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Book 1. (9 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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5 131 As I crossed the Vosk, that mighty river, some forty pasangs in width, which hurtles past the frontiers of Ar to pour into the Tamber Gulf, I realized that I was at last within the borders of the Empire of Ar.
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5 144 At first even the countryside was depressing, for the men of Ar, as a military policy, had devastated an area of some two or three hundred pasangs on their borders, cutting down fruit trees, filling wells, and salting the fertile areas.
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7 85 About three or four pasangs distant, through the thinning swamp trees, I could see the verdant meadows of Ar's Sa-Tarna land.
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9 115 There is a camp there such as you have never seen—a city of tents, pasangs of tharlarion corrals; the wings of the tarns sound like thunder overhead.
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11 3 As the caravan mounted a rise, we saw spread far below us, on the banks of the Vosk, a sight of incredible barbaric splendor—pasangs of brightly colored tents stretching as far as the eye could see, a vast assemblage of tents housing one of the greatest armies ever gathered on the plains of G...
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11 14 As it was, my fellow guards and I earned our pay those last few pasangs to the banks of the Vosk.
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13 7 I took the tarn high, to bring a circle of some two hundred pasangs or so under my view.
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13 27 Momentarily it was answered, once from about two pasangs to the west and once from about the same distance to the southwest.
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20 24 Accordingly, the Ubar, tears in his eyes, was publicly refused bread and salt, and, under penalty of death, was ordered to leave Ar by sundown, never again to come within ten pasangs of the city.
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Book 2. (8 results) Outlaw of Gor

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6 1 Vera The Sardar Mountains, which I had never seen, lay more than a thousand pasangs from Ko-ro-ba.
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15 17 I watched the pasangs flow by below, and saw Tharna disappear in the distance.
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15 48 In the distance, perhaps some forty pasangs away, I saw a set of ridges, lofty and steep, rearing out of a broad, yellow meadow of talenders, a delicate, yellow-petaled flower, often woven into garlands by Gorean maidens.
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15 53 The great bird paused in flight, braking with its wings, and then smoothly descended to a high ledge on one of the ridges, a ledge commanding the countryside for pasangs around, a ledge accessible only on tarnback.
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15 227 In its talons it held a great piece of meat, bloody and raw, which had been torn from some kill, perhaps a bosk more than twenty pasangs away.
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16 2 It lay about one hundred pasangs northwest of the city, and was a lonely white column of solid marble, perhaps four hundred feet in height and a hundred feet in diameter.
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21 13 But this was a small camp, not like the pasangs of wagons that constituted the entourage of the wealthy Mintar.
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23 2 I could see before me, some pasangs away, the pavilions of the Fair of En'Kara, and beyond those the looming ridges of the Sardar, ominous, black, sheer.
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Book 3. (8 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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2 72 I had once killed a male red larl in the Voltai Range within pasangs of the city of Ar.
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2 81 A case is known of a larl who traveled more than twenty-five hundred pasangs to seek a certain shallow crevice in the Voltai in which he had been whelped.
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6 17 The grapes were purple and, I suppose, Ta grapes from the lower vineyards of the terraced island of Cos some four hundred pasangs from Port Kar.
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8 107 Treve was alleged to lie above Ar, some seven hundred pasangs distant, and toward the Sardar.
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8 147 Thus when the tarnsmen of Treve came to the grain fields of Ko-ro-ba, which lie for the most part some pasangs from the city, toward the Vosk and Tamber Gulf, they would find her tarnsmen arrayed against them.
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10 122 Its diameter might have been ten pasangs in width.
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11 1 Sarm the Priest-King I turned from the railing to observe the great ramp which for pasangs in a great spiral approached the platform on which I stood.
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33 5 Several times, in fact, I had simply leaped from one portion of the trail to float more than a hundred feet downward to land lightly on another portion of the trail, a point which, on foot, might have been separated by more than five pasangs from the point above from which I had leaped.
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Book 4. (26 results) Nomads of Gor

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1 34 Even with the harnessed might of several huge tharlarion drawing toward the opposite shore the crossing took us several pasangs downriver.
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1 44 There, some pasangs distant, I saw columns of smoke rising in the cold air, where fields were burning.
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2 105 A kaiila, which normally stands about twenty to twenty-two hands at the shoulder, can cover as much as six hundred pasangs in a single day's riding.
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5 20 They are also used if a slave escapes, for the sleen is an efficient, tireless, savage, almost infallible hunter, capable of pursuing a scent, days old, for hundreds of pasangs until, perhaps a month later, it finds its victim and tears it to pieces.
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7 28 I gathered that once, in his earlier years, he might have been a rider of the kaiila, that he might have been skilled with the bow and lance, and the quiva; such a man would not need ceremony; I sensed that once this man might have ridden six hundred pasangs in a day, living on a mouthful of water a...
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8 36 The Turians also, I note, receive other goods from the Wagon Peoples, who tend to be fond of the raid, goods looted from caravans perhaps a thousand pasangs from the herds, indeed some of them even on the way to and from Turia itself.
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8 41 The winter came fiercely down on the herds some days before expected, with its fierce snows and the long winds that sometimes have swept twenty-five hundred pasangs across the prairies; snow covered the grass, brittle and brown already, and the herds were split into a thousand fragments, each with i...
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8 47 Still farther north, another hundred pasangs, there was no snow and the peoples began to sing and once more dance about their fires of bosk dung.
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10 1 Love War It was early in the morning, several days after Saphrar's banquet, that Kamchak and myself, among some hundreds of others of the Four Wagon Peoples, came to the Plains of a Thousand Stakes, some pasangs distant from lofty Turia.
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10 2 Judges and craftsmen from Ar, hundreds of pasangs away, across the Cartius, were already at the stakes, inspecting them and preparing the ground between them.
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10 188 The two lines of stakes extended for more than four pasangs across the prairie.
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11 139 "There are bosk to be groomed," he informed her, "and their horns and hoofs must be polished—there is fodder to be fetched and dung to be gathered—the wagon must be wiped and the wheels greased—and there is water to be brought from the stream some four pasangs away and meat to h...
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12 9 The prairie stretched away for hundreds of pasangs in all directions.
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12 54 Both girls had apparently washed at the stream some four pasangs away, taking the opportunity to do so while fetching water.
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13 180 On the way we passed a girl, a girl from Cos taken hundreds of pasangs away in a raid on a caravan bound for Ar.
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14 30 There on a front pasangs in length, already the Thousands had nearly formed, and long lines of riders, few gaps in their ranks, waited, lance in hand, their eyes on the war lanterns.
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15 8 Several times also, hosts of tharlarion had attempted to protect caravans leaving the city, or advanced to meet scheduled caravans approaching Turia, but each time in spite of this support, the swift, harrying, determined riders of the Tuchuks had forced the caravans to turn back, or man by man, bea...
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15 21 There was, after all, no place on the prairies to hide the wagons or the bosk, and tarnsmen could easily reach them anywhere within a radius of several hundred pasangs.
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16 17 "Here," said Harold, pointing to a cut between two rocks, only about eight inches wide, through which from some underground source a flow of water was emerging, entering and adding to the small stream at which, some four pasangs from the wagons, Aphris and Elizabeth had often drawn water for the wag...
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16 59 It is one thing to roll about in a public bath or splash about in some pool or stream, but quite another to struggle for pasangs against a current in a tunnel channel with only a few inches between the water and the roof of the tunnel.
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21 19 Slowly, wagon by wagon, the long columns of the Tuchuk retreat were formed, each wagon in its column, each column in its place, and, covering pasangs of prairie, the march from Turia had begun.
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23 100 It would be, of course, only a matter of time before our barricade would be forced or outflanked, perhaps from five pasangs distant, in an undefended sector.
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23 192 Whether, after we had moved the wagons and bosk some pasangs away, we should remain there, or proceed toward the pastures this side of the Ta-Thassa Mountains, or return toward Turia, was not decided.
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23 194 The Kataii main force and the Kassar main force camped separately some pasangs from the Tuchuk camp and the field and would, in the morning, return to their own wagons.
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26 438 He added, "It was wise of them, for the Wagon Peoples are among the farthest and most fierce of the Goreans, living free hundreds of pasangs from all cities, save Turia".
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28 68 "Good fortune attend you, Tarl Cabot, Commander of a Thousand Tuchuks, Warrior of Ko-ro-ba!" I lifted my hand to them and then drew on the one-strap and the wings of the great tarn began to strike the resistant air and the Tuchuks on all sides fell back stumbling in the dust and the driven wind smot...
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Book 5. (8 results) Assassin of Gor

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5 320 Their ships have sensing devices perhaps the match of our own; they scatter; they have weapons, primitive perhaps, but yet effective at ranges of a hundred thousand pasangs".
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7 2 I, and Cernus and Ho-Tu, and others, stood in the lonely darkness of a recessed ledge on a high peak in the Voltai, some pasangs northeast of Ar.
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12 100 Racing tarns are not used by tarnsmen in war because they lack the weight and power of war tarns; meeting a war tarn in flight, a racing tarn would be torn to pieces in moments; further, the racing tarns, though marvelous in their particular ways, lack the stamina of the common tarn or the war tarn;...
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12 138 This race was a short one, only five pasangs in length, and one of the nonfaction birds won, much to the displeasure of the crowd, saving those who had dared to accept the long odds on such a bird.
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17 222 By the end of that month the other Hinrabians of Ar, in the face of widespread public anger, hastily liquidated their assets at considerable loss and fled from the walls of Ar, joining Minus Tentius Hinrabius some pasangs beyond the city.
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17 224 Unfortunately the caravan, not more than two hundred pasangs from the Great Gate of Ar, was attacked and plundered by a large armed force, but of unknown origin.
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19 14 On the seat of the wagon, which was drawn by a horned tharlarion, sat the driver and the Scribe whom I had known as Caprus, whose real name, as I had been informed, was Philemon of Tyros, an island some hundreds of pasangs west of Port Kar.
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19 145 The northern forests, the haunts of bandits and unusual beasts, far to the north and east of Ko-ro-ba, my city, are magnificent, deep forests, covering hundreds of thousands of square pasangs.
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Book 6. (23 results) Raiders of Gor

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10 249 Both lie some four hundred pasangs west of Port Kar, Tyros to the south of Cos, separated by some hundred pasangs from her.
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1 50 On river barges, for hundreds of pasangs, I had made my way down the Vosk, but where the mighty Vosk began to break apart and spread into its hundreds of shallow, constantly shifting channels, becoming lost in the vast tidal marshes of its delta, moving toward gleaming Thassa, the Sea, I had abandon...
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1 58 The channels of the Vosk, to be sure, shift from season to season, and the delta is often little more than a trackless marsh, literally hundreds of square pasangs of estuarial wilderness.
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1 60 The most important reason for not finding a guide, of course, even among the eastern rence growers, is that the delta is claimed by Port Kar, which lies within it, some hundred pasangs from its northwestern edge, bordering on the shallow Tamber Gulf, beyond which is gleaming Thassa, the Sea.
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1 84 Sometimes rence merchants, on narrow marsh craft rowed by slaves, enter some pasangs into the delta to negotiate the transactions, usually from the western edge, that bordering the Tamber Gulf.
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9 111 The nearest solid land, other than occasional bars in the marshes, to Port Kar lies to her north, some one hundred pasangs distant.
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9 113 It lay hundreds of pasangs from the nearest Gorean city other, of course, than Port Kar.
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9 133 The nearest solid land was about one hundred pasangs to the north, but it was open land, and, there, on the edges of the delta, there were log outposts of Port Kar, where slave hunters and trained sleen, together, patrolled the marshes' edges.
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9 135 He could follow a scent days old with ease, and then, perhaps hundreds of pasangs, and days, later, be unleashed for the sport of the hunters, to tear his victim to pieces.
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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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11 121 And have patrols doubled, and extend their perimeters by fifty pasangs".
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11 123 "Have the patrols doubled, and extend their perimeters by fifty pasangs," I repeated.
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11 201 "Yes," he said, "and their perimeters extended by fifty pasangs".
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14 472 The seventeen ships are not to enter battle unless accompanied by the Dorna, and under no conditions, if battle ensues, are any of my ships to move more than four pasangs from the fleet".
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14 481 The enemy fleet, the twelve ships, was now, by estimate from the lookout, with his glass, some four pasangs distant.
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14 482 If they came within two pasangs, I would board the Dorna.
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14 484 "Do you wager," I asked him, "that they come within two pasangs?" "They will fight!" he said.
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16 190 A net, a hundred pasangs wide, was closing on Port Kar.
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16 276 "Officers," I cried, "to your ships! Form your lines beyond the harbor four pasangs west of the wharves of Sevarius!" "Yes, Captain!" they cried.
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18 140 I did not know the width of the storm, but I hoped its front would be only a few pasangs.
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18 372 Surely she knew the fleet, as well as I, had been driven pasangs south, and would not be able to reach the harbor of Port Kar for another two or three days, at the least.
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18 639 The rest of the fleet was still doubtless a hundred or more pasangs to the south.
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18 956 This was an expression, in the first knowledge, for the sea some hundred pasangs west of Cos and Tyros, beyond which the ships of Goreans do not go, or if go, do not return.
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Book 7. (5 results) Captive of Gor

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11 1111 And even should they be dispatched to the walls, perhaps upon some servile errand, they could see, for looming, remote pasangs about them, only the wild, bleak crags of the scarlet Voltai, and the sickening drop below them, the sheer fall from the walls and the cliffs below to the valley, pasangs be...
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7 4 He was bound, traveling over the hills and meadowlands east and north of Ko-ro-ba, for the city of Laura, which lies on the banks of the Laurius river, some two hundred pasangs inland from the coast of the sea, called Thassa.
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8 203 Lydius, the free port at the mouth of the Laurius, was more than two hundred pasangs downstream.
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9 224 The forests of the northern temperate latitudes of Gor are countries in themselves, covering hundreds of thousands of square pasangs of area.
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10 422 "Sometimes the sleen will follow a quarry for pasangs, before making its strike, lurking, approaching, withdrawing, then at last, when satisfied, attacking from the darkness".
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Book 8. (25 results) Hunters of Gor

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2 619 "The camp of Verna," she said, "and her dancing circle, lies one hundred pasangs north of Lydius, and twenty pasangs inland from the shore of Thassa".
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2 632 "The camp of Verna," she said, "lies ten pasangs upriver from Lydius, and fifty pasangs north, inland from the Laurius".
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1 253 "And hundreds of square pasangs, in the south and the west of the forest, I know".
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2 18 We were fifty pasangs north of Lydius, which port lies at the mouth of the Laurius River.
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2 211 "But from Lydius, he was to follow the river to Laurius, two hundred pasangs upstream.
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2 320 We were a mere ten pasangs from the exchange point where we had, the preceding day, obtained two panther girls.
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2 747 Her camp, on the north bank of a tiny stream, well concealed, is two pasangs to the north".
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3 11 I saw a blond giant from Torvaldsland, with braided hair, in shaggy jacket; a merchant from Tyros, hurrying, perfumed and sleek; seamen from Cos, and Port Kar, mortal enemies, yet passing one another without thought in the streets of Lydius; a black woman, veiled in yellow, borne in a palanquin by e...
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3 67 There is little water closer to it than a thousand pasangs.
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5 7 As we coasted the shores pasangs above Lydius, we had thrown them overboard.
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6 325 We had taken the Tesephone from the wharves of Laura, and ascended the river some twenty pasangs.
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6 910 The sound of the river was slow and sweet, moving between its banks, flowing downward to greet Thassa, the sea, more than two hundred pasangs from this small, silent camp.
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7 254 "Pasangs," she said.
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7 347 When Hura's band arrived, ready to fight for these pasangs of forest, ready to drive Verna's band out, they would meet no opposition.
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8 96 Perhaps they were lying in ambush, pasangs away, for a party of the men of Marlenus.
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11 1 Marlenus Holds a Flaminium In the camp of Marlenus, some pasangs north of Laura, I supped with the great Ubar.
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16 301 My own slave coffle, unknown to the men of Tyros and the girls of Hura, was camped not more than two pasangs away.
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18 11 He turned to face the Sardar, thousands of pasangs away.
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18 31 Yet on the trackless beaches, lining the western edge of the great northern forests for hundreds of pasangs, below the bleakness of Torvaldsland, it would not be easy to make rendezvous.
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18 197 The men of Tyros were hundreds of pasangs from civilization, but the flames of that blaze brought pleasure to them.
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18 352 The pile of branches and driftwood was some twenty pasangs south of the camp of the men of Tyros.
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18 486 He must not miss the beacon, which, somewhere along this lonely, sandy shore, in its hundreds of pasangs, would mark the position of Sarus and his men, Hura, and her women, and their captive slaves.
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18 487 Even if he lay to, if he held his ships within ten or more pasangs, he would see our marker, that great blaze in the darkness of the night.
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22 605 I will build a beacon the light of which will be seen fifty pasangs at sea".
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22 786 Its light would be seen more than fifty pasangs at sea.
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Book 9. (17 results) Marauders of Gor

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19 42 "It is five pasangs to the north," said Ivar Forkbeard, "and two pasangs offshore".
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1 149 But when I, half paralyzed and crippled, had left the shore of Thassa I had left behind me a beacon, a mighty beacon formed from the logs of the stockade of Sarus, and it had blazed behind me, visible for more than fifty pasangs at sea.
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2 82 It was, accordingly, the spiritual center of a district extending for hundreds of pasangs around.
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2 83 The nearest high initiate to Kassau was hundreds of pasangs south in Lydius.
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2 86 An Initiate may often travel for hundreds of pasangs and, each night, find himself in a house of Initiates.
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4 7 The stream of Torvald is a current, as a broad river in the sea, pasangs wide, whose temperature is greater than that of the surrounding water.
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4 41 In a day, a full Gorean day of twenty Ahn, with a fair wind they can cover from two hundred to two hundred and fifty pasangs.
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4 115 The mast is not high, only about thirty-five feet Gorean, but it permits a scanning of the horizon to something over two miles, something like three pasangs.
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5 262 The only mint at which gold coins were stamped within a thousand pasangs was in Lydius, at the mouth of the Laurius.
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7 214 We followed the man more than four pasangs, up the slopes, leading to the summer pastures.
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10 163 Thorstein Camp, well to the south, but yet north of Einar's Skerry, was a camp of fighting men, which controlled the countryside about it, for some fifty pasangs, taking tribute from the farms.
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15 184 It is something over four and a half pasangs in height, or something over seventeen thousand Earth feet.
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17 3 Below us, in the valley, spread out for more than ten pasangs we saw the encampment of Kurii.
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17 105 During this time, a hundred pasangs to the south, Svein Blue Tooth had set the rallying point of the men of Torvaldsland.
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17 107 It is nothing for a warrior to cover ninety pasangs on foot in a day.
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17 157 A sleen may bring a girl in, stumbling and weeping, from pasangs away, driving her, as Kurii take little notice, through their very camp, until she is entered into a herd.
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18 641 The Forkbeard and I, it had been, who had found the arrow of war in the Torvaldsberg, who had touched it to other arrows, which, in hundreds of villages and camps, over thousands of square pasangs of rugged, inlet-cleft terrain, had been carried to the free men of the north, that they might fetch th...
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Book 10. (33 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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11 409 This was irritating to Hassan, and did not much please me either, for the oasis of the Battle of Red Rock was the last of the major oases of the Tahari for more than two thousand pasangs eastward; it lay, in effect, on the borders of the dreaded dune country; there are oases in the dune country but ...
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4 42 The sand kaiila, or desert kaiila, is a kaiila, and handles similarly, but it is not identically the same animal which is indigenous, domestic and wild, in the middle latitudes of Gor's southern hemisphere; that animal, used as a mount by the Wagon Peoples, is not found in the northern hemisphere of...
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14 630 In the distance, below, perhaps five pasangs away, in the hot, concave, white salt bleakness, like a vast, white, shallow bowl, pasangs wide, there were compounds, low, white buildings of mud brick, plastered.
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1 483 "How well did he know the desert? How much water had he?" The man might have come thousands of pasangs before the kaiila had died, or fled.
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1 818 The area, in extent, east of Tor, was hundreds of pasangs in depth, and perhaps thousands in length.
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2 21 These communities, sometimes quite large, numbering in hundreds, sometimes thousands of citizens, depending on the water available, are often hundreds of pasangs apart.
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5 413 Dust, like the blade of a dark scimitar, for pasangs, swept toward us.
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7 95 Other than the well at Klima, there is no other water within a thousand pasangs.
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7 312 I would have expected such work to be done by nude female slaves, in work collar, chain and ankle ring, to keep them on their knees with their brushes, but it had not been; one of the administrative penalties of he who is sent to the brine pits of Klima is commonly to be deprived of the sight of fem...
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7 355 The desert, waterless, surrounds Klima, for more than a thousand pasangs on all sides.
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8 2 For better than fifty pasangs about the terrain was apparently combed, again and again, but yielded not even a trail.
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8 34 * * * * On a hill, more than two hundred pasangs north and east of Nine Wells, two days after I had left the oasis, I reined in, the kaiila turning on the graveled crest.
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8 74 By the time word of the raid reached Nine Wells the raiders might be thousands of pasangs away.
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11 50 A storm, of which one is unaware, perhaps pasangs away, can fill such a bed with a sudden flow of water, washing away one's camp and endangering life".
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11 249 "The oasis, which is some seventy pasangs distant, is reflected in the mirror of air above it, and then again reflected downward and away, at an angle".
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11 253 Red Rock, more than seventy pasangs away, is seen, in its image, here".
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12 78 Another, even larger, lay to its east some two pasangs.
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12 295 "There is another kasbah nearby," I said, "one which lies within two pasangs.
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13 33 The journey was not long, only some two pasangs.
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14 31 From where we were chained, I had been able to see, some two pasangs to the east, Tarna's kasbah.
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14 163 I could see Tarna's kasbah, some two pasangs away.
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15 4 These food stores are delivered to scouted areas some pasangs from the compounds, whence they are retrieved later by salt slaves.
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15 14 Or it may be that the seas were independent, being fed by rivers, washing down accumulated salt from rocks over millions of square pasangs.
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15 19 With the subsidence of the sea and the shifting of strata, certain cubic pasangs of salt, in certain areas, became pressed into granitelike formations, through which one may actually tunnel.
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15 163 Even in a march of a day one could pass, unknowingly, an oasis in the desert, wandering past it, missing it by as little as two or three pasangs.
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16 143 And, even if one could traverse the many pasangs of desert afoot, there would not be much likelihood, in the wilderness, of making one's way to Red Rock, or another oasis.
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16 229 It is my supposition that it was his intention to swim to the dock, more than four pasangs away.
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19 139 It was only as it approached that I understood it to be hundreds of feet in height, perhaps a hundred pasangs in width; the sky above it was gray, then black like smoke; then I could watch it no longer, that I might not be blinded; I shielded my eyes with my hands; I turned my back to it; I crouched...
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22 6 From the vantage of the ship's height I could see several pasangs on all sides.
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23 53 They were stretched out for pasangs, several deep.
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23 142 If offended, and not deeming it honorable to attack the allies of the Aretai, they might simply withdraw their forces and return to their own land, more than a thousand pasangs away.
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24 1 I Bind a Girl, Reserving Her for Myself; I Then Address Myself to the Duties of Steel The outcome of the battle, some twenty pasangs from the kasbah of the Salt Ubar, had never been in doubt.
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25 485 She had thousands of pasangs to go, but we had made a start with her, enough to get her through the halls.
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Book 11. (12 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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7 293 The girls of Clitus Vitellius, I among them, stood at the line scratched in the dirt within the peasant village of Tabuk's Ford, some four hundred pasangs to the north and west of Ar, some twenty pasangs or so, west, from the Vosk road.
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5 71 "They are camped not two pasangs from here," said one of the men.
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6 41 The field tabuk now make their crossing some twenty pasangs northwest of Tabuk's Ford, but the village, founded in the area of the original crossing keeps the first name of the locale.
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6 122 The village of Tabuk's Ford lay some four hundred pasangs from Ar, generally to the north and west.
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6 123 It is some twenty pasangs or so from the "Vosk road".
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6 128 It is, I suppose, given its nature, a military road leading to the north, broad enough to accommodate war tharlarion, treading abreast, and the passage, two or three, side by side, of thousands of supply wagons and siege engines, without unduly, for more than several pasangs, extending and exposing ...
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7 44 It was a long wall of wilderness, an empty, unpopulated, desertlike area without water and beneficent vegetation a thousand pasangs deep.
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7 425 She was a girl of peasant stock, who had been, two years ago, stolen by slavers from a village hundreds of pasangs to the west.
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9 377 "If Thurnus would so much as look at me," she said, "I would crawl ten pasangs on my belly to lick the dust from his ankles".
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10 39 We had followed the road to within two hundred pasangs of Ar.
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12 450 "It seems there was a distraction, a burning field some pasangs to the south.
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20 2 I could see the great gates of the harbor some two pasangs across the water.
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Book 12. (24 results) Beasts of Gor

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6 14 I stood in the midst of fields south of the Laurius river, some forty pasangs inland from the shore of Thassa, some one hundred and twenty pasangs south-southeast of the river port of Lydius, lying at the mouth of the Laurius river, on its farther side.
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34 15 In width it was some four pasangs, I would conjecture, and in length some ten pasangs.
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1 17 Their state at that time was sufficiently advanced technologically to construct small steel worlds in orbit, each some pasangs in diameter.
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2 632 Some of these are gigantic, pasangs in width, hundreds of feet high.
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3 86 The largest, on the other hand, the platforms of slave exhibition and the great sales pavilion, lie to your left, two pasangs away, beyond the smithies and the chain shops".
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3 129 The fairs are large, covering several square pasangs.
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3 1305 The district of the fair covered several square pasangs.
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9 4 "It is more than seventy pasangs in length," she said.
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9 7 They stretched for pasangs to the south, grazing.
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10 164 Along the some seventy pasangs of the wall there were several such chains, with their own pens and facilities.
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11 249 Trees do not flourish in the land of Imnak and their needs for wood must largely be satisfied by occasional finds at the shore, driftwood, from hundreds of pasangs south, dragged from the chilled water.
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11 390 It had carried for several pasangs.
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12 238 It is thousands of pasangs in width, and hundreds in depth; it extends, beyond horizons we could see, to the southern edge of the northern, or polar, sea.
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12 332 Hundreds of the women and children of the red hunters, fanned out for pasangs, shouting, beating on pans, had turned the herd toward the great alley of stone cairns.
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12 333 These cairns, of piled stone, each some four or five feet high, each topped with black dirt, form a long funnel, more than two pasangs in depth.
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12 369 Some two hundred and forty different types of plants grow in the Gorean arctic within five hundred pasangs of the pole.
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13 16 A mountain which seems very close, given the sharpness of visibility in the clear air, may actually be forty pasangs in the distance.
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18 33 There was a great crash, that might have been heard for pasangs.
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23 56 The sleen may have been ten pasangs away or more.
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23 57 Sometimes one can hear them from as far away as fifteen pasangs.
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23 163 It had not escaped his notice, for example, that he had been met by almost every male in the village better than two pasangs from the permanent camp.
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24 12 "I then trailed the beast further, some pasangs across the snow.
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32 58 Clearly the complex was tiers in depth and pasangs in width.
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37 5 Behind us, in the winter sky, looming, streaming hundreds of pasangs upward into the sky, shimmering and flickering, extended vast, subtle curtains of chromatic lights, yellows, and pinks and reds.
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Book 13. (34 results) Explorers of Gor

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6 340 It must have been some eight pasangs wide and some two or three pasangs in depth.
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1 265 "Shaba himself, with his men and boats, pursued the river for only a hundred pasangs," I said, "when they were turned back by some falls and cataracts".
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1 485 The delta of the Vosk, for most practical purposes, a vast marsh, an area of thousands of square pasangs, where the Vosk washes down to the sea, is closed to shipping.
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6 8 "Fifty pasangs," said Ulafi.
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6 53 Already, though we were still perhaps thirty or forty pasangs at sea, one could see clearly in the water the traces of inland sediments.
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6 55 These stains extend for pasangs into Thassa.
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6 188 The waters here were richly brown, primarily from the outflowing of the Nyoka, emptying from Lake Ushindi, some two hundred pasangs upriver.
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6 317 We were still some seven or eight pasangs from the buoy lines.
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6 344 Its width, however, about two pasangs above Schendi, is constricted by the embankments.
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6 368 It lay dead ahead, some four pasangs.
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6 393 We were now some three pasangs from Schendi.
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6 395 Coming about Point Schendi, behind us, some two pasangs astern, was a round ship.
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6 432 It was now some two and a half pasangs away.
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6 455 We were now some two pasangs out of Schendi.
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6 506 We were now some two pasangs out of Schendi.
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16 60 A message may be conveyed by means of drum stations for hundreds of pasangs in less than an Ahn.
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16 65 One of the most amazing evidences of its scope and ambition was the very project in which I was now unwillingly engaged, the visionary attempt to join Lakes Ushindi and Ngao, separated by more than four hundred pasangs, by a great canal, a canal that would, via Lake Ushindi and the Nyoka and Kamba r...
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16 88 The eventual intent of Bila Huruma was not only to open the rain forests of the deep interior, and whatever might lie within the system of the Ua and her tributaries, to commercial exploitation and military expansion, but to drain the marshes between the two mighty lakes, Ushindi and Ngao, that that...
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16 204 It was only some two pasangs away, ahead of us, and nearing us.
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16 205 But, in a moment its message was taken up from behind us, some four pasangs down the workway, west, leading toward Ushindi.
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18 23 This battle, interestingly, had occurred in the marshes well west of Ngao, indeed, only a few pasangs from the work lines.
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23 46 He wore a long black robe, embroidered with golden thread, and a flat, soft cap, not unlike a common garb of Schendi, hundreds of pasangs distant.
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26 64 It was pasangs in length.
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32 158 These rains are often accompanied by violent winds, sometimes, I conjecture, ranging between one hundred and ten and one hundred and twenty pasangs an Ahn.
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32 169 In the night, in the darkness, one senses the almost indefinite extension of the jungle, thousands of pasangs in width and depth, about one.
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33 15 From the height of the falls we could see for pasangs behind us downriver.
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33 30 Downriver, several pasangs away, small but unmistakable, moving in our direction, was a fleet of canoes and river vessels.
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33 74 From its surface we could see downriver, and, pasangs back, the flotilla of canoes and galleys of the Ubar, Bila Huruma.
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35 5 It had been a week since we had first, on the height of the falls, seen the flotilla of Bila Huruma pasangs behind us.
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36 7 "It could have been washed downriver for pasangs," said Ayari.
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47 20 Such columns can be pasangs in length.
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50 6 Two weeks ago we had come to another high falls, even higher than that from which we had, long ago, caught sight of the following forces of Bila Huruma, pasangs behind in the distance.
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55 4 It took place several pasangs away.
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57 67 One could then, for thousands of pasangs, follow the Ua until one reached its terminus in Lake Shaba.
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Book 14. (6 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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13 30 The villa of the Lady Florence of Vonda lay some forty pasangs south and west of Vonda.
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13 61 Venna is a small, exclusive resort city, some two hundred pasangs north of Ar.
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13 293 Forty pasangs is an average day's march for a Gorean infantryman.
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13 335 I did not wish to risk crawling on my stomach, over stones, under whips, perhaps for pasangs, to the nearest slave market.
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18 164 We did not, in the great stables, raise saddle tharlarion, though in the house stables, here in the mistress' villa, some forty pasangs south and west of Vonda, there were several saddle tharlarion.
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22 491 Indeed, I was champion of the local stables, those within a perimeter of some fifty pasangs.
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Book 15. (7 results) Rogue of Gor

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1 73 When two such formations meet in a field the clash can be heard for pasangs.
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2 21 "Forces from Port Olni are within a hundred pasangs, marching south.
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7 45 This morning, before dawn, I had been put ashore some pasangs upriver.
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19 74 Other generally respected coins tend to be the silver tarsk of Tharna, the golden tarn disk of Ko-ro-ba, and the golden tarn of Port Kar, the latter particularly on the western Vosk, in the Tamber Gulf region, and a few hundred pasangs north and south of the Vosk's delta.
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21 36 Between geographical points, of course, long coffles, sometimes pasangs in length, are not uncommon.
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24 744 I must soon leave the holding of Policrates, theoretically to journey downriver to the holding of Ragnar Voskjard, that his fleet might be soon launched, that the two fleets, in fierce force, might overwhelm the garrisons of Ar's Station, and then of Port Cos, that the river, for hundreds of pasangs...
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29 4 It lies some two pasangs from the river itself.
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Book 16. (1 results) Guardsman of Gor

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17 23 What free woman would dare to walk upon such a street, particularly at night? Her throat might suddenly feel the capture loop of a slaver and, by morning, branded, gag-hooded and chained, she might be fifty pasangs downriver, on her way to a market in Ven or Turmus.
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Book 17. (16 results) Savages of Gor

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1 195 We were in the remains of a half-fallen, ruined tarn complex, built on a wide platform, at the edge of the rence marshes, some four pasangs from the northeast delta gate of Port Kar.
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1 744 I had witnessed this from pasangs across the ice in the arctic night.
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4 88 The perimeter was thousands of pasangs long.
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4 165 To our right, in a long, sloping valley, some two or three pasangs from the road, there were three narrow, slowly ascending columns of smoke.
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6 32 The tremors in the earth from such a herd can be felt fifty pasangs away.
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6 40 These herds, too, interestingly enough, appear to have their annual grazing patterns, usually describing a gigantic oval, seasonally influenced, which covers many thousands of pasangs.
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6 44 It does not, for example, like certain flocks of birds, venture annually in roughly linear paths from the north to the south, and from the south to the north, covering thousands of pasangs in a series of orthogonal alternations.
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8 309 Furthermore, this close to the perimeter, only a few pasangs from the Ihanke, far from the normal loci of slave raidings, and slave routes, female slaves, particularly beautiful ones, are not abundant.
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8 946 Some of these coffles are very large, containing hundreds of girls, sometimes as many as a thousand or more, and the march may be as much as a thousand pasangs, and take several days in transit.
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9 3 We were now some two pasangs east of Kailiauk.
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10 22 We observed the dust in the distance, some pasangs across the prairie.
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10 106 Then, hopefully, when the pursuers were strung out, over pasangs, we would turn back on them and, two to one, one engaging, the other striking, finish them off.
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14 542 "We could make five pasangs before dark," I said.
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14 1247 I returned to the fire in a few moments, and, on the dirt, in the light of the flames, spread the hide which Samos and I had obtained in the ruined tarn complex some four pasangs from the northeast delta gate of Port Kar.
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15 7 The distance between the two fires was probably some ten to fifteen pasangs.
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16 352 "They may have been pursued and slain for pasangs across the prairie".
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Book 18. (19 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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1 9 It was then that we had first felt it, earlier this morning, from as faraway as perhaps twenty pasangs.
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1 52 "It is probably about fifteen pasangs in length," said Grunt.
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1 53 "It is some four or five pasangs in width".
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1 75 The animals were now some three to four pasangs away, below us.
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1 162 I looked beyond Hci to the beasts, some two to three pasangs away.
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1 431 Hci was now better than two pasangs away, at the fringe of the kailiauk.
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2 432 "This year it is only three pasangs from camp," he said.
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12 58 It would be very difficult for a mounted warrior, even if he wished to do so, to overtake a boy, lighter in weight than he, on a rested kaiila, by the time the lad could reach the lodges, usually no more than two or three pasangs away.
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14 63 "Some one hundred pasangs from here," said Pumpkin.
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34 480 Even now, among certain articles on the travois, brought from the lodge of Grunt at the festival camp, was the story hide, acquired long ago in the delta of the Vosk, some four pasangs from Port Kar.
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35 4 The stones were cold some twenty pasangs west of the Casmu-Kaiila camp at Two Feathers.
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37 145 It can attain short-term speeds of from eighty to ninety pasangs an Ahn.
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37 375 The leisurely, high-altitude hunting circles of our prey sometimes manifested a diameter of pasangs.
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37 382 It is said it can see an urt move across open ground at a distance of two pasangs.
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39 233 "How laughable and delicious would the little collared chits find it that I, who so scorned them, am not only now, too, a slave, but a low slave, one with only a leather collar, one not even permitted clothing, a cheap, inexpensive slave, thousands of pasangs from civilization, a meaningless slave i...
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44 19 From the position of the posts one could see the prairie, hundreds of feet below, for pasangs about, particularly to the west.
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47 5 This beacon, whether used for the emission of smoke in daylight hours, or for its flame at night, could be seen for pasangs across the prairie.
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47 165 They are estimated, however, at something in the neighborhood of four hundred pasangs per Ahn.
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54 101 We were now in a great victory camp, near water, within sight of Council Rock, some seven or eight pasangs in the distance.
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Book 19. (9 results) Kajira of Gor

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3 133 "It is more than a thousand pasangs to the west, Mistress," said the girl.
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9 113 "They lie within a hundred pasangs of Corcyrus," I said.
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10 216 "The enemy is already within twenty pasangs of Corcyrus," he said.
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11 213 "The enemy," I said, suddenly, almost faltering, "is within twenty pasangs of Corcyrus".
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16 16 I decided to risk a third day in the basket, to put even more hundreds of pasangs between me and Argentum and Corcyrus.
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16 374 Venna, I recalled, was some two hundred pasangs or so north of Ar.
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16 378 "It is that way for more than a hundred pasangs in this area," he said, "except for crossroads and turn-offs.
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20 4 It was a campsite about twenty pasangs west of the Viktel Aria.
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21 24 They would expect me, I supposed, to follow the stream, wading in it, and then, a few pasangs later, strike out northward.
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Book 20. (13 results) Players of Gor

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1 674 Some slaves have endured great hardships and traversed hundreds of pasangs to return to their master.
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1 903 Some fifty pasangs northeast of Scagnar he claims that he and his crew saw something turning and spinning in the sky, like webbed glass, the light spilling and refracting through it.
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2 1005 It was filled with golden staters, from Brundisium, a port on the coast of Thassa, on the mainland, a hundred pasangs or so south of the Vosk's delta, one reported to have alliances with Ar.
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4 172 In particular, it does not pass, for several pasangs, through the woods of Clearchus.
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6 41 Carrying a tarn goad and moving about the stage in a certain manner suggests that one is riding a tarn; a kaiila crop, or kaiila goad, and a change of gait suggests that one is riding a kaiila; a branch on the stage can stand for a forest or a bit of a wall for a city; standing on a box or small tab...
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7 25 We were some two hundred pasangs west of the fairgrounds, at the edge of the woods of Clearchus, just off the road of Clearchus.
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7 280 We were some two hundred pasangs west of the fairgrounds, at the edge of the woods of Clearchus, just off the road of Clearchus.
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9 152 These towns were all within a hundred pasangs of our present location.
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10 654 I will have you know that men have come for pasangs just to look upon my palanquin, that rumors of my beauty have enflamed a hundred cities, that hundreds of rich men have offered me the wine of companionship, that some would have paid a thousand gold pieces for so much as a glimpse my ankle".
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12 519 We were now less than five hundred pasangs from Brundisium.
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14 67 * * * * We stood now, in the neighborhood of noon, on a small hill, some pasangs from the walls of Brundisium.
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14 72 These outcroppings, with their breaks and openings, encircled an area perhaps more than two pasangs in width.
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14 474 I then turned, and climbed through the broken, serrated edges of this natural stone bowl, found myself in the open fields, and began to run, with the long, slow warrior's pace, that pace in which warriors are trained, that pace which may be maintained, even under the weight of weapons, accouterments...
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Book 21. (16 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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3 286 "Their lines of march extend for pasangs, with intervals, too, of pasangs," he said.
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1 77 She stood not more than a hundred yards from the gate of Tesius, in the city of Samnium, some two hundred pasangs east and a bit south of Brundisium, both cities continental allies of the island ubarate of Cos.
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3 5 Probably they had come only recently to the wagons, probably trekking overland from some contacted village, perhaps one from as far away as fifty pasangs, a common range for the excursions, the searches and collections of mounted foragers.
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3 187 Dietrich of Tarnburg, of the high city of Tarnburg, some two hundred pasangs to the north and west of Hochburg, both substantially mountain fortresses, both in the more southern and civilized ranges of the Voltai, was well-known to the warriors of Gor.
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3 293 "The rearward contingents of the units before us will be some ten pasangs up the road," he said.
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3 346 When the men of Ar moved, for example, and whenever possible they would do so on the great military roads, such as the Viktel Aria, they used a measured pace, often kept by a drum, and, including rests, would each day cover a calculable distance, usually forty pasangs.
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9 74 Two aqueducts now brought fresh water to Torcadino from more than a hundred pasangs away, one from the Issus, a northwestwardly flowing tributary to the Vosk and the other from springs in the Hills of Eteocles, southwest of Corcyrus.
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12 115 "No enemy is within hundreds of pasangs.
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12 184 "They were entered, one near the Issus, the other in the Hills of Eteocles, more than a hundred pasangs away.
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15 184 "It covers thousands of square pasangs.
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15 450 Many a charming young woman has awakened bruised, due to the jolting of the small, wagon-transported slave cage within which she finds herself confined, now pasangs from the walls of her city.
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18 127 "Because it is the greatest city in thousands of pasangs," she said.
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18 128 "Because it is rich and busy, populous and thriving, a hub of commerce, the mistress of thousands of pasangs of arable soil and verdant pasture land".
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20 20 I saw then, in the distance, some four or five pasangs away, the gleaming walls of glorious Ar.
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21 376 We could go south on the Avenue of the Central Cylinder, some four or five pasangs, and then make a left on Wagon Street, taking it over to the Avenue of Turia.
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23 23 Do you think we want folks streaming in from thousands of pasangs about to rob us of our places?" "I suppose not," I said.
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Book 22. (6 results) Dancer of Gor

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10 725 It can follow a scent that is weeks old, for a thousand pasangs".
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25 79 These chains, or "links," of some fifty men each, had left the camp to the southwest and would, by a roundabout route, join the Viktel Aria some pasangs to the south, toward Ar.
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26 10 Actually we were not far at all from Venna, only a few pasangs.
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30 142 In some pasangs you will doubtless be noted by his camp scouts, and brought in.
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34 339 Could I not then, though it was I who was in a collar, make use of his feelings to own him? Too, he had followed me for months, over thousands of pasangs.
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34 722 Should that not count for something? I recalled that he had sought me, for thousands of pasangs, not resting until he had brought me within his sovereignty.
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Book 23. (16 results) Renegades of Gor

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1 284 Do not let them be recognized for a hundred pasangs.
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2 134 What puzzled me most was that the Viktel Aria was the most direct route, for hundreds of pasangs, to Ar's Station.
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3 98 "And within a hundred pasangs of the river," he said.
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3 104 "They are over two thousand pasangs away," I said.
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5 32 They are not worthy of kneeling and humbly holding candles within a thousand pasangs of a slave.
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8 64 This was suggested, too, by its distance from the Vosk, which was approximately one hundred pasangs.
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8 65 The ordinary one-day march of the Gorean infantryman on a military road is thirty-five pasangs.
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8 319 From this height I could see the countryside for pasangs about.
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8 632 I was aflight! For a time I muchly gave the bird its head, and then, some pasangs out, drew it about, to sweep the sky in a vast circle, this centering about the inn, far below.
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11 184 No one has seen them for hundreds of pasangs from here".
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11 186 "May I ask where the report claims them to be?" "The report claims they are in winter quarters at Holmesk, one hundred pasangs south of the Vosk".
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13 46 "For hundreds of pasangs about," she said, "women will be cheap for months".
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24 83 At night, its beacon aflame, the light multiplied and reflected in the mirrors, it could presumably be seen for pasangs up and down the river.
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24 84 We were now, I conjectured, some three or four pasangs from the harbor.
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24 777 Its light at night could be seen, it was said, pasangs east and west on the river.
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24 1024 Many free persons on Gor seldom travel more than a few pasangs from their village or the walls of their city.
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Book 24. (16 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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7 6 Those behind, in their numbers, for pasangs back, may have thought the enemy himself had been sighted.
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7 18 In the recent conflicts at Ar's Station, blood had carried for hundreds of pasangs downriver, even to the gulf.
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7 24 It was perhaps as much as four or five hundred pasangs away.
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8 12 "Yes," I said, "two or three hundred pasangs".
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13 204 "There must have been hundreds of them, for pasangs," said a fellow from below, in the water.
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14 221 "The ring can be pasangs in width," said a man.
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18 299 The chances of running into rencers in thousands of square pasangs of the delta were not high, particularly if one were concerned to avoid them.
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24 71 It must have been followed for more than a hundred pasangs through the marsh".
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24 78 "To be sure," I said, "some days having passed, it is presumably now pasangs from the point where the men of Ar caught up to it.
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26 201 It is said not a woman is safe within a thousand pasangs of the wagons.
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32 22 "I can see fields, some pasangs off.
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32 65 To be sure, she was thousands of pasangs from Ar, and if she ever returned to Ar presumably she would do so only as a scantily clad slave, her former wealth, identity, station and position irretrievably removed from her, no different from other such slaves in the city.
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40 48 "Information became available in the Cosian camp near Torcadino, conveyed by a supposed deserter, a fellow named Mincon," said our narrator, "of a secret escape tunnel being dug under the walls to the north, a low tunnel, like a countermine, over eleven pasangs in length, which had taken months to d...
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40 112 Myron had men follow it and it led for pasangs south, until they found its southern termination, again caved-in and concealed, this time, of course, from the outside.
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43 7 It was quite large, some four or five square pasangs in area.
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47 298 "We will take these fellows a few pasangs from Brundisium," said the leader of the mercenaries, "strip them and set them loose".
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Book 25. (8 results) Magicians of Gor

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26 587 If we have a tarn waiting, you could be a hundred pasangs from here by nightfall, in any direction, and by morning, with a new tarn, five hundred pasangs from there, in any direction, and in another day, who knows?" She lifted her head with difficulty in the net, to look at him.
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4 73 Furthermore, it had had the winter to restore its siege train, the original train burned in Torcadino, fired by Dietrich of Tarnburg, and, because of its recent success in the field, west of Ar, it could draw on thousands of square pasangs for its logistical support.
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6 137 At night one can usually see the fires of the camps, three or four pasangs away.
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7 26 I think the light of these would have been visible for fifty pasangs.
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12 2 We were in a deserted alleyway, about two pasangs from the shop, rather between it and the Anbar district.
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19 13 We were some pasangs outside Ar.
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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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21 52 We must soon to the theater of Pentilicus Tallux, the great theater, which was more than two pasangs away.
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Book 26. (1 results) Witness of Gor

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13 425 "Such negotiations, if there are such, would be conducted elsewhere, perhaps even thousands of pasangs away".
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Book 27. (8 results) Prize of Gor

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20 621 "There is a Cosian retinue some ten pasangs to the west," said the older lad, working the back oar.
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21 46 The massive walls and towers of Brundisium could be seen in the distance, some two pasangs, or so, away.
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22 4 The music of czehars, flutes, and kalikas, from scattered bands of musicians, swirled throughout the gigantic festival camp, spread over pasangs.
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24 643 Men have come from hundreds of pasangs to buy.
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27 10 By the time, several pasangs away, the nature of the diversion was understood, the flighted tarns being regained, or it being understood that most, if not all, had been riderless, it had become morning and the vast camp, bit by bit, shortly after dawn, had been broken, the thousands of men, their go...
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27 2637 "We saw two in the vicinity, some pasangs away, whilst we were in flight".
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28 302 "Some pasangs from here we have fellows waiting, with tarns," said Bosk of Port Kar.
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28 409 The Viktel Aria is one of the great roads of known Gor, extending north and south of Ar for thousands of pasangs.
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Book 28. (7 results) Kur of Gor

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1 193 We are not clear, given the small size of the moon, a mere several pasangs in diameter, how this was managed.
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5 25 "In measures with which you are familiar," said Arcesilaus, "some sixteen hundred square pasangs".
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12 7 The forest world associated with the Steel World under the governance of Agamemnon is something in the neighborhood of one hundred square pasangs.
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18 118 * * * * Cabot understood that he would be unable to distance either sleen or Kurii, for the sleen is a swift, tireless tracker and the Kur, particularly when descending to all fours, its accouterments fastened to its body, can easily outrun a man, either in a short race, for speed, or in one ranging...
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49 2 He and Cabot were some pasangs from their concealed camp.
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54 13 "Surely you are aware," said Cabot, "that more than one enemy has perished within pasangs of the camp".
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79 548 "Put such daughters aside! Leave them in their collars! Let them be sold thousands of pasangs away! Their bondage must not be allowed to besmirch a noble house! Let them not be spoken of, seen, or heard of again! Leave them on their chains.
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Book 29. (25 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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9 127 I had had a sense of where, in any event, approximately, we might be heading, probably to the Alexandra, some pasangs upriver, but how many pasangs I had no idea, fewer if the direct route was, say, south by southeast, more if it would have been southeast.
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2 179 "So you chose caste, that of the foresters, and came here, to serve the Home Stone hundreds of pasangs away?" "The Home Stone of Port Kar may be served here as well as at the gulf, as well as in the shops of the arsenal, as well as on the wharves, as well as on the decks and benches of her ships".
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3 146 I would learn later, however, something earlier suspected, that something along these lines was taking place within the forest itself, outside the reserves, some pasangs to the south.
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3 201 I thought of a tarn once known, a sable monster, whose challenge scream could be heard for pasangs, Ubar of the Skies.
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3 797 I supposed that the seas might have been high for two or three days, perhaps for hundreds of pasangs offshore.
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5 627 "The great road, the Viktel Aria, was lined, on both sides, for pasangs, with the bound, squirming, whimpering bodies," said a man.
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5 1097 Sometimes captured panther girls, small bands of which occasionally roamed hundreds of pasangs to the south, were slung from such poles.
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12 40 And would one not require the means to reach those sovereignties, which lay hundreds of pasangs to the west? The tarn is a land bird, and will not fly beyond the sight of land.
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13 53 The name of the enclave was derived from the Sun Gate, one of Ar's major gates, though it was better than two pasangs from the gate itself, the gate's name being derived from the fact that it was regularly opened at sunrise and closed at sunset.
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13 88 Is the swiftest of the tabuk not most likely to escape the sleen or larl? How is it that the vision of the tarn can discern the movement of even an urt at a thousand feet? The shark who detects the trace of blood in remote water, will he not be the first to feed? Will not the moth who detects the od...
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22 7 Frightened, in his haste to put many pasangs between himself and the camp, he would hesitate to bring the tarn down.
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22 415 There was no large town within hundreds of pasangs.
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25 63 She learns, too, she is then a true slave, and discovers she is perhaps a thousand pasangs from the house of her intended destination.
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25 194 I did not suppose that the world ended a bit beyond the waters of Tyros and Cos, or beyond the Farther Islands, even far beyond them, that at some point, some brink, Thassa plunged a thousand pasangs downward, like a planetary waterfall, only to be lifted by fiery Tor-tu-Gor, Light Upon the Home Sto...
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26 59 In some situations, guards might be ranged for several pasangs beyond a camp, a fortress or city, at serial intervals.
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26 61 By means of such beacons, fire by night, smoke by day, an alarm, or signal, or message, could be conveyed a thousand pasangs in a matter of Ehn.
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27 1 Tarncamp is Abandoned Doubtless the smoke could be seen for pasangs.
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28 171 Also, certain recognition devices are portions of a secret tradition within Pani clans, the members of which may be separated by thousands of pasangs, and these are either permanent, or relatively so.
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33 143 Already, upstream, in tributaries, some hundred pasangs north, plate ice has been detected".
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38 253 Needless to say this considerably depresses the market, and it is, accordingly, often the case that these coffles must be broken up and widely dispersed, or marched far afield, sometimes better than a thousand pasangs, to more favorable markets.
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38 273 They had discovered him some pasangs from Tarncamp, where, for four or five days, frightened, haggard and starving, he had apparently wandered in circles.
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39 13 Their tarn scouts had been routinely dealt with, removed from the sky or driven toward the coast, pasangs before our passage.
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39 38 "Their tents are spread for pasangs.
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40 14 Hundreds of tents spread along the beach, perhaps for pasangs, on each side.
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41 19 To be sure, many storms cover the sea for hundreds of square pasangs and one can no more avoid them than the sea herself.
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Book 30. (17 results) Mariners of Gor

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11 55 They fatten before each migration and, thousands of pasangs later, arrive, like migratory birds, lean and hungry, at familiar banks, thousands of pasangs from each other, where they are welcomed, again, with abundances of food.
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15 24 That border which might lie within a dozen pasangs on one day might, as one sought it, given the shifts in wind and current, lie twenty or thirty pasangs away the next, and what had been further might now be nearer.
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2 155 These are large, broad-winged birds, which occasionally fish three and four hundred pasangs from the delta.
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3 1130 'Search parties emanating from Ar and leagued cities use many such places as the village of Ragnar, scattered over thousands of pasangs,' he said, 'in their endeavors to track and apprehend fugitives.
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8 62 It was everywhere about us, perhaps for hundreds of pasangs.
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8 325 We were hundreds of pasangs from land, and who knew how far the ice might last, but, it seemed, even so woeful and improbable a scheme might have some appeal to forlorn, desperate minds, minds half crazed by the imprisonment of the ship, the silence, the darkness, the cold, the endless labor at the ...
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9 394 It was my understanding that each lord had something like two hundred and fifty Pani in his command, that those of Lord Nishida had been housed at a place called Tarn Camp, north of the Alexandra, some pasangs from its headwaters, and that those of Lord Okimoto had been housed differently, but in th...
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9 520 "Yes," said Cabot, "it is a warm current, a river in the sea, so to speak, pasangs wide, which keeps Torvaldsland from being ice locked in the winter".
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11 49 The banks are usually within two or three hundred pasangs of land masses.
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11 64 "Then," said Aëtius, pleased, "we are near land!" To be sure, it might yet be hundreds of pasangs distant.
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12 40 You are away from things, and seem closer to the wind, the clouds, and sunlight, and, all about, for pasangs, stretches the vast, encompassing ambiguity of Thassa, subtle and minacious, welcoming and threatening, benignant and perilous, restless, sparkling, and dangerous, green, vast, intriguing, be...
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13 37 Lord Nishida's and Lord Okimoto's course, given to Aëtius and Tersites, had intended to skirt the Vine Sea by a hundred pasangs, but the Vine Sea moves, obedient to wind and current, and it was apparently far beyond its usual haunts.
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13 95 "Perhaps with small boats, with rafts, or such," I said, "but then one is defenseless on Thassa, perhaps a thousand pasangs from land, perhaps more".
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14 162 There is restlessness in the Vine Sea, as in any sea, and swells, and local currents, and the sea itself, tangled and beautiful, oppressive, and terrible, despite its vastness, moves from time to time, seasonably, predictably, even hundreds of pasangs, as might any object, large or small, afloat on ...
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18 92 Who here could bring you to Ar? How could it be done? Her walls are thousands of pasangs away".
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21 2 Off the port bow one could see islands, far off, a part of what we would later learn was an extended archipelago, which extended for better than two thousand pasangs, only a relatively small portion of which was inhabited.
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26 228 "You fear," I said, "that he would return you to Ar, to the justice of Ar, to the impaling spear?" In the case of one of her importance, the impaling spear might be narrow, greased, and thirty feet in height, and, mounted on the wall, her slow descent, she writhing, trying her best to prevent it, un...
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Book 31. (11 results) Conspirators of Gor

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8 620 "I and others were taken at sea, by corsairs of Port Kar, not more than five pasangs from shore".
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8 718 That sound would carry for better than two or three pasangs, and I could hear, in the distance, other bars, taking up the ringing.
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12 9 The water is brought in from the Voltai Mountains, or Red Mountains, which at that time I had not seen, far north and east of Ar, by means of long, towering aqueducts, most of which are more than seven hundred pasangs long.
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16 269 On the Venna road, from Ar, there is usually a well every ten or twenty pasangs.
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16 271 "Fifty pasangs to Venna," I said.
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18 6 Master Desmond had informed me that the Vennan aqueduct, the third longest, was some eight hundred and ten pasangs long.
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18 979 Closer to Ar, the number lists the pasangs to Ar, with an indication of the direction of Ar.
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18 980 Closer to Venna, the number lists the pasangs to Venna, with an indication of the direction of Venna.
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25 2 From here one could see for several pasangs about.
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25 32 "It may be the only mountain of its configuration for hundreds of pasangs," said Desmond.
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31 26 Poling in the trackless delta, the rope on their neck, they are well aware of the wilderness, the vastness, the treacherous byways, the quicksand, the heat, the insects, leeches, delta sharks, winged, predatory uls, and, in particular, marsh tharlarion, which often scout the boats, and accompany the...
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Book 32. (11 results) Smugglers of Gor

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20 204 "I have heard a mariner whisper in terror," said a slave, "for he fears Tersites, the shipwright, is mad, and would do war against Thassa, would contemplate a journey to where the world is no more, where the seas, like a waterfall a thousand pasangs in width, plunge over the cliff of the world, to f...
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6 89 For pasangs about the city the fields were littered with feasting for scavenging jards.
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6 98 Others had formed larger or smaller outlaw bands and prowled the roads, producing a realm of peril and anarchy for a hundred pasangs about.
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14 219 I had not fought in the attack on the camp, as I, with several others, in a work party, had been better than four pasangs from the camp, improving the east road, that allegedly leading to "Shipcamp," presumably named for the barges being constructed there to descend the Alexandra to the coast.
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25 8 I must by now be pasangs beyond the wands.
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31 80 "We will cover pasangs before dark," said Darla.
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34 60 It is said some laris can hear the squeal of a wounded animal from five pasangs away".
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43 892 "There are no laris within a thousand pasangs of the forests.
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44 23 I did know that a small unevenness in one's pace, a tiny difference in the stride of one foot as opposed to the other, common in almost anyone, save perhaps those trained in a measured stride, such as warriors, might result in one's eventually describing a vast circle, but I did not think I had cove...
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47 62 A hundred men might have combed a thousand pasangs.
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52 974 "If our tarnsmen had been about," he said, "that fellow could not have come within fifty pasangs of Shipcamp.
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Book 33. (19 results) Rebels of Gor

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1 93 Its scream could be heard in the mountains for pasangs.
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1 148 I had eventually located a sheltered valley between cliffs, a place difficult to approach save by air, some one hundred and twenty pasangs north from the holding of Lord Temmu.
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6 45 It had remained secure and undefiled even in the darkest days of the war, even before trapped Pani had mysteriously vanished from a beach several pasangs to the north.
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7 271 "Surely you do not think it a mere happenstance that you once found yourself on a remote, unmarked beach some fifty pasangs north of the Alexandra".
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13 155 Lord Yamada was a pleasant man but he could also nail enemies to the decks of ships and mount heads on posts for pasangs along a road.
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24 144 "For pasangs," said another.
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27 3 Hundreds of paddies, like ridged, geometrical lakes, now reflecting the orbs of the moons, dotted the landscape for pasangs about the lands of Lord Yamada.
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27 129 "I had thought," I said, "that by now, for pasangs about, the countryside would have been scoured by hunters, intent on man quarry".
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27 162 How the pasangs slipped away, beneath those mighty, beating wings! "I looked about, I inquired," I said.
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31 30 There is much rice, hard to obtain with the exactions of the shogun for pasangs about".
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35 33 The camp must have been some two or three pasangs in diameter.
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35 60 I feared the trek had been difficult for them; the distance had been several pasangs, Tor-tu-Gor merciless, the road rough, and, as one moved north, frequently steep.
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42 180 "Certainly," said Pertinax, "a point of tarn rendezvous to be scouted from tarnback each day at the tenth Ahn, but that point is pasangs from the camp, and we had not anticipated any great difficulty in leaving the camp".
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43 15 "Haruki and I," I said, "drew a loaded rice wagon pasangs to the camp".
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44 74 With him were three Ashigaru, which, now, to my surprise, I recognized as the three fellows whom Tajima had entertained in the inn a few pasangs to the west, the fellows who had been disappointingly casual about fetching their gathered rice to the supply wagons, but had been more than helpful in app...
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47 137 I do not think they could be concealed in the vicinity, but, rather, are some pasangs away.
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47 142 Some pasangs from the palace, in a deep draw, Ichiro had concealed four tarns, his, and three others, those with which Pertinax, Tajima, and I, Haruki behind the saddle of Tajima, had flown south.
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61 15 Then he looked down at the large, shaggy, sinuous beast by my side, Ramar, the lame sleen, brought from the camp of tarns, some one hundred and twenty pasangs north of the holding of Temmu.
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61 1190 "Doubtless thousands from Ar, and her environs, for a thousand pasangs about, will come to see you, to witness the fate of a traitor and false Ubara, to insult her, to jeer her, to mock and curse her, to spit upon her, to add their flaming twig or tiny splinter to her torments".
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Book 34. (9 results) Plunder of Gor

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11 62 From where we worked I could see the lofty aqueduct by means of which water was brought to Torcadino from the distant Voltai range, hundreds of pasangs away.
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11 64 The pitch in the aqueduct, supposedly, was less than a hort every twenty pasangs.
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44 20 We must be some pasangs from the city.
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46 53 The speaker, I supposed, might be anywhere, in the next room, or even pasangs away.
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46 384 He may have been pasangs away.
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49 93 At the times of important matches, even the roads to the Fairs, within a circuit of a hundred pasangs, are deemed treaty grounds.
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53 6 They may be seen from many pasangs away.
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55 14 It is likely that humans, or their predecessors, after the loss of the forests, were pack hunters, who might pursue and harry a prey for pasangs, until it collapsed, exhausted, and the pack would close in for the kill.
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64 24 Toward the fifteenth Ahn our wagon had drawn into the large caravanserai of Hogarth, thirty pasangs from Ar, by the pasang stone, and, already, better than a hundred wagons were housed there.
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Book 35. (5 results) Quarry of Gor

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29 18 This morning, at the Southern Gate, Bruno of Torcadino, I at his heels, leashed, and front-braceleted, had boarded a game ship for the Skerry of Lars, not really a skerry, but a small island five pasangs out in the Tamber Gulf, five pasangs beyond the laws of Port Kar.
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43 50 And once the Southern Gate is behind us, then it is only five pasangs to safety, only five pasangs to riches and success!" "The sky darkens," said an oarsman, "the wind rises.
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13 195 No more than fifty pasangs from the caravanserai of Hogarth it was set upon, in a desolate area, by a small pride of rogue tarnsmen, or, possibly, licensed raiders from Treve.
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25 133 What I did not understand was why a crime, serious as it might be, against a minor banking house in Ar, far away, thousands of pasangs away, should provoke so much interest in so many parties, and generate so seemingly relentless a pursuit of its perpetrator.
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26 34 I looked back and saw the beacon on the delta wall, high and visible for pasangs.
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Book 36. (22 results) Avengers of Gor

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1 67 Were there not rumors of monsters, behemoths, the strike of whose thrashing tails could shatter hulls, of watery countries of impassable, seeking, floating, thick, clutching vines, avid to ensnare travelers, of inescapable spinning wells in the sea, capturing and sinking even the largest of vessels?...
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3 35 I thought this a politic delay, as shipping tends to be heavier in the vicinity of a coast, and a high-masted sail, swollen with wind, is easily detected from a stem castle, even by eye, at more than five pasangs.
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3 95 "In all my life, I have never been more than a few pasangs from Nicosia".
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5 110 "The homing circles of a flighted vulo can cover hundreds of pasangs".
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8 3 From the height of the camp, one could scan the sea for pasangs around.
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9 30 Thus, unwilling to be long separated from their ships, I do not think they would care to venture more than a few pasangs inland.
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9 52 "By my count, given the map, and limiting myself to villages within ten pasangs of the coast," I said, "sixty-three".
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12 3 "There are no known villages within three hundred pasangs".
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12 8 We had been camped four days in this spot, some pasangs from the likely landing point of the raiders.
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12 28 On the false map, drawn with care, I had located the mythical Village of Flowing Gold twenty pasangs inland.
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14 38 "The nearest village," I said, "is some three hundred pasangs away and I neglected to include it on the map.
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16 193 "Like most birds, message vulos have keen eyesight, and the homing circles of a message vulo, searching for its cot, can range over hundreds of pasangs".
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16 211 "In many places there are broad, risen plateaus under the water, sometimes several pasangs in width, plateaus which are often no more than twenty or thirty feet under the surface of the water.
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20 56 Probably those of Sybaris, or even of far Telnus and Jad, on Cos, knew more of such things than small isolated communities within a hundred pasangs of the actual occurrences.
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28 41 "We have no way to signal a ship!" cried Iantha, "no whistling, climbing, streaming flares, visible for pasangs".
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31 73 "It is only some four pasangs between the beach and Zeuxis," said Clitus.
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48 211 "But there could be other spies," I said, "landed pasangs north and south of the harbor at Mytilene, each with a caged vulo".
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50 59 "The living island," said Sakim, "can detect the sound of an oar striking the water at a distance of pasangs".
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50 107 "Abetted by the acuity of its senses," said Sakim, "senses capable of detecting the entrance of an oar into water, the creaking of rudders, from pasangs away".
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50 111 "But, Captain," said Sakim, "that, in itself, given the height of the stem decks of the corsair fleet, and the glass of the Builders, will make us visible from pasangs away".
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58 11 It can be seen for pasangs".
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59 32 "Due to the valor and skill of the noble Nicomachos, Admiral of the Fleet of the Farther Islands, all hail to the sublime Lurius of Jad, Ubar of Cos, the fleet of the notorious pirate, Bosk of Port Kar, predator to shipping, burner of villages, ravager of towns and cities, has but recently been surp...
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