| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 20 | 12 |
Perhaps the Priest-Kings, whoever or whatever they might be, reasoned that such a man was dangerous, that such a man might in time raise his own banner of dominion; perhaps they realized that I, of all on Gor, did not revere them, would not turn and bow my head in the direction of the Sardar Mountai... |
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| 1 | 32 |
But after the term papers, the tests, and the grading of the first semester, I was afflicted with a rather irresistible desire to chuck the British Empire and go for a long, long walk—indeed, even a camping trip in the nearby White Mountains. |
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| 1 | 37 |
My friend in the physical education department drove me a few miles into the mountains and dropped me off. |
10 |
| 1 | 46 |
I ate a cold lunch and was on my way again, getting deeper into the mountains. |
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| 1 | 137 |
Things grew black for a moment, but I shook myself and clenched my teeth, breathed in the sharp, cold mountain air, once, twice, three times, slowly, gathering the piercing contact of reality into my lungs, reassuring myself that I was alive, not dreaming, that I held in my hands a letter with an in... |
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| 1 | 151 |
What I must do was fairly obvious—make my way out of the mountains as soon as it was light. |
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| 1 | 188 |
Who knew the nature of the things or forces that were afoot that night in the mountains, things and forces that might perhaps smash me, casually, as one innocently steps on an insect without being aware of it or caring? I still had the compass, and that constituted a firm link to reality. |
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| 2 | 1 |
The Counter-Earth I remembered nothing, from the time I'd boarded the silver disk in the mountains of New Hampshire until now. |
10 |
| 2 | 43 |
It occurred to me that I was clean, in spite of my adventures, my panic-stricken rout in the mountains. |
10 |
| 2 | 172 |
"The Priest-Kings," said my father, "maintain the Sacred Place in the Sardar Mountains, a wild vastness into which no man penetrates. |
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| 2 | 174 |
Surely none have returned from those mountains". |
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| 2 | 176 |
"Idealists and rebels have been dashed to pieces on the frozen escarpments of those mountains. |
10 |
| 2 | 177 |
If one approaches the mountains, one must go on foot. |
10 |
| 2 | 184 |
"Sometimes," said my father, his eyes still faraway, "when men are old or have had enough of life, they assault the mountains, looking for the secret of immortality in the barren crags. |
10 |
| 2 | 194 |
It was rumored, according to my father, that they cultivated holiness in their mountains, and in their contemplation could not be concerned with the realities and evils of the outside and unimportant world. |
10 |
| 2 | 195 |
They were, so to speak, absentee divinities, existent but remote, not to be bothered with the fears and turmoil of the mortals beyond their mountains. |
10 |
| 2 | 196 |
This conjecture, the seeking of holiness, however, seemed to me to fit not well with the sickening fate apparently awaiting those who attempted the mountains. |
10 |
| 2 | 199 |
They limit, selectively, the technology available to us, the Men Below the Mountains. |
10 |
| 2 | 202 |
"On the other hand," he said, "you will learn that in lighting, shelter, agricultural techniques, and medicine, for example, the Mortals, or the Men Below the Mountains, are relatively advanced". |
10 |
| 2 | 217 |
"I do not believe the ship was manned by any of the Men Below the Mountains". |
10 |
| 2 | 219 |
"Frankly," said my father, "I believe the ship was remotely controlled from the Sardar Mountains, as are said to be all the Voyages of Acquisition". |
10 |
| 3 | 196 |
This might account for the relatively primitive weapons allowed to the Men Below the Mountains. |
10 |
| 3 | 201 |
I doubted that they stood against one another, man to man, sword to sword, in their holy mountains, putting their principles of selection to the test in their own cases. |
10 |
| 3 | 275 |
Never since the panic of the disoriented compass back in the mountains of New Hampshire had I been so frightened, but this time I refused to allow my fear the fatal inch it required. |
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| 5 | 34 |
The Older Tarl had told me that Thentis is a city famed for its tarn flocks and remote in the mountains from which the city takes its name. |
10 |
| 5 | 149 |
Sometimes I guided my tarn by the stars, the same fixed stars I had seen from another angle above my head in the mountains of New Hampshire. |
10 |
| 12 | 107 |
Soon my swift captor had reached his mountains, and the vague, distant smudge that I had seen had become a lonely, frightening, inaccessible wilderness of reddish cliffs. |
10 |
| 12 | 152 |
As nearly as I could determine from the map and my memory of the location of the Vosk and the direction I had been carried, I was somewhere in the Voltai Range, sometimes called the Red Mountains, south of the river and to the east of Ar. |
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| 13 | 18 |
There would be many who would leave the city to seek the comparative safety of the mountains. |
10 |
| 13 | 92 |
I feared the disease as I had not feared the larl, but I could not leave him here in the mountains to fall prey to one beast or another. |
10 |
| 13 | 117 |
Almost instantly the whistle had been answered by other whistles, responding from a dozen places in the nearby mountains. |
10 |
| 14 | 159 |
There was a rim of red light over the mountains, and I knew it was nearly dawn. |
10 |
| 19 | 97 |
I knew almost nothing of the fabled Priest-Kings, but I did know that something of the sort must exist, for I had been brought to Gor by an advanced technology, and I knew that some force or power lay in the mysterious Sardar Mountains. |
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| 19 | 100 |
On the back of my tarn, I waited, not knowing if I was to be singled out for the Flame Death, not knowing if I, like the mysterious blue envelope in the mountains of New Hampshire, so long ago, was doomed to explode in a devouring blue flame. |
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| 20 | 26 |
There, I suppose to this day, in that inhospitable vastness, he reigns; in the scarlet mountains of the Voltai, Marlenus still rules, a larl among men, an outlaw king, to his followers always the Ubar of Ubars. |
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| 20 | 43 |
I awoke, perhaps weeks later, stiff and chilly in the mountains of New Hampshire, near the flat rock on which the silver spacecraft had landed. |
10 |
| 20 | 47 |
I sat alone in the mountains, my head in my hands. |
10 |
| 20 | 56 |
When I emerged from the mountains, I found I had been gone seven months. |
10 |
| 20 | 60 |
I sent my friend at the college a belated check for his camping equipment, which had been destroyed with the blue envelope in the mountains. |
10 |
| 20 | 70 |
Two or three times a year I have returned to the mountains of New Hampshire, to look again on that great flat rock, to spend a night there, in case I might see once again that silver disk in the sky, in case once again I might be summoned by the Priest-Kings to that other world. |
10 |
| 20 | 73 |
If I should once again walk the green fields of Gor, I know that I should attempt to solve the riddle of the Priest-Kings, that I should enter the Sardar Mountains and confront them, whoever or whatever they might be. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 120 |
Like every man of Gor I knew the direction of the Sardar Mountains, home of the Priest-Kings, a forbidden vastness which no man below the mountains, no mortal, may penetrate. |
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| 6 | 2 |
Whereas the Men Below the Mountains, as the mortals are called, seldom enter the mountains, and do not return when they do, many often venture to their brink, if only to stand within the shadows of those cliffs that hide the secrets of the Priest-Kings. |
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| 20 | 91 |
I wondered—an eerie suspicion that suddenly swept through me—if the Sardar Mountains might actually be empty—if there might be nothing, simply nothing but the wind and the snow in those gloomy mountains, and if men worshipped, unknowingly, nothing. |
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| 23 | 3 |
Beyond the Fair and before the mountains, which rose suddenly from the plains, I could see the timber wall of black logs, sharpened at the top, which separated the Fair from the mountains. |
10 |
| 23 | 40 |
Though the full force of my will drove me to the mountains, though in the mountains the Priest-Kings waited for me, I could not yet go. |
10 |
| 1 | 17 |
He decided to go camping—by himself—in the nearby White Mountains, which were very beautiful then, in the white, brittle splendor of a New Hampshire February. |
10 |
| 1 | 18 |
I loaned him some of my camping gear and drove him into the mountains, dropping him off beside the highway. |
10 |
| 1 | 26 |
Yet, several months later, I understand that Tarl Cabot stumbled out of these same mountains, alive and well, but apparently under the stress of some emotional shock which had culminated in amnesia—at least for that period during which he had been missing. |
10 |
| 1 | 59 |
We talked of dozens of things, but neither of us mentioned his abrupt response to my greeting, nor did we speak of those mysterious months in which he had disappeared in the mountains of New Hampshire. |
10 |
| 1 | 62 |
I felt that the time would come when Cabot would speak to me of the mountains but that he himself would have to choose that time. |
10 |
| 1 | 163 |
"I am going again to the mountains". |
10 |
| 2 | 3 |
I rose slowly to my feet, my fibers alive in the wind, my hair torn by its blasts, my muscles each aching and rejoicing in their first movements in perhaps weeks, for I had again entered that silver disk in the White Mountains which was the ship of the Priest-Kings, used for the Voyages of Acquisiti... |
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| 2 | 11 |
To the right, in the far distance, I saw the smudge of mountains. |
10 |
| 2 | 12 |
From their extent and height, as far as I could judge, I guessed them to be the mountains of Thentis. |
10 |
| 2 | 15 |
There was no love in my heart for the Priest-Kings, those mysterious denizens of the Sardar Mountains, whoever or whatever they might be, but there was gratitude in my heart, either to them or to the strange forces that moved them. |
10 |
| 2 | 17 |
The Priest-Kings, Keepers of the Holy Place in the Sardar Mountains, seeming knowers of all that occurred on Gor, masters of the hideous Flame Death that could with consuming fire destroy whatever they wished, whenever they might please, were not so crudely motivated as men, were not susceptible to ... |
10 |
| 2 | 83 |
Judging by the sun, and knowing that Ko-ro-ba lay northwest of the mountains, I strode in the direction of my city. |
10 |
| 3 | 117 |
I remembered once when I had feared thus in the mountains of New Hampshire, and how shamefully I had yielded to my fear and had run, a slave to the only degrading passion of man. |
10 |
| 5 | 4 |
Ko-ro-ba was not set as high and remote as, for example, was Thentis in the mountains of Thentis, famed for its tarn flocks, but it was not a city of the vast plains either, like the luxurious metropolis of Ar, or of the shore, like the cluttered, crowded, sensuous Port Kar on the Tamber Gulf. |
10 |
| 5 | 5 |
Whereas Ar was glorious, a city of imposing grandeur, that acknowledged even by its blood foes; whereas Thentis had the proud violence of the rude mountains of Thentis for its setting; whereas Port Kar could boast the broad Tamber for its sister, and the gleaming, mysterious Thassa beyond, I thought... |
10 |
| 5 | 121 |
It was said that the Supreme Home Stone of all Gor lay within those mountains and was the source of the Priest-Kings' power. |
10 |
| 5 | 122 |
It was said no man had returned alive from those mountains, that no man had looked upon a Priest-King and lived. |
10 |
| 5 | 123 |
I resheathed my sword, fastened my helmet over my shoulder, lifted my shield and spear and set out in the direction of the Sardar Mountains. |
10 |
| 6 | 1 |
Vera The Sardar Mountains, which I had never seen, lay more than a thousand pasangs from Ko-ro-ba. |
10 |
| 6 | 4 |
Four times a year, correlated with the solstices and equinoxes, there are fairs held in the plains below the mountains, presided over by committees of Initiates, fairs in which men of many cities mingle without bloodshed, times of truce, times of contests and games, of bargaining and marketing. |
10 |
| 6 | 5 |
Torm, my friend of the Caste of Scribes, had been to such fairs to trade scrolls with scholars from other cities, men he would never have seen were it not for the fairs, men of hostile cities who yet loved ideas more than they hated their enemies, men like Torm who so loved learning that they would ... |
10 |
| 6 | 11 |
I would have given much for a tarn in my journey, though I knew no tarn would fly into the mountains. |
10 |
| 6 | 12 |
For some reason neither the fearless hawklike tarns, nor the slow-witted tharlarions, the draft and riding lizards of Gor, would enter the mountains. |
10 |
| 6 | 38 |
It would shorten the trip to the Sardar Mountains by weeks. |
10 |
| 8 | 64 |
I determined that I should try to secure a tarn and proceed as quickly as possible to the Sardar Mountains, to keep my appointment with the Priest-Kings. |
10 |
| 8 | 83 |
That I was determined to reach the Sardar Mountains he need not know. |
10 |
| 14 | 152 |
"The bird is chained! Attack! Kill them both!" In that instant the bolt gave, and the nut spun from the shaft! The tarn, as if it understood it was free, shook the hated metal from its leg and lifted its beak to the skies and uttered such a cry as must have been heard by all in Tharna, a cry seldom ... |
10 |
| 16 | 47 |
I was pleased, for though I would have little use for such riches in the Sardar Mountains, Linna and Andreas, and the poor wretches of the arena, might well profit from them. |
10 |
| 17 | 66 |
I was far from the Sardar Mountains, far from the Priest-Kings of Gor. |
10 |
| 19 | 81 |
"Therefore we must scatter to the forests and the mountains, taking cover where we can. |
10 |
| 19 | 123 |
Andreas knew as well as I that men did not return from the Sardar Mountains. |
10 |
| 19 | 125 |
"I think you would find few songs in the mountains". |
10 |
| 19 | 149 |
I must begin my journey to the Sardar Mountains. |
10 |
| 19 | 151 |
I knew that little passed on Gor that was not somehow known in the Sardar Mountains. |
10 |
| 19 | 152 |
The power and knowledge of the Priest-Kings is perhaps beyond the comprehension of mortal men, or, as it is said on Gor, of the Men Below the Mountains. |
10 |
| 19 | 155 |
I had seen the power of the Priest-Kings at work—in the mountains of New Hampshire years ago when it was so delicately exercised as to affect the needle of a compass, in the Valley of Ko-ro-ba where I had found a city devastated as casually as one might crush a hill of ants. |
10 |
| 19 | 159 |
I knew then as I knew now that I would go instead to the Sardar Mountains, that I would enter them and seek the Priest-Kings themselves. |
10 |
| 20 | 3 |
Before starting for the mountains, it seemed wise to improve my equipment. |
10 |
| 20 | 65 |
One is the fairs at the Sardar Mountains, which occur four times a year and are numbered chronologically. |
10 |
| 20 | 72 |
* * * * Some four days after I had recovered the tarn, we sighted in the distance the Sardar Mountains. |
10 |
| 20 | 73 |
Had I possessed a Gorean compass, its needle would have pointed invariably to those mountains, as though to indicate the home of the Priest-Kings. |
10 |
| 20 | 74 |
Before the mountains, in a panorama of silk and flags, I saw the pavilions of the Fair of En'Kara, or the Fair of the First Turning. |
10 |
| 20 | 76 |
I looked upon those mountains which I now saw for the first time. |
10 |
| 20 | 78 |
The mountains of the Sardar were not such a vast, magnificent range as the rugged scarlet crags of the Voltai, that almost impenetrable mountain vastness in which I had once been the prisoner of the outlaw Ubar, Marlenus of Ar, ambitious and warlike father of the fierce and beautiful Talena, she who... |
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| 20 | 86 |
The mountains before me were black, except for the high peaks and passes, which showed white patches and threads of cold, gleaming snow. |
10 |
| 20 | 90 |
I took the tarn as high as I could, until his wings beat frantically against the thin air, but could see nothing in the Sardar Mountains that might be the habitation of Priest-Kings. |
10 |
| 20 | 118 |
A similar device, I supposed, might prevent the entry of high tharlarions, the saddle lizards of Gor, into the mountains. |
10 |
| 20 | 120 |
I knew now that it was true, what I had been told, that those who entered the mountains would do so on foot. |
10 |
| 20 | 123 |
I pointed out over the fields, away from the mountains. |
10 |
| 20 | 127 |
I think, though it may be absurd, that the beast felt that he might have failed me, that he had not carried me into the mountains. |
10 |
| 20 | 135 |
I gestured to the fields away from the mountains. |
10 |
| 20 | 138 |
I felt unaccountably sad, and turned to face the mountains of the Sardar. |
10 |
| 22 | 123 |
In his arms I learned mountains and flowers and the cry of wild tarns and the touch of a larl's claw. |
10 |
| 23 | 4 |
Men seeking the mountains, men tired of life, young idealists, opportunists eager to learn the secret of immortality in its recesses, would use the gate at the end of the central avenue of the Fair, a double gate of black logs mounted on giant wooden hinges, a gate that would swing open from the cen... |
10 |
| 23 | 24 |
"Someone has entered the mountains," said Lara. |
10 |
| 23 | 28 |
I had spoken to her of my work in the mountains, of my destiny which lay therein. |
10 |
| 23 | 30 |
She knew as well as I that those who entered the mountains did not return. |
10 |
| 23 | 73 |
"It is hard to be first in Tharna," I said, and led her down the hillock, away from the Sardar Mountains. |
10 |
| 25 | 161 |
Indeed, I myself had business to attend to—an account to settle—only my affairs would lead me to the Sardar Mountains, for the business to which I must attend was with the Priest-Kings of Gor. |
10 |
| 26 | 3 |
Now that it is told I must begin my journey to the Sardar Mountains. |
10 |
| 26 | 4 |
Five days from now I shall stand before the black gate in the palisades that ring the holy mountains. |
10 |
| 26 | 5 |
I shall strike with my spear upon the gate and the gate will open, and as I enter I will hear the mournful sound of the great hollow bar that hangs by the gate, signifying that another of the Men Below the Mountains, another mortal man, has dared to enter the Sardar. |
10 |
| 26 | 12 |
Many have entered the mountains and so many must have learned the secret of the Priest-Kings, though none has returned to tell it. |
10 |
| 26 | 25 |
Other Silver Masks had taken refuge in the mountains beyond the walls and these were hunted like sleen by converging rings of irate peasants, who drove them into the center of their hunting circles, whence, unmasked and bound, they were herded to the city to meet their fate. |
10 |
| 26 | 115 |
It now seems to me that if I had simply returned to Gor, and to my city, my father, my friends and my beloved Talena, I might not have cared to enter the Sardar, that I would not have cared to relinquish the joys of life to inquire into the secrets of those dark mountains. |
10 |
| 26 | 116 |
And I have wondered sometimes, and the thought awes and frightens me, if my city might not have been destroyed only to bring me to the mountains of the Priest-Kings, for they would surely know that I would come to challenge them, that I would come to the Sardar, that I would climb to the moons of Go... |
10 |
| 26 | 119 |
But why would Priest-Kings desire Tarl Cabot to come to their mountains? He is nothing to them, nothing to any man; he is only a warrior, a man with no city to call his own, thus an outlaw. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 |
It came about late in the month of En'Kara in the year 10,117 from the founding of the city of Ar that I came to the Hall of Priest-Kings in the Sardar Mountains on the planet Gor, our Counter-Earth. |
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| 1 | 3 |
I had arrived four days before on tarnback at the black palisade that encircles the dreaded Sardar, those dark mountains, crowned with ice, consecrated to the Priest-Kings, forbidden to men, to mortals, to all creatures of flesh and blood. |
10 |
| 1 | 5 |
Once it had tried to carry me over the palisade into the mountains, but never again would I have essayed that flight. |
10 |
| 1 | 13 |
It was not far to the fair of En'Kara, one of the four great fairs held in the shadow of the Sardar during the Gorean year, and I soon walked slowly down the long central avenue between the tents, the booths and stalls, the pavilions and stockades of the fair, toward the high, brassbound timber gate... |
10 |
| 1 | 75 |
The reason for this is not simply that here is a fine market for such wares, since men from various cities pass freely to and fro at the fair, but that each Gorean, whether male or female, is expected to see the Sardar Mountains, in honor of the Priest-Kings, at least once in his life, prior to his ... |
10 |
| 2 | 18 |
Many men and sometimes women had entered these mountains but it is not known what they found. |
10 |
| 2 | 38 |
It was a depressing sound, and not made less so by my realization that in this case it was I who had entered the mountains. |
10 |
| 2 | 43 |
At places there were well-worn paths, at others even stairs had been cut in the sides of mountains, stairs worn smooth in the millennia by the passage of countless feet. |
10 |
| 2 | 51 |
One such read, "The mountains are empty. |
10 |
| 2 | 57 |
But I knew that the mountains were not empty, for I had evidence of Priest-Kings. |
10 |
| 2 | 62 |
Some four days into the mountains I heard for the first time in my journey the sound of a thing other than the wind, the sighing of snow and the groaning of ice; it was the sound of a living thing; the sound of a mountain larl. |
10 |
| 2 | 75 |
How could it have entered the mountains? Perhaps it was native. |
10 |
| 2 | 76 |
But on what could it live among these barren crags? For I had seen nothing on which it might prey, unless one might count the men who had entered the mountains, but their bones, scattered, white and frozen, were unsplintered and unfurrowed; they showed no evidence of having suffered the molestation ... |
10 |
| 2 | 79 |
None of the men below the mountains, the mortals, had ever succeeded in taming a larl. |
10 |
| 2 | 80 |
Even larl cubs when found and raised by men would, on reaching their majority, on some night, in a sudden burst of atavistic fury slay their masters and under the three hurtling moons of Gor lope from the dwellings of men, driven by what instincts I know not, to seek the mountains where they were bo... |
10 |
| 4 | 5 |
There was nothing in the lighting of the passage, or its construction, to suggest that the Priest-Kings' Caste of Builders, if they had one, was any more advanced than that of the men below the mountains. |
10 |
| 4 | 6 |
Too, the passage was devoid of ornament, lacking the mosaics and tapestries with which the beauty-loving Goreans below the mountains are wont to glorify the places of their own habitation. |
10 |
| 8 | 143 |
Perhaps Treve has never attacked Thentis because she, too, is a mountain city, lying in the Mountains of Thentis, or more likely because the men of Treve respect her tarnsmen almost as much as they do their own. |
10 |
| 11 | 71 |
"Do the men below the mountains do as much for their animals?" asked Misk. |
10 |
| 16 | 30 |
"So much the better," said Misk, "for the Men below the Mountains are then confused and fear us even more—but the members of the Caste of Initiates, we have found, will produce an explanation of why the city was destroyed. |
10 |
| 16 | 75 |
"It is said below the mountains that Priest-Kings know all that occurs on Gor". |
10 |
| 16 | 106 |
"I then, by means of an Implanted Agent, unconscious of the message being read through him, instructed your father to write the letter which you found in the mountains on your native world". |
10 |
| 16 | 126 |
"But I found the letter in the mountains, where I had made camp by accident," I said. |
10 |
| 17 | 112 |
I, in the very Nest of Priest-Kings, was more free than he who walked the stones of some road in the bright sun, somewhere beyond the palisade, far from the mountains of Priest-Kings yet still in the shadow of the Sardar. |
10 |
| 27 | 90 |
I wondered if, among Priest-Kings, he would have helped her, or if there would have been others from the former Nest, or if she alone would have fallen to earth, to eat the wings that had borne her, and to burrow beneath the mountains to begin the lonely work of the Mother, the creation of the new N... |
10 |
| 31 | 182 |
I supposed there might be tidal waves in distant Thassa, that crags in the Sardar and the Voltai and Thentis Ranges might be collapsing, that mountains might be falling and new ones rising, that the Sa-Tarna fields might be broken apart, that towers of cities might be falling, that the ring of black... |
10 |
| 32 | 58 |
Others, however, eagerly boarded the ships to be flown through the opening to the mountains above. |
10 |
| 33 | 104 |
He did not come from the mountains". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 19 |
Even past me there thundered a lumbering herd of startled, short-trunked kailiauk, a stocky, awkward ruminant of the plains, tawny, wild, heavy, their haunches marked in red and brown bars, their wide heads bristling with a trident of horns; they had not stood and formed their circle, shes and young... |
10 |
| 1 | 20 |
The Wagon Peoples claimed the southern prairies of Gor, from gleaming Thassa and the mountains of Ta-Thassa to the southern foothills of the Voltai Range itself, that reared in the crust of Gor like the backbone of a planet. |
10 |
| 1 | 26 |
Briefly, for those it might interest, all directions on the planet are calculated from the Sardar Mountains, which for the purposes of calculating direction play a role analogous to our north pole; the two main directions, so to speak, in the Gorean way of thinking are Ta-Sardar-Var and Ta-Sardar-Ki... |
10 |
| 2 | 6 |
It was only in the Sardar Mountains that I had learned the nature of their mission, and what it was that they had carried. |
10 |
| 9 | 19 |
Merchants also, in effect, arrange and administer the four great fairs that take place each year near the Sardar Mountains. |
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| 21 | 189 |
We stood on the wall near the main gate of Turia, through which I had entered the city some four days ago, the morning after the departure of the Tuchuk wagons for the pastures this side of the Ta-Thassa Mountains, beyond which lay the vast, gleaming Thassa itself. |
10 |
| 23 | 192 |
Whether, after we had moved the wagons and bosk some pasangs away, we should remain there, or proceed toward the pastures this side of the Ta-Thassa Mountains, or return toward Turia, was not decided. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 146 |
In the vicinity of the Sardar Mountains I had brought the tarn down on the quiet, flat, gray-metal, disklike surface, some forty feet in diameter, of the ship, some two miles above the surface of Gor. |
10 |
| 7 | 50 |
The spires of Ar, depending on the weather, can normally be seen quite clearly from the nearer ranges of the Voltai, or the Red Mountains, the greatest mountain range of known Gor, superior to both those of Thentis and the Sardar itself. |
10 |
| 8 | 116 |
"Black wine," said she, "from the Mountains of Thentis". |
10 |
| 14 | 66 |
I can arrange for the Older Tarl to be summoned from Ko-ro-ba, and to act as our messenger between Ar and the mountains of Priest-Kings. |
10 |
| 16 | 231 |
Throughout the stands, startling those multitudes, unsettling the other birds being drawn by the horned tharlarion on the low carts, there was heard the sudden shrill, ringing challenge scream of a tarn, unhooded, a giant tarn, black, a wild mountain cry of one of Gor's fiercest, most beautiful pred... |
10 |
| 24 | 28 |
I knew that men would, and had, deserted the Home Stone of their own city to follow him into disgrace and exile, preferring outlawry and the mountains to the securities of citizenship and their city, asking only that they be permitted to ride beside him, to lift their swords in his name. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 41 |
It is reasonably well known in Thentis, in the Mountains of Thentis, famed for her tarn flocks, and in Ko-ro-ba, my city, the Towers of the Morning. |
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| 1 | 63 |
The fleets of tarn ships of Port Kar are the scourge of Thassa, beautiful, lateen-rigged galleys that ply the trade of plunder and enslavement from the Ta-Thassa Mountains of the southern hemisphere of Gor to the ice lakes of the North; and westward even beyond the terraced island of Cos and the roc... |
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| 10 | 250 |
Tyros is a rugged island, with mountains. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 15 |
Indeed, the preceding fall, at the fair of Se'Kara, near the Sardar Mountains, he had contracted with a marauder, Haakon of Skjern, for one hundred northern beauties, to be taken from the villages north of the Laurius and from the coastal villages, upward even to the edges of Torvaldsland. |
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| 9 | 231 |
They do extend beyond the most northern ridges of the Thentis Mountains. |
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| 11 | 1096 |
The element of the tarnsman is not the green glades, and the branches; it is the clouds, the saddle and the sky; his steed is the tarn, his field of battle, strewn with light and wind, higher than mountains, deeper than the sea, is the very sky itself. |
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| 18 | 54 |
I remembered her as I had seen her, in the swamp forest, south of Ar, with Nar the spider, and in the Ka-la-na grove, where I had freed her from the chains of a slave, only to put mine upon her; and in the caravan of Mintar, of the Merchants, in her collar, mine, and slave tunic, with Kazrak, my swo... |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 30 |
I should have a hiking trip, into the White Mountains of New Hampshire. |
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| 22 | 437 |
I had seen it several times, once on one who worked for the mysterious Others, a member of a crew of a black ship, once encountered in the mountains of the Voltai, not far from great Ar itself. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 216 |
He bows and prays to the Sardar and lifts the burned meat to the remote denizens of those mysterious mountains. |
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| 3 | 350 |
In such a direction, I knew, lay the mountains of Thentis. |
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| 3 | 351 |
In those mountains had the forebears of the bird been bred. |
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| 4 | 10 |
It contains many cliffs, inlets and mountains. |
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| 6 | 42 |
In the distance, above the acres, I could see mountains, snowcapped. |
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| 6 | 53 |
Against one wall of the cliff was a long, low shed; in that the small bosk, and the verr, might be housed in the winter, and there, too, would be stored their feed; another shed, thick, with heavy logs, in the shadow of the cliff, would be the ice house, where ice from the mountains, brought down on... |
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| 6 | 56 |
I surmised, as is common in Torvaldsland, most of the cattle had been driven higher into the mountains, to graze wild during the summer, to be fetched back to the shed only in the fall, with the coming of winter. |
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| 7 | 219 |
"Are there larls in these mountains?" I asked. |
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| 10 | 30 |
Ax Glacier was far to the north, a glacier spilling between two mountains of stone, taking in its path to the sea, spreading, the form of an ax. |
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| 10 | 113 |
In the south the southern slave girl commonly regards her northern counterparts as bumpkins, dolts from the high farms on the slopes of the mountains of Torvaldsland; she thinks of them as doing little but swilling tarsk and dunging fields; she regards them as, essentially, nothing more than a form ... |
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| 1 | 15 |
I could see, high on the map, Ax Glacier, Torvaldsland, and Hunjer and Skjern, and Helmutsport, and, lower, Kassau and the great green forests, and the river Laurius, and Laura and Lydius, and, lower, the islands, prominent among them Cos and Tyros; I saw the delta of the Vosk, and Port Kar, and, in... |
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| 15 | 23 |
In places these salt mountains are more than six hundred feet high. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 81 |
The beans grow largely on the slopes of the Thentis mountains. |
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| 11 | 204 |
Similarly, the merchant caste, which is international, so to speak, in its organization, arranges and conducts the four great fairs which occur annually in the vicinity of the Sardar mountains. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 233 |
They are surely not a barrier, however, in the sense that the Voltai Mountains, or even the Thentis Mountains or Ta-Thassa Mountains, are barriers. |
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| 12 | 232 |
These chains, together, are sometimes called the Hrimgar Mountains, which, in Gorean, means the Barrier Mountains. |
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| 2 | 12 |
I grinned, and washed down the eggs with a swig of hot black wine, prepared from the beans grown upon the slopes of the Thentis mountains. |
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| 2 | 325 |
Others said, in stories reminiscent of Earth, and which had doubtless there had their origin, that the world's end was protected by clashing rocks and monsters, and by mountains that could pull the nails from ships. |
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| 2 | 474 |
It is like a range of mountains with many summits. |
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| 2 | 477 |
One may climb different mountains at different times, but each mountain glows in the same sun". |
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| 2 | 628 |
"Most mountains do not move," I smiled. |
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| 2 | 629 |
"The ice mountains of the polar sea," he said, "drift eastward". |
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| 2 | 639 |
We tend to think of mountains as being land formations. |
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| 3 | 39 |
I watched him press on through the crowds, toward the looming palisade which ringed the Sardar mountains, black and snow-capped, behind it. |
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| 3 | 49 |
Then he would lift her in his arms, hair unbound, before the mountains of the Sardar, rejoicing, and giving thanks to Priest-Kings that she was now his. |
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| 3 | 454 |
From where I stood I could see the great palisade, and the black, snow-capped mountains of the Sardar. |
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| 3 | 1300 |
In time I found myself near the palisade ringing the Sardar mountains. |
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| 3 | 1303 |
I stood alone on the platform, and gazed at the snow-capped mountains, glistening under the mingled light of the three white moons. |
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| 4 | 41 |
At this time, particularly in the spring, the sun sparkling on the snow-strewn peaks, the mountains can be quite beautiful. |
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| 4 | 47 |
Then, standing on the platform, he lifted his bare arms to the mountains. |
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| 4 | 53 |
He put the tiny tabuk on the boards at his feet, and then again lifted his arms to the mountains. |
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| 4 | 523 |
I was making my way toward the tarn cot where I had housed the tarn on which I had come to the fair, a brown tarn, from the mountains of Thentis, famed for its tarn flocks. |
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| 9 | 277 |
Certainly they were culturally distinct from the red savages, kaiila riders, of the countries north and east of the Thentis mountains, who maintained a feudal nobility over scattered agricultural communities of white slaves. |
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| 12 | 201 |
There are many glacial lines among the rocks and mountains of the north, but Ax Glacier is easily the broadest and most famous. |
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| 12 | 205 |
These great pieces and mountains of ice, shattering from the brinks of Ax Glacier and her smaller sisters, in time, drifting, carried by currents, would reach the northern sea, that eastward-reaching extension of Thassa rimming the polar basin. |
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| 12 | 230 |
There are tiers of mountains, interlaced chains of them, both east of Torvaldsland and north of her. |
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| 12 | 234 |
The Hrimgar Mountains are not as rugged or formidable as any of these chains, and they are penetrated by numerous passes. |
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| 12 | 236 |
Four days after leaving the northern edge of Ax Glacier, we climbed to the height of the pass of Tancred, the mountains of the Hrimgar flanking us on either side. |
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| 12 | 346 |
I could see the blue line of the Hrimgar Mountains in the distance to the south. |
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| 12 | 357 |
They nest in the mountains of the Hrimgar and in steep, rocky outcroppings, called bird cliffs, found here and there jutting out of the tundra. |
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| 20 | 117 |
I wanted to sing about the great sea, the mountains, the lovely stars, the broad sky". |
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| 20 | 121 |
I am the mountains, the lovely stars, the great sky! Do you think you can put us in your little song?' Then I was afraid, and fell down". |
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| 20 | 140 |
No song can encompass the mountains. |
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| 20 | 146 |
I am the great sea, I am the mountains, the lovely stars, the great sky. |
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| 24 | 22 |
"Have you heard aught, Karjuk," I asked, "of a mountain of ice, an ice mountain in the sea, which does not move?" "In the winter," said Karjuk, "the mountains in the water do not move, for then the sea is frozen". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 87 |
I used the Telnus Defense on the fellow, a response to his Ubara's Gambit, which I thought might be unknown in Schendi, as it had first been seen only last spring at the Fair of En'Kara, near the Sardar Mountains. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 67 |
Let those who can climb mountains climb them; let those who cannot climb them console themselves with denying their existence. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 220 |
Accordingly a significant percentage of moisture-laden air borne by westerly winds is forced by the Thentis mountains to cooler, less-heated air strata, where it precipitates, substantially on the eastern slopes of the mountains and the fringes of the Barrens. |
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| 2 | 212 |
They are, in fact, substantially, vast tracts of rolling grasslands, lying east of the Thentis mountains. |
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| 2 | 218 |
Their climate is significantly influenced by the Thentis mountains and the absence of large bodies of water. |
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| 2 | 230 |
Beyond the Thentis mountains, in the driest areas, the grass is short. |
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| 3 | 31 |
It was not unusual for the border towns, along the eastern edge of the Thentis mountains, to be served by itinerant tradesmen and artisans. |
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| 3 | 150 |
Kailiauk is the easternmost town at the foot of the Thentis mountains. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 64 |
The Boswell he had referred to, incidentally, was the same fellow for whom the Boswell Pass through the Thentis Mountains had been named. |
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| 22 | 308 |
They are not restricted to the grasslands east of the Thentis mountains. |
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| 32 | 57 |
In my own concerns, in my own purposes in the Barrens, to locate and warn Zarendargar of his danger, I had given too little thought to the obvious role of the fierce Kurii in the military politics of the vast grasslands east of the Thentis mountains. |
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| 39 | 233 |
"How laughable and delicious would the little collared chits find it that I, who so scorned them, am not only now, too, a slave, but a low slave, one with only a leather collar, one not even permitted clothing, a cheap, inexpensive slave, thousands of pasangs from civilization, a meaningless slave i... |
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| 54 | 114 |
I must begin the long journey back to the Ihanke, and thence to the Thentis Mountains, and the Vosk, and the Tamber Gulf and Port Kar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 168 |
I continued on my way, treading narrow valleys between mountains of sacks, narrow aisles separating cliffs of boxes. |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 34 |
It is the first fair in the annual cycle of the Sardar Fairs, gigantic fairs which take place on the plains lying below the western slopes of the Sardar Mountains. |
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| 2 | 1590 |
I feared that many of them, so used to beauty, the greenness, the mountains, the rains, the dark forests and bright meadows, the winding rivers, did not really see it. |
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| 3 | 121 |
From the location of our camp, indeed, from our chain line, between two stakes, we could see the Sardar Mountains in the distance. |
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| 4 | 13 |
We could see the Sardar Mountains in the distance. |
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| 12 | 510 |
Still, I recognized that it was the power of Priest-Kings which, in its way, protected both Gor and Earth from the onslaught of lurking Kurii, concealed in their steel worlds, hidden among the orbiting stones and mountains, the small worlds and moons, of the asteroid belt. |
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| 14 | 293 |
Too, I thought of the stately, delicate, golden Priest-Kings in their tunneled recesses and chambers underlying the Sardar Mountains. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 33 | 356 |
It was a release from the fear of death, it was a thanksgiving for fate and fortune, it was an affirmation of life, it was the cry of a wild verr in the mountains, the leaping of a fish in the sea, the roar of the larl, the hiss of the sleen, the scream of a tarn in the sky. |
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| 34 | 200 |
"I think perhaps they are put on the platforms outside the palisade of the Sardar Mountains, for Priest-Kings. |
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| 34 | 207 |
"In lonely areas," he said, "the mountains of Asia, the forests of the Pacific Northwest, and such". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 509 |
Now, in his absence, he having vanished in the Voltai Mountains, on a punitive raid against the tarnsmen of Treve, it seemed that her fortunes were recovering. |
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| 19 | 161 |
The meaning of history is its own terrain, its own mountains and summits, here and there, wherever they be found. |
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| 24 | 758 |
All Goreans, on the other hand, are expected to make at least one pilgrimage during their lifetime to the Sardar Mountains, taken to be the home of Priest-Kings. |
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| 24 | 765 |
The major Gorean fairs occur seasonally, incidentally, in the vicinity of the Sardar Mountains, indeed, within sight of their black, snow-capped peaks. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 27 | 819 |
"It is like a sun, in the morning," I said, "rising over dark mountains". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 588 |
I looked out, at the narrow ledge, the beautiful mountains, the vast, bright, late-afternoon cloudy sky over the mountains. |
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| 19 | 904 |
Do you think I do not know in what mountains I am? Do you think I cannot tell the coloration of the Voltai, the Scarlet Mountains? Do you think I am totally unaware of the distances and times I have traveled? Do you think I cannot recognize the accents of the men who brought me here? Do you think I ... |
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| 24 | 274 |
Had it not yet been fetched? And how would these goods, these loots, of precious metal, of soft flesh, of unusual fabrics, of rare spices, be transported whence these intruders derived? Did they think this would be easy? At any time the men of Treve might fall upon them! What an irrational and impro... |
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| 7 | 235 |
We may eventually have been in mountains. |
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| 8 | 353 |
Outside it, breathtakingly beautiful, I could see mountains, many of them snow-capped. |
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| 8 | 362 |
I feared, from the valley below, and the mountains across the way, that the drop from the ledge might be precipitate. |
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| 8 | 406 |
I walked back to the bars, and, through them, gazed again, enraptured, at the beauty of the mountains. |
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| 8 | 433 |
I could see little from where I was, other than the ledge, and the mountains across the way. |
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| 8 | 459 |
I looked out toward the mountains. |
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| 8 | 468 |
The mountains across the way were very beautiful. |
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| 8 | 471 |
I put one hand through the bars, reaching out, idly, toward the mountains. |
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| 8 | 885 |
It was chilly now in the cell, as doubtless it would be in these mountains, at night, even during a summer. |
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| 8 | 925 |
How did I know that it was not some wild creature of the mountains, come to the ledges, hunting for prey? There were various reasons for supposing that unlikely, even if it had not been for one item. |
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| 9 | 157 |
I could see nothing much different from before, the mountains, the ledge, the clouds. |
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| 9 | 197 |
At various times in the past days I had seen one or more of the gigantic birds, coming or going, aflight over the valley between my location and the mountains in the distance. |
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| 9 | 216 |
Perhaps animals could be kept there, down in the valley, or even back among the mountains, in lofty, remote meadows, in which summer pasturage might be found. |
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| 9 | 254 |
But what was I doing in this particular place, here in the mountains? I had been brought here secretly. |
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| 10 | 146 |
I gasped; hundreds of yards ahead of me, where the trail led, past several barred cells, and approached by a narrow, ascending trail, there was a startling, lofty, sheer edifice that seemed to rear up from the mountains itself, its towers lost among clouds. |
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| 10 | 413 |
I saw ranges beyond ranges of mountains, some snowcapped, extending into the distance. |
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| 10 | 417 |
The mountains were very beautiful. |
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| 10 | 420 |
The jailer, below me, his foot in the stirrup, his left hand on the rope, was seemingly contemplating the mountains. |
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| 10 | 428 |
Perhaps we might feel small before the mountains, in their vast, mute grandeur, but men, here, had made themselves a part of this, making for themselves a lair, an aerie, in this very magnificence, like eagles. |
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| 10 | 444 |
From the platform I could see the mountains. |
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| 10 | 449 |
He and I might both have noted the beauty of the mountains on the ascent, achieving in that moment a sort of brief parity, suspended as we were on the rope, between the land and the sky, between worlds, in a sort of aesthetic void, an artificial stasis, but we had now come to the platform, to its so... |
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| 10 | 556 |
It was hot in the sack, my hands and arms closely confined within it, but, on my bared legs I could feel the cool air of the mountains. |
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| 12 | 740 |
Perhaps the women were then transported beyond the mountains, to far markets. |
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| 14 | 12 |
From there one may obtain a grand view of the mountains. |
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| 14 | 695 |
It was like a lovely, lofty jewel set in the mountains. |
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| 14 | 1099 |
"Consider the beauty of the mountains," I said. |
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| 14 | 1406 |
It was the fellow in the scarlet tunic, with the scarlet cloak, whom I had originally noted in the vicinity of the balustrade, where we had been looking upon the mountains. |
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| 15 | 59 |
"Do you wish to be set loose in the mountains, or in the city?" he asked. |
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| 19 | 33 |
Naturally, too, there are numerous outposts of the city in the mountains, at which tarnsmen are always on the alert. |
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| 19 | 40 |
Few, incidentally, except in armed parties, traverse the mountains on foot. |
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| 19 | 70 |
The flash was not unlike that from mirrors used as signal devices in the mountains. |
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| 23 | 198 |
He would surely realize the control of the tarns, the surveillance, the dangers of the mountains. |
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| 24 | 5 |
I saw a fellow by the balustrade pointing outward, toward the mountains. |
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| 24 | 140 |
At times they were difficult to detect for the mountains behind them. |
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| 24 | 198 |
I could see more tarns coming over the mountains. |
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| 24 | 363 |
The sun was lower now, over the mountains. |
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| 24 | 525 |
I was alive! The sun had now sunk behind the mountains. |
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| 30 | 50 |
"The mountains could swarm with them. |
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| 33 | 54 |
They do abound in some areas in the wild, as, for example, in the surrounding mountains. |
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| 38 | 55 |
"No man can live alone in the mountains," said the officer. |
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| 38 | 61 |
"He cannot escape the mountains," said the officer. |
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| 38 | 63 |
"He is no more than a wild beast himself," said the officer, "a madman, roaming in the mountains". |
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| 38 | 74 |
"He will die in the mountains," said the officer. |
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| 38 | 244 |
"He will die in the mountains," said Terence. |
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| 39 | 83 |
"The prisoner died in the mountains, did he not?" I asked. |
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| 40 | 109 |
The figure turned again toward the mountains. |
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| 40 | 358 |
He had gone to stand near the wall, looking out toward the mountains. |
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| 40 | 360 |
"He died out there, in the mountains," said the officer. |
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| 44 | 205 |
"We can expose her in the mountains," said the second man. |
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| 46 | 466 |
How could any man have survived in the mountains, alone, for most practical purposes unarmed. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 485 |
It seemed a strange landscape, in its way, with gentle yellow trees nestled in a valley, and, in the distance, a range of scarlet mountains. |
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| 11 | 514 |
Supposedly they were strange men of some sort, and lived in a remote area called the Sardar Mountains. |
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| 12 | 206 |
Two others were sisters from a city called Venna, taken when returning from a pilgrimage to the Sardar Mountains. |
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| 28 | 385 |
"If they do exist, perhaps in the Sardar Mountains, as many claim," said Portus Canio, "I think it is clear that we have little to fear from them, indeed far less to fear from them than from the caste of Initiates, which claims to speak in their name. |
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| 28 | 390 |
"Perhaps as real as mountains and storms, as real as flowers, as tarns and sleen". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 3 |
Between these valleys there were mountains and forests. |
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| 22 | 210 |
Peisistratus gestured to the musicians, and they touched memories of Gor, of her rivers and lakes, her trails, her valleys and mountains. |
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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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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 225 |
He deserved, I thought, the woods or forests, the plains or mountains, the openness and freedom, of Gor, not the steel platings and inserted gardens, the contrived geography, of a Steel World. |
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| 3 | 506 |
"Tarns are of the mountains and the plains," I said. |
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| 5 | 182 |
I remembered a metal envelope in which I had received a message, years ago, on a solitary camping trip, in the winter, in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. |
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| 12 | 51 |
"Yes," said Tajima, "but from the vicinity of Thentis, from the mountains of Thentis. |
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| 12 | 54 |
Wild tarns are common in the mountains of Thentis. |
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| 12 | 358 |
In any event, it is unwise to take mountains for granted. |
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| 19 | 240 |
The Barrens were east of the Thentis Mountains. |
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| 26 | 249 |
It is not unknown to me that not all ships cleave seas, the fluid roads, but that some, like tarns, sail over mountains, are fleet amongst the clouds, spread their sails not upon the liquid fields, but in the sky, that they dare to venture upon the wind roads themselves". |
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| 28 | 22 |
Two important fairs take place in the vicinity of the Sardar Mountains, in the spring and fall, that of En'Kara in the spring, and Se'Kara in the fall. |
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| 38 | 5 |
Within this opening many men, some once of the scribes, sorted through these mountains of material and assigned its disposition, in virtue of preconceived arrangements, to various decks and holds. |
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| 40 | 38 |
To him, concerned with reaching the sea, bringing his great charge to gleaming Thassa, it had been a menace, a liquid valley, which might contain unseen, submerged mountains of rock, which might tear the bottom from a passing ship. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 19 | 115 |
I saw rising, on either side, and before, mountains rising from the sea, mountains of fire, bursting alive, mountains moving, rising, run with molten streams of rock, some loose like flaming water, some patient and thick, dully red, and from these strange mountains, cast into the air were clouds of ... |
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| 26 | 126 |
Vulos who would seek this cot were carried about, for example, to the training area of the tarns somewhere back in the mountains, and, there, I had no doubt, in the mountains, were kept, in their tiny wood-barred cages, vulos which, if released, would seek as their cot and roost the very room above,... |
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| 1 | 316 |
Later, Marlenus, on a hunting trip to the Voltai Mountains, was injured in a fall from tarnback, which injury impaired his memory. |
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| 12 | 44 |
In her cups you may find many things, the unalienable riches of moonlight on water, her whispering in long nights, against the hull, her unforgettable glory in the morning, the brightness of her noontide, the transformations of her sunset and dusk, her access to far shores, the sublime darkness of h... |
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| 19 | 120 |
The cracking noises of the angry, burning mountains, too, like thunder at one's ear, almost deafened one. |
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| 19 | 138 |
The course, now held by mariners, continued west, then west by southwest, taking its way amidst new-risen, flaming, towering mountains. |
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| 19 | 180 |
About us were several of the fire mountains, less fearful now. |
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| 19 | 218 |
I doubted that, however, if only because of the fire mountains. |
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| 23 | 2 |
"See?" He pointed high, toward the mountains, their peaks soft with fog, off the port bow. |
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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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| 26 | 127 |
Similarly there must have been vulos in that room which, if released, would seek a different cot and roost, perhaps, for example, one housed in the training area for tarns, back in the mountains. |
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| 26 | 249 |
"But Seremides," I said, "can scarcely hobble about, and Cabot is much in the mountains, with the tarn cavalry". |
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| 27 | 16 |
It seemed to circle, for a time, and then flew north, and west, toward the mountains. |
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| 27 | 32 |
Among these figures I made out what seemed to be a coffle, of some eight or ten figures, being moved northwest, toward the mountains. |
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| 27 | 107 |
Peasants might be impressed as ashigaru, but, I suspected, from what I had seen earlier, many of the local peasants might have left their villages and fields, and withdrawn to the mountains. |
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| 27 | 108 |
We did have some one hundred and forty tarns back in the mountains, with their riders and auxiliary personnel. |
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| 30 | 172 |
Or, perhaps there would yet be time to flight a messenger vulo to the mountains, to contact Tarl Cabot. |
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| 36 | 196 |
"The matter of the ship?" "Surely," said the captain, "you understand that without your concern, and your initiative, without the actions which you set in motion, in particular having Lord Nishida contact Tarl Cabot, the tarnsman, in the mountains, the ship would have perished. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 9 |
The water is brought in from the Voltai Mountains, or Red Mountains, which at that time I had not seen, far north and east of Ar, by means of long, towering aqueducts, most of which are more than seven hundred pasangs long. |
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| 20 | 242 |
The Voltai Mountains are called the Red Mountains. |
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| 8 | 1187 |
The pervasiveness of Gorean on your world, as I understand it, has something to do with your gods, the Priest-Kings, laired in the Sardar Mountains. |
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| 8 | 1192 |
Violations of their weapon, transportation, and communication laws are often, when discovered, followed by sanctions of fearsome import, the destructions of cities, the seizures and flingings of tides, the melting of mountains, the geysers and floodings of fiery magma, inexplicable bursts of flame, ... |
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| 10 | 237 |
And there were the mysterious Sardar Mountains, within which, supposedly, resided the gods of Gor, called Priest-Kings. |
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| 16 | 124 |
"Mountains," he said. |
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| 18 | 814 |
Such structures are majestic, the products of, to me, almost incomprehensible feats of engineering, and I had wanted to express my wonder and awe at them, their size and massiveness, their efficiency, their beauty, the loveliness of the sky and mountains behind them, but I was not permitted to speak... |
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| 18 | 822 |
Twice we had heard, at night, when we were shackled in the slave wagon, from somewhere back in the mountains, the roar of a larl. |
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| 18 | 995 |
Accordingly she endorsed the scheme of Lord Grendel's assisting the blind Kur to regain his haunts in the mountains. |
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| 20 | 10 |
As one goes higher into the mountains vegetation grows thinner. |
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| 20 | 249 |
The mountains are beautiful, but forbidding. |
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| 22 | 80 |
If we did turn back, there might be little point in delaying the strike of his band, somewhere in the mountains. |
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| 23 | 80 |
Higher in the mountains the urts have a mottled pelt, or one which is white. |
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| 24 | 37 |
"Look!" said Trachinos, pointing to the mountains. |
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| 24 | 70 |
* * * * I later regretted accompanying our party higher into the mountains, not that I had any choice. |
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| 25 | 1 |
"Ho," said Trachinos, pointing, "is that not the Crag of Kleinias?" We had come to a high point in the trail, which, with the edge of the mountains, the slopes, and valleys, had numerous ascents and descents. |
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| 25 | 13 |
The higher elevations, as with many mountains in the Voltai, might be bright with snow all the year. |
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| 25 | 30 |
"Presumably there are few such mountains in the Voltai". |
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| 26 | 235 |
"Would you have us release her here, into the mountains, to die?" he asked. |
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| 29 | 209 |
In the mountains I discovered an outlaw band of nine men, and warned Astrinax. |
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| 33 | 20 |
I stood before the wide, double-gated portal, looking out onto the sunlit mountains. |
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| 35 | 58 |
"The first phase," he said, "is likely to be securing the surface of Gor, with the exception, perhaps, of the Sardar Mountains, taken to be the range of Priest-Kings. |
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| 37 | 189 |
Your eyes do not throw nets out and draw trees and mountains into your head. |
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| 37 | 221 |
"Yet," said Kleomenes, "if two mountains were balanced in the scales, the smallest weight might tip the balance". |
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| 38 | 50 |
"Alone, into the mountains, with gray winter on the horizon?" "Before the snows," said Astrinax. |
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| 43 | 82 |
"I am told," said he, "that there is a strange ship in the higher levels of the Crag, a ship which might sail amongst mountains, a ship borne not by water, but by air, or less". |
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| 45 | 23 |
I did know that the Gorean compass needle always pointed to the Sardar Mountains. |
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| 45 | 53 |
Might the knives of expanding ice in fissures have broken loose stones, some like small mountains? I wondered if, in its long past, the Voltai had witnessed the passage of oceans of ice at its feet, oceans which might bear ships of stone. |
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| 45 | 67 |
It had been to return this ruined, blinded beast to his fellows in the Voltai that Grendel had undertaken our perilous expedition to the mountains, which expedition had unexpectedly revealed large secrets of political and military significance. |
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| 45 | 68 |
I was sure now, of course, that the point of my mission into the mountains was precisely to contact this beast, whom we spoke of as Tiresias. |
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| 45 | 232 |
"It may be supposed that the guards took you into the mountains, but, in time, when they do not return, an investigation will be made. |
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| 46 | 8 |
Then, the winds rising, the chill blasts whistling amongst the mountains, the first scattering of snow hurrying betwixt the peaks, the parties had returned. |
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| 49 | 47 |
The last seen of Lucius had been a limp body being dragged away, over the rocky slope toward the maze of passageways which led back into the mountains. |
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| 49 | 97 |
"It was I who had you put out, into the mountains," said Agamemnon. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 38 | 279 |
Behind mountains there may be mountains. |
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| 5 | 31 |
I thought he might seem one less familiar with escalators than mountains, less at home with engines and calculators than with horses and falcons, than with fire, bows, and steel. |
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| 8 | 226 |
As my resources had been considerably replenished the previous evening, I had breakfasted well, on larma, vulo eggs, fried sul, roast bosk, sa-tarna, and even black wine, the beans for which, I supposed, derived from the far slopes of the Thentis mountains, and may have been brought west at some ris... |
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| 25 | 311 |
In the winter, I was told, it would be madness to venture amongst the swirling mountains of her waves, the cold and bitter hammers of her winds. |
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| 38 | 280 |
Who knows about the depths of the sea, the farther mountains?" "A trap?" asked the leader, warily. |
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| 50 | 661 |
Perhaps, I thought, the clue to the mystery might lie in the distant, formidable Sardar Mountains, of which the legendary or fabled Priest-Kings were supposedly denizens. |
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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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| 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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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 39 |
Of fighting men then, discounting the tarnsmen withdrawn into the mountains, at their camp, Lords Nishida, Okimoto, and Temmu had less than thirty-five hundred men. |
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| 1 | 41 |
At the time of the debacle of the exploratory force we had had some one hundred and forty tarns in the mountains, not yet committed, with their riders and support personnel. |
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| 1 | 51 |
In any event, given an abundance of evidence which suggested spies amongst us, and ample indications of treachery, and despite the supposedly secret location of the tarn encampment hidden in the mountains, and the supposed security of posted guards, I had ordered that tarns, in shifts of forty each,... |
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| 1 | 62 |
We presumed the birds dead, or reverted, and the men dead, or, scattered, possibly lost, or hiding, in the mountains, attempting to evade enemy patrols and kill squads. |
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| 1 | 93 |
Its scream could be heard in the mountains for pasangs. |
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| 1 | 199 |
But I, I knew, though of the scarlet caste, preferred the sky, the terrain below, mountains, the wind, the surging flight of the tarn, the exhilarating rush of air tearing at the jacket, and, of course, the recreation of the tarnsman, the loot one gathers, so pleasant, the collared, chained slave, a... |
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| 1 | 338 |
"Some of the command, surviving the attack, escaped on tarnback, these reporting later to the castle, and some others, it is conjectured, may have scattered into the mountains," said Lord Nishida. |
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| 1 | 368 |
"They will die in the mountains or be hunted down and killed," said Lord Okimoto. |
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| 2 | 45 |
Lord Okimoto, as I recall, had said they would be about, in the mountains, hunting for survivors, those who might have escaped on foot. |
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| 2 | 48 |
Occasionally the clouds parted, and I could see rocks, and mountains, below. |
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| 2 | 102 |
Neither of us were here when the Ashigaru of Yamada, with glaives and torches, streamed forth from the mountains. |
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| 2 | 165 |
Might any be left, weeks after the attack? Could any have survived, in the mountains, and cold? Fool, I thought, fool! I recalled the tiny flicker of light I had seen in my flight. |
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| 3 | 8 |
Any, however, of those contingents of Lord Yamada likely to be in the mountains, his patrols and kill squads, would know of tarns, from the raid on the first encampment or reports of the raid, and they, marking the descent of a tarn and its rider, would know that an enemy was in their midst. |
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| 4 | 30 |
"I gave my tarn to another," he said, "one I thought less likely to survive in the mountains". |
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| 4 | 285 |
"How is it that you came alone into the mountains?" I said. |
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| 6 | 235 |
They are found on the plains and in the mountains. |
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| 7 | 393 |
I strode to a large framed screen, of painted silk, one bearing the images of mountains and needle trees, at the side of the room, and thrust it back. |
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| 8 | 55 |
I recalled that Tajima, suspecting, and I would suppose correctly, that he might more likely survive as a fugitive in the mountains than Ichiro, had, in the midst of the storming of the first encampment, turned his tarn over to Ichiro and ordered him to flee. |
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| 8 | 56 |
I had subsequently feared, had Tajima perished in the mountains, that Ichiro might have had recourse to the ritual knife. |
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| 9 | 84 |
This did not please him, but I did not wish to risk him against the enemy until I was confident he was fully ready, fully recovered from the harrowing rigors and exposure of his isolation in the mountains. |
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| 9 | 99 |
Two-strap! Into the clouds, to vanish! Home, Fellows, home!" Ichiro winded his horn, with the piercing note of assembly, and the riders, as one, wheeled their sky mounts toward the mountains. |
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| 11 | 127 |
Some die in the mountains. |
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| 22 | 55 |
"I could send a thousand men into the mountains, to search," he said. |
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| 24 | 7 |
They are such as to be welcomed by the sky, the clouds, and mountains. |
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| 30 | 28 |
Such images were not infrequently encountered in the islands, but, more commonly, one encountered images of a gentler, more tranquil nature, snow-capped mountains, forests, winding streams, placid villages, and such. |
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| 54 | 290 |
Following this, I had turned the dragon east, and, over Thassa, set a course as directly as I could for the Sardar Mountains, the supposed domicile of the gods of Gor, the Priest-Kings. |
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| 61 | 222 |
Retreat camps, hidden in the mountains, might permit rearming, and regrouping". |
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| 61 | 294 |
"But I am called by the shores of far seas, by lonely forests, by remote mountains. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 318 |
It might have rung out in the mountains of Thentis, reflected from peak to peak, causing all who heard it to pause, and tremble, and raise their eyes apprehensively to the sky. |
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| 30 | 365 |
He could play the body of a slave, producing a rapture of sensations, much as the master of the czehar or kalika can play his lovely instrument, drawing forth its laughter and tears, its moans and cries, its pensive contemplations, its incitements and ardors, its valleys and mountains, its depths an... |
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| 45 | 171 |
The plants from which its seeds are obtained apparently grow favorably, perhaps even most favorably, on the slopes of the Thentis Mountains, an area under the jurisdiction of the mountain city of Thentis. |
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| 46 | 415 |
Steel worlds might well unite to seize a world, after which they can dispute it amongst themselves, as Kurii are wont to do, amongst crumbling, melting mountains and rivers running with blood". |
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| 54 | 65 |
The larl rules the mountains and forests. |
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| 62 | 81 |
It seems they inhabit the Sardar Mountains, from which geographical feature Goreans orient themselves and their maps. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 244 |
Weights are standardized against official weights, so to speak, housed in a merchant fortress in the vicinity of the Sardar Mountains. |
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| 3 | 369 |
That is the slave world! Values and conventions become not roads, mountains, horizons, and wings, but fences and shackles. |
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| 33 | 251 |
"From four cities, and three towns," said the man, "from the darkness of forests and the caves of mountains, from dismal alleys and crowded insulae, from the camps of bandits and the lairs of pirates". |
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| 40 | 312 |
How free, truly, had I been, without a master before whom I could at last be myself? Was I, or others, really so free then? Had I not been subject to a thousand restrictions, pressures, and forces, not been governed by a thousand bondages of compliance and convention? Had I not been informed how I w... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 75 |
"Perhaps you search for survivors, some now crept back, as I, sorrowing, frightened, worn, hungry, from the mountains," he said, "to hunt and kill them". |
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| 3 | 160 |
"It is small," said Clitus, "flat without mountains, easily missed". |
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| 12 | 11 |
Certainly they were not noted for their streams glittering with nuggets or mountains and caves bright with veins of gold. |
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| 14 | 1 |
An Anomaly is Noted, a Day from Daphna "Ho," called down the lookout, from the ringed platform near the top of the single mast, "land, island, tiny, four points Ror!" Whereas I, in the interests of intelligibility, have often had recourse to directions apt to my native world, Earth directions, appl... |
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| 24 | 5 |
"They are inert and unstirring, like mountains". |
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| 48 | 145 |
Desire, hope, fear, and thought, though not measured in pounds or centimeters, are no less real than wind and grass, than mountains and stars. |
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| 49 | 147 |
The enemy was inert, like mountains in the sea, between which we might pass, undeterred, unmolested". |
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| 56 | 121 |
"Sometimes a tarsk-bit, cast into the scale," said Sakim, "can unbalance the weight of mountains". |
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| 62 | 84 |
"Does he truly think that great Lurius of Jad, the glorious Ubar of Cos, would promote the fortunes of thieves and pirates for a mere percentage of their booty? Far more is afoot, cities and fleets, fields of diamonds, seas of gems, rivers of silver and mountains of gold". |
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