| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 1 | 44 |
Primarily, I was exhilarated, being alone, with myself and the green pines and patches of snow. |
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| 1 | 145 |
Carry on your person the ring of red metal, and bring me, if you would, a handful of our green earth. |
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| 1 | 230 |
I bent down and scooped up, as my father had asked, a handful of our green earth. |
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| 2 | 30 |
In the distance I could see hills covered with some type of green vegetation, but I could not determine whether or not it was grass. |
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| 4 | 31 |
The tarn continued to climb, and I saw the City of Cylinders dropping far below me, like a set of rounded children's blocks set in the gleaming green hills. |
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| 4 | 131 |
The ceiling was lit as if by stars, and the walls were of five colors, applied laterally, beginning from the bottom—white, blue, yellow, green, and red, caste colors. |
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| 4 | 135 |
In order, the ascending tiers, blue, yellow, green, and red, were occupied by representatives of the Scribes, Builders, Physicians, and Warriors. |
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| 6 | 153 |
I bent down and washed the blade of my sword as well as I could in the green water, but my tunic was so splattered and soaked that I had no way to dry the blade. |
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| 6 | 227 |
So now the tarn was gone, returned to his natural wild state, the Home Stone was in the saddle pack, and I had failed, and the daughter of the Ubar had failed, and we stood facing one another on a green knoll in the swamp forest of Ar. |
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| 7 | 24 |
She knelt in the green stagnant water, her hands held out to me, pleading, as if she suddenly realized the full horror of her plight, what it would mean to be abandoned in the swamp forest. |
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| 7 | 126 |
I shoved the log back and finally, carrying the filthy body soaked in its absurd garments, made my way to a ledge of green, dry land at the edge of the swamp. |
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| 7 | 127 |
I set her down on a bed of green clover. |
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| 7 | 174 |
I saw magnificent olive skin and those wild green eyes and features that were breathtakingly beautiful. |
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| 9 | 159 |
As I lifted the hood, she uttered a small, joyful sound, her green eyes bright with pleasure. |
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| 12 | 89 |
Far below, I could see that the burned, dead Margin of Desolation was dotted here and there with patches of green, where some handfuls of seed had blindly asserted themselves, reclaiming something of that devastated country for life and growth. |
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| 12 | 90 |
Near one of the green stretches I saw what I first thought was a shadow, but as the tarn passed, it scattered into a scampering flock of tiny creatures, probably the small, three-toed mammals called qualae, dun-colored and with a stiff brushy mane of black hair. |
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| 14 | 9 |
He was a gigantic man, larger even than the Older Tarl, and in his eyes, wild and green, I saw the masterful flame which had, in its way, also burned in the eyes of Talena, his daughter. |
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| 16 | 149 |
I sought for some glimmer of awareness in those green eyes, for the slightest sign of affection or welcome. |
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| 20 | 73 |
If I should once again walk the green fields of Gor, I know that I should attempt to solve the riddle of the Priest-Kings, that I should enter the Sardar Mountains and confront them, whoever or whatever they might be. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1 |
Return to Gor Once again, I, Tarl Cabot, strode the green fields of Gor. |
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| 5 | 3 |
Ko-ro-ba lay in the midst of green and rolling hills, some hundreds of feet above the level of the distant Tamber Gulf and that mysterious body of water beyond it, spoken of in Gorean simply as Thassa, the Sea. |
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| 5 | 5 |
Whereas Ar was glorious, a city of imposing grandeur, that acknowledged even by its blood foes; whereas Thentis had the proud violence of the rude mountains of Thentis for its setting; whereas Port Kar could boast the broad Tamber for its sister, and the gleaming, mysterious Thassa beyond, I thought... |
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| 6 | 41 |
As I was pondering these matters, I observed, approaching me, but not seeing me, in the distance, moving across a green meadow, a dark figure, that of a woman. |
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| 12 | 43 |
She reached into the cistern, first scraping the surface of the water to clear it of the green scum that floated there, and then, in the palms of her cupped hands, carried water to my parched lips. |
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| 14 | 111 |
I wondered if it too recalled the thunder of the wind, the clash of arms as tarnsmen dueled in flight, the sight of Gor's tarn cavalries wheeling in formation to the beat of the tarn drums, or the long, steady, lonely soaring flights we had known together over the green fields of Gor. |
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| 14 | 177 |
Beyond Tharna and its gloomy soil, continually broken by its stony outcroppings, I could see the green fields of Gor, glades of yellow Ka-la-na trees, the shimmering surface of a placid lake and the bright blue sky, open and beckoning. |
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| 20 | 87 |
I looked for the green of vegetation on the lower slopes and saw none. |
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| 21 | 264 |
Strange and cruel are the ways of Gor, I thought, where six small green stones, weighing perhaps scarcely two ounces, and a damaged helmet, could purchase a human being. |
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| 26 | 125 |
I have seen it in the vanished towers of Ko-ro-ba and in the flight of a tarn, in the movements of a beautiful woman, in the gleam of weaponry, in the sound of tarn drums and the crash of thunder over green fields. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 6 |
To my surprise his head was crowned with an aromatic wreath of green leaves, the first thing green I had seen in the Nest, and about his neck there hung, besides the invariable translator, a necklace, perhaps of accouterments, perhaps of pure ornaments, small pieces of metal, some shallow and rounde... |
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| 27 | 159 |
I noted that already the green exudate which flowed from Misk's wounds was turning into a green, frozen sludge on his body, stanching the flow from the wounds. |
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| 7 | 111 |
Surely I had enjoyed the scent of flowers and women, of hot, fresh bread, roasted meat, paga and wines, harness leather, the oil with which I protected the blade of my sword from rust, of green fields and storm winds, but seldom had I considered the sense of smell in the way one would consider that ... |
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| 8 | 146 |
At the sight of raiders one tower would set its beacon aflame, glittering by night, or dampen it with green branches by day to produce a white smoke, and this signal would be relayed from tower to tower. |
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| 14 | 36 |
At last after I, sputtering and choking, had been duly cleansed and rinsed several times, and then it seemed several times again, the cage began to move slowly, mercifully, between vents from which blasts of hot air issued, and, eventually, it passed slowly between an assortment of humming projectio... |
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| 17 | 126 |
On a green field somewhere, I had no idea where, a man in the garments of the Caste of Builders, emerged from what was apparently an underground cave. |
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| 19 | 28 |
"Where did you get green leaves?" I asked. |
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| 19 | 30 |
"They are worn on Tola by all Priest-Kings in memory of the Nuptial Flight, for the Nuptial Flight takes place above the ground in the sun and there on the surface there are many things which are green". |
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| 27 | 41 |
His head was garlanded by a wreath of green leaves as had been that of Sarm, and also, like Sarm, there was about his neck, as well as his translator, the ceremonial string of tiny metal tools. |
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| 27 | 67 |
Its ceiling was only perhaps a hundred feet high but its length and width were considerable and it was filled with golden Priest-Kings, garlanded in green and wearing about their necks that shining, jangling circle of tiny, silverish tools. |
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| 27 | 111 |
I looked at the golden rows of Priest-Kings, alert, immobile, their heads wreathed in green leaves, about their necks dangling the tiny, primitive, silverish tools telling of a distant, simpler time before the Scanning Chamber, the Power Plant and the Flame Death. |
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| 27 | 122 |
Misk of course lacked the wreath of green leaves and the chain of tools about his neck. |
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| 27 | 154 |
Suddenly Sarm charged at Misk and slashed down at him with one of those bladelike projections on his forelegs and leaped away even before I saw the green-filled wound opening on the left side of one of those great, compound luminous disks on Misk's head. |
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| 27 | 156 |
Once more Sarm leaped to attack and this time a green-flowing wound sprang into view on the right side of Misk's thorax in the neighborhood of one of the brain-nodes. |
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| 27 | 264 |
Sarm had thrust the stub of his foreleg beneath his shoulder and it seemed frozen there in the coagulating green slush that emanated from the wound. |
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| 32 | 77 |
I would have liked to have seen once more the surface of the world, the blue sky, the green fields beyond the black Sardar, but rather I said, "I choose to remain here with Misk, who is my friend". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 23 |
Kutaituchik, not taking his eyes off us, thrust one end of the green kanda string in the left side of his mouth and, very slowly, began to chew it. |
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| 7 | 34 |
When Kamchak had finished he held out his right hand and a man, not a Tuchuk, who wore the green robes of the Caste of Physicians, thrust in his hand a goblet of bosk horn; it contained some yellow fluid. |
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| 8 | 49 |
I had seen strong men leap from the back of the kaiila and, on their knees, tears in their eyes, kiss the green, living grass. |
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| 14 | 2 |
War lanterns, green and blue and yellow, were already burning on poles in the darkness, signaling the rallying grounds of the Orlus, the Hundreds, and the Oralus, the Thousands. |
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| 19 | 63 |
They were beautiful shining among the green and white blossoms on the water. |
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| 21 | 14 |
At last when the wagon had burned and the wind moved about the blackened beams and scattered ashes across the green prairie, Kamchak raised his right hand. |
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| 21 | 17 |
In a few minutes the great pole of the standard had been mounted on the wagon and was descending the hill, leaving on the summit the burned wood and the black ashes that had been the wagon of Kutaituchik, surrendering them now to the wind and the rain, to time and the snows to come, and to the green... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 213 |
It was Green Ubar as I had heard speak of him, Green Ubar of the legends, Green Ubar as he had been in the stories told by men who had seen him years before, Green Ubar, greatest of the racing tarns, holder of awards, victorious, triumphant. |
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| 13 | 218 |
The Pleasure Slaves who served wore green Pleasure Silk, and the tops of the tables and the walls were also painted green; even the curtains on the alcoves by one wall were green. |
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| 12 | 40 |
"Green! Green!" a woman was crying out, not far from me, her veil awry, her fists clenched. |
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| 1 | 10 |
In the early part of the eighth Gorean hour the distant white walls took the sun and blazed like light in the green hills. |
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| 3 | 56 |
"Game!" I heard, an answering cry, and a fat fellow, of the Caste of Vintners, puffing and bright eyed, wearing a white tunic with a representation in green cloth of leaves about the collar and down the sleeves of the garment, stepped forth from a doorway. |
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| 3 | 104 |
There was a Builder, two Saddle Makers, a Baker, and a Tarn Keeper, a fellow who wore on his shoulder a green patch, indicating he favored the Greens. |
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| 4 | 67 |
The Older Tarl, the Koroban master of arms, and myself had found the body, and near it, the patch of green caught in a crack in the grillwork of one of the lamps on the bridge, where perhaps it had been torn from the shoulder of a running, stumbling man. |
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| 4 | 98 |
"I have only this," I said, drawing forth from my belt the wrinkled patch of green cloth. |
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| 4 | 107 |
The Administrator of Ar himself, and the High Initiate, are partisans of the green". |
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| 5 | 611 |
Each month, containing five five-day weeks, is separated by a five-day period, called the Passage Hand, from every other month, there being one exception to this, which is that the last month of the year is separated from the first month of the year, which begins with the Vernal Equinox, not only by... |
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| 7 | 68 |
A tiny light on the box flashed red twice, then green, then red again. |
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| 11 | 36 |
There was also a man in the green of the Caste of Physicians, standing at one side, writing notes on a slip of record paper. |
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| 12 | 15 |
A bird of the Yellow faction was in the lead, followed by Red, then Blue, Gold, Orange, Green and Silver. |
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| 12 | 27 |
I noted that a green banner hung over the wall before both the thrones of the Administrator and the High Initiate, indicating they favored the greens. |
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| 12 | 39 |
Green had now moved up to third. |
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| 12 | 44 |
In a few moments, with a cry of victory, the rider of the Yellow brought his tarn to the first perch, followed closely by the Red and the Green. |
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| 12 | 103 |
I noted Green had the inside perch this race. |
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| 12 | 104 |
This would swing some silver to Green surely, for men, though they have their factions, yet will purchase the tiles of the bird they feel has the best chance of winning. |
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| 12 | 131 |
The Green, which had had the inside perch, took the lead. |
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| 13 | 198 |
I saw he wore a patch of green on his shoulder, indicating he was of the Greens. |
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| 13 | 217 |
It was called, appropriately enough, the Green Tarn, and the proprietor was a genial fellow, bald and red-nosed, called Kliimus. |
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| 13 | 226 |
Mip was a chipper fellow, and a bit dapper considering his caste and his close-cropped hair, for his brown leather was shot with green streaks, and he wore a Tarn Keeper's cap with a greenish tassel; most Tarn Keepers, incidentally, crop their hair short, as do most Metal Workers; work in the tarnco... |
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| 13 | 268 |
"This is Green Ubar," said he, scratching the bird's neck. |
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| 13 | 290 |
Mip rode Green Ubar; he looked well in the worn saddle; his stirrups were short. |
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| 13 | 321 |
Mip on his tarn, Green Ubar, seemed a swift, dark movement against the white sand and tiers, the shadow coursing behind them, seeming to break geometrically over the tiers. |
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| 16 | 28 |
The doors are painted green and the pitch washed away, and the branches of the Brak Bush burned in a small ceremony on the threshold. |
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| 18 | 150 |
Then he rose in his green quarters tunic and went to a chest in his room, from which he drew forth a large bottle of paga. |
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| 18 | 493 |
His resemblance to a certain Koroban Warrior, perhaps Tarl Cabot, would make it seem clear, in the darkness of the night, that the knife had been intended for that Warrior, and a convenient clue, a patch of green, would lead to Ar, and doubtless then to the House of Cernus". |
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| 22 | 57 |
"Green Ubar". |
10 |
| 22 | 122 |
I caught a glimpse of Green Ubar, Mip in the saddle, lost in the flurry of whipping wings. |
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| 22 | 139 |
Then followed Green Ubar, Mip one with the winged beast, high stirrups, his small body hunched down, not giving the bird its head. |
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| 22 | 158 |
Mip, on Green Ubar, swept past the large-winged tarn. |
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| 22 | 192 |
He did not strike Green Ubar with the tarn goad. |
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| 22 | 195 |
I saw Green Ubar begin then to hold his lead, his wings striking with the accelerating, timed frenzy of the racing tarn, each stroke seeming to carry him swifter and farther than the last. |
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| 22 | 204 |
Suddenly Green Ubar, in the flash of the wings and the cries of the riders passing him, righted himself and with a cry of rage and pain burst toward the rings, Mip sagging in the saddle. |
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| 22 | 207 |
"Mip lives!" Mip now hung on the neck of Green Ubar, his body parallel to the saddle, clinging to the bird, his face pressed against it, his lips moving, speaking to it. |
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| 22 | 209 |
The crowd roared, the tarns screamed, and Green Ubar, his rider Mip, flew, eyes blazing, for those final moments marvelous and incandescent in his youth, like a bird and rider come from the dreams of old men, as they knew them once, when they too were young. |
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| 22 | 210 |
Green Ubar flew. |
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| 22 | 229 |
"Green Ubar is dead," I told him. |
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| 22 | 237 |
"Green Ubar," he said. |
10 |
| 22 | 238 |
"Green Ubar". |
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| 22 | 279 |
"He and Green Ubar died in victory," said one of the men present. |
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| 22 | 289 |
The body of Green Ubar was placed on a platform and taken from the area. |
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| 22 | 298 |
On a large board, against the dividing wall, on which the day's results were tallied, and lists and odds kept of the coming races, I saw them place as the winner of the eighth race Green Ubar, and his rider Melipolus of Cos. |
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| 22 | 336 |
"A green patch might easily have been placed on the bridge a day before, an hour before. |
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| 22 | 356 |
But I remembered him only now as he had held the saddle of Green Ubar, dying, but his hands lifted, in victory. |
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| 22 | 442 |
Ahead of us there was Blue, Red, Green and, as Yellow, Menicius of Port Kar. |
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| 22 | 492 |
It did not occur to me at the moment but the fact that one of these men was the rider for Green had made the allegiance of the Ubar clear to all. |
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| 22 | 497 |
The Green, rider cursing, tumbled back out of the fist, bleeding at the side of the throat, out of control, screaming. |
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| 22 | 579 |
One citizen tore down the banners of green which draped the box of the Ubar and of the High Initiate. |
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| 23 | 254 |
"You are Flaminius," I told him, "he who long ago loved men and chose to wear the green robes of the Caste of Physicians". |
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| 24 | 35 |
The left eye was the larger one, and green. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 192 |
It is mine as much as yours!" It would be hard, certainly, for her to leave this world, beautiful, bright and green, but perilous, for the cities of Earth, to breathe again its air, to live in its cubicles, to move jostled among her uncaring crowds, to lose herself again in its mercantile grayness, ... |
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| 10 | 86 |
My own flag bore the design of the head of a black bosk against a background of vertical green bars on a white field. |
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| 10 | 87 |
I took the green bars to symbolize the rence of the marshes, and the flag, thus, became that of Bosk, a Captain, who had come from the marshes. |
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| 10 | 225 |
Twice we had been scouted by pirates from Tyros, in their green ships, painted to resemble the sea, but neither of them had chosen to engage us. |
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| 11 | 92 |
It was white with vertical green stripes on its field and, over these, in black, the head of a Bosk. |
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| 13 | 1 |
How Bosk Came to Be Pirate "Paint my ships green," I had said. |
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| 13 | 348 |
"It is white," he cried, "with stripes of green. |
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| 13 | 498 |
"Then," said I, "paint my ships green". |
10 |
| 13 | 499 |
Green, on Thassa, is the color of pirates. |
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| 13 | 500 |
Green hulls, sails, oars, even ropes. |
10 |
| 13 | 501 |
In the bright sun reflecting off the water, green is a color most difficult to detect on gleaming Thassa. |
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| 13 | 502 |
The green ship, in the bright sun, can be almost invisible. |
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| 13 | 510 |
"To Port Kar!" And thus it was that the ships of Bosk, he of Port Kar, came to be painted green. |
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| 14 | 24 |
Tarn ships are painted in a variety of colors; the Dorna, of course, was green. |
10 |
| 14 | 197 |
I could see few ships, but most of those I saw were green, my own. |
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| 17 | 420 |
The ship flew the flag of Bosk, with its green stripes on the white background. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 22 |
The grass was wet with dew, and rich and green. |
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| 5 | 27 |
In the distance, away from the forest, I could see a yellowish thicket, it, too, of trees, but not green, but bright and yellow. |
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| 6 | 51 |
The air was bright and clear, the grass green, the sky a full blue with bright, white clouds. |
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| 8 | 397 |
On the first day the physician, a quiet man in the green garments of his caste, examined me, thoroughly. |
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| 11 | 1096 |
The element of the tarnsman is not the green glades, and the branches; it is the clouds, the saddle and the sky; his steed is the tarn, his field of battle, strewn with light and wind, higher than mountains, deeper than the sea, is the very sky itself. |
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| 11 | 1275 |
It lies west of bleak, rocky Torvaldsland, substantially above even the vast, green belt of the northern forests. |
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| 13 | 172 |
But I was less eager to sample the small amphibians she caught in her hands or the fat, green insects she scooped from the inside of logs and from under overturned rocks. |
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| 13 | 177 |
Over tiny fires, using rock-sharpened, green sticks, we roasted our catches. |
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| 13 | 187 |
Over her shoulder she had two small, furred animals, hideous forest urts, about the size of cats, and in her left hand she carried four small, green-and-yellow-plumaged birds. |
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| 13 | 322 |
I slipped from the soft, gentle, green path between the trees and brush, and fell to my stomach, concealed among the brush and grasses. |
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| 13 | 500 |
I was surely not tempted to sample the small amphibians or the loathsome, fat, green insects Ute had called to my attention. |
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| 15 | 414 |
She was a stunningly figured, green-eyed, olive-skinned slave girl. |
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| 15 | 477 |
And the black-haired, green-eyed, olive-skinned slave girl stood before him. |
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| 15 | 846 |
It had been filled with the fat, loathsome green insects which, in the Ka-la-na thicket, Ute had told me were edible. |
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| 17 | 48 |
They then, in the brief green tunics of the slaves of huntsmen, shouldered their burdens and followed their masters through the double gate of the palisade. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 105 |
I had never forgotten her, the beautiful, olive-skinned, green-eyed Talena, so stunningly figured, such fantastic lips, the proud blood of Marlenus of Ar, Ubar of Ar, Ubar of Ubars, in her veins. |
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| 1 | 166 |
Would she refuse the gold, the gems, the silks and silvers, and spilling coins, the choice wines, the servants and slaves, the security of the house of Bosk for the lonely freedoms and silences of the salt marshes of the Vosk's vast delta? Did she expect me to hasten after her, piteously begging her... |
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| 2 | 19 |
Far above the beach we could see the green margins of the great northern forests. |
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| 2 | 50 |
One of the girls in the frame lifted her head, and, miserable, surveyed our ship, off shore, on the green waters of Thassa. |
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| 3 | 15 |
A physician, in his green robes, hurried past. |
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| 3 | 29 |
I did not, on nearing Lydius, fly the flag of Bosk, that bearing the head of a bosk, black, across a field of vertical green bars, the famous flag of Bosk, from the Marshes. |
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| 3 | 42 |
Indeed, at the wharves I had even seen two green ships. |
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| 3 | 43 |
Green is the color common to pirates. |
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| 4 | 225 |
"I will hunt for her in the green forests". |
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| 7 | 3 |
I wore a garb of green, mottled, striped irregularly with black. |
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| 7 | 10 |
Overhead were several birds, bright, chattering, darting, swift among the branches and green leaves. |
10 |
| 7 | 154 |
Twice I saw a motion in the green and shadows, in the dappled sunlight, swift, furtive. |
10 |
| 7 | 189 |
There was a sudden cry of pain from the green and the sunlight and shadows. |
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| 12 | 215 |
I clenched my fist, and put my forehead to the green branch behind which I stood. |
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| 16 | 287 |
That afternoon would be for them, by contrast, by my intention, one of gradually increasing elation, of growing, leaping hope, for that afternoon, and that evening, too, no more arrows strode forth, telling, from the green concealments of the leafed branches. |
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| 18 | 225 |
I wore green, now black in the darkness, and moved with stealth, as a warrior moves who hunts men, mixing with the shadows, one darkness among others, a movement and a silence. |
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| 22 | 4 |
Thassa was green, and cold. |
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| 22 | 6 |
At their anchors, fore and aft, some quarter of a pasang from shore, swung the Rhoda, in her yellow, now dim in the grayness of the morning, and the Tesephone, on her flag line, snapping, an ensign bearing the following device, the head of a bosk, in black, over a field of white, marked with broad s... |
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| 22 | 343 |
Then she turned and vanished into the dark green shadows of the northern forests. |
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| 22 | 742 |
She would be swift and free in the dark green glades. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 235 |
I saw again those marvelous green eyes, those lips, luscious, perfect for crushing beneath a warrior's mouth and teeth, the subtle complexion, olive. |
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| 6 | 34 |
Then the ship turned a bend between the cliffs, and, to my astonishment, I saw a dock, of rough logs, covered with adzed boards, and a wide, sloping area of land, of several acres, green, though strewn with boulders, with short grass. |
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| 6 | 59 |
I saw people running down the sloping green land, toward the water. |
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| 6 | 295 |
"Hurry, lazy girls! There is a feast to be prepared!" The bondmaids, Thyri and Aelgifu among them, fled, like a frightened herd of tabuk, across the short, turflike green grass, to the gate of the palisade, to be put to work. |
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| 7 | 53 |
The tospits, in the Forkbeard's orchard, which can grow at this latitude, as the larma cannot, were too green to eat. |
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| 8 | 31 |
She wore rich green velvet, closed high about her neck, trimmed with gold. |
10 |
| 8 | 115 |
She wore, beneath her green velvet, golden shoes. |
10 |
| 8 | 180 |
Her throat, where Ivar had torn away the collar of the green gown, was now bared. |
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| 8 | 188 |
She stood, her arm held by my hand, in the fetters, in the dress of green velvet, it torn open at the collar to reveal her throat; she had been stripped of her rings, the bracelets, the chains; her hair was loose; her hose and shoes had been removed. |
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| 9 | 13 |
Her dress of green velvet, trimmed in gold, she still wore; it was torn back from the collar, as the Forkbeard had done in Scagnar, revealing the whiteness of her throat, hinting at the delights of her bosom; the gown, however, now, was discolored, stained and torn; much of the trip she had been fet... |
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| 9 | 59 |
Then, like any bondmaid, she found herself plunged beneath the cold green surface of Thassa. |
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| 9 | 72 |
The second of the sea sleen it had been which, with its sharp teeth, making a strike, but falling short, had torn away her green velvet gown on the right side from the hip to the hemline; a long strip of it, like a ribbon, was in its teeth as it darted away. |
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| 9 | 155 |
She wore the dress of green velvet trimmed with gold, it torn from the collar, it ripped at the right side. |
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| 10 | 198 |
"Hrolf," said he, "of the Inlet of Green Cliffs". |
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| 10 | 201 |
"I'm the champion," said I, "of Hrolf of the Inlet of Green Cliffs". |
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| 10 | 237 |
"I approve you," said he, "as the champion of Hrolf of the Inlet of Green Cliffs". |
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| 10 | 272 |
"I am sorry, Hrolf of the Inlet of Green Cliffs," he said, "for having bothered you". |
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| 10 | 289 |
"Let there be much feasting on the farms of the Inlet of Green Cliffs!" "My thanks, Captain!" cried the boy. |
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| 10 | 324 |
I saw, too, in the crowd, a physician, in green robes, from Ar and a scribe from Cos. |
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| 11 | 9 |
They were like points in the yellowish green cornea. |
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| 11 | 50 |
The handle of the ax was of carved, green needle wood, round, some four inches in diameter. |
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| 13 | 260 |
More jewels fell forth, some among them more unusual varieties of sapphire, pale pink, orange, violet, brown and even green. |
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| 17 | 25 |
It had been carried to the Inlet of Green Cliffs, to Thorstein Camp, from Ax Glacier to Einar's Skerry; it had been carried to the high farms, to the lakes, to the coast; it had been carried on foot and by swift ship; a thousand arrows, each touched to the arrow of Torvald, had been carried, and whe... |
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| 18 | 596 |
Behind him, green and beautiful, stretched Thassa. |
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| 22 | 221 |
I saw, too, Bjarni, of Thorstein Camp, who lifted his spear to me, and beside him, too, the young man, his friend, Hrolf, of the Inlet of Green Cliffs, he, too, lifting his hand, whom I had, it now seemed long ago, championed at the dueling field. |
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I could see, high on the map, Ax Glacier, Torvaldsland, and Hunjer and Skjern, and Helmutsport, and, lower, Kassau and the great green forests, and the river Laurius, and Laura and Lydius, and, lower, the islands, prominent among them Cos and Tyros; I saw the delta of the Vosk, and Port Kar, and, in... |
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| 1 | 513 |
"The message girl is ready," said the man who wore the green of the physicians. |
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| 1 | 2 |
I could feel it, the warm, individual green blades, separate, gentle, on my left cheek; I could feel them on my body, my stomach and thighs. |
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| 1 | 22 |
I saw the grass, green and close, each blade seeming wide, blurred in its nearness. |
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| 1 | 138 |
The grass was richly green, alive, vast; the sky was blue, deeply blue, far deeper than I had known a sky could be; the clouds were sharp and white, protean and billowing, transforming themselves in the pressures of their heights and the winds which sped them; they moved at different heights at diff... |
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| 3 | 529 |
It was more slender, more vertical, more like a stem with floral, cursive loops, about an inch and a half in height, and a half inch in width; it was, I would later learn, the initial letter in cursive script of the Gorean expression 'Kajira'; my own brand was the "dina"; the dina is a small, lovely... |
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| 4 | 979 |
In such forests, in certain territories, there roam bands of free women, the lithe, ferocious Panther Girls of Gor, but these despise and hate women not of their own fierce ilk; in particular do they revile and hold in contempt girls, beauties, who have been slaves to men; should such a girl, fleein... |
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| 7 | 46 |
Now, however, in the last years, it has become green. |
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| 17 | 43 |
One of the men with him wore the green of the physicians. |
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| 22 | 172 |
It was a broad flag, white, with vertical bars of green. |
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| 22 | 173 |
Superimposed upon the bars of green, gigantic, black and horned, it bore the head of a bosk. |
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| 22 | 465 |
Outside, from time to time, from the movement of ships, the cries of men, the hiss of catapults, it was clear that men were still at their games, that war was still afoot on the deep, green precincts of beautiful Thassa, the sea. |
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| 24 | 11 |
At the mast line snapped two flags, that of Port Kar and another, that with vertical green bars over a white field, superimposed on which was the head of a gigantic bosk. |
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| 25 | 5 |
Beside the man before me, the man with white, short-cropped hair, who was Samos of Port Kar, chief among the captains of the Council of Captains of Port Kar, was a slender, gray-eyed man, clad in the green of the caste of physicians. |
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| 28 | 92 |
I pulled the wide bands of green silk about me, more closely. |
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| 2 | 323 |
Some said that Thassa was endless, and there was no world's end, only the green waters extending forever, gleaming, beckoning the mariner and hero onward, onward until men, one by one, had perished and the lonely ships, their steering oars lashed in place, pursued the voyage in silence, until the ti... |
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| 3 | 417 |
A fellow in a green tunic, doubtless one of the caste of physicians, was cleaning her teeth. |
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| 4 | 687 |
A physician entered the booth, with his kit slung over the shoulder of his green robes. |
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| 27 | 104 |
I looked up at the sky, at streaks and curtains of light, mostly yellowish green, hundreds of miles in height. |
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| 27 | 186 |
In the lights in the sky, in those shimmering, subtle, shifting streaks and curtains of light, mostly yellowish green, some hundreds of miles in height, clearly portrayed, though it was for a moment only, was the gigantic, hideous visage of a Kur. |
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| 32 | 18 |
"It became green," it said. |
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| 35 | 249 |
"There are five color-coded collars," she said, "red, orange, yellow, green, and blue. |
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| 35 | 260 |
"Green may go where blue may go, and further. |
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| 35 | 262 |
I may go where blue and green may go, but, too, I have access to areas beyond theirs. |
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| 35 | 601 |
She was very slender, and exquisite, in the sheath of green silk. |
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| 35 | 625 |
"Are you going to rape me?" She looked at the large, round bed, soft and deep, covered with green silk. |
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| 37 | 15 |
For a terrible instant it had seemed as bright as day, with a brightness that most of the People, in their northern regions, had never known, a brightness that might have struck the white sands of the blazing Tahari or the green jungles of the rain forests of the eastern Cartius. |
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| 6 | 45 |
Soon I could see a brownish stain in the water, mingling and diffusing with the green of Thassa. |
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| 6 | 186 |
We could see the shore now, with its sands and, behind the sand, the dense, green vegetation, junglelike, broken by occasional clearings for fields and villages. |
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| 6 | 218 |
I watched the green of the shore, moving slowly by. |
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| 11 | 358 |
He wore a robe of green and brown, with slashes of black. |
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| 29 | 124 |
She poked at the fire with a green stick. |
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| 32 | 164 |
Too, like the roof of a greenhouse, the lush green canopies of the rain forest tend to hold this moisture within. |
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| 32 | 165 |
It is the fantastic oxygenation produced by the vegetation, conjoined with the humidity and heat, and the smell of plant life, and rotting vegetable matter and wood, that gives the diurnal jungle its peculiar and unmistakable atmosphere, an encompassing, looming, green, warm ambiance which is both b... |
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| 32 | 195 |
This is the fantastic green cover which constitutes the main ceiling of the jungle. |
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| 32 | 237 |
Looking about among the slender, scattered colonnades of trees, exploding far overhead in the lush capitals of the green canopy, one is often exposed to vistas of one to two hundred feet, or more. |
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| 33 | 5 |
There is the mightiness of the river, like a great road, twisting and turning, occasionally broken with green islands, sometimes sluggish, sometimes shattered by rapids and cataracts, sometimes interrupted by flooding cascades of water, sometimes a few feet in height and sometimes towering upwards h... |
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| 42 | 12 |
It, in its ruggedness, its expanse, its tranquillity, its rages, was like a key to unlock a great portion of a burgeoning continent, a device whereby might be opened a new, fresh world, green, mysterious and vast. |
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| 47 | 33 |
Through the green rain forest the column moved, like a governed, endless, whispering black snake. |
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| 49 | 28 |
This one wore tattered brown and green. |
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| 50 | 7 |
We must be thousands of feet Gorean, given the length of the river, the numerous plunging cataracts, and the plateaus and levels we had ascended, above sea level, above the entrance points, west of Ngao and Ushindi, of the brown Kamba and Nyoka into the green waters of Thassa. |
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| 7 | 578 |
But into those definitions did not enter, as I now recognize, hints of a nature formed by a harsh evolution, remarks pertaining to genetic dispositions selected for in times when the meadows were bestrode by the prowling tread of the saber-toothed tiger and the hills rang with the trumpeting of mast... |
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| 31 | 102 |
Beyond that door lay not the bricks, the gutters, the dingy air, the hurrying of traffic, the triviality and misery, which had previously lain outside it, but now, as the door opened, we saw open fields, vast and green, and a sky that was gloriously blue, studded with scudding clouds. |
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| 20 | 614 |
What will it be? Will it be bound on her back over the saddle of a tarnsman aflight over green fields, or in a blue-and-yellow-canvassed slave wagon, her fair ankles chained about a central bar, or perhaps in a coffle being marched with a thousand others in heat and choking dust between cities, to a... |
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At the second Ahn, long before dawn, the herald of Samos had come to the lakelike courtyard of my holding in many-canaled Port Kar, that place of many ships, scourge of Thassa, that dark jewel in her gleaming green waters. |
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| 2 | 104 |
There is some justification, of course, for this assessment as, usually after dark, it is not unknown for sleek, green ramships, low in the water, masts down, sometimes in their dozens, to emerge through the sea gates, bent on a business known to few but their captains and crews. |
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| 11 | 65 |
She laid the switch, cool and green, across the tendons. |
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| 14 | 382 |
Has he forgotten himself? One wonders if he has much profited by bartering his rationality for frustration and misery? Perhaps one day men, like angry titans, will seize and shift continents and the world will become again green. |
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| 16 | 80 |
It is still green". |
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| 16 | 258 |
So, too, of course, might have truncheons and green fruit. |
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| 4 | 72 |
Too I thought of another woman, olive-skinned, green-eyed, black-haired Talena, once, until disowned, the daughter of Marlenus, the Ubar of Ar. |
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| 34 | 389 |
"There!" On that rise there were two trees, white-barked trees, some fifty feet tall, with shimmering green leaves. |
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| 35 | 18 |
The Dorna was a ship, a tarn ship, a ram ship, shallow-drafted, straight-keeled, single-banked, lateen-rigged, carvel-built, painted green, difficult to detect in the rolling waters of Thassa, out of Port Kar. |
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| 35 | 46 |
"Let us continue on," said Kisu, and, again, the river before us, broad between the moist, tangled green thickets of the banks, backed on each side by the enclosing jungle, we dipped our paddles into the muddy, sluggish water. |
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| 16 | 84 |
The grass was very green here, because of the water. |
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| 36 | 428 |
An acorn placed when tiny and helpless in a pot and starved and sickened will never clutch the dark soil of reality with deep roots like talons and lift green, spreading, mighty leaf-bestrewn branches to sunlight and wind. |
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| 11 | 65 |
"'Her eyes were like green moons. |
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| 11 | 67 |
"Doubtless moons are supposed to suggest romance, and green the vitality and promise of life". |
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| 14 | 27 |
The navies of Tyros and Cos, for most practical purposes, command the green waves of gleaming Thassa. |
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| 16 | 484 |
"Never!" "Perhaps not eventually," I said, "but now she is only a little green fruit". |
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| 11 | 521 |
He indicated a good-natured-looking fellow, sitting to one side in green robes. |
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| 11 | 704 |
He wore green robes. |
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| 20 | 146 |
He had several, the "red chain," the "green chain," "the yellow chain," and so on, each of which boasted several hundred men. |
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| 29 | 1526 |
Blades clashed, briefly, ringing sharply, brightly, in the green meadow. |
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| 5 | 107 |
When he took his leave, another man entered, one she had not seen before, who wore a green robe. |
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| 7 | 240 |
What of the young, naked women, those whom she had seen sometimes in the corridor, those who had been bound, or cuffed, or chained by the neck, those women, she asked herself, those women, their necks in collars? How could a man not look upon them, she wondered, without feeling interest or desire? L... |
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| 8 | 29 |
"That is exactly," he said to the assembled throng, "how she was when I first knew her!" He turned to some men in the room who wore green robes. |
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| 17 | 860 |
In it the grass became green, and the stars sang. |
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| 24 | 283 |
How could this have happened to her? She was a woman of Earth! She had been plucked from civilization, as it had been understood by her former peers, plucked from a busy, complex, crowded, polluted, industrial society, and set down in a very different world, in a fresh, green, natural, primitive wor... |
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| 27 | 3187 |
"We will find a suitable place, a green place, with stones about, where the wind and rain can find him. |
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| 29 | 360 |
"Our world," said Portus Canio, "is a green world, a fresh, clean, honest world. |
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| 12 | 9 |
Similarly forested areas sloped up to the curved horizons until they reached the green sky. |
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| 15 | 6 |
Into the camp area, half running, came Tula and Lana, each carrying a supple switch, formed of a narrow, green branch, dragging between them a double leashed, pathetic, gasping, stumbling figure. |
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| 23 | 1 |
What Occurred in a Glade The grass was long and soft in the area, abundant, and green and flowing, in the soft wind. |
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| 67 | 107 |
He might have preferred a field on Gor, with long green grass, with the wind rising from the east, in the morning, or perhaps a crag in the scarlet mountains, the mighty Voltai, or perhaps the stem castle or helm deck of a lateen-rigged galley, perhaps the Dorna or Tesephone. |
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| 81 | 230 |
Shortly thereafter, scarcely noticeably, the ship left the dock, and took its course for the unspoiled, green, fertile world of Gor. |
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| 2 | 14 |
"Do you know such ships?" He wore a mottled tunic, irregularly green and brown. |
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| 2 | 91 |
One might mention, at this point, a word or two about the stabilization serums, which were developed centuries ago by the green caste, that of the Physicians. |
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| 2 | 410 |
He was probably not abroad upon turbulent, green Thassa on that remarkable and unusual day". |
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| 7 | 22 |
They were green. |
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| 7 | 24 |
Thassa, the sea, is generally green. |
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| 7 | 25 |
Indeed, pirates commonly painted their ships green, to make them less discernible at sea, certainly while under oars, with the masts lowered. |
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| 7 | 27 |
Too, in the Gorean high culture, certain colors tend to be associated with certain castes, for example green with the Physicians, red, or scarlet, with the Warriors, yellow with the Builders, blue with the Scribes, white with the Initiates, and so on. |
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| 7 | 135 |
I went to the nearest wand, and held up the green ribbon, which was dangling from it. |
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| 25 | 215 |
I was reassured, for the lantern shone green in the night. |
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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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| 25 | 223 |
When he returns to the vicinity of the training area he unshutters the lantern, showing green if there is nothing to report, and red, if something has been detected. |
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| 25 | 224 |
The light alternates between red and green to indicate an ambivalence in the rounds. |
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| 26 | 54 |
The color, of course, was green. |
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| 26 | 58 |
For example, red tended to be associated with blood, with warriors, with danger, and green with physicians, health, safety, and such. |
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| 26 | 66 |
The lantern flashed green again, and then again went dark. |
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| 28 | 122 |
Goreans seldom brave her churning, often towering, violent green waves between the winter solstice and the spring equinox. |
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| 36 | 25 |
I had sought out the physicians, those of the green caste, in camp. |
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| 36 | 62 |
I had suspected some form of subterfuge, or hoax, from the apparent absence or inaccessibility of Tersites, from my inquiries amongst those of the green caste, and from the igniting of the vast pyre after dark. |
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| 38 | 350 |
I feared, rather, given the coming of winter and its season of storms, that the walls of this city, so to speak, would be shortly breached, that they would be unable to resist the raging blows of green Thassa, the blows of her towering, mountainous hammers, that the city must soon fall, succumbing t... |
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| 40 | 30 |
There was shouting from the shore, as we passed, of hundreds, perhaps thousands, of men, and a drumming, rhythmic, that carried over the cold, green waters of gleaming Thassa. |
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| 21 | 260 |
"The green column," said Lord Nishida, "might indicate that an area is safe to approach, even though it might lie in the territory of Lord Yamada, no enemy being about, or that a passage has been cleared, or a castle may be approached, or such, and thus one might have green without red, but it would... |
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| 2 | 238 |
The ship, reassuringly, was not green, for pirates often paint their ships green, that they be the less seen on mighty, rolling Thassa. |
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| 2 | 239 |
Many of the vessels of Port Kar, that den of thieves and cutthroats, that scourge of Thassa, were green, almost invisible, under oars, low in the water, the mast down. |
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| 3 | 701 |
Surely I was the most beautiful woman he had ever beheld, and yet he did not pursue me, throw me to the ground and fasten my wrists behind me! Standing in the gentle, green, wind-moved grass, alone, looking about, I saw, here and there, in the fields, small groups, moving away from the city. |
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| 4 | 162 |
To be sure, the vessel itself would seem an impractical corsair, but I knew she sheltered at least one nested galley, which might plausibly exercise the dark vocation of the low, green ships. |
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| 7 | 154 |
Fierce, green Thassa has met her match in my ship, met her master! Tersites teaches men how to sail in all seasons and weathers! Tersites goes where he wills; he asks no permissions, solicits no favors, dreads no threats, and fears no rebuke. |
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| 10 | 68 |
Why is it she was never aware of this glory before? Surely wind had always whispered in the tall green grass, and stirred the shimmering leaves of the Tur tree. |
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| 12 | 40 |
You are away from things, and seem closer to the wind, the clouds, and sunlight, and, all about, for pasangs, stretches the vast, encompassing ambiguity of Thassa, subtle and minacious, welcoming and threatening, benignant and perilous, restless, sparkling, and dangerous, green, vast, intriguing, be... |
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| 15 | 62 |
Rather we felt the sharp, salted air of bright, vast, green Thassa, fresh and clean, once more in our nostrils, in our lungs, and blood. |
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| 16 | 14 |
An Ahn later I reported the galley had hoisted the green pennon. |
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| 16 | 17 |
The hoisting of the green pennon had been premature, a mistake that would not be repeated. |
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| 16 | 57 |
Else the green pennon would not have been flown". |
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| 16 | 139 |
They were low ships, green, partly covered, some two hundred yards away. |
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| 19 | 212 |
How eager we were to see tiny irregularities in the distance, initially almost undiscernible, perhaps tiny, beckoning flecks of green or brown. |
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| 21 | 222 |
There was something rather deceitful or meretricious in all this, of course, as the Pani had surely not brought these goods across the vast width of turbulent, green Thassa without plans for their disposition. |
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| 21 | 237 |
This column of smoke was clearly green. |
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| 21 | 239 |
On continental Gor, green is the caste color of the Physicians. |
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| 21 | 253 |
"The third smoke," said Lord Okimoto, "that of green, of safety, means that a landing may be effected". |
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| 21 | 256 |
"What I do not understand," said Lord Nishida, "is why there should be both a red and green column. |
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| 21 | 257 |
If we hold the shore, it is safe, and the green column is unnecessary". |
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| 25 | 125 |
Are their eyes not often beautiful, brown, blue, hazel, green, so delicate, so soft, so moist? Why should one not in all ways enjoy one's property? And is it not pleasant to hold her face in your hands, and look deeply upon it? Does her lip tremble? Has she committed a fault of which you might be un... |
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| 29 | 42 |
They have sought your service, paid for it with good coin, which you accepted, and brought you here, in trust, across vast, green Thassa, to the World's End, that you may prove your worth and earn your pay, that you may teach those of these islands the honor, the prowess, and might of the archers, s... |
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| 36 | 189 |
I saw nothing which suggested the Physicians, but that, of course, did not rule out the presence in the room of those of the green caste. |
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| 2 | 37 |
Know, good Masters and Mistresses, that others know of your world, sparkling in the darkness of the night, your morning world, so fresh, green, and sunlit, others who inhabit metal globes, who once owned such a world themselves, so beautiful, but destroyed it, and who now long for another. |
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| 3 | 21 |
And they desire your green, fresh, unspoiled world. |
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| 4 | 402 |
Rawlinson, "the green of the Physicians. |
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| 8 | 1197 |
But even your physicians, your men of medicine and health, the members of your green caste, will assure you that we are much the same as you. |
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| 9 | 188 |
They have come from a desert, to the green meadows of Gor. |
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| 52 | 809 |
"How I tried to drive the thought of you from my mind! What storms of hate and denial I invoked to banish you from my heart! Was not the thought of you, or your image, in the corners of darkened rooms, in clouds, everywhere, in rain, in shimmering leaves, in high, green, bending grass? What had you ... |
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| 3 | 2 |
The gulf between free and slave is profound and momentous, and such as I were brought, at least on the whole, to this unbelievably fresh and beautiful world, so bracing and green, as goods, no more than livestock, to be disposed of in markets. |
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| 9 | 87 |
Looking ahead, I saw a figure emerging from the forest, in the green which I would come later to recognize as that of the foresters. |
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| 9 | 399 |
They wore tunics of a mottled green and brown. |
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| 11 | 101 |
How estranged from nature it was! Was nature so fearful that it must be denied, and betrayed? In whose interest was this treason? Was the biography of a world so terrible that gates must be barred against it? Were there not green fields, bracing winds, and a warm sun outside the gates? You can burn ... |
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| 16 | 10 |
The winds would rise, and the rains come, and the winter, with its ice and snow, and the awakening, green spring, and in two or three years the insistent, patient forest would repair and cover what men had done. |
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| 17 | 12 |
It was he who had brought me to this, to this strange, different, natural, beautiful, fresh world, much as Earth might once have been, a world of blue skies and white clouds, of wind and rain, of storms and sunlight, of green fields and dark forests, of bracing, uncontaminated air and clean, clear, ... |
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| 23 | 143 |
Many of those were painted green, that they might be difficult to detect on the billows of Thassa, until, mast down and oar- propelled, it was perhaps too late. |
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| 25 | 142 |
Slave wine has been developed by the green caste, the caste of Physicians, one of the five high castes of Gor, the others being the Initiates, the Builders, the Scribes, and the Warriors. |
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| 25 | 143 |
The green caste has also produced the "releaser," as it is called, which is reputedly delicious. |
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| 28 | 21 |
Immediately the vine shook, and began to withdraw, trailing a fresh, light, green exudate, concealing itself amidst the leaves of its fellows. |
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| 29 | 213 |
She had a wide, green-and-brown talmit. |
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| 29 | 219 |
Do you wish to do your own manual labor, to gather provender, to clear ground for a camp, to bring fire wood, to cook, to fetch soft boughs for our bedding, to wash talmits, and polish leather? Do you not enjoy having your feet cleaned with their tongues?" "One would have been enough," said she who ... |
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| 29 | 235 |
"This is not Brundisium, or Ar," said she of the green-and- brown talmit. |
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| 31 | 4 |
"Feed," said Tuza, she of the green-and-brown talmit, who, I took it, was second in power in this small group of four, for the beasts do not count. |
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| 43 | 1015 |
"It is you who have brought us to this!" "Stop her!" cried Axel, and Donna had scarcely reached the edge of the camp, her scarlet tunic bright against the green, when she was seized. |
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| 50 | 15 |
Then, after my recapture, in the arms of my captor, for whose touch I had longed even as long ago as my former world, when I had seen him but once before my acquisition, these fires had begun, perhaps to his amusement, to blaze in such a way that I found myself their prisoner and victim Doubtless th... |
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| 1 | 30 |
There had been three signals, trails of ascending smoke, red, yellow, and green, red betokening that the shore was held, land having been retaken, yellow that the holding of Lord Temmu still stood, and green that all was safe, and, accordingly, a landing might be effected. |
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| 45 | 56 |
Gor is a natural world, a fresh, green, unspoiled world, one much as once was Earth, a jewel world, a green, living diamond in space. |
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| 60 | 201 |
"To the bridge!" The bridge, entwined with the blue climbers, arched in a lovely manner, for a length of some thirty-five or forty feet over a narrow, decorative pond, on the surface of which bloomed white and yellow water flowers, rising from flat, green pads; below, in the pond, which was shallow,... |
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| 61 | 198 |
It was hard to imagine Kurii ceasing to hunger for the green fields of Gor, and it was hard to imagine Priest-Kings voluntarily sharing their world, even its surface, with so aggressive, dangerous, and territorial a life form as the destroyer of a planet and the maker of steel worlds. |
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| 61 | 539 |
Ahead lay vast, green, turbulent Thassa. |
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| 61 | 979 |
It was as though something had suddenly changed within her, as though a barrier had fallen, as though a wall of ice had broken apart, and, melting, revealed a lush, arable, inviting terrain beyond, green in its grass and warm in its sun. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 61 | 524 |
For example, if all women were green or blue, or such, then the distinction between green and not green, or blue and not blue, would be of little practical interest or importance. |
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| 1 | 233 |
How can one help it? Do not rumors rustle about? Are not strange stories borne on surprising winds? Are not unusual thoughts found in green places, amongst trees? But I had never read a Gorean book. |
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| 2 | 62 |
I have found myself barefoot in those green fields, I have glimpsed far horizons from the bow of a swift galley, knelt trembling before a master". |
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| 9 | 129 |
The colors of the five high castes were white, yellow, blue, green, and red, for the Initiates, Builders, Scribes, Physicians, and Warriors, respectively. |
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| 15 | 314 |
How clear much of this would have been to me had I been natively Gorean, or even longer on this strange, green, beautiful, fresh, unspoiled, perilous orb! I looked about, listening intently, straining to see, but I could see nothing but now-manifest threads of morning light glittering amongst the fi... |
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| 15 | 334 |
I found a narrow aperture in the floor of the container, through which I might peer, and saw the shadow below, of a great winged shape, coursing across the green fields of Gor. |
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| 31 | 4 |
"See this one," called the auctioneer, turning the beauty before the buyers, with deft touches of his whip, "see this olive skinned, green eyed beauty, with long, glossy, night-black hair, recently imported, with many others, from the World's End. |
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| 34 | 52 |
Kurik had refused the entreaties of the tavern master to summon a member of the green caste. |
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| 46 | 66 |
"And on other worlds, of prowling steel, as well," said the voice from the box, "and on Gor, too, green Gor, Gor of flowing grass and bright skies, secretly ensconced, both high ones and humans. |
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| 49 | 16 |
I saw two of the individuals present were in the green of the Physicians, and one was in the yellow of the Builders. |
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| 49 | 96 |
Goreans, on the whole, seem to care for nature, for trees and green grass, for flowing brooks, and the blue sky, and, at the same time, seem to think little of the harsh selections of war, of long marches, of the clash of arms, of besieging, sacking, and burning cities. |
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| 64 | 60 |
On the way through the wagons I noted several kitchens where food might be purchased, a clothing emporium, a barbering shop, two bakeries, four wine shops, two outlets of houses on the Street of Coins in Ar, sheds for wagon repair, an infirmary or clinic, under the green sign of the caste of Physici... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 8 | 603 |
"It is green, like the green of Thassa," she said. |
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| 2 | 56 |
Some women sold here were imported from what was called The World's End, which was lands, or islands, across green, turbulent, mighty Thassa, the Sea. |
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| 2 | 72 |
Behind me, standing proudly, insolently, her hands still fastened behind her back, was one of the most beautiful women I had ever seen, dark-haired, green-eyed, olive-skinned, of medium height, excitingly figured. |
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| 2 | 96 |
There were four girls ahead of me now, and some six behind me, including the head-lowered, bound-by-a-man's-will, green-eyed, dark-haired beauty, Adraste. |
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| 4 | 10 |
She, exquisitely featured, excitingly figured, dark-haired, green-eyed, and olive-skinned, was surely one of most beautiful women I had ever seen. |
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| 8 | 99 |
Our cargo, other than ourselves, was largely carvings and vessels of jade, a green gemstone, purchased in Brundisium, and apparently brought in as trade goods from afar, from, as it was said, "the World's End". |
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| 8 | 621 |
"It is a long ship," she said, "no sail set, the mast down, thus less detectible at a distance, painted green, not easily noticed in the swells of Thassa". |
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| 8 | 881 |
It was low in the water, painted a mottled green, scarcely visible at first, almost lost in the swells, moving swiftly, so swiftly that, propelled by the mighty levers of its oars, rising and falling, in unison, shedding water, it was like a living spear. |
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| 11 | 49 |
There are few who have met the long, low, swift, knifelike ram ships of Port Kar, often painted green, which color blends in with many of the moods of Thassa, either as corsairs or attack vessels, who do not respect, even dread and fear them. |
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| 11 | 136 |
Sometimes stairs led up to a second floor where coins might be weighed and changed, or loans made; there is no designated "Street of Coins" in Port Kar; one could ascend stairs, too, to visit one or more physicians, or, if one wished, to solicit the services of a scribe, perhaps to have a letter rea... |
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| 11 | 410 |
Now, incredibly, here he was, on this fresh, green, simple, strange, untainted, beautiful world! Or was it he? How could it be he? Surely it could not be he. |
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| 12 | 59 |
Generally it is taken that there are five high castes, the Initiates, Scribes, Physicians, Builders, and Warriors, whose colors, respectively, are white, blue, green, yellow, and red. |
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| 23 | 75 |
"Perhaps we should convey her to one of the Green Caste," said the other. |
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| 42 | 21 |
Amongst the tunicked slaves kneeling against the wall of the inner vestibule, one stood out amongst them, one in a modest, white-silk tunic, dark-haired, green-eyed, olive-skinned Adraste! How beautiful she was! Surely men might kill to possess such a woman, even if there were not some mysterious em... |
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| 42 | 40 |
A man called back, from the barricade, "Torches approach and a green flag of parley!" He was joined on the barricade by some ten or so defenders. |
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| 43 | 277 |
"Green, difficult to detect, low in the water, long-oared, swift, two masts down, to be raised and mounted, if the wind for Cos be fair". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 39 | 60 |
Why not blow trumpets in your stealth, or carry torches to offend a needed blanket of darkness?" "All right," said Thurnock, "we will paint her green, the green of Thassa, green as night is to the sleen, green as high, tawny grass is to the larl". |
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| 1 | 213 |
She will once more be green, be strong and grow, and flower". |
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| 2 | 116 |
More than once we had lowered our masts and sails, and our low ships, painted green, the pirate color, difficult to detect in the waves of Thassa, had lain almost flat in the water. |
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| 18 | 37 |
I recalled a tavern faraway, on a steel world concealed amidst the debris of the asteroid belt, the debris of what might once have been a green, fertile world, now a wilderness of orbiting cinders. |
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| 33 | 6 |
"Notice," he said, uneasily, looking about, "we bear the green flag of parley". |
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| 39 | 61 |
The Dorna, of course, was already painted green, a color often favored by pirates, as it is difficult to detect at a distance. |
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| 40 | 23 |
"that it not be noted that they are painted green, the color of piracy". |
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| 40 | 24 |
"They are painted green," I said. |
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