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Book 1. (59 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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4 88 The Lower Castes, incidentally, commonly believe that the names of the High Castes are actually use-names and that the High Castes conceal their real names.
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1 82 It was about twelve inches long and four inches high.
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2 4 I seemed to be lying on some hard, flat object, perhaps a table, in a circular room with a low ceiling some seven feet high.
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3 70 For example, the population as a whole, the castes below the High Castes, were encouraged to believe that their world was a broad, flat disk.
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3 72 On the other hand, the High Castes, specifically the Warriors, Builders, Scribes, Initiates, and Physicians, were told the truth in such matters, perhaps because it was thought they would eventually determine it for themselves, from observations such as the shadow of their planet on one or another o...
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3 77 "Rulers," he said, "are chosen from any High Caste".
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3 78 "High Caste?" I asked.
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3 86 "The High Castes in a given city," said my father, "elect an administrator and council for stated terms.
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3 141 It was still too rigid, in my opinion, particularly with respect to the selection of rulers from the High Castes and with respect to the Double Knowledge.
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3 144 A man who refused to practice his livelihood or strove to alter status without the consent of the Council of High Castes was, by definition, an outlaw and subject to impalement.
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3 269 The tarn is one of the two most common mounts of a Gorean warrior; the other is the high tharlarion, a species of saddle-lizard, used mostly by clans who have never mastered tarns.
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4 2 I seized it, using it like a puny stick, striking at the great snapping beak that was trying to seize me, as if I were a scrap of food on the high, flat plate of the cylinder's roof.
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4 86 At the level of the Second Knowledge, of course, the High Castes, at least in general, recognize the baseless superstition of the Lower Castes and use their own names comparatively freely, usually followed by the name of their city.
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4 117 If we were on the high bridges, it would have been more than a thousand feet away.
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4 128 The Chamber of the Council is the room in which the elected representatives of the High Castes of Ko-ro-ba hold their meetings.
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4 132 Benches of stone, on which the members of the Council sat, rose in five monumental tiers about the walls, one tier for each of the High Castes.
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4 140 I was pleased to note that my own caste, that of the Warriors, was accorded the least status; if I had had my will, the warriors would not have been a High Caste.
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4 150 "I, Tarl, Swordsman of Ko-ro-ba, give my word that this man is fit to become a member of the High Caste of Warriors".
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4 163 "Then," said my father, placing his hands solemnly on my shoulders, "in virtue of my authority as Administrator of this city and in the presence of the Council of High Castes, I declare you to be a Warrior of Ko-ro-ba".
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5 52 Certain portions of the ceremonies, however, are often allotted to members of the High Castes.
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5 54 Most significantly, while these members of the High Castes perform their portions of the ritual, the Guards of the Home Stone temporarily withdraw to the interior of the cylinder, leaving the celebrant, it is said, alone with the Priest-Kings.
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5 113 I whistled softly to myself—my ex-slave would have come high.
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5 140 They are diurnal hunters and eat only what they catch themselves, usually one of the fleet Gorean antelopes or a wild bull, taken on the run and lifted in the monstrous talons to a high place, where it is torn to pieces and devoured.
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5 187 When I neared Ar, I crouched low in the saddle and hoped that the speck against a moon which might be seen by the watchmen of the outlying towers would be taken for a wild tarn, flying high over the city.
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6 129 Luckily I did immediately as he had advised, fixing my grip deep in the long black hairs that covered his thorax, for Nar suddenly raced to a nearby swamp tree and scuttled high into its branches.
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6 177 Many of the free women of Gor and almost always those of High Caste wear the Robes of Concealment, though, of course, their garments are seldom as complex or splendidly wrought as those of a Ubar's daughter.
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6 215 She shuddered at the memory, and I pitied her for what must have been a horrifying experience, lashed helpless to the saddle of a giant tarn reeling in a death struggle for the mastery of a flock, high over the trees of the swamp forest.
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7 39 The shoe was at least ten inches high.
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8 3 The soldier, beginning at the high, ornate collar of the girl's robes, began to break the braided loops, ripping them loose from their hooks; methodically he tore her robes apart and pulled them down and over her shoulders; in half a dozen tugs the heavy layers of her garments had been jerked downwa...
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8 131 High Caste daughters in Ar are raised in the Walled Gardens, like flowers, until some highborn suitor, preferably a Ubar or Administrator, will pay the bride price set by their fathers".
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8 142 Of High Caste, it was natural that she was above the common superstitions connected with revealing one's name.
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9 16 Theoretically, given the seclusion of the High Caste women of Ar, their gilded confinement in the Walled Gardens, it should be reasonably easy to conceal her identity.
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9 62 Late in the day we glimpsed a solitary tarnsman high above the road, a lonely image that depressed both myself and Talena.
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9 94 He rode the species of tharlarion called the high tharlarion, which ran on its two back feet in great bounding strides.
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9 109 "You would have me believe that she is of High Caste," he said.
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10 62 "Is she of High Caste?" asked Mintar, apparently puzzled at my lack of interest in his bargaining.
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10 63 Perhaps his price was too low for a girl of High Caste.
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10 72 She foolishly ran away with me, thinking I would take her to Ar, to dress her in jewels and silks and give her quarters in the high cylinders.
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10 112 In those days I learned to master the high tharlarion, one of which had been assigned to me by the caravan's tharlarion master.
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10 116 The high tharlarions, unlike their draft brethren, the slow-moving, four-footed broad tharlarions, were carnivorous.
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10 120 When the high tharlarion moves slowly, its stride is best described as a proud, stalking movement, each great clawed foot striking the earth with a measured rhythm.
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10 121 When urged to speed, however, the high tharlarion bounds, in great leaping movements that carry it twenty paces at a time.
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10 126 In addition, the mounted warriors inevitably wear a high, soft pair of boots called tharlarion boots.
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11 54 It was, of course, far more desirable to bring a high price, thereby guaranteeing that one's master would be well-fixed.
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11 61 I had noticed that there was among the crowd one tall, somber figure who sat alone on a high, wooden throne, surrounded by tarnsmen.
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12 28 From somewhere I saw a small, round object sailing high into the air, out over the river.
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12 108 High on a sunlit mountain ledge, the sable tarn dropped me to the sticks and brush of its nest and set one steel-shod taloned foot across my body, to hold me steady as the great beak did its work.
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13 7 I took the tarn high, to bring a circle of some two hundred pasangs or so under my view.
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13 12 Shielded among the crags of the Voltai, invisible except from directly above, I saw four or five small cooking fires, such as might mark the camp of a mountain patrol or a small company of hunters, perhaps after the agile and bellicose Gorean mountain goat, the long-haired, spiral-horned verr, or, m...
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15 2 Its splendid, defiant shimmering cylinders loomed proudly behind the snowy marble ramparts, its double walls—the first three hundred feet high; the second, separated from the first by twenty yards, four hundred feet high—walls wide enough to drive six tharlarion wagons abreast on their...
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15 60 I had carefully determined that the corral into which I dropped did not contain the saddle lizards, the high tharlarions, those ridden by Kazrak and his tharlarion lancers.
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15 120 He sat cross-legged, his back straight and his head high, in the fashion of a warrior.
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16 123 We stopped before a resplendent tent of yellow-and-red silk, some forty feet in diameter and twenty feet high at the dome.
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17 31 In a surprise move, which perhaps should have been anticipated, the High Initiate of the city of Ar appeared on the walls.
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18 59 There are two systems of courts on Gor—those of the City, under the jurisdiction of an Administrator or Ubar, and those of the Initiates, under the jurisdiction of the High Initiate of the given city; the division corresponds roughly to that between civil and what, for lack of a better word, ...
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18 62 I noted with repulsion that on the roof of the Cylinder of Justice there shimmered a public impaling spear of polished silver, some fifty feet high, gleaming, looking like a needle in the distance.
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19 37 The high impaling post, normally visible on the top of the cylinder, had been lowered.
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20 21 Marlenus, in spite of his heroic role in the victory, submitted himself to the judgment of Ar's Council of High Castes.
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20 28 His appointment was confirmed by Ar's Council of High Castes, and his popularity in the city is such that it seems probable that in the future the office will be his by free election.
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Book 2. (47 results) Outlaw of Gor

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20 62 If the High Initiate of Ar should ever succeed in extending his hegemony over the High Initiates of rival cities, a hegemony which he claims he possesses already incidentally, a unified calendar might be introduced.
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21 205 Perhaps I had once been in the trade? Actually, fifty silver tarn disks was an extremely high price, and indicated the girl was probably of high caste as well as extremely beautiful.
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26 47 I had thought this pointless, and perhaps dangerous, but Kron had said simply, "Let those who fear to walk the high bridges not walk the high bridges".
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2 29 With this weapon groups of men hunt even the larl in its native haunts in the Voltai Range, that incredible pantherlike carnivore which may stand six to eight feet high at the shoulder.
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2 37 This was as it should be, as I was of that caste, and had been since that morning, some seven years ago, when in the Chamber of the Council of High Castes I had accepted weapons from the hands of my father, Matthew Cabot, Administrator of Ko-ro-ba, and had taken the Home Stone of that city as my own...
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3 39 In rare cases, one might have been permitted by the Council of High Castes to raise caste.
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3 82 Whereas I was of high caste and he of low, yet in his own hut he would be, by the laws of Gor, a prince and sovereign, for then he would be in the place of his own Home Stone.
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3 83 Indeed, a cringing whelp of a man, who would never think of lifting his eyes from the ground in the presence of a member of one of the high castes, a crushed and spiritless churl, an untrustworthy villain or coward, an avaricious and obsequious peddler often becomes, in the place of his own Home Sto...
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5 4 Ko-ro-ba was not set as high and remote as, for example, was Thentis in the mountains of Thentis, famed for its tarn flocks, but it was not a city of the vast plains either, like the luxurious metropolis of Ar, or of the shore, like the cluttered, crowded, sensuous Port Kar on the Tamber Gulf.
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6 64 I had seen a man die the Flame Death, the High Initiate of Ar on the summit of Ar's Cylinder of Justice, consumed in the sudden burst of blue fire that bespoke the displeasure of the Priest-Kings.
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6 87 Though she is clad only in the almost transparent scarlet dancing silks of Gor, her back is straight, her head high.
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8 13 Indeed, it was known that some free women actually envied their lightly clad sisters in bondage, free, though wearing a collar, to come and go much as they pleased, to feel the wind on the high bridges, the arms of a master who celebrated their beauty and claimed them as his own.
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8 54 It was railed, as most Gorean bridges, high or low, are not.
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9 85 "This is not a place," said the man, "for one of High Caste".
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9 91 "You are of high caste, of the Caste of Warriors," said the proprietor.
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11 18 Beneath this mask, there was, on a high dais, a monumental throne of gold.
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11 19 On the broad steps leading to the throne, there were curule chairs, on which sat, I supposed, members of the High Council of Tharna.
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11 162 "I know," said Ost, "that the leader of the conspiracy is a high person in Tharna—one who wears the silver mask, a woman".
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12 74 After all, though the Caste of Singers, or Poets, was not a high caste, it had more prestige than, for example, the Caste of Pot-Makers or Saddle-Makers, with which it was sometimes compared.
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12 111 "The Caste of Physicians," she said, "under the direction of the High Council of Tharna, arranges these matters".
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12 126 "When he was safe," she said, "I did my duty, giving myself up, going before the High Council of Tharna and confessing all.
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12 129 "You should not have given yourself to the High Council," I said.
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13 24 It was an oval enclosure, perhaps a hundred yards in diameter on its longest axis, and enclosed by walls about twelve feet high.
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14 27 No sooner had I reached the center than one of the sections of the wall rolled back, revealing a portal almost as high as the wall and perhaps thirty feet in width.
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14 62 Its head was high, alert in the leather darkness of its hood.
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15 32 More than the gold of a hundred merchants, more than the countless cylinders of Ar, he treasures those sublime, lonely moments, high over the earth, cut by the wind, he and the bird as one creature, alone, lofty, swift, free.
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15 53 The great bird paused in flight, braking with its wings, and then smoothly descended to a high ledge on one of the ridges, a ledge commanding the countryside for pasangs around, a ledge accessible only on tarnback.
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16 83 I twisted it and thrust it up and high over my left arm, and with a sudden downward wrench snapped it at the elbow.
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18 104 There was an iron grating set in the stone, about eight feet high in the shaft.
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18 147 The water was perhaps two feet high in the cell, pressing upward toward the low ceiling, when I followed Andreas into the tunnel.
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19 45 We could see the great chains dangling down the shaft, outlined by the small lamps in the openings of other mines above us, and, very high above, by the white reflection of moonlight.
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19 49 I sent several men climbing to the top of the chains so high above.
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19 84 We will be pursued and ridden down by the lancers who ride the high tharlarions! We will be hunted and slain from the air by the bolts of tarnsmen!" "But we will die free!" cried Andreas of Tor, and his cry was echoed by hundreds of voices.
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19 96 And it seemed strange to me that this rebellion, this willingness to pursue the right as they saw it, independently of the will of the Priest-Kings, had come not first from the proud Warriors of Gor, nor the Scribes, nor the Builders nor Physicians, nor any of the high castes of the many cities of G...
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20 77 A chill not of the high winds which buffeted me on tarnback now crept into my body.
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20 86 The mountains before me were black, except for the high peaks and passes, which showed white patches and threads of cold, gleaming snow.
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20 90 I took the tarn as high as I could, until his wings beat frantically against the thin air, but could see nothing in the Sardar Mountains that might be the habitation of Priest-Kings.
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20 118 A similar device, I supposed, might prevent the entry of high tharlarions, the saddle lizards of Gor, into the mountains.
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21 229 And many of the cities of Gor were represented on that chain, sometimes spoken of as the Slaver's Necklace—there was a blond girl from lofty Thentis, a dark-skinned girl with black hair that fell to her ankles from the desert city of Tor, girls from the miserable streets of Port Kar in the de...
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23 180 Suddenly I saw the shields shift, facing us obliquely, and saw the right arms raise, spears high, with no change in the rapid pace of the men.
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24 138 The first rampart was perhaps twelve feet high, the second perhaps twenty.
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24 147 Trained infantry, incidentally, might move rapidly through the streets of a city with shields locked over their heads, much in the fashion of the Roman testudo, but this formation requires discipline and precision, martial virtues not to be expected in high degree of the rebels of Tharna.
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24 247 The torch lifted high, I entered, careful to stay on the plank.
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25 90 The urt was over him, its haunches high, its shoulders almost level with the roof, gnawing.
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26 19 Blood was high in the streets of Tharna after the revolt and angry men, both rebels and defenders, joined in the brutal hunt for silver masks.
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26 46 One change that I find of interest, though I cannot heartily approve, is that the rails have been removed from the high bridges of Tharna.
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26 77 Kron remains in Tharna, where he stands high in the Council of the Tatrix Lara.
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Book 3. (74 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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33 67 I knew that the High Initiate of Ar, following the policies of the High Initiate before him, wished to claim hegemony over all other Initiates, and claimed to possess this already, but his claim, of course, was denied by the other High Initiates who regarded themselves as supreme in their own cities...
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7 31 The second girl was tall, fragile and willowy, with slender ankles and large, hurt eyes; she had dark, curling hair that fell about her shoulders and stood out against the white of her garment; she may have been of High Caste; without speaking to her it would be hard to tell; even then it might be d...
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10 48 He lifted one foreleg high over his head and touched something high in the wall which I could not see.
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13 3 We passed several high steel portals in the hallway and on each of these, about twenty feet high, at the antennae level of a Priest-King, were certain dots, which I was later to learn were scent-dots.
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26 90 "Cabot," she said, "—what if my request were on the lips of a woman of High Caste and of one of the high cities of all Gor—could you refuse it then?" "I don't understand," I said.
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33 50 He was, I gathered, correctly as it turned out, the High Initiate of Ar, he who had been appointed to fill the post of the former High Initiate whom I had seen destroyed by the Flame Death years earlier.
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33 66 Let this sacrifice please your nostrils and now consent to hear our pleas! It is offered by Om, Chief among all the High Initiates of Gor!" "No!" cried a number of other Initiates, the High Initiates of various other cities.
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33 140 "With most," he said, "it is as you think, and they are simple, believing members of my caste, and there are others who suspect the truth and are tormented, or who suspect the truth and will pretend—but I, Om, High Initiate of Ar, and certain of the High Initiates are like none of these".
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1 13 It was not far to the fair of En'Kara, one of the four great fairs held in the shadow of the Sardar during the Gorean year, and I soon walked slowly down the long central avenue between the tents, the booths and stalls, the pavilions and stockades of the fair, toward the high, brassbound timber gate...
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1 63 Sometimes these men are merchants who wish thereby to secure goodwill for their products; sometimes they are practitioners of the law, who hope to sway the votes of jury men; sometimes they are Ubars or High Initiates who find it in their interests to keep the crowds amused.
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2 115 The path was steep but its ascent, here and there, was lightened by high steps.
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2 132 I hesitated for a moment and then the fierce war cry of Ko-ro-ba burst from my lips in the clear, chill air of the Sardar and I threw myself into the open, my spear arm back, my shield high.
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3 59 If one had encountered him in the eighteenth century, one might have taken him for a jolly, snuff-sniffing, roisterous country squire, knowing himself the salt of the earth, not above twitting the parson nor pinching the serving girls; in the nineteenth century he would have owned an old book shop a...
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4 19 In this great dome there was nothing save that at its very center there was a high dais and on this dais there was a large throne carved from a single block of stone.
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4 50 He gazed up at the dome, so high above, and watched the smoke curl slowly upward.
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5 11 There was no door on the room but there was a great portal, perhaps twelve feet wide and eighteen feet high.
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5 154 I listened intently, knowing that the girl could, even if of High Caste, understand little of what had happened to her.
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5 155 Those of the High Castes of Gor are permitted by the Priest-Kings only the Second Knowledge, and those of the lower castes are permitted only the more rudimentary First Knowledge.
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6 32 Perhaps if you can imagine yourself suddenly being forced to sit on rather high end tables you can sense the feeling.
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6 37 It was only with difficulty that she had been restrained from hurling herself in mortification from one of the high bridges.
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6 45 In all these kneeling positions, incidentally, even that of the Pleasure Slave, the Gorean woman carries herself well; her back is straight and her chin is high.
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7 16 Each, like mine, lacked a gate or door, and had for its entrance only that massive portal, perhaps some twelve feet wide and eighteen feet high.
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7 35 Still wondering if she were of High Caste, and smiling to myself, I continued down the passageway.
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7 37 My Chamber Slave's accent had been pure High Caste Gorean though I could not place the city.
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8 140 "We have all the High Castes in Treve," she said, angrily.
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9 116 "He locked me in my chambers, but the High Initiate of the City came with warriors and they broke into our compartments and beat my father until he could not move and I went gladly with them".
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9 120 I knew that Gorean caste lines, though largely following birth, were not inflexible, and that a man who did not care for his caste might be allowed to change caste, if approved by the High Council of his city, an approval usually contingent on his qualifications for the work of another caste and the...
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9 164 I turned to face Vika once more, and I no longer saw the girl to whom I had been speaking but a woman of High Caste, from the bandit kingdom of Treve, insolent and imperious, though collared.
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9 233 It was not more than a yard wide but its head nearly touched the top of the portal and so I would judge that, standing as it did, it must have been nearly eighteen feet high.
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10 44 It walked on four extremely long, slender, four-jointed stalks that were its supporting legs, and carried its far more muscular, four-jointed grasping legs, or appendages, extremely high, almost level with its jaw, and in front of its body.
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10 58 I looked about me and found myself on a high, railed platform, overlooking a vast circular artificial canyon, lined with bridges and terraces.
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10 70 At that moment to my horror a large, perhaps eight feet long and a yard high, multilegged, segmented arthropod scuttled near, its eyes weaving on stalks.
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11 55 "None may see the Mother save her caste attendants and the High Priest-Kings," said Sarm, "the First, Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Born".
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11 123 To my annoyance both of the Priest-Kings seemed immobile, leaning alertly forward into the wind, their forelegs lifted high, their antennae lying flat, streaming backwards.
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12 76 I think he had not forgiven me the start I had given him on the platform high above the canyon, near the elevator.
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12 86 At a signal from Sarm they leaped to their feet and stood alertly beside the dais, their feet spread, their heads high, their arms folded.
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12 184 Before the other could regain his balance, I had leaped to him and seized him in my hands and lifted him high over my head and hurled him on his back to the stone flooring of the long chamber.
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13 35 Beneath the scent-dots on each high portal which Mul-Al-Ka and Mul-Ba-Ta and I passed there was, perhaps for the benefit of humans or others, a stylized outline picture of a form of creature.
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13 117 Looking up I saw beneath the square of scent-dots fixed high on the steel door the stylized outline picture of what was unmistakably a human being.
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14 4 It seemed to be bare except that at one end there were several metal disks in the wall and, high in the wall, there was a transparent shield.
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14 80 I was much annoyed when I found out later that the major difference between high-quality fungus and the lower-grade Mul-Fungus was simply the smell.
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14 157 The first five born of the Mother are the High Council of the Nest.
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15 45 I held the torch high and looked at the Priest-King, who was rather small for a Priest-King, being only about twelve feet long.
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16 80 I had once seen a man die the Flame Death, the High Initiate of Ar, on the roof of Ar's Cylinder of Justice.
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18 64 The fact that I had nearly thrown myself and my two passengers off the disk at high speed onto the flooring of the tunnel did not occur to me at the time.
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18 122 Sarm, standing on that high platform with me, over the bluish dome, over the refulgent power source so far below, lifted his antennae and turned, sweeping them over this vast, intricate, beautiful, formidable domain.
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19 13 "Good," said Sarm, and went to one of the high cabinets in Misk's chamber and touching a button in a certain sequence of long and short presses opened it.
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19 17 From the high cabinet Sarm withdrew my sword belt, my scabbard, and the short, sharp blade of Gorean steel which I had earlier yielded at the request of Misk.
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20 48 The only object in the room other than ourselves was a heavy, globelike contrivance, high over our heads, attached to a set of jointed extensions fastened in the ceiling of the chamber.
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21 1 I Find Misk I followed Mul-Al-Ka and Mul-Ba-Ta into a damp, high, vaulted chamber, unlit by energy bulbs.
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21 13 Mul-Al-Ka lifted the torch as high as he could.
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23 60 I burst into the cavern of the Golden Beetle and held the torch high.
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25 120 To live a tarn must fly, high, far and often.
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25 150 "I see," she said, "that even though I was once a proud woman of the high city of Treve you have not honored me with binding fiber but have bound my limbs only with the thong of your sandal, as though I might be the lowest tavern slave in Ar—carried off on a wager, a whim or caprice".
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26 95 "Look, Warrior of Ko-ro-ba," she said, "a woman of High Caste of the lofty city of Treve kneels before you and begs of you that you will not leave her here".
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26 261 As I thought of our primeval ancestor standing in the mouth of his cave one hand gripping a chipped stone and perhaps the other a torch, his mate behind him and his young hidden in the mosses at the back of the cave I wondered at the genetic gifts that would ensure the survival of man in so hostile ...
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27 67 Its ceiling was only perhaps a hundred feet high but its length and width were considerable and it was filled with golden Priest-Kings, garlanded in green and wearing about their necks that shining, jangling circle of tiny, silverish tools.
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27 87 It was hard to imagine her, uncounted generations ago, with wings of gold in the open air, in the blue sky of Gor, glistening and turning with her lover borne on the high, glorious, swift winds of this distant, savage world.
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31 21 When he was still out of range of the silver tube of Sarm but close enough, I hoped, to be able to hear me, I ran forward, throwing my hands high.
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32 89 To one side, high in the domed wall some energy bulbs burst, emitting a cascade of sparks that looped downwards burning themselves out before striking the floor.
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33 69 "It is the sacrifice of all of us!" cried one of the other High Initiates.
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33 71 "Look!" cried the High Initiate of Ar.
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33 78 "See!" cried the High Initiate of Ar.
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33 80 "The Priest-Kings inhale the smoke of my sacrifice!" "Our sacrifice!" insisted the other High Initiates.
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33 84 Perhaps the Priest-Kings are exhaling now, I thought to myself, but the High Initiate had had more practice in the interpretation of signs than myself.
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33 87 I had hoped that I might have used those moments, that priceless opportunity, before the men of Gor realized the restoration of gravity and normal conditions was occurring, to command them to give up their warlike ways and turn to the pursuit of peace and brotherhood, but the moment, before I realiz...
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33 91 I faced the High Initiate of Ar.
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33 96 "It is well," said the High Initiate.
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33 105 "Do you understand?" asked the High Initiate.
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33 127 And I was thankful that the High Initiate of Ar had interfered.
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33 129 The High Initiate of Ar gestured to the others who crowded about, pressing in on me.
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33 132 The High Initiate of Ar and myself regarded one another.
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33 162 The High Initiate of Ar turned to the other Initiates about.
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34 153 The probability of so beautiful a woman as Talena finding her way through the cities of Gor, over the lonely roads, among the open fields to at last return to Ko-ro-ba was not high.
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Book 4. (77 results) Nomads of Gor

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8 37 From these raids the Wagon Peoples obtain a miscellany of goods which they are willing to barter to the Turians, jewels, precious metals, spices, colored table salts, harnesses and saddles for the ponderous tharlarion, furs of small river animals, tools for the field, scholarly scrolls, inks and pap...
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8 108 I supposed that on the morrow Kamchak would call for the Tuchuk Iron Master, to brand what he called his little barbarian; the brand of the Tuchuk slave, incidentally, is not the same as that generally used in the cities, which, for girls, is the first letter of the expression Kajira in cursive scri...
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9 13 Most commonly, and doubtless unfortunately, it is only members of the five high castes who occupy positions on the High Councils of the cities.
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1 14 "Run, you fool! Run for the gates of Turia!" Turia the high-walled, the nine-gated, was the Gorean city lying in the midst of the huge prairies claimed by the Wagon Peoples.
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1 41 Even the autumn grass itself bent and shook in brown tides toward Turia, shimmering in the sun like a tawny surf beneath the fleeing clouds above; it was as though the unseen wind itself, frantic volumes and motions of simple air, too desired its sanctuary behind the high walls of the far city.
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2 31 It is worthy of a warrior of the caste of Warriors, a swordsman of the high city of Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning.
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2 38 And if I should manage to seize it, how could I carry it away? I had no tarn, one of Gor's fierce saddlebirds; I had not even the monstrous high tharlarion, used as the mounts of shock cavalry by the warriors of some cities.
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2 73 It is near Turia, in the spring, that the Omen Year is completed, when the omens are taken, usually over several days by hundreds of haruspexes, mostly readers of bosk blood and verr livers, to determine if they are favorable for a choosing of a Ubar San, a One Ubar, a Ubar who would be High Ubar, a...
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2 103 The kaiila is extremely agile, and can easily outmaneuver the slower, more ponderous high tharlarion.
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2 146 They are carried in the right fist, easily, and are flexible and light, used for thrusting, not the battering-ram effect of the heavy lances of Europe's High Middle Ages.
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3 105 "But I am of the Caste of Warriors," I said, "of a high city and we do not stain our spears for the stones of men—not even such stones as these".
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4 42 Thrown high the Gorean bola can lock a man's arms to his sides; thrown to the throat it can strangle him; thrown to the head, a difficult cast, the whipping weights can crush a skull.
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6 31 There was, however, literally sewn about her neck, a thick, high leather collar.
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6 46 They had heels, a bit more than an inch high.
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6 93 Elizabeth Cardwell, I decided, would indeed bring a high price.
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6 184 He had not seemed to show much interest in the high, thick leather collar that the girl had had sewn about her neck.
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7 72 During all this time, and torches had been brought, the hours of the night being burned away, Elizabeth Cardwell was not permitted to move, but must needs retain the position of the Pleasure Slave, knees properly placed, back straight, head high, the gleaming chain of the Sirik dangling from the Tur...
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7 101 "Lift your head," he said, and she did, her chin high, the lovely, angry head set proudly on her aristocratic delicate neck.
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7 131 She had been dressed precisely as she had been the morning she had gone to work save that about her throat she had found sewn a high, thick leather collar.
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7 133 Then, after some hours stumbling confused, terrified, hungry through the high, brown grass, she had seen two riders, mounted on swift, strange beasts.
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7 143 Terrified the girl straightened herself and again, knees placed, back straight and head high, knelt before us in the position of the Pleasure Slave.
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8 6 I did manage, however, from the back of the kaiila, which I learned to ride, to catch a glimpse of distant, high-walled, nine-gated Turia.
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9 6 The official reason, proclaimed by Phanius Turmus, the Administrator, and others high in the government, was that those of the Wagon Peoples were unworthy to be entertained in the administrative palace; the real reason, apparently seldom proclaimed by anyone, was that the true power in Turia lay act...
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9 12 It might be mentioned, for those unaware of the fact, that the Caste of Merchants is not considered one of the traditional five High Castes of Gor—the Initiates, Scribes, Physicians, Builders and Warriors.
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9 14 Nonetheless, as might be expected, the gold of merchants, in most cities, exercises its not imponderable influence, not always in so vulgar a form as bribery and gratuities, but more often in the delicate matters of extending or refusing to extend credit in connection with the projects, desires or n...
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9 85 I suppose that life in high-walled Turia, for most of its citizens, went on from day to day in its usual patterns oblivious of the usually distant Wagon Peoples.
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9 234 Her back was very straight and her head high, in the Gorean fashion.
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9 295 The drums and flutes of the musicians sounded, and to my amazement the first girl, with a sudden, graceful swirl of her body lifted away her robes and flung them high over the heads of the guests to cries of delight.
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9 404 So then Kamchak bent down to where Aphris of Turia knelt, her back straight, her head very high, before the low table.
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10 18 It was one of the highest prices ever paid among the wagons for a slave and I judged that Albrecht had sorely missed his little Tenchika; the high price he was forced to pay for the girl was made even more intolerable by Kamchak's amusement at his expense, roaring with laughter and slapping his knee...
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10 83 When I had lifted her to her feet I noted, in the distance, a bit of dust moving from one of the gates of the city towards us, probably two or three warriors mounted on high tharlarion.
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10 186 The stakes, flat-topped, each about six and half feet high and about seven or eight inches in diameter, stand in two long lines facing one another in pairs.
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10 273 I wondered how many of the proud beauties of Turia would this night tearfully serve barbarian masters; and how many of the wild, leather-clad girls of the Wagons, like Hereena, would find themselves this night naught but bangled, silken slaves locked behind the high walls of distant, lofty Turia.
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10 450 The warrior of the Wagon Peoples does not use the short sword, probably because such a weapon could not be optimally used from the saddle of the kaiila; the saber, incidentally, which would be somewhat more effective from kaiilaback, is almost unknown on Gor; its role, I gather, is more than fulfill...
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11 78 "The price is too high," he said.
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11 182 It was too bad, I thought, but at least I supposed there would be one fellow among the wagons, the young man Harold, he whom the girl had so abused, he who had not yet won the Courage Scar, who would be just as pleased as not that she, with all her contempt and spleen, was now delightfully salted aw...
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11 264 "I do not suppose I shall be fortunate enough to be sold?" "She would probably bring a high price," pointed out Elizabeth, hopefully.
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12 26 At that time Kutaituchik and other high men among the Tuchuks, doubtless including Kamchak, would be afield, on the rolling hills surrounding the Omen Valley, in which, on the hundreds of smoking altars, the haruspexes of the four peoples would be practicing their obscure craft, taking the omens, tr...
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12 484 She was of Earth and knew not the flames which her words might have evoked in the breast of a Gorean warrior—nor did she understand herself truly nor the relation in which she, slave girl, stood to a free man to whom she had been for the hour given—I could not tell her that another war...
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13 53 There Kamchak braceleted her wrists high over her head about the rim and over one of the spokes.
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13 56 Her head was high.
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13 127 While near Kutaituchik's wagon, on the dais, he also conferred with several other high men among the Tuchuks.
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14 6 During the day the rapid movements of these individually maneuverable units are dictated by bosk horn and movements of the standards; at night by the bosk horns and the war lanterns slung on high poles carried by riders.
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14 11 Then the women climb to the top of the high sides on the wagons and watch the war lanterns in the distance, reading them as well as the men, seeing if the wagons must move, and in what direction.
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14 50 I saw two yellow lanterns and a red lantern on the high pole.
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14 54 They must be mercenaries! Kamchak did not return to his own wagon but now raced his kaiila, followed by a hundred men, toward the high ground on which stood the standard of the four bosk horns, on which stood the huge wagon of Kutaituchik, called Ubar of the Tuchuks.
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15 43 Now, to my chagrin, the sphere lay not in a Tuchuk wagon on the open prairie but, presumably, in the House of Saphrar, a merchant stronghold, behind the high, white walls of Turia.
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16 162 "I would introduce our hooded friend," explained Saphrar, "but even I do not know his name nor face—only that he stands high among the Paravaci and accordingly has been of great use to me".
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17 56 This train of observation was interrupted by the arrival of Saphrar's two men-at-arms bearing a wooden barrier of sorts, about four and a half feet high and twelve feet wide, which they set between myself and my captors, and Saphrar, the Paravaci and those with the crossbow.
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17 86 It was almost as if it were lower in the center and the edges higher near the marble basin, inching as high as they could toward our sandals.
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18 74 Standing now on the high, humped dried thing—lofty on that protective coating—I leaped easily up and seized one of the low hanging vines and climbed rapidly toward the blue ceiling of the chamber.
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18 102 We heard running feet approaching, those of several men, the clank of arms, the high-pitched, enraged screaming of Saphrar of Turia.
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18 116 About a hundred and fifty yards away, over several small roofs and domes, all within the vast compound that was the House of Saphrar of Turia, I saw the high walls of what was undoubtedly a Pleasure Garden.
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20 154 And in a moment we were speeding high over the city of Turia.
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20 158 As we sped high over the prairie I wondered at how it was that Kamchak was withdrawing the wagons and bosk from Turia—that he would so soon abandon the siege.
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21 57 I soon learned, to my irritation, that one could not approach the high compound wall more closely than ten spear lengths.
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21 69 I had just picked up the last stone and tucked it back in my pouch and was about to rise from my knees when I found myself staring at the high, heavy sandals, almost boots, of a warrior.
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21 164 The Caste of Bakers is not regarded as a high caste, to which one looks for nobility and such; and yet her father and her brothers, outnumbered, had fought and died for their tiny shop; and this courageous girl, with a valor I might not have expected of many warriors, weaponless, alone and friendles...
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21 170 Sometimes Dina and I, in our walking about the city, would ascend the high walls and look out over the plains.
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21 172 Indeed, the broad walk, some thirty feet wide, within the high walls of Turia, with the view over the plains, is a favorite promenade of Turian couples.
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21 214 I would rather have expected Kamchak to have stood before the walls of Turia, his kaiila saddled, his arrows at hand, until the winds and snows had at last driven him, the Tuchuks, the wagons and the bosk away from the gates of the beleaguered city, the nine-gated, high-walled stronghold of Turia, i...
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21 252 And Dina of Turia ran down the walkway, along the rim of the high wall of Turia.
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22 7 Most of the High Council of Turia, too, now reposed in Tuchuk chains.
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22 9 The compound of the House of Saphrar, however, had not fallen, protected by its numerous guardsmen and its high walls, nor had the tower elsewhere that sheltered the tarn cots and warriors of Ha-Keel, the mercenary from Port Kar.
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22 37 We came to a high, walled structure and began walking about it.
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22 65 By this time I had followed Harold over to a corner of the courtyard wall, which was heaped high, banked into the corner, with precious metals, plates, cups; bowls of jewels; necklaces and bracelets; boxes of coins and, in heavy, wooden crates, numerous stacked cubes of silver and gold, each stamped...
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22 109 Near him, in places of honor, at a long, low table, above the bowls of yellow and red salt, on each side, sat many of the high men of Turia, clad in their finest robes, their hair oiled, scented and combed for the banquet.
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22 123 "Neither did the Turians," remarked Harold, reaching over the shoulder of one of the high council of Turia and taking a candied verr chop.
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22 139 More foods and wines were served, and even the high men of Turia, at quiva point, were forced to drink heavily and some began to mumble and weep, while the feasters grew, to the barbaric melodies of the musicians, ever more merry and wild.
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24 17 "The stakes were high," I said.
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26 43 Very high in the sky, no more than a small speck, speeding toward the compound of Saphrar from the direction of the tower I believed held by Ha-Keel, we saw a tarn.
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26 46 The men held their fire, and the tarn, almost at the center of the compound, as far from our encircling positions as possible, suddenly plummeted downward, its wings high, opening them only at the last minute to land on the top of the keep, beyond accurate crossbow range.
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26 204 "Do not approach!" cried Saphrar, "or I shall destroy the golden sphere!" He tore away the purple cloth that had enfolded the golden sphere and then lifted it high over his head.
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26 332 Suddenly, far off, we heard a weird scream, high, wavering, and the shrill howls of frustrated sleen.
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26 402 "Pa-Kur," I said, "defeated in personal combat on the high roof of the Cylinder of Justice in Ar, turned and to avoid capture threw himself over the ledge.
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27 3 On the last day before the withdrawal of the Wagon Peoples from nine-gated, high-walled Turia, Kamchak held court in the palace of Phanius Turmus.
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27 221 "This woman," said Kamchak of the Tuchuks, brusquely, his voice stern but almost breaking, "is called Aphris—know her—she is Ubara of the Tuchuks, she is Ubara Sana, of my heart Ubara Sana!" We let Kamchak and Aphris ride ahead, and followed them, by some hundred yards, toward the main...
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Book 5. (121 results) Assassin of Gor

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2 255 "The Administrator is appointed by the High Council of the City and the High Initiate by the High Council of the Initiates of the City".
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2 53 Beyond the area of the sand and the many tables there was a high wall, some twenty feet or so high, in which there were four levels, each containing seven small curtained alcoves, the entrances to which were circular, with a diameter of about twenty-four inches.
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2 254 "Without the gold of this house, how could the Administrator and the High Initiate have sponsored the races and the games that won them the favor of the lower castes?" "But the lower castes do not elect the Administrator or the High Initiate," said Kuurus.
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3 55 In Ar, the high bridge near the Central Cylinder, housing the palace of the Ubar and the meeting place of the city's High Council, was held, and had been for four years, by the young and brilliant, fiery Scormus of Ar.
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12 22 Near the finishing perches, nine of which were standing for this race, were the areas reserved for the Administrator, the High Initiate, and members of the High Council.
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16 14 It perhaps need only be added that now being a Warrior, and thus of High Caste, he was now eligible for a seat on the High Council of the city, and even for the throne itself, whether it be that of Administrator or Ubar.
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18 187 The Cylinder of the High Initiate then petitioned the High Council of the City to stop our work, but they, on the recommendation of Marlenus, who was then Ubar, permitted our work to continue".
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19 142 An extremely good price, under relatively normal market conditions, for a truly beautiful woman of High Caste tends to be about thirty pieces of gold, though some go as high as forty, and fifty is not unknown; these prices, for women of low caste, may be approximately halved.
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2 176 "It has been hard in Ar," said the man, "since the deposition of Kazrak of Port Kar as Administrator of the City, and since the murder of Om, the High Initiate of the City".
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2 181 After the murder of Om, who had been on tolerable terms with the Administrator, the new High Initiate, Complicius Serenus, in studying the omens of the white bosk slain at the Harvest Feast had, to his apparent horror, discovered that they had stood against Kazrak.
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2 190 Whereas it is only the men of high caste who elect members to the Council of the City, the gold of merchants and the will of the general populace is seldom disregarded in their choices.
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2 198 "When one goes out at night, even on the high bridges, one must have men with one.
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2 210 "Further," said he, "Merchants arm and train squads of such men and rent them, for high wages, to the citizens of given streets and cylinders".
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2 250 "Those of this house stand near the Administrator, and the High Initiate," said Portus.
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2 253 "The Administrator and the High Initiate," asked Kuurus, "owe their thrones to the gold of this house?" Portus laughed bitterly.
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2 258 "And there are many in the High Councils of the City who, if forced to decide between the steel of the hook knife and the feel of gold in their pouch, will choose gold to steel".
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2 286 "I thought for a time," he said, "that they intended to sell at a radical loss until the other slave houses were forced to close, and then to recoup their losses with profit by setting their own prices—but then when I considered again the gold which sponsored the games and races honoring the ...
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2 329 Kuurus threw the silk and chain over his shoulder and motioned the girl to move ahead of him and, numbly, she did so, crossing the room, going between the tables, and stopping before the narrow ladder at the right side of the high wall, in which were found the ledges with their alcoves.
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2 331 The alcove, with its enclosing, curved walls, was only about four feet high and five feet wide.
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3 11 Its walls, its countless cylinders, its spires and towers, its lights, its beacons, the high bridges, the lamps, the lanterns of the bridges, are unbelievably exciting and fantastic, particularly as seen from the more lofty bridges or the roofs of the higher cylinders.
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3 22 The man who called out wore a robe of checkered red and yellow squares, and the game board, of similar squares, with ten ranks and ten files, giving a hundred squares, hung over his back; slung over his left shoulder, as a warrior wears a sword, was a leather bag containing the pieces, twenty to a s...
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3 38 The odds are usually one to forty, one copper tarn disk against a forty-piece, sometimes against an eighty-piece, and sometimes the amateur who would play the master insists on further limitations, such as the option to three consecutive moves at a point in the game of his choice, or that the master...
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3 180 "Ubar's Rider of the High Tharlarion," said the Player, "to Ubar's Physician Eight".
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3 184 Was this man not a Player? Relentlessly the Vintner forced through again with his Second Spearman, this time capturing the Player's Ubara's Rider of the High Tharlarion.
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3 210 The crowd and I cried out with delight, marveling on it, the now-apparent simplicity of it, the attack which had been not so much mounted as revealed by the apparently meaningless moves, intended only to clear the board for the vital attack, coming from the improbable Ubara's Scribe, one of the leas...
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3 228 "Can I help you to your home?" "You are surely of High Caste," said the Player, "to have such gold".
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4 3 His large hands rested over the arms of the curved curule chair in which he sat, which was mounted on a platform of stone, about a foot high and twelve feet square.
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4 17 The room was lit, and grayly, by sunlight now filtering in through several narrow, barred windows set very high in the thick stone of the walls.
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4 62 "A knife on the high bridge," said I, "in the vicinity of the Cylinder of Warriors—at the Twentieth Ahn—in the darkness and the shadows of the lamps".
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4 107 The Administrator of Ar himself, and the High Initiate, are partisans of the green".
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5 143 And, as the hour progressed, perform she did, and superbly so, and I knew that had I been a prospective buyer I would have bid high indeed for the skilled, sensuous little wench in my arms, so striving with all her quickness and beauty to please me.
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5 513 She still wore the brief, exciting leather of a Tuchuk wagon girl and, when striding the high bridges, her hair in the wind, she attracted much attention, not only, obviously, from the men, but from women, both slave and free.
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5 541 "Well then," said Elizabeth, "what are you ashamed of?" Then Elizabeth strode to her and, to the girl's horror, on one of the public high bridges, face-stripped her.
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5 567 "Do you really think I would bring so high a price—Rena?" "Yes, Mistress," said the girl.
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5 586 Surely there had been scandalized mention of her in circles even as august as that of the High Council of the City.
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5 617 I had decided to wait until the Fourth Passage Hand, that following En'Var, and then take tarn for Ar, where I would pose as a mercenary tarnsman seeking employment in the House of Cernus, but when the Warrior from Thentis, who resembled me, was slain early in En'Var, I decided to go to Ar in the gu...
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7 2 I, and Cernus and Ho-Tu, and others, stood in the lonely darkness of a recessed ledge on a high peak in the Voltai, some pasangs northeast of Ar.
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7 20 "You did well to sit high at the table".
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7 23 "But not so high as I," he said.
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7 121 Among them was a high-powered rifle with telescopic sights.
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8 138 Even in Thentis black wine is used commonly only in High Caste homes".
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9 43 At such private auctions, conducted secretly, Gorean slavers sometimes find it convenient to dispose of important, High Caste women without trace, sometimes even from the city of Ar itself, perhaps women who have lived proudly, luxuriously, not more than a pasang or two from the rounded, wooden bloc...
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9 68 Ho-Tu turned into a side corridor and we found ourselves, to my surprise, looking through a huge rectangle of glass, some twelve feet high and perhaps fifteen feet wide; it was one of a dozen such panels I could see in the corridor.
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9 127 "Normally the agent of a Ubar who has been victorious in battle will purchase one, for his high officers, to be brought to the victory feast".
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10 8 On our side of the glass there was a metal grillwork, with rectangular openings about twelve inches long and four inches high.
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10 11 It might have been the private compartment of a lady of High Caste save that, of course, in this house it was a cell.
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10 47 "But such would not be likely to bring a high price," I observed.
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11 29 The kitchen for the pens is on this level, and the infirmary, and certain facilities for smiths; Ho-Tu kept his chair of office on this level; also, discipline was administered on this level, I gathered, seeing certain racks and chains, certain stone tables with straps, certain carefully arranged in...
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11 55 I supposed the requirements of the slaves were high.
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12 25 Nearby, but lofty, as though disinterested, on a throne of white marble, but between two Warriors as well, sat the High Initiate.
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12 27 I noted that a green banner hung over the wall before both the thrones of the Administrator and the High Initiate, indicating they favored the greens.
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12 28 The Warriors who flanked the Administrator and High Initiate, incidentally, were Taurentians, members of the palace guard, an elite corps of swordsmen and bowmen, carefully selected, specially trained, independent of the general military organizations of the city.
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12 31 There were other favored areas, too, about the stands, in the front, each covered by awnings, in which there sat members of the numerous high families of the city; I noted that some of these areas were now occupied by Merchants; I had no objection to this for I have always thought higher of the Merc...
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12 48 The High Initiate had risen to his feet and accepted a goblet from another Initiate, probably containing minced, flavored ices, for the afternoon was warm.
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12 59 Generally, it was a small faction patch sewn on the left shoulder; the faction patches of the High-Caste women tended to be fine silk, and tastefully done; those of low-caste women merely a square of crudely stitched, dyed rep-cloth; some of the masters had dressed their slave girls in slave livery ...
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12 288 Sura removed her thumb and Virginia kept her fine head on its delicate neck high.
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12 357 The charge must have been high, judging by the intense shower of fiery yellow needles of light and the screams of pain from the three girls.
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13 8 The Administrator himself, with his consort, and many others of the high family, had locked themselves in their quarters, secluding themselves in their outrage and sorrow.
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13 10 On the roof of the Cylinder of Initiates the High Initiate, Complicius Serenus, offered sacrifices and prayers for the speedy return of the girl and, failing that, that she might be found slain, that she might not be reduced to the shames of slavery.
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13 18 It is one thing to drop a loop about a girl on a high bridge in streaking over the walls and quite another to pick up the daughter of an Administrator in her own quarters and make off with her.
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13 140 "She is free," said Nela, "and of high birth and rich.
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13 238 The perches were actually a gigantic, curving framework of tem-wood four stories high, and following the circular wall of the cylinder.
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13 307 With a tap on the two-strap I took the bird in a sudden breathtaking sweep to the high right and in an instant had joined Mip in flight.
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13 328 In a moment Mip had alighted beside me on the high rail circling the top of the stadium.
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14 86 "Also," I said, "I would like to find out who slew the Warrior from Thentis, he who died on the high bridge in Ko-ro-ba near the Cylinder of Warriors".
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14 103 I gathered that those now high in Ar had good reason for such desperate attempts to locate and slay the former Ubar.
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14 147 The girl had black hair, swirling and long, beautiful, which had never been cut, and flashing black eyes, high cheekbones.
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15 124 There had been nothing clandestine about her sale, and it was unlikely that she would not be able to convince her master, eventually, that she was of high family in Ar and might be richly ransomed.
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15 146 I supposed they had succumbed to gold, for slavers pay high for their hired swords.
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15 151 It is thought to be good luck to buy a girl on that feast, so prices tend to be high.
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15 225 In the beginning, when moving about the house, the girls had been permitted only the garb customarily worn in the sweat and motion of the training, a rectangle of silk, about a foot long, thrust into a silken string knotted about the waist; Virginia and Phyllis would not even leave their cells so cl...
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16 6 Further, because of his services to the state, including the sponsorship of games and races, Cernus was, upon the petition of Saphronicus, Captain of the Taurentians, invested in the scarlet of the Warrior, thus honoring him with High Caste.
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16 9 The High Council, with scarcely a murmur, agreed to the investiture.
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16 32 It was also the day that, before the High Council and the Administrator, Cernus, of the House of Cernus, accepted the red of the Warrior from the hands of Saphronicus, Captain of the Taurentians.
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16 34 On the first day of En'Kara much of the old year had been forgotten, but there were three who could not forget it; Portus, who lay chained in the dungeons of the Central Cylinder; Claudia Tentia Hinrabia, now free, but who had endured the shame of slavery, and would perhaps never again permit hersel...
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16 87 She lifted her head, the chin delicately high.
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16 272 Vaguely I was aware about me of the sounds of men, tense, speaking curt words, mounting into the high saddles of tarns.
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17 87 There was one window high in one wall, narrow, barred.
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17 156 Some of the best swordsmen of Ar, even Warriors of High Caste, eager to be the one to best the mysterious Murmillius, had dared to enter the arena against him, but each of these bold gentlemen he seemed to treat with more scorn than his common foes, playing with them and then, it seemed when he wish...
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17 201 Then, interestingly, minor omens, recorded by the High Initiate, and others, began to turn against the Hinrabian dynasty.
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17 202 Two members of the High Council, who had spoken out against the influence of Merchants in the politics of Ar, presumably a veiled reference to Cernus, were found slain, one cut down by killing knife and another throttled and found dangling from a bridge near his home.
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17 214 Then, as I would have expected, within the month, there were rumors of peculation, and an accounting and investigation, theoretically to clear the name of the Hinrabian, was demanded by one of the High Council, a Physician whom I had seen upon occasion in the house.
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17 219 The day before he surrendered his robes the High Initiate, reading the liver of a sacrificial bosk, had confirmed what all by then were anticipating, that the omens stood strongly against the Hinrabian dynasty.
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17 220 The High Council receiving the promise of Minus Tentius Hinrabius to depart from the city, did not inflict officially the penalty of exile.
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17 227 Cernus had been proclaimed, as the Taurentians lifted their swords in salute and the members of the High Council had stood on the tiers of the Council Chamber and cried out and applauded, Ubar of Ar.
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17 433 "It is sometimes difficult to make an appraisal from the high tiers," she said.
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17 540 It had been a low cast, not high.
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17 597 "Be silent, slave," said I, poking about, and then I saw in the bottom of the chest, almost colorless, ragged, not more than a foot high nor a few ounces heavy, a small worn, tattered doll, dressed in faded Robes of Concealment, of a sort little girls might play with on the bridges or in the corrido...
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17 663 She tied the string at the neck, closing the high collar.
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18 183 Unfortunately, for spite and for gold, word of our work was brought to the High Initiate, by a minor Physician discharged from our staff for incompetence.
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18 184 The Cylinder of Initiates demanded that the High Council of the Caste of Physicians put an end to our work, not only that it be discontinued but that our results to that date be destroyed.
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18 189 "I remember Marlenus speaking to the High Initiate.
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18 213 These two, following the laws of the city, were taken for their first questioning to the courts of the High Initiate".
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18 251 "At the games on the second of En'Kara, in the Stadium of Blades," said he, "I saw the High Initiate, Complicius Serenus".
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18 393 It, like the others, was about six inches in width and about an inch high.
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19 77 I saw no merchandise in my passage through the rear halls of the Curulean; the girls are generally kept, prior to their sale, in holding cells, lit by energy bulbs, beneath the ground level; soon, however, I was passing by the exposition cages, which are accessible to the public; these cages were no...
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19 122 Among the crowd, though it was predominantly male, there were, as I might have mentioned, several women, perhaps one in ten or fifteen; many of these were doubtless rich, and of High Caste; some of them were probably interested in picking up a serving slave; kettle wenches, so to speak, would probab...
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19 149 The third lot was a High Caste girl of Cos who stood before us clad in the complete robes of Concealment, which, piece by piece, were removed from her.
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19 216 Then, regally, in black cloaks, with hoods, three women, two girls and their leader, climbed the stairs to the block, backs straight, heads high, their features concealed in the folds of the hood.
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19 286 "Two hundred and fifteen," called out a high officer in the cavalry of Ar.
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19 291 There were some cries of protest, perhaps from less-affluent bidders, that the girls were not of High Caste.
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20 46 A slave girl was brought, a slim girl, in yellow Pleasure Silk, with short black hair, dark eyes, high cheekbones.
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20 161 I heard someone ask, "Was she of High Caste?" "I was the daughter of a Cloth Worker," said Melanie.
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21 267 They did not relish being witness to the private joke of some high person, doubtless the Ubar himself.
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22 86 The tarn, the great, fierce saddlebird of Gor, is a savage beast, a monster predator of the high, blue skies of this harsh world; at best it is scarce half domesticated; even tarnsmen seldom approach them without weapons and tarn goad; it is regarded madness to approach one that is feeding; the inst...
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22 139 Then followed Green Ubar, Mip one with the winged beast, high stirrups, his small body hunched down, not giving the bird its head.
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22 245 In a given race, attempting the head pass, he misjudged the distance and was struck bodily from the saddle by the high bar of the first of the center side rings.
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22 291 The caste colors of Gor seemed turbulent in the high tiers.
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22 307 I looked to the box of the Ubar, and to that of the High Initiate, Complicius Serenus.
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22 486 Out of the corner of my eye I saw perhaps fifty tarnsmen on the wall over the high tier on my right, perched there, waiting.
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22 539 Two wooden tarn heads now surmounted the high poles.
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22 579 One citizen tore down the banners of green which draped the box of the Ubar and of the High Initiate.
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22 581 Another citizen, rushing forward, oblivious of the crossbows of Taurentians, hurled a banner of yellow across the box of the Ubar; another such banner was thrown over the railing of the box which had been occupied by Complicius Serenus, High Initiate of Ar.
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24 111 Saphronicus, their Captain, with other high officers, including Seremides of Tyros, who had replaced Maximus Hegesius Quintilius as leader of the forces of Ar, now lay chained in the dungeons of the Central Cylinder.
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24 148 Soon we had emerged in the great domed chamber set with lights and stones in which, on a high, stepped dais, sits the marble throne of the Ubar of Ar.
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24 151 The room was filled with men in the robes of many castes, both high and low.
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24 163 Saphronicus, former Captain of the Taurentians, and his high officers, and Seremides of Tyros, who had replaced Maximus Hegesius Quintilius as leader of the forces of Ar, were at one point brought forward, chained.
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24 215 "That you may be kept locked in a compartment of the Central Cylinder, not as slave but prisoner, a high-born woman, to be mated in the future as best accords with the politics of Ar, as I see fit?" There were tears in her eyes.
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24 220 "You will receive a pension from the state," said Marlenus, "ample to the needs of a woman of High Caste".
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24 242 "She stands high among the Physicians of the city," he said.
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24 492 I lifted Elizabeth to the saddle and, with binding fiber, tied her to its high pommel.
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Book 6. (28 results) Raiders of Gor

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15 361 She had high cheekbones, and flashing black eyes, and coal-black hair, now worn high, pinned, over her head.
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1 31 Gorean warriors, generally drawn from the cities, are warriors by blood, by caste; moreover, they are High Caste; the peasants, isolated in their narrow fields and villages, are Low Caste; indeed, the Peasant is regarded, by those of the cities, as being little more than an ignoble brute, ignorant a...
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3 64 She stood proudly beside me, straight, her shoulders back, her chin high, as does a free woman beside a miserable slave, naked and kneeling.
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4 17 She had, as the girls do in rence craft, tied her skirt high about her thighs, for ease in moving and poling.
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5 241 Just then, from outside, there was the wild, high, terrified scream of a girl, and suddenly the music stopped.
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6 18 In the light of the moving torches, beyond them, toward the marsh, I saw, dark, the high, curved prows of narrow marsh barges, of the sort rowed by slaves.
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6 120 With a slave knife he cut the rence tunic from her and threw her, still partly tangled in the net, over his shoulder, and carried her toward one of the dark, high-prowed barges in the shadows at the edge of the island.
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6 159 Then he was running on me, knife high.
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7 9 Their slaves, their torches extinguished, were loading the narrow, high-prowed barges, treading long, narrow planks extending from the barges to the matting of the island.
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7 44 I saw an Ul, the winged tharlarion, high overhead, beating its lonely way eastward over the marsh.
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7 52 The high-prowed marsh barge is anchored at both stem and stern.
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7 83 I returned to the raft and picked up Telima in my arms, carrying her to the high surface of the island where, near the pole, I placed her on the matting.
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8 15 I was pleased with the craft, and, not more than an Ahn after we had returned to the island from our concealment in the marsh, Telima poled us away from its shore, setting our course in the wake of the narrow, high-prowed marsh barges of the slavers of Port Kar.
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8 42 I marveled at her, as she moved the craft, keeping us constantly moving, yet concealed behind high thickets of rush and sedge.
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8 48 Soon, shielded by rushes and sedge, we had the first of the narrow, high-prowed barges abeam.
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8 52 On the small foredeck of the barge, beneath the high, curved prow, stood the officer and Henrak, both looking aft.
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8 54 On the high, curved prow, to which was bound, naked, the lithe, dark-haired girl, there stood a lookout, he, too, looking backward, shielding his eyes.
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8 172 High overhead, passing, I heard the squeals of four Uls, beating their way eastward on webbed, scaled wings.
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8 190 Very slowly we approached, almost drifting, the high, carved sternpost of the sixth barge.
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8 642 "Yes," said Clitus, "though they are rence girls, they would bring a high price".
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9 651 I bent and put the arm of the dying man about my shoulders and, lifting him, with the girl's help, went back through the kitchen of the tavern and, one by one, climbed the high, narrow stairs to the top of the building.
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10 8 Accordingly I, who had been Tarl Cabot, once a warrior of Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning, sat now in the council of these captains, merchant and pirate princes, the high oligarchs of squalid, malignant Port Kar, Scourge of Gleaming Thassa.
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10 81 I had seen her first at dawn, from the high roof of a paga tavern, holding in my arms the body of a man dying of a wound, one which I had inflicted.
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10 308 They would be deep-keeled round ships, with mighty holds, and high, broad sails.
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11 176 A man such as I, I thought, might rise high in a city such as this, squalid, malignant Port Kar.
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11 418 It was shortly past daybreak, and the gray light of Port Kar's dawn was filtering in through the high, narrow windows of the Council of Captains.
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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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12 36 I heard an arrow flash into the water near me and heard a high-pitched pain squeal from one of the web-footed canal urts.
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Book 7. (1 results) Captive of Gor

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16 208 Doubtless, to be so garbed would have constituted a considerable blow to the exquisite vanity of the high-born, high-caste Talena, even the daughter of a Ubar.
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Book 8. (1 results) Hunters of Gor

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3 11 I saw a blond giant from Torvaldsland, with braided hair, in shaggy jacket; a merchant from Tyros, hurrying, perfumed and sleek; seamen from Cos, and Port Kar, mortal enemies, yet passing one another without thought in the streets of Lydius; a black woman, veiled in yellow, borne in a palanquin by e...
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Book 9. (12 results) Marauders of Gor

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10 314 We saw thralls, too, in the crowd, and rune-priests, with long hair, in white robes, a spiral ring of gold on their left arms, about their waist a bag of omen chips, pieces of wood soaked in the blood of the sacrificial bosk, slain to open the Thing; these chips are thrown like dice, sometimes sever...
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13 6 On each side of this high seat were two pillars, about eight inches in diameter, and some eight feet high, the high-seat pillars, or rightful-seat pillars.
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2 257 I looked again to the High Initiate, a cold, stern, dour man, hard faced, who sat in his high, white hat in his robes upon the throne within the white rail.
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2 325 When the High Initiate finished his prayer, the other Initiates began to sing a solemn hymn, while the High Initiate, at the altar, his back turned to the congregation, began to prepare, with words and signs, the grease of Priest-Kings, for the anointing of the bones of Ivar Forkbeard.
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6 309 Indeed, the true hall, lofty, high-beamed, built of logs and boards, with its benches and high-seat pillars, its carvings and hangings, its long fires, its suspended kettles, was actually quite rare, and, generally, only the richest of the Jarls possessed such.
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8 166 He went to the high window of her room, high in the wooden fortress, on its cliff, overlooking the dark bay below.
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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 20 At the high-seat table, that at which the high seat sat, all counted as being "above the salt".
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13 21 Similarly, at the tables parallel to the high-seat table, smaller tables flanking the long fire on both sides, the tables nearest the high seat counted as being above the salt, those farthest away being below the salt.
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13 143 Svein Blue Tooth, high jarl of Torvaldsland, followed by his woman, and high officers and counselors, and other followers, then took his way from the dais.
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13 211 Near him, beside the high seat, sat his woman, Bera, her hair worn high on her head, in a kirtle of yellow wool with scarlet cape of the fur of the red sea sleen, and, about her neck, necklaces of gold.
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13 436 He stood before the high seat of his house, standing before the long table; behind him, on each side, were the high-seat pillars of his house.
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Book 10. (12 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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25 290 "Doubtless," said Hassan, "Haroun, high Pasha of the Kavars, and Suleiman, high Pasha of the Aretai, will pay a high reward to the man who brings Tarna before them".
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1 113 Her arms were high, very high.
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2 72 The buildings in Tor are seldom more than four stories high, which is about as high as one may build safely with beams and mud brick.
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4 42 The sand kaiila, or desert kaiila, is a kaiila, and handles similarly, but it is not identically the same animal which is indigenous, domestic and wild, in the middle latitudes of Gor's southern hemisphere; that animal, used as a mount by the Wagon Peoples, is not found in the northern hemisphere of...
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10 142 "Hands on hips! Be insolent! Hands behind back! Hands crossed before you, as though bound! Hands at throat, as though chained to collar, fingers before mouth! Fall to the floor! Kneel! Head down! Head up! Bend backwards! Farther! Roll to the floor, on your side, on your back, right leg high, now fle...
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11 324 The high tribes need not, though often they do, support vassal tribes in their squabbles; the vassal tribes, however, are expected to support the high, or noble, tribes, in their altercations.
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11 640 Against the wall, kneeling, stripped, bellies pressed tight against it, points of the scimitars against their backs, between their shoulder blades, chins high, against the wall, hands high over their heads, palms pressed tight against the wall, were four beautiful girls.
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23 172 In his right hand he held a high lance, from which fluttered a broad and mighty pennon, scarlet and white, that of Haroun, high Pasha of the Kavars.
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25 196 Haroun, high Pasha of the Kavars, and Suleiman, high Pasha of the Aretai, are already within the walls".
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25 286 Haroun, high Pasha of the Kavars, and Suleiman, high Pasha of the Aretai, are eager to see her".
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26 237 It contained a slave girl, an exquisitely feminine girl, blond-haired and blue-eyed; she was richly veiled and bejeweled; it was said she was the preferred slave of the great Haroun himself, high Pasha of the Kavars; it was said her name was Alyena; she was of high station; she wore silks, and veils...
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26 1265 I rode between Hassan, Haroun, high Pasha of the Kavars, and, in the black kaffiyeh with white agal cording, Suleiman, high Pasha of the Aretai.
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Book 11. (1 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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5 196 In many cities only members of the high castes may belong to the city's high council.
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Book 12. (3 results) Beasts of Gor

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2 745 It loomed high and formidable, over the canal, a slaver's house, a high, dark, frightening fortress.
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15 294 Many of these cities consist largely of high cylinders, joined by traceries of high bridges".
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15 669 Does she have a high instep? A girl with a high instep is often a fine dancer.
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Book 13. (1 results) Explorers of Gor

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19 49 In the center of the room, on a high platform, some nine feet high, supported by eight poles, sitting, cross-legged, naked, save for the panther teeth about his neck, was not Shaba, but the ubar, Bila Huruma.
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Book 15. (2 results) Rogue of Gor

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1 343 Perhaps that is because their own intelligence, on the whole, is high and they might be bored with their properties were the intelligence of the properties not similarly high.
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4 110 The woman at the counter had been veiled, as is common with Gorean women, particularly those of high caste and of the high cities.
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Book 16. (1 results) Guardsman of Gor

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20 589 In certain cities, such as Ar, high platforms might be worn, particularly by high-caste women.
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Book 18. (3 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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3 119 Two forks were left, one about eighteen feet high and the other about twenty-three feet high.
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43 168 Each sack, further, has two sturdy leather handles which come up, high, quite high, one on either side of the occupant's head; if these handles are held together, or tied together, the closure between them will usually be twelve to eighteen inches over the girl's head.
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43 345 Surely some sort of high coup would be involved, dragging a high lady of the Yellow Knives, one of their own proud free women, in a sack, up and down, back and forth in their own promenade lane, like a common slave girl.
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Book 19. (1 results) Kajira of Gor

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31 552 The sack was to be opened, and she was to be presented to Claudius, Ubar of Argentum, and the high council, and high citizens of Argentum, at the climax of a great feast, to be celebrated two days from now.
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Book 20. (6 results) Players of Gor

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9 41 The most typical brand site is high on the left thigh, high enough, under the hip, to be covered even by the brevity of a typical slave tunic.
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9 412 "The very thought of it! The outrage! The indignity! How dare you even think of such a thing! I am of high caste! I am of the scribes! Wait until I bring this matter to the attention of magistrates!" "As I may remind you, my dear," said Boots, patiently, "you are no longer of high caste nor of the s...
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10 378 I have my gowns, my robes, even my veils, especially made for me by high cloth workers!" "I am not a high cloth worker," I said, "but I did make it especially for you".
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12 69 His only defense would be the capture of the Rider of the High Tharlarion with his Ubara, at which point, of course, I would recapture with the Scribe, thus exchanging the Rider of the High Tharlarion for a Ubara, an exchange much to my profit.
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12 285 If he did advance it in that fashion, promoting it presumably to a Rider of the High Tharlarion, to bring the Home Stone under immediate attack, and prevent me from advancing my own Rider of the High Tharlarion to Ubar's Initiate Nine, finishing the game, I would take it with my Builder.
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15 43 The skirt she wore, though it came high on her thighs, and was cut at the sides, had a very high waist, its belting cord cinched just under her breasts.
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Book 21. (1 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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1 81 Her hands went to the stiff, high brocaded collar of her robes, the robes of concealment, to the numerous eyes and hooks there, holding it tightly, protectively, about her throat, up high under her chin.
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Book 22. (2 results) Dancer of Gor

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8 186 To be sure, one of the reasons for permitting a hairdo of that sort to a slave is the master's pleasure in undoing it, in loosening it, thus reminding even the high slave that in his arms, ultimately, she, the high slave, is yet a slave, and as much or more than the lowest girl in the most remote vi...
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9 269 I suddenly wondered, wildly, my hands high, held fast in the manacles, if Teibar, my Teibar, might be out there somewhere among those men, perhaps high in the tiers, in the darkness, waiting to bid on me! Then I realized how foolish that would be.
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Book 23. (2 results) Renegades of Gor

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8 196 As I have indicated, the lips and mouth of a female are commonly regarded as extremely sensuous features to a Gorean, hence the concern of many free women, particularly of high caste, in the high cities, to conceal them.
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21 348 The Merchants often maintain that they are a high caste, and should, accordingly, be included in the councils of high caste.
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Book 24. (2 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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26 218 At this point the young high-caste women of Harfax had approached the high council of the city with a bold plan.
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36 48 "I am of high caste!" Ina was, I had learned, of the Builders, one of the five high castes on Gor, the others being the Initiates, Physicians, Scribes and Warriors.
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Book 25. (2 results) Magicians of Gor

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21 322 Occasionally, in certain of the high cities, a group of masked young rowdies, deplorable, high-spirited, boisterous, frolicsome young ruffians, hooligans, if you like, as a lark, will set upon a free woman and fasten her in a slave collar.
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27 944 "Why not, just men? Certainly high men, in high civilizations, have held slaves, often beautiful, highly educated slaves, sophisticated, gifted women, well subdued, then trained in arts both intellectual and sensual, slaves who are fit properties for even Ubars".
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Book 26. (3 results) Witness of Gor

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11 231 But are not such, in the final analysis, owned every bit as much as we? And is not one man's high slave no more to another than the least of his bond maids, laboring shackled in his stables, her use a perquisite for rude grooms, and is it not the case that even for the very same man she who is this ...
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11 1608 The Initiates are sometimes thought of as the highest of the five high castes, and the Warriors as the least of the five high castes.
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29 2 Shafts of sunlight, like golden spears, fell through the high, narrow windows, illuminating the scarlet circle before the high desk.
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Book 27. (3 results) Prize of Gor

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19 704 There was nothing untoward in this, or unique to her condition, which was that of slave, for Gorean women in the high cities, and particularly those of high caste, commonly eat kneeling, or reclining, at low tables, as Gorean men in the high cities, particularly those of the higher castes, commonly ...
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12 24 The material was of high quality, and so the woman must be of reasonable station, if not of high caste.
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17 829 Ellen could hear, too, now and then, the clack of high, wooden, platformlike, cloglike footwear, such as is sometimes worn by free women, particularly of high caste, which lift the hems of their gowns a bit from the ground, and serve to protect delicately slippered or sandaled feet from dust and mud...
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Book 28. (3 results) Kur of Gor

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42 100 A high ladder was there, fixed against the wall, which must have been a hundred or more feet high, and led, it seemed, to a closed ceiling.
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76 35 Following her return, the third time, he took her to a stout post, some six feet high, with two rings, one high, one low, at the side of the camp, one he had had placed there earlier, indeed, with she, the errant slave, in mind, knelt her before it and then braceleted her hands behind the post, and,...
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80 198 "Such things are common on Gor with free women, particularly with those of high caste, particularly in the high cities".
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Book 29. (5 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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16 8 Similarly, it may wheel to the high right and the low right, and to the high left and low left, by drawing on the appropriate straps.
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17 16 A similar approach may be used on the high bridges or against unsuspecting loungers or sunbathers on the roofs of high cylinders.
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18 512 The women, then, of whatever station, whether low-born or high, whether of high caste or low, together with camp slaves, are herded to the center of the blackened, smoldering camp, where all must, at a word, disrobe themselves, both bond and free, to be assessed, as though in a field market.
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23 172 The typical Gorean male, particularly of what the high castes think of as the lower castes, tends to be direct, open, uninhibited, unrestrained, high-spirited, exuberant, and emotional.
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44 32 Are they not commodities of high regard, goods of high esteem? They obey, and kneel, and serve, and kiss, and enrich a world.
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Book 30. (6 results) Mariners of Gor

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3 164 "I was of high caste, of high family, of position and importance, of influence, wealth, and power, and now," she sobbed, "I have this!" Her eyes filled with tears, and she put the fingers of her right hand to the flat, sturdy, metal band which closely encircled her throat.
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9 306 And why should it be he, and not I, who would place the fugitive before Marlenus? The bounty on the high-born, beautiful, officious slut, now collared, was high.
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16 134 In any event, hardly had Tyrtaios conveyed the order of Lord Okimoto, than we heard the high watch, from the platform and ring, high above, cry out, "Beware! There are a hundred ships! We are surrounded!" I had no doubt the ship we had encountered was a warning ship, and an ambush ship, but, too, it...
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20 234 This is common with high-grade slaves, delicate, well-formed, finely featured women, women of high intelligence, profound emotion, and active imagination, irremediably sensate, tactually enlivened women, women keenly alive, women profoundly stirred by the floor beneath their knees, by leather thrust...
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21 699 "We are high slaves!" "Many of us were once of high caste!" said another.
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33 85 To be sure, high intelligence, sometimes quite high intelligence, was often found in barbarian kajirae, as masters preferred it in their slaves.
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Book 31. (2 results) Conspirators of Gor

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8 972 Was it, in spite of its appearance, a high market? Perhaps, I thought, for how could one such as I be sold in any but a high market? Surely I was much too beautiful to be sold in any but a high market.
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10 947 I had made clear my business, that I was to deliver a message to the Ubar, or to some high officer, who might then convey it to him, and the note was then taken from me by an officer, not of high rank, perhaps the commander of a ten, who read it, laughed uproariously, slapped his thigh, and then, to...
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Book 32. (5 results) Smugglers of Gor

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15 163 She had apparently once been of the Merchants, perhaps the high Merchants, and had even held herself to be of high caste, despite the fact that few Goreans accepted the Merchants as a high caste.
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7 282 The Merchants regard themselves, with justification I would think, as a high caste, but few Goreans number them amongst the high castes, which, traditionally, are taken to be five in number, the Initiates, Builders, Physicians, Scribes, and Warriors.
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40 31 "Barbarians are selected with several criteria in mind, surely beauty, and helpless responsiveness and passion, but also high intelligence, often quite high intelligence.
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50 687 "But do not make me do this! Do not so humiliate and insult me, I beg of you! I am a high slave! I was of high caste! I might bring gold! I would be worthy of sandals!" "Fetch a bowl," he said.
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50 793 "You may or may not have been born to high caste," I said, "but I see little of high caste about you.
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Book 33. (5 results) Rebels of Gor

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25 288 So high on her thighs was the disarranged garment that she might have been a scarcely clad slave, briefly tunicked, taken from a high bridge, awaiting her turning to her back.
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30 348 "In the high cities, on the continent, particularly on holidays, masters often promenade their slaves, on the boulevards, in the plazas, on the high bridges.
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30 420 "She whom I once knew as Sumomo was a free woman, delicate and refined, as fragile, soft, and exquisite as the petal of a veminium, but, too, petty and unpleasant, cruel and deceitful, arrogant and haughty, impatient and short-tempered, clad in rich garmenture, with silken slippers, with long hair, ...
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58 180 Pertinax gave her two smart blows, one high on the left arm, the other, a back stroke, high on the right arm.
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60 310 Indeed, on some of the narrow, graceful, soaring bridges of the high cities of the continent, arching amongst lofty keeplike cylinders, there were many accounts of such high and dangerous passages being defended by one or two men against dozens.
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Book 34. (3 results) Plunder of Gor

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9 578 The Merchant class is undoubtedly the richest of the Gorean castes, which doubtless has played its role in its pretensions to constitute a high caste, but there are low merchants as well as high merchants, poor merchants as well as rich merchants.
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17 48 Here I became acquainted with a splendid civilization, a colorful, intricate, complex civilization, a high, thriving civilization which, as most high civilizations, had a place for slaves, that place in which I found myself.
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25 54 "Come, join me on the high couch," invited he on the high couch.
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Book 35. (3 results) Quarry of Gor

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10 94 Why else should free women risk lonely, ill-guarded districts after dark? Why else should they undertake distant journeys without a suitable escort? Why else should they, when alone, take lodgings in small inns on dangerous roads? Why else should they embark on perilous voyages? In the high cities o...
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11 35 I have never been in a Gorean high city, a tower city, but I understand that the towers of such cities are often joined by graceful, narrow, arching bridges, often high above the street level, bridges which may be easily defended or destroyed in the case of an attack, this rendering each tower an in...
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12 60 The Merchants often claims to be a high caste, which claim, if accepted, would bring one to six high castes.
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Book 36. (3 results) Avengers of Gor

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8 50 We now know that one or the other, or both, of the High Officers of Sybaris, either the governor of Thera or the Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, or both, command the foe or are high in the command of he who does so.
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20 30 I had always entertained a high opinion of the Peasants, their wisdom, foresight, and astuteness, their understandings of seasons and weathers, their stalwart copings with winds and rains, droughts and floods, their somehow making fields rich and bountiful, their somehow bringing forth the harvests ...
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38 5 He deems himself wrongfully denied the High Admiralty of Cos, the post of High Admiral of the Cosian naval forces.
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