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Book 1. (13 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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1 161 I kicked the fire to pieces, stamping out the embers, scuffing dirt over the sparks.
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2 176 "Idealists and rebels have been dashed to pieces on the frozen escarpments of those mountains.
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3 226 A billion tiny yellow stars, like pieces of fiery needles, seemed to explode in my hand.
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5 140 They are diurnal hunters and eat only what they catch themselves, usually one of the fleet Gorean antelopes or a wild bull, taken on the run and lifted in the monstrous talons to a high place, where it is torn to pieces and devoured.
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6 216 "My tarn killed the other," said the girl, "and followed it to the ground, where he tore it to pieces".
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12 86 I would have a few moments more of life, the same brief reprieve nature grants the mouse carried by the hawk to its nest; then on some barren crag my body would be torn to pieces by the beast whose prey I was.
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13 82 I was glad that it was night and that the hood of the man was drawn, for I had no desire to look on what pieces of flesh might still cling to his skull.
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14 104 "You will be torn to pieces," said Marlenus.
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15 127 A brief, crafty light flickered momentarily in Mintar's small eyes, and his pudgy hand hovered, hesitating an instant, over one of the pieces of the hundred-squared board, a centered Tarnsman.
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15 171 He smashed it down on the board, scattering the other pieces to the silken cushions.
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15 219 Mintar was idly arranging the pieces on the game board, first in one pattern and then in another.
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15 220 "In large matters, as the pieces are now set," he said, "the girl is unimportant, but only the Priest-Kings can foresee all possible variations.
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18 7 How much I would have given to have had Marlenus and his men at my side, few though they might be! Then, as if the pieces of a puzzle had suddenly, unexpectedly, snapped into shape, a plan sprang into my head.
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Book 2. (6 results) Outlaw of Gor

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2 19 It was rumored they used men as one might use pieces in a game, and when the piece had played its role it might be discarded, or perhaps, as in my case, removed from the board until it pleased the Priest-Kings to try yet another game.
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4 58 Yes, and by now I should have been challenged a dozen times by Ko-ro-ba's night patrols! A monstrous chain of lightning exploded in the night about me, deafening me with the shock and roar of its thunder, splitting the darkness in violent fragments, breaking it to pieces like a clay bowl struck with...
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14 141 My hands clenched even more tightly on the pieces of the bolt.
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15 36 How frightful for her must have been those minutes of flight, grasped in the talons, hundreds of feet above the plains of Tharna, not knowing if she might be dropped at any instant, or carried to some ledge to be ripped to pieces by that monstrous beak, those hideous steel-shod talons.
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17 76 About his neck hangs a canvas bag in which pieces of ore are carried back to the scales.
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26 30 The men of Tharna watched almost in disbelief as the great mask loosened, bolt by bolt, from the wall, leaned forward and at last, dragged down by its own weight, broke loose and plunged clattering down the steps of the throne, breaking into a hundred pieces.
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Book 3. (4 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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19 6 To my surprise his head was crowned with an aromatic wreath of green leaves, the first thing green I had seen in the Nest, and about his neck there hung, besides the invariable translator, a necklace, perhaps of accouterments, perhaps of pure ornaments, small pieces of metal, some shallow and rounde...
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19 21 He bent it outward and downward and then, with one of the pieces of metal hanging from the necklace at his throat, he scraped at the front edge of the door and bent it a bit outward; following this he attacked the interior edge of the cabinet similarly.
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19 36 I approached Sarm and regarded the pieces of metal.
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19 43 "Then it might seem," I proposed, somewhat maliciously, "that from one point of view, contrary to your suggestion of yesterday, that these tiny pieces of metal—and not the modifications of the ganglionic net—are the true and ultimate source of the Priest-Kings' power".
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Book 4. (16 results) Nomads of Gor

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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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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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10 17 Yesterday afternoon, for an incredible forty pieces of gold, four quivas and the saddle of a kaiila, Kamchak had sold Tenchika back to Albrecht.
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10 158 "You should have forty pieces of gold in that pouch," he said.
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10 475 "I want him slain," she cried, "cut into tiny pieces, the death of a thousand cuts!" "Withdraw," I advised Kamchak.
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11 40 "Do you think five gold pieces would be too much?" he asked.
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11 295 "If you attempt to leave the wagons at night they will sense you out and rip my pretty little slave girl in pieces".
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13 11 They would have torn the girl to pieces on the prairie in the light of the three Gorean moons.
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15 100 He was eating a piece of bosk meat in the Tuchuk fashion, holding the meat in his left hand and between his teeth, and cutting pieces from it with a quiva scarcely a quarter inch from his lips, then chewing the severed bite and then again holding the meat in his hand and teeth and cutting again.
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20 130 Any instant I expected it to pick Harold from the roof with its beak, bite him in two and eat the pieces.
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22 23 Doubtless rocks and large pieces of building stone had already been piled behind the gates.
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25 437 "Would it not have added a dozen gold pieces to my price?" "Yes," I said, "it would have".
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26 101 The clear ground between the walls and the first buildings was similarly empty, though here and there I saw some litter, pieces of boxes, broken arrows, patches of cloth.
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26 313 He knelt down near the fragments, disgust on his face, fingering the stiff, leathery ruptured egg, some of the golden pieces broken from it.
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26 409 "I suppose," I said, "it was torn to pieces by the crowds below—or lost with the other dead.
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27 79 Dina, wondering, opened the package and within it she saw the cups and rings, and pieces of gold, which Albrecht had given her for her victories in the runnings from the bola.
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Book 5. (73 results) Assassin of Gor

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3 60 I was surprised, and looked more closely, as the Vintner took the wallet filled with game pieces from the man's shoulder and began, with his stubby fingers, to quickly arrange the pieces.
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17 744 In less than an Ahn we had set up our board and pieces, and I had shown Sura the placing of the pieces and their moves, and had explained some of the elementary techniques of the game to her; in the second Ahn she was actually negotiating the board with alertness, always moving with an objective in ...
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19 376 "I am offered five hundred and forty gold pieces for these hot-blooded barbarian beauties," called the auctioneer, "only five hundred and forty gold pieces for this exquisite set of animals, in prime condition and superbly trained to tantalize you, to torment you, to drive you wild with pleasure! Do...
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1 68 Without speaking the man took twenty pieces of gold, tarn disks of Ar, of double weight, and gave them to Kuurus, who placed them in the pockets of his belt.
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1 93 "If you are successful," said the man, "return and you will receive a hundred such pieces of gold".
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3 22 The man who called out wore a robe of checkered red and yellow squares, and the game board, of similar squares, with ten ranks and ten files, giving a hundred squares, hung over his back; slung over his left shoulder, as a warrior wears a sword, was a leather bag containing the pieces, twenty to a s...
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3 24 Capturings of individual pieces and continuations take place much as in chess.
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3 29 It might be mentioned that the game, as I shall speak of it, for in Gorean it has no other designation, is extremely popular on Gor, and even children find among their playthings the pieces of the game; there are numerous clubs and competitions among various castes and cylinders; careful records of ...
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3 59 "Set the pieces," said the Player.
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3 94 "The pieces are set," said the Vintner, his fingers trembling.
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3 98 Moreover, having the first move, he might more speedily develop his pieces, bringing them into the central areas of the board where they might control crucial squares, the crossroads of the board.
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3 133 Goreans often play without the board and pieces, though generally they prefer them because then less effort need be expended on the purely mnemonic matters of keeping the pattern in mind, move to move.
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3 165 Every nerve in that old face seemed strained, as though trying to understand what might lie there beyond him in the darkness that was his world, save for the memory of the movement of pieces on a checkered board.
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3 210 The crowd and I cried out with delight, marveling on it, the now-apparent simplicity of it, the attack which had been not so much mounted as revealed by the apparently meaningless moves, intended only to clear the board for the vital attack, coming from the improbable Ubara's Scribe, one of the leas...
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3 214 The Vintner was picking up the pieces and putting them back in the leather game bag, which he then slung about the man's shoulder.
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4 122 "Four pieces of gold," said Cernus, "double tarns, will be sent to your rooms".
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4 140 "The risk is too much, sometimes as much as ten gold pieces".
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5 255 He moved back the two curved pieces, and I freed the girl of the bands and clips.
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5 548 "Twenty gold pieces, I'd say," appraised Elizabeth.
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5 559 "I would say twenty-five gold pieces," she said.
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6 12 Judging from the pieces and positions it appeared to be late in the middle game.
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6 28 Cernus began to arrange the pieces once more on the board.
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6 105 Cernus arose and stretched, leaving Caprus to gather up the pieces.
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6 107 Caprus, soon after, carrying the game pieces and board, left also, but he made his exit through a door other than that which had been used by the slave and his guards, and Cernus.
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6 119 Such a girl, after a dance, may snatch up dozens of gold pieces from the sand, putting them in her silk, scurrying back to her master.
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10 97 The horn spoon snapped in his hands, and he angrily threw the pieces into the bowl.
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11 33 There was a littered look about the room, some pieces of chains about.
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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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13 132 She had first been sold for eight silver tarsks to a keeper of one of the public kitchens in a cylinder, a former creditor of her father, who had in mind making a profit on her; she worked in the kitchen for a year as a pot girl, sleeping on straw and chained at night, and then, as her body more ade...
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15 423 Cernus now, while Caprus replaced the pieces of the game, regarded Portus.
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17 261 * * * * Cernus, upon occasion, though Ubar of Ar, would return to sit table in his own house, where, as he had invariably done before, he would play with Caprus, losing himself in the movements of the red and yellow pieces on the large board of red and yellow squares.
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17 735 "Have you a board and pieces?" I asked.
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17 738 "Have you a board and pieces?" I asked.
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17 743 Then, between us, we managed to find tiny vials, and brooches, and beads, to use as the pieces.
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17 763 "The game! The game!" Reluctantly I began to put out the pieces again.
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17 809 "Very well," I said, resetting the pieces.
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18 1 The End of Kajuralia I leaped across the rouged square of silk, scattering the vials and beads that were the pieces of our game, flinging Sura to the floor, pressing myself across her body that she might be protected.
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19 137 The first bid was some four gold pieces, which was good, and suggested that the night might go well.
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19 139 A girl in the Curulean is seldom sold for less than two gold pieces.
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19 141 In a rather brief amount of time Verbina was auctioned to a young Warrior for seven gold pieces.
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19 142 An extremely good price, under relatively normal market conditions, for a truly beautiful woman of High Caste tends to be about thirty pieces of gold, though some go as high as forty, and fifty is not unknown; these prices, for women of low caste, may be approximately halved.
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19 148 The pair was eventually sold to a collector for ten gold pieces; I trust the security of his Pleasure Gardens is superb, else he might waken to a knife at his throat and the demand for a tarn, and, perhaps eventually, in the rags of a slave, a seat on the bench of a cargo galley.
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19 159 She was sold for twenty-five gold pieces.
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19 163 Lana, I recognized, who was sold for four gold pieces.
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19 180 The auctioneer, as though desperately, tried to do his best for the girl, but soon jeers were forthcoming from the crowd, hissings and shoutings; when her blanket was removed from her, gracefully by the auctioneer, as though removing an expensive wrap from a lady of pearls and sophistication, she sl...
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19 229 "Come now, brothers and sisters of Glorious Ar, citizens and gentle buyers of Glorious Ar, and friends of Ar and hers, what am I offered for these three barbarians?" There was a bid of three gold pieces from the auditorium, probably intended to do little more than initiate the bidding.
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19 236 "Eight gold pieces!" I heard cry from the crowd.
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19 243 "Twenty gold pieces!" I heard cry.
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19 271 "One hundred gold pieces," spoken by a Slaver who wore the insignia of Tor, some feet from the box of Cernus.
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19 274 The bids increased to a hundred and forty gold pieces.
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19 285 "Two hundred gold pieces," said a merchant from Cos.
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19 299 The bids then increased to two hundred and seventy-five gold pieces.
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19 318 "Three hundred gold pieces!" called a rich man of Ar.
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19 342 I managed to hear one bid for four hundred pieces of gold.
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19 357 "Five hundred gold pieces!" called the rich man of Ar.
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19 374 "Five hundred and forty gold pieces!" cried the rich man of Ar, and the crowd cheered its approval of the bid.
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19 390 Imagine her, noble men of Ar, chained to your slave ring! She alone is worth five hundred pieces of gold!" The crowd roared its approval and the auctioneer dropped his hand and stepped back, perhaps as surprised as any in that room.
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19 404 "Would it not be worth five hundred gold pieces," asked Elizabeth, "to put your leash on this one and lead her home, to teach her the worth of a man of Ar, if worth they have, and then send her weeping and aching to the kettles of the kitchen until she begs to sleep beneath your slave ring?" There w...
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19 427 "Eight hundred gold pieces!" came one cry.
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19 429 Then we heard nine hundred and fifty bid, and then, incredibly, a thousand, and then a bid for the astounding sum of fourteen hundred pieces of gold.
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19 433 The last bid he had received had been an astounding fifteen hundred pieces of gold.
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19 441 "It is bid," said the man, "by Samos, First Slaver of Port Kar, for the wenches now on the block three thousand pieces of gold".
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20 176 "Bring the board and pieces," said Cernus.
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20 195 "Perhaps a slave who scarcely knows the moves of the pieces," I suggested, "might play for me—if such would not be too potent an adversary for you?" Cernus looked at me with surprise.
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20 240 In the meantime Philemon had brought the board and arranged the pieces.
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20 312 "If you win," said Cernus, "you will be given a hundred gold pieces".
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20 397 "Does the fool know the moves of the pieces?" inquired Scormus acidly.
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20 432 "No," said Cernus, intensely, "you move red pieces".
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20 433 Hup obediently started shoving the red pieces about the board.
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20 453 "I will give you two hundred pieces of gold if you can finish the game in ten moves," said Cernus.
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20 511 "Impossible," whispered Cernus, trembling, staring at the small pieces of wood, the intricate pattern, the field of red and yellow squares.
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20 542 I counted the moves, eleven of them, and, on the eleventh, Cernus cried out with rage and dashed the board and its pieces from the table.
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22 362 To my surprise I noted, coiled at the side of his saddle, in four loops, was a whip knife, of the sort common in Port Kar, a whip, but set into its final eighteen inches, arranged in sets of four, twenty thin, narrow blades; the tips of whip knives differ; some have a double-edged blade of about sev...
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Book 6. (7 results) Raiders of Gor

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1 100 I then knew that the two pieces of cloth I had encountered earlier had not been simple trail marks but boundary signs, warnings.
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3 6 It is dangerous to enter the water to make a tether fast because of the predators that frequent the swamp, but several men do so at a time, one man making fast the tether and the others, with him beneath the surface, protecting him with marsh spears, or pounding on metal pieces or wooden rods to dri...
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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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10 244 I had purchased the girl whom I had seen dance in the paga tavern, for forty pieces of gold.
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11 217 "Very well," I said, "send a page, and a man with a torch, to conduct him hither, and give him guard, that he may not be torn to pieces in the streets".
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15 370 She wore five pieces of metal, her collar and locked rings on her wrists and ankles.
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17 230 It was very cold, and it now seemed to me that the outcome of the battle was written on that great board, the width of the horizon, the pieces ships and men, which lay burning and smoking in the distance.
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Book 7. (32 results) Captive of Gor

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1 124 My most lucrative assignment was to be to model several pieces in a new line of swimwear being brought out by a rather well-known company, the name of which is, however, unimportant for purposes of this narrative.
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7 17 He had already, at the fair, paid Haakon a deposit on this purchase, in the amount of fifty gold pieces.
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7 18 The balance of one hundred and fifty gold pieces would be due when the consignment was delivered.
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7 19 Two gold pieces is a high price for a raw girl, delivered in Laura, but if the same girl can be brought safely to a large market city, she will probably bring five or more, even if untrained.
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7 20 Further, in offering as much as two gold pieces in Laura, Targo assured himself the first pick of Haakon's choicest captures.
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7 31 It seemed not unlikely that one of Targo's village girls, if trained and brought to Ar, might net him from ten to fifteen, perhaps even twenty, gold pieces.
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7 512 Targo then, piece by piece, from the leather pouch at his belt, handed forty-five pieces of gold to the chief of the two men.
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7 525 He will pay one hundred pieces of gold".
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8 366 Beyond the compound of Haakon of Skjern I could see the compound of his tarns, where, hobbled, the great birds beat their wings, threw back their heads and screamed, and tore at the great pieces of bosk thrown before them.
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8 376 It is said that the tarn knows who is a tarnsman and who is not, and if one approaches him who is not, he will seize him and rip him to pieces.
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8 402 Further, certain pieces of his instrumentation were clearly far from primitive.
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8 607 His new girl, the Lady Rena of Lydius, would net him fifty-five gold pieces if she could be delivered in Ar to her captain from Tyros.
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8 608 And his hundred village girls, bought for only two gold pieces a girl, could well stand to make him rich, if they could be brought to Ar before the Love Feast.
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8 705 Sometimes the mountebank would give pieces of meat to the girls to throw to the beast.
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8 706 Lana begged hardest and was given the most pieces of meat.
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8 924 The men, wagering, tossed us pieces of meat.
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8 928 We fought for the dropped pieces.
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11 206 Suddenly I went to pieces, horrified, hysterical.
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11 854 I should have brought pieces of gold! Not arrowpoints! In my anger, I did not notice the man, standing back in the brush, near the shore of the stream.
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13 19 She had used the pieces of binding fiber which had, by means of the perforations, fastened our throat straps on us.
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13 49 The two smaller pieces of binding fiber she thrust in the belt of her camisk, itself of binding fiber.
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13 757 He then, with his tarn knife, from a piece of raw bosk meat, cut four small pieces of meat, which he placed in my mouth.
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14 345 They were small pieces of cloth, it seemed.
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15 1163 Some of them shouted, and threw bones and pieces of meat at her.
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15 1372 Several of the chests were open, and from some of the sacks, onto the rugs, spilled pieces of gold.
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17 205 I had been sold for nine pieces of gold.
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17 210 * * * * I was sold from the great block of the Curulean, in Ar, for twelve pieces of gold, purchased by the master of a paga tavern, who thought his patrons might enjoy amusing themselves with me, a girl who wore penalty brands.
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17 237 * * * * The small man bought me for fourteen pieces of gold.
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17 278 I was sold, for fifteen pieces of gold, to the house of Samos, a slaver of Port Kar.
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17 284 The subordinate, though in the absence of Samos, thinking to please him, sold me to Tellius for only fifteen pieces of gold, which price he had paid.
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17 405 "They were cut to pieces," said Bosk.
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17 473 Bosk, I am told, set my price at twenty pieces of gold, that he might, as a merchant, take his profit on me.
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Book 8. (46 results) Hunters of Gor

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1 18 The pieces, weighted, seemed tall on the board, casting their shadows away from the flame, across the flat arena of the game.
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1 68 "I got one hundred pieces of gold for her," I said.
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1 269 I handed five pieces of gold to Samos, purchasing the man.
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1 301 "Four pieces of gold," he said.
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1 303 I placed four pieces of gold in Samos' hand.
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1 379 Samos and I looked down upon the board, with its hundred squares of red and yellow, the weighted, carved pieces.
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2 247 "Since we are friends, and have known one another for many years, Rim," began Arn, affably, "I am willing to let these two beauties go for ten pieces of gold apiece, nineteen if you take the pair, as they are".
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2 255 "Nine pieces of gold apiece," said Arn, getting to his feet.
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2 268 "These women could be sold in Ar," cried Arn, "for ten gold pieces each!" "Perhaps," said Rim, "but we are not in Ar".
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2 269 "I refuse to sell for less than eight gold pieces each," said Arn.
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2 294 "Two pieces of gold each!" cried Arn.
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3 87 "Four pieces of gold," said Thurnock.
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3 166 "I have the four gold pieces from the selling of the panther wenches," said Thurnock.
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3 293 "She stole two gold pieces from me!" cried a man standing in the crowd.
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3 325 He then bent to metal pieces, heavy, curved and hinged, which were attached to the sides of the rack, and a bit forward.
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3 351 "What am I bid for her?" "Fourteen copper pieces!" cried a man.
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3 356 "Twenty copper pieces!" cried a leather worker.
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3 360 "Twenty-two copper pieces," called a metal worker.
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3 373 "Twenty-five copper pieces," called a pastry vendor.
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3 436 "What do you think they would charge for her pelt for an hour?" "Perhaps two copper pieces," I suggested.
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4 342 He will not charge more than twenty pieces of gold for me".
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4 345 I could recall that once, it now seemed long ago, this girl, in a marvelously staged sale, with all the skills of the great auction house, the Curulean, in Ar, had, with two other girls, Virginia Kent and Phyllis Robertson, brought fifteen hundred gold pieces.
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4 349 Now this girl, once Elizabeth Cardwell, of Earth, now a paga slave in Lydius, would bring only fifteen to twenty-five pieces of gold.
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5 303 "I will give you ten copper pieces for her," I told the man.
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5 305 "Her price," he said, "is four gold pieces".
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5 311 "In Ar," said the man, "she would go for ten gold pieces".
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5 325 "Three pieces of gold," I said, "and five tarsks".
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5 331 I paid the man his three gold pieces and his five tarsks.
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6 11 I saw that there was a pan of water within her reach and, on the planking of the hold deck, some pieces of bread and a vegetable.
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6 943 I paid three pieces of gold and five tarsks for you".
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11 9 "Would you care for a game?" asked Marlenus, indicating a board and pieces which stood to one side.
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11 10 The pieces, tall, weighted, stood ready on their first squares.
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11 390 He saw, to one side, the large board of one hundred yellow and red squares, the tall weighted pieces.
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11 398 He was moving pieces, trying combinations, lines and permutations.
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11 780 It was only pieces to her.
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11 799 She could read it in the tone of Marlenus, the swiftness with which he had moved, his insolent handling of the pieces, the vigor and arrogance of his carriage.
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14 160 With bits of the raw flesh I fed them, thrusting pieces into their mouth.
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15 113 I cut pieces of meat from the animal, and gave them to the paga slaves, to thrust into the mouths of the panther girls.
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15 778 The auctioneer, I expected, would close his fist on a price of ten gold pieces for her.
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15 782 I had brought her up by perhaps as much as six gold pieces.
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15 897 I cut them pieces of meat.
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18 590 "It would be too bad," said the leader, "if beauty such as yours were torn to pieces by sleen".
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18 592 "I would rather," said their leader, "tear it to pieces myself".
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22 81 Doubtless it had been torn to pieces by the crowd.
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22 897 "For ten pieces of gold," said the comeliest of the two captives.
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22 908 With my right hand I counted out the ten gold pieces.
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Book 9. (30 results) Marauders of Gor

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1 338 "I paid ten pieces of gold for her," said Samos.
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1 351 "I should have brought a thousand pieces of gold," she said.
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1 402 I drew forth five pieces of gold.
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3 12 The interior of the sanctuary was strewn with dead Initiates, many hacked to pieces.
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3 127 "One hundred pieces of gold," said Forkbeard to him, observing the girl.
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3 177 On one of each of the two curved pieces constituting a bracelet there is a welded ring; the two welded rings are joined by a single link, about an inch in width, counting both sides, each of which is about a quarter of an inch in diameter, and three inches long.
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4 46 The pieces, correspondingly, are drilled to match the pegs, and fit over them.
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4 49 The Kaissa of the men of Torvaldsland is quite similar to that of the south, though certain of the pieces differ.
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4 53 Instead of Tarnsmen, there are two pieces called the Axes.
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4 54 The board has no Initiates, but there are corresponding pieces called Rune-Priests.
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4 123 Scholars weight the pieces equally, at three points in adjudications, but I would weight the Ax four points in the early and middle game, and the Singer two, and reverse these weights in the end game.
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4 124 Both pieces are, however, quite valuable.
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4 228 The men who had fished with the net had now cleaned the catch of parsit fish, and chopped the cleaned, boned, silverish bodies into pieces, a quarter inch in width.
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4 231 I set up the pieces.
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5 7 "Do not disturb the arrangement of the pieces," said Ivar Forkbeard, leaving the board.
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5 112 "Do not disturb the pieces," said Ivar, getting up.
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5 197 The position of the pieces had not changed, held by the board's pegs.
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5 267 Indeed, the men of the north think little of breaking apart objects which, in the south, would be highly prized for their artistic value, simply to obtain pieces of negotiable precious metal.
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5 296 "One hundred and twenty pieces".
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6 222 Over the anvil lay the joining ends of the two pieces of the collar.
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6 344 He threw pieces down the length of the table.
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6 356 He cut two small pieces, and thrust them in the mouths of Pudding and Gunnhild.
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9 369 I collected nine tarn disks and two pieces of broken plate, plundered two years ago from a house on the eastern edge of Skjern.
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10 150 Two men meet, but each is permitted a shield bearer; the combatants strike at one another, and the blows, hopefully, are fended by each's shield bearer; three shields are permitted to each combatant; when these are hacked to pieces or otherwise rendered useless, his shield bearer retires, and he mus...
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10 314 We saw thralls, too, in the crowd, and rune-priests, with long hair, in white robes, a spiral ring of gold on their left arms, about their waist a bag of omen chips, pieces of wood soaked in the blood of the sacrificial bosk, slain to open the Thing; these chips are thrown like dice, sometimes sever...
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11 215 Once within the country, before an army could be massed against them, they might cut it to pieces, farm by farm.
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16 4 I heard the strike of two small pieces of iron pyrite on one another, taken from the Forkbeard's belt wallet, and saw a scattering of sparks.
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16 14 I saw that, near some of the patches of moss, were pieces of flint and steel, near others tiny piles of iron pyrites.
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19 10 At the feet of the two leaders the Kur laid the pieces of the broken ax.
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19 26 Then, holding the pieces of the ax over his head, he departed, escorted by armed men from the fire, to the edge of the camp, past the guards.
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Book 10. (11 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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5 24 I cut the stitching, which held the two sewn pieces together and, one by one, placed the gems on the low, inlaid, lacquered table behind which, cross-legged, sat Suleiman.
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7 190 He who first makes contact, let him cry out, and the others, then, must converge on that spot, cutting, as it were, the very air into pieces".
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7 288 It would have known it would not have had the time to wrench loose the bars and slip through the narrow window before being hacked to pieces.
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18 45 Pieces, however, may be placed only on the intersections of lines either within or at the edges of the board.
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18 46 Each player has nine pieces of equal value which are originally placed on the intersections of the nine interior vertical lines with what would be the rear horizontal line, constituted by the back edge of the board, from each player's point of view.
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18 48 The pieces are commonly pebbles, or bits of verr dung, and sticks.
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18 50 Pieces move one intersection at a time, unless jumping.
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18 51 One may jump either the opponent's pieces or one's own.
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21 47 The Kur warned me from certain pieces of the meat, smelling it.
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21 48 Other pieces, farther from the eaten areas, more exposed to the sun, he gave me.
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21 455 The howling of the wind screened the sounds of my movements; its swift, lacerating blasts must have torn the atmosphere of my scent to pieces, scattering it wildly about, affording the Kur only sudden, misleading, fleeting, confused sensations.
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Book 11. (15 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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7 1014 She was surely more beautiful than I, but in such matters there are rightnesses which are reciprocal and subtle; it is rather like the matching together of pieces in a puzzle, the startling, unexpected fitting together of components, yielding a whole which is, in its wholeness, more precious than th...
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2 822 A handful of dried meat, cut in small pieces, was thrust in my mouth.
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2 1101 In a world such as this, without a man such as he to protect me, I might be simply hunted down, and torn to pieces by wild beasts.
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3 153 There were flasks of wine there, and bottles of the brew called paga; stores of salt, grains, dried meats and vegetables; tunics, cloths and blankets; too, there were tools and utensils, and threads and needles; I found some perfumes and jewelries; I did not dare to bedeck myself with them, though I...
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3 183 Two men were playing, to one side, a board game, with tall pieces.
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3 719 He cut small pieces of meat and threw them to me.
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4 362 I took from the chest a string of pearls, then one of pieces of gold, then one of rubies.
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4 426 One of the men nearby readied a large opaque cloth, soft, black, folding it in four pieces, so that, folded, it would be about a yard square.
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4 526 Another man, not a contestant, caught me and prevented me from plunging into the thick wall of thorn brush, in which I might have been half torn to pieces.
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5 123 Eta, though perhaps it was not proper, had much listened to the converse of the men, and, as my Gorean improved, conveyed certain pieces of information to me.
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8 9 Had I run more slowly it would have caught me and torn me to pieces.
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8 189 The verr and the bosk are the most common animals herded; tabuk and slave girls are the most common animals tracked; the uses to which the sleen is put in guarding and patrolling are innumerable; it is used to secure borders, to prowl walls and protect camps; it may run loose in the streets after cu...
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9 121 The stock consisted of two heavy, oblong pieces of wood, each about four inches thick, joined together by hinged iron.
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14 133 They put away the pieces, sliding them into the drawer in the Kaissa table.
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23 93 He took two pieces of my tunic, twisting them together.
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Book 12. (40 results) Beasts of Gor

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4 101 The movements of the pieces are chalked on the left side of the board, in order; the main portion of the board consists of a representation of the Kaissa board and young players, in apprenticeship to masters, move pieces upon it; one has thus before oneself both a record of the moves made to that po...
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4 333 Yellow's pieces, as they are arranged, begin from their placements at the lower edge of the great board, red's pieces from their placement at its upper edge.
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3 336 Often, incidentally, the first move in a match is decided by one player's guessing in which hand the other holds a Spearman, one of the pieces of the game.
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3 366 Then, beside he who bore the standard of Ar, there stood one in the garb of the players, the red and yellow checkered robe, and the checkered cap, with the board and pieces slung over his shoulder, like a warrior's accouterments.
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4 100 Indeed, generally the great amphitheater is not used for Kaissa, and the Sardar matches are played in shallow fields, before lengthy sloping tiers, set into the sides of small hills, many matches being conducted simultaneously, a large vertical board behind each table serving to record the movements...
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4 112 An official in such a situation insane enough to attempt to tamper with the record of the moves would be likely to be torn to pieces.
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4 148 On it, on their pegs, hung the pieces in their initial positions.
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4 220 He might need this time later, when in the middle game he was defending himself against the onslaughts and combinations of Scormus or in the end game, where the contest's outcome might well hang upon a single, subtle, delicate move on a board almost freed of pieces.
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4 272 One does not give pieces to a Scormus of Ar.
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4 309 Did he not know his Rider of the High Tharlarion was en prise! Was he a child who had never played Kaissa? Did he not know how the pieces moved? No, the explanation was much more simple.
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4 334 Centius of Cos had now lost four pieces, without a single retaliatory or compensating capture.
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4 335 He was four pieces down, three Spearmen and a Rider of the High Tharlarion.
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4 336 His minor pieces on the Ubar's side had almost been wiped out.
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4 347 I suddenly realized that red had developed four major pieces.
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4 353 This would free his Ubar's side's pieces for the attack on red's Ubar's side.
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4 361 At this point it was protected by the Spearman at Ubar Four, and could soon, in league with other pieces, begin the inexorable attack down the file of the Ubar's Tarnsman.
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4 367 Each of these major pieces remained in its original location.
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4 393 The two Home stones, at their respective locations, faced one another, each shielded by its several defending pieces, Scribe and Initiate, one of the central Spearmen, a flanking Spearman, a Builder, a Physician, and a Rider of the High Tharlarion.
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4 436 Pieces were being torn away from the great board.
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4 493 Behind him he had left a Kaissa board, its kit of pieces, and the robes of the player.
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6 867 "No! They will tear me to pieces!" The sleen were now no more than two hundred yards away.
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6 869 "They will tear me to pieces!" she wept.
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6 871 "They will tear me to pieces!" she wept, screaming.
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6 906 With his knife he cut the rags from her hips and we watched them fall among the angry sleen who tore them to pieces.
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12 205 These great pieces and mountains of ice, shattering from the brinks of Ax Glacier and her smaller sisters, in time, drifting, carried by currents, would reach the northern sea, that eastward-reaching extension of Thassa rimming the polar basin.
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12 207 Sometimes we could see, from where we stood, the sea, with these great pieces of ice within it.
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12 208 Some of these pieces of ice reared more than a thousand feet into the air.
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12 213 These pieces of ice, like moving, drifting reefs, can be hazardous to shipping.
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13 6 The horn bow, unfortunately, formed of pieces of split tabuk horn, bound with sinew, is not effective beyond some thirty yards.
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13 186 "What of the gold pieces you took for trading?" I asked.
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18 5 Here and there pieces of ice drifted in them.
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22 89 Sometimes there is an affliction which affects those in kayaks though it is usually the case when it is clearly daylight and the rocking, the endless waiting, the reflections off the water, make one suddenly lose all sense of time and place, and one seems lost in nothingness, and then one must sing ...
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23 10 In time tiny columns of crystals had formed within it, and then tiny pieces of ice.
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23 109 The Kur flung the pieces of the broken lance to the side.
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26 177 It would be tragic indeed for that lovely body to be torn to pieces by the teeth of hunger-crazed sleen.
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27 54 He then inserted them into several pieces of meat, one in each piece of meat.
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27 55 He threw one of these pieces of meat, containing the compressed baleen, outside the shelter.
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27 74 Yesterday, one sleep ago, when we had begun to trek, Imnak had cast behind the sled, in our tracks, another of his pieces of meat, containing the compressed baleen.
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27 79 After we had awakened after our most recent sleep and hitched the sleen to the sled Imnak had thrown out yet another of the cruel pieces of meat.
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34 74 It must have contained fifteen or twenty pieces of meat.
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Book 13. (18 results) Explorers of Gor

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1 342 There were some ropes and hooks, and heavy pieces of meat, to one side.
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4 544 Then she said to the other girls, "Find pieces of rope".
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8 15 But I did not know precisely how many pieces had been paid, as the buyer's back, as he turned, was then toward me.
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14 507 It was so frightening! How we must fear that they might simply seize us and tear us to pieces in their lust! Then suddenly I understood the brand and collar, the whip, the chain! Of course they would brand us, marking us as their own.
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15 70 "I have no wish to be torn to pieces," he said.
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15 318 The officer shook out gold pieces and silver tarsks into his hand.
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22 19 "If the marsh were an enemy you would have cut it to pieces by now".
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24 63 During the daylight hours preceding such a moon, as the restless grunts school, they will tear anything edible to pieces which crosses their path.
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24 183 It then tears it to pieces in the bottom mud, engorging it, limb by limb.
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24 317 The two remaining pieces of cord, with their shells, I gave to Kisu.
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32 294 Do not presume, in your insolence, lest you be cut to pieces, to compare yourself with her.
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32 502 Too, I wore sunglasses, pieces of colored glass sometimes worn by those of Earth before their eyes, sometimes to guard their expressions and features, but usually to reduce the glare of a bright sun".
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32 568 My old clothing, and my boots, which the girls, laughing, cut to pieces with small knives, were burned.
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33 152 In some cities if a dancer is not thought to have been sufficiently pleasing she is thrown to the patrons of the tavern to be torn to pieces or beaten.
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34 1032 I then tied the pieces of roast tarsk together, in a heavy ring of meat.
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35 51 "Be quiet," said Janice, "or I will scratch your eyes out!" "If I were not bound," said Alice, "I would claw you to pieces!" One of the aspects of the mastery, inconvenient at times, though it can be borne, is the competition among girls for the attentions of the master.
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44 117 The small men then flooded past me, clambering on the web itself, and began to crawl upon the beast with their knives, cutting it to pieces.
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46 22 Pushing down their heads, they then, with pieces of vine rope, fastened both under the vine collars on the girls, tied down their heads, close to the trunk.
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Book 14. (8 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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1 348 They are not things one would include who was concerned to construct spare, well-made pieces of fiction".
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3 358 It contained, as I now saw, pieces of meat.
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7 644 The wholeness is not achieved, the puzzle is not solved, by trying to put together pieces of the same configuration.
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11 57 From a loaf of dried bread, breaking pieces from it, she fed me.
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11 62 She then, piece by piece, fed me small pieces of boiled meat.
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18 206 Kenneth did not wish me to be torn to pieces between tharlarion, driven in opposite directions.
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22 476 I could tear either of them to pieces, should it please me.
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25 72 "It seems he could tear me to pieces," I smiled.
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Book 15. (7 results) Rogue of Gor

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24 65 It consists, commonly, of three pieces, usually two rounded pieces of soft felt, three to four inches in diameter, and the binding, which usually consists of two or more turns of a dark, thick, folded cloth, or scarf, knotted behind the head.
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11 367 Perhaps the bed of Procrustes is the truth and men must be broken or cut to pieces that they may fit it.
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23 2 Policrates, sitting beside me, behind the broad, low table, musingly fitted together the two pieces of yellowish, brown stone, the two halves of the once-shattered topaz.
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23 3 Again I found it startling, and impressive, how the figure of a river galley emerged from the brownish discolorations in the two pieces of stone, once they were fitted together.
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24 66 The pieces of rounded, face-hugging felt, the eye coverings, in the girl's blindfold were about three and a half inches in diameter.
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25 159 "Nothing will be much advanced if you and this fellow find it necessary to slice one another into pieces".
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26 79 "A hundred pieces of gold," she said, smiling, not lifting her head.
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Book 16. (6 results) Guardsman of Gor

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7 60 By the buffeting of those mighty shields, by the thrusting of great spears, by the swift, ringing flash of well-tempered steel, wave after wave of boarders was repelled, cut to pieces, swept back like rabble.
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10 75 I had little doubt that he would find it preferable to be commended for gallantry than cut to pieces for an inadvertent lapse or negligence.
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11 84 Lola's defense, I was certain, might leave the little brunette half torn to pieces.
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17 240 "A Coin Girl," said the girl with the leash, "will struggle to please a man as much for a tarsk bit, as a high paga slave for a thousand gold pieces, to be paid by her master's customer for her use".
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19 31 Too, I now owned this house, having purchased it with a few gold pieces, a small portion of my share of the spoils, taken from the holding of Policrates.
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20 1182 He held, in his hands, two pieces of rock.
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Book 17. (7 results) Savages of Gor

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1 359 The tarn could tear it to pieces.
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1 383 "Also, it would be deplorable, would it not, to be torn to pieces without even having discovered what was on their minds?" "Doubtless," said Samos, grimly.
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11 259 She removed these pieces of meat from the slender greenwood spit on which they had been roasted.
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12 24 Saddles and clothing, cut to pieces, lay strewn about.
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12 198 Grunt looked about and found some shreds of shirts which, cut to pieces, lay about in the grass.
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12 199 He tied some of these pieces together and bound them about the hips of the Hobarts.
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14 107 He then began to pass out, to the Dust-Leg men and women about, pieces of candy, lumps of cake sugar and flakes of dried molasses.
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Book 18. (13 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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40 43 She wore a brief halter of Waniyanpi cloth which, by design, did little to conceal the beauty of her breasts; about her waist a string was tied; two pieces of Waniyanpi cloth, about a foot wide and two feet long, were thrust over and behind the string, one in front and one in back; these two pieces ...
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1 189 One's lodge, and robes, and possessions could be taken away or cut to pieces with knives and scattered to the winds.
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4 38 One then breaks them into smaller pieces, warms them in one's hands and mouth, and eats them bit by bit.
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6 57 Here and there I could see pieces of meat, trodden into the dust.
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6 69 Cuwignaka dismounted and began to gather in the rawhide bindings and pieces of harness from the shattered travois.
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13 174 Some larger pieces of vegetable and meat, we had, however, in the informal fashion of the Barrens, taken from the pot on our knives.
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13 180 Too, I had thought that Canka had given her smaller bits and pieces, and had held on to them more tightly, than was necessary to merely feed her.
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27 84 The riders were pulled from their backs and hacked to pieces.
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35 181 Some vision seekers, on the other hand, are torn to pieces by sleen.
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37 8 I put small pieces of pemmican in my hand.
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43 155 Cuwignaka then removed the pieces of hide, tied on with strings, which had served Bloketu as a substitute for moccasins, from her feet.
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44 815 He then thrust several pieces of pemmican at once, her meal, into her mouth, to save time.
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47 495 They had been riddled with arrows and hacked to pieces.
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Book 19. (19 results) Kajira of Gor

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6 154 This belt consisted of two major pieces; one was a rounded, fitted, curved barlike waistband, flattened at the ends; one end of this band, that on the right, standing behind the woman and looking forward, had a heavy semicircular ring, or staple, welded onto it; the other flattened end of the waistb...
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6 311 These were apparently originally shells or pieces, shards, of pottery, but now were generally small clay disks, with a hole for a string near one edge.
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13 8 "Cut her to pieces!" I heard.
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13 9 "Tear her to pieces!" More than one man, brutally by soldiers, was struck back.
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13 42 "Cut her to pieces!" cried men in the crowd.
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13 43 "Tear her to pieces!" cried women in the crowd.
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16 332 Then, while the other fellow took his place on the wagon box and started the ponderous draft beast into motion, he gave me two generous pieces of bread, two full wedges of Sa-Tarna bread, a fourth of a loaf.
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20 203 "There is now a reward of a thousand gold pieces for her," she said.
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28 39 It is often thought to be an insult to the game to even let them touch the pieces.
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29 93 "Kassim, the rebel pretender to the throne of Tor, whom my animals tore to pieces, was no slave," said Hassan.
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29 131 "It is now fifteen hundred gold pieces.
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33 282 The reward should have been mine!" This reward had originally been one thousand pieces of gold.
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33 283 It had later been increased to fifteen hundred pieces of gold.
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33 425 Now fifteen hundred gold pieces is a great deal of money.
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33 503 One of the pieces was the brief, sashed, yellow-silk robe I had been fond of.
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33 520 The last pieces were all items of intimate feminine apparel, which had been worn next to my body.
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33 731 The reward of fifteen hundred gold pieces is thus rightfully his.
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33 912 "In this sack," said Claudius, "carefully counted, but assure yourself of the matter, are fifteen hundred pieces of gold, stamped staters of Argentum, certified by the mint of the Ubar".
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33 925 "Fifteen hundred gold pieces," said Hassan, "seems a great deal of money for a mere slave".
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Book 20. (45 results) Players of Gor

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6 354 "Your generosity overwhelms me," cried Boots, "and had I ten thousand gold pieces I would doubtless gladly barter them for such a vision, but, alas, alack, I lack that mere ten thousand pieces of gold!" Boots turned to the crowd.
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1 27 In some of these versions, the names of the pieces differ, and, in some, even more alarmingly, their nature and power.
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1 832 He had prematurely advanced significant pieces, and then had lost time in withdrawing them.
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1 838 To be sure, his opening had caused me to move certain pieces more than once in my own opening.
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1 1047 "Surely not merely to play Kaissa?" He was now resetting the pieces.
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2 411 In fourteen moves he did it! In fourteen moves he captured three pieces and it would have been capture of Home Stone on the next! Perhaps there were illegal moves.
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2 417 The fellow behind the table began to move the pieces about on the board.
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2 449 "You are only a roustabout and vagabond!" I noted the configuration of pieces on the board.
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2 451 He had simply set the pieces up originally in that position.
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2 459 It would, in effect, launch a second attack, and one which might force yellow to bring pieces to the Ubar's side of the board, thereby weakening the position of the Ubara's Builder's file, making it more vulnerable, then, of course, to the major attack.
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2 480 "Do not fear that you will not win," said the hooded fellow, in fury, placing the pieces in position for the opening of play.
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2 481 He then, imperiously, removed his Ubar, Ubara, and his Builders and Physicians, from the board, six major pieces.
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2 535 He then, angrily, thrust the pieces into the leather bag, tied it to his belt, put the board under his arm, and, limping, withdrew.
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5 357 The next few pieces of meat I scattered on the tiles.
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6 298 "Perhaps you have ten thousand gold pieces?" he asked.
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6 306 "A thousand gold pieces worth?" he asked.
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6 353 "Suppose then," she said, "that for your briefest of peeps you give me the ten thousand gold pieces of which you spoke, as a mere gesture of gratitude, of course, as the values involved are clearly incommensurate, and the veil, as well".
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6 371 "Nine thousand pieces of gold, then," called the Brigella to Boots.
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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 3 There were fourteen pieces on the board, six yellow, eight red.
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12 36 The configuration of pieces on the board was as follows: On my first rank, my Home Stone was at Ubar's Initiate One; I had a Builder at Ubar's Scribe One.
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12 47 His last two pieces were located on his first rank.
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12 140 "I cannot so much as touch the pieces of the game without permission without risking having my hands cut off, or being killed, no more than weapons".
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12 172 Moving little pieces of wood about on a flat, colored board! How stupid! How absurd! How foolish!" "Perhaps you have some duties to attend to elsewhere," I speculated.
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12 336 He began to put the pieces back in a large leather wallet.
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12 343 I watched the player replacing the pieces in the leather wallet.
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14 269 "The people tear Bosk to pieces!" called Nim Nim.
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14 275 I knew that even strange urts were often torn to pieces when they attempted to approach a new pack.
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14 418 Given that, everything, luminously, like the pieces of a puzzle, had fallen into place.
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16 170 "By all means, then," cried Petrucchio, and, with difficulty, he sheathed his great sword, and drew three pieces of gold-colored metal from his wallet, stage coins, handing them to Lecchio.
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16 1070 "Let a board and pieces be brought".
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16 1083 Too, a board and pieces were brought.
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16 1096 At any rate, whatever might be the truth and falsity in such matters, poor Bina would not now be permitted to so much as touch the pieces of the game.
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16 1102 The informed slave, perhaps once a free woman who has some comprehension of the game, may thus observe fearfully the careful processes that will determine her disposition; and even the uninformed slave, such as Bina, who in her fearful, agonized observation of the board may understand next to nothin...
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16 1110 "Let the pieces be put in place," said the player.
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16 1113 The pieces, with the exception of the Home Stones, were marshaled on the board.
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16 1126 If the pieces are small enough a red Spearman can be held in one hand and a yellow Spearman in the other.
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16 1131 Another common way of doing this is to place the two pieces behind a cloth or board, or to wrap them in two opaque clothes, the guessing proceeding similarly.
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16 1132 "I will conceal the pieces," volunteered Boots Tarsk-Bit, helpfully.
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16 1145 Then he put the pieces down.
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16 1170 "Do you understand the moves of the pieces?" asked Temenides.
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21 74 Once here, I had begun my search, in various rooms, for obvious, unconcealed paraphernalia, of a sort that might be germane to Kaissa, such things as boards and pieces, books, sheaves of papers, and records.
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21 88 On another paper there was what purported to be a list of tournament cities, and on another a list of names, of individuals supposedly noted for their craftsmanship in the skill and design of Kaissa boards and pieces.
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21 107 The pieces in the Kaissa room, and the boards there, did not indicate frequent usage.
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22 350 I nodded, watching the last pieces of paper blacken and curl.
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Book 21. (10 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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8 101 In one place there was a dead tharlarion, and the women, some crouching on it, were cutting it into pieces with knives, putting pieces of meat in their mouths, and hiding other pieces in their dresses.
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3 23 "Here!" cried the driver, laughing, throwing pieces of bread from a sack to one and then another of the women.
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3 25 He then threw pieces to certain others of the women, generally to those who were the prettiest and begged the hardest.
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3 26 Sometimes, not unoften, these pieces of bread were torn away from the prettier, more feminine women by their brawnier, huskier, more masculine fellows.
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5 77 "I assure you," I said, "folks would not like it, and you might find yourself impaled, or cut to pieces".
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19 404 From the upper lip, on either side, the two ends of the mustache dangled back, as the head hung, on the sides of the neck, like two pieces of oiled string.
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23 146 A fellow two places ahead of me, for some petition or other, received ten pieces of gold.
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25 930 "The daughter of a ubar may bring ten thousand pieces of gold in a private sale," said the hostess, "but, as a woman, as a mere female on a chain, she may be worth far less than thousands of wenches one might lead home for a few copper tarsks".
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25 1703 Some tubes come, too, however, with plungers, so that semisolid food, such as slave gruel or stews, or even damp bread and tiny pieces of meat, indeed, about anything the master may please, may be forced into her stomach.
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27 151 "Not a thousand gold pieces?" asked the blonde.
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Book 22. (12 results) Dancer of Gor

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1 23 I had actually begun work on the second garment, some two months ago, but, in touching it to my body, for it was the sort of garment which touches the body directly, with no intervening investiture, I had suddenly, comprehending its meaning and nature, begun to shake with terror and, scarcely knowin...
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11 643 I think any of them could have broken me in pieces, like the lovely ostraka.
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11 861 I wondered what the men who had worked at the library would think if they could see me now, their so-much-taken-for-granted Doreen, her beauty now at the disposal of masters, men who could break them in pieces.
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11 916 I teased them, dancing close to them, swaying, my belly alive for them, with the jangling metal pieces, the anklets clashing on my ankles, the bracelets sliding and ringing on my wrists, and then, as they attempted to seize me, drew back, backing away, or whirled, with a swirl of beads, away from th...
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11 1044 With a jangle and shimmering of metal pieces the cord belt, in its length, was dropped by Sita into the box.
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13 6 I wore a double belt of threaded, jangling coins, one strand high, one low, as with the corded belt of metal pieces I had worn in my virgin dance, weeks ago.
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16 203 Through no fault of my own I feared I might be torn to pieces.
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23 60 "I might be torn to pieces.
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24 477 "It was half torn to pieces," she said.
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25 31 A slave could be cut to pieces on such wire.
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29 22 "We are offering fifteen pieces of silver, fifteen solid, sound, unclipped silver tarsks," said the leader.
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29 581 "I find this," he said to me, "an acceptable and suitable vengeance, superior even to the sword, or to the thousand cuts, that you, my dear Doreen, or Tuka, or whatever masters now choose to call you, you stinking, worthless, curvaceous, treacherous slave slut, should be torn to pieces by a sleen!" ...
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Book 23. (14 results) Renegades of Gor

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6 118 This left her fully and modestly concealed, albeit with only strips and pieces of clothing, the devices for arranging and closing which had been removed.
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7 18 He in attendance on the baths puttered about, scraping the brick platforms, picking up shavings, odd pieces of wood, and such.
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8 304 You made my garments such that they were mere covers, strips and pieces, such that I dared not move, lest I be lying naked in a public place, such, too, that they might be lifted from me at a man's pleasure".
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9 392 "You are aware, of course," I said, "that these pieces of cloth might be pulled away, easily".
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9 402 "Now," I said, "it is possible not only to remove the pieces of cloth singly, but, if one wishes, one may easily, with a casual tug, remove the cord and, with it, both cloths together, simultaneously, expeditiously".
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13 61 "Perhaps that the people not tear us to pieces," I said.
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15 699 I was now wadding one of the pieces of cloth into tight ball.
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16 101 The bodies of his two comrades, stripped of weapons, half hacked to pieces, were flung after him.
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17 92 Some defenders leapt back to the wall, and the bridge, cut in pieces, sagged behind them.
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18 225 Men fell to the foot of the wall, to be cut to pieces.
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20 191 The stone was broken, however, into two pieces.
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20 254 I was startled, for no sooner had the two pieces of stone been fitted together than it seemed there suddenly emerged, as now from a single stone, unriven, the image of a galley.
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21 598 With scissors, knives and needles free women might tear her to pieces.
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24 718 A coin smaller than the copper tarsk is the tarsk bit, but most do not lend themselves to gambling as they are usually triangular, being fashioned by cutting a copper tarsk into either four or eight pieces.
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Book 24. (33 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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22 68 She then wiped her hands on her thighs like a rence girl and returned to kneel by the rock, where she began to separate the pieces of fish into bite-sized pieces.
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1 201 In short, she was soon sold, for an enormous price, two gold pieces.
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1 733 "Gold pieces," said another man, appraising the luscious property slut.
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1 1011 "Twenty pieces of gold," said the burly fellow.
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1 1021 "Do you have twenty pieces of gold, Borton?" called out one of the fellows nearby.
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1 1234 There were five pieces of gold there, three staters of Brundisium and two of Telnus, eleven silver tarsks, of various cities, for such circulate freely, and some smaller coins.
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1 1265 "It would be too bad to be mistaken for the spy," said a fellow, "and be riddled with bolts or chopped to pieces".
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13 478 If I could get beyond the men of Ar I was sure I could break the yoke to pieces, splintering it on the logs of the raft, thus freeing my hands, then in a moment discarding the harness and slipping away.
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17 121 There they had been met, and cut to pieces.
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18 300 Indeed, most rencer villages usually have warning banners set up in the rence, pieces of cloth on prominent rence stems.
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22 51 She was now cutting pieces of raw fish, laying them on the hot, flat rock.
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22 78 She had now divided the fish into small pieces, separated on the rock.
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31 270 From her knees she offered the lad the larger of the two pieces of hard bread, which he accepted, and then, similarly, served me.
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32 215 "If you try to harm him," said Plenius, "we will cut you to pieces".
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32 310 "Come, join us!" "Any who would attempt to harm him, or offer him violence," said Plenius, "will be cut to pieces".
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38 15 "That which pertains to the sum of one hundred pieces of gold?" "Yes," he said.
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42 105 "Does Ina know of the reward offered for her, the supposedly secret reward of a hundred pieces of gold?" "No," I said.
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44 207 "She does not know then of the reward on her, the hundred pieces of gold?" "No," I had said.
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44 220 "I was thinking of something more in the neighborhood of one hundred pieces of gold," he said.
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44 343 She might not be important as a slave, I thought, but if someone were willing to give a hundred pieces of gold for her, she must have value to someone, in some dimension.
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44 376 "You would like a hundred pieces of gold, would you not?" he asked.
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44 377 "I would not mind having a hundred pieces of gold," I said.
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46 162 She could be cut to pieces on it.
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47 75 "Give her to us," said one of the fellows, "and we will share the reward with you!" "We will give you ten pieces of gold, tarn disks of Ar," proposed another, "full weight!" "That is more than she would bring on the block," said another.
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47 89 "Accept the offer," said the fellow who had proposed the ten pieces of gold.
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47 202 A hundred pieces of gold, for example, is a great deal of money to be carrying about, particularly standardized tarn disks.
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48 277 One hundred pieces of gold is nothing to be sneezed at, so to speak.
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48 283 Of course, I had just, as a matter of fact, received a hundred pieces of gold.
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48 304 "But it is a hundred pieces of gold," I said, "tarn disks of Ar, full weight".
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48 311 It is one thing to go for a silver tarsk, or such, and quite another for a hundred pieces of gold.
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48 394 "You just paid one hundred pieces of gold for her," I reminded him.
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48 403 "Actually," I said, "she went for a hundred pieces of gold".
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49 14 I have heard, for example, that he was beset by a larl, far from its accustomed habitats, that he was torn to pieces by a tarn, and that his head was torn, or partly torn, from his body by a dozen madmen armed with hooks of steel.
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Book 25. (10 results) Magicians of Gor

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11 411 The board had a thousand sides, and surfaces and dimensions, the pieces were of an unknown number, and nature and value, the rules were uncertain, often you did not know whom you played, or where they were, often the moves must be made in darkness, in ignorance of your opponent's position, his piece...
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27 336 At the time Boots Tarsk-Bit had obtained the Home Stone of Ar's Station I had had something like ninety gold pieces left from the one hundred gold pieces I had obtained in the north.
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1 364 "I will bring ten pieces of gold to the temple!" promised another.
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3 138 I broke the ostrakon in two and cast the pieces into the fire.
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10 59 Indeed, we had most of a hundred gold pieces left, a considerable fortune, which we had obtained last summer in the vicinity of Brundisium.
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17 327 "Why don't they just make gold pieces appear instead?" I asked.
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18 17 "It seems they cannot make gold pieces appear from thin air," said Marcus.
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18 555 "What about two gold pieces?" "It can be managed," I assured him.
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19 759 I feared I was to be cut to pieces.
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20 158 "I myself," said Phoebe, "sold for a hundred pieces of gold".
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Book 26. (2 results) Witness of Gor

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37 140 I had seen them, in a little demonstration which had been staged for my benefit, one I was never likely to forget, seek out and rip apart particular pieces of meat, pieces of meat which had been given particular names.
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40 213 He then picked up the board, with the pieces on it, went to the wall, and threw the entire board and pieces out into space, over the wall.
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Book 31. (1 results) Conspirators of Gor

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35 146 Each player has twenty-three pieces, but only ten are placed on the first row; the squares take their designations from the initial placement of these ten pieces.
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Book 32. (1 results) Smugglers of Gor

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14 440 "The pieces do not know they are on the board; they do not know they are pieces; they do not know there is a game; and certainly they do not know who plays the game".
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Book 34. (1 results) Plunder of Gor

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28 79 It is commonly divided into four, if smaller, or eight, if larger, wedgelike pieces, these pieces sold separately.
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