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Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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7 113 She was screaming wildly, all control lost in the face of the slow, ugly death awaiting her.
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10 8 A bejeweled, curtained platform slung between the slow, swaying bodies of two of the broad tharlarions appeared.
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10 106 * * * * The next few days were among the happiest of my life, as Talena and I became a part of Mintar's slow, ample caravan, members of its graceful, interminable, colorful procession.
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10 116 The high tharlarions, unlike their draft brethren, the slow-moving, four-footed broad tharlarions, were carnivorous.
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12 57 The current soon caught it, and it began to spin in slow circles farther and farther out into the midst of that vast force of nature called the Vosk.
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13 30 I brought the bird somewhat lower, in long, slow circles, keeping the larl in view.
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18 16 But first, as part of my plan, I raced my tarn directly for the walls of Ar, swiftly passing the slow procession on the plains below.
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Book 2. (9 results) Outlaw of Gor

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3 51 In spite of his slow reaction to my presence, his deliberate and patient movements, I gathered that he was surprised.
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6 12 For some reason neither the fearless hawklike tarns, nor the slow-witted tharlarions, the draft and riding lizards of Gor, would enter the mountains.
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6 122 Perhaps it was something in her carriage, something subtle and graceful, something which could not be concealed by the dejected cast of her shoulders, her slow gait and apparent exhaustion, no, not even by the coarse heavy robes she wore.
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14 169 He seemed to resent the goad, to fight it, to behave erratically when it was used; when struck with it he might even slow his flight, or deliberately disobey the commands of the tarn straps.
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20 36 Using the Warrior's Pace, a slow jog that can be prolonged for hours, I left the Compound of the Mines.
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23 5 Even as we stood on the hill I could hear the slow ringing of a heavy, hollow tube of metal, which betokened that the black gate had opened.
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23 6 The sad, slow sound reached the hillock on which we stood.
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23 23 I listened to the slow, gloomy tolling of the hollow bar.
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24 129 It was the sound of the plowing song, as slow and irresistible as the breaking of ice in frozen rivers, a simple, melodic paean to the soil, celebrating the first breaking of the ground.
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Book 3. (10 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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6 13 The meat was a steak, cut from the loin of a bosk, a huge, shaggy, long-horned, ill-tempered bovine which shambles in large, slow-moving herds across the prairies of Gor.
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14 58 I leaned back against the portal of the Hall of Processing, my eyes closed, and took several slow, deep breaths.
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21 38 It was a sad song, mournful and slow, almost a dirgelike chant.
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24 61 How was it then, I asked myself, that such a slow, awkward, clumsy creature, no matter how formidable at close range, could capture and slay an organism as alert and swift as a Priest-King? I moved Vika's limbs and rubbed her hands to see if I could restore her circulation to a more normal level.
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25 24 What approached was not another Golden Beetle, though I supposed there might have been several in those tunnels, but another inhabitant of those dismal passages, the whitish, long, slow, blind Slime Worm.
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25 39 * * * * Although it was slow work I had little difficulty in finding my way back to where I had entered the tunnels of the Golden Beetle.
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27 158 Misk seemed stunned and slow, his head dropped and the antennae seemed to flutter, exposing themselves.
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27 179 Misk slowly turned away from Sarm and with slow, delicate steps approached the Mother, before whom he stood, great chunks of greenish coagulated body fluid marking the wounds on his body.
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32 208 With one slow, strange bound I was at the door and threw the switch which was placed at the side of the door.
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32 292 He seemed to float down to the floor and, touching one sandaled foot to the ground only every twenty yards or so, began to leave the chamber in slow dreamlike bounds.
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Book 4. (6 results) Nomads of Gor

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2 37 Who knew with which people the object might have been placed? Perhaps it had been hidden away and forgotten? Perhaps it was now a sacred object, little understood, but revered—and it would be sacrilege to think of it, blasphemy to speak its name, a cruel and slow death even to cast one's eyes...
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8 481 It is dangerous, of course, to approach any but a naive, straight-running, perhaps terrified, girl at full speed, for should she dodge or move to one side, one will have to slow the kaiila to turn it after her, lest one be carried past her too rapidly, even at the margins of bola range.
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12 421 Certain of these phases are very slow, in which there is almost no movement, save perhaps the turning of a head or the movement of a hand; others are defiant and swift; some are graceful and pleading; some stately, some simple; some proud, some piteous; but each time, as the common thread, she is dr...
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13 120 "Such a slow beast," said Kamchak, "might in battle cost a man his life".
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23 82 By the time the Paravaci had reformed my Tuchuks had managed to swing the herd, slow it, get it milling about and then drive it back to a perimeter about the wagons.
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23 155 "Korobans are slow to think of such matters," he remarked.
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Book 5. (1 results) Assassin of Gor

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15 387 The slave girl sitting on the furs, for the kalika is played either sitting or standing, bent over her instrument, her hair falling over the neck of it, lost in her music, a gentle, slow melody, rather sad.
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Book 6. (6 results) Raiders of Gor

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8 27 The sixth barge began to drift to leeward, a slow half circle, aimless, like a finger drawing in the water.
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10 193 I recall men shouting, "Many men could not all sit through the stroke of an oar! Would you have them stand?" "So great an oar could not even be held by the hands of a man!" "Two masts with their sails could not be quickly removed before battle!" "You will slow the ship if you deepen the keel!" "If m...
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13 281 Such a ship would be slow.
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15 180 He is slow and stupid.
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17 223 The round ships, slow, much at the mercy of the wind, were now being abandoned as antagonists.
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17 228 The round ships, of course, were too slow to offer the swift, decisive support to my tarn ships which they would surely need shortly.
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Book 7. (3 results) Captive of Gor

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7 10 The Laurius is a winding, long, gentle, slow river.
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8 77 The fog had begun to lift and the surface of the river, broad, slow-moving, glistened here and there in patches.
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13 671 If she should be even slightly reluctant, or be perceived as being even a bit slow, to fervently request this boon of the master, it is likely that she will receive an indefinite number of strokes.
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Book 8. (5 results) Hunters of Gor

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6 910 The sound of the river was slow and sweet, moving between its banks, flowing downward to greet Thassa, the sea, more than two hundred pasangs from this small, silent camp.
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9 443 Then, about me, the panther girls, circling, swaying, began a slow stalking dance, as of hunters.
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9 445 Their movements were slow, and incredibly beautiful.
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16 9 It had been necessary to slow the column down, so I had done so.
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21 255 My side and my left arm stung with the salt, and felt stiff with the cold, and then, too, suddenly, I felt a warmth, slow and spreading.
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Book 9. (2 results) Marauders of Gor

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1 187 I know of no prouder, more self-reliant, more magnificent creature than the free Gorean, male or female; they are often touchy, and viciously tempered, but they are seldom petty or small; moreover they do not hate and fear their bodies or their instincts; when they restrain themselves it is a victor...
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4 105 The giant, he who might have been nearly eight feet in height, and had in the temple wrought such furious slaughter, sat now, almost somnolently, on a rowing bench, sharpening, with slow, deliberate movements, with a circular, flat whetstone, the blade of his great ax.
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Book 10. (10 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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1 464 If it were not for the caravan bells, the slow moving, otherwise generally silent caravans, might, unknowingly, pass within yards of men in desperate need of succor.
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2 359 The wool market, as was to be expected, was now slow.
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2 549 "If you are uncooperative, or slow in your lessons, you may be starved or beaten—lashed—you understand?" "Yes, Master," said the girl, her eyes wide.
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4 96 The movements of the men of the Tahari are, during the hours of heat, usually slow, almost languid or graceful.
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7 732 I doubted that a slow drug would have been used, because time would be significant in these matters.
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10 188 At the interior corners of her eyes had been the signs of sleep; she had yawned like a cat when kneeling to one side; her face, and her mouth, had revealed the heavy, sweet lassitude of the beautiful woman who is weary; when she had left, though she held herself erect, as an embonded girl must, ther...
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14 419 Time seemed measured in steps, the blows of the whip, the slow turning of the sun, over the Ahn, from one shoulder through the heat to the other.
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16 21 It is slow, laborious work, however, moving the heavy raft with these levers.
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16 68 Like the lelts, they were, for their size, long-bodied, were capable of long periods of dormancy and possessed a slow metabolism, useful in an environment in which food is not plentiful.
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21 271 At times during the day, when I lay in the shadow of his body, I thought him dead but, putting my ear to his chest, I detected the beating of the large heart, slow, irregular, sporadic, fitful, like the clenching of a weakening fist.
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Book 11. (9 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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7 436 I conjectured that the heart of such a girl would be slow and strong.
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9 652 And I was slow.
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12 134 Between them was slung fine wire, gently bending and swaying in the slow breeze of the hot afternoon.
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13 339 "It is not your fault," he said, "that the market is slow".
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22 7 The single lateen sail, stretched from its yard, swelled with a clean, slow wind.
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26 267 "You seem slow to obey," he remarked.
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27 166 Sul paga would slow a tharlarion.
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28 61 On a slow night it could take as much as eight Ahn, the sales extending into the early morning hours.
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28 63 When it takes longer to sell a girl it usually means that she is less interesting to the buyers, and that the bids are slow, or that she, an unusual beauty, is being more elaborately displayed, with the object in mind of intensifying and driving up the eventual bids.
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Book 12. (11 results) Beasts of Gor

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1 20 But we do know the worlds, long ago, entered the system of a slow-revolving, medium-sized yellow star occupying a peripheral position in one of nature's bounteous, gleaming, strewn spiral universes.
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2 343 It was said the deep keel would slow the ship; that the two masts would take too long to remove in the case of naval combat; that so large an oar would constitute an impractical lever, that it could not be grasped by a man, that the oarsmen could not all sit during the stroke, that if more than one ...
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2 346 It seemed to me such a ship would be too heavy to manage well, that it would be clumsy and slow, that it might be better fitted to cargo service when protected in a convoy than entrusted to confront, elude or brave the lean, lateen-rigged wolves of gleaming Thassa, hungry for the cargoes of the inef...
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4 537 The market had been slow, as I had thought it would be, and as I had hoped it would be, because of the game earlier between the Kaissa titans, Centius of Cos and Scormus of Ar.
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22 22 "You are too slow, Tarl, who hunts with me," said Imnak.
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23 386 "The market was slow," admitted Imnak.
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24 335 I took her in my arms, and began her slow, patient rape.
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30 81 He seemed slow.
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32 4 "That was our star," he said, "a yellow, medium-sized, slow-rotating star with a planetary system, one small enough to have sufficient longevity to nourish life, one large enough to have a suitable habitable zone".
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34 72 I was not particularly worried, however, for, even at a slow rate of digestion, I was confident there would be time for the meat to accomplish its dark work.
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35 96 Thus began a slow and tortuous descent, inch by inch.
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Book 13. (5 results) Explorers of Gor

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5 49 "She is so stupid and slow," said Sasi.
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5 54 "She is slow," said Sasi.
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5 113 Her response had been slow.
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44 58 Then it turned about and, with a slow movement of its tail, moved away.
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53 503 Finally, with tourniquets, we managed to slow, and then stop, the bleeding.
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Book 14. (2 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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21 49 She was crawling about, naked, on her hands and knees, carrying sticks in her mouth, feeding the slow fires in the flame ditch.
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22 394 There was a swirl of music and a beating on the drum, and then a pause, and then began, with the czehar prominent, the strains of a slow Gorean melody.
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Book 15. (2 results) Rogue of Gor

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4 198 Gorean men are sometimes slow to release their grip on the bodies of females.
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32 196 I then heard the sounds of chains, moving in a slow cadence.
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Book 16. (3 results) Guardsman of Gor

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4 105 Two other ships from behind them, unable to slow themselves sufficiently, struck into the milling ships.
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5 143 They were too squat and sluggish; their holds were too large; their lines were clumsy; they were too slow, too unresponsive to their helms; they seemed little other than fat merchantmen, fit less for war than for the placid transportation of weighty cargoes.
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10 113 The melody, however, was slow and decorous.
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Book 17. (6 results) Savages of Gor

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1 808 From this point there was initiated, in a slow spiral, to be followed by turning the skin, a series of drawings and pictographs.
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1 931 Still the man pressed on, knowing the direction of the kailiauk and following the natural geodesics of the land, such as might be followed by a slow-moving beast, pawing under the snow for roots or grass.
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1 1037 To be sure, the skillful hunter will strike no more deeply than is necessary, and his trained kaiila will slow its pace sufficiently to permit the kailiauk to draw its own body from the lance.
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6 45 The kailiauk must feed as it moves, and it is simply too slow for this type of migration.
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13 756 'Slow down here,' he said, 'and pull into those trees, and stop.
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15 6 I referred to the slow liftings of smoke, rising from low buttes, behind us and to our left, and before us, and to the right.
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Book 18. (8 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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3 71 Cancega, then, began a slow, shuffling dance.
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5 129 "Iwoso is slow," said Bloketu.
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5 130 "I am not slow," protested Iwoso.
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5 131 "It is you who are lazy and slow, Bloketu," said Cuwignaka.
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5 166 "She said that I was lazy and slow!" said Bloketu.
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35 9 The bridges of Tharna had been gray and cool in the soft, long, slow rains.
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38 41 "The pit is slow work, Tatankasa, Mitakola," said Hci.
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43 31 "You, on the other hand," said Iwoso, "are quite slow".
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Book 19. (1 results) Kajira of Gor

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16 123 Gorean vehicles, commonly slow moving, tend to keep to the center of a road, except in passing.
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Book 20. (4 results) Players of Gor

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1 433 Samos signaled again to the musicians, and they began to play a sensual, slow, adagio melody.
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7 214 It was a good price, and it was a particularly good one for a slow market.
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14 474 I then turned, and climbed through the broken, serrated edges of this natural stone bowl, found myself in the open fields, and began to run, with the long, slow warrior's pace, that pace in which warriors are trained, that pace which may be maintained, even under the weight of weapons, accouterments...
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16 415 The movements, of course, were not, nor were they intended to be, those of an actually displayed slave in such a predicament, say, in a market or capture camp, being commanded, say, to "move" before men, the adagio movements, the sudden movements, the melodious movements, the incredibly sensuous mov...
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Book 21. (5 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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3 355 Still, judging from the nature of the supply column, or columns, their progress seemed very slow, almost leisurely.
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5 335 Many a caravan has saved itself by leaving lovely slaves behind in the desert, to slow the pursuit of marauders.
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16 1521 If she is slow to learn, of course, she is punished, as would be any other animal.
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28 57 "Do you think he would be slow with the whip, if you were not pleasing?" I asked.
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28 59 "I do not think he would be slow with the whip".
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Book 22. (3 results) Dancer of Gor

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3 1041 It was patient, slow, and gentle.
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29 1010 The blood was slow on it now, as he had his hand clasped over the wound.
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29 1113 "Stupid, slow slave," said the bearded man, and came behind me.
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Book 23. (9 results) Renegades of Gor

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24 430 "Now," said he, "slow, rotatory movements of the hips, slow, agonizingly slow, grinding movements!" I thought that many on the piers might have to hurry their own girls home, if they could make it that far.
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1 303 With the slow going, and the storm, and its start, it was not likely another wagon would catch up quickly with it.
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2 110 It also, in effect, seemed to negate the bold stroke of Dietrich, to slow the Cosian advance, and give Ar time to organize, to arm and march.
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15 96 Their reflexes, I was sure, would be slow.
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16 64 Their progress forward was steady, but so slow, it seemed sometimes almost like watching the hands of a clock move.
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18 501 I saw one girl cuffed, and another, one who had perhaps been slow to obey, lashed with a strap.
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19 88 It made slow progress back toward the piers.
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21 236 New girls sometimes attempt to be slow, or half-hearted, or insolent.
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24 417 "Your movements for the most part," said the keeper, "will be slow and sensuous, but terribly meaningful, sexually.
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Book 24. (5 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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1 553 She had been slow to obey.
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1 559 "She was slow".
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1 819 "Let the melody be soft, and slow, and simple," said Philebus to the flutist, who nodded.
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27 5 Then, instead of supporting one's weight, with a give of some inches, it seems, suddenly to grasp the ankles, and then gravity begins its slow work.
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28 415 He had been too inflexible in his adherence to orders; he had had too great a confidence in the wisdom and integrity of his superiors; he had been too slow to detect the possibilities of betrayal and treason; he had not speedily extricated his command from a hopeless situation; and even on the level...
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Book 25. (2 results) Magicians of Gor

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1 112 If she proved clumsy or slow to learn she could be whipped.
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1 113 I did not think she would prove slow to learn.
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Book 26. (9 results) Witness of Gor

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6 151 Had I moved thusly long ago, in a former life, before a prince of some royal house on the Nile, before some caliph in his cool, white palace abutting the slow waters of the Tigris, in the house of some oligarch overlooking the Tiber? Or were these things locked in the very cells of my body, in the m...
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8 231 Would it not have been better then to have awakened between my own sheets, in my own bed, as I had so many times before, in those familiar surroundings? Was that world not, for all its lies, its hypocritical cant, its ludicrous, wearying pretenses, its tedious self-congratulatory self-righteousness,...
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10 265 And one of the prisoners had laughed at me! I would show them! Imperceptibly then, so subtly they would not even notice, I determined to slow my pace, ever so subtly, so subtly that they would never notice! I could thus, in my way, fool them.
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11 1716 Too, I gathered that there was discipline in this place, and here I do not speak of such things as the correctives and admonitives, however sure, strict and severe, to which an errant slave might find herself subjected, but of sterner stuff, the discipline of the military, that of the Warrior, that ...
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11 1879 Sometimes the descent was relatively slow, and sometimes it was more precipitous.
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14 497 "You were slow to veil yourself," I said.
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19 274 Kneeling, partly bent over, I watched this procession wend its slow, solemn way, bells ringing, incense smoking, in front of the crowd.
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37 556 "If he was not within he would have left the gate down," said a man, "to make us believe he was within, to slow our pursuit".
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45 64 "You are slow!" he said.
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Book 27. (9 results) Prize of Gor

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11 681 Of course not, she told herself! I would not run to him like a common, amorous slave, a helpless, panting bitch beside herself with heat! But she did not slow her pace.
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16 13 How vigorous and remarkable, and diverse, and expressive, seemed that strange tongue, at once so lively, bright and fluent, even delicate, and then suddenly so explosively rude and brutal, at one moment loud, at another soft, at one moment rapid, even careless, at another measured and stately, at on...
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18 89 The tarns were largely draft tarns, large, relatively slow birds, controlled either from a saddle or, by reins, from the tarn basket, slung below the bird.
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19 117 "These are only draft tarns," said Portus, "slow, clumsy, gentle birds.
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19 284 Perhaps she was slow.
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19 299 "You are too slow," said he, and lifted the pan before her.
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27 597 Might he not pity her, if only eventually, a former woman of his world, now a slave, helpless in her collar, as it might not occur to a Gorean to do? And did she not fear Selius Arconious whom she was sure would not be slow with the whip, should she prove in the least displeasing? And did she not ha...
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27 1634 Ellen, lying to one side, cried out, "No, Master, please!" A vision went through her mind of the wood on the back of the wagon leaping into the air, the sound of the shot, the smell of the expended cartridge, the exploding splinters bursting into the air, now weirdly in slow motion in her memory.
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27 2462 The slave can stand in such a device, though often with difficulty, and can walk, though, too, with difficulty, taking slow tiny steps.
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Book 28. (10 results) Kur of Gor

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56 68 To be sure, it can make adjustments to varying light conditions, but, as noted, these adjustments are relatively slow, or slow, at least, compared to those of the Kur and sleen.
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8 23 It was very slow, and very methodical, as though something were accustoming itself to an unfamiliar housing of some sort.
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18 130 He elected, thus, to climb a small escarpment, some thirty feet from the ground, which would slow sleen in their ascent, and, with good fortune, allow him to defend himself for a time with the sharpened stick or pole, were the sleen loosed.
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21 305 "—to those who would kill her with needles, a corpuscle at a time, who would inject her with slow, agonizing poisons, who would feed her to urts or sleen, who would cast her to leech plants, who would roast her alive and eat her, and so on".
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30 82 "And you will improve in your skills, and learn the slow slave use of your tongue, and the slave use of your lips".
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41 89 "Not as you understand me," said Cabot, "but in other ways, by the slow movements of the body, not threatening, the softness of the voice, the gentleness of its tones".
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47 60 As they neared, discernible became the slow, rhythmic beat of gigantic canvas wings, harnessed to massive bodies.
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53 191 "The metabolism is very slow," said Grendel, "and the wombs are often metabolically dormant for weeks at a time.
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62 30 "But it is too slow".
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77 108 This scratching, this slow scuffling sound, which you so vainly tried to conceal, is as readily detected as the stroke of a broom, the dragging of a rake".
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Book 29. (10 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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2 142 In one, we might suppose a given woman who, with some good fortune, might live a life of, say, some eighty to ninety years, and live to watch her interest and beauty fade, and observe her once lovely body submit to the slow degradations of age, watch it dry, wither, suffer, decay, and weaken until i...
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5 556 "But he asked, again, and again, in his slow, childlike way, who now, be it only in name, ruled in Ar," said one of the men on the beach, "and the partisans took council, and decided to risk the disclosure, though they knew not what effect it might have".
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5 558 '" "Then," said another, "as the story has it, he lifted his head, and his whole mien changed, and his body seemed to become larger and filled with power, and his eyes took on a strange, fierce, wicked gleam, and he said, quietly, and not in his slow, innocent, puzzled, childlike voice, but in anoth...
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5 917 And better, surely, the degradations of collars and their fair lips pressed to the feet of masters than the slow, lingering death of the impaling pole.
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9 132 "You are slow," said Miss Wentworth.
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12 310 Too, the usual missile weapon of the tarnsman, as the longbow, or peasant bow, was impractical, was the crossbow, but it was difficult to reload from the saddle, and its rate of fire, accordingly, was slow.
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12 312 In either case, the rate of fire was, in my view, prohibitedly slow.
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14 85 Too, the rate of fire of both these weapons was lamentably slow, particularly that of the ratchet variety, which not only limited the number of missiles which could be launched in a given period of time, but placed the archer, did he not withdraw, in the interval between firing and reloading, in con...
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30 64 I supposed that any vessel so slow or unwary as to come beneath the bow of this leviathan would be shattered like kindling, crushed like a cache of vulo eggs beneath the tread of a tharlarion.
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38 672 She, caught in the slow current, had begun her journey down the Alexandra.
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Book 30. (7 results) Mariners of Gor

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2 135 It would be slow to come about, and a small galley might easily outdistance her, much as a racing kaiila might easily overtake a caravan of bosk-drawn wagons.
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5 98 It does, slightly, slow the draw.
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5 273 Let the slow and clumsy perish, let the swift and skillful live.
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11 34 In such a case, the school, so obvious and visible, so large and slow moving, becomes a most perilous habitat.
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13 139 "A slow poison?" I said.
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26 228 "You fear," I said, "that he would return you to Ar, to the justice of Ar, to the impaling spear?" In the case of one of her importance, the impaling spear might be narrow, greased, and thirty feet in height, and, mounted on the wall, her slow descent, she writhing, trying her best to prevent it, un...
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30 92 He then gestured that the disarmed, weary, disconsolate Tereus be conducted, his arm stained, his steps slow, in his turn, to a prison barracks.
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Book 31. (3 results) Conspirators of Gor

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7 618 "They may think me red-silk!" "The market," said an instructress, "is now slow for white-silks".
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8 371 What if they had been tortuously slow, reading my body, playing upon it, as on a czehar or kalika, bringing forth what music they wished? Could I help what I was, female, and slave? A thousand modalities attend the mastership, and the slave learns a thousand yieldings, and submissions.
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13 9 From the fountain I had made my way, sick and fearful, to the domicile, and, step by slow step, had brought the buckets upstairs.
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Book 32. (4 results) Smugglers of Gor

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30 54 "The tracking seems slow".
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43 680 If paga was prohibited on the dock, for fear it might compromise or slow work, it was not surprising that the "ka-la-na" of the collar girl should be prohibited, as well.
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43 995 "We followed the beast," he said, "but it was slow going in the night, and we did not anticipate fifteen men here.
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48 7 There were no signs of patrols from Shipcamp along the shore nor of the small sounding boats which might be testing the river or preceding the slow, stately journey of the great ship to the sea.
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Book 33. (6 results) Rebels of Gor

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1 302 Its rate of fire was slow.
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24 151 Who will betray the good will of a benefactor? It will doubtless, at least, slow the responses of junior officers, disengaged from, and uncertain as to, the will of their commander".
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44 239 "Signal Ichiro, on the summit, signal, 'Retreat' and 'Scatter'! 'Retreat' and 'Scatter'!" The large object now turned about, gracefully, the large, slow-moving wings orienting it.
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54 115 "It is slow to wake, but dangerous when hungry and afoot".
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60 201 "To the bridge!" The bridge, entwined with the blue climbers, arched in a lovely manner, for a length of some thirty-five or forty feet over a narrow, decorative pond, on the surface of which bloomed white and yellow water flowers, rising from flat, green pads; below, in the pond, which was shallow,...
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60 464 Meeting the appearance of stout resistance they will slow their pace, hold, and reconnoiter.
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Book 34. (6 results) Plunder of Gor

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35 21 "Who whips you?" I had never been whipped, though my master, Kurik of Victoria, never hesitated to use the switch on me when I had been stupid, slow to respond, or in any other way the least bit displeasing.
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61 276 A human, one of that small, slow, fragile, weak, wretched, inferior, almost peltless stock, a small, vulnerable, despicable animal, a thing lacking claws, a soft thing, small jawed, with little in the way of fangs, had slain a High One, a Kur.
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63 209 The wagon was slow and ponderous, seemingly a poor choice if one were interested in effecting a surreptitious escape.
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63 220 The wagon is large, ponderous, slow, and conspicuous".
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65 7 I had been slow to obey.
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65 348 "Do not! Do not!" "If you thrust the bleeding stumps, as you can, into the dirt," said the Lady Bina, "that will slow the loss of blood, and you may live a little longer, to consider matters".
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Book 35. (4 results) Quarry of Gor

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5 56 They want her alive for months of torture, followed by slow impalement".
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8 950 "Slow stroke.
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10 55 I listened to the music, supplied by a czehar player, which, now, was soft, slow, and sensuous.
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47 158 "We generated that rumor, to slow or stop the search for her, to dismay and discourage hundreds of bounty hunters and gangs of bounty hunters, to keep her safer and to divert the search from the continent.
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Book 36. (17 results) Avengers of Gor

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48 26 They are like the mighty Tur tree, rooted in place, slow to grow, and slow to change".
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4 66 We watched the object, trailing red and yellow smoke, from ignited powders, reach its zenith, and then it seemed to slow and pause, and then, still trailing smoke, and whistling, fell into the sea.
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18 234 To the left, from the bow, some points to port, I saw a heaving and roiling in the water, several yards in length, and then it seemed as though there was a slow, swelling, rising of water, and it was as if a long, low, broad river of water had risen from the surface, and then, as suddenly and inexpl...
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21 75 "He is slow and inefficient, venal and grasping," said Nicomachos.
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26 3 Occasionally this is done, particularly on large, ornate, slow-moving vessels, by a flute.
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27 157 "What is this about?" "Tomorrow," I said, "with the first tide, a round ship of Anango, fat and slow, heavy with riches, departs the harbor".
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37 188 "The barge is slow," I said.
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41 3 Sometimes, if one is on the wall, and it is still light, one sees it coming, like a large slow bird rising, and then descending, approaching, growing larger and larger.
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41 217 At a given signal, the blasting of trumpets, the clashing of cymbals, the whistling of smoke arrows, the beating of drums, or such, the timbers are removed by ropes or blows, not fire, as fire is unpredictable and slow.
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42 118 Visitors sensing the huge, slow, heavy movement of the gate, scrambled wildly, crying out, to be inside or outside the leaves, anything to avoid being caught between them.
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44 9 It is similar to defending a bridge or narrow pass, in which a single man, or a handful of men, may slow or stop the advance of far greater numbers, save that the defender of the wall has the additional advantage of, so to speak, a higher ground.
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51 135 "The hith," said Sakim, "being a cold-blooded reptile, has a slow metabolism.
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53 166 "Steady," I called down to the keleustes, "slow, be as if on some excursion".
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54 26 "It will slow the Tesephone," said Thurnock.
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58 147 The Dorna, on the other hand, was crippled, and slow in the water.
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59 219 "Lengthy torture and slow, gradual impalement, lasting perhaps five days".
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62 115 "Hideous tortures, publicly inflicted over several days, followed by a slow impalement," said Archelaos.
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