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Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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5 131 As I crossed the Vosk, that mighty river, some forty pasangs in width, which hurtles past the frontiers of Ar to pour into the Tamber Gulf, I realized that I was at last within the borders of the Empire of Ar.
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9 177 These beasts, yoked in braces, were drawing mighty wagons, filled with merchandise protected under the lashings of its red rain-canvas.
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11 2 Now, in the distance, we could hear the muffled roar of the mighty Vosk.
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13 114 He laughed a mighty, roaring laugh and threw his head back, causing the hood to fall to his shoulders.
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15 33 Given the depth of the foundations of Ar's mighty walls and the mantle of rock on which they were fixed, it would be extremely unlikely that her walls could be successfully undermined to the extent of bringing down a significant section, but it was surely possible that if one of the tunnels managed ...
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16 37 Within the towers, sweating, naked siege slaves, under the frenzied whips of their overseers, hauled on the great chains that swung the mighty steel rams into the wall and back.
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17 60 Near dawn, to the brave sound of tarn drums, a mighty procession left the camp of Pa-Kur, and as it crossed the main bridge over the first ditch, I saw in the distance the great gate of Ar slowly opening.
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Book 2. (2 results) Outlaw of Gor

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5 113 He had told me to throw myself upon it, to avoid my shame, to frustrate for once the will of the mighty Priest-Kings of Gor.
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20 43 He offered no resistance, he showed no anger, when I leaped to his back and cried, as before, "One-strap!" at which signal, with a shrill cry and a mighty spring, those gigantic wings cracked like whips and beat their way aloft in the glory of flight.
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Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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2 90 In the Voltai Range bands of hunters, usually from Ar, stalk the larl with the mighty Gorean spear.
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3 3 Both animals were jerked up short as mighty chains, fastened to steel and bejeweled collars, terminated their vicious charge.
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4 157 For some reason I laughed and my laugh was the laugh of a warrior of Gor, full and mighty, unafraid, and it roared in the dark and lonely Hall of Priest-Kings.
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8 151 Cities, of course, would pursue the raiders from Treve, and carry the pursuit vigorously as far as the foothills of the Voltai, but there they would surrender the chase, turning back, not caring to risk their tarnsmen in the rugged, formidable territory of their rival, whose legendary ferocity among...
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13 84 "Well," I said, still looking down the hall, "I would have supposed that the mighty Priest-Kings could have devised a quicker way of transporting scent-tapes".
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31 51 Sarm had disappeared and with his disappearance, and presumed death, the opposition to Misk evaporated, for it had been held together only by the dominance of Sarm's mighty personality and the prestige that was his in virtue of being First Born.
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33 119 Who would believe them? Who would take the word of scattered vagrants against the word of the mighty Caste of Initiates? And, if he did believe them, who would dare to speak out that he did so? The Initiates, it seemed, had conquered.
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Book 4. (4 results) Nomads of Gor

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5 11 Another time, over a hundred years ago, a wagon Ubar lost the spur from his right boot and turned for this reason back from the gates of mighty Ar itself.
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15 28 I suppose I was angered because I myself was a tarnsman, and it seemed somehow improper for warriors astride the mighty tarns to barter their favors indiscriminately for gold to either side.
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23 78 And then, as the Paravaci bosk horns sounded frantically, our bosk began to run, their mighty heads with the fearsome horns nodding up and down, and the earth began to tremble and my men cried out more and jabbed animals, riding with the flood and the Paravaci with cries of horror that coursed the l...
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28 68 "Good fortune attend you, Tarl Cabot, Commander of a Thousand Tuchuks, Warrior of Ko-ro-ba!" I lifted my hand to them and then drew on the one-strap and the wings of the great tarn began to strike the resistant air and the Tuchuks on all sides fell back stumbling in the dust and the driven wind smot...
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Book 5. (7 results) Assassin of Gor

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7 49 At a gesture from Cernus the birds took wing, and I felt my basket on its heavy leather runners slide across the roof for a few feet and then drop sickeningly off the edge of the cylinder, only to be jerked up short by the ropes, hover for a moment as the tarn fought the weight, and then begin to sa...
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15 60 Then, after this instant of silence under the torches, the music struck the final note, with a mighty and jarring clash of cymbals, and the Warrior had lowered her to the furs and her lips, arms about his neck, sought his with eagerness.
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16 255 The vast, long black wings, broad and mighty, opened and struck against the air, hurling a storm of dust and sand on all sides, almost tumbling the small, hooded Tarn Keeper from the low wagon.
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16 267 I reached up and touched the fierce, curved beak of that mighty bird.
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20 30 "Please oh mighty Cernus!" he whined.
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22 588 Then gates leading onto the sand burst open and thousands of citizens, come from the Stadium of Blades, marching and singing, entered the Stadium of Tarns, at their head, helmeted and mighty, sword in hand, the magnificent Murmillius, hero of the Stadium of Blades.
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24 395 Those fierce eyes in that mighty face regarded me.
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Book 6. (3 results) Raiders of Gor

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1 50 On river barges, for hundreds of pasangs, I had made my way down the Vosk, but where the mighty Vosk began to break apart and spread into its hundreds of shallow, constantly shifting channels, becoming lost in the vast tidal marshes of its delta, moving toward gleaming Thassa, the Sea, I had abandon...
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10 308 They would be deep-keeled round ships, with mighty holds, and high, broad sails.
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11 563 "It only seems to me," said I, "that so single an honor, and a role so weighty, ought to be reserved for one more august than I, indeed, for he who is most prominent among us, one who could truly negotiate on equal footing with the Ubars of powers so mighty as those of Cos and Tyros".
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Book 7. (11 results) Captive of Gor

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15 193 How magnificent he seemed, how mighty among those mighty warriors, he, their fierce leader.
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8 525 There was no penthouse here, no Maserati, no wealth, no mighty buildings, no roar and drone of engines, no scream of planes, no clouds of choking smoke.
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13 691 How mighty, how vibrant, how magnificent, he seemed.
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15 187 And most of all was I thrilled to witness the return of their leader, the mighty, laughing Rask of Treve, whose very capture loop I had felt on my own body, whose collar I wore, whose I was.
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15 385 "Too," said Ena, thrilled, "is it not audacious that my master, Rask of Treve, places his war camp, from which he may despoil the fields and caravans of Ar, within the realm of mighty Ar itself!" "Yes," I whispered.
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15 386 I then sensed something of the points of honor and of the nature of insults which scornful men, mighty warriors, might exchange.
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16 462 He, his body tightening, startlingly again mighty with strength, astonishing me, delighting me, lifted me from my feet and lowered me, gently, to the grass, covering me with his cloak.
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16 466 How the girls would have cried out with envy to see me, secure in such a cloak, and that, too, of the mighty Rask of Treve! But I did not wish to wear it.
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16 470 No, let it not be revealed that he, my master, the mighty Rask of Treve, had been tender with a slave, particularly such a low and miserable slave as I.
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17 160 Could he, so mighty a warrior, the master of many women, permit himself to care for me, a slave? I was not even of Gor.
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17 238 I was taken, on tarnback, braceleted and hooded, to the city of Port Kar, in the delta of the mighty Vosk.
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Book 8. (5 results) Hunters of Gor

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9 5 We were deep in the forest, somewhere within one of the stands of the mighty Tur trees.
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11 756 He was as insolent, and rugged and handsome as the crags of the mighty Voltai.
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12 43 Each of us, including the mighty Bosk, wore the two-and-one-half inch swath on our heads, running from our foreheads to the back of our necks, making it clear to all who it was who had taken us in the forests.
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12 137 Noble, great Ubar! And who would remember Talena, and her shame, after Marlenus, astride a mighty tharlarion, would have his triumph in the streets of Ar, panther girls in tiny cages slung on poles carried by huntsmen, and, walking beside his beast, naked and chained to his stirrup, their former lea...
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19 416 In the shadows, in the background, by the light of the fire, two paces from me, I saw the tall, mighty frame of Marlenus of Ar.
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Book 9. (25 results) Marauders of Gor

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1 135 Proud and mighty as the chair might be, it was the throne only of the maimed remains of a man.
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1 149 But when I, half paralyzed and crippled, had left the shore of Thassa I had left behind me a beacon, a mighty beacon formed from the logs of the stockade of Sarus, and it had blazed behind me, visible for more than fifty pasangs at sea.
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2 50 He was said to be fearless, and mighty, swift with sword and ax, fond of jokes, a deep drinker, a master of pretty wenches, and a madman.
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2 94 In these it is rumored there are marvelous spells and mighty magics, particularly if read backward on certain feast days.
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4 155 She knew that she belonged to them, such fierce and mighty beasts, and that she, and her beauty, lay at their mercy, that she, and her beauty, were theirs to do with as they pleased.
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6 500 Most importantly, the Forkbeard was a mighty fighter, a brave man, a cunning mind; in my work in the north I was grateful that I might have so formidable an ally.
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6 501 To put a collar on the throat of the daughter of Thorgard of Scagnar seemed small enough price to pay for the assistance of so mighty a comrade.
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7 223 Even large bones had been broken, snapped apparently in mighty jaws, the marrow sucked from them.
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8 184 It was mighty insult to Thorgard of Scagnar.
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9 204 Mighty insult had thus been wrought upon Thorgard of Scagnar, enemy of Ivar Forkbeard.
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12 98 It seemed to me a mighty oath already.
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16 63 He had been taught some rune signs as a boy, that he could understand important stones, for in these stones were the names of mighty men and songs of their deeds, but it had not been expected of him that he would be in any sense a fluent reader.
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16 93 Over the arch, deeply incised in the stone was the single, mighty sign, that which the Forkbeard had not explained to me.
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16 130 He might have been a great leader, a mighty warrior, the first of the jarls of the north, but that had been, if it had ever been, more than a thousand years ago.
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16 152 At the foot of the couch were weapons; at its head, hanging on the wall, under a great shield, were two spears, crossed under it, and, to one side, a mighty sword in its scabbard.
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17 252 I saw then Svein Blue Tooth, the mighty jarl of Torvaldsland, lift his own head, but it did not seem, then, to be him.
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18 25 I stood mighty and terrible, the ax ready, my clothes drenched with blood, the Kur rolling and jerking at my feet.
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18 152 At its foot stood the mighty Rollo, striking to the left and right with his ax.
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18 205 On one side of me fought the mighty Rollo, his lips foaming, his eyes wild, on the other side he who called himself Hrolf, from the east, the bearded giant with bloodied spear.
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18 567 Suddenly, crying with rage, his beard wild behind him, Thorgard of Scagnar, a mighty foe, now armed, rushed upon the Forkbeard, who fended away the blow.
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18 577 Hilda, her hand before her mouth, eyes frightened, watched this war of two so mighty combatants.
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18 620 When she turned about, the Forkbeard dealt her a mighty blow, swift and stinging, with the flat of his sword.
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20 52 In the marshes was I contacted by a mighty Kur, but one courteous, one strong and gentle.
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21 27 She now had new tasks to which to address herself, cooking, and churning and carrying water; the improvement of her own carriage, and beauty and attractiveness; and the giving of inordinate pleasure in the furs to her master, Svein Blue Tooth, Jarl of Torvaldsland; if she did not do so, well she kne...
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21 123 "Guests to enter the hall of Svein Blue Tooth!" We looked to where once had stood the mighty portals of the hall of Svein Blue Tooth.
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Book 10. (12 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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1 83 Man, on Earth, had finally succeeded, after long centuries, in creating a society in which he had no essential place; he had, at last, built a house in which he could not live, in which he had left not one room suitable for human habitation; he called it a home; in it he was a stranger; his habitat,...
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15 25 It is the subterranean residue of portions of the vanished seas themselves, which have slipped through fissures and, protected from the heat, and fed still by the ancient seeping rivers, now moving sluggishly beneath the surface, maintain themselves, the hidden remnants of oceans, once mighty, which...
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16 204 Then, suddenly, hurling itself from the water, the great body, thrashing, fell across the raft, twisting, the mighty tail flailing and snapping.
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17 252 We saw the Old One emerge from the water, rising up, more than a dozen feet of that great, mighty body rearing upward, water streaming from it, in its jaws the body of T'Zshal.
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21 26 Surely even for his mighty body the heat, the sun, the scarcity of water, the scarcity of food, must have taken dreadful toll.
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21 185 It had been an admirable, mighty beast.
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21 331 You have found it, great enemy, mighty ally, I thought.
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21 488 He had resisted blood; the will of this Kur, restraining its instincts of feasting and carnival, must be mighty indeed.
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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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23 177 I saw the lance with its mighty pennon, that of the rider in white, veiled, dip and circle, and then dip and circle again.
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23 191 "Mighty Haroun," said Baram, Sheik of Bezhad, "the command is yours! The Kavars await!" "The Bakahs, too!" cried the pasha of the Bakahs.
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26 197 They were desperate and mighty men.
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Book 11. (30 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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9 2072 He seized her in his mighty arms and crushed her to him, raping her lips with the master's kiss, mighty in its lust and possession of the collared she, and she clutched him, helplessly, crying out.
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2 21 They were mighty, and like animals.
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2 111 I did not know what they might do, these mighty and terrible men, so unpredictable, so uncompromising and primitive, so different from the men of Earth, if they were not completely and fully, and absolutely, pleased with me.
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2 304 I then became aware, as I had not been before, in my fear, of a strange emotional and physiological response of which I had been the victim moments before, when I had begged mighty men to enslave me.
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2 315 What was important had been the way I had felt when I had begged those mighty men to be my masters.
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2 322 Never before in my life had I been so erotically charged, so aroused, as when I had begged those mighty men to enslave me.
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2 413 It had a long, heavy shaft, some two inches in width, some seven feet in length; the head of the weapon, including its socket and penetrating rivets, was some twenty inches in length; the killing edges of the blade began about two inches from the bottom of the socket, which reinforced the blade, tap...
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2 627 My head came only to his chest; the width of my body seemed but half the width of that mighty, scarlet-clad chest.
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2 774 Whereas it would have seemed unthinkable on Earth that a man could be so strong, so mighty, that a woman would walk at his heel, here, on this world, it seemed not so impossible or strange at all.
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2 899 Swiftly then did I reassume the position which I had dared to break, and again I knelt, though this time in an agony of terror, before the strange, mighty man, his legs spread, his arms crossed, who stood before me.
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2 991 With boys I had always felt in command, but with the strange, mighty man in whose power I now was I knew I was not in command.
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2 1118 Yes! Could it be possible? Can that be imagined in such a situation! That I, an Earth girl, the helpless captive of a brutally handsome, mighty barbarian, wished to please him, and as a woman? Yes, it is true.
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3 38 Yet she seemed to fit in well at the feet of the mighty men of Gor who, without thought, would handle her well and get much, and all, from her.
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3 605 The women of Earth, to the mighty men of Gor, are good for little but slaves.
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3 649 He seemed so strong, so mighty.
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3 686 It was the order of nature, unperverted, which I observed, as she moved about, among those mighty men.
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3 732 I went to him and, shaking, poured paga into his goblet; I was terrified that I might spill it; it was not only that I feared, should I spill the beverage, that I might be beaten for my clumsiness; it was even more that I wished to appear graceful and beautiful before him; but I shook, and was awkwa...
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4 693 What fantastic males these were, so strong, so handsome, so mighty.
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6 139 Near the bow hung a mighty quiver, in which nestled flight and sheaf arrows, and many of each thereof.
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9 1768 Bran Loort was not unskilled, and he was young and strong, but no match was he for the grim and mighty Thurnus, caste leader of Tabuk's Ford, my master.
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10 54 The Vosk is a mighty river which flows westward, emptying into a vast rence delta, finding its way eventually to Thassa, the sea.
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12 267 He had a mighty chest.
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12 692 This, in itself, is little or nothing, but on Gor it is mighty in its portent.
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12 869 Rask of Treve's tarn smote the air with its mighty wings.
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21 13 What mattered it that he cared naught for me, that I was but rude collar meat in his mighty hands? It mattered nothing.
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22 164 Its lack of height in the water had not indicated a weight of freighting, buts its design, swift and terrible, like a mighty racing shell.
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25 234 It must be a dire intelligence indeed conveyed by the simple message, to disturb to such an extent so mighty a man.
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28 42 It is also said the girls were forced to breed mighty sons for their captors.
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28 319 Clitus Vitellius stood straight on that great platform, his great, circular shield on his left arm, his mighty spear, seven feet in length, headed in tapering bronze, grasped in his right hand.
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29 6 He stood before me, his shield on his left arm, the mighty spear grasped in his right hand.
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Book 12. (9 results) Beasts of Gor

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2 349 It loomed high and awesome, mighty with its strakes, proud with its uprearing prow, facing the sea canal.
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3 108 They had been driven from that bleak, rocky land by the mighty men of the high-roofed halls.
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3 585 What woman, truly, has not dreamed of being helpless in the arms of a mighty master, one to whom she could know herself as only rightful slave? The girl in the red pull-over shrugged and looked away.
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4 503 That unusual, mighty ship would soon be supplied and fitted.
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6 901 The tarn, given the sudden force on the one-strap, reared and, smiting the air with his mighty wings, lifted itself into the air.
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8 193 "The mighty Tarl Cabot," she said, "a manacled, kneeling prisoner".
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25 24 I looked about at the irregular and jagged shapes, weird and mighty, which loomed about us, of the pack ice, eerie in the deep shadows, and bright, strange light of the moons and snow.
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26 208 Its struggles would now be considerably circumscribed and the mighty leverage it could exert would largely be dissipated in the circle of its bonds.
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38 106 "We women of Kassau fear the mighty raiders," she said.
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Book 13. (14 results) Explorers of Gor

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7 171 More than a hundred times by now, I expected, had they but known, she would have thrashed and squirmed, gasping, held, in the arms of strong men, her slave beauty the helpless, lascivious wine on which mighty masters would slake the thirsts of their lust.
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14 446 "But as I become more beautiful, and desirable," she said, "I would become more helpless, more a slave, more than ever at the mercy of these mighty men of Gor".
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16 88 The eventual intent of Bila Huruma was not only to open the rain forests of the deep interior, and whatever might lie within the system of the Ua and her tributaries, to commercial exploitation and military expansion, but to drain the marshes between the two mighty lakes, Ushindi and Ngao, that that...
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16 96 "Doubtless we can be pleased that we are a humble part of so mighty an undertaking," he mused.
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18 154 Aware of the wealth and mighty projects of the ubarate we desire to arrange the apparatus for commercial interaction with your state.
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29 7 It lived on the white ants, or termites, of the vicinity, breaking apart their high, towering nests of toughened clay, some of them thirty-five feet in height, with its mighty claws, then darting its four-foot-long tongue, coated with adhesive saliva, among the nest's startled occupants, drawing tho...
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31 86 "Why have they remained strong and proud, joyful and mighty, and free, so unlike the men of my world? Have they not been taught that it is wrong for them to be true men, that it is wrong for them to fulfill themselves and be happy? Have they not been taught that frustration, and conflict and misery,...
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32 575 I was conducted down a long street, between mighty buildings.
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32 868 The edifice was constructed of mighty blocks of stone.
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32 870 There were mighty carvings on many of the stones.
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46 29 "There are the mighty talunas," I said.
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51 140 The chamber had apparently, long ago, been used in the enslavement and training of women, doubtless taken in the raids and wars of those who had built these mighty halls.
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53 317 They were not the mighty axes and heavy shields of Torvaldsland.
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53 333 A mighty Kur stood over him, his panga raised over his head.
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Book 14. (3 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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7 885 Why, then, was I terrified of her, she only a slave? I think it was because I feared she might release in me things which I feared to understand, because I feared she might release in me something proud and savage, something which would be a stranger to apologies and pretenses, something long-forgot...
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7 895 But, for an instant, looking upon the girl, I had felt stirring within me something dark and mighty, uncompromising and powerful, something which told me that such beauties as now knelt before me were the full and rightful properties of men.
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7 999 But if a woman should kneel before me and beg a collar would I not be terrified to enclose her lovely neck in its inflexible grasp? Would I not be afraid to own her, to assume the mighty responsibility of the mastery? Did I have the power, the strength, the courage, to be a master? Did I fear I woul...
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Book 15. (5 results) Rogue of Gor

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9 182 She, the vain, proper, elegant young lady, so prideful, yet so confused and unhappy, so desperately concerned to profess, and adhere to, prescribed views, so conditioned to uncritically accept multiple stupidities, so concerned to be found acceptable by driven, self-seeking, moronic doctrinaires, no...
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24 467 She was naked and bound, mine! I was filled then with emotions so powerful, so primitive and exultant, so ancient, so overwhelming, so mighty and glorious, that I knew then I had caught the scent of the meaning of man, and of woman.
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33 99 From where we lay to I could hear, from time to time, the restless creak of the mighty links of the chain, suspended on pylons, stretching across the river.
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33 124 I listened to the creaking of the mighty links, and to the water lapping at the sides of our galley, and to the occasional cries of Vosk gulls.
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33 167 "United, they would become a mighty force," I said.
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Book 16. (12 results) Guardsman of Gor

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4 9 Too, the left flank of our position was protected, still, by the mighty links of the Cosian chain, transported to the Vosk, slung between its pylons.
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4 169 How could Ar, I asked myself, compete with such men and ships upon the mighty Vosk? Laughable were the miserable, squat ships of Ar's Station when compared with the sleek carnivores of Port Cos or, indeed, those of Ragnar Voskjard.
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5 146 How attractive, how inviting, they must appear to the predators of the Voskjard! A mighty rock, then, suddenly, not more than ten feet from my bench, plummeted through our deck, splintering the wood upward, exploding it upward, in a shower of sharpened fragments.
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5 203 Out of the opened hatches poured warriors of Ar, grimly helmeted, bearing great, rounded shields and mighty spears, bronze-headed and tapering.
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7 60 By the buffeting of those mighty shields, by the thrusting of great spears, by the swift, ringing flash of well-tempered steel, wave after wave of boarders was repelled, cut to pieces, swept back like rabble.
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7 61 Yet I knew that in the end even the mighty larl, if chained, must eventually succumb to the attack of endless streams of hissing urts.
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12 79 This time, in the room of the windlass, however, it was pirates who labored to lift that mighty weight.
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19 1002 What woman does not wish to be claimed by the mighty, by the bold and strong, by the master? The fashion plate, so to speak, of course, may be astonished that she does not sell for as much as many other women, but the fellow who buys her thinks of this as an obvious advantage.
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20 80 I noted, however, that she could hardly take her eyes from the mighty Callimachus.
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20 255 She could hardly take her eyes from the mighty Callimachus.
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20 310 The brand and collar, though mighty in their significance, offer little actual impediment to a girl's action, unless, perhaps, she desires to pass alone and unchallenged through a city gate.
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20 1199 "Ar's Station and Port Cos," said Tasdron, "are mighty powers on the river.
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Book 17. (3 results) Savages of Gor

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1 202 At one time it had been a huge, convex, cagelike lacing of mighty branches, lashed together, a high dome of fastened, interwoven wood, but now, after years of disrepair, and the pelting of rains and the tearings of winds, little remained of this once impressive and intricate structure but the skelet...
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1 267 But they were only two, two of a handful of survivors of a once mighty race, that of the lofty and golden Priest-Kings.
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1 506 This time it brought forth a mighty spear, some twelve feet in length, with a long, tapering bronze head.
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Book 18. (10 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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35 113 Then lightning again illuminated the stormy sky and the driving torrents of rain, and then the lightning and rain were gone, and then there were great ringing blows, and the great hammer of Kron, of the metal workers, lifting and falling, smote on a mighty anvil, showering sparks in the night, which...
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42 50 Beating its mighty wings the bird hung almost motionless in the air, its back a steep line.
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42 77 If it was the feather of Wakanglisapa, then why should they not attempt to capture it, to secure its mighty medicine for themselves? The five riders then broke their formation by swerving to the side and began to circle, to build up momentum, and then, soon, they had brought their birds onto an atta...
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47 88 We crouched down, dust and rocks flying past us, that we not be forced from the edge of the escarpment by the turbulent blasts of those mighty, beating wings.
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47 138 With a shake of its mighty head my tarn flung the shield from its beak, a hundred feet away, the arm still inserted in the shield straps.
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47 148 Could it be that, after all these years, the tactics of combat on tarnback remained so fresh, so vivid, in the eager, dark brain of my mighty mount? Could they be retained so perfectly, with such exactness, seemingly as terrible and sharp as in the days when they were first imprinted, high above gra...
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47 149 The mighty lungs of the tarn expanded.
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47 363 But I could sense the ripple of muscle, the tingle of nerve, beneath the fur in those mighty bodies.
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47 421 He extended his mighty wings and smote them against the air.
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56 51 How fearsome might they then become astride the mighty tarn.
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Book 19. (2 results) Kajira of Gor

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36 428 An acorn placed when tiny and helpless in a pot and starved and sickened will never clutch the dark soil of reality with deep roots like talons and lift green, spreading, mighty leaf-bestrewn branches to sunlight and wind.
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36 1383 Further, of course, you, seemingly so haughty and mighty a Tatrix, treated me with injustice and scorn.
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Book 20. (2 results) Players of Gor

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16 655 Chino, and then Lecchio, too, helped Petrucchio, bit by bit, to free that mighty wooden blade.
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18 134 "In this trunk, sacked and shackled, at our mercy, lies an enemy of Brundisium, an arrogant fellow who dared to displease our throne, a captain and slaver of Port Kar, one of whom you may have heard, the supposedly mighty and redoubtable Bosk of Port Kar!" called out Belnar.
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Book 21. (2 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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19 257 Such an appointment, of course, that of one of Tyros to such a post, later would have been unthinkable, given the developing frictions between Ar and Cos, and her mighty ally, Tyros, frictions largely consequent upon competitions in the valley of the Vosk.
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20 30 Within the gamut of those gleaming walls, so lofty and mighty, rose thousands of buildings, and a veritable forest of ascendant towers, of diverse heights and colors.
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Book 22. (8 results) Dancer of Gor

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3 196 In this form of dance a woman becomes aware of the marvelous, profound complementarities of sexuality, that she, clearly, is the female, beautiful and desirable, and that they, watching her, being pleased, their eyes alit, strong and mighty, are different from her, that they are men, and that, in th...
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6 168 I did not object to being kept in ignorance, as this was their will, and gave me further evidence that I was only their animal, and slave, as I wanted to be, and to such men, so marvelous and mighty, could be nothing else.
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13 392 He seemed remote, and mighty.
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13 617 I was astonished and delighted to hear this, that so mighty a man as this Gorean master, second in this house to Hendow, my master, might have found me attractive, and from so long ago.
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24 400 How mighty they were, and kind! To be sure, I would have to continue to show them perfections of slave service and total deference.
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29 627 It had the same stature, and shoulders, and mighty arms, but it was now a bronzed, leaner Hendow, one even more terrible and fierce than I had known, one who held now in his hand a bloodied sword.
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34 120 How huge and mighty seemed his body, that of this magnificent, primitive male, on this barbaric, beautiful world, and how small and soft I seemed next to it.
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34 737 How mighty are these Gorean men, I thought, and yet it seems they might fear to reveal their feelings.
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Book 23. (3 results) Renegades of Gor

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15 10 From time to time we could hear, and sometimes feel, through the floor, the impact of the Cosian projectiles, the great stones, some of which would weigh a thousand pounds or more, flung by mighty catapults, some the size of houses.
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17 97 Then, suddenly, a lever thrown, the mighty arm of the engine went forward again and a great stone burst against one of the towers.
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20 422 The huge, painted eyes of these ships were then turning north, toward the mighty Vosk.
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Book 24. (6 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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1 945 She might then, in a moment, bruised in his ardor, gasping in her collar, be dragged to an alcove, and forced again and again to serve, until dawn, until at last she might lie soft against him, by his thigh, in her collar, having served to quench for a time the flames of so mighty a lust, one which ...
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14 254 More injuries, I think, were suffered as the result of their thrashing about, the swift movements of those gigantic tails, the strokes of which could break legs, and hurl a fellow yards away, than from the laceration of numerous, white, curved, hooklike teeth, than from the pounding closings of thos...
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19 197 If it were its intention to smite me with the wind from the beating of those mighty wings I thought it best to withdraw into the rence.
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27 118 "The delta," he said, "has vanquished mighty Ar".
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40 79 Dietrich had hoped to give Ar time to arm, that she might counterbalance the forces of Cos, thus preventing the ascendancy of a single mighty force on the continent, an eventuality which, in his opinion, would have threatened the existence of the free companies, among which was his own, one of the l...
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45 99 There they find men who, for the most part, are quite different from those they are accustomed to on Earth, strong, powerful, uninhibited, uncompromising men, men who have never been subjected to pathological conditioning programs aimed at the taming or debilitation of the male animal and its instin...
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Book 25. (4 results) Magicians of Gor

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10 174 "If Marlenus were alive, and might return," I said, "that might bring Ar to her feet, angry and mighty, like an awakened larl".
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13 19 There were meets, and local championships, with awards, such as fillets of the wool of the bounding hurt, dyed different colors, and for champions, crowns woven of the leaves of the mighty Tur tree.
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14 388 "Defend me, us! I demand it! Release me! You must! I beg it! The men of Ar have been defeated! No longer are they men! No longer are they mighty and masters! They are now nothing, they are all weaklings! You are of Cos! You must keep them that way! It is important to you to keep them that way! Arres...
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20 353 He, too, gasped, and then suddenly he laughed, a mighty laugh, almost a roar, a laugh of triumph, like an exultant larl, joyful in his mastery of the beauty.
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Book 26. (20 results) Witness of Gor

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7 579 I uttered a tiny cry of misery, and tried to pull back, but I was held in place, close to that mighty chest.
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8 426 How mighty were the bars! How strong they were, and perfect! I pressed my cheek and body against them, happily, joyfully, gratefully, knowing that I could never break them.
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8 620 The cry had seemed birdlike, but, even far off, it was too mighty to have had such a source.
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8 746 Between us lay a mighty chasm.
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9 299 How terrified I was of the men I had seen, masters of such monsters as the mighty birds I had seen! I was pleased that I had learned how to wear silk and iron.
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11 1386 How astonishingly paradoxical seemed my situation! Here on this world, where men seemed so proud, so untamed, so unbroken, so free, so mighty, so hot-blooded, on this world seemingly so primitive, so splendid and barbaric, on this world of leather, and silk and iron, not of plastics and synthetic fi...
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16 434 How different we are, I thought, my smallness and softness, and his lean, mighty frame, the breadth of the shoulders, the thickness of his arms.
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17 26 I was careful not to come within reach of those mighty hands.
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19 2 Some slave girls, too, scurried across the bridge, doubtless eager to see the returned raiders, the mighty mounts, the harvested riches of the venture's predations.
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19 22 Some of the mighty saddle birds, like gigantic, crested hawks, they are called "tarns," moved about uneasily.
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19 24 Once or twice one or another of these mighty creatures put back its head and screamed to the clouds.
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19 27 I saw some of the captives, stripped women, hooded, being led forth, in their chains, from cage baskets, slung to the harnesses of the mighty birds.
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19 142 These men were dangerous, and mighty.
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19 269 How odd, I thought, that it should supposedly be they who had the ear of the mighty and mysterious Priest-Kings.
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19 326 Did they not think their own efforts had been efficacious in these matters? Who, after all, rode the mighty tarns, who did battle, who risked their lives, who, sword in hand, bestrode the corridors of burning palaces? And how must such words sound to the lovely captives? Surely they, if none others,...
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22 31 The pit master, despite the monstrosity of his appearance, was mighty in his manhood.
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24 61 Many other sorts would have, as well, even the mighty tarns.
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37 532 But then to her surprise, and, one supposes, consternation, the Earth woman finds herself enfolded helplessly in mighty arms and kissed in turn and kissed as she had never dreamed she might be kissed, with such ferocity, and mastery and power, and ownership, and then as she reels, giddy and dazed, s...
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46 352 I want a man so strong, so intelligent, so energetic, so powerful, so overwhelming, so uncompromising, so mighty, that I can, before him, be no more than his abject slave".
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46 405 But it never reached my heart for his mighty hands, moving like lightning, seized my wrists.
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Book 27. (23 results) Prize of Gor

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27 1889 Yes, yes, she thought, they speak truths, mighty truths, lovely truths, deep truths, incontrovertible truths, precious truths, yes, such as I are indeed for the entertainment of men, for the sport of men, of masters! It is that for which we exist, and desire to exist, the pleasure of men, the entert...
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7 194 What if, say, they were desired by powerful, mighty men, and she had little doubt there were such men on this world.
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8 111 He, as others on this world, was strong enough, mighty enough, to expect, require, and enforce the deference due them, to require and enforce the submission of the principle of femininity, in all its wondrous softness, desirability and beauty, to a more severe, more dangerous principle, that of thei...
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10 209 It was a simple garment, but how revealingly, how casually, how splendidly it displayed the mighty frame it housed.
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13 261 There was a wild cry, piercing, at hand, not more than fifteen feet above her, surely the loudest and most terrifying sound she had ever heard, as of some living, immense, monstrous creature, and she was in shadow and then not in shadow, in a shadow that moved and leapt and was shattered with bursts...
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17 394 The beast's fur had been glossy and oily, and some of this oil had adhered to her body, and, for a moment, she had felt her right thigh in a mighty, almost prehensile grip, within the menacing softness of which she had sensed curved, knifelike hardnesses, like short, sheathed scimitars.
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17 1203 One might as well ask gentleness, tenderness, sensitivity of beasts, of leopards and lions, of alien, aggressive, different, mighty life forms, life forms, she thought, compared to which we are insignificant, even negligible, valued only for casual utilities.
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17 1204 To men such as these, the mighty, untamed, unreduced men of Gor, what can women be but prey and quarry? What can we be before such men but intimidated, dominated slaves, but eager, yielding, responsive, supplicatory slaves? Such men are true men, men as nature intended them to be, and before them, a...
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17 1225 Mirus, Mirus, she thought, now your vengeance on me is complete! There was suddenly a titanic snapping in the air yards away, and it seemed that a mighty wind exploded in the area, scattering and whirling dust and straw.
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18 56 She had knelt before a mighty man and licked and kissed his whip.
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18 267 * * * * And so Ellen reached down and picked up the heavy basket of meat, which she must carry to the feeding area, a section within the housing for tarns, and set forth, piece by piece, climbing the wall railings, impaling it on the hooks, for the mighty birds, seven of them, due to return with the...
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18 505 How I hate him, that young, handsome, vain beast, Selius Arconious, he thinking he is so good-looking, so clever and mighty! How I hold him in contempt, how I detest him! And yet it is hard for me to remain standing before him! I grow weak! He makes me feel helpless! His nearness makes me feel faint...
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18 565 How small her body seemed in his mighty grasp.
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19 58 Portus rushed inward, to the loft office, and, in moments, carrying a heavy bundle over his shoulder, from which escaped the sounds of metal, emerged, seized up a tarn goad and, throwing open the latch to the huge cot, the general housing area, that mighty cage, which held several of the gigantic wi...
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19 565 In a moment the tarn had leapt from the platform, spread its wings, soared for a brief moment, swooping downward, and had then, with a sudden snapping of those mighty wings, begun to fly.
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20 363 But the bird, the lance like a straw in its mighty bulk, struck the tarnsman and the other bird, grasping and biting.
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27 1018 But at that moment there was indeed a beating of wings in the sky, a whirl of wind, a blasting of grasses, the screams of mighty forms overhead, wild gigantic darting shadows darkening the grass, the shouts of men, the piercing sounds of tarn whistles.
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27 1690 Those were not the mighty peasant bows that guard the autonomy of Gorean hamlets.
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27 2278 He was mighty and she, slave, obediently receptive as she must be, welcomed him, bent back, fastened, over the wheel, as the yielding, helpless, collared vessel of his pleasure.
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28 154 She would have fled after her master, but her arm was seized by the mighty hand of Bosk of Port Kar, and she, small and female, struggling, was held as helplessly as in a vise.
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28 331 They were weapons such that with them man might meet man, weapons requiring closure, and risk, weapons requiring skill and courage, not engineer's weapons, not weapons with which the pretentious, petty, effete and craven might effortlessly outmatch and overcome the might of heroes, surpass and vanqu...
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29 351 "Master?" "I gather you do have mighty machines, and such".
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30 550 How tall, how powerful, how mighty he seemed, looming above her, before her.
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Book 28. (50 results) Kur of Gor

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1 32 And what labor is not expended in its preservation! How mighty is the sweet shield of ignorance! How fearfully and carefully he burnishes it! He is a herd animal.
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1 109 Let them laugh and fight, and drink and quarrel, and seek their slaves in conquered cities and taverns, and chain them and put them to their feet, and not inquire into the dark and mighty processes which have bred them, which have made them so real, and necessary.
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1 110 And so they are encouraged to emulate the stealth and savagery of the larl, the cunning and tenacity of the sleen, the vigilance and swiftness, the alertness, of the mighty tarn.
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2 198 There was no mistaking the sweep of that mighty paw.
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5 311 "But how can a mere human, no more than a simple beast, be a friend to those as mighty and noble as Kurii?" "Do you think you are speaking ironically?" asked Arcesilaus.
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10 265 How frightening it must have been for her, thought Cabot, to put herself within the grasp of those mighty appendages, within reach of those massive jaws.
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10 268 Cabot looked back at the brunette, her wrists braceleted behind her, cuddled in those massive arms, her body pressed closely, obediently, pathetically against that mighty, hirsute frame.
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10 289 He wished he had his weapons, the mighty Gorean spear, the great bow, even the swift short blade, like part of his own hand, which could strike like the ost.
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18 131 He was supposing it would be immaterial to the hunters whether he was brought down by sleen, which might have been wild sleen of the forest, one might speculate, or slain, supposedly by accident, with a cast of the mighty Kur spear.
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18 292 And now Cabot himself was netted, though not in the light toils of a weighted slave net, which he might have torn open and shredded, a net unsuitable for a man but inescapable for a female, but in a mighty net, stoutly woven, thickly stranded, cast by a Kur, a net that might have held a larl.
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20 113 "Kur to Kur!" cried Lord Pyrrhus, shackled, but mighty, looking upward, fangs bared.
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21 37 There was suddenly a pounding of drums, mighty drums.
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21 354 That challenger then thrust his own bar down, into the sand, some four feet, with a mighty motion, and then, contemptuously, hurled the bar he had been given by the officer toward Grendel.
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21 453 Whatever the clue might have been, a pressing of a paw into the sand to gain leverage for a blow, an intake of breath prior to striking, a tiny sound of harness, perhaps even the slick, shifting of a grip, to take advantage of a less-moist, drier surface, Grendel threw himself to the side and the mi...
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21 461 Grendel's left arm, slowly, surely, doubtless with considerable pain to himself, encircled the throat of the Kur he held, and he drew back a mighty fist, and this fist, with a blow that might have felled a tharlarion, he drove into the back of the Kur's neck, better than two inches, breaking the sku...
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21 623 Two mighty doors there swung open.
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23 108 "I think so," said Cabot, "a champion in the arena, mighty and dangerous, but a fool elsewhere, in the small, soft hands of a woman".
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28 41 Too, they are cheaper than a kaiila, or trained sleen, and far less expensive than a tarn, one of Gor's mighty saddle birds.
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33 35 "Tharlarion," said Grendel, resting on the mighty oar with which he propelled the raft.
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33 36 Grendel then again plied his mighty lever.
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33 131 Almost at the same moment the raft seemed to leap upward in the water, some great back beneath it, and then, with a mighty splash that drenched the occupants of the primitive vessel it struck back down into the water.
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33 144 Then the raft again plunged into the water, with a mighty splash.
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33 160 A moment later the raft again tilted to the left, and then, half visible, the mighty back of one of the gigantic saurians, like a wet, scaled mountain, rose higher and higher, and then the raft, after a moment, slid free, and struck again into the water.
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33 163 "He now understands it can be done!" Again the mighty body emerged under the side of the raft, and the raft again tilted to the left, and then it was vertical, and its occupants dangled from the ropes.
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33 172 Again the mighty body emerged under the raft and again the raft was almost vertical in the water, and was then vertical, and then struck down again, with great force, its occupants, as before, leaping free.
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33 285 There was the massive body, the huge, paddlelike appendages, a powerful, elongated, snakelike neck surmounted with a massive head, with mighty fanged jaws.
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34 37 The raft, mighty as it was, began to respond to the force of swift, rising swells.
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36 65 "And so, too, must the archer, overmatched, if unable to deal with a mighty foe on that foe's own ground and terms".
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36 73 A mighty warrior confronted by two foes is often doomed, one foe engaging and the other striking.
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43 14 Her hands were free and tried to fend away the mighty, hairy arms of the butcher.
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43 60 The butcher's mighty paw clasped the pointed tool more firmly, and he drew back his right arm, and with his left hand he drew the shrieking Lady Bina more closely to him.
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47 121 Cabot heard the clawed feet of a purple scarf touch the ledge, and then, rather as the two leaves of a mighty gate might swing open, outwardly, the left wing of Lord Grendel, and the right wing of Lord Statius, swung toward their bodies, and Cabot released the first shaft, point-blank, through the c...
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47 139 Cabot saw loops of gut loose amongst the beating wings, and Statius' foe, striking Statius' jaws away from his shoulder with a mighty blow, turned about, erratically, and tried to strike away.
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55 217 Lord Grendel stopped, though, at the edge of the herd, lifted his mighty arms, and roared, a Kur roar that echoed back from the cliffs beyond.
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55 238 His mighty chest heaved, his head was down.
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56 186 "Rise from the trenches, attack, attack, Kur brothers!" called Lord Grendel, and his cries were echoed, from trench to trench, and coursed down the lengths of trenches, and Cabot, and the humans, confused, bewildered, were aware of mighty bodies, howling with cries of war, scrambling out of the tren...
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63 31 Then, with a mighty effort, almost as though an exploded cliff, tumbling and showering boulders, might arrest itself in flight, and then, slowly, carefully reassemble each pebble and each stone in its place, Lord Grendel slowly straightened his body, and looked about himself.
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63 142 The leader of the cattle humans, blood about his teeth, where he had bitten his prey, was seized in the mighty paws of Lord Grendel, lifted high in the air, and then flung to the earth, this breaking the back and neck of the leader of the cattle humans, who was then, as Lord Grendel had not loosened...
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67 107 He might have preferred a field on Gor, with long green grass, with the wind rising from the east, in the morning, or perhaps a crag in the scarlet mountains, the mighty Voltai, or perhaps the stem castle or helm deck of a lateen-rigged galley, perhaps the Dorna or Tesephone.
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67 108 The thought crossed his mind of the mad shipwright, Tersites, filled with his dream of a ship so sturdy and mighty that it might see what lay on the far side of Thassa, to go so far that no mariner who had attained only to the first knowledge would dare to ply one of its oars, for fear of plunging o...
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69 30 "Get busy, you worthless pot girls, you tarsk-bit sluts, prepare a feast, a mighty feast!" "Yes, Master!" they cried, and hurried to the crates, and stores, which had been brought into the camp.
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69 130 "Twice," said a Kur, "the world was again in jeopardy, for minions of Agamemnon were surprised in the planting of mighty charges, which, if detonated, would have opened the world to the outside".
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70 14 A mere word from Cabot dissuaded the mighty animal, once it was within some hundreds of yards of its prey, from rushing forward and attacking it.
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73 34 "Pray, remain for a time, noble ally," said Lord Arcesilaus, "for I shall decree a mighty festival, with days of rejoicing and feasting, which I would that you and yours, your splendid, numberless adherents and crews, shared with us".
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77 271 Whereas Cabot was familiar with the ax, from Torvaldsland, he was uncertain of his ability to withstand the onslaught of the mighty ax of the Kurii, which a human could scarcely lift, in the grip of a Kur.
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77 278 A swift flight of this mighty tool swept toward Cabot and he sprang back.
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77 294 Flavion's great blade again swung in a mighty arc and Cabot caught it on the double head of his own ax, and a blast of sparks burst into the air, and the head of Cabot's ax hung in its bindings, loose, against the haft of his ax.
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77 300 Then, to his amazement, he saw parts of palings thrust to the side, and there was a mighty roar, and a terrible figure stepped into the compound through the great, jagged, wrought aperture in the wall.
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80 149 Lord Grendel, with others, including Cabot, turned then toward the large doors, of heavy timber, better than a foot thick, perhaps brought from the northern forests of Gor, adorned with mighty brass studs, doubtless from the industrial cylinder.
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81 70 Another object had been loaded as well, a large cage, in which a mighty beast, snarling, wary, impatient, twisting and turning, paced angrily back and forth.
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Book 29. (26 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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1 10 Too, they lurk, like wolves, muchly concealed, amongst the scattered stones, some small, many mighty, of what, on Earth, is commonly referred to as the asteroid belt, on Gor, by those familiar with the Second Knowledge, as the reefs of space.
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2 24 Gor is somewhat smaller than Earth but having missed the cataclysm that drew, say, a sixth of Earth into space to form her magnificent single moon, leaving behind a mighty basin to become in time a vast ocean, her land area is quite possibly more extensive than that of Earth.
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2 176 In a moment of crisis, in a time of confusion and terror, when a vulnerable Port Cos awaited the onslaught of the combined fleets of Tyros and Cos, the word spread, the startling mysterious word, a word like the flash of lightning, a word striking through the darkness, a word as mighty as the rallyi...
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3 204 I had encountered the tarn again, years later, in the Barrens, and we had again been one, but at the end of local wars I had freed him again, that he might again take his place as the master of a mighty flock, that he might be again awing in broad, lonely skies, be again a prince amongst clouds, a l...
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13 310 Imagine she, a Ubara, in a collar! What state would be powerful enough, clever enough, bold enough, to seize a Ubara? What Ubar mighty enough to have her naked, in chains, at the foot of his throne! It was strange, incomprehensible, the change that had come over her.
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14 84 The mighty peasant bow, because of its size, obviously, could not be well used from the saddle.
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17 2 The heavy shields and mighty spears borne by them would alone far outweigh the armament and accouterments of my men.
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19 107 I thought of Andreas of Tor, and his longing for a song that might be sung for a thousand years, of Tersites, of Port Kar, and his plans for a mighty ship, finer than all others.
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22 304 How mighty, I thought, are the bonds of friendship.
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22 447 Or do they know themselves slaves, lacking only a master? How, I thought, might a civilization distort and pervert truth! How it can veil nature and conceal reality! How it can demean one thing and bedeck another, how it can in so many ways flee the serious, mighty, and worthy, and embrace the insig...
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25 194 I did not suppose that the world ended a bit beyond the waters of Tyros and Cos, or beyond the Farther Islands, even far beyond them, that at some point, some brink, Thassa plunged a thousand pasangs downward, like a planetary waterfall, only to be lifted by fiery Tor-tu-Gor, Light Upon the Home Sto...
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26 321 I loosened the guide straps and the tarn extended its head, snapped its mighty wings, spraying water back, and sped toward the shelter of the cots.
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28 124 In such a season Gorean mariners refrain from taunting mighty Thassa.
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28 336 Strange, I thought, that so mighty a bounty, ten thousand tarn disks, of gold, of double weight, had not yet been claimed.
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28 393 Later, at the first opportunity, escaping her sequestration in the Central Cylinder of Ar where she, disowned by her father, had been confined in dishonor, having begged to be purchased, a slave's act, in the northern forests, she had betrayed her Home Stone, conspiring with the forces of Cos and Ty...
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30 1 I Speak with Aëtius I felt small, standing on the shore, beside that towering, mighty body, that massive structure, held in its building frame, sloping down to the water.
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30 161 I considered the mighty structure.
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36 24 It was hard to think of that small, twisted, wiry, energetic body, the unlikely frame of so mighty and unusual a mind, belabored and weakened, succumbing to the ravages of illness.
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37 43 There was a thundering roll of wood and the mighty body of the ship of Tersites slid toward the river.
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37 50 She was stately, majestic, surely no lightness like that of a Vosk gull, given her bulk, but as serene and mighty, and as unchallenged here, as might be some vast lake or river tharlarion in its own domain, some ponderous thing, unable and awkward on land perhaps, but, in the water, oddly graceful, ...
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38 307 I could see the mighty, towering frame, which had held the ship of Tersites, was now, too, afire.
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40 2 A dozen small boats, unable to escape, many fastened together, were crushed in the passage of the mighty bow of the great ship, and she brushed others aside, dozens, brushed them aside as the limb of a stately, insouciant larl might sweep leaves from its path, scarcely noticing this consequence of i...
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40 4 Never had they seen so mighty a ship as that of Tersites.
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40 29 And so it was that at the mouth of the Alexandra, mighty, its passage now uncontested, as tarns returned to the ship, one by one, canvas fell from the yards, took the wind, and the ship of Tersites, her wings spread, set her prow westward.
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41 75 "Stop, Commander! Do not!" I heard the officer of the watch cry out, and then I saw the flash of the mighty rudder to my right, and entered the cold waters of gleaming Thassa.
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Book 30. (37 results) Mariners of Gor

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7 155 Let Thassa shrink and tremble before Tersites and his mighty ship! He subdues her! He humbles her! He breaks her to the yoke of his will! Yea, I, Tersites, whom men scorned, whom men ridiculed and banished, whom men despised and mocked for years, now, first of all men, at last, mighty and glorious, ...
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7 158 My ship cleaves your waves, braves your winds, and scorns your storms! We tread upon you, mighty Thassa, passing as we will and please! Do your worst, mighty Thassa! You are mocked! You are scorned!" Dusk came early, and it seemed the cold never left.
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13 52 Always were they uneasy in the presence of the shipwright, fearing his eccentricities, the strangeness of his mind, the unpredictable and erratic exercises of his power, his officious negligence and scorn of customary precautions and ceremonies, his omission of traditional offerings, placations, and...
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1 299 She was kept in his tents for a time, but then it seems that the fancy of the mighty Rask was taken by a mere slave, a blond barbarian collar slut, named El-in-or.
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2 13 We were two days out from the port of Telnus, terraced Cos's southern window to the sea, our mother, mighty Thassa, on routine patrol.
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2 126 It was carvel-built, the mighty planks fitted, not the clinker-construction with overlapping planks.
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2 133 The mighty structure before us had a blunt, rearing prow.
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2 167 A single wrench of that mighty beak could tear the arm from a man.
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2 238 The ship, reassuringly, was not green, for pirates often paint their ships green, that they be the less seen on mighty, rolling Thassa.
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2 263 "Hail mighty Lurius of Jad! Hail Tyros! Hail Chenbar, Ubar of Tyros!" I was then drawn over the rail, and held in strong arms.
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3 35 We had tried to burn their ship, and how fearsome and dangerous is fire at sea! Too, how could I betray the Home Stone of Jad, or forswear my allegiance to my Ubar, mighty Lurius of Jad? And how could I serve with those of Ar or, say, Port Kar, sworn enemies? Of what value could I be to these men? W...
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3 1482 What woman would not wish to be excitingly garbed, to be not only permitted, but to have no choice but to publicly exhibit her beauty? What woman would not wish to escape the inhibitions, the social demands, the conventions and pressures, the robes, veils, and proprieties which so control and confin...
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7 157 Tersites and his ship invites your enmity, that men may marvel that so mighty a foe he has reduced to such futility.
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8 6 Even on deck one could hear the crunch of their boots on the ice below, the striking of the posts downward, each handled by two men, on the ice, the sharp crack of the Torvaldslander axes striking on the horizontal, encroaching wall that seemed about to encircle the mighty ship.
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8 29 The mighty ship had been seized by Thassa, in her fists of ice, better than thirty days ago.
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8 30 The ice had formed about her, and lifted her, mighty as she was, from the surface of the sea, aslant, and crooked, yards toward the sky.
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8 118 In such things can one not hear the crackle of the fire at the mouth of the cave, the drums in the forest, sense the feeling of one's wrists drawn behind one, and thonged together, snugly, and then the being seized in the mighty arms of hunters and warriors, whose they are, and who will do with them...
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9 82 It is impressive to see such mighty beasts in flight, the stroke of the wings to the beating of the tarn drum, the wheelings and maneuvers, in unison, to the signals of banners and trumpets.
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10 89 She had lifted her and broken her apart in her mighty fist.
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12 777 The wind turned, and was fair, swelling the mighty sails, and the great ship, like an unleashed sleen, leaped forward.
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15 90 "Mighty Rutilius begs for mercy," said Tereus.
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15 130 "Hail, Rutilius, mighty master!" laughed Iole, first amongst the lingering slaves.
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17 69 A mighty chasm now separated them, unbridgeable, save by the chain or whip.
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19 94 The waters churned about her, and she was smote as with discordant, hurtling rivers in the sea, and I feared her timbers, though of mighty Tur wood, might be stove in.
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19 106 I saw another mighty trough before us, and tried to cry out, but no sound came from my throat, and I clung again to the mast.
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19 114 Mighty Thassa would give berth.
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20 103 Had she truly thought that she, and her some two hundred collar sisters, on their chains, so beautiful, so vital, so carefully selected, had been brought across the breadth of mighty Thassa, all the way from continental, known Gor, merely to be tower slaves? I did not think it likely she would soon ...
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20 249 I looked about, and I saw the incredible, mighty differences between men and women, and understood that I, by nature or the will of Priest-Kings, was of that profoundly different sort, the woman.
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21 264 "It is a mighty holding".
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23 10 Small as it seemed now, I knew, given the proportion of the mountains, and the high cliff it dominated, it would be mighty in closer prospect.
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23 80 It was apparently only a tiny remnant of a once mighty force, driven about, harried, fought, defeated again and again, some seven or eight hundred men, perhaps a thousand, which, exhausted, bloodied, and starving, on a gray, cold morning, surrounded save for the sea, awaiting an onslaught they could...
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24 35 Had it not served its purpose? Had it not traversed Thassa? Had it not vindicated the madness, the bizarre faith, the superstition and conviction, of its malformed master, half-blind Tersites, a jest amongst the islands, a joke in a hundred ports, who had sent it eyeless upon the open sea? I had lon...
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24 300 Cast flowers and sprinkled perfumes, drummers and flautists, preceded her chair, borne by mighty slaves, flanked by liveried guardsmen.
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24 399 "Behold, I who once was formidable, mighty and feared, high in Ar, second only to Myron, polemarkos of Temos, am now reduced, am now no more than a mockery of a man, a helpless cripple, at the mercy of the meanest villain or rogue".
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25 26 It remained, at least until now, despite the woes of the war, secure and inviolable, one stubborn, mighty, obdurate impediment to the designs of Lord Yamada, shogun, as it was said, at least by his minions, of the Twelve Islands.
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26 303 "The potency of such charms," I said, "however mighty in a free woman, are surely much reduced in a kneeling, tunicked slave".
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37 1457 It seemed then, at last, that Tersites had made his peace with vast, mighty Thassa.
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Book 31. (25 results) Conspirators of Gor

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4 158 Could it be that I was not alone, that I was not an isolated, shameful exception to the pompous glories of political orthodoxy? How rare is courage! How mighty is the shuffling, drifting, dull, pressing herd! Eve, Jane, and I exchanged frightened glances.
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7 730 I was not encircled with conventions and formalities; I was not one for whom strong men were to step deferently aside, who might be carried in a palanquin, for whom ways were to be cleared, one who was expected, I gathered, at least if of high caste, to speak boldly, even sharply, and with haughty c...
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8 168 How could such a world exist and not be known, or, I thought, is it known? Perhaps it is known, but as a guarded secret, official or governmental, to be kept from the general public? Is it the will of the Priest-Kings, the alleged lords of this world, I wondered, that the existence of their world be...
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8 1823 Sometimes the towers seem to be giants, standing proudly, independent and mighty, soaring to the sky, touching clouds, their feet in garbage.
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10 128 I then lay quietly, enfolded in its mighty arms, miserable, and it moved swiftly, but warily, along the dark street.
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10 689 And the knots had been warrior knots! I was scarcely aware of its movements so swift it was, and I felt myself seized up, lifted, in mighty paws, and I sensed nails within them, and heard a roar of rage, and I was flung a dozen feet across the room, striking into a wall.
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15 178 I sensed a mighty heart beating within that expanse.
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15 208 It was hard to conceive how tenaciously and unsurrendering, how difficult to quench, how stubbornly, the fires of life might burn in so mighty a frame, in the dark, sheltered furnace of so awesome a physical engine.
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15 282 At that moment the beast hurled itself forward, with startling, incredible swiftness, and I saw him whom I had earlier sought, him whom I had earlier feared lost, dismembered, on Clive, struck to the side with a reckless, wide, sweeping, indiscriminate, mighty blow, one that might have loosened or d...
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15 333 Yes, I thought, the curves of this slim barbarian have intrigued the mighty master.
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18 1094 How weak we are, how needful we are, once a collar is fastened on our neck! Would you be different, noble Mistresses, were one fastened on your neck? Of course, for you are not slaves! Once before, at a night camp, our second day from Venna, he had put his hands on me, as well, and thrust me, standi...
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22 100 The men continued to converse, about many things, things of interest to men, techniques of hunting, the best seasons and terrains, the politics of mighty Ar, the taverns of Venna, the Vennan races, the breeds of tharlarion, the kaiila and slaves they had owned, and such.
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25 25 It clearly involves a mighty crag, and, one supposes, it might have been named after some fellow named Kleinias, perhaps he who first saw it, or, at least, saw fit to speak of it, to call attention to it, or such".
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26 120 "I fear something mighty is afoot," said Desmond of Harfax.
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27 107 I doubt that any of us, unless the Lady Bina, from her conversations with the blind Kur in Ar, had suspected that anything like this might exist on Gor, and surely not within the terrifying, rugged wilderness of the mighty Voltai.
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30 6 Perhaps that is because they have never met a true male, so mighty, so innocently and naturally the master of such as we.
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37 214 "Consider," said Desmond of Harfax, "the brain of a mighty, fearsome, almost legendary leader, gigantic and formidable, a Kur of Kurii, kept alive, revered, obeyed.
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45 52 Mighty boulders were scattered about, some jagged, and young, and some worn smooth by centuries of wind and rain.
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45 54 I wondered what forces might have given birth to the mighty Voltai.
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46 67 I supposed that a mind as mighty and ambitious as that of Agamemnon, filled with the visions of grandiose ventures, frustrated by its dependence and limitations, encountering reverses, balked in its projects, might incline to irrationality, might slip into madness.
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48 8 It seemed reasonably clear that there could be but one Agamemnon, and so but one housing for that dangerous and mighty mind, but it was not clear in which housing, if any, that mind reposed.
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48 57 How brave, and foolish, Desmond of Harfax had been! Did he think that so mighty a foe, so jealously guarded, might be so easily disposed of? I recalled that he whom he had spoken of as his principal, who had been, as it had turned out, Grendel, had said nothing of the assassination of Agamemnon.
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48 305 There, tall, and mighty, in full harness, stood Grendel.
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48 330 Grendel stepped forward, to the center of the room, and Lucius, with a cry of rage, unintelligible in the translator, rushed forward and his ax, bright and double edged, described its swift, terrible arc, and in a moment might have cut away a head and part of a shoulder, but it was suddenly arrested...
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49 162 I have wondered if, sometimes, there might not be something in that mighty body of the will and power, the energy and resourcefulness, the astonishing capacity, of he alleged, long ago, to have been as Kur amongst Kurii, dreaded and dangerous Agamemnon, known as Theocrat of the World, the Eleventh F...
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Book 32. (39 results) Smugglers of Gor

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5 3 Who would want to relate otherwise to a man? And who could relate otherwise to such a man? Why had I never felt this way before other men? I felt him different from the men I had known, so different! I was suddenly aware, as I had not been before, of the radical centrality of sex to the human condit...
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6 122 What might be in the northern forests, or Torvaldsland, to warrant this mighty movement of men and supplies? Do they think to found a city at the mouth of some far river, say, the Laurius or the remote Alexandra? Such locations would seem remote and inauspicious.
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7 17 Doubtless this had something to do not simply with my needs, and the unhappiness I had known on Earth, but, too, with the men of this world, dominant, powerful, virile men, who would see me as a woman, and slave, and treat me as such, men so natural, so astonishing and mighty, that before them I kne...
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7 128 In the house, and here, as the girls spoke, I had heard of lovely Ko-ro-ba, busy Harfax, mighty Ar, and even vast, remote, Turia.
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9 162 At this point there was another roar in the forest, but this one seemed mighty, as though it might have torn leaves from the trees.
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9 402 A few moments later, I heard again, this time far to my right, the mighty roar which I had heard before, that roar which seemed it might have taken leaves from the trees.
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11 165 Had that gaze not, as though mighty hands, parted and torn away my clothing, revealing, as though for a master's consideration, what had impermissibly dared to conceal itself within? I had sensed myself more than regarded; I had sensed myself considered, appraised.
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14 428 "Unseen like the wind, mighty like the sea, wise as the stars, swift like the flash of lightning".
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15 94 It had talons, a beak, long and wicked, and mighty wings.
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15 370 *** How mighty was the ship! How tiny we were on the dock, bearing our burdens, coming and going, serving the workmen, carrying supplies, and food and water, in the shadow of that curved, towering structure rearing above us.
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15 417 I looked up, at the mighty ship.
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15 478 Who would care to risk an army, perhaps a war, by entrusting it to a single mount, to but one vehicle, to but one vessel? But Thassa, I supposed, vast Thassa, might lift her hand, and smash a fleet as well as a single vessel, and, I suspected, a mighty vessel might brave her wrath where a hundred co...
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15 479 Too, what an enormous store of supplies might be housed in so mighty a vessel, supplies which might last years.
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15 584 I wondered if he whom I well remembered, he who had so obviously dismissed and forgotten me, that mighty figure, would have behaved so.
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16 160 I, pack in hand, looked down to the Alexandra, lovely, wide and shimmering, in the morning light, to the huge, partially dismantled framework of mighty Tur beams, to the long dock, with its many sheds, and the broad, towering vessel which was moored there, held in place by gently, strained lines, ag...
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20 94 I, however, unlike, I am sure, several of the others, took the mighty crash, which seemed to shake the very logs of the long kennel, as no more than a natural thing, a simple, if impressive, disturbing, harsh, violent manifestation of suddenly fierce, unusual weather.
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20 171 For what had it been built? For what waters had so mighty a keel been laid? What storms had it been framed to withstand? What broad, trackless, landless wildernesses might it hazard? What strange harbors might so monstrous a vessel seek, by what unfamiliar, far ports of call might it be lured? "No, ...
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21 75 Behind us, a mighty ax grasped in its hands, or paws, was a third beast, larger than the others.
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21 88 A man would have found it difficult to have lifted, let alone wield, that mighty tool, or weapon.
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21 93 What storm of force, I wondered, might be unleashed in such a mighty frame? Surely it was there, beneath that surface.
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21 234 "The mighty lords are generous.
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23 108 I might have wondered too if the Alexandra could even offer so mighty a keel a feasible passage to the sea had I not realized that her depth and course would have been well scouted in this regard.
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33 32 Too, my chances of survival were much higher here than if I were alone, here with these armed, skilled, dangerous, and mighty women, almost like creatures of the forest themselves, who could detect sign and move with stealth, whose passage would be little marked by the forest floor, who could read t...
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37 7 "The mighty Darla wakes!" "Remove these chains!" cried Darla.
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37 95 "The mighty leader! See her helpless, see her without her talmit, without her skins, her weapons, her ornaments.
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37 96 Is she so mighty now! See her as she is, stripped, chained, and shackled, frightened, in tears, only a woman!" Then Tuza turned back to Darla.
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37 134 Tula, Mila, and I stood near our burdens, frightened, mere women, feminine women, so unlike the mighty Panther Women, so unlike that we could be to them as naught but despised slaves, women of the sort which men immediately think of in terms of a brand and tunic, women of the sort which men think li...
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37 136 I had thought that Darla, who was large and strong, was the fiercest, the mightiest, the most formidable of women, the bold and daring leader of a dangerous band of Panther Women, women to look up to, women before whom other women might kneel in fear, women not unlike the masters themselves, women n...
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37 252 "Take me with you! Have mercy! You are now the mighty, indisputable, and noble leader.
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39 537 "It is a wondrous and mighty beast," said the fellow who had been addressed as Aeson.
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43 762 Be miserable, mighty Master! I am Mistress! I amkajira!" "She-urt, she-tarsk!" I said.
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44 15 There is the wind, the cold, the storms, the mighty waves, the torrents of icy rain.
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44 54 Indeed, I had been grateful to have been afforded the opportunity to gather Tur-Pah so close to the wands when I had, this facilitating my flight, for one of the reasons I wished to escape, and soon, was to avoid incarceration, with others, within those mighty timbers when her mooring lines were fre...
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50 872 I knew little of Treve, other than the fact that it was reputedly a bandit city somewhere in the vastness of the mighty Voltai mountains, far to the south.
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51 6 "It seems unlikely to me," I said, "that the ship, mighty as it may be, will reach the World's End, if such a place exists.
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52 66 Were they not slaves, goods, to be sold or traded at the World's End, or the farther islands, whatever might be the destination of that mighty frame now poised for its journey downriver to Thassa? Why, I wondered, had they been hooded? Surely it was not necessary for purposes of security.
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52 623 "We might have been mighty men," said Axel, fondling the shaggy, lifted head of Tiomines.
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52 860 I have acknowledged a mighty wanting of you, fierce as the tides of Thassa, and as irresistible and inalterable, that I have fought to free myself from this inexplicable, terrible wanting, and have failed to do so.
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54 195 "It is the time of winter on broad, rolling, thundering Thassa," he said, "a time of cold and ice, of impenetrable fog, and short, dark days, of storms, of waves as high as flighted tarns and as mighty as clashing mountains, and it will go down with the ship".
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Book 33. (33 results) Rebels of Gor

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1 86 Surely they had not fallen into consternation, nor had they scattered and fled at the first sight of so unfamiliar, obviously dangerous, and mighty a form of life as the tarn.
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1 308 Given the care with which we strive to conceal this mighty weapon, Tarl Cabot, tarnsman, is well advised to await the cover of darkness".
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2 62 Again the mighty appendages found their beat, and the bird again sped, with no altered signal from the straps, on the course I had set.
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2 177 "Up!" I cried, leaping to the mounting ladder, which swung beside the saddle, and the tarn screamed, and its mighty wings smote the air, and it ascended, I clinging to the mounting ladder.
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3 45 Riders have their favorites, and perhaps, too, the mighty, winged creatures themselves, but it is important that the birds accept different riders.
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6 33 Would the cards not be marked, the dice weighted? Might a hand not surreptitiously move a piece, or insert another? And who is to say on what tiny matters, a sedative pellet scarcely visible, a sliver of iron in the foot, might hang the performance of even the mighty tharlarion? Too, to my dismay, I...
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9 4 There was no return fire, or cast stones, to the intrusions of the mighty arrows of the great bow.
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9 90 What is behind him, and what does it mean? Too, I assumed General Yamada, from what I had learned of this mighty adversary, would more likely be at the front of his troops than in the rear.
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10 106 The mighty wings of my tarn struck the air, and I saw one fellow stumble, his forearm over his eyes, lost in a sheet of driven dust, and I was aflight.
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13 154 Had Lord Temmu not had the mighty, nigh-impregnable holding of the house of Temmu at his disposal I suspected that this war would have been concluded long ago, and not to his advantage.
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18 16 "I fear it makes little difference," said Pertinax, looking at the mighty panels of the heavy, now-closed-and-barred gate.
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21 80 So let us suppose these mighty species, to whom we were aliens, and of little independent interest, had arrived at an agreement, that we were to be the dice in their dark game, the dice to be cast on the mat of a world.
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21 371 I heard a cry of pain, the snap of mighty wings, and dust carried even to where I stood, wavering, looking backward.
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22 77 "Perhaps by some mighty and unforeseen ally," he said.
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25 273 "He must be in the saddle within Ehn!" Haruki, I thought, wildly, had not failed! The tiny message, fastened to the left foot of the vulo, held in its flight against its belly, half hidden in its plumage, days ago, had made its way to the cot in the holding of Temmu! Suddenly the vast shadow of the ...
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27 162 How the pasangs slipped away, beneath those mighty, beating wings! "I looked about, I inquired," I said.
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27 181 How quick I had been to suppose illegal deceit and even perilous, surreptitious dishonesty, a betrayal of principles and understandings, a departure from implicit rules without which a game, even a mighty game on which might depend worlds, would be forsworn and treacherously subverted! But I recalle...
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35 41 I did not know if this apparent lack of care was a function of the distance from the lands of Temmu, a sense of the weakness of the forces of Temmu, or was merely to be attributed to the arrogance of a mighty shogun.
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37 10 "A large, strong animal, a mighty animal," I said.
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45 76 "Yamada's forces are mighty," said Pertinax, "those of Temmu weak".
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47 52 "It is a lofty, mighty, and beautiful holding," said Nodachi.
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47 292 "Put ten men against me, or one hundred," called Nodachi to the shogun, "but be yourself, mighty lord, the last man in that line".
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50 133 No mighty tanks of propellant need fill storage yards.
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52 75 I needed not speak to them of the great nest in the Sardar, nor of the Nest War, nor of the fierce aerial battles within those mighty chambers, nor of transportation disks and flame tubes.
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53 27 "Would you not rejoice," I asked, "in the presence of so mighty an ally?" "The iron dragon flies for Yamada," said Tajima.
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54 263 And those who did not believe now need only lift their eyes to the sky and behold the spread of these mighty wings, the thing come alive, as from nowhere".
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58 148 "She," said Tajima, "is not one of your distant, exalted free women on the continent, one of mighty towers and high cities, resplendent in the rich, colorful robes and veils of concealment, one possessing a Home Stone.
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60 407 We need law, time to tend our fields, leaders, the protection of the mighty".
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60 408 "The mighty are fallen," said Tajima.
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60 479 "Great lord," said Tajima, "I do not know the details of the plan of Tarl Cabot, tarnsman, but perhaps the mighty have not fallen".
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61 130 That night, about the Twentieth Ahn, the silhouette of a tarn was cast briefly on the white moon, and, a bit later, the snap of mighty wings disturbed the canvas of several tents.
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61 755 Across a broad river, when the gates of the compound were opened, I saw a mighty ship, on which, later, I and others, secured and hooded, were boarded.
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61 1235 Do you think men are so willing to relinquish manhood, or so stupid as to submit like dumb animals to their impoverishment, belling, and slaughter? Even the mighty larl can be brought down by a swarm of squealing urts, but this does not prove the superiority of the urt to the larl, to the lonely, pr...
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Book 34. (51 results) Plunder of Gor

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1 239 What could possibly be so disturbing about the mere thought of apprising oneself of unfamiliar possibilities? Can ideas draw blood? Surely truth is unavailing against mighty walls.
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7 261 I would learn the gravity of Gor, for it was on this world I now was, was less than that of Earth, the planet being somewhat smaller, though it would have more land surface than Earth, as it possessed only one mighty ocean, not two, that ocean being restless, turbulent, gleaming Thassa, the sea.
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9 344 "I have a Home Stone," she said, "that of Victoria, jewel of the mighty Vosk!" "Yes, Mistress," I said.
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9 637 I recalled the mighty arms of Kurik, enfolding me helplessly in the grip of the master, a helplessness and bliss I could not forget.
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10 163 In the southern hemisphere, the coinage of mighty Turia serves a similar purpose.
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13 73 I had glimpsed the rider, helmeted, seemingly small on his mighty mount.
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14 53 Laws, as is well known, are not for the mighty.
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15 316 Suddenly, I heard, for the first time, a mighty sound, deafening, but feet away, shrill and sustained, annunciatory, the long, shrieking, readiness cry of an awesome, dangerous, incredible form of life.
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15 326 There was suddenly a great crack, as of the smiting of wind, like the crack of sails, like the snapping of a mighty banner, or whip, and the very basket in which I was held shook, and then, suddenly, the ropes were taut, and the basket, as I screamed in fear, thrown back, helpless in my bonds and st...
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20 146 As soon as she had begun to move, it had emerged from the doorway, quickly, lightly for so mighty a bulk, crouched down, bent over, looking about, alertly, from one side to the other, eyes bright, its knuckles on the paving stones, following her, a bit behind and to the left.
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23 191 My sources inform me that it is to Kurik of Victoria, in Brundisium, that the package is to be delivered, Brundisium, a great port, familiar with exotic cargos, unusual birds, mighty serpents, surprising beasts, a port where such cargos are not likely to elicit undue attention.
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30 402 Did not all know that? Might one not be mocked for such a weakness? Would that not call forth laughter in the taverns and exercise yards? How that would lessen a man in his own eyes! How then could he respect himself? Did he fear some concession or compromise that might diminish or tarnish his cheri...
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32 223 Then a single, long, reverberating note rang out in the night, wrought by a mighty hammer having struck against a large, hollow, suspended metal cylinder, mounted somewhere in the center of the city, which note would be audible from the outer walls to the southern piers.
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33 519 Mighty heroes fought and died on both sides.
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33 565 The body was bent over, like a mountain of fur, and its mighty legs were coiled beneath it.
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33 566 These mighty appendages, I gathered, had cushioned the shock of its descent.
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33 599 The lead beast suddenly sprang forward, and was precipitately upon us, far more quickly than I might have deemed possible, and, with a contemptuous sweep of its mighty paw, struck Kurik to the side, into the darkness.
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33 638 But they struck her, those terrible, mighty things, until she whimpered and cringed, and then they hooded and bundled her in the very sheet of canvas in which Kurik had expected to conceal her, to take her through the streets of Brundisium in the night.
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33 690 I saw the long, dark tongue dart forth and then back between those mighty jaws.
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34 120 Who would place at the disposal of an enemy the resources of a planet, who would grant them an island, a platform, from which, in time, to launch a great attack, a mighty armada, against them?" "How is it," I asked, "that Priest-Kings have permitted humans on their world?" "Gods," said Kurik, "have ...
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34 174 She has her turbulent, mighty Thassa, but she has no second, vast sea, like that you speak of as the Pacific".
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34 204 "Has this to do aught with the creature seized in the house of Flavius Minor, she carried away into the night?" "One of the mighty heroes who labored in the cause of Lord Arcesilaus," he said, "was the outcome of the aforementioned hideous experiment.
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42 44 Then that mighty form, broad, and hirsute, ears lifted, was in the doorway of the kitchen.
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42 63 A swift wrenching of those mighty jaws, I was sure, could tear an arm from my body.
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42 85 I thought of the energy latent in that mighty form.
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43 74 How could I endure to remain amongst the mighty and beautiful? Better to hide on this world, pretending to no higher office than that of a pet, or guard brute".
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44 166 "I find Master impressive, and mighty," I said.
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45 79 "But what slave," I wondered, "is chained behind the couch of handsome, mighty Drusus, so important here, he not now in a collar and tunic, not now imposing on a naive slave, but in fine supper raiment, and so near the dais?" "I would see such a slave," I thought.
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46 393 "It houses a living brain," he said, "vital and mighty".
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49 43 The projects need not be mighty, of course.
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50 97 How poor Lyris has suffered, trying to conceal her mighty, forbidden passion for me from Surtak and the others.
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50 114 Lord Grendel then held to the bars, and, with one mighty foot, with this leverage, disdainfully, violently, thrust Lyris feet away, rolling across the floor of the cage.
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50 193 "Release me," she cried, "foul brigands! You do not know whom you have discomfited! I am Alexina, from the House of a Hundred Corridors, colleague of the mighty Decius Albus! You have judged unwisely, my fine fellows! Do not think you can hold one so important as I for ransom! Consider your error! T...
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52 56 Surely he would be desperate to placate his mighty allies, to remedy matters to whatever extent possible, to redeem the plausibility of his house, to reassert the sturdiness of his allegiance and the value and reliability of his service.
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53 206 "Hurry, loathsome creature," he snarled, "bring your sorry self here, taking it from the view of a high Kur, the noble Surtak, servitor of mighty Lord Agamemnon.
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54 64 "The mighty tarn soars in the sky, putting clouds beneath its wings.
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54 74 In that moment there was something awesome, mighty, and fearfully Kurlike in his mien.
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55 30 The charging Kur was struck fully on the side of the neck by that storm of chain, and I screamed for the headless body, blood pumped by that mighty heart showering into the air, staggered toward us, two, and then three, steps, paws outstretched, and then fell before Lord Grendel, who swept the trunk...
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60 129 "And now," called Decius Albus, swaying in the box, then steadied by Drusus Andronicus, "let us salute our revered and mighty allies, our friends from afar, whom we honor with these games".
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61 144 Surtak roared terribly, a noise that might, millennia ago, have shaken forests on a far world, and seized up the mighty ax he had cast down but Ehn ago.
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61 153 Aelius had climbed toward the box but, before he could enter it, Lucilius, two hands on the great haft, wielded the ax, and the sundered head of Aelius spun far away, a small, dark cloud raining blood, and blood from the decapitated corse, sped by the fierce pressure generated by the frantic poundin...
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61 155 "Noble friends, High Ones, mighty allies, do you not hunger? Is a banquet not spread before you? See the soft flesh, the tender, two-legged verr! We set them before you! The feast is prepared.
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61 174 Surely Aelius and Lucilius were mighty Kurii and awesome leaders.
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61 312 Let our mighty friends, our Kur brothers, have the kajirae!" "No!" cried more than one man in the ranks.
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61 325 Decius Albus, his robes bloody, standing in the box, ax-bearing Lucilius wild and snarling at his side, while the field was broken into warring factions, men against Kur, Kur against men, men against men, Kur against Kur, remonstrated again and again with his men, "Peace! Peace! Do not threaten our ...
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61 680 "Noble High Ones, Mighty Brothers," called Lucilius, "will you be befooled by humans, will you waver in your loyalty to great Agamemnon, will you hesitate to be true to the meaning of your fangs and claws, will you be denied your pleasures, your sport? Behold the game clustered by the stake, vulnera...
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61 907 Was it her fault that her form, and her wholeness, the whole of her, should so disturb, stimulate, provoke, and stir a male of her species, should bring about such mighty feelings, overwhelming and irresistible, of desire, lust, passion, and possessiveness? How was she to blame? Had these realities ...
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61 958 "Decius Albus, if he survives, will still be mighty in Ar, as the Ubar's trade advisor".
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62 173 Surely his power is mighty, and his memory long.
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63 438 "To think that one so mighty and influential as Decius Albus, trade advisor to the Ubar, would be concerned with us," said Paula.
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65 339 Lucilius roared with rage and leapt at Lord Grendel, with a mighty stroke of the great ax, but Lord Grendel crouched down and, lifting his own ax, gripped in two hands, or paws, struck upward, bringing the blade of his own ax into play, against the higher end of the shaft of the descending ax, and t...
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