| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 123 |
The Home Stone came naturally, in time, to acquire a mystique, and something of the same hot, sweet emotions as our native peoples of Earth feel toward their flags became invested in it". |
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| 2 | 277 |
After all, suppose you should accept this tale, should learn of the Counter-Earth and of the Voyages of Acquisition, what could you do? You could do nothing, you with your rudimentary technology of which you are so proud—you could do nothing at least for a thousand years, and by that time, if... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 59 |
Why was the girl alone? Had her protectors been killed? Was she perhaps an escaped slave, fleeing from a hated master? Could she be, like myself, an exile from Ko-ro-ba? Its peoples have been scattered, I said to myself, and no two stones and no two men of Ko-ro-ba may stand again side by side. |
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| 7 | 34 |
It was obvious that Thorn, unlike my old enemy Pa-Kur, who presumably had perished at the siege of Ar, was not a man above sensual vices, not a man who could with fanatical purity and single-minded devotion sacrifice himself and entire peoples to the ends of his ambition and power. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 104 |
For some reason unbeknownst to me they have destroyed my city, Ko-ro-ba, and scattered its peoples. |
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| 27 | 359 |
"Go to the Wagon Peoples, Tarl of Ko-ro-ba," she said. |
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| 27 | 360 |
"Go to the Wagon Peoples". |
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| 35 | 74 |
"She only said," I told him, "Go to the Wagon Peoples". |
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| 35 | 189 |
"Where," I asked him, "is the land of the Wagon Peoples?". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 72 |
In the thinking of the Wagon Peoples it is called the Omen Year, though the Omen Year is actually a season, rather than a year, which occupies a part of two of their regular years, for the Wagon Peoples calculate the year from the Season of Snows to the Season of Snows; Turians, incidentally, figure... |
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| 1 | 38 |
My business was with the Wagon Peoples, not the Turians, said to be indolent and luxury-loving; but I wonder at this charge, for Turia has stood for generations on the plains claimed by the fierce Wagon Peoples. |
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| 2 | 69 |
It was said a youth of the Wagon Peoples was taught the bow, the quiva and the lance before their parents would consent to give him a name, for names are precious among the Wagon Peoples, as among Goreans in general, and they are not to be wasted on someone who is likely to die, one who cannot well ... |
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| 2 | 71 |
The Wagon Peoples war among themselves, but once in every two hands of years, there is a time of gathering of the peoples, and this, I had learned, was that time. |
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| 2 | 74 |
* * A consequence of the chronological conventions of the Wagon Peoples, of course, is that their years tend to vary in length, but this fact, which might bother us, does not bother them, any more than the fact that some men and some animals live longer than others; the women of the Wagon Peoples, i... |
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| 2 | 89 |
I suspected that this might be due to the hostilities and bickerings of the peoples among themselves; where people did not wish to unite, where they relished their autonomy, where they nursed old grievances and sang the glories of vengeance raids, where they considered all others, even those of the ... |
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| 3 | 30 |
Once, long, long ago, Ko-ro-ba and Ar had turned the invasion of the united Wagon Peoples from the north, and the memories of these things, stinging still in the honest songs of camp skalds, would rankle in the craws of such fierce, proud peoples. |
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| 5 | 16 |
The Tuchuk, incidentally, like others of the Wagon Peoples, prays only when mounted, only when in the saddle and with weapons at hand; he prays to the sky not as a slave to a master, nor a servant to a god, but as a warrior to a Ubar; the women of the Wagon Peoples, it might be mentioned, are not pe... |
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| 5 | 46 |
Among the Wagon Peoples, to be clad Kajir means, for a girl, to wear four articles, two red, two black; a red cord, the Curla, is tied about the waist; the Chatka, or long, narrow strip of black leather, fits over this cord in the front, passes under, and then again, from the inside, passes over the... |
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| 7 | 209 |
And finally, I reminded myself again, was I not now engaged in their work? Was I not now attempting to be of service to them? Was I not now among the Wagon Peoples, in peril perhaps, on their behalf? But, I asked myself, if this message was not from Priest-Kings, from whom could it be? Who would dar... |
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| 8 | 4 |
The herds would circle Turia, for this was the portion of the Omen Year called the Passing of Turia, in which the Wagon Peoples gather and begin to move toward their winter pastures; the second portion of the Omen Year is the Wintering, which takes place far north of Turia, the equator being approac... |
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| 8 | 27 |
I originally regarded the Omen Year as a rather pointless institution, but I came to see later that there is much to be said for it: it brings the Wagon Peoples together from time to time, and in this time, aside from the simple values of being together, there is much bosk trading and some exchange ... |
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| 8 | 37 |
From these raids the Wagon Peoples obtain a miscellany of goods which they are willing to barter to the Turians, jewels, precious metals, spices, colored table salts, harnesses and saddles for the ponderous tharlarion, furs of small river animals, tools for the field, scholarly scrolls, inks and pap... |
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| 8 | 38 |
The Wagon Peoples sometimes are also willing to barter silks to the Turians, but commonly they keep these for their own slave girls, who wear them in the secrecy of the wagons; free women, incidentally, among the Wagon Peoples are not permitted to wear silk; it is claimed by those of the Wagons, del... |
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| 10 | 262 |
The games of Love War, in themselves, do not constitute a gathering of the Wagon Peoples, for normally the herds and the free women of the peoples do not approach one another at these times; only certain delegations of warriors, usually about two hundred from a people, are sent in the spring to the ... |
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| 10 | 304 |
The girls of the Wagon Peoples stood proudly before their stakes, certain that their champions, whoever they were to be, would be victorious and return them to their peoples; the girls of the city of Turia stood also at their stakes, but with feigned indifference. |
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| 10 | 450 |
The warrior of the Wagon Peoples does not use the short sword, probably because such a weapon could not be optimally used from the saddle of the kaiila; the saber, incidentally, which would be somewhat more effective from kaiilaback, is almost unknown on Gor; its role, I gather, is more than fulfill... |
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| 10 | 451 |
I gather that the Wagon Peoples, if they wanted sabers or regarded them as valuable, would be able to acquire them, in spite of the fact that they have no metalworking of their own; there might be some attempt to prevent them from falling into the hands of the Wagon Peoples, but where there are gold... |
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| 26 | 292 |
I recalled Tolnus, for he had been one of the four Ubars of the Wagon Peoples, whom I, unknowing, had met when first I came to the Plains of Turia, to the Land of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 1 | 14 |
"Run, you fool! Run for the gates of Turia!" Turia the high-walled, the nine-gated, was the Gorean city lying in the midst of the huge prairies claimed by the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 1 | 20 |
The Wagon Peoples claimed the southern prairies of Gor, from gleaming Thassa and the mountains of Ta-Thassa to the southern foothills of the Voltai Range itself, that reared in the crust of Gor like the backbone of a planet. |
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| 1 | 24 |
I had left the vicinity of the Sardar Range in the month of Se'Var, which in the northern hemisphere is a winter month, and had journeyed south for months; and had now come to what some call the Plains of Turia, others the Land of the Wagon Peoples, in the autumn of this hemisphere; there is, due ap... |
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| 1 | 31 |
From the Sardar I had gone largely Cart, sometimes Vask, then Cart again until I had come to the Plains of Turia, or the Land of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 1 | 36 |
No caravans, to my knowledge, make their way to the Wagon Peoples, who are largely isolated and have their own way of life. |
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| 1 | 46 |
Too in the distance I saw dust, rising like a black, raging dawn, raised by the hoofs of innumerable animals, not those that fled, but undoubtedly by the bosk herds of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 1 | 47 |
The Wagon Peoples grow no food, nor do they have manufacturing as we know it. |
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| 1 | 51 |
They are among the proudest of the peoples of Gor, regarding the dwellers of the cities of Gor as vermin in holes, cowards who must fly behind walls, wretches who fear to live beneath the broad sky, who dare not dispute with them the open, windswept plains of their world. |
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| 1 | 52 |
The bosk, without which the Wagon Peoples could not live, is an oxlike creature. |
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| 1 | 56 |
Not only does the flesh of the bosk and the milk of its cows furnish the Wagon Peoples with food and drink, but its hides cover the domelike wagons in which they dwell; its tanned and sewn skins cover their bodies; the leather of its hump is used for their shields; its sinews form their thread; its ... |
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| 1 | 58 |
The bosk is said to be the Mother of the Wagon Peoples, and they reverence it as such. |
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| 1 | 59 |
The man who kills one foolishly is strangled in thongs or suffocated in the hide of the animal he slew; if, for any reason, the man should kill a bosk cow with unborn young he is staked out, alive, in the path of the herd, and the march of the Wagon Peoples takes its way over him. |
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| 1 | 63 |
The earth itself was shaking from the hoofs of the bosk herds of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 2 | 1 |
I Make the Acquaintance of the Wagon Peoples As I walked I asked myself why I did so—why I, Tarl Cabot—once of Earth, later a warrior of the Gorean city of Ko-ro-ba, the Towers of the Morning, had come here. |
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| 2 | 3 |
Some years before, perhaps between two and five years before, as the culmination of an intrigue enduring centuries, two men, humans from the walled cities of Gor, had, for the sake of Priest-Kings, undertaken a long, secret journey, carrying an object to the Wagon Peoples, an object bestowed on them... |
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| 2 | 5 |
But later, shortly after the completion of their journey, in a war between their cities, each had in battle slain the other, and thus among men, save perhaps for some among the Wagon Peoples, the secret had been lost. |
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| 2 | 7 |
Now I supposed that I alone, of humans on Gor, with the possible exception of some among the Wagon Peoples, knew the nature of the mysterious object which once these two brave men had brought in secrecy to the plains of Turia—and, to be truthful, I did not know that even I—should I see... |
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| 2 | 22 |
I recalled a windy night in the shadow of the Sardar when we had spoken of strange things, and I had left him and come down the hill, and had asked the leader of those with whom I had traveled the way to the Land of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 2 | 35 |
The object might not even be with the Wagon Peoples any longer. |
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| 2 | 36 |
And there were four Wagon Peoples, the Paravaci, the Kataii, the Kassars, and the dreaded Tuchuks. |
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| 2 | 39 |
I was afoot, on the treeless southern plains of Gor, on the Plains of Turia, in the Land of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 2 | 40 |
The Wagon Peoples, it is said, slay strangers. |
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| 2 | 43 |
If I were found on the plains near the camps or the bosk herds I knew I would be scented out and slain by the domesticated, nocturnal herd sleen, used as shepherds and sentinels by the Wagon Peoples, released from their cages with the falling of darkness. |
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| 2 | 46 |
There would be no question of night spying on the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 2 | 50 |
The Wagon Peoples, of all those on Gor that I know, are the only ones that have a clan of torturers, trained as carefully as scribes or physicians, in the arts of detaining life. |
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| 2 | 59 |
Then for the first time, against the horizon, a jagged line, humped and rolling like thundering waters, seemed to rise alive from the prairie, vast, extensive, a huge arc, churning and pounding from one corner of the sky to the other, the herds of the Wagon Peoples, encircling, raising dust into the... |
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| 2 | 67 |
His lance remained on his back, but he carried in his right hand the small, powerful horn bow of the Wagon Peoples and attached to his saddle was a lacquered, narrow, rectangular quiver containing as many as forty arrows. |
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| 2 | 73 |
It is near Turia, in the spring, that the Omen Year is completed, when the omens are taken, usually over several days by hundreds of haruspexes, mostly readers of bosk blood and verr livers, to determine if they are favorable for a choosing of a Ubar San, a One Ubar, a Ubar who would be High Ubar, a... |
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| 2 | 75 |
The years, incidentally, are not numbered by the Wagon Peoples, but given names, toward their end, based on something or other which has occurred to distinguish the year. |
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| 2 | 77 |
The Wagon Peoples do not trust important matters, such as year names, to paper or parchment, subject to theft, insect and rodent damage, deterioration, etc. |
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| 2 | 78 |
Most of those of the Wagon Peoples have excellent memories, trained from birth. |
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| 2 | 80 |
The Wagon Peoples, as might be expected, have a large and complex oral literature. |
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| 2 | 83 |
For example, every male of the Wagon Peoples is expected to be a warrior, to be able to ride, to be able to hunt, to care for the bosk, and so on. |
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| 2 | 84 |
When I speak of Year Keepers and Singers it must be understood that these are not, for the Wagon Peoples, castes, but more like roles, subsidiary to their main functions, which are those of war, herding and the hunt. |
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| 2 | 90 |
It would not, of course, be to the benefit of Turia, or the farther cities, or, indeed, any of the free cities of even northern Gor, if the isolated fierce peoples of the south were to join behind a single standard and turn their herds northward—away from their dry plains to the lusher reache... |
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| 2 | 91 |
Little would be safe if the Wagon Peoples should march. |
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| 2 | 96 |
The mount of the Wagon Peoples, unknown in the northern hemisphere of Gor, is the terrifying but beautiful kaiila. |
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| 2 | 145 |
The lances of the Wagon Peoples are not couched. |
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| 2 | 166 |
I was looking on the faces of four men, warriors of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 2 | 174 |
The effect of the scars, ugly, startling, terrible, perhaps in part calculated to terrify enemies, had even prompted me, for a wild moment, to conjecture that what I faced on the Plains of Turia were not men, but perhaps aliens of some sort, brought to Gor long ago from remote worlds to serve some n... |
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| 2 | 178 |
The Wagon Peoples value courage above all else. |
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| 3 | 3 |
So gambling all on the respect of the Wagon Peoples for the courage of men, I made no move to defend myself but, heart pounding, blood racing, yet no sign visible of agitation on my face, without a quiver of a muscle or tendon betraying me, I stood calmly erect. |
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| 3 | 7 |
The children of the Wagon Peoples are taught the saddle of the kaiila before they can walk. |
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| 3 | 25 |
"I come in peace to the Wagon Peoples," I said. |
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| 3 | 44 |
"What is your business with the Wagon Peoples?" demanded the Tuchuk. |
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| 3 | 49 |
"You are a fool," he said, "to flee to the Wagon Peoples". |
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| 3 | 53 |
"A Koroban! And he flies to the Wagon Peoples!" Tears of mirth ran from the sides of his eyes. |
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| 3 | 83 |
"Have you heard," he asked, "that the Wagon Peoples slay strangers?" "Yes," I said, "I have heard that". |
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| 3 | 97 |
"They are probably false stones," I said, "amber droplets, the pearls of the Vosk sorp, the polished shell of the Tamber clam, glass colored and cut in Ar for trade with ignorant southern peoples". |
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| 3 | 127 |
Both of these claims are, of course, mistaken, and the Ubars of the Wagon Peoples know well each wagon and the number of branded beasts in the various herds; each herd is, incidentally, composed of several smaller herds, each watched over by its own riders. |
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| 3 | 133 |
And it was in that instant that I sensed what the bosk might mean to the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 4 | 38 |
It was probably developed for hunting the tumit, a huge, flightless carnivorous bird of the plains, but the Wagon Peoples use it also, and well, as a weapon of war. |
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| 4 | 48 |
He is under the eyes of warriors of the other peoples. |
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| 4 | 57 |
I could hear the other three men of the Wagon Peoples, the Kataii, the Kassar, the Paravaci, striking their shields with their lances. |
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| 4 | 81 |
"Yes," said the warrior, "come in peace to the Land of the Wagon Peoples". |
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| 5 | 9 |
The Wagon Peoples are fascinated with the future and its signs and though, to hear them speak, they put no store in such matters, yet they do in practice give them great consideration. |
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| 5 | 13 |
The Tuchuks and the other Wagon Peoples reverence Priest-Kings, but unlike the Goreans of the cities, with their castes of Initiates, they do not extend to them the dignities of worship. |
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| 5 | 47 |
For a male slave, or Kajirus, of the Wagon Peoples, and there are few, save for the work chains, to be clad Kajir means to wear the Kes, a short, sleeveless work tunic of black leather. |
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| 5 | 49 |
The dour women of the Wagon Peoples, I saw, looked on these girls with envy and hatred, sometimes striking them with sticks if they should approach too closely the cooking pots and attempt to steal a piece of meat. |
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| 5 | 54 |
The wagons of the Wagon Peoples are, in their hundreds and thousands, in their brilliant, variegated colors, a glorious sight. |
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| 5 | 62 |
The sides of the wagon box, incidentally, are, here and there, perforated for arrow ports, for the small horn bow of the Wagon Peoples can be used to advantage not only from the back of a kaiila but, like the crossbow, from such cramped quarters. |
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| 5 | 75 |
She was not as the other women of the Wagon Peoples I had seen, the dour, thin women with braided hair, bending over the cooking pots. |
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| 5 | 91 |
"You know little of the Wagon Peoples," he said. |
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| 6 | 6 |
Each of these, I was later to learn, wore on his forearm a tiny brand, in the form of spreading bosk horns, which guaranteed his passage, at certain seasons, across the plains of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 6 | 14 |
I was astonished, for this girl was dressed not as a Gorean, not as a girl of any of the cities of the Counter-Earth, not as a peasant of the Sa-Tarna fields or the vineyards where the Ta grapes are raised, not even as a girl of the fierce Wagon Peoples. |
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| 7 | 190 |
Was I not engaged, in a sense, in their work? Had I not come to the Wagon Peoples on their behalf, to search for the doubtless golden sphere that was the last egg of Priest-Kings, the final hope of their race? Now they wished me to die. |
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| 7 | 218 |
"You would risk," I asked, "the herds—the wagons—the peoples?" Both Kamchak and I knew that Priest-Kings were not lightly to be disobeyed. |
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| 8 | 5 |
It is in the spring that the omens are taken, regarding the possible election of the Ubar San, the One Ubar, he who would be Ubar of all the Wagons, of all the Peoples. |
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| 8 | 22 |
Even in the time I had been with the wagons I had gathered that it was only the implicit truce of the Omen Year which kept these four fierce, warring peoples from lunging at one another's throats, or, more exactly put, at one another's bosk. |
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| 8 | 25 |
The Tuchuks, like the other Wagon Peoples, are intensely independent. |
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| 8 | 33 |
The Wagon Peoples, though enemies of Turia, needed and wanted her goods, in particular materials of metal and cloth, which are highly prized among the Wagons. |
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| 8 | 35 |
The Turians, on the other hand, take in trade for their goods—obtained by manufacture or trade with other cities—principally the horn and hide of the bosk, which naturally the Wagon Peoples, who live on the bosk, have in plenty. |
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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 | 39 |
It might be added that there are two items which the Wagon Peoples will not sell or trade to Turia, one is a living bosk and the other is a girl from the city itself, though the latter are sometimes, for the sport of the young men, allowed, as it is said, to run for the city. |
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| 8 | 43 |
Thousands of the Wagon Peoples, free and slave, dug in the snow to find a handful of grass to feed their animals. |
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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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| 8 | 50 |
"The bosk are safe," they had cried, and the cry had been taken up by the women and carried from wagon to wagon, "The bosk are safe!" This year, perhaps because it was the Omen Year, the Wagon Peoples did not advance farther north than was necessary to ensure the welfare of the herds. |
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| 8 | 52 |
It was the Omen Year, and not a year, apparently, in which to risk war with far peoples, particularly not those of cities like Ar, whose warriors had mastered the tarn and might, from the air, have wrought great destruction on the herds and wagons. |
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| 8 | 53 |
The Wintering was not unpleasant, although, even so far north, the days and nights were often quite chilly; the Wagon Peoples, and their slaves as well, wore boskhide and furs during this time; both male and female, slave or free, wore furred boots and trousers, coats and the flopping, ear-flapped c... |
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| 8 | 190 |
Both were, doubtless, well skilled in the art of pleasing the fancy of warriors of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 8 | 239 |
He was called Harold, which is not a Tuchuk name, nor a name used among the Wagon Peoples, though it is similar to some of the Kassar names. |
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| 8 | 358 |
Some girls of the Wagon Peoples in fact, incredible though it seems, are trained exhaustively in the art of evading the bola, and such a girl is worth a great deal to a master, who uses her in wagering. |
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| 8 | 383 |
"He is not even of the Wagon Peoples," said Conrad. |
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| 8 | 455 |
But, though the moment might have been amusing to those of the Wagon Peoples, even to Kamchak, I was not prepared to look on the event with such good humor. |
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| 8 | 458 |
Little did we know that one of those girls was Dina of Turia, who, of course, would run not for the skilled Kamchak, but for his awkward friend, the clumsy Tarl Cabot, not even of the Wagon Peoples, new to the kaiila and bola! Conrad and Albrecht had perhaps even come to the camp of the Tuchuks with... |
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| 8 | 554 |
Save for armed combat, lance and tospit with the living wand is the most dangerous of the sports of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 9 | 3 |
It was somewhat surprising to me that Kamchak and I, being in our way ambassadors of the Wagon Peoples, were entertained in the house of Saphrar, the merchant, rather than in the palace of Phanius Turmus, Administrator of Turia. |
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| 9 | 6 |
The official reason, proclaimed by Phanius Turmus, the Administrator, and others high in the government, was that those of the Wagon Peoples were unworthy to be entertained in the administrative palace; the real reason, apparently seldom proclaimed by anyone, was that the true power in Turia lay act... |
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| 9 | 71 |
These were brought as gifts to the Turians, largely as a rather insolent gesture on the part of the Wagon Peoples, indicating how little they cared for such things, that they would give them to Turians. |
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| 9 | 72 |
Turian embassies to the Wagon Peoples, when they occurred, naturally strove to equal or surpass these gifts. |
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| 9 | 83 |
We did not attract as much attention as I had thought we would, and I gathered that every spring, at least, visitors from the Wagon Peoples must come to the city. |
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| 9 | 85 |
I suppose that life in high-walled Turia, for most of its citizens, went on from day to day in its usual patterns oblivious of the usually distant Wagon Peoples. |
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| 9 | 87 |
The average citizen worried about the Wagon Peoples, customarily, only when he was outside the walls. |
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| 9 | 143 |
I have already delineated what it is, typically, for a female slave to be clad Kajir amongst the Wagon Peoples, the Chatka and Curla, the Kalmak and Koora. |
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| 9 | 309 |
"You are aware, of course," she said, "that if you were not an ambassador of the Wagon Peoples at this time I would order you slain". |
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| 9 | 333 |
The girls that now stood before us, barefoot, in swirling Pleasure Silks, belled and collared, were wenches of the Wagon Peoples, now, as could be determined even beneath the silks they wore, the branded slaves of Turians. |
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| 9 | 360 |
It was then clear to me why the Turian men so hungered for the wenches of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 9 | 364 |
Kamchak waited until the girls of the Wagon Peoples had performed their dances and then, when they had been dismissed, he rose to his booted feet. |
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| 9 | 384 |
She knew that the Wagon Peoples, plunderers of hundreds of caravans, occasionally possessed objects and riches as costly as any on Gor. |
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| 9 | 436 |
"You recall, of course," Kamchak was saying, "that I am an ambassador of the Wagon Peoples and am entitled to the courtesies of your city". |
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| 9 | 449 |
I wondered if Kamras knew the meaning of the word which he had dared to address to one who wore the Courage Scar of the Wagon Peoples. |
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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 | 4 |
The journey, even so, was not without its dangers, but they had been well recompensed, from the treasure chests of both Turia and the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 10 | 12 |
I could see, surprisingly near the forefront of their respective lines, the other three men I had first seen on coming to the Wagon Peoples, Conrad of the Kassars, Hakimba of the Kataii and Tolnus of the Paravaci. |
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| 10 | 78 |
"The Land of the Wagon Peoples, you mean". |
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| 10 | 117 |
I think it was then, perhaps the first time since her first coming to the Wagon Peoples, that she fully understood her plight—for Kamchak had, on the whole, been kind to her—he had not put the Tuchuk ring in her nose, nor had he clothed her Kajir, nor put the brand of the bosk horns on... |
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| 10 | 125 |
Kamchak! Free a slave! And, I told myself, even if I myself owned Elizabeth, and not Kamchak, I could not free her—for what would it be to free her? If she approached Turia she would fall slave to the first patrol that leashed and hooded her; if she tried to stay among the wagons, some young ... |
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| 10 | 199 |
Moving boldly now among the Wagon Peoples were vendors from Turia, selling their cakes, their wines and meats, even chains and collars. |
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| 10 | 228 |
To my astonishment the warriors of the Wagon Peoples seemed to be paying very little attention to the bestial avalanche that was even then hurtling down upon them. |
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| 10 | 247 |
In a moment, to a thunder of kaiila paws on the turf, racing between the lines of stakes, scattering sand, there came a great number of riders, their black hair swirling behind them, who pulled up on their mounts, rearing and squealing, between the stakes, and leaped from the saddle to the sand, rel... |
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| 10 | 257 |
There were between a hundred and a hundred and fifty girls there from each of the four Wagon Peoples. |
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| 10 | 258 |
"Hah!" said Kamchak, seeing now the lines of tharlarion part for a space of perhaps forty yards, through which could be seen the screened palanquins of Turian damsels, some on the shoulders of chained slaves, among them undoubtedly men of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 10 | 259 |
Now the excitement of the throng seemed mostly to course among the warriors of the Wagon Peoples as they rose in their stirrups to see better the swaying, approaching palanquins, each reputedly bearing a gem of great beauty, a fit prize in the savage contests of Love War. |
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| 10 | 260 |
The institution of Love War is an ancient one among the Turians and the Wagon Peoples, according to the Year Keepers antedating even the Omen Year. |
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| 10 | 263 |
The theoretical justification of the games of Love War, from the Turian point of view, is that they provide an excellent arena in which to demonstrate the fierceness and prowess of Turian warriors, thus perhaps intimidating or, at the very least, encouraging the often overbold warriors of the Wagon ... |
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| 10 | 265 |
It might also be mentioned that the Turian warrior, in his opinion, too seldom encounters the warrior of the Wagon Peoples, who tends to be a frustrating, swift and elusive foe, striking with great rapidity and withdrawing with goods and captives almost before it is understood what has occurred. |
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| 10 | 266 |
I once asked Kamchak if the Wagon Peoples had a justification for the games of Love War. |
10 |
| 10 | 277 |
Judges were now circulating, each with lists, among the Wagon Peoples and the Turians. |
10 |
| 10 | 286 |
In her silks of white and gold, on cloths thrown before her, Aphris of Turia stepped disdainfully forward, guided by a judge, to the first of the stakes on the side of the Wagon Peoples. |
10 |
| 10 | 287 |
The girls of the Wagon Peoples, on the other hand, would stand at the stakes nearest Turia. |
10 |
| 10 | 288 |
In this way the Turian girls can see their city and their warriors, and the girls of the Wagons can see the plains and the warriors of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 10 | 290 |
Thus, to interfere, a Turian would have to cross the space between the stakes, and so, too, would one of the Wagon Peoples, thus clearly calling themselves to the attention of the judges, those officials supervising the games. |
10 |
| 10 | 291 |
The judges were now calling names, and girls, both of the Wagon Peoples and of Turia, were coming forward. |
10 |
| 10 | 332 |
"Let the women be secured," called the first judge, who stood on a platform near the beginning of the stake lines, this year on the side of the Wagon Peoples. |
10 |
| 10 | 349 |
All along the lines of stakes I saw Turian warriors and those of the Wagon Peoples press into the area between the stakes. |
10 |
| 10 | 353 |
At the request of any warrior of the Wagon Peoples, a judge would remove the pins of the face veil of a Turian girl and push back the hood of her Robes of Concealment, in order that her head and face might be seen. |
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| 10 | 374 |
But already several of the other warriors of the Wagon Peoples were inspecting the unveiled Aphris of Turia. |
10 |
| 10 | 394 |
When more than one wish to fight for a given woman, incidentally, the Turians decide this by rank and prowess, the Wagon Peoples by scars and prowess. |
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| 10 | 445 |
Fortunately, however, the warrior of the Wagon Peoples could withdraw from the combat any time before his name had actually been officially entered in the lists of the games. |
10 |
| 10 | 453 |
The fact that the saber is not a common weapon of Wagon Peoples is a reflection of the style, nature and conditions of warfare to which they are accustomed, a matter of choice on their part rather than the result of either ignorance or technological limitation. |
10 |
| 10 | 454 |
The saber, incidentally, is not only unpopular among the Wagon Peoples but among the warriors of Gor generally; it is regarded as being too long and clumsy a weapon for the close, sharp combat so dear to the heart of the warrior of the cities; further it is not of much use from the saddle of a tarn ... |
10 |
| 11 | 19 |
"You will take what abuse any free person of the Wagon Peoples cares to inflict upon you," he said. |
10 |
| 11 | 174 |
This year, as it turned out, the Wagon Peoples had done exceedingly well in the games of Love War—a bit of news we picked up with the paga—and about seventy percent of the Turian maidens had been led slave from the stakes to which they had been manacled. |
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| 12 | 26 |
At that time Kutaituchik and other high men among the Tuchuks, doubtless including Kamchak, would be afield, on the rolling hills surrounding the Omen Valley, in which, on the hundreds of smoking altars, the haruspexes of the four peoples would be practicing their obscure craft, taking the omens, tr... |
10 |
| 12 | 27 |
If such were to be elected, I trusted, at least for the sake of the Wagon Peoples, that it would not be Kutaituchik. |
10 |
| 12 | 30 |
But, I then reminded myself even more strongly, there would be no choice—there had been no Ubar San for a hundred years or more—the Wagon Peoples, fierce and independent, did not wish a Ubar San. |
10 |
| 12 | 208 |
I saw among them even some Kassars and Paravaci, and one of the rare Kataii, seldom seen in the encampments of the other peoples. |
10 |
| 13 | 143 |
The animals sacrificed, incidentally, are later used for food, so the Omen Taking, far from being a waste of animals, is actually a time of feasting and plenty for the Wagon Peoples, who regard the Omen Taking, provided it results that no Ubar San is to be chosen, as an occasion for gaiety and festi... |
10 |
| 13 | 148 |
Kamchak and I dismounted and, from outside the circle, watched the four chief haruspexes of the Wagon Peoples approach the huge altar in the center of the field. |
10 |
| 13 | 169 |
I could now see the other haruspexes of the peoples pouring with their animals toward the altars. |
10 |
| 13 | 177 |
Clerks, with parchment scrolls, were circulating among the altars, presumably, I would guess, noting the names of haruspexes, their peoples, and their findings. |
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| 13 | 178 |
The four chief haruspexes of the peoples remained at the huge central altar, to which a white bosk was being slowly led. |
10 |
| 14 | 3 |
Each warrior of the Wagon Peoples, and that means each able-bodied man, is a member of an Or, or a Ten; each ten is a member of an Orlu, or Hundred; each Orlu is a member of an Oralu, a Thousand. |
10 |
| 14 | 4 |
Those who are unfamiliar with the Wagon Peoples, or who know them only from the swift raid, sometimes think them devoid of organization, sometimes conceive of them as mad hordes or aggregates of wild warriors, but such is not the case. |
10 |
| 14 | 97 |
"Why else," asked he, "would you have come to the Wagon Peoples?" I did not respond. |
10 |
| 15 | 2 |
The other Wagon Peoples regarded the problem of the slaying of Kutaituchik and the despoiling of his wagon as one best left to the resources of the people of the four bosk horns. |
10 |
| 15 | 4 |
There had been Kassars who had wanted to fight and some Kataii, but the calm heads of the Paravaci had convinced them that the difficulty lay between Turia and the Tuchuks, not Turia and the Wagon Peoples generally. |
10 |
| 15 | 42 |
Was it not for this purpose that I had come to the Wagon Peoples? I cursed the fact that I had waited so long—even to the time of the Omen Taking—for thereby had I lost the opportunity to try for the sphere myself in the wagon of Kutaituchik. |
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| 15 | 56 |
The Paravaci were particularly insistent on maintaining the independence of the peoples. |
10 |
| 16 | 29 |
Two ropes led to the drum, a small rope to control its filling, and a large one to support it; the large rope, incidentally, has a core of chain; the rope itself, existing primarily to protect the chain, is treated with a waterproof glue made from the skins, bones and hoofs of bosk, secured by trade... |
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| 16 | 152 |
"Who is the traitor to the Wagon Peoples?" asked Harold. |
10 |
| 16 | 310 |
And they might have learned, as well, that I had been in the War of Priest-Kings a lieutenant to Misk, the Fifth Born, Chief of the Rebels, and that I had now made my way to the southern plains, to the land of the Wagon Peoples. |
10 |
| 16 | 317 |
This suggested to me that possibly the Others had even followed the movements of the two men who had brought the egg from the Sardar to the Wagon Peoples. |
10 |
| 22 | 60 |
Indeed it was true, for the next level beneath a Ubar among the Wagon Peoples is that of the Commander of a Thousand. |
10 |
| 23 | 8 |
I had little hope that either of these peoples would come to the aid of Tuchuks. |
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| 23 | 11 |
I had learned to my surprise that the Ubars of the Kassars, Kataii and Paravaci were, respectively, Conrad, Hakimba and Tolnus, the very three I had first encountered with Kamchak on the plains of Turia when first I came to the Wagon Peoples. |
10 |
| 23 | 12 |
What I had taken to be merely a group of four outriders had actually been a gathering of Ubars of the Wagon Peoples. |
10 |
| 23 | 13 |
I should have known that no four common warriors of the four peoples would have ridden together. |
10 |
| 23 | 16 |
But, Kamchak had assured me, Conrad, Hakimba and Tolnus were indeed the true Ubars of their peoples. |
10 |
| 23 | 21 |
He did not, on the other hand, approve of the fact that the raid had taken place during the Omen Year, which is a time of general truce among the Wagon Peoples. |
10 |
| 23 | 54 |
Indeed, as we rode together, we wondered that Kamchak had even sent us on an errand so unlikely of success, an errand in its way, considering the temper of the Wagon Peoples, so foolish. |
10 |
| 23 | 161 |
"We have our own wagons," said Hakimba, "but yet we are of the Wagon Peoples". |
10 |
| 23 | 182 |
"This will mean war," I said, "for many years among the Wagon Peoples". |
10 |
| 24 | 30 |
Certain cities, burned by the Wagon Peoples more than a hundred years ago, were still said to be desolate ruins between their broken walls, silent save for the wind and the occasional footfall of a prowling sleen hunting for urts. |
10 |
| 24 | 31 |
"The Wagon Peoples need Turia," said Kamchak, simply. |
10 |
| 24 | 33 |
Yet it seemed to me true, for Turia was the main avenue of contact between the Wagon Peoples and the other cities of Gor, the gate through which trade goods flowed to the wilderness of grasses that was the land of the riders of the kaiila and the herders of bosk. |
10 |
| 24 | 34 |
Without Turia, to be sure, the Wagon Peoples would undoubtedly be the poorer. |
10 |
| 24 | 35 |
"And," said Kamchak, "the Wagon Peoples need an enemy". |
10 |
| 24 | 47 |
He professed a cruel hatred of Turia and Turians, and yet he had, considering the normal practices of the Wagon Peoples, not noted for their mercy to helpless foes, treated the unarmed citizens of the city with unique indulgence, permitting them, on the whole, to keep their lives and freedom, though... |
10 |
| 26 | 74 |
They filed before us in the street below, each under the contemptuous eyes of the warriors of the Wagon Peoples, each in turn going to a long table whereon were placed many pairs of scales, and each at that table was weighed out four Gorean stone of gold, about six Earth pounds, which he put in his ... |
10 |
| 26 | 109 |
Behind me I heard hundreds of ladders and grappling hooks strike against the wall, and, turning, I saw, climbing over the walls, as well as entering through the open gates, hundreds and hundreds of men, until the walls were swarming with Tuchuks, and others of the Wagon Peoples. |
10 |
| 26 | 235 |
"It was for the golden sphere, was it not," asked Kamchak, "that you came to the Wagon Peoples?" "Yes," I said, "it was". |
10 |
| 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". |
10 |
| 27 | 2 |
Kutaituchik avenged, Kamchak was no longer interested in Turia, though he wished the city to be restored, perhaps in order that the Wagon Peoples might have a valuable trade outlet whereby they could manage, if the caravan raids turned out poorly, to barter hides and horn for the goods of civilizati... |
10 |
| 27 | 3 |
On the last day before the withdrawal of the Wagon Peoples from nine-gated, high-walled Turia, Kamchak held court in the palace of Phanius Turmus. |
10 |
| 27 | 12 |
The girls of the Wagon Peoples, of course, who had been enslaved, were freed; the others, however, save for some of Ko-ro-ba on whose behalf I spoke, would change their perfumed silks and their warmed, scented baths for the hardships of the trek, the care of bosk, and the arms of warrior masters. |
10 |
| 27 | 18 |
Beside me, clad not Kajir but in the brief leather of one of the Wagon Girls, though collared, stood Elizabeth Cardwell; similarly attired and collared, I noted, standing a bit behind Harold of the Tuchuks, I saw the fiery Hereena; she was perhaps the only one of all the girls of the Wagon Peoples t... |
10 |
| 27 | 48 |
Was it only because Kamchak believed, as he had once said, that the Wagon Peoples must have an enemy? —or was there some other reason, beyond that? Suddenly there was commotion at the door and three men, followed by some others, burst into the hall. |
10 |
| 27 | 51 |
Conrad, Hakimba and the Paravaci strode to the throne of Kamchak, but none of them, as befitted Ubars of their peoples, knelt. |
10 |
| 28 | 1 |
Elizabeth and I Depart from the Wagon Peoples Tuka, the slave girl, did not fare well at the hands of Elizabeth Cardwell. |
10 |
| 28 | 53 |
"Your coming and going with the Wagon Peoples," said Kamchak, "has spanned parts of two of our years". |
10 |
| 28 | 56 |
"The years," said Harold, smiling, "were two—the Year in which Tarl Cabot Came to the Wagon Peoples and the Year in which Tarl Cabot Commanded a Thousand". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 149 |
I remembered her on the Plains of Turia, in the Land of the Wagon Peoples. |
10 |
| 4 | 179 |
The ponderous bosk, on which the Wagon Peoples live, among which are numbered the Kassars and the Tuchuks, also wear such rings, but there, of course, the ring is much larger and heavier. |
10 |
| 5 | 145 |
* * * * Some months before, Elizabeth and I, the egg of Priest-Kings in the saddlepack of my tarn, had returned to the north from the Plains of Turia, the Land of the Wagon Peoples. |
10 |
| 5 | 192 |
For many months, while you labored in our service in the Land of the Wagon Peoples, thousands upon thousands of those of Ko-ro-ba have returned to the city. |
10 |
| 19 | 284 |
Elizabeth had been clad in the brief leather of a Tuchuk wagon girl, simple, rough, sleeveless, the short skirt on the left side slit to the belt, so that the saddle of the kaiila, mount of the Wagon Peoples, would be permitted her. |
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| 19 | 303 |
The Tuchuks, one of the distant Wagon Peoples, tend to be, to those of northern Gor, a people of mystery and intrigue; to those of the southern plains, of course, they tend to be little more than efficient, fierce and dreaded foes. |
10 |
| 22 | 390 |
"Bring me," I said, "the small horn bow of the Tuchuks, the barbed war arrows of the Wagon Peoples". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 336 |
It is herded below the Gorean equator by the Wagon Peoples, but there are bosk herds on ranches in the north as well, and peasants often keep some of the animals. |
10 |
| 18 | 514 |
At my side I now wore the sword that I had brought originally to Port Kar, that which I had carried so many years before, even at the siege of Ar, and in Tharna, and in the Nest of Priest-Kings and on the plains of the Wagon Peoples, and in the streets of great Ar itself, when I had seemed to serve ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 133 |
Much of the hides, the horn and leather which found its way northward came from Turia, obtained from the Wagon Peoples of the treeless southern plains, and many of the manufactured goods, and goods of price, which found their way to the far south, and even to the Wagon Peoples, were produced in, or ... |
10 |
| 11 | 134 |
Perhaps the Tuchuks, one of the fierce Wagon Peoples, traditional enemies of Turia, her conquerors, had spared her for such reasons, that they might have outlet for their goods and a source for goods they could not well manufacture, or acquire, for themselves. |
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| 11 | 265 |
In the south even the free women of the Wagon Peoples wear nose rings". |
10 |
| 11 | 267 |
"Even free women in the south," she insisted, "the free women of the Wagon Peoples, wear nose rings". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 66 |
It lies in the lands of the Wagon Peoples. |
10 |
| 12 | 77 |
They had been returned, though still wearing the chains of slaves, as a gesture of good will, by Kamchak, Ubar San of the Wagon Peoples. |
10 |
| 14 | 131 |
The Wagon Peoples, too, each have an individual brand for their female slaves. |
10 |
| 22 | 57 |
The earth trembles with the coming of the herds of the Wagon Peoples. |
10 |
| 22 | 864 |
Perhaps she would be carried south in tarn caravan, or by slave wagon, and would be slave in Turia, or perhaps even in the wagons of the Wagon Peoples, the Tuchuks, the Kassars, the Kataii, the Paravaci. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 99 |
And he had gone to the Land of the Wagon Peoples, to the Plains of Turia, and had obtained there the last egg of Priest-Kings and had returned it, safe, to the Sardar. |
10 |
| 8 | 53 |
Perhaps this is partly because, in the far south, the free women of the Wagon Peoples wear nose rings; perhaps it is because the piercing does not show; I do not know. |
10 |
| 13 | 192 |
"Could we not," I suggested, "simply leap naked into a pit of venomous osts, or, perhaps, race madly across the plains of the Wagon Peoples during a lightning storm, our swords raised over our heads?" "The trick," said the Forkbeard, "is not simply to walk into the jaws of a larl. |
10 |
| 17 | 142 |
The Kurii, as I may have mentioned, consist of several "Peoples". |
10 |
| 17 | 143 |
Not all of these "Peoples" speak the same language, and, I gather, there are differences among them, and within, each People, for example, differences in marking, in texture of fur, in temperament, in tooth arrangement, in ear shape, and so on. |
10 |
| 20 | 62 |
It is the first act in the drama wherewith peace will be purchased between warring peoples". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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... |
10 |
| 2 | 65 |
I had learned these with the Wagon Peoples. |
10 |
| 2 | 234 |
On the Plains of Turia, or in the Land of the Wagon Peoples, it was available only late in the summer. |
10 |
| 7 | 49 |
It was scratched in Taharic, the lettering of the Tahari peoples. |
10 |
| 7 | 425 |
When first I had seen her, her yellow nylon stockings in shreds, her brief, yellow, with narrow orange stripes, Oxford-cloth shift, dusty and stained, her neck bound to a capture lance, her wrists bound behind her, on the plains of the Wagon Peoples, a captive of Tuchuks, she had worn it. |
10 |
| 7 | 479 |
And what she did not accomplish with the message collar in the land of the Wagon Peoples, she has well accomplished here on the rack in the chamber of justice". |
10 |
| 22 | 88 |
He was unwary; his attention was fully focused on his target; did he think I was a slave girl on the plains of the Wagon Peoples, standing, a tospit in my mouth for his lance sport? I moved to the side and, with both hands, a yard behind the point, turning, caught the lance; the rider, crying out, w... |
10 |
| 24 | 530 |
I should have seen that before, when she was brought to the camp of the Wagon Peoples, her neck bound to the lance, run between kaiila, when she had been in the pelt of the red larl, when she had worn the nose ring, and been exhibited in the chatka and curla, the kalmak and koora. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 530 |
In the fall of the city of Turia, some years ago, thousands of its citizens had fled, many of them merchants or of merchant families; with the preservation of the city, and the restoration of the Ubarate of Phanius Turmus, many of these families returned; new contacts had been made, new products dis... |
10 |
| 11 | 132 |
The girls of the Wagon Peoples, too, I understand, wear such collars. |
10 |
| 18 | 48 |
It suggested the plains of Turia, or the lands of the Wagon Peoples. |
10 |
| 18 | 49 |
There were scenes of hunting, of caravan raiding, of girl taming; scenes were fixed there of the great bosk herds and the strings of the wagons of the fierce plains nomads; in one place there was fixed a painting of the walls and towers of Turia, and riders of the Wagon Peoples on hills, looking tow... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 610 |
Like many simple, primitive peoples, isolated and remote, they could live or die without being noticed. |
10 |
| 3 | 163 |
I saw two men of the Wagon Peoples pass by, and, not a yard from them, evincing no concern, a fellow in the flowing robes of Turia. |
10 |
| 4 | 517 |
Many primitive peoples have their stories and myths. |
10 |
| 10 | 100 |
"I know you are wise and I am stupid," said Imnak, "for I am only a lowly fellow of the polar basin, but my peoples, in the gathering of the summer, in the great hunts, when the herd comes, number in the hundreds". |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 584 |
Indeed, among the Tuchuks, one of the Wagon Peoples of Gor, even free women wear nose rings. |
10 |
| 32 | 993 |
Knife branding, too, practiced by some primitive peoples, is quite rare. |
10 |
| 46 | 45 |
"Yes," he said, "a great force of men is coming up the river, and the peoples of the river are joining, that they may be stopped". |
10 |
| 46 | 49 |
I had thought that it would be only a matter of time until the peoples of the river would mass in an attempt to stop the advance of Bila Huruma. |
10 |
| 49 | 108 |
"It is the massing of the peoples of the river for war". |
10 |
| 50 | 23 |
"There are many black peoples". |
10 |
| 51 | 153 |
He had not tied her at night since we had seen the forces of the river peoples pass the island on which we had hidden, those forces of incredible numbers which had doubtless wiped out Bila Huruma, his flotilla and his battalions of askaris. |
10 |
| 53 | 50 |
In many villages, and among hostile peoples, the demonstration of the power of the ring, as I had hoped, permitted us safe passage. |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 345 |
Could it not be that the Gorean books are, in effect, a way of preparing the Earth and its peoples for the revelation of the true existence of a Counter-Earth, should it sometime be expedient to make its presence known?" "Of course not," I said. |
10 |
| 12 | 33 |
But the Greeks and Romans were proud peoples, so untutored as to be unapologetic concerning their humanity. |
10 |
| 13 | 253 |
He was, I gathered, of one of the Wagon Peoples, most likely the Tuchuks. |
10 |
| 16 | 39 |
For example, some individuals have lost caste, or been deprived of caste; some individuals have been born outside of caste; certain occupations are not traditionally associated with caste, such as gardening, domestic service and herding; and, indeed, there are entire cultures and peoples on Gor to w... |
10 |
| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 201 |
The leathers forced on the slave maidens of the Wagon Peoples, taught to care for the bosk and please their masters, too, might be called to mind. |
10 |
| 21 | 529 |
It is said that they are even worn by some free women, for example, among the Wagon Peoples of the southern plains. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 572 |
I speak on behalf of the Peoples, and the chieftains of the Peoples, those who stand above the rings. |
10 |
| 1 | 112 |
It might be mentioned that nose rings are favored in some areas more than in others, and by some peoples more than others. |
10 |
| 1 | 113 |
On behalf of the nose ring, too, it should be mentioned that among the Wagon Peoples, even free women wear such rings. |
10 |
| 1 | 577 |
Thus, then, do I bring you greetings on behalf of the Peoples, on behalf of the ships, and the Steel Worlds. |
10 |
| 1 | 628 |
"I speak on behalf of the Peoples, on behalf of the Steel Worlds," said Kog. |
10 |
| 1 | 629 |
"Do you speak on behalf of all the Peoples, on behalf of all the Steel Worlds?" asked Samos. |
10 |
| 1 | 631 |
"Do you speak on behalf of all of those of the Peoples, of all of those of the Steel Worlds?" asked Samos. |
10 |
| 1 | 806 |
These things are in virtue of what, among these peoples, is called the Memory. |
10 |
| 1 | 1082 |
They have not chosen to revere the fat-bellied, beer-drinking gods of more sedentary peoples. |
10 |
| 1 | 1307 |
"Do you doubt the word of one who is of the Peoples?" asked Kog. |
10 |
| 9 | 25 |
It seems to make clear that the folk of the area, at one time, were settled, agricultural peoples. |
10 |
| 9 | 31 |
Here, however, we seem to have a case where peoples deliberately chose the widely ranging, nomadic hunting economy over an agricultural economy. |
10 |
| 14 | 74 |
It is not merely that it is more common nearer the perimeter but, I think, that it serves as a reminder, near the perimeter, of the reality and proximity of the red nations, whereas these same nations, or tribes, far from the perimeter tend to be regarded not only as remote but as almost mythical pe... |
10 |
| 19 | 510 |
Like many similar peoples, the red savages have generally a great reverence and affection for the animals in their environment. |
10 |
| 19 | 728 |
"The lot of a slave among the Kaiila, as among our peoples generally," said Cuwignaka, "is not an easy one". |
10 |
| 19 | 731 |
"The Kaiila, as others of our peoples, do not treat their white beauties with gentleness". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 360 |
Female slaves among such peoples quickly learn their place, a place in which they are kept with perfection. |
10 |
| 2 | 258 |
"It is the way our peoples move," said Cuwignaka. |
10 |
| 3 | 287 |
I did not doubt but what the Fleer and the Yellow Knives, and other peoples, too, might have similar ceremonies, in which, in one way or another, a similar profession might take place, there being danced or enacted also by a woman of another group, perhaps even, in those cases, by a maiden of the Ka... |
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| 7 | 786 |
"If one can bring about peace between our peoples, the Kaiila and the Yellow Knives," she said, "one would surely, in the prestige of this, be very important". |
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| 7 | 792 |
"It is my hope," Iwoso said, "to be of some small help in this business, the bringing about of peace between our peoples". |
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| 15 | 237 |
"Well, be assured, my friend, I am speaking of the shields of the peoples of the Barrens and within the Barrens. |
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| 19 | 195 |
"There is only one thing he cannot be rich in, among our peoples". |
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| 22 | 307 |
Such practices among most peoples are not as institutionalized as among the red savages but I think that those who know war, on whatever remote fields, will not find themselves unfamiliar with the counterparts of such practices. |
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| 33 | 123 |
"Conquerors have often found that a useful philosophy to encourage in subject peoples," I said. |
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| 54 | 63 |
"Great enemies," said a man, "make great peoples". |
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| 54 | 105 |
Women, too, even free women, of these peoples, of those bands within trekking distance, had journeyed to the encampment. |
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| 56 | 56 |
Too often in the histories of worlds had the displacements of peoples become the prelude to lengthy and bloody wars. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 11 | 84 |
"May I present Tarl, he of the Plains of Turia, he of the Lands of the Wagon Peoples, master of the mystic quivas, the famed saddle knives of the southern barbarians, come to us at great expense and in spite of many perils by special arrangement with Kamchak, Ubar San of the Wagon Peoples!" "That's ... |
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| 7 | 420 |
I had learned their use long ago in the lands of the Wagon Peoples, or, as some might say, on the plains of Turia. |
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| 8 | 257 |
From the fellow's back there protruded the handle of a knife, the hilt of a particular sort of knife, that of a saddle knife, that of the sort common in the land of the Wagon Peoples, that commonly known as a "quiva". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 19 |
The needs of these animals, on which the Alars depend for their existence, are taken to justify movements, and sometimes even migrations, of the Alars and kindred peoples. |
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| 4 | 119 |
They were not isolated in vast plains areas, for example, as were certain subequatorial Wagon Peoples, such as Tuchuks and Kassars. |
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| 4 | 188 |
This was quite different from the Wagon Peoples of the far south. |
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| 20 | 44 |
In such places were to be found the rare, precious habitats of culture, the astonishing, moving delights of art and music, the truths of theater and literature, the glories and allegories of architecture, bespeaking the meanings of peoples, man-made symbols like mountain ranges; in them, too, were t... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 11 |
This arrangement, incidentally, is not common with the southern wagon peoples, such as Tuchuks, if only because of the vast numbers of wagons. |
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| 1 | 13 |
It is fairly typical, however, with some of the less numerous wagon peoples of the north, such as the tribes of the Alars, particularly when separated from one another on the march, though there one might note the circle is often very large and as many as four or five wagons deep. |
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| 8 | 86 |
The effect was much like that of the curla and chatka, a portion of the garmenture, or livery, in which the wagon peoples of the south place most of their slave females, save that the curla, the cord, was black and not red, and the chatka, the strip, was of cloth and yellow, not of black leather. |
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| 8 | 615 |
It is little wonder that peoples knowing not the horse fled in terror when they first encountered riders, taking the rider and his mount for one thing, something half animal, half human, an awesome, unbelievably swift, gigantic, armed chimera, something that could not be outrun, that seemed to fly u... |
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| 15 | 361 |
"In the south," I said, "the women of the Wagon Peoples, even the free women, do not wear veils". |
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| 15 | 366 |
"On the other hand," I said, "the free women of the Wagon Peoples do wear clothes". |
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| 21 | 1203 |
Too, it might be noted that few slave garments have a nether closure; two obvious exceptions to this are the Turian camisk and the curla and chatka, or cord and strip, of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 26 | 196 |
In the latter wars, fought amongst factions of the Wagon Peoples, the object, or principal object, was apparently the acquisition of the lofty, silken kaiila, the common mount of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 26 | 205 |
The Wagon Peoples themselves are not likely to confuse their own slaves, as the different peoples have different brands, the Tuchuks the brand of the four bosk horns, the Kassars the brand of the three-weighted bola, the Kataii the brand of a bow, facing left, and the Paravaci the brand of the inver... |
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| 26 | 198 |
To be sure, it did not take the Wagon Peoples long to learn the many exquisite pleasures attendant upon owning beautiful slaves. |
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| 26 | 199 |
With the unification of the Wagon Peoples under a Ubar San, Kamchak, of the Tuchuks, it is my impression that the riders of the swift kaiila now seldom ply their depredations against their own kind. |
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| 26 | 203 |
Raiding parties of the Wagon Peoples have been reported as far north as Venna. |
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| 28 | 103 |
To find truly different cultures one might have to travel to Torvaldsland, to the Tahari, to the Barrens, to the Land of the Wagon Peoples, to the interior, east of Schendi, and so on. |
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| 31 | 212 |
"On behalf of Gnieus Lelius, regent in Ar, and the high council of Ar," said Labienus, "I, as their envoy de facto in the delta, express their regret for the misunderstandings between our states and peoples, and in particular for that resulting in a cruel and unprovoked attack upon an innocent villa... |
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| 37 | 238 |
Among the Wagon Peoples, who inhabit largely treeless plains, bosk dung is the usual fuel, and is gathered by slave girls. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 51 |
It was only with the greatest reluctance and most profound regret that Cos found herself, after all avenues of conciliation and negotiation were exhausted, forced to take up arms, in the name of free peoples everywhere, to resist, and call to account, the actions and policies of the tyrant, Gnieus L... |
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| 14 | 59 |
What if she had found herself, for example, tied with wire in an alcove in Brundisium, almost concealed in ropes on a submission mat in the Tahari, wearing a body cage in Tyros, bound to a wheel in the land of the Wagon Peoples, shackled on a sales platform in Victoria, fearing the auctioneer's whip... |
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| 19 | 351 |
In the south, the Wagon Peoples sometimes use the bola in such captures, the cords and weights whipping about the girls legs and ankles, pinning them together, hurling her to the ground, where, in an instant, before she can free herself, the captor, leaping from the saddle, is upon her. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 1212 |
Among the Wagon Peoples of the southern plains, I am told, a slave who has not been fully pleasing may be tied overnight in a dung sack. |
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| 14 | 1213 |
I am also told that excellent order obtains among the kajirae of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 847 |
Various cities, too, have their brands, such as Treve, and Ar, and some populations, as well, such as those of the nomadic Wagon Peoples. |
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| 24 | 269 |
Are not even peoples accountable, down to dozens of generations? The blonde looked wildly at Cabot. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 302 |
Ritual scarring was not unknown on Gor, for example amongst certain of the Wagon Peoples of the southern plains, certain tribes south and east of Schendi, in the vicinity of the Ua, and so on. |
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| 12 | 129 |
"In the land of the Wagon Peoples, long ago," I said, "I was honored to command a thousand, kaiila riders of the Tuchuks". |
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| 15 | 93 |
Indeed, amongst the Wagon Peoples, where veiling is unknown, such rings are common even with free women. |
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| 19 | 36 |
For this reason, the Tuchuks, and others of the Wagon Peoples, and, I suppose, others, accustom their kaiila to the sight and smell of tharlarion. |
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| 19 | 37 |
In the case of the Wagon Peoples, these are usually taken from raided caravans. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 315 |
And as succeeding ranks surmounted their fellows, they, too, encountered the rapid fire of the small, powerful, swift bows, developed over generations of warfare amongst the Wagon Peoples of the Southern Plains. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 817 |
To be sure, given all the veiling of free women, and the dispersal of the population, who can speak practically of such things? Perhaps the most beautiful woman on all Gor is in some tiny village in Torvaldsland or herding bosk on the plains of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 17 | 187 |
Much from the Lady Bina and from the translator I did not understand, that having to do with distant worlds, exotic engineerings, unusual weaponries, strange customs and holidays, diverse races and cultures, troubled histories, and such, and with mysterious projects, factions, and wars, seemingly cu... |
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| 22 | 161 |
"Raiders of the Wagon Peoples sometimes raid Turian caravans for this, and, of course, Turian women, to be put in the chatka and curla, the kalmak, and a nose ring". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 10 |
Let the idealist and the fanatic curse the inevitable fruits of his success, the brass he took for gold, the unexamined shadow he took for substance, the bright illusion he took for reality; he does not lament the downfall of peoples and states, the carts of bones and the lakes of blood; his grief, ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40 | 92 |
Are those not decanters of ka-la-na, ruby red and tawny, like the wet pelt of a fresh-foaled kaiila? Do I not see flasks and vessels common to the liqueurs and syrups of Turia? Might those not even be tospits, short-stemmed and long-stemmed, from the lands of the Wagon Peoples? And do I not smell th... |
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| 46 | 485 |
She could not name the four Wagon Peoples. |
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| 46 | 489 |
I did not think Ho-Tosk's assertions were quite fair to me, although I could not, indeed, name the four Wagon Peoples. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 46 | 45 |
My thoughts drifted back to what some called the Plains of Turia, others the Lands of the Wagon Peoples, faraway and long ago, in the southern hemisphere. |
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| 59 | 366 |
That had been of interest, later, to a friend, on the Plains of the Wagon Peoples, Kamchak, of the Tuchuks. |
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