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Book 1. (2 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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4 113 I sat up, cross-legged, on the mat, which was now returning to room temperature.
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16 56 Indeed, it was probable that Pa-Kur had no intention of returning the Home Stones at all but was determined to follow in the imperial footsteps of Marlenus himself.
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Book 2. (3 results) Outlaw of Gor

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4 96 But how could it have known? How could it have known that I was Tarl of Ko-ro-ba, and that I was returning to my city? There is a Gorean proverb that a man who is returning to his city is not to be detained.
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3 65 The sun regulates the schedule of most Gorean crafts and the woodsman would now be returning with his day's cutting.
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19 146 "Tal," I said, returning the salute.
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Book 3. (2 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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28 173 For example, at different times, returning from a raid, perhaps bringing another captured silver tube, no longer needed by one of Sarm's slain cohorts, I would find myself unremarked even by Misk though I might stand but feet from him.
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33 76 A wild, glad shout broke from the throats of the assembled multitude as the men suddenly began to understand that their world was returning to its normal order.
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Book 4. (8 results) Nomads of Gor

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6 113 "Further," I said, "we do not have the means of returning you to your home".
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12 490 Then, shrugging, I too left the enclosure, thinking that perhaps I should wander among the wagons for a few hours, before returning.
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16 56 I considered lowering myself down the rope and returning to the wagons for a bottle of paga.
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16 61 "Stealing a wench from the House of Saphrar and returning on a stolen tarn".
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21 47 Peasants streamed through them returning to their fields and also hundreds of townsfolk for an outing, some of them to walk even as far as the remains of the old Tuchuk camp, hunting for souvenirs.
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21 157 During this time I climbed out a back window facing another building, and hoisted myself to the flat roof of the shop, returning by the same route when they had gone.
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23 163 "I regret only," I said, "that I sent word to Kamchak and even now he has withdrawn his men from Turia and is returning to the wagons".
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27 221 "This woman," said Kamchak of the Tuchuks, brusquely, his voice stern but almost breaking, "is called Aphris—know her—she is Ubara of the Tuchuks, she is Ubara Sana, of my heart Ubara Sana!" We let Kamchak and Aphris ride ahead, and followed them, by some hundred yards, toward the main...
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Book 5. (6 results) Assassin of Gor

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5 79 "The owner of the compartment," said Elizabeth, "returning to the compartment and untying the knot can tell immediately whether or not it is his own knot".
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12 34 The rider was wheeling the bird, trying to bring it under control, and returning to the ring.
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13 379 In a few Ehn I had left the cylinder and was returning to the House of Cernus.
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17 121 They removed these girls from the line, later returning them to it.
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19 121 Still, given the size of the crowd, they seemed to have little difficulty retailing their goods in short order; they would then disappear down an exit, soon returning with more.
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24 150 I lifted my hand, returning the salute.
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Book 6. (15 results) Raiders of Gor

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3 74 They wandered freely on the island, leaving it to feed, then returning to it later.
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6 152 It passed through his throat, returning me to the on-guard position.
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7 16 One beautiful girl was tied to the prow of each ship that, in returning to Port Kar, others might see that the raid had been successful.
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8 140 Again and again, on the fourth and the third barges, on one side and then the other, we did this, each time returning to the marsh and waiting with the bow.
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9 171 While returning her to the Sardar I had thought long on the matter of her safety.
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9 339 Clitus, after returning to our quarters, had left and returned with four musicians, bleary-eyed, routed from their mats well past the Twentieth Hour, but, lured by the jingling of a pair of silver tarsks, ready to play for us, past the dawn if need be.
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11 154 The ships of the captains, returning, would further guarantee their power in the city, their crews being applicable where the captains might choose.
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14 287 And another was soon herded in by one of my ram-ships, which, in returning to the fleet, had picked it up.
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14 297 This left, after the last of my original eleven ships had returned, twenty of my ships with the treasure fleet, more than enough to counter any returning enemy tarn ships.
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14 453 "I am returning one round ship to Cos," I said.
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15 486 This afternoon, after returning from the Council of Captains, I had had her marked and collared.
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17 427 I waved away other tarnsmen, returning to the flagship to pick up men.
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18 22 My admiral's cloak, brought with my returning men from the round ship, was given to me and I wrapped it about my shoulders.
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18 213 I saw the boy, with a lightning thrust, flash four inches of steel through a body, returning to the on-guard position before the man realized he had been struck.
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18 818 The rencers, one by one, were climbing down ropes over the delta wall, returning to their small craft below.
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Book 7. (12 results) Captive of Gor

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3 25 I continued to struggle, but after some moments, hearing men returning to the room, stopped.
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3 337 I assumed they would suppose that I had backtracked, and was returning southward.
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8 7 Several of the men must be fishermen, already returning with a first catch, who had hunted the river's surface with torches and tridents at night.
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8 86 Unharnessed tharlarion, returning to Lydius at the mouth of the Laurius, generally follow the southern shore road, which is not as much used by towing tharlarion as the northern.
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8 388 Returning from the market they would call at the building, at which time I and my guard would go outside.
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11 359 In the early evening of the day on which our nose rings had been affixed I was returning to my cage, after having run an errand for Targo in the pens.
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11 759 I had no hope of returning to Earth.
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11 995 I had no hope now of returning to Earth.
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11 1284 Besides, rumors had it that he would be remaining in Ko-ro-ba for days following our departure, and would then be flying northward, returning to Laura.
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12 701 "I'll come!" I now saw the tarnsmen returning from the burning wagons, racing to their tarns.
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15 183 A girl would cry, "They return!" and we, eager in our work tunics, would run to the center of the camp to greet the returning warriors.
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15 525 "I acquired her about a year ago," said Rask of Treve, "from a merchant of Tyros, who was traveling by caravan overland to Ar, with the intention of returning her, for a recompense, to Marlenus of Ar".
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Book 8. (8 results) Hunters of Gor

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2 689 Had they been able to see, they would have seen men returning to the Tesephone, with water kegs, and Thurnock and Rim returning, too, Thurnock carrying an object on his back, bulky but apparently not particularly heavy.
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4 34 She was doubtless returning to the floor after her rest, to freshen her for further service.
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5 85 Later I saw her returning.
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6 455 Verna now takes pleasure in returning her to you".
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6 470 "We will take four arrow points for her," said the girl, "for returning her to you".
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15 214 "We are returning," they would say.
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15 224 It was only that, in the darkness, they mistook paga slaves in the skins of panthers for their sisters of the forest, at last returning to the band.
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19 119 It was I who had used her, a mere slave, insolently, before returning her, with the drugged wine, to the camp of Sarus.
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Book 9. (8 results) Marauders of Gor

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1 682 I had not had paga since returning from the northern forests.
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3 404 We could now see those at the dock, and even those who had been bestirring themselves with the coasting vessel, returning to the town.
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4 193 Returning to me he held one of the snails, whose shell he crushed between his fingers, and sucked out the animal, chewing and swallowing it.
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4 210 "I am finished," said the slender girl, returning to where we sat, and kneeling on the deck.
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5 198 "A most interesting variation," said Forkbeard, returning his attention to the board.
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9 342 "Mead!" called Ivar Forkbeard, returning to the table.
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17 106 In these days I had much spied on Kurii, living on the land, returning more than once to the Blue Tooth's war camp.
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18 4 The herd sleen rushed among them but, confused in the numbers, found it difficult to single out women for returning to the pen.
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Book 10. (14 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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3 59 * * * * I was returning to my compartment in Tor, from the tents of Farouk of Kasra.
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3 133 After coming from the tents of Farouk of Kasra, outside the walls of Tor, I was returning late to my compartment, which lay in the district of tenders and drovers.
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3 137 After determining this point, I would continue on to the Oasis of Nine Wells, where I would lay in supplies and water, attempt to hire a guide, and, returning to the rock, strike eastward into the Tahari.
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7 73 "It is gone," said Shakar, turning his kaiila, and returning to the caravan.
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8 1 I Become the Guest of Hassan the Bandit I did not sleep as well as I might have that night, for, from time to time, clouds of riders, with bows and lances, swept through the streets of Nine Wells, returning from one sortie into the desert or another.
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8 166 The raiders were returning.
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8 267 She recognized the raiders were returning.
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11 455 Then Hassan said, "Soldiers are returning".
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13 186 "Further, in the light of the fact that you have recovered that in which you were interested, whatever it is, I trust that you will be willing to let bygones be bygones, and permit myself and my friend to depart, returning to us our kaiila, garments and accouterments, and perhaps bestowing upon us s...
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13 269 How was it then, I wondered, that lovely Alyena stood here, on these tiles, slave? "Then, most peculiarly," said the man, "when apparently safe, escaped with her escort, she, suddenly, turned her kaiila about, returning, fleeing back to Red Rock".
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14 188 He cannot see to escape; he can not see to attack; he cannot be sure, usually, even of the number and position of his captors, whether they face him, or are attentive, or such; sometimes a hooded prisoner, even unbound, is told simply to kneel, and that if he moves, he will be slain; some captors, t...
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16 275 "Tomorrow," said T'Zshal, "at dusk, I am returning to this area".
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20 15 "I am returning to the trench," I told him.
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26 182 "We are returning to Klima," he said.
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Book 11. (9 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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7 870 They had circled our camp area, between it and the edge of the palisade, and were now returning to the center of the village.
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9 1819 Melina had withdrawn from the circle of the fire, returning to the hut she shared with Thurnus.
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12 278 "Run along, Dina," said Borchoff, returning to the prisoner.
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12 280 I left them, returning to the quarters for female slaves, to swim, and bathe and refresh myself before the duties of the evening.
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14 79 He was now returning it to the tavern.
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16 172 They conduct their work commonly in more northern waters, returning to Schendi as their home port.
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18 17 On the ramp to the high balcony I passed Narla, returning from that level.
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20 26 It may have been, of course, that the door had been left unlocked originally, and that it had locked automatically, when closed, behind the man when he had re-entered the alcove, returning me to it.
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22 35 Half out of the water, then returning to it, I saw a great speckled grunt, four-gilled.
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Book 12. (7 results) Beasts of Gor

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4 495 I must now think of returning to Port Kar.
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4 497 Overhead, with some regularity, I saw tarns streaking from the fair, many with tarn baskets slung beneath them, men and women returning to their cities.
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6 68 "This is the retinue of Constance, Lady in Kassau, enroute to Lydius, returning from the sights of Ar".
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11 209 The laborers, in various groups, laden with goods and gold, have filtered away, scattering, returning to the south".
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11 259 They are simply returning to their homes".
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20 52 The next song dealt with a rascal who, supposedly hunting for tabuk, lay down and rubbed his boots on a rock, later returning to his companions with a report of luckless hunting, indicating his worn boots as evidence of his lengthy trekking.
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34 191 I pulled the sled, returning toward the complex.
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Book 13. (10 results) Explorers of Gor

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1 545 I had given the Tahari ring to Samos, long ago, shortly after returning from the Tahari, that he might send it to the Sardar for analysis.
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5 29 She would then kneel before Sasi, her teacher, and offer her the bit of cake or pastry, which Sasi would take, taking most of it and returning a portion of it to her.
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14 135 "Oh," she said, "oh," suddenly, rudely, returning to a slave's reality, then understanding that she lay in straw, her back on a wooden floor, held in the arms of a man.
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14 422 After I had had the blonde this morning, early, upon returning from the tavern of Pembe, I had slept for several hours.
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15 221 The ring he had apparently intended to exchange for the true ring would have been the false ring, returning it to us as the true ring.
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23 442 "What is going on here?" asked Mwoga, returning from the eastern edge of the platform of planks fixed over the four canoes.
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23 447 Probably the mud raft had broken loose and the worker was intent upon returning it, if unwisely, in the darkness.
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24 47 On the other side of the raft passed two canoes of askaris returning to the marsh camps of the west.
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24 49 "Askaris are returning," said Ayari.
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57 56 I had then left them, returning to my lodgings.
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Book 14. (8 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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3 294 "We are returning to the cell".
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16 200 I did not think she would be pleased if I were late in returning to the house.
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19 344 Barus was now returning to the vicinity, having bound and discarded the hair in the hair sack.
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21 35 "Yes, Master," she said, returning on her hands and knees to the box for another stick.
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21 210 Barus was relieved at the edge of the southeast meadow at noon, and he, wanting help later in the incubation shed, returning to the stables, took me with him.
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25 280 * * * * We had been some two Ahn upon the road, returning to the lands of the Lady Florence of Vonda.
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34 284 "He was returning to Ar," said the first girl.
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34 300 "We will be returning to Ar in a month or two," said Tenalion.
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Book 15. (5 results) Rogue of Gor

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4 684 "We shall be returning to our loot camp shortly, which is east of Vonda.
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15 79 "The kitchen, I assume, was searched," I said to Lola, returning to the master bedroom.
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20 10 Returning from the wharves to the house I had not found her on the premises.
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32 88 Now, it seemed, so soon, the actual ship, or ships, though it now seemed there was only one, had appeared, conducted its business, and was now returning westward on the river, presumably to rendezvous with the Voskjard.
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32 150 "That is indeed amusing," said Kliomenes, returning his attention to me.
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Book 16. (5 results) Guardsman of Gor

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1 29 I heard the snap of bow strings on my own vessel, returning the fire.
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16 160 Then, almost too quickly to be fully aware of it, I saw the returning shape erupting from the water.
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17 55 I might be anyone, returning late, say, from a tavern or from the visiting of friends.
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19 335 Then, returning to her master, she is no longer so ashamed, and, in time, she will think little or nothing of the collar.
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20 401 I saw the two slaves returning now to the kitchen.
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Book 17. (6 results) Savages of Gor

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9 21 For those who might be interested in such things, we came to the wands in the early spring, early in Magaksicaagliwi, which is the Moon of the Returning Gants.
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14 563 "There is no hurry in returning".
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14 1224 They will now be returning to their tribal areas".
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14 1226 "The larger party has done its work and is returning to its home, presumably under the command of a Blotanhunka, a war-party leader, usually a fellow of mature and experienced judgment.
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15 14 The signals, of which there are some fifty or sixty, have conventionalized meanings, such as 'We are Kaiila', 'Who are you?', 'Go back', 'We have counted coup' and 'We are returning to camp'.
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16 66 He must have been returning to the wagons, perhaps to search for food".
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Book 18. (13 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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4 23 This is analogous to the secret slaveries which sometimes exist on Earth, where a woman, returning home, kneels and waits to be collared.
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5 23 "No," said Wasnapohdi, returning to her task.
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5 164 "Her!" said Bloketu, returning to the tribally prescribed feminine gender for Cuwignaka.
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12 330 Imagine my surprise when, standing on the front porch of my small trading post, I saw my five men, afoot, bound and gagged, each dragging a travois, returning from the Ihanke.
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40 950 "I have done as you wished," said Tuka, returning, dropping to her knees before her master.
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44 100 "Yes?" I said, returning to where she might see me, though, by intent, with some difficulty.
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44 845 Far below we saw Alfred, and his party, returning to the Yellow-Knife camp.
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50 167 I looked again then on the breadth of the Barrens, surveying them from the height of Council Rock, returning thereafter to my lodge.
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54 32 This winter, instead of returning west of the Ihanke, Grunt had told me that he planned to winter with the Dust Legs.
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54 88 A few hundred feet away, I saw some Dust Legs, a party of them, returning to their own country.
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54 110 Grunt and I had originally come to the Barrens, it now seemed long ago, in Magaksicaagliwi, the Moon of the Returning Gants.
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54 199 Two hunters I saw returning, friends; one was Cotanka, "Love Flute," of the Wismahi, and the other was Wayuhahaka, "One-Who-Possesses-Much," who had elected to remain with the Isbu.
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56 14 It had been last night when I, after returning the translator to my things, had bound her hand and foot, and then informed her of the identity of her master.
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Book 19. (6 results) Kajira of Gor

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26 122 I commend to your attention the noble alternative, to be chosen by all truly free women, of returning to the mill, of returning to the back-breaking, repetitious labor of the loom.
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3 958 "Have you no hope of returning to Earth?" I asked.
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10 1 I Have Taken Cognizance in Corcyrus; We are Returning to the Palace Through the darkened street, along the crooked way, Drusus Rencius and I were making our way back to the palace.
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15 42 "You can see she is a slave, returning to her master".
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25 75 I then, almost running, hurried after him, returning to my loom.
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27 151 We were returning to various basics, almost as elementary as scales to the musician, such things as basic kisses, caresses, positions, attitudes and movements.
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Book 20. (12 results) Players of Gor

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1 548 Many men, upon returning home, thinking they have bought an average girl within their means, discover instead, to their delight, that they have purchased a dream.
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2 716 "It is no use, kind sirs," said Boots Tarsk-Bit, returning, carrying the two empty coin bowls.
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2 847 It was now growing late and I thought that perhaps I should consider returning to my holding.
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6 264 "Continue," signaled Boots Tarsk-Bit, himself returning to his comedic role.
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10 11 He had put it on her immediately after returning to the camp last night.
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12 531 I could see Boots returning now, from a nearby village, to which he had gone to purchase some food and advertise our show.
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13 4 "I had warned you," had moaned Boots, in his camp, "but you would not listen!" Five days ago I had been returning to the camp of Boots Tarsk-Bit, coming back from a nearby village where I had gone to fetch Sa-Tarna grain, from which the girls, back at the camp, using stones and flat rocks, sifters a...
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16 17 "More food," I said, returning to my place, "and clear this mess!" "Yes, Master," said a naked brunette.
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16 540 "But," said he to Chino, "what of returning them to their masters for rewards?" "But what if there are no rewards?" said Chino.
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18 104 The best of the evening's entertainment is yet to come!" There was then a returning to places among the banqueters.
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21 280 "Oh, no, my dear," said Andronicus, seizing the bolting Yanina by an arm and returning her to her knees, trembling, on the floor, "you are not going anywhere, at least not yet".
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22 128 "I am returning to Ar".
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Book 21. (6 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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9 202 "Besides, in the morning," I said, "I expect you will be returning to Brundisium".
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16 620 "You are both quite beautiful," I said to the woman on the bench, returning to her.
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24 469 "Gentlemen," he said, "I must thank you for returning this girl to me".
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24 617 Slavery, putting a woman in her place in nature, returning her to where she belongs, considerably increases her beauty.
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25 1195 "Master," said Louise, the nude, slender, red-haired Earth-girl slave, returning.
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25 1741 I looked up, and noted Louise, who had been returning to her place to the left of the open space, coming back from the bar.
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Book 22. (10 results) Dancer of Gor

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9 381 "Yes," I thought, "there was quiet, shy Doreen in the library, going quietly about her duties, there, walking about, returning to the reference desk, over that flat carpet, from the information desk, past the Xerox machines".
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11 28 The entire legal resources of this world would be marshaled toward returning me to my master.
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11 224 Sita hove into sight, returning to the floor.
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20 128 "You are returning from your errand?" he said.
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25 8 Ionicus himself had left the area of the camp the same afternoon in which I had served in the trough, returning, it was said, to Cos.
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25 83 That being the case it seemed likely the links would soon be returning to the camp.
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28 52 I, too, saw it, two days ago, but briefly in the darkness, when I was returning from the tent of Pietro Vacchi to the girl pen.
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29 38 "And this one," said the small fellow, returning his attention to me, "is a dancer!" "Dancers are nothing," he said.
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33 142 "Thank you, Master," I said, returning to my place, kneeling across the fire from him.
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33 165 He then fetched a bit of oil and a sharpening stone from his things and, returning to his place, removed his sword from its scabbard.
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Book 23. (6 results) Renegades of Gor

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2 133 Some had even told me that men and women they knew had followed the army northward, as though confident of its victory and returning to their homes.
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6 882 Drovers, flush with coins, would be here, of course, returning from Ar's Station.
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16 90 He then put down his head again, returning to his reflections, whatever might have been their nature.
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21 51 And, already, with the rest and food, her beauty gave hints of returning to a voluptuousness that brings high prices on a slave block, and can drive a master half mad with passion.
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21 752 "Yes?" said Aemilianus, returning his attention to me.
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24 40 They would thus be eagerly, joyously welcoming, almost beside themselves, not only returning heroes but their masters.
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Book 24. (8 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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3 87 I considered returning to Port Kar.
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3 258 They may have hurried southward as far as they dared, but are now returning north.
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13 438 In a moment I was stumbling forward, before him, returning to the raft, the rope on my neck over the yoke, running behind me, to his grasp.
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14 334 I then, after a time, heard various tharlarion leave the bar, returning to the marsh.
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18 113 I then, crouching behind him, slipped the linkage of the manacles about his neck, that he might be kept where I wished, also returning the blade to his throat.
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38 21 "It has to do with something which I saw this evening, returning from the sutlers' area, on the road, near the Cosian camp".
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39 89 The last time I had seen the luscious wench had been earlier this evening, when I was returning from the wagon of Ephialtes.
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43 4 We had then walked east a way on the Brundisium Road before, in a small wood, leaving the road and returning to the vicinity of the slave camp.
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Book 25. (5 results) Magicians of Gor

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4 24 Surely they are among the bravest on all Gor!" "True, true," said more than one fellow, returning his attention to his own business.
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7 158 Several of the men in the street backed away, returning to the crowd.
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9 21 "Rejoice, rather, that you have been found suitable, that you have been honored by having been chosen!" The woman then, conducted by another fellow, with an armband, signifying the auxiliary guardsmen, the first fellow, a uniformed guardsman, returning to the group on the platform, was conducted dow...
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25 674 "The slave is returning," said Marcus.
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27 87 "For all we know Appanius may have repented of his indiscretion and be returning with men".
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Book 26. (12 results) Witness of Gor

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9 203 Sometimes I would see birds leaving or returning to whose harness were slung baskets, sometimes open, sometimes closed.
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9 206 Once I saw some ten birds returning in straggling formation, some struggling to remain aflight.
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9 218 More than once, sometimes in twos and threes, sometimes in tens and twenties, I had seen riders returning with bulging saddle bags, and sacks tied behind the saddle, and about the pommels, and with golden vessels, and candelabra, flashing in the light, slung from the saddles on cords.
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9 286 Suddenly another great bird smote its way over the valley, this time moving to the right, returning apparently to its source of origin.
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10 398 Then I saw it prowl away, perhaps returning to its lair, or perhaps to its patrol of the ledges.
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11 544 "But we are now considering this little kajira," said the man in the chair, returning his attention to me.
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11 1141 "But there is another possibility," he mused, "an interesting one, one other than merely returning you in chains to Tharna".
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11 1688 The leather worker was then wiping his needle and returning it to his kit, which he then did up, as it had been.
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18 3 "The raiders are returning!" I heard.
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18 4 "The raiders are returning!" "Kneel here, by the ring, quickly!" I said.
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25 6 I had been unable to attend upon the peasant until now, as I had been late returning to the pens.
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37 284 The lieutenant then took the other man's blade, which he had held in his left hand, and did with it the same, returning it also to its owner.
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Book 27. (19 results) Prize of Gor

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10 404 Then he indicated she should precede him from the room, and she did so, uncertainly, stumbling sometimes, sobbing, returning to her cage.
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12 206 Two others were sisters from a city called Venna, taken when returning from a pilgrimage to the Sardar Mountains.
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16 171 "Targo will be returning from his tea," said the girl to her left.
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16 912 At various times, in her training, and after her training, when returning to her cell, kennel or cage, one of the guards had given her a similar slap.
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16 938 Individuals in poorer districts, leaving their homes after dark or returning to them after dark, commonly carry their own light, usually a lamp.
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18 334 Let him stew, and cry out, and suffer! He cannot have me! I am not for such lowly sorts! Suffer, Selius Arconious, suffer! You cannot have me!" In the barred feeding area, the gate shut against the housing for returning tarns, Ellen put the basket of meat on the floor, and, moving about, and climbin...
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19 122 In returning to the loft, from a flight, they are normally unharnessed outside, save for a halter, by means of which they are led within, the halter then being removed.
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19 613 Though it was late some individuals were abroad, some in palanquins, either men or women, borne by male slaves, some with guards, perhaps returning at this hour from late visits, some strolling alone, meditatively, in the late evening, some walking leashed slaves.
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20 855 "There may be others, less honest, less noble, less loyal than yourselves to the empire, and we would not wish them to be dissuaded from returning properties such as this to their rightful owners".
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22 127 Doubtless, even now, she was returning to Brundisium.
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22 244 The poor woman, thought Ellen, returning to the ka-la-na vat.
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22 554 It was not as though someone had sent her for wine and she had been dilatory in returning.
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23 294 When she looked up, he had turned away, presumably returning to the tent.
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24 297 "Thank you, Feike!" said Ellen, looking up, and then, as Feike rushed through the silk, Lois returning, Ellen turned to look in the mirror.
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24 448 Given the Gorean applause, the striking of the left shoulder, the callings out of the men, Ellen supposed that Dara, upon returning to the area of preparation area, would be flushed with insolent triumph.
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27 168 We are innocent travelers, returning home.
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27 449 "They may be travelers returning from the great camp.
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27 1961 "We found nothing," said the first soldier returning to the camp.
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29 282 Do you know the penalty for such insolence? You dallied in returning to the camp, until the work was largely done.
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Book 28. (6 results) Kur of Gor

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11 107 "Ho, the whip dance," said Cabot, returning his attention to the dancing sand.
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56 263 He was one of the few surviving officers, as most, if they had not perished in the fray itself, their ships destroyed about them, melting and fragmenting in the silent fields of space, had hung themselves in shame, some aboard their returning vessels, others, having made worldfall, in the groves abo...
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57 103 Then, escaped from the camp, she betrayed the attack on the arsenal, that encompassing the slaughter of so many of our brothers, and then, clearly, returning, spying, she must have somehow become apprised of our plans involving the palace, and the Vale of Destruction, and betrayed those to Agamemnon...
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57 110 "Doubtless she had, in her espionage, perhaps returning from the palace, to do more mischief, inadvertently fallen into the grasp of our peers, whom she later eluded, but found herself unable then either to return to the palace or, braceleted, to secretly frequent again the environs of our camp".
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78 136 "We will be returning to the habitats," said Corinna, "and will be leaving the day after tomorrow, in the morning".
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80 6 I gather you, with others, and friend Zarendargar himself, and his people, will soon be leaving us, returning to your various duties and destinations.
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Book 29. (8 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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2 238 When they are stripped, if ashore, before embarking, before returning to port, it is determined whether or not they are, as the saying is, "slave beautiful".
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3 208 Once, I would have given her the gift of Earth, returning her to the liberties, such as they are, of her native world, but she had fled.
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11 3 It would house several beasts, but I supposed, at this time of day, most, if not all, of the tharlarion would be about the camp, or active on the road to the southeast, hauling logs, or returning.
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11 251 "Tharlarion will soon be returning to the stable".
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16 275 Two tarns, returning, those of Tajima and Pertinax, ahead of the swarm, streaked overhead, and then turned, to take their place in the ascending formation.
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25 82 I was passed by some fellows returning to their quarters, some leading leashed slaves, their hands tied behind their backs.
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29 18 Certain prosaic regularities contribute to this purpose, that the slave will commonly kneel upon entering the master's presence, that she may speak only when having the master's permission to do so, that she must often kneel and kiss the whip or switch in the morning, that she may not clothe herself...
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38 98 The tarns had been familiarized, over the past few days, with departing from, and returning to, the quarters prepared for them.
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Book 30. (12 results) Mariners of Gor

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3 250 Only later were we to reconstruct what had occurred, the pockets of our resistance, overcome one by one, the decimated retreats, the slaughterings, the terror, the blood, the hunting of traitors and collaborators, the joining of the forces of Ar, maintained during the occupation, to the uprising, th...
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14 141 "Ho!" The small ship's boats had put about and were returning.
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15 34 Toward noon we saw tarnsmen returning to the great ship, hastily, almost frantically.
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22 4 Some small boats were returning to the great ship.
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22 36 "Go back," he cried to others, returning to the ship.
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22 85 I saw several of the small boats returning to the shore from the ship.
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22 179 Indeed, in some cities, men returning with such wounds are put to death.
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24 229 If it was understood that she was on board, considering the bounty on her in Ar, the men might have become unmanageable, and insisted on putting about, and returning to the mainland.
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24 321 Some of the lesser Pani were already returning to the wharf.
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27 42 I made my way down to the courtyard, to welcome the returning troops, or, I trusted, the vanguard.
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34 38 I unhooked the switch from its peg, and, returning to her, standing behind her, slapped it twice in the palm of my hand.
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34 144 "I was returning one evening from a library, sensed something behind me, was held, so tightly, found it difficult to breathe for a moment, and lost consciousness.
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Book 31. (16 results) Conspirators of Gor

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8 1072 The fellows who had for a time pursued the former Lady Persinna, and discomfited her so cruelly, she now only a slave, were now returning to the area of the block.
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8 1211 Might she not be useful as a third or fourth slave in your house, to relieve higher, better slaves of disagreeable tasks? Perhaps she might do as a starter slave, for a son, or a gift for a son or nephew, returning from his studies in Harfax, Venna, Besnit, or Brundisium".
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11 262 Usually, of course, they would be in the company of their masters, or, say, keepers, if they might be returning late from feasts, serving slaves, flute slaves, kalika slaves, brothel girls, dancers, or such.
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17 407 To be sure, I knew little about such matters, and, possibly, Astrinax might be returning to Ar, rather than accompanying us into the Voltai.
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18 989 Surely it had to do with returning the blind Kur to his fellows.
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20 5 This morning we had made several trips to the local well with our buckets, and, returning, had filled our water barrels.
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20 15 But if that were the case it seems we should be returning to Ar, which seemed, patently, not the case.
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22 118 "You are returning to Venna then," said Astrinax.
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26 231 "You hope to be welcomed, to incur favor, to generate good will, or such, by returning the slave!" "Certainly," he said.
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26 270 One might suppose, then, that our party would be amenable to returning her, now captured and helpless, to her rightful owner or owners.
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29 227 "I was taken into custody, and chained, shortly after returning Tiresias to his fellows".
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42 14 Sometimes, in discharging this errand, I would see Grendel returning from the outside.
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42 19 I hoped I would not see Grendel returning from the outside.
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42 78 Before returning to the kitchen, that from which I had received the provender and drink, I heard harsh Kur sounds, and spun about.
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44 39 "Returning to the Cave," he said, "I was apprehended, bound, and conducted into the presence of Agamemnon, and confronted with the test".
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49 226 In any event, he had purchased a wagon and tharlarion, and was allegedly returning to Turia.
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Book 32. (11 results) Smugglers of Gor

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9 300 I supposed it was returning to Brundisium.
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14 202 The jaws of more than one lari, returning to its housing in the morning, had been stained, dark with matted, dried blood.
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25 239 Being brought to Gor was thus for me, in its way, more than a dream come true; it was a restoration of human biological reality, a recovery of a rightfulness of nature, a returning of me to the path of my heart, a bringing of me to a world in which I would have no choice but to be myself.
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25 354 As noted, the sleen, in the wild, is predominantly nocturnal, usually emerging from its burrow at dusk, and returning to it in the early morning.
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26 176 It is returning to its cage, and dinner".
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31 18 It will be a raid, unanticipated and effective, over and done with before the enemy fully comprehends what has occurred, before any defense can be mounted, after which the raiders will slip away, returning to the forest, long before any pursuit can be organized.
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43 1256 He might have been returning from drinking at the river.
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47 14 I had even traversed the shore of the Alexandra, for a pasang or more, both east and west, given the possibility that she might have waded, before returning to the land.
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50 177 She was presumably returning either from the river or from one of the laundry troughs, filled with rain water.
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50 418 But what then could be the real reason for the isolation of these slaves? The two guards who had been stationed at the head of the stairway, leading upward from the shore, withdrew, presumably returning to their post.
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51 85 "In returning to Shipcamp," he said, "did you put her to frequent and rich slave use?" "Yes," I said.
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Book 33. (20 results) Rebels of Gor

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7 151 "I am returning to the encampment".
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7 163 "Tea?" "I am returning to the encampment," I said.
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9 21 "Go, be done with it!" The shogun then turned away, returning to his private quarters.
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10 40 Our work was often marked by hundreds of birds alighting on the spilled stores, who would soon compete with returning draymen, who would gather what rice they could and carry it away to their villages, where it might be concealed from the tax collectors of Lord Yamada.
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14 72 "The long glass," said the servitor, returning to the balcony.
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17 168 Thus, if a schedule is not well kept, or if any attempt should be made to obtain the tarns, the tarns, in the keeping of the remaining tarnsman, will take flight, returning safely to your camp, and the cavalry will have lost only two junior officers.
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17 182 He is returning with my daughter, Sumomo".
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18 51 "You will not be detained in your departure," I said, "for it will be assumed you are returning to camp with my orders, orders which, as we shall manage it, will be supposed favorable to the plans of the shogun".
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20 253 "You are dismissed," said Sumomo, angrily, returning to her place, kneeling.
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20 399 After returning to the pen, they receive their evening feeding.
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21 131 I rose up from the bench and prepared to exit the garden, returning to the palace.
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23 156 "There are always such rumors," said Haruki, "for years, meaningless rumors, rumors whispered in the darkness, rumors spoken about small fires while the rice boiled, the rumor of a spared son, a lost son, an escaped son, a returning son, one who would seek his father's blood, who would do vengeance ...
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36 87 "The saddle of the returning tarn was empty," I said.
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42 179 "You and Ichiro," I said, "must have arranged some means of returning to the holding of Temmu or the encampment of tarns, surely not on foot".
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48 4 "Had we come on tarn," I said, "it seems, after a suitable interval, with no contact, such a party, if it existed, might have departed, returning north".
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55 197 "Troops may not be returning," I said.
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60 35 Indeed, I suspected, with a sudden coldness in my body, he might welcome this occasion, for a distractive interlude, pending returning to the audience chamber, to await the arrival of enemy troops, hundreds of violent men thirsting for his blood, competing for his head.
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61 336 Some mercenaries, intent on returning to the continent, were boarding, as well, packs on their back.
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61 337 Few, despite the protestations of recruiters, long ago on the continent, were returning richer than they came.
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61 416 "And I, you," said he, returning the bow.
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Book 34. (6 results) Plunder of Gor

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11 94 He then withdrew, setting the ladder aside, and disappeared, with his basket, returning to the receiving house, where grain was brought and weighed, and records kept.
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11 220 "What occurs?" said the miller's man, returning to the mill, a bota in hand, presumably filled with water.
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19 14 Earlier I had heard men passing by, outside, in the storm, probably fellows returning from some revel.
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66 53 At one of the caravanserais, returning from the cluster of slaves about one of the wells, I hurried to Paula.
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68 388 If she were taken afoot, the guardsmen might well hamstring her, before returning her to her master, for sleen feed".
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69 185 He then went to the side, to the wall, and ripped the whip from its peg, and, returning to me, he took my hair in his left hand, and, by the hair, hurled me from nadu to my stomach on the floor, and then I was lashed.
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Book 35. (17 results) Quarry of Gor

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11 27 The Rencers will then brand their foreheads and keep them as rence slaves, which, as I understand it, is a most laborious and unpleasant slavery, or, swathing them with ropes, return them to Port Kar for punishment, a tarsk-bit for returning a less beautiful slave, and two tarsk-bits for returning a...
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33 688 In such a case, to whom would I be delivered? Rencers expect, as I once noted, to receive a tarsk-bit for returning a less beautiful slave, and two tarsk-bits for returning a more beautiful slave.
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6 197 "We are returning her to the chains of an alcove".
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8 141 She is returning to the ship," said an oarsman.
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12 12 And no wonder we so fear them! Returning to my story, I had been so certain of my view of the men of Earth that I had assumed that Addison Steele was no different from so many others I had known on my former world; I had approached him on the Thieves' Way South as though he might be a typical man of...
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17 117 On Palace Street, returning to the Golden Chain, we were crossing the square that fronts the broad steps leading up to the Palace of the Council of Captains.
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24 119 As many shops were now closed, or closing, the shopsmen drawing the folding wooden screens across their shop fronts and chaining them in place, and many individuals were moving about, returning to homes or proceeding to one diversion or entertainment, or another, the street before the Lesser Al-ka M...
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24 239 I thought honor could not be much involved in doings so surreptitious, so deceitful, secret, and cruel, dealings perhaps extending far beyond the apprehension and returning to justice of the former Lady Julia Leta, of Ar's Street of Coins.
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25 86 "It seemed that all my work, the planning and expense, and all my anxiety and suffering, and all my hopes and dreams of rescuing the former Lady Felitia Thaliana of Besnit and returning her to her waiting and loving family, had gone for naught.
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27 206 "Returning to our domicile," he said, "we will undoubtedly encounter, or pass, one or more free women.
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33 41 I recalled what I had seen as we were returning to the city, those two, luminous, fiery disks, like eyes, burning in the darkness behind us, lifted over the scarcely disturbed, placid water.
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33 218 "What defense has it against a quarrel loosed from the darkness, a knife in the back, a dram of poison?" "I do not understand," said the beast, "why he who would obstruct our will, having access to the quarry, has not reaped the reward of himself returning it to Ar".
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33 254 "The harbor is under surveillance, and each gate of the port, and even the skies are watched, for the darting, message-bearing vulo, returning to a far cot, for the majestic tarn".
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33 338 If I might be instrumental, even in some small way, in returning our common quarry to Ar, I would be favored in the eyes of my Ubar, the great Marlenus.
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34 30 I had had little difficulty in returning to the Golden Chain from the delta.
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34 31 I had allowed the guards at the gate to suppose that I was a returning fugitive from the Golden Chain, convinced of the horror and hopelessness of surviving in the delta, begging to be returned to her appropriate chains.
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42 210 "I am returning her to the Silken Rope.
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Book 36. (11 results) Avengers of Gor

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2 117 "How can such forces indefinitely, at least six burdened ships, coming and going, venturing out and returning, time and time again, elude patrol ships, sightings?" asked Tab.
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8 62 "Yes," I said, returning the glass to Aktis.
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16 33 "Tal!" called some of the men, returning the gesture.
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27 65 "Or a single living island controlled by corsairs," I said, "a single living island reacting to the arrival of dozens of message vulos, message vulos surprisingly returning messageless to their cot, a single living island much as that we saw at sea, in departing from Daphna".
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27 215 "We are returning to the Tesephone".
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29 32 "I can understand your interest in the matter," I said, "but before one could think of such a thing, returning you to Sybaris, there is the matter of Zeuxis, on Daphna, which would need to be confirmed".
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37 142 Rest, and drink all the water you want, before returning promptly to work".
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45 106 He turned about, climbing, returning to the parapet.
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48 190 "Xanthos is already returning to the Isle of Seleukos," said Thurnock.
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49 89 "Briefly," I said, "for show, then he would withdraw, apparently giving up the chase, apparently resigning himself to failure, apparently returning in dudgeon to Sybaris".
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50 48 Accordingly, it would be conjectured that we, in leaving Chios, might be returning to Thera".
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