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Book 1. (4 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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2 39 The planet, then, was smaller than our earth, and, given the apparent size of the sun, perhaps somewhat closer to it.
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13 64 The figure seemed to shrink backward and grow smaller in its yellow rags.
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15 18 Behind the great ditch, separated from it by some hundred yards, there was a smaller ditch, perhaps twenty feet wide and twenty feet deep, also with a rampart formed from the excavated earth.
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17 50 There were a variety of smaller, more intricate concessions desired by the Initiates and granted by Pa-Kur, mostly having to do with the provisioning of the city and the protection of its tradesmen and peasants.
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Book 2. (2 results) Outlaw of Gor

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11 94 Ost's yoke was much lighter than mine but, as he was a smaller man, the weight might have been as much for him.
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18 4 It is to be distinguished from the much smaller ore shafts, which are individual to each mine.
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Book 3. (9 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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2 64 I think it would be fair to say that it is substantially feline; at any rate its grace and sinuous power remind me of the smaller but similarly fearsome jungle cats of my old world.
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2 71 Females of both varieties tend generally to be slightly smaller than the males, but are quite as aggressive and sometimes even more dangerous, particularly in the late fall and winter of the year when they are likely to be hunting for their cubs.
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10 45 Each of these grasping appendages terminated in four much smaller, delicate hooklike prehensile appendages, the tips of which normally touched one another.
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10 46 I would learn later that in the ball at the end of its forelegs from which the smaller prehensile appendages extended, there was a curved, bladed, hornlike structure that could spring forward; this happens spontaneously when the leg's tip is inverted, a motion which at once exposes the hornlike blad...
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21 48 They were shaven and clad in plastic as are all Muls of the Nest, but their torsos seemed smaller and rounder than those of a human being and their legs and arms seemed extraordinarily long for their body size and the hands and feet seemed unusually wide.
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27 78 Its head was little larger than that of an ordinary Priest-King, or its thorax, but its trunk was conjoined to an abdomen which if swollen with eggs might have been scarcely smaller than a city bus.
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28 238 To be sure, a smaller dome would make the craft more maneuverable in the tunnels, but I think Misk did not trust himself to do battle with his former brethren.
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29 18 Gor is somewhat smaller than the earth and, accordingly, its gravitational pull is less.
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32 207 It seemed I was trapped in the Nest, but then I noted, perhaps fifty yards away, a similar door, though smaller.
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Book 4. (10 results) Nomads of Gor

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5 63 One of the most striking features of these wagons is the wheels, which are huge, the back wheels having a diameter of about ten feet; the front wheels are, like those of the Conestoga wagon, slightly smaller, in this case, about eight feet in diameter; the larger rear wheels are more difficult to mi...
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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 24 I had left the vicinity of the Sardar Range in the month of Se'Var, which in the northern hemisphere is a winter month, and had journeyed south for months; and had now come to what some call the Plains of Turia, others the Land of the Wagon Peoples, in the autumn of this hemisphere; there is, due ap...
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3 127 Both of these claims are, of course, mistaken, and the Ubars of the Wagon Peoples know well each wagon and the number of branded beasts in the various herds; each herd is, incidentally, composed of several smaller herds, each watched over by its own riders.
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7 4 The wagon itself was the largest in the camp, and the largest wagon I had conceived possible; actually it was a vast platform, set on numerous wheeled frames; though at the edges of the platform, on each side, there were a dozen of the large wheels such as are found on the much smaller wagons; these...
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9 22 This fish is a tiny, delicate fish, blue, about the size of a tarn disk when curled in one's hand; it has three or four slender spines in its dorsal fin, which are poisonous; it is capable of hurling itself from the water and, for brief distances, on its stiff pectoral fins, gliding through the air,...
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17 27 It would probably be a sea-tharlarion, or perhaps several such; sometimes the smaller sea-tharlarion, seemingly not much more than teeth and tail, fluttering in packs beneath the waves, are even more to be feared than their larger brethren, some of whom in whose jaws an entire galley can be raised f...
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17 66 And, too, larger animals usually move more slowly than smaller ones.
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19 82 At last we came to a largish room, but much smaller than the main hall, in which there were some seventeen beauties strewn about, all in Pleasure Silk.
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26 276 The Paravaci was much stronger than the fat, tiny merchant and he soon had his hands well on the sphere and was tearing it out of the smaller man's clutching hands.
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Book 5. (7 results) Assassin of Gor

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13 292 On the racing saddle there are two small straps, rather than the one large strap on the common saddle; both straps fasten about the rider and to the saddle, in a sense each duplicating the work of the other; the theory is that though smaller straps can break more easily the probability of both strap...
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4 75 It was a throwing knife, of a sort used in Ar, much smaller than the southern quiva, and tapered on only one side.
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5 139 At certain times of the year several such booths are set up within the courtyard of a slaver's house; in each, unclothed, chained by the left ankle to a ring, on furs, is a choice Red Silk Girl; prospective buyers, usually accompanied by a member of the Caste of Physicians, in the presence of the sl...
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11 7 The expression "kennels" is sometimes used similarly, but more often it refers to a kind of small, cement cell, customarily about three feet by three feet by four feet, with an iron gate, which can be raised and lowered; similar cells, but entirely of bars, are also common, and are to be found in th...
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12 135 The course is determined by twelve rings, hung on chains from great supporting towers; six of these "rings" are rectangular and six are round; the large rectangular "rings" are three on a side; the smaller, round rings are set at the corners of the dividing wall, and one at each of the narrowest por...
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13 351 In Mip's hand I saw a small dagger, a throwing knife, of a sort manufactured in Ar; it was smaller than the southern quiva; it was tapered on only one side.
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18 323 There were several yards of sausages hung on hooks; numerous canisters of flour, sugars and salts; many smaller containers of spices and condiments.
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Book 6. (3 results) Raiders of Gor

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17 133 The lateen-rigged galley, whether a round ship or a ram-ship, although it can furl its sail, cannot well let out and take in sail; it is not a square-rigged craft; accordingly she carries different sails for different conditions; the yard itself, from the mast, is lowered and hoisted, sails being re...
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5 85 The smaller children played together, the boys playing games with small nets and reed marsh spears, the girls with rence dolls, or some of the older ones sporting with throwing sticks, competing against one another.
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14 250 I had little doubt that the Dorna, a somewhat lighter ship, with better lines and shorter keel, would be more responsive to her helm than the other ship and that, sooner or later, as the circles grew smaller, she would be able to wheel and take her foe in the stern quarter or amidships.
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Book 7. (20 results) Captive of Gor

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3 48 He spoke this time in English to the smaller man, he who had had the syringe.
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3 54 "All right," said the smaller man.
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3 56 There had not been the slightest trace of an accent in the smaller man's response.
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3 67 The smaller lingered.
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3 113 The smaller man then left my side.
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3 115 I saw the two men in the uniforms of police officers leaving the penthouse, followed by the smaller man, who, as he left the house, was drawing the mask from his head.
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4 85 One of the men from the dark, disklike shape, the smaller one, which had followed me, approached.
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4 164 The smaller craft is used more extensively, but normally only at night, and in isolated areas.
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5 99 Two, on the left side, were smaller.
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6 192 The smaller man had then turned away.
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7 65 There is also a smaller ring, projecting from the larger ring, which also locks.
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7 66 This smaller ring can either be snapped into a particular link in a chain, thus allowing the girls to be spaced at certain intervals, or it can be closed about the chain as a whole, thus permitting the chain to run freely through the ring without injuring or burning the girl's ankle.
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8 214 Then they leaped to the pier and, with smaller ropes, fastened to the same cleats, began to draw the barge close to the pier.
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9 93 "Some groups are smaller, some larger, but my band," she said, "as I wish, numbers fifteen".
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10 46 It was the smaller man, one of those who had originally captured me, and had bound me on my own bed, in my penthouse.
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13 49 The two smaller pieces of binding fiber she thrust in the belt of her camisk, itself of binding fiber.
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13 167 The smaller snares would be more easily overlooked.
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13 825 "Perhaps you might be sold at a smaller town, a village, or a border outpost".
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15 915 Before him it is hard for a female not to know herself as a female, and, in knowing this, recognizing herself as smaller and weaker, and thus to be given the tasks he does not care to perform.
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15 1107 Ute took the other slave bells and buckled one strap, with its two small buckles, like the ankle straps, except smaller, about my left wrist, and then buckled the other strap, with its two small buckles, about my right wrist.
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Book 8. (11 results) Hunters of Gor

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2 542 Her sails were, first, the fair-weather sail, which is quite large, and is used in gentle winds; secondly, the tarn sail, which is the common sail most often found on the yard of a tarn ship, and taking its name from the ship; third, a sail of the same type as the tarn sail, and, in a sense, a small...
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3 104 Lydius is one of the few cities of the north which has public baths, as in Ar and Turia, though much smaller and less opulent.
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3 323 He then locked her wrists in metal clasps, similar to those, though smaller, which confined her ankles.
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9 407 There were three of them, a larger, and two smaller, looming, dominating.
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13 207 The circles were becoming smaller.
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14 129 A female's brand is smaller, and much more graceful, usually being the initial, in cursive script, of Kajira, the most common Gorean expression for a slave female.
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15 473 Their arrows, their bows being smaller, are not as long as the common sheaf arrow of the long bow, but they would be satisfactory.
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16 106 Mira could have no way of knowing how many were present at her interrogation nor if those present were merely a delegation or smaller group drawn from a larger band.
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16 298 It had been intended for the bodies of men, not the smaller bodies of women.
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18 452 The much smaller craft of the men of Torvaldsland, clinker built, with overlapping, bending planking, are more seaworthy.
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18 654 I saw the single lantern on the longboat growing smaller in the distance.
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Book 9. (4 results) Marauders of Gor

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14 251 Hand over hand I crawled up the chain; then the chain shook, wildly; I struggled to hold it; the fire at my right sleeve snapped back and forth; I lost my breath; I feared my neck would break; blood was on the chain; I held it; Kurii howled beneath me; I moved further up the chain; then the chain st...
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4 165 It has a straight, but rounded handle, carved smaller at the two ends, one where it adjoins the scoop, the other in back of the grip.
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7 258 At my side, I heard Thyri's breathing, too, deep and soft, that of the smaller lungs of a girl.
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13 21 Similarly, at the tables parallel to the high-seat table, smaller tables flanking the long fire on both sides, the tables nearest the high seat counted as being above the salt, those farthest away being below the salt.
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Book 10. (4 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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2 39 Smaller water sources are used in the spring, for these are the first to go dry, larger ones later in the year.
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15 13 It may be that, in remote times, an arm of Thassa extended here, or did extend here and then, later, in seismic dislocations or continental drift, became isolated from the parent body of water, leaving behind one or more smaller salt seas.
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24 19 At best we might be able, failing to take the kasbah, to invest it with a smaller force that it would be practical to supply with water from Red Rock.
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24 457 Is it not enough to own and master, and have the whole slave of her? I think the culture makes them that way, that it twists them from the power and force, and the magnificence, of the mastery to smaller, more petty, less worthy concerns, and that they seek lamentable, misdirected vengeance on innoc...
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Book 11. (10 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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5 361 Similar considerations may have a bearing on the smaller size and strength of women.
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7 605 A big red-haired fellow and a smaller dark-haired fellow had bet on which of them would take Slave Beads.
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7 620 Donna shrank even smaller, covered by the canvas.
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7 680 I was so much smaller and weaker than they, and their lust would be on them.
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8 109 This distance, in a herd sleen, of course, is much smaller.
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8 138 The two most common sorts of trained sleen are the smaller, tawny prairie sleen, and the large, brown or black forest sleen, sometimes attaining a length of twenty feet.
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8 292 I was smaller, weaker, more delicate, sensitive.
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10 29 Another time we were passed by a smaller slave caravan.
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22 45 Other dorsal fins, of smaller sharks, trailed it, waiting.
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22 647 Others, too, smaller, restless, white-finned, moved about the raft.
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Book 12. (13 results) Beasts of Gor

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31 101 "Fire, and cooked meat," I said, "makes possible a smaller jaw and smaller teeth, permitting less cranial musculature and permitting the development of a larger brain case".
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2 157 What if men did not do her bidding? She was smaller and weaker, and beautiful, and desirable.
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3 1110 In his left hand he carried a bundle of furs, smaller now, than it had been, and a sack, which was now less bulky than it had been when I had seen it earlier near the puppet theater.
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4 151 There were similar boards, though smaller, at various places about the fair, where men who could not afford the fee to enter the amphitheater might stand and watch the progress of play.
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10 276 The coffle, in virtue of the arrangements of chains and ankle rings, could be broken up into smaller work units.
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12 205 These great pieces and mountains of ice, shattering from the brinks of Ax Glacier and her smaller sisters, in time, drifting, carried by currents, would reach the northern sea, that eastward-reaching extension of Thassa rimming the polar basin.
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12 214 The smaller ones, especially at night, can be particularly dangerous.
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20 102 In the summer there was a gathering for the great tabuk hunt, when the herd of Tancred crossed Ax Glacier and came to the tundra, but, even in the summer, later, the smaller groups, still pursuing tabuk, would scatter in their hunts, following the casual dispersal of the tabuk in their extended graz...
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26 151 The blocks of the second row, those forming the second ring of the circular shelter, were slightly smaller than those of the first row.
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27 143 It is better for the fur not to be constantly put through this cycle of dampening and freezing; also, the heavy parka is rather large for the drying frame, which is generally used for smaller articles, like boots and mittens.
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29 52 The rings of gold in the ears of that ice beast were smaller and lighter, I think, than those in the ears of this beast.
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31 177 This form of Kur is smaller than the dominant or the nondominant, speaking thusly of the nonreproducing form of Kur".
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34 70 A Kur, thus, requires a smaller time interval than many species between eating heavily and engaging in demanding physical behaviors.
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Book 13. (7 results) Explorers of Gor

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4 377 It was a bit past dawn and the paga taverns backing on the smaller canal would be throwing out their garbage from the preceding night.
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4 649 The blond girl tried to make herself even smaller and more submissive, that she be not more abused.
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32 217 On the jungle floor, as well, are found jungle larls and jungle panthers, of diverse kinds, and many smaller catlike predators.
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32 229 There is, however, a sleenlike animal, though much smaller, about two feet in length and some eight to ten pounds in weight, the zeder, which frequents the Ua and her tributaries.
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32 1083 "Master," she asked, holding out to me the blue and yellow beads, "would you not, please, put this string upon me?" "Very well," I said, standing behind her, looping them twice, one loop smaller than the other, about her throat.
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51 92 Janice was perhaps a bit smaller.
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57 68 And Lake Shaba itself was fed by numerous smaller streams and rivers, each giving promise, like the tributaries of the Ua itself, to the latency of new countries.
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Book 14. (7 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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1 708 The smaller of the two women said almost nothing.
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3 19 There was, attached to it, as I conjectured, hearing the tiny sound of its movement and its clink on the stone beneath my body, a smaller piece of metal, perhaps a ring of some sort.
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4 67 Lola, I conjecture, was in the neighborhood of five feet four inches tall and would have weighed about one hundred and twenty pounds; Tela, who was a bit smaller, I would conjecture would have been about five feet three inches tall and would have weighed a pound or two less, perhaps about one hundre...
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12 123 Somewhere on Earth, here and there, I was certain, there were honestly strong men, in the historical and biological sense, men before women knelt as smaller and weaker creatures, and objects of intense desire.
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12 348 The explanation for the much smaller number of male as opposed to female slaves on Gor, speaking now generally of male work slaves, is also clear.
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16 21 The welfare of a larger number of individuals, as the Goreans reason, correctly or incorrectly, is more important than the welfare of a smaller number of individuals.
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18 166 These are usually larger and more agile beasts than common saddle tharlarion and are smaller, of course, than either draft tharlarion or war tharlarion, the latter used almost exclusively in the tharlarion cavalries of Gor, huge, upright beasts, several tons in weight, guided by voice commands and t...
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Book 15. (8 results) Rogue of Gor

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4 474 I wondered if it were frightening to be a woman, and to know oneself smaller and weaker than the male, and subduable and leashable by the male, and to recognize, on some level, that one was in nature his rightful property, the smaller, lovelier goods of the larger, stronger beast.
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2 102 "Your body seems smaller and more helpless than I remembered it," I observed.
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14 359 She then entered her room, the smaller room which, previously, had been mine.
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24 30 The other chain terminated in a smaller loop of steel, an ankle ring, suitable for a girl's ankle.
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24 423 "After that night," she said, "we were divided into smaller lots and distributed throughout various markets.
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29 204 "If Port Cos can give you twenty men for such a venture," said Aemilianus, "Ar's Station, surely, could supply no smaller a number".
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31 86 "Yes," said the smaller of the two women.
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32 190 Wharfed within the courtyard were only some five vessels, and smaller boats.
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Book 16. (5 results) Guardsman of Gor

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12 108 Later crews, now, in smaller groups, in single file, would be conducted deeply within the holding.
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12 109 There, by larger numbers, the smaller groups would be disarmed, beaten and hurled into waiting, smooth-sided capture pits, prepared earlier by the captured pirates of Kliomenes.
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18 2 I watched from behind a dark curtain, one bearing, on both sides, in gold embroidery, an intricate design incorporating cursive Kefs, one larger and several smaller.
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18 125 "When this garment is removed from me," asked the smaller girl, "am I then to be whipped?" "That is the Master's decision, is it not?" asked the larger girl.
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21 506 She will not meet the eyes of the free woman; she is scarcely likely to leave her knees or lift her head; her body is bent and seems smaller; she seems to wilt and tremble; she tries to draw down the hem of her tunic; she grasps the edges of her tunic and tries to draw them closed, to conceal better...
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Book 17. (21 results) Savages of Gor

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1 408 Standing as they were, upright, the larger of the two creatures was some nine feet tall, and the smaller some eight and a half feet tall.
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1 409 I conjecture the larger weighed about nine hundred pounds and the smaller about eight hundred and fifty pounds.
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1 470 There was a broad leather strap, too, running from the right shoulder to the left hip of the smaller of the two creatures.
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1 498 Then, slowly, the smaller of the two creatures began to move.
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1 519 To be sure, however, it was only the lighter colored, and smaller, of the two creatures, that with rings in its ears, which had performed these actions.
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1 531 The lips of the smaller of the two creatures drew back, exposing the fangs.
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1 542 The smaller of the two creatures turned to the larger.
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1 549 The smaller of the two creatures then busied itself with the device on the table.
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1 1015 It is to be distinguished in particular from the longer, heavier tharlarion lance, designed for use from tharlarionback, and often used with a lance rest, and the smaller, thicker stabbing lances used by certain groups of pedestrian nomads.
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3 28 "An iron master travels among several of the smaller border towns.
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6 35 Besides these major herds there are several smaller, identifiable herds numbering in the hundreds of thousands of animals.
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6 36 Beyond these, as would be expected, there are many smaller herds, the very numbers of which are not even calculated by the red savages themselves, herds which often range from a few hundred to several thousand animals.
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6 37 It is speculated that some of these smaller herds may be subherds of larger herds, separating from the major herd at certain points during the season, depending on such conditions as forage and water.
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6 65 Who would buy them? The compound also contained several larger and smaller wooden structures, primarily holding and storage areas, barracks for men and various ancillary buildings, a cook house, smithy, discipline shack, and such.
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13 1765 "We are smaller, softer, slighter.
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14 1225 "Smaller parties can be more dangerous than larger parties, at such a time," said Grunt.
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14 1228 The smaller party may consist of young men, insufficiently disciplined, urging one another on to yet another hazard or feat, fellows who are unwilling for the fun to be over, fellows who are eager to try for yet one more killing, fellows who wish to obtain yet one more trophy".
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16 25 "If that is true," I said, "we should find the remains of evening fires, large cooking fires, with circled stones, near the wagons, not the absence of fires, nor the smaller remains of midday fires".
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16 115 These were the wagons for which I had earlier sought in vain, the smaller, squarish wagons, which had been with the mercenary column.
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16 322 "How many of these smaller, squarish wagons, such as this one, were there?" I asked, indicating the remains of the nearest wagon, one of those which had been with the mercenary column.
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17 51 Smaller yokes, some two to two and a half feet in length, similarly constructed, can be used for other purposes, such as enjoying a girl in the furs.
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Book 18. (22 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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47 301 The man, gesticulating, flailing, screaming, the sound rapidly fading, the body seeming to grow smaller and smaller, sank away from me.
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2 218 The Casmu numbered in the neighborhood of one thousand; the Wismahi, one of the smaller bands, numbered about five or six hundred.
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4 38 One then breaks them into smaller pieces, warms them in one's hands and mouth, and eats them bit by bit.
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7 413 I then covered her with a smaller hide.
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9 521 "I mean in my understanding of it," she said "I do not understand," I said "We are smaller, and weaker than you, and softer," she said.
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9 523 "That must mean something," she said, "that we are smaller, and weaker, and softer".
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12 220 "That hide," I said, indicating the smaller hide, "is about the size of a Tahari submission mat".
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13 180 Too, I had thought that Canka had given her smaller bits and pieces, and had held on to them more tightly, than was necessary to merely feed her.
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13 192 This made feasible the delivery of produce, something which would be correspondingly impractical most of the year, when the tribes had separated into scattered bands, and sometimes even smaller units, with temporary, shifting camps.
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14 147 "And what of some of the other travois," I asked, "those drawn by the smaller, slighter Sames.
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18 292 In the dirt, about the stick, were drawn two circles, a larger and a smaller.
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18 294 At noon the sun, it seemed, in this latitude, casting its shortest shadow, would bring the shadow to or within the smaller of the two circles.
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19 134 On this small, raised place, too, was a stick, surrounded by two circles, a larger and a smaller.
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27 14 "The Kinyanpi!" "Maybe it is smaller birds, a flock, much closer," said a man.
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27 108 "Where a smaller number attacks a larger number there is more glory".
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32 81 There was a great circle, in which dignitaries had their places, and many smaller circles.
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34 10 In our passage we had seen, to our right, Council Rock, rearing high, almost anomalously, out of the plains, prominent amidst a group of smaller, associated bluffs.
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36 36 A similar opening, somewhat smaller, was at the other end of the pit.
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37 85 Similar pits, though much smaller, are used for the capture of the taloned Herlit.
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37 518 I then went to the other end of the pit, where the smaller opening was, and uncoiled the line which lay there, formerly atop the hobbling log.
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37 544 In this moment, its attention fastened on the girl, on tearing away the obstacle which lay between him and her, I thrust through the smaller opening and, with a swirl of rope and two hitches, fastened the hobbling log on its right leg.
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47 132 My lance took a rider from his mount, tearing him back out of the girth rope, and then he was spinning, wildly flailing, screaming and turning, growing smaller, journeying with terrible, accelerative force, seemingly eccentrically, to the turf below, it seeming to rock and shift with my movements, l...
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Book 19. (18 results) Kajira of Gor

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3 49 Smaller rings, too, I noted, circling the couch, appeared at regular intervals about its perimeter, about every four or five feet, or so.
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3 899 "Perhaps Mistress should take smaller bites," she said.
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6 179 "What is that other wagon," I asked, "the smaller one, there near the side of the road, which has pulled aside to let the grain wagons pass?" I had been watching it approach.
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6 354 Some of the smaller fountains were worn down on the right side of their rim.
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6 823 There seemed, however, to be a longer chain, which was a base chain, and two smaller, subsidiary chains.
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6 824 At one end the base chain was attached to a rather small neck ring, but suitable for closing about a woman's neck; at the other end it was attached to one of the subsidiary chains, about a foot long, and terminating on each end with a ring; those rings looked as though they might fit snugly about a ...
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10 3 The smaller streets of Gorean cities are often dark at night.
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14 145 The smaller of the two men, he who had been so expert with the locks and chains, placed his fingers across my lips.
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14 168 "It is other than mine," said the smaller man.
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14 184 "Already, in this," said the smaller man, "you have been granted more than a hundred times the lenience and favor that you deserve".
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14 195 "The camp will be awake in three Ahn," the smaller man had said.
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16 334 Some smaller loaves are divided into four divisions.
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19 151 I then took smaller bites, bites perhaps somewhat more conformable to the dignity of a free woman, a lady and a Tatrix.
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24 267 Although she was a large, strong woman and could have beaten any of us, smaller, weaker women, she looked small, and suddenly timid, kneeling before Borkon.
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30 25 Two days ago the smaller streets, such as the Street of Hermadius, should have been cleaned.
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33 35 The land forces of Cos, on the other hand, were probably not superior to those of a number of Gorean states, even much smaller in their populations than the island Ubarate.
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35 65 Susan was younger and smaller than I but she, having seniority over me among the women of Miles of Argentum, was dominant over me.
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36 591 I shrank down in the ropes, trying to make myself appear smaller.
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Book 20. (1 results) Players of Gor

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13 285 Sometimes it would rear up, straightly, unexpectedly, looking about itself, and then drop back to a smaller, more bent-over position.
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Book 21. (8 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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3 34 I saw again a large straight-hipped woman seize a piece of bread fiercely from a smaller woman, one with a delicious love cradle.
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3 199 This formation makes it possible for a given army, choosing to attack only limited portions of the enemy, portions smaller than itself, to engage an army which, all told, may be three times its size, and, not unoften, to turn the flank of this much larger body, producing its confusion and rout.
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3 234 Most of the larger varieties have two brains, or, perhaps better, a brain and a smaller brainlike organ.
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4 46 Their most common mount is the medium-weight saddle tharlarion, a beast smaller and less powerful, but swifter and more agile, than the common high tharlarion.
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5 419 There were three rings there, the central ring, to which Tula had been chained, generally used for tethering, and two smaller, side rings, auxiliary rings, sometimes used for tethering, sometimes used for drawing a second wagon or cart.
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16 1532 He had indicated a fenced enclosure, within which were various smaller enclosures, and some cages.
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16 1721 I had saved a silver tarsk, or its equivalent in smaller coins.
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25 31 On this street, too, of course, among many other sorts of establishments, such as shops and stalls, and smaller residences, are several insulae, among them the insula of Achiates.
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Book 22. (8 results) Dancer of Gor

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6 230 These are not candies, incidentally, like sticks, as, for example, licorice or peppermint sticks, but soft, rounded, succulent candies, usually covered with a coating of syrup or fudge, rather in the nature of the caramel apple, but much smaller, and, like a caramel apple, mounted on sticks.
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7 85 I was smaller, and afraid of her.
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8 6 This is a much smaller town, south, and somewhat to the east, of Samnium.
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8 71 I recalled the other footprints we had seen in the dirt, left over, probably, from the day before, those smaller, lovelier, daintier, high-arched prints, doubtless those of girls.
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8 106 One of the Gorean girls, Tutina, was smaller than I.
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8 161 There were also two smaller doors, giving access perhaps to offices or corridors.
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15 61 This device would be secured in place by a broad, mouth-covering strap, with three smaller straps attached to it, one to secure the broad strap at the upper lip, another to secure it across the mouth, pulling it back between the teeth, and one to secure it at the chin.
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29 81 The whole place, judging from the condition of the meadow, where the grass was sometimes very high, and the trees across from us, smaller and wilder, had probably been abandoned for years.
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Book 23. (11 results) Renegades of Gor

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1 338 More commonly, however, querns are used, usually, if they are large, operated by two men, if smaller, by two boys.
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2 204 I examined various of the smaller buildings and sheds, their location and what vantages or cover they might provide.
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5 620 The smaller ones open like flat books, not roll books, and may be closed with tiny latches, or tied shut.
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6 259 "Beneath it, in smaller letters, it says 'Inquire at the Crooked Tarn pertinent to Redemption Fees.
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12 39 Then she bent down further, making herself even smaller in the straw, looking up at me.
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15 581 "When you were going through our friends' pouches over there, did you find any small knives, such as a hook knife or a shaving knife?" I had a belt knife myself, which was sheathed on the sword belt, to the right, but at the moment I preferred something lighter-bladed, smaller and sharper, if it wer...
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16 321 The smaller probes, now, those of the scattered grapnels and single-pole ladders, had ceased.
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17 568 I myself took one of the smaller portals at the side, to follow an interior corridor to the vicinity of the main gate.
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20 406 It must be remembered, too, that these were river galleys and, on the whole, smaller than the galleys of Thassa.
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21 5 Ahead of us, in oblique formation, barely discernible, were four smaller galleys.
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24 718 A coin smaller than the copper tarsk is the tarsk bit, but most do not lend themselves to gambling as they are usually triangular, being fashioned by cutting a copper tarsk into either four or eight pieces.
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Book 24. (12 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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14 223 In such drives, the ring growing smaller and smaller, hundreds of animals can be brought together at a given point.
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1 1234 There were five pieces of gold there, three staters of Brundisium and two of Telnus, eleven silver tarsks, of various cities, for such circulate freely, and some smaller coins.
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14 329 In the case of the men of the Barrens some think this is connected with their smaller, less powerful bow.
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16 19 The crouching figure makes a smaller target.
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17 338 There are two general size ranges, a larger one for men and a smaller one for women.
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17 340 It is the smaller range of sizes in lock gags, as you might suppose, which is most commonly used.
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18 42 The final waves, of course, are smaller, and more fitful.
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19 853 The larger uls, as opposed to the several smaller varieties, some as small as jards, tend to be isolated and territorial.
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19 1068 In a few moments we had come to the small bar, that tiny island, much smaller than the one on which she had been bound, on which I had drawn up the raft.
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29 95 He also would have brought to him smaller branches an inch and a half, to two inches in diameter.
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37 5 "Thigh," I said, to the other woman, also dark-haired, but smaller.
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46 368 She would probably think in terms of a more feminine hiding place, a smaller, more-closed-in, more-sheltered, safer-seeming place, a closet, a cabinet, a trunk, a box, a cage, a wagon, a sack, such places, or else to think in terms of putting herself where it might seem to her that she belonged in a...
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Book 25. (10 results) Magicians of Gor

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1 96 She has some forty public gates, and, I suppose, some number of restricted smaller gates, secret gates, posterns, and such.
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4 16 Only yesterday there had been lines, though smaller than when we had first come to Ar, to revile the stone.
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8 166 Many smaller buildings, dwellings, shops, insulae, and such, on the other hand, were relatively new.
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8 186 So, too, many Gorean streets, particularly those that are smaller and much like alleys, may not have names.
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9 5 This smaller, added ramp would be on the left side of the platform, as one would face it.
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10 13 There had been demands by minor Initiates, of smaller temples, outside the pomerium of the city, first, for the ceremonies to be conducted, and, later, these ceremonies not taking place, for the Home Stone to be produced.
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18 29 At the foot of the stairs, as is common in insulae, there was a great wastes pot, into which the smaller wastes pots of the many tiny apartments in the building are emptied.
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19 33 We had left Ar early in the morning, and had circled the remains of her walls to the west and then took smaller roads into the hills to the northeast.
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24 126 She is suddenly smaller, and very female.
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27 495 Some numerous coins, of smaller denomination than gold pieces, I thought, might be useful to him.
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Book 26. (29 results) Witness of Gor

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7 1127 Perhaps she had sensed the same of me, though I was smaller, and so much more vulnerable.
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8 381 Whereas the larger door or gate may be opened, and men may enter the cell standing, if they wish, such as we are usually entered into the cell and summoned forth from it through the smaller door or gate.
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8 431 I, though much smaller than they, no more than they, could even dream of slipping between the bars.
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8 992 The smaller vessels may have been discards from some kitchen.
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9 201 Once, a large formation, consisting of perhaps two hundred such creatures, wheeled about in diverse aerial maneuvers, sometimes in abrupt, breath-taking turns, and ascents and descents, sometimes breaking into smaller groups and then reuniting, as though converging on aerial prey, to piercing whistl...
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9 289 The bird was smaller than many, and with shorter wings.
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10 227 The common arrangement is a collar with dangling chain, to which are attached two smaller chains, the first with wrist rings, the second, at the termination of the dangling chain, with ankle rings.
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10 515 In each of the double gates was a smaller opening which was now shut, through which only one person at a time might pass.
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10 996 The sows are smaller and lack tusks.
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12 17 This mesh was thus capable not only of holding things of my size, and larger, but also things which might be considerably smaller.
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12 59 We are smaller than men.
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13 575 Smaller, lighter versions of such traps exist for escaped female slaves.
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16 88 A smaller veil may be used, of course, with hooded robes of concealment.
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19 384 The crowd, too, or, at least, many of its members, put coins, usually single coins, or coins of smaller denomination, in the bowls.
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19 896 "Is this your petty vengeance on a free woman," she asked, angrily, "you illiterate, stupid, sleek, embonded, collared little she-urt?" "I do not think I am smaller than you," I said.
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23 175 I watched the scarlet-clad figure and the Lady Constanzia growing smaller, across the terrace.
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24 347 It was smaller than the first group.
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29 368 Frightened, she tried to make herself smaller, pulling her legs up.
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33 46 A trailer is usually a smaller beast, and one more easily managed, but it is, when all is said and done, a sleen, and trailers not unoften, at the hunt's end, their instincts preponderating, break loose for the kill.
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34 97 It tapers toward the bottom to keep the water pressure constant, that being required to regularize the speed of the flow, a larger amount of water over a larger area exerting a pressure equivalent in its effect to that of a lesser amount over a smaller area.
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37 62 The smaller animal began to make tiny, excited, anticipatory noises.
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37 122 The larger animal then, as had the smaller, earlier, in its excitement, loosed its urine.
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37 141 The smaller of the two sleen was one which had been imprinted with my own scent and name.
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37 159 In this it was accompanied by the smaller animal.
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37 176 I could now detect a rumble in the throat of the smaller animal.
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37 184 Again the two sleen, first the larger, then the smaller, approached, and stopped.
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37 191 The smaller animal continued to feed, being struck with stroke after stroke.
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37 197 The smaller animal continued to feed until its vertebrae, at the base of the skull, had been severed.
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46 600 I had referred to the cloak which lay to the side, the smaller of the two cloaks, that which was not his, that which had earlier been put about me by the first of the two captors.
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Book 27. (19 results) Prize of Gor

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4 352 Was that almost a slight hint of resistance? But when the young man turned to Tutina, her manner underwent an instant transformation, and she shrank down a little, making herself smaller, and, trembling, averted her eyes, not daring to meet his.
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7 25 It was much smaller, some seven feet by seven feet.
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7 209 One might also mention that, from her new, smaller cell, she was occasionally able to see other women, often in custody, sometimes even hooded, in the corridor.
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11 557 A broad, flat wagon was there, too large to fit flat through the smaller door, that leading from the room to the corridor and kitchen.
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11 559 Ellen had, of course, used the smaller door in her serving, that giving eventual access to the kitchen.
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11 560 Interestingly, the woman's companion, conducting her, had exited with her through the smaller door.
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11 641 There, bending down, crouching gracefully, under her master's eye, she cleared the smaller table.
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11 671 In a moment she had wheeled the cart to the smaller of the two doors, and worked it through, and was soon in the hall outside.
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13 182 The forest sleen are larger, and are solitary hunters, or, if mated, pair hunters; the prairie sleen are smaller, and commonly hunt in packs.
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16 725 "What place is this? Where am I?" The girl looked about but neither Targo nor Barzak were near the shelf, and the crowd, smaller now in the late afternoon, had its own concerns.
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19 617 Many mercenaries, particularly of the smaller companies, are not above brigandage.
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20 86 Curious, she determined that the coffle was not arranged in order of height, as are many smaller coffles.
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20 829 She became aware then that in the vicinity of the tent, where she could see behind it, and to its sides, there were many whitenesses in the darkness, whitenesses receding, seeming to become smaller, into the darkness.
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25 897 For the common silver tarsk, the smaller tarsk, the coin pertinent to the bidding in question, the ratio was one hundred such tarsks to the golden tarn disk, at least that of Ar or Jad, on Cos, and certain other major cities, including Brundisium.
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25 922 "Buy something as good, for less, when the crowd is smaller," said the auctioneer.
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26 250 "No alarms have been sounded! There has been no attack on us!" All of this made little sense to Ellen, for she had supposed that the confiscated, gathered wealth of a dozen cities, and hundreds of smaller communities, destined for the troops of Cos and Tyros, and the regiments of mercenaries in Ar a...
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26 797 "Alas," said Selius Arconious, "there is no smaller coin".
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27 217 "They are smaller now," said Ellen.
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28 102 The prairie sleen is, incidentally, I have been told, much smaller than the forest sleen, which can upon occasion reach lengths of eighteen feet and weights of several hundred pounds.
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Book 28. (24 results) Kur of Gor

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70 54 It gradually became clear to him, to his gratification, that the quarry was being encouraged to move in smaller and smaller circles, centering on a particular area.
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1 205 Too, as is common in the human species, these two females were considerably smaller than the average male, and considerably weaker.
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1 207 Size and strength are common features of the human male, and accordingly the human female, smaller and weaker, often seeks to secure and protect herself within the shelter of these features.
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1 448 But clearly the male in the container was the nearest thing to her master, and thus she, as any smaller animal would, had a lively sense as to where lay the power in this small world, and, accordingly, in which direction lay her best interests.
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5 267 Pyrrhus, much smaller than Arcesilaus, no more than four or five hundred pounds, who was in the ring hierarchy subordinate to Arcesilaus, was looking at the brunette, who was still in position.
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5 337 "Is there no danger from smaller debris?" asked Cabot.
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18 160 Six were quite large, the other two were considerably smaller, surely no more than three to five hundred pounds.
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19 22 The ecological niche on the planet Earth, which is usually filled with large predators of a feline nature, such as the lion, the tiger, and such, is filled, or mostly, on Gor by the larl, and a diversity of smaller predators, primarily pantherine in form.
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19 64 Wild animals are on the whole smaller, lack stamina, are malnourished, infested with parasites, and short-lived.
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21 108 "They are smaller, the pelting is smoother, glossier, less shaggy".
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21 170 They fled back, and then, as she regarded them, one after another, they moved back further, and bent down, to make themselves smaller in her presence.
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25 1 The Stray "Hold!" commanded Cabot, and the two smaller Kurii, lesser Kurii, scavenger Kurii, not even worthy of the ships, stopped.
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29 116 "It would have to do with the natures favored by natural selection, in our species, interestingly, a radical sexual dimorphism, not only anatomically but psychologically, and the desire on the part of the smaller animal to submit and serve, to be owned and mastered, and that of the larger animal to ...
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33 259 Two smaller tharlarion began to attack it, while it still lived.
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40 157 "In vaults, locked within," said Grendel, "with many additional weapons, smaller, manageable by a single Kur, or human".
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46 30 "My smaller size," said Flavion, "facilitates my humble contributions, if contributions they be, to our cause".
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46 147 "There are smaller weapons," said Cabot.
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47 22 Humans were lighter, and smaller, than Kurii, and better adapted to this venture than would have been their larger, heavier, allies.
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47 137 This modality of aggression, interestingly, frequently characterizes the feeding attack of the smaller Gorean forest panther.
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49 15 The forest panther sometimes drags its prey into a tree, presumably to keep it safe from smaller predators, or from scavengers.
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49 17 Who would challenge a larl? Smaller beasts wait patiently, until it abandons its prey, and stalks away in its disinterested, lordly fashion.
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70 52 Where might he find others? Too, whereas many Kurii, large Kurii, might manage, at least with good fortune, to survive the attack of a typical sleen, say, a smaller, wild sleen, the quarry, though large for a human, was not large for a Kur, and Ramar was an unusually large, dangerous animal.
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74 21 On rough ground other formations were more effective, smaller, coordinated groups of men, groups which, to the movements of standards, the blasts of horns, could break apart from other groups, rejoin, slip to the rear, be replaced with fresh groups, and so on.
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80 153 Down at the gate a Kur, who had perhaps been waiting for this signal, turned aside, disappeared for a moment beyond the wall, and then, in another moment, reappeared, together with another Kur, and another figure, one much smaller.
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Book 29. (17 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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17 41 A larger group may well defeat a smaller group but it cannot do so if the smaller, more agile group refuses to engage to its disadvantage.
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2 24 Gor is somewhat smaller than Earth but having missed the cataclysm that drew, say, a sixth of Earth into space to form her magnificent single moon, leaving behind a mighty basin to become in time a vast ocean, her land area is quite possibly more extensive than that of Earth.
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5 296 There were, of course, some islands beyond Tyros and Cos, some smaller islands, spoken of, commonly, as the Farther Islands.
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5 405 She had some ten oars to a side; she was smaller than my Tesephone.
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5 499 Because of the vast, triangular spreading of the Vosk river, into dozens of smaller rivers, often mutually interfluent, flowing into the Tamber Gulf, which leads to Thassa herself, the sea, that area is known in Gorean as the Delka, or, better, the Delka of the Vosk.
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5 1132 I then distributed several of the smaller packages, which had been left free, doubtless deliberately, amongst them, the heaviest to the taller, larger girls.
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12 181 The common tarsk, on the other hand, is much smaller.
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12 182 When a slave, or even a free woman, is disparaged as a "she-tarsk," the smaller animal, the common tarsk, is invariably in mind.
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12 268 At that sound the smaller bird, or younger bird, or less aggressive bird, usually backs away.
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14 56 More practical on the whole, I thought, everything considered, would be the metal buckler, smaller and easily managed, with one hand, rather than an entire arm.
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16 113 If my archers could judge, lead, and strike such targets, smaller than a man's body, I had little doubt they could manage the more likely targets.
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17 35 They would expect, in numbers, if in nothing else, to overwhelm and destroy a smaller force.
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17 40 Smaller groups, obviously, with a given quantity of supplies, can be kept much longer in the field.
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17 50 I do not doubt that the invading force, for the moment seemingly unopposed, would suppose our smaller cavalry had judiciously forsaken the field, even as, unbeknownst to the central body of the invaders, dozens of our tarnsmen, darting to and fro, were shredding its margins.
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19 153 Nodachi, I was sure, was a dedicated, great, and charismatic teacher and swordsman, in his own right, and did not require, and doubtless would not appreciate, the mantles of myth, woven for others, and misplaced upon him, mantles which might be cast upon him by smaller men, needful of marvels.
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22 117 The effect of Tassa powder, on a smaller body, given identities of quantities, and such, is more lasting than on a larger body.
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22 392 The effect then is rather like a circle which contains a number of smaller circles, each of which encircles the waist of a slave.
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Book 30. (20 results) Mariners of Gor

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9 398 Many had been recruited in Brundisium, and, over months, in larger and smaller numbers, in larger and smaller ships, had coasted north, thence at one rendezvous or another, to move overland, east to Tarn Camp.
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10 42 How they would abuse the smaller, beautiful, more feminine women in their power! It was interesting how some women, such large, gross, misshapen, unhappy women, could hate other women, smaller, lovelier women, clearly, fittingly, and appropriately the slaves of men.
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2 156 Smaller gulls nest on the cliffs of both Tyros and Cos.
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3 490 "This monstrous female," she said, eagerly, gratefully, "perhaps a discipline slave in a pleasure garden, used to keep smaller, more beautiful females in line, or a female draft slave, or a laundress, at best, said, 'Give me your sandals!' 'Never,' cried I, 'slave!' 'Slave?' she said.
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3 647 The cord was not the ropage which might be used to bind a man, but much smaller, and weaker.
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8 151 A metal band had been hammered shut there, and, now flat against the band, in its welded staple, was a smaller ring, to which a chain might be attached, or through which a chain might be run, one by means of which several girls might be secured.
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9 52 In our small quarters there were some forty fellows, mostly of Cos, Tyros, or the smaller islands.
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10 45 But such gross women, slaves, would kneel, tremble, and grovel, no differently from their smaller, fairer sisters, before a free woman.
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10 49 Such gross women, sold perhaps for a pittance, and taught the meaning of their sex, if only by the whip, discovered the femininity they had thought nonexistent, and had professed to despise in their smaller sisters.
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13 49 What was special about this ship? Certainly it had already been looted, its four cabins and its many smaller holds, or compartments.
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21 598 I went a bit to the side, and there I found, prone, naked, bound hand and foot, the five large, gross whip slaves who, as first girls, served to keep the smaller, softer, more beautiful, more desirable slaves in order.
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21 601 Three or four smaller women, together, might have overcome, perhaps in her sleep, bound, and beaten such women.
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21 616 Given their plainness, and grossness, they had something of the hatred of the free woman for the exquisitely feminine, muchly desired female slave, smaller and weaker, but so much their superior.
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21 645 I unhooked one of the small lamps from the ceiling of the larger, general portion of the Venna keeping area, and, lifting it a little, entered the smaller area, followed by Alcinoë.
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26 23 Small units are likely to overcome smaller units.
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26 24 Thus, a smaller army, rapid and evasive, judiciously disposed and applied, may, in time, in a hundred actions, a hundred skirmishes, inflict much damage on a larger army, if its elements can be met seriatim, and divided.
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28 3 Many were the savory odors which emerged from behind the screen, from sauces, stews, and soups, rich with shoots, herbs, nuts, spices, vegetables, and peppers, even tarsk and vulo, as well as parsit, crabs, and grunt, emanating from pots brought in from the central kitchens, which served the long ta...
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35 67 "Tal," said a thin, angular fellow, in an unusual, sashed robe, in which were two curved swords, a larger and a smaller, who stood at the bulwarks, to the right of the gangway, as one would look toward the ship.
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37 1152 The female, is weaker, smaller, softer, and, in her heart, longs to be owned, and mastered.
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37 1222 One attended classes, one heard lectures, one participated in what are called seminars, smaller courses, more informal courses, where students might participate in discussions, commonly held about tables".
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Book 31. (10 results) Conspirators of Gor

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7 281 But then, when the house collar was in place, a smaller ribbon, also white, had been looped and knotted about the house collar.
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7 735 It is difficult, I supposed, to regard oneself as an equal to, or a superior of, a male when one is smaller, softer, and weaker, and finds oneself clasped in the arms of such a beast, helpless, unable to free oneself, its prisoner, one's softness clasped forcibly, mercilessly, to its hardness, the b...
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10 220 In that small, beautiful body, slightly smaller than mine, there was a nature innocently prudential, vain, self-centered, independent, and calculating.
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15 354 In another Ahn or so, some of the smaller gates would open, and many Peasants, with their baskets and sacks of fresh produce, would begin to make their way to the various markets in the city.
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17 437 Also, actually, as a matter of fact, I had never seen the smaller, quicker quadrupedalian tharlarion compete either.
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21 84 Unfortunately there is no smaller coin.
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40 14 For all its size it moved with the sinuous, stealthy grace one might have expected of a smaller animal.
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42 52 Such a piece of meat, even one much smaller, would choke a human; on the other hand, the structure of the human throat is such that it is capable of assisting in the utterance of a subtle and theoretically infinite variety of sounds.
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46 7 Some of these smaller, more rapidly moving parties may have ranged a quarter of the way to the Aqueduct Road.
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49 281 "My hands," I said, "are no larger or smaller than those of Mistress".
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Book 32. (28 results) Smugglers of Gor

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48 120 Then I saw the larger beast rear up from that loose, spattering tangle of fur and blood, its jaws on the throat of the smaller beast, and, itself rent, torn, and bloody, its flanks and shoulders red with the furrows of claw marks, it lifted the smaller body half from the ground, and shook it, and sh...
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6 98 Others had formed larger or smaller outlaw bands and prowled the roads, producing a realm of peril and anarchy for a hundred pasangs about.
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8 45 In what way then might I have such value, that others might not? Too, I was curious about the ships, the smaller ships, not the round ships, which were coasting north.
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8 520 Round ships are the preferred prey of the "sleen of the sea," but the sleen, when hungry, do not disdain smaller prey.
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11 95 Here, on this world, I discovered what I had long suspected on my former world, the meaning of my smaller, softer, so different body, its slightness and curves; here I found the explanation of a thousand dispositions, needs, and hopes I had been commanded to ignore or deny on my former world.
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15 477 Better to transport troops, I thought, would be smaller ships, a fleet of such.
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16 2 The smaller cohorts of Pani accompanied us.
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16 13 This sometimes came to the axles of the wagons, to the bellies of the smaller tharlarion.
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16 39 Shipcamp was much smaller than Tarncamp, but it contained its scattered range of structures, a hundred or more, and these were mostly north of the dock.
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16 136 Some fellows were fetching theirs out, with their smaller weapons.
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16 148 Long log kennels and chains would be awaiting them, and the others, just as a variety of barracks and smaller dwellings had been arranged for the men.
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26 219 Similarly, given the javelin's smaller size it is less cumbersome, and easier to take through brush and thickets.
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36 6 "Panther Women, who tend to be large and fierce for women, often hold smaller, weaker women as slaves".
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38 255 Smaller nets can be cast; larger nets may be spread between poles or trees, to intercept driven game.
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46 67 They would see me as worthless and despicable, as no more than another of the smaller, weaker, softer, more feminine women they despised, women whose wrists seemed made for slave bracelets, whose necks seemed made for the collar.
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48 71 It was clearly vicious, and determined, this beast, but, too, it was smaller than the beast which had appeared from the side of the river.
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48 72 The larger beast roared, again, but the smaller beast held its ground, crouched down, snarling.
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48 75 The smaller beast had been following me, seemingly content, at least for the time being, for some reason, to do no more than keep me within its range.
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48 78 And, in following me, the smaller beast had strayed into the range of the larger beast.
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48 97 Despite the fearful roar of the larger beast, the smaller animal did not retreat, but, rather, came into view, fully, parting the grass, moving through it, and, to my uneasiness, came about me, not taking its eyes from those of the larger beast, and crouched down, tail lashing, growling, between the...
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48 98 Then, to my further bewilderment, and trepidation, the larger beast moved about me, so that, now, it was behind my position, between me and the forest, and the smaller beast now placed itself between me and the river.
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48 102 I could not understand why the smaller animal did not make away.
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48 111 I suspected the smaller animal, though it was certainly large enough, and fearsome enough, had been with me since yesterday, when I had fled the camp of Genserich.
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48 116 The smaller beast, I suspected, for some reason, was saving me.
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48 118 Suddenly the larger beast, as though some spring in that great body had been released, charged, scrambling, through the center of the circle, and I was buffeted, spinning, to the side, for it struck me in its passage, I felt its ribs, and it hurled itself on the smaller beast which was rolled to its...
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48 121 It then lay down, its scarlet-flowing jaws still clenched on the throat of the smaller beast, whose body now lay across its paws.
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50 285 At the edge of the shore, there were several small boats tied in place, to stakes anchored in the beach, some, long boats, propelled by several oars, and others, smaller boats, propelled by a pair of oars.
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50 309 "I am much smaller and weaker than you.
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Book 33. (12 results) Rebels of Gor

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11 187 A larger contingent of an objectively smaller force will often overmatch a smaller contingent of an objectively larger force.
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2 72 The strap ring with its smaller rings was cold, as well.
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6 180 At the cavalry's encampment matters, though austere, were less harrowing and strained, given the smaller numbers involved, and the availability of local game, tarsk, tabuk, and verr.
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13 553 At that moment, throughout the palace, there rang a large gong, the note of which was taken up by, and repeated by, smaller gongs.
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21 273 It is easier, obviously, to conceal the movements of a smaller number of men, each trained in stealth.
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24 132 Three other individuals were parties to this small procession, two more masked Ashigaru, each of which was behind one of the two center individuals, some steps back, of the four who sounded the small gongs, and a smaller figure, barefoot, and clad in simple white, who preceded them.
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27 94 Then we were at its far terminus, that which emerged in brush, not far from several of the smaller, ancillary buildings.
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38 61 Smaller fellows addressed themselves to the earth about the palings, about this high, smooth fence, the points of which were fastened together with lashings several feet above our heads, some with rice bowls and others with stones, and their bare hands.
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38 64 The white moon was not in the sky, nor that smaller orb, called in Continental Gor, the Prison Moon.
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44 142 * * * Overhead was the snap of wings, like whips, and, below, on the parapets, flighted shadows darted on the walkways, and then, smaller, on the valley below.
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58 113 "I am smaller than you! I am weaker than you! I am different from you, so different! And I need food! And I need shelter, and protection! I am at your mercy! Please, please!" "We must be on our way," I said.
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60 309 The matter is done! We had held the bridge well, our narrow, wooden field of battle giving our smaller number the equalizing advantages of height and narrowness of access.
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Book 34. (15 results) Plunder of Gor

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1 569 A messenger delivered an envelope to me, only moments ago, and inside the envelope was a smaller envelope, with a note, that the smaller envelope was to be delivered to you.
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7 261 I would learn the gravity of Gor, for it was on this world I now was, was less than that of Earth, the planet being somewhat smaller, though it would have more land surface than Earth, as it possessed only one mighty ocean, not two, that ocean being restless, turbulent, gleaming Thassa, the sea.
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11 32 Gorean sharks, in their several varieties, of course, are much more common in the waters of Thassa herself, particularly near the shallower banks, where sunlight encourages the growth of plants, and the plants attract several varieties of smaller fish, the parsit and others, on which the sharks feed...
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11 51 There were, about the yard, smaller stones, as well, some of which could be turned by a single girl, kneeling near it.
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11 55 He owned other girls, as well, of course, who had their different employments about the mill, turning the smaller stones, grading and sacking flour, sewing and marking sacks, loading carts, accompanying the drivers, when they made deliveries, and so on.
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14 83 Before she disappeared through the portal of the dining chamber, the second of three such chambers, of varying sizes, one of which was smaller, and the other of which was quite large, and might house two hundred guests, at least, she cast us a dark look.
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28 78 It may be larger or smaller.
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28 79 It is commonly divided into four, if smaller, or eight, if larger, wedgelike pieces, these pieces sold separately.
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32 53 Within this larger gate, in the right leaf of the gate, as one would face the building, there was a smaller opening, a door, by means of which individuals might come and go.
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33 184 I had learned it was too small to be a male Kur, and, for all I knew, it might be smaller, even, than the female Kur.
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34 170 "Gor, as you probably know," he said, "is smaller than the Earth.
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62 47 "Phyllis, then," said Drusus Andronicus, "would be sold in a smaller market, a lesser market?" "Yes," said Kurik.
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64 128 I suppose the projection of their masculinity, so natural, so effortless, so unassuming, so thoughtless, so powerful, so strict, had an effect on my smaller body, my softness, my sensibility, and my awareness.
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65 31 It was dark about, but we could see into the yard, illuminated by the fire pit, now containing a smaller fire, see the Lady Bina, still seated, and, closely behind her, the wagon.
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65 84 They would have a smaller wagon, or, more likely, a cart, not so fine a wagon.
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Book 35. (9 results) Quarry of Gor

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1 25 Too, of course, there are three moons here, the White Moon, the Yellow Moon, and a smaller moon called, for some reason, the Prison Moon.
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3 233 This allowed a subtlety, a delicacy and precision, of bidding, particularly for smaller articles.
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8 163 To be sure, such creatures are most likely to be found in the vicinity of shallower waters, where the sunlight encourages the marine growth which lures in smaller fish to feed.
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9 5 I had no idea how many smaller such establishments might be in the city.
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10 131 Within the tavern they are smaller, and usually appear on the wall to the right, as one would enter.
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11 141 Perhaps such might be purchased near one of the smaller sea gates leading to the marshes.
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14 218 Strangers on Gor, particularly in smaller communities, tend to be viewed with suspicion.
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33 24 A rence craft is smaller, and is almost part of the marsh itself.
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43 134 I saw Decius of Venna standing, clinging to a rail, shaking his fist, then his figure, growing smaller, was dropping behind.
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Book 36. (25 results) Avengers of Gor

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1 249 "No," he said, "six ships, four larger and two smaller".
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2 107 "Six ships, four larger and two smaller," said Aktis.
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2 158 He regarded us, evenly, his eyes moving from face to face, in the darkness, on the beach, about the fires, two vessels nearby, in the background, only shapes in the night, a larger and a smaller, drawn up on the sand.
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3 49 But smaller items, say, a ring or buckle, regarded as negligible or paltry, might very well have been kept by, or distributed amongst, the raiders".
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5 71 "Aktis once spoke of six ships in the attack on Nicosia, four large ships, and two smaller.
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5 79 A ship with two or three rowing decks favored speed over maneuverability, but, in battle conditions, would be likely to find it difficult to turn and close with smaller ships, lighter and more responsive to their helms.
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5 83 The Dorna was a fifty-oar ship, commonly using three men to an oar; the Tesephone was much smaller, a twenty-oar ship, using two men to an oar.
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6 99 I saw her smaller hair at the back of her neck.
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7 45 "I do not have the fleet of Cos at my disposal," he said, "only the fleet of the Farther Islands, only twenty heavy ships, and several smaller vessels, all diversely oared".
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8 59 "Four large, two smaller!" "Likely," I said, rising, and leaving the tent.
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16 209 "The richest fishing is in shallower water," I said, "where light can nourish plants, and fish come to feed on the plants, and larger fish come to feed on smaller fish".
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18 81 Interestingly, it seems likely, as such things have often occurred, that large animals, megafauna, are commonly brought to extinction by a smaller, seemingly unlikely foe.
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18 82 It seems probable that, long ago, thousands of years ago, the nemesis of the hith was less the carnivorous tharlarion with which it thought to dispute its world, but an unexpected adversary, smaller and weaker, more vulnerable and fragile, but less forgiving and tolerant, more determined and tenacio...
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26 102 It might also be mentioned that the ship catapult is, as would be expected, much smaller and lighter than the common siege catapult whose projectiles, commonly large boulders, are designed to crash through stone walls.
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30 23 "Smaller forces, under special circumstances, can rout larger forces".
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30 26 "But, too, in many instances a smaller force, cleverly applied, can outnumber a larger force.
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30 27 Suppose the smaller force applied one hundred men where the enemy has applied, or can apply, only fifty.
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30 28 In that special situation or selected incident, the smaller force outnumbers the larger force two to one.
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37 52 There are two harbors at the port of Sybaris, the great harbor, serving the city, and much of Thera, and the smaller harbor, the naval harbor, base of the vessels of the Fleet of the Farther Islands.
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48 63 If a tree is available, suitably situated, and of an appropriate size, it is cleared of bark, leaves, and smaller branches, and then used as a mount or frame on which to hang paraphernalia proclaiming the victory, usually helmets, shields, insignia, banners, standards, broken weapons, and such, take...
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50 116 If one ship must be lost, and we hope none will be lost, better the smaller Tesephone than the larger, more crewed, more formidable Dorna.
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53 181 For the next twenty Ehn, the Tesephone and the Dorna rowed abreast, like a larger and smaller waterfowl, the beat set by my charge to the Tesephone's keleustes.
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57 196 This was surprising as sharks are not normally found in deep, open water, far from the shallower water housing the banks of flora fed upon by smaller fish.
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59 59 The print was smaller, but still easily enough read.
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63 5 The Tesephone, smaller and quicker, more responsive, than the larger Dorna, lay a pasang out, south, beyond the harbor, that she might warn the Dorna of danger and, if necessary, cover her flank.
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