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Book 1. (13 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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1 76 My breath was short.
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3 183 My training in the short, stabbing sword of the Goreans was as thorough as they could make it.
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4 14 I seized the short mounting ladder swinging wildly from the saddle and climbed it, seating myself in the saddle, fastening the broad purple belt that would keep me from tumbling to my death.
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4 118 The Older Tarl and I may have drunk too much of that fermented brew concocted with fiendish skill from the yellow grain, Sa-Tarna, and called Pagar-Sa-Tarna, Pleasure of the Life-Daughter, but almost always "paga" for short.
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6 27 From a short distance away I heard the shouts of men and the clank of arms as warriors raced up the stairs to the roof.
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7 110 I tried to reach her with my sword belt, but it was too short.
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15 61 Such lizards are extremely short-tempered, as well as carnivorous, and I had no intention of attracting attention to myself by beating my way through them with a spear butt.
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15 103 "Life is short," I said.
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15 140 Mintar bowed his head in mock ceremony, a wry smile on his fat face, and with one short finger delicately tipped his own Ubar, causing it to fall.
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17 23 Worse, from the reports of deserters, it became clear that the city was starving and that water was running short.
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17 39 In a short time Pa-Kur appeared on the first wall, opposite the Supreme Initiate, and performed the same gestures.
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18 23 He was a dour, hard-bitten man with white hair cropped short.
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18 65 I streaked from the walls of Ar, noting with dismay that the procession of Pa-Kur was only a short distance from the great gate.
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Book 2. (19 results) Outlaw of Gor

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23 106 It was said the rebellion in the city was led by a short, powerful man with blue eyes and short-cropped hair, formerly of the Caste of Metal Workers.
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1 106 One of his fat hands nervously clutched a short leather truncheon, weighted with shot.
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2 50 Yet to speak of a symbol is to fall short of the mark.
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2 57 In the bundle, wrapped inside the tunic and cloak, I found the shoulder belt, sheath and short sword of the Goreans.
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3 44 He wore the short, tattered sleeveless robe of his trade, with its leather back and shoulders.
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4 36 Then I saw it, on its six short legs, undulate across the road, like a furred lizard, its pointed, whiskered snout swaying from side to side testing the wind.
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9 80 "What is your business?" asked the proprietor of the place, a small, thin, bald-headed man wearing a short-sleeved gray tunic and slick black apron.
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10 20 Ost scurried along behind us, puffing and gasping, his short, bandy legs struggling to keep pace with the stride of warriors.
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13 85 My opponent was not Andreas, but a squat, powerful man with short-clipped yellow hair, Kron of Tharna, of the Caste of Metal Workers.
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13 94 The yellow, short-cropped head glared at me, almost without comprehension.
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13 105 Once, twice, he charged, but pulled up short, seeing if he could bring me forward, off balance to meet the charge.
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13 120 I heard his short, quick, running steps in the sand, thudding toward me in a bull-like charge.
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13 130 Kron was a heavy but short man, and I lifted his yoke, and mine, to the astonishment of the stands, which had fallen silent.
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14 156 Some spears fell in lazy loops below us, short by far, falling back again into the gala-colored sand of the arena.
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15 9 The bird, of course, could not have been conditioned in so short a time, nor for that matter had it even been my intention to condition the bird—for I had spoken only for the benefit of Talena.
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15 10 Moreover, even if it had been the case that the bird had been inadvertently conditioned in that short a time, it was not possible that it would still retain the memory of that casual imprinting, which had taken place more than six years ago.
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21 28 Her ankles were similarly fastened by a short slave chain which encircled the tree.
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21 134 From among the domed tents, wearing a swirling robe of broadly striped blue and yellow silk, with a headband of the same material, there approached a short, fat man, Targo the Slaver, he who was master of this small caravan.
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21 187 Targo, with his short, rolling steps, went to the girl and placed one thumb, wearing a large ruby ring, under her chin, pushing her head up.
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Book 3. (19 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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25 6 I leaped forward and thrust my hand under the wing shell and seized the short, tufted antennae and with one hand on them twisting and the other beneath the shell I slowly managed, lifting and twisting, to force the struggling creature onto its back and when it lay on its back, rocking, its short leg...
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1 14 I would stop briefly at the fair, for I must purchase food for the journey into the Sardar and I must entrust a leather-bound package to some member of the Caste of Scribes, a package which contained an account of what had occurred at the city of Tharna in the past months, a short history of events ...
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1 32 In short, what can be confirmed, I have confirmed.
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3 3 Both animals were jerked up short as mighty chains, fastened to steel and bejeweled collars, terminated their vicious charge.
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3 45 How did I know what might lie before me in that dark, quiet passage? As I hesitated for that moment, I became aware of a motion inside the passage, which gradually became a white-clad rather short, rotund figure.
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7 22 The first girl was a short, sturdy wench with thick ankles and wide, exciting shoulders, probably of peasant stock.
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9 238 From its head there extended two fragile, jointed appendages, long and covered with short quivering strands of golden hair.
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12 4 Among them I saw men and women, barefoot with shaven heads, clad in short purple tunics that reflected the various lights of the plaza as though they might have been formed of some reflective plastic.
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16 122 I still held the memory of the lonely, beautiful woman whom I had known so briefly in my childhood, who in those short years had so loved me.
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19 13 "Good," said Sarm, and went to one of the high cabinets in Misk's chamber and touching a button in a certain sequence of long and short presses opened it.
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19 17 From the high cabinet Sarm withdrew my sword belt, my scabbard, and the short, sharp blade of Gorean steel which I had earlier yielded at the request of Misk.
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21 26 By the door I saw a series of short bars which emerged from the wall, which might be used as a ladder.
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22 163 I supposed one of the reasons for the short blade was that it could clear the sheath a fraction of a second before a longer blade.
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24 5 Its antennae, unlike those of Priest-Kings, were very short.
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24 25 I withdrew a step and it, on its six short legs, moved forward a step.
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24 37 Now the Beetle began to poke its head out from beneath the shelter of those domed, golden wings and its short antennae, tufted with golden fluff, thrust out and began to explore the chamber.
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25 5 It began to back away from me on its six short legs.
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29 128 I pressed the firing switch of the silver tube and it gave forth with a short, abortive scorching blast and was cold, but the golden body of the Priest-King blackened and, half sliced through, reeled against the wall and fell at my feet.
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31 84 There were two heavy, short clicks and the lovely throats of the two girls were encircled.
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Book 4. (38 results) Nomads of Gor

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9 28 Saphrar was a short, fat, pinkish man, with short legs and arms; he had quick bright eyes and a tiny, roundish red-lipped mouth; upon occasion he moved his small, pudgy fingers, with rounded scarlet nails, rapidly, as though rubbing the gloss from a tarn disk or feeling the texture of a fine cloth; ...
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1 19 Even past me there thundered a lumbering herd of startled, short-trunked kailiauk, a stocky, awkward ruminant of the plains, tawny, wild, heavy, their haunches marked in red and brown bars, their wide heads bristling with a trident of horns; they had not stood and formed their circle, shes and young...
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1 66 I hung my helmet over my left shoulder with the sheathed short sword; on my left arm I bore my shield; in my right hand I carried the Gorean war spear.
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4 52 To the head came the flashing bola moving in its hideous, swift revolution almost invisible in the air and I, instead of lowering my head or throwing myself to the ground, met instead the flying weighted leather with the blade of a Koroban short sword, with the edge that would divide silk dropped up...
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4 69 I went to him and set the point of the Gorean short sword at his heart.
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5 46 Among the Wagon Peoples, to be clad Kajir means, for a girl, to wear four articles, two red, two black; a red cord, the Curla, is tied about the waist; the Chatka, or long, narrow strip of black leather, fits over this cord in the front, passes under, and then again, from the inside, passes over the...
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5 47 For a male slave, or Kajirus, of the Wagon Peoples, and there are few, save for the work chains, to be clad Kajir means to wear the Kes, a short, sleeveless work tunic of black leather.
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8 87 Kamchak, that night, chained Elizabeth Cardwell in his wagon, rather than beneath it to the wheel, running a short length of chain from a slave ring set in the floor of the wagon box to the collar of her Sirik.
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8 148 Kamchak took one look and, with a quiva, shortened it considerably, indeed, until it hung even more briefly than had the quite short, delightful yellow shift in which she had been captured.
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9 138 The simple, short, sleeveless tunic is familiar.
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10 234 I straightened up and saw that the lines of the tharlarion lancers had, with much pounding and trampling of the earth, with shouting, with the hissing of the great beasts, stopped short, abruptly, some fifteen yards or so behind their line of stakes.
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10 395 In short, in their various ways, something like seniority and skills determines, of two or more Turians, or two or more warriors of the Wagons, who will take the field.
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10 437 Over his shoulder was slung the sheath of a short sword.
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10 439 It was not that Kamchak was particularly short, but rather that Kamras was a very large man.
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10 449 In all my time among the wagons I had not seen one of the Gorean short swords, so fierce and swift and common a weapon among those of the cities.
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10 450 The warrior of the Wagon Peoples does not use the short sword, probably because such a weapon could not be optimally used from the saddle of the kaiila; the saber, incidentally, which would be somewhat more effective from kaiilaback, is almost unknown on Gor; its role, I gather, is more than fulfill...
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10 506 Two swords were brought, Gorean short swords, forged in Ar.
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10 535 In the last moment I cried out to Kamchak, "For the sake of Priest-Kings, hold the weapon thus!" trying to teach him the simplest of the commoner grips for the hilt of the short sword, permitting a large degree of both retention and flexibility.
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11 99 In short order then Kamchak took the key over the head of Aphris of Turia and sprang open the retaining rings.
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11 312 Kamchak's laugh was cut short when she sank her fine white teeth into his hand with a savage bite.
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11 413 I followed him into the wagon where, in a short time, we had both fallen asleep.
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12 282 "In a short time," he was telling her, "you will see what a real woman can do".
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12 506 He turned and ran, and I, drawing my sword, ran stumbling after him but in less than a moment or two I found my pursuit cut short by a string of tied kaiila being returned after having been released to hunt on the plains.
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14 13 In a short time Kamchak and I had reached our wagon.
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16 306 They could have learned of the destruction of much of the surveillance equipment of the Sardar, of the substantial reduction in the technological capabilities of Priest-Kings, at least for a short time—and, most importantly, that the War had been fought, in a way, over the succession of dynas...
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19 103 He then gave the girl a short, swift kick, not to hurt her, but simply, rather rudely, to startle her awake.
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19 203 In a short while Harold, carrying the struggling Hereena, and I had retraced our steps to the central hall and descended the steps of the porch and returned by means of the curving walks between the shrubs and pools to the flower tree by means of which we had originally entered the Pleasure Gardens ...
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20 31 In a short moment we heard it flutter to alight somewhere beyond.
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21 253 Beneath the unbelted tunic of the Bakers, slung under my left arm, its lineaments concealed largely by a short brown cloak worn over the left shoulder, there hung my sword and with it, the quiva.
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21 285 My Turian foe took the short sword under the heart.
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23 23 In short, though Hakimba did not approve of the Paravaci action and was incensed at their presumed league with the Turians, he did not feel sufficiently strongly to invest his own men in a struggle that did not seem to concern him directly.
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24 176 A few yards beyond the gate I hauled my kaiila up short, rearing and pawing the air.
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26 1 The Egg of Priest-Kings In the dampness and darkness long before dawn the forces of Kamchak, crowding the streets of Turia in the vicinity of Saphrar's compound, waited silently, like dark shapes on the stones; here and there the glint of a weapon or accouterment could be made out in the fading lig...
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26 16 He seemed humped in the half darkness, short of neck, broad of shoulder.
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26 119 "Kill him!" Silently a dozen Tuchuk bowmen, with the short horn bow, stood afoot before Kamchak's kaiila, their arrows trained on the hearts of the two guards.
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26 127 Again and again we encountered guards within the house but each time, when Saphrar took refuge behind them, Kamchak would throw gold to them and they would dissipate and Saphrar, panting, puffing, still clutching the large, purple-wrapped object in his arms, would on his short legs hurry off again.
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26 163 He carried a short sword and stood between us and the others.
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28 44 Swiftly I climbed the short ladder to the tarn saddle, and tied it against the saddle.
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Book 5. (42 results) Assassin of Gor

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12 100 Racing tarns are not used by tarnsmen in war because they lack the weight and power of war tarns; meeting a war tarn in flight, a racing tarn would be torn to pieces in moments; further, the racing tarns, though marvelous in their particular ways, lack the stamina of the common tarn or the war tarn;...
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1 51 He picked up his short sword in its scabbard, his helmet and his shield.
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2 57 Kuurus had placed his spear against the wall behind him, and he had taken from his left shoulder his shield, his helmet and the sheathed short sword, which blade he had placed at his right hand on the low table.
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2 130 "Yes, Master," he said, "yes!" "Then you have money," said Kuurus, and stood up behind the table, slinging the sheath of the short sword about his shoulder.
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2 155 Once more the short sword lay at his right hand on the table.
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2 158 The right hand of Kuurus now lay on the hilt of the short sword.
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2 169 The short sword moved from the sheath.
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3 231 He was a short man, with close-cropped brown hair, a squarish face.
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4 125 I tensed slightly, my hand dropping to the hilt of the short sword.
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4 147 I was amused, for she had run as a slave girl is sometimes taught to run, with rapid short steps, her legs almost straight, her feet scarcely leaving the ground, back straight, head turned to the left, arms at her sides, palms out at a forty-five degree angle, more of a dancer's motion than a true r...
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5 285 In a short time she will easily read the marks as words, and not as mere patterns associated with arbitrary sounds.
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5 508 In a short time, I found myself in the arms of my father, and my friends.
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5 733 Ho-Tu was a short, corpulent man, broad-shouldered, stripped to the waist.
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6 102 But Elizabeth, rightly or wrongly, was banished from my mind for the moment because I heard, from a side door, the rustle of slave bells, and was pleased to note that seven girls hurried in, using the short, running steps of the slave girl, arms to the side, palms out, head to the left, eyes averted...
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7 49 At a gesture from Cernus the birds took wing, and I felt my basket on its heavy leather runners slide across the roof for a few feet and then drop sickeningly off the edge of the cylinder, only to be jerked up short by the ropes, hover for a moment as the tarn fought the weight, and then begin to sa...
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7 83 His hair was dark and clipped short; his face intelligent, but hard.
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7 164 The girls had now been placed on their stomachs and two tarnsmen, with short lengths of binding fiber, were fastening the ankles of each together and binding the wrists of each behind her back.
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8 127 In short order two bowls, steam curling out of them, were brought and placed on the table.
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11 138 She was a short girl, dark-haired.
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11 179 The girl on the left had her hair cut rather short; the slavers would, in all probability, not permit her to continue to wear her hair in that fashion; her face was delicate, fragile, rather thin and intellectual; her body was thin; I expected her new masters would put some weight on her; her eyes w...
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11 388 In short I think they are both decidedly worth development, and should prove a quite profitable investment".
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12 137 If four tarns were flown perfectly, one above, one below, and one on each side, four could just pass through one of the round rings; one of the objects of course is to maneuver the tarn in such a way that it takes the center of the ring, or forces the following bird to strike the ring or miss it alt...
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12 138 This race was a short one, only five pasangs in length, and one of the nonfaction birds won, much to the displeasure of the crowd, saving those who had dared to accept the long odds on such a bird.
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12 341 She then spoke to them in short sentences, pausing for Flaminius to translate.
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13 38 Nela was a sturdy girl, a bit short.
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13 42 Her blond hair was cut very short to protect it from the water; even so, in swimming, such girls often wrapped a long broad strap of glazed leather about their head, in a turban of sorts.
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13 196 He was short, small, with close-cropped brown hair.
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13 226 Mip was a chipper fellow, and a bit dapper considering his caste and his close-cropped hair, for his brown leather was shot with green streaks, and he wore a Tarn Keeper's cap with a greenish tassel; most Tarn Keepers, incidentally, crop their hair short, as do most Metal Workers; work in the tarnco...
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13 290 Mip rode Green Ubar; he looked well in the worn saddle; his stirrups were short.
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15 93 Buckler and short sword are perhaps most popular, but there are few weapons on Gor which are not seen over a period of three or four days of the games.
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17 741 "A pen, ink?" "I have silk," she said, "and rouge, and bottles of cosmetics!" In a short time we had spread a large square of silk on the floor between us, and, carefully, finger in and out of a rouge pot, I had drawn the squares of the board.
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17 747 We played yet another Ahn and, even in that short amount of time, her moves had become more exact, more subtle, more powerful.
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18 19 It was a killing knife, short, well-balanced for throwing, tapered on one side.
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19 29 I was barefooted; my only garment was a short woolen, sleeveless tunic; on both the back and the front of this tunic was sewn a large block letter, the initial letter of the Gorean expression "Kajirus," which means a male slave.
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19 61 My wrists pulled futilely against the circles of steel that confined them; I felt the point of a short sword in my back.
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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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19 134 In a moment or two, behind her, a powerful man in a short blue and yellow tunic, the auctioneer, carrying a slender slave goad, almost a wand, climbed to the surface of the block; seeing him the girl turned to flee, and having nowhere to go, fell to her knees weeping at the center of the block, wher...
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19 284 Elizabeth had been clad in the brief leather of a Tuchuk wagon girl, simple, rough, sleeveless, the short skirt on the left side slit to the belt, so that the saddle of the kaiila, mount of the Wagon Peoples, would be permitted her.
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20 46 A slave girl was brought, a slim girl, in yellow Pleasure Silk, with short black hair, dark eyes, high cheekbones.
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20 522 When he saw Scormus regarding him, however, he stood up, as straight as he could with his crooked back and one short leg; he struggled to stand straight, and it must have caused him pain.
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24 124 The hair of the female state slave of Ar, incidentally, is normally cut rather short and brushed back around the head; the common slave girl, on the other hand, normally has rather long hair, which is unbound.
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24 171 Their hair, in state fashion, had been cut short, shaped, and combed back around the head.
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Book 6. (18 results) Raiders of Gor

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1 16 I had the Gorean short sword in its scabbard, my shield and helmet, and, wrapped in leather, a Gorean long bow of supple Ka-la-na wood, from the yellow wine trees of Gor, tipped with notched bosk horn at each end, loose strung with hemp whipped with silk, and a roll of sheaf and flight arrows.
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1 35 Further, the heavy, bronze-headed spear and the short, double-edged steel sword are traditionally regarded as the worthy, and prime, weapons of the Gorean fighting man, he at least who is a true fighting man; and, similarly traditionally, archers, who slay from a distance, not coming to grips with t...
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1 99 Then I stopped short, for tied to a rence plant before me now was a sheaf of red cloth.
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2 15 Her gaze was clear; she had dark blondish hair and blue eyes; her legs were a bit short, and her ankles somewhat thick; her shoulders were a bit wide perhaps, but lovely.
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8 189 In my scabbard was the short sword, carried even at the siege of Ar.
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8 411 I held the blade of the short sword at her throat.
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8 426 Telima rolled and then, jerked up short, half choked, by the tether, she lay at the foot of the stairs.
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8 438 I knew, in my heart, that it had been I, I myself, who had betrayed me, I who had fallen short of the warrior codes, I who had dishonored my own Home Stone, and the blade I bore.
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8 657 Clitus, I expected, would have little difficulty with his short rence girl.
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8 675 Thurnock then took the same long length of binding fiber, one end of which I had fastened about Midice's neck, and, without cutting it, looped and knotted it about the neck of the large, blond, gray-eyed girl, handing the coil then to Clitus, who indicated that the short rence girl should take her p...
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8 688 Clitus had already fastened the short rence girl in the coffle, the binding fiber looped and knotted about her neck, the remainder of the coil fallen to the deck behind her.
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8 812 She stood there proudly, straightly, behind the short rence girl, Ula, and, wrists bound, and tethered by the neck, was added to the slave coffle, as fourth girl.
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9 285 Kneeling quite near him, holding cord for him, fiber on her throat serving as collar, knelt short, dark-haired Ula.
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10 256 It is called the wingfish because it can, on its stiff pectoral fins, for short distances, glide through the air, usually in an attempt to flee small sea tharlarion, who are immune to the poison of the spines.
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11 266 His face was wide, and heavy, and muchly lined; it, like many of those of Port Kar, showed the marks of Thassa, burned into it by wind and salt; he had gray eyes; his hair was white, and short-cropped; in his ears there were two small golden rings.
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14 284 Using, on the whole, elementary triangle tactics, wherein an attack by two ships, from different quadrants, is made on a single ship, which can face but one of the attackers, my ships had, in a short time, less than an Ahn, destroyed seven of the ten ram-ships left behind at the treasure fleet.
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16 353 Samos was there, and I saw that short-cropped white hair buried in his rough hands, his elbows on his knees.
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18 232 There was a splash of blood across his face, staining the left side of his face, his short, white, cropped hair and the golden ring in his ear.
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Book 7. (24 results) Captive of Gor

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14 134 How brave men must be, I thought, to stand so to one another, so close, in combat so near, face to face, wrist to wrist, eye to eye, short, vicious, sharpened ringing blade to short, vicious, sharpened ringing blade.
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6 105 Near the front of the wagon, too, was a short, fat man, clad in a robe of broadly striped blue and yellow silk.
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6 118 The small, fat, short man, he, plump and paunchy in the robe of broadly striped blue and yellow silk, scarcely looked at me.
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6 372 Near me, across from me, a short girl, with dark hair, very red lips, and bright dark eyes, smiled at me.
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6 380 "Ute," repeated the short, dark-eyed girl, pointing to herself.
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6 393 For some reason, I was utterly grateful, that this short, lovely girl should be pleased by my name.
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7 168 We were fitted with ankle rings joined by a short length of chain.
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8 533 I was so beautiful that they would settle for nothing short of having absolute power over me.
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8 905 The men then removed their sword belts, holding the short swords and scabbards in their left hand, the belts in their right.
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8 1005 The fellow over whom she leapt seized her by one ankle, and she fell short of me, crying out in fury.
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9 172 The girls seemed restless, short-tempered, irritable.
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10 13 I saw that the chain was short, that it would not reach even to the center of the room.
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10 498 The flame from the match was but an inch short of the cigarette.
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11 353 Our training, because it was limited to a few short weeks, did not include many of the elements that are normally included in a full training.
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12 33 The "skirt," too, in front and back, below the binding straps, or binding fiber, at least as permitted to Targo's girls, is quite short.
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12 120 Here and there, among the wagons, leashed, clad in short woolen skirts, heavy bands of iron hammered about their throats, under the guard of huntsmen, cowled in the heads of forest panthers, there walked male slaves, male outlaws captured by Marlenus and his hunters in the forest.
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13 449 A short distance from the camp, I knelt down and picked up a heavy rock.
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14 132 I watched two warriors practicing with their swift, short blades on a square of sand.
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14 358 Therefore we know it will be quite short".
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14 597 I had expected to be chained, heavily, and in short chains, fastened to rings, but I had not been.
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15 338 "My patience grows short with you, El-in-or," he said.
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17 19 I had feared only that my imagination might fall short of the invention of new and exciting ways to please him.
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17 292 There were other beauties in the house: slender, dark-haired Midice, the woman of a captain, Tab; large, blond-haired Thura, the woman of the great peasant, master of the bow, Thurnock; and short, dark-eyed Ula, woman of silent, strong Clitus, once a fisherman of the isle of Cos.
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17 362 The door to the hall burst open, and in, wild-eyed, ran a man with short-cropped, white hair, with earrings.
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Book 8. (15 results) Hunters of Gor

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1 26 To one side of the room, unclothed, his wrists manacled behind his body, his ankles confined in short chains, knelt a large man, a heavy band of iron hammered about his throat.
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1 55 He had a large, squarish head, short-cropped white hair.
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3 131 Within it, dancing in the sand, chained, was a short-bodied, marvelous female slave.
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3 140 The short-bodied girl was indeed superb.
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3 263 There was, at its termination, a semicircular leather cushion, with a short chain.
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4 13 In a few moments I saw the luscious, short-bodied dancer, in pleasure silk, hurry from the kitchen and climb to the eighth alcove.
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4 123 It, like the others, had, strung through it, a short length of chain, some five inches or so, each end of the chain terminating in an opened slave bracelet.
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6 369 The short chain, joining the bracelets, was taut.
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8 203 In a short time the two men who had been relieved of guard duty in the forest re-entered the hut.
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9 11 I saw, to one side of the clearing, a short, stout slave post, with two rings.
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11 408 There were two short choke straps on her neck, each held by a different panther girl.
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11 673 She wore a bit of yellow pleasure silk, very short and diaphanous.
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15 286 One of the most frequent uses of the Harl ring, of course, is to form a segment in a slave chain, which may then be of any length, adding or removing girls, as short or as long as the slaver wishes.
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15 839 I strode to the tree and, with two short lengths of binding fiber, tied Ilene's wrists to the branch.
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Book 9. (23 results) Marauders of Gor

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3 330 Eight held bows, with arrows at the string; none had dared to approach the ship; the short bow of the Gorean north, with its short, heavy arrows, heavily headed, lacks the range and power of the peasant bow of the south, that now, too, the property of the rencers of the delta, but, at short range, w...
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7 37 "Then we will find another post!" There are many tricks in the use of the ax; feints are often used, and short strokes; and the handle, jabbing and punching; a full swing, of course, should it miss, exposes the warrior; certain elementary stratagems might be mentioned; the following are typical; it ...
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1 575 No longer about his throat was clasped the collar of the galley slave, with short, dangling chain.
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3 72 He pulled up short, and looked to Ivar Forkbeard.
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3 300 "You see," cried the blond girl, delightedly, "my bondage is short!" "Citizens of Kassau!" called out Ivar Forkbeard cheerily.
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3 387 "It seems your bondage," said he, "pretty maid, will not be as short as you had hoped".
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6 34 Then the ship turned a bend between the cliffs, and, to my astonishment, I saw a dock, of rough logs, covered with adzed boards, and a wide, sloping area of land, of several acres, green, though strewn with boulders, with short grass.
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6 41 I saw four small milk bosk grazing on the short grass.
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6 57 Men in the fields wore short tunics of white wool; some carried hoes; their hair was close cropped; about their throats had been hammered bands of black iron, with a welded ring attached.
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6 193 To one side, tall, broad-shouldered, stood a young male thrall, in the thrall tunic of white wool, his hair cropped short, an iron collar on his throat.
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6 295 "Hurry, lazy girls! There is a feast to be prepared!" The bondmaids, Thyri and Aelgifu among them, fled, like a frightened herd of tabuk, across the short, turflike green grass, to the gate of the palisade, to be put to work.
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9 72 The second of the sea sleen it had been which, with its sharp teeth, making a strike, but falling short, had torn away her green velvet gown on the right side from the hip to the hemline; a long strip of it, like a ribbon, was in its teeth as it darted away.
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10 45 There was probably not one man at the Thing-Fair who took him truly to be of Ax Glacier; most obviously he did not have the epicanthic fold, which helps to protect the eyes of the men of Ax Glacier against extreme cold; further, he was much too large to be taken easily as a man of Ax Glacier; their ...
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10 56 Shortly after the first "knock off," in which the ball is served to the enemy, Gorm, who was Ivar's partner, was struck cold with the ball, it driven from an opponent's bat; this, I gathered, is a common trick; it is very difficult to intercept or protect oneself from a ball struck at one with great...
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10 70 I carried my short sword.
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10 630 She stood on the thick, rounded block; it was about a yard high, and five feet in diameter; she was dark-haired, long-haired; she had a short, luscious body, thick ankles; her hands were on her hips.
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11 58 The legs are thick and short.
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11 64 For short distances it can outrun a full-grown tarsk.
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16 97 The hair on the back of my neck lifted, short, stiff.
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17 104 There were collection points to which such materials were brought, from which, by short marches, they were conveyed to the camp.
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18 86 There was screaming from within the tent, the screaming of Thorgard's silken girls, many of them short, plump, lusciously bodied.
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18 368 Then the beast, snarling, half-charged her, stopping short, hissing, eyes blazing.
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18 514 But I was forced to admit that the wench now before us, struggling to free her wrists, now revealed to us, luscious, sensuous, short, squirming, infuriated, was incredibly desirable; we considered her body, her face, her obvious intelligence; she would bring a high price; she would make a delicious ...
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Book 10. (26 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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1 263 I looked at the heavy, squarish face, burned by the wind and salt of Thassa, the clear eyes, the white, short-cropped hair, the small golden rings in his ears.
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2 67 The short sword, now slung over my left shoulder, in the common fashion, would be of little use on kaiila back.
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2 470 They exist primarily as a service for caravan masters, buying unsold girls, later retailing them to other merchants, who may be short of flesh for the oasis traffic.
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3 7 He swept past me and spun his kaiila, then jerked it up short, back on its haunches in the sand.
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3 71 Even though the blade was sheathed I had held the stroke, holding it short, a hort from his face.
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3 240 "I live but a short way from here," he said.
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4 346 She was then tied on her knees, her ankles crossed and bound, and fastened by a short length of strap to the ring on her collar.
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7 7 To the heavy collar of iron, to each of its two, heavy welded rings, one on each side, there was fastened a short chain, fixed to a ring and plate, bolted through the drilled stone.
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7 8 My hands, each, were manacled to the wall, too, on short chains, to my left and right.
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7 127 Then I heard a startled inarticulate cry of horror, quick cut short.
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7 255 Then he cried out, a short cry, brief; there was a sound, exploding, velvet-soft, like a bubble of air being forced upward through water; the side of his neck had been bitten away; arterial blood, driven by the blind pump of the heart, pulsed.
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8 18 In a short while, at the public well near the chamber of justice, I had filled my water bags and collected the latest gossip.
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11 294 Food supplies at the oasis are short, except for the stores in the kasbah, and supply lines are long, and difficult to defend.
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11 390 Last to enter the inn, head down, taking short, careful steps, bent under her burden, the heavy, bulging leather sack of water, was Alyena.
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13 293 She wore a golden metal dancing collar about her throat, golden chains looped from her wrists, gracefully to the collar ring, then fell to her ankles; there are varieties of Tahari dancing chains; she wore the oval and collar; briefly, in readying a girl, after she has been belled and silked, and ba...
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14 204 When water is in short supply, the nomads do not eat at all.
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14 493 I heard, a short time later, wings, the alighting of one or more large birds.
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17 256 In short, the Old One could not easily release its quarry.
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19 44 In a short time they alighted, several yards from us.
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19 99 A consequence of Hassan's plan was that we were actually moving, generally, south and west of Klima, in short, for a time, deeper into the most desolate, untraveled portions of the dune country, far even from the salt routes.
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20 12 "It was too short".
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21 626 The sixth sweep, a moment later, struck against this obstacle, stopping short of the vertical mark.
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23 283 In a short time, great lines, strung out, began to move across the desert.
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25 414 In a short time, we led Tarna through the halls of the kasbah.
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26 761 Some masters test the slave in this fashion, holding short a stroke or two, to see if the slave will respond truthfully.
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26 1208 Further, Gor was the true prize of the planets rotating about the sun, not the Earth, for, in the name of rights and liberty, and business, the fools of Earth, confused by the rhetoric of law and morality, shielding short-sighted greed and madness, had stood aside, permitting the poisoning of the ai...
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Book 11. (47 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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2 102 At that time my hair was cut short.
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2 271 He was similarly accoutered, with short sword, slung at the left hip, with a shoulder belt; a belt at his waist with a sheathed knife; heavy sandals, almost boots.
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2 410 He slid the short blade at his left hip some inches from the sheath, and slipped it back in, lifting and dropping it in the sheath.
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2 797 My breath was short, my legs weak.
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2 841 My right ankle, by a short length of black leather, was tied to a small, white-barked tree.
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3 9 I envied her the sleeveless body scrap of brown rag, short, high on her thighs, which briefly concealed her.
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3 153 There were flasks of wine there, and bottles of the brew called paga; stores of salt, grains, dried meats and vegetables; tunics, cloths and blankets; too, there were tools and utensils, and threads and needles; I found some perfumes and jewelries; I did not dare to bedeck myself with them, though I...
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3 529 It was more slender, more vertical, more like a stem with floral, cursive loops, about an inch and a half in height, and a half inch in width; it was, I would later learn, the initial letter in cursive script of the Gorean expression 'Kajira'; my own brand was the "dina"; the dina is a small, lovely...
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4 167 In short, Gorean masters concern themselves closely with their girls.
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4 178 He made it scandalously short.
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6 308 In a short time, one of the men of my master entered the hut.
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7 5 Its sleeves had been torn away; it had been rent at the side; it had been cut short, and later torn even shorter, until it hung high upon her thighs, exposing even the left hip; at the throat it had been ripped open down to the belly, two inches below the navel.
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7 64 In short order the warriors of the retinue had set forth upon this trail, whilst it was still hot and fresh.
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7 494 The collar clasped her throat; a chain dangled from the collar; her small wrists were locked in the slave bracelets fixed on the dangling chain, and the dangling chain, itself, looped down to a short chain and pair of ankle rings, to which it was gracefully fastened at a sliding ring.
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8 55 Within the ring, too, were some eight sleen, tied on short tethers to stakes, at the sides; and a rack of meats, and poles, and ropes and whips, used in the training of the animals.
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8 197 The sleen outside had been fed and taken, by the men assisting Thurnus, on short ropes, to their cages.
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8 201 She wore a short slave tunic, white, of the wool of the Hurt, and a rope collar.
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9 26 They were on short tethers.
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9 453 I had been stung twice across the back of the thighs, below the short tunic, by Melina, companion of my master, Thurnus, when she had hurried me to the kennel.
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9 534 I tried to pull the short woolen tunic more over my legs.
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9 611 She drew from her coarse robes a short knife.
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9 749 I slipped the short woolen tunic over my head.
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9 1160 In a short time Melina returned and untied me from the post, and, to my surprise, removed the long rope, though not the rope collar, from my neck.
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9 1778 Sandal Thong stood at the edge of the circle, in each fist the leash, a short leash, of a sleen.
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11 301 Short of being chained on furs at the foot of a master's couch, what more could a girl desire? "Follow me," said Sucha.
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11 328 Sucha walked past a small room, and came to a short corridor, leading from the lofty room.
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17 22 "What girls here," asked one of the men, who seemed imposing, in helmet and cloak, with four fellows, of the man with the lamp, a short, fat fellow in the merchants' white and gold, "are from the Clouds of Telnus?" "None, of course, Noble Sir," said the merchant.
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17 34 The short fat man led the way toward myself and the auburn-haired girl, who had been in a deck cage.
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17 50 The short merchant handed him the lamp and, frightened, left the room.
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18 13 My hair had begun to grow out, from having been shaved away for the voyage on the slave ship, but it was still quite short; I wore a broad Koora, which, kerchieflike, covered most of my head.
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18 180 I felt the sack being lifted through the opening, and then it was dragged along a wooden-floored passage; then he threw it lightly to his shoulder, and began to descend short flights of stairs.
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20 252 She could not well get her hands in my hair for, as yet, it was too short.
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20 381 I ran toward him, with short steps, and knelt before him.
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20 500 His hand had gone to his left hip but the short sword in its scabbard did not now hang there.
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24 289 The large man descended a short flight of stairs, leading downward from an opened hatch.
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25 1 The Message I lifted the strung beads to the square-jawed man with short, closely cropped white hair.
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25 5 Beside the man before me, the man with white, short-cropped hair, who was Samos of Port Kar, chief among the captains of the Council of Captains of Port Kar, was a slender, gray-eyed man, clad in the green of the caste of physicians.
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25 49 I lifted the strung beads to the square-jawed man with short, closely cropped white hair, Samos, of Port Kar.
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25 104 "True," said Bosk, "and, in a short message, which this appears to be, we might produce several intelligible possibilities.
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25 105 Short messages, particularly those which do not reflect statistical letter frequencies, can be extremely difficult to decipher, even when the cipher used is rudimentary".
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25 124 From the practical point of view, if a cipher is used briefly and for a given short message, it may be impossible to break.
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25 165 The message itself is thus short".
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26 6 On the other hand, it was clearly a slave garment; it was short, sleeveless, and without a nether closure.
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27 641 "Your hair," he said, "will be too short, I wager, until the spring".
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28 263 "The hair, of course," said he, "is far too short, but I am assured, by officers of the Curulean, that it will grow".
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28 288 On his left shoulder hung the scabbard of the short sword.
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29 52 We were but a short way from the Towers of Warriors, on the third of its approaching high bridges, when again Clitus Vitellius turned and faced me.
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Book 12. (34 results) Beasts of Gor

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1 23 One of these worlds was a world poisoning itself, a pathological world insane and short-sighted, greed-driven and self-destructive.
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1 380 I would make a gift of such a garment, a short coat or jacket, suitable for use in the tarn saddle, for your master.
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2 64 There was also a white, light shirt, short-sleeved.
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2 75 They were short.
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2 82 "This garment is too short," she said.
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2 586 In the spring, short-haired and hungry, they emerge from the forests and migrate northward".
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3 118 She was on her knees, to one side, between two tents; she was chained at a short stake, about which she had wrapped her arms, holding it for support.
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3 195 I saw a short fellow in the street crowd.
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3 201 About his shoulder he had slung some coils of braided rope, fashioned from twisted sleen hide, and, in his hand, he carried a sack and a bundle of tied furs; at his back was a quiver containing arrows, and a short bow of sinew-bound, layered horn.
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3 728 I saw the fellow from the polar basin again, him with the fur trousers and boots, and the rope and short bow.
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3 786 Her hair was short, and very dark.
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3 920 Her hair was now short, and that might diminish her sales appeal for a time, but it would surely grow.
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3 925 I thought she might have a tendency at present to be a bit short-tempered or nasty, perhaps having been raised in too luxurious or pampering a background, or from obtaining her way too frequently or too easily, perhaps from fearful domestics or indulgent parents, but I effected nothing critical.
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3 1056 The slaver then swiftly, easily, by short stairs, descended to the walkway before the platform.
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3 1174 The red hunter, with two short lengths of the leather rope, jerked the hands of the beauties behind them and, swiftly, expertly, fastened them together.
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4 355 This seemed too short a thrust for an attack.
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4 709 The fingers were short.
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6 6 She carried a short, yellow bow, of Ka-la-na wood, which could clear the saddle of the tharlarion, its missile being easily released to either side.
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7 43 He eased the heavy iron collar, with the short, dangling chain, from Ram's neck.
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9 258 "Are you not Earth girls?" asked blue-eyed, auburn-haired Sidney Anderson of the two kneeling girls, in their short fur tunics, the strings on their throats, and tethers, their hands tied behind their backs.
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12 367 Almost all of the plants of this nature are perennials, as the growing season is too short to permit most annuals to complete their growing cycle.
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15 990 There are rent slaves, who may be rented to anyone for any purpose, short of their injury or mutilation, unless compensation be rendered to the master.
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21 23 For one thing they are generally short and heavy, a body configuration which tends to conserve heat; for another there are serological differences between them and even other red races of Gor; these serological differences, presumably selected for in the course of generations, doubtless play some ro...
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23 92 Then it stood on its short hind legs and lifted its two long arms into the air, lifting them and screaming with rage.
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23 122 "I am ready for you!" The Kur pulled up short, some twenty yards from me, baring its fangs.
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28 204 Over his left shoulder, on a ringed strap, he wore a blade, the short sword.
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30 15 He was armed with the Gorean short sword.
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30 20 A short sword was placed in his grasp.
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30 56 Tina was released from the post, and fled to him, but stopped short, the point of his blade at her belly.
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30 74 The gate of my cage was opened, and a short sword was placed in my hands.
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30 236 Most of the men, however, were armed, as were Ram and myself, with the short sword.
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35 78 In short order I managed to find one of the ventilator shafts through which fresh air was drawn into the complex; there was a system of such shafts, some for drawing in fresh air and others for expelling used, stale air.
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35 369 On short neck chains, with collars, he fastened them in place.
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36 55 She was short and plump like most of the women of the red hunters.
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Book 13. (28 results) Explorers of Gor

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4 634 With the neck strap he pulled her head down and tied it down, fastening it to her ankles by means of the neck strap; the leather between her neck and ankles, which were now crossed and bound, was short and taut.
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5 598 These animals are short-trunked and tawny.
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11 169 They carried high, oval shields, and short, long-bladed stabbing spears.
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11 181 They put aside their shields and short spears and, hauling on the rope, jerked the blond-haired barbarian to her feet.
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11 326 I faced the short, stabbing spears of the two huge blacks.
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14 20 Sasi fastened a short chain to the slave ring, locking it, with its own lock, on the ring.
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14 456 This was a bit short for the hair of a Gorean slave girl.
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14 458 There is more that can be done with long hair, both with respect to adding variety to the girl's appearance and in the furs, than with short hair.
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16 218 The askaris were jubilant, resplendent in their skins and feathers, with their golden necklaces and armlets, their narrow, tufted shields and short-handled stabbing spears.
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17 45 "In short," I said, "it will appear little more than an official greetings exchanged between governments".
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18 90 He would be given a short-handled stabbing spear and would be permitted to throw himself upon it.
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18 136 It would then be a short step to making clear his involvement with the ring.
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19 115 Two askaris drew back the short stabbing spears to drive them into my chest.
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20 70 The handle of the short stabbing spear struck down, viciously, across my shoulder.
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23 36 Like most askaris they carried long, tufted shields and short stabbing spears.
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23 415 "Time is short".
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24 251 With tiny backward movements of their short legs they then became motionless, watching her.
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24 259 With a tiny, almost imperceptible movement, the tiniest motion of their short legs, the four tharlarion, almost ringing the girl, seemed to drift again toward her, like half-submerged, meaningless logs, save for the methodicality of their convergence.
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25 45 He took a narrow, short length of leather and bound Tende's wrists, tightly, behind her body.
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26 22 We looked up and saw a brightly plumaged, short-winged, sharp-billed bird.
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26 25 The mindar is adapted for short, rapid flights, almost spurts, its wings beating in sudden flurries, hurrying it from branch to branch, for camouflage in flower trees, and for drilling the bark of such trees for larvae and grubs.
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31 113 It is fortunate that my tether is so short.
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32 490 The political concern with the flourishing of nature stops short at human nature.
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32 501 "I wore boots, and a skirt and a short-sleeved blouse," she said, "and a helmet, of lightweight material, to protect me from the sun.
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34 18 Suddenly it turned its short wide head, with that bristling mane running down its back to its tail.
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34 20 It put down its head, mounted on that short, thick neck, and, scrambling, charged at the blond-haired barbarian.
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34 662 They should realize that the values they are taught are the values of particular men, and often, unfortunately, of men who, long ago, were short-lived, ignorant, uninformed, unhealthy, and quite possibly of unsound mind.
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47 6 We had trekked but a short way into the jungle when the leader of the small men held up his hand for silence.
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Book 14. (22 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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34 88 I then regarded the short, luscious, dark-haired beauty kneeling beside him, on a short leash.
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1 202 In our short conversations it became clear to me that you are one who thinks not in terms of words but in terms of things and realities.
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3 199 The first of the beasts leaped upward toward me, falling short by several feet, falling back, scrambling, among the others.
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5 13 I now wore a short, silk tunic, white, trimmed with red.
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11 147 She had dark hair, short but full, which fell about her face.
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12 237 I pulled the garment, short-sleeved, of white cotton, a common T-shirt, over my head, and then held it.
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13 127 A slave girl passed, a short-legged beauty, clad in a gray rag, chewing on a larma fruit.
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13 280 Sheathed swords, short, were slung at their left shoulders.
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13 448 The short, loose silk she wore was hitched high, at her left hip.
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13 777 I followed the double coffle on its left, for it was on the left side of her body that the exquisite, dark-haired girl's short, loose silk had been hitched up, baring her branded thigh to the hip.
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14 53 The one on the right, Taphris, short-legged and luscious, was not without interest.
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15 65 He was a short, powerful man, Kenneth, a free man, a keeper and the first groom in her stables.
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18 36 Men and women of the household, including male and female slaves, domestic slaves, house slaves, such as short-legged, luscious Taphris, had gathered about.
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18 202 I suspected that it was Taphris, short-legged and luscious, who polished her boots.
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19 173 "We are short on stable sluts.
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25 9 There was a new cry from the crowd as a burly, short, thick-bodied man was led into the sand-floored, circular pit.
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25 40 One of the referee's men whipped forth steel, a Gorean blade, short and wicked, and, leveling it, thrust it a quarter of an inch into the burly man's gut.
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25 121 I decided that I would make short work of him.
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26 236 I had little doubt but what one who was the master of such skills could make short work of me.
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26 289 A moment later I heard the hilts of short swords pounding on the door.
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27 37 The short sword was grasped in my right hand.
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34 27 About their ankles were close-fitting ankle rings, joined by a short length of chain.
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Book 15. (26 results) Rogue of Gor

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1 120 She had short, lovely legs and a sweet, full bosom.
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1 357 Statistically, the Gorean tends to prefer the natural woman, so to speak, who tends to be short, and sweetly bodied.
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1 493 In a short time I heard the sliding downward and locking in place of a kennel gate.
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3 29 She continued to wear it, with its short chain and the opened right shackle.
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4 370 I began with her left wrist, fastening it over her head and behind her, to one of the short legs of the table.
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6 129 "We are short an oarsman".
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7 14 A brown sleen threw itself to the end of a short, heavy chain.
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8 24 There was a sudden sound, that of a short metal blade slipping from a sheath.
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8 33 I saw the point of the short sword move slightly.
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11 366 If the traveler was too short for the bed, he would disjoint and break their bodies until they fitted it; if they were too long for the bed, he would cut their feet from them, until they, again, fitted the bed.
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13 17 "It is my short robe," she said, "not my long robe".
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14 35 She was shackled by the wrists, on a short chain, to an iron ring, heavy, whose plate was bolted into the boards.
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14 81 "Her tunic is sleeveless, and too short," said Miss Henderson.
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19 50 They also had him on a short neck leash, also fashioned of twisted cloth, from his tunic.
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20 51 Her hair had been cut short.
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23 196 Her hair had been cut quite short, probably as a punishment.
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23 360 "Bikkie," said he, indicating a short, dark-haired girl, "is good.
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26 164 He was a short, stout, thick-bodied, powerful man.
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27 138 The thrust of the sword was short by a foot.
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28 90 I recognized the figure of Glyco, portly and short-legged, breathing heavily, wrapped in a long brown cloak, which concealed the white and gold of the merchants, in advance.
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28 229 His hair was brown, and cut short at the back of his neck.
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29 72 "To have actually delivered the topaz to Policrates," he said, "was little short of an act of idiocy".
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29 155 I do not doubt that the fleet of Ragnar Voskjard, in a short time, will follow the topaz".
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30 37 There were dark-haired Relia and blond Tela, who was still kept in white silk, as a joke, though she must have served the pleasure of pirates a thousand times; and the blond sisters from Cos, Mira and Tala; short, dark-haired Bikkie; the girls who had danced at the feast, and had been thrown to the ...
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30 121 "Yes, my Master," said the short, dark-haired girl, and she, smiling, barefoot, descended the marble stairs of the dais and, taking her place on my left, lowered herself gracefully to lie on her side beside me.
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32 312 They were short, ship bows, stout and maneuverable, easy to use in crowded quarters, easy to fire across the bulwarks of galleys locked in combat.
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Book 16. (20 results) Guardsman of Gor

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11 172 It is usually short, though seldom as short as a slave tunic or Ta-Teera, and it is always open on both sides, save where snugged at the waist, this emphasizing her figure; in it, her embonded beauty is well manifested, from her shoulders and waist, downward delightfully, though to her flanks, and c...
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1 18 They carried the short, stout ship's bow.
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1 124 Then, later, he called, "Back oars!" An occasional stone, or globe of pitch, was lofted towards us, but fell short.
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4 114 Then, in a short time, they returned to their ship.
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4 147 He set an arrow to the string of a short ship's bow.
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8 191 In a short time, then, the inks would run, and the papers held between the sheets, would disintegrate.
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8 361 I then heard him laugh again, and then turn about and climb five stairs, which must have led to the main deck, from a short companionway.
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9 315 Like most girls, either of Earth or Gor, she was short, curvaceous and luscious, sweetly slung.
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12 105 In a short time the sea yard, if all went well, would be almost filled with vessels.
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16 102 The spear blade thrust down again, but again, came short of its mark.
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16 152 "Time grows short!" A large eel suddenly broke the surface tearing at the side of my abraded leg.
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16 373 From the straps of his sword belt I improvised a short leash for him.
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16 391 In a moment I had my hand on the short leash I had devised for his throat and, he on his back, helpless, my prisoner, was towing him toward the flagship of Policrates.
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17 46 Near the lamp the girl who was on the leash was jerked up short.
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17 71 Her binding-fiber-belted, wraparound tunic was brown, and of clinging, thin rep-cloth; it was sleeveless and had a plunging neckline; it was slave short.
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17 263 How tight, inhibited, and unhappy she had seemed there, in her politically prescribed pseudo-male attire; was that truly her world; did she not, truly, belong elsewhere, somewhere, say, in silk and a collar; how desperate she had been to subscribe to opinions imperiously imposed upon her by others; ...
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17 316 Usually, at such rings, slaves are on a short leash or chain, and are fastened to them on their knees.
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17 908 In a moment, carrying the short ladder, he had returned inside.
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18 455 In short we shall suppose that he discovers that he has purchased, as is often the case, not a mere slave, but a treasure.
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21 532 "Your tunic, certainly, I have decided," I said, "will be quite short".
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Book 17. (34 results) Savages of Gor

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1 165 Also, from the wall, from its peg, I took down the scabbard with its sheathed short sword.
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1 576 In short, honor do I do unto you, bringing you greetings from those who are entitled to extend greetings, and bringing you no greetings from those unworthy to give greetings.
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1 798 Their culture tends to be nomadic, and is based on the herbivorous, lofty kaiila, substantially the same animal as is found in the Tahari, save for the wider footpads of the Tahari beast, suitable for negotiating deep sand, and the lumbering, gregarious, short-tempered, trident-horned kailiauk.
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1 1313 I knew they were short-tempered, even with their own kind.
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2 12 It was unlikely that we could have adequately defended ourselves against a sudden onslaught of such foes at that short a distance.
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2 200 One girl lay on her stomach, on her elbows, her head down, the heavy iron collar on her neck visible beneath her hair; a short, weighty chain of thick dark links connected this collar, by its collar ring, to a wide, stout ring, anchored deeply in the cement, almost beneath her chin; the chain was no...
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2 230 Beyond the Thentis mountains, in the driest areas, the grass is short.
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4 7 "Why do you wish to find Grunt?" asked the driver, a young man with shaggy hair, cut short across the base of his neck.
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6 77 Too I had purchased a short bow, modeled on the sort used by the savages, fit for clearing the saddle, and a quiver of twenty sheaf arrows.
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6 81 It will also, at short ranges, penetrate most of the hide shields used by the red savages.
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7 50 She wore a short, fringed, beaded shirtdress.
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8 79 "I shall take this one," said a short, stocky, broad-shouldered fellow, in a wide-brimmed hat.
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8 243 She wore a black, tight, off-the-shoulder bodice and a short, black, silk skirt, decorated with red thread and ruffles, and stiffened with crinoline.
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8 248 Her costume, like that of Ginger, the short, fringed, beaded shirtdress of tanned skin, with the beaded anklet, intended to resemble the garb in which red masters sometimes saw fit to clothe their white female slaves, if permitting them clothing, suggested its heritage of other times and other place...
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8 482 One of the fellows there was the short, muscular fellow who wore the low, broad-brimmed hat.
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8 608 The short, heavy quarrels lay in their guides.
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8 933 For example, ankle coffles may be used for short distances, and wrist coffles for longer distances.
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8 981 I then added another girl to the coffle, a short-haired, sturdy-legged brunette.
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8 983 The fellow lifted the girl's short, dark hair.
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11 19 Five spoke English natively; three were American, including the red-haired girl, and two were British; two of the other girls were Swedish, and the last girl, with the short, dark hair, was French.
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11 112 You will beg to tie his sandals, to wash and clean for him, to cook for him, to serve him in all ways in which a woman can serve a man, to petition humbly to be permitted to press your lips lovingly upon his feet, to supplicate him for the opportunity to lick and kiss the leather of his whip! In sho...
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12 60 "In short," said Grunt, "it is done because it elates them, and fills them with power and joy".
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12 134 The kaiila in the area of the perimeter, those ridden by white men, are generally controlled by a headstall, bit and reins, in short, by a bridle, not by a nose rope, as is cultural in the Tahari.
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13 765 My ankles were crossed and tied together with a short piece of rope.
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13 1343 Both sexes, then, frequently fail to obtain happiness, or fall far short of the happiness of which they are both capable, that happiness which is a consequence of maintaining a biological fidelity to their separate natures".
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13 1570 I went to my saddlebags, with the kaiila saddle, and withdrew two fairly short lengths of soft, pliant, braided black leather, each about twenty-five inches in length.
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14 880 In a short while I took her and threw her beneath me.
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14 956 "I can teach you hundreds of signs in a short time," said Grunt.
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14 1129 The sign for Kailiauk, as I had expected, was to hold up three fingers, suggesting the trident of horns adorning the shaggy head of this large, short-tempered, small-eyed, lumbering ruminant.
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14 1147 I then raised it a few inches from the ground, with a short, wavy motion.
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15 271 Before that I had had Lois, the short, blond American girl.
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17 57 Three separate thongs, incidentally, two short and one long, are sometimes used for this type of securing of the female.
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17 58 In this way of doing things each wrist is tied in the center of one of the short thongs.
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17 59 The two free ends of the short thong are then taken back through the hole and, once through the hole, are simply knotted, heavily.
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Book 18. (39 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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1 165 It is dangerous, gregarious, small-eyed and short-tempered.
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1 261 These were two American girls, Lois and Inez, an English girl, named Priscilla, and a short, dark-haired French girl, named Corinne.
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1 490 Grunt, short-bodied, thick and muscular, still wore the broad-brimmed hat I remembered so well.
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2 283 She was half stumbling, half being dragged along, weeping, on a short neck tether, not more than five feet long.
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3 101 Her hands were widely spaced on the ax handle, and her blows were short.
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3 247 This is common in short rides about the village, or in going out to check kaiila.
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3 248 The prestige of the saddle, and its dressiness, is not required in local errands or short jaunts.
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4 122 If the girl is permitted a sleeping garment it is commonly short, front-opening, and fastened with a single tie.
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7 97 "Beaten slave," said a white female, in a scandalously short shirtdress, and collar, a brunet slave of the Wismahi, sneeringly, to Winyela.
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7 272 "In short," I said, "you will be subjected to exactly the sort of discipline which women such as you want, and need".
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7 509 Unisex, not taken for granted as an aspect of a pathological culture, but understood, in depth, could be of interest, it seems, only to somewhat short-sighted or unusual organisms.
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7 571 "You have not yet taken away her leggings, nor put her in a short dress and collar," said Hci.
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12 170 This type of tether is suitable for short leadings.
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13 79 Most Gorean women, like most human females, in general, tend to be short, curvaceous and dark-haired.
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21 8 In the movement of the tarn, again taking flight, the thrust was short.
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22 40 I buckled the belt about myself, I lifted the short sword in the scabbard and dropped it back in place.
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22 128 A strand of leather, too, short and taut, pulling up her legs, connected her wrists and ankles.
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22 153 He then threw her to her stomach and, with a short leather strap, bound her ankles together.
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24 15 The kaiila stopped almost short, in a scattering of dust, jerked back on its haunches and wheeled about.
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25 11 The son of Mahpiyasapa pulled his mount up short near us.
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25 66 He then turned his kaiila, but, again, pulled it up short.
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26 59 The short sword of Port Kar leapt forth from my sheath.
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26 72 They are long enough to outreach a dagger-armed opponent and short enough, and maneuverable enough, to work their way, beating and thrusting, behind the guard of longer, heavier weapons.
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28 92 In this short journey I had passed several kaiila, picketed under the ropes and cloths.
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28 144 This second form of hair tie, done in lines, incidentally, resembles a common coffle arrangement, achieved with a set of relatively short thongs, each about five feet in length.
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29 5 Her own hair, similarly, had been cut short, closely, at the back of her neck, where the girl behind her, with swift strokes of a blade, had been freed.
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30 182 A short time later we heard the thunder of kaiila paws leaving the camp.
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33 248 They would also make a convenient, short leash, to pull her about with, if I wished.
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34 329 Also, as I have suggested, they provide a convenient, short leash wherewith one might drag her about and control her, as one pleases.
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34 357 It was incredibly short.
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37 145 It can attain short-term speeds of from eighty to ninety pasangs an Ahn.
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37 549 The beak snapped the lance off short.
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37 552 The bird, smiting its wings, darted towards us but, screaming, fell short on its belly in the grass, feathers flying about.
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40 513 Radish, bent over, with short steps, those of a length permitted her by her leather shackles, made her way to Carrot.
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42 17 She was a short-legged, luscious blonde, a former American.
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42 23 When the luscious, short-legged blonde had seen us, she who had been Lois when wearing a collar of iron in Grunt's coffle, she had turned about and fled back among the lodges, screaming, spreading the alarm.
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43 405 A Yellow-Knife warrior lunged wildly for the sack but fell short, sprawling in the dust.
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43 417 I could not hope, of course, in the ordinary run of things, to outdistance pursuing Yellow-Knife kaiila, certainly not with so short a start and drawing the weight of two such deliciously packed slave sacks.
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44 596 Yet, impelled with force from the small, fierce bows of the red savages at short range, they, too, would be dangerous.
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Book 19. (4 results) Kajira of Gor

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1 16 The shorts were quite short, and, even without the panties, at least a size too small.
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3 602 In such a garment, lovely, clinging, short, closely belted, there was no doubt that I was a woman.
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3 640 His hair was cut rather short, and was brown, flecked with gray.
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3 760 "After a short while," he said, "you will no longer think of these things.
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Book 20. (1 results) Players of Gor

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5 323 I thrust the short, attached chain, attached to the ankle-ring chain at one end, and the wrist-ring chain at the other, and the wrist rings, on their short chain, between her legs and through the sturdy floor ring.
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Book 25. (1 results) Magicians of Gor

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7 355 Gnieus Lelius, then, former regent of Ar, in the motley rags suitable to a comedic mime, his ankles shackled, his upper body wrapped in chains, bent far over, held in this fashion by the short chain between his neck and ankles, trying to keep his balance, taking short steps, was dragged by Cosians f...
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Book 26. (1 results) Witness of Gor

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13 229 Do the free women understand that that distinction is not part of nature, like dominance and submission, but that it depends merely on the will of men? Do they not understand that their lofty status requires the permission of males, and, in a sense, depends upon the whims of males? There is a thin l...
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Book 30. (1 results) Mariners of Gor

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35 20 They wore short, hitched-up robes, with short sleeves.
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Book 31. (1 results) Conspirators of Gor

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8 1715 "And as your hair will be soiled," he said, "you will have the kitchen master crop it short, as short as that of a mill girl".
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Book 32. (1 results) Smugglers of Gor

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52 152 I thought it already short, quite short.
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Book 33. (1 results) Rebels of Gor

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31 10 In the center of the eating hall, as though bestride the room, in a short jacket and fur boots, was a short, thick-bodied man.
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Book 36. (2 results) Avengers of Gor

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31 75 "Under certain conditions," I said, "short marches may no longer seem short".
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41 23 In short, after several mishaps or mistakes, such as great stones falling short, falling amidst advancing mercenaries, or mercenaries arriving too early at the wall and being afflicted with their own fire, or mercenary contingents lagging or holding back to avoid such fates, thus subverting the whol...
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