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Book 1. (1 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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18 173 The thought flamed through me in the violent delirium of battle that in those moments I was many men, an army, that no man could stand against me, that it was not my blade or my heart they faced but something I myself only dimly sensed, something intangible but irresistible, an avalanche, a storm, a...
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Book 2. (10 results) Outlaw of Gor

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4 74 I raised my eyes to the storm, and my spear and shield, and shouted into the storm, my voice drowned in the turbulence of nature, a defiant puff of wind hurled against the forces that seemed arrayed against me.
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4 58 Yes, and by now I should have been challenged a dozen times by Ko-ro-ba's night patrols! A monstrous chain of lightning exploded in the night about me, deafening me with the shock and roar of its thunder, splitting the darkness in violent fragments, breaking it to pieces like a clay bowl struck with...
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4 61 I was blinded in the fury of the storm.
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4 66 My eyes were half closed against the storm.
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5 8 The storm had not abated, but I had ceased to mind it.
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5 28 As we faced one another, the storm ceased, the lightning no longer shattered the night, the thunder no longer roared in my ears.
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13 111 It came like a silver and crimson storm, taking me by surprise, blinding me.
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14 216 With a storm of wings the tarn smote the air and rose, in the sight of all, above the stands, above the arena, above the towers and walls of Tharna, and sped toward the horizon, the golden-robed body of the Tatrix clutched in its talons.
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23 102 In time it became dangerous for the small cavalries of Tharna to assault them, to brave the storm of missile weapons which would seem to rise almost from the very ground itself.
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24 136 Once more I noted that the walls bordering the avenue rose as the avenue narrowed, but this time, long before we neared the small iron door, we saw a double rampart thrown across the avenue, the second wall topping the first and allowing missiles to be rained down on those who might storm the first ...
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Book 3. (2 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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7 111 Surely I had enjoyed the scent of flowers and women, of hot, fresh bread, roasted meat, paga and wines, harness leather, the oil with which I protected the blade of my sword from rust, of green fields and storm winds, but seldom had I considered the sense of smell in the way one would consider that ...
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29 108 I flashed my ship to the ground only an instant before the entire ship above me seemed to explode silently in a storm of metallic dust glinting in the light of the energy bulbs above.
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Book 4. (2 results) Nomads of Gor

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14 56 We heard a new thunder of wings and looking overhead saw the tarnsmen, like a black storm, drum beating and tarns screaming, streak by overhead.
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24 65 The city now largely clear of defenders, and closed to the outside, Kamchak could bring his forces to bear on Saphrar's house, that fort within a fort, and on the tower of Ha-Keel, taking them, if necessary, by storm.
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Book 5. (2 results) Assassin of Gor

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15 372 Outside, in the air overhead, we heard a storm of wings, tarnsmen aflight.
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16 255 The vast, long black wings, broad and mighty, opened and struck against the air, hurling a storm of dust and sand on all sides, almost tumbling the small, hooded Tarn Keeper from the low wagon.
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Book 6. (18 results) Raiders of Gor

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18 134 Far below I saw the Dorna, lifting and falling in the troughs of the waves, and, separated from her, the ships of the fleet, round ships and tarn ships, storm sails set, oars dipping, flying before the storm.
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18 638 He must have brought the Venna and the Tela into the wind, cutting away even the storm sails, and risked the destruction of the two ships in the high sea, not to be driven from Port Kar, and then, when the storm had lulled, they had put about and raced for the harbor.
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15 125 This fortress, it seems, might be taken by storm, but the effort would be costly.
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17 132 As I watched, the long, strung-out line of round ships of Port Kar moved past, tacking, scarcely using their oars, their small, triangular storm sails beaten from the north.
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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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17 173 Behind my second-wave ships, I saw, scattered in its long enveloping line stretching from horizon to horizon across Thassa, their small storm sails pounded by the wind, the third wave, that of the round ships.
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17 175 Astern of the Dorna, not hurrying, at half beat, came fifty tarn ships, their masts high, storm sails bound to their long, sloping yards.
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17 219 And between them, heavy, their hulls buffeted by the wind, even their small storm sails now furled to their yards, came the ten round ships, the lumber ships from the arsenal.
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18 19 "Set the storm sail!" Men hastened to do what I had told them, and, as they did so, I sent signals to reserve ships, to be conveyed to the balance of the fleet, that they might save themselves while they could.
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18 21 I stood on the icy, wind-struck deck of the Dorna, my back turned to the storm.
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18 30 The yard had been lowered and the small, triangular storm sail was attached to it.
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18 36 Then the wind was at the stern and the oar-master began his count, easing the ship ahead until the storm sail was caught by the blasts.
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18 40 The tiny storm sail, swollen with the black wind and sleet, tore at the yard and the brail ropes.
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18 70 When the storm abated, whether in hours or in one or two days, the fleet would put about and return to Port Kar.
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18 139 The bird was buffeted by the storm, but it was a strong bird.
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18 140 I did not know the width of the storm, but I hoped its front would be only a few pasangs.
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18 145 And then the sleet became only pelting rain, and the rain became only a cruel wind, and then the cruelty of the wind yielded to only the cold rushing air at the fringe of the storm's garment.
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18 146 And Thassa beneath us was suddenly streaked with the cold sunlight of Se'Kara, and the bird was across and through the storm.
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Book 8. (4 results) Hunters of Gor

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2 542 Her sails were, first, the fair-weather sail, which is quite large, and is used in gentle winds; secondly, the tarn sail, which is the common sail most often found on the yard of a tarn ship, and taking its name from the ship; third, a sail of the same type as the tarn sail, and, in a sense, a small...
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2 539 Gorean galleys commonly carry several sails, usually falling into three main types, fair-weather, "tarn," and storm.
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6 267 If it should prove necessary to storm the camp with slave nets, we would do so after a secret approach, striking decisively and fiercely from an unexpected direction.
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13 139 The men of Tyros, when the wine had been drunk, were to storm the camp".
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Book 9. (1 results) Marauders of Gor

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13 192 "Could we not," I suggested, "simply leap naked into a pit of venomous osts, or, perhaps, race madly across the plains of the Wagon Peoples during a lightning storm, our swords raised over our heads?" "The trick," said the Forkbeard, "is not simply to walk into the jaws of a larl.
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Book 10. (26 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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1 436 It was struck by storm, and a kaiila, maddened by wind and sand, broke its hobble, plunging away into the darkness.
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1 439 In the morning the storm had passed.
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11 24 "A terrible storm," I said.
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11 48 I noted that Hassan's men had thrown blankets over the heads of the kaiila, to prevent them from seeing the storm, and keep rain from striking their faces, which phenomenon, frightening them, tends to make them unmanageable.
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11 50 A storm, of which one is unaware, perhaps pasangs away, can fill such a bed with a sudden flow of water, washing away one's camp and endangering life".
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11 64 I had thought, first, it was another storm.
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19 144 I listened to the storm.
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19 148 The storm raged unabating.
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19 150 "How long does such a storm last?" I asked.
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19 154 "It is not known how long such a storm may last," he said.
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19 165 We struggled to our feet, our feet buried in sand, swept into the ditch, our backs suddenly cut by the lash of the storm.
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19 173 We leaped from the ditch, rolling from it into the storm, scrambling to our feet.
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20 5 The storm, surprisingly, had abated.
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20 8 We had not been able to move far in the storm.
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20 76 "So it was mad from the desert, the storm," said Hassan.
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21 322 Within moments the storm fell.
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21 327 I opened my eyes, and saw, briefly, before me, not more than a hundred yards away, in a fleeting gap in the storm, swiftly closed again by the hastened, stinging sand, crooked, leaning to one side, half buried in the sand, a cylinder of steel; it was perhaps twelve feet in diameter, perhaps forty fe...
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21 349 I saw it again, once briefly, in a break in the storm.
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21 355 I wanted to run, into the storm, away from it.
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21 396 Then, I started for the ship, through the storm.
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21 403 It was hunched over, it peered through the storm.
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21 469 The opening must once have been the outer opening of a lock; it was rectangular; the exterior hatch was missing; there was twisted metal at the side of the opening, as though it had been wrenched away from rusted hinges; the beast crouched in the lock, peering into the storm.
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21 485 And in the storm it could not see clearly beyond the portal.
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21 513 Scarcely had I fallen into the lock than I heard, loud, over me, the concussions of the weapon, firing five times; almost simultaneously the Kur leaped from somewhere within, from a nest of piping, and scrambled past me; its foot pressed on my shoulder; it peered out into the storm; it spied the bod...
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21 594 The storm still raged.
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21 629 Outside the storm had abated.
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Book 12. (18 results) Beasts of Gor

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20 169 Should cloud cover occur, of course, or there be a storm, this light is negated and one, remaining indoors, must content oneself with the sounds of wind in the darkness, and the occasional scratching of animals on the ice outside.
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20 201 Sometimes there is a storm and the snow hides the breathing holes of the sleen".
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24 492 I hoped it did not presage a storm.
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25 18 No storm had yet struck, but the sky was growing overcast.
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25 20 A storm, for days, had foreboded, but it had not yet materialized.
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25 36 "There is going to be a storm," said Imnak.
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25 59 "A storm is coming," said Imnak, pointing to the southern sky.
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26 2 "We must stop!" I called to Imnak, over the storm.
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26 15 Imnak had had us tether them thusly, that they might not be swept away from us and lost in the storm.
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26 19 I saw the girls then, too, their hands on their neck tethers, small, pelted, coated with snow, pathetic in the storm, weary, with us.
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26 55 In moments one's trail would be obliterated and, shortly, wandering foolishly in the darkness, the storm, one might find oneself lost, and dangerously separated from the sled and its supplies.
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26 106 The storm had passed, and the light of the three moons was bright on the snow and ice.
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26 143 The storm had obliterated sled tracks and the customary trail signs of an afoot passage.
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26 213 One uses a drift, when possible, which has been formed in a single storm.
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27 99 We had not seen it, however, since the great storm.
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27 109 This silent storm of charged particles, flung from millions of miles across space, raining upon an atmosphere, was very beautiful.
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30 16 Opposite my cage there was another cage, in which Ram, whom I had not seen in days, since we were separated in the storm, was confined.
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35 948 "Warriors storm buildings and burn towers".
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Book 13. (2 results) Explorers of Gor

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47 41 Scarcely had he spoken but the skies opened up and, from the midst of the black, swirling clouds, while lightning cracked and shattered across the sky and branches lashed back and forth wildly in the wind, the driven, darkly silver sheets of a tropical rain storm descended upon us.
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47 49 Seldom had I been so pleased to be caught in such a storm.
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Book 15. (2 results) Rogue of Gor

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3 73 It is like a storm," I said.
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29 166 "Would you leave such an enemy at your back?" "It would take ten thousand men to storm that stronghold," said Callisthenes.
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Book 16. (1 results) Guardsman of Gor

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8 69 Such things commonly bring a storm of leather, the remedial rain of the lash.
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Book 17. (2 results) Savages of Gor

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4 194 Their third lids, the transparent storm membranes, were drawn, giving their wild, round eyes a yellowish cast.
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13 607 "My emotions are like a storm.
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Book 18. (8 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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1 81 Its storm lids were drawn, giving its large round eyes a distinctive yellowish cast.
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20 81 It was as though a storm had suddenly materialized and come alive.
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35 72 "There is a storm coming, Captain," said Thurnock.
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35 89 "A storm is coming, Captain," said Thurnock.
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35 112 "It is a severe storm," said Ivar Forkbeard, near me, on the deck of his serpent.
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39 296 We closed our eyes, briefly, against the storm of wind and dust which temporarily assaulted us.
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44 589 "In their numbers," cried Iwoso, elatedly, "they will storm your upper barricade, overwhelm the defenders and then be amongst you!" "It is unlikely that one of them will reach the upper barricade," said Hci.
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44 610 They were not the large, oval shields of Turia, or the large rounded shields common to Gorean infantry in the north, behind which a warrior might crouch, hoping for a swift surcease to the storm of missiles.
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Book 19. (6 results) Kajira of Gor

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16 125 It might be a wagon, or a set of wagons, which had pulled to the side of the road during the storm and now, with the passing of the storm, had resumed its journey.
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15 356 There seemed suddenly a storm of wings in the air, and I heard the striking of tarn talons on the platform.
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15 411 Suddenly there was a storm of wings and the basket, a moment later, was jerked forward, slipping along the leather skids and then, in another instant, taking my breath away for an instant, it was lofted like the others high into the air.
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16 96 The second time I recovered consciousness the storm had worsened and the sky was bursting with lightning and thunder.
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16 102 In the bottom of the ditch there was, at that time, a flow of water some six inches deep, from the storm.
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16 114 The storm, meanwhile, had subsided.
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Book 20. (1 results) Players of Gor

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6 41 Carrying a tarn goad and moving about the stage in a certain manner suggests that one is riding a tarn; a kaiila crop, or kaiila goad, and a change of gait suggests that one is riding a kaiila; a branch on the stage can stand for a forest or a bit of a wall for a city; standing on a box or small tab...
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Book 21. (1 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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12 97 I hoped that the enemy, if there was one, would not now fall upon the camp like a storm.
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Book 23. (17 results) Renegades of Gor

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1 52 These, I supposed, had loosened, given the heavy traffic and the storm.
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1 145 "Hold! Hold!" he cried in the storm.
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1 234 "If the storm ceases, and the cloud cover scatters, the tarnsmen of Artemidorus may strike at the columns".
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1 303 With the slow going, and the storm, and its start, it was not likely another wagon would catch up quickly with it.
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1 329 I thought the storm might have abated a bit but the rain was still heavy.
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1 379 The children were there now, doubtless, to shelter them from the storm.
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1 429 Because of the storm, the rain and wind, another method of dealing with such fellows had not been suggested back there on the road, but it is not unknown.
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1 574 The storm was fierce.
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1 614 I pulled the tarpaulin up about her, as it had been before, to protect her from the storm.
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1 622 In a flash of lightning, illuminated clearly for a moment, I could see, over the palisade, hanging from its chains, from the crosspiece on the high pole, swinging in the storm, the huge sign with its emblematic representation of a bird, that with the vulturelike neck and the distorted, grasping righ...
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2 314 It was still raining, but the force of the storm had muchly subsided.
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8 620 And yet, how often, as with the Hyksos, in Egypt, did they ride in from the desert like a storm, their horses among the barley.
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8 805 She was not the slender, dark-haired slave beauty who had been under the wagon last night, huddling in the tarpaulin, in the storm.
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8 808 The canvas covering of the wagon had been drawn back, probably to air the contents from the dampness of the storm.
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8 839 I considered the lovely girl whom I had enjoyed last night under the wagon, in the storm.
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17 37 The first catapult slung its storm of missiles into the charging men, blinding them, denting shields, cutting clothing from bodies.
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24 129 I also recalled the slave, Liadne, whom I had used beneath her master's wagon, in the storm.
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Book 24. (5 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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1 76 I had first met her under her master's wagon, shivering under a tarpaulin, in an icy storm.
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1 234 I do not think Amina has ever forgotten your kiss, that of a master, when she was helpless at the Crooked Tarn, chained to the outside wall, the storm raging.
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17 191 "It is a storm," said another.
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18 47 Let the new storm come upon them like lightning, like a torrent of agony.
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19 111 I fought my way forward, again, then, against the gusts, as though through a storm in the Tahari.
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Book 25. (1 results) Magicians of Gor

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11 264 "We did not win this victory in storm and fire, surmounting walls, breaching gates, winning Ar street by street, house by house.
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Book 26. (1 results) Witness of Gor

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24 175 "Run!" Suddenly, overhead, only yards above us, there was a terrible sound of screaming tarns, and a blasting storm of wings.
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Book 27. (6 results) Prize of Gor

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20 286 Were they loosed to be retrieved by allies? As these thoughts raced through Ellen's head she noted, approaching from her present left, what would have been the right before her tarns had begun, leaderless, to veer about, and circle, a storm of wings, perhaps as many as thirty tarns.
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24 539 Behind her there was a storm of applause.
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27 2381 The storm, meanwhile, was somewhat abating, and though a steady rain fell, there was a lessening of, and then a desistance of, the earlier atmospheric chaos of thunder, wind, and electricity.
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27 2612 "Doubtless brought here, in the storm, or later," said one of the soldiers.
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27 2615 "That means someone entered the camp, in the night, before the storm, between the guards, and left this tethered urt amongst us!" "He lay in a small depression," said one of the soldiers.
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28 371 "There was a storm last night, to the north," said Mirus.
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Book 28. (15 results) Kur of Gor

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21 405 The attacker then roared and rushed forward, and, as it advanced, but feet from Grendel, Grendel setting himself to accept the charge, the attacker suddenly twisted to the side and, with one clawed foot, swept a great storm of sand toward Grendel, a blasting flight of particles that might have stunn...
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33 40 By means of this arrangement, in the event of a storm, or an attack by tharlarion, should she be pitched into the water, she would not be separated from the raft, but would have at her disposal a means for regaining its surface.
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34 1 The Storm; The Cave "The wind is rising," said Cabot.
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34 36 "There is going to be a storm," said Grendel.
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34 72 "Here!" cried Grendel, against the storm, scarcely audible.
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34 73 "Here!" cried Cabot, in response, trusting that his companion's hearing, equivalent to that of a Kur, might detect the sound amidst the wash and roar of the storm.
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34 74 It is not clear how long the storm lasted, as it is difficult to judge such things.
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34 214 "Agamemnon?" "The cold, the storm," said Cabot, "may have been manufactured".
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34 234 "Yes, and so the storm," said Grendel.
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34 244 "And the storm then would seem something in which Agamemnon had no hand, and which could not have been predicted, or defended against".
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34 253 "And thus I suspect we were to be finished in the storm," he said, "seemingly as the unfortunate consequence of an unforeseen accident, and thus without any compromise whatsoever to future services which the Lady Bina might render to Agamemnon".
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35 17 The string for this launching device, or bow, the string from which the missile, the arrow, is flighted, was easily obtained from remnants of the raft's rope, parted, unraveled, and rewoven, those remnants by means of which Cabot and the slave had been enabled to survive the storm, by means of which...
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39 65 It was much as when the nine-gilled shark, in its intended, smooth hunt, finds itself suddenly startled as its quarry disappears into the midst of darting, schooling parsit fish, and loses sight then not only of its intended quarry, but finds it difficult, further, to seek out another, even a substi...
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46 170 "First, we storm the nearest termination of the world, utilizing the grasps at hand, and attempt to avail ourselves of weapons".
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66 102 "In weather such as this," said Cabot, "the forces of Agamemnon might well advance, seeking cover in the storm".
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Book 29. (8 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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41 22 In a galley one would normally take down the mast and yard, that they not be lost in the wind, or, if necessary, rig the smallest of her sails, the storm sail, get the storm astern and run before her, as might a tabuk attempting to elude a pursuing larl.
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3 497 It was like a sudden, passing surf, a storm in the sky.
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3 796 It rained heavily that night, the storm coming in from Thassa.
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4 73 There had been a storm last night, and it had moved in from the west, from Thassa.
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12 136 And then, again, the storm of death might appear on another horizon, tiny dots on the horizon, and then, in moments, be upon one again.
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30 13 The smallest sail is the "storm sail".
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41 9 About the sixteenth Ahn, the storm was well to the north.
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41 11 Had we kept the former course we would have been in the vicinity of the storm, if not embroiled within it.
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Book 30. (16 results) Mariners of Gor

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2 32 The single yard was lowered, and the storm sail furled.
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5 1 What Occurred on the Main Deck of the Great Ship; Tersites; A Storm is Imminent The sixth passage hand was done, the autumnal equinox had been marked in the scribal calendar of Jad, Se'Kara was done, and, as nearly as I could tell, it was the third or fourth day in the seventh passage hand.
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5 385 "Callias," said Philoctetes, "a storm is near.
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5 394 A storm is upon us".
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7 187 "No longer, for days, even before the storm," said Tyrtaios.
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17 183 "Do you anticipate a storm?" he asked.
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17 214 "Why, in a gentle sea, are the storm ropes strung, why must the hatches, in warm weather, remain closed, why are few now allowed on deck?" "I too know very little about these things," said Cabot.
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19 11 The storm ropes remained in place, the hatches were kept closed, save for ingress and egress, and few were allowed on deck, other than officers, who were not about the business of the ship.
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19 74 Interestingly fewer officers were now in evidence than some days before, even after the stringing of the storm ropes.
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19 97 I saw, far below, the small figure of the slave, on a storm rope, both arms fastened about it.
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19 145 Originally, I feared she might have drowned, her arms locked, desperately, frozen, about the storm rope, but, later, the ship righted and emergent, though cruelly pitching, I had seen her move, trembling, struggling to clutch the rope even more tightly.
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19 182 The storm ropes were loosened and coiled, to be stowed below decks.
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20 38 "Warned," she said, "I had time to seize the storm rope".
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20 70 What a liar was the collared slut! Could she have truly risked the switch, that she might be longer in my view? That she might be longer in my presence, that she might be nearer to me, that she might, for a time, in effect, despite the breadth of the deck and the height of the high watch, be alone w...
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22 302 In the darkness and torches it was almost like a flood of darkness on darkness, a storm of bodies.
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30 44 Any concerted attempt to storm the barricade at either end then, in addition to its dubious prospects at the outset, might also find itself forced to proceed through a wall of fire.
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Book 31. (5 results) Conspirators of Gor

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23 5 The sky was again black with a mountain storm.
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23 107 "A Voltai storm can last for weeks," said Trachinos.
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23 114 "It will move the storm to the west".
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27 385 She then cried out in rage, and a storm of blows fell upon me, and I went, gasping and sobbing, to all fours, and then to my belly, trying to cover my head, and then, struck repeatedly, I was twisting on the floor, back to belly, then belly to back, and then to belly, again, and then the blows stopp...
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48 103 "Die, Agamemnon!" cried Lucius, and from diverse translators in the chamber, those activated, perhaps more than a dozen, there broke forth a startled medley of Kur and Gorean, producing a confused storm of sound.
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Book 32. (11 results) Smugglers of Gor

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6 80 And some said that like a storm at sea, one without warning, the red waves of revolt had surged into the streets, pouring forth from hovels and sewers, from taverns and stables, from cellars and insulae, that thousands of citizens, many armed only with clubs and stones, had rushed forth, intent upon...
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15 369 Let there be a calm before the storm, little vulo".
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19 60 "Mariners speak of a storm tonight," I said.
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19 95 There is to be a storm".
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21 93 What storm of force, I wondered, might be unleashed in such a mighty frame? Surely it was there, beneath that surface.
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23 6 I had conducted a similar inquiry each morning, following the great storm "There is a large stand of Tur trees, west of the dock, near the wands, well twined with Tur-Pah," said Relia.
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23 19 "I worried about you, the night of the great storm," she said.
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23 20 "Are you all right now?" The night of the great storm was four nights ago.
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23 44 The worst had been four nights ago, the night of the great storm.
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27 43 A branch might break free in the storm.
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37 4 Darla struggled to her feet, crying out with rage, as a storm might rise.
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Book 33. (9 results) Rebels of Gor

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39 4 Rain still fell, but the brunt of the storm had passed.
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39 7 I hoped that many, under the cover of the storm and darkness, might do so, reaching the open country.
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41 62 Given the recent storm, the pounding rain, the drenching miseries, the cold, and such, I thought it might have done Nezumi some good, helping her to learn her collar, to have been in a slave pen, but I did not think that that, for political reasons, would have been her housing.
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47 300 Nor could you block the storm of steel that would contest your passage".
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54 50 "A dragon, in its way," I said, "can be beautiful, like a storm or fire".
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54 98 "As a cloud," said Tajima, "swiftly on its way, portending a storm".
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60 89 Nodachi, in the rhythms of combat, in its tides, in its alternation of offense and defense, had now elected to withstand this storm of steel rather than penetrate it, and seek in it some advantage.
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60 268 "Storm them!" cried Lord Akio.
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60 387 The storm of men, like lava pouring through the gate, bearing arsenals of stolen weapons, glaives, and swords, and dozens of implements of farming, rushed forth upon us, and was as though it would engross us, when it stopped, but yards way.
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Book 34. (17 results) Plunder of Gor

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10 196 My body, I feared, was a raging storm of scarlet tissue.
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19 14 Earlier I had heard men passing by, outside, in the storm, probably fellows returning from some revel.
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19 32 What could be heard in the storm? The rain would mask out a thousand noises.
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19 36 As I lay there, after a time, as it would, the storm gentled; no longer was it some lashing, frenzied assault on the walls and roof; no longer was it beating and savage; it had now become a sustained susurration, and then in time it became less, no more than a soft, quiet, persistent patter.
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19 72 Nothing would be abroad in such a storm".
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19 79 "The storm," he said, "the height of the window".
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20 48 When out of the house, following the night of the storm, I had re­arranged the nature of my peregrinations.
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20 254 And might not that insufficiency buy time? My master had, the night of the storm, speculated that a contact might have been made.
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27 23 Both forms of ship, usually lateen-rigged, make use of a variety of sails, depending on the wind, ranging from the billowing fair-weather sail to the narrow, tightly rigged storm sail, suitable for running before blasting wind.
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33 562 At that moment I heard a horrifying roar, husky, piercing, claimant and enunciatory, as if a larl might speak, or a storm possess a throat, a sound I shall never forget, and a huge form dropped down from the rafters, struck the flooring, and then crouched in place, surveying us.
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47 4 "In any event," said Kurik, "without an army we could not storm the palace".
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49 107 Dispatched scouts might be disoriented and lost in the storm, and freeze, or even, under the conditions, might wander, distraught and aimless, into the enemy camp itself.
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49 109 Thousands of tiny defts, a small, flocking, gray, migratory bird, undistinguished in its plumage and not noted for its song, on their way to the shores of the Cartius, had been caught in the storm, as well, and, paralyzed with cold, with wings coated with ice, unable to continue their journey, had f...
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49 110 This became clear on the morning after the third day of the storm when the weather suddenly cleared, and, to the surprise of the potential combatants, a dreadful landscape was revealed, dark with the tiny bodies of stricken, half-frozen birds, partly buried in the snow.
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52 60 Perhaps, on the other hand, this calm boded a gathering storm.
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55 30 The charging Kur was struck fully on the side of the neck by that storm of chain, and I screamed for the headless body, blood pumped by that mighty heart showering into the air, staggered toward us, two, and then three, steps, paws outstretched, and then fell before Lord Grendel, who swept the trunk...
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61 190 It seemed a tide was uncertain, a storm was poised, undecided, one sensed a silent tumult, a predecessor of movement, one feared lightning.
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Book 35. (3 results) Quarry of Gor

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33 249 "It will require men to storm that place," said the man in the boat, "several men".
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43 258 How terrified are slaves of free women! How they hate us! How it pleases them to make us suffer! What would be done with us? I was aware of the storm, the pouring of rain, and the shaking of the curtains of the canopied area.
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43 269 The wind and storm had abated.
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Book 36. (7 results) Avengers of Gor

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15 9 "The area is barren, it is not on lines of normal shipping, there was no storm, no evidence of a passing fleet.
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48 15 Who could be safe? Who could be sure the storm would not fall upon them? Doubtless probabilities suggested that one's own village would be spared, but what if it were not? Xanthos and I made our way to several villages, and soon, abetted by others recruited along the way to our cause, our message, o...
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52 120 Much depends, of course, on a variety of factors, the height of the mast, the type of sail on the yard, say, a fair-weather sail or storm sail, or such, and the point from which the observation is made, say, from the main deck or the height of one's own mast, and so on.
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57 77 On our side of the 'fort', the storm of quarrels had lessened, and then cleared.
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59 206 Cheering now shifted, like a mood of mighty, capricious, rolling, thundering Thassa, into cries of rage and voluble threatening imprecation, into violent jeering and hooting, into torrents of insult and ridicule, into a storm of scorn and mockery.
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59 474 "We cannot storm the palace," I said.
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62 100 "It was deemed perilous to storm the holding, a redoubtable feat in any case, while its master was in residence.
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