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Book 1. (28 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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1 211 I had surrendered to it for just a moment, and it had become a force that had carried me, hurling me about as if I were a swimmer captured in surging waves—a force that could not be resisted.
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16 66 "The siege might be lifted," I said, "if a force could take Pa-Kur by surprise, a force of some thousands of warriors attacking from the unprotected side of the camp".
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1 97 Feeling rather foolish, I took out the can opener I had used on the chili can and attempted to force the metal point through the envelope.
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2 170 His supposition seemed plausible to me, for from the very beginning I had understood that in something or someone existed a force and clarity of understanding beside which the customary habits of rationality as I knew them were little more than the tropisms of the unicellular animal.
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3 119 I had little time for speculation, however, as I was trying to bear up under an arduous schedule which seemed designed to force me to become a Gorean in a matter of weeks or perhaps see me die in the attempt.
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3 159 Had it struck me with that force, it would have passed through my body.
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3 169 The spear seemed light to me because of the gravity, and I soon developed a dexterity in casting it with considerable force and accuracy.
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4 5 In that instant I switched the tarn-goad to the "on" position, and when the great beak flashed downward again, I struck it viciously, trying to force it away from me.
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5 124 For a hundred tarns one might have the daughter of an Administrator, for a thousand perhaps even the daughter of the Ubar of Ar! A thousand tarns would make a formidable addition to the cavalry force of a Gorean warlord.
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5 170 They swept toward me, about five yards apart, to close on either side of me, to force the wings of my tarn up and hold it for the moment they would need, trapped motionless between their own mounts.
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6 51 Even after I had drawn her to the saddle before me and belted her securely to the saddle-ring, I had to force her fingers from the rung of the mounting ladder.
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6 136 She screamed hysterically, trying to force the adhesive band from her waist.
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6 198 A sudden tremor of fear shook her heavily robed body, and the girl's hands tried to force the implacable chitinous pincers from her throat.
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7 195 The daughter of the Ubar feared that I would force her to serve my pleasure—I, a common soldier.
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7 198 "I do not intend to force you to serve my pleasure," I said, "nor do I intend to injure you".
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7 228 Then, with her right hand, she slapped me savagely with all the force and fury of her body.
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8 193 "I can force you to take me," she said.
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12 57 The current soon caught it, and it began to spin in slow circles farther and farther out into the midst of that vast force of nature called the Vosk.
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14 143 Without thinking, but responding blindly, with a surge of joy, I seized the other wrist rope and tried to force it over the wrist.
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15 39 If I had had a considerable force of men at my disposal, I could have exploited that error.
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16 19 The human resources on which Pa-Kur could draw seemed inexhaustible, and, as important, he had at his command a considerable force of tharlarion cavalry, an arm almost lacking to the men of Ar.
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16 53 Moreover, the ubiquitous tarn wire heavily netted in the area of the Central Cylinder would ward off any attempts at rescue, unless perhaps by a large force.
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18 41 I was not, of course, concerned with facilitating the entry of Pa-Kur's tarnsmen, who, as far as I knew, did not even constitute a portion of the garrison force, but I was concerned with opening the sky over the city in case I, and others, might be able to utilize it as a road to freedom.
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18 173 The thought flamed through me in the violent delirium of battle that in those moments I was many men, an army, that no man could stand against me, that it was not my blade or my heart they faced but something I myself only dimly sensed, something intangible but irresistible, an avalanche, a storm, a...
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19 62 As the burly magistrates hastened forward, I seized my spear and hurled it with such force as I would not have believed possible.
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19 97 I knew almost nothing of the fabled Priest-Kings, but I did know that something of the sort must exist, for I had been brought to Gor by an advanced technology, and I knew that some force or power lay in the mysterious Sardar Mountains.
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19 192 Then I seized the initiative and began to force him back.
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19 245 "If you did not," I laughed, "I would throw you across my saddle and carry you to Ko-ro-ba by force".
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Book 2. (11 results) Outlaw of Gor

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1 40 He spun like a tiger with a sudden cry of rage in some strange tongue and I found myself seized in hands like steel and with great force hurled helplessly across his knee, my spine an inch from being splintered like kindling wood.
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1 87 "It must not be too late," he said, as though he had resolved on something, as though by the sheer force of his will he would stop the flow of time, the random track of events.
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2 28 It is a terrible weapon and, abetted by the somewhat lighter gravity of Gor, when cast with considerable force, can pierce a shield at close quarters or bury its head a foot deep in solid wood.
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4 48 The wind gathered force, seeming to tear at the trees.
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4 64 I thrust my fingers in my hair to force it back.
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13 141 Those who wore the silver masks had risen to their feet, and the force of their cries pressed in on me like knives, the air itself seemed filled with the bedlam of their command, "Slay him!" I turned and walked slowly to the center of the arena.
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20 108 Then mercifully I called "Four-strap!" I feared the courageous beast would kill himself before surrendering to the unseen force that blocked his path.
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20 115 What had happened would have been regarded by the untrained Gorean mind, particularly that of a low-caste individual, as evidence of some supernatural force, as some magical effect of the will of the Priest-Kings.
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23 40 Though the full force of my will drove me to the mountains, though in the mountains the Priest-Kings waited for me, I could not yet go.
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23 138 Most likely the force of the blow had rendered him unconscious and the blood had suggested to his assailant that the job was finished.
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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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Book 3. (13 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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1 81 The expeditions sent out from the cities are of course extremely well guarded, but pirates and outlaws too can band together in large numbers and sometimes, even more dangerously, one city's warriors, in force, will prey upon another city's caravans.
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5 140 It had something to do with the door, with her fear that I might force her from the room.
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6 133 I held her shoulders more firmly and shook her to force her to speak.
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7 85 At last I decided to force the game.
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14 184 "Even the portal must be moved by mechanical force".
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17 64 Its speed is controlled by the placement of the feet along double accelerator strips which lie flush with the surface of the disk; its direction is controlled by the rider, who bends and turns his body, thereby transmitting force to the lightly riding disk, the principles involved being no more unus...
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25 1 The Vivarium My hands seized the narrow, hollow, pincerlike jaws of the Golden Beetle and tried to force them from my body, but those relentless, hollow, chitinous hooks closed ever more tightly.
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25 6 I leaped forward and thrust my hand under the wing shell and seized the short, tufted antennae and with one hand on them twisting and the other beneath the shell I slowly managed, lifting and twisting, to force the struggling creature onto its back and when it lay on its back, rocking, its short leg...
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27 170 Then, with a force that might have been that of clashing, golden glaciers, Misk's jaws tightened and turned and suddenly Sarm was thrown to his back beneath him and in the instant Sarm struck the floor Misk's jaws had slipped their grip to the thick tube about which hung the string of Tola's silveri...
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28 111 But as I looked upon her sternly she turned her palms again to her thighs, knelt back on her heels and dropped her head, holding her eyes as if by force of will fixed on the plastic beneath my sandals.
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28 223 I do not think force, or charge, or any of the other expressions which occur to one's mind is a good translation for Ur, and I prefer to regard it as an expression best left untranslated, though perhaps one could say that Ur is whatever it was that satisfied the gravitational equations of Misk.
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29 79 Some of the materials flew with such a force that gashes were cut in the obdurate cage plastic and the ship was buffeted and jostled but it cut its way through this jungle of flying parts and found itself again streaming down the tunnel.
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32 120 "But it has to do with Ur Force".
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Book 4. (12 results) Nomads of Gor

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23 194 The Kataii main force and the Kassar main force camped separately some pasangs from the Tuchuk camp and the field and would, in the morning, return to their own wagons.
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2 107 The head of the kaiila bears two large eyes, one on each side, but these eyes are triply lidded, probably an adaptation to the environment which occasionally is wracked by severe storms of wind and dust; the adaptation, actually a transparent third lid, permits the animal to move as it wishes under ...
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4 7 I thrust with the spear, trying to force back the snapping jaws of the screaming animal.
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8 215 The bow, of course, small, for use from the saddle, lacks the range and power of the Gorean longbow or crossbow; still, at close range, with considerable force, firing rapidly, arrow after arrow, it is a fearsome weapon.
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9 420 Her tiny gloved fingers were locked in it, pulling at it, as though by brute force she would tear it from her throat.
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10 264 The secret justification, I suspect, however, is that the Turian warrior is fond of meeting the enemy and acquiring his women, particularly should they be striking little beasts, like Hereena of the First Wagon, as untamed and savage as they are beautiful; it is regarded as a great sport among Turia...
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13 85 The Whip Caress is commonly used among Slavers to force a girl to betray herself.
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20 78 I then flung the two bars in position, which locked the door, lest men on ladders from the ground attempt to force it.
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23 90 "It will take the rider, if he gets through, seven Ahn to reach Turia and even if Kamchak rides with his full force the moment the rider comes to the gates of the city, it will be eight Ahn before their vanguard can reach us—and by then it will be too late".
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25 621 And yet this beautiful, soft, proud thing stood there, though ringed and branded, though collared, bold and brazen flinging at me, eyes bright, her challenge, the eternal challenge of the unconquered female, that of the untamed woman, daring the male to touch her, to try, she resisting, to reduce he...
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25 669 By the Turian collar one may control a girl in a variety of ways, dragging a girl to one side or another, turning her, force her downward, to her knees or back, and so on.
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25 673 By the collar, of course, pressing downward I could have forced her to her knees before me, and then, pressing the collar up and back, and against her chin, might force her from her knees helplessly to her back on the rug at my feet.
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Book 5. (10 results) Assassin of Gor

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3 241 "No!" he cried, striking out wildly with a hand, trying to force me away.
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5 26 Some locks, on the compartments of rich persons, or on the storehouses of merchants, the treasuries of cities, and so on, are knife locks or poison locks; the knife lock, when tampered with, releases a blade, or several of them, with great force, sometimes from behind the individual at the lock.
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17 224 Unfortunately the caravan, not more than two hundred pasangs from the Great Gate of Ar, was attacked and plundered by a large armed force, but of unknown origin.
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18 2 In the same instant the hurled knife struck a chest behind us and I had rolled over throwing my legs under me, trying to draw the sword from my sheath, when Ho-Tu, running, hook knife in hand, leaped upon me, the curved blade streaking for my throat; I threw my left hand between the knife and my thr...
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18 289 Behind it I heard an enraged, frustrated roaring, weird and terrible; I heard clawing at the wood; I saw the heavy door, as if struck with great force, buckle out against the beams.
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19 85 This was surprising because the hour was still early; I supposed the crowd this night would be unusually large, even for the fourth night of the Love Feast; none of the citizens had paid much attention to my being brought under guard to the box of Cernus; he was Ubar; it is not unusual on Gor for a ...
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20 343 I wondered who the young man might be if Qualius, whom I knew to be a superb player, did not even speak as though he might force a draw with him.
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22 448 It is one thing to force a bird or rider into the padded bars, and another against the great, swinging knives that were now the rings.
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22 515 He attempted, in moving through the rings, to force us to the left, into the heavy edge, but before he could do so, we had passed him.
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22 563 The Red, cursing, tried to force us up, where we might strike the unpadded bar; at our speed we might be cut in two; my tarn struggled to avoid the bar, not turning to do battle, but persisting in his race; I was suddenly aware of the arm of Menicius flying forward and I instinctively threw myself f...
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Book 6. (10 results) Raiders of Gor

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1 18 It is the height of a tall man; its back, away from the bowman, is flat; its belly, facing the bowman, is half-rounded; it is something like an inch and a half wide and an inch and a quarter thick at the center; it has considerable force and requires considerable strength to draw; many men, incident...
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9 112 This area, I supposed, might theoretically be used as a staging area, for the storing of supplies and the embarkation of an attacking force on barges, but the military prospects of such a venture were decidedly not promising.
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9 119 And even if an attacking force could be brought into the marsh, it was not clear that it would, days later, make its way to the walls of Port Kar.
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9 122 The supply lines of such a force, given the barges of Port Kar and her tarn cavalries, might be easily cut.
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11 157 If so, they might control, among themselves, a force of about one hundred and fifty ships, most of which were still at sea.
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14 105 For all they knew I might be astonished at the force on which I had come.
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15 117 For one thing, they had now formed a Council Guard, with its distinct livery, that was now recognized as a force of the Council, and, in effect, as the police of the city.
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15 404 She writhed and cried out, trying to force the thongs from her body, but could not do so.
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17 87 We saw my second-wave ships sweep past, the pairs scattering themselves, each pair following its assigned task force.
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17 169 Several of the ships in the lines near the point where my task force had struck were now coming about to meet their enemy.
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Book 7. (9 results) Captive of Gor

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4 253 I was vaguely aware that now a gentle force seemed to draw my body against the tube differently.
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5 82 Whatever force drove the ship must have been beneath it, reached perhaps through the floor plating.
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9 43 With my tongue I struggled to force the thick, heavy, coiled, effective wad of packing from my mouth.
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11 475 I realized that if I joined with Lana, though I did not care for her, they could not force either of us to work.
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11 1129 He would capture, and take by force, those that pleased him.
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12 713 The tarnsman would then leap from the saddle and force the bird's talons from its prey, binding the hysterical girl's wrists and fastening her to a saddle ring, then remounting and hunting another.
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13 749 If it was now possible, or soon would be possible, to bring a land army easily southward to Ar, once the Vosk was traversed, by the same token, it would be similarly possible for Ar to bring, swiftly, a considerable force of men northward, to the very shore of the Vosk.
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13 846 If the other man had not been fastened in his saddle by the great strap the force of my captor's blow would have struck him from the saddle.
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14 16 He did not throw me to my belly or put his foot on the back of my neck, or force me to kneel.
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Book 8. (14 results) Hunters of Gor

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6 181 "Then," I said, "we shall have no choice but to take Talena by force".
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11 250 One must force through an attack that is overwhelming and shattering.
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11 747 Yet, in their dreams, it seems they find themselves forced to surrender, totally, to fierce, dominating masters, masters emerging like welcome, long-awaited, long-sought beasts from another reality, imperious, hungry men striding into their lives with ropes and chains, looking for a capture, a woman...
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13 226 I threw the girl behind me, and, with the heel of my sandal, as the shark thrust towards us, with great force, stopped it.
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13 250 Rim, Grenna, Sheera, Tina and Cara were thus with the attacking force.
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13 257 The slave girl whom I had questioned on these matters had conjectured that the attacking force had numbered in the neighborhood of two hundred men.
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14 29 By treachery within and force from without the camp would have been swept.
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14 273 I do not refer to the cruelties of Gorean slavery, which celebrate women and, in their rude fashion, often, uncompromisingly, force the helpless, total surrender she yearns in the heart of her to give, but the subtler, crueler slaveries of Earth, pretending to respect her and then, by education and ...
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15 4 Her hands were outstretched, trying to force away the branches that impeded her progress, striking at her face and eyes.
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15 561 "I was taken by force," she said.
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15 562 "Most slaves are taken by force," I told her.
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17 138 One of the panther girls was on her feet, wild, hysterically trying to force the slave bracelet from her left wrist.
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19 221 "Obviously," said Sarus, "you would not have approached us without a considerable force".
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19 353 I heard a whip crack twice, as a man of Tyros ran amongst them, to force them down again.
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Book 9. (11 results) Marauders of Gor

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6 536 "My Jarl!" she wept, "my Jarl!" Then he again thrust her back to the furs, with such force that she cried out, and then he, with rudeness and incredible force, used her for his pleasure.
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1 732 Accordingly, as soon as they are collared, force them to drink slave wine".
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2 26 Too, often, a chief's conversion would bring with it, even without force, those of his people who felt bound to him in loyalty.
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3 119 Howsoever she enters the circle, voluntarily or by force, free or secured, she emerges from it, by the laws of Torvaldsland, a bondmaid.
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9 417 "Force me," she whispered.
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10 54 Perhaps the most serious incident of the contests had occurred in one of the games of bat and ball; in this contest there are two men on each side, and the object is to keep the ball out of the hands of the other team; no one man may hold the ball for more than the referee's count of twenty; he may,...
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10 76 They are visible symbols of the force by which she is kept in bondage, by which she is kept only a girl, whose belly is beneath his sword.
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14 12 Again I was struck from my feet, again lost my footing, and fell again, but then managed to force my way to my feet.
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15 367 The heavy shield, with fantastic force, with a sidelong motion, a sweep, struck me, fending me away, hurtling me for forty feet through the air.
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18 212 Had it not been for the force of Svein Blue Tooth, the power of his voice, the mightiness of his presence, Kurii might then have taken the initiative.
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21 250 I had little doubt but what, in time, it would again force me to the blankets and chair of a recluse in a hall in Port Kar.
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Book 10. (16 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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1 856 Her final yieldings I would force from her later, when it pleased me.
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2 159 For example, it is common for a master to force his girl to speak at length and in detail to him of the secret sides of her nature, explaining and elaborating on her fantasies; if she is literate, she may be forced, naked, collared, on her knees at a small table, sometimes with her ankles shackled, ...
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4 304 Then, with considerable force, as she cried out with misery, he flung her, the length of her body, belly front, against the stone wall.
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7 313 Often I had to force from my mind the look on the face of the second slave, she called Vella, of triumph, as she, small and lovely, luscious, freed of the rack ropes, had sat up on the knotted ropes, after her testimony had confirmed that of others, of Zaya, the other girl, and Ibn Saran, sending me...
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11 442 Indeed, they would tend to avoid Aretai and Aretai-dominant oases, at least until they could come in force, paying the respects of the Tahari with steel.
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21 29 Yet, slowly, as though by force of will, he moved on.
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21 295 It seemed clear to me then that a new force had come to power among the enemies of the Sardar, one willing, if necessary, to sacrifice one world to gain another.
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21 371 In its back, where the force had burst loose of its body, were holes corresponding to those in his leg and chest.
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21 389 Too, the force that had penetrated its body had, apparently, searing, half-sealed the wounds it inflicted.
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21 589 It tried to hold the wire, and climb on it, or relieve the pressure on its throat, but its great paws slipped on the slender strand; then its weight began to pull me upward; I, hands knotted in the insulated portion of the wire, kicked the Kur back as it reached for me; then I was above it, being dr...
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23 117 There is a tendency, after the lines are engaged for each force to drift to its right.
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24 19 At best we might be able, failing to take the kasbah, to invest it with a smaller force that it would be practical to supply with water from Red Rock.
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24 21 Our extended, thinned lines would invite attack; it would be difficult, too, even if our investing lines were not broken in force, to prevent the escape of small parties at night.
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24 457 Is it not enough to own and master, and have the whole slave of her? I think the culture makes them that way, that it twists them from the power and force, and the magnificence, of the mastery to smaller, more petty, less worthy concerns, and that they seek lamentable, misdirected vengeance on innoc...
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24 465 They refuse to accept the loving service of one who longs to serve lovingly; they will not accept the obeisance of one who yearns to yield it; they deny submission to she who longs to submit; they draw to her feet she who, weeping, longs to kneel; they deny the animal in her, the wonderful gift of e...
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24 719 No force sufficient to invest the kasbah can be long maintained in its vicinity".
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Book 11. (13 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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2 162 I could not believe its force, its ruthlessness, its swiftness.
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4 850 First, it seemed to me, incredibly, that this was fitting, what was being done to me; I had been proud and vain before men; what did I, truly, expect men, such men, men on a world such as this, to do about that? As his force struck me, I felt, strangely, "Be disciplined, Woman".
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4 1031 With hurricane force it blasted away the brittle webs and bars of falsehood.
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5 478 "In force they came," she said, "many of them.
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7 676 I did not think, for example, that they would know how to force me into the slave girl's humiliating submission ecstasy.
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7 979 He then thrust me back, suddenly, with great force, with violence, as a slave, to the grass.
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7 1013 I recalled his anger at my helpless yielding to the soldier; I was only a slave; I had not been able to help myself; yet he had been angry; too, he himself had commanded the man to address himself to the work of my rape; yet he had been angry; too, his concern with Marla seemed to me rather sudden a...
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9 2279 I suspected that never had Thurnus used her with such authority and force.
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11 115 I struggled to force it apart.
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16 12 "Let me out!" Sometimes an urt manages to force its way through the mesh, or between one of the vertical cage lids, one at each end of the cage, and the cage.
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20 226 He, with the back of his hand, struck me from his path, hurling me by the force of the blow to my shoulder on the boards.
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26 598 They will force you to yield to your femininity".
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27 56 "Will you not force me to the alcove?" I asked him.
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Book 12. (17 results) Beasts of Gor

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5 99 "Am I to understand," I asked, "that it is your intention to prevent me by force from leaving your house?" "I will cheerfully accept your word," said he, "that you will remain in Port Kar".
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5 101 "Then I must detain you by force," he said.
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6 901 The tarn, given the sudden force on the one-strap, reared and, smiting the air with his mighty wings, lifted itself into the air.
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8 204 "An interplanetary force," she said, "unknown to the fools of Earth, lays siege to this solar system.
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10 294 It struck them with considerable force.
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11 51 Of the original force of Sorgus, some ninety-five men, fifty had succumbed to the fierce rain of steel-tipped arrows which had struck amongst them.
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12 557 "As you wish," I said, "but in the end you will yield to them, either because you wish to do so or because I force you to do so".
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12 628 "They would force me to be what I truly am, and in my heart long to be?" she asked.
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14 42 "You must now rush into the tent and carry her off by force".
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14 50 "It seems your daughter must be carried away by force," said Imnak.
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14 73 "You will never carry me off by force!" she cried.
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15 123 Sexuality is a glory in a slave girl which sets her apart from free women, but it is also a force within her which she must fear, for it puts her so helplessly at the mercy of masters.
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16 16 Bracing the knife permits force from the leg to be applied, whereas balance and control are not sacrificed, because the point is subtly guided by the movement of the fingers.
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21 353 "It is now a force within me".
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30 266 I cut a man down by the door and tried to force it open.
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32 77 "I do not think they can meet an attack in force," he said.
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35 686 Then she said, "No! Do not force me outside the apartment clothed like this!" I thrust her through the door, out into the corridor.
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Book 13. (6 results) Explorers of Gor

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14 16 The common denominator of these customs, of course, is that the slave must understand that force, either explicitly or implicitly, is involved, and that she will enter the stronghold of the master, and as a slave, whether she wills to do so or not.
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33 32 If there were crews of fifty on the galleys and from five to ten men in a canoe, the force behind us must have ranged somewhere between five and six thousand men.
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33 141 And how stimulating it was to the blond-haired barbarian to realize that a man could force a woman to do this sort of thing.
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43 78 Also, of course, he may wish to form a conjecture as to its market value or the amount of pleasure he will force it to yield to him.
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46 45 "Yes," he said, "a great force of men is coming up the river, and the peoples of the river are joining, that they may be stopped".
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53 275 I blocked his blow with the panga and was, from the force of it, thrown back a dozen feet.
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Book 14. (9 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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1 896 I realized then, with a force I had not felt before, probably because I had not found a woman so exciting as she before, that, in this society, men must strive to please women, that they must, if they wish to relate to them, be and do exactly what the women wish and require, else the women will simp...
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1 1008 I tried to force down the handle on her side, but it, like that on my side, did not move.
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7 231 But who is stronger, truly, I asked myself, he who continues to wound and bleed himself to please others, or he who refuses any longer to do so? I shook my head, to force such a thought out of my mind.
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7 341 I felt, looking down at her, throughout my entire body, an incredible surge of force and power, of exhilaration.
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7 349 I knew then, with a clarity and force far beyond those of argument and theory, that I stood in the order of nature.
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13 51 It may also be of interest to note that what began as a defensive league instituted primarily to protect shipping on a river gradually, but expectedly, began to evolve into a considerable political force in eastern known Gor.
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13 668 It struck me with incredible force that not only could she be owned, but that she was owned, literally.
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17 146 Perhaps, even, in time, she may ruin your Mistress, and force your sale".
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23 61 "She wishes to force me to be her silk slave".
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Book 15. (18 results) Rogue of Gor

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6 26 Ar's committed infantry had been outnumbered but its mobility and its support by their tarn cavalry had compensated to some extent for its lack of weight as a striking force.
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6 46 This would give Ar political leverage at the confluence of the Olni and Vosk, a strategic point if Cos should ever choose to move in force eastward along the Vosk.
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8 87 "Do you force me to draw my blade?" asked the tall man.
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8 95 "I do not force you to draw your blade".
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9 130 What fools they are not to own their women and force them to manifest the true fullness and desirability of their beauty.
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11 192 "But then, too," she said, "I find myself exquisitely thrilled, and responsive to, the very power, the force and discipline, to which I am subject.
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11 380 And then I, too, cried out and with force owned her as a woman.
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23 127 Similarly, as may be understood in terms of a simple simile, if one is holding an implement and it is struck with greater force it will be more difficult and tiring to return it to its original position than if it has not been struck heavily and has not been moved significantly.
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24 249 You did not take me in your hands and force open my mouth, to look for bits of metal in my teeth.
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24 514 She cried out, startled, taken with such force.
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24 744 I must soon leave the holding of Policrates, theoretically to journey downriver to the holding of Ragnar Voskjard, that his fleet might be soon launched, that the two fleets, in fierce force, might overwhelm the garrisons of Ar's Station, and then of Port Cos, that the river, for hundreds of pasangs...
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29 139 "But no effort, even a small one, or one in force or desperation, by steel or by guile, was made to prevent its placing?" "None, at least to my knowledge," said Callisthenes.
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32 63 "By force, Master," she said.
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32 342 I then struck the water, seeming to plummet through it, and struck with great force the mud and debris of the bottom.
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33 19 "If the Voskjard attempts to cross the chain in force," said Callimachus, "we will not be able to stop him".
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33 167 "United, they would become a mighty force," I said.
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33 196 "You said, earlier," I said, "that you did not think we could stop an attack in force upon the chain".
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33 203 Our defensive force, in effect, is the fleet of Port Cos".
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Book 16. (18 results) Guardsman of Gor

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4 95 There was a shattering and a scraping but the enemy galley, which had thought with force to press us apart, meeting little resistance was, by her momentum, almost immediately astern of us.
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4 131 This time it was their intention to force our line apart with consistent pressure, not as a shattering bolt, but as a flood, a pressing, an avalanche of wood and steel, regulated, controlled, responsive to the tactical situation instant by instant.
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6 145 But they could not approach from the south in such force, for the south was guarded by the fleet of Callisthenes.
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6 146 To bring a fleet in such force through the cut chain would seem impossible.
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6 150 That the new ships of the Voskjard were bearing down now upon us, and in such force, suggested that they had not been opposed, that either they had been permitted to cut the chain and advance unmolested, or, more likely, perhaps, that they had been permitted to circumvent the chain by the use of the...
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9 121 Near me I heard the snapping of an oar, it breaking under the force of the four men using it as a lever.
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10 71 At the least we would wish to garner a large force, one sufficient to exploit any possible advantage which might accrue to us in virtue of our possession of the documents stolen from the Tamira.
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10 72 By the time such a force might be raised in the river towns, of course, the fleet of the Voskjard would have reached the holding of Policrates, reinforced it, and participated in the development of new security arrangements.
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10 111 I was well aware of the force required to lift that weight.
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10 214 Accordingly, within the fortress, under the command of Kliomenes, only a small force had been left, some two hundred to two hundred and fifty men.
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16 310 Oars were thrusting out from the attacking vessel, to force the ships apart.
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16 342 I then measured him, and, at my leisure, from the balls of my feet, with the full force of my shoulders and arm, struck him, spinning, from his feet.
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19 238 Then again, with unrestrained force, the hardest blow of all, was she struck.
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20 1144 She pressed her body to him and he, clasping her to him, with force and possessiveness, kissed her as his desired and owned slave.
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20 1735 I felt through her legs her pathetic attempts to force them apart, before me.
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21 12 "I cannot slip it," she had said, trying to force the collar from her.
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21 63 "On this world, the law even, as I am a slave, in all its force, puts me in your total power".
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21 218 "Do you wish me to hold your head back, my hand in your hair, your back almost breaking, and force the spout of the vessel between your teeth, pouring the wine as it is, black and scalding, down your throat?" I asked.
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Book 17. (12 results) Savages of Gor

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1 879 "Yet something of its size, and of its awesomeness, and force, particularly within a lodge, seems evident".
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5 14 This was unusually large for a Gorean mercenary force.
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5 15 It would require a considerable amount of money to hire and sustain such a force.
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8 595 As I had not been facing him he had apparently been taken by surprise by this blow, by its direction, its nature and force.
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11 222 At such times, perhaps, if you dared, you might have longed for the hands of a master on you, a magnificent, ruthless male who could fulfill you, who would put you to his feet and own you, who would answer your deepest needs, who would command you, who would dominate you, absolutely, and ravish you ...
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14 859 "You struck me with great force," she said.
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14 1181 Zarendargar, then, would be safe, at least until another such force might be sent against him.
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15 29 For example, a message which commonly means that kailiauk have been sighted may, by prearrangement, be understood to communicate an intention of attack to a collaborative force".
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17 228 The red savages, I speculated, would have been surprised that they had been unable to force their way through the infantry lines.
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18 108 "Do not force me to fire," he said.
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18 167 Naturally, then, keepers for them would be in the vicinity, in force.
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19 784 Few tribes, most of which are usually dispersed in scattered bands, would be likely to wish to, or be able to, bring a force against them, some three or four hundred mounted men.
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Book 18. (23 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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6 67 The force of even a single kailiauk, with its speed and weight, can be a fearful thing.
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9 344 How natural it seemed that the men of Gor should keep such women in cages and chains, and force them, under whips, to please them.
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12 417 Some masters, if not pleased, will force the girl from the couch, and, keeping themselves between the girl and the couch, whip her, then letting her, after a few strokes, flee back to the couch.
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14 72 She had been in political command, under Kog and Sardak, of a force of approximately a thousand mercenaries, the human contingent accompanying Kog and Sardak, and their death squad, into the Barrens.
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14 76 Alfred had managed to escape with a mounted force of perhaps some four hundred riders.
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14 78 Small bands of warriors, the sorts which make up common war parties, would not be likely to attack a force of that size.
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19 211 A new force has come into our country".
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23 6 It must be made swiftly enough for the carrying force of the small bow not to be dissipated; it must be made from a distance sufficient, given the spacing of the riders and the sound of the kaiila's paws, to cover the sound of the string.
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26 6 The same momentum, in its force, blood leaping from his side, carried the Yellow Knife from the point of the lance.
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26 56 It went half through him, his force driving his body along the wood.
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26 71 They are heavy enough to have considerable striking force in saberlike trajectories and light enough to have something of the swiftness and play of the foil.
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28 65 A task force of Yellow Knives had penetrated the camp, too, to that point, and it was they who had killed and mutilated the wounded, and burned the lodge.
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28 66 A similar task force had attacked the dance lodge.
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28 344 It must have been indeed, as I had earlier conjectured, an excursionary probe to determine the test defenses, before the main force, held in reserve, was committed.
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35 49 The Ur force is being disrupted, I heard.
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40 243 "If necessary," said Radish, "you can be put out by force".
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44 448 But a moment before the vanguard of this charging force could attain the summit the high, heavy structure of timbers and sharpened stakes was thrust into place.
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44 457 Still more Yellow Knives, not clear on what was ahead, were trying to force their way upward on the narrow trail.
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44 467 Some of these, successful, began to try to force their way back down the trail.
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44 490 Yellow Knives raised their shields but this did little good for the potency of the stones lay primarily not in their capacity to cut or penetrate but to transmit their considerable force, bluntly, crushingly, suddenly, to the target surface.
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44 596 Yet, impelled with force from the small, fierce bows of the red savages at short range, they, too, would be dangerous.
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46 101 It was, however, a strike force.
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47 132 My lance took a rider from his mount, tearing him back out of the girth rope, and then he was spinning, wildly flailing, screaming and turning, growing smaller, journeying with terrible, accelerative force, seemingly eccentrically, to the turf below, it seeming to rock and shift with my movements, l...
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Book 19. (15 results) Kajira of Gor

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4 140 I tried to force the memory of the women chained on the shelves from my mind.
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5 58 Force, it seemed, was required to protect them.
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6 373 I wondered if he might, touching my lips, I in his arms, helplessly held there, suddenly rape my lips with his kiss, and then, unable to help himself, hurl me to his feet, crouching over me then ferociously, to remove my robes and force me to his service.
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6 700 To force an entry to such a place, I then understood, might necessitate an altercation, one perhaps ensuing in the exposure of my identity as the Tatrix.
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8 178 What brute would force her to such extremities? Too, how vulnerable a woman would make herself, placing herself so at the mercy of men, subject to being spurned, subject to his scorn and rejection.
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9 99 He had been, in his force and presence, both visible and prominent.
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19 298 I remembered serving Speusippus and then, quickly, I tried to force from my mind the memory of that incipient sensation which, in his third having of me, I had started to feel.
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19 315 I then, in terror, tried to force the memory of that rudimentary sensation, that merest hint of a sensation, from my mind.
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20 100 "Does your master force slave yieldings from you?" she asked.
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24 137 The average man of Earth had not prepared me for the virility, the strength, the possessiveness, the intelligence, the will, the power, the force, the command of the men of Gor.
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24 249 Indeed, often they seem of their own accord, like a force of nature to burn and flame anew in the slave, and she then will find herself crawling even to the feet of a hated master, begging for his caress.
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33 538 I sensed its force, its terribleness, its eagerness.
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33 797 As yet outright force has been unable to prevail.
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36 341 "You knew well what you were doing!" "Forgive me, Master!" "Surely you were aware of how such proximities, such behaviors, enflame a man, how they make him want to take that woman in his arms, force her to him, hold her helplessly, possess her, master her!" "We sense such things," I said.
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36 1378 "Rather would you have accorded me force and mastery," I smiled.
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Book 20. (21 results) Players of Gor

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1 134 The blows were delivered with suitable force, with authority, but in an evenly spaced, measured fashion.
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1 136 It was almost like a natural force or a clockwork of nature.
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1 681 But could she free her small wrist from his sudden grip, as he might stand, and force her to her knees before him, and then slowly down, to her back? It is pleasant for strong men to be served by slaves.
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1 975 "We could strike at the shipyards of Tyros," I said, "ten ramships, a thousand men, a picked force".
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1 994 Ar is the major land force in known Gor.
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1 995 The Cosian infantry, meeting her on land in open battle, in force, would be crushed.
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2 459 It would, in effect, launch a second attack, and one which might force yellow to bring pieces to the Ubar's side of the board, thereby weakening the position of the Ubara's Builder's file, making it more vulnerable, then, of course, to the major attack.
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4 176 Finally a large force of mercenaries, in the hire of the merchant caste, in a campaign that lasted several months, put an end to the spurious reign of Clearchus, driving him from the forest and scattering his men.
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6 86 Indeed, in some cities an unveiled free woman is susceptible to being taken into custody by guardsmen, then to be veiled, by force if necessary, and publicly conducted back to her home.
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6 649 Boots then, with the flat of his hand, with some force, cuffed the girl concealed under his robes.
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8 150 They can destroy Sa-Tarna fields and force their way into granaries.
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10 520 In the Tahari a woman is often stuffed with food for days before her sale, even force fed, if necessary.
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10 531 "If you do not wish to be exercised," I said, "I shall not force it upon you.
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11 70 "If he will not sell her, let us seize her by force!" cried another.
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14 60 Then, largely using the force of my legs, pushing up with them, I pulled against the bars.
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16 208 "Will it be necessary to remove them from you by force, for the tests?" asked Lecchio.
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16 1020 "Do not seek to force a match between us, Ubar," said Temenides.
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16 1052 His anger now was like the stirring of a beast beneath ice, whose shape may be vaguely seen below, giving some hint of the force and danger lurking in the depths.
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16 1095 Perhaps it was just as well that the player had not tried to force her to become a player, an activity for which she was not naturally suited, and in which she would have, at best, after years of work, achieved only a hard-won and mediocre success, but had instead forced her to become that for which...
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20 380 Suddenly, from the midst of those bodies, howling, the Kur, spears in its body, thrust upward clawing and raging like some force of nature.
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22 77 I struck the wall of a building with great force".
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Book 21. (24 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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1 260 To be sure, I had struck her harder than the first time, for she was now a slave, and slaves, of course, are whipped differently from free women, but I had not, truly, struck her with great force.
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1 263 "I struck you with only a tiny fraction of the force that an average fellow, if he wished, might bring to such a task.
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2 41 It had come there naturally, it seemed, as if perhaps by force of habit, or conviction, although the door was no longer there.
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3 179 Sometimes the recruiting is done more for the purposes of obtaining a labor force, for siegeworks and entrenching camps, than for actual combat.
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3 200 Too, if the attack fails, the advanced force may fall back, knowing that the balance of their army, indeed, its bulk, rested and fresh, not yet engaged, is fully prepared to cover their retreat.
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3 206 At Rovere and Kargash Dietrich coordinated his air and ground cavalry in such a way as to force his opponents into sturdy but relatively inflexible defensive squares.
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3 415 This point had been entered in the victim's back and thrust through with great force.
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9 38 The force approaching us, it seemed, wore the blue of Cos.
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10 35 This could give Ar the time she might require to deploy and arm for extensive action, what time she might need to meet the enemy in detail and force".
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11 203 I shall not force you beyond your strength".
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15 307 Cos will maintain a considerable force in the area, at least compared to what is at your disposal.
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15 642 "Presumably Ar's Station, if subjected to attack, could be relieved by a small force," he said, "and a countermarch to the coast could cut off the Cosians from their base in Brundisium".
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15 652 "—That the councils of Ar do not know that the main force of Cos is here".
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15 677 "No sane commander in such a situation could issue orders to enter the delta in force," I said, "certainly not without obtaining guides, accumulating transportation, organizing supplies and support, treating with the natives of the area, and so on".
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15 679 "Never will Ar march northward in force," I said, "not with Cos entrenched outside Torcadino".
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16 902 "I wonder if I should force you to yield," I mused.
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16 923 "I beg you to take me!" "I wonder if I should force you to yield," I said.
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16 1530 In a few Ehn, as we were making our way through a corner of the camp, we would presumably encounter some contravallation, some outer lines or ditches, set up to protect the besiegers against possible attack by an outside, relieving force.
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16 1763 "The Cosians," I said, "apparently do not fear the arrival of a relieving force from Ar".
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22 181 He was exerting his force on her through her slave collar.
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23 11 Hurtha's elbow, with a lateral stroke of great force, discouraged a fellow from snatching at the ribbon.
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25 1696 The slave tube is a device for force-feeding a slave.
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28 34 "Some masters force a girl to serve superbly for months, before being given any name, let alone a lovely one".
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29 109 Too, clearly he must realize I could force myself from the doorway, and, in an instant, be in the open, the blade free.
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Book 22. (18 results) Dancer of Gor

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1 106 And standing there I was suddenly very frightened, for I realized suddenly, the thought never before having struck me in just the same way, and with the same suddenly significant force, that there were two sexes, and that they were quite different.
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3 886 This device, to which the chain was attached, where it now exerted its force, was now under my jaw, to my right.
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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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5 137 Then they put her in a tiny cage, where she could not exercise, and could scarcely move, and, heavily, abundantly, every two hours, using the tube and ball, and the cruel plunger, using rich foods and creams, which she could not taste because of the tube, force-fed her.
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6 786 I then felt it in the very boards beneath me, it exciting me with the pressing weight and smoothness of it, its strength, its directness and awesome power, the force of the wind filling and shaping, and thrusting against, this large, extended, exposed canvas surface, transmitting its power through t...
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8 31 "Never!" Then the lash, from behind her, fell upon her, and she sank crying out, reaching behind her, sobbing, to her knees, and then, with the next blow, was flung by its force to her belly in the dirt before the man.
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8 300 I tried, wildly, irrationally, to force myself to see another, among those faces, one who must be there.
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11 100 Mirus was then, almost by force, pushing them away from me, and ordering them to return to their duties.
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11 133 Mirus, I recalled, had almost had to drive them away from me, almost as one might force lions from meat.
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11 1198 Perhaps mollified then to some extent by my placatory behavior in kissing the whip he had decided to take the time to make test of my virginity rather than simply and with terrible force utilizing me, moving aside whatever obstacle, if any, might have attempted to impede the progression of his maste...
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14 398 I could hardly believe what he had done to me, and the force and peremptoriness with which it had been done.
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20 154 Accordingly, because of this commonality of the Home Stone, love of their city, the sharing of citizenship, and such, there is generally a harmonious set of economic compromises obtaining between the upper castes, and classes, and the lower castes, and the labor force, in general.
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20 186 In the last several years, the institution of the "great farm," with its projected contracts, its organization and planning, its agricultural expertise, and its embonded labor force has become more common on Gor.
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20 192 Too, the Gorean peasant tends to be a master of the "peasant bow," a weapon of unusual accuracy, rapidity of fire, and striking force.
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24 481 "It is frightening," she said, "to consider the force, the power, of such jaws, which could do such things".
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25 178 The forces of Ar, almost entirely, have marched north, toward Ar's Station, on the Vosk, there to meet with an expeditionary force of Cos.
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29 66 The binding fiber I must quickly force from my mouth with my tongue into a man's hand.
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33 325 It had been, the force compounded by its own charge, driven through the body.
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Book 23. (39 results) Renegades of Gor

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2 94 "I have heard," said the man, "a large relieving force bound for Ar's Station departed from Ar weeks ago".
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2 124 "But," said the man, "such a force has not passed this point".
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2 149 The major objection, of course, was that this move exposed Ar herself to the main force of Cosians, which was in the vicinity of Torcadino.
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2 153 I did not know where the main force of Ar was.
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2 314 It was still raining, but the force of the storm had muchly subsided.
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6 358 "Force me to pant and sweat, and kiss.
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8 730 Its force, even arrested at the last moment, can break the back of a full-grown tabuk.
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9 271 Considering the size of the besieging force there were not as many women in the camp as might have been expected.
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11 199 You must realize that a relief force would have been dispatched, that it should have arrived by now.
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11 205 I suspect that they, even if you do not, realize that any relieving force should have been here by now, and long ago!" I heard a sword, half drawn, behind me.
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11 254 There is no southern invasion force from Cos.
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11 265 I would also suggest to you that there is indeed a Cosian invasion force in the south, and one that makes the one here look like a squad.
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13 65 If they did, perhaps they would have been at the door, trying to force it open.
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13 103 In either case, she could have been taken from me easily enough by force, and then freed, to be made again legally susceptible to whatever punishments they wished to visit upon her.
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14 23 In this fashion I might not take the food from her, or force her to share it.
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15 108 At that instant I lunged forward and the nearest guard had barely time to turn his head before I caught him, and his fellow, taking them together, striking them with great force, I sprinting, thrusting, they off balance, and blasted them back, one loosened, sprung quarrel skittering about the room l...
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15 622 The most recent assault force, the third of the morning, had been recalled.
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16 42 The giant grapnel is hurled by an engine and then, either with the second arm of the engine, or by the same arm, reversed, drawn back with great force.
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16 45 The effectiveness of such a device, however, given the weights involved, and the loss of force in the draw, is much compromised by the necessity of extreme proximity to the target.
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17 32 At two of the bridges tiles and bricks, some two feet in length and six inches in height and width, met the attackers, not so much to stay the force of the attack as litter the bridge itself, that rushing men, not suspecting them, might stumble and fall.
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17 219 Even so with the force I slid it across the stone it jammed between his ribs, entered his body, and carried him out from the ladder.
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17 232 Others tried to throw their weight against it, to force it forward again.
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17 278 What effort it must have taken to force the long ram shed up this incline, how much more arduous must be the labor of those within the shed, hauling on the ropes, swinging the great ram upward! I could hear, too, between the heavy, periodic strokes of the ram, the blows of hammers and axes, and the ...
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17 641 Spears tried to force the rock from its position.
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18 459 "Considering that it was struck with a large piece of building stone with great force at close range, splendid," he said.
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19 67 There was far more smoke from the citadel, which, given the prevailing winds, the force of which had much diminished since the late morning and early afternoon, drifted out over the harbor, toward the river.
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19 115 They can attack in force".
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19 259 The force of my leap had thrust the piece of wreckage out further, toward the piers.
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20 146 "Cos does not have such force on the river," said a man.
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20 310 "It must be clearly understood, by all," said Calliodorus, standing up, smiling, putting his half of the topaz into his pouch, "that the Vosk League, a neutral force on the river, one devoted merely to the task of maintaining law and order on the river, is certainly in no way involved in this operat...
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21 824 Yet I think they would have been quick enough, under appropriate circumstances, to spread their legs for force masters.
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24 324 "They are apparently intent upon destroying the Cosian expeditionary force in the north," said Aemilianus.
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24 328 "They think that force has been in winter quarters, like themselves, though at Ar's Station.
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24 338 If they try to intrude by force into those territories they could well find themselves between the Salerians and Ar.
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24 341 "With all due respect, Commander," said Marcus, "Ar's position in the north is ideal for destroying the expeditionary force".
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24 346 "It would not surprise me," said Aemilianus, quietly, "if the expeditionary force slipped past the men of Ar".
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24 356 "Is it any the less absurd," asked Aemilianus, "that Ar should have been digging latrines in winter camp while the walls of Ar's Station were crumbling?" "But Ar might still be apprised of these movements in time to interpose herself between the expeditionary force and its base at Brundisium," said ...
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24 645 "The expeditionary force of Cos will never be able to slip between them and the river," he said.
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24 1069 I thought of Dietrich of Tarnburg, holding Torcadino, of Ar, of Cos, of the expeditionary force in the north, of the forces of Ar, and the delta.
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Book 24. (34 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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1 370 There were several thousand Cosians, and mercenaries, in our camp, but the forces of Ar, by repute, were in the neighborhood of some fifty thousand men, an incredible force for a Gorean community to maintain in the field.
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1 907 Some slavers, with certain markets in mind, such as certain of the Tahari markets, deliberately fatten slaves before their sale, sometimes keeping them in small cages, sometimes even force-feeding them, and so on.
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3 7 It was hard to believe that somewhere northward, perhaps somewhat to the west now, in the vicinity of the Vosk, was the expeditionary force of Cos, and somewhere to the south, beyond Teslit, in the vicinity of Holmesk, lay the winter camp of Ar, supposedly housing a considerable commissary and depot...
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3 79 Even if he were not, I suspected that the commandant at Holmesk was as much aware of the position and movements of the Cosian expeditionary force as either Marcus or I.
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3 110 Yet that is what he had wanted, to inform the high command of Ar near Holmesk of the movements and position of the Cosian expeditionary force.
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3 155 I supposed him to be traveling with the expeditionary force.
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3 390 "Policrates himself, it was," said he, "leader of the expeditionary force in the north, who summoned us to his tent.
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10 17 It is not wise, once they have succeeded in catching hold, to apply force to them.
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13 312 "Surely they know we only seek to close with those of Cos, with their force in the north," said a fellow.
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13 397 "You must withdraw from the delta, in force, immediately," I said.
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14 130 "The expeditionary force of Cos," he said, "entered the delta.
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14 138 "I was with the expeditionary force," I said, "for several days, until north of Holmesk.
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16 37 "The movements of so large a force will be easily determined," I said.
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16 114 Perhaps, exiting in force, they had been successful.
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19 226 It began to pursue me, sometimes hovering, its wings beating over the rence, flattening the stalks, forcing them to the water, agitating the water itself, producing waves fleeing before that force.
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19 420 Later, rencers, in force, attacked a column of Ar, that on the right flank of her advance into the delta.
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19 759 I leapt upward with the sword and the blade met the beating wing on its forward strike and the blade and my arm, too, given the force, penetrated it like paper, and the thing rose up uttering a wild, hissing noise, clutching the girl, I hanging in the rent wing.
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19 1534 "Force me upward," she said.
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27 420 "Force me there! If I dally, whip me!" Moment by moment, touch by touch, she ascended higher and higher.
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27 673 "When it pleases me, in a moment, I shall force you".
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29 218 But still it is hard to force it through this hide".
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31 114 "Too, he knew there was no retreating Cosian force in the delta, and he might well suppose you knew this, as well.
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32 70 Too, they would be likely to assume that most of Ar's expeditionary force in the delta would by now have either successfully effected its exit or perished.
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32 219 I frankly doubted that there would be many folks from Ar's Station who would retain much affection for, or allegiance to, Ar, given Ar's abandonment of Ar's Station to the Cosian force in the north.
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36 7 "Probably mostly those of the Cosians' expeditionary force in the north," I said, "that with which we traveled, south of the Vosk.
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36 27 Thirdly, and principally, I hoped to find my friend, Ephialtes, the sutler, in, or near, Brundisium, for he had been traveling with the expeditionary force.
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39 108 She had, thus, though ultimately only a slave, become a force in his retinue.
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40 9 "The main force of Cos on the continent is at Torcadino".
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40 75 The seizure of these materials in Torcadino, which had been serving as a Cosian depot for the invasion force, had been the prime objective of Dietrich in taking the city, he hoping then to forestall the Cosian advance and give Ar time to prepare itself for war.
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40 76 As it had turned out, however, Ar had sent her major forces northward, had failed to relieve the siege at Ar's Station, and then, supposedly pursuing the Cosian expeditionary force in the north, which had destroyed Ar's Station, had come to disaster in the delta.
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40 79 Dietrich had hoped to give Ar time to arm, that she might counterbalance the forces of Cos, thus preventing the ascendancy of a single mighty force on the continent, an eventuality which, in his opinion, would have threatened the existence of the free companies, among which was his own, one of the l...
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40 95 Later, a larger force, entered into the city, opened the gates.
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43 124 Then, helpless, drawn by the leash, she was turned by force, and drawn, stumbling, after Liadne, behind the wagon, behind the canvas screen which had been fixed there.
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48 354 She was with Ephialtes, and others, moving westward along the river, with the Cosian expeditionary force.
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Book 25. (27 results) Magicians of Gor

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2 63 We had learned, however, after the fall of Ar's Station, that the official rumor circulated in the south was to the effect that Ar's Station had opened its gates to the Cosian expeditionary force, this in consideration of substantial gifts of gold.
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2 66 It was supposed that Ar's dilemma in the north was then either to attack their former colony or deal with the retreating expeditionary force.
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4 91 "I do not think you are likely, at this time," I said, "to seize the Home Stone by force.
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6 73 Do not force me to give Ar to the flames.
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6 182 I myself could think of at least three, the failure to meet Cos at Torcadino, the failure to relieve the siege at Ar's Station, and the unprepared entry into the delta, in putative pursuit of the Cosian expeditionary force in the north.
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7 522 It would be merely that Cos would now be the dominant force on the continent.
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8 325 Perhaps the folks of Ar found this sort of thing reassuring, or, at least, less objectionable than if the fellows seemed a foreign garrison force, clad openly in Cosian uniform.
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8 782 They could not force themselves to be kept, but they could be such that by their beauty and service, their pleasingness, they could do much to influence the master in this regard.
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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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9 69 A similar device, incidentally, though not one employed by Dietrich of Tarnburg, at least to my knowledge, is to recruit such forces from the dregs of a city itself, utilizing their resentment of, and their hatred for, their more successful fellow citizens to constitute a vain, suspicious and mercil...
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9 70 This force then may later be disbanded, or even destroyed, to the delight of the other citizens, who then will see their conqueror as their protector, not even understanding his use of, and sacrifice of, such instrumentalities as the duped dregs of their own community, first making use of them, then...
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12 237 She was struck to the ground with the force of the blow and at a snapping of his fingers, and his gesture, she struggled again to her knees before us, her mouth bloody.
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12 606 I then, reluctantly, with some force of will, removed my hands from her.
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14 655 "You had an opportunity here to strike a blow for Cos, to humiliate the men of Ar, to further reduce and degrade them, to force them to submit even to the insolence and arrogance of slaves, to further subdue and crush them, to remind them of their sorry lot, of their political and military weakness,...
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16 10 "I demand to be freed!" "Silence, despicable sleen!" shouted one of the guardsmen, cuffing the prisoner, who reacted as though he might have been struck with great force.
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16 89 "We yield to superior force," said the first mercenary.
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16 103 "We are yielding to superior force," he said.
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16 165 I hoped by this last question to lead the crowd to believe that the Delta Brigade was a determined, disciplined, extensive, well-organized force in Ar, one which might realistically inspire hope in the populace and fear in the forces of occupation.
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16 276 "What city opened her gates to the expeditionary force of Cos?" "No city," said Marcus, angrily.
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18 118 "We can force the doors, one after the other," said Marcus.
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18 538 "And you do not know better than to try futilely to force this wealth upon me, even against my will?" asked the fellow.
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19 1226 Had I struck her heavily, with the force easily summonable by a strong man, I might have broken her neck.
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20 482 I then jerked twice, softly, on the chain, that she might feel this small force exerted on the ring, and subsequently on her ankle, within it.
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22 469 Cases have been reported where an enemy force has literally withdrawn from a city and some of its components have remained in the city, wandering about for a day or two, out of communication with the main forces.
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26 13 Whatever force, if any, might be required could be supplied by Marcus and myself.
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28 92 But the veterans now, within Ar, were a force.
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28 114 Else what force, what might of man or nature, could have kept him from the walls of Ar? There was now a small sound, outside the room.
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Book 26. (24 results) Witness of Gor

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2 34 They had apparently been simply closed about my limbs, closed by some considerable force, perhaps that of a machine, or even, perhaps, unthinkably primitive though it might seem, by the blows of a hammer on an anvil.
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2 67 I could feel the force, small as it was, transmitted through the chain, to the collar, the collar then drawing against the back of my neck.
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8 249 If one is beautiful, why should one not be proud of it? Even if men force one, for their pleasure, to show it! And are we not pleased to be so displayed, to be seen as they will have us seen? Are we not then in the order of nature, as men will have us? Must one hide one's beauty because of the envy ...
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10 34 This had apparently required considerable force, but it had been done easily.
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10 498 When a conquering force is disciplined, the women are sometimes merely bound helplessly, and marked, and then left where they may be easily found later, in collections, for return to the original captor.
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12 242 By the force and intellect in them I had often felt awed.
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13 313 They, gathering force, swimming swiftly in ever widening, preparatory circles just under the water, would plunge down, yards from the cage, and then ascend rapidly, spearing upward, snapping, from the water.
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13 615 "This is a new girl," said the pit master, in that slurring voice, almost like a natural force, water or lava, issuing from some aperture.
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13 1245 Is not even a free woman aware of such a thing, on some level, when, as she sleeps, she is chained to her own bed? Does this enter into her dream? Does she dream it so, fearfully? Surely its very possibility is to be rejected from consciousness with all the force of rationality! Surely it was only a...
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14 5 Such things, from training, and from force of habit, sometimes slip out.
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14 142 "I do not doubt," I said, "that something of that sort has entered into the thinking of the beasts, those who force us to assume such a position before them".
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19 997 I refer to matters of force and power, of storms and fire, of songs and blood, of shouting and crying, of laughter and tears, of realities, of victories, of dominance and submission, of owner and owned, of master and slave, of the joy of absolute and uncompromising conquest and the rapture of utter,...
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24 361 There had not been enough men to force the bridge.
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24 415 Men of Treve, now, in force, I thought, had come to the bridge.
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31 119 "We may then force the door".
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31 422 It seemed we might be in the presence of a force of nature.
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31 429 But I did not think the peasant, that violent giant, that simple, outraged behemoth of a man, in his present state of mind, in his agitation, in the singleness of his purpose, in this ferocious, puissant concentration of all of his force, his power, against iron and rock, was troubled by pain, or ev...
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31 438 The links there could have been slipped apart, but the peasant took no note of this, rather he continued to force himself against the chain, the link bending more.
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31 477 The end at the ring with the force of the suddenly parting metal struck down at the stone like a snake, jerking and rattling.
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37 23 Even in that brief, smooth touch I had sensed a considerable force, like a wave in the sea.
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37 188 The leader of the strangers struck wildly down at the first animal, slashing its jaw and the side of its face, turned to orient its jaws to its prey, cutting into it, with his blade, and the force of its charge struck him back and the beast, shoulders hunched, was on him, he on his back, screaming, ...
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39 24 "Have mercy, Master!" And then he would ruthlessly force again and again upon me the ecstasies of the surrendered woman, those of the subjugated female, those of the utterly vanquished slave.
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45 28 No one could force it out of me.
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46 109 "I am a slave inwardly, in my need, and in my love, and in my nature! It is what I am! Despise me for it, if you wish! I am a natural slave, a rightful slave, and here, on this world, in my collar, I have found myself at last! Hate me! Hold me in contempt! But I am a slave, and I love being a slave!...
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Book 27. (27 results) Prize of Gor

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2 19 One quickly learns to apply one's intelligence, per force, to new ends, in new spheres.
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2 168 Perhaps she had met such gazes before from such as the older woman, gazes, and stares, and such, perhaps of envy, hatred, and hostility, the cold, fixed gazes and stares of women whose youth and beauty were behind them, and who seemed to wish to do little now but resent and castigate, and scorn, the...
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3 57 Irrationally she thrust down at it, trying to force it from her ankle.
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4 117 How she would have terrified weak men, administrators, colleagues, and such, by the presentation of such a fierce mien, suggesting implacable resolution, and full readiness to have instant and embarrassing recourse to various devices, procedures, pressures, laws and institutions engineered to impose...
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7 234 On Earth there might have been many ways to respond to such attentions, a sneer, a chilling stare, a look of contempt, a scornful dismissal, a demeaning question, a nasty, caustic word, a haughty, supercilious shrug and a turning away, many ways to respond, and to all of these she had had recourse a...
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10 168 "I think, Master," she said, "that you cared for me, that you remembered me, that you had never forgotten me, that you came for me, that you carried me away by force, that you made me your slave because you wanted me, because you desired me, and loved me.
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11 179 Not as his eyes had feasted upon her! Perhaps it was all a joke, or a dream? But then she heard the word, explicitly, and realized that slave was what she was, that that was now her absolute and incontrovertible identity, and that this identity, mercilessly imposed upon her, had behind it the full f...
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11 938 "Surely Master can force me.
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12 483 That would give him an opportunity to again subject her to scorn, another opportunity to exhibit his contempt for her, another opportunity to force her to recognize the debasement, the degradation, to which he had brought her.
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13 372 It was he who revealed them!" The woman in the net tried to force the brief tunic she wore down further on her body.
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15 705 I sensed in you power, and virility, and uncompromised manhood, and, too, I think I sensed in you even then, surely on some level, then only dimly understood, the splendor and force of the mastery.
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16 437 Do you whimper, and cry out, and moan, and scream, and gasp, and clutch, and beg, and shudder and kick, and spasm helplessly and repeatedly? Have you never been driven mercilessly and helplessly, as if by whips, to slave orgasm? And then to another, and another, and to as many as your master chooses...
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17 698 "The defining will, and final force, is that of the master, in all things, at all times".
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20 753 Ellen, desperately, half choking, tried to chew and force down the last of the biscuit.
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26 257 "What force could seize the gold of Cos?" asked a man, incredulously.
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26 258 "What force would dare?" asked another.
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27 1233 Rather than simply schedule her for acquisition, however, he decided that he would force her to face her own deepest feelings.
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27 1346 It is little wonder that slaves hope for a private master, one who will notice them, who will speak with them, who will care for them, who will be kind to them, one who will stoke their slave fires and force them to flame with helpless ecstasy, but, in all, one who will well rule their slave, one wh...
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27 1360 And sometimes men force us to experience our own worthlessness, particularly if we are women taken from the enemy, or despised barbarians, good only for servile labors and collar pleasures.
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27 2127 "If there were a large number out there, they would charge and force the camp," said the officer.
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27 2172 Ellen, squirming, tried to force the tunic down, further, about her upper thighs.
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27 2286 And at the same time she heard a cry of rage from beneath the boards of the inverted wagon, and the entire surface beneath her, seemed to shudder, and buck, once, twice, exerting force upon the straining ropes fastened to the stakes, and then the wagon rose up, suddenly, the ropes tautening and drag...
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28 143 The force of the spear thrust must have been prodigious, and its might was compounded by the charge of the beast.
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28 365 "What force or heat could do this, and here, in the prairie?" asked Mirus, wonderingly.
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29 252 She must challenge his affections, appeal to his pity, confuse him, take him off balance, force him to acknowledge his undoubted feelings for her.
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29 274 "Do you realize the will power that has been required for me, day and night, not to seize you, again and again, and put you to slave service? Do you understand what it is to lie in the darkness, with you at my thigh, and not grasp you by the hair as a master a slave, to warn you that your taking is ...
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30 403 "I acknowledge," he said, "it is pleasant to have a slave so, to have her so much in your power, to force her, if one wishes, she willing or not, to undergo such pleasures".
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Book 28. (10 results) Kur of Gor

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81 26 Whereas the force of gravity as normally encountered is, so to speak, a very weak force, widely distributed, obviously it is, in its extent, a titanic force capable of holding moons to a planet, planets to a primary, stars in a galaxy, and so on.
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2 102 A blast of force rocked the container.
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7 24 "A principle, a force, something inexplicable, something beyond human comprehension," said Peisistratus.
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20 151 "He was forced to bracelet her in the very bonds from which he had freed her, her wrists now before her, clasp her in his arms, and carry her, by force, to the Steel World".
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22 72 Too, she was here before a man, and men, such as she had while on Earth met only in her dreams, men of will, and force, men before whom such as she, she realized, could be but a slave.
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33 149 "These things have such force".
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33 172 Again the mighty body emerged under the raft and again the raft was almost vertical in the water, and was then vertical, and then struck down again, with great force, its occupants, as before, leaping free.
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34 37 The raft, mighty as it was, began to respond to the force of swift, rising swells.
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36 46 A saying in the Gorean north, seemingly related, is to speak of a defeated force as having been given over to the feasting of jards.
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39 60 Roars of rage and pain greeted this barrage of weighty stones, a directed rain of gigantic rocks, any one of which, flung with the strength and force of a Kur, might have felled a tharlarion.
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Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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16 156 One should avoid the application of force, if possible, except against lesser force, and, ideally, much lesser force.
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Book 30. (2 results) Mariners of Gor

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9 406 Their final intention, in any case, I suspected, was to put together a formidable force as quickly as possible, a force of skilled and dangerous men, men free of certain indigenous and traditional loyalties, which, disciplined, and closely managed, might in unfamiliar, remote venues be well applied ...
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30 144 Its likelihood would have been much increased given the miserable return of the exploratory force and the arrival of enemy troops, in force, in the vicinity.
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Book 31. (1 results) Conspirators of Gor

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46 111 Some of the girls thrust their arms through the bars, to have them covered with kisses, or pressed their face to the bars, and gripped the bars, that the force of the kisses received might not force them back into the cage.
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Book 33. (3 results) Rebels of Gor

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1 75 I was proud of the cavalry and it had well proven its reliability and formidableness in combat, for it had met and defeated a far larger force in the skies over the northern forests, a force intent on the destruction of Tarncamp, and, later, one supposes, Shipcamp.
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11 187 A larger contingent of an objectively smaller force will often overmatch a smaller contingent of an objectively larger force.
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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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Book 34. (1 results) Plunder of Gor

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45 178 This policing is commonly done by representatives of the "vintners" of Thentis, but it is sometimes hired out to the caste of Assassins, which constitutes the nearest thing to an international police force on Gor, a force subject neither to the constraints of walls, borders, or Home Stones.
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Book 35. (1 results) Quarry of Gor

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33 622 I tried to go to my stomach, to force myself prone, and then to my back, to force myself supine, distributing my weight, but I could not do so.
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Book 36. (2 results) Avengers of Gor

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30 26 "But, too, in many instances a smaller force, cleverly applied, can outnumber a larger force.
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30 28 In that special situation or selected incident, the smaller force outnumbers the larger force two to one.
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