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Book 1. (8 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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1 27 I liked America very much, though I was quite busy the first semester, smashing through numerous texts in an undignified manner, attempting to commit enough English history to memory to keep at least a reign or so ahead of my students.
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2 204 "You wonder," he said, "why the numerous, rather obvious deficits in our technology have not been repaired—in spite of the Priest-Kings.
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3 35 At first only Torm and my father were my teachers, but as I began to master the language of my new home, numerous others, apparently of Earth stock, assumed responsibility for my lessons in special areas.
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5 50 This is a complex feast, celebrated by most Gorean cities, and the observances are numerous and intricate.
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6 70 When I opened my eyes, I found myself partially adhering to a vast network of broad, elastic strands that formed a structure, perhaps a pasang in width, and through which at numerous points projected the monstrous trees of the swamp forest.
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15 3 Every fifty yards along the walls rose towers, jutting forth so as to expose any attempt at scaling to the fire of their numerous archer ports.
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15 13 On the summit of the rampart, where it was completed, were numerous archer blinds, movable wooden screens to shield archers and light missile equipment.
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15 30 There would be numerous tunnels being worked even now toward the walls of Ar, and, from Ar, countertunnels to meet them.
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Book 2. (3 results) Outlaw of Gor

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8 16 There is no distinctive garment for a male slave on Gor, since, as it is said, it is not well for them to discover how numerous they are.
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8 26 Though it was apparently a market day, judging from the numerous stalls of vegetables, the racks of meat under awnings, the tubs of salted fish, the cloths and trinkets spread out on carpets before the seated, cross-legged merchants, there was none of the noisy clamor that customarily attends the Go...
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22 3 The floor of the tent was covered with thick, colorful rugs, and the inside was decorated with numerous silken hangings.
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Book 3. (18 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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1 41 He informed me that in this time he had refuted seven hundred and eight scribes from fifty-seven cities, but I will not vouch for the accuracy of the report, as I sometimes suspect that Torm, like most members of his caste, and mine, tends to be a bit too sanguine in recounting his numerous victorie...
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5 5 Beneath me, twisted and tangled, lay heavy sleeping pelts, thick robes of fur, numerous sheets of scarlet silk.
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5 82 In this passageway, placed regularly but staggered from one another, about fifty yards apart, were numerous portals like the one I had just passed through.
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10 27 The morphemes of the language of Priest-Kings, those smallest intelligible information bits, in particular roots and affixes, are, of course, like the morphemes of English, extremely numerous.
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10 63 From my position on the platform I could see numerous tunnels at many levels leading out of the canyon, perhaps to other such monstrous cavities, filled with more such structures.
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13 11 Scents, of course, will fade in time, but the specially prepared synthetic products of the Priest-Kings can last for thousands of years and, in the long run, will surely outlast the fading print of human books, the disintegrating celluloid of our films, perhaps even the carved, weathering stones so ...
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14 84 I was given a translator by Misk and I would utter Gorean expressions into it and then wait for the translation into the language of the Priest-Kings, and in this way, after a time, I became capable of recognizing numerous meaningful odors.
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14 91 Indeed, it seemed to me far more luxurious than the appointments in Misk's own chamber, which seemed utterly bare except for the feed trough and numerous compartments, dials, switches and plugs mounted in one wall.
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15 40 What I could see suggested paneling and instrumentation, banks of scent-needles and gauges, numerous tiered decks of wiring and copper plating.
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18 1 I Speak with Sarm In the next days, when I could escape from the attentions of Sarm, on occasions when he was undoubtedly drawn elsewhere by his numerous duties and responsibilities, I searched the Nest by myself, on a transportation disk furnished by Sarm, looking for Misk, but I found no trace of...
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20 50 Numerous wires extended from the globe along the metal extensions and into a panel in the ceiling.
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21 2 The sides of the chamber were formed of some rough cementlike substance in which numerous rocks of various sizes and shapes inhered as in a conglomerate mass.
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21 14 Clinging to the ceiling of the chamber were numerous dark, distended shapes, apparently Priest-Kings but with abdomens swollen grotesquely.
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21 40 On the surface it is spoken by none but members of the Caste of Initiates, who use it primarily in their numerous and complex rituals.
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29 152 There were numerous scent-needles and switches and buttons and dials, none of which made much sense to me.
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30 192 Apparently Misk's forces were waiting for them, as might have been expected given the superior intelligence afforded by the numerous humans in Misk's camp and the disks were stopped by barricades and withered in the intense fire from nearby rooftops.
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32 41 A great opening, from the sides of which stones still fell, had appeared in the ceiling of the Nest complex, opening the thick, numerous strata above it until at last through that rupture could be seen the beautiful calm sky of the world above.
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33 128 I thought how dangerous might be the Initiates if, intertwined with their superstitious lore and their numerous impressive ceremonies, there had been a truly moral message, something that might have spoken to the nobility of men.
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Book 4. (17 results) Nomads of Gor

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2 28 The consequences of my act, if I were successful, were too complex and fearful to calculate, the factors involved being so numerous and obscure.
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5 67 Normally, however, the wagons are tied in tandem fashion, in numerous long columns, and only the lead wagons are guided, the others simply following, thongs running from the rear of one wagon to the nose rings of the bosk following, sometimes as much as thirty yards behind, with the next wagon; also...
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7 4 The wagon itself was the largest in the camp, and the largest wagon I had conceived possible; actually it was a vast platform, set on numerous wheeled frames; though at the edges of the platform, on each side, there were a dozen of the large wheels such as are found on the much smaller wagons; these...
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7 70 Kamchak's questions were detailed, numerous, complex.
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8 631 It was now, perhaps, I hoped, that I might learn the answer to the riddles which had not ceased to disturb me, that I might learn the answer to the mystery of the message collar, perhaps the answer to the numerous mysteries which had attended it, and perhaps, at last, find some clue, as I had not ye...
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12 6 Even on my kaiila I was certain I could be outdistanced by numerous riders, each leading, in the Tuchuk fashion, a string of fresh mounts.
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17 6 It was decorated with numerous exotic floral designs, done primarily in greens and yellows, representing the vegetation of a tropical river, perhaps the tropical belt of the Cartius, or certain of its tributaries far to the north and west.
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17 7 Besides the designs there were also, growing from planting areas recessed here and there in the marble walkway, broad-leafed, curling plants; vines; ferns; numerous exotic flowers; it was rather beautiful, but in an oppressive way, and the room had been heated to such an extent that it seemed almost...
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18 80 I heard the wild, eerie cry of the luckless man beneath me and then, with my fist, broke the blue surface and climbed through, grasping the iron of a reticulated framework supporting numerous energy bulbs.
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19 37 Besides the trees there were numerous shrubs and plantings, almost all flowered, sometimes fantastically; among the trees and the colored grasses there wound curved, shaded walks.
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20 38 It was furnished with numerous ports for the use of bowmen.
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22 9 The compound of the House of Saphrar, however, had not fallen, protected by its numerous guardsmen and its high walls, nor had the tower elsewhere that sheltered the tarn cots and warriors of Ha-Keel, the mercenary from Port Kar.
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22 65 By this time I had followed Harold over to a corner of the courtyard wall, which was heaped high, banked into the corner, with precious metals, plates, cups; bowls of jewels; necklaces and bracelets; boxes of coins and, in heavy, wooden crates, numerous stacked cubes of silver and gold, each stamped...
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22 69 Beyond them, again in a large heap, were numerous weapons, saddles and harnesses.
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22 70 Beyond them I saw numerous rugs and tapestries, rolled, for transport from the city.
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23 44 In my flight I could see at one point the Omen Valley, where the haruspexes were still working about their numerous, smoking altars.
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27 10 Additionally, of course, beyond the free women, numerous slaves had fallen into the hands of the warriors, and these, too, were sent to the commanders of Hundreds.
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Book 5. (16 results) Assassin of Gor

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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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3 69 The fact that the disease tends to strike those who have maintained the observances recommended by the Caste of Initiates, and who regularly attend their numerous ceremonies, as well as those who do not, is seldom explained, though, when pressed, the Initiates speak of possible secret failures to ma...
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5 364 "I gather," I said, "that the Others are far more numerous than Priest-Kings".
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12 31 There were other favored areas, too, about the stands, in the front, each covered by awnings, in which there sat members of the numerous high families of the city; I noted that some of these areas were now occupied by Merchants; I had no objection to this for I have always thought higher of the Merc...
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12 81 Kazrak, who had been Administrator of the City for several years, had been popular but his straightforward attention, after he had put aside the Red of the Warrior and donned the Brown of the Administrator, to numerous and complex civil and economic matters, such as reform of the courts and laws and...
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12 372 There were poorly webbed, small tapestries; amulets and talismans; knotted prayer strings; papers containing praises of Priest- Kings, which might be carried on one's person; numerous ornaments of glass and cheap metal; the strung pearls of the Vosk sorp; polished, shell brooches; pins with heads ca...
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13 265 I turned about and walked back on the perch and again stood on the thick, beamed framework of tem-wood that formed the vast housing for numerous racing birds.
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14 45 "He has found numerous notes and maps, but it may take months to copy them.
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15 154 These numerous latter qualities Sura possessed in plenty.
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17 42 Numerous suggestions were forthcoming.
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17 45 We stopped when I was pushed stumbling into a large room, in which there were numerous baskets and harnesses hanging about, apparently a storeroom of sorts in an unimportant cylinder.
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18 304 And Caprus, now that Cernus was often in the Central Cylinder, attending to the numerous duties of Ubar of the city, had more time for his work.
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18 323 There were several yards of sausages hung on hooks; numerous canisters of flour, sugars and salts; many smaller containers of spices and condiments.
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19 47 The girls, when brought to the Curulean, are braceleted and naked; they have been chained in slave wagons; they are brought to a large, heavy, barred gate in the rear of the large building, through which they are led; the bracelets are, of course, to secure them; the lack of clothing is simply to sa...
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23 8 I passed numerous prisoners, slaves, male and female, some chained to walls, many locked behind bars.
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24 115 Most of the individuals in the Central Cylinder were men of lower caste, attending to their duties, with the exception of numerous Scribes.
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Book 6. (9 results) Raiders of Gor

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4 98 The rence knife flashed through a stem and then I cut the tufted, flowered head, it falling in the water, and threw the stem on the rence craft, with the numerous others.
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9 147 There were the northern islands, of course, and they were numerous, but small, extending in an archipelago like a scimitar northeastward from Cos, which lay some four hundred pasangs west of Port Kar.
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10 137 They further control another thousand ships, as executor, through the council, which ships comprise the members of the grain fleet, the oil fleet, the slave fleet, and others, as well as numerous patrol and escort ships.
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10 144 On the other hand, whereas the round ships do not carry rams and are much slower and less maneuverable than the long ships, they are not inconsequential in a naval battle, for their deck areas and deck castles can accommodate springals, small catapults, and chain-sling onagers, not to mention numero...
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11 104 Wooden structures, such as her numerous sheds and roofed storage areas tend to be separated from one another.
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11 105 Within the arsenal itself there are numerous basins, providing a plenitude of water.
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17 73 Meanwhile, of course, the numerous bowmen, and the men at the springals, catapults and onagers would be keeping up a heavy fire, the more devastating, the closer the distance.
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17 203 I could see numerous ships burning in the dark, windswept afternoon.
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17 360 And besides these seamen, each tarnsman, tied to his saddle, carried a shielded, protected ship's lantern, lighted, and, in the pockets of leather aprons, tied together and thrown across the saddles, numerous clay flasks, corked with rags.
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Book 7. (4 results) Captive of Gor

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1 106 My father had had numerous business contacts in New York, and my mother had made influential friends.
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5 102 There were, of course, numerous other points of damage on the ship, both interiorly and exteriorly, pitted, buckled plating and such.
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7 452 Such duties are subtle, demanding, numerous and intricate.
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15 1144 I had enjoyed this sport, subtly played, on numerous occasions, on Earth.
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Book 8. (2 results) Hunters of Gor

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5 216 Primarily, of course, numerous cages were in evidence, and we mainly passed between, and amongst, them.
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14 225 I looked down into the circle, with its fires, with its men staked out, with the men of Tyros sitting about its edges, with Marlenus helpless beside the brazier, the man from Tyros, with the leather glove, crouching beside it, with the panther girls, beautiful, numerous, lithe, in their skins and ne...
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Book 9. (3 results) Marauders of Gor

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11 196 These beasts, over the centuries grown numerous and strong, might now be directed by the Kurii of the steel worlds.
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13 44 Another tapestry, showing numerous ships, in a war fleet, dated from the time of the famine in Torvaldsland, a generation ago.
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16 49 Pictographs were much more numerous now, and, instead of being linearly bordered, the walls were now decorated in columns of runes and designs, and pictographs.
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Book 10. (6 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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1 28 On her arms she wore numerous armlets and bracelets.
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2 116 The architecture of Tor, in concentric circles, broken by numerous, narrow, crooked streets, was a function of the radius from its wells.
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2 351 At various places in the bazaar, from poles laid between the buildings, numerous skeins of wool hung, dyed in various bright colors, drying.
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9 178 Beautiful slave girls, barefoot, bangled, in scandalously brief slave livery, well displaying their considerable charms, collared, hair free, flowing in the wind, vital, walking exhileratedly, were common on the high bridges of the city, extending between the numerous cylinder towers, whereas free w...
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10 40 This relieves the kaiila of the insects but leaves it with numerous small wounds, which are unpleasant and irritating, where the bird has dug insects out of its hide.
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16 95 These, in turn, become food for various flatworms and numerous tiny segmented creatures, such as isopods, which, in turn, serve as food for small, blind, white crayfish, lelts and salamanders.
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Book 11. (11 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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3 653 These numerous anniversaries are deliciously celebrated, as they may be with a girl who is only a slave, and seldom forgotten; should such an anniversary be forgotten, should it be such that it is commonly celebrated, the girl redoubles her efforts to please, fearing she is to be soon sold.
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5 30 The cities of Gor are numerous and pluralistic.
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7 853 Whereas I feared being seen, or discovered, I did not much fear being trailed for, though slave girls would be barefoot, as I, there would also be in the village the numerous prints of village bond girls, not simply mine, and those of my sisters in bondage.
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9 885 "In the cities," said he, "such girls are numerous.
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9 1767 Blows, numerous and fierce, were struck and parried.
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11 135 We passed numerous storerooms, closed by barred gates.
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11 194 The room was lofty, and spacious; it contained numerous slender, white pillars, rich hangings; it was tiled in purple, and there was in it a scented pool; the walls were glossy and richly mosaiced with scenes of slave girls at the service of their masters; I uneasily touched the collar at my throat;...
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16 81 She is chained in such a way as to preclude movement which might tear at the mesh or break it, thus making possible the entry of urts, which might eat at her, lowering her price, and to preclude her tearing hysterically with her hands and fingernails at her own body, bloodying herself, perhaps scarr...
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20 194 He boarded one of the numerous ships at the many wharves, going below decks.
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25 159 "Perhaps," said Iskander, "but presumably we would encounter numerous keys.
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27 328 For example, there are numerous verbal formulas which may be used, ranging from such things as "May my Master's slave serve him wine?" or "May my Master's slave light the lamp of love?" to such things as "I beg use, Master" and "Please, my Master, rape your slave".
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Book 12. (8 results) Beasts of Gor

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3 270 Before I left the fair I would inspect the major market, that beyond the smithies and chain shops, where the most numerous exhibition platforms were erected, near the great sales pavilion of blue and yellow silk, the colors of the slavers.
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3 302 This lack, however, is supplied by numerous public kitchens and tables.
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3 797 Within sight of them, on other platforms, there were numerous, naked chained beauties.
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12 234 The Hrimgar Mountains are not as rugged or formidable as any of these chains, and they are penetrated by numerous passes.
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14 284 I suspected that we would have numerous guests in the tent of Imnak.
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15 953 How can she greet him properly? At night, so numerous and excessive have been her labors, she is often exhausted.
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20 99 The ceiling, supported by numerous poles, consisted of layers of grass and mud.
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35 1200 Behind me, some hundred yards or so, were Ram, and Drusus, and Karjuk and Imnak, and numerous red hunters.
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Book 13. (13 results) Explorers of Gor

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27 3 From the scaffolding, a double row of peeled logs, about ten feet apart, with numerous connecting bars and crossbars, fastened together with vines, more than a hundred yards in length, extending out into the flowing waters, hung numerous vine ropes, attached to which were long, conical, woven basket...
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1 358 I heard tiny scratchings at the metal, small movements against the metal, as though by numerous tiny bodies, each perhaps no more than a few ounces in weight.
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1 386 The small eyes of numerous tharlarion, perhaps some two or three hundred of them, ranging from four to ten inches in length, watching her, nostrils and eyes at the water level, reflected the light of the torch.
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2 203 Paga taverns were only one of his numerous interests.
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6 533 Many of the wharves were crowded and there were numerous ships moored at them.
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6 558 Similarly sailors, from hundreds of ships and numerous distant ports, are almost always within the city.
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24 39 "There may be numerous such engagements," said Ayari.
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32 18 He had had numerous strong men to carry the burdens.
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32 208 Also in the ground zone are varieties of snake, such as the ost and hith, and numerous species of insects.
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32 561 The numerous individuals, red men and women, in their colorful feathers and robes, on the walks and terraces of this city, maintaining their old way of life, it seemed, were their living descendants.
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32 578 There were numerous torches, and drums.
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50 7 We must be thousands of feet Gorean, given the length of the river, the numerous plunging cataracts, and the plateaus and levels we had ascended, above sea level, above the entrance points, west of Ngao and Ushindi, of the brown Kamba and Nyoka into the green waters of Thassa.
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57 68 And Lake Shaba itself was fed by numerous smaller streams and rivers, each giving promise, like the tributaries of the Ua itself, to the latency of new countries.
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Book 14. (2 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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12 364 These general remarks, of course, if they were to be made more accurate, would require numerous qualifications.
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13 408 "Stop! I shall tell! I shall tell!" I had been had numerous times on Gor by free women, usually chained or obedient to their commands, but I had not been permitted, myself, to take a woman, to hold her in my arms, owning her, and transform her into an obedient, squirming slave.
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Book 15. (5 results) Rogue of Gor

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4 80 "Usually the river pirates sell their goods and captures somewhere along the river, in one of the numerous river towns".
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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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14 180 "Your duties in this house, Lola," I told her, "will be numerous and complex.
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21 31 On the other hand, as Earth women in Gorean markets have become more familiar and numerous, most Goreans have come to accept that their origin is a different world.
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29 278 Too, there were numerous arrows, like sticks, floating about.
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Book 16. (3 results) Guardsman of Gor

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9 87 "Producing numerous realignments of ships, and perhaps consternation," I said.
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11 25 "There are doubtless numerous others captive below who are quite as beautiful".
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15 8 Other ships, too, were nosing into the numerous wharves lining the water front of Victoria, and were being tied to mooring posts, and to one another.
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Book 17. (10 results) Savages of Gor

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1 800 Although there are numerous physical and cultural differences among these people they are usually collectively referred to as the red savages.
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1 1123 Needless to say, it is extremely dangerous to fall from one's kaiila in hunting kailiauk, because one is often closely involved with numerous stampeding beasts, or the given beast one is pursuing may suddenly turn on one.
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1 1377 They had done particularly well considering the numerous provocations to which, deliberately, I had subjected them, to test the depth of their commitment to their mission and the depth of their need of human help.
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5 111 Whence comes the gold for these numerous and manifold fees?" The officer looked at me, angrily.
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8 902 "Are your pursuers numerous?" he asked.
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12 42 They could be hung, too, from lodge poles, and parts of them, in twisted or dangling fringes, could decorate numerous articles, such as shields and war shirts.
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14 444 If she is fully pleasing, serving with absolute perfection, in her numerous domestic duties and in her squirmings in the furs, of course, the average master will doubtless be inclined to grant her clothing, say, a tunic, or such.
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17 160 In the polluted meadows of Earth graze numerous Waniyanpi.
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17 297 Other stainings, pale and yellowish, mixed in the matting, were doubtless the dried residues of urine, doubtless from the close herding, or the hobbling and tethering, of numerous kaiila.
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17 591 "Theoretically a society could believe numerous false propositions and still, in normal senses of the word, be regarded as a sane, if, in many respects, a mistaken society".
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Book 18. (5 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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1 111 This was a moon in which the Sleen Soldiers held police powers in the camp, and so it was to their lot that numerous details, such as scouting and guarding, supervising the camp and settling minor disputes, now fell.
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18 273 Where men so numerous, and noble and wise, were gathered, surely naught could be amiss.
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28 43 "They have obtained numerous kaiila, much loot and many women.
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28 297 At the back of the camp, there were screaming and the sounds of numerous kaiila, squealing and snorting, their clawed feet tearing at the grass.
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40 743 Perhaps, if she well proved herself, and worked hard and well, and learned to lick and kiss with deferential, humble, and exquisite skill, and pleased muchly in numerous, sundry ways, she might be permitted to remain in the compound at the mercy of, and under the rule of, free persons.
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Book 19. (8 results) Kajira of Gor

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4 5 I was still muchly imperfect in many things, but there was little doubt in my mind, nor I think in that of my numerous teachers, that I had made considerable progress.
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14 76 I was put on my back and the man, swiftly, with numerous small keys, and some of the other tools, addressed himself to my collar lock.
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21 33 It would bear not only my own scent but that of numerous other women as well.
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24 164 The historical explanation of this is that it was originally intended to make it difficult for male slaves to make contact with one another and to keep them from understanding how numerous they might be.
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24 165 On the other hand, male slaves are not numerous, at least within the cities, as opposed to the great farms or the quarries, and they are, in fact, usually collared.
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30 142 My trails would presumably be particularly rich and numerous in that vicinity.
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33 6 There were numerous other dignitaries there, as well, both from Argentum and from other cities.
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36 654 There is no doubt that numerous, lovely, scarcely clad slaves, in the streets and boulevards, in the plazas and parks, on the bridges and amongst the towers, perhaps hurrying on errands, perhaps casting shy glances over their shoulders at young men, perhaps visiting or shopping with their masters, a...
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Book 20. (10 results) Players of Gor

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2 284 The audience is already familiar with them, from numerous performances in dozens of plays and farces, many of them largely improvised around certain standard types of situations.
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12 6 In this time we had played numerous villages and towns, sometimes just outside their walls, or even against them, when we had not been permitted within.
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12 75 Many players of Kaissa, not even of the caste of players, incidentally, know several openings, in numerous variations, several moves into the game.
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12 462 Often, in such a message, one might theoretically work out numerous, and often conflicting, analyses.
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12 606 The water was now rather dirty, and in it there floated numerous scrapings from various vegetables.
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16 565 At this point Chino delivered to Lecchio one of the numerous kicks in the shins, and such, which the crowds had come to expect in these diversions.
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16 740 "Your modesty, then, and our time, they being so numerous and lengthy, forbid me recounting them to you".
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16 903 Even the numerous naked slaves who were serving the tables and, as men wished them, the banqueters, stopped serving, and, carrying their vessels and trays, stood still, looking, too, to the stage.
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19 200 I myself would have had great difficulty locating him in Brundisium, but I, on the other hand, could not follow him softly, swiftly, silently, through numerous passages, with the tenacity of a sleen, with the menace of a larl, intent upon his tracks.
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22 278 On the other hand, they are apparently numerous, and some of them, I gather, are highly placed".
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Book 21. (7 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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1 81 Her hands went to the stiff, high brocaded collar of her robes, the robes of concealment, to the numerous eyes and hooks there, holding it tightly, protectively, about her throat, up high under her chin.
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2 73 The soldiers of Cos, and their mercenary contingents, no matter how numerous, will be no match for the marshaled squares of Ar".
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11 109 "I had thought it must be from the sale of numerous rich gems, doubtless sewn in your jacket," I said.
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11 272 Too, I might have misread what seemed to be numerous and obvious signs of need in her.
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16 1422 Too, numerous, low, horizontal wall slots, some three or four inches in height, through which metal-shod poles, stout metal crescents at their tips, could be thrust, and maneuvered, marked their bleakness.
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25 1378 Another danger, and perhaps one more serious, is that a misdirected response would be provoked in which, say, angry males, perhaps unable to take direct action because of the numerous, carefully wrought political traps and snares trammeling them, would think themselves, consciously or subconsciously...
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25 1979 She moved then, and turned, upon the mat, sometimes on her belly, sometimes on her back, sometimes on her side, sometimes kneeling, sometimes sitting, sometimes curled up, sometimes bending backwards, pausing every moment or so, for a moment or so, stock-still, posing, that I might feast my eyes upo...
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Book 22. (5 results) Dancer of Gor

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8 25 In the dirt there were numerous tracks and prints, many of them of small hoofs, marking perhaps the place of passage of small groups of some sort of animal.
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11 839 A long belt of cord, to which were attached numerous metal disks, suspended and shimmering, was then looped twice about me, the first loop secured high, and tight, at my waist, and the second loop, a larger loop, a framing loop, was secured in such a way, in the back, that it would hang quite low on...
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14 345 It, and numerous other disciplines and devices, we so helpless, serve to keep us well in line.
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20 184 Citizenship, or its retention, on other than a nominal basis, in some cities, is contingent on such things as attending public ceremonies, such as an official semiannual taking of auspices, and participating in numerous public assemblies, some of which are called on short notice.
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25 29 The wire was slave wire, with its closely interwoven latticework of sharp, swaying strands, and, numerous and closely set, at intervals of less than a hort, its barbs and knifelike prongs.
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Book 23. (13 results) Renegades of Gor

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1 13 It is fairly typical, however, with some of the less numerous wagon peoples of the north, such as the tribes of the Alars, particularly when separated from one another on the march, though there one might note the circle is often very large and as many as four or five wagons deep.
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2 161 "The attackers are numerous.
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6 697 The harness he referred to was undoubtedly not a security harness but a training harness, a complex affair, consisting of numerous straps and rings.
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10 175 Little as it may be, I suspect this is far more than was provided for the many chaps who paid for her meals, her lodging, her wardrobe, her transportation, her luxuries, her claimed needs, her numerous bills".
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15 1046 There are numerous ways in which such fraud may be terminated, for example, to throw the woman into water, to hold her head under water for a bit, to see if she tries to free her head, sputtering and begging for mercy, to put her under the whip, to use the bastinado on the soles of her feet, to claw...
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16 497 Through some of these I could see numerous shapes, on various levels.
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19 47 Too, one wonders how a simple scholar could have come by the numerous beautiful slaves and fortresslike villa of a Carl Commenius.
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20 412 In orderly fashion, unchallenged, the numerous soldiers, guardsmen, armed oarsmen and such who had lined the inner side of the piers, facing the inner harbor, withdrew to the fifteen waiting ships.
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21 84 "Hard at work at his desk, attending to numerous administrative duties," said Calliodorus.
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21 108 The device permits of numerous adjustments.
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21 433 "Or perhaps more appropriately yet," he said, "to numerous, various labors of a more delightful sort, labors particularly suitable for females".
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24 752 Gorean, as might be supposed, given the voyages of acquisition, and such, contains numerous words from one Earth language or another, from many times and places, mostly ancient, some modern.
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24 782 Beyond the pier, abutting on harborside wharfage, there were numerous buildings, mostly shops, such as those of sailmakers, oarmakers and sawyers, and warehouses, and, here and there, between these buildings, narrow streets, stretching up toward the city.
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Book 24. (14 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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3 100 Too, now, the winter over, he could bring his numerous mercenaries together again, recalling their standards from a dozen winter camps.
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6 56 Troops of Ar, in their numerous craft, some men even wading, were all about.
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9 106 Such a vessel made a startling, unconscionable contrast with the meanness, that wretched, ragged, numerous miscellany, of other craft about.
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14 254 More injuries, I think, were suffered as the result of their thrashing about, the swift movements of those gigantic tails, the strokes of which could break legs, and hurl a fellow yards away, than from the laceration of numerous, white, curved, hooklike teeth, than from the pounding closings of thos...
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18 50 I saw with satisfaction the men of Ar take what shelter they could, digging into the sand, pulling blankets about them, covering themselves with rence, wrapping cloths about their head and eyes, burying their head in their arms, doing whatever they could do to prepare themselves for the imminent arr...
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19 129 This is to be expected in a culture in which female slaves are numerous and the capture and mastery of women is a commonplace.
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19 923 I did not doubt but what she would recall that she had, back on the other island, days ago, when she had had power, the backing of numerous armed men, been the issuer of such instructions, not their recipient.
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19 1031 In the repertoire of an experienced slave, of course, it is one of her nonverbal signals, one of those numerous signals, such as need knots, body touchings, and such, by means of which she may express herself, even if forbidden to speak.
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28 243 "The journey is long and difficult, the dangers profound and numerous.
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39 83 I looked about the floor, at the numerous patrons.
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40 128 "In the tunnel, mixed in with the prints of the men, in the dust, were the numerous prints of small, bared feet".
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46 346 From this vantage, too, of course, I could look about, over the vast floor of this open structure, beneath its wooden roof, supported on numerous tall, squared pillars.
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46 373 There, on pegs, and ropes, were hanging numerous slave garments, camisks, tunics, silks, and such.
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47 36 I then, and two or three other fellows, they keeping their distance, all of us moving purposefully, and as rapidly as was practical, began to examine the cages, the kennels, the fair prisoners of the numerous stakes and posts, of the slave bars, and the chains in our immediate vicinity.
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Book 25. (24 results) Magicians of Gor

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2 269 In such groups there are normally numerous subtle relationships, hierarchies of dominance, and such, but when a male appears they are all instantly reduced, before him, to the commonality of their beauty and bondage.
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2 297 "There are, of course, numerous other ways in which to tie slave girdles," said Marcus.
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3 847 This might explain why, even today, and doubtless numerous genetic codings later, codings obviously favoring frequent and aperiodic sexuality, some women are, so to speak, in addition, still "called by the moon".
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4 72 The army of Cos was the largest ever brought to the field on Gor, and it was now, after the fall of Ar's Station, abetted by numerous reinforcements from the north.
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6 139 "Are the Cosians numerous?" asked a man.
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7 195 Regulars of Cos, regiments of them, in ordered lines, in cleaned, pressed blue, with polished helmets and shields, preceded by numerous standard bearers, representing far more units than were doubtless in the city at the moment, and musicians, advanced.
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7 562 Such a surface would be likely to be quite smooth to her feet, too, presumably having been worn smooth by the bared feet of numerous women before her.
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8 141 There were also numerous small holes in the wall, chipped at the edges.
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8 245 Too, given its strength, ponderous tharlarion, together with numerous other beasts, wagons and such, could appear on it, as they had last night, for example, in staged battles, in which Lurius of Jad, by personal intervention and at great personal risk, again and again turned the tide, and triumphal...
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8 957 To be sure, this is a war of warriors, not of technicians and engineers, a war of men, not of machines, not of explosives, not of microscopic allies, not of poisoned atmospheres, wars in which the tiny, numerous meek, in their swarms, crawling on six legs, will inherit the earth.
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8 1012 Tomorrow, however, I did not doubt but what the flute girls would be back, and numerous guards in attendance, at least on the street.
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9 180 There were numerous protests concerning Talena's apparent willingness to accept, and share, the guilt of Ar.
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9 198 Beneath the stands of the Stadium of Blades were numerous holding areas, suitable for wild beasts, dangerous men, criminals, and such.
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9 236 What the women of Ar and those of Cos have in common, of course, despite their numerous political, cultural and dialectical differences, is that they are all females.
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9 614 Similarly there were numerous confiscations of slaves.
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11 108 In the back there were many ceramic articles about, vessels of numerous sorts, on tiers, and stacks of shallow bowls.
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12 97 This is not to deny, as suggested, that a slave may be subjected to numerous blows, commands and strictures in her training.
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12 257 Such texts, and numerous others, like them, are sometimes utilized in a girl's training, particularly by professional slavers.
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13 21 Such sports as these were familiar to Goreans, and had for years been privately practiced at numerous palestrae throughout the city.
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20 529 His insults had been numerous, well thought out, stinging, and delivered with flair.
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23 369 It was not that I had difficulty in adding and subtracting, of course, but rather that I was not always as knowledgeable as I might be about the relative values of various coins, of numerous cities, which, of course, depended on such things as compositions and weights, and exchange rates, which migh...
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25 454 The authenticity of a slave's words and responses, of course, are attested to by numerous bodily cues, many of which they are unaware of, and cannot control.
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26 510 "I know Appanius well, and his position in this city is much dependent upon my support! Have I not freed him of numerous burdens? Have I not adjusted his taxes? Have I not spared his house, and those of other favorites, the exactions of the levies?" "You acknowledge, then," asked Tolnar, "that you a...
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27 495 Some numerous coins, of smaller denomination than gold pieces, I thought, might be useful to him.
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Book 26. (20 results) Witness of Gor

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6 15 But there are numerous variations in such things, as there are in ways to kneel, ways to hurry, ways to serve, ways to crawl to the furs, and such.
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7 158 This was hard to understand, of course, as it was merely one of the numerous variations on the common mark.
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8 255 But I did not know, at that time, if they were numerous or not.
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8 726 I did not doubt but what we were numerous.
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9 245 I had learned to cook and clean, to sew and launder, and to perform numerous domestic tasks.
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10 838 I saw, in the bottom of the depression, some forty feet below, numerous upward-pointing knives.
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11 5 Above it, supported by beams, casting a pattern of almost intangible shadows, seeming to stir on the flagging, were numerous, swaying strands of fine wire.
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12 374 How beautiful I seemed! And how strikingly lovely, too, was the necklace, in its numerous, softly shining strands.
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12 927 It was narrow, and close-fitting, like mine; this is the sort of collar found most frequently on this world's numerous kajirae; most of us wear it.
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13 129 And there were numerous other ways, too, physical and otherwise, in which my origins might be betrayed, such as a vaccination mark and two tiny fillings.
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13 535 "In the pits," said he, "there are numerous such devices.
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14 554 In my training I had been taught the performance of numerous servile tasks.
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14 680 "In my city, Besnit," she said, "slave girls are numerous.
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14 1671 On the right there were numerous warehouses.
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16 49 There were numerous, rich hangings.
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16 517 Numerous times, sweating in my collar, I yielded.
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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 33 Naturally, too, there are numerous outposts of the city in the mountains, at which tarnsmen are always on the alert.
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19 133 Too, what room would there have been for slaves? The numerous baskets, the arrayed booty rings, the varieties of saddle straps, and such, were already "taken," so to speak—by free women.
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24 223 Surely there must be! I was sure, too, there would be numerous guardsmen, spearmen, bowmen.
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Book 27. (14 results) Prize of Gor

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13 19 On the broad, circular roof, some fifty yards in diameter, there were numerous, sturdy, tiered racks of poles on which levels of laundry might be dried, and, between these racks, were numerous swaying lines, from which a great deal more wash, like flags, shook, flapped and fluttered in the wind, hel...
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4 346 Accordingly, in many respects, not being afflicted by these processes, the human beings of our supposed world, that on which I am inviting you to conjecture, might tend in many ways to be healthier and happier, and to find their lives more rewarding and meaningful, more worth living, than many of th...
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11 55 There are, of course, numerous exceptions.
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13 42 It was one of the "high cities," a forest of cylinders, a city of towering, spaced cylinders, many of them in bright colors, and, joining these cylinders, at various levels, like light curving, colored, rail-less traceries in the sky, were numerous bridges.
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15 424 Ellen had seen such papers before, when she had been examined in great detail, apparently partly to ascertain identifying marks, subjected to numerous measurements, and fingerprinted and toeprinted.
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16 86 Across the square were numerous stalls, where vendors displayed their goods.
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16 149 On the collars of the girls closest to her, on her left and right, she could see numerous scratches, some things seemingly scratched in, and others scratched out.
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16 154 She was sure that numerous girls, before her, had worn that collar, and she supposed that others, after her, might do so, as well.
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16 383 And even if a girl knows, or suspects, that she is not being taught normal Gorean, she is unlikely to know precisely in what subtle and numerous ways her speech will betray her as slave.
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24 758 It is not unusual for a master to speak of numerous matters with his female slave, politics, culture, music, history, philosophy, and such, almost as though she might be his equal, though she is likely to be kneeling before him, naked, and back-braceleted.
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26 250 "No alarms have been sounded! There has been no attack on us!" All of this made little sense to Ellen, for she had supposed that the confiscated, gathered wealth of a dozen cities, and hundreds of smaller communities, destined for the troops of Cos and Tyros, and the regiments of mercenaries in Ar a...
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26 286 The numerous psychological dimensions of sexuality, well understood by, and well exploited by, Gorean masters, enhance a thousand times the sexual experiences of their chattels.
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29 395 There would be no misguided, ignorant fellows here to rush forward and stay the hand of propriety and justice, no stalwart if simple heroes who would stupidly save her from the consequences of her numerous faults, who would see to it that she yet again evaded the consequences of her acts with impuni...
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30 502 First, some free women, disconsolate and lonely, unhappy, miserable, deprived of sex, starved for love, distressed with the numerous circumscriptions and constraints which confine them, realizing the boredom, the emptiness, of their lives, "court the collar".
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Book 28. (11 results) Kur of Gor

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1 316 In this way, a prize slave may be used to produce numerous offspring.
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2 104 There were numerous glassine droplets scattered about.
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2 272 And we must admit, certainly given the women she had seen, who were numerous, of course, there was some justification for this view.
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18 180 When foreign tarnsmen, intent on plying chain luck, descend to acquire this seemingly vulnerable trove of loveliness, they are surprised, for numerous guardsmen emerge suddenly from concealed pits and encircle them.
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33 56 "Indeed, by now the world may be abundantly repopulated, with numerous reinforcements for Agamemnon, the fleet having returned".
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37 11 It was difficult to avoid these small camps, which were numerous, and the senses of Kurii, as is well known, tend to be acute.
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39 73 The first thing he did was wave to his left and right, backward, as though encouraging cohorts, who might be numerous, to remain concealed.
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45 120 His contributions had proved numerous and invaluable.
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54 19 "Indeed, even noble Flavion, alone, in his numerous and courageous excursions in our behalf, has fared similarly".
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77 60 "Your faults," said Cabot, "are numerous and heinous".
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79 678 "Millions of women, in numerous cultures, on various worlds, have had this experience," said Cabot, "some of them several times".
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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14 76 Indeed, I would soon learn numerous items of unusual value were stored in the warmth of certain of the sheds at the plaza of training.
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16 277 I seized the mounting ladder of my tarn, hastened to the saddle, strung the ladder, fastened the safety strap, and yanked back on the one-strap, and, in a moment, the field of the training plaza, with its numerous, riddled targets, was falling away, beneath me.
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38 111 As we were speaking, numerous Pani, and mercenaries, were ascending the ramp, boarding.
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38 144 The sales-platform girls are supplemented, to some extent, by captures brought from Earth, but those captures, though quite numerous, abstractly considered, constitute only a small fraction of Gorean female slaves, perhaps one in two or three hundred.
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38 272 In any event, Lord Nishida had sent numerous Pani forth to track and return Licinius to custody.
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38 366 There were numerous small cabins for officers on the great ship.
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43 60 In any event, there are numerous uses for domestic sleen, far more than it would be practical or convenient to enumerate.
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Book 30. (6 results) Mariners of Gor

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1 282 It was rare as a slave name until after the fall of Ar, and the rise of Talena of Ar to the throne of Ar, placed on the throne as a puppet Ubara by the occupying forces of victorious Cos and Tyros, the major maritime Ubarates of Gor, abetted by numerous mercenary companies.
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1 324 Talena, smug with the spears of invaders behind her, sat regally upon her father's throne, and abused her power wickedly, using it to further reduce and diminish her city, and avenged herself rampantly, as she wished, upon numerous enemies, or putative enemies, or on anyone she might wish, as the hu...
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1 331 Amongst her supporters, and numerous collaborators, battening on the misery of the city, corruption was rampant.
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3 250 Only later were we to reconstruct what had occurred, the pockets of our resistance, overcome one by one, the decimated retreats, the slaughterings, the terror, the blood, the hunting of traitors and collaborators, the joining of the forces of Ar, maintained during the occupation, to the uprising, th...
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3 731 To be sure, it had been the port at which the invasion fleets of Cos and Tyros, unopposed, even welcomed, had made their landfall on the continent, thence to rendezvous with numerous companies of mercenaries, for the march to Ar.
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21 282 Already men had rushed below decks, to obtain access to the three remaining nested galleys, and the numerous tiny, tiered, ship's boats.
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Book 31. (8 results) Conspirators of Gor

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8 1511 Bondage, whatever might be its numerous effects, feminizes a woman, radically, and the feminine woman is the most female, the most beautiful, of all women.
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25 1 "Ho," said Trachinos, pointing, "is that not the Crag of Kleinias?" We had come to a high point in the trail, which, with the edge of the mountains, the slopes, and valleys, had numerous ascents and descents.
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27 106 Numerous were the portals about, and abundant the passageways.
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30 65 Numerous are the variations which might appear in such matters.
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35 13 The room was lit with energy bulbs, as were the numerous chambers and labyrinthine halls of the Cave.
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35 67 These means, together with numerous supplementary Kur contingents, as possible, will be obtained from one or more of the remote habitats of Kurii.
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35 73 All this would be seemingly done within the weapon and technology laws of the Priest-Kings, until the final phase, the invasion of Gor from the remote habitats, abetted by the numerous emplaced Kurii, with their contraband weaponry".
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53 7 It is my conjecture that it is as unlikely to be taken any more seriously by them than, as I gather, the numerous warnings issued privately to various city councils on known Gor.
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Book 32. (4 results) Smugglers of Gor

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14 214 We not only did not like where we were and what we were doing, but we were at risk, as well, for no reason we understood, from the hostility of apparently numerous, formidable, skilled foes.
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23 141 It was quite different from the other Gorean vessels I had seen, which tended to be numerous, graceful, slender, and beautiful, low in the water, long in keel, and narrow in beam, even the "round ships".
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37 181 The mouth of the Alexandra then need not be closed, and its numerous guardians, in effect an army, might be paid and dismissed.
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39 184 We are in the employ of others, numerous and dangerous others.
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Book 33. (6 results) Rebels of Gor

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10 33 General Yamada's lines of encirclement, ample to resist and turn back any likely sallying forth from the holding, were numerous, thick, and deep.
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16 31 Whereas I had been given much liberty of movement within the palace, the garden, and the surrounding grounds, with their shops, pantries, storerooms, and numerous ancillary buildings, including a bakery, smokehouse, and brewery, certain areas were forbidden to me.
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46 39 She was sobbing, and her body, her arms and legs, bore the numerous snakelike marks of her master's wrath.
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54 183 There have been numerous instances not only of the clash of armies before walled, besieged cities, sometimes almost daily, often involving challenges and conflicts of champions, but there is always the danger of destructive, nocturnal raids, designed to burn tents and spread panic, or, often, to dis...
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57 314 "The palace is large, rooms are numerous, and some may be secret".
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59 6 The boards of the flooring, and those of the dais, were of dark, polished wood, and the walls, also of dark wood, were ornamented by numerous characters, designs, and images of light wood, inlaid in the darker wood.
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Book 34. (3 results) Plunder of Gor

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15 273 I could see little from within the basket other than through the opened gate, the boards outside, but there were numerous, tiny openings between the woven fibers.
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51 279 "Recently," said Kurik, "at the behest of Decius Albus, I, in the guise of a merchant envoy from a mythical city, Mytilene, was introduced in, and entertained in, the Commerce Court, one of the receiving courts of the palace, and there, in that guise, met numerous officiaries, administrators, dignit...
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51 280 The slave accompanied me, and, on the way to, and from, the receiving chamber, we passed numerous guards.
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Book 35. (3 results) Quarry of Gor

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37 36 It could have been any one of a hundred walkways bordered by canals in any one of the numerous districts of the city.
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41 219 "They are numerous, far more so than we, and dangerous.
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46 364 "Despite her numerous lacks, failings, shortcomings, flaws, and faults, she is a female.
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Book 36. (8 results) Avengers of Gor

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3 69 I suspected, from the number of ships involved, that they were not only numerous, but well equipped, well organized, and well led.
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33 125 "I do not think," said Thurnock, "that they believe we are truly numerous, that there is a Peasant Army".
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34 70 "What would convince the enemy that we are numerous?" I asked.
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41 202 "First," I said, "how numerous is the enemy ashore?" "We do not know," he said.
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44 65 Too, the enemy soon became wary of 'seeming weaknesses' as too often, in such locations, defenders proved to be the most numerous and best prepared.
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57 117 At the same time our men, bearing swords, axes, knives, and even clubs, rushed out from behind the screens, sure footed from the bits of nails fastened in their sandals and boots, and fell, like butchers on verr, on the numerous discomfited and often helpless foes, most unable to regain or maintain ...
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59 34 The Theran fleet under Nicomachos, anticipating land action on Chios near Mytilene, had embarked with numerous Cosian regulars aboard, which allowed frequent shifts of oarsmen, an advantage which the corsair fleet had itself hitherto exploited, this now, however, enabling the Theran fleet to equal, ...
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60 69 "Something far more dangerous than the passive spined tharlarion," he said, "something small, numerous, mindlessly aggressive, and hungry".
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