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Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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19 66 There was a smell of smoke.
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Book 2. (2 results) Outlaw of Gor

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20 92 What of the interminable prayers of the Initiates, the sacrifices, the observances, the rituals, the innumerable shrines, altars and temples to the Priest-Kings? Could it be that the smoke of the burning sacrifices, the fragrance of the incense, the mumblings of the Initiates, their prostrations and...
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23 115 At several places in the city long ropes of smoke spiraled upward and then unraveled into vague, dark strands.
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Book 3. (16 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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33 24 Then I looked through the ruins of the palisade and over the fallen gate, at the smoke from the countless sacrificial fires that burned there, at the smoke from the swinging censers.
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3 52 Most was I surprised to find him holding a tiny, round pipe from which curled a bright wisp of smoke.
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4 3 My host did not speak but led the way with a merry stride, an almost constant curl of smoke from his little round pipe encircling his bald pate and muttonchop whiskers and drifting back down the passage.
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4 50 He gazed up at the dome, so high above, and watched the smoke curl slowly upward.
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8 49 I seized the bowl from her hand and hurled it underhanded up against the bulb which, though it had apparently burned out, shattered with a great flash and hiss of smoke and sparks.
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8 146 At the sight of raiders one tower would set its beacon aflame, glittering by night, or dampen it with green branches by day to produce a white smoke, and this signal would be relayed from tower to tower.
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32 223 A puff of smoke emerged from the pipe but instead of drifting up seemed instead almost immediately to pop apart.
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32 224 "I would have liked to enjoy a last, proper smoke," said Parp.
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32 290 The ashes and unused tobacco seemed to hang in the air like smoke and then drift apart.
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33 53 I saw his eye furtively flit to the smoke of one of the sacrificial fires.
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33 72 He pointed to the smoke which was now rising in an almost natural pattern.
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33 79 He pointed to the smoke which, as the wind had changed somewhat, was now drifting toward the Sardar.
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33 80 "The Priest-Kings inhale the smoke of my sacrifice!" "Our sacrifice!" insisted the other High Initiates.
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33 82 I could well imagine the antennae of the Priest-Kings shuddering with horror at the very thought of that greasy smoke.
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33 83 Then somewhat to his momentary embarrassment the wind shifted again and the smoke began to blow away from the Sardar and out towards the crowd.
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33 138 I could smell the smoke from the burning thigh of the bosk as it hissed and popped on the sacrificial fire.
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Book 4. (8 results) Nomads of Gor

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5 71 The smoke escapes by a smoke hole at the dome of the tentlike frame, a hole which is shut when the wagons move.
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1 44 There, some pasangs distant, I saw columns of smoke rising in the cold air, where fields were burning.
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7 5 The hides that formed the dome were of a thousand colors, and the smoke hole at the top must have stood more than a hundred feet from the flooring of that vast platform.
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21 7 The smoke of the wagon must easily have been seen from the distant walls of Turia.
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21 318 Already I could smell smoke.
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21 347 The roof of a building on the left was afire and smoke and sparks were being hurled into the sky and swept by the wind across the adjoining buildings.
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21 349 I could now see smoke down the long avenue leading from the gate, in a dozen places.
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24 6 I left the kaiila with the Tuchuks and mounted my tarn, and, in less than an Ahn, saw the shimmering walls of Turia in the distance, and the veils of smoke rising over the city.
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Book 6. (5 results) Raiders of Gor

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11 59 From there, in the late afternoon sun, we could see smoke from the wharves and arsenal to the west.
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11 110 Already it seemed to me there was less smoke, less fire, from the area of the arsenal.
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11 191 The city was heavy with the smell and smoke of it.
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17 221 I turned the glass again to the west, to the smoke in the distance.
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17 413 Smoke began to drift up through the planking of the deck.
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Book 7. (12 results) Captive of Gor

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3 98 He blew smoke into my eyes and nose, leaning over me.
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3 107 Once more, leaning over me, slowly, patiently, he blew smoke into my eyes and nose.
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6 237 I further noted that the boards of the wagon, besides being struck and splintered in certain places, were, in other places, darkened, as though by smoke.
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6 241 Further, as I could see now, it had been burned at the edges and was, in another area, stained from smoke and rain.
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7 93 When he emerged from the thicket he found left only one usable wagon, and that damaged by smoke and fire.
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8 525 There was no penthouse here, no Maserati, no wealth, no mighty buildings, no roar and drone of engines, no scream of planes, no clouds of choking smoke.
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10 49 It was he who had taken my matches and cigarettes, who had leaned over me, and had blown smoke, as I had lain nude before him, bound and gagged, into my face.
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10 87 Smoke found its way upward through a rudely fitted stone venting.
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10 146 Again there was a shower of sparks, and the smoke climbing upward through the venting.
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10 230 "Smoke your cigarette," he said.
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10 391 "Smoke your cigarette," he said, kindly.
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11 1085 The smoke of two of these fields had been visible even from the high bridges of Ko-ro-ba herself.
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Book 8. (1 results) Hunters of Gor

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7 322 The smoke, in a thin line, trickled upward into the sky.
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Book 9. (22 results) Marauders of Gor

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2 213 At the foot of the altar beasts were sometimes sacrificed, their horns held, their heads twisted, the blood from their opened throats caught in shallow golden bowls, to be poured upon the altar; too, choice portions of their flesh would be burnt upon the altar, the smoke escaping through a small hol...
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3 296 Smoke stained the sky.
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3 340 Smoke, in angry billows, black and fiery, climbed the sky above Kassau.
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3 402 Behind us we could see the smoke of the burning temple.
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3 409 The smoke billowed high in the sky above Kassau.
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6 328 Too, there is usually lingering smoke in it.
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9 318 We carried her through the darkness and smoke of the hall, between the posts.
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13 148 The smoke from the fire found its way high into the rafters, and, eventually, out of the holes cut in the peaked roof.
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13 440 It was smoke.
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13 443 Smoke, too, began to drift in from one of the side rooms.
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14 5 I choked in the smoke.
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14 110 The smoke was thick in the hall.
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14 172 Their nostrils were shut against the smoke.
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14 174 I saw one, suffering in the smoke and sparks, look up from feeding, and then again thrust his head down to the meat, clothes torn away from the chest, on which it was feeding.
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14 226 Then again the Forkbeard's voice, through the smoke, the sparks, suddenly half choking, drifted across the hall to me.
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14 229 The tharlarion-oil lamps, on their chains, hanging from rings on the roof beams! The apertures in the ceiling of the hall, through which smoke might pass! He had intended that I would escape.
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14 255 I choked in the smoke.
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14 265 Below, covered with sparks, scarcely visible in the smoke, I saw Kurii looking up, cheated of their prey.
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14 274 After him, I squeezed through one of the smoke holes in the roof of the burning hall.
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17 44 They would not care for the blackened grass growing between the bricks; they would take no note of the spider's architecture, nor marvel at the flight of a wren darting to its nest among the smoke-blackened, carved stones.
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18 264 Even I could smell blood, mixing with the smoke of fires, where Kurii lodges burned.
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18 283 Dust, like smoke, like the earth was burning, rolled into the air.
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Book 10. (5 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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21 373 A white smoke, tiny, in wisps, like the smoke of dry ice, rose from the holes, then was whipped away by the wind.
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11 523 I smelled smoke.
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11 611 There, tethered, shifting, their nostrils stung with smoke, their heads covered with saddle blankets, were our two kaiila.
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19 139 It was only as it approached that I understood it to be hundreds of feet in height, perhaps a hundred pasangs in width; the sky above it was gray, then black like smoke; then I could watch it no longer, that I might not be blinded; I shielded my eyes with my hands; I turned my back to it; I crouched...
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21 141 I looked at the dunes to my left, shimmering with heat, rippled in the wind, the tops like bright, tawny smoke in the light.
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Book 11. (10 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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5 110 There was a fire in the tent, and smoke from this fire emerged from a hole at the tent's apex.
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6 114 A smoke hole in the top of the hut permitted the escape of fumes.
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12 710 "Smoke," he said.
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12 711 I, too, smelled smoke.
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12 740 There was much smoke about them.
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20 232 The large, yellow shield on the high pole in the harbor had already been hoisted and fallen, and, near it, the fire of white smoke had been lit.
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20 234 At the same time the white-smoke fire is lit.
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21 60 The fire of white smoke had been lit near the shield pole, though it was not yet noon.
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21 107 White smoke billowed from the platform near the shield pole, from whose height now swung a scarlet disk.
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22 231 I saw a trail of smoke looping through the sky as a fire missile was launched from a ship's catapult.
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Book 12. (11 results) Beasts of Gor

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18 7 I could see smoke from the permanent camp.
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18 39 The air was thick with vapor, like smoke, the condensing moisture in the monster's warm breath, like a fog, or cloud, on the water.
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18 68 On the pebbled shore, some half pasang away, behind us, I could see smoke from the permanent camp.
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20 97 There was a smoke hole in the top of the house.
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21 33 I saw hide pulled over the smoke hole.
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21 42 These were now extinguished, and the smoke hole covered.
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26 223 A hole is left for the passage of air and smoke.
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27 159 Air from the entrance, or another aperture, moving into or through the shelter and, warmed, rising, escaping at the smoke hole in the roof, supplies the required ventilation.
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35 857 I gestured the others to their feet, and, together, we ran through the smoke and gas to the door.
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37 16 Then the lights in the sky were gone and the polar night had returned, save for a long, shimmering volume of yellowish smoke that reared from the distant ice.
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37 109 Smoke billowed upward.
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Book 13. (1 results) Explorers of Gor

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16 62 As a communication device it was clearly superior to the smoke and beacon ciphers of the north.
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Book 14. (2 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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25 355 There were two columns of smoke in that direction, far off.
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25 378 They returned toward the twin columns of smoke in the distance.
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Book 15. (4 results) Rogue of Gor

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4 565 "Yet I do not smell smoke," I said.
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22 12 There was smoke in the air.
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22 174 The smoke stung my eyes.
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22 247 Smoke hangs in the air".
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Book 16. (10 results) Guardsman of Gor

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12 23 A smoke bomb, trailing smoke, was lofted upward from a catapult on one of the lead ships.
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12 132 Men rose up on the walls, lighting fuses of oil-soaked rags, thrust into oil-filled clay vessels; a smoke bomb, trailing red smoke, was lofted from a wall catapult high over the marshes.
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1 121 I watched the long, looping trajectory of a bowl of flaming pitch, trailing a streamer of smoke, near us, and then fall with a hissing splash into the water nearby.
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6 43 A bowl of flaming pitch, streaming smoke behind it, looped toward us, flung by a ship near the chain.
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6 90 Then, from the scarred, half-shattered, smoke-blackened stern castle of the Tina, first from one trumpet, lifted by a fellow who was little more than a boy, and then from another, and from another, there resounded notes of defiance.
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12 26 In moments an answering smoke bomb, from a catapult on the walls, describing its graceful parabola, ascended and then seemed to pause, and then looped downward, to splash into the marshes.
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12 233 Too, smoke from burning ships, from the sea yard, and in the channel, climbed skyward.
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16 96 I could smell smoke.
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16 202 Smoke stung my nostrils.
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20 138 "It is smoke," I said, "from the lamps".
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Book 17. (21 results) Savages of Gor

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1 716 There was a slight smell of smoke about it, probably from the smoke of the turl bush.
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1 717 Such hides may be waterproofed by suspending them from, and wrapping them about, a small tripod of sticks, this set over a small fire on which, to produce the desiderated smoke, the leaves and branches of the turl bush are heavily strewn.
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2 18 We had left the burning complex behind us in the marshes, its smoke ascending in the gray light of the morning.
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4 1 We See Smoke; We Encounter Soldiers I thrust my shoulder against the giant wooden wheel of the slave wagon.
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4 160 "Smoke!" Almost at the same moment he rose to his feet and cracked his long whip over the backs of the tharlarion.
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4 165 To our right, in a long, sloping valley, some two or three pasangs from the road, there were three narrow, slowly ascending columns of smoke.
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4 169 "It is too late," he said, "by the time you can see the smoke.
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15 5 "You have seen the smoke?" I asked.
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15 6 I referred to the slow liftings of smoke, rising from low buttes, behind us and to our left, and before us, and to the right.
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15 12 The code in mirror signals, conveyed by the pacing and number of flashes, is very similar to that of the smoke signals.
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15 15 The common smoke signal is produced by placing greenery, such as branches, leaves or grass, on a fire.
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15 16 The smoke produced is then regulated in its ascent by the action of a robe or blanket, the manner of its releasing being a function of the conventions involved.
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15 24 "As I read the smoke," he said, "it is saying that a small party of white men is moving eastward.
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15 25 The smoke on the right is merely acknowledging the receipt of this message".
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17 202 The tharlarion, frightened in the turmoil, hitched up, moved this way and that with the wagons, mostly toward the east, away from the smoke and noise.
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18 168 Too, coming to this place, we saw smoke.
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18 169 Too, to the southeast, now, there is smoke".
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18 171 "That is camp smoke," said Grunt, "cooking for the evening meal".
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19 1 In the Distance there is the Smoke of Cooking Fires Evelyn cried out with misery as the tether was knotted about her neck.
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19 713 I could see the smoke of evening fires in the distance.
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19 808 I then, leading the kaiila, on which Cuwignaka rode, slumped forward, with the lance, set my feet in the tracks of those who had preceded me, Canka and his party, and Grunt and Pimples, toward the smoke of the evening fires, toward the camp of the Isbu Kaiila.
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Book 18. (11 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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40 17 At the apex of the lodge is a smoke hole and beneath the smoke hole, at the center of the lodge, is the fire hole.
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2 31 Light, too, came through the smoke hole at the apex of the lodge.
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4 6 The sky was still almost dark, visible through the smoke hole.
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4 157 They are used not only to lift the cover into place, to adjust it, and remove it, but also in the regulation of the flaps at the apex of the lodge, altering or adjusting the smoke hole, in effect, dependent on temperature and wind conditions.
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21 13 I smelled smoke.
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30 149 Did he see a man before him or something else, perhaps a guest from the medicine world, something through which he might charge, touching nothing, something that might disappear like smoke behind him? Then Hci cried out in anguish.
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35 139 One rubs the smoke from this fire into one's body.
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35 178 I wondered if the smoke of sweet-brush and needles, if the rubbing with white clay, might not have its effect not so much in encouraging the approach of medicine helpers but in lessening the probability of the approach of sleen.
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40 19 The smoke hole, incidentally, because of its size, and the size and structure of the lodge, tends to be somewhat inefficient.
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40 20 It is quite different from the smoke holes of the conelike hide lodges common with the red savages which, because of flaps, responsive to the movements of poles, function like efficient, adjustable flues.
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47 5 This beacon, whether used for the emission of smoke in daylight hours, or for its flame at night, could be seen for pasangs across the prairie.
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Book 19. (3 results) Kajira of Gor

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12 19 I could see smoke rising from the city.
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15 393 "I do not see any smoke," said a man.
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24 86 That name was gone, as soon as the iron, hissing, curling smoke, had been lifted from my flesh.
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Book 20. (4 results) Players of Gor

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18 352 I saw Belnar through the flames and smoke.
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18 356 "Have at you!" cried a fellow, boldly racing towards me through the flames and smoke.
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18 367 They could not resist this plea and vanished within, into the smoke and tumult.
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21 449 There was only some smoke over Brundisium now, and I gathered that the fires were now mostly under control.
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Book 21. (6 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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8 1 Evidence of a Disquieting Event Is Found; Women Have Come to the Field "There is smoke ahead," said Mincon, pulling back on the reins, halting the wagon.
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8 49 The smell of smoke hung heavy in the still air.
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12 134 "I see no smoke," he said.
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13 43 In the streets there was no smell of smoke.
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13 44 Smoke, like stifling clouds, did not block the sun, turning the day to choking dusk.
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26 622 Goreans do not smoke, of course, but, as they commonly use natural flame for cooking and light, they find such a device, and others like it, utilizing springs and pyrites, with cartridges of oil-saturated tinder moss, and such, of great utility.
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Book 23. (12 results) Renegades of Gor

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13 23 Smoke drifted even to our cell.
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17 88 Smoke flowed from behind him, out of the opening.
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17 389 In the eastern part of the city there was still smoke.
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17 606 I could smell smoke from somewhere.
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17 696 "I smell smoke," said one of the fellows supporting Aemilianus.
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18 5 All about were tangles of floating debris, broken oars, rope-bestrewn yards, and smoke-stained barrels and crates.
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18 138 Smoke was rising from somewhere in the citadel.
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19 9 At that time the walkway was still intact, though flaming, behind us, and they could be withdrawn through the fire and smoke to the piers.
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19 65 There had been smoke, too, but not enough to affect what occurred on the walkway.
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19 67 There was far more smoke from the citadel, which, given the prevailing winds, the force of which had much diminished since the late morning and early afternoon, drifted out over the harbor, toward the river.
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19 152 I could see the smoke still lifting from the citadel, then drifting out, toward the river.
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20 440 Smoke drifted out to the piers, too, from the city itself.
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Book 24. (5 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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18 11 Fires had been built, on which marsh growth and damp rence were thrown, to produce smoke, that this might ward off flies.
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19 244 Smoke, too, billowed upward.
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25 27 There will be little smoke, and what there is will be randomly distributed, escaping various windows.
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28 53 "A line of smoke can mark a camp.
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40 88 Meanwhile the smoke billowed from Torcadino".
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Book 25. (2 results) Magicians of Gor

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6 138 To be sure, what might be visible from the walls now might be only smoke from fired fields or, more likely, dust from tharlarion cavalries.
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28 177 "It is the smoke from the lamp," he said.
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Book 26. (10 results) Witness of Gor

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19 72 Smoke signals, too, are apparently sometimes used, but I had not seen them from the balustrade.
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19 74 The flash of the mirrors, the sight of the smoke signal, the glimpse of a fire, such things, it might be recollected, convey their message at the speed of light, far faster than a tarn can fly, incomparably more swift, even, than the flighted sound of a distant bar.
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19 326 Did they not think their own efforts had been efficacious in these matters? Who, after all, rode the mighty tarns, who did battle, who risked their lives, who, sword in hand, bestrode the corridors of burning palaces? And how must such words sound to the lovely captives? Surely they, if none others,...
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19 404 The Initiates then reformed their double line and, bells ringing and smoke wafting about, fragrant, from the censer, took their way from the docking area.
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24 216 I smelled smoke.
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24 247 Indeed, I had smelled smoke, earlier.
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24 388 Smoke was now emanating from three of the buildings bordering the terrace.
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24 945 Smoke rose from it to the dark sky.
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28 80 We watched smoke curl upward from the necklace.
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40 24 Fog swirled about it, like smoke, or clouds, wind-twisted, about a dark rock.
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Book 27. (4 results) Prize of Gor

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20 158 Once again the air burned with a choking, agitated smoke of grit and dust.
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26 379 It was a little later when she smelled the smoke of cooking fires, so she was sure it must be the fifteenth or sixteenth Ahn.
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26 572 Sometimes she sensed the smoke of fires, sometimes their warmth.
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27 3322 The flower brush gave off a sweet smoke, and this added a flavor to the meat.
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Book 28. (1 results) Kur of Gor

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14 19 But even had they not, they would have been sparing in its use, for its light or smoke might have betrayed their position.
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Book 29. (17 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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5 256 A narrow spume of smoke rose from the round ship, near its bow.
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5 399 I now suspected the meaning of the signal smoke near the bow of the round ship, and why she had recalled her longboat, had swung about and unfurled her sail.
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18 8 Smoke rolled upward from the housing area, from beyond the narrow track which led to the Plaza of Training.
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18 214 Even as I did so, to my right, his pavilion collapsed, crashing downward in a sudden flurry of sparks and smoke, then settling into a mass of flaming planks, timbers, and panels.
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18 228 The smoke filled the air.
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18 375 Smoke billowed from the hut.
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18 379 I think the fellows in the hut were blinded with the smoke, and burned.
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26 61 By means of such beacons, fire by night, smoke by day, an alarm, or signal, or message, could be conveyed a thousand pasangs in a matter of Ehn.
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26 239 "Do you truly think I can create darkness in the midst of day, that I can seize a woman and fly off with her, in a blazing light?" This sort of thing, of course, spoke to me of no ordinary matters, even of deception and smoke, such as might have been contrived by mountebanks skilled in illusions.
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26 241 The smoke would conceal the abduction, simply enough, and the blazing light would be a shielding, concealing, bewildering, dazzling illumination emitted from a departing vessel.
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27 1 Tarncamp is Abandoned Doubtless the smoke could be seen for pasangs.
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27 50 Some smoke hung in the air, from the burning.
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27 86 "It will be easier," he observed, "when we are beyond the smoke".
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27 99 "The smoke is unpleasant," said Lord Nishida.
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27 116 One could smell the smoke, and sense the heat.
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38 112 I could already see smoke to the east.
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42 3 I kicked my way to the surface, and was thrown yards to my right by the wash of water, and went under, and came up, again, and gasped for breath, half blinded by the water, still clinging to that massive, furred neck, and the beast's head was then, too, out of the water and I heard an explosive exha...
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Book 30. (21 results) Mariners of Gor

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16 93 Almost at the same time, another arrow, trailing a spume of smoke, ascended from the ship, paused at the height of its trajectory and then, trailing its tail of smoke, descended, falling into the water.
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2 4 We detected it first, by the glass of the Builders, from the stem castle, far off, through the fog, not clear, seemingly risen from the sea as might a mountain, as the islands that Thassa sometimes lifts from her bosom, in southern waters, with a roiling of waves, a casting of stones, and smoke and ...
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16 272 I could smell smoke.
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17 190 "Smoke?" he said.
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17 193 "I am told," he said, "that such things are not smoke".
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21 225 Ashore, atop what appeared to be the left side of narrow defile, leading between hills into a wooded area, there was a narrow, ascending trail of reddish smoke.
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21 226 A moment later, near it, another narrow, ascending trail of smoke stood out against the sky, over the defile and woods.
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21 227 The second trail of smoke was yellow.
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21 228 "Lord Temmu holds the shore," said Lord Okimoto, his glass of the Builders trained on the streaming smoke.
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21 229 "His fortress stands," said Lord Nishida, his own glass trained, as well, on the smoke.
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21 236 A third spume of smoke rose now toward the sky.
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21 237 This column of smoke was clearly green.
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21 238 Each of the streamers of smoke was now vanishing, drifting away.
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21 246 "I have seen three columns of smoke," said Tarl Cabot.
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21 253 "The third smoke," said Lord Okimoto, "that of green, of safety, means that a landing may be effected".
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21 278 "The smoke was red," said Lord Okimoto, patiently.
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21 301 "The smoke was red," said Lord Okimoto.
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27 130 "I smell smoke," said Philoctetes.
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27 203 We could smell smoke, coming from the village.
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30 156 When the wind shifted a bit, a hint of smoke still reached the parapet.
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34 233 It seemed to me a complex, but sorry world, one crowded and polluted, one of noise, fumes, and smoke, of pushing and shoving, one of haste with few places to go, or worth going, one without much love, and one, clearly, without Home Stones, if one can conceive of such a world.
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Book 31. (7 results) Conspirators of Gor

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2 4 Perhaps you will value it more if you could see it, if only for a moment, through the eyes of another, one astonished, one from a quite different world, a world which was much like a charnel house, or a smoke house, a world with little pride, but much vanity, a world of crowding, scrambling about, c...
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6 49 I smelled smoke.
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6 52 Smoke was now billowing from the flaming heap in the center of the room, the tables, the wheels, the boards, the boxes of gaming pieces.
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6 82 I was blinded with smoke, half strangled, with a lack of air.
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6 86 Then suddenly the doors swung back, and I saw light, and smoke billowed into the street.
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45 246 "Smoke will be seen.
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48 248 Smoke came from the remains.
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Book 32. (11 results) Smugglers of Gor

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52 107 Through the door I saw smoke, billowing like dark, ugly, suffocating clouds, and then there was a sudden gust of wind, which tore apart the smoke, and flung before it a shower of sparks, and then more sparks began to fall about, the wind softening, in the clearing, these now descending like hot, bri...
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39 427 Let us suppose a city has fallen, buildings are roaring with flame, blood is in the streets, walls collapse, the air is thick with choking, stinging smoke.
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52 96 "Masters!" Then I was very frightened, for I smelled smoke.
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52 115 It felt its way, through the smoke, uncertainly, toward me.
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52 116 I could hardly keep my eyes open, for burning tears, for the stinging of smoke in my eyes.
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52 123 The air seemed acrid with smoke.
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52 238 It was chilly on the beach, and there was fog, flat about the surface of the stirring water, and in the sky there was smoke, drifting westward, toward Thassa.
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52 391 I could see smoke billowing, too, from Shipcamp, across the river.
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52 511 Smoke billowed from Shipcamp, as well as the buildings and the stockade on our side of the river.
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52 678 There was only the empty river, quiet in the morning sun, and the cries of some birds, fishing, skimming its surface, sometimes diving under the water, and there was smoke, here and there, drifting about.
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52 861 My intentions vanished like smoke, my resolve collapsed.
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Book 33. (12 results) Rebels of Gor

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1 30 There had been three signals, trails of ascending smoke, red, yellow, and green, red betokening that the shore was held, land having been retaken, yellow that the holding of Lord Temmu still stood, and green that all was safe, and, accordingly, a landing might be effected.
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1 55 I learned later of the nature of the attack, the silent, signaling smoke arrows coordinating the four prongs of the attack, from four passes, the following blasts of conch horns, and the rolling of drums, the streaming into the valley of armed men, the small, narrow, rectangular banners of Lord Yama...
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2 129 It seemed I could see the fires, the smoke rising.
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9 101 But in moments their cries were behind us, as was the smoke rising from burning tents.
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10 41 We would depart, smoke in our wake, leaving behind us the scramblings of hungry men and the cries of clouds of small birds.
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23 118 "It leads beyond the palace to the vicinity of auxiliary buildings, the dairy, the smoke house, store houses, some workshops, the pens.
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32 57 "I smell smoke!" cried a man.
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32 122 Smoke was about, like cruel, dark, dry air.
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32 155 Smoke permeated the room.
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44 227 The sight of this thing, the noise, the smoke, and flames, the spillage of rocks and the spumes of dust, brought the tarn cavalry wheeling about, to do battle, to protect the holding.
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44 257 The air about still hung with smoke.
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61 753 Then there was smoke, blasts of light, a vehicle which moved like a cloud of steel, or a steel bird without wings, and I lost consciousness.
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Book 34. (10 results) Plunder of Gor

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2 12 "But who knows from what seeds myths might first have sprung? Perhaps the smoke of legend hints at the fire of distant, forgotten fact.
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33 749 Even this high, and this far removed from the fire, we could smell smoke.
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39 6 I could smell smoke.
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39 32 Smoke was now ascending the stairwell.
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39 38 I could see smoke curling up through the opening at the bottom of the door at the head of the stairs.
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39 63 Smoke was about.
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39 68 "Master!" I cried, and I ran to the door at the top of the stairs, and seized the handle, which was hot, and threw open the door, and then staggered back, shielding my face with my arms as a burst of flame and smoke roared into the room.
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39 211 At this point there was a cry of awe, and alarm, from the throng, for, with a great crash, the roof of the building we had just abandoned collapsed, and a torrent of smoke, sparks, and flame roared upward.
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59 65 I had detected, however, in that moment, a slight smell of smoke.
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59 69 Who knew what lay beyond the two closed doors? Who knew, then, even the meaning of that bit of smoke? I did know that some four or five Kurii, like wild beasts, seemingly out of their senses, had entered the bower about the same time that I had been hurried from it, toward the house.
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Book 35. (14 results) Quarry of Gor

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5 29 "I smell smoke!" cried a girl.
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5 38 "How else could she outfit and supply a fleet for the invasion of Cos and Tyros?" "I, too, smell smoke," cried another slave.
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5 40 I was not sure there was a smell of smoke.
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5 43 Then I, too, suddenly, unmistakably, smelled smoke.
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5 84 "The smell of smoke is stronger!" cried a slave.
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5 160 I could also, now, even more clearly than before, smell smoke.
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5 228 Even within the sheet, the smell of smoke was strong.
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6 99 There was much smoke in the air.
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8 213 I could still smell smoke from the night before.
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8 229 The smell of smoke was stronger here.
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22 154 A strand of smoke rose sluggishly from the tray.
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39 244 Shortly thereafter tiny curls and wisps of smoke began to rise from the heating tray.
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41 243 "Ignite the smoke beacon of danger," said Addison Steele.
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42 4 "Doubtless then," said Cella, "the smoke of danger rises from the delta wall, as well".
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Book 36. (14 results) Avengers of Gor

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4 66 We watched the object, trailing red and yellow smoke, from ignited powders, reach its zenith, and then it seemed to slow and pause, and then, still trailing smoke, and whistling, fell into the sea.
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1 44 "The smell of smoke lingers," he said.
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2 31 "The smell of smoke lingers long in the memory of ashes, as does as that of devastation and harm in the memory of men".
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4 62 At this point, a narrow object, with a shrill whistle, its trail laced with smoke, ascended high into the air from the midst of the planks and timbers.
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4 68 The arrow, or quarrel, as the case may be, is designed to whistle and smoke.
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4 72 Pani warriors sometimes used whistling, smoke arrows to initiate and coordinate attacks.
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4 113 We were now within a few yards of the scarred, smoke-stained timbers, these awash amongst the waves.
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13 141 Smoke curled into the sky, mingling its fumes with the fresh salt air of Thassa.
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20 57 "Next," cried Aktis, "will it be you who hears axes on the gate? Will it be your fields which will smoke to the sky, your homes which will be consumed in flame, your blood upon the hearth?" "Summon guardsmen!" cried a man.
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31 37 One could now wade plunging through the smoke and diminished flames.
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41 217 At a given signal, the blasting of trumpets, the clashing of cymbals, the whistling of smoke arrows, the beating of drums, or such, the timbers are removed by ropes or blows, not fire, as fire is unpredictable and slow.
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45 98 I could smell smoke.
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48 2 One could still smell smoke from the burned tents of the enemy.
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55 46 "I see smoke," said Clitus.
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