| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 107 |
Moreover, like the Earth, it had two polar regions and an equatorial belt, interspersed with northern and southern temperate zones. |
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| 1 | 24 |
I had left the vicinity of the Sardar Range in the month of Se'Var, which in the northern hemisphere is a winter month, and had journeyed south for months; and had now come to what some call the Plains of Turia, others the Land of the Wagon Peoples, in the autumn of this hemisphere; there is, due ap... |
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| 1 | 23 |
In the past months I had made my way, afoot, overland, across the equator, living by hunting and occasional service in the caravans of merchants, from the northern to the southern hemisphere of Gor. |
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| 2 | 90 |
It would not, of course, be to the benefit of Turia, or the farther cities, or, indeed, any of the free cities of even northern Gor, if the isolated fierce peoples of the south were to join behind a single standard and turn their herds northward—away from their dry plains to the lusher reache... |
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| 2 | 96 |
The mount of the Wagon Peoples, unknown in the northern hemisphere of Gor, is the terrifying but beautiful kaiila. |
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| 15 | 17 |
He lacked siege engines, and the men, and the skills, of the northern cities. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 21 |
Her hair was dark, and fell to the small of her back; her eyes were dark; she wore the briefly skirted, sleeveless slave livery common in the northern cities of Gor; the livery was yellow and split to the cord that served her as belt; about her throat she wore a matching collar, yellow enameled over... |
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| 4 | 5 |
Cernus of Ar wore a coarse black robe, woven probably from the wool of the bounding, two-legged Hurt, a domesticated marsupial raised in large numbers in the environs of several of Gor's northern cities. |
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| 12 | 375 |
He claimed over six thousand wins and was, in Ar and certain of the northern cities generally, a quite popular hero; he was said in private life to be cruel and dissolute, venal and petty, but when he climbed to the saddle of a racing tarn there were few who did not thrill to the sight; it was said ... |
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| 13 | 120 |
I had heard the Pool of the Tropics was an excellent pool in the Capacian; and also the Pool of Ar's Glories, and the Pool of the Northern Forests; there was even, of recent date, a Pool of the Splendor of the Hinrabians; I myself, however, with one arm about Nela, who nestled against me, felt conte... |
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| 15 | 128 |
Ar lies in Gor's northern hemisphere; it is rather low in her temperate latitudes; the long cold rains of the winter, the darkness of the days, the occasional snows, turning to black slush in her streets, depressed me. |
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| 17 | 134 |
The Kajuralia, or the Holiday of Slaves, or Festival of Slaves, occurs in most of the northern, civilized cities of known Gor once a year. |
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| 19 | 143 |
The next lot was an interesting one, consisting of two slave girls, clad in the skins of forest panthers, from the northern forests of Gor, and chained together by the throat. |
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| 19 | 145 |
The northern forests, the haunts of bandits and unusual beasts, far to the north and east of Ko-ro-ba, my city, are magnificent, deep forests, covering hundreds of thousands of square pasangs. |
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| 19 | 303 |
The Tuchuks, one of the distant Wagon Peoples, tend to be, to those of northern Gor, a people of mystery and intrigue; to those of the southern plains, of course, they tend to be little more than efficient, fierce and dreaded foes. |
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| 24 | 106 |
At times we walked up swirling gradients, at times stairs, swirling and broad, leading higher and higher into the cylinder; sometimes we walked through marble-floored passageways, in which, through narrow windows, designed to be too small for a body to pass, but large enough for use as crossbow port... |
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| 24 | 121 |
Many years ago, in Ar and Ko-ro-ba, and several of the other northern cities, the common slave livery had been white but diagonally striped, in one color or another; gradually over the years this style had changed; the standard livery was also, now, commonly, slashed to the waist; as before, it rema... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 96 |
In Port Kar, incidentally, there are none of the towers often encountered in the northern cities of Gor. |
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| 9 | 147 |
There were the northern islands, of course, and they were numerous, but small, extending in an archipelago like a scimitar northeastward from Cos, which lay some four hundred pasangs west of Port Kar. |
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| 10 | 214 |
Three, which I encountered frequently in my voyages, were Teletus, and, south of it, Tabor, named for the drum, which it resembles, and, to the north, among the northern islands, Scagnar. |
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| 10 | 222 |
I did once carry, however, a hold of chained slaves, and, another time, a hold filled with the furs of the northern sea sleen. |
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| 10 | 286 |
A motion was on the floor that a new preserve in the northern forests be obtained, that more timber for the arsenal be available. |
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| 10 | 287 |
In the northern forests Port Kar already had several such preserves. |
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| 10 | 299 |
Port Kar is, incidentally, completely dependent on the northern timber. |
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| 16 | 209 |
We are strong, and may take an island for our own, one of the northern islands. |
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| 16 | 211 |
"Many of the captains," said another officer, "are already weighing anchor for the northern islands". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 798 |
The prevailing northern winds, carrying rain and moisture, had coated the northern sides of the high trees with vertical belts of moss, extending some twenty to thirty feet up the trunks. |
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| 7 | 3 |
Shortly before he made me one of his girls, some two or three days before, he had been attacked by outlaw tarnsmen, some four days journey north by northeast from the city of Ko-ro-ba, which lies high in the northern temperate latitudes of the planet Gor, which is the name of this world. |
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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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| 8 | 85 |
Both sides of the river are used to approach Laura, though the northern shore is favored. |
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| 8 | 86 |
Unharnessed tharlarion, returning to Lydius at the mouth of the Laurius, generally follow the southern shore road, which is not as much used by towing tharlarion as the northern. |
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| 8 | 348 |
They did not mix with us but, with their northern accents, kept to themselves. |
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| 8 | 371 |
The northern beauties of Haakon, too, I was pleased to see, cowered away from that side of their compound. |
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| 8 | 793 |
Even some of the northern girls joined with us. |
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| 8 | 802 |
The northern girls, incidentally, were very skilled at this game. |
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| 8 | 862 |
Then she was released to go to the kitchen, where, with some others of the northern girls, their arms immersed to the elbows in wooden tubs of heated water, she set about washing the pans. |
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| 8 | 865 |
It was surely work more fit for the blond, northern girls. |
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| 8 | 950 |
Beyond the fire, in the distance, like an irregular margin, a torn, soft, dark edge hiding the bright stars of Gor, I could see the lofty, still blackness of the borders of the northern forests. |
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| 8 | 1114 |
These were forest girls, sometimes called panther girls, who lived wild and free in the northern forests, outlaw women, sometimes enslaving men, when it pleased them to do so. |
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| 9 | 199 |
I was nothing with these proud, free, dangerous, brave women, these independent, superb, unfearing, resourceful, fierce felines, panther girls of the northern forests of Gor. |
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| 9 | 220 |
* * * * Then, after perhaps another hour, we came, almost abruptly, suddenly, to a stand of the high trees, the Tur trees, of the northern forests. |
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| 9 | 224 |
The forests of the northern temperate latitudes of Gor are countries in themselves, covering hundreds of thousands of square pasangs of area. |
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| 9 | 231 |
They do extend beyond the most northern ridges of the Thentis Mountains. |
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| 11 | 99 |
The Turian collar, too, a looser ring of steel, large enough for a man's fist to grasp on the girl's throat, was occasionally seen now in the northern cities. |
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| 11 | 1079 |
Haakon of Skjern, from whom Targo had purchased his hundred northern beauties, now concluding their training, was in Ko-ro-ba. |
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| 11 | 1275 |
It lies west of bleak, rocky Torvaldsland, substantially above even the vast, green belt of the northern forests. |
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| 12 | 115 |
In certain of the cages, of heavy, peeled branches lashed together, there snarled and hissed forest sleen, in others there raged the dreadful, tawny, barred panthers of the northern forests. |
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| 13 | 740 |
I knew then we were within the territory of Ar, and must be high over the Margin of Desolation, a barren area, now recovering itself, which, years ago, had been cleared and devastated, that the northern fields of Ar by such a natural barrier, by such a wall of hunger and thirst, might be protected, ... |
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| 13 | 750 |
Of tradition, the northern shore of the Vosk was disputed by various cities. |
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| 15 | 356 |
"That is Verna," said Ena, "a panther girl from the northern forests". |
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| 15 | 367 |
They were shameless! "Those men," said Ena, "are Raf and Pron, huntsmen of Treve, though they range widely in their huntings, even to the northern forests. |
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| 15 | 435 |
They talked of hunting, and war, and of the northern forests, as though I were not there. |
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| 15 | 511 |
"I will well teach her the meaning of slavery in the northern forests!" cried Verna. |
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| 15 | 976 |
I recalled the circle of the dance in the northern forest, and how even Verna, the proud Verna, had, beside herself with need, writhed helplessly beneath the bright moons of Gor, a female. |
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| 16 | 194 |
I am taking her to the northern forests, as a slave". |
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| 16 | 210 |
Doubtless she was much pleased to put the daughter of her enemy, Marlenus of Ar, he who had captured her in the northern forests, and had caged her, and exhibited her, in a simple rep-cloth work tunic. |
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| 16 | 213 |
It would make it easier to bring her to the northern forests. |
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| 16 | 218 |
"My place is in the northern forests". |
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| 16 | 297 |
I had little doubt but what the magnificent Verna, leader of the panther girls, would bring her comely prize, apparently only another common slave, in a work tunic, successfully to the northern forests. |
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| 17 | 231 |
It was the small man, who had touched me intimately when I had lain bound in my own bed on Earth, the small man who had threatened me in the hut in the northern forests, who had been the mountebank, the master, I had thought, of the strange beast, the terrible beast. |
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| 18 | 19 |
And I have now learned, from the narrative of the girl, Elinor, that Talena, once my companion, may well be in the northern forests. |
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| 18 | 23 |
Sometimes she comes with me, to the great keep, which once we defended, and we look sometimes toward Thassa, the Sea, and I look sometimes towards the northern forests. |
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| 18 | 50 |
I looked toward the northern forests. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 |
Rim "It is not my wish," said Samos, looking up from the board, "that you journey to the northern forests". |
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| 1 | 62 |
"Talena, daughter of Marlenus of Ar, I learn, has been taken as slave to the northern forests," I said. |
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| 1 | 111 |
"She was taken to the northern forests, I have learned," I said, "by the outlaw girl, Verna, to serve as bait for her capture of Marlenus of Ar, who is presumed to be concerned for her rescue". |
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| 1 | 117 |
"Talena is held slave in the northern forests," I told him. |
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| 1 | 156 |
"I—I must go to the northern forests," I stammered. |
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| 1 | 170 |
"In the morning," I said, "I leave for the northern forests". |
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| 1 | 193 |
The strip which had been shaven on his head, from the forehead to the back of the neck, signified that he had been captured, and sold, by the panther girls of the northern forests. |
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| 1 | 223 |
"What were you doing in the northern forests?" I asked him. |
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| 1 | 228 |
"Few travelers journey through the northern forests," I said. |
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| 1 | 249 |
"Are you familiar with the northern forests?" I asked. |
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| 1 | 276 |
In the morning, from the house of Bosk, in the far city, bordering the delta, I shall leave for the northern forests. |
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| 2 | 19 |
Far above the beach we could see the green margins of the great northern forests. |
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| 2 | 363 |
They live by themselves in the northern forests, by hunting, and slaving and outlawry. |
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| 3 | 202 |
In halls, it is often played far into the night, by fires, by the northern giants. |
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| 4 | 163 |
"I sought the northern forests," she said. |
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| 6 | 170 |
The bad blood between Tyros and Ar had primarily to do with Tyros' financings of Vosk pirates, to harry river shipping and the northern borders of Ar. |
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| 6 | 352 |
It was quite possibly the same camp he had used several months ago, when, as recreation from the duties of the Ubar, he had gone hunting in the northern forests, a sporting trip in which he had captured a large number of animals, and, as well, Verna, a famed outlaw woman, and her entire band. |
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| 9 | 360 |
And I, who was to have been such a hero, so clever, so noble and brave, so victorious, now myself lay helplessly bound in a clearing in the great northern forests, the prisoner of fierce panther girls. |
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| 11 | 513 |
Hanging is a not uncommon penalty in the northern forests for outlawry. |
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| 12 | 36 |
How foolishly I had brought my prides and my plans to the northern forests. |
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| 13 | 35 |
Shouting the war cry of Tyros, blades drawn, they ran toward me across the sand and pebbles of the northern shore of the Laurius. |
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| 13 | 167 |
I am sure that the capture of Bosk was one of the objectives of the Rhoda's northern expedition, but I suspected that the acquisition of an admiral of Port Kar, one whom they had good cause to remember, was not their single, nor prime, objective. |
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| 15 | 103 |
Too, it should produce dissension between the men of Tyros and their allies, the lovely panther girls of the northern forests. |
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| 18 | 31 |
Yet on the trackless beaches, lining the western edge of the great northern forests for hundreds of pasangs, below the bleakness of Torvaldsland, it would not be easy to make rendezvous. |
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| 18 | 453 |
They must be, to survive in the bleak, fierce northern waters, wind-whipped and skerry-studded. |
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| 21 | 52 |
All that he had come to the northern forests to accomplish he had failed to do. |
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| 22 | 209 |
It was removed from the throat of Verna, panther girl of the northern forests. |
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| 22 | 334 |
"And perhaps," said she, "from time to time, you might come again to hunt in the northern forests". |
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| 22 | 343 |
Then she turned and vanished into the dark green shadows of the northern forests. |
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| 22 | 495 |
Hura and Mira were lovely souvenirs of the northern forests, fitting mementos for the great Ubar; they were tokens of his victories, reminders of his success; their captive bodies would be found by him doubtless, when he looked upon them, rich in meaning as well as in pleasure. |
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| 22 | 496 |
I could imagine him, drinking, pointing to one, telling his companions the story of the northern forests. |
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| 22 | 773 |
I wondered if she might, sometime, trek to Ar, to call upon its Ubar or if he, attending to his hunting in the northern forests, might once more chance upon her. |
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| 22 | 951 |
We had come to Lydius and Laura, and the northern forests. |
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| 22 | 952 |
Bosk of Port Kar, so wise, so bold and arrogant, had come mightily to the northern forests. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 108 |
Incidentally, for what it is worth, though the southern girl is, I expect, worked less hard than the northern girl, who is commonly kept on an isolated farm, she is more often than her northern sister put to the switch or whip; I think she lives under a harsher discipline; southern masters are harde... |
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| 1 | 59 |
I had not played Kaissa since my return from the northern forests. |
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| 1 | 77 |
Doubtless I was the envy of men who did not know me, Bosk, the recluse, who had returned crippled from the northern forests. |
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| 1 | 117 |
And so, Tarl Cabot gone, Bosk, Merchant of Port Kar, had gone to the northern forests, to free Talena, once his Free Companion. |
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| 1 | 146 |
I could not recover my honor, but I could, and did upon one occasion, recollect it, in a stockade at the shore of Thassa, at the edge of the northern forests. |
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| 1 | 221 |
When I had returned from the northern forests I had resolved not to look upon Talena, once daughter of Marlenus of Ar, whom Samos had purchased from panther girls. |
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| 1 | 302 |
I was taken to the northern forests. |
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| 1 | 454 |
And when Telima had fled my house, when I had determined to seek Talena in the northern forests, I had, too, let her go. |
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| 1 | 587 |
It had been that of Telima, who had fled to the marshes, when I had determined to seek Talena in the northern forests. |
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| 1 | 682 |
I had not had paga since returning from the northern forests. |
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| 2 | 5 |
The High Initiate of Kassau, a town at the northern brink of the forest, sat still in his white robes, in his tall hat, on the throne to the right, within the white rail that separated the sanctuary of Initiates from the common ground of the hall, where those not anointed by the grease of Priest-Kin... |
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| 2 | 10 |
She wore, over her shoulder, a cape of white fur of the northern sea sleen. |
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| 2 | 16 |
In the northern villages, and in the forest towns, and northward on the coast, the women do not veil themselves, as is common in the cities to the south. |
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| 2 | 142 |
His ship, like most of the northern ships, did not have a rowing frame, and the rowers sat within the hull proper, facing, of course, aft. |
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| 2 | 147 |
The northern ship carries one sail, not the several sails, all lateens, of the southern ships, which must be removed and replaced. |
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| 2 | 153 |
The ship, like most of the northern ships, was clinker built, being constructed of overlapping planks, or strakes, the frame then fitted within them. |
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| 2 | 174 |
Another feature of the northern ships is that they have, in effect, a prow on each end. |
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| 2 | 176 |
They can be brought to land in either direction, a valuable property in the rocky, swift northern waters. |
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| 2 | 233 |
There were other good looking wenches, too, in the crowd, generally blond girls, as are most of the northern girls, many with braided hair. |
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| 4 | 16 |
There is often not enough food under any conditions, particularly in northern Torvaldsland, and famine is not unknown. |
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| 4 | 86 |
They number years from the time of Thor's gift of the stream of Torvald to Torvald, legendary hero and founder of the northern fatherlands. |
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| 5 | 268 |
The fine candlesticks from the temple of Kassau, for example, I expected would be chopped into bits small enough for the pans of the northern scales. |
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| 5 | 270 |
A lovely brooch, for example, wrought by a northern craftsman, would be seldom broken or mutilated. |
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| 6 | 308 |
I had learned, much to my instruction, that my conception of the northern halls left much to be desired. |
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| 6 | 448 |
Yet I admired the audacity of the man of Torvaldsland, though his act, in freeing Chenbar to act against me, had almost cost me my life last year in the northern forests. |
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| 6 | 499 |
He might know the haunts of Kurii; he might know dialects of the north, some of which are quite divergent from standard Gorean, as it is spoken, say, in Ar or Ko-ro-ba, or even in distant Turia; the habits and customs of the northern halls and villages might be familiar to him; I had no wish to be t... |
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| 6 | 502 |
Thorgard of Scagnar, vicious and cruel, one of the most powerful of the northern Jarls, was my enemy. |
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| 7 | 41 |
The northern Sa-Tarna, in its rows, yellow and sprouting, was about ten inches high. |
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| 8 | 60 |
"Who," I asked myself, "is Hilda, the daughter of a barbarian, of a rude, uncouth northern pirate, living in a high wooden fortress, overlooking the sea, to so demean the perfumes of Ar?" One might have thought she was a great lady, and not the insolent, though curvaceous, brat of a boorish sea rove... |
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| 9 | 71 |
Once he thrust away one of the white sharks of the northern waters. |
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| 10 | 33 |
Thorgeir, it so happened, of course, was the only man of the Ax Glacier country, which is usually taken as the northern border of Torvaldsland, before the ice belts of Gor's arctic north, who was at the Thing-Fair. |
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| 10 | 100 |
Southern girls, incidentally, in my opinion, though scarcely as worked as their northern sisters in bondage, a function of the economic distinction between the farm and city, are often worked, and worked hard, particularly if they have not pleased their masters. |
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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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| 13 | 137 |
This is not to deny that the Ubara in the south, in fact, exercises as much or more power than her northern counterpart. |
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| 13 | 403 |
I had only feared some treachery, or trickery, upon his part, some northern trick. |
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| 17 | 95 |
The northern pole of the camp would be left free, as a seeming avenue of escape, to lure embattled Kurii, should the tide of the war turn against them, into flight northward. |
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| 20 | 36 |
"When I, in the hall of Samos, before leaving for the northern forests to seek Talena, learned of your flight, I wept". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 41 |
"Kurii, Others," I said, "following the failure of the northern invasion of native Kurii, halted in Torvaldsland, have been quiet, have they not?" "Beware of a silent enemy," said Samos. |
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| 1 | 576 |
With an eating prong, a utensil now more common in the northern latitudes than earlier, Samos tapped the table before him. |
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| 4 | 42 |
The sand kaiila, or desert kaiila, is a kaiila, and handles similarly, but it is not identically the same animal which is indigenous, domestic and wild, in the middle latitudes of Gor's southern hemisphere; that animal, used as a mount by the Wagon Peoples, is not found in the northern hemisphere of... |
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| 5 | 720 |
Then I had been seeking Talena, to free her in the northern forests, and return her safe to Port Kar, where we might, as I had then thought, renew the companionship. |
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| 12 | 291 |
She would have brought much on a northern block, or, indeed, on any block. |
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| 14 | 514 |
I hummed to myself a simple tune, a tune I had never forgotten, a warrior tune from the northern city of Ko-ro-ba. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 529 |
It was more slender, more vertical, more like a stem with floral, cursive loops, about an inch and a half in height, and a half inch in width; it was, I would later learn, the initial letter in cursive script of the Gorean expression 'Kajira'; my own brand was the "dina"; the dina is a small, lovely... |
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| 3 | 531 |
That in the north the lovely dina was spoken of as the "slave flower" did not escape the notice of the expatriated Turians; in time, in spite of the fact that "Dina" is a lovely name, and the dina a delicate, beautiful flower, it would no longer be used in the southern hemisphere, no more than in th... |
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| 7 | 19 |
The growing power of the Salerian Confederation was not viewed with favor by the city of Ar, which, lying in Gor's northern hemisphere, is the major power between the Vosk and the Cartius, and between the Voltai Range and Thassa, the sea. |
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| 8 | 142 |
Sea sleen are found commonly in northern waters. |
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| 16 | 172 |
They conduct their work commonly in more northern waters, returning to Schendi as their home port. |
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| 16 | 227 |
The ship might, of course, be of Port Kar, or of one of the northern ports, or even of Torvaldsland. |
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| 22 | 58 |
The sea sleen, vicious, fanged aquatic mammals, apparently related to the land forms of sleen, are the swiftest predators to be found in Thassa; further, they are generally conceded to be the most dangerous; they tend, however, to frequent northern waters. |
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| 22 | 87 |
The English expression "starboard" is a contraction of "steering board," and refers to the side of certain ships, particularly northern ships, on which the steering board, or rudder, was to be found. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 216 |
They are, generally, very shallow-drafted, which permits them to come much closer to such ice without the danger that would threaten deeper-keeled craft; too, the Gorean ship, because of the shallow draft, can occasionally run up on such ice, sliding onto it, rather than breaking apart when it strik... |
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| 23 | 461 |
On the other hand, I was confident, too, that it must have come from the northern sea or the northern ice. |
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| 2 | 584 |
"It is a herd of northern tabuk," said Samos, "a gigantic herd, one of several. |
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| 2 | 585 |
The herd of Tancred winters in the rims of the northern forests south and east of Torvaldsland. |
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| 2 | 605 |
The red hunters lived as nomads, dependent on the migrations of various types of animals, in particular the northern tabuk and four varieties of sea sleen. |
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| 2 | 607 |
Sometimes they managed to secure the northern shark, sometimes even the toothed Hunjer whale or the less common Karl whale, which was a four-fluked, baleen whale. |
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| 4 | 50 |
Then he reached into a fur sack at his feet and, gently, took forth a representation of the northern tabuk, carved in blue stone. |
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| 4 | 515 |
I hoped the supplies I had sent north would mitigate what otherwise might prove a catastrophe for the red hunters, the nomads of the northern wastes. |
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| 4 | 555 |
The herd had perhaps been wiped out by a disease in the northern forests. |
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| 7 | 95 |
It was hide of the northern tabuk. |
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| 7 | 127 |
"From the northern herds," he said. |
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| 7 | 165 |
Now, more than ever was I certain that the works of the Kurii flourished concealed among the snows of the northern wastes. |
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| 9 | 115 |
They were northern tabuk, massive, tawny and swift, many of them ten hands at the shoulder, a quite different animal from the small, yellow-pelted, antelopelike quadruped of the south. |
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| 10 | 212 |
Each of the hairs of the northern tabuk, interestingly, is hollow. |
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| 11 | 234 |
Before he had left he had had them sew northern garments for themselves, under his instruction. |
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| 11 | 236 |
Too, they had made the high fur boots of the northern woman and the brief panties of fur, to which the boots, extending to the crotch, reach. |
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| 11 | 243 |
Northern women often do not do so in warm weather. |
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| 11 | 486 |
"Panther Girls," I said, "such as, here and there, frequent the northern forests, might survive". |
10 |
| 12 | 10 |
Each of the bones is carved to resemble an animal, such as an arctic gant, a northern bosk, a lart, a tabuk or sleen, and so on. |
10 |
| 12 | 63 |
Arlene slipped it on, over the head, as such garments, like northern garments generally, are donned. |
10 |
| 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. |
10 |
| 12 | 206 |
It was in that northern, or polar, sea that there was said to exist, if it were not myth or invention, the "mountain that did not move," that iceberg which, in defiance of tide, wind, and current, stood immobilely fixed. |
10 |
| 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. |
10 |
| 12 | 238 |
It is thousands of pasangs in width, and hundreds in depth; it extends, beyond horizons we could see, to the southern edge of the northern, or polar, sea. |
10 |
| 12 | 379 |
Thistle, however, behind her, was naked, in a northern yoke and on a leather leash. |
10 |
| 12 | 380 |
The northern yoke is either of wood or bone, and is drilled in three places. |
10 |
| 15 | 622 |
"Strong women, huntresses who frequent the northern forests," I said. |
10 |
| 27 | 110 |
On Earth this type of phenomenon is sometimes referred to as the Northern Lights or the Aurora Borealis. |
10 |
| 27 | 165 |
The Northern Lights still spun and played in the sky. |
10 |
| 37 | 15 |
For a terrible instant it had seemed as bright as day, with a brightness that most of the People, in their northern regions, had never known, a brightness that might have struck the white sands of the blazing Tahari or the green jungles of the rain forests of the eastern Cartius. |
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| 38 | 8 |
I looked out to the shore of the polar sea, that northern extending branch of Thassa. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 45 |
My speculation that this referred to the pole of the Gorean northern hemisphere had proved correct. |
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| 1 | 46 |
I had met Half-Ear there, in a vast northern complex, an enormous supply depot intended to arm and fuel, and otherwise logistically support, the projected invasion of Gor, the Counter-Earth. |
10 |
| 1 | 224 |
"It seems likely they were slain by the tribes of the northern shores of Ushindi," said Samos. |
10 |
| 1 | 228 |
"He is a black Ubar," said Samos, "bloody and brilliant, a man of vision and power, who has united the six ubarates of the southern shores of Ushindi, united them by the knife and the stabbing spear, and has extended his hegemony to the northern shores, where he exacts tribute, kailiauk tusks and wo... |
10 |
| 1 | 233 |
"The hegemony of Bila Huruma over the northern shores, then, is substantial but incomplete," I said. |
10 |
| 4 | 373 |
"There are some girls behind the paga taverns, on the northern shore of the Ribbon's alley," she said. |
10 |
| 4 | 382 |
I was then on the northern shore of the Ribbon's alley. |
10 |
| 5 | 265 |
He was the fellow who had passed me on the northern walkway of the Rim canal, when I had been on my way to the pier of the Red Urt. |
10 |
| 5 | 548 |
"The very nearest thing to what I recently felt occurred on the northern walkway of the Rim canal, when you, not a vagabond, but a strong, free man, who had subdued both Turgus and myself, simply took me and used me for your pleasure". |
10 |
| 6 | 115 |
I, too, now had little doubt what ships these would be, as it was the northern spring, and we were in the waters of Schendi. |
10 |
| 6 | 174 |
In the northern autumn they would return, to be refitted and supplied again in Schendi, and would then, a few weeks later, in the southern spring, ply their way southward. |
10 |
| 6 | 563 |
If it were somewhat north of the equator, this dry season would occur in the period of the northern hemisphere's winter. |
10 |
| 6 | 565 |
From the point of view of one accustomed to Gor's northern latitudes I am not altogether happy with the geographer's concept of a "dry season". |
10 |
| 16 | 47 |
His father had, many years ago, fled from an inland village, one of the Nyuki district, a district noted for its honey, on the northern shore of lake Ushindi. |
10 |
| 16 | 106 |
"There are the villages of the Ngao region, on the northern shore," said Ayari. |
10 |
| 16 | 152 |
"There are the rebels of the northern shore of Ngao," said the man. |
10 |
| 29 | 13 |
A grasshopper, red, the size of a horned gim, a small, owllike bird, some four ounces in weight, common in the northern latitudes, had leaped near the fire, and disappeared into the brush. |
10 |
| 32 | 185 |
They have maintained their cycles of regeneration but these cycles, interestingly, are often no longer synchronized with either the northern or southern winters and springs. |
10 |
| 32 | 219 |
They are less dangerous in the rain forest, generally, than in the northern latitudes. |
10 |
| 32 | 226 |
It can be extremely dangerous to men, even more so, I think, than the Voltai, or northern, larl. |
10 |
| 32 | 511 |
"They are worn in Torvaldsland and in other areas, generally in the northern latitudes". |
10 |
| 57 | 74 |
He was facile with languages, and had connections with the villages of Nyuki on the northern shore of Ushindi, which was the territory of his father's birth, and, because of his connections with Kisu, with the Ukungu districts on the Ngao. |
10 |
| 57 | 144 |
In a few weeks they would be ready, healed and cleaned, and to some extent trained, for the northern markets. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 70 |
It also commands, in effect, the northern terminus of one of the great roads, the Viktel Aria, or Ar's Triumph, leading toward Ar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 29 |
The chain could now be cut with impunity, behind the shield of the Voskjard's northern fleet, that now some half pasang off our bows. |
10 |
| 4 | 31 |
It was speculated, however, that the southern fleet was larger even than the northern, which had been successful in its strike against the chain. |
10 |
| 4 | 37 |
Even now, behind the shield of the northern fleet, it was not improbable that the ships of the southern fleet were proceeding unimpeded between the pylons. |
10 |
| 10 | 79 |
By dusk we had come to the northern break in the chain, that produced by the second portion of the Voskjard's fleet. |
10 |
| 11 | 191 |
Interestingly, in Turia itself, it is known simply as the "camisk," and what I have called the common camisk is, in Turia, referred to as the "northern camisk". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 102 |
To be sure, among northern coastal ports, it would not rank with Brundisium in this particular. |
10 |
| 2 | 211 |
They are barren only in contrast, say, with the northern forests or the lush land in river valleys, or the peasant fields or meadows of the southern rain belts. |
10 |
| 2 | 219 |
Prevailing winds in the northern hemisphere of Gor are from the north and west. |
10 |
| 2 | 232 |
On foot, it is easier to become lost in such grass than in the northern forests. |
10 |
| 7 | 82 |
The kaiila were presumably from the northern ranches and would be sold in Kailiauk, and in the towns to the south. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 200 |
They came from the countries around Council Rock, north of the northern fork of the Kaiila River and west of the Snake, a tributary to the Northern Kaiila. |
10 |
| 2 | 208 |
The lands of the Casmu, or Sand band of the Kaiila, lie to the west of the Isanna, and to the north and west of the Isbu, above the descending northern branch of the Northern Kaiila. |
10 |
| 2 | 203 |
At a given point, high in the territory of the Kaiila tribe, it branches into two rivers, which are normally spoken of as the Northern Kaiila and the Southern Kaiila. |
10 |
| 2 | 204 |
The Snake, flowing in an almost southern direction, is a tributary to the Northern Kaiila. |
10 |
| 2 | 205 |
The land of the Napoktan, or Bracelets band of the Kaiila, is east of the Snake, and north of the Northern Kaiila, and the Kaiila proper. |
10 |
| 2 | 206 |
The Wismahi, or Arrowhead band of the Kaiila, holds the more northern lands in and below, to some extent, the fork of the Kaiila. |
10 |
| 2 | 207 |
The Isbu's lands are the more southern lands between the Northern and Southern branches of the Kaiila. |
10 |
| 12 | 358 |
This was around Council Rock, north of the northern fork of the Kaiila River and west of the Snake River. |
10 |
| 18 | 64 |
Their territory lies roughly northwest of the Kaiila River, north of the northern fork of the Kaiila River, and east of the Snake River. |
10 |
| 33 | 332 |
"We will build a raft for the travois and cross the Northern Kaiila. |
10 |
| 34 | 9 |
It had been four days since we had crossed the Northern Kaiila. |
10 |
| 34 | 34 |
They had been with us since even before we had crossed the Northern Kaiila. |
10 |
| 34 | 485 |
Now, deep within the Barrens, north of the Northern Kaiila River, in the country of the Casmu Kaiila, I looked upon the shield itself. |
10 |
| 35 | 28 |
The northern waters are cold. |
10 |
| 44 | 131 |
The movements of the white soldiers and the Yellow Knives, even from the time they had crossed the Northern Kaiila, four days ago, had been under surveillance by our scouts. |
10 |
| 44 | 337 |
Certainly, according to our scouts, he had been with the Yellow Knives at the time of the crossing of the Northern Kaiila. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 376 |
In its more northern lengths this road is commonly thought of as the Vosk Road. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 926 |
Years, in the chronology of Torvaldsland, are counted from the time of Thor's gift of the Stream of Torvald to Torvald, the legendary founder and hero of the northern fatherlands. |
10 |
| 4 | 279 |
Tarl, for example, my name, tends to a familiar one on Gor, particularly in the northern areas, such as Torvaldsland and its vicinity. |
10 |
| 16 | 39 |
"To him your disguises, as brilliantly contrived as they may be to deceive others, are as flimsy and transparent as a veil of Anango!" The Petrucchio character, it might be noted, is commonly, in the northern hemisphere, portrayed as a captain from Turia, a city securely far away, off in the souther... |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 58 |
It is located at the intersection of various routes, the Genesian, connecting Brundisium and other coastal cities with the south, the Northern Salt Line and the Northern Silk Road, leading respectively west and north from the east and south, the Pilgrims' Road, leading to the Sardar, and the Eastern... |
10 |
| 15 | 639 |
It was situated on the southern bank, east of Jort's Ferry and west of Forest Port, both on the northern bank. |
10 |
| 21 | 154 |
"It had to do with some business in the Northern forests. |
10 |
| 25 | 1227 |
"It is a northern name, is it not?" "It is common in the north," I said, "particularly in Torvaldsland". |
10 |
| 25 | 1506 |
Rings of this design, however, though perhaps not of this purpose, were rare in Ar, in the northern hemisphere. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 135 |
Indeed, Ar's Station, in effect, secured the northern terminus of the Viktel Aria, or Vosk Road, at the Vosk. |
10 |
| 8 | 63 |
Probably at one time or another, before the founding of Ar's Station, it had served to garrison troops, perhaps concerned to monitor the more northern reaches of the Vosk Road. |
10 |
| 20 | 186 |
Its headquarters was in the town of Victoria, on the northern bank of the Vosk, between Fina and Tafa. |
10 |
| 24 | 317 |
"Such seems to be the spirit in the northern camp of Ar," said Aemilianus. |
10 |
| 24 | 333 |
"Ar's northern forces are interposed between Ar's Station and Brundisium. |
10 |
| 24 | 359 |
Turmus, which is the last major town west on the Vosk, is on the northern bank. |
10 |
| 24 | 644 |
"Where," asked he, "do you think the northern forces of Ar are?" "South of the river," I said, "back, to the east, somewhere". |
10 |
| 24 | 839 |
The veminium is a delicate, five-petaled blue flower common in both the northern and southern hemispheres of Gor. |
10 |
| 24 | 991 |
It is a town on the northern bank of the Vosk. |
10 |
| 24 | 998 |
Most of the major towns on the Vosk are on the northern bank. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 291 |
So, too, are some of the folks in the more northern islands, interestingly, such as Hunjer and Skjern, west of Torvaldsland. |
10 |
| 1 | 367 |
To be sure, the southern bank of the Vosk, because of the former extent of Ar's Margin of Desolation, long ago abandoned, is much less populous than the northern bank. |
10 |
| 4 | 58 |
Many are named "Tarl," for example, particularly in Torvaldsland, and, generally, in the northern latitudes of Gor. |
10 |
| 14 | 61 |
"Ar," I said, "if you wish to know my opinions on the matter, has been betrayed, in the matter of Ar's Station, in the matter of the disposition of her northern forces, and, now, in her entry, unprepared, into the delta. |
10 |
| 32 | 83 |
Presumably the balance of Cos' northern forces, mostly mercenaries, would have retired to that city, for mustering out, or reassignment. |
10 |
| 36 | 159 |
I had been afraid Marcus, thinking her of Cos, and hating Cos and all things Cosian, would have cut her throat or injured her, but, fortunately, as it had turned out, she had not been of Cos, but from the vicinity of White Water, on the northern shore of the Vosk, east of Tancred's Landing. |
10 |
| 40 | 116 |
"But their northern terminations had been destroyed by Dietrich himself, to prevent others from availing themselves of the same ingress to the city," said a man. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 621 |
Her collar, like most female slave collars, particularly in the northern hemisphere, was close fitting. |
10 |
| 8 | 117 |
Indeed, it had been rumored in Ar, even before the disappearance of Marlenus, that it had once been lost in the northern forests, upon a hunting expedition. |
10 |
| 8 | 150 |
In Ar, as in most cities in the northern hemisphere, the new year begins with the vernal equinox. |
10 |
| 16 | 194 |
"You were with the 14th then when it was defeated in the northern tracts of the delta?" "Yes," he said. |
10 |
| 16 | 207 |
Your answers with respect to the chain of command in the 14th were correct, but the 14th was not defeated in the northern tracts, but in the southern tracts, with the 7th, 9th and 11th. |
10 |
| 18 | 398 |
"And would you like to take a trip to the north with your troupe, a trip which might eventually bring you to the town of Port Cos, on the northern bank of the Vosk?" "They are staunch supporters of the theater there, are they not?" he asked. |
10 |
| 27 | 994 |
Then, when he got his hands on a meaningless little blond chit, a true slave in every hort of her body, named El-in-or, he gave me away, to a panther girl named Verna, to be taken to the northern forests. |
10 |
| 27 | 1064 |
"But before such alterations could occur," I said, "you were taken to the northern forests". |
10 |
| 27 | 1065 |
"I was taken to the northern forests". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 688 |
This rarity, of course, as would be expected, tends to increase its marketability somewhat, except in more northern markets, where it is common. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 16 | 773 |
"Ar is the largest, most populous city in the northern latitudes," said the girl. |
10 |
| 17 | 213 |
Many cities in the northern hemisphere use the chronology of Ar, along with their own. |
10 |
| 27 | 3418 |
The collar was a simple one, of a familiar type, particularly in the northern hemisphere, a band collar, about a half inch in height, closely fitting, locked at the back. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 238 |
To be fair to Cabot, however, rumors had it, at least, that he might have had some connection with that Venetian John Cabot, or Giovanni Caboto, a Fifteenth-Century (Earth Chronology) mercenary sea captain who sailed for England, in the time of Henry VII, and was the first European after several Vik... |
10 |
| 2 | 291 |
Indeed, he had had the experience of one in the northern polar regions of Gor, when he had been entertained by Zarendargar, war general of the Kurii. |
10 |
| 8 | 76 |
Blondes were rarer on Gor than brunettes, save in the northern latitudes, and tended to bring somewhat better prices, due to this rarity. |
10 |
| 27 | 25 |
The collar was a common Gorean collar, of the sort favored in particular in her northern hemisphere, flat, light, sturdy, about a half to three-quarters of an inch in height, close-fitting, locked, the lock at the back of the neck. |
10 |
| 80 | 149 |
Lord Grendel, with others, including Cabot, turned then toward the large doors, of heavy timber, better than a foot thick, perhaps brought from the northern forests of Gor, adorned with mighty brass studs, doubtless from the industrial cylinder. |
10 |
| 81 | 197 |
"But the rumored coordinates," said Grendel, "suggest not Port Kar, but a location farther north, a remote beach, far from civilization, in the vicinity of the northern forests". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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... |
10 |
| 1 | 14 |
To be sure, I knew we were somewhere in the vicinity of the northern forests, north of the Tamber gulf, east of Thassa, well south of Torvaldsland. |
10 |
| 2 | 67 |
To guarantee a supply of valuable, suitable timber, for example Tur trees for strakes, keels, and planking, needle trees for masts, and tem wood, the rare yellow tem wood, for oars, the arsenal claims and badges selected trees within given ditched areas in the northern forests, which supplies, large... |
10 |
| 2 | 384 |
The northern ships commonly have a single steering board, whereas most of the southern ships are double helmed. |
10 |
| 5 | 396 |
And so, I thought, perhaps in the northern forests, I might try my hand at "blind kaissa". |
10 |
| 5 | 543 |
She had once been captured and enslaved by the tarnsman, Rask, of Treve, but he, having become, however unaccountably, enamored of a blond barbarian slave named El-in-or, gave her to Verna, a leader of Panther Girls, who took her to the northern forests. |
10 |
| 5 | 544 |
Later, on the northern coast, she was exposed for sale. |
10 |
| 5 | 1169 |
The larl is not indigenous to the northern forests. |
10 |
| 7 | 153 |
Winters can be quite bitter in the northern forests. |
10 |
| 8 | 249 |
I had been brought to the northern forests for some reason. |
10 |
| 9 | 6 |
I had expected it to lie on the northern bank of the Alexandra, but it did not. |
10 |
| 9 | 80 |
And if that is the case, will she not require a male to complete her disguise, one who will pose as her master? And, as noted, earlier, free women are rare in certain locales, such as the northern forests. |
10 |
| 12 | 76 |
How could it be otherwise, for I was disembarked on the northern coast according to the exact coordinates of Priest-Kings, secret coordinates doubtless, was there met by two agents, doubtless also in the service of Priest-Kings, though that apparently unknown to them, was conducted to a reserve of P... |
10 |
| 14 | 106 |
That these men of the Pani, such as Lord Nishida and Tajima, and their fellows, so unusual to continental Gor, or even the western islands, should be here, whether in Brundisium to the south, or here in the northern forests, was to me, at the time, inexplicable. |
10 |
| 16 | 72 |
Certainly the recruitments of the Pani here and there, the several landings on the northern beaches, the numbers of men involved, the securing and importing of supplies, would be difficult to conceal. |
10 |
| 22 | 431 |
She may have encountered some on Gor, of course, earlier, when she had thought herself to be masquerading as a slave, before arriving in the northern forests. |
10 |
| 22 | 450 |
She had, as far as I knew, encountered no free women since coming to the northern forests. |
10 |
| 26 | 193 |
"Do you think I do not know why you are here, concealed in the northern forests?" he asked. |
10 |
| 28 | 123 |
That is the season of bitter cold in the northern latitudes, and of high winds and storms. |
10 |
| 28 | 393 |
Later, at the first opportunity, escaping her sequestration in the Central Cylinder of Ar where she, disowned by her father, had been confined in dishonor, having begged to be purchased, a slave's act, in the northern forests, she had betrayed her Home Stone, conspiring with the forces of Cos and Ty... |
10 |
| 30 | 129 |
It was rumored he was somewhere in the vicinity of the northern forests. |
10 |
| 30 | 207 |
The larl, as noted, is not native to the northern forests. |
10 |
| 34 | 78 |
"The importance of the Ubara," she said, "the height and grandeur of her place, your modest status, if I may remark it, Master, that we have heard nothing of the Ubara, that we are here, in a remote location, far from the cylinder cities, the ports, the caravan routes, the trading places, somewhere ... |
10 |
| 38 | 19 |
Too, sharks are less plentiful in colder, northern waters, than in warmer, southern waters. |
10 |
| 38 | 360 |
"The camp is on the northern bank," said Pertinax. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 21 |
"In the northern forests," he said. |
10 |
| 1 | 300 |
In any event, Rask, perhaps in amusement, or to show his contempt for her, gave Talena as a braceleted, leashed slave, to Verna, a panther girl of the northern forests. |
10 |
| 1 | 301 |
The shame of Talena infuriated proud Marlenus, obsessed with his name and honor, particularly as it became clear, later, in the northern forests, when Talena was put up for sale, that, hoping to be freed and returned to Ar, she had begged to be purchased, a slave's act, for in such an act one acknow... |
10 |
| 1 | 303 |
Earlier he had been crippled in the northern forest, the victim of poisoned steel. |
10 |
| 1 | 312 |
She was returned to Ar, but Marlenus, in view of the shame she had brought upon his house, both in the matter of Rask of Treve, and her actions in the northern forests, removed the stain upon his honor by disowning her. |
10 |
| 3 | 876 |
"That is a northern name," I said. |
10 |
| 5 | 379 |
"The concealment of the northern forests proved insufficient," said Lord Nishida. |
10 |
| 7 | 199 |
"If we are going north," said Andronicus, "and by intent, Tersites plans to shorten the voyage, by the northern circle". |
10 |
| 8 | 88 |
In the case of the northern shark it is both prey and predator. |
10 |
| 11 | 54 |
Great schools of migratory Parsit migrate seasonally, moving from the austral summer to the northern summer, as some birds, thus availing themselves of seasonal efflorescences of plant life. |
10 |
| 12 | 408 |
Two were slain in the northern forest, on the march to the Alexandra, by name Quintus and Lykourgos, and now two others, Fabius and Telarion, are gone". |
10 |
| 13 | 99 |
Or perhaps we had enemies amongst us, forewarned, from months ago, even from Brundisium, or the northern forests, who would fail to report such a sighting. |
10 |
| 19 | 92 |
Then the great ship rotated, buffeted, in the sea, and was washed upward, and she righted herself, and her bow, like a breaching leviathan, the northern whale, broke the surface and I fell back against the mast, gasping for air. |
10 |
| 24 | 236 |
There must then be some additional reason for her presence, perhaps in the camps in the northern forests, of which I had heard, on the ship, and here, at the World's End. |
10 |
| 25 | 207 |
When I regained consciousness I found myself stripped and chained, with others, in a wooden stockade, somewhere in the northern forests, in the power of these strange, inexplicable men, Pani. |
10 |
| 25 | 229 |
I was given away, and, to show his scorn, to a woman, Verna, a Panther Girl of the northern forests". |
10 |
| 25 | 248 |
"I was taken to the northern forests," she said, "the slave of Panther Girls. |
10 |
| 25 | 431 |
"Rask of Treve did so," I said, "and the Panther Girls of the northern forests". |
10 |
| 26 | 199 |
He has, I take it, been with Lords Nishida and Okimoto even from the northern forests". |
10 |
| 29 | 29 |
It had reached the World's End from the northern forests of continental Gor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 96 |
Examining our rooms in our absence, while we were in class, certain books had been discovered, literature certainly inappropriate for our prestigious house, one of the most exclusive and inaccessible on campus, and inappropriate, as well, for our small, expensive, illustrious, private institution, o... |
10 |
| 8 | 725 |
But why had I not been told that in the house? Was that not a simple enough thing to tell a girl? Ar, I knew from my reading, was the largest city in the northern hemisphere of Gor. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 206 |
Some ships, returned, had disembarked supplies, soldiers, and slaves on the stony beaches bordering the northern forests. |
10 |
| 6 | 104 |
"Where is your shield," they might be asked, "where is your sword?" In Brundisium, on the other hand, a busy port, with access to the northern and southern coastal trade, and an access to the major island ubarates westward, Cos and Tyros, there was considerable prosperity, for the coin that leaves o... |
10 |
| 6 | 122 |
What might be in the northern forests, or Torvaldsland, to warrant this mighty movement of men and supplies? Do they think to found a city at the mouth of some far river, say, the Laurius or the remote Alexandra? Such locations would seem remote and inauspicious. |
10 |
| 8 | 396 |
One might have supposed them bound not for the northern beaches and forests but a shipyard, such as the arsenal of Port Kar. |
10 |
| 9 | 50 |
At last we reached some point on the northern coast, in the vicinity of the great forests. |
10 |
| 15 | 438 |
The camp was mostly on the northern shore of the Alexandra. |
10 |
| 15 | 439 |
The larger, northern camp was narrow, some half of a pasang in length, along the river, and probably no more than two hundred yards in width, extending back toward the forest. |
10 |
| 23 | 107 |
I wondered if some terrible secret was housed here, in this strange place, seemingly lost in the northern forests. |
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| 24 | 44 |
"You have found the fellow you have sought, he who is your debtor, or he who insulted you, he for whom you have ventured this far, even to the northern forests!" "Perhaps," I said. |
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| 25 | 78 |
How little I knew of sleen! I had fled camp, of course, moving west, beyond the dock, along the northern bank of the Alexandra. |
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| 25 | 307 |
Twice I had seen ice in the Alexandra, doubtless washed down from some northern tributary. |
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| 25 | 372 |
Laris are not indigenous to the northern forests, and I was confident I was far beyond the range of those employed for patrolling by the Pani in the vicinity of Tarncamp and Shipcamp. |
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| 37 | 172 |
He found few who would essay this task, for a great raiding party had recently been decimated in the northern forests. |
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| 38 | 154 |
"One hunts women where there are women, where game is plentiful, in cities, towns, even peasant villages, on traversed roads, on caravan routes, on pilgrimages to the Sardar, and such, not in the wilderness of the northern forests, not on the scattered, rocky skerries of Torvaldsland, not in the fro... |
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| 43 | 111 |
"But she was quite pleased when she learned the reason for her purchase, and eagerly led us in our quest to intercept the now-so-called 'band of Darla', which had been hired to conduct its secret reconnaissance in the northern forests. |
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| 48 | 85 |
Laris, as noted, do not frequent the northern forests. |
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| 49 | 175 |
"You did not follow her from Brundisium, into the labors and dangers of the northern woods," she said. |
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| 52 | 809 |
"How I tried to drive the thought of you from my mind! What storms of hate and denial I invoked to banish you from my heart! Was not the thought of you, or your image, in the corners of darkened rooms, in clouds, everywhere, in rain, in shimmering leaves, in high, green, bending grass? What had you ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 47 |
On the other hand, even from Tarncamp in the northern forests, a world away, and from various incidents on the voyage itself, I had had ample reason to respect, and fear, the intelligence of the enemy. |
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| 1 | 75 |
I was proud of the cavalry and it had well proven its reliability and formidableness in combat, for it had met and defeated a far larger force in the skies over the northern forests, a force intent on the destruction of Tarncamp, and, later, one supposes, Shipcamp. |
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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 | 487 |
They were to make contact with me following my disembarkation on a designated beach north of the Alexandra, and see that I reached a rendezvous deep within the bordering northern forest, where I would be met, for some purpose unknown to them. |
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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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| 2 | 156 |
I had formed and trained the cavalry, and commanded it in the northern forests. |
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| 7 | 274 |
I shuddered, for I had been landed at such a place long ago, a cold, narrow beach, bleak and stony, deserted, distant from settlements, bordering the northern forests, landed from a slaver's ship, one which had exited the locks of a steel world. |
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| 11 | 151 |
"The northern fields," I said, "were long under the suzerainty of Lord Temmu". |
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| 12 | 314 |
"Lord Temmu is pleased, of course," said Daichi, "with the provisioning of the holding, the termination of the siege, the freeing of the northern fields". |
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| 13 | 103 |
"And the free woman pretending to be a slave in the northern forests of continental Gor, with the pompous name 'Constantina'?" "Yes," she said. |
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| 17 | 15 |
I had first seen such bows used by the Pani in Tarncamp, in the northern forests of continental Gor. |
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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 | 171 |
Ichiro had his instructions to return to the northern encampment if the rendezvous had not been kept by midnight, the Twentieth Ahn. |
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| 30 | 45 |
After the fourth day we had begun to move east, and had thought to then parallel the northern road. |
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| 30 | 50 |
It lay in the territory of one of Lord Yamada's daimyos, on a road leading to the northern road. |
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| 30 | 675 |
I was not surprised, however, as, in these perilous times, this inn, off the northern road, might well be less frequently patronized. |
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| 45 | 105 |
"Long ago," I said, "I was placed by a ship on a beach bordering a portion of the northern forests, north of the Alexandra". |
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| 53 | 68 |
Then, after a time, I found the northern road, and opened the throttle, so to speak, and, marked on the appropriate screen, the ground below rapidly slipped away. |
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| 54 | 83 |
"That is the northern road," I said. |
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| 54 | 212 |
* * * Following the benign display of the dragon over the vast, southern camp, which we took, from its location, its proximity to the northern road, facilitating communications with, and the movement of supplies from, Yamada's heartland, to be the headquarters of the besieging forces, we moved, in a... |
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| 57 | 71 |
This might, of course, be supplemented by deserters from the house of Yamada, new recruitings of Ashigaru from the northern villages, and, possibly, the pledges of hitherto uncommitted daimyos, and even, possibly, those of daimyos who, in the light of recent developments, might withdraw their suppor... |
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| 58 | 234 |
It seemed Kurii, or some Kurii, might have favored Lord Temmu, as I had been brought within his compass on a northern beach long ago, in a ship departed from a steel world. |
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| 61 | 425 |
Given the higher rank and the usual circumspection of Lord Okimoto, on which I had counted, I had managed to halt their march, at least temporarily, and purchase some days of truce, while messages were being exchanged between their road camp and the distant holding of the northern shogun. |
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| 61 | 524 |
"This matter goes back, even to the northern forests, and before the setting forth of the ship of Tersites," said Lord Temmu. |
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| 61 | 558 |
I recalled that, long ago, near the edge of the northern forest, on the continent, shortly after I had been placed there by the ship of Peisistratus, a slaver, come from the steel world of Lord Arcesilaus, once that of Lord Agamemnon, the unwitting slave, Constantina, foolishly thinking she was a fr... |
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| 61 | 736 |
He fell enamored, the fool, of a blond, worthless, barbarian chit, El-in-or, and gave me to a panther girl, Verna, by name, who took me to the northern forests, a slave. |
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| 61 | 754 |
I awakened on a chain in a compound in the northern forests, in a place called Shipcamp. |
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| 61 | 796 |
"You were brought to Port Kar after your purchasing in the northern forests by Samos of Port Kar," I said. |
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| 61 | 797 |
"At that time, I was in Port Kar, returned there recently from the northern forests, crippled, confined to a chair, having been cut by a sword which bore a smear of poison on its blade. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 162 |
In the northern hemisphere of Gor it is common to standardize weights against the silver and gold coinages of Ar, the silver tarsk of Ar and the golden tarsk and tarn of Ar. |
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| 15 | 118 |
It is apparently less common in the northern hemisphere than in the southern hemisphere. |
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| 26 | 7 |
Its outlawry in Ar, I gather, followed an unsuccessful attempt by an army led by Pa-Kur, a high Assassin, to seize that great city, the largest, richest, and most populous in Gor's northern hemisphere. |
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| 27 | 5 |
The greater wharves are the central and northern wharves. |
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| 27 | 25 |
The northern long ship, or "dragon ship," on the other hand, seldom seen this far south, has a fixed mast and a fixed, square sail, and is single-ruddered, the steering board, or starboard, on the right side. |
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| 27 | 84 |
We have, without fortune, prowled the northern and central wharves, and will do so again, and time and time again, if necessary. |
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| 30 | 216 |
To the side were a flat spatulalike spoon, and a pointed stick, a northern analog to the Turian eating, or dining, prong. |
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| 61 | 177 |
Surely that house had provided him and his fellows with a haven of concealment and support on Gor, and a base of operations in the vicinity of the most populous city in the northern hemisphere of the planet. |
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| 63 | 347 |
Ar was generally credited with having the most slave markets in the northern hemisphere, a distinction that was held by Turia in the far south. |
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| 63 | 348 |
The slavers of Ar also boasted the finest markets in the northern hemisphere, but there were few of the other "high cities" that would not dispute this claim. |
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| 63 | 350 |
Two other important marketing centers in the northern hemisphere were the port, Brundisium, and, on the Vosk, Victoria. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 123 |
Why, I wondered, should she fear being sold in Ar, and from such a famous block as the central block in the Curulean? Might not thousands of slaves dream of such a sale? Too, I had gathered that the wealth of Ar, hub of trade in the northern hemisphere of this world, was being recouped. |
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| 3 | 241 |
Many cities in the northern hemisphere, even cities hostile to Ar, supposedly, privately, use Ar's "Gold Tarn," the single Tarn, to rank, standardize, and value their own currency. |
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| 4 | 84 |
Almost all slave girls wear it, common girls, particularly in the northern hemisphere, even as far east as the barrens". |
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| 11 | 7 |
The northern and eastern seawalls of Port Kar abut on the vast marshes of the Vosk delta, the western and southern on the Tamber. |
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| 11 | 240 |
She had apparently betrayed her Home Stone, conspiring with others to bring about the downfall of Ar, a large city in the middle latitudes of Gor's northern hemisphere, far to the south and east of Port Kar. |
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| 12 | 65 |
Unfortunately, there is no common coinage, but two important coins, at least in the northern hemisphere, against which other coins are often measured, are the silver and gold tarn disks of Ar, and the silver and gold staters of Brundisium. |
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| 29 | 24 |
It was doubtless this northern custom which suggested not only the naming of this small islet in the Tamber gulf, so near to Port Kar, but, presumably, the enterprise for which it was best known, the Gambles of Blades, sometimes referred to as the "dark contests". |
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| 38 | 114 |
One conjecture was that Bosk of Port Kar was off to Brundisium, on a trading venture, dealing with amber; another was that he had gone to Torvaldsland, to the north, to buy furs; other conjectures had him inspecting the arsenal reserve in the great northern forests, establishing a trading station at... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 139 |
My first Gorean had been learned in Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning, in the western, northern latitudes of the vast Gorean continent. |
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