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Book 1. (9 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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1 49 I had gone a bit from my makeshift camp when I stopped, startled for a moment.
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1 205 Once I saw two eyes in the darkness and screamed and ran from them, hearing the flap of wings behind me and the startled cry of an owl.
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1 206 Once I startled a small band of deer and found myself in the midst of their bounding shapes buffeting me in the darkness.
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2 97 I was startled.
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5 97 "Where are you going, Master?" The word "Master," though it had come appropriately enough from the girl, who was, legally at least, my property, startled me.
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8 28 Talena seemed startled that I had asked for her freedom.
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13 11 As I was drawing on the two-strap, to guide the tarn to Ko-ro-ba, I saw something I did not expect to see, something directly below, which startled me.
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18 75 In spite of the breadth of the pit, perhaps two hundred feet, it was cold at the bottom, and as I looked up, I was startled to note that, in the blue sky, I could see the dim pinpricks of light which, after dark, would become the blazing stars above Gor.
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19 44 The great wings smote the air twice, raising a small hurricane that caused the startled onlookers to stagger backward.
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Book 2. (9 results) Outlaw of Gor

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1 105 And in that sudden instant of startled, awe-struck silence, I heard him clearly, intensely, repeat in a hoarse whisper that strange phrase, "Ta-Sardar-Gor!" The bartender, a heavy, soft-faced man, waddled to the table.
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1 111 Cabot simply took the weapon, seeming to draw it easily from the startled grip of the fat man.
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5 34 I was startled.
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6 44 I was startled to see her alone in this wild, deserted place, far from roads and cities.
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6 164 For the first time, she seemed startled.
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7 5 I suddenly turned on the warrior on my right with the spear and with the swiftness of the mountain larl sprang at him, evaded his clumsy, startled thrust, and drove my blade between his ribs, jerking it free and turning just in time to meet the sword attack of his companion.
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8 19 Perhaps I was most startled on the silent streets of Tharna by the free women.
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12 33 She looked at me, startled, yet grateful.
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16 80 Thorn and the warriors were startled, and in this instant I leapt between their weapons, seized Thorn and a warrior, dashed them together, and threw them both, weapons clattering, to the marble flooring of the pillar.
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Book 3. (12 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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3 1 Parp There was a sudden startled rattle of chains and I saw two huge, white larls frozen in the momentary paralysis of registering my presence, and then with but an instant's fleeting passage both beasts turned upon me and hurled themselves enraged to the lengths of their chains.
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8 2 The startled girl cried out and leaped to her feet.
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11 78 The motion was extremely rapid and must have startled him.
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17 4 In fevered sleep it seemed I saw Sarm's great head with its powerful, laterally moving jaws hovering over me, that I heard the cry of larls and saw the burning pupils of Parp's eyes and his reaching toward me with instruments and a golden net, and I found myself chained to the foot of Vika's couch a...
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17 21 I made no move but I was startled to hear the Gorean expression for 'friend' emanate from Sarm's translator.
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18 19 A startled Mul had leaped back against the wall.
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27 131 Well could I now read the signs of consternation in the rows of Priest-Kings, the startled antennae, the shifting of the supporting appendages, the sudden intense inclination of the head and body, the straining of the antennae toward the Platform of the Mother.
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29 127 A forward door opened and a Priest-King stepped into view, puzzled, startled at the sensing of the open hatch.
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30 190 But not long after this took place other Priest-Kings, startled by the decision of Kusk, began to speak of ending the War, and some others too began to cross the lines.
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31 36 "It does not fire!" came from Sarm's translator and his entire frame was startled, shaken with incomprehension.
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31 137 Then suddenly he wheeled and saw me and seemed startled but then the silver tube flew up and I threw myself rolling back down the walkway, the steel stairs bubbling away following me.
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32 332 "Good," said Parp, not flinching, "follow me!" Vika screamed and I cried out for him to stop, but Parp dashed forward and threw himself into the jaws of the startled larl and it lifted him in its jaws and began to shake him savagely, and I was at its feet and thrust my sword between its ribs, plungi...
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Book 4. (39 results) Nomads of Gor

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9 416 There was a firm snap of the heavy lock in the back of the collar and the throat of Aphris of Turia had been encircled with slave steel! At the same instant Kamchak lifted her startled to her feet and turned her to face him, with both hands tearing the veil from her face! Then, before any of the sta...
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12 269 This startled me, and startled Elizabeth as well.
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1 19 Even past me there thundered a lumbering herd of startled, short-trunked kailiauk, a stocky, awkward ruminant of the plains, tawny, wild, heavy, their haunches marked in red and brown bars, their wide heads bristling with a trident of horns; they had not stood and formed their circle, shes and young...
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5 21 I was startled by the sound of slave bells and saw a girl, stripped save for bells and collar, carrying a burden among the wagons.
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8 489 I heard her startled cry as the weighted leather straps flashed about her thighs, calves and ankles, in an instant lashing them together as tightly as though by binding fiber.
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8 498 The judge looked startled, as though he could not believe what he had seen.
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9 225 The Feast Steward looked startled, then horrified, then knowledgeable, and then bowed and spread his hands.
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9 418 I stood beside Kamchak, ready to defend him with my life, yet as startled as any in the room at what had been done.
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10 106 Elizabeth Cardwell, who had been fixing the fire in the wagon, had been startled when I had returned without Dina, but had not dared to ask what had been done with her.
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10 429 I was a bit startled, not realizing he was so close.
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11 41 I was startled.
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12 75 I was startled.
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14 35 I rode at Kamchak's side and in an instant it seemed we had passed through the bellowing, startled herd and had emerged on the plain beyond.
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14 51 I was startled by the appearance of tarnsmen on the southern plains.
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14 64 I followed him, but then stopped, startled at what I saw.
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14 96 I was startled.
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16 116 We had scarcely cleared the portal and set foot in the street when we heard a swift rustle of heavy wire and, startled, looking up, saw the steel net descend on us.
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18 83 There, quiva in hand, uttering the war cry of Ko-ro-ba, feet first, I leaped from the framework and shattered through the blue surface landing among my startled enemies.
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19 99 Then, startled, as she moved her head a bit, restlessly on the rug, I saw that in her nose was the tiny golden ring of a Tuchuk girl.
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20 64 Inside I could hear a startled guard demanding to know who Harold was.
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20 93 "It is Tarl Cabot of Ko-ro-ba, you fool!" "Who is Tarl Cabot of Ko-ro-ba?" asked the guard, startled.
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20 131 But the bird seemed utterly startled, if possible, dumbfounded.
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21 271 "Tuchuks!" The guards suddenly looked about themselves startled.
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22 88 She flung up her head and looked at me, breathing hard, startled.
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22 94 The two men were startled, but Tuchuk discipline is relentless.
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23 17 I was nearly slain by arrows when I dropped the tarn amidst the startled blacks of the Kataii, but my black jacket with the emblem of the four bosk horns, emblem of the Tuchuk courier, soon proved its worth and I was led to the dais of the Ubar of the Kataii.
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23 62 These two hundred, afoot, suddenly looking up with their quivas and axes, startled, screaming, were ridden down in a matter of an Ehn.
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23 152 And even the sky seemed dark for a moment as, from the left and right, thousands upon thousands of arrows fell like dark rain among the startled, stumbling, turning Paravaci.
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24 175 I bounded down the stairs of the palace of Phanius Turmus, and sped through the inner and outer courtyard and out into the street, leaving the startled guards trying to salute me as a commander.
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25 1 I Am Served Wine I entered the wagon and stopped, startled.
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25 20 "Who is he?" I asked, startled.
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25 407 She looked up, startled.
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25 557 She looked at me startled.
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25 677 I had little doubt that I could bring Miss Cardwell around quickly enough, if she thought me in earnest, for example, by a stroke or two of the slave lash, and would then have her crawling to me, to fearfully kiss the whip, lest she once more feel it, crawling to me aghast, petitioning to kiss that ...
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25 823 Then, suddenly, as though startled, she would not move.
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25 844 She did not move, and then suddenly I felt the cut of her nails deep in my arms, and though her lips were open, her teeth were clenched, her head was back, the eyes closed, her hair tangled under her and over her body, and then her eyes seemed surprised, startled, and her shoulders lifted a bit from...
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26 77 I was utterly startled, overcome.
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26 105 Behind them I was startled to see suddenly a scurrying figure in white and gold, Saphrar of Turia.
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27 42 I myself was startled, but would not speak.
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Book 5. (44 results) Assassin of Gor

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2 124 Hup opened his eyes, startled at not yet having felt the deep, cruel movement of the steel.
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2 150 Now the Assassin picked up the coin of gold and looked at the startled and sweating Portus.
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3 18 For those who passed in the street some might have been startled had they noted, standing in the shadows, one who wore the black of the Assassins, who wept.
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4 224 Elizabeth looked at him, startled.
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5 237 Elizabeth had agreed but was startled when placed on a long table, actually of a size for a Priest-King, and found her head enclosed between two curved, intricate devices, rather like two halves of a bowl.
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5 334 I was startled.
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5 399 I was startled.
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7 30 I looked at him startled.
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7 59 I was startled.
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11 166 The two girls lifted their eyes to him startled.
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12 109 "Candies!" I looked down and was startled to see, some four tiers below, not seeing me, the pathetic, stubby, bulbous little body of Hup the Fool, limping and hopping about in the aisle, his large head on the fat little body lolling one way or another, the tongue occasionally, suddenly, unexpectedly...
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12 211 I looked to one side and was startled.
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13 298 My bird, so suddenly I was startled, joined the first.
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13 326 Startled, I saw the bird flash through the three first rings, veer and speed through the first of the round "rings," and in the same motion, still turning, pass through the second and third of the round "rings," and then, wings beating with incredible velocity, its beak forward, Mip low on its back,...
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16 116 I was startled.
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17 109 She looked at me, startled.
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17 536 I saw her shoulders move, and, startled, realized that she wept.
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18 239 He looked at me, startled.
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18 316 Some startled slaves leaped up, each chained by one ankle to her ring; but most slept, drunk; one or two, too drunk to notice me, were sitting against the wall, their left ankles chained to their slave rings, a bottle of Ka-la-na in their grasp, their hair falling forward.
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18 318 Startled, I saw, now that she stood forth from the shadows, that she had no nose.
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18 350 "Who goes there?" cried a startled guard.
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18 400 Startled by the light an urt scurried from my path, disappearing through a small crevice in the wall.
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19 172 The crowd cried out angrily, "The barbarian! The barbarian!" I was startled when I saw the girl brought forth.
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19 179 I myself was startled, for I had seen the girl before and knew her somewhat; this was not her real person; the crowd, of course, would not know that.
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19 208 There were shouts of surprise from the crowd, some screams of startled women.
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19 353 In the crowd men cried out with pleasure; I heard even gasps from women, perhaps amazingly, startled that their sex was capable of such beauty; the eyes of some of the women shone with ill-concealed admiration and excitement; I could mark the quickness of their breath in their veils; the eyes of oth...
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19 391 "And this wench!" said Elizabeth, striding to Phyllis, "What of her?" Phyllis looked at her, startled.
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19 393 "Put your head back, no, farther back, farther! Are you stupid? Now turn, slowly, unworthy slave, for the noble buyers of Ar!" Startled, Phyllis did precisely as she was told, beautifully.
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19 444 Even the girls lifted their heads, startled, breaking the discipline of the submitted flower.
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20 39 I was startled.
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20 136 "Melanie," said she, not taking her eyes from the Hinrabian, startled, astonished that she should so find her former mistress.
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20 305 I happened to glance at Sura and was startled to see her.
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20 344 Again I glanced at Sura, and was again startled at the intentness, almost the wonder, with which she regarded the incredibly handsome, lame boy who stood before us.
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22 215 Second was the startled Menicius of Port Kar, the palm of victory snatched from his grip.
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22 424 The tiers, like startled horizontal lines, flashes of blurring color, fled behind me.
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22 440 Both of us passed a startled rider for Silver, and then another nonfaction bird.
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22 473 I heard a curse as I shot past the startled rider, who seemed suddenly confused, looking about.
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22 479 Trying to block in the wrong position he nearly hit the top of the edged ring and the startled bird was carried far out of the ring track and had to wheel to reenter the track.
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22 551 Ubar of the Skies did not hesitate but hurtled into their midst, beak rending, and then was clear; they turned in pursuit but four of them, caught in the wide loop of the Tuchuk rope, were cursing, cutting at it, while the tarns, suddenly startled, finding their movements inhibited, broke formation;...
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22 561 "Faster! Har-ta! Faster! Faster!" Then, approaching the last of the left side rings, Ubar of the Skies, striking for the heart of the ring, burst between the startled Red and Menicius, who led him by perhaps four yards.
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22 563 The Red, cursing, tried to force us up, where we might strike the unpadded bar; at our speed we might be cut in two; my tarn struggled to avoid the bar, not turning to do battle, but persisting in his race; I was suddenly aware of the arm of Menicius flying forward and I instinctively threw myself f...
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23 158 He looked startled.
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24 214 She looked up, startled.
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24 219 She looked at him, suddenly, her eyes wide, startled.
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Book 6. (21 results) Raiders of Gor

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2 2 Almost at the same time she looked up, startled.
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5 199 I cried out, so startled was I by her beauty.
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5 240 Startled, she looked at me.
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7 96 She was startled.
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7 201 "It will take long, will it not," I asked, "for barges so heavily laden to reach Port Kar?" "Yes," she said, startled, "it will take long".
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8 65 The girl bound to the prow, however, startled, hysterical, seeing the tumult of tharlarion below her, each tearing for a part of the unexpected prize, began to scream uncontrollably.
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8 142 She seemed startled but, as I told her, poled the rence craft away from the barges.
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8 619 She looked at me, startled, rejected.
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8 654 Then, startled, she looked up at him, her wrists bound, having felt the strength of his hands.
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9 278 Midice, startled, looked up from where she knelt, polishing the hoops of brass upon my shield.
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9 581 He looked at me, startled.
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9 603 They sat there, startled.
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13 415 The rest of the men were startled, but they maintained the beat.
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14 110 I wanted it to appear that I was suddenly undecided as to whether or not to attack, as though I was confused, startled.
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15 804 "How dare you, Slave," I asked, "wear this before me?" She looked startled.
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16 207 He looked at me, startled.
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16 398 I was startled.
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17 373 Startled, Chenbar himself, Ubar of Tyros, the Sea Sleen, drew his blade.
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18 253 She looked at him, startled.
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18 385 I was startled.
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18 758 Telima looked at me, startled.
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Book 7. (25 results) Captive of Gor

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1 151 As my fingers applied the soap to my left thigh, I was suddenly startled.
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3 41 He unscrewed it, and I was startled.
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5 47 I was startled.
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6 90 Then, startled, I lifted my head.
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6 106 Startled, they turned to face me.
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6 189 Suddenly I was startled.
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7 136 I was startled the first time I saw such a cord securing a camisk.
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7 423 I did not want to be bought by a woman! But that thought startled me.
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7 445 Many an angry young man of modest means returns, disappointed and frustrated, from the market, leading home on his tether the most that he can afford, an item of what he takes to be second-rate merchandise; but he discovers, perhaps after introducing her to the house, and tying her and giving her th...
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9 499 "A hundred arrow points," I pouted, "is not enough!" I was startled that I had said this, and more with how I had said it.
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10 232 "Were you startled the morning you awakened and found yourself branded?" he inquired.
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10 505 I looked at him, startled.
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10 563 I was startled.
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11 795 As I fled I sometimes startled small animals, and once a herd of tabuk.
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11 856 I was startled, and turned.
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11 1193 "Yes," said Inge, startled.
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12 136 I was startled that she had spoken so.
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13 136 I was startled.
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13 457 She looked at me, startled.
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14 100 I had been startled.
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15 237 How shameless she had become! Once of the scribes, she was now only a wanton, shameless slave girl! I wanted to tear her hair and eyes out! How pleased I was, and how startled she was, and the others, when Rask sent them to the shed, where they would be issued work tunics and find themselves work sl...
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15 1066 "Get it off, now, instantly!" I looked at her, startled.
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16 186 I looked at her, startled.
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16 250 As it was, only the tiniest sound of pain, little more than a startled gasp, forcing its way about the stoppage of the leather, the wadding and straps, escaped her.
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16 386 I was startled.
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Book 8. (23 results) Hunters of Gor

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1 119 I was startled.
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1 199 He looked at me, startled.
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2 440 She seemed startled.
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4 253 She seemed startled.
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6 595 She turned about, startled, and looked up at us.
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6 832 Most of those at the fire were as startled as the handsome young seaman when they saw the wristlet in Tina's hand.
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6 994 I was startled.
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9 467 The girls suddenly looked about themselves, startled.
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11 492 She looked at him, startled.
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14 77 She looked at me, startled.
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15 767 The movement would be startled, involuntary, sudden, wild, helpless, uncontrollable.
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16 87 Her eyes suddenly, startled, opened.
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16 213 Startled, it growled with rage, and leaped back, away from the prey.
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17 44 They doubtless would be startled, upon awakening, to find themselves stripped, members of a slave chain, their fair ankles locked in Harl rings.
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18 293 They looked up, startled.
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19 127 The men of Tyros were startled.
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20 5 He who had thrust at me fell, slipping to his hands and knees, startled, red swift in the firelit yellow of his tunic.
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21 141 But scarcely had the peasant giant cried out than, from the darkness about the stockade, and toward the forest, we heard the surprised cries, and screams, of startled, unexpectedly caught females.
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22 214 Verna's women, startled, were freed of their bonds.
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22 300 I was startled.
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22 399 She seemed startled.
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22 890 They looked at me, startled.
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22 916 They looked at me, startled.
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Book 9. (24 results) Marauders of Gor

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1 339 She seemed startled that she had sold for so small a sum.
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1 441 How startled, how crushed would she have been, to learn at last, incontrovertibly, that her disownment was true.
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1 560 I was startled.
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3 24 The warrior of Torvaldsland looked at me, startled.
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3 32 He drew back his ax, and stepped away, regarding me, startled, wary.
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3 154 Startled, she did so, uncertainly.
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3 213 The people of Kassau, within the burning temple, cried out, startled.
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7 218 I was startled.
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9 444 She looked at me, startled.
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10 308 She stopped, startled.
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10 495 To my surprise, he stopped before a dark-haired girl who sat with her legs drawn up, her arms about them, her ankles crossed; her cheek was laid across her knees; she seemed startled that the Forkbeard stopped before her; she looked up at him, frightened, and then put her face again down, across her...
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10 644 She seemed startled.
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12 71 Ivar looked at him, as though startled at his perception.
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13 48 "Your oath! Your oath!" had cried the horrified, startled rune-priests.
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13 128 Svein Blue Tooth looked at him, startled.
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14 245 I heard the startled snarls of the Kurii.
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14 251 Hand over hand I crawled up the chain; then the chain shook, wildly; I struggled to hold it; the fire at my right sleeve snapped back and forth; I lost my breath; I feared my neck would break; blood was on the chain; I held it; Kurii howled beneath me; I moved further up the chain; then the chain st...
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15 178 Startled I almost lost my grip.
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18 49 I saw another Kur, undecided, startled.
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18 71 It fell forward, startled.
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18 174 Almost as one the girls, crying out, flung themselves to their bellies among the bodies and the charge of the men of Torvaldsland, missing not a step, took its way over them, striking the startled Kurii with an unimpeded impact.
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18 287 We heard, even from behind the herd, Ivar, and I, and a hundred men, screaming and shouting, the howling, the startled shrieks of Kurii, the enraged roars of Kurii.
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18 360 Startled, Thyri did so.
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18 622 She cried out, startled, sobbing, and stumbled more than a dozen steps before she regained her balance.
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Book 10. (25 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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5 113 His hand was on her body, and she, writhing, weeping, with her heels, pushing herself, back scraping on the bark, climbed almost a foot up the slanting trunk, before he, taking her in his arms, through her veil, kissed her, fiercely, again and again, with the rape-kisses of a master, impressed on th...
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2 197 Suddenly I was startled.
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3 5 With the light rein I pulled my kaiila to the left as we passed, and the man, trying to reach me, was, startled, off balance.
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3 300 He seemed startled.
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4 4 The girl, startled, cried out.
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4 362 He did not take long with her, but, in moments, she had suddenly gasped, startled, her eyes wide, and then had uttered small cries, and moaned.
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5 403 That would be the natural path of departure of surprised, startled men.
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7 127 Then I heard a startled inarticulate cry of horror, quick cut short.
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11 689 Startled, I saw the mark on his left forearm.
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12 68 She seemed startled.
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12 537 They stopped, startled.
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13 241 I was startled.
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14 602 I was startled that there was so little blood, for the wound was deep.
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15 143 We were startled, that he had said this.
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19 141 The sky was black with sand; brush, like startled, bounding tabuk, leaped, driven, over my head; the wind howled.
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21 404 I was startled that there would be a Kur at the ship.
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21 419 I think the Kur was startled to see me.
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21 421 Perhaps it was this which, in his startled reflex, spoiled his aim.
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21 438 To my amazement, it seemed startled; it hesitated; I leapt to the side.
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22 89 I was startled.
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24 184 She was startled at my anger.
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25 107 Startled was I to discover in the courtyard, mounted in the high saddle of the kaiila, the leader of Hassan's mystery lancers, who had invested the kasbah of Tarna.
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25 167 She was startled.
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26 252 The girl looked up, startled.
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26 571 I then took her wrists up, one at a time, she, startled, not resisting, and tied them, on the outside, each to a separate bar, on either side of the small iron gate.
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Book 11. (48 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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2 5 I looked up, startled, frightened.
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2 236 "Make me your slave," I whispered, "—Masters!" How startled I was that I had called them Masters, and yet, how natural, it seemed, for I was a girl, suitable prey for such as they, a natural quarry and prey for such as they, and they, as I sensed, were the natural masters, by the dark laws of...
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2 829 He lifted me in his arms, so lightly that it startled me, and carried me to a tree.
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2 1216 I was startled, discerning the volume and splendor of her robes; they were multicolored and brilliant in their sheens and chromatic textures, and so draped and worn that, particularly at the hem, the diverse borders of these various garments seemed to compete with one another to win the observer's a...
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3 362 I looked up, startled.
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4 75 I was once startled by the movements of a small amphibian near me.
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4 220 I was shocked, and startled.
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5 229 The two who had been touching leapt apart, the girl crying out with misery and throwing herself to her knees at the foot of her mistress; the man backed away, angrily, startled.
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5 283 I was startled at the fury with which the Lady Sabina struck the bound, collared girl.
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5 848 She cried out, startled.
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7 932 Several, apparently, had flushed her out and, together, run her down like a startled, confused tabuk hind.
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7 950 He had seemed startled, momentarily.
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8 210 I lay in the hot sand, startled.
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9 528 I was caged! I cried out, startled.
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9 820 Startled, suddenly frightened, I clutched the post.
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9 824 The man had seen the reaction of a beautiful, startled slave girl, bound at a post.
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9 902 I opened my eyes, startled.
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9 1110 I was startled, kneeling in the dirt at the post, my hands bound about it.
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9 1143 Ladletender seemed startled.
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9 1144 I opened my eyes, startled, too.
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9 1221 He had startled me.
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9 1647 I regarded him, startled, as I was dragged from his presence.
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9 1861 Melina seemed startled.
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9 1879 Melina looked at him, startled.
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9 2284 She looked after Thurnus, startled, confused, awe-struck, bewildered, enraptured.
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13 2 I cried out, startled.
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13 68 I had looked at her, startled.
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13 85 I had stood in the cage, startled, trembling.
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13 405 "Is there a higher bid?" I looked up, and, startled, saw the eyes of the various women, over their veils, upon me.
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14 263 I was startled.
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14 313 I looked at her, startled.
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14 466 I looked up, startled.
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15 12 I looked up, startled.
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15 42 "I love you! I love you, Elicia!" The woman thrust me from her, and I, startled, slipped back, losing my footing, to the tiles.
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17 67 This startled me.
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20 352 I stopped, startled.
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20 498 "He is an enemy! Seize him!" Clitus Vitellius looked at me, startled.
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22 432 Her remark startled me, by its unexpectedness.
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24 46 What woman is not pleased to know she is of interest to men? What woman is not pleased to realize, even shyly, that her beauty may have unsettled a fellow, even dazzled or astonished him, bewildered him, or awed him? Are we supposed to be upset that a fellow may turn about, perhaps disbelievingly, p...
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26 103 She turned about and then, suddenly, first seeing him, cried out, startled.
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26 278 I stood back, startled.
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26 405 "How beautiful you are, Mistress," I said, startled.
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26 650 He stopped for a moment, almost startled, then grinned.
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26 710 She seemed startled.
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26 729 She seemed startled.
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27 24 I was startled.
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27 280 He seized a cup and tore a vessel of paga from a startled girl and filled it himself.
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27 635 It startled me, for he touched me gently.
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Book 12. (26 results) Beasts of Gor

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1 74 She opened her eyes suddenly, startled, half crying out.
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2 47 She seemed startled.
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2 231 She looked at me, startled.
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2 495 He looked at me, startled.
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3 543 She seemed utterly startled.
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3 845 The girl cried out, startled, being ruthlessly appraised.
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6 553 His hand closed on the girl's left arm and dragged her swiftly, forcibly from the saddle, she crying out, startled, dashing her shoulder and headfirst into the water at his side.
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6 762 She looked at him, startled.
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7 207 Suddenly I heard her cry out, startled.
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10 127 Ram looked at me, startled.
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14 121 Poalu seemed startled.
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21 335 She looked at me, startled.
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23 97 I had the feeling, and it startled me, as I ran towards it, that it was considering our distance from it, and the time it would take us to traverse that distance.
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27 80 Some hours later, when we heard the startled pain squeal of the mortally wounded beast, Imnak turned about in his tracks.
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30 57 She looked at him, startled.
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30 102 The third man on the sand seemed startled.
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30 139 He stepped back, startled.
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32 143 He looked at me, startled.
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33 92 Suddenly I was startled.
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35 305 When I stood up, and took the weapon from her mouth, she looked at me, startled; she half rose from the floor, turning on her left thigh, her right leg drawn up, the palms of her hands on the floor, her lovely body deeply mottled, a terrain of crimson, with the intense capillary activity which I had...
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35 504 A woman, startled, leaped up from the large, rounded bed on which she had sat.
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35 551 She looked at me, startled.
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35 659 She looked at me, startled, frightened.
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35 1148 The Lady Rosa, startled, turned toward me, from the wheel which controlled the panel.
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36 273 I was startled.
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37 128 I took one last look at the distant, churning, steaming waters, erupting and boiling, where the polar sea, as though offended and startled, hissing in indignation, recoiled from the fiery touch of a mechanism contrived paradoxically by the wit of rational creatures.
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Book 13. (30 results) Explorers of Gor

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4 147 The girl looked, startled, at the pouch.
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4 585 She jumped, startled, and cried out, frightened, but she did not, as a reflex, lift her head, turning it to the left, nor did the muscles in her upper arms suddenly move as though thrusting her wrists behind her, to await the two snaps of the slave bracelets.
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4 910 The dark-haired girl looked at her, startled.
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5 213 Her face was startled, her eyes were wild.
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8 150 The dancer stood, still, on the sand, startled.
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11 346 The other girl, the dark-haired girl with the whip, seemed startled at my entrance.
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12 489 I saw disbelief, startled, wild, enter her eyes.
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13 242 She looked at me, startled.
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14 200 "What we women suffer at the hands of such beasts!" I was startled.
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14 327 She clutched me, startled.
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14 438 Her eyes were startled.
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19 39 I was startled.
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19 74 Suddenly Msaliti stopped, startled.
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19 79 I realized he had called out to make it clear to all that he had expected the Ubar to be alive when he entered, but, when he saw that the Ubar, truly, was alive, he had been for the moment startled.
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20 17 I gripped the shovel, startled.
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24 77 One man thrust at me with his spear and the others, startled, stood back.
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26 18 I was startled.
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29 7 It lived on the white ants, or termites, of the vicinity, breaking apart their high, towering nests of toughened clay, some of them thirty-five feet in height, with its mighty claws, then darting its four-foot-long tongue, coated with adhesive saliva, among the nest's startled occupants, drawing tho...
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29 12 "Oh!" cried the girl, startled.
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32 368 She threw back her head with misery, and clutched at her hair and then, suddenly, startled, her hands at her hair, looked at me, her eyes wide.
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32 622 "It startled me, that I should have called him that.
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32 760 'Why?' I asked, startled, dismayed, terrified.
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32 826 I was startled.
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34 829 * * * * I awakened, suddenly, startled for the instant.
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38 2 Suddenly he seemed startled.
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44 161 The small men regarded her, startled and frightened.
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52 5 Kisu stepped back, startled.
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53 219 The beast who had attacked Shaba suddenly drew back, startled.
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57 218 "Oh!" cried she who had been Evelyn Ellis, looking up at me, blinking, startled.
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57 246 "You speak English," she had cried, startled.
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Book 14. (27 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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1 127 I was startled.
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1 775 "A slave?" I was startled that she had asked this.
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1 989 I was startled.
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2 37 How startled I was! How astonished I was! Should I not be furious? Was it not shocking, and deplorable, to hear that word, the word 'Master', on the lips of the proud Miss Henderson? Was it not horrifying that such a word should escape her lips! Those pure, soft, vulnerable, kissable lips, which I h...
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2 258 I was startled.
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2 311 It startled me that he had said these things, for I had thought myself unusual among the men of Earth in my manhood.
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3 431 I looked at her, startled.
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4 29 I was startled.
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4 102 I was startled.
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4 165 I was startled.
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5 95 I was startled.
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7 119 It startled me that she had called me 'Master,' but then I recalled that she had been given to me for the night.
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7 292 I was startled.
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7 582 Lola looked at me, startled, unable to comprehend the conflict which raged within me.
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7 586 I was startled that I had struck her.
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7 719 I was startled.
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9 102 I jerked away from the sound, crying out, startled, frightened.
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11 431 I was startled that she had said 'I am from a place called England' rather than something like 'I am from England'.
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12 102 I was startled.
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12 398 "Strip! Kneel! Knees wide!" Startled, terrified, scarcely knowing what I was doing, I found myself kneeling before the buyers.
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13 751 She gasped, startled.
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18 94 Then he said, "Would she look well in a collar? Would she look well naked, upon a slave block?" I was startled.
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18 219 "Yes, Master," I said, quickly, startled.
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21 52 "Yes, Master!" she said, startled.
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25 158 He turned quickly, startled, at the palings.
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25 372 "Scatter!" Confused, startled, we fled, scattering in various directions.
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27 275 I turned about and took the startled girl by the chain at her collar.
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Book 15. (18 results) Rogue of Gor

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3 30 "He did not seem surprised or startled," I said, "that I should open your shackle".
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3 78 She looked at me, startled.
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3 215 We were startled, and looked up.
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3 235 There was a startled, soft light in the eyes of the Lady Gina as she looked up at the fellow.
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5 39 I think he was startled that he managed to strike home so seldom.
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9 198 "Forty-eight!" "Fifty!" Suddenly the girl cried out, startled.
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9 213 I was startled to hear my own voice.
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11 143 "And then, on Gor," she said, "we look up and, startled, find them standing over us.
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12 120 I put the startled Miss Henderson on her hands and knees before the small opening.
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14 161 She looked at me, startled, awakened, in pain, terrified.
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19 109 I was startled to hear this name, for it was the name of he who had saved me, some weeks ago, from the steel of Kliomenes, the pirate.
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21 368 Peggy, startled, wild-eyed, rose to her knees and seized my sandals.
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24 219 Who knows through what sales or changings of hands a girl who is mere property such as I might pass? You cannot risk that I might, someday, somewhere, if only by inadvertence, perhaps by a startled cry or gesture, or a too-eager licking at your feet, compromise your secret".
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24 490 She was startled.
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24 514 She cried out, startled, taken with such force.
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24 748 He seemed startled.
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28 326 Peggy rose to her feet and went, head down, to kneel before the startled Aemilianus.
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30 198 She looked at me, startled.
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Book 16. (26 results) Guardsman of Gor

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5 201 The pirates, startled, unable to reach the ship, stood confused along their railings.
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6 35 Oars, like startled limbs, not in unison, unevenly, rose from the water.
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6 133 A man looked at me, startled, disbelievingly.
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8 182 The whip cracked forth, lashing, snapping, whipping about her startled wrists, binding them together, causing her, crying out with pain, to drop the leaden sheets.
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8 327 The startled girl lifted her head, suddenly, fearfully, looking at me.
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9 39 The girl lifted her head, startled.
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10 171 Aemilianus, followed by men, moved swiftly, past startled pirates, toward the iron door.
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11 154 Children of many houses might be startled if they could see the transformation which takes place in their pretty Didi or Lale, whom they know as their nurse, governess and playmate, when she is, in their absence or after their bedtime, ordered to the chamber of one of the young masters, there to dan...
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16 12 The pirates turned, startled, puzzled, to regard the source of the sound.
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16 15 Showers of arrows sped like dark, linear hail over the heads of the charging citizens, striking into the startled, suddenly reeling, disordered crowds of pirates at the foot of the concourse.
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17 163 She looked up, startled, dismayed.
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17 473 She looked up at me, startled.
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18 170 She seemed startled, stunned.
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20 136 Downing it, I found, startled, that there were tears in my eyes.
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20 146 Swiftly Shirley, startled, putting down the wine, knelt before Aemilianus.
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20 461 I was startled.
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20 726 "A free woman!" suddenly exclaimed Glyco, startled.
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20 741 "You?" He seemed startled.
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20 801 What man does not want a slave?" She looked at him, startled.
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20 844 Startled, Peggy did as she was told.
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20 943 Then, it seems, as she, startled, looks about, they are turning away.
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20 1186 We were startled.
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20 1403 She looked up at me, startled.
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20 1640 Let it be gone! This is Gor! Gor! What was she to you, that tart I once was, dear Master, that you should have deferred to her? Did you never once point to the floor at your feet, and tell her to kneel? Why not? What mistakes the men of Earth make with the women of Earth! It is no wonder the women o...
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20 1990 Startled, she rose swiftly to her feet and went to the table, where she, kneeling down, began to gather together the dishes and stack them.
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21 691 When she lifted her head, tears in her eyes, she seemed suddenly startled, troubled.
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Book 17. (11 results) Savages of Gor

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1 251 Had they been startled out of sleep, the reaction, I was confident, would have been far more noticeable.
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1 741 I was startled by this pronouncement.
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2 278 He looked up at me, startled.
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8 670 "Yes, yes!" said the girl, startled.
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8 759 Ginger was startled.
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8 818 Ginger and Evelyn, startled, exchanged glances.
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14 407 She looked about, startled, wildly, now permitted to regard her surroundings.
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15 182 "Oh!" said the red-haired girl, first in the coffle, startled as the point of his lance had scraped the back of the black-iron collar on her neck.
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17 159 Had she been of Earth origin, of course, she would have been far less startled, for then such creatures would have been much more familiar to her.
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19 268 He looked at me, startled.
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19 464 This startled me.
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Book 18. (44 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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4 24 How startled would be the fellows in the office to discover that that trimly figured, luscious co-worker of theirs, to them seemingly so cool, aloof and inaccessible, is at home another man's slave.
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4 25 Too, how startled would be the women in certain neighborhoods, or in certain organizations and groups, to discover that one of their most popular neighbors, or prominent members, is, in the privacy of her own dwelling, a slave.
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7 192 "I?" she asked, startled.
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7 403 She looked at me, startled.
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9 251 Some of them, at any rate, when enslaved, seemed quite startled to discover the nature of some of the even routine performances and services that would now be expected of them.
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9 303 "You are proud to kneel in it," I said, startled.
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15 201 She looked at him, startled, and then, trembling and sobbing, pressed herself into his arms.
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18 2 Wasnapohdi, startled, looked up.
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18 25 "Canka?" I asked, startled.
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18 359 I looked up, startled.
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19 1 I Speak with Cuwignaka "Cuwignaka!" I cried, startled, entering the interior of our lodge.
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20 55 Hci looked at him, startled.
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22 2 We had turned, startled, not more than a few yards from our lodge, from the interior of which Cuwignaka had recovered the lance.
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23 98 She had been startled.
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26 53 "No!" The young warrior looked up, startled.
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26 66 Startled, crying out, he pulled his kaiila back, and turned, and fled.
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27 76 The kaiila under us turned, startled, scratching at the dust.
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28 226 We struck them, they milling, startled, wheeling about, kaiila rearing, a full Ihn before the turf was dark with the wild, swiftly moving shadows of the Kinyanpi overhead.
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29 165 She looked at him, startled.
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34 103 There, too, risen now to her elbows, her hands still tied behind her, startled, was the slave girl, Mira, once the Lady Mira, of Venna, with whom I had been pleasuring myself.
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34 167 The young man looked at me, startled.
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34 193 He looked at me, startled.
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34 277 "What are you doing!" he cried, startled.
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34 418 Women looked up, startled, as I hurried through the camp.
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37 414 The quarry, startled at my unexpected appearance, veered away, passing within feet of me, the great shadow suddenly between me and the sun, and then the sun again blazed on the late-summer grass, tumultuous and whipped, twisted, by the passage of the quarry.
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37 486 I wondered how long it would take, say, a startled tabuk or ground animal, of a burrowing sort, to regain its composure, to return to its normal activities.
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40 62 She lowered her head, timidly, blushing, startled at suddenly finding herself the object of this attention.
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40 221 He looked at her, startled.
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40 225 "Thank you," he said, startled.
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40 393 I was startled to see it again.
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40 591 "Beloved Mira," cried Radish, looking at Mira, wildly, "what shall I do?" Mira shrank back, startled.
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42 96 The tarn, arrested in its lunge, screamed, rearing back, startled, wild, in the air.
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43 468 Iwoso, startled, at my feet, screamed.
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44 237 How startled would be many women there, I thought, to find themselves taken in hand and enslaved.
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44 435 She regarded him, startled, blood at her mouth.
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44 437 Bloketu looked at Cuwignaka, startled, disbelievingly.
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44 599 She looked, startled, at one of the huge sheaves of arrows being spilled near her.
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44 760 She looked at him, startled.
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47 129 Suddenly bodies and tarns seemed to be exploding about me as we entered, penetrating, the startled formations of the Kinyanpi.
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47 313 Then tarns, screaming, talons raking, wings beating, hurtled among the startled soldiers on the ledge, seizing and tearing at them, blasts of wind even from the wings forcing some back over the edge.
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50 45 The girl looked down, startled.
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50 76 She noticed, startled, that her knees were spread widely.
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50 137 The men were suddenly silent, startled.
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54 141 She looked at me, startled.
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Book 19. (37 results) Kajira of Gor

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1 531 "Yes," I said, softly, rather startled at myself, "as you commanded".
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2 65 I looked at him, startled.
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2 260 They had wished to take me by surprise, to observe my reactions, to see me as though I might be confused or startled, to see how fetching and exciting I might appear, captured, so to speak, in a moment of charming disarray.
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3 93 "Oh," said the girl, softly, startled, seeing me, and knelt.
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3 233 I looked at her, startled.
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3 601 I looked at myself, startled, in the mirror.
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3 631 I cried out, startled.
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3 721 Startled, I felt the key inserted in the lock on my anklet.
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4 174 I screamed, startled.
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4 215 He stood up, startled.
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4 216 The crowd about, too, seemed startled, confused.
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4 593 I was startled.
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6 151 One such woman, in particular, startled and excited me.
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6 261 "I do not understand," he said, startled.
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7 118 "What is it?" I asked, startled.
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8 72 I cried out, startled.
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8 173 I was startled.
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8 209 But it had not touched the girl, only startled her.
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8 368 I was startled that one such as he, seemingly so scholarly and gentle, possessed such uncompromising strength.
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8 418 I stopped, startled.
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8 586 I looked up, suddenly, startled.
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8 589 I put down my head, swiftly, so swiftly that it almost startled me, showing submission.
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8 610 He looked down at me, angrily, startled.
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9 23 "I was startled, Mistress," she said.
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9 231 How startled I had been when she had said that.
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10 108 "Are you so attracted to me, Drusus?" I said, startled.
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12 68 I was startled.
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14 85 I was startled that I was put in no bonds.
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15 308 I then stopped, startled.
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23 207 I then clutched him, startled and astounded.
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23 257 I looked at him, startled.
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25 137 He looked down at her, startled.
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26 142 The sound, sensuous and barbaric, startled me.
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29 282 Then I was startled by his vitality.
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30 536 Susan, too, once, had seemed terribly startled to find me in my chambers.
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31 129 Startled, wildly, I raised my head.
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31 132 "You startled me! I am not Sheila, the Tatrix of Corcyrus! I am Tiffany, only a slave, Tiffany, only of Feast Slaves, of the Enterprises of Aemilianus!" "Of course," he smiled.
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Book 22. (1 results) Dancer of Gor

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6 71 I suddenly jerked, and almost fell, uttering, startled, a stifled sound, my head moving, the gag straps pulling at the back of my neck, the girl in front of me almost off balance, the snap of the lash, too, had startled me, the lash had stung my calves, sharply, cruelly.
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Book 27. (1 results) Prize of Gor

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30 339 And he threw her to his feet and, crouching beside her, she first, startled, on all fours, and then thrust to her belly, tore away her tunic, shred by silken shred, flinging these narrow, delicate, yellow, rent scraps behind him, they fluttering away to alight, scattered, like startled flowers, on t...
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