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| 1 | 112 |
I lay awake for a long time, feeling alone, yet not alone, as one sometimes does in the wilderness, feeling as if one were the only living object on the planet and as if the closest things to one—one's fate and destiny perhaps—lay outside our small world, somewhere in the remote, alien... |
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| 2 | 195 |
They were, so to speak, absentee divinities, existent but remote, not to be bothered with the fears and turmoil of the mortals beyond their mountains. |
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| 2 | 226 |
He said, from what he could learn from the Initiates, who claimed to serve as the intermediaries of Priest-Kings to men, that the planet Gor had originally been a satellite of a distant sun, in one of the fantastically remote Blue Galaxies. |
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| 2 | 268 |
Most keenly perhaps, I missed that he had not spoken to me of himself, for I wanted to know him, that kindly, remote stranger whose bones were in my body, whose blood flowed in mine—my father. |
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| 5 | 34 |
The Older Tarl had told me that Thentis is a city famed for its tarn flocks and remote in the mountains from which the city takes its name. |
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| 9 | 18 |
What would happen to Talena if we did, by some outstanding stroke of fortune, reach Ko-ro-ba? Would she be publicly impaled, returned to the mercies of the Initiates of Ar, or would she perhaps spend the rest of her days in the dungeons beneath the cylinders? Perhaps she would be permitted to live a... |
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| 10 | 33 |
He looked at Talena carefully, but his appraisal was remote, detached. |
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| 12 | 72 |
In the glade by the swamp forests, in the grain fields of the empire, on the great highway of Ar, in the regal, exotic caravan of Mintar, I had found the woman I loved, a scion of a barbaric race on a remote and unknown world. |
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| 14 | 37 |
Marlenus set the Home Stone on the ground before him and drew his sword, which he laid across his knees; he looked like some remote and terrible god of war. |
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| 14 | 70 |
Still, if he was human at all, I assumed this remote, kingly, dream-obsessed man would want to know. |
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| 1 | 5 |
He was quiet and pleasant, though sometimes he seemed remote, or lonely, somehow unwilling to break through that protective shield of formality behind which the educated Englishman, at heart perhaps as sentimental and hot-blooded as any man, attempts to conceal his feelings. |
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| 2 | 18 |
Their concern was with their own remote and mysterious ends; to achieve these ends, human creatures were treated as subservient instruments. |
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| 4 | 45 |
In the far distance there was a sudden flash of lightning, and the sound of remote thunder reached me some seconds later. |
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| 5 | 4 |
Ko-ro-ba was not set as high and remote as, for example, was Thentis in the mountains of Thentis, famed for its tarn flocks, but it was not a city of the vast plains either, like the luxurious metropolis of Ar, or of the shore, like the cluttered, crowded, sensuous Port Kar on the Tamber Gulf. |
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| 27 | 110 |
But I now understood as I observed the slight, almost enraptured tremor of their antennae responding to the scent-music of the musicians that this was not a simple demonstration of their patience but a time of exaltation for them, of gathering, of bringing the Nest together, of reminding them of the... |
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| 2 | 174 |
The effect of the scars, ugly, startling, terrible, perhaps in part calculated to terrify enemies, had even prompted me, for a wild moment, to conjecture that what I faced on the Plains of Turia were not men, but perhaps aliens of some sort, brought to Gor long ago from remote worlds to serve some n... |
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| 16 | 305 |
The Others—those of power, not Priest-Kings, must, to some extent, understand or sense the politics, the needs and policies of the remote denizens of the Sardar—they were probably not altogether unaware of the business of Priest-Kings, particularly not now, following the recent War of ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 15 | 106 |
The treasures taken were rich beyond our wildest expectations, beyond the most remote calculations of our most avaricious scribes. |
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| 15 | 442 |
He lifted, heavily, to the dais on which my chair and table sat a heavy leather sack filled with golden tarn disks of double weight, of Cos and Tyros, of Ar and Port Kar, even of distant Thentis and remote Turia, far to the south. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 11 | 1094 |
Rask of Treve, as a raider true to the codes of Treve, that hidden coign of vantage of tarnsmen, that remote, secret, mountainous city of the vast, scarlet Voltai range, had not, in these circumstances, much pushed pursuit. |
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| 11 | 1111 |
And even should they be dispatched to the walls, perhaps upon some servile errand, they could see, for looming, remote pasangs about them, only the wild, bleak crags of the scarlet Voltai, and the sickening drop below them, the sheer fall from the walls and the cliffs below to the valley, pasangs be... |
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| 11 | 1114 |
And little more seemed known of Rask of Treve than of his remote and mysterious city. |
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| 13 | 594 |
It was turning back toward the Ka-la-na thicket, now remote in the distance, far below. |
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| 14 | 119 |
It was a war camp, lying in a remote, hilly area, covered with trees. |
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| 15 | 148 |
She kept herself remote from us. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 475 |
There was little sugar in the forest, save naturally in certain berries, and simple hard candies, such as a child might buy in shops in Ar, or Ko-ro-ba, were, among the panther girls in the remote forests, prized. |
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| 18 | 433 |
What turbulence there was was remote, seemingly far removed from us, a matter only of clouds silently whipped in distant, unfelt winds, like rivers, invisible in the sky, breaking their banks, hurling and flooding in the night, carrying the intangible debris of darkness before them, soon to extingui... |
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| 18 | 434 |
What turbulence there was was remote. |
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| 22 | 939 |
On the western coast of Thassa, high above Lydius, on a remote, stony beach, a beacon burned, marking a place on the coast where there had once stood a stockade, where men had fought, where deeds had transpired. |
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| 22 | 991 |
In the distance I could see light in the sky, the illumination from the beacon which I had ordered set on a remote, deserted beach, high above Lydius on the coast of Thassa. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 16 | 143 |
These would have spread from village to village, from remote farm to remote farm, from hall to hall. |
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| 1 | 94 |
He had entered the Sardar and was one of the few men who knew the true nature of Priest-Kings, those remote and extraordinary beings who controlled the world of Gor. |
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| 1 | 632 |
If Samos were correct that 'Kurii' was a Gorean corruption of the name of such animals for themselves, and that the word was used in Torvaldsland as a designation for beasts, then it seemed not unlikely that such animals were not unknown in Torvaldsland, at least in certain areas, perhaps remote one... |
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| 2 | 216 |
He bows and prays to the Sardar and lifts the burned meat to the remote denizens of those mysterious mountains. |
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| 10 | 62 |
There are various forms of ball game enjoyed by the men of Torvaldsland; some use bats, or paddles; in the winter, one such game, quite popular, is played, men running and slipping about, on ice; whether there is any remote connection between this game and ice hockey, I do not know; it is, however, ... |
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| 11 | 219 |
Perhaps, together with them, tilling the soil, we could construct a more placid world, a world in which discipline and courage, and curiosity and adventure, and doing what pleases one, would become no more than the neglected, scorned, half-forgotten anachronisms of remote barbarians. |
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| 15 | 56 |
But if Priest-Kings, eventually, should halt the invasion, that, too, might be of interest to the Kurii of the steel ships, remote, prowling outside the fifth ring, that of the planet on Earth called Jupiter, that on Gor called Hersius, after one of Ar's legendary heroes. |
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| 15 | 350 |
Priest-Kings, I recalled, regarded Kurii and men as rather equivalent species, similar products of similar processes of evolution, similar products of similarly cruel selections, though on worlds remote from one another. |
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| 17 | 137 |
This may refer to a military march, of course, but, I suspect, the term being apparently ancient, that it may also refer to migrations in the remote history of the Kurii, on their own world, putatively no longer existent or viable. |
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| 18 | 636 |
This fact, red with blood of both beasts and men, had been demonstrated in a remote valley of the north. |
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| 18 | 663 |
But already, I suspected, Kurii, fresh, brilliant, calculating, masters in the steel worlds, in their command rooms, their map rooms and strategy rooms, were, even before the ashes in this remote valley in the north had cooled, engaged in the issuance of orders. |
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| 18 | 667 |
It seems well equipped by its remote, savage evolution to be a dominant life form. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 11 | 415 |
But such a tower might exist in the dune country for ten thousand years, remote and undiscovered. |
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| 15 | 13 |
It may be that, in remote times, an arm of Thassa extended here, or did extend here and then, later, in seismic dislocations or continental drift, became isolated from the parent body of water, leaving behind one or more smaller salt seas. |
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| 16 | 84 |
The upright posture in men delivers a similar advantage, visually, in increasing scanning range, this being useful not only in the location of prey, but also, of course, in the recognition of dangers while remote, hopefully while yet avoidable. |
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| 16 | 149 |
They seemed remote. |
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| 23 | 89 |
"Such are useful in hoeing vegetables at remote oases". |
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| 26 | 93 |
He had been taken to a remote Aretai oasis. |
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| 26 | 1205 |
Already, in their remote past, they had lost one world, their own. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 444 |
The spear, caroming from the shield, flew more than a hundred feet away, dropping in the grass, where it stood fixed, remote and useless, the butt of its shaft pointing to the sky. |
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| 4 | 1242 |
Judy Thornton, or she who had once, on a remote and artificial world, been Judy Thornton, looked up at the moons. |
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| 6 | 184 |
His companion, I supposed, was no longer attractive to him, or, perhaps, in the prides of her freedom, was too remote to be much in his attention. |
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| 22 | 612 |
I felt myself seized by the arm, and pulled toward the light, remote in the cold water. |
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| 2 | 224 |
Did she think her sex, her richness and beauty, and needs, were mere contigencies, tangential to her being? She seemed much the victim of the neuterizing propagandas of a dry, thin, intellectually ugly world, the dupe of lies designed to conceal herself from herself, whose intent was to enlist her a... |
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| 2 | 610 |
Like many simple, primitive peoples, isolated and remote, they could live or die without being noticed. |
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| 9 | 178 |
There are several barbarian languages spoken on Gor, usually in more remote areas. |
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| 12 | 136 |
It is as though two families lived separated in a vast remote area. |
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| 17 | 57 |
Such animals are found occasionally, usually in remote areas. |
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| 28 | 173 |
Also, I suppose the twelvefold division may have some remote relation to the base-twelve mathematics utilized by the Kurii, itself perhaps a function of the six-digited paw. |
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| 29 | 84 |
I gathered he did not know of the remote, orbiting steel worlds. |
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| 33 | 20 |
He seemed to think we were, in some sense, kindred, that despite alien evolutions, remote origins and diverse histories. |
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| 33 | 44 |
How offensive I found his allegations! One need only use one's eyes to see how different we were! How incredible it would be if one landed upon a foreign shore, a planet remote from our own, and found, emerging from its dark forests, shambling toward one, its eyes blazing, one's brother. |
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| 35 | 80 |
Ship Kurii, crashed or marooned on Earth, have usually made their way to remote areas, not simply to avoid human habitations but to secure access to a less polluted, more tolerable atmosphere. |
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| 35 | 346 |
It could take a great deal of time to explore the remote areas of the complex. |
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| 35 | 347 |
I did not know, first, where the most remote areas accessible to the overhead track lay or where the surveillance devices, which might be available to human beings, might not scan. |
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| 35 | 354 |
At one of its terminations, doubtless the most remote, lay the area which I sought. |
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| 35 | 703 |
"On the red-collar system," I said, "which is the most extensive in the track, is there any termination more remote than any of the others". |
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| 35 | 964 |
We wanted another stairway, one more remote, to ascend yet higher. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 6 | 71 |
It is spoken most everywhere, except in remote areas. |
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| 6 | 72 |
One of these remote areas, of course, is the equatorial interior. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 4 | 175 |
Interestingly, the design also bears a remote resemblance, if one thinks about it, to the English letter 'K'. |
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| 16 | 37 |
It is said on Gor that only slaves, outlaws and Priest-Kings, rumored to be the rulers of Gor, reputed to live in the remote Sardar Mountains, are without caste. |
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| 24 | 120 |
All honor to the free woman! Who would wish to threaten or violate the sanctimonious integuments of her status? One salutes her, she, so proud, lofty, and inert, so tolerant and resigned, or perhaps so inconvenienced and annoyed, she so jealous of her sovereignty, so fearful of the dangers of sensat... |
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| 27 | 110 |
And certainly, too, it is a custom which is widely spread on Gor, apparently even in more remote and outlying areas of this world where the most common language of the planet, Gorean, is infrequently spoken, if at all. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 11 | 363 |
Must it be human beings who must be wrong? Perhaps it is, rather, those sociological imperatives which have, gradually, over the centuries, diverged from their original instrumentalities to follow their own disconnected and remote trajectories. |
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| 21 | 29 |
Thus, some Goreans, denied what is called "the second knowledge," who do not realize that Earth is a different planet, but think of it rather as simply some remote district, suppose that "girls from Earth" are simply slave booty similar to that obtained in other far places, all on their own world. |
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| 33 | 111 |
The south guard station was regarded as more vulnerable than the north guard station, because of its comparatively remote location. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 17 | 282 |
What a superior, snobbish little bitch she had been! How I had wanted her! And how distant, how remote, she then was from me. |
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| 1 | 651 |
Not a little of the hesitancy and tentativeness of the militaristic incursions of such creatures was, I suspected, a function of their ignorance of, and fear of, the true nature and power of the remote and mysterious denizens of the Sardar. |
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| 1 | 791 |
The Priest-Kings, lofty and golden, remote, inoffensive and tolerant, were all, for most practical purposes, that stood between the Kogs and Sardaks, and the Earth and Gor. |
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| 4 | 127 |
The vicinity of Kailiauk, with its nearness to the Barrens, seemed a remote and useful place for a delivery point. |
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| 7 | 94 |
The kaiila ranches, I supposed, were remote, desolate places. |
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| 8 | 1037 |
And here, doubtless to her astonishment and consternation she found herself being positioned and displayed before such men, all veneers of culture and politesse put aside, not a thread of indulgent shielding permitted her, far even from the recollection of courtliness, remote from every hypocrisy, p... |
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| 13 | 591 |
"The unenslaved slave is adrift, lost, aimless, remote from herself, confused, understanding little or nothing, unhappy, unfulfilled. |
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| 13 | 749 |
The terrain became more remote, more desolate. |
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| 13 | 1691 |
And thus was the former Miss Millicent Aubrey-Welles, once of Earth, once a debutante, once a lesser scion of position and station, of wealth and power, once an element ensconced within an economic and social elite, once a lovely occupant of society's highest tiers, now a property on a beautiful, sa... |
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| 14 | 74 |
It is not merely that it is more common nearer the perimeter but, I think, that it serves as a reminder, near the perimeter, of the reality and proximity of the red nations, whereas these same nations, or tribes, far from the perimeter tend to be regarded not only as remote but as almost mythical pe... |
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| 17 | 742 |
Their slavery, thus, is somewhat remote and impersonal. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 22 | 307 |
Such practices among most peoples are not as institutionalized as among the red savages but I think that those who know war, on whatever remote fields, will not find themselves unfamiliar with the counterparts of such practices. |
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| 23 | 148 |
It had been done so naturally, almost reflexively! I felt suddenly shamed, miserable, and revealed, exposed, vulnerable, piteous, displayed! Why had I done that? Had it to do with the changes in me which had been wrought by Speusippus of Turia? Had it to do with those sensations which he had induced... |
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| 31 | 559 |
It was not my fault if I bore some remote resemblance to Sheila, the Tatrix of Corcyrus. |
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| 32 | 176 |
He was not yet ready to see that she had become real; it seemed he desperately wished to keep her as some remote, cherished illusion. |
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| 33 | 762 |
Gods, I trust, do not leave spoor in subterranean chambers nor deep wounds in remote turfs. |
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| 33 | 1027 |
In no way was it incumbent on you to risk your commission, your future, your honor, your life, on what must at best have been little more than a remote possibility". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1584 |
Those of Earth, in urban areas, may never have seen how black, really, the sky can be; perhaps they have never really lifted their heads to the sky; perhaps they have never noted, or cared to note, how sharp and bright the stars can be, how astonishing they are, how beautiful they are, remote, carel... |
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| 6 | 278 |
It is far south of the equator, so far south as to almost beyond the ken of most Goreans, except as a place both remote and exotic. |
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| 7 | 382 |
I think, accordingly, that it will not be amiss if, upon occasion, particularly in somewhat less enlightened and more remote locations, we intermix a dash of legerdemain and prestidigitation, as well as a bit of carnival hilarity, prankery, and such, the sort of things that you two do so well, with ... |
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| 7 | 444 |
I do not know if the gesture, considered as a Gorean gesture, had an independent development, or if, specifically, somewhere in the remote past, it had an Earth origin. |
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| 14 | 414 |
Now I realized the thought with which my mind must have then been toying, the marvelous, astounding possibility which at that time I had not fully grasped, that possibility which would have seemed then, had I been fully aware of it, so disappointingly remote, yet so intriguing. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 75 |
The remote termini of both aqueducts were defended by guard stations. |
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| 29 | 133 |
He was not one of the suspicious, remote, aloof ones. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 154 |
I wept then, again, wondering if perhaps I had not been born elsewhere, perhaps time and time again, in other times, if I had not lived in Egypt or Sumer, or Chaldea, in rocky Hellas, or verdant Sybaris or bustling Miletus, if I had not been kept in the great palace in Persepolis, if I might not hav... |
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| 8 | 186 |
To be sure, one of the reasons for permitting a hairdo of that sort to a slave is the master's pleasure in undoing it, in loosening it, thus reminding even the high slave that in his arms, ultimately, she, the high slave, is yet a slave, and as much or more than the lowest girl in the most remote vi... |
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| 13 | 392 |
He seemed remote, and mighty. |
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| 20 | 156 |
They are taken for granted, usually, by all the citizens, and their remote origins, sometimes doubtless the outcome of internecine strife, of class war, of street fighting and riots, of bloody, house-to-house determinations in the past, and such, are seldom investigated, save perhaps by historians, ... |
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| 26 | 120 |
Some of us serve, too, in remote army posts, where we are kept to relieve the tedium of the troops. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 504 |
Too, such places, particularly in remote, restless or barbarous districts, may be used as outposts, strongholds from which a countryside may be pacified. |
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| 8 | 630 |
Too, the tarnsman retains something of the glamour which on Earth attached to the horseman, particularly so as the technology laws of the Priest-Kings, remote, mysterious masters of Gor, preclude the mechanization of transportation. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 608 |
One does not know what has become of them for, in time, as one might expect, they being of Ar, they were shipped out of the city, to be disposed of in various remote markets. |
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| 12 | 571 |
I will dare to walk the remote districts, and to tread high bridges!" "Must a command be repeated?" I asked. |
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| 13 | 91 |
"One which is rather remote, I suspect," I said, "if it exists at all". |
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| 23 | 390 |
"We have other moneys, as well, from donations received, so to speak, from a fellow or so here and there, usually met in remote areas in dark places, and from fees taken in service". |
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| 28 | 18 |
Even a remote hut, far from the paved avenues of a town or city, may have a Home Stone, and therein, in the place of his Home Stone, is the meanest beggar or the poorest peasant a Ubar. |
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| 28 | 113 |
Doubtless his bones lay now in some remote canyon in the Voltai, picked by jards. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 49 |
The will by the rule of which, by the decision of which, I, and perhaps others, might be confined would doubtless be remote from the instrumentalities by means of which the dictates of that will would be enacted. |
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| 9 | 216 |
Perhaps animals could be kept there, down in the valley, or even back among the mountains, in lofty, remote meadows, in which summer pasturage might be found. |
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| 12 | 733 |
It would be by air, it seemed, in one fashion or another, one would most likely arrive at this place, this apparently remote aerie. |
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| 16 | 650 |
How rich the joke! How delicious the insult! But I wondered, really, if the peasant, so simple, so huge, so remote, would even understand this sort of thing. |
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| 19 | 1185 |
It seemed those of this city, in these remote, isolated precincts, did not fear the theft of these curvaceous prizes. |
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| 37 | 74 |
He had been little more than a remote, inert form, as simple as rock, as distant as a far-off mountain, sitting cross-legged, chained, on the stone floor of a cell in the lower corridors. |
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| 42 | 102 |
It would be only too easy, in the dead of the night, to bury the box somewhere outside the walls, in some remote place, or to cast it into one of the carnaria, the refuse pits outside the wall, into which garbage, and excrement, and all filth, as from the emptying of the giant vats of the insulae, m... |
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| 44 | 146 |
"It would be better," said the second, "to bind and gag her, and put her in the slave box, and then cast the slave box into one of the more remote carnaria". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 34 |
"We are in an isolated dwelling, on a remote estate". |
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| 5 | 65 |
She had been given only water to drink, but it had seemed to her water such as might have gushed forth from secret woodland springs in classic groves or might in remote days have been dipped by kilted herdsmen from rushing mountain streams. |
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| 11 | 77 |
Gorean decor varies from latitude to latitude, from city to city, and home to home, but, in general, it tends to simplicity and openness, this presumably a heritage deriving from some remote tradition. |
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| 11 | 514 |
Supposedly they were strange men of some sort, and lived in a remote area called the Sardar Mountains. |
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| 11 | 690 |
I wonder if I am in heat? Could I, given what I was on Earth, that lofty, respectable, cool, remote, formal, inert, frigid thing, now be in heat, be simply in heat? Could I now be only another low girl, another common, amorous slave, another bitch beside herself with heat! Not I, surely. |
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| 24 | 533 |
As Ellen knelt on the rug inside the area of preparation, waiting, while the other girls danced, she thought of how far away, how remote, so many things seemed. |
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| 27 | 1693 |
The other could be seen in the distance, a remote speck, safely away. |
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| 29 | 336 |
Ellen knew that those brought to Gor from Earth were accounted barbarians in a sense stronger than one merely linguistic, one having to do with a remote and commonly little-understood point of origin. |
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| 29 | 337 |
Many Goreans, incidentally, assume that "Earth" is a remote locale or land on their own world. |
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| 30 | 60 |
At last, too, they have a full and rewarding sex life, free of Earth's conditioned guilts and shames, whose bizarre, twisted, diseased roots lie buried in remote superstition, in antique psychosis. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 78 |
Similarly, it was his speculation that certain other entities alleged to exist on Earth, particularly in remote mountainous or forested areas, might have been Kurii. |
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| 21 | 192 |
How many of your dogs recall in appearance and demeanor their remote, swift, hungry, far-ranging ancestor, the gray wolf?" "We would not breed even dogs so," said Cabot, in fury. |
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| 26 | 101 |
"Many Goreans," said Peisistratus, "think that Earth is on Gor, in a remote region, inhabited by barbarians". |
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| 67 | 96 |
Two days later Cabot had arrived at the abandoned camp of Lord Grendel, that in the more remote recesses of one of the world's farther forests, that from which they had long ago departed. |
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| 71 | 9 |
Two days ago Cabot had conducted his prisoner to a smithy, in a remote village. |
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| 79 | 207 |
Too, of course, this was a remote forest camp, away from the habitats, and free Kur females, and the men were, after all, Goreans. |
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| 81 | 197 |
"But the rumored coordinates," said Grendel, "suggest not Port Kar, but a location farther north, a remote beach, far from civilization, in the vicinity of the northern forests". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 223 |
Had that been so should I not have been returned, liberated and thanked, perhaps even bountifully rewarded, to my holding in Port Kar? But I was here, somehow, on this remote beach, the forest behind me. |
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| 2 | 222 |
"Were you there?" one seaman might ask another in the taverns of Port Kar, over kaissa or paga, the girl of his choice lying bound hand and foot by his table, waiting to be carried over his shoulder to an alcove, at his convenience, or wherever two fellows of that unusual polity might meet, perhaps ... |
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| 2 | 283 |
"To this remote place?" I asked. |
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| 3 | 145 |
Accordingly, it would be rare, if it was allowed at all, given the practices of Port Kar, and perhaps the vanity and arrogance of her craftsmen, intending to control to the greatest extent possible every detail of their work, to allow this carpentry to take place in a remote venue in which they had ... |
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| 4 | 21 |
The human agents of Kurii were seldom enlightened, I supposed, as to the ramifications and depths of the plans of their employers, nor the remote objectives of such plans. |
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| 5 | 272 |
This was a remote area. |
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| 5 | 381 |
Pertinax, for example, who seemed a nice enough fellow, might be punished for having failed his more remote employers. |
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| 5 | 421 |
Pertinax would have fled such fellows, I suppose, but I was curious as to their origin, and their business here, in this remote area. |
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| 9 | 86 |
It gave her great pleasure to be above them, remote, frosty, businesslike, inaccessible, beyond their level, out of their grasp. |
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| 13 | 88 |
Is the swiftest of the tabuk not most likely to escape the sleen or larl? How is it that the vision of the tarn can discern the movement of even an urt at a thousand feet? The shark who detects the trace of blood in remote water, will he not be the first to feed? Will not the moth who detects the od... |
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| 18 | 505 |
If unable to observe actions from remote, secure, and convenient heights, by means of the glasses of the Builders, they remain behind, in their silken tents, awaiting the announcements of victory, in the keeping of camp guards. |
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| 19 | 86 |
Perhaps such might have distracted him from some more remote purpose, or goal, or ideal. |
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| 19 | 146 |
Some of these things seemed to me obviously impossible, and were clearly the fruits of imagination, and myth, but it is common to suppose that at the foot of legends, in the lost soil of the remote past, there is a seed from which such legends sprang, and I had little doubt, in any event, that the m... |
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| 27 | 4 |
In two or three years I supposed the forest would reclaim these hitherto cleared areas, and there would remain few records and clues as to what had taken place here, where timber had been harvested and men trained for wars whose projected venues were unknown, and possibly remote. |
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| 33 | 52 |
How, I wondered, might the mad, half-blind shipwright, Tersites, have found himself on a remote shore. |
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| 33 | 110 |
Yet, too, surely each party would have darker, more remote thoughts in mind. |
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| 34 | 78 |
"The importance of the Ubara," she said, "the height and grandeur of her place, your modest status, if I may remark it, Master, that we have heard nothing of the Ubara, that we are here, in a remote location, far from the cylinder cities, the ports, the caravan routes, the trading places, somewhere ... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 193 |
It was not yet understood in every fiber of her body, and, helplessly, profoundly, as it would eventually be, in the most remote recesses of her heart. |
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| 9 | 406 |
Their final intention, in any case, I suspected, was to put together a formidable force as quickly as possible, a force of skilled and dangerous men, men free of certain indigenous and traditional loyalties, which, disciplined, and closely managed, might in unfamiliar, remote venues be well applied ... |
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| 9 | 449 |
"Lords," said Cabot, "I do not know our destination, nor your purpose, but the destination seems remote, and the purpose important. |
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| 12 | 692 |
"Less insecure, less fragile, I fear," said he, "than a hundred others, remote passageways, darkened corners, blind turnings". |
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| 33 | 137 |
They thought it the name of a remote place on Gor, from which lovely barbarians, illiterate, somehow, unbelievably enough, not even capable of speaking the language, were harvested for the markets. |
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| 37 | 367 |
"At least," I said, "the remote possibility of caring for a slave". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 33 |
If you have attained, on the other hand, to the Second Knowledge, you understand it is alleged to be a different world, one of several orbiting Tor-tu-Gor, Light-upon-the-Home-Stone, but, even so, many of you, even with the Second Knowledge, remain skeptical, regarding it as no more than a myth or f... |
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| 5 | 405 |
"To be held captive in some remote desert palace?" "That seems unlikely," he said. |
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| 8 | 170 |
What difference might such thing make to them, the remote and disengaged gods of a world? But I now, at least, was in no doubt as to the reality of Gor. |
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| 15 | 58 |
One supposes this harkens back to remote antiquities in which certain acquired females, as opposed to others, responded to male dominance, surrendered to thongs and masters, and, generation by generation, were preferentially bred. |
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| 18 | 994 |
This went back, apparently, to a remote, metal world. |
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| 20 | 248 |
I know of only one city in the Voltai, like a remote tarn's aerie, and that is the bandit city of Treve. |
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| 33 | 93 |
Those Kurii of the Cave, stubborn refugees of a putatively lost cause, impenitent and undissuaded, I had gathered, hoped to enleague themselves with one or more of the remote steel worlds, with the end in view of a conquest of Gor, and, perhaps eventually, if wished, of Earth. |
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| 35 | 67 |
These means, together with numerous supplementary Kur contingents, as possible, will be obtained from one or more of the remote habitats of Kurii. |
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| 35 | 70 |
Then, with a Kur Gor, so to speak, with large amounts of smuggled weaponry in place, the way would be cleared for a massive invasion fleet from the remote habitats, one unlikely to be significantly deterred by Priest-Kings. |
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| 35 | 73 |
All this would be seemingly done within the weapon and technology laws of the Priest-Kings, until the final phase, the invasion of Gor from the remote habitats, abetted by the numerous emplaced Kurii, with their contraband weaponry". |
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| 35 | 80 |
"Would one or more of what you have called the remote habitats not be involved in this?" "Certainly," he said. |
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| 43 | 7 |
"He was to have garnered remote support for the conquest of Gor". |
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| 44 | 65 |
"With respect to remote support, at least for a time," he said. |
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| 48 | 70 |
This was due, in particular, not simply to the extent of the Cave and its passages, many of which were remote and unfamiliar, even natural, but because of a number of constructed private or secret passages. |
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| 49 | 80 |
There are, apparently, various enclaves of Kurii, usually small groups in remote areas, where interaction would be unlikely between them and native Goreans. |
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| 49 | 116 |
Grendel was well aware that Lucius and some cohorts remained at large and this suggested either, or both, of two possibilities, one, their retreat to remote portions of the Cave or, two, their access to concealed passages. |
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| 53 | 19 |
Apparently, both Earth and Gor, at least for the time, owe their precarious security to the informed self-interest of Priest-Kings, who prefer for Kurii, on the whole at least, to be restricted to distant, relatively innocuous habitats, concealed amongst the remote "river of stones". |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 122 |
What might be in the northern forests, or Torvaldsland, to warrant this mighty movement of men and supplies? Do they think to found a city at the mouth of some far river, say, the Laurius or the remote Alexandra? Such locations would seem remote and inauspicious. |
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| 5 | 274 |
I have wondered, sometime, if the glorious free women of these men, so arrogant and remote, so lofty and proud, so secure, so serene, so abundantly and beautifully robed and veiled, so regal, so majestic, so concealed from head to toe, if stripped and sold, if so caressed, would not also have cried ... |
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| 6 | 9 |
Why did I not book passage for Daphne, where the spring rendezvous was to take place? The gray sky ship does not linger long, even in that remote place. |
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| 6 | 105 |
But beyond the influx of refugees, more streaming in each day, the crowding, the begging, the closing of hiring tables, the raiding of garbage troughs, the sleeping in cold, damp, dangerous streets, the discordant accounts of doings to the south and east, the racing about of rumors, it was clear tha... |
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| 7 | 128 |
In the house, and here, as the girls spoke, I had heard of lovely Ko-ro-ba, busy Harfax, mighty Ar, and even vast, remote, Turia. |
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| 9 | 64 |
Naturally I had no idea where we were, other than on some remote beach, in the north. |
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| 9 | 155 |
Considering that the coast is generally kept in view, it seemed unlikely it would have been lost at sea; considering how long it had been with us it seemed unlikely it would have encountered difficulties of which we would have been unaware; and now, considering our position, and how far north we wer... |
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| 14 | 213 |
It had become clear, after the attack, that this wilderness was not only a remote, miserable, dangerous venue in which we, far from civilization, were for most practical purposes incarcerated, and, under discipline, were put to manual tasks befitting the lower castes, but was, in addition, somehow i... |
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| 14 | 383 |
"Of what interest might we, or urts or sleen, be to such remote and powerful beings?" I asked. |
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| 17 | 50 |
I was at his feet, the feet of my master! He had followed me, even from Brundisium, so far, to this strange, remote, and wild place, to seek me for his collar! I was his! I looked up at him. |
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| 17 | 77 |
How horrifying that I should be here, on a remote world, a marked, half-naked, collared slave! How incomprehensible and lamentable was my fate! I looked after him, enraged, and hated him! It was he who had brought me to this, to the indelible marking of my body, to the shame and degradation of a col... |
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| 18 | 7 |
"I think Master did not come to this remote, forlorn place for two staters," she said. |
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| 23 | 105 |
How strange I thought that such a vessel would be built here, in this wilderness, in this remote place, so far from the sea. |
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| 43 | 1030 |
"I am a high officer amongst remote forces," said Axel. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 163 |
As the remote, precipitous, unapproachable crag might commend itself to the wild tarn so too would this place commend itself to tarns amongst men. |
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| 7 | 271 |
"Surely you do not think it a mere happenstance that you once found yourself on a remote, unmarked beach some fifty pasangs north of the Alexandra". |
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| 20 | 467 |
Such a man would no longer look upon such as she as some distant and unobtainable object, a goddess, a denizen of remote stars, something far above and beyond him, but now as something quite real, something which she truly was, a live, breathing female, a lovely prey animal at hand, an animal design... |
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| 21 | 71 |
Long ago, on a dark night on a remote beach, the remaining land forces of Lord Temmu, defeated and routed, confronted with superior force on one side, the victorious warriors and Ashigaru of Lord Yamada, and roiling Thassa on the other, awaited their last battle, in which they would be driven into t... |
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| 24 | 174 |
"I judge it remote, dear friend," said Lord Yamada. |
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| 25 | 63 |
Haruki, I gathered, had attempted to reach the cot, where he would attempt to attach my tiny message, in English, to the leg of one of the vulos captured by Yamada's men from the surprised and seized secret cot, remote from the palace, which vulos would doubtless, for identificatory purposes, be ind... |
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| 41 | 75 |
"It is isolated, remote, near the perimeter of the camp," said Haruki. |
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| 46 | 265 |
"I am found in remote places," he said. |
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| 48 | 62 |
And there might be many camps, suitably remote, suitably concealed". |
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| 61 | 294 |
"But I am called by the shores of far seas, by lonely forests, by remote mountains. |
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| 61 | 821 |
Goreans have an Earth origin, however remote in some cases. |
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| 61 | 959 |
Apprised she should have a male colleague to aid in dissembling her true status and role on Gor, she had enlisted Gregory Smith, well aware, from small incidents, of his remote, hopeless, infatuation with her. |
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| 61 | 1235 |
Do you think men are so willing to relinquish manhood, or so stupid as to submit like dumb animals to their impoverishment, belling, and slaughter? Even the mighty larl can be brought down by a swarm of squealing urts, but this does not prove the superiority of the urt to the larl, to the lonely, pr... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 30 |
The area is remote. |
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| 12 | 11 |
Perhaps the free woman might have some intellectual sense of such matters, verbal, abstract, remote, superficial, or such, or thinks she does, but, I assure you, that intellectual comprehension is quite other than the realization of the reality, that one is, indeed, a slave. |
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| 30 | 58 |
Could they not take a more circuitous, a more remote route, to the paga vat? Shortly thereafter the arrangements, whatever they might have been, seemed to have been completed. |
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| 30 | 196 |
"He mocks you, that you chose the name 'Tenrik of Siba' as a concealing name," I said, "for it is foolishly and clearly close to that of 'Kurik', and he finds it pathetically inept that you should have claimed to be from Siba, for that is merely another town on the Vosk, as is your true town, Victor... |
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| 32 | 34 |
How could a tiny moon, or any moon, be a prison? Perhaps it was called that because it seemed prisonlike, small, remote, forbidding, cold, and desolate. |
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| 33 | 281 |
"The seeded Kur female, after conceiving," said Kurik, "deposits the fertilized egg in one of the living wombs, usually housed in remote areas, often in caves or tunnels. |
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| 42 | 190 |
More likely, if only to avoid offense, it would be sequestered in some remote corner of a steel world. |
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| 43 | 88 |
She is a treasure, remote, and yet at hand". |
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| 46 | 52 |
The Kur vocables, as I soon determined, emanated from the box, through which, I supposed, they were transmitted from some remote location. |
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| 46 | 114 |
How, I wondered, would a remote speaker even know I was in the room? Perhaps there was a camera somewhere, to which the absent speaker had access. |
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| 48 | 59 |
Master Decius understands that Lord Grendel stands high in the estimation of a Lord Arcesilaus, magistrate of a remote city, and hopes that his presence here might lead to arrangements of mutual profit. |
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| 50 | 130 |
The house was not known to be tenanted, and it was, in any event, remote and strong. |
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| 53 | 63 |
He may have encountered his scent, about the apartment, and stairwell, in the house of Epicrates, when he had returned from the remote house of Decius Albus, off the Viktel Aria. |
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| 53 | 210 |
I myself did not understand the apparent contempt and hostility with which Lord Grendel apparently saw fit to abuse Eve, who, surely, was not responsible for what she was, for the failure or negligence of some scientists or technicians on some remote steel world. |
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| 62 | 75 |
For example, many Goreans limited to the "First Knowledge" do not realize their world is one of many, and think that "Earth," of which they have heard, and from which many barbarian slaves are obtained, is merely a remote country or land falling outside "known Gor". |
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| 64 | 104 |
Our position in the caravanserai was remote. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 124 |
Merchants came from as far away as remote Turia in the south to buy and sell in Ar. |
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| 4 | 82 |
"Do you know accents," she asked, "that of Cos and Tyros, of Ti, of Torcadino, of Thentis, of Port Kar, of remote Turia?" "No," I said. |
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| 8 | 197 |
Each, I supposed, had its Home Stone, probably as much cherished there, in such a remote, humble place, as were those elsewhere, even those of mighty cities, such as Ar, Turia, or Brundisium. |
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| 11 | 223 |
It can take months for the news of some event of importance in Schendi or remote Turia to reach Kassau or Hunjer, or Port Kar, or even Cos, or Tyros. |
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| 11 | 261 |
She could be in a hundred cities, or remote villas or strongholds, incognito, well secure within the robes of concealment and multitudinous veils befitting her lofty station, as a free woman. |
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| 33 | 602 |
A more remote possibility, but not one to be ignored, was death by exposure or from a simple lack of sustenance. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 1 |
What Occurred that Night, on a Remote Beach on Chios "Thurnock," I said, "this is Aktis, of the village of Nicosia". |
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| 8 | 78 |
The caste of Peasants, usually ensconced in remote, isolated settlements, tends to be wary and suspicious of other castes, commonly suspecting them of an impressive variety of ill doings, ranging from subtle deceit to outright chicanery, particularly in the spheres of fraudulent bookkeeping and dish... |
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| 8 | 80 |
On the other hand, interestingly, a peasant is likely to trust another peasant, even from a remote village. |
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| 12 | 12 |
To be sure, who knew what undiscovered riches might occur in remote regions? My seemingly reckless, unguarded distribution of the tiny gold disks in the tavern of The Living Island was intended to overcome any possible doubts as to the reality of The Village of Flowing Gold. |
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| 18 | 73 |
That was not a matter of myth, at least to those possessed of the Second Knowledge, but of distant, remote fact, fact dating back to what must have been fearful times. |
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| 18 | 78 |
It is possible that the land hith still exists on Gor, doubtless in remote areas, but it seems more likely that that form of hith is extinct. |
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| 21 | 41 |
"I have heard that governors often return from remote posts, the provinces, and such, far richer than when they took office, that they bleed their jurisdictions," I said. |
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| 28 | 7 |
It is remote and far from traversed shipping lanes". |
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| 35 | 166 |
"Local markets," said Aktis, "but most villages are remote from towns and are substantially independent". |
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| 62 | 63 |
"At least," I said, "to associate such villainy with some figure, any figure, remote from the Farther Islands, that to divert suspicion from Thera, and, for such a purpose, Bosk of Port Kar, I suppose, would do as well as any other". |
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