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Book 1. (9 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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4 130 It was in the widest of cylinders, and the ceiling was at least six times the height of the normal living level.
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5 68 Surely there was enough to frighten any girl—the height at which she found herself, the savage mount on which she rode, the prospect of the terrible fate that she believed to await her at our journey's end.
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5 185 I drew back on the one-strap, and when we had climbed to a height where my breath came in gasps, I leveled our course for Ar.
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7 41 This explained the incredible height of the Ubar's daughter.
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13 9 From the height I could look down on a portion of the Voltai Range, with its arrogant reddish heights, as it faded away to the east.
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13 116 The man, who seemed to leap into gigantic stature as he lifted himself into full height, took from under his yellow robes a tarn whistle and blew a long, shrill note.
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16 36 From the height of the walls, some two hundred feet above the towers, missiles would be fired and stones cast.
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17 15 As nearly as I could determine, he and his men had been overcome, and the height of the Central Cylinder was again in the hands of the Initiates.
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18 72 The others were dotted with what appeared, from the height, to be yellow lice—the figures of the Afflicted.
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Book 2. (9 results) Outlaw of Gor

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2 12 From their extent and height, as far as I could judge, I guessed them to be the mountains of Thentis.
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2 27 The spear was a typical Gorean spear, about seven feet in height, heavy, stout, with a tapering bronze head some eighteen inches in length.
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3 36 The bundle reared itself at least a man's height above his bent back, and extended perhaps some four feet in width.
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8 69 With one hand he held the folds together, lest the wind should lift the cloth and reveal his face, and with the other hand, he clutched the rail on the bridge, as if uncomfortable, uneasy at the height.
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10 31 At the entrance to the palace the somber, wet avenue shrunk to a passage large enough only for a single man, and the walls at the same time rose to a height of perhaps thirty feet.
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10 32 The entrance itself was nothing more than a small, simple iron door, perhaps eighteen inches in width, perhaps five feet in height.
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15 151 "Because," she said, drawing herself to her full height, gathering the golden tattered robes about her, "I am Tatrix of Tharna".
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16 2 It lay about one hundred pasangs northwest of the city, and was a lonely white column of solid marble, perhaps four hundred feet in height and a hundred feet in diameter.
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23 190 It was unlikely a small party like that above would freely lose the height of the wall to pursue two rebels.
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Book 3. (9 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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2 113 I remembered that the boulders below were huge but from my present height they looked like grains of black sand.
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22 91 Misk drew himself up to his proud, almost eighteen feet of height, save that he inclined slightly forward from the vertical, and fixed on us with his antennae what I had come to recognize in the last few weeks as a look of rather patient, gentle reproach.
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27 145 No longer was Sarm trembling or shaken but he had drawn his frame to its full and golden height.
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27 186 Sarm had drawn himself up again to his full height and like a golden blade he stood behind Misk and before the Mother.
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27 221 I told myself it would probably come for the head or throat, if only because these were, from his height, easier to reach and he would wish to kill me quickly and with little difficulty, for he would surely regard his main business as the slaying of Misk, who still lay, either dead or unconscious, b...
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27 362 Then before my horrified eyes the carcass of that ancient she began to shiver and tremble and I stood back as she struggled to my amazement to her feet and reared herself to the height of a Priest-King, her antennae extended to their very lengths as though grasping, clutching, trying to sense someth...
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29 154 Nonetheless, reasoning analogously from my own controls, I managed to locate the guidance sphere, by means of which one selects any one of the theoretically infinite number of directions from a given point and the dials for the height and speed control.
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31 153 He had been watching me approach and now his antennae focused on me and he drew himself up to his full golden height.
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31 229 Then in the last spasmodic throb of death Sarm's body broke free of the jaws of the Golden Beetle and reared up once more to its glorious perhaps twenty feet of golden height.
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Book 4. (11 results) Nomads of Gor

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6 12 The lance cleared the ground, given the height of the kaiila, by about five feet.
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9 361 At the height of one of her dances, called the Dance of the Tuchuk Slave Girl, Kamchak turned to Aphris of Turia, who was watching the dance, eyes bright, as astounded as I at the savage spectacle.
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15 9 The mercenary tarnsmen of Turia were most feared by the Tuchuks, for such could, with relative impunity, fire upon them from the safety of their soaring height, but even this dread weapon of Turia could not, by itself, drive the Tuchuks from the surrounding plains.
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16 71 The Turian wells, incidentally, have no raised wall, but are, save for a rim of about two inches in height, flat with the level.
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16 73 We were in an enclosed well yard, surrounded by walls of about sixteen feet in height, with a defender's catwalk about the inside.
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17 3 The pool is indoors—in a spacious chamber in the House of Saphrar—with a domed ceiling of some eighty feet in height.
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20 25 I considered pushing him off the wall, but, thinking of the height, the likelihood of breaking his neck and back and such, and consequently thereby complicating our measures for escape, I dismissed the notion as impractical, however tempting.
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20 37 The tower itself was some one hundred and forty feet in height and had a diameter of about fifty feet.
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22 149 At the height of such festivities, a distraught messenger rushed to Kamchak.
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23 110 I issued orders swiftly and exhausted men poured from beneath and between the wagons to haul as many of the fallen kaiila and riders as possible from the wagons, that there might not be a wall of dying animals and men giving access to the height of our wagons.
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24 67 Saphrar probably had, behind his walls, more than three thousand defenders, plus a comparable number of servants and slaves, who might be of some service to him, particularly in such matters as reinforcing gates, raising the height of walls, loading crossbows, gathering arrows from within the compou...
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Book 5. (14 results) Assassin of Gor

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19 80 Philemon, I and the guards emerged from the exposition area to the interior of the sales amphitheater; the entire house was now lit by energy bulbs; later, the block alone would be illuminated; the seats rose in tier after tier, largely circling the block, though a passage lay open behind the block;...
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1 30 Kuurus watched, unmoved, as the four Warriors carried their scarlet burden to the height of the huge, sweet-smelling, oil-impregnated pyre.
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2 8 Tarl of Bristol himself on the windy height of Ar's Cylinder of Justice had defeated Pa-Kur, Master of the Assassins.
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4 13 It was a large room, some seventy feet square and with a ceiling of some fifty feet in height.
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5 165 Then he stood there, in his some eighteen feet of golden height, balancing on his four posterior, four-jointed supporting appendages, the two anterior, four-jointed grasping appendages, each with its four, delicate, tiny prehensile hooks, held lightly, alertly before his body in the characteristic s...
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7 74 It was about thirty feet in diameter, about eight feet in height.
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9 131 She will be revived at the height of the Ubar's victory feast, commonly to find herself unclothed in a cage of male slaves set up among the tables".
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12 43 On the low wall, some seven or eight feet in height, some forty feet in width, which divided the track, I could see that only three of the great wooden tarn heads remained on their poles, indicating that only three laps remained in the race.
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12 389 In his right hand there was a heavy peasant staff, some six feet in height and perhaps two inches in width.
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13 182 "When he was publicly refused bread, salt and fire on the height of the central cylinder, when he was exiled from Ar, not to return on pain of death, do you know what he said?" "No," I said, "I do not".
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13 320 I waited on the height of the stadium, looking down into that vast, open structure, empty and white.
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13 367 I was keenly aware of the height of the perch, the street far below.
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15 122 After two months of such treatment, Cernus, perhaps because he wearied of her body, or because he felt she was now ready, now at the height of her hatreds and miseries, ordered her sent to Tor, where, I heard, she was collared, marked and publicly sold during the ninth passage hand, that preceding t...
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16 49 Further, as Ho-Tu pointed out, their sale was not to be until the late summer; thus there was plenty of time to use the sights and scenes of Ar, judiciously mixed with review and practice, diet and rest, to bring them to a height of vitality, interest and excitement before putting them on the block.
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Book 6. (25 results) Raiders of Gor

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1 18 It is the height of a tall man; its back, away from the bowman, is flat; its belly, facing the bowman, is half-rounded; it is something like an inch and a half wide and an inch and a quarter thick at the center; it has considerable force and requires considerable strength to draw; many men, incident...
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5 116 "You will find out," said Telima, "at the feast, then, at the height of festival".
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5 134 "Who," I begged, "is my mistress?" "You will find out at feast," she said angrily, "at the height of festival! Now go and help the women to prepare the feast—Slave!" I turned away, and, as they laughed, went to help the women in their work, preparing food for festival.
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11 46 On its height they met Bosk, in his hands the wine-tempered steel of a Koroban blade.
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12 7 Now, from the height of one of the investing walls, some hundred yards from the high bleak wall of one of the holdings of Sevarius, said to be his palace, I, with Thurnock, Clitus, and others, by the light of Gor's three moons, observed the opening of a postern gate.
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14 112 The same message was run up the halyard to the height of the stem castle.
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14 347 I glanced to the gold-bordered, purple flag, the admiral's flag, flying from the halyard strung between the forward starboard mooring cleat and the height of the stem castle.
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15 65 She drew herself up to her full height.
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15 311 And, as the torches burned lower in the wall racks, the singer continued to sing, and sang of gray Pa-Kur, Master of the Assassins, leader of the hordes that fell on Ar after the theft of her Home Stone; and he sang, too, of banners and black helmets, of upraised standards, of the sun flashing on th...
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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 92 I would wish to use its height to observe, as well as I might, the battle.
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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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17 243 He, in turn, ran a flag up the halyard running to the height of the stem turret.
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18 309 And yet I would not have chosen, at this time, to be any place other than where I stood, on the height of my keep, in the holding I had made mine own in Port Kar.
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18 519 If one must die, how could one better die than with such a blade in hand? * * * * We fought on the height of the keep.
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18 612 As one their arrows leaped to the string, as one the great bows bent, and I saw Ho-Hak on the height of the wall bring down his arm with a cry, and I saw, like sheets of oblique rain, the torrent of gull-feathered shafts leap toward the keep.
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18 634 From the height of the keep, we could see over my holding, even to the canal and sea gate beyond the lakelike courtyard.
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18 669 By now the three girls, Telima, Vina and Luma, had been lowered from the height of the keep, and were close behind us.
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18 714 We went outside, and saw Ho-Hak slowly climb the long, narrow stairs beside the delta wall, until he stood behind the parapet, at its height.
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18 814 "Bring cloaks," said Samos, "and let us climb to the height of the keep".
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18 815 We found cloaks, I that of the admiral, and we followed Samos from the room, across the tiled yard behind the great hall, and into the now-opened keep, and climbed behind him to its height.
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18 816 From the height of the keep we could see the men of Tab, from the Venna and the Tela, here and there on guard.
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18 853 Samos, on the height of the keep, regarded me.
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18 914 It was cold on the height of the keep.
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18 974 And then, on the height of the keep, looking out across the city, we watched the dawn, beyond the muddy Tamber Gulf, softly touch the cold waters of gleaming Thassa.
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Book 7. (11 results) Captive of Gor

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5 101 It was, at the point at which I had entered, as the metal had been torn open, like steel petals, more than nine feet in height, a vast gash which, irregularly, on the left, tapered downward to a tear in the steel of only some four inches in height.
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14 192 One, near the top, was about seven inches in width and about a half inch in height; the other, its top formed by a rectangular opening in the bottom of the door, its bottom formed by the iron floor of the box, was about a foot wide and two inches in height.
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3 225 I stopped at the height of the stairs.
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8 215 There is no rear railing on the barges and the barge deck matches the pier in height.
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9 281 The floor of the clearing was lovely grass, thick and some inches in height, soft, and beautiful.
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9 324 Then, for the first time I noticed, in the center of the circle, there were four heavy stakes, about six inches in height, dark in the grass.
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12 301 It was a circular cage, between some six and seven feet in height, flat-bottomed, with a domed top.
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13 1165 At night, unclothed, when not being used, they were commonly chained in log kennels, small, low, sunken wooden kennels; the interior of these kennels would be a yard or so in height, and a yard or two in width; their length would be longer, to accommodate more girls; the girls would normally be mana...
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14 168 At one point I found a tiny door, no more than eighteen inches in height.
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15 813 I could see a tiny slit of the outside through the aperture in the iron door, about a half an inch in height and seven inches in width.
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15 814 There was a somewhat larger opening at the foot of the door, about two inches in height and a foot wide.
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Book 8. (11 results) Hunters of Gor

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1 298 She had exciting legs, well revealed by the slave-height of her brief silk.
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2 64 Her first hold is scarcely a yard in height.
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3 256 Behind her came a flat-topped wagon, of some four feet in height.
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5 153 I wished to leave at the height of the tide.
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9 50 She was tall and strong, but yet, in her height, graceful and incredibly lithe.
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14 27 At the height of the feast some dozen or so panther girls would have overpowered the guards at the gate, presumably drunken, and opened the gate.
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14 147 How many were there? How did they seem? Which seemed most alert? Who did I suppose might be the most dangerous? At what height hung the hilt of the swords in the sheaths slung over the left shoulder? Which girls walked with their heads the highest, which carried their spears well? I looked at the mo...
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14 222 The moons were now near the height of the sky.
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22 66 The wind had been cold, too, on the height of Ar's cylinder of justice.
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22 77 Pa-Kur had leaped from its height.
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22 83 I had looked up and seen, several feet above me, the height of the cylinder.
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Book 9. (33 results) Marauders of Gor

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2 132 Sometimes, in light raiding galleys, it is so attached, to remove its weight from the prow's height, to ensure greater stability in high seas; it is always, however, at the prow in harbor, or when the ship enters an inlet or river to make its strike; in calm seas, of course, there is little or no da...
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2 204 It is some one hundred and twenty feet in length, and forty feet in width and height.
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2 333 He was of incredible stature, perhaps eight feet in height and broad as a bosk.
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2 351 With a roar of laughter, hurling the shroud from him, to the horror of the High Initiate, and other Initiates, and the congregation, Ivar Forkbeard, almost seven feet in height, leaped to his feet, in his right hand clutching a great, curved, single-bladed ax of hardened iron.
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2 353 Then he with his ax, with a single swing, spattering blood on the sheets of gold, cut the head from the body of the High Initiate of Kassau, and leaped, booted, to the height of the very altar of the temple itself.
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4 105 The giant, he who might have been nearly eight feet in height, and had in the temple wrought such furious slaughter, sat now, almost somnolently, on a rowing bench, sharpening, with slow, deliberate movements, with a circular, flat whetstone, the blade of his great ax.
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4 107 Only two of the Forkbeard's men did not rest, he at the helm, bare-headed, looking to sea, and the fellow at the height of the mast, on lookout.
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6 212 The half circle is about an inch and a quarter in width, and the diagonal line about an inch and a quarter in height.
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6 217 He opened the hinged collar of black iron, about a half inch in height.
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6 326 The roof was about six feet in height, which meant that most of those within, if male, were forced to bend over as they moved about.
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7 215 Then, on a height, from which we could see, far below, the farm and ship of Ivar Forkbeard, we stopped.
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8 210 He wanted her to be able to cry out; her cries, of course, would be muffled; they would not be discernible on the height of the fortress; they might, however, be heard by Gorm and those in the boat; too, he wanted her to be able to thrash about; this, too, would help Gorm to locate her in the darkne...
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10 421 The shed is some two hundred feet long, about ten feet wide, and eight feet in height.
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11 29 The beast was approximately nine feet in height; I conjectured its weight in the neighborhood of eight or nine hundred pounds.
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11 51 The axes were some seven or eight feet in height.
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12 9 This sort of thing is done more effectively, in my opinion, in the south by means of flags, run commonly from the prow cleats to the height of the stem castle.
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13 12 The high seat, though spoken of as "high," was the same height as the other benches.
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13 415 Then he drew himself up to a not inconsiderable full height.
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14 107 I heard a scream from a height, and, looking up, saw a human thrown from the balcony which ringed the hall, some thirty feet above the dirt floor, some ten feet below the roof beams.
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15 1 On the Height of the Torvaldsberg It was noon, on the snowy slopes of the Torvaldsberg.
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15 35 "Look," had said the Forkbeard, pointing from a height, on which we lay prone, to the beach.
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15 184 It is something over four and a half pasangs in height, or something over seventeen thousand Earth feet.
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15 384 I saw, to my right, a small, dark opening, irregular, jagged, about a foot in width and height.
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16 20 It was about eight feet in height and width.
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16 47 It was still squarish, some twenty feet in height and width.
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17 127 Kurii, generally, like men, seem vain beasts, but there appears to be an inverse correlation between height of rank and intricacy and variety of ornamentation.
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17 173 The sun now glinted more fully on its height.
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18 402 In the distance, visible, was the height of the Torvaldsberg.
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20 71 He was large, even for a Kur, some nine feet in height.
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20 158 The collar is some three inches in height.
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21 88 Few eyes, I think, in the ruins of that hall, under the torchlight, beneath the stars, the height of the Torvaldsberg in the distance, illuminated in the light of the three moons, were dry.
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22 15 The Kur collar, leather, some three inches in height, holding her chin up, with its ring, was still on her throat.
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22 277 Even Kurii, on its height, stunned, had stopped to gaze.
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Book 10. (23 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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1 216 She had then been conscious, vaguely, of being turned about and lifted, and carried, to a different place in the line, one determined by her height.
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1 217 Usually the tallest girls lead the slave chain, the height decreasing gradually toward the end of the chain, where the shortest girl is placed.
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2 159 For example, it is common for a master to force his girl to speak at length and in detail to him of the secret sides of her nature, explaining and elaborating on her fantasies; if she is literate, she may be forced, naked, collared, on her knees at a small table, sometimes with her ankles shackled, ...
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2 200 She turned her head, briefly, to look at me; I saw her eyes, dark, through the tiny opening in the haik, through the tiny, black-lace screen, about an inch in height and four inches in width.
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2 207 Height and hip structure vary.
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5 626 She was, in Earth measurements, I would guess, some five feet four inches in height.
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7 14 There was a small window, high in the door, about six inches in height, eighteen inches in width.
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7 512 If he were appropriately placed, he might then requisition such a woman, who could then be picked up and delivered to him, perhaps a woman of such and such a figure, of such and such a height and weight, of such and such a hair color, and eye color, and complexion, of such and such a background, edu...
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7 750 It climbed more and more slowly to the height of its arc, seemed to pause, and then, gracefully, turned and looped down, faster and faster, the moonlight sparkling on the fluttering, silvered pennon.
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8 82 The heavy, round-ended pestle, some five feet in height, more than five inches wide at the base, dropped.
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9 21 It was some four feet in height, some four inches in diameter.
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11 288 It was used as the vantage point for the Aretai commander at that time, Hammaran, who also launched at a crucial point in the struggle, his picked cavalry, and bodyguard, from that height, turning the battle's tide.
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14 392 The alcoves are usually eight to ten feet deep, with a flat floor and rounded sides and ceiling, the sides about four feet wide at their widest, and the ceiling about four feet in height, at its highest.
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16 23 Each raft contains a low frame, within which are placed the retaining vessels, large, wooden salt tubs, each approximately a yard in height and four feet in diameter.
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17 7 On the height of the keep I saw, tight in the bright, hot wind, under the merciless sun, defiant to the pits and desert itself, the flag of Klima, the whip and scimitar.
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18 157 We stopped once, on the height of the great shallow bowl which encloses Klima, to look back.
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19 139 It was only as it approached that I understood it to be hundreds of feet in height, perhaps a hundred pasangs in width; the sky above it was gray, then black like smoke; then I could watch it no longer, that I might not be blinded; I shielded my eyes with my hands; I turned my back to it; I crouched...
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19 167 It was seven feet in height, bracing itself against the wind.
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21 589 It tried to hold the wire, and climb on it, or relieve the pressure on its throat, but its great paws slipped on the slender strand; then its weight began to pull me upward; I, hands knotted in the insulated portion of the wire, kicked the Kur back as it reached for me; then I was above it, being dr...
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22 1 I Obtain Kaiila I crouched between thrust chambers, some seventy feet from the ground, on the height of the tall ship, half buried in the Tahari sand.
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22 4 I reached the height of the ship's stern by a rope.
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22 6 From the vantage of the ship's height I could see several pasangs on all sides.
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25 58 * * * * It was on the height of the highest tower of the kasbah of Tarna that Hassan, I close behind him, cornered Ibn Saran.
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Book 11. (28 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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1 81 It extended to a heavy ring and plate fastened in a great granite rock, irregular, but some twelve feet in width and depth, some ten feet in height.
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2 99 I am some five feet five inches in height and weigh about one hundred and twenty pounds.
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3 226 It was broken off some four feet from the ground, and the fallen trunk, from that height, inclined downward.
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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 1236 I saw the guard on the height of the cliff.
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8 38 The roof of the cage was about the height of a man's belt.
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9 158 The cage in its original attitude, when used for sleen, would have been some four feet in height, six feet in width and twelve feet in length.
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9 159 Tipped on its side, to better accommodate humans, it was some six feet in height and four by twelve feet in breadth and length.
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9 1508 Then he again turned to face Thurnus, who stood, not speaking, at the height of the stairs, some six or seven feet above the level of the ground, in the doorway to his hut.
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9 1977 At the height of the festivities the cage was opened and its occupant, a former free woman, whose name had been Melina, now a naked slave in sleen collar, was ordered forth on her hands and knees.
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10 150 They were more than eighty feet in height.
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13 13 There were twenty steps to the height of the block.
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13 50 I looked to the height of the block.
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13 115 "Girl 128," called the auctioneer, from the height of the block.
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13 125 I lifted my hand to him, and he took me by the hand, helping me to the height of the block.
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13 142 She is 51 horts in height.
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13 199 I was, in Earth measurements, some five feet four inches in height and weighed about one hundred and sixteen pounds.
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16 85 Each girl, all in all, has a space private to her slavery of some twenty-five inches in width, by some eighteen inches in height, by some six feet five inches in length.
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21 62 On the height of the shield pole there was hoisted a scarlet disk.
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21 107 White smoke billowed from the platform near the shield pole, from whose height now swung a scarlet disk.
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22 164 Its lack of height in the water had not indicated a weight of freighting, buts its design, swift and terrible, like a mighty racing shell.
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22 273 Behind her, unnoticed, I crept to the height of the stairs.
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26 624 The brand with which she had been marked was the common slave brand for the Gorean female; incised deeply in her thigh, about an inch and a half in height and a half inch in width, was the initial letter, in cursive script, lovely, of the expression 'Kajira,' the most common expression in Gorean for...
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28 158 The ideal, of course, is to be sold at the height of the sale.
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28 198 A man with a whip prodded her to climb to its height.
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28 218 The girl in the house tunic was hurried to the height of the block.
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28 241 I climbed to the height of the block.
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28 285 At the height of the center aisle, high, framed in the portal of the market hall, stood a warrior, in full panoply of war.
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Book 12. (32 results) Beasts of Gor

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3 1057 In this way he abandoned the possible intimidation of the platform's height and assumed a more intimate, casual relationship to the prospective patron.
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4 42 I attained the height of the platform and found the view breathtaking, even more splendid than I had hoped.
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4 72 I could see it easily from the height of the platform.
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4 141 Such a simple gesture might weaken his intensity, the height of his hatreds, his readiness to do battle.
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4 430 On the height of the rim of the amphitheater a man was lifting the standard of Cos, waving it to the crowds in the fields and streets below.
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8 73 She was about five feet five inches in height.
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10 136 It was some twelve feet square, and some four feet in height, its surface reached by steps.
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10 238 "Work well, Tarl Cabot," called my lovely captor from the height of the platform.
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12 236 Four days after leaving the northern edge of Ax Glacier, we climbed to the height of the pass of Tancred, the mountains of the Hrimgar flanking us on either side.
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12 237 Below the height, the pass sloping downward, we could see the tundra of the polar plain.
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12 240 He stopped on the height of the pass, and stood there, for a long time, regarding the vastness of the cool tundra.
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12 330 Six days ago Imnak and I, and our girls, had descended from the height of the pass of Tancred.
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20 181 I looked at the high meat racks, some with tiers, some twenty feet or more in height, to protect the meat from sleen, both those domesticated and the wild sleen that might prowl to the shores as the hunting, the leems hibernating, grew sparse inland.
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21 19 A yard of height can make a difference of several degrees of temperature inside a typical dwelling of the red hunters.
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22 262 At the height of its leap we struck it with our lances.
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26 123 The first row of blocks were about two feet in length, and a foot in breadth and height.
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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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27 108 In different light conditions these curtains and streaks can appear violet or red or orange depending on their height.
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27 151 At the outer end of the tunnel, where one emerged to the outside, the ceiling of the tunnel was about four and one half feet 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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28 68 The cell was a cubic rectangle, some twelve feet by twelve feet, and eight feet in height.
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28 221 She then slipped the tray through an opening, some four inches in height, in the bottom of the cell door.
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29 38 It was some four feet by four feet, by some seven feet in height.
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30 9 There was an upright iron post, about a yard in height, on each platform, behind each girl.
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30 31 Behind my cage, and in the wall, some twenty feet in height, there was a mirror.
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31 11 It was domed, and some forty feet in height.
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31 27 One could not, given their height, look through them from the floor.
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31 30 On a table to the side, toward what I took to be the front of the room, there was a dark, boxlike object, about six inches in height, and a foot or so in width and length.
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31 64 It was more than eight feet in height.
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35 26 I had left the sled at the foot of the ice island and, with the fur of the Kur as a camouflage, had climbed, crag by crag, projection by projection, foothold by foothold, to the height of the island.
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35 29 I had climbed the height of the ice island looking for some mode of ingress to the complex.
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35 192 It would be only a matter of time until the blasted ventilator grating, some two hundred feet above, at the height of the shaft, would be located.
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Book 13. (33 results) Explorers of Gor

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1 11 The brand was the common Kajira mark of Gor, the first letter, about an inch and a half in height and a half inch in width, in cursive script, of the expression 'Kajira', which is the most common expression in Gorean for a female slave.
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1 357 On its sides the walkway had metal ridges, some six inches in height, above the water.
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4 127 The height of the praetor's desk, he on the high stool behind it, permits him to see a goodly way up and down the wharves.
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4 575 The girl's height, ankles, wrists, throat, hips, waist and bust had been measured.
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16 6 The jaws distended, more than a yard in height, with the rows of backward-leaning fangs.
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29 7 It lived on the white ants, or termites, of the vicinity, breaking apart their high, towering nests of toughened clay, some of them thirty-five feet in height, with its mighty claws, then darting its four-foot-long tongue, coated with adhesive saliva, among the nest's startled occupants, drawing tho...
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32 196 It is what would dominate one's vision if one were passing over the jungle in tarn flight or viewing it from the height of a tall mountain.
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32 198 The first zone extends from the ground to the beginning of the canopies above, some sixty feet in height, Gorean measure.
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32 579 At the end of the street, before a group of men standing on the wide steps and the surface of a broad, stone platform, some ten feet in height, we stopped.
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32 581 A sign was given, by one of the men on the height of the platform.
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32 589 The man on the height of the platform, red, in his robes and feathers, regarded me for some time.
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32 612 It was then that I saw him, sitting on an oblong pillar of stone, some eight feet in height, some forty feet from the altar.
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32 863 "My master descended then from the height of the great stone," she said, "and, with his hand, indicated a direction in which I must precede him.
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32 904 From the flat box he then took a yellow neck belt, two inches in height, and beaded.
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33 1 What We Saw from the Height of the Falls; Tende Dances; We Enter Again Upon the River; I Anticipate the Surrender of the Blond-Haired Barbarian We thrust the canoe upward, Kisu and I at the stern, Ayari and the girls hauling on ropes at the forequarter.
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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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33 15 From the height of the falls we could see for pasangs behind us downriver.
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34 100 It had been this morning, shortly before noon, that we had surmounted the height of the falls, that almost on the summit of which Kisu, in the face of the distant, oncoming forces of Bila Huruma, had danced a naked slave, she to whom he at his pleasure had given the name 'Tende'.
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35 5 It had been a week since we had first, on the height of the falls, seen the flotilla of Bila Huruma pasangs behind us.
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42 4 We had now been on the river four months since we had, first, on the looming height of the falls, observed the many ships and canoes of the forces of Bila Huruma far behind us.
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44 70 I do not think any of them were more than five feet in height.
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44 118 I went then to the height of the depression, the spear in hand, the fluids of the beast drying upon it.
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50 34 At the height, on that level, set far back, was a great, ruined building, with stairs and white columns.
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51 97 If one were to prepare slave papers on them, of course, their height would be one of the items to be recorded, together with a large number of other measurements, for example, measurements pertaining to the sizes of the waist, breasts, hips, wrists, ankles, throat, and such.
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52 173 The voice came from the height of the stairs behind me, and to my left, that leading to a higher level in the building, an open court, which lay above us.
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52 174 We all looked to the height of the stairs.
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53 72 The grunt now schooling in the open moat, come in from the lake, could well be the posterity of grunt populations dating back to the time when the city was not in ruins but in the height of its glory and power.
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53 182 There was suddenly a scream from the height of the wall.
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53 183 I spun about to see one of Shaba's men reel about and then plunge bloody from the wall's height to the stones below.
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53 187 I saw the height of a slender tree trunk suddenly protruding against the sky, leaning against the wall from the outside.
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53 196 Askaris rushed up stone stairs to the height of the walls, where the lateral walkways had not crumbled.
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53 388 I leaped from the wall's height to its shoulders and looped the golden chain about its neck.
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53 481 As I ascended to their height I saw the floating bridge cut free at our end.
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Book 14. (12 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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1 28 She was something in the neighborhood of five feet in height and weighed in the neighborhood of ninety-five pounds.
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1 30 I have brown hair and brown eyes, am fairly complexioned, am six feet one inch in height, and weigh, I conjecture, about one hundred and ninety pounds.
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3 26 A strong woman stood there, perhaps some five feet ten inches in height and one hundred and forty pounds in weight.
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3 68 "She is dark-haired and dark-eyed," I said, "very pretty, about five feet in height and ninety-five pounds in weight".
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3 208 I could see the woman with such white skin, she in the black leather, with the whip, at the height of the barrier.
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13 886 It is at the height of the beast's back, cushioned, held there by straps.
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14 14 She was some five feet five inches in height and sweetly figured.
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18 148 Doubtless that is the principal reason for its height.
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21 281 When you have finished your tasks, kneel by the door, in the order of descending height".
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22 579 The Lady Florence and Melpomene were of quite similar height and weight.
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28 63 "Such facts," I said, "about women such as yourself, like their height and weight, and the coloring of their hair, are usually made public".
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29 141 "Her height and weight, and the feel of her body," I said, "were not unlike yours".
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Book 15. (4 results) Rogue of Gor

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21 201 "Imagine a wall," she said, "of eight feet in height, of heavy stone, a hundred yards in length.
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29 213 The sea gate itself was fifty feet in height, large enough, when the barred latticework was lifted, to accommodate a masted cargo galley.
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30 398 Sobbing, she rose to her feet, and put her head down, at what would be the height of a man's waist, her legs flexed.
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33 131 These blades were seven feet in height, like convex moons of iron.
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Book 16. (21 results) Guardsman of Gor

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1 36 Callimachus was now on the height of the stem castle.
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4 13 Even this far south, and from the height of the stem castle, one could not see the southern shore of the Vosk.
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5 11 Our starboard shearing blade, that great crescent of iron, some seven feet in height, some five inches in width, was bent oddly askew.
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9 133 The splintered, gaping hole was easily a yard in height and width, the result not only of the ram's penetration but of the tearing and breakage in the strakes attendant upon its withdrawal.
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9 403 The hole in the hull was some two feet in height.
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10 196 I raced toward the wall's height.
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10 212 From the wall's height I could see the walk near the holding crowded with our men, emerged from the holds of the Tuka and Tina.
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12 227 "The fleet of Policrates!" we heard, from the height of the wall.
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12 230 "We would hold it against ten thousand men!" I followed Callimachus up the stairs to the height of the wall.
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16 219 Policrates was crying out orders on the height of the stem castle above me.
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16 257 Callimachus looked up the stairs to the height of the stem castle.
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18 635 I was thrown to its deck, near the foot of the steps leading up to the height of the stem castle.
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18 698 Her right leg, and her right arm and hand, were on the broad stair, leading to the height of the dais.
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18 723 Later, I had her again, more methodically, her head hanging down, over the dais, on the broad stair leading to its height.
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18 724 Then, later, I pulled her supine to the height of the dais, and, not hurrying, spending much time looking into her eyes, and studying her expressions, had her before the curule chair.
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18 732 The slave whom I had so richly used knelt, frightened, confused, on the height of the dais.
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19 44 But where? She knew only that we had climbed to a height.
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19 48 Was she to be cast from this height into a pit of sleen or perhaps into the cold waters of the Vosk? Then I lowered her again to my shoulder, her head this time forward.
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19 1284 When I reached the height of the stairs and stood upon the landing before my bedroom door, I turned to look down upon Lola.
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20 590 This, beneath their robes, increases their apparent height and imposingness.
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20 2108 Its low ceiling, about four feet in height, does not permit it.
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Book 17. (16 results) Savages of Gor

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2 231 As one moves in an easterly direction it becomes taller, ranging generally from ten to eighteen inches in height; as one moves even further east it can attain a height of several feet, reaching as high as the knees of a man riding a kaiila.
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1 752 The shape, height and awesomeness of that towering, expanding cloud was not something I would ever forget.
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6 25 Elsewhere, here and there, about the town, are great heaps of bone and horn, often thirty or more feet in height.
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7 11 The woman, her hands tied behind her, each arm in the rude grasp of a slaver's man, was thrust to the height of the platform, beside the corpulent fellow.
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8 19 It is about seven or eight feet in height and some twenty feet in diameter.
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8 404 Three men were now climbing carefully to the height of the central block.
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8 415 The attendant then carried the girl, the rope trailing beside him, to the height of the central block.
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8 420 The fellow who had brought the brazier to the height of the block now drew forth from it, holding it with two gloves, an iron.
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8 605 "The first man who attacks," said the auctioneer, from the height of the central platform, "is a dead man".
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8 866 The fellow, then, climbed to the height of the block.
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9 9 It is of this height, apparently, that it may be seen above the snow, during the winter moons, such as Waniyetuwi and Wanicokanwi.
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14 54 The female slave of the Dust Legs, kneeling by the kaiila, wore a beaded collar, about an inch and a half in height.
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14 911 One common principle of arrangements is in order of height, with the tallest girls coming first; this makes a lovely coffle.
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14 1091 "Height," said Grunt.
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16 89 Too, the height considerably increases one's scanning range.
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19 90 "Cheerfulness is indicated by the height of the heart, alongside the lance," said Grunt.
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Book 18. (26 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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2 357 "You see," said Bloketu, from the height of the saddle, "you are not remembered".
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3 96 It was some twenty-five to thirty feet in height, but it was not, really, a large tree.
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4 160 This will usually have a height of about five feet inside the lodge.
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11 111 Its high walls, some forty feet in height, built on poles, from platforms, and ceilinged with poles and branches, enclosed a dancing space, cleared, circular and packed down, of about fifty feet in diameter.
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11 113 Fixed in the earth, buried to a depth of about seven or eight feet, and supported, too, with a circle of heavy stakes, to which it was bound, it was about twenty-two feet in height.
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18 218 Its poles were fifty feet in height and it was covered with more than a hundred skins.
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22 253 It was some forty feet in height.
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28 216 They would either keep their height and rain arrows down upon us or act in support of the Yellow Knives.
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30 99 Emerging then from the ranks of the enemy came a gigantic Kur, some nine feet in height, some nine hundred pounds in weight.
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32 19 It was squatting in a place of great honor, at the height of the large circle, its weight resting on its feet and the knuckles of its hands.
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32 204 "This is the very height of the time of our feasts and festivals," he said.
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32 255 We saw Yellow-Knife warriors setting up small poles, some five to six feet in height, attaching grisly trophies to the tops of the poles.
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36 7 The pit is some ten feet in length, some five feet in width and some four feet in height.
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37 93 An adult Herlit is often four feet in height and has a wingspan of some seven to eight feet.
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37 96 They are some fourteen to fifteen inches in height, and yellow with black tips.
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37 481 There is, within normal limits, and assuming the dimension is under surveillance, a direct correlation between height and detectability.
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37 490 You will not see it, probably, given your height, and the grass, until it is within a few hundred yards of you.
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40 16 This roof ranges from five to eight feet in height, from the surface level, as opposed to the interior floor level; it is formed of poles covered with sod; it is supported at the edges of the log walls, against which, on the outside, dirt is banked, and by log stanchions arranged in a circle on the ...
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43 173 There is also an interior edge, some twelve to eighteen inches in height, on each sack.
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44 472 The trail then, long and winding, visible in many of its lengths from the height of the escarpment, seemed choked with Yellow Knives.
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44 502 It took perhaps a dozen men from the trail and then bounded down the rock face and, a few Ihn later, skipping and leaping almost like a pebble, possessing such terrible forces, yet seeming so small from this height, it caromed off the foot of the rock face and then landed, rolling and bounding, amon...
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44 506 The stones had been gathered over a period of days and brought to the height of Council Rock.
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44 606 Torrents of arrows sped from the height of the escarpment.
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46 173 Our weapons and shields slung about us we then climbed these ropes to the height of the escarpment.
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47 426 Arrows were loosened from the height of the escarpment into the fleeing Yellow Knives.
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50 167 I looked again then on the breadth of the Barrens, surveying them from the height of Council Rock, returning thereafter to my lodge.
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Book 19. (18 results) Kajira of Gor

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2 496 The ring at the back of the gag, doubtless sewn into the slotted leather pad, was snapped about a ring mounted at a matching height in the box.
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4 560 Matching them in height, but in the wall, were the other two pairs of brackets.
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6 2 We stood on the height of the walls of Corcyrus, on a stone riser behind the parapet, which permitted us to look out over the parapet, rather than through its apertures, on the surrounding fields.
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6 23 It was five days ago that I had suggested we come to the height of the wall, that I might look out.
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6 565 "That is stupid, stupid! She is wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong!" Only later had I been able to wash and compose myself, and prepare to accompany Drusus Rencius to the height of the walls, to enjoy the view, as we had planned.
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6 770 "Why did you wait so long to bring me to the height of the wall?" I asked.
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12 50 She was about my height.
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13 92 Drusus Rencius handed his helmet to a soldier and climbed then to the height of the throne.
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13 166 The height of this cage was about seven feet; its rounded floor was perhaps a yard in diameter.
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14 11 Because of the width of the wagon bed and the height of the cage, some five feet or so above the surface of the wagon bed, I had been reasonably well protected from the blows of whips, the jabbings of sticks.
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14 38 The cage had then been hoisted to this height and the rope secured.
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17 31 How far I was from the department store, from my apartment, from my world! And how far, too, I found myself from the luxury, the display, the ceremony and glory, the spectacle, of mysterious Corcyrus; how far from the corridors of a guarded palace, from the resplendent, cumbersome pomp of state robe...
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28 140 Later, I supposed, later in their training, the line would have an exact order, probably being arranged in order of height, with the tallest girls first.
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28 163 The line was arranged in order of height.
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29 186 'Too, your figure would seem to be quite similar to what hers was conjectured to be, and you would certainly seem to be quite similar to her in general size, with respect to height and weight.
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31 142 Did he truly think that an agonizing death, writhing on a high, narrow impaling spear, some twenty feet in height, unable to free myself, in a public square, or on the walls of Argentum, in public view, to the jeers and cries of a vengeful crowd was not to be feared? "I am Tiffany," I said, weakly, ...
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31 224 He drew away the sheet and folded it, horizontally, again and again, until it formed, with several folds, a thick, long, narrow band, about six inches in height and the sheet's length, about seven feet, in width.
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34 123 I saw the whip pause at the height of its arc.
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Book 20. (6 results) Players of Gor

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1 158 The woman drew herself up to her full height.
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7 42 Then, in moments, building on her earlier sensitivity, I conducted her perforce to a height where she might sense, but not yet experience, a new horizon.
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20 1 The Baiting Pit; I Make the Acquaintance of a Gentleman; I Will Return to the Apartments of Belnar "Stop!" I cried, from the height of the tiers surrounding the baiting pit.
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22 22 The wagons of the troupe of Boots Tarsk-Bit were drawn up on the height of a hill, amidst trees, overlooking Thassa.
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22 335 I stepped away from the grassy height from which we surveyed the vast, distant fleet.
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22 375 He then walked back to the height of the clifflike side of the hill, that with the crashing waves at its foot.
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Book 21. (10 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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3 412 The stake was some ten feet in height, and some four inches in diameter.
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9 27 Sometimes, materials permitting, a palisade is erected at the height of this wall.
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12 143 I joined him on the height of the wagon box.
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16 473 "It is then that I suspect you would be thrust to the height of the block and there, well exhibited, displayed naked, turned about and posed, sold to the highest bidder".
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16 1422 Too, numerous, low, horizontal wall slots, some three or four inches in height, through which metal-shod poles, stout metal crescents at their tips, could be thrust, and maneuvered, marked their bleakness.
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18 3 The wheels of the cart were narrow, and some seven feet in height.
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20 24 The high, uprearing walls of the city, some hundred feet or more in height, the sun bright upon them, stretched into the distance.
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26 1935 The particular bridge, colorfully paved, graceful, narrow and ascendant, on which she walked, barefoot, blonde, her hair moving in the wind, in her exquisitely brief leather, gave entrance to the tower at something over half its height; it was one of several such bridges about, some giving access at...
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26 1949 I caught up with her at the height of the bridge.
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27 57 This block height is commonly the case even when the block is in a hall-like amphitheater.
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Book 22. (19 results) Dancer of Gor

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6 70 Sometimes the coffle is simply arranged in order of descending height.
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6 114 This cage, I gathered, from the height of the surface, and its movement, was mounted on a wagon.
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8 104 I, for what it was worth, whether it was meaningful or not, whether it was a tribute to my beauty, or an indication of my assumed esthetic inferiority to the others, or a matter of accident, of simple happenstance or original positioning, with no significance, or height or whatever, was again at the...
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9 251 I then heard my height and weight, given in Gorean measurements, thirty and a quarter Gorean stone and fifty-one horts, or approximately, in Earth measurements, one hundred and twenty-one pounds and five foot three and three quarters inches, and a large number of my other measurements being similarl...
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10 5 I had climbed, on all fours, up the broad, carpeted steps of the dais, and now lay, on my belly, half on its surface, the lower part of my body, my right knee flexed, across the final two steps before its height.
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10 370 At the height, and in the wind, and the cold, we might have half frozen, had it not been for the comfort of those blankets.
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10 542 It symbolizes in the distance, as well as in the differential in height, the social inferiority of the slave to the master.
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10 621 He had indicated the second step leading to the height of the dais.
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10 649 It exposed a low opening, only about a yard in height.
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10 781 He retrieved the whip and ascended to the height of the dais, where he took his place in the great chair.
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11 61 It would soon be the height of the evening, the time for the special entertainment, an entertainment in which I had a prominent role.
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11 414 "Her hair and eye coloring, and complexion, and height and weight, are as mentioned in the handbills," said Mirus.
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24 448 I turned and looked up to the height of the ridge.
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27 5 The pen was some forty feet square, and some seven feet in height.
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29 318 It was some eight feet, or so, in height.
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29 856 The leader of the beasts rose up to his full height.
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30 42 In the upper portion of the door there was a small aperture, about a half inch in height and six inches long, which was fitted with a sliding panel.
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30 45 In the bottom of the door there was a larger opening, about three inches in height and a foot in width, through which pans of water or food could be slipped into the wagon, without opening the main door.
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34 530 Too, we tend to favor on the whole the natural woman, rather like yourself, in height and figure.
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Book 23. (46 results) Renegades of Gor

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1 459 The ground approaching it sloped down, gently, toward its retaining wall, only some inches in height, too low to allow a man cover behind it.
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1 488 This illuminated starkly, for a moment, the palisade at the height of the plateau.
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1 621 I looked up to the height of the stony plateau, and the palisade.
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2 208 Tarn wire, too, I was sure, would be strung about, most of it presumably from the roof of the inn to the height of the palisade.
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2 231 The chains were hitched to different heights, depending on the height of the woman.
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2 282 I recalled that the porter, when I had come to the outer gate, at the height of the bridge over the moat, seeing that I was not a female, had made me show money, and a considerable amount of it, before he had admitted me.
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8 42 In opening, they swung back across the landing platform, which was a foot or two above the level of the height of the palisade.
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8 45 The leaves of the gate were very large, each being some thirty feet in height and some twenty-five feet in width.
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8 319 From this height I could see the countryside for pasangs about.
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8 560 Her knees suddenly bent and she almost climbed up, almost to the height of the saddle.
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8 733 "What are we doing! Where are we?" "We are within a man's height of the ground," I said.
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10 288 Boulders lay about there, probably rolled from the height of the wall.
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10 295 I have come here at great risk! I have a message for Aemilianus from Gnieus Lelius, Regent in Ar! Admit me!" There was silence from the height of the wall.
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10 335 There would be no point in climbing the rope as it could be cut or dropped, or, if I were not welcomed at the height of the wall, I could be cut from it there.
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10 338 I could see his face now, in one of the crenels at the height of the wall, some eighty feet above the embankment at the foot of the wall.
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10 362 I could see one or two fellows standing at the height of the trench.
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10 406 More quarrels struck about me, bursting chips from the wall, some striking me like stinging pebbles, then, at last, after a seemingly endless ascent, hands burning and raw, I was at the height of the wall, some eighty feet above the embankment, and hands reached out, seized me, and pulled me inward,...
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15 77 The expectation of resistance, of course, is at its height early.
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15 454 In general physical characteristics, such as their height and figure, their eyes and hair, their complexion and such, they were rather similar.
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16 5 He turned about and I followed him through the corridor, presumably to the height of the forward wall.
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16 32 Considering the arc, its width and height, I assumed it had been lobbed there by an engine.
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16 103 This area, at least at the moment, perhaps because of its height, and its position over the gate, the ground below soon to be blocked by the ram, the men working it protected by its sturdy shed, was empty.
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16 129 This was the first she would have realized, for certain, I supposed, that she had come to the height of the wall, to the foot of the impaling mount, on my shoulder, and not on that of the executioner.
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17 3 The towers themselves, which taper on the sides and back for stability, but are flat on the approaching surface, to make it possible to come flush with the wall, at that height were about fifteen feet in width.
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17 5 The lower sills of the bridges, from whence they would swing down, clapping, thundering, on the crenelation, were about four or five feet above the height of the wall.
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17 7 There was no accident about the height of the towers.
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17 8 A simple geometrical calculation gives the height of the wall.
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17 19 What is more often done when time permits is to build portable wooden walls, some fifteen feet, or so, in height, with defensive walkways and loopholes for missiles, which are then moved in the path of the towers.
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17 32 At two of the bridges tiles and bricks, some two feet in length and six inches in height and width, met the attackers, not so much to stay the force of the attack as litter the bridge itself, that rushing men, not suspecting them, might stumble and fall.
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17 36 This, given the height of the openings, revealed by the dropped bridges, made it possible to fire at point-blank range, the shovel of one catapult containing a thousand bits of rock and metal, the shovel of the other a large boulder, weighing perhaps fifteen hundred pounds, requiring five men for it...
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17 273 How had the ladder I had repelled managed to reach the height of the wall? I went to my left and bent over the crenelation, leaning over the wall.
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17 280 It was on this artificial hill, built before the gate, that the ladder which had reached to the height of the battlements had been mounted.
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17 592 It was then, at the height of its swing, but a foot from me.
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17 658 I looked up and saw some four or five Cosians creep through the opening at the height of the artificial hill.
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17 661 But two men pushed past him, squinting into the dim covered way, from the height of the hill within the gate.
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18 20 Some had their helmets off, cooling their heads in the breeze, more to be felt at that height.
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18 135 "The throats of the others can be cut!" laughed another from the height of the wall.
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18 136 The tall figure on the height of the wall, the standards behind him, betrayed no emotion.
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18 142 "We ask terms!" The figure on the height of the wall lifted his hand, a small gesture.
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18 164 There now seemed hundreds of bowmen at the height of the wall.
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18 176 It was hard to strike them with quarrels from the height of the wall.
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18 177 I looked wildly to the height of the wall.
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20 395 I saw two of the oarsmen lift her from the height of the plank, down, between the thwarts, and then place her kneeling, behind them, amidships, on the deck.
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21 10 Aemilianus sat on the deck, rather before the steps leading up to the helm deck and, above that, to the height of the stern castle, leaning against a backrest of canvas and rope.
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24 655 Some masters merely arrange the girls in a simple order of height, beginning with the tallest girl, which, to be sure, has a nice effect.
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24 1028 Her glimpse of the Sardar is likely to be obtained from the height of a sales platform.
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Book 24. (10 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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3 243 More importantly, from this height, with the sun on the road, one could see the tracks in the dust.
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19 51 This pole was about seven feet in height.
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19 115 With a beating of the giant wings the creature ascended, struggling with the weight of the tharlarion, and then, after a moment, perhaps from a height of a hundred feet or so, dropped it into the marsh.
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24 108 The height of this bottom board came about a hurt above the level of the armrests.
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27 8 For example, if one is several feet into a pool of it before one realizes this, one might be trapped, too, of course, if the sand is deep, deeper than the height of the trapped organism.
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28 272 "She is perhaps a bit less than medium height for a female".
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28 442 "The Lady Ina," he said, "for whom you have named your capture, was also, as I recall, just a bit short of average height for a female".
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30 46 "I would say some five feet in height," he said.
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44 65 I had picked out one of these, one similar to Ina in height and figure, and rented her for an Ahn, for a tarsk bit.
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46 387 It seemed to me that I was trying to think of something, something which had nearly occurred to me on the height of the tiers.
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Book 25. (8 results) Magicians of Gor

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28 130 Two crossbars, too, had been set across the door, in their brackets, one about the height of a man's chest, the other about the height of his thighs.
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3 705 Her collar was typical of Gorean slave collars in the north, a light, flat, attractive, gleaming band, about a half inch to three-quarters of an inch in height.
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7 150 Talena herself, on the height of the platform, had her hands out, palms up, shaking them negatively, even desperately.
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7 354 A Taurentian then freed his neck of the heavy collar with the radiating chains, by means of which the children had conducted him to the height of the platform.
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8 433 The edges of it tapered up to the height of the wall on each side, in this area, some hundred to a hundred and twenty feet Gorean above the pavement.
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8 807 I looked up toward the height of the breach.
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14 36 A free woman, as long as she remains free, can stand to the fullness of her short, graceful height before men.
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17 179 In a moment the other two fellows who had helped to bear the palanquin, they, too, now without the turbans and plumes, as there was now no point in such accouterments, their no longer being in attendance on the insolent slave, also emerged from stage right, bearing a long wicker trunk, some six feet...
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Book 26. (32 results) Witness of Gor

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1 25 One could not use them, thus, even if they were tall enough, to obtain access to its height.
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1 29 The height of the wall, now that I backed from it, I could see was surmounted by incurved blades.
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1 55 I looked up, again, at the lofty, formidable height of the wall.
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5 3 I had gone to the interior wall, the marbled wall, and touched it, and looked upward, to its height, and the incurved blades at the top.
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5 29 The wall, in its way, aside from its height and thickness, its weight, its formidableness, its rearing terribleness, was mysterious to me.
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5 64 I had touched the wall, and looked up to its height, and the knives.
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7 352 I looked back, wildly, frightened, to the height of the wall, above and behind me.
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7 912 Sometimes even I was grateful for the guards, and for the height and sturdiness of that massive wall within which we were sheltered.
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8 371 It was in depth some twenty feet long, in width some fifteen feet wide, in height some eight or ten feet high.
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9 27 But how contemptuous, and how regal, they had appeared, and so beautifully robed and veiled! Many I was told, wore platforms of a sort on their feet, perhaps as much as eight to ten inches high, which would increase their apparent height, and, of course protect their slippers from being soiled, for ...
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10 661 Indeed, from such a height, even if one is not gagged, it is not practical to communicate.
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10 683 It was flat, narrow, about a half inch in height, and closely fitting, a common collar.
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12 844 It was perhaps some six feet in height, and some two to three feet in diameter.
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13 142 I literally now felt the height of the wall against my thighs.
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14 213 It was a comfortable cell, some eight feet in width and height, some ten feet in depth.
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14 972 Too, if there were any doubts as to the matter, they surely would have been dispelled by the manner in which it was on her, by the height, tightness, and insolence with which it confined her, leaving little of the delights of her lineaments to speculation, the knots jerked tight with casual authorit...
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14 999 "But when we came to the exit, at the height of the tunnels, you hung back," I said.
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16 673 They were similar in height, figure, hair and eye color.
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18 103 At the height of the feast she is put through her paces, between the tables.
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18 207 And how right that collar looked on her neck! How she had looked at it in the mirror, and adjusted it, this morning—so carefully, so admiringly—with such approving vanity! She loved it, the pretty little bitch! To be sure, we were very much the same height.
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19 65 The women were muchly of my own size, but even there, the ornateness of the robes, the height of the hoods, sometimes made it difficult to see.
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24 139 They might not be more than a few yards height above the walls.
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24 604 I had seen him in robes on the height of a tower, on a great chair, as might have been some ruler, some dispenser of justice, and I had seen him in the softness of lounging robes, in his own compartments.
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24 708 On the height of the tower she had been reeling, sick with fear, at the very suggestion that she might be returned to him.
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24 940 At the height of the steps I asked the Lady Constanzia to wait for a moment, while I looked back, across the expanse of the terrace.
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25 14 His lower body was filthy as it seemed that one or more of the tunnels had been flooded to the height of a man's waist, to facilitate the entry of water urts and tharlarion.
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29 831 He then put one finger to the height of the veil, where, near her left eye, rather at the bridge of her nose, he pulled it down, ever so little.
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37 37 I was in the second group as I had been seventh in the slave line, my position there determined by my height.
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40 2 I had been here once before, on the height of this windy, lofty tower.
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40 11 Later, bound hand and foot, I had been carried to the wall again, that I might realize what could be done with me, that I might be cast down from that terrible height.
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40 84 The figure paused on the height of the wall, and turned to face us.
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41 171 Our chins must be elevated to the proper height, our hands must be placed exactly so on our thighs, and so on.
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Book 27. (22 results) Prize of Gor

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4 116 "Release me!" she said, imperiously, coldly, drawing her small frame up to its full height, summoning all the rigor, all the severity, of which she was capable.
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13 231 "They have broken through!" cried the girl on the height of a nearby rack, she who had originally called their attention to the agitation in the distance.
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13 267 Nelsa sped past her, laughing, and clambered to the height of the nearest undamaged rack.
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13 268 She went to its very height, and stood there, balanced, outlined against the sky, her hair shaken in the wind, her gown whipping about her body.
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15 416 How unfortunate that this insight comes so late for some women, say, as they lie sobbing, beaten, their wrists bound to a whipping ring anchored in heavy planks, or as they lie cold and hungry, curled up, clutching a tiny blanket about themselves, on the cement flooring of a kennel, or as they are d...
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15 633 He lifted her in his arms and carried her to the height of the dais, where he put her down, gently, on her knees, to the left of the curule chair, as one might look out from it, to the right of the curule chair, as one would face it.
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16 89 Across the way, behind the stalls, and also behind her, on her side of the square, were brick, tenementlike buildings, some seven or eight stories in height, very different from the tall cylinders she had seen before.
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17 1095 When Ellen became alarmed at the height to which she was being carried, she began to count the steps, or rungs, one after the other.
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17 1097 She could feel wind whipping about at this height, and twice the fellow carrying her stopped in his climb when the wind was particularly fierce.
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18 425 It was small, of course, no more than an inch or so in height, but she had seen the mark before, on a wall, a titanic mark scrawled there, as though angry and defiant, in dimensions of several feet.
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18 431 Ellen clasped her hands behind the back of her head, and held her head up and back, in this position looking rather at the height of the great portal, leading into the barn area, from the platform outside.
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19 119 The gates are large, and heavy, and barred, some fourteen to fifteen feet in height, some ten feet in width.
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20 86 Curious, she determined that the coffle was not arranged in order of height, as are many smaller coffles.
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22 709 As it stood on its hind legs it was some eight feet in height, and its arms must have been five feet in length.
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24 123 When her attributes had been recorded, her height, weight, measurements, identifying marks, collar size, languages, literacy, skills and such, she had been asked about dancing but she had, of course, responded negatively.
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25 105 Ellen's cage, and some similar cages, but most much larger, some even like exhibition cages, containing several girls, were within a large, canvas-walled area, the canvas strung upon and held upright by poles, behind and adjacent to the sales area itself, with its great block at one end, a block som...
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25 541 Ellen could see no order in the way girls were removed from the chains, to be dragged to the height of the block, one at a time.
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27 79 One might note, in passing, that the usual Gorean taste in women tends to favor the statistically natural or normal woman, the lovely, nicely figured woman of average height and weight, who as a slave fits nicely in a man's arms, as opposed to the more unusual "model types," who tend to be awkward, ...
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27 225 She had little doubt but what so remarkable a feature might be detectable from a height, and much more easily than from a position on the ground, unless one were in the actual wake of the wagon itself.
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27 228 From the height of the wagon he could see much farther than was possible from the level of the ground.
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27 374 Fel Doron had caught the scent first, perhaps because of his height on the wagon box.
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27 945 Kardok stood up, his height expanding upward, almost as though he were slowly, somehow unnaturally enlarging, to something like nine feet.
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Book 34. (1 results) Plunder of Gor

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10 96 She is a pleasant average height, much the same height as most slaves.
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Book 36. (1 results) Avengers of Gor

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52 120 Much depends, of course, on a variety of factors, the height of the mast, the type of sail on the yard, say, a fair-weather sail or storm sail, or such, and the point from which the observation is made, say, from the main deck or the height of one's own mast, and so on.
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