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Book 1. (6 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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1 4 Such a connection seems unlikely for a number of reasons, among them the fact that my people were simple tradesmen of Bristol, and uniformly fair-complexioned and topped with a blaze of the most outrageous red hair.
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1 15 Like a large number of young men, I found myself passably educated, able to parse a sentence or so in Greek, and familiar enough with the abstractions of philosophy and economics to know that I would not be likely to fit into that world to which they claimed to bear some obscure relation.
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2 28 The building in which I found myself was apparently one of an indefinite number of towers, like endless flat cylinders of varying sizes and colors, joined by narrow, colorful bridges that arched lightly between them.
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3 187 During my training with the sword, the Older Tarl cut me unpleasantly a number of times, shouting out, annoyingly enough, I thought, "You are dead!" At last, near the end of my training, I managed to break through his guard and, pulling my stroke, to drive my blade against his chest.
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16 2 We turned over a number of plans, none of which seemed likely to succeed.
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19 157 I began to press forward in attack, exposing myself more, but beating back his defense by the sheer weight and number of my blows.
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Book 2. (5 results) Outlaw of Gor

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6 128 One may have, at a given time, an indefinite number of slaves, but only one Free Companion.
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8 38 In this market, on the other hand, a steward would simply approach a vendor and point to some article, and hold up a certain number of fingers.
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8 39 The vendor would then hold up a higher number, sometimes bending his fingers at the knuckle to indicate a fraction of the value unit, which would be, presumably, the copper tarn disk.
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8 43 If a sale had been made, the steward would take a number of pierced coins, threaded on a string hung about his left shoulder, hand them to the vendor, pick up his article and depart.
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21 18 "Tal," I said to two guardsmen who crouched at the side of a fire, playing Stones, a guessing game in which one person must guess whether the number of stones held in the fist of another is odd or even.
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Book 3. (17 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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10 25 Their number is, of course, potentially infinite, as would be the number of possible phonemes in English, but just as we take a subset of sounds to be English sounds and form our utterances from them, so they take a subset of odors as similarly basic to their speech.
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10 9 Apparently hearing is not of great importance, however, to them, considering the small number of hairs modified for this purpose.
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10 24 I am told that the phonemes of the language of Priest-Kings or, better, what in their language would correspond to phonemes in ours, since their "phonemes" have to do with scent and not sound, number seventy-three.
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10 26 The number of familiar, common English phonemes, incidentally, is in the neighborhood of fifty.
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12 108 "When one dies or is destroyed, his number is assigned to another".
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14 106 Misk and I got on rather well together after a few small initial frictions, particularly having to do with the salt ration and the number of times a day the washing-booth was to be used.
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15 120 "We are all such machines," said Misk, "with fewer or a greater number of random elements".
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20 152 708 had been the number of Vika's collar.
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20 154 What did this mean? "That was the collar number of Vika of Treve," I said.
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20 156 "The number, as you see," said Mul-Ba-Ta, "has been reassigned".
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21 58 There seemed to be almost an indefinite number of the Muls and of clinging Priest-Kings there were perhaps a hundred.
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27 107 Considering the number of Priest-Kings and the time it took for each to give Gur to the Mother, I conjectured that the ceremony must have begun hours ago.
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27 120 I gathered that perhaps this was the culmination of the Feast of Tola, the giving of Gur by the greatest of the Priest-Kings, the First Five Born, save that of that number there were only two left, the First Born and the Fifth, Sarm and Misk.
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29 154 Nonetheless, reasoning analogously from my own controls, I managed to locate the guidance sphere, by means of which one selects any one of the theoretically infinite number of directions from a given point and the dials for the height and speed control.
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30 85 To these proposals he added the very definite considerations that his forces still substantially outnumbered those of Misk in both number of Priest-Kings and firepower, and that victory would be his inevitably, and that it would be well at such a time to be in his good favor.
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33 66 Let this sacrifice please your nostrils and now consent to hear our pleas! It is offered by Om, Chief among all the High Initiates of Gor!" "No!" cried a number of other Initiates, the High Initiates of various other cities.
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35 135 "Perhaps," he said, "we have stood here, on this hill, thusly together, unknown to either of us, already an infinite number of times".
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Book 4. (19 results) Nomads of Gor

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12 91 Usually, in guessing tospit seeds, one guesses the actual number, and usually both guessers opt for an odd number.
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16 74 The walls provide a means for defending the water and also, of course, considering the number of wells in the city, some of which, by the way, are fed by springs, provide a number of defensible enclaves should portions of the city fall into enemy hands.
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3 126 The wagons are said to be countless, the animals without number.
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3 127 Both of these claims are, of course, mistaken, and the Ubars of the Wagon Peoples know well each wagon and the number of branded beasts in the various herds; each herd is, incidentally, composed of several smaller herds, each watched over by its own riders.
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8 194 As soon as Kamchak had agreed to Albrecht's proposal the children and several of the slave girls immediately began to rush toward the wagons, delightedly crying, "Wager! Wager!" Soon, to my dismay, a large number of Tuchuks, male and female, and their male or female slaves, began to gather near the ...
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8 200 Indeed, it is not unknown that a Tuchuk will bet his entire stock of bosk on the outcome of a single kaiila race; as many as a dozen slave girls may change hands on something as small as the direction that a bird will fly or the number of seeds in a tospit.
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9 437 "Impale him!" cried a number of voices.
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10 247 In a moment, to a thunder of kaiila paws on the turf, racing between the lines of stakes, scattering sand, there came a great number of riders, their black hair swirling behind them, who pulled up on their mounts, rearing and squealing, between the stakes, and leaped from the saddle to the sand, rel...
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12 92 The common tospit almost invariably has an odd number of seeds.
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12 93 On the other hand the rare, long-stemmed tospit usually has an even number of seeds.
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12 99 "Tospits almost always have an odd number of seeds," he said.
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12 121 "Most tospits," Kamchak informed me, "have an odd number of seeds".
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13 133 Coming over a low, rolling hill, we saw a large number of tents pitched in a circle, surrounding a large grassy area.
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13 140 There were a large number of tethered animals about the outer edge of the circle, and, beside them, stood many haruspexes.
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16 6 The baths of Turia were said to be second only to those of Ar in their luxury, the number of their pools, their temperatures, the scents and oils.
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19 15 "You are aware, of course," I mentioned, "that the Pleasure Gardens of so rich a man as Saphrar of Turia may contain a large number of female slaves—not all of whom might be trusted to keep silent—and some of whom will undoubtedly notice something as unusual as two strange warriors wan...
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24 67 Saphrar probably had, behind his walls, more than three thousand defenders, plus a comparable number of servants and slaves, who might be of some service to him, particularly in such matters as reinforcing gates, raising the height of walls, loading crossbows, gathering arrows from within the compou...
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26 87 Once or twice I heard swords ringing from within the walls, as perhaps some men, loyal to Saphrar, or to their codes, attempted to prevent their fellows from leaving the compound, but I gather, judging from the continued exodus from the walls, that those who were this loyal were scattered and few in...
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27 134 Whatever she might have been before, a clock number, a set of records in a personnel file, an unimportant employee, with her salary and benefits, under the obligation to please and impress other employees, scarcely more important than herself, she was now alive, and free in her emotions though her f...
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Book 5. (38 results) Assassin of Gor

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15 350 Elizabeth was, however, to my satisfaction, taught a large number of things which, to my mind, were more appropriate to the training of slave girls, including a large number of dances, dozens of songs, and an unbelievable variety of kisses and caresses.
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2 280 "How can this house of which you speak," asked Kuurus, "undersell so consistently? Is it that the number of slaves is so great that the profit taken on each is less?" "I have thought long on it," said Portus, "and that cannot be all of it.
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2 291 "The number of barbarian women they place on the block," said Portus.
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3 29 It might be mentioned that the game, as I shall speak of it, for in Gorean it has no other designation, is extremely popular on Gor, and even children find among their playthings the pieces of the game; there are numerous clubs and competitions among various castes and cylinders; careful records of ...
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4 126 "What was her number?" Cernus was asking Caprus, who stood near him.
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4 130 Accordingly, I was not surprised that the Scribe had her number ready for Cernus.
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5 13 There are a number of other forms of lock also found upon occasion, a common variety being the disk lock in which moving disks, rather than pins, are used.
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5 292 That evening, having missed the fourth feeding, she returned late to the quarters I was sharing with Misk, a number of plastic scrolls in her arms which she had managed to borrow from various humans in the Nest.
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5 412 "If they manage, in time, to turn a sufficient number of men against us and to arm them even primitively, our world is lost".
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5 512 Elizabeth, besides speaking boldly out on a large number of delicate civic, social and political issues, usually not regarded as the province of the fairer sex, categorically refused to wear the cumbersome Robes of Concealment traditionally expected of the free woman.
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5 531 A number of people had gathered about, among them several free women.
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9 9 On the other hand, considering the large number of slaves on Gor, only a small fraction are carefully bred; a larger fraction is bred, but more haphazardly, as when a given male of one private house is mated, for a price, with a given female of another house.
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9 11 The largest number of slaves, however, far larger than the bred slaves considered as a group, are those who have been born free and have fallen into slavery, a not uncommon fate on this cruel, warlike world, particularly for women.
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9 18 The House of Cernus, which is a broad, many-storied cylinder, has a number of facilities which any large slave house must have.
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9 21 Less impressive perhaps but even more essential to the operation of the House were its kitchens, its laundries, commissaries and storerooms; its medical facilities, in which dental care is also provided; its corridors of rooms for staff members, all of whom live in the House; its library, its record...
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9 70 There were various hues of grass, some secluded pools, some small trees, a number of fountains and curving walks.
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11 19 The female slaves, like the men, were unclothed, and wore collars; their collars, however, were not the typical locked collar of the female slave but, since they were only in the iron pens, a narrow band of iron, with a number, hammered about their neck.
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15 98 Sometimes slave girls are forced to fight slave girls, perhaps with steel claws fastened on their fingers, or several girls, variously armed, will be forced to fight a single man, or a small number of men.
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15 147 The staff, incidentally, had been increased in the last month, largely due to the increasing number of slaves being processed by the House but perhaps also, in part, in preparation for the approaching spring, which is the busiest season on the Street of Brands, for then, after the winter, slave raid...
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15 365 But perhaps more importantly he had been spreading rumors throughout the city of the desirability of trained barbarians, of which he now had several in training, those who had been brought to Gor with Virginia and Phyllis, some who had been brought to the pens earlier and not sold off immediately, a...
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15 366 In postponing the sales until the Love Feast, of course, there would be time to complete, at least substantially, the training of a large number of barbarian girls.
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16 5 This was hailed as generosity on his part by those of Ar, who were familiar with and had experienced to their sorrow, particularly since the deposition of Kazrak, the effect of a number of monopolies, in particular those in salt and tharlarion oil.
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16 214 This fee, incidentally, can be levied even against older factions if their last season is a very poor one; moreover, a number of substandard seasons, even for an established faction, will result in the loss, permanently or for a ten-year period, of their rights on the track.
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16 216 It is to the advantage of any given faction that there should be a small number of factions in competition and so the riders of an older faction, if unable to win themselves in given races, will often attempt to prevent a good race being flown by the riders of the new faction.
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17 91 After about five Ehn I heard only a number of sobs, frustrated noises of girls in bonds.
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17 520 A number of men crowded between the tables then and some dice, inked knucklebones of the verr, were soon rattling in a metal goblet.
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17 542 But then my sword was out of the sheath and delicately, turning each bone with the tip of the blade, I placed the side marked with the highest number on each of the bones facing the ceiling.
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18 325 There were many closed pantries lining the walls, and a number of pumps and tubs on one side.
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18 443 He then indicated behind himself, on the wall, a large number of tiny, regularly formed scratches in the stone, perhaps cut there by a pebble or the edge of the tin drinking dish.
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18 447 There were a very large number of scratches.
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19 38 "Slave! Slave!" When a girl first arrives at the Curulean, there is, on a ticket wired to her collar, a lot number.
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19 39 Elizabeth, Virginia and Phyllis would have the same lot number.
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19 41 The papers are correlated with the lot number and the girls' fingerprints are taken and checked against those on the papers.
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19 42 Some girls, whom the House had determined late would be sold, arrive at the Curulean with a small leather cylinder tied about their collar, which contains their papers, which girl is then, by the staff of the Curulean, assigned a lot number.
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19 45 When the members of the staff of the Curulean are satisfied that the girl's papers are in order the ticket with her lot number is stamped approved.
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19 77 I saw no merchandise in my passage through the rear halls of the Curulean; the girls are generally kept, prior to their sale, in holding cells, lit by energy bulbs, beneath the ground level; soon, however, I was passing by the exposition cages, which are accessible to the public; these cages were no...
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19 79 Here in the area of the exhibition cages there were various citizens of Ar milling about, some meeting their friends, before taking their seats in the tiers; some seats in the tiers, the better ones, are reserved by number, but many are simply available on a first-come-first-served basis; those citi...
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19 111 A number of Musicians now filed out from the door at the foot of the block and took their places about it, sitting cross-legged on the floor.
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Book 6. (16 results) Raiders of Gor

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1 20 The long bow cannot well be used except in a standing, or at least kneeling, position, thus making more of a target of the archer; the long bow is difficult to use from the saddle; it is impractical in close quarters, as in defensive warfare or in fighting from room to room; and it cannot be kept se...
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6 101 Near the oar pole to which I had been bound, some yards from what had been the circle of the dance, a number of rencers, stripped, men and women, lay bound hand and foot.
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6 105 A scribe stood by with a tally sheet, marking the number of captures by each warrior.
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8 113 Having no large number of men at my disposal, it seemed best to me to let the men of Port Kar themselves do most of my fighting.
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8 238 A number of others had doubtless been, in the darkness and confusion, thrust overboard.
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10 166 The organizations, such as the sail-makers, almost guildlike, not castes, have dues, and these dues tend to be applied to a number of purposes, such as support of those injured or their families, loans, payments when men are out of work, and pensions.
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11 329 And further, the council is executor with respect to the disposition and application of the ships of the city, in the number of approximately another thousand".
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11 335 "I refer to the ships of the minor captains, in the number of better than twenty-five hundred!" "In the streets," said Samos, "I have heard the cry 'Power to the council!'" "Proclaim Henrius Sevarius sole Ubar," said Lysias numbly, "and your lives will be spared, and you will be granted amnesty".
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11 411 Also considered, though nothing was determined that night, were matters of taxation, the unification and revision of the codes of the five Ubars, the establishment of council courts, replacing those of the Ubars, and the acquisition of a sizable number of men-at-arms, who would be directly responsib...
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11 414 It is true, of course, that the council already controlled a large number of ships and crews, but it must be remembered that these forces were naval in nature; the council already had its navy; the events of the afternoon had demonstrated that it would be well if it had also at its disposal a small,...
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13 513 My treasures were soon increased considerably, and the number of ships in my fleet, by captured prizes, was radically augmented, so much so that I could not begin to wharf them within the lakelike courtyard of my holding.
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14 54 The major questions involve the number and size of oars that can be practically mounted, balanced against the size of ship required for the differing arrangements.
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14 291 Accordingly, as soon as a sufficient number of my ships had returned to the treasure fleet, I set about organizing a pursuit of the missing round ships.
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14 407 "Take then those that were with her," I said, "and distribute them to the extent of their number among our other ships, the twenty most beautiful to our twenty tarn ships now with the fleet, and the most beautiful of that twenty to the prow of the Dorna, and the other twenty set at the prows of twen...
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17 41 Each of my fifty sets of attacking tarn ships would be followed, by some half of an Ahn, by another pair of my tarn ships, which, hopefully, would be able to take a number of these come-about ships of Cos and Tyros from the rear.
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18 220 Then, from one side, from the passageway, from the door to the kitchens, a number of other men came forth, carrying torches and steel.
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Book 7. (9 results) Captive of Gor

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8 797 Others played "Stones," where one player guesses the number of stones held in the other's hand.
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8 808 Each player has the same number of "stones," usually two to five per player.
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8 810 The object of the game is simple, to guess the number of stones held in the other's hand or hands.
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8 811 One point is scored for a correct guess, and the game is usually set for a predetermined number of paired guesses, usually fifty.
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8 812 Usually your opponent tries to outwit you, by either changing the number of stones held in his hand or, perhaps, keeping it the same.
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8 827 Targo's wagons, now in the number of sixteen, the additional wagons and teams purchased in Laura, were scattered about at various distances from the compound, forming, in groups of twos and threes, small, isolated camps for the guards.
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9 91 This, it seems to me, is a suitable number, for protection, for feeding, for concealment in the forest".
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11 1279 Their weapons, for they were a goodly number of warriors from a distant state, were surrendered at the great gate, to be returned to them upon their departure.
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13 671 If she should be even slightly reluctant, or be perceived as being even a bit slow, to fervently request this boon of the master, it is likely that she will receive an indefinite number of strokes.
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Book 8. (19 results) Hunters of Gor

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3 233 It was number six.
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3 432 It bore the number six.
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4 121 It was number ten.
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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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7 355 Such bands of girls scarcely ever number more than twenty.
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8 4 Much depends, of course, on the number of slavers, the nature of the quarry, and the particulars of a given chase or hunt.
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8 6 I had not wished to bring a large number of men through the forest with me, for they would have been difficult to conceal.
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13 305 Even granting the men of Tyros the element of surprise and a superiority in number of some fifty or sixty men, their enterprise was not without considerable hazard.
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15 130 By sundown of the next day I had added only four to their number.
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15 436 Panther girls have little patience for those of their number who fall slave.
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16 19 The men of Tyros and the girls of Hura did not know the nature nor the number of their stalkers.
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16 21 The others had fallen to the arrows of panther girls, of which I had acquired a great number.
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16 56 As yet, they knew, none of the arrows had felled one of their number.
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17 24 They did not know the number nor nature of their enemies.
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17 127 I had reduced that number, over several days, to fifty-six.
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17 155 I then left the chain, and took up again the trail of the men of Tyros, and that of the girls of Hura, who were now of the number of twenty-one.
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18 99 I gathered that Mira still stood high among the girls of Hura, that her part, or her knowing part, in the drugging of the large number of panther girls in the former camp was not understood.
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18 129 Even Mira, by my intent, did not know the number of their stalkers.
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19 339 I noted the number of feet I stood from the fire.
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Book 9. (8 results) Marauders of Gor

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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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4 122 The Ax is a valuable piece, of course, but particularly in the early and middle game, when the board is more crowded; in the end game when the board is freer, it seems to me the Singer is often of greater power, because of the greater number of squares it can control.
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7 54 I smiled, recalling that tospits almost invariably have an odd number of seeds, saving the rarer, long-stemmed variety.
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10 314 We saw thralls, too, in the crowd, and rune-priests, with long hair, in white robes, a spiral ring of gold on their left arms, about their waist a bag of omen chips, pieces of wood soaked in the blood of the sacrificial bosk, slain to open the Thing; these chips are thrown like dice, sometimes sever...
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10 383 At her waist she wore a jeweled scabbard, protruding from which I saw the ornamented, twisted blade of a Turian dagger; free women in Torvaldsland commonly carry a knife; at her belt, too, hung her scissors, and a ring of many keys, indicating that her hall contained many chests or doors; her hair w...
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15 294 The song dealt with the problems of a man attempting to content one hundred bondmaids, one after the other; it is rather repetitious, and the number of bondmaids decreases by one in each round.
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17 151 It will be noted that the military arrangements of the Kurii are based on the number twelve or divisors and multiples of twelve.
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18 225 Within the square, formed into ragged "Hands," "Kurii," and "Bands," with their appropriate leaders, were massed a considerable number of Kurii, ready to charge forth should the shield wall open, or to support it if it seemed in danger of weakening.
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Book 10. (16 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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1 398 "What was your number in the pens of Tor?" asked Samos.
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1 457 The number of men in the caravan determines the length of the "spoke".
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1 679 The harness is designed to provide a large number of ties.
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2 233 Only the rare, long-stemmed tospit contained an even number of seeds.
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2 236 Still, if pressed, I would have guessed that the boy's tospit contained an odd number of seeds.
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2 565 Would you have records on her?" "Do you know her number in the pens?" asked the officer.
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2 589 I was satisfied that he did not know to whom had been sold the girl Veema, 87432, Turian Pen Number.
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5 273 "In the vicinity," said Hamid, "though do not speak this about, there is a party of Kavars, in number between three and four hundred".
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5 415 "Without knowing the nature and number of the enemy?" I inquired.
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11 205 Further, what one sees is a function not simply of what exists in the external world, but of a number of other factors as well, for example, what one has familiarly seen before, what one expects to see, what others claim is there to be seen, what one wants to see, the physical condition of the organ...
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14 188 He cannot see to escape; he can not see to attack; he cannot be sure, usually, even of the number and position of his captors, whether they face him, or are attentive, or such; sometimes a hooded prisoner, even unbound, is told simply to kneel, and that if he moves, he will be slain; some captors, t...
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14 267 I surveyed the number of kaiila which bore water.
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17 277 I did not know the number of its hearts or their location.
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21 432 I conjectured that his weapon held a limited number of charges.
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26 491 Accordingly, then, an unusually large number of girls had gathered to escort Vella gleefully, as though in festival, to the slave quarters.
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26 771 "But for the second," I said, "twenty strokes is not an uncustomary number, neither too few nor too many, suitable, one supposes, for an initiatory beating, an induction beating, a beating of welcome, a salutational whipping".
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Book 11. (14 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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13 39 On this disk was a number, my lot number, or sales number.
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13 145 She will take a number-two wrist ring and a number-two ankle ring.
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13 206 I do know I take a number-two wrist ring and a number-two ankle ring.
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13 213 I did not know my wrist or ankle size in Earth measurements, for such measurements are not important for a girl on Earth as they are on Gor, but the interior circumference of the number-two wrist ring is 5 horts and the interior circumference of the number-two ankle ring is 7 horts; thus, my wrist s...
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28 193 He inspected her chain number, used in the Curulean as a sales number, which, tiny, was written under her left ear in lipstick.
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4 333 She had laid out a number of articles.
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5 13 Not all high-caste women wear a large number of veils.
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5 272 A number of men had gathered about, to witness the scene.
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9 2050 There are a number of ritualistic aspects associated with this manner of serving wine.
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13 208 It is regarded as desirable in a slave that she takes the same number wrist and ankle ring, this suggesting a delicious symmetry.
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15 361 I thought she would take, like myself, a number-two ankle ring.
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28 154 At any rate, usually, it is not regarded as desirable to be among the first twenty girls on the chain; sometimes these are sold to an almost half-empty house; a reciprocity tends to become involved; the slavers tend to put their least valuable girls up first, because of the smallness of the house in...
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28 229 "Number," said the man with the tablet to me.
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28 230 I turned, and put my head to the side, that he might read the tiny number printed in lipstick beneath my left ear.
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Book 12. (11 results) Beasts of Gor

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3 420 The caste of physicians is a large, complex caste, and deals with a number of specialties which have to do with medicine and health.
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3 435 Given the number of girls at the fair, and the fact that new ones are constantly being brought to the platforms, it is impractical to hope to market them all from the block.
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3 1133 It is filled in the fall and must last the lart through the winter night, which lasts months, the number of months depending on the latitude of his individual territory.
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10 100 "I know you are wise and I am stupid," said Imnak, "for I am only a lowly fellow of the polar basin, but my peoples, in the gathering of the summer, in the great hunts, when the herd comes, number in the hundreds".
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10 285 "You are mistaken," I said, "our allies number in the thousands".
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15 881 Such a number, I conjectured, would not even be missed in a population which teemed like that of Earth.
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23 164 He thus knew both that he was expected and, from the number of men available to meet him, that there must be much food in the camp.
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26 291 I could not well count the animals in the uncertain light and shadows, and with their dark minglings and changings of position, but it was clear that there were a large number of beasts there, probably more than fifty.
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28 147 "I do not know their number either," said Constance.
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28 148 "But I think they are considerably fewer in number than the men".
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35 634 I then took forth a long, linear face veil; it was red; it was an intimacy veil; any given layer of this veil is quite diaphanous; its opacity is a function of the number of times it is wrapped about the face; a free woman, entertaining an anxious lover, might detain him for days, each night permitt...
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Book 13. (10 results) Explorers of Gor

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1 239 "It could mean the opening up of a considerable number of new markets, the enhancement of trade, the discovery of a valuable commercial avenue for the merchandise of the north and the products of the south".
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6 597 The number of the wharf was eight.
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7 28 There are also a number of small shops in the vicinity.
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15 181 "Then there are the same number now as before," said Shaba.
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18 117 He had, I had heard, already more than two hundred companions, not to mention perhaps twice the number of slave girls, captures, purchases, and gifts.
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21 29 This makes it difficult to count their number.
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21 33 "The number of oars suggests length," said Ayari.
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33 85 We could see the flotilla largely because of the size of its galleys and the number of its vessels, both canoes and galleys.
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46 20 About this tree, encircling it, were a number of vine loopings.
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51 97 If one were to prepare slave papers on them, of course, their height would be one of the items to be recorded, together with a large number of other measurements, for example, measurements pertaining to the sizes of the waist, breasts, hips, wrists, ankles, throat, and such.
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Book 14. (9 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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16 21 The welfare of a larger number of individuals, as the Goreans reason, correctly or incorrectly, is more important than the welfare of a smaller number of individuals.
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1 394 "It was on the fifth floor," I said, noting the apartment number.
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11 416 One result of this is that the number of people affected by warfare on Gor usually tends, statistically, to be quite limited.
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12 348 The explanation for the much smaller number of male as opposed to female slaves on Gor, speaking now generally of male work slaves, is also clear.
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16 53 Among other things it reduces competitive chaos, social and economic, and prevents the draining of intelligence and ambition into a small number of envied, prestigious occupations.
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17 60 She, of that family, had remained in Vonda, reigning over the shreds of what had once been a considerable number of assets.
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19 36 I increased the number and speed of my blows.
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34 248 Each had a number painted on the concave softness at her left shoulder.
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34 250 The same number, in white paint, was on her collar.
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Book 15. (8 results) Rogue of Gor

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8 118 I saw that he who spoke was he whom I had taken to be the leader of the ruffians at the far table, one of whose number had threatened me.
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9 78 She wore only her sales collar with her sales disk, on which was written her lot number, wired to the steel.
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9 182 She, the vain, proper, elegant young lady, so prideful, yet so confused and unhappy, so desperately concerned to profess, and adhere to, prescribed views, so conditioned to uncritically accept multiple stupidities, so concerned to be found acceptable by driven, self-seeking, moronic doctrinaires, no...
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29 172 "I will not risk a large number of men in this," said Callisthenes, "but I will tell you what I might do.
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29 176 I have some two hundred men in Victoria and Aemilianus, as my intelligence sources indicate, a comparable number".
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29 197 "And many in number," said Callimachus.
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29 204 "If Port Cos can give you twenty men for such a venture," said Aemilianus, "Ar's Station, surely, could supply no smaller a number".
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33 237 Then, suddenly, through a rift in the fog I saw, not more than a hundred yards away, across the chain, what seemed a countless number of ships.
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Book 16. (5 results) Guardsman of Gor

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20 49 Similarly it was not one of those parties in which a given number of slaves must dance within a circle of free men, of equal number, with whips, stripping themselves to the strokes of the whips and then dancing towards the men.
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5 26 They did not even realize, in the heat of battle, in the confusion, that I was not of their number.
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12 186 Then, again, when we were betrayed, because of the small number of individuals who knew of our plans, and his resemblance to the courier of Ragnar Voskjard, and the injury, it seemed it must be he.
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19 209 This seemed to me a suitable number for such a purpose.
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19 922 Indeed, it is doubtless easier for the Earth girl for, on Earth, she is subject to a number of concealed bondages, whereas on Gor she encounters an open, honest bondage, and one natural to, and indigenous to, the human species, the subjection of the female of the species to the male of the species.
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Book 17. (20 results) Savages of Gor

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1 1132 The typical act of war is the raid, conducted usually by a small group of men, some ten to fifteen in number, which enters enemy country, strikes, usually at dawn, and makes away, almost as soon as it came, with scalps and loot; sometimes, too, a woman or two of the enemy is taken; men of most tribe...
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17 507 "Zero is one number and one is one number, and thus each is one, and one is one," said another.
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1 491 At any rate, be that as it may, I think the number six is of importance in this matter".
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1 813 Because of the small number of lodges, this is a winter camp.
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1 844 It is difficult to determine their number, for they ride single file, that the prints of one beast may obscure and obliterate those of another.
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5 136 I estimated the number of men, and, carefully, counted the supply wagons.
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6 28 The number of kailiauk in the Barrens is prodigious, for it affords them a splendid environment with almost no natural enemies.
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6 30 The Barrens are traversed by a large number of herds.
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6 31 The four or five best-known herds, such as the Boswell herd, he for whom the Boswell Pass is named, and the Bento herd and the Hogarthe herd, named after the first white men who saw them, number, it is estimated, between two and three million beasts.
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6 38 If that is the case then the number of kailiauk may not be quite as large as it is sometimes estimated.
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7 54 Such a string is more than sufficient, in its length, and in its strength and toughness, to tie a woman in a number of ways.
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8 893 On one of these lines, number six, there knelt, one behind the other, in tandem fashion, seven girls.
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13 146 On Earth at this very moment many women are held in public bondage, and many others, it is difficult to conjecture their number, serve in secret bondages.
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13 336 You have, doubtless, a large number of female hormones in your body".
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13 1723 Whereas the slave may be used as a snack, and often is, as a bite seized upon the run, so to speak, a simple convenience to be put over a chair or flung to the floor, she may also find herself constituting a number of courses, so to speak, in the master's banquet.
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14 1366 Yet I must determine if Kurii were among the fallen, and, if possible, their number.
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15 12 The code in mirror signals, conveyed by the pacing and number of flashes, is very similar to that of the smoke signals.
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15 17 At night such signals can be conveyed by the number and placement of fires, or by a single fire, alternately revealed and concealed by the action, again, of a robe or blanket.
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16 44 The number of cut harnesses suggested the second alternative.
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17 504 "Each of those is but one number," said another, "and, thus, each is one, and one is one".
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Book 18. (12 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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3 150 The number three, as is well known, is often thought to be a very special number.
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27 108 "Where a smaller number attacks a larger number there is more glory".
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2 50 Needless to say there are a large number of enslavement formulas and ceremonies; too, these things can vary interestingly from group to group, from area to area, and from city to city.
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2 215 The Isanna Kaiila number between some seven and eight hundred.
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3 138 Scarlet bands, in number from one to five, are commonly used by Kaiila warriors to mark their weapons, in particular their lances and arrows.
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3 148 The bands, incidentally, are usually three in number.
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4 182 This is even more impressive, of course, with a number of lodges.
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12 472 "I called together a number of young men," she said.
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14 134 "We did not wish to bring her, but the boy who was in charge of us picked her out to come along, thus giving us, appropriately, an exactly equal number of males and females".
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35 122 There are many rituals and significances connected with the sweat lodge, having to do with such things as the stones, the fire, the orientation of the lodge, the path between the lodge and the fire, the amounts and ways in which the water is poured, and the number of times the lodge is opened.
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45 59 This should be a number large enough for our purposes and yet small enough, I hoped, to be dealt with effectively and decisively.
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47 429 Yellow Knives, crowding, fleeing, forced many of their own number from the trail.
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Book 19. (14 results) Kajira of Gor

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8 386 He could always look up her ring number, or perhaps the number and location of her cage or kennel.
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29 193 I took a number-two ankle ring and a number-two wrist ring.
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1 184 "There might, then," I asked, looking up from the magnifying device, "be a large number of other objects like this somewhere?" That I found a very interesting thought.
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1 514 "We have your number," he said.
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3 920 We do have at our disposal, as slaves, however, a number and variety of begging signals, such things as groveling and moaning, and bringing bonds to him in our teeth, wherewith we may endeavor to call our needs to his attention".
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6 321 If the event or performance is an important one, and the ostraka are limited, their number being governed by the seating capacity of the structure or area in question, it is unlikely that they will be publicly displayed until after the event or performance.
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23 119 One of the things that a master commonly checks in a female he is considering buying is the number and condition of her teeth.
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24 96 "That is your mill number, Tiffany," he said, "four thousand and seventy-three".
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24 156 My number is four-zero-seven-three.
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24 177 "What is your girl number?" "4073," I said.
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28 182 That, too, exactly, was our number.
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33 35 The land forces of Cos, on the other hand, were probably not superior to those of a number of Gorean states, even much smaller in their populations than the island Ubarate.
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33 39 It consisted largely of a number of ships on the Vosk River, largely wharfed at Ar's Station.
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33 802 Indeed, in this way, perhaps they, too, hope to prepare the way for an eventual full-scale invasion, one which could then be supplied and supported by a number of strategically located cities, or leagues of cities.
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Book 20. (22 results) Players of Gor

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2 1733 The game of favors can be played with any number of favors and contestants, but the usual number of favors distributed is ten.
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20 324 The number six is a number of special significance to Kurii.
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1 93 The fact that it was now only two days to the Twelfth Passage Hand, explained the presence of the unusual number of theatrical and carnival troupes now in the city.
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1 105 There are even fairly well understood bribery scales, indexed to the type of troupe, its supposed treasury, the number of days requested for the license, and so on.
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2 131 In reclaiming the weapons one matches the halves, both with respect to division and number.
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3 106 The number of guards on hand, too, which was five, was really too small to manage a normal work gang, not because of the ratios involved, but because of the necessity of maintaining night watches.
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7 163 It bears the girl's lot number on it.
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7 165 This provides not only the seller with a convenience, helping to make certain his records remain clear, but it can be helpful to the buyer also, who may then, presumably already having established his interests, perhaps in virtue of commands earlier addressed to the lovely chattels in the exhibition...
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8 98 The brigands were now six in number.
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8 268 Understandably, of course, he was unwilling to flee headlong, blindly, from the camp, into an unknown, unexplored darkness, one in which the number and position of enemies was unknown.
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9 87 To be sure, aside from the obvious consideration of the inflexible efficiency of the shackling itself, given the large number of ways in which a woman may be used for a man's pleasure, the matter was primarily symbolic.
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9 155 Given the large number of slaves on Gor it is only natural that there should be an abundance of outlets for their handling and processing.
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10 682 Otherwise she may be put to pleasure frequently, and repeatedly, by any male, or number of males, at any time or place.
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11 87 On the other hand, perhaps he would only have challenged him to a spitting contest or one in which the number of seeds in different sorts of tospits were guessed and then, if Boots lost, put him out with the bosk, to see what way they might move that day.
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12 386 I thought perhaps they might be Kaissa puzzles, in which a forced capture of Home Stone in some specified number of moves must be detected".
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12 448 "For example, the letter 'Eta,' the most commonly occurring letter, would actually, on any given board, be capable of being represented by any of a number of appropriate squares, each different, yet each corresponding to an 'Eta.
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14 241 It contained a very large number of animals.
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16 634 "I am thinking of a number between one and three," said Chino.
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16 1074 These rings may serve various purposes, such as the display of disgraced females destined for slavery, most likely debtors, or the public punishment of errant slaves, but their number is largely dictated by the occasional use of displaying captured, stripped free women of enemy cities.
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19 7 Other than in their military significance, of course, such bridges tend to be quite beautiful and, functionally, serve to divide the cities into a number of convenient levels.
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20 326 This number, and its multiples and divisions, figures prominently in their organizations, their timekeeping, and their chronology.
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21 298 On it, at one time, I spitted eleven men!" "That is a large number," I admitted.
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Book 21. (45 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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6 191 "Too, was the purse closed with an imprinted seal, its number corresponding to the registration number of the certification document?" "Yes," he said.
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13 39 In my wallet was a scrap of paper with a number on it, a number which matched another, that left with my weapons, left behind near the weapons table, that set up at the entrance of the camp.
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16 27 On the cardboard there was a number, matching a number on a similar piece of cardboard now in my wallet.
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24 415 "Too, your slave number is in his house was the number on your disk".
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3 351 One could tell, for example, how long it would take to bring a certain number of men to bear on a certain point.
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4 126 He would be interested, I assumed, in such matters as the nature of their walls, the number of gates, their defenses, the strength of garrisons, and such.
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4 598 On it was the letter "Tau" and a number.
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5 283 She fingered the small copper disk, on its thong, tied about her throat, that disk which had been found on her in infancy, when she had been found by Alars in the wreckage of a burned, raided caravan, that disk on which a "Tau" and a number had been inscribed.
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10 25 "That is a large number," I said.
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13 14 A number of dwellings along the way had been roped off.
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13 150 Doubtless there were lists on which their names appeared, each name correlated for convenience with a given number.
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13 151 For example, a given high lady of Torcadino, of a faction favoring Cos, might have had opposite her name on some list the number, say, 908.
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13 152 She would then, after the fall of the city, have been hunted down, stripped, and put on the chain, the number 908 being inscribed on her left breast.
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13 153 For months then, she may have unsuspectingly, with haughty aplomb, in lofty, benign ignorance, gone about her life in her usual way, with her usual power and arrogance, unaware that she figured, however trivially, in the plans of others, others to whom she was no more than a naked female, who had be...
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13 156 The marking stick was already in existence which would inscribe that number on her fair breast.
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13 188 I saw the girl had a number, like the others, written on the upper portion of her left breast.
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13 189 I gathered that he had been sent to pick her up, and to mark her with that number.
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13 200 The officer then, there being no impediments now to his vision, checked the number on her left breast.
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13 228 She was more important than you, and thus has an earlier number".
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13 229 437, of course, was the number written on the girl's left breast.
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13 230 As her number was 437 and there were only some one hundred or one hundred and fifty or so females in the chain, near the wall, I assumed there was probably one or more collection points elsewhere, perhaps nearer the Semnium, the Council Hall.
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13 233 The officer, for example, already had had her number on his list, probably with her name.
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13 235 I had gathered, for example, from what the officer had said, that the girl's mother, number 261 on the list, was somewhere in this very chain, which would have been unlikely if its prisoners were being added to it in a strict numerical sequence.
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13 266 They will then be stripped, bound, marked with their number and brought to a collection point".
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16 22 Feiqa was now far to the left, against the far wall, chained there by the ankle with a number of other slaves.
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16 121 Needless to say, there is a large number of collar types, chaining arrangements, and security devices, the choices among them largely dictated by the motives and tastes of the master, and sometimes by his cultural background, all of which serve to keep women in perfect custody.
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16 144 "And perhaps I would not myself even dare to do so if I were not here with you, naked, in a collar, too, with a number on my breast".
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16 264 There is a number on my breast.
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16 607 "You are 437," I said, reading her number.
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16 1326 "Why is there a number on the disk?" I asked.
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16 1328 "Or a wagon number," I said, "if it was a large caravan, or, more likely, that of a merchant or company with many wagons".
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21 216 This helps to keep the line straight and, as the audiences are held out of doors, controls the number of petitioners".
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23 47 "Quite a number of things, I suppose," I said.
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24 365 There was no number on it, but the "Tau" on it was identical to that on Boabissia's disk.
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24 367 On it was a year number, one dating back twenty-two years, and two sets of numbers, separated by a span sign.
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24 369 The number on it fell between the two numbers on the book's cover.
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24 373 There, at the head of one of the entries, identifying it, and correlated with it, was the number which had been on Boabissia's disk.
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24 612 I remember tying the slave disk, with her number on it, about her tiny neck, opening her blankets that she might be exposed to me while doing so.
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24 626 As might be supposed there are many varieties of slave harness, and they can serve a number of purposes, from a simple, effective restraint to the infliction of a punishing discipline.
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25 1640 He is famous for the production of a large number of reasonably good, medium-grade ka-la-nas.
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26 59 I now felt the number to my right.
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26 65 This arrangement also, of course, tends to reduce the number of unexpected face-to-face encounters in the hall.
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26 145 They were two in number doubtless to spring a trap in a tunnel.
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26 379 She made a number of angry noises.
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26 384 Then she made a number of other angry noises.
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Book 22. (31 results) Dancer of Gor

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9 258 If it is of interest, however, and we are speaking of fixed-ring sizes, I would take a number-two wrist ring and a number-two ankle ring.
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11 578 A number, the same number, was written at the bottom and top of each item.
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2 34 "Its number is in the card catalog," I said.
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2 36 "You can find the number for it in the card catalog," I told him.
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4 48 "Your life is going to be different now," he said, "quite different, dramatically different in a number of ways".
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4 412 Soon you will be only another number, another entry in my records.
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6 239 To be sure, there seemed to be a great number of such expressions for us, such as "morsels," "puddings," and "candies".
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6 775 I then heard what sounded like a number of poles thrust through wood.
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8 59 I had heard that it was the number "89".
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8 61 It was my lot number.
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8 162 In this large room there were also a large number of low, sturdy platforms, raised about a foot above the dirt flooring.
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8 163 Some of these platforms were flush with the walls, but others, by far the larger number, were arranged at regular intervals, about four feet apart, in rows, the effect being that of providing aisles between and about them.
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8 206 On my left breast, on its upper portion, inscribed there with a grease pencil, in Gorean, was a number.
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8 207 I had been told it was "89," and that it was my lot number.
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8 335 "It is the number '89,'" he said.
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8 336 "It is the number of your individual sales lot".
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8 371 There was a number on my left breast.
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8 440 It was, I had been told, an "89," my lot number.
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9 2 We could see it on the other side of the barred gate, the narrow, wooden ramp, with the low, wooden walls, open at the top, with the two gates, one for the shoot itself, to control the number of animals entering it, the other, slanting, behind which men might stand, which, when closed, given its dia...
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9 17 The last time he had seen me, I supposed, might have been when I had collapsed, unconscious, overcome, before him, and the others, in the exposition area, shortly after my lot number had been written on my breast.
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9 251 I then heard my height and weight, given in Gorean measurements, thirty and a quarter Gorean stone and fifty-one horts, or approximately, in Earth measurements, one hundred and twenty-one pounds and five foot three and three quarters inches, and a large number of my other measurements being similarl...
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9 572 My lot number was still on my left breast.
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9 600 Then I lay down in the cage, naked, the number on my breast.
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11 699 "The ostraka grow few in number!" I saw men rise hurriedly to move toward him.
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11 710 It tends to reduce the dislocations, disappointments and tragedies inherent in more mobile structures, in which men are taught that they are failures if they do not manage to make large amounts of money or excel in one of a small number of prestigious professions.
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11 711 The system also helps to keep men of energy and high intelligence in a wide variety of occupations, this preventing the drain of such men into a small number of often artificially desiderated occupations, this tending then to leave lesser men, or frustrated men, to practice other hundreds of arts th...
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11 762 "Do not be dismayed, noble patrons of the tavern of Hendow," he called, "for the number of ostraka was determined in advance.
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13 81 There are a large number of ways in which slave silk is worn.
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20 256 I had already been sold a number of times.
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24 586 Too, of course, that saves the masters the inconvenience and possible embarrassment of reorganizing a number of chains".
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28 272 "They do not let us know anything! We do not know where we are! We do not know the nature of our captors, or even their number! We do not know what they intend to do with us! They treat us like—like—" "Like slave girls?" asked Tupita.
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Book 23. (14 results) Renegades of Gor

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1 9 The circle contains more interior space than any other geometrical figure, so the camp is thus as large as possible, given the number of wagons.
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1 110 The number, however, more than compensated for the generally unimpressive denominations.
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1 209 There was a large number of people here and I was not sure I could protect them.
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2 217 The number of available defenders, I supposed, might dictate the decision in such a case.
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5 63 There were a number of reasons for this, of course.
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5 70 Too, of course, the brand and the slave collar, with their profound meanings, on a number of levels, muchly enhance the beauty of a woman.
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5 817 I picked up my ostrakon, on which was inscribed the number of my space, and the two blankets.
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6 24 The keeper was probably balancing out the advantages of reasonably sized sleeping spaces, a yard or so wide, in keeping with his concept of the first-class inn, for the area, with the largest number of them he could put in a given area.
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8 883 This sense of vulnerability is enhanced by a number of things, for example, the revealing nature of most slave garb, muchly baring the beauty of the lovely beast, the absence of a nether closure in most slave garments, the brand, the collar, the being owned, and such.
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15 826 Also, the other agents, if there are such, might be intimidated or terrified, not knowing which of their number had been captured, how much was known, who might be next, and so on".
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19 71 "And why might that be?" inquired another of our number.
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19 99 There it seemed that a number of small boats was being mustered and not a few raftlike structures, doubtless improvised from materials within, and about, the citadel.
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19 207 He had not taken more than five steps before a number of Cosians, who had been waiting on the landing, hurried onto the walkway.
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21 947 There are a number of reasons for this, for example, they tend to eschew face veiling, thereby shamelessly exposing their features to public inspection, a convenience, incidentally, for woman hunters; they think little of baring portions of their body unthinkable to the Gorean free woman, particular...
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Book 24. (18 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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26 219 It had been to permit the men of Besnit to make a selection from among them, in the number of a hundred, the same number which had been that of the high-caste daughters earlier taken by the men of Harfax, this hundred then to be impressed into slavery, trained by slaves in the houses of Besnit, and ...
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36 176 On Gor, to speak briefly, beauty is not stereotyped, or, if it is, if one wishes to speak in that fashion, there is a considerable number of such stereotypes, a large number of muchly desired types.
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1 372 Indeed, mercenary bands often number no more than one or two hundred.
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1 1211 Such a group would normally move, of course, with their war gear, such as missiles and weaponry, and supplies for a given number of days.
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5 24 The number and configuration of the sand bars, in virtue of the currents, is subject to frequent rearrangements, their materials being often swept away and redistributed.
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6 31 There are a number of such armaments, usually bearing traces of their origin.
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12 349 "Probably an average number of copper tarsks," I said.
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25 13 By means of such rings, and chains, of course, an indefinite number of girls, well beyond those in the fifty places on the benches, could be transported.
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27 725 "Such things," I said, "are only the first horizons, of an infinite number of possible horizons".
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28 493 "I had thought perhaps something in that number," I said.
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28 504 "Hopefully a goodly number, particularly if Saphronicus fell back on Holmesk".
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31 98 "Tamrun is a high leader in the rence," I said, "something of a legend, a strategist and statesman of sorts, much like Ho-Hak, of the tidal marshes, one of the few fellows who can organize and summon a number of villages at one time".
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39 15 The tavern was the Jeweled Whip, one of a large number of such taverns on Dock Street in Brundisium.
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43 25 This number was also on the key.
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44 62 When I had gone to the slave camp earlier I had opened the lid of Ina's slave box, Number 73, and, having her kneel upright in it, had removed the hood, bracelets, leash and collar, and dress from her.
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46 90 No more seemed to be adding to the number at present.
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46 200 She would doubtless soon learn to beg to be pleasing, that their number might be lessened.
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48 307 If the amount had been short, in either number or weight, I would not have wished to be Octantius, dealing with his hirelings.
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Book 25. (22 results) Magicians of Gor

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3 2 "Who will play stones?" This is a guessing game, in which a certain number of a given number of "stones," usually from two to five, is held in the hand and the opponent is to guess the number.
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1 96 She has some forty public gates, and, I suppose, some number of restricted smaller gates, secret gates, posterns, and such.
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3 6 The game is usually set at a given number of points, usually fifty.
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3 65 Such devices, or precautions, had in the interim apparently been deemed necessary, doubtless for purposes of security or to control the number of refugees pouring into the city which, even earlier, had been considerable.
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3 1065 I gathered this would depend on Myron's decision as to the rate and number of marches.
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5 70 When they take the city they can have her, and any other number of free women.
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8 661 Indeed, if there is a large number of slaves, there are sometimes hierarchies of "first girls," lower-level first girls reporting to higher-level first girls, and so on.
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9 610 It was difficult to estimate the numbers of female slaves seized by Cos, just as the number of verr and such.
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9 793 This number then would be written by another fellow, with a grease pencil, on their left breast, for the convenience of the fitter.
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9 859 Coffle chains are usually adjusted, of course, to the number of women to be placed on it.
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11 145 "It seems that some good fellows of Cos, esteemed mercenaries, in the service of her Ubar, with all good will and innocence, entered this shop, to purchase wares for loved ones, and were treacherously set upon by assailants, some twenty in number".
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11 411 The board had a thousand sides, and surfaces and dimensions, the pieces were of an unknown number, and nature and value, the rules were uncertain, often you did not know whom you played, or where they were, often the moves must be made in darkness, in ignorance of your opponent's position, his piece...
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18 44 This is occasionally done, I gather, as a game, the winner being decided by the greatest number of stairs soiled.
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19 40 Her figure, extremely female, exquisitely curved, was rather like the figure of another girl we had encountered earlier in the morning, some pasangs to the northeast of the city, on one of the isolated roads winding through the hills, among which, nestled back, almost out of sight, were set a number...
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19 851 Whereas a number of dispositions are possible, these girls, who are quite expensive, are not unoften purchased by victorious generals and ubars who use them as a portions of their victory feasts.
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19 1338 "But if it had been her?" "A number of disciplines," he said, "over successive days".
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20 245 For example, the hemlines might go up and down a bit, the garments might be accented or trimmed with color, or not, the number of bells on the ankle might be increased, say, to seven, or be returned to the original five, and so on.
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20 510 The differences tend to have more to do with the "cast" of the hand, so to speak, its general appearance, a function of a number of things, such as size, spacing of letters, linkages among them, length of loops, nature of end strokes, and such.
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22 461 In the areas of the market, stretching almost from the north to the south side of the street, the street is shaded by a large number of vine-covered trellises, creating bowers, which provide protection for the produce and, later in the day, shade for pedestrians.
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24 122 Owning a large number of beautiful slaves is a mark of wealth on Gor, as would be, say, automobiles, boats, houses, or such, on Earth.
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26 15 Too, certain matters might prove sensitive, and I saw fit to limit the number and nature of witnesses.
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26 569 Tolnar then, with a graduated tape, reaching in and about the net, and moving the woman, as necessary, took a large number of measurements, these being recorded by Venlisius.
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Book 26. (33 results) Witness of Gor

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11 895 A number of things are commonly found on the papers, which may be more or less detailed, for example, our brand type, a number of measurements, the sorts of training we have received, and such.
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13 732 It is so much harder then! Too, if we do not know the number of blows! It is most merciful when we know the number of blows and they are delivered with predictable periodicity.
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4 279 This was one collar, apparently, of a large number of such collars, for I could see the lower loops of a long chain, one interspersed with such collars, before me.
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10 767 For several minutes we made our way through a number of labyrinthine passages, occasionally stopping at various gates, which, after an exchange of signs and countersigns, were opened for us.
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13 225 This deference, it might be mentioned, had not precluded, later, and the next day, the women gone, a number of rude jokes pertaining to them, nor some rather explicit speculations as to what they might look like, chained naked to a floor ring.
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13 817 The master usually has some number in mind which seems appropriate to him.
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13 818 You will never receive less than that number, but you may very well, particularly if you try to manage matters cleverly, receive far more.
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13 1028 Doubtless they will be pleased to learn of your addition to our number".
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13 1172 There are a great many varieties of slave cages, with respect to the number of occupants for which they are designed, and, within such parameters, with respect to shape, size, and materials.
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13 1180 It is easy to insufficiently attend to, or even neglect, or dismiss, these charms when she is merely one of a number of others, chained, say, in a sales barn or on a cement shelf in an open market.
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13 1184 There are also, of course, a large number of other incarceratory devices, such as slave chests, or boxes, and slave sacks.
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14 690 I had been startled by their number and beauty.
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14 1521 Naturally the number of "basic kisses" tends to vary with the nature of the analysis in question, much depending on how broadly or narrowly the notion of "basic" is understood, and the criteria for distinguishing between a "basic kiss" and a major variation thereof.
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14 1522 If I may be permitted to exaggerate a point, for purposes of clarification, one might ask, are there two basic kisses with five hundred variations of each, four basic kisses with two hundred and fifty variations of each, five with two hundred variations of each, ten with one hundred variations of ea...
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14 1526 As a last note, I might add that there does seem to be general agreement among authorities on the importance of a given number of types of kisses, and perhaps that is more important than whether one accounts a given kiss A to be a variation of B, or B to be a variation of A, and so on.
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14 1527 There are apparently, incidentally, on this world, a number of manuals devoted to slave training.
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14 1528 In most of these, as I understand it, seven is indeed given as the number of the "basic kisses".
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14 1529 For what it is worth, that is the number which was impressed on me in the pens.
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16 499 Also, of course, the slide-rings may not be available to her, depending on how she is secured, what she can reach, the number of chains, and so on.
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18 59 Just as a city prides itself on the ebullience, variety, and colorfulness of its architecture, on its spacious plazas and broad avenues, on its numerous parks and gardens, so, too, it prides itself on the number and beauty of its slaves.
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19 89 Even tiny bits of information can be significant, and a number of bits of information, each seemingly insignificant and unrelated to others, sometimes, properly organized and understood, like a suddenly assembled jigsaw puzzle, may yield a picture which is not only clear but meaningful.
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19 296 He then faced the crowd and lifted his hands to the left and right, indicating the captives, now having been separated from the other loot and brought forward, closer to the crowd, both those in lines, they accounting for the largest number, and those kneeling separately, all bound, many in sirik, i...
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19 544 "I wish he had," snapped one of our number, the largest, a broad-bodied girl in a coarse rep-cloth tunic.
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19 562 "Do not rise up, Lady!" said one of our number, kneeling to the side.
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19 681 "Do you wish to hear me beg for water?" "Yes, Mistress," said one of our number, she who had just been denounced as stupid, who was kneeling to the side.
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19 706 Two of our number laughed.
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19 747 "Girl," said the free woman to one of our number.
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24 92 "And why, so few in number, would they strike at the pens?" "They are mad," said a fellow.
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24 129 It was difficult to judge their number.
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24 226 I would have guessed their number at some one hundred and fifty men.
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34 32 The others, originally twelve in number, had been divided into four search parties of three men each.
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34 173 One might mention, in passing, that the "concept of the leash" may figure, as do a number of other concepts, in references to bondage.
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40 90 Most Gorean matches, as I understand it, consist of an odd number of games, for example, eleven or twenty-one.
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Book 27. (46 results) Prize of Gor

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2 64 He had pointed out the weaknesses and failures of a number of studies she had favorably cited, and had, worse, brought to the attention of the class a considerable number of other studies of which she would have preferred to have had the class remain in ignorance.
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7 54 You are, of course, available for a large number of diverse utilizations, in theory, I suppose, for an infinite number of utilizations.
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22 10 On her left breast, inscribed there with a marker, in soft grease, was a lot number, the number 117.
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24 544 Her number was 51, a very low number.
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25 25 The lot number of the one manacled before Ellen, which number she had seen as she had been brought forward, was again similar to her own.
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25 36 So she before me is a lower number, and she after me a higher number, thought Ellen.
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2 62 That could be told from a number of perspectives.
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4 89 "It is a reference number, yours, in our records".
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4 155 "Why am I here? What are you going to do with me?" "I shall explain a small number of things to you," he said, "a portion of what I think you are, at present, capable of understanding.
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12 295 Its solution was not essentially a consequence of a particular conditioning program, one of a possibly infinite number of such, or the inevitable result of some supposedly self-evident, axiomatic proposition, or some supposedly a priori theory, but of the world, the nature of things, of simple, empi...
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12 390 On Earth, had a man so gripped her, she would have been affrighted and would have resisted; she would have screamed, and struggled, and, in a moment, doubtless a number of good fellows would have rushed to her succor, or surely a policeman, if one were in the vicinity.
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12 395 They could be turned from side to side, flung to their belly, thrown to a wall, forced to assume any number of positions, sometimes their bodies being seized and literally placed, limb by limb, in the desired position, handled with an imperious handling, sometimes conjoined with a sharp word of inst...
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16 392 On Earth, of course, no deleterious consequences of such charades and antics are likely to occur; indeed, they may earn their practitioners commendations from pathological quarters in which it is not permitted to so much as whisper of nature and the biotruths of a species; indeed, further, such expo...
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16 976 It is one of a large number of devices and techniques for improving a girl.
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18 91 There were also, these accessible from the larger area, some hallways, and a number of ancillary rooms, a kitchen, a pantry, living quarters, a workroom, sometimes used, the office of Portus Canio, and so on.
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20 74 Several female slaves, indeed, a very large number, Ellen amongst them, had been arranged and "necklaced".
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21 102 What startled Ellen was the large number of these pools.
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21 140 Too, on them, toward the edges, were a number of sponges and rags.
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22 32 "117," said the woman, leaning closer, reading the number on Ellen's breast.
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22 180 There was a lot number on her left breast.
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22 183 Each flag, too, had its letter or number.
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22 184 Thus each circle could be recognized by both its flag and its letter or number.
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22 210 Ellen knew her number, of course, as she had been told.
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22 212 She would, accordingly, be intent to listen carefully to the numbers, and follow any caller who had enunciated her number, which was "117".
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22 217 And she knew at least one number, that which was inscribed in grease on her left breast, "117".
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22 310 It was, doubtless, the number 117.
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22 325 "What is your lot number, slut?" would call a man, and she would call back to him, "117, Master".
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22 329 Her number, she knew, was very low.
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22 339 I have a low number, considering the many girls in the camp.
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22 342 Could I, once of Earth, she asked herself, be that desirable? To be sure, she thought, my number, my chaining, may mean nothing.
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22 353 "What is your lot number, little tasta, little vulo?" called another man.
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22 520 Is it not always the slave who is blamed, who must writhe beneath the whip? Had there been a sufficient number of iron belts in the camp she supposed that she might have been locked in one.
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23 49 "Does she have a lot number?" asked a man.
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23 51 "A low number for such as she," observed Mirus.
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23 207 "What was her lot number?" asked one of the men.
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23 290 "Your lot number is 117, as I recall," said Mirus.
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24 119 On her way to the circle she had heard her number called more than once, announcing that she would be danced, and in the ba-ta circle.
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24 312 Considering the number of slaves to be vended over the next two or three days in the camp, Ellen did not think the agents of Cos would have time for the tantalizing allures of gradual unveilings.
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24 396 "Such a high number! To be sure, she is so beautiful! What would she have done wrong? Perhaps she had been overconfident.
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24 640 "Are you searching for Portus Canio, for Fel Doron, for Tersius Major? Beware of Tersius Major!" "Or," she thought wildly, "have you come here following a slave? I trust you have not come here for me, for my number is 117, and you will not be able to afford me! You are the sort of man to whom a woma...
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24 645 Why did you have to come here, and make me miserable, reminding me of your imperious strength and mastery! I will go to a richer master! I do not think you could afford a girl whose lot number is less than seven or eight hundred.
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24 743 "But I thought it strange," said the scribe, "when I heard your number called in the camp, summoning you to a dancing circle, and, indeed, one so high as the ba-ta circle.
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24 744 I seemed to recall the number, and, accordingly, as is my wont in such instances, checked my records, which I have with me".
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25 14 She could see the lot number, rather similar to her own, on the left breast of the frightened girl, a blonde, behind her, she also chained by the left wrist in the line.
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25 130 There were a number of lanes, marked out with stakes and strung ribbons, and in each of these lanes, or rather within each which was occupied, there was a line of chained, waiting slaves.
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25 192 That is what you are now, and all you are now!" She wondered if lovely Dara, who had danced yesterday evening in the ba-ta circle, who had taken the bracelet from her in the area of preparation, who had been lashed by the exterior whip master, who had had the low number 51, had been sold.
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Book 28. (1 results) Kur of Gor

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77 168 The number of women on a fellow's rope, or a group's rope, would then become a mark of prestige, rather as the number of kaiila in one's herd, or in one's tribe's herds, would become a mark of wealth and status amongst the warriors of the Red Savages.
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Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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1 383 This number, as others, had been correlated with the numbers of a set of chaining rings, number 1 with ring 1, and so on.
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Book 32. (2 results) Smugglers of Gor

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7 282 The Merchants regard themselves, with justification I would think, as a high caste, but few Goreans number them amongst the high castes, which, traditionally, are taken to be five in number, the Initiates, Builders, Physicians, Scribes, and Warriors.
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49 115 "You were well and carefully scouted," he said, "as I explained to you in the camp of Genserich, in a number of venues, in a number of garmentures, and such".
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Book 33. (1 results) Rebels of Gor

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41 20 "Too," I said, "considering the size of the camp, the number of fugitives, and the large number of peasants, tradesmen, craftsmen, deserters from the holding of Temmu, and such, in the camp, one might pity the search squads.
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Book 34. (4 results) Plunder of Gor

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7 344 It is done on behalf of the free, that their slaves will retain their vitality, passion, youth, beauty, and health, this serving to keep them more attractive and appealing, which, of course, aside from a number of obvious advantages to the master, personal and aesthetic, has a number of economic con...
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9 144 For example, one might have a large, undifferentiated, individually competitive population in which millions struggle for a trag­ically limited quantity of desiderata, which must, mathematically, be beyond the reach of the vast majority, for example, a limited number of favored professions, a lim...
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28 233 The key is numbered, and the number matches the number on the plate to which the ring is attached.
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29 18 Its number, as noted, corresponded to the number on the plate to which the ring was fastened.
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Book 35. (1 results) Quarry of Gor

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33 619 They are influenced by a number of things, such as the primary of the planet, the size of the planet, the period and nature of its rotation, the size and number of the planet's moons, winds and storms, and the configuration of coastlines and tidal basins.
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Book 36. (3 results) Avengers of Gor

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34 4 The scene was much the same as before, except for a number of newly pitched tents and the semi-circular, defensive ditch, with its heaped sand and shield wall, its back to the sea, by means of which a number of corsairs, those denied boarding on the ships, had cordoned off a portion of the beach.
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46 46 Most tospits, I knew, commonly had an uneven number of seeds, except the long-stemmed tospit which commonly has an even number of seeds.
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50 69 The corsair fleet constituted a formidable foe at sea not only in virtue of its size, its number of vessels, but in virtue of its number of men, this enhancing its capacity both to board and resist boarding, and to mount frequent shifts of oarsmen, this enabling the vessel to maintain a high rate of...
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