| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 2 | 229 |
Moreover, in moving through space, without a sun for photosynthesis and warmth, all life would surely have been destroyed. |
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| 2 | 250 |
The Priest-Kings might gravitationally warp the space in their vicinity, causing light or radio waves to be diffused, curved, or deflected in such a way as not to expose their world". |
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| 19 | 208 |
Then, without another word, he turned and leaped into space. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10 | 57 |
At last it dragged me into a round, globelike space, lit by two torches in iron racks, which were set into the fitted-stone walls. |
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| 15 | 64 |
With one last look at the Tatrix, the bird turned and stalked to the brink of that awesome ledge and, with a single snap of its great wings, leaped into space, its soaring shadow a message of terror to any game below. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 14 |
I lifted the shield, for, to my horror, in reversing his position on the chain he had suddenly added some twenty feet to the fearful perimeter of the space allotted to him by that hated impediment. |
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| 23 | 62 |
"Forgive me!" I fell to my knees beside her and thrust the Mul-Torch into a space between two stones in the floor. |
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| 29 | 56 |
While they seemed to hang undecided in space, almost like puzzled cells in a droplet of water, I dove again, and the third ship broke apart as though it were a toy beneath a falling cutlass of fire, and I climbed once more, the flame of the silver tube stabbing ahead of me, hitting the fourth ship a... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 10 | 197 |
In the space between the two lines of stakes, for each pair of facing stakes, there was a circle of roughly eight yards in diameter. |
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| 10 | 258 |
"Hah!" said Kamchak, seeing now the lines of tharlarion part for a space of perhaps forty yards, through which could be seen the screened palanquins of Turian damsels, some on the shoulders of chained slaves, among them undoubtedly men of the Wagon Peoples. |
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| 10 | 290 |
Thus, to interfere, a Turian would have to cross the space between the stakes, and so, too, would one of the Wagon Peoples, thus clearly calling themselves to the attention of the judges, those officials supervising the games. |
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| 10 | 442 |
At this word the judge called out to clear the space between the stakes of Aphris of Turia and the lovely Kassar wench. |
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| 16 | 297 |
I was confident that the man was the same as he who had brought Elizabeth Cardwell to this world—he who had seen her in New York and decided she would play her role in his perilous sport—and that thus he had at his disposal an advanced technology—certainly to the level of at lea... |
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| 16 | 329 |
And then, one day, like the pirates of Port Kar in their long galleys, unannounced, unexpected, Others would cross the seas of space and bring their craft to rest on the shores and sands of Gor. |
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| 20 | 18 |
I was about to respond when I heard a stifled scream of horror and saw that Harold had hurled Hereena in my direction, across the space between the tree and the wall. |
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| 21 | 259 |
The narrow column, and probably the Tuchuk spacing, a Hundred and then the space for a Hundred, open, and then another Hundred, and so on, tends to narrow the front of dust, and the spaces between Hundreds give time for some of the dust to dissipate and also, incidentally, to rise sufficiently so th... |
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| 21 | 260 |
I could now see the first Hundred, five abreast, and then the open space behind them, and then the second Hundred. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 11 | 7 |
The expression "kennels" is sometimes used similarly, but more often it refers to a kind of small, cement cell, customarily about three feet by three feet by four feet, with an iron gate, which can be raised and lowered; similar cells, but entirely of bars, are also common, and are to be found in th... |
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| 11 | 280 |
We have ships which can traverse space to Earth. |
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| 12 | 311 |
First Virginia and then Phyllis laid their heads and throats on the anvil, head turned to the side, their hands holding the anvil, and the smith, expertly, with his heavy hammer and a ringing of iron, curved the collar about their throats; a space of about a quarter of an inch was left between the t... |
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| 13 | 304 |
The stars over the city were clear and bright, the coursing moons white with splendor against the black space of the Gorean night. |
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| 21 | 280 |
This permits the men in reserve to move into the forward line to form a solid line, or, if the first line withdraws, to have space to take its place. |
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| 21 | 281 |
It allows a great deal of mobility and, on the level of squad tactics, has its affinity to the Torian Squares; the space allows the swordsmen, of course, room in which to handle their weapons, room in which to properly attack or defend themselves; in this case I expected the center man to engage me,... |
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| 22 | 426 |
I wanted the tarns before me to space themselves, so that I might pass them singly if possible. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | 32 |
Although the Dorna's true beam is sixteen feet Gorean, her deck width is twenty-one feet Gorean, due to the long rectangular rowing frame, which carries the thole ports; the rowing frame is slightly higher than the deck area and extends beyond it, two and one half feet Gorean on each side; it is sup... |
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| 14 | 55 |
The use of the extended rowing frame, permitting the leverage necessary for the great oars, and the seating of several oarsmen, each with his own oar, on a given bench, conserving space, are important in this regard. |
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| 14 | 63 |
Other disadvantages to the double- and triple-banked systems, of course, are that valuable hold space is consumed by oarsmen; and that many of your oarsmen, if not all, are below decks and thus unable to enter into necessary actions as easily as they might otherwise do; further, in case of ramming o... |
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| 15 | 263 |
There was a clear space before my great table, in which, from time to time, during the evening, entertainments had been provided, simple things, which even I upon occasion found amusing, fire eaters and sword swallowers, jugglers and acrobats, and magicians, and slaves, riding on one another's shoul... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 229 |
There were doubtless men on this world who did possess the capabilities for space flight and I would make inquiries and contact them. |
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| 8 | 310 |
Targo had rented space in one compound, adjoining others. |
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| 8 | 648 |
Targo consented, to our delight, and the small mountebank with the strange animal cleared a small space near the bars on the far side of the compound, away from the bars forming the common wall with the compound of Haakon of Skjern. |
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| 11 | 150 |
A master of the city, of course, who might be leaving the city temporarily, could also rent space in the public pens, to board his slaves there. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 75 |
It is really only the space between the keel and the deck of the first hold. |
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| 2 | 76 |
It is approximately an eighteen-inch crawl space, unlit and cold, and damp. |
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| 2 | 77 |
This crawl space, further, in its center, rather amidships and toward the stern, contains the sump, or bilge. |
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| 2 | 696 |
The lower hold is the tiny crawl space, of some eighteen inches, between the deck of the first hold and the curved hull of the ship, divided by its keel. |
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| 3 | 95 |
We passed some fortified warehouses, in which space is available to Merchants. |
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| 5 | 228 |
Along one wall, sitting, waiting for cage space, were many other girls, fastened by a long chain running through ankle rings, on the left ankle of each. |
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| 5 | 334 |
"We need cage space," he said, angrily. |
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| 11 | 476 |
Marlenus stopped at the side of his great tent, in an open space. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 161 |
The decking on the ship is loose, and may be lifted or put to one side, to increase cargo space. |
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| 4 | 93 |
There is about a foot of space between the gunwales and the bottoms of the tented awnings, permitting a view to sea on either side. |
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| 6 | 393 |
Most lived in ships, the steel wolves of space, their instincts bridled, to some extent, by Ship Loyalty, Ship Law. |
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| 10 | 569 |
I speculated that Earth governments, or some of them, were reasonably well aware that their planet must now be the locus of frequent alien slave raids; but why would the alien power not make itself known and openly demand their jewels among the female resources of the planet; the governments would n... |
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| 11 | 194 |
If they were successful, I had little doubt that the invasion from space, in its full power, would follow. |
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| 11 | 205 |
This would permit an assessment of the power of Priest-Kings, the extent and nature of which was largely unknown to the Kurii, and, perhaps, to lure them into exposing themselves in such a way that a space raid might be successfully launched. |
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| 15 | 52 |
The full extent of the strategy, however, I suspected, was known only on the steel worlds, the steel worlds in space, on which it had doubtless been constructed and from which, perhaps, it might be conducted. |
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| 15 | 76 |
The Kurii, for more than twenty thousand years at least, had possessed deep-space capability. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 373 |
They can be tightly rolled and occupy little space. |
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| 3 | 199 |
I could see movement, and torches, in the vertical thread of space between the two halves of the gate. |
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| 16 | 26 |
The lateral arrangement is more convenient in unloading; the square arrangement provides a more convenient distribution of deck space, supplying superior crew areas at stem and stern. |
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| 26 | 1182 |
Even had they not have been, their information, they, seldom leaving the Sardar, not being as humans, was little better than that of their human agents, widely separated in space and time. |
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| 26 | 1200 |
Somewhere up there, beyond atmospheres, beyond the orbits of Gor, and Earth and Mars, in a boulder-strewn, enigmatic blackness of space, in the silence of the fragments of the asteroid belt, were the steel worlds, the lairs and domiciles of Kurii. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 41 |
Each in my world, it seemed, carried about with him a bubble of space, a perimeter, a wall, an invisible shield, an unconsciously acculturated, socially sanctioned remoteness, a barrier decreed by convention and conditioning. |
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| 2 | 42 |
Behind this invisible wall, within this personal, privately owned space, we lived. |
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| 2 | 44 |
In my particular Earth culture, this circle of inviolate, privately owned space had a radius of some two to three feet. |
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| 2 | 47 |
He stood within my space. |
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| 2 | 48 |
Suddenly I realized that my space did not exist on this world. |
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| 2 | 50 |
So small a thing it seems, perhaps, that this convention should on this world not be acknowledged or respected, indeed, that, at least in my case, it did not exist, but it is not, truly, a small thing; no, to me the crumbling of this artifice, this protective device, this convention, was catastrophi... |
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| 9 | 1631 |
Men, and villagers all, and slaves, cleared a space near the hut of Thurnus. |
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| 11 | 206 |
Space in a "free keep" is rented on a commercial basis, regardless of municipal affiliation. |
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| 16 | 82 |
The first tier is raised from the floor of the hold by some eighteen inches, providing a crawl space. |
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| 16 | 84 |
The crawl space between the floor of the hold and the first tier is cleaned once a day. |
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| 16 | 85 |
Each girl, all in all, has a space private to her slavery of some twenty-five inches in width, by some eighteen inches in height, by some six feet five inches in length. |
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| 16 | 86 |
In this space she is chained helplessly. |
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| 16 | 114 |
I drew my feet and hands, in their chains, as near the center of my space as I could. |
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| 16 | 116 |
* * * * The vertical gate of the cage space, that gate behind my head, was thrown open and hooked back. |
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| 16 | 156 |
This morning I had been removed from the cage, a tether put about my left ankle, given a rag and pan, and set to clean the crawl space beneath the slave platforms. |
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| 26 | 423 |
With the leash he tied her thighs tightly together, leaving between the tight, confining leather strips an open space, a small, lovely territory, for the passage of the iron. |
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| 28 | 102 |
"Move down one space," said the slaver's man. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 49 |
Perhaps even now the ships of Kurii flamed toward Gor, as purposeful and silent as sharks in the waters of space's night. |
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| 4 | 499 |
My own tarn was at a cot, where I had rented space for him. |
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| 27 | 109 |
This silent storm of charged particles, flung from millions of miles across space, raining upon an atmosphere, was very beautiful. |
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| 34 | 21 |
Already, I supposed, the troopships, with their hibernated marches, engines flaming, quiet in the near vacuum of space, burned their silent, purposeful way toward the shores of Gor. |
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| 36 | 222 |
He sent them to the sled on which he had been allotted space for his belongings, including two slave girls. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 19 |
It was a crowded city, built up from the marshes themselves, in the Vosk's delta, and space was scarce and precious. |
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| 7 | 79 |
"Why do you put so many girls together? Would it not be better to space them farther apart, for purposes of display?" "It is easier to feed and clean them this way," he said. |
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| 7 | 82 |
"Besides," he said, "later in the month I am expecting deliveries and I will then need that space". |
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| 11 | 20 |
It is cheaper than renting space for them in the public or private pens. |
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| 14 | 544 |
The Gorean slave girl, incidentally, will space herself from her master quite differently in different situations. |
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| 23 | 281 |
The space freed would be narrow, but it would be large enough to admit the passage of a man's body. |
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| 34 | 264 |
For example, they occupy space and obey the laws of physics and chemistry". |
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| 38 | 11 |
"It was there," said Ayari, a moment later, pointing to a space between trees. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 | 37 |
She looked across the tables, across the space between them, to where three men sat, one of Venna, and two of Ar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 33 |
There would be no rooms for them, as there were none for many of the guests, but they, too, albeit only for a space in a corridor, would be charged a full silver tarsk for their lodging. |
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| 22 | 129 |
It is outside the house, like the land, and space, and stars. |
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| 32 | 208 |
"Clear more space," said Kliomenes. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | 165 |
Beneath the first hold is the lower hold, but this is little more than a damp crawl space, containing the bilge, and sand, which, on Gorean vessels, commonly serves as ballast. |
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| 19 | 99 |
A slave has no private space. |
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| 20 | 2086 |
She came and stood quite close to me, within the circle of my space, close, as a slave may stand to her master. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 128 |
Also, of course, sometimes the vendors, too, will merely tie up their boats near the side of the canal, particularly when the space on the cement is crowded. |
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| 6 | 53 |
It is a very large compound, probably because he also handles kaiila, and there must be running space for such active, agile creatures. |
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| 8 | 601 |
Men quickly cleared space about us. |
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| 13 | 772 |
This opening was then further closed by wrapping a thick cloth about my neck and thrusting it up, so that it filled the space between my neck and the edges of the now-closed semicircular openings". |
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| 14 | 1139 |
I then, quickly, brought my right index finger down, striking into the space between the index finger and second finger of my left hand. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 | 192 |
A circular enclosure, of course, geometrically, contains more space, for a given perimeter, than any other figure. |
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| 11 | 111 |
Its high walls, some forty feet in height, built on poles, from platforms, and ceilinged with poles and branches, enclosed a dancing space, cleared, circular and packed down, of about fifty feet in diameter. |
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| 11 | 112 |
In the center of this space was the pole which had been formed, some days ago, from the tree which Winyela had felled. |
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| 22 | 254 |
It enclosed a packed-down dancing space of some fifty feet in diameter. |
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| 44 | 484 |
Yet I think that more than a hundred and fifty Yellow Knives might already have perished, victims of that steep, dreadful trail, crowded from it, driven from it, trampled upon it, and some even falling under the weapons of their own fellows, fighting for space on the rugged ascent. |
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| 47 | 274 |
Sometimes it seemed almost as though we were motionless, floating, or arrested in time and space, and that it was the moist, nebulous substance of the cloud that flowed past us, almost as though we were immersed in a river of fog. |
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| 47 | 381 |
Sardak flung his head back, to close the space between the skull and the vertebrae, his eyes like wild moons, but it was too late. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 359 |
There was a tiny space between two folds of the blanket, through which I could see, looking then through an opening in the weaving of the basket. |
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| 16 | 23 |
I could not, however, to my consternation, climb the palings of the enclosure or find a space between them to squeeze through. |
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| 16 | 25 |
When a new basket, that of a late arrival, unhitched from its tarn, was being dragged within the palings from the landing area outside, within the larger palisade, while it was being put in its numbered space, I slipped out. |
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| 24 | 28 |
"Next," said a man at a table, and we moved up one space. |
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| 24 | 36 |
We moved up another space. |
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| 33 | 673 |
Those forces, for example, had mastered space flight. |
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| 33 | 794 |
"Both Priest-Kings and Beasts possess powerful weaponry and are masters of space travel," she said. |
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| 33 | 800 |
And never have they pursued the beasts to their steel lairs in space, pursuing temporary advantages in these perennial conflicts. |
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| 36 | 638 |
This suggests space, and certainly a lack of clutter. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 6 |
The Tarnsman can move only one space on the positioning move. |
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| 1 | 828 |
I utilized the initial three-space option of the Ubar's Scribe's Spearman. |
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| 1 | 935 |
It did not seem likely that a Kur ship would move openly in Gorean air space. |
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| 2 | 838 |
In a small space, with Henrius and some men about, to the music of some nearby musicians, the men clapping and keeping time, she was dancing. |
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| 2 | 893 |
He had perhaps rented the space to someone for an Ahn or so. |
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| 10 | 691 |
"Will it be necessary to kick your feet from under you, and strike you," I asked, "as one might a slave whose compliance has been foolishly less than instantaneous?" She knelt, braceleted, hooded, in the narrow space between the two bunks, facing the door. |
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| 12 | 258 |
It, after its initial move, may move only one space at a time. |
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| 16 | 1073 |
These rings, when lowered, hung a few feet above the floor, some six or seven feet above it, in the open space between the tables. |
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| 16 | 1078 |
The lowered ring dangled near the center of the hall, in the space between the tables. |
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| 19 | 108 |
In a moment we had come to an open space. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 33 |
In moving back I had also tended to reassure the figure in the doorway that I meant no harm; this movement, too, of course, had the advantage of ensuring me reaction space; in moving toward the center of the hut I made it possible for her to see me better, this tending, too, one supposes, to allay s... |
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| 9 | 21 |
Last night we had drawn into our assigned wagon space in a fortified camp. |
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| 22 | 23 |
That conserved space. |
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| 22 | 25 |
Space is precious in a crowded insula. |
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| 24 | 252 |
This is a fine house, with luxurious appointments, with a great deal of space and splendid grounds. |
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| 25 | 51 |
The table was in the second row, or so, from the front of the room, where there was something of an open space. |
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| 25 | 116 |
There are small exits from the larger room, on the other side of the open space, that lead to various tunnels, off of which may be found cells and alcoves. |
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| 25 | 293 |
My hostess then lifted her head and looked to the left of the open space, where several females huddled. |
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| 25 | 959 |
In our return we paused briefly by the girls at the side of the open space. |
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| 25 | 1741 |
I looked up, and noted Louise, who had been returning to her place to the left of the open space, coming back from the bar. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 331 |
There, at the opening to my side aisle, in the main aisle, tall in the darkness, looking down at me, loomed a man, one of the three whom I had seen, he, I think, who had followed me about so quietly and tenaciously, originally to the lower level, up again by the other stairs, down the hall-like way,... |
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| 7 | 25 |
Space outside of a city's walls is usually cheaper to rent than space within its walls. |
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| 2 | 63 |
The space between them seemed somehow narrower, and more wall-like, than usual. |
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| 2 | 73 |
He was a quite large man anyway, but here, in this enclosed space, the shelves on each side, he seemed gigantic. |
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| 2 | 75 |
His bulk, somehow seemingly ungainly in that suit and tie, seemed to fill the space between the shelves. |
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| 3 | 164 |
I do not think, really, that this was all simply a matter of space. |
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| 3 | 168 |
No, I do not think it was really all a matter of space. |
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| 3 | 296 |
Perhaps the first man, he I had first seen, he whom I knew, no longer blocked them! But he was still there! I cried out in misery and darted across the open space, past the information desk and the office, past the periodicals and into the reading area, toward the main-level porch, overlooking the l... |
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| 3 | 303 |
I fleetly crossed the open space of the central section of the library and ran up the iron, iron-and-wood-banistered stairs to the upper level, where we keep biographies and fiction. |
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| 3 | 332 |
I leaped up and fled away from him, utilizing the narrow space at the edge of the porchlike upper level, between the safety banister and the shelves, to the second stairs, on the east side of the upper level, leading down to the main floor. |
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| 6 | 473 |
I pulled my wrists up, in their linked rings, taking advantage of the space at the small of my back. |
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| 7 | 119 |
The canvas at the front of the wagon was opened, and a man, from the floor space before the wagon box, looked in upon us. |
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| 8 | 357 |
A little later I learned what space and movement it would permit me. |
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| 10 | 545 |
It also puts enough space between the slave and the free male so that the releasing of his rapacity is then likely to require a decision, and is less likely to be simply, reflexively, triggered. |
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| 11 | 198 |
The space for the musicians was to the left, as I had looked out. |
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| 17 | 139 |
Naked maidens, doubtless of the vanquished, served at the low tables, and, in the open space between these tables, and among them, danced. |
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| 23 | 161 |
We had now ascended the rise, and were on a flat, open space, before the tent. |
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| 33 | 3 |
There was a space of some fifty feet of cleared ground behind him. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | 6 |
The farthest space to the left and front, as one entered, then, was space "zero" and the farthest space to the back and the right was "99". |
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| 6 | 9 |
Similarly the space farthest to the back on the left, as one enters, would be space 90, the intersection of row 9 with column 0, and the space farthest to the right, in the front, as one enters, was 9, the intersection of row 0 with column 9. |
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| 6 | 2 |
What counted for the hundredth space, so to speak, was a "zero" space in the front, left-hand corner, as one entered the level. |
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| 6 | 8 |
For example, the intersection of row 7 with column 3 would be space 73, not space 37. |
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| 6 | 645 |
"I am sorry I am in the wrong space! I apologize! Forgive me! It was stupid of me!" The newcomer let him slip to the floor and the fellow hastily, crawling, fetched his belongings from space 99. |
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| 6 | 728 |
"Do not interfere," cautioned the fellow in space 98, who had been ejected from the corner space. |
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| 6 | 857 |
He then sat down in the corner space, 99, the safest, most private space on the floor. |
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| 16 | 514 |
What small expanse of meaning was this, compared to the magnitudes of space? How tiny the disturbances and exertions of the afternoon must seem, compared to the dissolution and formation of worlds, and the turmoils wrought in the depths of incandescent orbs? Yet there was feeling and consciousness h... |
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| 1 | 9 |
The circle contains more interior space than any other geometrical figure, so the camp is thus as large as possible, given the number of wagons. |
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| 2 | 183 |
The inn itself, aside from certain ancillary buildings, was built of heavy logs, and in two parts, or structures, with a common, peaked roof, and an open space, covered from above by the roof, between the two parts. |
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| 2 | 557 |
But I proceeded under the overhang to the open space between the two parts of the inn, the covered way there, with its high roof, that which it shared with the two parts of the inn, and then across it, to the right portion of the inn, in which the porter had informed me was the keeper's desk. |
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| 3 | 108 |
"Even in these hard times, the keeper, who has his congenial, noble side, has refused to surrender space lines". |
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| 3 | 110 |
"What are space lines?" "Most inns," he said, "for your lodging, simply assign you to a large common room, to be shared with others. |
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| 3 | 116 |
"You can accommodate fewer people that way, to be sure," he said, "but then there are fewer fights, and free women almost always prefer to have their own space. |
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| 3 | 120 |
"Perhaps then you can send a girl to my 'space' for the night," I said. |
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| 3 | 149 |
"I would like a space near the wall, preferably in a corner," I said. |
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| 3 | 151 |
"Your space is S-3-97. |
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| 3 | 163 |
"We shall make the bill out to your space then," he said, "S-3-97". |
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| 4 | 67 |
That he had brought the rectangular pouch into the baths with him, as well as the blade, suggested to me that it might be important, too important to be left back at his space, or on the peg outside the latticework. |
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| 5 | 493 |
I would finish my bread, and nurse the paga for a time, and then retire to my space. |
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| 5 | 494 |
It was in the south wing, on the third level, space 97. |
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| 5 | 817 |
I picked up my ostrakon, on which was inscribed the number of my space, and the two blankets. |
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| 6 | 1 |
Some Things which Occurred One Night at the Crooked Tarn There were one hundred sleeping spaces, or positions, on the third level in the south wing, although no space was numbered "100". |
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| 6 | 7 |
As the first line in Gorean writing moves from the left to the right, according to convention the numbers to the left would be first numbers designating the space. |
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| 6 | 10 |
This arrangement makes it possible, at a glance, to see exactly where one's space lies. |
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| 6 | 11 |
My space, as I discovered, was not as bad as the keeper had suggested. |
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| 6 | 33 |
At first I supposed they might be companions, sharing a space. |
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| 6 | 55 |
"Forgive me, Lady," I whispered, "I am trying to reach my space". |
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| 6 | 120 |
I then picked up her small dagger, and my pack, and the blankets, and again made my way toward my space. |
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| 6 | 126 |
There were some empty spaces on the floor, for example, space 98, to my left, as I would face the front of the room, but, on the whole, the level was very crowded. |
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| 6 | 127 |
I would have liked the comparative privacy of space 99, in the corner, but it was occupied. |
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| 6 | 132 |
I glanced back to the space occupied by the free woman whom I had not found pleasing, she on whose mouth I had seen fit to impose closure, she whom I had left in precarious concealments and slave trussing. |
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| 6 | 139 |
I gestured to him, and, exciting my envy somewhat, he picked his way expertly among the sprawled, slumbering bodies to my space. |
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| 6 | 204 |
Space 97, for example, did have one edge, the top edge, on the wall. |
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| 6 | 464 |
"Then it was I, truly I, whom you wished delivered to your space," she whispered. |
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| 6 | 582 |
I glanced at the space next to me. |
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| 6 | 584 |
If that was the case it was not at all unlikely that he might have been rented the space after mine. |
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| 6 | 587 |
There was a fellow slumbering in space 99, in the corner. |
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| 6 | 589 |
If the fellow coming up the steps was indeed who I expected it was, and had rented the space near me, and if things proceeded as I expected, I thought I might be able to enlist the support of the fellow in the corner. |
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| 6 | 612 |
In a moment or two the newcomer was at the space, 98, next to mine. |
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| 6 | 623 |
With a noise of disgust he turned and cast her from him, to her side, to the foot of my space, on my blanket. |
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| 6 | 628 |
As I thought, he would prefer the corner space. |
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| 6 | 630 |
"Ai!" cried the fellow from that space, lifted up, and suddenly thrown against the wall. |
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| 6 | 632 |
"Why are you in the wrong space?" he asked him. |
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| 6 | 633 |
"I am not in the wrong space!" gasped the fellow. |
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| 6 | 642 |
"I have the ostrakon for this space!" said the fellow. |
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| 6 | 648 |
He then placed his belongings in space 98, next to mine. |
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| 6 | 842 |
The other man sat down, too, in his space. |
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| 6 | 851 |
Indeed, more than one fellow he had struck about, making his way to his space. |
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| 6 | 852 |
He had even come directly to his space, in a diagonal, rather than making use, like other folks, of more neighborly, if lengthier, orthogonals. |
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| 6 | 853 |
Too, it seemed he had shown me insufficient respect, not to mention the fellow next to me, whose paid-for space he had appropriated, nor those he had trampled upon, and struck about, in his passage to our area. |
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| 6 | 870 |
I put out my hand and detained the fellow in space 98 who, it seemed, was preparing to depart. |
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| 8 | 188 |
It was not so much at first, however, that I recalled her upper facial features, as they would have appeared over the veil, if only because it had been very dark in the upper level when I had sought my space last night, as I recalled immediately, vividly, the appearance and positioning of her small ... |
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| 16 | 495 |
I then turned to look across the twenty yards or so of space between the somber, looming towers, aligned, and the wall of the citadel. |
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| 17 | 147 |
Thus they may lower it when they will and raise it when they will, perhaps after a retreat, transforming the tower then into what, in effect, is a small, inaccessible, impregnable keep, with its moat of space, a keep, however, whose bridge might then, suddenly, at any moment of the day or night, dro... |
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| 17 | 169 |
He tumbled back, into space. |
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| 18 | 214 |
Whereas this more exposed them to the fire from above it also, for us, cleared a killing space. |
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| 18 | 512 |
They are light and take up little space in a warrior's pack. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
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| 3 | 157 |
Indeed, Borton, wanting his space at the Crooked Tarn, a rather good space, a corner space, had simply thrown Ephialtes out of it, and taken it. |
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| 1 | 28 |
Had I had a slave sent to my "space" it would have cost me three full copper tarsks, for only a quarter of an Ahn. |
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| 1 | 44 |
"In the morning, early, after the evening in which I had been carried, bound, to your space, to serve you, I, with other debtors—" "'Debtor sluts'," I said. |
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| 1 | 601 |
That night, after I had left the Paga Room, I had arranged for the Lady Temione to be brought to the space I had rented. |
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| 1 | 1148 |
Too, it would not be necessary to cross the main camp's air space, which is usually, and for obvious reasons, kept inviolate. |
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| 2 | 12 |
"You!" she said, twisting about in the tiny space, on the silken carpet. |
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| 2 | 83 |
"And later, when you were kind enough to have me brought to your space at the inn, he was there, too!" "'Kind enough'?" I said. |
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| 47 | 251 |
The concourse was crowded, save for the open space in which I stood, Ina crouched behind me. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | 556 |
I noted that the free female had gone a bit about the outside of the circle, and now stood there, back a bit from the circle, where there was a space between some men. |
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| 6 | 16 |
Some boards are maintained by private persons, who sell space on them for advertising, notifications, and personal messages. |
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| 6 | 21 |
Some proprietors rent space in their shops or places of business for small postings. |
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| 8 | 310 |
The taker of ostraka, however, had been adamant, pleading policy and arguing cogently that even a sleen or verr would have to pay, as they would occupy space in the house. |
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| 8 | 729 |
To be sure, these two gouts, thick as they were, cleared an irregular space of several square inches of the back of her head. |
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| 9 | 590 |
Then, huddled together on the floor between the tables, in the dancing space, frightened, exhausted from their writhing, their uses will be gambled for by their numbers, and then, as the lots fall, they will be dragged, one by one, to the tables, or the sides of the room, to give pleasure to their m... |
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| 16 | 98 |
"Clear some space," said another. |
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| 17 | 29 |
Why is there anything? Why is there anything at all? Why not just nothing? Wouldn't "nothing" be more likely, more rational, more scientific? When did time begin? Where does space end? On a line, at the surface of a sphere? Do our definitions constrain reality? What if reality does not know our lang... |
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| 17 | 209 |
"Alas, woe!" cried the ponderous fellow, running his hands about the empty space now exposed to view. |
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| 19 | 215 |
Marcus, of high caste, was familiar with various tenets of the second knowledge, such things as the roundness of his world, its movement in space, and the existence of other planets. |
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| 22 | 140 |
Some shopkeepers, householders, landlords, and such rent space on the streetsides of their buildings for this purpose. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 46 |
Once it seemed, as I determined by touch, I was lying in a low, narrow, mesh-walled space, as on a slatted bunk. |
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| 15 | 86 |
He seemed to stare into space. |
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| 15 | 101 |
He continued to gaze, seemingly unseeingly, into space. |
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| 24 | 410 |
So she knelt naked in her heap of robes, in a small open space in the group. |
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| 37 | 875 |
"Space the light about the pool," said the lieutenant, with a gesture of his arm. |
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| 40 | 213 |
He then picked up the board, with the pieces on it, went to the wall, and threw the entire board and pieces out into space, over the wall. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11 | 555 |
It only became clear to her later that he had wanted the chair more in the center of the room, for a different reason, that there might then be a cleared space before it, on the rug. |
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| 16 | 286 |
Perhaps I could bribe the cleaners of streets to take you from my shelf, to throw into the pits, to dispose of you as refuse, as flesh-garbage! Do you know what it costs to rent this space, even without an awning!" "No, Master," said more than one of the girls. |
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| 17 | 1158 |
Ellen supposed that she was not the first slave, nor would she be likely to be the last slave, to be housed in this narrow, straw-strewn space. |
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| 21 | 71 |
Merchants, dignitaries, soldiers, travelers, artisans, peddlers, tradesmen, citizens, peasants, villagers, townspeople and others were all making their way into the vicinity of the city, some setting up tents and camps, others renting space either within the city, or about the walls. |
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| 21 | 109 |
Some seven or so males were kneeling in a small space, stripped, covered with dirt, heads down, to the left. |
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| 25 | 49 |
Powerful resolutions of improved service are quickly formed in that small space. |
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| 26 | 429 |
"Assuredly, Master," she said, "front-braceleted!" She felt his fingers forcibly widen a space between the loops of leather string that held her wrists behind her. |
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| 27 | 670 |
Perhaps it had succumbed to geological upheavals, or other natural catastrophes, perhaps meteoritic bludgeonings from space, eradicating entire species, or from sun flares which might scald a world, or from an uprooting which might produce a moon and leave behind a vast basin to be filled with water... |
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| 27 | 2605 |
Some soldiers, and the officer, and the great, shambling beast, Kardok, came about the wagon, to the cleared space there, in the center of the camp. |
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| 27 | 2763 |
"And how will you buy your rent space within the camp?" "I will speak! I know things! Things on which hang the fate of worlds! I can speak of gold beyond that which you sought! Gold compared to which that is a paltry sum! I can speak of weapons which can devastate cities in a moment, leaving no more... |
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| 30 | 659 |
In any event, it is clear that the ships of slavers ply the space routes. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 17 |
Are they truly so unaware of their small place in the yard of existence, so ignorant of the length of space and the breadth of time, of the flight of galaxies, of the journeys of streaming light, perhaps touching nothing for a hundred thousand years; are they unaware even of the patience of stone, c... |
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| 1 | 66 |
The diameter, in measurements likely to be familiar to the reader, would be something like four feet, whereas the container, as a whole, is something like eight feet in height, though much of this space is not conveniently utilizable, given the tapering at the top and bottom. |
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| 1 | 69 |
Too, the air in the container may be drawn from the container, should one wish, say, to terminate an occupant, clear the space for a new occupant, and so on. |
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| 1 | 1276 |
What if she were marginalized, or neglected? What if the little animal should become, so to speak, his favorite? How would this affect her plans, her role, in this tiny space? There was a single male, and two females. |
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| 20 | 290 |
"Food, oxygen, space, the quotas, the allotments, the requirements of Kurii, and such". |
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| 27 | 12 |
The space was closed with a heavy leather curtain. |
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| 56 | 263 |
He was one of the few surviving officers, as most, if they had not perished in the fray itself, their ships destroyed about them, melting and fragmenting in the silent fields of space, had hung themselves in shame, some aboard their returning vessels, others, having made worldfall, in the groves abo... |
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| 80 | 114 |
"They have not put space flight at the disposal of Gorean humans," said a Kur. |
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| 81 | 17 |
Cabot noted that the ship carried propellant, which consumed much space, and functioned on a principle of reaction. |
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| 81 | 28 |
Indeed, it was speculated that Priest-Kings could use a planet as what, in effect, it was, a space ship, and shift it, if one wished, from one primary to another, a competence possibly of great value, should alterations or disturbances take place in its local primary. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 10 |
Too, they lurk, like wolves, muchly concealed, amongst the scattered stones, some small, many mighty, of what, on Earth, is commonly referred to as the asteroid belt, on Gor, by those familiar with the Second Knowledge, as the reefs of space. |
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| 1 | 270 |
How could we have then failed to embrace, and therewith comply with the will and intrigues of Priest-Kings? Do they not use us as their pawns, their dupes, and instruments? Using our congruent natures how could we, so subtly manipulated, have failed to dance upon their strings? The other factor invo... |
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| 2 | 24 |
Gor is somewhat smaller than Earth but having missed the cataclysm that drew, say, a sixth of Earth into space to form her magnificent single moon, leaving behind a mighty basin to become in time a vast ocean, her land area is quite possibly more extensive than that of Earth. |
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| 2 | 27 |
And most Goreans, even today, would be as unacquainted with, and as skeptical of, the possibility of space travel as men of Earth might have been a thousand or more years ago. |
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| 5 | 149 |
Let them remain, rather, in their distant, isolated, metal worlds, confined to an alien wilderness, an archipelago of debris between Mars and Jupiter, the Reefs of Space, the Asteroid Belt. |
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| 5 | 998 |
I noted I was being ringed with fellows, but space was left, in which weapons might be drawn. |
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| 38 | 375 |
To an outsider, one unfamiliar with such things, I suppose that our cabins would have seemed miserably tiny and cramped, but space is usually precious on a ship, even a large ship. |
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| 38 | 399 |
The chaining arrangement, incidentally, is not only to keep the girls from tearing the mesh, which might allow the entry of urts into the space, but, also, to keep them from lacerating their own bodies, tearing at them to relieve the misery consequent upon the depredations of parasites, usually ship... |
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| 38 | 400 |
Racks of these tiers stretch substantially from wall to wall in the hold, with only a tiny walk space between and about them. |
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| 38 | 401 |
A panel in each space opens, by means of which a crust of bread may be placed in the mouth of each slave. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | 136 |
It was not built for war, but for space and power, for height and storage, perhaps for invulnerability. |
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| 5 | 82 |
"Rutilius of Ar!" The men who were crowded about then parted, and stepped back, clearing a space on the deck. |
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| 5 | 84 |
The man identified as Rutilius of Ar then stood at the edge of a circle, some feet of cleared space between us. |
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| 5 | 309 |
Lord Nishida, the tarnsman, and others, moved back, further enlarging the space at our disposal. |
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| 9 | 197 |
An open space was provided fore and aft in each cot area, in which some birds were chained in place, and others, in effect, bound, wings pinioned by ropes, beaks strapped shut, save for feeding. |
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| 14 | 191 |
Across the space between us I saw Seremides, his eyes on me. |
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| 35 | 64 |
The guardsmen did, however, maintain an open space about the gangway. |
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| 36 | 443 |
"It had slipped my mind, doubtless in the press of circumstances, arranging matters with the harbor master, renting space, organizing goods, supervising trading, and such". |
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| 37 | 582 |
"Some coin," she said, "tiny golden tarsks, almost like beads, which are light and consume little space, but mostly pearls, and jewels". |
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| 37 | 1230 |
"As hiring space on a passenger wagon?" I asked. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 239 |
A narrow space is one in which it may be difficult to defend oneself, and a space with but a single opening is a space in which one might be cornered, or trapped. |
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| 7 | 78 |
"I am a free woman! Let me go! Release me! Free me! Give me clothing! Give me decent food! Return me to Earth!" My voice rang against the stones, in the small space. |
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| 8 | 1529 |
One cannot help, you must understand, in the closeness of the quarters, the small space between the benches, brushing against a master now and then. |
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| 8 | 1722 |
"Come along, Allison," said he, and began to make his way between the tables, and I, in the sullied, soaked tunic, stumbled along at his side, sometimes brushing into patrons, sometimes striking against benches, jutting out, in the narrow space between the tables. |
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| 15 | 238 |
Kurii, I would later learn, tend to avoid constricted spaces, and will seldom enter a space which has but a single opening. |
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| 15 | 346 |
He drew me back, into a small side street, little more than a space between buildings, from which we had just emerged, for I had sought a most clandestine, unfrequented route to the shop of Epicrates, and, holding me tightly against him, covered my mouth tightly with one vast paw. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 | 45 |
That fearful moment, the interval of our interaction, brief but seemingly prolonged, which had seemed oddly fixed in time and space, must be swept away, and forgotten as soon as possible. |
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| 25 | 53 |
Sometimes the trees were separate and tall, and there was little but a leafy space between them. |
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| 42 | 7 |
What if he were companioned? Might he buy me for his companion? Would she sense that I was his slave? How cruel she would be to me! Might he keep me to the side, in rented space, in a girl stable, to be used when convenient? Or would he want me, at all? Was I truly so inferior, such common stock? I ... |
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| 46 | 135 |
I was sure I could wedge myself between the rocks and the tree, but, upon investigating, I found, to my delight, behind the tree, something much better, an open, narrow space between two large rocks. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 503 |
I supposed they were kept largely indoors, where they would be in little danger, should a storming take place, or an occasional stone or looping arrow fall into the courtyard space between the walls, and the buildings and the castle itself. |
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| 21 | 76 |
The possibility had suggested itself to some, a possibility which seemed plausible to me, that the Kurii, frustrated at the current failure of their designs, and the Priest-Kings, annoyed by probes, and predatory intrusions, might be willing to gamble for a world's surface, which space was seldom tr... |
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| 30 | 25 |
Such screens may afford privacy, for example, dividing a larger space into semi-secluded, individual dining areas. |
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| 45 | 56 |
Gor is a natural world, a fresh, green, unspoiled world, one much as once was Earth, a jewel world, a green, living diamond in space. |
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| 45 | 65 |
The Kurii, long ago, it seems, destroyed their native world, and the remnants of their warring races migrated into a number of steel worlds, artificial habitats, which lurk within the cover of thousands of the great stones of space, which, on Earth, we speak of as the asteroid belt. |
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| 51 | 7 |
Its bulk would have been impossible to conceal, certainly in the space to which we now had access. |
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| 51 | 19 |
I recall no such space. |
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| 51 | 20 |
I had hoped the corridor which was sealed away and guarded, that to which I had no access, might lead to such a space, the dragon's cave, but it does not". |
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| 54 | 150 |
"Kurii," I said, "have designed gigantic habitats in space, which house the remnants of warring communities, races or nations. |
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| 54 | 152 |
They are the masters of space flight. |
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| 61 | 1017 |
Men had cleared a space about us. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 220 |
I had the sense of the space before me, far, deep, the interior of the disklike object, the relatively low ceiling, some lights in the ceiling. |
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| 9 | 215 |
Its occupant, on all fours, was ordered forth, and, bending down, the dealer fastened a leash about her neck, following which he led her, she on all fours, to a space on the wharf, amongst the cages. |
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| 9 | 216 |
Shortly thereafter she was ordered to stand in that space, within a yellow circle, with her feet widely spread, and her hands clasped behind the back of her neck. |
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| 10 | 46 |
"Small cages take up less space". |
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| 32 | 140 |
The space we traversed through the center of the warehouse was muchly open, but there were many boxes, crates, and such, stacked about the walls. |
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| 53 | 29 |
The cylindricality of the towers reduces the number of direct strikes by catapult stones, and maximizes the amount of living space in proportion to the exterior walls. |
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| 64 | 27 |
Despite the fact that we had arrived fairly early at the caravanserai, the masters had rented space rather at the edge of the caravanserai, bordering on the enlarged area, which now, at this time of year, was largely vacant. |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 21 | 56 |
There was space enough for that. |
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| 31 | 124 |
Silence divided the space between the judges and Bruno of Torcadino. |
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| 38 | 99 |
Who means you well, and who means you ill? What are the parameters of time and space? How swiftly may troops be moved, and over what distances? Where is water in the desert? When, given ice and storms, can mountain passes be negotiated? Should one attack or defend, advance or withdraw? The dark is d... |
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| Chapter # | Sentence # | Quote | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| 24 | 36 |
Our camp was situated in the open space which had been the clearing at the center of the village of Nicosia. |
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| 31 | 43 |
Bodies of corsairs littered the open space within and outside the gate. |
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| 48 | 142 |
It does not occur to the average Gorean, for example, that nature is divided into two distinct substances which somehow, incredibly, one in space, the other not, interact with, and affect, one another. |
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| 60 | 85 |
Amphorae are familiar vessels on Gor but, given their shape, as they cannot stand by themselves, they are commonly used buried, to keep contents fresh and cool, or mounted in racks, which, on ships, is something of a waste of space. |
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