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Book 1. (12 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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3 54 Occasionally Torm would cry out in horror as I made a mistake, incomprehension and disbelief written large on his features, and he would then sadly take up a large scroll, containing the work of an author of whom he disapproved, and strike me smartly on the head with it.
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5 151 I had chosen this area because it is the most uninhabitable area within tarn strike of Ar.
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7 10 She kept her eyes on my sword, as if she expected me to strike her down if she turned her back.
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8 72 "Drop the sword," I commanded harshly, fearing it would occur to her to strike me with it.
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11 15 We fought off three groups of raiders from the camp on the river, two of them small, undisciplined contingents of mounted warriors, but the other a lightning strike of a dozen tarnsmen on the weapons wagon.
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12 26 I was curious to know if I would be conscious of its strike.
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12 82 I saw him coming, making his silent strike with the sun at his back, his talons extended like hooks.
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12 171 The antelope's back had been broken, apparently in the tarn's strike, and its neck and head lolled aimlessly to one side.
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15 191 "Strike for the Home Stones of those cities tributary to Ar—they are kept on the Central Cylinder.
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16 48 I was certain that he had entered the city in some manner and was presumably waiting for his chance to strike at the Home Stones of the tributary cities, in order, if possible, to divide the horde of Pa-Kur.
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16 91 Tell them they must strike now, and that you come with this message from Tarl Cabot, Warrior of Ko-ro-ba".
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19 22 He had brought his tarn to flight and was descending to the streets below to rally the dispirited citizens of Ar, to call them again to arms, to challenge them to renounce the treacherous authority of the self-seeking Initiates, to strike again their blow for freedom, to die rather than yield their ...
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Book 2. (15 results) Outlaw of Gor

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3 135 Somehow I knew Zosk would not strike.
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7 2 The man on the right would not draw his blade but wait until the first warrior had made his attack and would then strike from the side with the spear.
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11 38 "Do not strike him," said an imperious voice, and the whip arm of Thorn dropped as though the muscles had been cut.
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11 101 "Do not strike him," I said.
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11 103 "Prepare to strike," she said.
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11 105 He did not take his eyes from the Tatrix, wanting to strike at the first instant she permitted the blow.
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14 10 Like most members of my Caste, more than the monstrous tarns, those carnivorous hawklike giants of Gor, I dreaded such creatures as the tiny ost, that diminutive, venomous reptile, orange, scarcely more than a few inches in length, that might lurk at one's very sandal and then, without provocation o...
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14 73 "Strike me now," I said, "and I will kill you".
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14 112 Could it remember the Vosk, like a silver ribbon beneath its wings; could it recall fighting the blasts and upwinds of the rugged Voltai Range; could it recall Thentis, famed for its tarn flocks, Ko-ro-ba's gleaming towers, or the lights of Ar as they had blazed that night of the Planting Feast of S...
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17 109 Then I said, "Do not strike me again".
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19 40 We had soon come on the hammers that would strike our chains from us and, one by one, we filed past the great anvil where Kron of Tharna, of the Caste of Metal Workers, with expert blows, struck them from our wrists and ankles.
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22 11 "Strike," she said.
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23 100 The slaves, forewarned of their approach by other slaves or by impoverished peasants, supplanted by the Great Farms, would have made good their departure, only to strike when ready, when unexpected and in strength.
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25 78 The man with wrist straps had picked up the sword and with this, and his whip, circled us, waiting for an opportunity to strike.
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26 5 I shall strike with my spear upon the gate and the gate will open, and as I enter I will hear the mournful sound of the great hollow bar that hangs by the gate, signifying that another of the Men Below the Mountains, another mortal man, has dared to enter the Sardar.
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Book 3. (15 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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2 102 First Spear is normally the best of the spearmen because if the larl is not slain or seriously wounded with the first strike, the lives of all, and not simply that of Last Spear, stand in considerable jeopardy.
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2 121 On the other hand if I were under the larl I would have a brief but clean strike at the great, pounding, eight-valved heart that lies in the center of its breast.
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14 82 And then it did not strike me as being better or worse than that of the low-grade Mul-Fungus.
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16 15 I rushed to the figure on the table, the torch held as though to strike it.
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19 20 Where would one strike a Priest-King? To my surprise Sarm then jerked at the door of the compartment from which he had withdrawn my sword.
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19 58 "You mean I could simply butcher him?" "Strike at the brain-nodes in the thorax and head," said Sarm.
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27 167 Once again Sarm leaped in, his bladed projection lifted to strike, but this time Misk suddenly straightened himself promptly on the leg which had seemed to fail him and whipped his antennae back behind his head an instant before the stroke of Sarm's blade and when Sarm struck he found his appendage ...
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27 256 I hardly saw it coming but an instant before its flight began I had seen the tremor of a fiber in his shoulder and I knew the signal for its strike had been transmitted.
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30 174 Sarm, who was normally in the room, seemed to take great pleasure in Vika's baiting me, for he would stand by, antennae curling, as she would insult me, taunt me, sometimes strike me with her small fist.
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31 172 The bar he wielded was a fearsome weapon and with it he could strike me from the walkway, hurling me perhaps two hundred feet to the opposite wall, before I could get within yards of him.
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31 178 If his first blow missed perhaps I could get close enough to strike but it did not seem probable his blow would miss.
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31 184 "Strike," I said.
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31 188 But Sarm did not strike.
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32 328 "Can you strike through to the heart of a larl?" he asked.
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33 21 It should take one leap and a step to clear it, but when I leaped my leap carried me only about fifteen feet and where my foot scraped the side a pebble, dislodged, bounded downward and I could hear it strike the floor of the crevice.
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Book 4. (16 results) Nomads of Gor

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8 218 At forty feet I could strike a thrown tospit; at one hundred feet I could strike a layered boskhide disk, about four inches in width, fastened to a lance thrust in the turf.
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4 39 Thrown low the long straps, with their approximate ten-foot sweep, almost impossible to evade, strike the victim and the weighted balls, as soon as resistance is met, whip about the victim, tangling and tightening the straps.
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5 4 Here and there children ran between the wheels, playing with a cork ball and quiva, the object of the game being to strike the thrown ball.
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10 545 "Turn and strike now!" I screamed.
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12 12 Yet I was hesitant to make the strike of a thief at the wagon of Kutaituchik—for the Tuchuks, in their bluff way, had made me welcome, and I had come to care for some of them, particularly the gruff, chuckling, wily Kamchak, whose wagon I shared.
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15 10 In the field the Tuchuks would counter the tarnsmen by breaking open the Hundreds into scattered Tens and presenting only erratic, swiftly moving targets; it is difficult to strike a rider or beast at a distance from tarnback when he is well aware of you and ready to evade your missile; and, of cour...
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16 98 "That is all well and good," I said, "but I think it would be better to strike out for the House of Saphrar".
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19 75 I immediately began to worry that that girl would be the one who would strike Harold's eye.
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21 167 In time I would leave the city—when I thought it safe—and return to the wagons, obtain the tarn and then make a strike for the egg.
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23 85 In the morning, however, they would presumably avoid the herd, find a clear avenue of attack, and strike, perhaps even through the wagons, pinning us against our own herd.
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23 97 Shortly after dawn we discovered the Paravaci forming in their Thousands away from the herd, preparing to strike the wagons from the north, pressing through, slaying all living things they might encounter, save women, slave or free.
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24 9 I and Kamchak expected Saphrar to flee by tarn at any moment, for it must now be clear to him that the strike of the Paravaci against the Tuchuk wagons and herds had not forced Kamchak to withdraw; indeed, his forces were now supplemented by Kataii and Kassars, a development which must have horrifie...
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26 109 Behind me I heard hundreds of ladders and grappling hooks strike against the wall, and, turning, I saw, climbing over the walls, as well as entering through the open gates, hundreds and hundreds of men, until the walls were swarming with Tuchuks, and others of the Wagon Peoples.
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26 113 "Strike him with your spears," screamed Saphrar from within the doorway.
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26 148 Harold tossed a pebble into the opening and it took about ten Ihn before we heard it strike water far below.
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28 68 "Good fortune attend you, Tarl Cabot, Commander of a Thousand Tuchuks, Warrior of Ko-ro-ba!" I lifted my hand to them and then drew on the one-strap and the wings of the great tarn began to strike the resistant air and the Tuchuks on all sides fell back stumbling in the dust and the driven wind smot...
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Book 5. (27 results) Assassin of Gor

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2 297 "A hundred tarnsmen, well organized," said Kuurus, "could strike barbarian villages, bind a hundred wenches, and return in twenty days".
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3 13 I remembered the night, so many years ago, when I had first streaked over the walls of Ar, on the Planting Feast, and had made the strike of a tarnsman for the Home Stone of Gor's greatest city, Glorious Ar.
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3 69 The fact that the disease tends to strike those who have maintained the observances recommended by the Caste of Initiates, and who regularly attend their numerous ceremonies, as well as those who do not, is seldom explained, though, when pressed, the Initiates speak of possible secret failures to ma...
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5 15 In a girl's collar lock there would be either six pins or six disks, one each, it is said, for each letter in the Gorean word for female slave, Kajira; the male slave, or Kajirus, seldom has a locked collar; normally a band of iron is simply hammered about his neck; often he works in chains, usually...
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6 39 There was a cry and I looked again to the square of sand and the first slave, with the hook knife in his left hand, had plunged across the sand, taking a stroke across the chest, to strike his own blue line blow at his opponent.
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7 16 "I like you, Killer," said he, "for you do not haggle, but you are silent; you keep your own counsel and then you strike".
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8 5 "In the future," said she, "I recommend, when it becomes necessary to impress someone, you simply strike me a few times with the slave whip".
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11 54 They had doubtless been watched, without their knowledge studied and investigated, their habits noted, their common movements and routines recorded, for months prior to the strike of the slaver at a predetermined place and time.
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12 137 If four tarns were flown perfectly, one above, one below, and one on each side, four could just pass through one of the round rings; one of the objects of course is to maneuver the tarn in such a way that it takes the center of the ring, or forces the following bird to strike the ring or miss it alt...
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13 27 If Marlenus had wished to strike the Hinrabians he presumably would have flown his tarn to the central cylinder itself and cut his way to the throne of the Administrator.
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13 74 I knew that she could, if she wished, swim like a water lizard making a strike.
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17 153 After each race Mip, in detail, would discuss my riding, making suggestions; before each race, he would explain to me what he knew of the habits of the riders and tarns I faced, which was almost invariably a great deal; he taught me to recognize for myself certain faults in other riders, certain exp...
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18 36 "When will it strike, Ho-Tu?" I asked.
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18 107 There still was the trace of pain in her voice, the memory in her nerves of the strike of the slave goad.
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19 27 In my position, bound and hooded, anyone might strike me with impunity, even slaves.
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21 281 It allows a great deal of mobility and, on the level of squad tactics, has its affinity to the Torian Squares; the space allows the swordsmen, of course, room in which to handle their weapons, room in which to properly attack or defend themselves; in this case I expected the center man to engage me,...
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22 98 The bird did not attempt to strike me.
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22 163 With a clear strike at the first of the end rings, however, the bird, headstrong, resenting the sudden pressure on the control straps, went wide.
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22 192 He did not strike Green Ubar with the tarn goad.
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22 338 The strike was made doubtless from the back of a racing tarn, a small swift tarn, maneuverable, darting among the bridges".
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22 453 Accordingly, though it ran against the grain of my instincts, though I found it actually painful to me, the next time I felt that my strike should be the upper right I took the tarn to the lower left.
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22 475 I heard another bird, one following it, strike it, screams of rage, those of tarns and men.
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22 519 The bird gave a great scream and the wings began to strike the air with the fury of victory.
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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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23 113 "Do not strike me," he begged.
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23 114 "Do not strike me!" "But," I laughed, "you are first sword of the House of Cernus.
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23 116 "Do not strike me!" he whimpered.
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Book 6. (18 results) Raiders of Gor

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1 6 To my right, some two or three feet under the water, I saw the sudden, rolling yellowish flash of the slatted belly of a water tharlarion, turning as it made its swift strike, probably a Vosk carp or marsh turtle.
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4 256 "Please," I said, "do not strike me again".
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4 258 "Please," I said, "do not strike me again".
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5 83 And sometimes one or the other boy, or girl, would rush to the opposite line to strike at someone, laughing, and run back to the other line.
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9 430 Trembling she fumbled with the flint and steel, to strike sparks into the moss bowl, whence by means of a Ka-la-na shaving the lamp might be lit.
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10 171 On the other hand, the wages tend to be so slight that an organization seldom has the means to mount a long strike; the arsenal can normally be patient, and can usually choose to build a ship a month from now rather than now, but one cannot well arrange to eat a month from now, and not today, or tom...
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10 197 The injured galley then is like a broken-winged bird, and at the mercy of the other ship's ram as she comes about, flutes playing and drums beating, and makes her strike amidships.
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13 338 "Full sail! Maximum beat!" As soon as the Rena had swung to her original course, the oar-master cried "Stroke!" and the mallets of the keleustes began to strike, in great beats, the copper-covered drum.
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14 90 Although I had had the masts, with their yards, taken down and lashed to the decks, and the sails stored below, I had the flutists and drummers, not uncommon on the ram-ships of Thassa, strike up a martial air.
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14 188 The noise of our strike and the cries of the men aboard the rammed ship carried over the water.
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14 348 "Strike that flag," I said, "and put there the flag of Bosk, from the marshes".
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14 467 "You have not yet won!" "Doubtless they will strike their masts," I said, "but I do not think they will fight".
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15 762 "You have destroyed me," I cried, "and now I shall destroy you!" I leaped to my feet, whipping the sword from my sheath and stood over her, the blade raised to strike.
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17 37 Each pair would single out a given ship by signals and as it maneuvered to meet one the other could make its strike.
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17 162 She had struck the line of Cos and Tyros, had torn her way through, and was now coming about, to strike again.
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17 239 Nigel, wise in the ways of sea war, had held back his ships, the wind pounding behind them, that the blades of the pincers might strike simultaneously, as though wielded by a single hand and will.
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17 248 Feeling the wind and the cold suddenly strike them they threw back their heads and beat their wings, pulled against the chains that bound them to the keel timbers.
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18 542 He raised his own to strike her but I had my steel beneath his left shoulder blade and had turned again before he could deliver his blow.
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Book 7. (16 results) Captive of Gor

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2 117 I ran back into the bedroom to seize something to wear but as I entered the room I heard a man's shoulder strike at the heavy door.
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4 65 I raised the knife to strike at them, wildly.
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10 34 The strike of those jaws could, with one wrenching twist, have torn away the shoulder of a man.
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10 422 "Sometimes the sleen will follow a quarry for pasangs, before making its strike, lurking, approaching, withdrawing, then at last, when satisfied, attacking from the darkness".
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12 271 Slave girls in the crowd rushed forward to surge about the carts, to poke at them with sticks, strike them with switches and spit upon them.
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12 273 I, too, wished I could rush out and strike them and spit upon them.
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12 286 He would occasionally strike them, hurrying them forward.
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12 498 "It was I, incidentally," I informed her, "who, in Ko-ro-ba, first cried out to the slave girls to strike you.
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12 632 We watched them strike the caravan, in waves, and turn and wheel again, discharging their bolts.
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12 635 Such a perimeter has little meaning when the enemy can strike from above.
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12 717 Another would strike the victim in the small of her back with the butt of his spear, felling her, numbing her, for the binding fiber.
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13 205 The Gorean woodsman, it might be mentioned, before he will strike a tree with his ax, speaks to the tree, begs its forgiveness and explains the use to which the wood will be put.
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13 642 I hoped they would not strike me with them.
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13 863 I heard the blade of the other strike twice, ringing on the metal hoops of the shield that guarded me.
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15 1275 I realized, suddenly, in the dance, that I had power in my beauty, incredible power, power to strike men and stun them, to astonish them in the firelight, to make them, if I wished, mad with the wanting of me.
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18 80 The tarn strike was sudden.
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Book 8. (24 results) Hunters of Gor

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6 811 One may sometime lead the individual to expect an attack in one area, and then strike in another".
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6 1034 She threw herself at me, across the sand, her fists raised to strike me.
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7 111 I could strike before Marlenus of Ar could find it.
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9 398 She had been permitted to strike me only some eight or nine times.
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9 439 A spear darted toward me, but did not strike me.
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13 211 But its tail did not snap for the swift strike.
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13 217 "The next time, I expect," I said, "it will make its strike".
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13 225 "Speak swiftly! It makes its strike!" "Marlenus of Ar, and his retinue!" she cried.
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14 303 The dance would soon strike its climax.
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14 305 The women would go mad with their need to strike and rape.
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14 337 But the iron did not make its strike.
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15 832 There was the swift hiss of the switch and then the slap of its strike.
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16 111 From time to time, when not satisfied with an answer, or, sometimes, for no apparent reason at all, she would, unexpectedly, strike the blindfolded, bound, cowering Mira with the switch.
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16 275 No man was willing to strike the first blow.
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16 276 Sarus, leader of the men of Tyros, ordered several to do so but none would strike, not wishing themselves to fall.
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16 277 "Then strike them yourself!" shouted one of his insubordinate men.
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16 278 Sarus slew the man himself, with his sword, but he, Sarus, did not then move to strike the slaves.
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18 29 Somewhere, how far away I knew not, the strike of the hammer of the keleustes governed the stroke of those great sweeping levers, the oars of the Rhoda, and doubtless, not more than fifty yards abeam, those, too, of the light galley, the Tesephone, she of Port Kar.
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18 323 Doubtless he would conjecture that the girls had managed to sneak behind him and strike him, thus making good their escape.
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19 385 "Strike her again," said Sarus.
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21 57 He stood before the Ubar, his sword raised to strike.
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21 59 He could not strike for she stood in his way, and did his arm move, her finger, even were she struck, would jerk on the trigger of the weapon, flinging its iron-headed quarrel through his body, perhaps even to the palings behind.
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21 162 Then he, with his man's strength, could strike away other chains, and free his fellows.
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22 790 I heard Ilene's switch strike Rissia twice across the back.
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Book 9. (25 results) Marauders of Gor

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1 611 "Why did you not kill the beast, or strike the tarn?" I asked.
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1 640 "As much or more as when it made its strike," said the man.
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1 644 "The strike," said Samos, "seems deliberate.
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2 132 Sometimes, in light raiding galleys, it is so attached, to remove its weight from the prow's height, to ensure greater stability in high seas; it is always, however, at the prow in harbor, or when the ship enters an inlet or river to make its strike; in calm seas, of course, there is little or no da...
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2 169 In battle, of course, such shields are not hung on the side of the ship; they would obstruct the thole ports; but, even if oars were not used, they would be within the hull, at hand; why should a crewman expose himself to missile fire to retrieve a shield so fastened? Also, of course, when the ship ...
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3 22 One of the men of Torvaldsland raised his ax to strike him.
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3 31 "Do not strike him," I told the man of Torvaldsland.
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3 68 I turned and swept to the guard position, in the instant seeing the man's distance, and spun again to strike from my body, before it could penetrate it, the hurled spear of Ivar Forkbeard.
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3 330 Eight held bows, with arrows at the string; none had dared to approach the ship; the short bow of the Gorean north, with its short, heavy arrows, heavily headed, lacks the range and power of the peasant bow of the south, that now, too, the property of the rencers of the delta, but, at short range, w...
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7 39 If one can get behind the ax, of course, one can meet it; but it is not easy to get behind the ax of one who knows its use; he need only strike one blow; he is not likely to launch it until it is assured of its target.
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7 129 To strike more than twice, however, is regarded as clumsiness.
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7 141 "Let Red Hair strike!" I smiled.
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7 331 Four spears were raised, but they did not strike.
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9 72 The second of the sea sleen it had been which, with its sharp teeth, making a strike, but falling short, had torn away her green velvet gown on the right side from the hip to the hemline; a long strip of it, like a ribbon, was in its teeth as it darted away.
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10 150 Two men meet, but each is permitted a shield bearer; the combatants strike at one another, and the blows, hopefully, are fended by each's shield bearer; three shields are permitted to each combatant; when these are hacked to pieces or otherwise rendered useless, his shield bearer retires, and he mus...
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10 220 "He will not strike me".
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10 238 Then he said to me, "As you are the champion of the challenged, it is your right to strike the first blow".
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10 531 When his hands left her body she tried, sobbing, to strike him, but he caught both her small wrists, holding them.
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14 144 I, one of the herd, of the cattle, had dared to strike one of the master species, a superior form of life.
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16 4 I heard the strike of two small pieces of iron pyrite on one another, taken from the Forkbeard's belt wallet, and saw a scattering of sparks.
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17 324 I wanted to tear, to cut, to strike, to destroy.
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18 19 I charged him, my ax swift before he could strike.
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18 340 Wulfstan did not strike.
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18 599 "Strike," said Thorgard.
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18 605 "Strike," said Thorgard.
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Book 10. (25 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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7 272 "Strike! Strike!" The men looked about.
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21 445 The field about me, I conjectured, diverted and reconstituted these waves in their original patterns; thus, a given wave of light in the normal visual spectrum which might strike me and be reflected to the visual sensor of another organism did not now strike me but was diverted; similarly patterns o...
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3 137 After determining this point, I would continue on to the Oasis of Nine Wells, where I would lay in supplies and water, attempt to hire a guide, and, returning to the rock, strike eastward into the Tahari.
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5 402 I would not, however, strike due west.
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5 530 Had I not seen Suleiman shortly I would have had to strike eastward myself.
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7 659 "And Hamid," I said, "by intent, did not strike Suleiman to the death, but feigning clumsiness, wounded him only".
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7 692 If it were true that a saddled kaiila, my own, awaited, I gathered the strike would be made in the desert, probably just outside the oasis.
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10 330 I did not know, of course, that Hamid would strike Suleiman, and that you would be detained".
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12 350 She did not attempt to strike me.
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12 405 "Would you dare to strike me?" she asked.
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12 407 "Is it your intention to strike me?" she asked.
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14 189 In the hood, too, of course, the prisoner does not know who might strike or abuse him.
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14 207 The bargain would be an ill one to strike.
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14 576 He bent down easily from the saddle, the blade loose, but he did not strike, but returned to the other guards.
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14 590 To strike it would require considerable skill.
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16 206 I heard men scream, sensed men struck yards from the raft, heard them strike the water.
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21 5 I realized then that he had been pointing to his destination, whatever it might be, which lay within the dune country, as though I might know what it was, but that the route which he wisely selected would parallel the dune country, until he reached a given point, at which point he would strike out o...
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23 169 But the arm of Baram, the vizier, did not strike forward, the lances with it.
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24 596 "How could you strike me?" "You rose without permission," I told her.
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25 224 I let her strike, and slash, and feint and thrust.
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26 497 I fear that many felt the strap that day, and I understand that he was forced more than once to lay about him vigorously, but still, shrieking, crying out and clustering about, as I understand it, they would rush in, to strike their small blows, or, sometimes at a distance of no more than a yard or ...
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26 619 "You will not truly strike me with the whip, will you?" she asked.
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26 626 "None will know whether you strike me or not.
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26 627 You need not strike me.
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26 1225 It might well seem to Kurii that they must strike soon.
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Book 11. (18 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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2 82 He did not strike me again.
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2 447 But the stranger did not strike.
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2 1087 Commonly such a beast scouts prey, surreptitiously, and then, unless suspecting a trap, as with a tethered victim, perhaps a staked-out girl, used as a lure, makes its swift, unexpected strike, its kill charge.
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3 96 Laughing, did he strike and kick at them.
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3 658 She did not strike me.
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4 491 Suddenly I heard the hiss of the switch behind me and, almost at the same time, felt the supple disciplinary device, to the amusement of the men, strike me swiftly and hotly below the small of the back.
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6 29 It had been five weeks since the strike on the camp of the Lady Sabina.
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7 254 "Please, do not strike me, Mistress!" wept the Lady Sabina.
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9 1619 Or the lightning that can strike without warning from the dark sky.
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9 1695 "Strike at me," he said.
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11 41 I watched it strike the desk.
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13 282 I looked up, terrified, afraid that he might strike me with the whip.
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13 284 He did not strike me.
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20 230 It had not been necessary to strike me.
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20 262 I felt her foot strike me in the stomach.
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28 308 He lifted his whip to strike me.
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28 310 "Do not strike her," said Clitus Vitellius.
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28 343 I heard a pouch, heavy, filled with metal, strike heavily on the smoothed beams of the surface of the block.
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Book 12. (25 results) Beasts of Gor

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1 45 He prowls, he tests the wind, and then, when he is certain, he makes his strike.
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1 426 "Do not strike me, Master," she said.
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1 433 "Please do not strike me, Master," she said.
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2 340 It would make its strike not below, but at the waterline.
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2 345 Of what use is a ram which makes its strike so high? I was not a shipwright, but I was a captain.
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8 89 She pulled the whip from her belt in a rage and hysterically, holding it with both hands, began to strike me with it.
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10 258 Sometimes, in open places, huge, massive bucks, heads down, would charge and strike the wall with their horns.
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13 72 I well remembered Poalu, the coppery spitfire whose kicked leather ball I had unwisely permitted to strike me.
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14 172 "You could strike her heavily along the side of the head," said Kadluk to me.
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15 38 "Stay away from him!" "Do not strike me!" cried Audrey.
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15 855 "Such women would be the prime target for the strike of slavers," she said.
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20 51 A fellow after him sang a sleen song, usually sung on the water, encouraging the sleen to swim to where he might strike them.
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20 194 They very seldom scolded them and would almost never strike a child.
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22 89 Sometimes there is an affliction which affects those in kayaks though it is usually the case when it is clearly daylight and the rocking, the endless waiting, the reflections off the water, make one suddenly lose all sense of time and place, and one seems lost in nothingness, and then one must sing ...
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22 174 "He is coming!" I dropped the harpoon for it would be an extremely difficult cast to strike the animal head on.
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22 175 The bone point of the harpoon, thrown, would probably not penetrate the skull and it would be difficult to strike the submerged, narrow forepart of the body knifing toward the kayak.
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26 130 I saw Imnak strike her to the snow.
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26 227 "Prepare to strike sleen from the walls," said Imnak to me.
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30 114 "Perhaps a confederate in the audience will strike me when my back is turned?" I suggested.
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30 147 It is hard to strike a man who elects defense.
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30 171 I lifted the blade to strike him.
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30 177 "Strike," he said.
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32 71 "With this depot we need bring in, in the fierce strike, little more than the hibernated marches".
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32 93 "Now is the time for the People to strike".
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35 1072 We heard something sharp strike against the steel.
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Book 13. (26 results) Explorers of Gor

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11 241 Have pity on a slave!" The girl in the black slacks drew back her hand again, again to strike with the five-bladed slave lash, but he who had been called Kunguni motioned for her not to strike.
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2 7 The auctioneer did not strike her with his whip.
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4 164 "No, Turgus!" "Did you see me strike you?" asked the fellow who had been addressed as Turgus.
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4 215 "I did not know he was going to strike you".
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4 218 "But you said you didn't know he was going to strike him," said the praetor.
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4 221 "I was not seen to strike the man," said the fellow whom the girl had identified as Turgus.
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5 216 One does not need a reason to strike a slave.
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8 33 "Please do not strike me any more, Master!" she begged, stumbling.
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8 34 "I am hurrying! I am hurrying!" Then she stumbled against a free woman, who, in fury, screamed at her, and began to strike and kick at her.
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11 216 The girl in black slacks prepared to strike her again, but he who had been called Kunguni lifted his hand, and she lowered her arm, angrily.
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11 313 The dark-haired girl then drew back the whip to strike her, but he who had been called Kunguni caught her wrist, in the black sleeve of her blouse.
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12 474 "You would not dare to strike me!" she said.
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12 477 "Do not strike me," she begged.
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12 493 Msaliti did not immediately again strike her.
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12 497 "Do not strike me again".
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12 664 "It will do you little good," I said, "if you cannot strike me with it".
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13 19 She must then fear that a passing free person might strike her for insolence.
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20 96 He stiffened, and regarded me with fury, but he did not move to strike me with the shovel.
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20 128 I did not, of course, strike him.
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23 286 I looped the chain in my bloody hands, to strike at it if it should try to thrust its snout upward through the rupture.
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29 72 "Do you still think that a master requires a reason to strike you?" I asked.
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32 262 "Please do not strike me, Master," she begged.
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34 460 It moved a quarter of an inch upward, and did not strike against its familiar bolts.
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48 66 "Strike at me," I said.
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48 68 "Strike," I told him.
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53 321 "Attack in fives, one engage, four strike!" "He is improvising tactics," said Ayari.
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Book 14. (19 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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1 1014 I then, again, this time with the side of my fist, began to strike at the heavy glass.
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5 57 She lost no opportunity to belittle or strike me.
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5 82 Tela, being a woman, could not strike me overly hard with the whip.
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5 92 But she did not call for Tela to strike me again.
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7 613 Sometimes, of course, he may strike her with no obvious reason whatsoever, even one which is trivial.
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7 614 This serves to remind her that she is a slave and that no reason is needed to strike her.
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7 619 "It will not be necessary to strike me again, Master," she said.
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7 694 I did not strike her.
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8 71 What did she want of one who was only a slave? Suddenly, crying out with rage, she began to strike at me with the whip.
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13 700 "When I strike you again," he said, "do not get up.
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13 721 Twice more, brutally, he struck me, as I stumbled backward, and then I had seized him, holding him, trying to clear my head, trying not to let him gain again the leverage to strike such telling blows.
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16 318 "I did not mean to strike against you," I said.
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21 410 I saw one clublike foot, clawed, strike up out of the sand.
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22 244 I heard the stamp of Brandon strike on the papers before him.
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23 149 "Light! Light!" I heard a fire maker strike in the darkness.
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25 157 This time I did not strike him, but let him, sand kicking behind him, plunge past me.
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27 331 "Are you going to strike me again?" she asked.
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27 333 "Do not strike me again," she said.
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27 459 Please do not strike me".
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Book 15. (18 results) Rogue of Gor

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28 286 "If you would strike someone, Aemilianus, Captain of Ar's Station, strike me," he said.
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2 22 They are delaying now only to match their strike with that of the men of Lara".
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5 11 I let him strike me.
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5 39 I think he was startled that he managed to strike home so seldom.
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6 20 Their action, however, the strike to Lara, had caused considerable consternation among the forces of Lara, marching toward Vonda.
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14 125 "I know you cannot strike me.
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22 23 The pirates made no effort to stop the desperate fellow who, meaninglessly, continued to strike it.
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22 206 I did not think he would strike me.
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22 233 "I would have thought," I said, "that it would be men such as you who might strike terror into the hearts of men such as they, that it would be men such as you whom groveling slave girls, wary of the whip, might fear even more to displease than they".
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22 283 "At one time," he said, "I could strike a thousand blows, to the accuracy of a hair, I could thrust a thousand times, within the circle of half a hort, but now—now, see what has become of me".
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23 115 I did not attempt to strike him.
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23 134 It is difficult, of course, to strike a swordsman who is both competent and careful.
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27 106 Similarly, before I could dodge or run, it seemed to me not unlikely that he could strike at the back of my neck.
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28 288 "Will you strike me, old friend?" he asked.
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28 339 "Callisthenes," said Callimachus, turning to the captain of Port Cos, "is it your intention to strike me with your sword".
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31 42 "Work!" But he did not strike us again.
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31 144 Anyone, of course, might strike on a bar or blow on a trumpet.
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32 231 But then I was afraid, for I realized that Kliomenes had intended, that time, to truly strike me.
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Book 16. (25 results) Guardsman of Gor

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1 32 Some fifty yards away I heard another galley strike at the chain.
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3 49 The Mira made good her strike.
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4 31 It was speculated, however, that the southern fleet was larger even than the northern, which had been successful in its strike against the chain.
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4 65 "We can never withstand the strike of the wedge," said the officer.
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4 72 The strike, should it occur, I feared would snap our keel.
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4 109 The strike was high, but water poured into her hold.
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4 154 Almost at the same time the seven ships of Port Cos, fanning out, each choosing an undefended hull, exposed, helpless before the hurtling strike of the ram's brutal spike, to the tearing of wood, the rushing of water, the screaming of men, made contact with the enemy.
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4 261 One's hull must be exposed to the strike of at least one ram.
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5 131 "It did not strike us!" a fellow pointed out.
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5 161 In the distance involved, at full strike, with the lost port rudder, we could not have come about in time to attain the attack course.
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6 15 Men fled past us to strike the visitors from the stern.
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8 24 On the other hand, if he should be in the cabin, or if it should be otherwise occupied, I must enter swiftly and without warning, that I might, if necessary, strike before being struck.
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9 134 The strike had been well above the water line, when the vessel would ride on an even keel.
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9 349 "It was the first ship which left the line, the first ship to strike at us," I said.
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16 42 I saw him strike a pirate in the back of the neck with his sword, cutting his head half from his body, who had turned to run.
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16 74 I heard another body strike the water.
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16 200 I heard a ram strike a ship nearby, with a great splintering of wood.
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16 435 Twice he slipped, but I did not strike him.
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16 452 "Don't strike me," he suddenly said.
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16 456 "Will I strike you?" I asked him.
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16 460 "Will I strike you now?" I asked him.
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19 5 Two children, however, one boy and one girl, did run and strike the slave.
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19 215 I did not strike her with my full strength.
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19 217 "And Master did not strike me as hard as he might have!" She drew in a deep breath, and put her head back, delightedly.
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20 725 At ruder meals, this makes it easier for one of the guests, should the urge strike him, to use them.
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Book 17. (14 results) Savages of Gor

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1 392 As they had lain it would have been difficult to detect, or strike, a vital area.
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1 436 They will normally drop to all fours in charging, as well, the increased speed increasing the impact of their strike.
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1 1019 The point of the hunting lance is usually longer and narrower than that of the war lance, a function of the depth into which one must strike in order to find the heart of the kailiauk.
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1 1037 To be sure, the skillful hunter will strike no more deeply than is necessary, and his trained kaiila will slow its pace sufficiently to permit the kailiauk to draw its own body from the lance.
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1 1063 The most highly regarded battle exploit among most tribes, for which the highest honors are accorded, is not to kill an armed enemy but to touch or strike one with the open hand.
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2 304 This modality of hunting, incidentally, is not as dangerous to the girl as it might sound, for very few urts make their strike from beneath the surface.
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2 305 The urt, being an air-breathing mammal, commonly makes its strike at the surface itself, approaching the quarry with its snout and eyes above the water, its ears laid back against the sides of its long, triangular head.
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3 72 A man may be taught to prize his own castration but somewhere, sometime, in the individual or in the maddened collectivity, nature must strike back.
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9 10 It was of peeled Ka-la-na wood and, from its top, there dangled two long, narrow, yellow, black-tipped feathers, from the tail of the taloned Herlit, a large, broad-winged, carnivorous bird, sometimes in Gorean called the Sun Striker, or, more literally, though in clumsier English, Out-of-the-sun-it...
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14 421 I would not strike her with my full strength, but, on the other hand, she must know clearly that she had been struck.
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14 648 It is not unusual for a Gorean male, who tends to be uninhibited in such matters, to clap his hands, or strike his thigh, or shout with pleasure, upon seeing a bared slave.
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14 1142 Strike".
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15 267 I had, it must be admitted, derived much pleasure from the coffle, picking out one or another of them, when the whim or urge might strike me, for my slave use.
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17 300 I was a free woman! Never would I perform so hideous an act! Never would I be so debased, so humiliated! I was a free woman! He said another word and again, suddenly, I was much as I had been before, only now stripped, kneeling on the grass, my hands crossed and held before me by one man, the other ...
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Book 18. (18 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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22 12 "It is safer in such an exchange," I said, "to strike from the outside, fending his lance away, trying to make your strike above and across it".
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1 89 One must be that close for the lance thrust to be made or for the arrow, from the small bow, to strike with sufficient depth, to the feathers, either into the intestinal cavity behind the last rib, resulting in large-scale internal hemorrhaging, or behind the left shoulder blade, into the heart.
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1 464 The canhpi of the Yellow Knife had done more than strike flesh and bone; it had cut, too, deeply, perhaps unaccountably, or mysteriously, into the vanity, the pride and self-image of a man.
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3 37 The first five men who strike the tree, with their hand, or with a canhpi, a lance or coup stick, obtain high coups".
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3 93 She began, under the direction of Cancega, and others, to strike at the lower portions of the tree.
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4 343 One woman, working alone, can put one up in fifteen Ehn and strike it in three.
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5 86 "Canka would never strike me," she said.
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21 4 In its strike I think his back was broken.
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22 108 Men can reach it most easily, and strike out from it most easily".
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23 5 The strike must be below the left shoulder blade.
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24 33 Being close enough to sturdily fend the blow brings one, if one is afoot, and shieldless, normally, close enough to risk the strike of the shield.
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27 39 They would then, too, if they maintained their early attack pattern, strike into the ropes strung between lodges.
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39 278 I did not strike her.
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40 387 "Do not strike!" I said to them.
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44 338 He would wish the Yellow Knives to make the first strike, doubtless, absorbing and presumably subduing the brunt of the resistance, thus sparing his own men.
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46 101 It was, however, a strike force.
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47 163 The tarn itself, it might be noted, does not draw another breath until the impact or the vicinity of the impact, if the strike fails to find its mark.
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47 164 The descent velocities in a strike of this sort are incredible, and have never been precisely calculated.
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Book 19. (5 results) Kajira of Gor

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3 843 This posture, to be sure, though I do not think I would have admitted it to the girl, did strike me as being much more feminine than that which I had earlier adopted.
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4 553 It seemed, or something on it seemed, to strike against some obstacle or barrier.
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9 116 Then, when we wish, soon, now, we will strike like a tarn, cutting them.
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21 24 They would expect me, I supposed, to follow the stream, wading in it, and then, a few pasangs later, strike out northward.
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33 1031 "You love me!" I feared for a moment he might strike me.
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Book 20. (10 results) Players of Gor

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1 975 "We could strike at the shipyards of Tyros," I said, "ten ramships, a thousand men, a picked force".
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2 476 They would cry out with horror and strike at him.
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3 145 "How is it that you made your strike in Port Kar?" I asked.
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4 125 "He was to have made a strike in Port Kar," he said.
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8 214 "Do not strike!" cried the other brigand.
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10 120 "Please do not strike me again, Master!" "It will be done with you as your Master pleases," he said.
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10 691 "Will it be necessary to kick your feet from under you, and strike you," I asked, "as one might a slave whose compliance has been foolishly less than instantaneous?" She knelt, braceleted, hooded, in the narrow space between the two bunks, facing the door.
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11 120 "Let me ask your forgiveness in advance, lady," I said, "should I possibly strike you".
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16 496 Lecchio, incidentally, although he did not strike the girls as hard as he might have, was, nonetheless, in many ways, all things considered, a stickler for theatrical verisimilitude.
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20 390 I heard men weep, and continue to strike at it.
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Book 21. (27 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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1 159 "Please strike me once more," she said, "that I may this time feel the blow as a slave".
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1 164 I again then stood behind her but this time I did not strike her immediately, but let her wait, as a slave, that she might anticipate the blow, and grow apprehensive of it, and not know precisely when it would fall.
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1 261 "Can men strike harder than that?" she asked.
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3 394 "Even with small strike forces, disguised as peasants?" "Perhaps not," he said.
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3 462 "Do not strike me again!" she begged.
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4 146 No matter then which way I face, nor whom I strike, it would be a blow against enemies".
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4 413 "Lift up the ax you carry," said Genserix, "high, over your head, as though to strike one with it.
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4 451 I did not strike deeply enough to injure him, to rupture or tear open his body, slashing the stomach or crushing the aortal tube, only enough to stop him, definitely.
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4 453 I did not strike him hard enough to break the vertebrae.
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5 58 "If we run short," he said, "I may always strike some good fellow on the head and take his purse".
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5 196 If this woman were merely another beggar he was ready, clearly, to strike her from his path.
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8 89 It did not seem to me impossible that some of the mercenary troops with the Cosian army might have doubled back to strike at one of their own supply columns.
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16 1552 "Are you not going to strike her?" asked Boabissia.
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16 1615 "Do not strike her," I said.
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16 1617 "Do not strike her," said Hurtha.
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19 24 The theory is not only that it is well to practice the draw frequently, as the first to draw may be the first to strike, but also to be familiar with it on a daily basis lest its parameters alter from time to time, due to such things as contractions and swellings of the leather, these having to do w...
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19 318 "Be pleased that Hurtha does not strike you to the ground with a heavy blow," said Boabissia.
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20 85 Somewhere there, within those walls, coiled in the darkness of secrecy, corruption and sedition, like serpents, I was sure, awaited their hour to strike.
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22 170 "I have a good mind to strike you," said Boabissia.
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26 228 With it sheathed both, for all I knew, and particularly the fellow on the right, might be eager to make the first strike.
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26 307 "Speak," I said, "or I strike".
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26 424 "I think that I shall strike a light," I said.
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26 1070 "Sleen!" she cried, and tried to strike me.
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26 1319 That was the time she had tried to strike me, and I had not permitted it, but instead had punished her.
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26 1537 "Did you strike me because I challenged your manhood?" she asked.
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26 1702 An interesting difference between the Gorean woman enslaved and the Earth girl enslaved is that the loss of the veil may strike the Gorean woman as calamitous in a way that the Earth girl may find incomprehensible.
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26 1861 She wept, and raised her fists as though to strike me, but then she put her hands down, quickly, frightened, thinking, perhaps fearing that I might not be pleased, and might punish her.
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Book 22. (21 results) Dancer of Gor

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6 86 It is easiest to strike one in that position.
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6 683 "You are in the presence of men!" I then, jerking, in fear, reacting, but the lash was not on me, heard it strike twice more amongst us.
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9 158 I hoped they would not strike me or jab me with their sticks.
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11 94 Yesterday, at the conclusion of my last lesson, when in a swirl of music, I had lowered myself to the floor, in a dancer's posture of abject submission before men, I had heard several of them cry out with approval, and strike their left shoulders repeatedly, fiercely, with the palms of their hands.
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11 243 I heard a man outside strike on the table with his goblet.
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17 237 I heard another coin strike in the bowl.
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17 417 But he did not turn about to strike me, or discipline me.
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19 137 They had to strike him five times before he went down.
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24 384 Perhaps she hurries to strike a light in her room.
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28 142 "It did not strike me unconscious in the tent, perhaps for fear of the master or you hearing.
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29 557 I then realized it was his intention to strike me.
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29 690 "Have you the strength to strike?" asked Hendow.
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29 697 "Strike Tupita".
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29 716 Accordingly, I now give you my permission to strike her".
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29 897 With a sword one might perhaps strike from the outside.
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29 898 The fellow who had been with the bearded man, at the instigation of his commander, hurried to the fighting animals, to try and strike the sleen.
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29 910 It is difficult to strike a man, I gather, who is primarily concerned to defend himself.
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29 912 "Strike the other fellow!" called the bearded man to the cohort of the small fellow.
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29 936 I did not even know if he had managed to strike the sleen.
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29 952 In this moment the leader of the beasts, which at times had been sitting back, almost catlike, observing, and at other times had been crouching, and moving about the fighting animals, waiting to strike, seeing its opportunity, leapt to the fray, seizing Borko's collar from the back, but, I think to ...
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29 1380 Indeed, how could I, a woman, truly, fully, love any other sort? I saw he did not want to strike Tupita.
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Book 23. (13 results) Renegades of Gor

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24 476 "I am such a girl!" "If she is recalcitrant, or not pleasing," cried slave girls on the pier, "strike her! Strike her! Punish her! Punish her! Punish her severely!" Slave girls, kept under strict discipline themselves, they wanted it imposed on others with the same authority, exactness and perfectio...
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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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1 295 Some men hurried after it, to strike and kick at the prisoners, who were only too willing to hurry after the wagon.
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11 94 Gorean masters, incidentally, seldom strike a slave; they are prepared to do so, of course, and this the slave knows; thus she tries to be pleasing; few Gorean masters will punish a girl who is honestly trying to be pleasing; there would simply be no point to it.
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11 97 Accordingly, few masters would strike a girl who is sincerely trying to please him.
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12 206 Once I had to strike another girl away from my place, fighting her for it.
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15 172 "I ran home to my bed," she said, "to strike it with my fists, and to weep and squirm with frustration".
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15 1037 Perhaps she had hoped that she might be the sole survivor of the strike.
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16 202 If necessary, I could bind her, or, if I wished, in an instant, strike her senseless.
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18 176 It was hard to strike them with quarrels from the height of the wall.
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19 24 I saw one fellow of Ar's Station, standing in a small boat, scream with hatred and strike down at one of the shapes with a pike.
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20 79 "Strike me with your sword".
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20 94 Then, but then only, am I prepared to strike".
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Book 24. (21 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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2 27 "One," she said, "for parting my silk unbidden; two, for putting myself to the dirt before a customer, unbidden; three, for speaking without asking permission; four, for not speaking clearly; five, for not answering directly; six, because I am a slave; seven, because it pleased the master to strike ...
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12 218 I thought she would hurry forward, to strike me, but then I did not think, even shackled as I was, that she cared to approach within the ambit of my neck rope.
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14 284 In an instant I heard the first strike, a sound like a fist striking a chest, and saw a fellow reeling among the tharlarion.
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17 220 Then I heard others cry out in pain, and begin to strike about them.
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17 231 I felt a small body strike against my face, even through the leather of the hood.
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17 263 I felt myself strike into some fellow, but then he was to one side.
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17 265 When I raised my head for air, I felt the small bodies strike my hood.
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18 250 Accordingly men, being unfamiliar prey for them, are usually scouted first, bumped, rubbed against, and so on, before the courage, or confidence, is built up for a strike.
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19 239 I evaded its strike.
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19 759 I leapt upward with the sword and the blade met the beating wing on its forward strike and the blade and my arm, too, given the force, penetrated it like paper, and the thing rose up uttering a wild, hissing noise, clutching the girl, I hanging in the rent wing.
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29 28 I assumed it would test its mark before making a strike, but I did not wish to risk this.
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29 32 They tend to be much less dilatory in launching their strike.
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32 167 He signaled to the others not to strike.
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37 309 We heard another tarsk bit strike into one of the bowls, and then rattle to a stop.
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39 37 There was much skilled staff work in progress, the staffs often behaving in unison, circling about, changing hands, striking on the floor together, seeming to poke at the victim, to strike her and such.
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46 50 He was the fellow who had tried to strike from behind before.
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47 14 He raised his blade to strike.
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48 173 "After all, what are friends for?" "Strike!" he said.
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48 176 "Strike!" I lowered the blade again.
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48 371 I did not think that he would strike her.
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48 375 I did not think he would strike me.
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Book 25. (16 results) Magicians of Gor

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14 655 "You had an opportunity here to strike a blow for Cos, to humiliate the men of Ar, to further reduce and degrade them, to force them to submit even to the insolence and arrogance of slaves, to further subdue and crush them, to remind them of their sorry lot, of their political and military weakness,...
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4 94 "Yes, I suppose you could," I said, "and probably without much difficulty, but if your intent is its rescue, and not your death in its attempted rescue, this is not the time to strike".
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4 101 "We must strike now," he said.
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7 90 The five lads with switches were given a last opportunity, to the amusement of the crowd, to strike the former regent, then they, too, were dismissed.
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7 357 Some in the crowd, seeing him as he passed, so clad, so hobbled, so helpless, so conducted, pointed and roared with mirth; others cried out hatred and insults, shrieked imprecations upon him, spat upon him, and tried to strike him.
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8 882 One need only engage and defend, and the other strike.
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8 925 "Strike!" he said.
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9 122 "Do not strike her," I said to the fellow.
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24 102 What else is there to do? Leap up? Run about, blindly? Strike into walls? Invite shackling? Risk cuffings, kicks, the whip? This is particularly the case if her clothing is removed.
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24 443 I myself, however, was about ready to strike the fellow.
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25 55 Appanius then seemed to realize that he was sheltering the girl and, angered by this, he rushed about, to strike, too, at her, but, again, the fellow turned, in the net, sheltering her.
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25 57 As Appanius, crying out again with rage, again attempted to circle about, so that he could strike the girl, the fellow became tangled in the net and could no longer protect her.
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25 60 "Do not strike her!" he begged.
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25 78 "Please, Master," wept Lavinia, "do not let him so strike him!" "Did you not hear?" I asked.
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26 417 They did not strike her.
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28 133 Normally this sort of thing is done with two or three men, one or two trying to burst in the door, in one attack upon it, and the other following, immediately, armed, to strike.
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Book 26. (21 results) Witness of Gor

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13 847 "Please, do not strike me again, Master! Please, Master, do not strike me again!" I realized then what, even with so small a portion of his strength, might be done to me.
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9 166 I had tried the bars some days ago, to lift them even an inch or so, before they would strike the bolt, or locking device, but had been unable to do so.
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11 1432 They preferred, it seemed, to take their women, perhaps to stalk them with stealth, as game, then to spring the nets or snares at some time of their choosing, some moment of unsuspected ripeness, or to seize them in capture strike, or to take them by theft, perhaps roping and gagging them in their o...
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16 311 I heard something strike the tiles before me.
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16 322 I felt a wing, another scrap from his plate, strike my body.
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18 47 Strangers will reprimand us, and even strike us, if we do not hold ourselves well.
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19 128 Accordingly that city, smug in its supposed security, had been saved for last, for the final strike of the expedition.
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19 135 Too, the nature of the strike had been intended as an insult, saying, so to speak, "You must understand that your women are ours, whether slave or free, if we deign to take them.
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23 119 "No, do not strike her!" cried the Lady Constanzia.
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24 92 "And why, so few in number, would they strike at the pens?" "They are mad," said a fellow.
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24 292 Intruders at its periphery tensed, swords raised, to strike down the first who might leap up, who might try to run.
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24 537 I saw a heavy, bootlike sandal, the sort worn by warriors, which can sustain long marches over stony soils, which provides protection from the slash of coarse grasses and the strike of leech plants, nudge Dorna.
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31 467 He himself had not been authorized to strike by his captain, and the single stroke which the officer might be expected to initiate might well be intended for him.
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31 636 If he should strike a man, of course, that might stop the stone, or even tangle the chain, providing the others with the opportunity they needed, blades ready, to close.
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31 715 "Strike!" said the leader of the strangers.
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33 45 It is next to impossible to use a hunter as a trailer, because, when the quarry is near, and the killing fever is on it, it will even turn and attack its leash holder, to free itself for the strike on the quarry.
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41 72 "Please do not strike me again!" "You are only a pretty little barbarian slave," she said.
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46 377 "Strike," he said.
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46 396 What would it matter to his superiors how it was that I came to be slain? "Strike," he said.
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46 515 "You were ordered to strike me, to slay me, and you did not do so".
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46 543 But I was not displeased that I had refused to strike him.
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Book 27. (6 results) Prize of Gor

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4 192 But once, daringly, she had worn two light, narrow, golden bracelets on her left wrist, that might sometimes strike together, making a tiny, provocative sound.
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9 35 Tutina raised her switch menacingly, and the young charge put down her head, quickly, and cringed, but Tutina did not strike her.
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10 376 Please do not strike me further, Master! Please be merciful to your slave!" Then, again, as she screamed, and cried, and writhed before him, he put the leather upon her.
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12 446 But Gart did not strike the young slave.
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13 264 She had no doubt that the man was cursing, and richly, the failure of his strike.
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13 284 "It is the strategy of the second strike," said Laura.
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Book 29. (2 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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12 260 In a tarn strike on a tabuk the animal's back is usually broken by the strike, and then the beak, like a shearing engine, slashes through the back of the neck.
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28 462 He lacked the skill one would expect from a professional at dark work, and the other, he with the crossbow, did not risk a miss, preferring to leave the strike to the knife of his confederate, he himself then serving muchly as support, either for a second strike, or, more likely, to disconcert any w...
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Book 30. (2 results) Mariners of Gor

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16 94 While this was going on Lord Nishida cried to the deck watch, "The bar, the bar, strike it, strike it".
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37 1229 "They meet at appropriate times and places, according to schedules, beginning when clocks strike or bells ring, and ending when they strike or ring again".
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