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Book 1. (6 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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9 27 It would be generally assumed that the mysterious tarnsman who had stolen the Home Stone and disappeared with the daughter of the Ubar must long ago have reached whatever unknown city it was to which he had pledged his sword.
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10 107 It seemed the routine of the journey would never end, and I grew enamored of the long line of wagons, each filled with its various goods, those mysterious metals and gems, rolls of cloth, foodstuffs, wines and paga, weapons and harness, cosmetics and perfumes, medicines and slaves.
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13 16 Perhaps the men of the mysterious camp heard the beating of the tarn's wings, perhaps I had been outlined for an instant against one of Gor's three circling moons, but suddenly the fires disappeared, kicked apart in a flash of sparks, and the glowing embers were smothered almost immediately.
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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 68 I have puzzled over this, trying to connect it with the mysterious letter, dated in the seventeenth century, ostensibly by my father, which I received in the blue envelope.
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Book 2. (5 results) Outlaw of Gor

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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.
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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.
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2 18 Their concern was with their own remote and mysterious ends; to achieve these ends, human creatures were treated as subservient instruments.
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5 3 Ko-ro-ba lay in the midst of green and rolling hills, some hundreds of feet above the level of the distant Tamber Gulf and that mysterious body of water beyond it, spoken of in Gorean simply as Thassa, the Sea.
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5 5 Whereas Ar was glorious, a city of imposing grandeur, that acknowledged even by its blood foes; whereas Thentis had the proud violence of the rude mountains of Thentis for its setting; whereas Port Kar could boast the broad Tamber for its sister, and the gleaming, mysterious Thassa beyond, I thought...
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Book 3. (3 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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2 19 Sometimes these individuals are young idealists, rebels and champions of lost causes, who wish to protest to Priest-Kings; sometimes they are individuals who are old or diseased and are tired of life and wish to die; sometimes they are piteous or cunning or frightened wretches who think to find the ...
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8 25 Although the sensors and the mode of their application were fiendish and beyond my immediate competence to fully understand, they suggested nothing ultimately mysterious, nothing which might not eventually be explained.
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35 177 How could I tell him that he looked, with incredulity and horror, on one of the awesome denizens of the grim Sardar, on one of the fabulous and mysterious monarchs of his very world, on one of the gods of Gor—on a Priest-King? "I can hurl my spear through it," said the man with the spear.
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Book 4. (4 results) Nomads of Gor

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2 7 Now I supposed that I alone, of humans on Gor, with the possible exception of some among the Wagon Peoples, knew the nature of the mysterious object which once these two brave men had brought in secrecy to the plains of Turia—and, to be truthful, I did not know that even I—should I see...
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2 16 Only that the egg was the egg of Priest-Kings gave me occasion to suspect, to hope, that somehow within that mysterious, presumably ovoid sphere, if it still existed, quiescent but latent, there might be life.
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26 282 It was done, gone, ended! My mission had failed! The Priest-Kings would die! This world, and perhaps my other, dear Earth, would now fall to the mysterious Others, whoever or whatever they might be.
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26 299 It was not only that I had failed, that what I had fought for had now vanished, become ashes—not only that the war of Priest-Kings, in which I had played a prominent part, fought long before over such matters, had now become fruitless, meaningless—that my friend Misk's life and its pur...
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Book 5. (7 results) Assassin of Gor

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16 207 The backing of the faction was a bit mysterious.
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17 146 The great bird he rode was no racing tarn but its size, its swiftness, its sureness, its incredible power and ferocity made it a terrible foe in the wars of the suspended rings; indeed, never had it lost; many of the other tarns of the Steels, as well, were not bred racing tarns, but war tarns, ridd...
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17 156 Some of the best swordsmen of Ar, even Warriors of High Caste, eager to be the one to best the mysterious Murmillius, had dared to enter the arena against him, but each of these bold gentlemen he seemed to treat with more scorn than his common foes, playing with them and then, it seemed when he wish...
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17 158 The crowd, each time he fought, went mad with pleasure, thrilling to each ringing stroke of steel, and I suspected that that man most adored in Ar was the huge, mysterious Murmillius, superb and gallant, a man whose very city was unknown.
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17 767 "No," she said, studying the board like a child confronting something never seen before, something wonderful, something mysterious and challenging, a red ball, some squares of brightly colored, folded orange cloth.
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19 4 Cernus, sensing the temper and curiosity of the crowds, had determined to make them wait for his surprise delights, over a hundred of them, whose supposed qualities of beauty and skill, enhanced by the mysterious aura of barbaric origin, had been for months the object of ever more eager rumors and e...
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24 63 "He gave the men of Ar," said Hup, "something to identify with, a hero, mysterious and overwhelming, a hero to sway their imaginations.
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Book 7. (4 results) Captive of Gor

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11 403 "Do you think to provoke me while pretending not to provoke me?" "Master?" I asked, as though what he had said could be only mysterious to me, an ignorant barbarian, a half-trained slave girl.
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11 1114 And little more seemed known of Rask of Treve than of his remote and mysterious city.
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12 377 I was Elinor Brinton, wealthy, beautiful, refined, civilized, but by some mysterious incomprehensible set of events here, in this place, here, with a mark in my left thigh! I moaned, inwardly.
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13 92 It is one of the tasks of the Initiates to keep rolls, and determine that each youth, if capable, discharge this putative obligation to the mysterious Priest-Kings.
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Book 8. (1 results) Hunters of Gor

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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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Book 9. (3 results) Marauders of Gor

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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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12 5 Soon it would come the time to award the talmits to the mysterious Thorgeir of Ax Glacier.
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21 113 I saw Hrolf, from the east, the giant, mysterious Torvaldslander, take one jewel from the goblet proffered him, kneeling, by a naked, collared beauty.
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Book 10. (1 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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3 138 Questioning nomads, doubtless to be found here and there in the wastes, and the inhabitants of various oases, many of them off the main caravan routes, I hoped, eventually, to obtain enough data or information to make it possible to find the mysterious tower of steel.
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Book 11. (2 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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12 305 Then he called out, "Sulda, Tupa, Fina, Melpomene, Dina, feast and please our mysterious guest, he who finds it difficult to recall his caste, his name or city".
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26 822 I had little doubt the beautiful Elicia, even when rendered valueless in the conflicts of worlds, would be kept for the pleasures of men; again I looked upon her; no longer was she a high agent of a mysterious power of interplanetary proportions; she was now only a lovely, bound Gorean slave girl.
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Book 12. (8 results) Beasts of Gor

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3 166 They would stand before the palisade, paying the homage of their presence to the mysterious denizens of the Sardar, the mysterious Priest-Kings, rulers of Gor.
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4 514 Oddly, for there seemed no reason for it, I found myself thinking, in a mentally straying moment, of the herd of Tancred, and its mysterious failure to appear in the polar basin.
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9 257 Is this mysterious, truly? One doubts it.
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20 62 Songs, even simple ones, are regarded by the red hunters as being precious and rather mysterious.
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23 266 "We learned that it was to this mysterious headquarters that Drusus reported.
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23 452 Not much was known of the mysterious Karjuk, even amongst the red hunters, save that he was one of them.
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24 480 It may seem hard to understand but the man who truly cares for his slave is often rather strict with her; he cares for her enough to be strong; sometimes she may resent or hate him but, too, she is inordinately proud of him, for what he makes her do, and be, and she loves him for his strength and hi...
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38 214 "Why else should a slave girl cry out, if not to be overheard by a master?" "I find women mysterious," I said.
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Book 13. (10 results) Explorers of Gor

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3 68 I was very aware of the fact that I carried, in my sea bag, the ring which the blond barbarian had had on the Blossoms of Telnus and the notes, bearing the signatures and seals of Schendi bankers, who had been made out to Shaba, the geographer of Anango, the explorer of Lake Ushindi, and the discove...
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6 248 If she were still too rigid or irritating to men she might even, possibly, be slain before she could lead me to the mysterious Shaba.
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6 424 It eludes scales and tapes; mathematics cannot, I think, penetrate its mysterious equations.
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16 65 One of the most amazing evidences of its scope and ambition was the very project in which I was now unwillingly engaged, the visionary attempt to join Lakes Ushindi and Ngao, separated by more than four hundred pasangs, by a great canal, a canal that would, via Lake Ushindi and the Nyoka and Kamba r...
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27 145 Did he think men would fear to pursue him upon its lonely waters, penetrating such a lush, perilous, mysterious region? Surely he must know that I, and others, to seek the ring, would follow him even into the steaming, flower-strewn wilderness of the Ua.
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27 190 Even to the most brilliant of them their transition will seem as mysterious and inexplicable, as magical and fearful, as it might to a paleolithic savage, or a dog or cat.
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31 56 "Your mysterious plan?" I asked.
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32 1005 I suspect that the dream, in the beautiful allegory of its symbolism, was conveying to you not mysterious truths of other realities but concealed truths of your own reality, truths which your conscious mind, because of its training, could not bring itself to recognize with candor".
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33 39 "Your mysterious plan?" I grinned.
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42 12 It, in its ruggedness, its expanse, its tranquillity, its rages, was like a key to unlock a great portion of a burgeoning continent, a device whereby might be opened a new, fresh world, green, mysterious and vast.
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Book 14. (1 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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24 119 One accords the free woman her glory; she is welcome to it; but one derives from the slave the joys of the mastery, in accordance with the inexplicable decrees and mysterious equations of nature.
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Book 15. (2 results) Rogue of Gor

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21 33 How they have come to Gor, of course, remains largely mysterious to most Goreans, and often, at least in detail, to the girls themselves.
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28 213 "Who is this mysterious guest, whom we are expecting?" he asked.
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Book 16. (5 results) Guardsman of Gor

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17 144 In the implacable decisions of nature, decisions at one with a world's journey about a star, at one with the turnings of a planet, with the alternance of day and night, and the successions of seasons, at one with storms and sunlight, with clouds and grass, with rain and tides, with manifold forms of...
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19 111 My mysterious master must, thus, be of Victoria, or of some other city in which are practiced the customs of the capture carry and the initiatory whipping!" The point of these customs, of course, is clear.
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19 379 It would not do for her for them to know that she, that lofty creature—mysterious in her robes and veils, perhaps known to them only as a proud slut being regally borne in a curtained palanquin, or as a shy, gentle creature absorbed in perusing scrolls in a library, or as a mere figure attend...
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19 1000 Doubtless sexual selections, genetic coding, female needs, the long, sweet, mysterious, dark currents of evolution, figure into these subtle and arcane matters.
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21 828 Much was fearfully mysterious to me".
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Book 17. (5 results) Savages of Gor

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1 651 Not a little of the hesitancy and tentativeness of the militaristic incursions of such creatures was, I suspected, a function of their ignorance of, and fear of, the true nature and power of the remote and mysterious denizens of the Sardar.
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1 873 Henceforth he knows his medicine helper is the mysterious dark guest".
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1 995 This has to do with their beliefs as to the mysterious relationships which are thought to obtain between the world of reality and the medicine world, that, at times, these two worlds impinge on one another, and become one.
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4 213 "It is very mysterious," I said.
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14 375 Too, the men of Gor were human, certainly derived from Earth stock, brought perhaps long ago to this world, in the Voyages of Acquisition, when Priest-Kings, the golden lords of Gor, were still young, and curious, about the universe and its vast and mysterious contents.
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Book 18. (3 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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41 80 Often their causes are deep and mysterious".
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41 140 The universe was surely vast and mysterious.
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44 236 Given the will of men, and their desires, there is little mysterious in these matters; in the light of the will of men, and their desires, do not many things become clear, for example, the auction block, the collar, the chain, the whip? Is it truly so hard to understand these things—in a natu...
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Book 19. (3 results) Kajira of Gor

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17 31 How far I was from the department store, from my apartment, from my world! And how far, too, I found myself from the luxury, the display, the ceremony and glory, the spectacle, of mysterious Corcyrus; how far from the corridors of a guarded palace, from the resplendent, cumbersome pomp of state robe...
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23 271 I did not think that any mysterious men would suddenly appear to free me, as at the camp of Miles of Argentum.
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36 421 Has she not already worn it, in her dreams? Herein, you see, is embedded a mysterious chemistry, having to do, doubtless, with genetics, with evolution, with complementarities, with the woman's disposition to desire, and her hope to be found attractive by, an intelligent, powerful male, to whom she ...
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Book 20. (6 results) Players of Gor

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2 886 To be sure, it seemed mysterious.
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6 279 The jungles of the Anangoan interior serve as the setting for various fanciful tales, having to do with strange races, mysterious plants, and fabulous animals.
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7 261 Much seemed to me mysterious in Brundisium.
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7 373 I did not realize my skills with magic were still that mysterious and baffling.
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19 25 "Surely you have heard of the fellow's mysterious escape from the palace below?" "Yes," he said.
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20 146 To beasts moved only by meat, and the pressure of blows, the hungers of higher and more terrible organisms will remain always exceedingly mysterious.
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Book 22. (5 results) Dancer of Gor

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1 132 I was lonely and miserable! I wondered if somewhere in nature there might lie not only an explanation for these needs, so seemingly mysterious and inexplicable, given my environment, my education, my training, my conditioning, so different from them, but also some dark complement to them, some respo...
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1 156 I did not think the explanation for my needs, the mysterious things within me, which were so different from what I had been taught, could be so complex, or simple, as racial memories, or the memories of individuals whom I might have been in other places and times.
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6 134 Still, beyond these things it seemed to me that there might be something a little mysterious, if not excessive, in the careful way we were being treated, handled and moved.
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24 572 "Many in Venna," she said, "as I understand it, are alarmed at the killing, and the mysterious footprints.
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33 247 If you can understand, on the other hand, how a woman can love this profoundly, then the matter is less mysterious to you.
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Book 23. (4 results) Renegades of Gor

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8 630 Too, the tarnsman retains something of the glamour which on Earth attached to the horseman, particularly so as the technology laws of the Priest-Kings, remote, mysterious masters of Gor, preclude the mechanization of transportation.
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9 161 Then they had been redeemed, it would seem, by some mysterious benefactor.
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11 17 To a Gorean ear names such as 'Jean' or 'Joan' have an exotic flavor, and are regarded as fit names for slaves brought in from such far-off, mysterious places as "Tennessee" or "Oregon".
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21 764 Had it not been for the timely arrival of our friend Calliodorus, and certain mysterious others, she might now be in the chains of Cosians rather than in those of Ar's Station.
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Book 24. (5 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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13 216 When one has been in a disastrous action, particularly a mysterious one which has not been anticipated, one which one does not fully understand, there is a tendency of the survivors to overestimate casualties.
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17 8 It was as though these mysterious, elusive denizens of the delta had inexplicably withdrawn, suddenly melted away.
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19 1241 But these matters, I suppose, are mysterious.
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40 104 Some speculated that they had drunk mysterious potions, rendering them invisible, others that they had been wafted away by Priest-Kings".
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49 13 The nature of his death remains somewhat mysterious, and there are many rumors concerning it.
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Book 25. (4 results) Magicians of Gor

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13 123 "And yet," he said, "the world is very mysterious".
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17 449 "He might lie to me, to conceal from me his possession of mysterious powers".
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27 532 "And if any know the tricks of Appanius," I said, "they will presumably smile to themselves, thinking that this mysterious free woman may find herself, perhaps even in a short while, clad somewhat more revealingly, indeed, perhaps in little more than a slave collar".
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27 1072 "No!" "And what good would you be in a paga tavern, or brothel, if the slave fires were not ignited in your belly?" "I shall be safe in the Central Cylinder," she said, "surrounded by walls, ringed by guards!" "Perhaps after I come to collect you," I said, "I will rent you to a brothel, perhaps one ...
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Book 26. (11 results) Witness of Gor

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5 29 The wall, in its way, aside from its height and thickness, its weight, its formidableness, its rearing terribleness, was mysterious to me.
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10 795 It had been, so far, a lengthy, wearing, mysterious peregrination.
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12 61 It is thus that we find our place, and have our place, in the design of nature, whatever may be her mysterious purposes.
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14 1326 Were we regarded, because of what we were, rightly, as being worthy of less consideration than the delicate petals of a tiny blossom? Did they know us that well? Was our nature so obvious to them? Did they know, too, I wondered, that we were the secret enemy? Did they understand the secret war? But ...
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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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19 304 We were to be given to understand, I took it, that these various matters were to be viewed as having all proceeded in accordance with the will of the mysterious Priest-Kings.
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19 401 What if, for example, as an outside possibility, but one they were not willing to discount, there might be some mysterious connection between the Initiates and the Priest-Kings? Why not, then, put a coin in the bowl, particularly if it were not too valuable a coin? As far as I can determine, most pe...
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22 54 Certainly he had been lax in enforcing the officer's instructions in the matter of the mysterious peasant, that huge, vacant creature in the lower cells.
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24 687 But, to be sure, much depends on the mysterious chemistries which can obtain between masters and slaves.
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29 671 It had been obvious, for some time, that she wanted desperately to submit herself to the mysterious visitor to Treve, to submit herself in the most perfect and complete way a woman can submit herself to a man, to be his ardent, devoted, helpless pleasure slave.
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39 5 Too, he had seemed involved in various mysterious arrangements of which we pit slaves could make nothing, comings and goings, and conversations with various functionaries.
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Book 27. (14 results) Prize of Gor

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1 35 I suppose that these things are mysterious, or, perhaps, rather, so simple that it is difficult to speak of them.
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16 864 This, too, of course, contributes to the contrast between herself and the master, much as did the contrast between "gentleman" and "lady" in the Victorian Era, with its concealed, mysterious, romantic, latent, explosive, subterranean sexuality.
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17 25 Their presence on Gor was originally due to the Voyages of Acquisition, apparently undertaken for scientific or aesthetic reasons by the mysterious Priest-Kings, whoever they might be.
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19 59 The birds drew back from the goad uneasily, angrily, and, against the far wall of that immense cot, that great cage, beneath straw, Portus concealed the mysterious bundle.
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19 63 Ellen looked to the huge tarn cage, that enormous cot, where Portus had concealed the mysterious bundle.
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19 395 Portus, taking his concealed tarn goad from its hiding place to one side, behind the loose board, entered the tarn cage in which he had placed the oblong, mysterious package before the arrival of the Cosian soldiers, and retrieved it from under the straw.
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26 626 And guardsmen might even now be seeking the mysterious stranger, the seemingly lowly fellow, who had had coins from the mint at Jad.
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27 531 "That seems to me quite mysterious.
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27 700 These anomalies, however, though mysterious in their way, are doubtless of a natural origin".
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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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27 3120 Too, if there were foes, or mysterious figures, in the grasses, Ellen did not think they would choose to deter the beasts in their passage.
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27 3259 The bodies, Ellen realized, would be surrendered to nature, to wind and rain, to sleet and snow, to heat and cold, to sleen, to urts, to jards, to the vast, mysterious nature from which, long ago, they had sprung.
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30 658 Perhaps some of the mysterious, untraceable, coded radio signals on Earth, seemingly indecipherable, perhaps indexed to an unfamiliar language, so perplexing to terrestrial authorities, pertain to this form of merchandising, the transmission of orders, the reports of scouts, the arrangements for, an...
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30 674 Remember the mysterious, unaccountable radio signals.
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Book 28. (8 results) Kur of Gor

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1 128 And certainly, whether this be so or not, one may well suppose that any behavior of his which might have been deemed counter to the interests or policies of those mysterious beings would not have been likely to be generously countenanced.
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1 148 On whose side, so to speak, was this mysterious, unpredictable, ungoverned Tarl Cabot? Was he an agent of Priest-Kings? Was he an agent of Kurii? If he was an agent, it seems he was his own agent, or an agent of honor, for, long ago, it seems, he and Zarendargar had shared paga.
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2 299 Mysterious, one supposes, are the ways of Priest-Kings.
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5 305 "They are powerful, and considered mysterious," said Cabot, carefully.
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19 21 It is not known if it was native to Gor or, as many other forms of life, including humans, it was brought to that world by the mysterious Priest-Kings, whoever or whatever they might be.
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20 118 The hereditary coils have cast their countless lots, and nature has made her innumerable decisions amongst them, according to her mysterious wills and ways, denominating her fortunes of extinction and prosperity, of defeat and victory, of death and life.
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54 1 There is Converse in a Rebel Camp "Dear Cabot," said Statius, "I find the actions of humans mysterious.
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80 140 In this sense, even the stone, properly understood, is a mysterious thing, in its way alive, vibrant with invisible latencies, churning, twisting, in its depths.
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Book 29. (18 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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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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4 83 Too, the caste of Initiates, which claims to mediate between humans and Priest-Kings, with their sacrifices, and such, would obviously prefer for Priest-Kings to remain as invisible and mysterious as possible.
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5 138 It is difficult to do contest with an enemy which is both mysterious and powerful.
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5 698 I had gathered that the arrivals of these mysterious, armed visitors was surreptitious.
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5 863 The free woman is mysterious; the slave is not; she is at a man's feet.
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9 455 But what did it bode, or signify, I wondered, that some such men might now be here, in the northern forests, engaged in some project, which appeared to be both mysterious and secret? And I had been debouched on the northern coast, at specific coordinates, supposedly by the order of Priest-Kings, tho...
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14 109 In Tarncamp and, I suspected, elsewhere, say at the end of the mysterious road to the southeast, there were far more Goreans, of a familiar sort, than Pani.
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15 189 "But deep within a woman's belly flow mysterious currents, floods she is unable to control, forces and truths which mock and deny, and stir, the uneasy films and surfaces with which she labors to identify herself".
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18 195 I myself had never seen this mysterious and, it seemed, almost legendary, figure.
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19 146 Some of these things seemed to me obviously impossible, and were clearly the fruits of imagination, and myth, but it is common to suppose that at the foot of legends, in the lost soil of the remote past, there is a seed from which such legends sprang, and I had little doubt, in any event, that the m...
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19 160 I wondered what his relationship, if any, might be to Lord Nishida, and his mysterious project.
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22 19 She exercises her presumed beauty, seductive and mysterious within her robes and veils, to gratify her vanity, or even her dislike of males, such oafish, vile brutes.
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27 2 As the huts and sheds, the warehouses and bath houses, and cook houses, dormitories and arsenals, and the dojo, collapsed in flaming timbers and planks, hundreds of men, in columns, following wagons, drawn by tharlarion, took the mysterious well-rutted road which had led eastward, southeastward, fro...
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27 57 I conjectured that I knew the mysterious destination.
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33 92 Doubtless they were much displeased, at the loss of gain, and perhaps the mysterious loss of much of their own wealth, as well.
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38 53 And so in the mysterious ways of nature the match is made.
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38 270 And later I had participated in a mysterious interview, on tarnback, over the forest, the nature of which I had been reluctant to disclose.
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41 73 At the high rail of the stern castle I saw, now far behind, the small motion in the water, now scarcely visible, even with the glass, in the swelling waves, which marked the point beyond which our mysterious companion could not proceed, that point which marked for it the end of a journey it could no...
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Book 30. (20 results) Mariners of Gor

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1 308 In any event, later, at the time of his mysterious disappearance, he was a noted, high captain in Port Kar.
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1 340 One of the greatest fortunes amassed in the city was that of a mysterious, shadowy individual supposedly named "Ludmilla," who owned, and, through subordinates, managed, a series of large, ornate slave brothels in the city.
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3 25 Better put, they were lost men, scattered men, hunted men, men with few resources, outlaws, vagabonds, wanderers, many without a Home Stone, perhaps even having dishonored or betrayed it, rude men, rough men, dangerous men, mercenaries, of a sort, recruited by mysterious leaders, in an obscure cause...
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3 67 This suggested to me, but did not prove, that this mysterious, monstrous vessel in which I found myself encelled, despite its size, was not a round ship, or, better, not a round ship as one usually thinks of such ships.
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5 22 Yet, later, I was sure, the cold, despite the corridors, the braziers, the lamps, would reach even the mysterious labyrinths below.
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5 77 "And thus," I said, "they would not survive, perhaps to enlighten others as to the existence of a great ship, a mysterious, monstrous vessel, unlicensed in our waters".
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6 48 The depth of this need, of this desire, and the profundity of this love, the wholeness of it, the desire to give oneself, to surrender oneself, wholly, to another, is one of the mysterious recurrent songs of nature, its origins perhaps lost or obscure, but its strains familiar amongst her survivors.
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8 28 Yet even in their night, interestingly, one might see, from the light of moons, from that of stars, and, sometimes, it was said, from mysterious, shifting curtains of light, these many things reflected from the bleakness of the silent, frozen sea.
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12 43 She may send you gentle winds and shelter you in her great arms, bearing you up, or should she please, break you and draw you down, destroying you, to mysterious, unsounded deeps.
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19 10 Too, there was often one or more of the mysterious clouds, or volumes of ash, or whatever they might be, on the horizon.
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21 198 By their mysterious power, and secret sky ships, it seems they had long ago placed Initiates amongst the Pani, perhaps centuries ago, who had taught them Gorean.
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24 13 The Pani world was one of complex arrangements and degrees, and many proprieties, and formalities, at least to me, were mysterious.
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24 87 And others, one supposes, were not eager to essay a narrow, closed, walled-in path, which was clearly steep and long, and at the end of which lay a beautiful, but strange and mysterious structure, which might forebode we knew not what.
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26 128 There had been, of late, much traffic coming and going from that area, that mysterious room, high in the castle.
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27 109 Whatever might be the initial psychological impact of the tarn on those unfamiliar with its form of life, it would be only a matter of time before it became clear to the enemy that the tarn, however formidable, was a natural creature, limited, and mortal, nothing dreadfully mysterious, no unnatural ...
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33 258 How mysterious are such things, I thought.
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37 244 It was as though they had enkindled a mysterious lamp, a lamp of memory, which, when lit, emitted not light, but darkness, fear, and cold.
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37 524 Many slaves, of course, once they have a tunic, will do their small, mysterious things to the garment in such a way that it seems designed for themselves alone.
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37 846 "So tamely put," I said, "such words manage only to point, only to hint, at ineluctable, mysterious matchings, and sensings".
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37 1385 "It was with joy," said the slave, "that I, my presence unknown to you, heard you speak of ineluctable, mysterious matchings, and sensings".
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Book 31. (13 results) Conspirators of Gor

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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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8 693 Yet, at times, how meaningless are these prudential, mercenary considerations! Does the slave not hope that she will be purchased by a strong, handsome, powerful, virile master, rich or not, who will know well what to do with her, before whom she will know herself well in her collar? Are we not all ...
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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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16 222 I supposed that I had inadvertently told him what he wanted to know, that the wagons undertaking this mysterious journey might harbor secret denizens, of which I, and others, were not to speak, denizens which might be embarked on projects of a nature best concealed from public scrutiny.
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17 187 Much from the Lady Bina and from the translator I did not understand, that having to do with distant worlds, exotic engineerings, unusual weaponries, strange customs and holidays, diverse races and cultures, troubled histories, and such, and with mysterious projects, factions, and wars, seemingly cu...
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17 190 Supposedly this would be acceptable to those who were the guardians of two worlds, my world, called Earth in my native language, and Gor, the Priest-Kings of Gor, a mysterious set of beings regarded with great awe, both by humans and Kurii.
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20 192 The purpose of our venture, as you well know, seems mysterious, even to you and me.
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33 40 Who knew what clandestine gold might now have found its home in a new purse? Might the fellow beside you suddenly turn on you? Accordingly, much of the financing involved in such matters would doubtless be accomplished by means of drafts, notes, letters, and such, things mysterious, even unreal, to ...
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46 49 First, there was a significant reduction in the displays, usually ceremonial, of the mysterious container which was commonly believed to contain a treasure, most likely of diamonds, but which was understood by some of us to be somehow relevant to the person of Agamemnon himself.
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51 3 Soon, how joyfully, embracing and kissing, did we greet one another! I now understood the extensive preparations, the mysterious recent behavior of Lord Grendel, the excitement of the Lady Bina, the ka-la-na purchased, the flavorsome herbs, the bosk and tarsk, the early cooking.
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52 191 "And I learned that he contemplated a mysterious trip to the Voltai".
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52 455 Some feared the prerogatives of our caste were being eroded, others that sources of gain were being ignored, or concealed from the caste, others that mysterious doings were afoot which might warrant some investigation.
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52 456 I had learned of mysterious ships, and had come to know of the existence of a Kur presence on our world.
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Book 32. (14 results) Smugglers of Gor

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7 80 Apparently many slaves were being purchased for transportation beyond Brundisium, by one or more mysterious buyers to whom, it seemed, price was not a matter of particular concern.
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8 46 What lay in the north? Who were the mysterious Pani? Their agents seemed well supplied with gold, gold at a time when even copper would go far.
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14 438 "Much here is mysterious," I said.
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15 440 There was very little on the southern bank of the Alexandra, some two or three buildings, and the mysterious palisaded area.
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19 34 "There is a cargo," he said, "two large crates, heavy, with mysterious contents, now across the river, for safekeeping, which are to be secretly embarked".
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20 168 It was looming, awesome, and mysterious.
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22 75 We had delayed the loading of the two large boxes, with their mysterious contents, until the departure of the great ship was imminent.
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27 57 Though I was weary, and hungry, so hungry that I was almost faint with hunger, I forced myself to go further, and further, to put every tenth of a pasang I could between myself and the kennels and chains of Shipcamp, and the great, fearful, mysterious ship restless at its cables, the purpose of whic...
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33 70 On the other hand, perhaps the bowls were payment of a sort, or a token of more to come, from the mysterious "employer" Darla had mentioned.
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42 138 I did know that in the vicinity of Shipcamp, across the river, there were some buildings, including a mysterious stockade, where, it was rumored, prize slaves were housed, under great security, presumably to be boarded on the great ship, shortly before its departure.
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43 55 Some force, obviously, was interested in the ship, and concerned, for some reason, that it reach the sea, whence it might embark on some mysterious venture, perhaps even seeking, as some feared, the World's End.
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50 275 Standing at the edge of the shore, I could see, across the river, some of the buildings, and the mysterious stockade, which had excited my curiosity in the past.
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50 729 Her origins, I gathered, were mysterious.
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54 194 "And what of the mysterious cargo?" I said.
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Book 33. (13 results) Rebels of Gor

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1 114 "One wishes them to remain, for a time, mysterious, uncanny, and frightening".
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1 486 They were to serve as a link, or liaison, between myself and mysterious parties, deep within the northern forests.
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1 490 It seemed likely, however, given the mysterious appearance of Pani in the northern forests, and the work on a great ship, so far from civilization, a ship which might be capable of crossing Thassa, that this business would have to do, somehow, with Kurii, or Priest-Kings, or both.
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17 112 I recalled the once-arrogant, cool, efficient Miss Margaret Wentworth whom I had met long ago, she in the guise of a slave, on the cold, rocky coast abutting the northern forests, after I had disembarked from a slaver's ship put spaceward days before, from the locks of a steel world, to keep a myste...
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21 58 On the other hand, the reading proclaimed by Tatsu spoke rather of danger to the house of Yamada and of some mysterious figure, supposedly of the very blood of Yamada, referred to as the "avenger".
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34 18 "It is speculated the mysterious tarnsman and his prize are afoot?" "Yes," said Kazumitsu, "and doubtless attempting to reach the holding of Temmu, or the camp of the demon birds".
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36 64 "I must now resume my search for the mysterious tarnsman and the shogun's fair daughter".
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53 44 They did move in flight, giving the illusion of propelling the great, mysterious, aerial beast.
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54 197 Seeing is a mysterious, complex business; it is not a matter of just opening one's eyes.
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54 268 "And no ordinary living being," I said, "simply large and dangerous, but rather a mysterious being, come from unknown worlds, come with obscure intent, a being both purposeful and portentous.
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54 288 "What he knows," I said, "is likely to be little different from what is known by thousands of others, namely, that the iron dragon favored the house of Temmu, and then disappeared, perhaps to return to its mysterious realm of origin".
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57 47 Terror had been cast into the hearts of thousands of brave men, men who would face a common, charging, comprehensible foe with readiness and resolve, with bow and lowered glaives, but who had no heart to withstand the singular and incomprehensible, the mysterious, unnatural, and weird.
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61 187 If the altercation between these two houses was indeed wagered on by mysterious gamblers, perhaps treading the depths of a vast nest in the Sardar, or in orbiting worlds of steel, it would lack a resolution.
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Book 34. (13 results) Plunder of Gor

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16 94 "It is not that you are mysterious, in yourself," he said, "so much as that some sense me to be mysterious, and this mystery then attaches to you.
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16 106 Much in my bondage was mysterious, and much in my master seemed to me mysterious.
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8 265 Mysterious ships stalk the night".
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16 74 "I do not wish you to appear different, or mysterious," he said.
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16 83 "How, then, am I mysterious?" I asked.
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16 84 "I do not think you are mysterious, in yourself," he said.
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16 93 I supposed I was vain, but are not all slaves vain, all women vain? "Surely I am not mysterious," I said.
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16 117 "Then we are mysterious, it seems," I said.
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26 76 My master, for I was not owned by the court, frequently occupied himself in the city, I think in the vicinity of the wharves, presumably waiting for, or searching for, the mysterious shipment that was supposed to arrive at Brundisium, claimedly deriving from a "steel world".
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33 220 How complicated is the brain, and mysterious its secret courses and routes! Yet the phenomenon is not without precedent.
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34 112 Suppose, rather, it was the world of a considerably different form of life, a mysterious, powerful form of life, about which we know little, that within its caves and dens, so to speak, quiescent until aroused, armed and wary, lurked beasts between whose paws worlds might be crushed".
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52 138 "It is all very mysterious," said Kurik.
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65 193 I now suspected the nature of some of the mysterious objects carried in the wagon, paint, perhaps, in the cylindrical containers, and, surely, the pole and banner, which must have resided in the long, rectangular box.
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Book 35. (15 results) Quarry of Gor

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13 59 These things were mysterious to me and, I suspected, had been mysterious to the taverner's deputy, as well.
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11 239 I knew little of the politics of Gor, and less of the mysterious, notorious Talena of Ar.
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14 113 Under the circumstances I did not think that my interlocutor in the alcove, or his mysterious principal, would object.
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15 26 I supposed this was in accord with some directive from her mysterious master.
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18 99 It was all mysterious.
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21 11 Only a few steps from the pantry, however, distraught and confused, the tunic in my hand, I turned about, wildly, and rushed back to the pantry, to beg him for some intelligence as to what this whole mad business, so curious and mysterious, might be about, but the pantry was empty.
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27 3 Several days ago, after my miseries in an apartment, at the mercy of Dorna of Tharna, Addison Steele, and, I thought, a mysterious third party, which had remained generally concealed behind an ornate screen, I had awakened somewhere along the Canal of the Sea Sleen.
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29 4 What cared I for the origins of some young mysterious swordsman? Such may rise, like a luminous sun, and, as soon, decline like a falling star.
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33 318 "We have much in common, mysterious intelligence," said Bruno of Torcadino.
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38 91 I was unfamiliar with the number and layering of robes, the arrangement of veils, even the mysterious hooks and fastenings which somehow managed to bring together and secure the often-sumptuous ensemble of the Gorean free woman.
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38 106 I think that I mentioned earlier, that the mysterious Bosk of Port Kar, a high captain in the Council of Captains, he in whose holding I now wore my collar, was not now within the holding.
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40 84 "And it is said there are strange lights, and sounds, mysterious doings, in the delta," said the newcomer.
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40 328 I did not know who this mysterious someone might be, but I conjectured it might be one of the men in the holding, for several had perused me well, or one fellow or another who had seen me, and perhaps tried me out, in the Golden Chain.
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41 167 I wondered what might be the relationship, if any, between her and the mysterious Bosk of Port Kar.
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42 21 Amongst the tunicked slaves kneeling against the wall of the inner vestibule, one stood out amongst them, one in a modest, white-silk tunic, dark-haired, green-eyed, olive-skinned Adraste! How beautiful she was! Surely men might kill to possess such a woman, even if there were not some mysterious em...
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Book 36. (11 results) Avengers of Gor

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1 238 Wherever news of the mysterious raids was broadcast, it was the same.
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2 122 "Perhaps the Priest-Kings, with their mysterious and mighty powers, have some hand in this," said Clitus.
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3 29 This anomalous claim was the only clue, if it were a clue, I had so far managed to find as to the nature and whereabouts of the mysterious raiders perpetrating slaughter and rapine in my name.
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4 2 We were now two days beyond the small, dark, uncharted, mysterious island whose unexpected presence had so surprised us.
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7 22 We have long sought the trail of this mysterious, elusive, merciless corsair, Bosk, of Port Kar".
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18 210 In the case of the free woman, mysterious, exalted, lofty, veiled, possibly beautiful, and inaccessible, particularly in a long voyage, as tensions rise, one has something analogous to fresh, raw meat cast before hungry sleen, or, say, a banquet placed before starving men.
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21 10 And who does not wish to be thought important, and to be privy to knowledges unavailable to others, but which might, at sufficient urging, be shared with others? The slave often delights in intriguing other slaves, even tormenting them, with mysterious hints, and then delights in revealing their hit...
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26 57 What will seem right or appropriate to the prey, for whatever mysterious, perhaps unconscious, reasons, may be sensed by the predator.
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31 53 For my part, I prefer to keep the nature of their enemy as secret and mysterious as possible".
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60 95 "It is indeed mysterious," said the second trident bearer.
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60 310 "I had hoped," I said, "following our visit to Glaukos, to have been invited to the governor's palace, that in the guise of the mysterious Kenneth Statercounter of Brundisium, he somehow troublesomely implicated in recent events".
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