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Book 1. (3 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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3 10 There was no square foot of the chamber that did not contain racks of scrolls, and others, hundreds perhaps, were piled like cord wood here and there.
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5 53 In Ar, for example, early in the day, a member of the Builders will go to the roof on which the Home Stone is kept and place the primitive symbol of his trade, a metal angle square, before the Stone, praying to the Priest-Kings for the prosperity of his caste in the coming year; later in the day a W...
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18 99 An enormous slab, perhaps fifty feet square, had slid upward and backward, revealing a great, dim, squarish tunnel beyond, a tunnel large enough for a flying tarn.
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Book 2. (1 results) Outlaw of Gor

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14 121 It had, however, been bolted, fastened with a heavy, square-headed bolt, much like an oversized machine bolt, the shaft of which was perhaps an inch and a half in diameter.
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Book 3. (11 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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3 43 I had not long to wait for only a few moments later, perhaps no more than ten Gorean Ihn, a section of stone rolled silently back and upward revealing a rock passage beyond of perhaps some eight feet square.
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5 4 I lay on my back on a large stone platform, some twelve feet square.
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5 7 The room in which I lay was large, perhaps forty feet square, and the sleeping platform lay at one end of the room but not touching the wall.
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13 12 Scent-dots, incidentally, are arranged in rows constituting a geometrical square, and are read beginning with the top row from left to right, then right to left, and then left to right and so on again.
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13 117 Looking up I saw beneath the square of scent-dots fixed high on the steel door the stylized outline picture of what was unmistakably a human being.
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14 96 My case was a transparent plastic cube of perhaps eight feet square, with ventilation holes and a sliding plastic door.
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17 90 Along each of these levels, spaced a few feet from one another, were the observation cubes, which resembled cubes of transparent glass, and were approximately sixteen feet square.
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22 52 My eye fell on a metal device, a square rod with some tiny projections at one end.
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27 103 I did not know at the time but Gur is a product originally secreted by large, gray, domesticated, hemispheric arthropods which are, in the morning, taken out to pasture where they feed on special Sim plants, extensive, rambling, tangled vinelike plants with huge, rolling leaves raised under square e...
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31 20 And then we began to walk slowly towards one another again across the square tiles of that plaza in the secret Nest of Priest-Kings.
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34 3 Once again I saw that strong, lined face, that square jaw, that wild, flowing mane of fiery hair so much like my own, that spare, ready frame, those gray eyes, now rimmed with tears.
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Book 4. (5 results) Nomads of Gor

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5 55 Surprisingly the wagons are almost square, each the size of a large room.
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5 59 Inside the wagon box, which is square, there is fixed a rounded, tentlike frame, covered with the taut, painted, varnished hides of bosks.
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5 61 The rounded frame is fixed somewhat within the square of the wagon box, so that a walkway, almost like a ship's bridge, surrounds the frame.
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8 108 I supposed that on the morrow Kamchak would call for the Tuchuk Iron Master, to brand what he called his little barbarian; the brand of the Tuchuk slave, incidentally, is not the same as that generally used in the cities, which, for girls, is the first letter of the expression Kajira in cursive scri...
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21 205 I, of course, did not wish to wait a few days—or more—or however long it might take Ha-Keel to rest his men, square his accounts with Saphrar and depart.
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Book 5. (23 results) Assassin of Gor

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2 52 In the center of the tables, under a hanging lamp, there was a square area, recessed, filled with sand, in which men might fight or girls dance.
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4 3 His large hands rested over the arms of the curved curule chair in which he sat, which was mounted on a platform of stone, about a foot high and twelve feet square.
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4 13 It was a large room, some seventy feet square and with a ceiling of some fifty feet in height.
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6 15 A blue line appeared across the chest of one of the slaves fighting between the tables, on a square of sand some twelve feet in dimension.
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6 39 There was a cry and I looked again to the square of sand and the first slave, with the hook knife in his left hand, had plunged across the sand, taking a stroke across the chest, to strike his own blue line blow at his opponent.
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6 104 The Home Stone, incidentally, is not officially a piece of the game, as it cannot capture, though it can move one square at a time; further, it might be of interest to note that it is not on the board at the beginning of play, but must be placed on the board on or before the seventh move, which plac...
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7 48 Some, for example, are little more than flat cradles for carrying planking and such; others are long and cylindrical, lined with verrskin, for transporting beverages and such; most heavy hauling, of course, is done by tharlarion wagon; a common sort of tarn basket, of the sort in which I found mysel...
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12 59 Generally, it was a small faction patch sewn on the left shoulder; the faction patches of the High-Caste women tended to be fine silk, and tastefully done; those of low-caste women merely a square of crudely stitched, dyed rep-cloth; some of the masters had dressed their slave girls in slave livery ...
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13 133 Now, days after I had first met Nela, I lay thinking on the thick square of striped toweling and felt her massage the final oils of the bath into my body.
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17 363 Ho-Sorl carried the struggling Phyllis Robertson to the square of sand, and flung her to his feet.
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17 741 "A pen, ink?" "I have silk," she said, "and rouge, and bottles of cosmetics!" In a short time we had spread a large square of silk on the floor between us, and, carefully, finger in and out of a rouge pot, I had drawn the squares of the board.
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17 839 Then she looked down again at the board, that square of silk marked with rouge.
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18 1 The End of Kajuralia I leaped across the rouged square of silk, scattering the vials and beads that were the pieces of our game, flinging Sura to the floor, pressing myself across her body that she might be protected.
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18 2 In the same instant the hurled knife struck a chest behind us and I had rolled over throwing my legs under me, trying to draw the sword from my sheath, when Ho-Tu, running, hook knife in hand, leaped upon me, the curved blade streaking for my throat; I threw my left hand between the knife and my thr...
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18 110 "A Master Keeper begging the forgiveness of a slave for touching her with a slave goad!" Ho-Tu looked down at the square of silk, the tumbled vials and beads.
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19 145 The northern forests, the haunts of bandits and unusual beasts, far to the north and east of Ko-ro-ba, my city, are magnificent, deep forests, covering hundreds of thousands of square pasangs.
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20 28 Portus, half wasted now, his skin hanging about his frame, was brought, manacled, stripped to the waist, to the square of sand.
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20 441 Hup, who was waddling about the walls, was then summoned again to the board and he hastily picked up a piece and dropped it tottering to a square, and went back to the walls.
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20 452 Hup, singing some mad little song of his own devising, bounded back to the table, turned a somersault, and crawled up on the dais, whence he seized another piece in his small, knobby fist and pushed it one square ahead.
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20 537 "I have moved Ubar's Tarnsman to Ubara's Scribe Four! What will you do now?" Hup returned to the table and, scarcely glancing at the board, picked up a piece and dropped it on a square.
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21 298 Yet, in the day of the tharlarion and tarn, one still finds, among infantries, the Torian Square; the phalanx, though its impact could be exceeded only by the tharlarion wedge or line, is now unknown, except for a defensive relic known as the Wall, in which massed infantry remains stationary, heroic...
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23 63 I looked about me at the tables, at the tiled floors; at the slave rings by the wall; at the square pit of sand between the tables.
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23 141 We moved about the room, over the tables and behind them, across the square of sand.
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Book 6. (8 results) Raiders of Gor

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1 58 The channels of the Vosk, to be sure, shift from season to season, and the delta is often little more than a trackless marsh, literally hundreds of square pasangs of estuarial wilderness.
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8 24 Two slaves stood aft in the small, square-ended, flat-bottomed boat, poling.
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9 1 Port Kar I watched the dancing girl of Port Kar writhing on the square of sand between the tables, under the whips of masters, in a paga tavern of Port Kar.
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9 127 But the musicians were again playing and again, in the square of sand, the girl performed, though not now the Whip Dance.
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9 220 They fought in the square of sand among the tables.
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9 245 And, as I watched, on that square of sand between the tables in a paga tavern in Port Kar, under the ship's lanterns, the movements of the body of a slave girl, the lights reflected in her chains, the rubies, the shimmering golden droplets, I grew slowly furious.
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10 199 Tersites had also, it might be mentioned, though he had not presented these ideas in his appearance before the council, argued for a rudder hung on the sternpost of the tarn ship, rather than the two side-hung rudders, and had championed a square rigging, as opposed to the beautiful lateen rigging c...
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17 133 The lateen-rigged galley, whether a round ship or a ram-ship, although it can furl its sail, cannot well let out and take in sail; it is not a square-rigged craft; accordingly she carries different sails for different conditions; the yard itself, from the mast, is lowered and hoisted, sails being re...
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Book 7. (19 results) Captive of Gor

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15 815 The box itself was square, with dimensions of perhaps one yard square.
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4 43 The men now began to bring, not gently, certain large square boxes from the truck, which they placed near the large, open hatch on the ship.
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5 98 One, rather on the bottom of the ship, was about five foot square.
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8 4 I, and some of the other girls, lifted up the side canvas of the square-canvassed wagon and peeped out, into the early morning fog.
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8 303 Once we passed a paga tavern, and, inside, belled and jeweled, otherwise unclothed, I saw a girl dancing on a square of sand between the tables.
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9 224 The forests of the northern temperate latitudes of Gor are countries in themselves, covering hundreds of thousands of square pasangs of area.
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9 325 They formed a small, but ample, square.
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9 328 The first girl began to dance before the square.
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9 331 Another girl, crying out, tore her own skins to the waist and clawing, moaning, writhing, approached the square.
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9 334 And then the first girl tore away her skins and danced in her golden ornaments beneath the huge, wild moons, on the grass of the circle, before the square.
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9 340 Sometimes she bit at another girl or struck at her, if she dared approach the square more closely than she.
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9 344 And then, helplessly, she threw herself to the grass within the square, striking at it, biting and tearing at it, and then she threw herself on her back and, fists clenched, writhed beneath the moons.
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9 345 One by one the other girls, too, violently, threw themselves to the grass, rolling upon it and moaning, some even within the precincts of the square, then throwing themselves upon their backs, some with their eyes closed, crying out, others with their eyes open, fixed helplessly on the wild moons, s...
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12 636 Rather, men, hauling on the wagon tongues and thrusting with their shoulders, were putting the wagons in a dense square, with spaces between them.
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12 658 Tarnsmen now struck the earth, leaping from their birds, to the east of the wagon square and, swords drawn, rushed among the burning wagons.
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13 639 Women and children, too, in the dusty square crowded about.
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14 132 I watched two warriors practicing with their swift, short blades on a square of sand.
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14 190 Off to one side, in an open area there was a small iron box, a square of some three feet in dimension.
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15 809 Then, by the hair, she stumbling, scarcely able to stand, he dragged her to the small, square iron box which sat near the whipping pole, and thrust her within.
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Book 8. (6 results) Hunters of Gor

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1 253 "And hundreds of square pasangs, in the south and the west of the forest, I know".
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2 548 In the usual Gorean galley, lateen rigged, there is no practical way to take in, or shorten, sail, as with many types of square-rigged craft.
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11 113 Long ago, more than a year ago, when he had first captured Verna on a hunting expedition, prior to her escape and acquisition of Talena, and her return to the forests, he had intended to bring her to Ar in triumph and there, in the great square before Ar's central cylinder, publicly enslave her.
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15 315 It may be used, of course, to fasten the entire chain about, or to, some suitable object, a pillar, a stanchion, a wagon wheel, a tree, a column in a market colonnade, a post in a bazaar, one of the heavy slave rings, set in the ground, usually found at the edges of a square in a Gorean city.
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18 458 Their sails, incidentally, are square, rather than triangular, like the lateen-rigged ships of the south.
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18 459 They cannot sail as close to the wind as the southern ships with lateen rigging, but, on the other hand, the square sail makes it possible to do with a single sail, taking in and letting out canvas, as opposed to several sails, which are attached to and removed from the yard, which is raised and low...
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Book 9. (25 results) Marauders of Gor

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3 11 I heard golden sheets of metal being pried from the square pillars of the temple.
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4 43 It was set on a square chest.
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4 45 In the center of each square was a tiny peg.
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4 119 I now had a Singer on a central square, but he had freed his Ax Four, on which he might now situate the Jarl for an attack on the Jarl's Woman's Ax's file.
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10 151 The duel takes place, substantially, on a large, square cloak, ten feet on each side, which is pegged down on the turf; outside this cloak there are two squares, each a foot from the cloak, drawn in the turf.
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10 152 The outer corners of the second of the two drawn squares are marked with hazel wands; there is thus a twelve-foot-square fighting area; no ropes are stretched between the hazel wands.
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10 170 The knife had been removed from the sheath at her belt; she stood straight, but her head was down, her eyes closed; about her neck, knotted, was a rope, it fastened to a stake in the ground near the dueling square.
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10 197 "What is your name, Lad?" I asked the young man preparing to enter the square marked off with the hazel wands.
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10 278 Then he, with his shield bearer, left the leather of the square of hazel wands.
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13 149 Some of these were eighteen inches square.
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18 224 Similar lines, fierce, obdurate, protective, extended about the formation, on all sides, forming the edges of the Kurii war square.
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18 225 Within the square, formed into ragged "Hands," "Kurii," and "Bands," with their appropriate leaders, were massed a considerable number of Kurii, ready to charge forth should the shield wall open, or to support it if it seemed in danger of weakening.
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18 226 It was my supposition that their square contained, now, better than twenty-three hundred beasts.
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18 227 "Let us again attack the square!" cried a man.
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18 229 "We cannot break the square".
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18 245 "Perhaps they will break the square for us".
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18 246 But the square did not break.
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18 251 I saw the general within their square, the huge Kur whom I had seen before, in the hall of Svein Blue Tooth, it with the golden ring on the left arm.
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18 265 But the Kurii square held.
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18 272 "We shall break the square," I told Svein Blue Tooth.
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18 286 The bosk, in their charging hundreds, heads down, hoofs pounding, maddened, relentless, driven, struck the square.
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18 291 The herd thrust through the square and, half milling, half still running, emerged from its other side, making for the slopes of the valley.
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18 293 His charge was unleashed while the last of the bosk were still striking the western edge of the square, and other animals were streaming, bellowing, goring, through it.
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18 641 The Forkbeard and I, it had been, who had found the arrow of war in the Torvaldsberg, who had touched it to other arrows, which, in hundreds of villages and camps, over thousands of square pasangs of rugged, inlet-cleft terrain, had been carried to the free men of the north, that they might fetch th...
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20 12 The Skerry of Vars is roughly a hundred foot, Gorean, square.
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Book 10. (17 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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14 308 Then the girl, reaching within her silk, withdrew from her bosom a light square of silk, some eighteen inches square, scarlet, clinging, diaphanous.
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24 121 She had thrown me a token, a square of silk, slave silk, red, some eighteen inches square, redolent with the perfume fitted by some perfumer, on the order of her master, to her slave personality, her slave nature and slave body.
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1 276 Some of the ornately barred, crimson-draped cells, with brass bowls, and rugs, and cushions and lamps, were quite comfortable; some of the cells held more than one occupant; some of the girls were permitted cosmetics and slave silk; generally, however, girls in the pen are raw, totally, save for the...
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1 812 It's mere representation, as earlier indicated, covered several square feet of the floor.
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2 345 Some of these rugs have as many as four hundred knots per square hort.
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4 57 About the water, little more than muddy, shallow ponds, save for the flahdahs, nothing grew; only dried, cracked earth, whitish and buckled, for a radius of more than a quarter of a pasang, could be found; what vegetation there might have been had been grazed off, even to the roots; one could place ...
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13 36 The battlements, square and looming, of which there were seventeen, assuming a general symmetry and counting the two flanking the central gate, soared to ninety feet.
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14 323 Hamid thrust and twisted the square of silk in the metal of my collar, and yanked it tight.
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14 383 In the alcove the girl is commanded to her stomach, head to the back wall, and the small, square gate is locked behind her.
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14 388 Furthermore, the small opening, approximately eighteen inches square, and set some ten inches off the floor, in the bars, with its small, heavy gate, can be easily negotiated only on the hands and knees.
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15 14 Or it may be that the seas were independent, being fed by rivers, washing down accumulated salt from rocks over millions of square pasangs.
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16 24 Each raft carries four of these, either arranged in a lateral frame, or arranged in a square frame, at the raft's center.
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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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20 58 I saw the golden ring, heavy, strangely set, it seemed with a tiny square of silver, against the brown leather of the bag.
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21 418 A large, square rock, near me, one of those which had held the tarpaulin, leaped upward, split in two, burnt black, and the slightest instant, almost simultaneous, afterward I heard the atmospheric concussion of the weapon.
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26 560 I opened the small square gate in a nearby alcove, set in the bars, some ten inches from the floor.
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26 561 The opening is about eighteen inches square.
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Book 11. (8 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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4 426 One of the men nearby readied a large opaque cloth, soft, black, folding it in four pieces, so that, folded, it would be about a yard square.
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11 187 The door was small, and thick, and iron, some eighteen inches by eighteen inches square.
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11 332 Both gates, however, were double locked, with square, heavy locks.
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17 3 The room was long, and wide, and low, with many square wooden pillars.
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22 90 It might be noted, however, if it is of interest, that the swift, square-rigged ships of Torvaldsland are single ruddered, and on the right side.
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22 619 I awakened being drawn onto a large, jagged, splintered square of wreckage, heavy beamed, like a raft.
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25 1 The Message I lifted the strung beads to the square-jawed man with short, closely cropped white hair.
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25 49 I lifted the strung beads to the square-jawed man with short, closely cropped white hair, Samos, of Port Kar.
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Book 12. (7 results) Beasts of Gor

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10 137 The whipping frame itself, vertical, consisted of two heavy uprights, some six inches square and eight feet high, and a crossbeam, some six inches square and some seven feet in length.
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2 335 It was deep-keeled and square-rigged, as most Gorean ships are not.
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3 129 The fairs are large, covering several square pasangs.
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3 1305 The district of the fair covered several square pasangs.
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4 223 Too, it might be mentioned, if he should place a piece on a given square and remove his hand from the piece, the piece must remain where it was placed, subject, of course, to the consideration that the placement constitutes a legal move.
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10 136 It was some twelve feet square, and some four feet in height, its surface reached by steps.
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10 138 Each upright was supported by two braces, each also six inches square.
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Book 13. (10 results) Explorers of Gor

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1 485 The delta of the Vosk, for most practical purposes, a vast marsh, an area of thousands of square pasangs, where the Vosk washes down to the sea, is closed to shipping.
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5 789 "Yes, Master," she said, and curled up on the sheet-iron square which floored her cage.
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6 228 When she had seen me look at her, she had looked up, quickly, at the square of sheet metal above her.
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8 120 A skirl on a flute and a sudden pounding on twin tabors, small, hand drums, called my attention to the square of sand at the side of which sat the musicians.
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10 7 He was sitting, cross-legged, on a flat, rectangular stone, broad and heavy, about a foot high, at the western edge of the large Utukufu, or Glory, square.
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10 56 There were few tremors in Schendi which did not, sooner or later, reach Kipofu on his simple etem in the square.
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10 76 I had little doubt that Kipofu, who was reputed to have extremely sharp senses, might have heard breathing within a radius of twenty feet, even in the square.
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12 118 This possibility was confirmed when you made inquiries of Kipofu, the beggar, in the Utukufu square".
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16 88 The eventual intent of Bila Huruma was not only to open the rain forests of the deep interior, and whatever might lie within the system of the Ua and her tributaries, to commercial exploitation and military expansion, but to drain the marshes between the two mighty lakes, Ushindi and Ngao, that that...
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47 79 Inside the stockade, given the feast of the village, the column would widen, spreading to cover in its crowded millions every square inch of earth, scouring each stick, each piece of straw, hunting for each drop of grease, for each flake of flesh, even if it be no more than what might adhere to the ...
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Book 14. (8 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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8 4 I knelt, head down, before the square iron box, the exterior of which was enameled white, one side of which, its door, on hinges, lay opened on the tiles.
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9 3 We were at the edge of what appeared to be a square in a city.
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9 109 The square was crowded.
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9 114 On a cement dais, at one side of the square, I saw a man selling naked, chained slave girls.
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19 1 Taphris The training beam, about a foot Gorean square, sunk a yard deep in its wood-lined well, braced, too, within the wooden-floored, high-roofed barn, shook with the blows struck against it.
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22 202 "Would you rather this be done on the platform of public shame in the great square of Vonda, where you might bring shame upon the Home Stone?" inquired the prefect.
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34 30 Another man was pulling down the canvas over the square frame mounted over the wagon.
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34 226 Was I to seek for her in every city and village and town on Gor, in every building, in every tent, on every barge? In what stray corner might she be chained? On what obscure square of sand might she be squirming for masters? "I do not anticipate difficulties," I said.
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Book 15. (1 results) Rogue of Gor

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28 231 His jaw was square, his eyes clear.
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Book 16. (2 results) Guardsman of Gor

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20 457 She placed a large, folded square of sparkling white linen at the bottom of the table.
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20 458 She then lit a wide, large, low candle and placed this candle, on a plate, on the soft, wide square of folded linen.
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Book 17. (3 results) Savages of Gor

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6 54 It is, I would estimate, something over six hundred feet square, perhaps more, perhaps even six hundred and forty or six hundred and fifty feet square.
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9 30 The same human being, if surviving by hunting, would require a territory of several square miles.
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19 737 Each street and each square in such a city is likely to have its tether posts and whipping rings.
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Book 18. (2 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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36 35 It was about eighteen inches square.
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54 301 Not a square hort would the Kaiila surrender, truly, of their tribal lands.
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Book 19. (13 results) Kajira of Gor

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2 211 One was a large carton and the other was a weighty, sturdy metal box, about three feet square.
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6 307 The concert had taken place two nights ago in the small theater of Kleitos, off the square of Perimines.
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7 3 I hurried behind the three-part screen in one corner of the large, well-lit room in the inn of Lysias, off the square of Perimines, on the street of Philebus.
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7 108 The couch was a large, square one, with, in its foot, the slave ring, an almost inevitable feature, it seemed, in Gorean domiciles.
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9 3 I could also see, back from the walls, a portion of the square outside the gates.
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9 5 I could see some men and women moving across the square, presumably to join it.
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9 7 I saw some men, across the square, perhaps seeing someone in my window, stop, and shake their fists.
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9 87 In a moment, too, I could see men and woman fleeing across the square.
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16 120 It seemed constructed of large, square stones.
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17 5 The street was apparently an important one in Venna, and led down to a market square.
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17 6 My platform was on the left side of the street, looking down toward the square, and at the forward corner, nearest the street, of a public slave market, some fifty feet in length, along the street, and some fifty feet in depth.
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18 252 I followed Speusippus of Turia through the streets of Venna, even through the great market square.
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31 142 Did he truly think that an agonizing death, writhing on a high, narrow impaling spear, some twenty feet in height, unable to free myself, in a public square, or on the walls of Argentum, in public view, to the jeers and cries of a vengeful crowd was not to be feared? "I am Tiffany," I said, weakly, ...
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Book 20. (14 results) Players of Gor

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2 456 He, however, advanced the Ubar's Initiate's Spearman in a two-square-option move, bringing it to Ubar's Initiate Five.
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6 1393 "We have performed in the main square," he admitted, "once even in the courtyard of the palace itself".
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12 59 Ubar's Initiate Nine, that square from which I might effect capture of Home Stone, was now protected by his Ubara.
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12 63 This brought it onto the diagonal on which lay the crucial square, Ubar's Initiate Nine.
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12 65 Now its true purpose, lurking at that square, was dramatically revealed.
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12 249 I could not move the Home Stone to Ubar's Builder One because that square was covered by his Scribe at Ubara's Scribe Four.
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12 261 I could not move my Home Stone in front of the Spearman, even if I had wished to do so, because of his Scribe's coverage from afar of that square, Ubar's Builder One.
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12 262 Similarly, even if I had had the option in the circumstances, which I did not, I could not have brought my Builder to that square for defensive purposes without exposing it to the attack of the same piece.
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12 435 "Begin then, on the first square," said the player, "with the first letter of a word, or of a sentence, or even of a set of letters randomly selected.
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12 438 When you have managed that, then begin with the first letter of the alphabet, Al-Ka, and continue writing the alphabet in order, over and over, once more on all available squares, until you arrive at the last square on the board.
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12 441 "If, in a given message, for example, the notation 'Ubar to Ubara's Tarnsman Two' occurs, that could mean that, on the board in question, say, Board 7, the square Ubara's Tarnsman Two was significant.
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12 442 On that board, then, we might suppose, given its arrangement, that the square Ubara's Tarnsman Two might contain, say, the letter 'Eta.
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12 477 "Such ciphers are, for most practical purposes, impossible to decipher without the appropriate keys, null-square listings, and so on".
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21 94 In this fashion each square of the board, with its name, such as "Ubar Five," and so on, would correspond to a letter, and some spaces, of course, would correspond to the same letter, thus providing cipher multiples.
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Book 21. (3 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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3 205 The common Gorean defense against tharlarion attack, if it must be met on open ground, is the stationary, defensive square, defended by braced spears.
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15 184 "It covers thousands of square pasangs.
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25 621 Within this room there were some fifteen or twenty slave cages, some four to four and a half feet square, such confines dictated by the consideration that their contents are not to be permitted to stand upright within them, or stretch out, completely, within them.
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Book 22. (27 results) Dancer of Gor

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3 947 It was then in a soft, damp, layered, folded form some six or seven inches square.
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8 29 As the mesh was formed its openings were about two-inches square.
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8 180 The entire comb, including the teeth, was about five inches square.
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17 1 The Square of Market of Semris "Come along," he said.
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17 5 "We must be to the square by the tenth Ahn," he said.
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17 10 The square would be crowded at that time.
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17 14 Later the stalls and shops around the square roll back their screens and shutters and open for business.
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17 53 The arrangements for those rentals are usually made during the day, conveniently in the square, or in its vicinity.
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17 83 We must now be closer to the square, as it seemed there were more people in the street.
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17 89 When we came to the square there would probably be barriers set up against such traffic.
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17 90 The square was for pedestrians.
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17 91 Porters there, slaves, could, for a fee, transport goods, if it was desired, within, or across the square.
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17 98 I blinked against the light of the open square.
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17 99 Market of Semris is not a large town, and it is mostly famed, as I have earlier noted, for its markets for tarsks, "four-legged" and "two-legged," as it is said, but like most Gorean towns, its square, even as small as it was, was a matter of civic pride.
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17 105 Commemorative columns stood here and there about the edges of the square.
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17 163 "Here," said my master, stopping in a shady corner of the square.
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17 182 I think that anyone in the square must have heard those sounds.
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17 188 I recollected the monument in the square, the heroic figures, and the women, doubtless booty, at their feet.
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17 255 But, also today I was charged with seeing the square, the buildings, and the people of Market of Semris.
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17 387 My new master then turned about, with a swirl of those long robes, and began to make his way across the square.
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17 420 The square was not crowded now.
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17 422 I saw some men, some with clients in their train, leaving the square.
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17 424 The square was very beautiful, even at this time of day.
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17 426 He had apparently left the square.
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23 25 I heard the snap of the whip and, together, we hurried forward, within the fence, toward the square tent, the overseer's tent, on a rise in the distance.
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23 150 We were now ascending the rise toward the square tent, the overseer's tent.
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27 5 The pen was some forty feet square, and some seven feet in height.
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Book 23. (3 results) Renegades of Gor

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1 609 She did so, and I drew forth a tarsk bit from my pouch, this one not a separate coin in the sense of a round or square coin, but a piece of such a coin, a narrow, triangular, chopped eighth of a copper tarn disk, and placed it in her mouth.
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12 12 It was perhaps twenty feet square.
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19 37 For those who are interested in such matters, it might be pointed out that factors such as these seem to be playing their part in the gradual replacement of the phalanx with the square in Gorean warfare.
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Book 24. (3 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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18 299 The chances of running into rencers in thousands of square pasangs of the delta were not high, particularly if one were concerned to avoid them.
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43 7 It was quite large, some four or five square pasangs in area.
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46 159 If necessary, every square hort of the camp could be examined.
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Book 25. (2 results) Magicians of Gor

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4 73 Furthermore, it had had the winter to restore its siege train, the original train burned in Torcadino, fired by Dietrich of Tarnburg, and, because of its recent success in the field, west of Ar, it could draw on thousands of square pasangs for its logistical support.
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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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Book 26. (3 results) Witness of Gor

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8 86 The basket must have been something like a yard square.
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10 509 The platform on which I knelt was some twenty feet square, and the aperture within it was some four feet by five feet.
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13 1255 How could I begin to understand what had been done with me? How could I begin to understand what I had become, what I now was? How could I begin to cope with this turn in my life? I lay on the small, square iron floor of a confinement.
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Book 27. (20 results) Prize of Gor

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16 91 At the other side of the square, down a narrow street threading its way between buildings similar to those about the square, she could glimpse what seemed to be a high, broad wall.
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4 546 She felt the cool touch of alcohol, applied from the swab, at her waist, on the left side, above the hip, a swabbed area of some two square inches.
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16 85 She was on a narrow, sunlit cement shelf at one side of a small plaza, or square.
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16 86 Across the square were numerous stalls, where vendors displayed their goods.
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16 87 Too, here and there in the square, blankets had been spread on the stones, and other vendors, sitting at the blankets, displayed goods spread before them.
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16 88 There were also stalls on her side of the square.
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16 89 Across the way, behind the stalls, and also behind her, on her side of the square, were brick, tenementlike buildings, some seven or eight stories in height, very different from the tall cylinders she had seen before.
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16 90 At one end of the square she could see two of these cylinders in the distance.
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16 511 Ellen wanted to cry out with misery, but she was in position, looking out across the square.
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16 513 Mercifully the sun was lower now, and, although the shelf was still in full sunlight, the sun should, in a few minutes, descend behind the building across the square.
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16 564 Once there passed through the square a palanquin, borne by large, powerful, tunicked men.
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16 570 The palanquin was then through the square.
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16 772 Certainly what she could see from the shelf, the market before her, the square, seemed dusty, crowded and squalid, nothing like that marvelous panorama she had glimpsed from the roof of the house, that tall, cylinderlike structure.
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16 781 She had seen that there were dozens of stalls in the square, most lining the fronts of buildings, stalls displaying an incredible variety of goods.
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16 794 It was now darker in the square and, here and there, torches were being lit.
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16 809 She saw four women, their hands chained behind their backs, their necks fastened together with a chain, being prodded through the square by three armed men, helmeted and tunicked as had been the other two.
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16 814 One of the women being herded through the square, she who was first in the coffle, turned angrily in her chains and seemed about to reply, but the man nearest to her raised his hand, palm open, menacingly, and she put down her head, cringing, and hurried forward, turning her head so that the pressur...
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17 824 After a few minutes the rain stopped, rather suddenly, as it had begun, and water dripped from awnings, and trickled through cracks in the paving stones of the market square, and the sun again blazed down, as before, yellow, hot, indifferent, merciless.
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22 182 There were several such circles in the camp, each with its flag on a wand at one edge of the circle, each flag being of a given shape, square, rectangular, forked, triangular, and so on, and color or mixture of colors.
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22 185 An order then might be issued that slaves of such and such lot numbers, which numbers were inscribed on their bodies, on the left breast, given to them for the convenience of the camp, should go to, say, circle such-and-such, which was, say, "square and blue" or "triangular and yellow," and so on.
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Book 28. (6 results) Kur of Gor

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5 25 "In measures with which you are familiar," said Arcesilaus, "some sixteen hundred square pasangs".
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10 8 There was also, to the left, a low, flat box, some four feet square.
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10 23 With a sweeping scrape of the light chain fastened to her collar, the girl fled to the low, flat box, some four feet square, that with cloths, and rags, and such, in it, terrified, and, trembling, crouched down within it.
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11 23 "This might be a tavern in a high city," he said, "the counter, the vats of paga, the square of sand for the dancers, the polished wooden floors, the low ceiling, the hangings, the cozy dimness, the small lamps, the curtained alcoves, such things".
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12 7 The forest world associated with the Steel World under the governance of Agamemnon is something in the neighborhood of one hundred square pasangs.
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74 7 It was something like a yard square, and the slave could not stretch her body within it to her full length, even her small, deliciously curved female body.
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Book 29. (9 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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2 381 In Torvaldsland the common sail is square.
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5 611 Commonly a large Gorean military camp is square, or rectangular.
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10 5 He sat cross-legged, within his pavilion, on a low, flat platform of lacquered wood, some twelve feet square.
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30 9 They will be square-rigged, with four spars to the aft and amidship's masts, and three to the forward masts".
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30 17 The square sails, reefed according to conditions, are all-weather sails, permanent sails.
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30 19 Square-rigged vessels are not unknown on Gor.
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30 20 The dragons of Torvaldsland, for example, are square-rigged.
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41 19 To be sure, many storms cover the sea for hundreds of square pasangs and one can no more avoid them than the sea herself.
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44 129 I could occasionally hear the snap of the canvas of the three large, square sails, adjusting to the wind, and the creak of the yards from which they were suspended.
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Book 30. (15 results) Mariners of Gor

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37 635 "I think that is all," I said, "as I have opened and removed the lining, shaken it, fingered every square hort of the garment, and bitten and chewed each square hort as well, to make doubly sure.
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1 191 The square was approximately a foot Gorean.
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2 3 Yet, as our patrol craft had approached it, and we could more discern its make, it was seen to be clearly formed of wood, carvel-built, six-masted, single-ruddered, massively so, square-sailed.
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2 37 In Torvaldsland, and to the north, it is common to use a single rudder, and a single sail, square-rigged.
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2 131 Interestingly, though the ship was carvel-built it was square rigged, with tiered sails, on tiered yards.
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2 132 The square sail is an all-purpose sail, whose single canvas may be adjusted to the wind.
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5 296 The yards above, carrying their large square sails, creaked, turning, as the sails took the rising wind, moving from a gray north.
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7 167 The ship was six-masted, square-rigged, seven decked, carvel-built, and single-ruddered, not guided by a steering board, or the double rudders of the typical Gorean ship.
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9 205 The two lower areas had large traps, which must be raised, the first to provide its ramp's access to the second level, and that of the second level to provide its ramp's access to the highest level, the ramp of which led, once the great hatch, some yards square, was rolled back, to the open deck.
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9 291 Eleven times I, and others, had been invited, in the dawn, in the square before the Central Cylinder, or in one park or another, to witness his games.
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9 469 He was of medium height, but square in the shoulders.
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12 146 Goblets are weighted, for steadiness, and plates are flat-bottomed, and square, to minimize movement, by maximizing the amount of surface area in contact with the table.
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12 214 Next, the square trenchers were to be filled at the serving table, and brought to us.
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25 8 The thrice-walled grounds of the castle of Lord Temmu, all in all, must have occupied more than a full square pasang, extending broadly over a wide plateau, which, on one side, fell straight to the sea, and was accessible otherwise, as from the cove, by steep trails, one of which was walled, that fr...
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36 516 The room was perhaps some twenty-feet square, with a smooth flooring of dark, polished wood.
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Book 31. (8 results) Conspirators of Gor

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35 152 For example, the fifth square in the Ubara's Initiate's column would be Ubara's Initiate Five, the seventh square in the column of the Ubar's Builder, would be Ubar's Builder seven, and so on".
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5 429 Then I was aware of a hand in my hair, which pulled my head up and back, and, from the side, from my left, a soft, folded bit of white cloth, some six inches square.
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5 430 This square of cloth was damp, with some chemical.
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8 425 I was in a cell, a relatively small cell, about eight feet square, with a wall of bars on one side, facing a street.
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34 19 You draw forth one small scrap of paper, look at it, and then write something in a square on one of the larger sheets, and then you put the small scrap of paper aside, and keep doing this".
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34 35 She pointed to several sheets, each square of which had been filled in.
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34 49 When a large sheet is filled, the last letter or meaningless mark placed in the last square, one replaces the scraps of paper in the helmet, shuffles them about, jumbles them, and then, with a new large sheet, one begins again".
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34 82 I placed each mark or design in the center of a square, neatly.
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Book 32. (2 results) Smugglers of Gor

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1 40 I caught sight of a large, thick square of soft, damp, folded, white cloth.
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8 187 It was clear why the corsairs had not left her behind in her village square, naked and bound, contemptuously rejected.
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Book 33. (5 results) Rebels of Gor

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24 109 I could now hear the sound of small gongs, these carried by four solemnly treading, white-robed individuals with black, square headgear of a sort, fastened under their chins with black ribbon.
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30 80 On this string were seven or eight copper disks, each penetrated by a small, square opening, through which the string was threaded.
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46 1 What Occurred in the Market Square "Please, no, Master!" wept the slave.
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46 466 We then followed Nodachi, the swordsman, from the market square.
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59 210 In the Kaissa of steel, as in the Kaissa of the hundred-square board, beware the seeming mistake, for it may not be a mistake.
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Book 34. (3 results) Plunder of Gor

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14 30 On these couches, usually arranged in a square or rectangle, sometimes in a circle or oval, the guests recline and help themselves from the low, narrow tables, these set before the couches.
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27 25 The northern long ship, or "dragon ship," on the other hand, seldom seen this far south, has a fixed mast and a fixed, square sail, and is single-ruddered, the steering board, or starboard, on the right side.
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46 49 There was a stone block in the center of the room, a cube of a yard square, and, on this block, within a meshwork of wire, was a metallic box.
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Book 35. (9 results) Quarry of Gor

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10 60 Most paga taverns will have their dancing floor, most commonly oval or square, the Golden Chain's was square, but not all can afford musicians, at least on a regular basis.
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5 177 The typical slave sheet is light, small, square, and cheap.
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6 130 Brundisium is a major port, her mighty harbor berthing vessels from a thousand ports, vessels large and small, square-rigged and lateen-rigged, clinker built and carvel built, ships mercantile and naval, round ships and long ships, come from as far as Schendi in the south, and Torvaldsland to the no...
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10 1 I Serve Paga "Paga, Master?" I asked, kneeling beside the low, square table, at which two men had just been joined by another.
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10 74 Some taverns do not have a dancing floor, but an area of sand, again, commonly, oval or square.
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11 665 On the square of dancing sand, Adraste would dance, a keeper standing nearby, his whip ready to be used on her.
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17 117 On Palace Street, returning to the Golden Chain, we were crossing the square that fronts the broad steps leading up to the Palace of the Council of Captains.
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17 134 The heavy, rude crutch had struck, and sometimes scratched at, the paving of the square.
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46 329 And there were more impatient crackings of goblets on the small, square tables, about which men sat cross-legged.
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Book 36. (6 results) Avengers of Gor

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6 3 "I will tell what I saw!" "Not again!" moaned a man, nearby, at one of the low, square tables.
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6 241 In most paga taverns the dancer or dancers confine themselves to the square or oval dancing area, normally of polished wood or yellow sand, reminiscent of a camp or caravanserai.
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14 31 We had a fair wind, and, even if it were not so, the lateen-rigged vessel would be little dismayed, as it sails closer to the wind than its square-rigged fellows, commonly found in the north.
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26 30 The dragonships of Torvaldsland, far to the north, are square-rigged and single-ruddered, the rudder, or 'steering board', usually on the right side, presumably because most human beings are right-handed.
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26 87 "The impact," said Sakim, "would have been square and devastating".
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37 104 Thurnock then slipped the harness about his body and set himself to draw the cart up the iron-reinforced loading planks and onto the nearly square deck of the barge.
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