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Book 1. (13 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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1 169 Still, if I could put a mile or so between myself and the old camp, that should be sufficient to give myself the margin of safety I needed—from what I didn't know.
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3 200 It may be, of course, that the Priest-Kings controlled weapons as they did simply because they feared for their own safety.
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3 278 It sounded like something out of the Code of the Warrior, something which, if taken literally, would seem to encourage its believer to take not the slightest or most sane precautions for his safety.
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5 46 It was, of course, kept well-guarded and at the first sign of serious danger would undoubtedly be carried to safety.
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7 93 I responded similarly and further wished health and safety to his people.
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9 19 She explained to me what, in her opinion, would give us our best chance to travel the plains of Gor in safety.
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9 41 To her annoyance, but as a safety measure I thought essential, I secured her a few feet from me, fastening her arms about a sapling by means of the slave bracelets.
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13 18 There would be many who would leave the city to seek the comparative safety of the mountains.
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16 117 Pa-Kur was not as careless about his own safety as I had conjectured.
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17 42 The bargaining of the Initiates was largely to secure their own safety and, as much as possible, to prevent the utter ravaging of the city.
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19 24 None left the roof of the cylinder to seek his safety beyond the city.
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19 47 As the tarn had landed, her executioners, two burly, hooded magistrates, had scrambled to their feet and fled to safety.
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19 180 Many of Pa-Kur's tarnsmen were already streaking from the city, seeking their own safety.
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Book 2. (4 results) Outlaw of Gor

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14 59 He turned away, eager to be unchained and led like a beast to the safety of the dungeons.
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14 90 He did not remove them but only loosened them, and as soon as he had, he and his fellow scurried for the safety of the open section of wall, which then slid noiselessly shut.
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19 56 Mine after mine was freed, and as each mine was freed, its slaves, forsaking their own best chance of safety, poured into the mines above to liberate their fellows.
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19 69 I wondered if they would understand that such an action was beneath the hand of a truly free man, and that the men who fought them—who had conquered on this windy and cold night, who had fought like larls in the darkness of the tunnels below, who had not sought their own safety but the libera...
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Book 3. (11 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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5 104 "They are harmless," I said, for I had passed them with safety.
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17 38 "My freedom," I said, "the restoration of the City of Ko-ro-ba, the safety of its people—to see my father again, my friends, my Free Companion".
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19 1 Die, Tarl Cabot Now once again I would have my sword in my hands and at last I would be able to find Misk, for whose safety I feared.
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22 86 "Yes," said Mul-Al-Ka, "find yourself some secret place and stay, and perhaps someday Sarm will succumb to the Pleasures of the Golden Beetle and you can emerge in safety".
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24 11 Most I feared for the safety of Vika of Treve.
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25 20 But now it was important to get her from the tunnels, to find her a place of refuge and safety where I hoped she might recover from the venom of the Golden Beetle.
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26 81 "Or are you not yet done with me?" I would have responded, in spite of my better judgment, to reassure her of my intentions to free her as soon as practicable, and to tell her that I believed her greatest chance of safety lay in the anonymity of a specimen in the Vivarium, but it would have been foo...
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28 36 "Good," I said, "but tell them that this war is not theirs, but that of Priest-Kings, and that they may return to the safety of their chambers".
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28 174 Somewhat to their embarrassment but for their own safety the Priest-Kings who had joined Misk wore painted on the back and front of their thorax the block letter which in the Gorean alphabet would be the first letter of Misk's name.
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28 243 The fire of silver tubes could damage and in time destroy the ship but yet its cage plastic offered considerable protection to its crew who might, with some degree of safety, mete out destruction to all that crossed its path.
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32 66 "There is no safety above," said Misk.
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Book 4. (8 results) Nomads of Gor

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15 9 The mercenary tarnsmen of Turia were most feared by the Tuchuks, for such could, with relative impunity, fire upon them from the safety of their soaring height, but even this dread weapon of Turia could not, by itself, drive the Tuchuks from the surrounding plains.
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20 22 He, too, slipped, as I was not displeased to note, but our hands met and he was drawn to safety.
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20 136 I then managed to get him to the saddle and made sure he fastened the safety strap.
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20 150 As quickly as I could I then unhobbled the other bird and climbed to the saddle, fastening the broad safety strap.
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22 20 After we had taken the girl and the potter and wine vendor to whatever safety their homes might afford, we set out for the House of Saphrar, where, after some examination of the scene, I convinced myself there was nothing immediately to be done.
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22 31 It seemed to me he could fly with safety when he chose, but that he had merely not yet chosen.
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24 11 I reminded myself, beyond this, that if his house should actually be forced, and himself threatened, he could always flee, with relative safety, at the last moment, abandoning his men, his servants and slaves to the mercies of ravaging Tuchuks.
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28 23 I would fasten about myself the broad safety strap, usually purple, which is an invariable portion of the tarn saddle.
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Book 5. (21 results) Assassin of Gor

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4 43 Yet I feared for her safety.
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5 156 If Miss Cardwell had been frightened, alone astride the tarn, bound for her safety to the saddle, she did not cry out nor speak, but was silent.
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12 3 The tarn, screaming, its wing useless, tumbled uncontrollably from the edge of the large, open, padded ring suspended over the net on the track, plunging into the net, its rider cutting the safety straps and leaping from its back in order that he not be slain beneath the bird struggling in the net.
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13 96 She threw all her energies now into her panic-stricken flight; but the beauty of the rhythm, that powerful, even rhythm, was gone; her stroke was uneven; she lifted too much water; she missed a breath; she thrashed; but still she fled wildly for safety, kicking madly, trying to escape.
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13 291 We fastened the safety straps.
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13 306 The first time I attempted to use the harness, though I was aware of the danger, I overdrew the strap and the suddenness of the bird as it veered in flight threw me against the two narrow safety straps; the small, broad, rapid-beating wings of the racing tarn permit shifts and turns that would be im...
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13 354 "This afternoon," I said, "at the races, I saw a rider cut the safety straps and free himself from a falling bird".
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15 80 Sometimes in the races, in pressing through the rings, fighting for position, riders used goads on one another, or tried to cut the safety or girth straps of others; more than one man had been stabbed as the birds, jammed at the corner rings, had fought for passage and position.
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15 212 The truly sinister aspect of even this portion of the girls' training did not become evident to me, or to Elizabeth, until the entire next week was spent again before the mirror, seeing themselves as slave girls, and repeating, aloud, these questions and answers, as though putting them to themselves...
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16 36 But he had assured me that just recently Cernus had received a large batch of new documents and maps, which were perhaps crucial, and that the Priest-Kings would surely be angry if he did not obtain copies of them as well; moreover, he reminded me, he would refuse to let any documents leave the hous...
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17 232 Elizabeth, with Virginia and Phyllis, would be extricated from the house and carried to safety.
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17 245 It would be a fine surprise for them later to discover that they were actually being whisked to safety and freedom.
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18 530 "I understand she expects, with the other two barbarians, to be purchased by an agent of Priest-Kings, and carried to safety and freedom".
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19 95 I felt rage and sorrow, rage at the twisting of events, the brilliance of my enemies, my own failures, and sorrow for Elizabeth, and the other girls; for Elizabeth in particular my heart cried out, for her hopes would be so cruelly dashed; she might not even discover that she was not on her way to s...
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19 447 Doubtless Elizabeth thought Samos the agent of Priest-Kings, sent to purchase them and carry them to safety and freedom.
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22 198 Mip was thrown back in the two thin safety straps of the racing saddle and then sagged in the saddle, leaning to one side.
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22 221 With my sword I cut Mip free of the safety straps and drew him from the tarn.
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22 502 My tarn was locked, talon to talon, with a nonfaction bird; each was tearing at the other; the tarn goad of the rider struck me, almost blinding me with pain; for an instant my consciousness seemed nothing but a blinding shower of yellow, fiery needles; his tarn struck for me and I beat its beak awa...
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22 530 Again and again the small bow, swift and vicious, fired, twenty barbed arrows in half an Ehn, tarnsmen struggling to reach me with their swords, thrusting with their heavy spears, and all the time Ubar of the Skies tearing and ripping, his beak and steel-shod talons engines of fierce carnage; I felt...
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22 563 The Red, cursing, tried to force us up, where we might strike the unpadded bar; at our speed we might be cut in two; my tarn struggled to avoid the bar, not turning to do battle, but persisting in his race; I was suddenly aware of the arm of Menicius flying forward and I instinctively threw myself f...
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24 76 These things, together with the dissatisfaction of men with the governance of the city and the safety of their homes, coupled with the memories of Ar's greatness when Marlenus had worn the medallion of supreme office, of Ar's splendor when she had stood in his day feared, foremost, magnificent and g...
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Book 6. (4 results) Raiders of Gor

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2 47 From the safety of the yards of marsh water separating me from my enemies I could have been immediately slain, lost in a thicket of the two- or three-pronged marsh spears.
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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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9 179 "You will be, for your own good, for your own safety and well-being, returned to the planet Earth, where you will no longer have to fear the perils of this world".
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17 325 It screamed as I fastened the broad purple safety strap.
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Book 7. (3 results) Captive of Gor

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11 1270 Sa-Tarna fields ripened in their yellow beauty, and caravans passed with safety.
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12 705 Targo, a rational man, and a brilliant slaver, had chosen to purchase his own life, and that of his men, and the safety of his gold, by the flight of the slave girls.
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13 841 The other tarn streaked away, and its rider, standing in his stirrups, braced in the saddle, held to it by the broad safety strap, was redrawing his crossbow, a quarrel held in his teeth.
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Book 8. (6 results) Hunters of Gor

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7 113 It did not displease me that I should bring his daughter to safety from the forests before him, or that I should have Verna, and her band, prisoner, well trussed in tight binding fiber, waiting for my iron, while he still, unknowingly, sought them where they were not.
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13 68 "There is safety for you," I said, gesturing across the Laurius with my head, "if you reach the other side".
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13 374 Their safety, or survival, as my actions made clear, was of little concern to me.
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15 322 "Our safety is entirely in your hands".
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19 337 Sarus had been willing to surrender them for the safety of himself, his men and those slaves he regarded as important.
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22 614 They would be given gold, and conducted in honor and safety to their cities.
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Book 9. (4 results) Marauders of Gor

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17 96 It would be, in the language of Gorean strategists, the "bridge of jewels," beckoning, alluring, promising safety, prophetic of escape.
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18 10 Any girl found remaining in the pen by a man of Torvaldsland, seeking her own safety, unless she had been ordered there by a free attacker, was to be summarily slain.
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18 43 Ottar pursued it, heedless of his safety, his eyes wild, killing it, cutting its body then in two with repeated blows of his ax.
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22 133 She had once, against my wishes, fled the Sardar, when I had wished, as a foolish Earthling, to return her to her home planet, for safety.
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Book 10. (3 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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11 383 Saddles are prized on the Tahari and each man cares for his own, and sees to its safety.
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11 489 "Seek safety in the kasbah!" Among the running people rode warriors, slashing about themselves, slaying and freeing for themselves a path for their mounts.
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26 1243 "I was proud," she said, "and arrogant, and insolent, and contemptuous, and, when you were helpless, mocked you to my delight from safety.
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Book 11. (3 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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12 755 Borchoff and his men might make their way, though chained, to safety.
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22 193 "There is no safety here," he said.
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22 734 I could not see her! Surely I was not to be denied her! Despite the pleas of my men from the water, begging me to join them in seeking safety, I continued to scrutinize the turbulent waters, the debris, some flaming, the pitching wreckage, port and starboard, fore and aft.
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Book 12. (3 results) Beasts of Gor

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6 265 "I will pay you well to conduct me to safety," she said.
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11 377 I fastened the safety strap now.
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35 1317 "You must accompany us to safety".
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Book 13. (4 results) Explorers of Gor

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1 230 "That guaranteed their safety," I said.
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23 349 "Ahead!" "We have been released by other askaris, and sent westward for safety," I told him.
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25 48 "I do not expect to see canoes of Ukungu," said Kisu, "but if we do, you will, thus bound, perhaps not be tempted to leap into the water and swim to safety".
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44 148 I extended the shaft of the spear to Janice and she, seizing it with one hand, her free hand, was drawn upward, out of the net, to the safety of the jungle floor.
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Book 14. (4 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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1 1033 It was not a standard safety glass.
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7 210 Always should one be true to the images and lies of others, fearful ones, weaklings unable to be strong themselves, whose safety lay in the bleeding and tricking of more dangerous beasts.
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27 134 Hopefully, however, they share a Home Stone with her master, which gives her perhaps the only safety and security she can rely upon.
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29 56 Such a camp, in effect, is a truce ground, where men of various allegiances may in safety bring what prizes may have fallen to their ropes and chains".
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Book 16. (1 results) Guardsman of Gor

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10 64 Before we had left the vicinity of the encounter between the Tais and the Tamira, I had called loudly, as though to Callimachus, "We have made good our immediate escape! Let us hasten now to Tetrapoli, where our safety most securely may be sought!" There had been an answering cheer from the crew of ...
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Book 17. (2 results) Savages of Gor

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1 1084 This is in marked contrast to certain societies where it is the healthiest and finest who are sent off to war while the inferior and defective remain behind in safety, making money and multiplying themselves.
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6 103 There is perhaps safety in such numbers".
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Book 18. (10 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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12 410 It was an island of safety for her, or possible safety.
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6 32 Cuwignaka and I, then, not more than a few yards ahead of the animals, which, in a body, buffeting and storming, tridents down, their heads low, as the kailiauk runs, came streaming, flooding, bellowing, torrentlike, about that bend in the draw, raced to safety.
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7 650 Teams and fans from the combatant poleis then could journey to and from the stadiums in safety.
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12 418 There, in that place of possible safety she will try again, desperately, to be more pleasing.
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12 422 Perhaps it is too obvious to mention but a point served by this original use of the couch is to break down the new slave's fear of the couch and encourage her to see it in a favorable light, indeed, as a place of relative safety, comfort and favor.
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12 535 She lay on her stomach on its surface, grateful to be again within the perimeters of its relative safety.
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14 77 He, presumably, had, by now, made his way back to the Ihanke, to civilization and safety.
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29 7 "Run! Seek your safety!" I saw another free woman cutting at the hair of other kneeling beauties, freeing them from the cruel hair coffles, that they might flee as best they might.
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40 491 Safety, in such a situation, inasmuch as it lay anywhere, surely lay in abject and total compliance, beginning with interior submission, and issuing then in appropriate behaviors.
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54 248 "He saved your life at the summer camp," I said, "putting you on a tether and enforcing slave sanctions upon you, to lead you to safety".
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Book 19. (4 results) Kajira of Gor

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6 19 But why, then, if he were so wary of them, or fearful for my safety, had he wanted to come to this portion of the wall? It was he who had suggested that we come this close to those fearful monsters.
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11 50 "You must understand," he said, "that I have a responsibility for your safety".
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15 371 "Do not neglect to fasten your safety strap," said a man.
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30 552 She, apparently in the custody of soldiers of Ar, was to be carried to safety.
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Book 20. (2 results) Players of Gor

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2 1273 Too, the best guarantee of the safety of Samos, it seemed to me, was my departure from the city.
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18 472 "Issue orders! Are you a fool? Have them see to the safety of the streets, the security of the gates, the search for escaped prisoners!" "Surely you will take command personally," said Flaminius.
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Book 21. (25 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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19 491 Letters of safety, indeed! They had not been letters of safety so much, it seemed, as death warrants, or orders for execution, laden with mortal peril for any so bold or foolish as to carry them.
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5 255 "You had best remain within the safety of the wagons," said Hurtha.
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7 28 "You have deprived us of the safety of numbers.
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13 89 "It is my intention to obtain for you letters of safety," he said.
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14 46 "It is in here, I gather," I said, "that these letters of safety may be obtained".
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14 70 "Surely they are not being given letters of safety".
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14 89 "Anything so simple as letters of safety could have been issued in the main hall," I said.
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14 91 "I would think so," said Hurtha, righteously, adding "whatever a letter of safety might be".
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14 100 "My letter of safety would be my ax," said Hurtha, "if I had it".
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15 20 He did not seem to me the sort of fellow from whom one might expect letters of safety, licenses of passage, or bureaucratic services.
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15 67 "You are no simple officer," I said, "from whom may be obtained letters of safety".
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15 327 "I am sure they would agree to almost any terms, offering suitable inducements for withdrawal, guarantees of safety for yourself and your troops, and such, in order to regain Torcadino".
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15 727 "With these letters, of course," he said, "I shall include letters of safety".
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15 753 "Beyond that, for your trouble, and with no hard feelings, I shall give you letters of safety which will conduct you and your party safely through my men".
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15 804 "Too, you and your party will still receive letters of safety".
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16 8 Letters of safety, aside from the difficulties they might involve me in with Cosian sentries or outposts, which might be considerable, would presumably not be needed by everyone entering Ar.
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16 1475 I had letters of safety.
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16 1654 In my sheath were his letters, and my letters of safety.
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16 1842 In my sheath were the letters of safety, and, below them, thrust down beneath them, the letters given to me by the officer, he who was now the master of Torcadino.
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17 3 I did not think it would be wise to advertise my possession of letters of safety until it should prove impossible to proceed further without them.
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19 4 "The letters of safety," I said, "those of safe conduct for our party".
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19 6 "Our letters of safety," I said, "are gone.
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19 476 Too, he had certainly removed the letters of safety from my sheath with great skill, even replacing the blade.
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19 485 Doubtless Ephialtes, in possession of the letters of safety, had been mistaken for an agent of Dietrich of Tarnburg.
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19 496 "Our letters of safety," I told her.
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Book 22. (2 results) Dancer of Gor

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3 332 I leaped up and fled away from him, utilizing the narrow space at the edge of the porchlike upper level, between the safety banister and the shelves, to the second stairs, on the east side of the upper level, leading down to the main floor.
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24 124 Could I not be given a gesture of mercy, that I might turn about and flee back, scrambling up that loose sand to the comparative safety of the ridge, to seek shelter within the compass of the guard's whip and sword? The guard, however, made no motion.
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Book 23. (14 results) Renegades of Gor

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1 259 I would get them to safety".
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3 50 This training innovation, interestingly enough, and perhaps predictably, was not primarily the result of an attempt to increase the safety of human beings, particularly those in rural areas, but was rather largely the result of attempting to achieve military objectives, in particular those having to...
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6 793 The fellow between us moaned, and prepared to crawl rapidly to safety.
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8 503 I then put the safety strap about myself, and buckled it shut.
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11 306 "The safety of the city is in your hands, Captain," said the young fellow.
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12 166 "I protected myself in my bargaining against such possibilities," she said, "demanding, as conditions of my cooperation, not only riches but my safety and freedom".
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12 198 "I did, however, demand, and receive, a letter of safety, and an acknowledgment of services rendered, made out to the bearer".
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12 250 I was then drawn to my home, where my money and jewels were found, notes of my next reports, and the letter of safety, with the acknowledgment of services.
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15 422 "What did you expect to do," I asked, "if, say, Cosians, or others, in darkened buildings or flaming streets, came upon you?" "I had thought I would have had my letter of safety," she said.
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16 340 "There is no safety," she said.
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18 180 Once they were beyond quarrel range they hurried back to conduct still others to temporary safety.
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18 240 "Back to the wall!" I supposed that many of the bowmen on the wall, from the safety of the crenelation, were continuing tenaciously, following their original orders, to seal off, as they could, the walkway, keeping the pen closed, so to speak.
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18 297 I saw more than one woman, struck from the walkway, reaching out, seizing the walkway, pulled again, screaming, to its safety, even in the midst of the frenzy at its edge.
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24 110 And I, like a fool, who had had her once in my grasp, in Port Kar, had had her freed, even when she had mocked and scorned me, thinking me crippled, and had had her returned in honor and safety to Ar! I considered her.
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Book 24. (9 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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1 283 We had been carried to the safety of Port Cos.
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1 475 The girls there, not yet serving, clung about it, in their neck chains, as though it might provide them some security, some safety or refuge.
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1 836 Too, not unoften, on one level or another, they begin to grow careless of their security and safety; they begin, in one way or another, to court the collar.
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18 318 More than one fellow has been retaken due to carelessness, due to a lack of vigilance, due to haste, within no more than a few hundred yards of safety.
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28 221 Open spaces, when it is necessary to cross them, will be crossed one at a time, at intervals, when signals of safety are uttered or displayed.
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36 17 By now, hopefully, several of them had reached safety.
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36 26 Secondly, one might then, presumably with relative safety, take a roundabout route to territories allied with or friendly to Ar, perhaps even going by way of Corcyrus or Argentum.
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36 29 After I had assured myself of the relative safety of Marcus and Ina, of course, it was my intention to venture to Torcadino, where I hoped to be able to convey intelligence of the affairs in the north to Dietrich of Tarnburg.
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49 9 To be sure, although they are the absolute property of their masters, and are absolutely, and in all ways, at the disposal of their masters, their safety, for most practical purposes, is largely in their own hands.
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Book 25. (3 results) Magicians of Gor

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8 36 There is commonly safety in numbers and the greater the numbers usually the greater the safety.
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5 42 "Talena, the daughter of Marlenus, has offered to sacrifice herself for the safety of the city".
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13 197 This, too, in its way, was a sign that manhood, or the suspicion of it, might be reasserting itself in the streets of Ar, that masters, or some of them at least, and perhaps many, would now no longer take for granted the safety of their girls in the streets.
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Book 26. (13 results) Witness of Gor

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8 838 Too, I wanted to please the men not just for the sake of my safety, or survival, or that I might be better treated or fed, or have a better kennel, or for the sake of my vanity, or because of a sense of power, exerted over rivals, but because, ultimately, of what we were, they men, I a woman.
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13 356 It is sometimes done for hygienic purposes, as on slave ships, and for safety purposes, as in factories.
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14 683 In most parts of the city they go about in relative safety".
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14 696 "It would then be possible to be out of the cell, as a slave, and be in relative safety?" "I suppose so," I said.
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19 323 Now it seemed that these Initiates or at least he who appeared to be chief amongst them was implicitly suggesting that the success of the expedition might well be attributed to their offerings, doubtless ultimately supplied by the faithful, and their prayers, uttered in the safety of their temple pr...
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19 408 Indeed, to obtain their share of the riches, they had not even had to leave the safety of the city.
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24 274 Had it not yet been fetched? And how would these goods, these loots, of precious metal, of soft flesh, of unusual fabrics, of rare spices, be transported whence these intruders derived? Did they think this would be easy? At any time the men of Treve might fall upon them! What an irrational and impro...
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24 285 Surely they would remove their clothing and assess them, and secure those of most interest, those destined then, could they but reach safety, for the pens, and the block.
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28 59 "Were you not careless of your safety?" he asked.
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34 144 I trust a concern for their safety, or for that of one or more of them, will ensure your diligence as guides.
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35 37 Politics is not the arbiter of truth; it may be the arbiter of comfort, safety, conformity, and success, but it is not the arbiter of truth; the arbiter of truth is the world and nature; they have the last say in these matters.
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37 1032 His hands clutched at the air as though he might gain purchase there to drag himself to safety.
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40 10 The jailer, the warden of the cliff cells, Tenrik, in whose care I had first been in this city, had come out upon the plank and brought me back to safety, before I might fall.
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Book 27. (9 results) Prize of Gor

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16 1119 The cruel security, the protection, the safety of the iron belt was gone.
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17 978 "They have disarmed us for our own safety".
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18 101 Unable to stand she sank to her knees in terror and grasped his leg, as much to reassure herself, by clinging to this support, as to a stanchion, of some modicum of safety, as in supplication.
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20 365 The bird had its talons on the man but could not pull him free, because of the safety strap.
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27 1541 "Even if they have not come for me, perhaps you may, at least, arrange a truce, and then use me in your negotiations! Perhaps you can bargain with me! Try to buy your safety with me, and perhaps with the tharlarion and wagon! Save yourselves".
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27 2761 "We could mercifully untie you, and then turn you out with our best wishes for your health and safety".
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27 3524 "It seems that Master is concerned with the safety of his slave," she said.
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29 18 A caravan this size, she conjectured, would not be the property of a single merchant, but doubtless of a number of merchants leagued together, traveling thusly for purposes of safety in what were doubtless unsettled, dangerous, troubled times.
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30 646 There is a saying that curiosity is not becoming in a kajira, and yet how well the masters understand our incessant and insatiable curiosity! But sometimes I think my master keeps much from me not simply because he enjoys keeping me, tormentingly, appropriately, as Goreans see it, in "slave ignoranc...
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Book 28. (10 results) Kur of Gor

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63 124 Had Lord Grendel not been overwrought, or had he been less concerned with the safety of the Lady Bina, he might have chosen to remain within the safety of his lines and allowed her to perish as she might, and would, at the hands of the cattle humans.
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11 30 In this fashion the occupants, or passengers, never exposed to the rigors and perils of a near vacuum, need not concern themselves with complex suiting, reaction devices, safety lines, and such.
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18 265 The two catches, and then the safety catches, were freed, with four snaps, and the two sleen sprang forward and began to scratch their way frenziedly up the short, steep slope.
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42 30 "Perhaps some of the humans can care for them, or herd them to safety".
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43 454 "Then free me and take me to a place of safety, where we may await the outcome of the strife.
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53 112 They did tend to hate Kurii, and their easily initiated murderous rages often targeted isolated Kurii, whom they would swarm upon, regardless of their own safety, and destroy as they could.
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54 59 "You will have to scout its safety, and determine its appropriateness for our purposes, before we join there, and we will depend on you in this matter," said Lord Grendel.
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61 26 "They themselves were of course far removed from the fighting, secure in positions of safety, and thus had little to fear personally.
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73 167 Their peace, and perhaps the safety of their neighbors, he speculated, was kept within the collars which encircled lovely necks.
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77 126 Doubtless Cabot wished that the slave might have reached the safety of the forest, a desiderated outcome, where she might, a fleet, collared human female, have managed to elude a lame Kur, but he was not surprised when she failed to do so.
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Book 29. (18 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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5 350 And, indeed, was her disguise not required of her, that she might, in relative safety, arousing little suspicion, negotiate the realms of Gor, her markets and streets, her fields and bridges, her wharves and roads? To Goreans, a free female of Earth would be surprising, at least.
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5 934 "At last we reached Torcodino," said a man, "and found safety within her walls".
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7 113 Sometimes a free woman will wait, before, say, a rivulet or puddle, even a small one, to be carried to safety by some lucky fellow.
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9 46 Her safety, of course, would lie with men, and masters, who would to the extent practical, given a free woman's status and prerogatives, protect her.
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12 205 "The proper tarn saddle," I said, "has a safety strap.
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12 208 "But what if the safety strap is cut in battle?" "One then seizes, as one can, if one is in danger of falling," I said, "one of the saddle rings".
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16 277 I seized the mounting ladder of my tarn, hastened to the saddle, strung the ladder, fastened the safety strap, and yanked back on the one-strap, and, in a moment, the field of the training plaza, with its numerous, riddled targets, was falling away, beneath me.
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17 68 And unto this mass, from above, were hurled dozens of weighted nets, which tangled the birds, and riders, and dozens, half crippled, unable to fly, fell brokenly toward the earth, and some riders freed themselves of the safety straps and tried to leap to the saddle rings of other birds, and some fai...
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17 70 I saw another net fall gracefully, like a broad, circular, open veil, on a bird starting to climb from the plaza, and the bird fluttered back to the earth, screaming, protesting, rolling in the dust, the rider caught in the safety straps, and then the helmeted head was twisted about, and the body wa...
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18 221 Such a sensitive and delicate gentleman, and particularly one so important, I hoped, at the first sign of trouble, would have been hurried to a location of safety, and a guard set about him to protect his person.
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18 308 He had been genuinely concerned with the safety and welfare of the contract woman, Sumomo.
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20 42 He had worn a yellow armband to insure his safety from his own cohorts, an armband later removed, in an attempt to blend in with our men, an attempt unsuccessful as he had been well noted in the fighting.
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20 83 The typical Gorean commander, perhaps unwisely, does not "lead" from a position of safety, from interior lines, so to speak, but leads from the front.
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22 54 "Licinius was kept in the saddle by the safety strap," said Pertinax.
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26 58 For example, red tended to be associated with blood, with warriors, with danger, and green with physicians, health, safety, and such.
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28 104 They are, of course, to be understood as, and treated as, the animals they are, that goes without saying, but this does not mean that one should not be concerned for their health, comfort, and safety.
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28 106 One should be concerned with the health, comfort, and safety of all one's stock, of whatever sort, even that which is well-curved and two-legged.
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34 109 This seemed to me a madness, but the only alternative seemed to be to abandon the camp, and scatter, seeking individual refuges and safety, thus surrendering the efforts of the past months and forswearing whatever projects might have brought the Pani to known Gor.
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Book 30. (17 results) Mariners of Gor

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3 231 We had done our best, of course, we of the occupation, to disarm the populace, pretending this to be in their own best interest, that in this way they would be better protected, that in this way they would be assuring their own safety, security, and welfare.
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3 334 "The other women, knowing themselves not so highly placed as I, the high confidante of the Ubara, and thus less likely to be borne to safety, and there being no tarn baskets, as noted, had fled the roof, descending into the cylinder to meet whatever fates might be theirs.
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8 103 It was unfortunate that this safety practice had not been in place in the time of Andronicus.
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8 104 To be sure, some men would not avail themselves of the rope, and some, for ease of movement, or comfort, would sever the safety rope themselves.
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8 468 I feared for her safety, and that of all of us.
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10 47 What hope had they for safety, understanding, and compassion, and happiness, save from males who would relish their beauty and master it, uncompromisingly, putting it to the purposes for which the slaves knew it had been formed by nature.
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12 51 As most of the lookouts, I had fastened a safety rope about my waist.
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17 236 "Do not neglect to fasten the safety rope," said Cabot.
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19 76 I had fastened the safety rope about my waist, as usual, but this precaution, day after day, seemed ever more unnecessary, if not foolish.
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19 91 The bow of the ship paused, teetering, as though at the edge of a cliff, and then, suddenly, it plunged downward, and slid to the side of that steep, pouring, liquid valley, and went over to her side, and continents of water poured over her, and then engulfed her, and she spun about, for all her siz...
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19 133 I muchly desired to free myself of the safety rope, descend the ratlines, and aid in the protection of the ship, but I knew I would not do so.
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21 241 "Safety," said Lord Okimoto to Tyrtaios.
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21 253 "The third smoke," said Lord Okimoto, "that of green, of safety, means that a landing may be effected".
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22 127 "Seek safety," I said.
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22 246 The whole rationale of the war bow is to strike from the safety of distance.
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27 154 "And," said a man, "let us celebrate the inviolability of the holding of dear Lord Temmu, and rejoice in our safety and security".
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36 403 We could not guarantee your safety from such men, even at the castle".
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Book 31. (10 results) Conspirators of Gor

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10 173 Had I not seen free women standing as though forlorn before tiny lakes of drainage water and mud at intersections, until a suitable male approached, alert to her seeming distress, to whom she granted the daring privilege of carrying her to safety on the other side of the street? I supposed he knew w...
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10 239 The beast, in all things, save those in which her safety or health might be jeopardized, would give way to the Lady Bina.
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23 164 In this way, if one member of the party fell, there would be others to draw him to safety.
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23 166 This was clearly done with the safety of the women in mind.
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33 106 My fears in this matter had been twofold; first, that the Lady Bina, having succumbed to the blandishments of Kurii, might prevail upon Grendel to join their party, and, second, she being in their power, he might, to procure her comfort and safety, perform whatever tasks they might ask of him.
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39 35 I suppose this had partly to do with Kur distrust of humans, partly with an unwillingness that some might profit in safety and comfort from the pain and blood of others, and partly with the fanatic conviction of each party in its righteousness, which justified the impressment of reluctant allies.
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41 39 The container which had been incorporated within the steel body of the machine was rescued by Timarchos, who bore it to safety.
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43 20 "In order that he might the more closely monitor the condition and safety of the Lady Bina, for whom I suspect he would willingly die".
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49 79 It is possible they managed to make their way to some sort of safety.
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49 234 Grendel had followed him, with his hands on the rope, the other end about his own waist, to draw him to safety if the snow gave way.
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Book 32. (1 results) Smugglers of Gor

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15 279 "Your tunic, if you are permitted one, will guarantee your safety.
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Book 33. (12 results) Rebels of Gor

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1 17 "Perhaps you might find safety there," said Lord Okimoto.
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1 281 "Ela," said Lord Okimoto, "the commander should have sought safety earlier, his departure unnoticed in the fog.
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2 6 I buckled the safety strap, and snapped the reins, and my mount leapt from the wall, spread its vast wings, and, after soaring a few Ihn, struck against the air and surged upward.
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2 178 In a few moments I had attained the saddle, and buckled the safety strap.
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4 266 When Tajima, tarnsman, has revived, and fed, you must convey him to safety".
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20 176 "Perhaps I have been removed from the holding of Temmu for my safety.
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20 383 There they will reassure the cavalry of the safety and health of its commander, Tarl Cabot, tarnsman, bear to it my good wishes and assure it of my friendship.
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21 244 I was sure I would be soon returned to the safety of the palace.
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21 346 'You will be carried before me, in honor, in dignity, well secured with the safety strap, sheltered in the folds of the blanket.
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21 353 I noted that my captor's fellow, asaddle, had already buckled his safety strap about his waist.
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21 489 This commission, I had gathered, was to inform me of the safety of my fellows, Tajima and Pertinax.
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54 216 Now, however, the negotiations, the terms for surrender, the supposed guarantees of safety for the garrison, and such, had been concluded.
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Book 34. (7 results) Plunder of Gor

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1 472 There were straight pins and safety pins, a small nail file, hairpins, bobby pins.
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9 478 There was safety in wearing a man's collar.
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34 91 "Seek safety, elsewhere".
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51 6 Kurik's pretext for gaining admittance to the palace was twofold, first, supposedly to guarantee the current safety and well-being of the Lady Bina, for Lord Grendel, and, second, to make clear to Decius Albus, who would convey the information to Surtak and his cohorts, that Lyris was in our custody...
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56 82 "Too," said Lord Grendel, "I need not abide by the code of the Assassin, to make no kill from which I cannot slip away in safety.
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56 121 But what would take him from Ar? What might lead him to abandon Ar, an ideal center for clandestine operations, a repository of gold and diverse resources, and a fortress of relative safety, given the houses of Decius Albus, and the protection of his power in Ar, to accept the risks of travel and di...
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64 202 I recalled Lucilius had slain Aelius when the latter had sought the relative safety of the box of honor at the games.
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Book 35. (16 results) Quarry of Gor

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6 4 We were not, I was sure, more than some yards from the house, no more I supposed than would be deemed sufficient for our safety.
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15 170 Lastly, there seemed much agreement now that the elusive Talena of Ar, the much-sought fugitive from the justice of Marlenus of Ar, had, at long last, after many subterfuges, escapes, and hazards, managed to reach the safety of her ally, Cos, where she was now an honored guest in the palace of Luriu...
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18 78 In virtue of an unanticipated dock fire she, and others, suitably concealed, and suitably protected from hot ash and sparks, were removed for safety from the House of Anesidemus.
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28 15 When he had done so, and I had thought him far distant, I might have screamed, and screamed, to attract attention, and plea for my return to safety, to the Golden Chain, but I could utter no sound.
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41 205 Some were jammed in the portals, and strove, even to the attacking of their fellows, to reach safety.
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41 223 I recalled hearing that intruders were in the vicinity of the canal gate, presumably to guard against Adraste's being slipped from the holding to safety.
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42 10 I was alarmed to hear this, for I feared that Addison Steele, Florian, Miles, and the others would be swept aside in a routed enemy's frantic effort to reach the safety of the barges at the foot of the wall.
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42 12 Then, would there not be time to reach the parapet, crush resistance, and reach the safety of the waiting barges? I and the other slaves, by means of a narrow, obscure stairway, one of those different from the open, broader stairwells which a column of men might ascend abreast, had now reached the i...
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42 27 "So," I thought to myself, "the intruders within the canal gate are no longer content to wait, watching the portal, lest Adraste be ushered through to safety in the city.
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42 96 "Save yourselves while you can!" "You were betrayed!" "There are no crowded pens of slaves here!" "You were tricked!" "Do not die for the whim of another!" "Escape! Escape while you can!" "The way to the parapet is clear!" "The road to safety will soon be closed!" "Hear the bars!" "Beware the ire of...
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42 118 "Get the slaves to safety," said Addison Steele.
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43 50 And once the Southern Gate is behind us, then it is only five pasangs to safety, only five pasangs to riches and success!" "The sky darkens," said an oarsman, "the wind rises.
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43 160 "Now, on, on, through the gate, to victory, to safety and riches, to the Skerry of Lars! Stroke, lads, stroke!" I looked back.
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45 107 "To the longboat, noble lady," said Seremides, "hasten, hurry to safety, security, honor, privilege, and station!" Talena hesitated, looking from the longboat to Seremides, to Vas of Anango, to the crowd, to the nearing boats, but yards from docking.
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46 347 Safety, so fearfully sought, is before you.
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46 669 He showed little concern for his own safety.
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Book 36. (15 results) Avengers of Gor

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1 160 "But Cos outlawed them, for our own safety, so that we would have little to fear from them".
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2 135 "But not with Kenneth Statercounter, Merchant of neutral Brundisium, concerned for the safety of trade routes," I said.
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6 342 "Those who have in charge the safety of the local seas," I said, "the duly appointed authorities on Thera, those reporting to, and responsible to, the throne of Cos itself".
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7 82 "I have come to you, noble officers," I said, "as one concerned with the prospects of trade and the safety of the seas.
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7 148 How is one to occupy one's time? Has not many an administrator, a general, and even an occasional Admiral, returned wealthy from the wilderness?" "There is the matter of The Living Island, of piracy, and the safety of the seas, to be dealt with," I said.
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18 188 Perhaps his ships were being used to land corsairs on some coast, from which, following a raid or raids, they might be conveyed back to safety.
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21 32 I represent a consortium of merchants in Brundisium, concerned with the safety of the seas between Cos and the Farther Islands".
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32 53 What brigand cares to rush into a possible danger the nature of which is not even clear to him, particularly if he observes his fellows routed and fleeing, desperately seeking their own safety? Thurnock looked again at me.
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35 116 "We do know, or at least believe firmly, that that living island, the Brigand Island, if you like, rescued stranded corsairs, and conveyed them to safety, possibly even to the vicinity of Sybaris, following their ill-fated adventure on Daphna, seeking The Village of Flowing Gold".
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47 10 The corsair ships did not risk coming within range of the peasant archery but sent forth a small fleet of longboats to ferry their mercenaries to the safety of the ships.
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49 37 Presumably outnumbered we might have scattered, slipped from their grasp, even withdrawn to the safety of Mytilene".
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49 83 We could easily withdraw to the safety of Mytilene and, if he dared to follow us, he would encounter our allies, much to his peril.
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53 229 "One ship," I called, "reposes in safety, concealed behind four ships.
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62 106 "In the confusion Talena slipped away with a man named Seremides, in the expectation of being carried away to riches and honor, liberty and safety, in the court of her former ally, Lurius of Jad".
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62 160 "I will have your weapons returned, and have you escorted in safety to your ships".
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