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Book 1. (35 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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1 122 The apparently seamless envelope crackled open, almost with the sound of cellophane.
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1 198 There was a loud noise, but I now think it must have been the sound of my own voice, a sudden frightened shriek for which I shall always bear the shame.
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3 41 Whereas there was a main common tongue on Gor, with apparently several related dialects or sublanguages, some of the Gorean languages bore in sound little resemblance to anything I had heard before, at least as languages; they resembled rather the cries of birds and the growls of animals; they were ...
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3 249 My first impression was that of a rush of wind and a great snapping sound, as if a giant might be snapping an enormous towel or scarf; then I was cowering, awe-stricken, in a great winged shadow, and an immense tarn, his talons extended like gigantic steel hooks, his wings sputtering fiercely in the...
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3 280 Almost immediately from somewhere, perhaps from a ledge out of sight, rose a fantastic object, another giant tarn, even larger than the first, a glossy sable tarn which circled the cylinder once and then wheeled toward me, landing a few feet away, his talons striking on the roof with a sound like hu...
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4 85 The second name, which would correspond to the use-name on Gor, is common property, a public sound not sacred or to be protected.
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4 123 One in particular I remembered, young, her body like a cheetah, her black hair wild on her brown shoulders, the bangles on her ankles, their sound in the curtained alcove.
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5 84 She paused, and the wind whistled past, a steady sound mingling with the rhythmical stroke of the tarn's beating wings.
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5 158 He surely would have struck home had not my tarn veered wildly to the left, almost colliding with another tarn and its rider, who fired a bolt that sank deep in the saddle pack with a sound like slapping leather.
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6 77 Then, to my astonishment, I heard a mechanically reproduced sound say, "Who are you?" I shuddered, believing that my mind had broken at last.
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6 78 In a moment the voice repeated the question, the volume of the sound being slightly increased, and then added, "Are you from the City of Ar?" "No," I said, taking part in what I believed must be some fantastic hallucination in which I madly conversed with myself.
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6 86 I heard the mechanically reproduced sound again.
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6 89 It apparently translated sound impulses, below my auditory threshold, into the sounds of human speech.
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6 93 He had reduced the volume of the sound to its original level, the level at which he had asked his original question.
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6 165 There was a sound.
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7 212 She had scarcely removed a braided loop from its hook when her eyes suddenly lit with triumph and a sound of joy escaped her lips.
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9 115 There is a camp there such as you have never seen—a city of tents, pasangs of tharlarion corrals; the wings of the tarns sound like thunder overhead.
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9 159 As I lifted the hood, she uttered a small, joyful sound, her green eyes bright with pleasure.
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10 96 From the wagon came the sound of rolling bodies, slamming and cracking against the sides, and the rattle of chains on wood, pierced by squeals of pain and anger.
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10 97 The attendant leaped into the back of the wagon with his strap, and there was added to the din the sound of his curses and the crack of the strap as he smartly laid about him.
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11 1 The City of Tents For several days, to the sound of the caravan bells, we made our way through the Margin of Desolation, that wild, barren strip of soil with which the Empire of Ar had girded its borders.
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11 4 The flags of a hundred cities flew above the tents, and, against the steady roar of the river, the sound of the great tarn drums reached us, those huge drums whose signals control the complex war formations of Gor's flying cavalries.
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11 75 I could hear from a tent nearby the sound of a flute, some soft drums, and the rhythmic jangle of some tiny cymbals.
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12 110 The sound of my voice had an unusual effect on the bird.
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13 23 When the larl hunts alone, it hunts silently, never uttering a sound until the sudden roar that momentarily precedes its charge, the roar calculated to terrify the quarry into a fatal instant of immobility.
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13 99 The thing stumbled forward, reaching for me, and fell to the ground with a tiny, moaning sound.
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14 131 Merchants must keep their friends on both sides of the fence, for who knows if Marlenus may not once more sit upon the throne of Ar?" I must have uttered a sound of joy, for Marlenus quickly placed his hand over my mouth.
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14 142 Then, suddenly, there was a ripping sound as one of the wrist ropes broke.
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15 106 There was a sound at the entrance of Kazrak's tent.
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17 60 Near dawn, to the brave sound of tarn drums, a mighty procession left the camp of Pa-Kur, and as it crossed the main bridge over the first ditch, I saw in the distance the great gate of Ar slowly opening.
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18 97 At the same time from the escarpment came a smooth, rolling sound as a great weight was effortlessly balanced and lifted by hydraulic means.
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19 77 All eyes on the roof turned to the sound of that voice.
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19 93 Except for the wind, there was no sound on the great cylinder.
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19 149 Our blades met again, this time in a flash of bright, clean sound.
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19 168 Suddenly there was a sound like thunder and a great shadow was cast across the roof of the cylinder, as if the sun had been obscured by clouds.
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Book 2. (26 results) Outlaw of Gor

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4 45 In the far distance there was a sudden flash of lightning, and the sound of remote thunder reached me some seconds later.
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4 77 A strange sound escaped me, an incredible laugh.
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6 77 It is a sound the girl will never forget.
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6 85 There is a slight sound from the bells strapped to her ankles.
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7 1 Thorn, Captain of Tharna With one sound three blades sprang from their sheaths, mine, that of the officer and that of the warrior who would first engage me.
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10 41 There was a sound of sliding bolts and the iron door swung open, revealing nothing but darkness within.
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11 202 There was even a slight sound of amusement from the silver-masked figures who sat upon the steps to the throne.
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12 35 There was no sound in that dark, cold place.
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14 86 No sound came from the stands.
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14 94 Its black crest, now unconfined by the hood, sprang erect with a sound like fire, and the wind seemed to lift and preen each feather.
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15 34 From beneath the bird there came a long, shivering moan, a helpless, uncontrolled sound from the golden prey seized in its talons.
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15 205 "Then, Warrior, you must bargain with me!" "Not with you!" I cried, attempting to sound dismayed.
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18 62 Sometimes even, the men would hum as they worked, the strong sound resonant in the tunnels of the mine.
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21 114 Any other sound she might have uttered was stifled by the gag of hair.
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21 224 He clapped his hands sharply twice, and there was a scurrying and tumbling of bodies and the sound of the long chain slipping through the ankle rings.
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23 6 The sad, slow sound reached the hillock on which we stood.
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23 127 There was a small sound of pain.
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24 36 Kron clapped his hands again and to my surprise there was a sudden sound of bells and four terrified girls, obviously chosen for their beauty and grace, stood before our table clad only in the scarlet dancing silks of Gor.
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24 128 * * * * We marched through the city, the streets behind us filled like gray rivers with the rebels, each man with his own weapon, yet the sound of those rivers converging on the palace of the Tatrix was anything but gray.
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24 129 It was the sound of the plowing song, as slow and irresistible as the breaking of ice in frozen rivers, a simple, melodic paean to the soil, celebrating the first breaking of the ground.
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24 254 I could hear nothing but the quiet, almost noiseless sound of my own sandals on the stones of the corridor.
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25 10 His sword too was free of its sheath and we rushed on one another like larls in the Voltai, our weapons meeting with a sharp, free clash of sound, the trembling brilliant ring of well-tempered blades, each tone ringing in the clear, glittering music of swordplay.
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26 5 I shall strike with my spear upon the gate and the gate will open, and as I enter I will hear the mournful sound of the great hollow bar that hangs by the gate, signifying that another of the Men Below the Mountains, another mortal man, has dared to enter the Sardar.
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26 38 The sound of caravan bells is no longer strange in Tharna and strings of traders have found their way to her gates, to exploit this most surprising of all markets.
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26 61 No man who has seen a woman in Pleasure Silk, or watched her dance, or heard the sound of a belled ankle or watched a woman's hair, unbound, fall to her waist can long live without the possession of such a delicious creature.
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26 125 I have seen it in the vanished towers of Ko-ro-ba and in the flight of a tarn, in the movements of a beautiful woman, in the gleam of weaponry, in the sound of tarn drums and the crash of thunder over green fields.
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Book 3. (31 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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2 62 Some four days into the mountains I heard for the first time in my journey the sound of a thing other than the wind, the sighing of snow and the groaning of ice; it was the sound of a living thing; the sound of a mountain larl.
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4 122 Suddenly there was the sound of a distant, reverberating gong, a dull but penetrating sound which carried from somewhere even into the Hall of Priest-Kings.
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4 136 Then again came the sound of that great unseen gong, that distant sound, dull, penetrating, reverberating even in the vastness of the great hall in which we stood.
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2 38 It was a depressing sound, and not made less so by my realization that in this case it was I who had entered the mountains.
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2 41 It shut without a sound.
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4 148 I wondered why Parp had seemed to fear the coming of night, the sound of the gong.
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7 79 Slowly, very slowly, I drew the sword, taking care that it made no sound as it left its sheath.
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7 84 Yet my awareness or sense that something followed me in the corridor might well have been occasioned by some tiny sound which my conscious mind had not even registered, but yet which had impinged on my senses, leaving as its only conscious trace a vague wind of suspicion.
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10 3 The slightly acrid odor I had noticed tends to be a common property of all such signals, much as there is a common property to the sound of a human voice, whether it be that of an Englishman, a Bushman, a Chinese or a Gorean, which sets it apart from, say, the growling of animals, the hiss of snakes...
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10 7 I gather that these appendages are sensitive not only to odors but, due to a modification of some of the golden hairs, may also transform sound vibrations into something meaningful in their experience.
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10 24 I am told that the phonemes of the language of Priest-Kings or, better, what in their language would correspond to phonemes in ours, since their "phonemes" have to do with scent and not sound, number seventy-three.
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11 35 The translator, incidentally, supposing it to be turned on, would provide only the translation of what was said, and the words, unless the volume control was manipulated during the message, would always occur at the same sound level.
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17 76 The receptors on the surveillance craft were equipped to handle patterns of light, sound and scent, which, selectively collected and reconcentrated, were beamed to the Sardar for processing and analysis.
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17 135 There was a sudden flash of fire and a crack of sound from the hollow tube as some projectile hurtled through it and shattered against the rock.
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18 10 The visual mark was plain to human eyes but it would not be likely to be noticed by Priest-Kings, any more than a small, insignificant sound is likely to be noticed by a human who is not listening for it and is attending to other things.
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20 33 Mul-Al-Ka swung the transportation disk suddenly down a side tunnel and, accelerating fiercely, flowed like sound down the tunnel for several portals and then stepped off the accelerator strips and, as the disk slowed and stopped, brought it neatly to rest at a tall steel portal.
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21 31 We listened carefully and in the distance it seemed we heard, incredibly enough, the mournful singing of human voices, as though of many men, and the sound was as we determined by listening for a minute or two gradually nearing.
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22 8 Suddenly one of the extensions, the fourth I believe, slipped with a grating sound from the ceiling and I leaped wildly for the next bar, just managing to catch it in my fall.
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23 45 As I did so I seemed almost to hear a silent, horrible, pleading shriek but there was of course no sound.
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24 45 About an Ehn after I had turned and began to move away from the cavern, Vika on my shoulder, I heard from the cavern one of the strangest and most horrifying sounds I had ever heard in my life, a long, weird, frantic, enraged rush of sound, more than a rush of air, more than a wild hiss, almost a cr...
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25 2 They had now entered my skin and to my horror I felt a pull against my tissues and knew that the creature was now sucking through those foul tubes, but I was a man, a mammal, and not a Priest-King, and my body fluids were locked within the circulatory system of another form of being, and I thrust ag...
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26 235 It did not sound much different.
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26 279 On the other hand, I, like many Gorean masters, provided the girl was not testing or challenging me, and provided that free women, or others, were not present whom I had no wish to offend or upset, preferred as a matter of fact to have my own name on the girl's lips, for I think, with acknowledged v...
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27 44 I could see the lenses of the compound eyes almost flickering as it strained to see, much as we might have strained to hear some small sound.
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27 65 There was no sound to celebrate the Feast of Tola but I had little difficulty in locating the scene of the celebration, for I soon encountered a shaft, one of those through which used air is pumped out of the tunnels, which was rich in unusual and penetrating scents, of a sort which my stay with Mis...
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27 251 I lifted my voice, hoping that the sound waves would carry to those transducers that were the translators of the Priest-Kings.
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27 331 Once again a sound came from my translator.
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31 221 I could not shut out from my ears the grim sound of the sucking jaws of the Beetle.
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31 228 The last sound I heard from Sarm's translator was—"The pleasure".
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32 17 There was a great splitting sound and the entire side of the globe cracked open and began to pour forth its avalanche of thick, molten fluid into the room.
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32 320 This was a sound I knew well.
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Book 4. (35 results) Nomads of Gor

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5 21 I was startled by the sound of slave bells and saw a girl, stripped save for bells and collar, carrying a burden among the wagons.
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5 94 I repeated the name slowly, trying to sound it out.
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6 1 To the Wagon of Kutaituchik Kamchak strode among the wagons, toward the sound, and I followed him closely.
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6 2 Many others, too, rushed to the sound, and we were jostled by armed warriors, scarred and fierce; by boys with unscarred faces, carrying the pointed sticks used often for goading the wagon bosk; by leather-clad women hurrying from the cooking pots; by wild, half-clothed children; even by enslaved Ka...
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7 47 I heard the small sound of a chain.
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8 314 At the count of fifteen, making no sound, not wanting to warn the girl, Conrad spurred the kaiila in pursuit, bola swinging.
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9 23 This fish is also sometimes referred to as the songfish because, as a portion of its courtship rituals, the males and females thrust their heads from the water and utter a sort of whistling sound.
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9 126 The women in bondage present, who served us, each wore four golden rings on each ankle and each wrist, locked on, which clashed as they walked or moved, adding their sound to the slave bells that had been fixed on their Turian collars, and that hung from their hair; the ears of each, too, had been p...
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9 247 There was no sound at the tables.
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9 328 I heard the sound of slave bells attached to ankle rings, to locked wrist bracelets, to Turian collars.
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9 447 It did not sound like Kamchak speaking.
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12 214 One of the instruments was an eight-stringed czehar, rather like a large flat oblong box; it is held across the lap when sitting cross-legged and is played with a horn pick; the other was the kalika, a six-stringed instrument; it, like the czehar, is flat-bridged and its strings are adjusted by mean...
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13 66 She had still uttered no sound when Kamchak, satisfied, had released her, but fastening her wrists before her body with the bracelets.
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13 201 "E-liz-a-beth-card-vella" he would try to say, adding the "a" sound because it is a common ending of feminine names on Gor.
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13 202 He could never, like most native speakers of Gorean, properly handle the "w" sound, for it is extremely rare in Gorean, existing only in certain unusual words of obviously barbarian origin.
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13 203 The "w" sound, incidentally, is a complex one, and, like many such sounds, is best learned only during the brief years of childhood when a child's linguistic flexibility is at its maximum—those years in which it might be trained to speak any of the languages of man with native fluency—...
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13 204 On the other hand, Kamchak could say the sound I have represented as "vella" quite easily and would upon occasion use this as Elizabeth's name.
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14 8 When the bosk horns sound the women cover the fires and prepare the men's weapons, bringing forth arrows and bows, and lances.
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14 27 Then he bounded from the top step of the wagon onto the back of his kaiila and sped toward the sound of the bosk horns.
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14 43 In the distance we heard a sound like a thunder of wings and then, against the three white moons of Gor, to my dismay, we saw tarnsmen pass overhead, striking toward the camp.
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16 117 Immediately we heard the sound of several men leaping down to the street and the draw cords on the wire net—probably of the sort often used for snaring sleen—began to tighten.
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19 41 I also heard the running of feet, the sound of arms.
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19 87 He then picked up a juicy, red larma fruit, biting into it with a sound that seemed partly crunching as he went through the shell, partly squishing as he bit into the fleshy, segmented endocarp.
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21 316 About us there were the stamping paws of kaiila, the crying of men, the sound of arms, and always more and more Tuchuks striking the top of the wagon and bounding into the city uttering their war cry.
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22 5 Certain of the Hundreds, delegated the task, had immediately, almost before the alarm bars could sound, seized many of the wells, granaries and public buildings, including the very palace of Phanius Turmus itself.
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23 108 The sound of their bosk horns was welcome to us, signaling the retreat of those at the wagons.
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23 137 I listened, but seemed to hear only the maddeningly intensifying thunder of the Paravaci kaiila sweeping towards us, but then I heard, from the far left and right, the sound of distant bosk horns.
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25 164 I could scarcely believe that the proud creature who stood chained before me was she whom Kamchak and I had referred to as the Little Barbarian; whom I had been able to think of only as a timid, simple girl of Earth, a young, pretty little secretary, one of nameless, unimportant thousands of such in...
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25 243 "That does not sound to me like a bad idea," I said.
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25 617 How every bit of her seemed alive with challenge! Her eyes, her stance, the sound of her voice! I saw the tiny nose ring, barbaric, glinting in the light of the fire bowl.
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25 884 "You do not sound to me sufficiently sincere," I said.
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26 1 The Egg of Priest-Kings In the dampness and darkness long before dawn the forces of Kamchak, crowding the streets of Turia in the vicinity of Saphrar's compound, waited silently, like dark shapes on the stones; here and there the glint of a weapon or accouterment could be made out in the fading lig...
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26 336 Slowly, not hurrying, in his boots he tramped across the rug, toward the sound.
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26 358 The eyes were bulging perhaps a quarter of an inch from the little round head and the mouth, with its two golden teeth, now emptied of ost venom, seemed to be screaming but there was no sound.
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28 11 There shortly thereafter followed a vigorous and dusty broil among the wagons, involving much rolling about, biting, slapping, scratching and, from time to time, the easily identified sound of a small fist, apparently moving with considerable momentum, meeting with various partially resistant, proto...
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Book 5. (35 results) Assassin of Gor

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2 33 Not even the bells locked to their left ankles made a sound.
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2 45 There were one or two other girls there, kneeling, who drew back, with a sound of chain.
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2 94 "It looks like we must search elsewhere," said the leader of the four men, attempting to sound disappointed.
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2 145 Five blades leaped from the sheath with but one sound.
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3 130 At one or two points I noted the Player had made subtly ineffective moves, apparently sound but yet leaving weaknesses which could be, even four or five moves in the future, exploited rather decisively.
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5 274 "Sound it out," I said.
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5 761 At that moment a bar, struck in a certain pattern by an iron hammer somewhere in the house, rang out, the sound taken up by other bars, also struck, on various floors of the House of Cernus.
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9 85 "There is a system of sound baffles," said he.
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12 56 I heard a judge's bar sound twice, indicating that the next race would begin in ten Ehn.
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12 181 They came to look eagerly for the sound of the bolt on the door.
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12 210 I heard a woman moving close to me, heard the sound of slave bells.
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12 274 Something about the back of Sura's neck informed me she had noted what Ho-Tu had said and hadn't cared for the sound of it.
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13 79 I gather, from the sound of a fellow watching us, that she began to swim again when I began to follow her.
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13 369 The sound drifted up.
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15 384 Ho-Tu was fond of the music of the kalika, a six-stringed, plucked instrument, with a hemispheric sound box and long neck.
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16 167 I could now hear some angry cries of men, the sound of blows.
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16 252 Then, as though searching for me in those multitudes, that turbulence of faces and cloth, of sound, of cries, I saw the gleaming eyes of the tarn cease their scanning and fasten upon me.
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17 561 I did not pick up the leash and she moved past me, tears in her eyes, leaving the room, the sound of bells marking her movements.
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17 579 There were several chests there, doubtless containing silks, cosmetics, jewelry; there were also rich furs, on which I gathered she slept; in one corner there leaned a six-stringed kalika, long-necked, with its hemispheric sound box; I knew she played the instrument; on one wall, some feet away, han...
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17 687 He cares for its sound".
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19 113 Each of these, in his way, prepared himself for the evening, sketching out melodies or sound patterns, lost with himself.
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19 473 I heard the sound of a slave whip below the block, the hysterical, wild sobbing and screaming of a slave girl.
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19 474 Then, as she was dragged away, the sound of the whip and of her cries grew more distant, and then I could hear them no more.
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20 474 There was little sound in the room save the occasional noises of Hup.
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21 81 There was a bit of scuffle some feet away, the sound of a girl, and then another.
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21 98 I then heard a heavy sound, as though someone had been struck heavily from behind.
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21 134 There was the sound of another trumpet, the second.
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22 214 When the bird came first to the perches of victory there was no sound from the crowd, that vast multitude totally silent.
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22 374 I readied myself for the sound of the judge's bar.
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22 480 The screams of the crowd were now deafening, though one could make out no words; the effect of the sound, as I flew through it, was, as I had often found it, a fascinating phenomenon, its pitch varying considerably, as one would expect, with my speed and position, particularly as I made the turns.
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22 482 I had not seen it, but I knew the sound of the passage of a bolt from a crossbow.
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22 585 "Stop singing!" But the song continued, growing stronger as more and more men took it up, and soon the tiers themselves rang with the sound.
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23 190 About the walls of the room there was much delicate apparatus, reminding me somewhat of instrumentation I had seen in the Nest long ago; complex paneling, wires, disks; the dials, I noted, were adopted for a visually oriented organism, needles quivering against a metric of spaces; a cone was flashin...
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23 192 The sound continued.
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24 184 The belled anklet was the only sound in the room as she came forward, trembling.
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Book 6. (14 results) Raiders of Gor

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5 160 Then there came a drumming sound, growing louder and louder, a man pounding on a hollowed drum of rence root with two sticks, and then, as suddenly as the singing and clapping, the drum, too, stopped.
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8 114 Standing below the hull, quite close, in the shifting rence craft, I made a small clicking noise, a sound that meant nothing but, in the darkness, meaning nothing, would be startling, terrifying in its uncomprehended import.
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8 205 Then, slowly, making no sound, I lifted no more than my eyes over the side of the barge, and scanned the interior.
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8 209 "Make no sound," I said to the girl at the prow.
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8 318 I now could place that the sound came from the second barge.
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9 261 I watched her moving, noted the glistening of the ornament she wore, remarked its sound.
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9 643 His lips moved, but there was no sound.
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10 177 This will sound strange, I suppose, but the workers of the arsenal, as long as they make enough to live reasonably well, are more concerned with their work, as craftsmen, than they are with considerably and indefinitely improving their economic status.
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11 199 There was a creak of wood, the sound of the pawl, locking, dropping into a new notch on the ratchet, a hideous scream.
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11 227 Again there was a creak of wood and the sound of the pawl, locking, dropping into its new notch.
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11 573 "Antisthenes is wise," I said, "and understands the risks involved, but many of the words Samos has addressed to us seem to me sound and true, and chief among them his assertion that it should be a captain who conducts this mission, for how else could we so easily prove the seriousness of our intent...
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12 37 Then there was the sound of biting and tearing and thrashing in the water, as other urts attacked the injured one.
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15 705 I heard, after some time, a slight sound in the threshold of my quarters.
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18 195 In that instant I heard, from down a passageway, a sharp whistle, and the sound of running feet, those of several men.
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Book 7. (28 results) Captive of Gor

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1 98 In the settlement of the estate my mother received most everything, but I did receive some three quarters of a million dollars, primarily in stocks and bonds, a fortune which fluctuated, and sometimes considerably, with the market, but one which was substantially sound.
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2 27 I lifted it with great care, that not the slightest sound be made.
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2 116 I could sense the impatience in the sound.
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3 10 I screamed, but there was no sound.
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3 30 I wanted to plead with them, but I could make no sound.
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3 33 The other uttered a brief sound, abrupt.
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3 35 The sound had been a word, doubtless of negation.
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3 469 There was no sound of a motor or drive.
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4 234 I heard no sound of motors, or engines.
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5 87 I heard a sound behind me and I screamed.
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6 91 Drifting through the air, unmistakable, though coming from some distance, was the sound of a shout, a human voice.
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6 200 Here it was the natural sound, the rhythm and inflection, of what was apparently an independent, doubtless sophisticated, native tongue.
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7 257 These two names are, in sound at least, German names.
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8 541 I listened to the sound of the stream.
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8 1016 Another of the guards had gone to one of the wagons, and, as he returned, I heard the sound of slave bells.
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8 1082 Suddenly there was a rush about us of bodies, the sound of blows.
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8 1137 The tall girl then went to Ute and kicked her as well, again saying "Kajira!" Lana whimpered, but Ute made no sound.
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8 1163 From one of them came the sound of singing.
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9 425 There was no sound from within the house.
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12 274 From time to time, guards, huntsmen, with whips, would leap to the cart and crack their whips, terrifying the slave girls, who knew that sound well, back from the carts, that they might pass, but then the slaves would gather again, and rush about the following cart, only to be in turn driven back ag...
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12 619 I had heard only the sound, vague, from far off, like a myriad snappings, and shrill, wind-borne screams.
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13 321 I heard the sound of a man's voice.
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13 523 I suddenly realized I was being hunted! Only from before me was there no sound.
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13 533 I wanted only to flee from the sound.
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15 780 I screamed but there was no sound.
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15 784 There had been the terrible sound of the leather, and then the pain.
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16 250 As it was, only the tiniest sound of pain, little more than a startled gasp, forcing its way about the stoppage of the leather, the wadding and straps, escaped her.
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Book 8. (21 results) Hunters of Gor

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6 379 * * * * About the twentieth Ahn, the Gorean midnight, we heard a sound, beyond our defensive perimeter.
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6 384 Had it been I do not believe we would have heard the sound we did.
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6 435 There was another sound from beyond the perimeter.
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6 910 The sound of the river was slow and sweet, moving between its banks, flowing downward to greet Thassa, the sea, more than two hundred pasangs from this small, silent camp.
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7 134 It hit with a solid, hard sound, and I saw the shaft, feathered, quiver in the wood.
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7 160 Another arrow struck near me, with a quick, hard sound, followed by the tight vibrating of the arrow.
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8 45 One of the most delicate modes of enslavement, and requiring great skill, is to enter the stockade of the panther girls under the cover of darkness and then, one by one, hut by hut, following the sound of their breathing, to take them.
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8 46 The slightest sound may, of course, alert the entire band.
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11 816 There was the slight sound of slave bells, locked on her left ankle.
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11 863 I heard, too, the sound of slave bells.
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13 318 I did so in such a manner that she should hear the sound.
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15 19 The sound of pursuit was close behind her.
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15 936 Her new name, though in sound the same, was not her old.
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15 952 But this was not her old name, though in sound it was the same.
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16 91 She could utter not the smallest sound.
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16 205 But there was no sound for she had been gagged by a warrior.
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16 206 He had not even entitled her to utter a sound when the very jaws would be upon her.
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18 266 The two girls in bondage knew well the sound of the whip.
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20 208 "Can you hear me? Do you accept these terms?" I made no sound.
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20 233 Two men again rushed toward the sound.
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21 145 We heard the sound of scuffling outside and more laughter.
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Book 9. (17 results) Marauders of Gor

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13 452 Then, other Kurii behind it, crowding about it, past it, it shrieked, lips drawn back, with a hideous sound, which, somehow, from its lips and mien, and mostly from its eyes, I took to be a sign of pleasure, of anticipation; I would learn later that this sound is instinctively uttered by Kurii when ...
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2 33 It was said that he did not utter a sound.
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3 386 She moved her wrists in the fetters; there was a small sound as the three-inch joining link moved in the welded rings of the fetters.
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4 134 I recalled I had, many times, late in the game, regretted the surrender of the Ax, or its equivalent in the south, the Tarnsman, when I had simply, as I thought rationally, moved in accordance with what were reputed to be the principles of sound strategy.
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7 273 I heard the sound of feeding.
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8 280 She uttered a small noise, but made no other sound.
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8 310 There was a small sound, from the fetters on the prone girl's wrists.
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9 383 I followed the sound of the voice and, to my delight, as Ottar had left her, she slipping his mind apparently, as she had mine, her hands still tied before her, about the post, kneeling in the dirt, was Olga.
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12 7 The men of Torvaldsland have in common a code of sound signals, given by the horns, consisting of some forty messages.
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13 306 There was no sound in the great hall, save the crackle of the fires and torches.
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14 267 Their leader uttered some sound to them.
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15 51 The strategies seemed elementary, but sound.
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15 408 It, too, with a sound of granite on metal, was fended away, this time by the shield of the second Kur.
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16 163 I did not, of course, let him know that I had heard this sound.
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17 238 It was a snarl, a growl, like the sound of a larl, awakening from its sleep.
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17 291 I heard the grinding of teeth on steel, the sound of men biting at their own flesh.
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20 99 He then, regarding me, uttered a sound, a modulated emanation from the cords in its throat, which I could not duplicate.
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Book 10. (23 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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5 650 Behind me, as I thrust apart the beads, I heard the pounding of the drum, the kaska, the silence, then the sound, as the flutist, his hands on her body, to the sound of the drum, instructed the girl in the line-length and intensity of one of the varieties of pre-abandonment pelvic thrusts.
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2 198 As she passed me, her stride small and measured, I heard the clink of light chain, the sound of ankle bells.
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2 527 The "l" sound in this name is rolled, one of two common "l" sounds in Gorean.
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4 47 I listened to the caravan bells, which sound is pleasing.
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7 55 No vowel sound had to be interpolated, or determined from context, in this message.
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7 129 There was little sound then, only that of a large tongue, moving in blood, tasting, curious.
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7 132 I did not hear the sound of feeding.
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7 255 Then he cried out, a short cry, brief; there was a sound, exploding, velvet-soft, like a bubble of air being forced upward through water; the side of his neck had been bitten away; arterial blood, driven by the blind pump of the heart, pulsed.
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7 282 Suddenly there was a scrambling sound and I saw the bars in the small window shake and scrape, one wrenching loose, with a shower of stone and dust from the wall.
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7 610 Remember the sound of her voice, remember the look of her bared slave curves, in a thousand lights, in a thousand attitudes".
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11 193 These physical energies are quite different from the "human world" of our experience, replete with color, sound and light.
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11 457 I had not noticed the sound.
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11 466 I heard the sound of feet.
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12 589 He could make no sound, doubled up.
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13 386 The true nature of the Kurii might elude them, almost physiologically, like a menacing color they could not see, a terrible sound to which their sensors were almost inert.
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14 473 I heard no sound.
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17 55 There was a minute sound.
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17 215 He made no sound.
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19 47 The sound he made was not unlike that of an animal lapping water.
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19 86 On the other hand, his decision seemed to me a sound one.
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21 479 I made no effort to conceal sound.
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24 886 There was the sound of scimitars clashing down the hall.
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24 1044 I strode toward the sound of metal clashing in the distance.
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Book 11. (31 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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1 20 Again I felt the weight, circular, heavy, on my neck; again I heard the small sound, the stirring, simple and matter of fact, of heavy metal links.
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2 376 It made a heavy sound.
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2 478 The fallen foe lay doubled in the grass; his lower lip was bloody; he tore it with his teeth, holding it, that, in his pain, he might make no sound.
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2 1186 I could utter no sound.
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2 1203 I could make no sound.
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3 286 The men wheeled toward the sound.
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4 408 The sound was horrifying, sensuous.
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4 441 The sound was tiny, rich, and sensuous.
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4 446 So slight a movement made them sound! I, miserable, was caught in their lewd, delicious rustle.
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4 447 I suppose the sound of the bells, objectively considered, is rather lovely.
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4 457 In their jangling sound, helpless, I was held, betrayed.
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4 541 Twice more in the game was I stung with the switch then, once on the left arm, above the elbow, and once, more cruelly, on the right calf, when I, wishing to make no sound, not thinking the referee near me, lingered too long in one position.
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5 292 From through the trees, on the other side of the camp, came what I took to be the sound of a bird, the hook-billed, night-crying fleer, which preys on nocturnal forest urts.
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7 1286 I supposed such names did sound unfamiliar, and barbarous, to a Gorean ear.
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9 171 It made a harsh sound of metal and wood.
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9 1668 I could not utter a sound.
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9 1849 I could utter no sound.
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9 1853 I could utter no sound.
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12 704 I turned my head to the side, and heard the small sound of the silver leaf, on its tiny loop, fastened in my ear, touch the stones of the flooring of the passage.
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16 115 I made no sound.
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18 170 I could utter no sound.
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20 493 Submissively, with the sound of bells, those on my collar and ankle ring, I rose lightly to my feet, turned, and, excited, scarcely daring to breathe, barefoot, as a slave girl, led the way toward the Chatka and Curla.
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22 266 Outside and above decks we could hear shouting, and the sound of sprung ropes, as the canisters of flaming pitch were lofted from the deck catapults.
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22 328 The abruptness and simplicity of its sound suggested the abruptness and simplicity, the rudeness and irresistibility, the meaningfulness and completeness, of the act.
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22 473 Occasionally I heard a small sound from her.
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22 512 About a quarter of an Ahn later, suddenly, we heard the screaming of men and, not more than three or four Ihn afterwards, to our horror, the wall of the hull, opening into the hold, with a wrenching sound of rupturing wood, suddenly burst inward, toward us.
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24 34 "Sound and hale," said the man, "on the ship of Samos, the Thassa Ubara".
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27 186 Their heads made a dull sound as they were struck together.
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27 197 I winced at the sound.
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28 419 I heard the swift sound of the leather in flight.
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29 234 "It is a sign that you are vigorous and sound, neither psychologically crippled nor diseased".
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Book 12. (28 results) Beasts of Gor

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1 188 "Make no sound," I said.
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2 717 A musician may find it in a sound which I cannot detect.
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4 156 There was not a sound in that great amphitheater.
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4 418 The bowl of the amphitheater rocked with sound.
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4 433 It would later be said the Sardar itself shook with sound.
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4 560 I wondered if its design was sound.
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4 570 I knew the sound for I was of the warriors.
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4 572 I ran toward the sound.
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4 580 "No!" Other men, too, were hurrying toward the sound.
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4 607 I dove at the sound, low, rolling, to be under the knife, feet first, presenting little target, kicking, feet scissoring.
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6 2 When I heard the sound of the tharlarion, some four or five of them, I rose to my feet.
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6 458 "You sound bitter," I said.
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6 841 "What is that sound I hear?" she asked.
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10 339 Its sound carried clearly in the clear, cold air north of Torvaldsland.
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15 131 It is a color she cannot see, a sound she cannot hear.
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15 684 "That seems sound business," she said.
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15 945 "It does not sound to me like the slave girl is overburdened with domestic labors," she said.
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23 55 The sound, of course, in the clear, cold air, carried extremely well.
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23 76 Kadluk in the lead, Imnak and I following, with Akko and Naartok, and the others, too, behind him, harpoons and lances in our hands, tramped out of the village, heading toward the sound of the sleen.
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23 80 "Away!" The sound, far off, drifted toward us.
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23 223 "What did not occur to them, I suspect," I said, "is that the sound of your sleen would carry as far as it did, and that the hunters would come forth to greet you".
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26 134 It was almost as though the sound began afresh, energized and renewed.
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26 180 The sound was now quite clear.
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31 69 It did not use human phonemes and so it is difficult, if not impossible, to convey the quality of the sound.
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34 137 It growled softly, almost a purrlike sound, but more intense, more excited.
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35 376 The girls, bellies and bodies tight against the wall, were frightened, but they made not the least sound.
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35 797 I heard a sound and, releasing the girl, lifted the weapon, with both hands.
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37 83 I heard the small sound of the chain from within the furred sacks.
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Book 13. (32 results) Explorers of Gor

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47 7 I had then heard, as I had once before, but had been unable to place the noise, the sound, that strange sound, as of a small wind moving leaves.
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47 14 I saw now that the sound was the sound of millions upon millions of tiny feet, treading upon the leaves and fallen debris of the jungle floor.
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47 15 Too, there may have been, mixed in that sound, the almost infinitesimal sound, audible only in its cumulative effect, of the rubbings and clickings of the joints of tiny limbs and the shiftings and adjustments of tiny, black, shiny exoskeletons, those stiff casings of the segments of their tiny bodi...
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1 325 I glanced within, for I heard from within the clash of slave bells and the bright sound of zills, or finger cymbals.
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3 86 I was alert to the tiny sound behind me.
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4 200 I thought the praetor's conjecture was a sound one.
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4 610 I knew the sound.
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5 267 "Before the general alarm was permitted to sound in Port Kar, in the matter of apprising the wharves of the news of an escaped slave," said Ulafi, "we, naturally, conducted a search for her ourselves.
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6 233 She seemed terrified, but made no sound.
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6 502 Already I could see many signs, some subtle and some quite obvious, that the secret slave, which lurks in every woman, had begun to sense, fearfully, excitedly, that she had been brought to a world on which she might perhaps be free at last to emerge; had the chains been removed; she lifted her wris...
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14 95 There was a small sound of the chain.
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14 387 "I do not wish to sound vain," she said, "but I think that I must be as beautiful as almost any woman upon Earth".
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18 74 Fairness is a central thesis of sound governance.
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21 49 The shafts of the oars, where they rested in the open, fixed-position, U-shaped oarlocks, had been wrapped in fur, that they might make no sound as they moved against these fulcrums.
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23 243 There was an occasional squeak of the metal on the wet wood but the work, for the most part, was accomplished silently, the sound being concealed under the surface of the water.
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23 255 "The sound will carry under the water," said another man.
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23 256 Sound does carry better under water than above it, indeed, some five times as well.
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23 257 The sound, of course, does not well break the surface of the water.
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23 258 Thus the sound, though propagated efficiently either beneath or above the surface, is not well propagated, because of the barrier of the surface, either from beneath the surface to above the surface, or from above the surface to beneath the surface.
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23 367 "Sound the drums," said the man.
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23 380 Its sound would marshal new askaris.
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32 899 I gritted my teeth, but made no sound.
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33 3 The sound of the falls, to our left, plunging some four hundred feet to the waters below, was deafening.
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34 470 Then, slowly, inch by inch, she pressing upward, the door began to open; she could feel the stone of the stairs hard under her bare feet; her muscles ached; there was a heavy sound from the protesting, thick hinges; she cried out, thrusting upward; the door then, suddenly, opened, suddenly swinging ...
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44 15 It did not sound like the passage of a man or animal.
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44 19 I did not now hear the sound.
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44 64 I moved rapidly toward the sound of her voice.
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47 9 Soon, as we approached more closely, quietly, the sound became much louder.
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49 48 "I do not like the sound of the drums," said Ayari.
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49 83 Why would the drums sound just now?" "Then Shaba may live," I said.
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53 226 The panga of the beast who followed me, with a great ringing sound, and a flash of sparks, smote down on the stone.
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53 398 It could make no sound.
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Book 14. (21 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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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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3 327 I heard a very tiny sound, almost inaudible, metallic.
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3 328 "Did you hear that sound?" she asked.
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3 330 "It is the sound of the whip being removed from my belt," she said.
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3 337 I heard a tiny sound again, very similar to the first.
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4 176 Since the first sound in the expression 'Kajira' would be represented in English by the letter 'K' it is quite possible that this resemblance is more than a coincidence.
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9 102 I jerked away from the sound, crying out, startled, frightened.
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11 463 "True," I smiled, "but the accent does not even sound like an English one".
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11 674 The sound was fearful.
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11 686 It was the same sound I had heard earlier, in the corridors.
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12 537 I remember hearing the sound of the gong once more.
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13 283 The sound of these bootlike sandals on the stones of the street was clear and regular.
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19 34 The ceiling of the high-roofed barn and its walls rang with the sound of the blows on the weakening wood.
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20 44 I, turning about, followed the sound of his voice and in a moment he had seized me and pulled me down on the box.
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23 110 As the tunic had passed over her head I had heard the chain loop on her collar, with a small sound, lift and then fall back into place.
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24 25 Interestingly from the sound of the footsteps on the central board, as they touched it, I detected that she was wearing slippers.
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24 173 "You sound sad," I said.
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24 265 She did so, with a sound of anger.
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27 367 There was a sound of metal, that of the collar with its ring, and of the chain, with its lock, depending from the ring.
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32 299 "Do you truly think to manipulate me with words, to turn me aside with puffs of sound?" I asked.
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34 14 I heard the sound of a girl being lashed.
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Book 15. (27 results) Rogue of Gor

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25 199 There was the sound of the metal clapper in the narrow, flattish, triangular-shaped bell, the rustle of the chain and lock, the sound of the small, metal, sturdy, rectangular, locked coin box.
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1 8 "Make no sound," I warned her.
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4 617 I had heard men nearby, the sound of weapons.
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8 24 There was a sudden sound, that of a short metal blade slipping from a sheath.
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9 81 There was a sound of pleasure from the crowd.
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10 137 We heard the sound of a bell, and then, a moment later, that of coins in a metal box.
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10 236 The girl then fled with a sound of her bell and the jangling of the coins in the box.
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15 6 "Lola!" I heard a tiny sound, a pathetic, tiny whimper, muffled, almost inaudible, from a few feet away.
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21 156 I heard the tiny, heavy sound of the links of the chain, moving against one another, depending from her collar.
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21 362 * * * * "What is that sound?" I asked.
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23 72 The music ended with a swirl of sound and the girl, with a jangle of bells, lay before the table of Policrates, whimpering, her hand extended.
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24 40 She approached the sound, and knelt before me.
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24 500 She heard the sound, and moaned.
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25 104 Swiftly the girl leaped to her feet and, with a sound of slave bells, hurried to the table, beside which she knelt.
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25 181 He had detected the telltale sound.
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25 253 The sound of the bell on her neck was exciting.
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28 62 There was a sound of bells, and Tasdron had again locked slave bells on Peggy's left ankle.
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28 227 I detected the sound of a sheathed blade beneath the cloak.
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28 245 There was a small sound at the door, and the newcomer, instantly, backed against the wall, watching us.
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28 371 She moved slightly, and there was a sound of the bells.
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29 13 The plan, indeed, was bold, but it had seemed to me sound.
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29 117 "With all due respect, my friend, Callisthenes," said Callimachus, "I must concur with Glyco, for his judgment in this matter seems sound".
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29 256 I suddenly heard a gigantic, rapid, rattling sound.
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29 261 There had been a horrendous sound of splintering, as the heavy gate had cut through the strakes of the galley like an ax through twigs.
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33 230 "You are mad!" I heard only the water at the strakes, the creaking of the chain, the sound of oars restless in the thole ports, the far-off cries of occasional Vosk gulls.
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33 243 "Sound the battle horns!" called Callimachus to the men on the ship.
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33 244 "Sound the battle horns!".
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Book 16. (37 results) Guardsman of Gor

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1 6 There was a great sound, the hitting of the huge chain by the galley, a sound as of the striking of the chain, and then the grating sound, scraping and heavy, of the chain literally being lifted out of the water.
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1 27 The sound was firm, authoritative.
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1 90 I heard water rushing into the other vessel, a rapid, heavy sound.
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2 2 The sound of the oars, softly entering the water, drawing and lifting, was almost inaudible.
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2 126 "Return to the ship!" We let the longboat move past us, some yards to starboard, judging by the sound of the oars.
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3 131 I could now hear the sound of the horns drifting towards us.
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4 273 "Sound the battle horns," said Callimachus.
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4 274 "Sound the battle horns!" called the officer beside him.
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6 1 We Await Support from Callisthenes; It does not Come; The Third Fleet of the Voskjard; Again We Sound Our Battle Horns We saw the Leda of Port Cos taken full in the hull.
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6 76 The sound of battle horns drifted across the water towards us.
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8 60 She uttered a tiny sound of rage, of protest.
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9 76 "No," I said, "no, Callimachus!" "Do not sound them," said Callimachus to the officer.
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9 216 "You sound familiar," I said.
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9 393 I was aware only of the sound, my motion, and the pain.
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9 425 I swam toward the sound.
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10 112 Within the holding I could hear the sound of flutes, drums and kalikas.
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12 31 There was a sound of chain near us and Kliomenes, his ankles shackled, was thrust to the parapet.
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16 12 The pirates turned, startled, puzzled, to regard the source of the sound.
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16 272 Behind me, in a moment, I heard the sound of swords.
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17 25 I thought I heard the sound of a bell.
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17 62 This made a note sound from the bell.
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17 73 From the chain there hung two objects; the first was a narrow, bronze bell, flattish and tapering, with a flat top and ring; when she moved it would sound, calling attention to her whereabouts; the second was a metal coin box, which contained a slot for the deposition of coins; the coin box was lock...
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17 74 I had not heard coins sound, from within the coin box.
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17 155 Softly then did the bell of the Coin Girl sound, and the chain and coin box on her neck, as she who had once been Miss Henderson turned her head to the side, and began, with her small, fine white teeth, to bite and nibble at the hem of my tunic.
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17 662 "He does not sound like such a bad fellow," I said.
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18 104 "When your Master wishes you to enter his presence," she said, "you will be summoned by the sound of a gong".
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18 134 "But when will the gong sound?" asked the exquisite brunette, in misery.
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18 168 Before the reverberations of the gong had subsided I heard, hurrying towards the room, from deep within the house, the sound of slave bells.
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18 357 There was a shimmer of sound from the glinting rows of tiny bells locked on her wrist.
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18 608 I listened to the sound of the torches in the hall.
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18 609 Then, with a small sound of bells, those on her close-fitting collar, she lifted her head.
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18 626 "How amusing that must sound to you.
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18 695 With the sound of slave bells she did so.
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18 727 There had been little sound save that of our breathing and of her bells.
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19 91 There was a sound from the links of chain above her head as they suddenly drew against one another, for a moment suspending her full weight.
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19 1159 I heard then a sound at the door.
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Book 17. (20 results) Savages of Gor

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1 15 There was a sound of chain beside me.
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1 118 The brushing of the sides of the girl's neck by the dangling ornament is, in itself, a delicate stimulation of a sensitive area of her body, the sides of her neck beneath the ears; this area is quite sensitive to light touches; if the earring is of more than one piece, the tiny sounds made by it, to...
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1 594 With a human translator sound is processed, and understood morphemically, which understanding is then reprocessed into the new phonemic structures.
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1 595 With the machine the correlation is simply between sound structures, simpliciter, and it is the auditor who supplies the understanding.
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1 602 Whether they could pronounce it or not, or how close they could come to pronounce it, would depend on the sound and on the capacity of their own vocal apparatus.
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1 751 I had, even from afar, been half blinded by the light, and, moments later, half staggered by the sound, the blast and heat.
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2 304 This modality of hunting, incidentally, is not as dangerous to the girl as it might sound, for very few urts make their strike from beneath the surface.
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5 81 "They will flee," he said, "at the very sound of our drums".
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8 490 There was the sound of a quirt lashing flesh.
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8 622 Behind her there was the heavy ropish sound of heavy cordage being dropped.
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8 1087 The red-haired girl, who could not see behind her, from the sound of the command, and the movements in the chain, reaching her through the back collar ring, fearfully sensing what was going on, straightened herself as well.
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10 98 "On!" With the sound of chains and collars, and some frightened sobbing, the neck-shackled beauties again took up the march.
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10 104 I feared his assessment of the situation was only too sound.
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13 1156 They cannot even form a sound basis, I would suppose, on which you could begin to even remotely conjecture the nature of the feelings and sensations which lie before you.
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14 87 These, at any rate, were the sentiments of Grunt, who seemed popular with the Dust Legs, and, as far as I can tell, they are substantially sound.
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14 99 Too, if they thought the goods sound, they might think they had been paying too highly for them in the past, or expect that future dealers would deal with them similarly, which, of course, they would not be likely to do, nor be able, realistically, to afford to do.
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14 405 In an instant she had been summoned, and she hurried to him, as she could, with her head down, following the sound of his voice.
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14 705 I did not like the sound of that.
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19 229 "It is a beautiful sound".
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19 306 Sometimes it seems almost as though it were exploding into sound, particularly when the speaker speaks rapidly or is excited.
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Book 18. (15 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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23 6 It must be made swiftly enough for the carrying force of the small bow not to be dissipated; it must be made from a distance sufficient, given the spacing of the riders and the sound of the kaiila's paws, to cover the sound of the string.
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1 417 I heard its paws, suddenly, striking the turf, the sound rapidly diminishing.
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3 111 In a moment there was a cracking noise, and then, after a few more blows, a splintering, rending sound as the tree tipped, and then, its branches striking the earth, fell.
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3 212 A small drum, too, then began to sound.
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6 15 I could now hear the sound, clearly.
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12 54 At the first sign of danger, such as the appearance of an enemy party, they were to bring the herds back to the village, sending one lad ahead to sound the alarm.
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12 241 "At least you are capable of sound," I said.
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14 247 This sound, polite, almost apologetic, had been performed deliberately.
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24 31 I heard the two shafts crack together, Cuwignaka fending the driving point away, and then, to my dismay, I heard a swift, striking sound, and saw Cuwignaka struck from the side of the kaiila, and reeling and staggering backwards, then sprawling, his legs loose under him, to the dust, struck by the p...
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30 94 It is only wood and leather!" A horrifying sound came then from the ranks of the Yellow Knives and soldiers.
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30 97 The sound was unmistakable.
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37 523 We heard a sudden, striking, thudding sound.
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37 525 It was a sound which, when one has once heard it, one is not likely to mistake it for another.
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44 577 Cuwignaka's speculation, as it turned out, was sound.
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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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Book 20. (1 results) Players of Gor

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8 95 His attention had been distracted by a tiny sound, the sound of a falling pebble, to one side.
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Book 21. (3 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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1 296 Even in English, of course, the letter 'q' itself is not pronounced with a 'kwah' sound, but rather with a 'k' or 'c' sound, as in 'kue' or 'cue'.
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26 75 It was not a loud sound at all, but it was unmistakable, the sound of the movement of a piece of metal on the stones.
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26 311 With the sword and quiva, protecting myself first with one and then the other, and probing about, using them alternately, and generally keeping away from the source of the sound, I determined to my satisfaction that the alcove was empty save for myself and the source of the sound.
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Book 22. (1 results) Dancer of Gor

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4 1 The Whip I screamed suddenly under it awakening under it startled not believing it not expecting it the suddenness it was like lightning the cracking sound like the sky breaking the snap like fire my body wrenching I pulling upwards the chain on my neck I fell to my side I pulled at the chain then t...
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Book 26. (2 results) Witness of Gor

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4 248 I then heard, the sound frightening me, from back, near what must be the end of the line, the sound of several coils of chain thrown to the flooring.
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45 55 The whip snapped again, a strict, sharp, loud sound, like the report of a firearm, a sound that seemed to ring explosively from wall to wall.
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Book 27. (2 results) Prize of Gor

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16 33 Was there something on her neck? Had there been a tiny sound, as of the touching of one piece of metal upon another, or a tiny scraping sound? Something seemed subtly different about her body.
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20 619 "You are not to utter a sound," said the older lad, "not the least sound, or we will put you on your back, and put a stick between your teeth and tie it there, so that you cannot close your teeth, and then bind leeches in your mouth".
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Book 28. (3 results) Kur of Gor

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2 39 Then, as the circle was nearly completed, there was a sound as of a single blow, abrupt and impatient, on the other side, perhaps a small explosion, and the steel protruded into the hallway, as though it had been struck by a fist, and then there was another such blow, or explosion, and there was a s...
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55 213 Then Cabot, for the first time, heard the sound which had been noted earlier by Lord Grendel and Statius, and, at almost the same time, saw a small, struggling body in the grasp of one of the cattle humans, and he then heard the sound again, and again, as the small body was lifted and shaken in fury...
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27 22 "It is a sound which surely no woman ever forgets! Is it not the most meaningful of sounds, that snap, that click, as the collar is closed on one, and one realizes that it is now on one, and that one is collared?" "There are many meaningful sounds," said Cabot, "the snarl of the sleen, the roar of t...
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Book 31. (4 results) Conspirators of Gor

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15 151 It was at that moment that I heard a heavy, grating sound, a scraping sound, some yards away.
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15 231 I was very quiet in unlatching the gate, but there was a tiny sound, and the ears moved alertly, slightly, forward, toward that tiny sound.
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18 1064 I made a tiny sound, a grateful, single sound.
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32 29 Then I heard a sound which was difficult to interpret, like a metallic scratching, interspersed, now and then, with a sudden, quick sound like a wheel of rotating metal spokes moving on tiles.
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Book 32. (1 results) Smugglers of Gor

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21 123 It then made a sound, a soft, guttural sound.
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Book 33. (2 results) Rebels of Gor

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50 120 Indeed, if one listened only briefly, or did not listen carefully, one might have supposed that something of that sort was on the other side of the door, perhaps caged, perhaps chained, but, if one attended more carefully, one began shortly to suspect, and it was a most unsettling suspicion, particu...
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50 122 What is the lever or the wheel, compared to the meaningful sound? What a rare moment when a simple organism, shambling and brutelike, in lost millennia, first lifted its head to the sky, and realized, in a stunning, magical moment, that a sound might mean.
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Book 34. (2 results) Plunder of Gor

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5 22 We heard the creaking sound again, followed by a sound of joining and locking metal, and a rattle of chain.
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59 43 The door to the left had been thrown open and bright sunlight enflamed the doorway, and I heard the sound of men outside, and there was a sound of cheering, and an eager howling of Kurii, and two gates were flung up, one at the near end of the verr pen, to my left, separating it from its chute, and ...
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Book 35. (2 results) Quarry of Gor

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8 69 I loved the sound of the timbers of the ship, creaking, the sound of the long yard, responding to the wind, the occasional snap of the canvas.
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27 170 I had heard just one sound, a small, swift sound, bright and quick, when Bruno of Torcadino, fiercely turned, leaning on the crutch, parried the assailant's blade, following which he thrust.
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Book 36. (1 results) Avengers of Gor

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36 26 "Did I not know better," I said, "that sound might be taken for the sound of a needful slave girl".
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