 |
| 8 | 488 |
I released the bola, risking all, hurling it not to the expected rendezvous of the second left but to a first right, unexpected, the first break in the two-left, one-right pattern. |
10 |
| 10 | 117 |
I think it was then, perhaps the first time since her first coming to the Wagon Peoples, that she fully understood her plight—for Kamchak had, on the whole, been kind to her—he had not put the Tuchuk ring in her nose, nor had he clothed her Kajir, nor put the brand of the bosk horns on... |
10 |
| 12 | 259 |
Well did I recall the first day following the first night of Aphris as the slave of Kamchak. |
10 |
| 23 | 11 |
I had learned to my surprise that the Ubars of the Kassars, Kataii and Paravaci were, respectively, Conrad, Hakimba and Tolnus, the very three I had first encountered with Kamchak on the plains of Turia when first I came to the Wagon Peoples. |
10 |
| 1 | 29 |
Accordingly, the main divisions of the map are Ta-Sardar-Var, and the other seven; taking the Sardar as our "north pole" the other directions, clockwise as Earth clocks move (Gorean clock hands move in the opposite direction) would be, first, Ta-Sardar-Var, then, in order, Ror, Rim, Tun, Vask (somet... |
9 |
| 2 | 2 |
In the long years that had passed since first I had come to the Counter-Earth I had seen many things, and had known loves, and had found adventures and perils and wonders, but I asked myself if anything I had done was as unreasoning, as foolish as this, as strange. |
9 |
| 2 | 59 |
Then for the first time, against the horizon, a jagged line, humped and rolling like thundering waters, seemed to rise alive from the prairie, vast, extensive, a huge arc, churning and pounding from one corner of the sky to the other, the herds of the Wagon Peoples, encircling, raising dust into the... |
9 |
| 2 | 60 |
And then I saw the first of the outriders, moving toward me, swiftly yet not seeming to hurry. |
9 |
| 2 | 70 |
Until the youth has mastered the bow, the quiva and the lance he is simply known as the first, or the second, and so on, son of such and such a father. |
9 |
| 2 | 87 |
The members of these clans, however, like the Year Keepers and Singers, are all expected, first and foremost, to be, as it is said, of the wagons—namely to follow, tend and protect the bosk, to be superb in the saddle, and to be skilled with the weapons of both the hunt and war. |
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| 2 | 113 |
He was dressed much as the first man, except that no chain depended from his helmet, but his wind scarf was wrapped about his face. |
9 |
| 2 | 121 |
Beneath it, however, partially concealed by the cloth, was apparently a mask of chain, presumably not unlike that of the first rider, the chain depending from the helmet. |
9 |
| 2 | 135 |
I knew, though, from the belt, though I first misread its purpose, that the owner was of the Paravaci, the Rich People, richest of the wagon dwellers. |
9 |
| 2 | 181 |
"Hear my name," cried he, "I am Kamchak of the Tuchuks!" As suddenly as he had finished, as soon as the men had named themselves, as if a signal had been given, the four kaiila bounded forward, squealing with rage, each rider bent low on his mount, lance gripped in his right hand, straining to be th... |
9 |
| 3 | 131 |
Now, also, for the first time, I could clearly smell the herd, a rich, vast, fresh, musky, pervasive odor, compounded of trampled grass and torn earth, of the dung, urine and sweat of perhaps more than a million beasts. |
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| 5 | 86 |
"She is Hereena, a wench of the First Wagon," he said. |
9 |
| 5 | 89 |
"What does it mean to be of the First Wagon?" I asked. |
9 |
| 5 | 93 |
"To be of the First Wagon," said Kamchak, "is to be of the household of Kutaituchik". |
9 |
| 5 | 97 |
"His wagon," smiled Kamchak, "is the First Wagon—and it is Kutaituchik who sits upon the gray robe". |
9 |
| 5 | 100 |
It was thus I first learned the name of the man whom I understood to be Ubar of this fierce people. |
9 |
| 5 | 105 |
"To be of any of these wagons is to be of the First Wagon". |
9 |
| 5 | 108 |
"She is unrelated to him, as are most in the First Wagon". |
9 |
| 6 | 7 |
The difficulty, of course, is in first obtaining the brand. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 611 |
Each month, containing five five-day weeks, is separated by a five-day period, called the Passage Hand, from every other month, there being one exception to this, which is that the last month of the year is separated from the first month of the year, which begins with the Vernal Equinox, not only by... |
10 |
| 6 | 23 |
There was a shout from the men-at-arms and members of the House who sat at the tables as the second slave, he who had scored the first point, managed to leave a long streak of blue down the inside of the right arm of the first slave. |
10 |
| 6 | 53 |
I saw that the second slave, who was doubtless the better man at the sport, had slipped behind the first and, holding his head back with a powerful forearm, had decisively drawn his sheathed hook knife across the throat of the first man. |
10 |
| 11 | 179 |
The girl on the left had her hair cut rather short; the slavers would, in all probability, not permit her to continue to wear her hair in that fashion; her face was delicate, fragile, rather thin and intellectual; her body was thin; I expected her new masters would put some weight on her; her eyes w... |
10 |
| 12 | 106 |
The winning perch, or the first perch after the race, is that closest to the stands, rather than that closest to the dividing wall, the inside perch, which is first with respect to the beginning of the race, most desirable at the beginning, least desirable at the end. |
10 |
| 12 | 136 |
Thus, in leaving the perches at the beginning of the race, the tarns pass first through three rectangular "rings," then come to the first turn, where they negotiate three round rings, two of which are at the corners; and then they encounter three more rectangular "rings" and then come to the second ... |
10 |
| 13 | 325 |
Suddenly with a snap of its wings I could hear more than two hundred yards away the tarn exploded from the perch, Mip low on its back, and streaked toward the first "ring," the first of three huge metal rectangles, before the round "rings" mounted at the corners and at the end of the dividing wall. |
10 |
| 13 | 326 |
Startled, I saw the bird flash through the three first rings, veer and speed through the first of the round "rings," and in the same motion, still turning, pass through the second and third of the round "rings," and then, wings beating with incredible velocity, its beak forward, Mip low on its back,... |
10 |
| 15 | 250 |
"And yesterday," laughed Elizabeth, rocking back, clapping her hands, "when Sura asked him to stand forth that one of us might approach him to administer the First Kiss of the Captive Slave Girl, it was you who first sprang to your feet". |
10 |
| 15 | 365 |
But perhaps more importantly he had been spreading rumors throughout the city of the desirability of trained barbarians, of which he now had several in training, those who had been brought to Gor with Virginia and Phyllis, some who had been brought to the pens earlier and not sold off immediately, a... |
10 |
| 16 | 19 |
On the first day of the Waiting Hand, the last five days of the old year, the portals of Ar, including even that of the House of Cernus, had been painted white, and in many of the low-caste homes had been sealed with pitch, not to be opened until the first day of En'Kara. |
10 |
| 16 | 26 |
Then, at dawn, on the first day of En'Kara, in the name of the city, the Administrator of Ar, or a Ubar if it be Ubar, greets the sun, welcoming it to Ar on the first day of the New Year. |
10 |
| 16 | 34 |
On the first day of En'Kara much of the old year had been forgotten, but there were three who could not forget it; Portus, who lay chained in the dungeons of the Central Cylinder; Claudia Tentia Hinrabia, now free, but who had endured the shame of slavery, and would perhaps never again permit hersel... |
10 |
| 17 | 168 |
He referred to a practice of handing out passes, dated ostraka bearing the print of the House of Cernus, outside the gate of the Slaver's house, which were dispensed on a first-come-first-served basis, a thousand a day, each day of the races. |
10 |
| 18 | 453 |
Then I said, pointing to the first scratch, "This is the first day of En'Kara before the last En'Kara". |
10 |
| 19 | 1 |
The Curulean The sale of Elizabeth Cardwell, Virginia Kent and Phyllis Robertson, with that of Cernus' other trained barbarians, did not take place on the first night of the Love Feast, though they had been transported to the cages of the Curulean early in the first day. |
10 |
| 19 | 79 |
Here in the area of the exhibition cages there were various citizens of Ar milling about, some meeting their friends, before taking their seats in the tiers; some seats in the tiers, the better ones, are reserved by number, but many are simply available on a first-come-first-served basis; those citi... |
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| 21 | 263 |
"Attack!" He died first, being the first to reach me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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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| 8 | 111 |
In this situation, then, it was natural, expecting an attack on either the first or the last barge, that the officer, he of the golden slashes on the temples of his helmet, would concentrate his men in the first and last barges. |
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| 8 | 344 |
I looked down to the slave at the starboard side, he at the first thwart, who would be first oar. |
10 |
| 15 | 36 |
And bound at the prow of the first forty ships, following the flagship, beginning with the Dorna, and then the tarn ships and the first ten and largest of the captured round ships, was a high-born beauty, once intended to be the maiden of Cos' Ubara, now, like herself, destined only for the brand an... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 438 |
On the first day I had been examined, given some minor medicines of little consequence, and the first shot in the Stabilization Series. |
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| 9 | 314 |
"Very well!" The first girl to leap to the center of the circle was she who had first held my leash. |
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| 14 | 431 |
Some men, of course, not just warriors, tarnsmen, and such, find pleasure in obtaining a new girl, a new slave, and then initiating her into the ramifications and consequences of her condition, in seeing that she is well familiarized with, and is well inducted into, a variety of dimensions of her ne... |
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| 15 | 33 |
"On the first day of my capture, at the first camp of my captors," said Ute, "I fell to Rask of Treve". |
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| 17 | 217 |
And there, too, were others, even he who had driven the slave wagon in which I had been often confined; even he who had first harnessed me to the tongue of Targo's one wagon, when I had first been captured by him. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 22 |
Indeed, he was First Slaver of Port Kar, and First Captain in its Council of Captains, which council, since the downfall of the four Ubars is sovereign in Port Kar. |
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| 1 | 123 |
How could I not love Talena, the deep, and first love, the first beautiful love of my life? "Do you love her?" asked Samos. |
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| 2 | 609 |
"Feed us first," said the first girl. |
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| 12 | 87 |
Indeed, there were many important merchants who had daughters, for example, the first merchant of Teletus and the first merchant of Asperiche. |
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| 14 | 157 |
I sat them about the tree, their backs to it, and fastened them in the star, the left wrist of the first girl bound to the right wrist of the next, and so about the tree, until the star was closed by binding the left wrist of the fourth girl to the last untethered wrist, the right wrist of the first... |
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| 22 | 584 |
He had succeeded in the first objective but had magnanimously, after first forcing her to serve him as a helpless, obedient slave girl, after sexually conquering her, freed her. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 143 |
I did not know, nor I suppose did others, outside the Nest, when the first contacts had been made, the first probes initiated, the first awareness registered on the part of Priest-Kings that there were visitors within their system, strangers at the gates, intruders, dangerous and unwelcome, threaten... |
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| 4 | 118 |
He exchanged, taking my Ax at Jarl Six, and I his First Singer with my First Singer. |
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| 14 | 251 |
Hand over hand I crawled up the chain; then the chain shook, wildly; I struggled to hold it; the fire at my right sleeve snapped back and forth; I lost my breath; I feared my neck would break; blood was on the chain; I held it; Kurii howled beneath me; I moved further up the chain; then the chain st... |
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| 21 | 27 |
She now had new tasks to which to address herself, cooking, and churning and carrying water; the improvement of her own carriage, and beauty and attractiveness; and the giving of inordinate pleasure in the furs to her master, Svein Blue Tooth, Jarl of Torvaldsland; if she did not do so, well she kne... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 432 |
On Gor they are rescued from the political and sexual deserts of Earth; branded, collared, dressed revealingly, they find themselves for the first time in their lives, though embonded, far more free than they could ever have believed possible on Earth; gone is the ennui, the vacuity; on Gor they fin... |
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| 26 | 30 |
A great deal of planning, and organization, and hard work must take place before she first lifts her head to the buyers, looking out upon them, one of whom will own her, and she hears the first call of the auctioneer, he lifting his coiled whip behind her, "What am I bid?" In the march were Kavars, ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 769 |
"When we are to be raped, and must serve you as slaves," begged the first girl, she who had been in his arms, "let me be the first to be raped, the first to serve you as a slave". |
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| 28 | 154 |
At any rate, usually, it is not regarded as desirable to be among the first twenty girls on the chain; sometimes these are sold to an almost half-empty house; a reciprocity tends to become involved; the slavers tend to put their least valuable girls up first, because of the smallness of the house in... |
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| 4 | 91 |
As long as a male had taken the first bite, the first drink, at the meal, apparently there was little objection to our also partaking. |
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| 5 | 672 |
Interestingly, the man snapping the wrist rings on the girls' left wrists did not put the first girl in the first ring, but the second. |
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| 5 | 775 |
"Lehna is first," said the first girl. |
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| 18 | 52 |
Below on the first level two men began to shout and fight, squabbling over first master rights to their waitress, Lyrazina, an exquisite little collared blond from Teletus. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 323 |
Normally much betting would wait until it was known which player had yellow, which determines the first move, the first move, of course, determining the opening. |
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| 6 | 257 |
One of the girls had lifted aside the first of the free woman's veils, and the other had brushed back the first of her hoods. |
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| 14 | 386 |
She, I had conjectured, would be the first of the three girls to come to a full slavery, or, as the Goreans sometimes put it, she would probably be the first to lick her chains. |
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| 26 | 150 |
Imnak placed the first block of the second row of blocks across two blocks in the first row. |
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| 38 | 44 |
It was a double coffle line; the last girl is placed on it first; the double line is knotted about her neck and then the two strands are taken forward; the fifth girl was next neck-knotted into the line and the two strands taken forward again, and so on; when the first girl is put in the coffle, the... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 73 |
The first of these commonly occurs in certain of the Gorean enclaves on Earth, which serve as headquarters for agents of Priest-Kings; the second tends to occur in the lairs of Kurii agents on Earth; the first brand consists of a locked collar and, ascending diagonally above it, extending to the rig... |
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| 1 | 156 |
"I think Samos, first slaver of Port Kar, first captain of the council of captains, has grown fond of a blond Earth girl". |
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| 12 | 500 |
Her body, sensitized by the first stroke, helpless, raw, aware, expectant, exposed, felt the second, as was intended, mingling with the burning echoes, the searing, throbbing wounds of the first, a thousand times more cruelly. |
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| 43 | 40 |
She, like the first, was dressed in brief skins and, like the first, was ornamented, with an armlet and necklace. |
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| 50 | 86 |
Tende was first, for she was first girl. |
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| 57 | 103 |
The fork of the first stick goes to the back of the neck of the first girl. |
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| 57 | 109 |
The second girl in one pair, unless she is the last in the long line, and the first girl in the succeeding pair, unless she is the first in the long line, are fastened together by neck ropes. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 349 |
"It was the first ship which left the line, the first ship to strike at us," I said. |
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| 19 | 1191 |
"You are first girl, Mistress," cried the slave, "you are first girl!" "Have you ever seen your collar?" asked Lola. |
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| 21 | 439 |
"And from the first moment I heard your name, my first thought was that it was a superb name for a slave, and that it should be the name of a slave". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 368 |
"So," said I, "naturally they expect not to address us first, but to be first addressed". |
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| 1 | 369 |
"I," asked Samos, "first speak to such as they, I, who am first captain in the high city of Port Kar, jewel of gleaming Thassa?" "Correct," I said. |
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| 8 | 1101 |
Yet I think there seems a rather clear distinction between the first three girls and the last seven, and, if I may say so, between the first and the second two". |
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| 15 | 97 |
It is the first time that they have found themselves in the order of nature, and as what they are, and it is the first time that they have found themselves being looked at, frankly, and honestly, within the order of nature, and as what they are, females, appropriate objects of male predation and des... |
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| 17 | 358 |
"Yes," she said, "almost from the first moment I felt the warm grass under my belly, almost from the first moment I put my mouth to the paws of that beast". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 316 |
Most seating, however, in Gorean theaters, except for certain privileged sections, usually reserved for high officials or the extremely wealthy, is on a first-come-first-served basis. |
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| 34 | 73 |
For example, in a slaver's house one of the first things a new girl is taught is to kiss the whip, and therein is conveyed to her a profound message; she therein receives, perhaps for the first time in her life, an inkling into the meaning of her beauty, her slightness, and weakness, and her deepest... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 435 |
"Begin then, on the first square," said the player, "with the first letter of a word, or of a sentence, or even of a set of letters randomly selected. |
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| 20 | 106 |
I considered the cleverness of Belnar, and the probable audacity and daring of such a man, one deviously implicated, I suspected, in the intricate and dangerous games of Gorean high politics, and how easily I had been earlier outwitted in my first attempt to close with him, in my first attempt to ga... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 24 |
The first piece of bread he threw to the woman who had been the first to unhood and face-strip herself, perhaps thereby rewarding her for her intelligence. |
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| 3 | 208 |
He then utilized, for the first time in Gorean field warfare, first at Rovere, and later at Kargash, mobile siege equipment, catapults mounted on wheeled platforms, which could fire over the heads of the draft animals. |
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| 14 | 41 |
One depicted the laying of the first stone in Torcadino's walls, an act which presumably would have taken place more than seven hundred years ago, when, according to the legends, the first wall, only a dozen feet high, was built to encircle and protect a great, sprawling encampment at the joining of... |
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| 18 | 61 |
It is an unforgettable moment for a woman when she is first chained, when she is first shackled, usually when stripped. |
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| 19 | 24 |
The theory is not only that it is well to practice the draw frequently, as the first to draw may be the first to strike, but also to be familiar with it on a daily basis lest its parameters alter from time to time, due to such things as contractions and swellings of the leather, these having to do w... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 400 |
"Sight unseen," called Mirus to the crowd, "who will try the luck of the first ostrakon? Only a tarsk bit each! Who is first? Who is for the first ostrakon? You, sir! Yes! And you the second! The third! Yes. |
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| 3 | 296 |
Perhaps the first man, he I had first seen, he whom I knew, no longer blocked them! But he was still there! I cried out in misery and darted across the open space, past the information desk and the office, past the periodicals and into the reading area, toward the main-level porch, overlooking the l... |
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| 4 | 416 |
Oh, it might be amusing, as an act of imperious arrogance, to take it from you, to rend it, to be the first to force you apart, to be the first to open you for the uses of men, but it is even more amusing to show you my disdain for that worthless bit of fragile, temporary tissue by which you set suc... |
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| 8 | 103 |
As she had been the first into the first cage yesterday, and we had had, for the most part, to back out of the narrow enclosures, it was natural that she had been at the head of our group this morning. |
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| 10 | 181 |
I was now aware not so much of these first-glimpsed things, things which might occur to a stranger looking casually upon him for the first time, from a distance, as other things, things which became much clearer with closeness, closeness such as when one might be kneeling naked before him, so close ... |
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| 11 | 263 |
Doubtless I was not the first girl to be conducted out onto that floor, and probably not even the first Earth girl. |
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| 13 | 616 |
"I beg it!" "Since first I saw you, when I had unroped the shipping blanket, and put its folds to the sides, revealing you, helplessly manacled, when you first came to the house from Market of Semris," he said, "I dreamed that you would one day be so hot and needful before me, and would beg me for m... |
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| 20 | 257 |
A girl's first sale, at least her first public one, as mine was at Market of Semris, when she is exposed on a block naked to buyers, and such, is probably the hardest for her. |
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| 24 | 444 |
She was not the "first girl" of the work slaves, nor even the first girl in our pen. |
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| 29 | 1583 |
Callisthenes, first, then Sempronius, hurled their swords, blade first, into the earth at their feet. |
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| 29 | 1655 |
And Mina was first on the coffle! How proud she seemed! Look at her, so beautiful, so proud to be first! Callisthenes and Sempronius supported Mirus between them, and helped him toward the woods. |
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| 33 | 272 |
From even that first day in the library when I had knelt at his feet, the first time I had knelt at the feet of a man, retrieving a book, and had opened it, finding a message, which, at his command, I had read aloud, the message—I am a slave. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 473 |
Perhaps they learn it when first they carry the candles of their longing into the recesses of their being, hoping to free their deepest self and bring it into meadows of honesty and sunlight, when first they dare to open the doors of yearning, when first they sense somewhere a radiant and more fulfi... |
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| 4 | 74 |
"I take the first of the first tubs," said the fellow. |
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| 6 | 7 |
As the first line in Gorean writing moves from the left to the right, according to convention the numbers to the left would be first numbers designating the space. |
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| 13 | 107 |
The first time I had used Lady Claudia, the first day I had been in the cell, flinging her to my feet in the straw, I had taken little time with her. |
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| 24 | 661 |
The best selling point is usually regarded as the first position on the chain, for she is the first girl inspected, and is likely to be remembered, even after the others are examined. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 344 |
One sacrifices the first board, so to speak, and then has one's first player engaging the enemy's second player, and one's second player engaging the enemy's third, and so on. |
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| 19 | 650 |
I gathered that she might be trying to understand, and cope with, unusual things which had occurred in her body, perhaps for the first time, things which, even in their incipience, even in the first and most inchoate forms, had profoundly stirred her, things which had perhaps hinted at profound late... |
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| 26 | 227 |
The proceeds from the first sales of the girls, when they were first put up for auction, whether out of the city or within it, went to the public treasury of Besnit. |
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| 31 | 268 |
"Serve first our guest, Ina," I said, correcting her behavior, for she was apparently preparing to serve me first. |
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| 37 | 234 |
The girl may be entered into the sack either feet first or head first. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 661 |
Indeed, if there is a large number of slaves, there are sometimes hierarchies of "first girls," lower-level first girls reporting to higher-level first girls, and so on. |
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| 9 | 13 |
First with one hand and then the other, suddenly, frenziedly, first from one wrist, and then from the other, sobbing, she tried to force the obdurate iron from her wrist. |
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| 10 | 243 |
Moreover I thought he could really reach at least three of them, the first with a thrust, and the second two, each with a slash to the neck, first to the right, the blade withdrawn, and then to the left, before they could adequately break and scatter. |
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| 18 | 213 |
"When a wagon would be stuck in the mud, it was always he who would first discover it! When there wasn't enough to eat, it would be he who would be the first to notice!" I did have a good appetite, of course. |
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| 27 | 367 |
I looked down at the new slave, whom I had decided to call 'Talena', which slave name was also entered on her papers, in the first endorsement, as her first slave name pertinent to these papers, and by means of which she could always be referred to in courts of law as, say, the slave who on such and... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | 700 |
Did they sense, tremblingly, how exciting they might seem to men if they were so adorned, how much this might increase the desire which they might provoke in masters? And were they not, all, slaves? Did they not want to be exciting, beautiful, and desirable? Did they dare to conceive of themselves, ... |
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| 46 | 241 |
I had felt the first time I had seen him, the first time I had knelt before him, looking up at him, the first time I had kissed his whip, that I was somehow his, that it was to him that I belonged. |
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| 6 | 119 |
"Are such things also of interest to you?" asked he who was first among those of the house, first, at any rate, among those present. |
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| 6 | 185 |
I had found the way in which I was regarded by these men, almost from the beginning, as soon as I became aware of such things, almost from my first moments after having crawled from the corridor in line, with the others, chained by the neck, to the first processing area, to be startling, or, at leas... |
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| 8 | 26 |
But how cruel he had been to me, after his first kindness, his first patience! How he had rejected me, and mocked and scorned me, how I had felt his foot, or the back of his hand, how he had thrust me to the tiles, how he would order me, angrily, to another, or even hurl me impatiently, sometimes in... |
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| 12 | 435 |
Let the necklace be but the first of a succession, I thought, of ever richer and more hopefully, more desperately proffered gifts, the first of many similarly tendered inducements. |
10 |
| 13 | 848 |
I had been well punished by the first nine strokes, I assure you, but that tenth stroke told me more than the first nine. |
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| 19 | 620 |
It would be not only the second woman who had profited from the experience of the first woman, but the first woman, as well. |
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| 24 | 134 |
It seemed clear that there were more tarns in this group than in the first group, perhaps considerably more, but by how much the numbers of this group might exceed those of the first group it would be very difficult to say, that for two reasons, their formation and orientation. |
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| 24 | 135 |
They were in single-file, like the first group, but they were not moving to the right, as had the first group, an orientation that had made possible a fairly exact estimate of their numbers. |
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| 24 | 706 |
She had had apparently at least one other, he who had first captured her, he who had first put the collar on her neck, one from whom she had been stolen, one whom she feared terribly, with all the terror of her embonded heart. |
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| 29 | 737 |
"In my house," he said, "it will be I who will first tie you to the whipping ring, who will give you your first public lashing". |
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| 34 | 57 |
Who had first seen me, who had marked me out, who had first decided this? Who had speculated how I might look in a collar, who had conjectured my lineaments, who had read my body, and my heart? "The Turian opening?" asked the pit master. |
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| 37 | 291 |
We were thrust a little down the passageway, the first group, that "cord" of five in front, the second group, the second "cord" of five, in which I was one, behind, and in the interstices of the first group. |
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| 37 | 602 |
The first man and the lieutenant had come to the first gate, reached by going to the right about the pool. |
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| 37 | 625 |
The first man, with the two slaves, who had gone to the left, was now well ahead of us, and had reached the first of the three opposite gates which was accessible from our side of the pool. |
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| 43 | 79 |
"Do you think you are a first girl, and that you are now in the house of Appanius?" inquired the first man of Aynur. |
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| 44 | 177 |
"No, Master! Please, no, Master!" "But she was first girl over the other slave," said the first man. |
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| 44 | 179 |
"You were, as I understand it," said the first man to Aynur, who seemed now unable to rise even to her knees, "a poor first girl, one not only unpopular in the garden, but even one richly hated therein, one who ruled it strictly and cruelly, personally, arbitrarily, using your modicum of power as an... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 25 | 599 |
"Accordingly scarcely opened for the pleasures of men! Indeed, for most practical purposes, one might say 'not yet opened for the pleasures of men,' certainly not yet opened for the true pleasures of men, and certainly not opened as a slave is opened! Twenty copper tarsks! Be the first to open her a... |
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| 22 | 454 |
It was he who on this world had been her first master, he who on Earth had arranged and executed her straightforward, flawless abduction, he into whose keeping and under whose mastery she had first come, he amongst whose toils she had first found herself inextricably enmeshed, so absolutely, so simp... |
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| 10 | 25 |
She had hated Tutina from the first, even from the moment she had first seen her at the opera, so long ago, probably because she had seemed simple, stupid and so beautiful, but, more likely, as she was, in fact, neither simple nor stupid, because she was beautiful and was with the young man. |
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| 13 | 252 |
The first girl, she who had first alerted the slaves to the phenomenon in the distance, climbed down from the rack, and crouched near it, amidst the flapping clothes. |
10 |
| 15 | 117 |
Immediately she knelt in the first position before him, the first position of the pleasure slave. |
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| 15 | 496 |
Why should some men want to be the first to open a slave? What difference does it make? The slave will probably have very little feeling the first time. |
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| 16 | 182 |
Instantly, without really thinking, and not really understanding, at least for the first instant, why she did what she did, Ellen went to the first obeisance position. |
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| 20 | 173 |
When morning came, the first day, they had landed, taken shelter in a grove of ka-la-na, and made their first camp. |
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| 20 | 301 |
Moving in the basket, facing forward, peering again through the wicker, she saw the first tarnsman who had approached the train swoop beneath it, beat his way forward, and then seize the long rope dangling better than a hundred feet from the harness of the first tarn, that which had been the fourth ... |
10 |
| 24 | 50 |
Too, had it not been his whip that she had first felt as a slave? Certainly no slave is likely to forget her first whipping. |
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| 25 | 992 |
In a moment she would again belong to Mirus, he who had first opened her for the uses of men, her first master. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 28 | 16 |
For example, the fourth month, that following the third passage hand and the summer solstice, is En'var or En'var-Lar-Torvis, the First Standing of the Sun; the seventh month, following the sixth passage hand and the autumnal equinox is Se'Kara or Se'Kara-Lar-Torvis, The Second Turning of the Sun; t... |
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| 13 | 88 |
Is the swiftest of the tabuk not most likely to escape the sleen or larl? How is it that the vision of the tarn can discern the movement of even an urt at a thousand feet? The shark who detects the trace of blood in remote water, will he not be the first to feed? Will not the moth who detects the od... |
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| 16 | 121 |
I would expect the third sweep of each rank to be more successful than the first or second, certainly more so than the first. |
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| 23 | 19 |
The favorite, incidentally, is not likely to be "first girl," that slave placed in charge of the others in the house, but she may nonetheless exercise considerable power, and candidates for "first girl" are likely to cultivate her favor. |
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| 33 | 100 |
"Doubtless they have their sport, their interest in which drop of water will be first to reach a sill, which insect will be the first to cross a line". |
10 |
| 38 | 100 |
The first area was on the first deck below the open deck, and the second and third areas were on the next lower decks. |
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| 38 | 101 |
Three ramps were involved, one leading from the third lower deck to the second lower deck, one from the second lower deck to the first lower deck, and one from the first lower deck to the top deck, or open deck, once a great hatch had been rolled back. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 104 |
Today, I realized, was the first day of En'Kara, the first day of En'Kara-Lar-Torvis, the Vernal Equinox, the first day of Spring. |
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| 3 | 53 |
The first watch begins with the commencement of the day's first Ahn, the second with the sixth Ahn, the third with the eleventh Ahn, and the fourth with the sixteenth Ahn. |
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| 7 | 161 |
Tomorrow would be the first day of the Ninth Passage Hand, at the end of which is the winter solstice, and the first day of Se'var-Lar-Torvis, the month of the Second Turning of Tor-tu-Gor, Light-upon-the-Home-Stone. |
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| 9 | 169 |
"The first, the first!" screamed a man. |
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| 37 | 78 |
"Yes, Master," cried the slave, gasping, "that horrid stuff was forced down my throat shortly after my first collaring, and when I first came aboard the great ship, that of Tersites, and before I was landed, at the World's End, and again, here at Brundisium, before I was brought ashore". |
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| 37 | 1485 |
We did, of course, take the first bite of the various dishes, the first sip of the various beverages, and such. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 26 |
In a house containing a hundred or more slaves, there may be more than one first girl, there being various groups of slaves, and these first girls, in turn, will report to the first girl of first girls, so to speak. |
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| 21 | 28 |
In such a household the lower first girls will wear a talmit of one color, and the high girl, or first girl of first girls, she who reports to the master or his representative, the kajira sana, will wear one of a different color. |
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| 7 | 49 |
Could my behavior, my promptings, what would satisfy me, what I would need, be wholly independent of my form of life, be unique amongst all living forms, merely accidents and oddities imposed upon me from the outside, beginning with the first flash of light, the first breath, the sobbing birth cry o... |
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| 8 | 1423 |
Had there been a "first girl," I might have assisted her in her tasks, done much of her work, flattered her, cultivated her, petitioned her, and so on, but there was no first girl. |
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| 21 | 30 |
In any event, Jane, who was not first girl, as we had no first girl, had seemingly, without permission, arrogated to herself a talmit, commonly understood as a badge of authority. |
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| 28 | 29 |
One expects a first girl to have her favorites, and those she least favors, but, I think, it was clear to all that for some reason I was very much in our first girl's disfavor, and indeed, unusually so. |
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| 30 | 164 |
"We all are," I said, "even our first girl, Nora, though she is the last caged and the first released". |
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| 31 | 72 |
The first compartment in the Golden Corridor was that of Lucius, putatively first in the Cave, the second and third were occupied, respectively, by Timarchos and Lysymachos. |
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| 50 | 28 |
To my apprehension, particularly at first, I would deliver and receive these messages as I had at first, when I had been robbed on my way to the wine shop of Amyntas, that robbery which had placed false information in the hands of the conspirators, namely, with the sack tied about my neck, closed wi... |
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| 2 | 3 |
Secondly, supine, they were more conveniently positioned for their first lesson, namely, that they were subject to discipline, symbolized by kissing the whip, and, second, enunciating their first words in what would be their new language, appropriate words. |
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| 7 | 39 |
I often thought of the man whom I had first seen in the store, before whom, for the first time, I had felt myself viewed as what I had secretly taken myself to be, a slave. |
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| 7 | 46 |
I had had the strangest, shocking sense, when our eyes had first met, not only that I, a suitable slave, was before a master, perhaps for the first time, but that I might be before my master. |
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| 14 | 182 |
Is it not often the case that the first is concerned with the second, and the second with the third, and the third with the first, and in the center of all this, attending to the strands, rather like the urt spider itself, there is something which observes and waits. |
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| 29 | 32 |
The switch fell again, twice again, first on the second slave, and then on the first, hurrying them forward. |
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| 41 | 350 |
Did his neglect of me in the camp seem too studied? Why was he here? How was it that he, who had first looked upon me, on a far world, and had looked upon me as a man looks upon a slave, the first time to my knowledge that I had been so looked upon, so obviously, and had doubtless figured in my sele... |
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| 11 | 175 |
Following the disasters of the mutiny at sea, the ambush following the first landing, the fate of the exploratory force, the raid on the first encampment, and casualties of the siege, there were something less than thirty-five hundred men, Pani and barbarians, at the disposal of the house of Temmu. |
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| 11 | 265 |
"How else explain the massacre at the first encampment, and the ambush and decimation of the exploratory force?" Many lives, and tarns, had been lost in the massacre at the first encampment, and many more lives had been lost in the defeat of the exploratory force. |
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| 11 | 266 |
The great sleen, lame Ramar, first encountered on a steel world, had been housed at the first encampment. |
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| 12 | 179 |
I was not sure, at first, whether I should speak first, or Lord Temmu. |
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| 12 | 181 |
Does not he who is less in status bow first? Indeed, does not the lesser officer, by word or gesture, first acknowledge the presence of the senior, or higher, officer? "Greetings, Lord," I said. |
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| 35 | 48 |
First came Arashi, the bandit, swathed with ropes, two rope leashes on his neck, each in the grasp of a glaive-bearing Ashigaru, two of the foragers first met in the inn. |
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| 54 | 14 |
And if the Kurii were unresponsive, who would be so rash, at least upon reflection, to reprimand so large, unpredictable, and dangerous a form of life? So, the first time we had opened the door, near the twentieth Ahn on the second night of our stay in the chamber, we had propped up the bodies of th... |
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| 33 | 633 |
What could such monsters fear from that slighter, far-less-imposing monster? Surely she was not a form of life that one might wish to exterminate before it could multiply, as one might, with a stone, sufficiently apprised and motivated, crush the egg of the first ost, as the verr might choose to des... |
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| 6 | 282 |
The woman in the muchly torn gown cried out, "No, I am first, I will be first, me, me!" and began to strike at the rolling pair with her small fists. |
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| 33 | 568 |
Almost at the same time I heard a shriek of dismay from the beast in the crate, and was aware, a moment later, of two other large, hirsute forms descending, forms in the darkness, away from the lantern, one leaping from the first level to the flooring, and the second swinging down from the second le... |
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| 34 | 212 |
"When the first monster was conceived and delivered," he said, "and sanguine hopes flourished, a mate for it was planned, the more to make it seem human, the more to endear it to men, the better that it might carry out its tasks, but with the debacle attendant on the failure of the first project, th... |
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| 45 | 39 |
The long-armed, red-robed fellow who had first lifted his cup to Lord Grendel, initiating this gesture of recognition and esteem, signaling out and honoring him, was the same as he who had first cordially saluted him upon his entrance into this house, apparently one of several owned by Decius Albus. |
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| 60 | 263 |
The first was swathed in chains, and the second, apparently the guard, or custodian, of the first, carried a large Kur ax. |
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| 61 | 158 |
"I will kill the first who should so attack, the first who should so feed!" "They are humans," protested a Kur. |
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| 3 | 172 |
Have we not seen even more deplorable behavior, upon occasion, in the first, or even the second, sale of a former Gorean free woman, taken, say, in a slave raid, or acquired as a part of the loot of a fallen city? If a first sale can be surprising, or trying, even for a mere barbarian, one clearly b... |
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| 3 | 291 |
Which of you would you like to be her first master? Which of you would like to be the first to teach this barbarian what it is to be a slave?" "One, ninety," called a man. |
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| 8 | 752 |
An officer, departing the side of the captain, who held his position aft, came between the benches, and looked up, to the fellow at the height of the mast, the lookout, he on his wooden platform, standing within the waist-high metal ring, who had first seen the stranger, who had first sounded the al... |
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| 23 | 143 |
I was brought to him, rather, I gathered, because it was not clear what was to be done with me, and because Samos, aside from being First Captain in the Council of Captains, was also First Slaver of Port Kar. |
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| 24 | 72 |
Some days ago I had been brought by two guardsmen to the House of Samos, of Port Kar, First Captain of the Council of Captains, and First Slaver of Port Kar. |
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| 27 | 124 |
"No," said the first man, drawing his knife from its belt sheath, "let us attend to it first". |
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| 33 | 333 |
I glanced upward and saw, briefly, this time silhouetted against the Yellow Moon, that fearsome shape which I had seen once before, long ago, silhouetted then against the White Moon, on our first venture into the marshes, when we had first happened upon this quiet, secluded, rence-encircled bit of w... |
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| 36 | 56 |
He was said to be a paga fellow of Samos of Port Kar, who was First Slaver of Port Kar, and First Captain, or High Captain, in the Council of Captains, which body, as earlier noted, was sovereign in Port Kar. |
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| 38 | 179 |
The first bite, of course, the first sip, and such, will be taken by the master. |
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| 46 | 21 |
The only exception is the five-day "Waiting Hand" which follows the Twelfth Passage Hand, and precedes the first day of the month of En'Kara, or En'Kara-La-Torvis, which is the vernal equinox, the first day of the Gorean New Year. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 32 | 31 |
"First," said he, "ideally, those who seem to be first, who appear to give commands, who seem to be obeyed, who seem to be leaders. |
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| 32 | 60 |
First, the column would not understand the likely meaning of the arrow, and, accordingly, would not come to arms at its first note, and, second, the men of the column, detecting the arrow, would be likely, in fascination, to follow it in its flight, however apprehensively. |
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| 36 | 55 |
"I understand, from Lais, your first girl," I said, "that on the very first day of our return from Daphna, you, perhaps not yet fully understanding your collars, doubtless conspiring, thought to shirk your tasks and were hesitant to obey commands instantly". |
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