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Book 1. (2 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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12 9 The eyes were inscrutable, as if they had been made of glass or stone and set artificially in that metallic mask of a countenance.
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12 13 The eyes, like glass or stone, revealed nothing.
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Book 2. (4 results) Outlaw of Gor

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1 80 "Where is home?" asked Cabot, staring into the half-filled glass.
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1 91 I became aware of his silence, and the light subdued patter of conversation at the bar, the clink of glasses, the sounds of a foot scraping, of liquid swirling into a small, heavy glass.
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1 103 Then without warning, with a bitter laugh, at once a lament and a cry of rage, he hurled the glass violently to the wall.
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22 110 "In these dreams I had been proud in my palace surrounded by my council and warriors and then, shattering the roof like glass, a great tarn descended, bearing a helmeted warrior.
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Book 3. (5 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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4 15 I was pleased to see that its top was a sparkling curvature of some transparent substance, perhaps a special glass or plastic, for no glass or plastic with which I was familiar would be likely to withstand the stresses generated by such a structure.
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5 33 She then moved her hand past a glass disk in the wall and water emerged from a concealed aperture and curved into the shallow bowl.
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8 82 Six times the hilt of my sword struck against the sensors and six times there was a hissing pop like the explosion of hot glass and a bright shower of scarlet sparks.
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14 37 I would later learn that these rays, which passed through my body as easily and harmlessly as sunlight through glass, were indexed to the metabolic physiology of various organisms which can infect Priest-Kings.
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17 90 Along each of these levels, spaced a few feet from one another, were the observation cubes, which resembled cubes of transparent glass, and were approximately sixteen feet square.
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Book 4. (8 results) Nomads of Gor

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11 30 He took from a silken pouch lying before him on the palanquin a small glass, with glass-petal edges like a flower, mounted on a silver stem about which curled silver leaves.
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3 97 "They are probably false stones," I said, "amber droplets, the pearls of the Vosk sorp, the polished shell of the Tamber clam, glass colored and cut in Ar for trade with ignorant southern peoples".
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7 92 With him had been a tall, strange man, broad of shoulder with large hands, a grayish face, eyes almost like glass.
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7 253 Perhaps in that moment Elizabeth Cardwell recalled the strange man, so fearsome, gray of face with eyes like glass, who had so examined her on Earth, before whom she had stood as though on a block, unknowingly being examined for her fitness to bear the message collar of Turia.
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11 80 Saphrar then again lifted the tiny glass through which he had regarded her, and examined her with some care.
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16 205 "A man met me," said Saphrar, "a tall man—rather dreadful actually—with a face as gray as stone and eyes like glass".
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23 215 The floor was littered with broken glass.
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25 164 I could scarcely believe that the proud creature who stood chained before me was she whom Kamchak and I had referred to as the Little Barbarian; whom I had been able to think of only as a timid, simple girl of Earth, a young, pretty little secretary, one of nameless, unimportant thousands of such in...
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Book 5. (15 results) Assassin of Gor

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1 46 Some bones and some whitish ash they gathered in white linen and placed in an urn of red and yellow glass.
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9 68 Ho-Tu turned into a side corridor and we found ourselves, to my surprise, looking through a huge rectangle of glass, some twelve feet high and perhaps fifteen feet wide; it was one of a dozen such panels I could see in the corridor.
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9 69 Beyond the glass I looked into what seemed to be a Pleasure Garden, lit by energy bulbs radiant in its lofty ceiling.
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9 75 I studied the glass that separated us.
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9 76 The two girls strolled near the glass and one of them, lifting her hands behind her head, studied her reflection gravely in the mirror, retying the band of silk which confined her hair.
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9 77 "On their side of the glass," said Ho-Tu, "it seems a mirror".
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9 119 I looked again through the glass, at the gentle girls, sporting and playing together by the pool.
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9 132 I looked back at the girls through the glass.
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10 6 Once again I found myself staring through a large rectangle of glass, but this time there was only one such panel.
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10 8 On our side of the glass there was a metal grillwork, with rectangular openings about twelve inches long and four inches high.
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12 372 There were poorly webbed, small tapestries; amulets and talismans; knotted prayer strings; papers containing praises of Priest- Kings, which might be carried on one's person; numerous ornaments of glass and cheap metal; the strung pearls of the Vosk sorp; polished, shell brooches; pins with heads ca...
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14 138 We found ourselves in the hallway giving access to the large one-way glass, backed by metal grillwork.
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14 140 Once again I found myself looking through the glass, which on the other side was a mirror, into the luxurious compartment, with wardrobe, chests of silk, rugs and cushions, a silken divan and a scented, sunken bath, now drawn.
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14 183 "I have plans for this girl," said Cernus, regarding the prisoner through the glass.
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15 138 Various members of the House might observe the training without being noted from behind this glass.
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Book 6. (34 results) Raiders of Gor

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13 346 The man would have at his disposal a long glass, a glass of the builders.
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9 126 There was glass, and spilled paga about, and two broken tables.
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14 93 From the stern castle of the Dorna, then, with a long glass, that of the builders, I observed, far across the waters, the masts of the ram-ships, one by one, lowering.
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14 113 Over the faint music coming from the distant ships, now approaching, I could hear her war trumpets and, with the glass, observe her flags.
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14 115 I slapped shut the glass of the builders and laughed.
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14 129 I snapped open the builder's glass again.
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14 196 As the beat dropped, I took out the glass of the builders and scanned the horizon.
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14 204 I now turned the glass again to the ship fleeing me.
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14 218 "Hand me your glass," he said.
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14 224 He handed me back the glass.
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14 230 But after about an Ahn and a half, when I again raised the glass, I saw that she was not much farther away than she had been when last I had looked.
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14 233 He did not ask for the glass again.
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14 299 When the mast, with its sail fastened to its yard, had been set in the mast well, and stayed fore, aft and amidships, I climbed to the basket myself, carrying the glass of the builders.
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14 313 I, swaying in the basket at the masthead, with the glass of the builders, smiled.
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14 317 I snapped shut the glass of the builders and, by means of a slender rope ladder fastened at the masthead and anchored to a cleat near the mast well below, took my way down to the deck.
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14 481 The enemy fleet, the twelve ships, was now, by estimate from the lookout, with his glass, some four pasangs distant.
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17 1 How Bosk Conducted the Affairs of Port Kar Upon Thassa I stood in the swaying basket at the height of the mast of the Dorna, the glass of the builders in hand.
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17 18 I snapped shut the glass of the builders and descended the narrow rope ladder to the deck of the Dorna.
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17 112 I had with me, brought from the cabin, the glass of the builders.
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17 123 In the basket I wrapped the admiral's cloak about me, began to chew on a piece of tarsk meat, as much against the cold as the hunger, and took out the glass of the builders.
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17 138 I resumed my watch, lifting again the glass of the builders toward the west.
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17 158 "Look!" The voice came from a seaman, he, too, with a glass, high on the prow of the Dorna.
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17 160 "She has broken through!" I lifted the glass to the west.
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17 184 Then I opened the glass and studied the waters to the north.
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17 185 I snapped shut the glass.
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17 192 I reopened the glass of the builders, turning it again to the west.
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17 193 * * * * For better than three Ahn I had sat in the basket at the masthead of the Dorna, whipped by the wind, my fingers numb on the glass of the builders, observing the battle.
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17 217 With the glass I saw, on her stern castle, Antisthenes, that captain of the council whose name had been always first on her rolls.
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17 221 I turned the glass again to the west, to the smoke in the distance.
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17 229 I closed the glass, and blew on my fingers.
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17 233 The man on the height of the prow, his builders' glass slung about his shoulder, standing, his feet fixed in ropes, was waving his cap in the air.
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17 235 I snapped open the glass of the builders.
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17 240 I let the builders' glass, attached to the strap about my shoulder, fall to my side.
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17 255 I took the glass of the builders, and its strap, from my shoulder.
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Book 7. (6 results) Captive of Gor

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2 57 I could see the great walls of brick, and steel and concrete and glass.
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2 59 I stood there for a moment, the sun streaming in upon me through the thick, dirty glass.
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2 60 It was my world! But I stood behind the glass nude, on my throat a band of steel, which I could not remove.
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2 125 I could attract the attention of the individuals in the apartment below or, if necessary, with a chair, or implement, or whatever might be found, break through the glass to their apartment.
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5 74 The heavy glass, or quartz or plastic, in the ports was, in many places, broken through.
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14 605 The slave girl replaced the glass stopper in a small, ornate bottle of Torian scent.
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Book 8. (6 results) Hunters of Gor

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2 4 "Glass of the Builders," I said.
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2 5 Thurnock, of the Peasants, standing by me, handed me the glass.
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2 37 I handed the glass of the Builders to Rim, who stood by the rail at my side.
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5 382 "Stroke!" I strode to the stern castle and, with a Builder's Glass, looked back toward Lydius.
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22 100 She had said his face was grayish, and his eyes like glass.
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22 105 His eyes had been expressionless, like stones, or orbs of glass.
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Book 9. (2 results) Marauders of Gor

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13 157 It was not paned with glass, but with some sort of membrane, but the membrane was almost as clear as glass.
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5 136 I could detect its captain, doubtless the great Thorgard himself, on its stern deck, above the helmsman, with a glass of the builders.
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Book 10. (16 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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8 193 A small, heavy, curved glass was nearby, on a flat box, which would hold some two ounces of the tea.
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8 232 She lifted the kettle from the fire and, carefully, poured me a tiny glass of tea.
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8 233 I took the glass.
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8 307 I returned to the mats, sat again cross-legged upon them, and picked up my small glass of tea, which I had not yet finished.
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8 315 Trembling she measured him a tiny glass of tea.
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11 251 "Precisely," said Hassan, "with layers of air the glass.
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13 62 Tahari salt accounts, in its varieties, I would suspect, for some twenty percent of the salt and salt-related products, such as medicines and antiseptics, preservatives, cleansers, bleaches, bottle glass, which contains soda ash, taken from salt, and tanning chemicals, used on known Gor.
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21 595 There was heavy glass over the faces of the dials.
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21 619 I struck at the sixth dial with the pipe, again and again shattering the glass.
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26 354 "Never! Never!" "Bring a sand glass," I said, "of one Ehn's sand".
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26 358 The glass was inverted.
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26 361 She watched the sand slip through the glass.
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26 366 I'm pleased that I testified against you at Nine Wells! Do you understand? Pleased!" A quarter of the sand had slipped through the glass.
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26 369 The sand had now slipped half through the glass.
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26 377 "Forgive me!" The sand was almost slipped from the glass.
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26 384 Then, crying out with misery, frightened, a moment before the sand slipped from the glass, she turned toward the whip.
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Book 11. (8 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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22 131 Only the second officer, he also with the glass, seemed troubled, observing the fleeing ship with the glass.
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4 367 Then, from another box, Eta produced another necklace, one with cheap glass beads, and another with simple, small wooden beads.
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7 944 I knew that my master could see through me, his slave girl, as simply as through glass, but I felt that I, too, in the past weeks, strangely, had become much more aware of him, and much more capable of reading his moods and conjecturing his reactions.
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18 5 The tavern is dimly lit, by wagon lanterns, paneled with red glass, which hang on chains from the ceilings and balconies.
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18 152 I heard glass break below.
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22 101 He, too, bore a glass.
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22 105 The captain lowered the glass.
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22 156 The captain studied the ship in his glass.
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Book 12. (14 results) Beasts of Gor

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36 288 Then I threw the glass against the steel wall, where it shattered, and fell, its fragments showering downward, mingling with those of the other glass.
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30 34 It was, I assumed, one-way glass.
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30 166 I looked up to the mirror in the wall, that which I was confident was in actuality a one-way glass.
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32 133 The beast poured another glass of paga for each of us.
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32 174 It poured us again a glass of paga.
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35 1243 He lifted his glass.
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35 1249 He put aside his glass.
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35 1256 And it was clear that so small an effort as rising to meet me, and touching his glass to mine, had opened one of the vicious wounds on his great body.
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35 1331 I poured him a glass of paga, and left it near him on the dais.
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36 1 To the Victors Belong the Spoils; I Lift a Glass of Paga Orders were swiftly given.
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36 281 I had placed on it a glass of paga before I had left the room.
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36 282 I saw, against a steel wall, the shattered remnants of such a glass.
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36 283 But on the dais there was another glass, it, too, filled with paga.
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36 285 I bent and picked up the second glass.
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Book 13. (10 results) Explorers of Gor

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6 116 "Convey our greetings to the fleet!" called Ulafi from the stern castle, putting down his glass of the builders.
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6 523 Her captain, lowering his glass of the builders, lifted his hand high, fist clenched, to Ulafi, greeting him, and congratulating him on his ship and the girls which hung at its prow.
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8 12 I had observed her sale by means of a glass of the builders, from a roof top near Uchafu's market.
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8 13 I had then telescoped the glass and slipped it into my pouch.
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28 19 In the box, jumbled, were rolls of wire, mirrors, pins and knives, beads, shells and bits of colored glass.
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31 38 We had obtained in the trading, for some knives and colored glass, several sacks of meal, fruit, and vegetables.
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32 502 Too, I wore sunglasses, pieces of colored glass sometimes worn by those of Earth before their eyes, sometimes to guard their expressions and features, but usually to reduce the glare of a bright sun".
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32 533 How much better it is to deny it, or to see it only, as through colored glass, through the softened, tinted lies of civilization.
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32 1094 "Are blue and yellow beads then," she asked, "not appropriate for me, for I am a slave?" "They are very nice," I said, "but any simple, cheap beads, say, of wood or glass, will do as well for a slave".
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37 2 Kisu lifted beads before him, of purple glass, strung on wire.
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Book 14. (14 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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1 990 Almost instantly, as he threw a lever which must have been beside him, a heavy glass screen or shield sprang up, from the top of the seat in front of us, against which his back rested.
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1 995 "Stop the cab!" I demanded, coughing, pounding on the glass shield with the flat of my hand.
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1 1014 I then, again, this time with the side of my fist, began to strike at the heavy glass.
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1 1027 The girl crouched forward, pressing her hands and face against the heavy glass separating us from the driver.
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1 1031 Let me go! Let me go!" I began to pound at the glass on my side.
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1 1033 It was not a standard safety glass.
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1 1054 "Help me!" I turned from her and, with my fingers, tried to find some crack or crevice between glass and steel, to the side and in front of me, anything that I might be able to exploit.
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13 648 He took from a tiny box attached to the interior of the palanquin a circular glass mounted on a pearled wand.
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13 650 He examined the girl with the glass, she to whom I had been talking.
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13 698 The man in the palanquin gestured toward me with his glass, that on the pearled wand.
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13 719 Again the fellow in the palanquin indicated me, bemused, with the glass on the pearled wand.
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13 743 The man in the palanquin lifted the glass on the pearled wand and, again, the draft slaves took their places.
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26 301 Window glass shattered inward, to the side.
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26 305 We heard another breaking through the glass and wood at the window.
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Book 15. (2 results) Rogue of Gor

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31 108 I turned and closed the door, the dark, heavy door, with the rectangular panes of glass set in it, with the curtains behind the glass.
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22 359 In the darkness he was cut with glass and soiled with scattered paga.
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Book 16. (19 results) Guardsman of Gor

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1 125 Callimachus, with a glass of the builders, surveyed the chain.
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3 125 Callimachus took the glass of the Builders from the officer.
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3 130 Callimachus snapped shut the glass of the Builders.
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3 145 He handed the glass of the Builders back to the officer.
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3 156 He carried the glass of the Builders.
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3 162 Callimachus handed me the glass of the Builders.
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3 177 I handed the glass of the Builders back to him.
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4 23 "Yes," said Callimachus, handing the glass of the Builders back to one of the officers, "it is the wedge".
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6 127 Callimachus, alone on the deck of the stem castle, with a glass of the Builders, surveyed the fleet, flung out across the horizon, advancing astern.
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8 8 These were high, and formed of a lacing of wood and glass.
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8 27 With a shattering of glass and wood I crashed into the cabin.
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8 180 She ran to the windows of the cabin, those between and above the rudders, through which I, breaking the frames and glass inward, had entered.
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8 183 By her wrists, temporarily caught in the coils of the whip, I jerked her back and to the side, and she fell, stumbling, among the glass and wood, to my right.
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8 214 I heard wood and glass suddenly move, as she scrambled across the cabin floor, on her hands and knees, toward the leaden sheets.
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8 216 The stroke caught her across the back and buttocks and struck her to her stomach on the floor, amidst the wood and glass.
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8 221 She lay there, on her stomach, in the wood and glass, absolutely quietly.
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8 539 In the darkness of the cabin, barefoot, stepping softly through the glass and bits of frame scattered on the floor, she went, as commanded, to the window.
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12 1 We Bid Welcome to the Voskjard's Fleet; The Courier of Ragnar Voskjard; The Fleet of Policrates "There must be fifty ships in the channel," said Callimachus, snapping shut the glass of the Builders.
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20 586 Thus there is little or no danger of her injuring herself on glass or shards, or other debris.
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Book 18. (5 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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1 335 They prized many of the things of value which he might bring into the Barrens, the men relishing trinkets such as trade points and knife blades, and the women welcoming trade cloth, chemical dyes and drilled glass beads.
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2 1 The Procession of the Isanna Wasnapohdi, or Pimples, naked, her dark hair loose and wild behind her, strings of glass beads about her throat, put there by Grunt, marking her as his, in the tattered lodge I shared with Cuwignaka, clutched me, gasping, half rearing under me.
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2 38 The six strands of heavy, cheap glass beads about her throat glinted.
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2 315 There were glass beads about her neck.
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43 216 Is this not the sort of thing which is involved in the ringed candles, in the tiny stream of water in the clepsydra, in the falling sand in the Ahn glass, in the alternation of day and night, and in the calendar of the stars? I stirred up the fire again, so that I might better see what I was doing.
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Book 19. (3 results) Kajira of Gor

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1 178 From a drawer in the desk he produced a boxlike, mounted magnifying glass.
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30 433 Then, a moment later, there was a crashing of glass.
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32 55 I recalled I had heard swordplay, and the crashing of glass.
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Book 20. (4 results) Players of Gor

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1 903 Some fifty pasangs northeast of Scagnar he claims that he and his crew saw something turning and spinning in the sky, like webbed glass, the light spilling and refracting through it.
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16 174 He then drew from his pack a glass of the Builders, used for identifying distant objects.
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16 177 "It is too early to tell," said Lecchio, replacing the glass of the Builders in his pack.
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16 309 They are usually of painted wood or glass.
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Book 21. (14 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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25 54 The room was illuminated, insofar as it was, with a soft, flickering, reddish light, the result of the flames of tiny tharlarion-oil lamps set in narrow red-glass enclosures on certain of the tables.
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25 55 In such a light, of course, interesting colorations, subtle, soft, constantly changing reddish hues, ranging, depending on the color of the glass and the mix of the lights, from dark, rose-colored pinks to creamy crimsons, are imparted to the flesh of white-skinned slaves.
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25 1031 I had been considering a glass of paga, perhaps, if it were available in a place such as this, of the brewery of Temus.
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25 1152 "Perhaps a tiny glass of ka-la-na," she said, "among friends".
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25 1206 "To you," she said, lifting her glass.
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25 1598 "This is not the same wine," she said, lowering the glass.
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25 1622 "Drink, drink," she wheedled, picking up the glass, lifting it toward my lips.
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25 1628 I took the glass from her.
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25 1646 "Here," she said, picking up the glass, "hurry, drink.
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25 1652 She lifted the glass to my lips.
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25 1660 I took the glass from her hand.
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25 1685 I lifted the glass toward her lips.
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25 1751 I put the tiny glass of wine to the side, on the floor.
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25 1764 "Here," I said, handing her the tiny glass of wine.
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Book 22. (2 results) Dancer of Gor

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3 299 Even if I could have lifted the chair he would have been upon me before I could have reached the glass.
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13 7 I also wore a triple necklace of coins, together with necklaces of slave beads, of both glass and wood.
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Book 23. (6 results) Renegades of Gor

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20 113 "Where is a glass," I cried, "a builder's glass, a glass of the builders!" Even as we watched we saw the sail of the first ship furled to its sloping yard and the yard swung, parallel to the keel, and lowered.
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20 123 "Bring me a glass!" I cried.
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20 124 "A glass!" called more than one man.
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20 138 "Here is a glass," said a fellow.
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20 142 Then I lowered the glass, closing it.
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20 150 I handed him the glass.
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Book 24. (2 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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1 1185 Slave beads are commonly cheap, made of wood and glass, and such.
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1 1188 And they, such deliciously vain creatures, know well how to use them, adorning themselves, enhancing their beauty, making themselves even more excruciatingly desirable! Among slaves a handful of glass or wooden beads may confer a prestige that amongst free women might not be garnered with diamonds.
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Book 25. (6 results) Magicians of Gor

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22 632 Many craftsmen, incidentally, keep such things as formulas for certain kinds of glass and alloys, and manufacturing processes, generally, in cipher.
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26 209 He then, holding the tiny glass in both hands, his head down between his extended arms, proffered her the beverage.
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26 238 She let him hold the wine for a time, and then, reaching out, she took the glass.
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26 240 She lifted the glass to her lips.
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26 242 "Replace the glass," she said.
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26 245 She watched him, in the mirror, replace the glass on the tiny table.
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Book 26. (1 results) Witness of Gor

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32 7 One of the lanterns, even, though its glass was broken, was lit.
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Book 27. (26 results) Prize of Gor

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15 634 One may recall that on the small table to his right there reposed a decanter of colored glass with its small, matching glass.
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15 669 There are many ka-la-nas, but the one in the colored glass, if it had been in a clear glass, would have been golden in color.
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4 219 She might have preferred a tiny glass of white wine, as she scarcely ever drank, but she did not object to his choice.
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6 36 There was no way it could be removed from the wall, at least without tools, or shattered, perhaps to produce fragments of glass.
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11 146 "And male slavery," said her companion, lifting his wine glass to her, as though toasting her.
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11 329 "This is a memorable night," he said lifting his wine glass to her.
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11 332 "For all of us," said her companion, he, too, lifting his glass to her in a pleasant salute.
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11 335 She, too, had lifted her glass of wine, though, to be sure, merely to take from it a tiny, dainty sip.
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11 570 If she should drop a plate or break a glass, or spill a beverage, or even move awkwardly, she knew she might expect to be tied to a ring and beaten.
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15 17 To the left of the curule chair was a small table, on which there was a decanter of colored glass.
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15 18 Beside it there was a small glass, also colored, matching the decanter.
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15 264 "Master?" "Have you heard of the Prition of Clearchus of Cos?" he asked, placing the scroll on the table to his right, her left, near the glass and decanter.
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15 635 He took the stopper from the decanter, and poured a tiny bit of its contained liquid into the glass.
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15 658 He held the glass toward her lips, and she shrank back, in her bonds.
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15 670 The reddish color of the glass infused its contents with something of its own hue.
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15 676 "You would have me drink wine, and from a glass?" she asked.
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15 687 He put the tiny glass on the table.
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15 755 Then, without removing his hand from her hair, he lifted the small glass of ka-la-na.
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15 756 He swirled the wine a little in the glass, and held it before him, inhaling the bouquet.
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15 757 He then held the small glass before her.
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15 760 He then held it before her, the rim of the glass to her lips, and tipped it, slightly, that she might sip it.
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15 776 She saw the tiny glass before her, her head bent back.
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15 788 Then he released her hair and replaced the tiny glass on the table.
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16 792 Perhaps he would lift a glass of ka-la-na and proclaim a toast, offering it to her, chuckling, laughing, relishing his triumph over her, what he had done to her, offering it to her, to his absent, discarded slave.
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25 186 To a native glass beads may appear strange.
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25 692 On rich rugs, amidst glass and chromium, and high bookcases, might they kneel.
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Book 28. (3 results) Kur of Gor

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63 90 "The glass, give me the glass!" cried Cabot, and the instrument was placed in his hands.
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36 111 They can treasure simple things, too, a ribbon, a bangle, a bracelet, a string of colorful glass or wooden beads.
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63 100 Cabot peered anxiously through the glass.
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Book 29. (9 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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41 72 "Give me your glass!" He removed the sling from his shoulder, to which was attached the case which holstered the glass of the Builders.
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4 395 "They may have a glass of the Builders".
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5 277 A lookout is often posted there, with a Builder's glass.
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25 220 The guard lantern was so constructed that the color of the light it casts may be changed at will, by means of hinged, glass panels, red and green.
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38 384 A small, glass-enclosed tharlarion-oil lamp was hung from the ceiling, at the center of the cabin.
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40 166 "Doubtless," I said, "some on the beach have the glass of the Builders.
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41 71 "The glass," I said to him, with urgency.
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41 73 At the high rail of the stern castle I saw, now far behind, the small motion in the water, now scarcely visible, even with the glass, in the swelling waves, which marked the point beyond which our mysterious companion could not proceed, that point which marked for it the end of a journey it could no...
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44 78 The small, glass-enclosed tharlarion-oil lamp, moving with the motion of the ship, provided a dim illumination in the cabin.
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Book 30. (37 results) Mariners of Gor

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16 140 "The glass, a glass!" cried Tarl Cabot, and a glass of the Builders was thrust into his hand.
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2 4 We detected it first, by the glass of the Builders, from the stem castle, far off, through the fog, not clear, seemingly risen from the sea as might a mountain, as the islands that Thassa sometimes lifts from her bosom, in southern waters, with a roiling of waves, a casting of stones, and smoke and ...
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2 10 "Take the glass, captain," said the lookout.
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2 12 "The glass, captain," insisted the lookout.
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2 18 "It is no illusion," said the captain, his eye to the glass.
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3 1043 'Let me go!' He turned to a sand glass on a nearby shelf.
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3 1087 A fellow, glancing at the sand glass, said, 'A bit past the nineteenth Ahn.
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10 91 Then, too, I was suddenly terrified, because the sand glass had emptied.
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11 2 "Four of them!" He handed me the Builder's glass.
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12 50 The glass of the Builders was on its strap, across my chest.
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13 48 Why this ship and not another? I did know that he and Lord Nishida had surveyed it, from a ship's boat, this morning, as they had others, on other mornings, with the glass of the Builders.
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13 83 I knew that the tarnsman and Lord Nishida had scouted several derelicts, surveying them with the glass of the Builders.
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16 1 The Warning Ship; The Small Boats; Assassins; The Fleet of Lord Yamada I let the glass of the Builders, in its sling, drop to my hip.
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16 142 In a moment Tarl Cabot lowered the glass of the Builders.
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16 199 This, doubtless, was what had been determined earlier by Cabot, with the glass of the Builders.
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16 298 Aeacus, who was above, scanned the horizon with the Builder's glass.
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17 166 Tarl Cabot was at the bow, below the stem castle, scanning the horizon with a Builder's glass.
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17 177 He handed me the glass.
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17 195 "No," he said, taking back the glass.
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19 2 I spun the Builder's glass in a circle, examining the same horizon, as ever.
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19 210 I scanned the horizon, that line below the sky, with the glass.
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19 214 It is well then to hold back, until one is sure, until matters are clear, at least to the glass.
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21 119 Lord Okimoto was handed a glass of the Builders by a Pani guardsman.
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21 131 Lord Okimoto handed the glass of the Builders back to the guardsman.
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21 188 Each had at their disposal a glass of the Builders.
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21 228 "Lord Temmu holds the shore," said Lord Okimoto, his glass of the Builders trained on the streaming smoke.
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21 229 "His fortress stands," said Lord Nishida, his own glass trained, as well, on the smoke.
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22 8 Aeacus handed me a glass of the Builders.
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22 10 I twisted the glass into focus.
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22 15 Aeacus took back the glass, and then, in a moment, handed it to another.
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27 7 I had no glass of the Builders but one could make out the thatched roofs in the distance.
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27 18 Each bore a glass of the Builders.
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27 21 Turgus, too, put the glass to use, but more thoughtfully.
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27 24 "Yes," he said, and handed me the glass.
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27 30 I turned the glass on the village, and its road.
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27 38 I returned the glass to Turgus.
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30 157 Some Pani were on the wall, as well, and some were equipped with a glass of the Builders.
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Book 31. (9 results) Conspirators of Gor

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4 449 You will be alert to the needs of the guests, an empty plate, a glass in need of refilling.
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8 1444 The second ostrakon, or the ostrakon of privilege, costs two tarsk-bits, and entitles the patron to a choice amongst a number of offerings, and a glass of ka-la-na.
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17 16 Some had glasses of the builders, though shorter than the usual glass.
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18 1007 Lykos was standing on the wagon bench of the first wagon, with a Builder's glass, scanning the horizon.
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18 1009 "Nothing," said Lykos, closing the glass.
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18 1117 I, and others, including Jane and Eve, went to the first wagon, where Lykos was again standing on the wagon bench, the glass of the Builders once more in his hands.
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18 1123 Lykos took back the glass.
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18 1137 "Wagons," said Lykos, handing the glass of the Builders to Astrinax.
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35 237 "And how," he asked, "does the house obtain its advantage? Are there apertures in the ceiling through which an accomplice, perhaps with a glass, might somehow signal the house's player, are there loitering observers nearby, in a position to read cards, and convey signals?" "I do not think so," I sai...
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Book 32. (3 results) Smugglers of Gor

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9 25 Our captain had a glass of the Builders and was surveying the third ship.
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10 26 Did he believe me? How did he understand me? I feared he saw me in terms of himself, as one might look into a dark glass.
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19 12 "You have access to a glass of the Builders," he said.
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Book 33. (24 results) Rebels of Gor

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14 6 I would have given much for a glass of the Builders.
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14 20 "I have no glass of the Builders".
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14 21 "Bring a long glass," said Lord Yamada, and a servitor hurried from the balcony.
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14 22 "The rider," said Lord Yamada, "may be so equipped, with what you call a glass of the Builders?" "Almost certainly," I said.
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14 25 "What, I take it, you speak of as a long glass".
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14 72 "The long glass," said the servitor, returning to the balcony.
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14 95 "Then I would have been in your power," I said, "and might expect to bear the brunt of the wrath of a shogun?" "Of course," he said, handing me the long glass.
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14 103 I returned the long glass to Lord Yamada, who handed it to the servitor who had brought it to the balcony.
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14 104 "Do you find the device equivalent to your 'glass of the Builders'?" he asked.
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15 47 Anchored in the top of the wall were pieces of broken glass, shards of pottery, and blades, and, strung about the wall, were dangling strips of metal which would be difficult to elude, and which, if not eluded, would produce a jangling of disturbed metal unlikely to pass unnoted.
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21 11 Too, the height of the wall, I suspected, judging from what I could see of the courtyard wall from my barred room, or cell, to which I was usually confined at night, would have presented its own hazards, of anchored glass, shards, and metal.
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21 31 "It is like the weather glass," I said.
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23 61 Their crests are armed with glass, with blades and shards".
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44 65 Now he put down the glass of the Builders.
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44 166 "The attack has begun," said Tajima, peering through the glass of the Builders.
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44 178 In the distance, even without the glass, one could see formations in disarray.
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44 186 "Sound the horns of victory!" "Hold!" cried Tajima, the glass of the Builders trained on the horizon.
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44 190 Lord Temmu seized the glass of the Builders, and peered through it.
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44 194 Lord Temmu handed the glass to his daimyo.
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44 198 "Give the glass to Tarl Cabot, tarnsman," begged Lord Nishida.
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44 199 Lord Okimoto passed me the glass, and I trained it on the approaching speck, still far off.
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44 215 "Surely you can make it out now, with the glass!" said Lord Nishida.
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47 18 I viewed you at the gate, with the Builder's glass, on the walks, approaching through the garden, even to the great portal itself.
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47 19 And so there was our swordsman, and his cohorts! And what cohorts, their features concealed with wind scarves! Who could they be? Would they not be, if possible, individuals familiar with the palace and its grounds, those who would have been within its rooms and corridors, who would know their way a...
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Book 34. (22 results) Plunder of Gor

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52 121 Did he really think I knew no better? I put a bit of ka-la-na in Lord Grendel's glass, in whose paw, or hand, the glass almost disappeared.
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1 393 What a frail wall to hide behind! But I felt the need to seek a sense of anonymity, of security, even be it so little as might be obtained by a bit of colored glass.
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1 462 Too, how could I dare to appear before them, as I was? How could I explain my appearance, lightly gowned, my wrists in handcuffs? Would they take my plight seriously? Would they dismiss it, would they scorn me, with wise looks, would they find it amusing, no more than an embarrassing contretemps? An...
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17 109 "May I not escort you from this unfortunate place, with its lamentable associations," he said, "bringing you safely to your domicile, after, perhaps, if I might prevail upon your patience, a glass or two of ka-la-na?" "Very well," she said, as though reluctantly.
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25 41 His skin seemed unusual, grayish, his eyes were as unexpressive as glass.
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33 674 But the lantern was dashed to the floor, where it shattered in a spattering rainbow of glass and oil, and, a moment later, a hungry torrent of fire, raging, ever enlarging, began its bright feeding, racing across the boards of the floor of the house.
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49 340 Paula, humbly, head down, placed the first tiny glass before Decius Albus, who was her master.
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49 351 The glass touched the table twice, rather than once, gently.
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49 362 Paula then placed the third glass before the Lady Alexina.
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49 379 Paula glanced at Drusus, who indicated that Tyrtaios would be the next before whom a glass would be placed.
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49 380 After this, she placed the last glass before Drusus, as though he might have been her master, which behavior, happily, was not noted by Decius Albus.
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49 403 "I would be served a second glass, by that slave".
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49 430 "Fill my glass, girl," said the Lady Alexina, "to the brim, the brim, exactly, and do not spill a drop".
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49 439 Then the fluid was held in the tiny glass by naught but surface tension.
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49 440 I could even note the swelling of the fluid slightly above the level of the glass.
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49 445 "The slave may now lift the glass to my lips".
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49 448 "Take the glass in both hands and lift it carefully.
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49 454 "Lift the glass," said the Lady Alexina, coldly.
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49 469 We had gone but a step or two when we heard a cry of rage from the Lady Alexina, and the shattering of glass in our wake.
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49 471 She had apparently seized the glass and cast it after us.
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52 118 "Forgive me, Master," I said, and filled the glass of Kurik.
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52 119 I then, head down, slowly, very slowly, lingering in the service, filled the glass of Drusus Andronicus.
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Book 35. (9 results) Quarry of Gor

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8 637 "Builder's glass," called the captain, and an officer handed him that object.
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8 638 The captain stood at the stern rail, and trained the glass on the approaching ship.
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8 755 The captain put aside his Builder's glass and spoke to his officer.
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8 843 I see none with the glass of the Builders.
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8 917 An officer put down a glass of the Builders.
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33 471 The eyes shone almost as if light blazed through glass.
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40 312 How free, truly, had I been, without a master before whom I could at last be myself? Was I, or others, really so free then? Had I not been subject to a thousand restrictions, pressures, and forces, not been governed by a thousand bondages of compliance and convention? Had I not been informed how I w...
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43 280 "They have a glass of the Builders," said Seremides.
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45 63 Commonly this act is performed in something of a frenzy for the unfortunate captive is given very little time in which to accomplish this act, the time being determined by a tiny sand glass or the captor's measured counting.
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Book 36. (46 results) Avengers of Gor

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3 1 We Set Course for Thera; I Speak with Aktis; We Encounter a Surprise at Sea I stood on the stern castle of the Dorna, Builder's Glass in hand, above the twin rudders, the small, swift Tesephone, shallow-drafted, capable of negotiating rivers, abeam.
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3 3 I returned the Builder's Glass to its sheath at my belt.
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3 170 I removed the Builder's Glass from its sheath at my belt, slid open its sections, and adjusted the focus.
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3 180 "I do not think so," I said, adjusting again the focus of the Glass.
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4 50 Shortly thereafter, with the Builder's glass, I could make out what had occasioned the communication from the Tesephone.
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4 54 "Three individuals," I said, lowering the glass, "slight figures, half veiled, in soiled robes".
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4 112 I recalled a grayish cast of features, and eyes like glass.
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5 73 This had been determined by means of a Builder's Glass, from the ringed lookout post on the raised, socketed mast.
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5 118 At that point, our lookout, armed with a Builders Glass, from the small, ringed platform on the raised mast, called out "Land, land, ho!" "The Cove of Harpalos," I said.
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7 3 "He is of a smitten village, Nicosia, on Chios?" said Nicomachos, dark-haired, and impatient of manner, First Captain of Sybaris, High Officer of Cos, Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, Thera, Chios, and Daphna, leaning forward, an action which caused the medallion and chain of his office ...
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7 175 It occurred to me that no slaves or servants had been present at our meeting, even to serve a glass of ka-la-na, an expected civility.
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8 56 At this point there was a cry from Aktis, who had been set high amongst the rocks, with a glass of the Builders.
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8 60 In a few moments I, followed by Clitus, had clambered up the rocks to join Aktis, who handed me the glass of the Builders.
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8 62 "Yes," I said, returning the glass to Aktis.
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8 112 I smiled, and lifted the glass of the Builders.
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11 224 The woman, fully clothed, in the robes of concealment, perhaps lifting the glass to her lips, beneath her veil, eyes seductively lustrous over the veil, imbibes the beverage.
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34 60 "And under surveillance," I said, "not only from the camp, but, one supposes, also from the ships, by means of the glass of the Builders".
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41 203 "But, as you know, several, with the Builder's Glass, have counted the tents as being in the neighborhood of five hundred".
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44 81 "This morning, in the Builder's Glass," I said, "we saw a large number of mercenaries congregated about the high tents in the distance.
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44 108 "In a sense, we do," I said, "the glass of the Builders.
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45 23 "Surely they must know that they are under the eye of their commanders, behind the inner ditch, equipped with the glass of the Builders," said a defender, his beard not cut in days, not ten feet from me.
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50 111 "But, Captain," said Sakim, "that, in itself, given the height of the stem decks of the corsair fleet, and the glass of the Builders, will make us visible from pasangs away".
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51 178 They will have the glass of the Builders".
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52 13 I had stationed Thurnock on the stern deck, with a glass of the Builders, to scan the horizon aft.
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52 19 He was beside us on the stem deck with a second glass of the Builders.
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52 29 "Captain Tab is agitated," said Clitus, peering through the glass of the Builders.
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52 41 Surrendering his glass of the Builders to Aktis, he was soon at our side.
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53 131 Clitus, who had a glass of the Builders, and was on the stem deck, called back, "Three ships, to starboard, oars outboard!" And a moment later the sound of a drum, and then two others, carried over the water.
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53 182 Thurnock lowered the glass of the Builders.
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53 214 "Thurnock," I said, "can you see who speaks?" Thurnock lifted the glass of the Builders.
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54 103 "Five sails hold steady in our wake," said the lookout, lowering a glass of the Builders.
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55 1 Engagement is Imminent "There they are," said Sakim, viewing the horizon with a glass of the Builders.
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55 4 He lowered the glass.
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55 35 Sakim again lifted the glass of the Builders.
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55 55 "One no longer needs the glass of the Builders," said Sakim.
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56 107 Sakim disengaged a glass of the Builders from his belt and trained it on the divided sinking corsair ship.
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58 40 I surveyed the horizon with a glass of the Builders.
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58 49 I lowered the glass of the Builders.
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58 50 I was not pleased with what the glass had revealed.
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58 74 I handed the glass of the Builders to Sakim.
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58 77 A bit later, Sakim returned the glass of the Builders.
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58 174 "Glass of the Builders," I said, and Sakim handed me the instrument.
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58 175 I trained the glass on the oncoming vessel.
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58 180 With the glass of the Builders I had no difficulty in making out individual figures on the approaching ship.
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58 185 "He is not a fool," I said, looking through the glass of the Builders.
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58 196 I handed him the glass of the Builders, and pointed forward.
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