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Book 1. (11 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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3 237 The wind swept across the flat, circular roof, tugging one toward the edge.
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4 54 "Har-ta! Har-ta! Faster! Faster!" The great bird seemed to sense what I intended, or perhaps it was merely his sudden realization that the other tarn was in the lead, but a remarkable transformation swept over my sable, plumed steed.
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5 129 Her white arm was lifted, and her blond hair was swept behind her on the windy roof of the cylinder.
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5 170 They swept toward me, about five yards apart, to close on either side of me, to force the wings of my tarn up and hold it for the moment they would need, trapped motionless between their own mounts.
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10 12 The little eyes of the merchant swept the scene quickly, like a bird's, startling in their contrast with the plethoric giganticism of his frame.
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10 85 Before they swept shut, he said, "You will never get forty-five tarn disks".
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12 36 He motioned to the men to thrust the frame out into the river, where it would be swept away.
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12 78 The sun swept into the sky again, and my second day on the Vosk began.
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14 166 As it swept in for the kill, its tarnsman, too late, saw my leveled bow.
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15 138 Then, with an imperious gesture, Marlenus swept his Ubar into the file opened by the movement of Mintar's capturing Spear Slave.
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19 246 She laughed as I swept her from her feet and lifted her to the saddle of my giant tarn.
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Book 2. (8 results) Outlaw of Gor

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2 2 I awakened naked in the wind-swept grass, beneath that blazing star that is the common sun of my two worlds, my home planet, Earth, and its secret sister, the Counter-Earth, Gor.
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13 110 Suddenly the foot of Kron swept through the white perfumed sand, bright with mica and red lead, and kicked a broad sheet of particles toward my eyes.
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19 37 Leading the chain of slaves in two lines behind me, we swept through the shafts like an eruption from the molten core of the earth.
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20 91 I wondered—an eerie suspicion that suddenly swept through me—if the Sardar Mountains might actually be empty—if there might be nothing, simply nothing but the wind and the snow in those gloomy mountains, and if men worshipped, unknowingly, nothing.
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23 21 As I watched her yellow hair swept behind her in the wind and regarded the joyful lineaments of her beauty, I was glad that she had not chosen, whatever might be her reason, to clothe herself in the traditional manner.
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23 185 "I will speak to them!" I swept her to my arms and ran.
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23 221 I was swept from my feet and thrown to their shoulders.
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24 132 Word had swept ahead as if on the wings of tarns that the rebels, abandoning their tactics of ambush and evasion, were at last marching on the palace.
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Book 3. (17 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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5 95 I was angered and I swept her from her feet so that she was helpless in my arms.
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9 239 These two appendages, like eyes, swept the room once and then seemed to focus on me.
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12 5 I stepped aside as a flat, sluglike creature, clinging with several legs to a small transportation disk, swept by.
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27 17 I then leaped again on the transportation disk and swept away to Misk's compartment.
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27 38 I checked the sword in its sheath and left Misk's compartment, stepped to the transportation disk and swept silently, rapidly, down the tunnel in the direction in which I knew lay the Chamber of the Mother.
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28 8 Thinking to overcome us with little difficulty, the forces of Sarm, mounted on transportation disks, swept through the tunnels and plazas, but the Priest-Kings of Misk, hidden in rooms, concealed behind portals, firing from the ramps and the roofs of buildings in the open complexes, soon took fierce...
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28 10 On the second day of the second week of battle, after the forces of Sarm had withdrawn, I, armed with sword and silver tube, mounted a transportation disk and swept through the no man's land of unoccupied tunnels toward the Vivarium.
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29 90 His antennae swept the area and focused on me at the same time that I pressed the firing switch, and it seemed the golden head and antennae blew away in ashes and the golden body slumped downward in the hatch.
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30 191 Growing more desperate, Sarm rallied his forces and armored six dozen transportation disks and swept into Misk's domain.
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31 93 "It is similar to that of the others," I said, and swept her from her feet and carried her, Robes of Concealment swirling, from the room.
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32 15 I swept Vika up and carried her from the trembling chamber and we were accompanied by hurrying Priest-Kings and those humans who had accompanied them.
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32 302 We leaped back as the clawed paw swept towards us.
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33 15 I swept Vika again to my arms and, half walking, half floating, made my way downward toward the ruins of the gate.
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34 10 I swept him off his feet and spun him around and the robes flew from his head and Torm of the Caste of Scribes cried aloud in joy and that sandy hair wheeled in the wind and tears ran sideways down his face and he never lost hold of the scroll although he nearly batted the Older Tarl with it in one ...
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34 179 The Older Tarl roared with laughter and swept the little scribe under his arm.
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35 6 It was a windy, cold night and the three moons of Gor were full and the silvery grasses of the fields were swept by the chill blasts of the passing wind.
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35 114 Misk looked about himself, and lifted his antennae toward the moons and the wind-swept grass.
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Book 4. (10 results) Nomads of Gor

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1 24 I had left the vicinity of the Sardar Range in the month of Se'Var, which in the northern hemisphere is a winter month, and had journeyed south for months; and had now come to what some call the Plains of Turia, others the Land of the Wagon Peoples, in the autumn of this hemisphere; there is, due ap...
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8 41 The winter came fiercely down on the herds some days before expected, with its fierce snows and the long winds that sometimes have swept twenty-five hundred pasangs across the prairies; snow covered the grass, brittle and brown already, and the herds were split into a thousand fragments, each with i...
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8 490 Hardly slackening speed I swept past the girl, turned the kaiila to face her, and again kicked it into a full gallop.
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10 98 An arrow swept over my head.
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12 432 "Tonight," she begged, "please, Master, tonight!" With a roar of triumph Kamchak swept her up and slung her, hobbled as she was, over his shoulder and she cried out and he, singing a Tuchuk song, was stomping away with her from the curtained enclosure.
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21 347 The roof of a building on the left was afire and smoke and sparks were being hurled into the sky and swept by the wind across the adjoining buildings.
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23 61 I swept with my Thousand about the outskirts of the herds until we found some hundred or two hundred Paravaci engaged in the grisly work of destroying Tuchuk bosk.
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23 158 "To your animals!" And in an instant it seemed the wagon lashings had been cut by quivas and our hundreds of warriors, the pitiful remnant of our two Thousands, swept forth upon the Paravaci, riding as though they had been fresh rested and ready, shouting the wild war cry of the Tuchuks.
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25 164 I could scarcely believe that the proud creature who stood chained before me was she whom Kamchak and I had referred to as the Little Barbarian; whom I had been able to think of only as a timid, simple girl of Earth, a young, pretty little secretary, one of nameless, unimportant thousands of such in...
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26 570 I leaped from the back of the kaiila and ran toward the wagon and the girl waiting there cried out with joy and ran to me and I swept her into my arms and our lips met and she wept, "You are safe! You are safe!" "Yes," I said, "I am safe—and you are safe—and the world is safe!" At the ...
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Book 5. (9 results) Assassin of Gor

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5 114 Then, eyes closed, not moving, except the heel of the right foot, which beat the rhythm, she began to hum a Tuchuk slave song; on the second measure, her hands came to her hips and she opened her eyes, looking at me; on the third measure, her body began to move and, to the melody, she began to sway ...
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5 128 At this I swept her from her feet and carried her to the broad stone couch in the room, where I placed her on the piles of furs that bedecked it.
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8 9 I laughed and swept her into my arms.
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12 19 The birds swept past us again.
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17 84 Then while the girls shrieked and the long-legged girl cried out in rage I swept her into my arms and leaped into the small room, where I dropped her to the stones and spun about, throwing the door shut and bolting it.
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18 14 I saw the dial rotate back from the Kill Point and Ho-Tu swept the goad toward her, angrily.
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22 153 The tarns, like a torrent of beating wings and talons, swept by again.
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22 158 Mip, on Green Ubar, swept past the large-winged tarn.
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22 428 Shortly before the first circuit of the track had been made I swept past the last bird, a nonfaction bird, whose rider, caught unaware, threw a wild glance over his shoulder as I, a shadow upon a flying shadow, hurtled by over his head and to the left.
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Book 6. (10 results) Raiders of Gor

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5 208 Torrents of barbaric music swept about us, and there was the clapping and the shouting, and the turning, and the twisting and swirling of rence girls, the passion of the dance burning in their bodies.
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9 418 Then Thura, to my amazement, though a rence girl, dancing, revealed herself similarly to the great Thurnock, he only of the peasants, and he, with a great laugh, swept her from her feet and carried her from the room.
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16 344 I swept past them and into the hall.
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16 371 Panic has swept the city.
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16 382 Bejar swept his sword from his sheath.
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17 135 I smiled as the ships swept past.
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17 187 Overhead the white clouds swept past, like white, leaping tabuk fleeing from the jaws of the black-maned larl.
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17 381 And then, their fighters disembarked, the birds with their riders swept away, up into the black, vicious sleeting sky, to light the oily rags, one by one, in the clay flasks of tharlarion oil and hurl them, from the heights of the sky, down onto the decks of ships of Cos and Tyros.
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18 585 "If we do not please you, beat us or slay us!" A crossbow quarrel swept overhead.
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18 771 At the entryway to that passage leading to the kitchens he stopped, and then, as she laughed and kissed him, he, holding her close to him, in his arms, swept her, once the Lady Vivina, who was to have been the Ubara of Cos, now only a young, collared slave girl, in a brief, miserable garment, throug...
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Book 7. (2 results) Captive of Gor

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9 494 In the moment of my misery my vanities, my pretenses, had been swept away.
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11 1048 * * * * Some four days before we were to depart Ko-ro-ba for Ar, the news swept like tarns through the pens.
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Book 8. (10 results) Hunters of Gor

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1 52 Instead I swept my Ubar to Ubar's Tarnsman One.
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6 1002 She, noble creature, so marvelous in her temptations and beauties, with the excellences of her mind and the determined prides of her heart, how strange that she, so much prizing her freedom, is made whole only as it is ruthlessly swept from her, that the true totality of her response, the fullness o...
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8 280 An arrow swept past us.
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14 29 By treachery within and force from without the camp would have been swept.
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18 390 Both had been swept up, helpless slaves, both beautiful, in the harsh games of men.
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18 430 Clouds, like tarns from the north, swept in some stratospheric wind, were moving southward.
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19 130 Hura struggled to her feet, and swept her hair back from her face.
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22 1 There is a Fair Wind for Port Kar The wind was cold that swept along the stony beach.
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22 958 In time there would be only ashes, and they would be swept away in the rain and the wind.
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22 999 In the morning there would be only ashes, and they would be swept away in the rain and the wind.
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Book 9. (13 results) Marauders of Gor

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3 36 The great blade dipped and cut, and swept up, and then cut down again.
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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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4 5 We had been out of sight of land for two days, and, the night preceding, had been, with shortened sail, swept eastward by high winds.
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10 680 It swept like oil, aflame in the wind, through the crowds of the Thing.
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14 37 A great Kur ax swept near me.
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14 148 On each side of the leader, plunging toward us, howling, swept Kurii.
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15 317 Although there is much snow on the heights of the Torvaldsberg, there were also, on the peak, many areas of bare rock, swept by the wind which, on the peak, seems almost constant.
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15 351 "Kur," I wondered, "are you my brother?" The great ax swept toward me.
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15 381 The ax, like a pendulum, swept down.
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15 383 The ax swept past me.
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18 36 Twice, from behind, the ax swept laterally, once to the left, the second time to the right, chopping through the spines.
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18 150 About it swept Kurii.
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22 263 I wondered how she might feel, the gag hood drawn over her head from behind, locked shut behind her neck, stripped, thrown on her back over the saddle of a tarn, bound, swept away, with a beating of wings, into total bondage.
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Book 10. (14 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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3 7 He swept past me and spun his kaiila, then jerked it up short, back on its haunches in the sand.
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5 413 Dust, like the blade of a dark scimitar, for pasangs, swept toward us.
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5 503 The Aretai, from the east, and west, lances down, scimitars high, with much dust, crying out, shouting, swept into the caravan.
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5 512 "Where are the Kavars!" had cried Shakar, captain of the Aretai, when he had swept into the caravan, his kaiila rearing, his lieutenant, Hamid, behind him.
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5 797 Was this so fearful for a woman, I wondered, for a real woman, a natural woman, a feminine woman? Could they truly believe biology, and millions of years of evolution, were socially constructed artifacts that might be swept aside with impunity, without consequences, in order to promote self-serving ...
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5 810 Alyena now to a swirl of music spun before us, swept helpless with it, bangles clashing, to its climax.
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8 1 I Become the Guest of Hassan the Bandit I did not sleep as well as I might have that night, for, from time to time, clouds of riders, with bows and lances, swept through the streets of Nine Wells, returning from one sortie into the desert or another.
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13 22 Scarcely had Hassan and I, clad in the garments of guards, astride kaiila taken from the stables of Tarna's kasbah, emerged from the fortress's gate than, on the path to Red Rock, clouds of riders had swept before us.
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17 266 Then the beast swept upward and I, clinging to the fin, erupted with it, eyes and nostrils stung with salt, half blinded, more than ten feet into the air.
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19 8 The wind swept across it.
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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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21 505 I propped the body beside me, holding it that it not be swept from the side of the ship.
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24 4 Many of his men, I believe, did not understand the nature of the forces they faced until we swept over the hills upon them.
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25 108 He swept aside his wind veil.
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Book 11. (5 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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9 231 What was I, truly? All the misery and shame of Earth suddenly swept through me! How unworthy, how contemptible, how despicable, how terrible I was! The negativistic conditioning of a world, of years of pathological conditioning, swept through me, that I might, as intended, be a stranger to myself, t...
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1 205 Then it seemed the earth spun beneath me and darkness swept about me, rushing in upon me and I lost consciousness.
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12 409 "Ring the alarm bell!" More men swept into the room.
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12 422 The tarnsmen had approached from the dark quadrant, away from the moons, low, not more than a few feet from the ground, hidden by the shadows of the world, and then had, without warning, little more than a quarter of a pasang from the keep, swept into the air, the first wave striking at the wire, th...
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26 296 With his right foot, he swept it to one side.
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Book 12. (7 results) Beasts of Gor

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7 169 The frozen north, in its wind-swept desolation, was to keep its secrets in silence from men.
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11 367 The fellow whose tarn was tearing at mine drew back, too, on his six-strap, and the bird swept upward and away, from my right.
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11 369 Then he who had fired it swept past behind me.
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12 354 In the winter, of course, and in the early spring and late fall, desolate, bleak and frozen, wind-swept, it presents the aspect of a barren, alien landscape.
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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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26 270 The full flood of sleen, the pack at large, not the lead animals, then swept about the small, circular shelter, hissing and squealing.
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34 176 It fell screaming against the head of the sled and, with one paw, swept the sled to one side.
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Book 13. (2 results) Explorers of Gor

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30 1 We Make Further Progress Upon the River "Do not permit the canoe to be swept away!" screamed Kisu, straining to be heard over the rushing water.
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53 354 We fell back from the stones, literally swept from our rampart by the irruption of the wood and the flood of massive, charging bodies.
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Book 14. (2 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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7 346 The feelings which swept me were almost incomprehensible and unutterably magnificent.
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7 1017 A wave of anger swept me.
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Book 15. (4 results) Rogue of Gor

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1 64 "But then," said the man, "their phalanx swept down upon us.
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1 79 While the spearmen lifted their shields to protect themselves from the sky our squares swept down the slopes upon them".
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4 189 He swept the coins from the counter into his hand, and put them in his apron.
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14 87 I then swept her from her feet and carried her across the threshold and put her down, on her feet, near the side wall to the left.
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Book 16. (2 results) Guardsman of Gor

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7 60 By the buffeting of those mighty shields, by the thrusting of great spears, by the swift, ringing flash of well-tempered steel, wave after wave of boarders was repelled, cut to pieces, swept back like rabble.
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9 358 The Tais, dark, low in the water, beautiful, scarred and lean, fierce, one of the most dangerous fighting ships in the navy of Port Cos, under the command of Calliodorus, captain in Port Cos, swept about the stern of the Tuka and the bow of the Tina.
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Book 17. (8 results) Savages of Gor

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1 1114 It can be easily swept from one side of the kaiila to the other.
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14 1105 I then swept my hands together in a looping curve.
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15 36 Dust swept about the paws and legs of the beast.
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15 223 Then, with his right arm horizontal, he swept his hand outward and a bit to the right.
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16 435 Thirdly she could doubtless be persuaded, in one way or another, to give me a first-hand account of the battle, at least in so far as it had swept in its courses about her.
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17 181 They swept through the wagons.
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17 216 "Confused men swept about my wagon.
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17 232 The savages now from the north and west swept through the wagons.
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Book 18. (8 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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21 5 Hci and I stumbled backward, swept to the side by the strokes of the wing, the blows of the air.
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27 7 Surely fresh Yellow Knives had, from time to time, swept into the combat.
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35 3 A cold wind swept across the flat summit of Ar's Cylinder of Justice.
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42 10 Behind each of us, strung together by neck ropes, swept five tarns.
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43 482 Canka's tarn swept by.
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44 447 On the trail below, only some twenty feet or so below the ledge, charging upward, Yellow Knives, four or five abreast, mounted on painted kaiila, swept toward the top of the trail, some hundred feet or so to our right.
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45 78 The soldiers seemed, for the most part, to have been swept from the ledge.
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47 318 In a moment tarns had swept again from the ledge and then, seizing ropes and men in talons, at the very rock face itself, dragged dangling, screaming men from the sheer surface; ropes and men, tangled, were pulled away from the surface; ropes and men, torn loose from hand and footholds, unsupported,...
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Book 19. (6 results) Kajira of Gor

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6 430 After the men, and his opponents, had swept about him, congratulating him, she was unchained.
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17 36 Surely most would suppose, by now, that she had been rescued by adherents of her cause, and swiftly swept away to some safe haven, one far beyond the reach of a vengeful justice.
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23 148 It had been done so naturally, almost reflexively! I felt suddenly shamed, miserable, and revealed, exposed, vulnerable, piteous, displayed! Why had I done that? Had it to do with the changes in me which had been wrought by Speusippus of Turia? Had it to do with those sensations which he had induced...
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30 23 Usually, once a week, the streets are swept and washed down.
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30 135 The streets, I noticed, everywhere, had apparently not been swept down and washed.
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36 1687 Then I melted to him again, soft and lost, held, in his arms, and then he swept me up again, will-less, his collared slave, like a swirling leaf high into the clouds of ecstasy, and love.
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Book 20. (3 results) Players of Gor

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12 236 He swept his Ubara down the board, removing the Spearman I had posted at my Ubar's Initiate Three.
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12 299 I swept my Builder to my left, capturing the new Rider of the High Tharlarion at my Ubar's Initiate One.
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12 310 Then he had swept down the opened file with his Builder, to Ubar's Builder Nine, to effect its capture.
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Book 21. (5 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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9 7 Too, several contingents of cavalry had swept by us earlier in the evening.
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9 51 In a moment, in a rush of bodies and blue, with the sound of weapons, the Cosian contingent had swept by.
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13 71 We had not put the tethers on Feiqa and Tula because we feared they might try to slip away from us in the crowds, but to keep them with us, to make certain that they were not swept from us, or perhaps seized and pulled away into the crowd.
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20 94 I wondered why this was, I a voyager and soldier, more fond of the tumultuous sea and the wind-swept field than the street and plaza.
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26 1095 "Not that! I mean— I mean—!" But I had swept her into my arms and carried her a few yards down the passageway and then into one of the side passages, where, protruding from a rear area, in a heap of litter and debris, mostly banked against a wall, in the midst of other garbage, refuse,...
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Book 22. (3 results) Dancer of Gor

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8 253 A wave of sudden terrible hatred swept over me.
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9 485 "Shall I close my hand?" A wave of anger suddenly swept over me.
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13 771 But he was then crouching before me, and had swept me into his arms.
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Book 23. (6 results) Renegades of Gor

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8 573 It would scarcely do to be struck or swept from the platform to the moat some seventy or eighty feet below, particularly as one had just made an entire silver tarsk.
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16 521 Where was Aemilianus! How dispirited seemed the defenders! How listlessly they stood! How resigned to their fate! What preparations did they make for the towers? Did they think they now faced only fellows on ladders, fellows climbing ropes, the clinging, climbing, creeping, shouting swarms, stinging...
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17 27 One, a foot thick and twenty feet in length, managed by ten men with ropes, mounted at an angle of some twenty degrees on an improvised pivot of heaped stone, swept the bridge an instant after it struck the crenelation, then tumbled off, used once, to fall behind the parapet.
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17 633 I then saw the great iron head seemingly become smoothly larger and larger as it swept forward.
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18 212 We heard, too, the sounds and screams of those swept, as by a flood, from the landing, and from the sides of the walkway, striking into the water.
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18 569 Then, with shield and sword, with the ringing of metal, with shouts, with cries of war, the six of us, I, Marsias, the grizzled fellow, and the three who had come originally to the cell, struck by charging Cosians, almost swept back, struggled to hold the walkway.
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Book 24. (6 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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5 24 The number and configuration of the sand bars, in virtue of the currents, is subject to frequent rearrangements, their materials being often swept away and redistributed.
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12 400 Did they wonder sometimes, I wondered, what might be their lot, or how they might fare, if such things were swept away, if suddenly they no longer existed? Did they understand that then they would as vulnerable as slaves? One wants a civilization, of course.
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13 72 In another Ahn, or with a change of wind, and current, it might be swept free.
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14 287 Then like wind, swift, everywhere, as though the air were alive, shafts, in flights, from all sides, sprung from the darkness of the marsh, swept the bar.
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19 231 Then it swept up, and circled, whether in temporary withdrawal because of pain or because it had lost contact with me, I do not know.
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45 119 How shall they see one another, and how shall they be to one another? Is man an inexplicable particle, a magical mote, a surprising tune with no instrument, no history, no meaning, something independent of, and unrelated to, the world that gave him his substance, every atom in his flesh, his birth, ...
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Book 25. (5 results) Magicians of Gor

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7 66 Phoebe was close behind Marcus, clinging to him, that she not be swept from us in the throngs.
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7 164 The handful of Taurentians about would have been swept back like leaves before a hurricane.
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7 200 These were not a handful of Taurentians that might have been swept from their path like figures off a kaissa board.
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11 153 The captain swept kraters from a shelf.
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26 173 She then unpinned the dark wealth of her hair, and shook her head, and then, with both hands, lifted it, and then swept it back, behind her shoulders.
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Book 26. (4 results) Witness of Gor

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6 142 It is more as though a token challenge were offered but one which is clearly understood as, and is presented as, no more than that, for one knows that even such tokens may be swept away, and crushed, and one may find oneself suddenly upon one's knees, in one's place, cringing in terror, in the right...
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11 483 Dorna swept the goblet from my hand and took it away.
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19 210 The garments and robes of the free persons, too, were swept back.
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24 366 The commander, impatiently, angrily, swept his arm toward the wall.
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Book 27. (10 results) Prize of Gor

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9 189 She swept it back behind her with two hands, with a lovely gesture.
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13 2 The wind swept about her, whipping the long, white, ankle-length, sleeveless gown she wore about her body.
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13 443 At that moment several flights of tarnsmen, dozens in each flight, swept overhead.
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17 938 Once she heard the scream of a tarn as it swept between buildings, and felt the blast of wind from its wings which half thrust her to the wall.
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17 1098 She feared they might be swept from the steps or ladder.
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18 424 As she swept the floor of the kitchen, she recalled the design on the ostrakon.
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19 646 She looked up as the tarns swept by overhead.
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26 1625 A wave of hatred for the brute, Selius Arconious, swept over her.
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30 133 Perhaps, someday, who knew, she might, if she served long enough, and deferentially enough, with sufficient perfection, be permitted sometimes the dignity of the surface of the couch, though still chained by neck or ankle, first kneeling beside it, kissing its furs, and then being permitted to ascen...
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30 571 "Your slave, your slave!" Then with a great laugh he swept her up into his arms and carried her lightly, helplessly, to the bedroom.
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Book 28. (9 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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21 406 But Grendel who had anticipated this device hurled himself to the sand below this flighted granular torrent, and swept his bar across the sand, striking the now-again-turned attacker frontally across the legs, some inches above the ankles, and the attacker, with a bellow of agony, fell forward into ...
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21 633 One of the metallic paws swept out, and the chest and the side of the face of Lord Pyrrhus, symmetrically lacerated, streamed with lines of blood.
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34 59 He felt another log beneath his feet then, that of the lower tier of logs, and then it, too, seemed to move from side to side, and, other ropes broken apart, it slipped sideways under the raft, and was swept away, somewhere.
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42 90 Then she uttered a long, wild scream of terror, of protest, and was swept forward in the shoot by the press of the moving cattle.
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47 10 Climbing against it was difficult but one was less likely to be swept about and dashed to the ground.
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54 115 Doubtless she was swept away by her emotions.
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77 278 A swift flight of this mighty tool swept toward Cabot and he sprang back.
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81 192 "Perhaps," said Grendel, "it is even a new game, or a changed game, pieces subtly removed, or even swept, from a surface, a different board, even, a game not even of Priest-Kings, but, now, rather, one of Kurii".
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Book 29. (9 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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1 409 Too, many are designed with a disrobing loop, by means of which the garment may be easily removed, to be swept from her, or dropped, to fall about her ankles, depending on the garment.
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5 576 "Word," said another, "was soon in the streets, and it swept from insula to insula, and to the lesser cylinders".
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17 43 Our centuries had swept to the sides and allowed the enemy to proceed to its destination, which was Tarncamp.
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18 506 Sometimes, of course, things do not go well, and they must forsake their heights, now being swept by the enemy, and flee downward, in terror, scattering to the grassy valleys, running before mounted foes intent on collecting them.
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26 4 Vapor, foglike, swept past.
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26 209 "Then she was gone, her ropes and all, from our very side, and the cloud swept away, and there was then a light, moving away, a blinding light, like a second Tor-tu-Gor, a light on which we could not gaze.
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28 9 Twice the road was washed out and a bridge of felled, roped trees must span it, a bridge that would sometimes break and be swept away, given the current and the weight to which it was subjected.
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28 82 A wind swept the forest, with a rushing noise, whipping wet, overhanging branches, tearing away leaves, shedding and spattering more and more water onto the pools in the road.
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33 80 "It was the night before the final battle," said Lord Nishida, "when we were to be swept into the sea".
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Book 30. (12 results) Mariners of Gor

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1 363 Tides of hate, unleashed, irresistible, swept through the streets, through the plazas, into the towers, across the bridges.
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2 181 As the monstrous bow of the great structure continued on its way, placidly, like a force of nature, the remains of the long ship were swept aside.
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2 214 Water swept over the wreckage, and then drained from it, again and again.
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13 120 "There is no escape from here," I said, and I swept my hand toward the horizon.
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14 336 I suddenly sensed the blade was no longer in his right hand, and swept backward, water in my eyes, fending myself as I could.
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16 100 To my dismay I saw the boarding party, surprised and outnumbered by dozens to one, swept aside in bloody rout.
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16 316 Within a handful of Ehn forty riders of the tarn cavalry were at the rail, each armed with the small Tuchuk bow, used by the tarn cavalry, a weapon of considerable power, which may be swept easily from one side of a saddle to the other.
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19 91 The bow of the ship paused, teetering, as though at the edge of a cliff, and then, suddenly, it plunged downward, and slid to the side of that steep, pouring, liquid valley, and went over to her side, and continents of water poured over her, and then engulfed her, and she spun about, for all her siz...
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22 306 This mad, rushing wall of darkness, squandering men, swept forward.
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24 237 Indeed, why would she have been so mysteriously swept from the height of the Central Cylinder in Ar, long ago? She must have some importance to Pani, or to someone, or something, but what it might be, I did not know.
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29 39 I might, with fortune, have slain one or two men, but then I would be swept aside, probably trampled, probably bleeding from a hundred wounds.
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37 250 I sensed then that his memory swept him back to Ar, and that, for a moment, he saw before him not a loving, eager, precious possession, who might be sought even at the World's End, but a traitress and fugitive, one vain and treacherous, one who, when free, had betrayed her Home Stone, abused power, ...
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Book 31. (4 results) Conspirators of Gor

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4 683 I had had only a swallow or two when Nora's slipper swept across the floor and upset the pan.
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10 1072 I knew, weak and unsteady, I could be easily swept from the bridge, and might even, trying to stand and move, stagger, and precipitate myself over the edge.
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10 1090 While I watched, a sheet was taken by a wind and swept from the lower bridge, whence it fluttered to the street below.
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46 128 As it is, several arms and legs have been broken, and men have been swept aside, dashed into walls.
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Book 32. (4 results) Smugglers of Gor

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5 45 That fearful moment, the interval of our interaction, brief but seemingly prolonged, which had seemed oddly fixed in time and space, must be swept away, and forgotten as soon as possible.
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14 484 "There is nothing at the World's End," I said, "only the currents, the storms, and the great cliff, over which ships will be swept, to plunge forever".
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15 135 Shortly thereafter four waves, or ranks, of tarnsmen swept by, the lowest wave perhaps no more than five yards from the ground, the highest perhaps twenty or twenty- five yards from the ground.
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33 22 Do pack beasts speak? We were first to prepare the ground for the camp, and so we gathered up forest debris from the site, stones, leaves, and sticks, and, with branches, swept the ground smooth.
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Book 33. (3 results) Rebels of Gor

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32 71 Arashi swept his hand toward Tajima, Yasushi, and the foragers.
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44 235 A dozen tarns, from the sides, swept toward the seemingly patient, still thing, in the sky, quiet as though waiting, and arrows and Anango darts struck sparks and rang against it.
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46 305 "And word like fire has swept the roads and fields, the towns and villages, that it has flown".
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Book 34. (11 results) Plunder of Gor

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6 455 The fellow who had been addressing us then turned away and, with the side of his foot, swept our discarded clothing into a heap, a few feet from the door of the cell.
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14 173 Suddenly it swept to his left, and the goblet slid, and fell, and rolled, and clattered, and paga ran on the table, and fell to the floor.
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33 223 It is the language one knows but it was seemingly distorted, concealed, or transformed, and then, as though the curtain was swept aside or the key suddenly revealed, all that which a moment ago defied comprehension is suddenly made manifest, simple, even embarrassingly so.
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39 76 He then swept me up, into his arms, and, shortly thereafter, climbing the narrow stairs leading up, from the kitchen, we had reached the roof.
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45 135 "And then," she said, "understanding nothing, it may find itself swept from the board".
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54 145 Should it strike you you would be swept a hundred feet from the bridge".
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55 5 I was almost pulled off my feet as Eve swept by and seized me, half dragging me behind Lord Grendel and Kurik.
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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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57 92 "Master," I breathed, delighted, swept into his arms.
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59 29 When the guards had lunged toward Kurik, grappling with him, I, dismayed, had cried out "Master!" and, not thinking, had tried to run, but I was, of course, caught up short by the leash, and then the guard in whose charge I was, with a motion of his foot, swept my feet from beneath me and I was put ...
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61 111 A wave of emotion, like a surf of grief, swept through me.
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Book 35. (8 results) Quarry of Gor

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6 251 I heard a stout leather curtain being swept aside.
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11 52 Panic, like wind and darkness, swept the streets.
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12 17 My attitudes and emotions concerning him swept from pole to pole, from horizon to horizon, in gamuts ranging from stinging humiliation at how he had treated me, I, a woman of Earth, educated and intelligent, a former acquaintance, now half-naked, collared, and marked, now an abject slave at his merc...
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13 46 But these thoughts, so natural to the promptings of my terrestrial indoctrination, my Earth training, the dictates of a pathological conditioning regimen, had almost immediately been swept aside.
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18 167 With his great crutch, which must have been cored with lead, he smote tables, breaking them in two, struck lamps from their chains, swept shelves free of goblets.
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23 5 The experiences in the apartment swept back upon me.
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33 479 My hair released, I put my head down, and swept my wet hair about my face.
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42 10 I was alarmed to hear this, for I feared that Addison Steele, Florian, Miles, and the others would be swept aside in a routed enemy's frantic effort to reach the safety of the barges at the foot of the wall.
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Book 36. (4 results) Avengers of Gor

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1 67 Were there not rumors of monsters, behemoths, the strike of whose thrashing tails could shatter hulls, of watery countries of impassable, seeking, floating, thick, clutching vines, avid to ensnare travelers, of inescapable spinning wells in the sea, capturing and sinking even the largest of vessels?...
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2 43 "They came unexpectedly, swiftly, with violence, chains, and fire, and swept all before them," said Aktis.
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35 51 If the islands rise, Cos would be swept from their shores.
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46 9 The great hall of Mytilene, where indoor markets, public meetings, and expositions were often held, had lost a wall and a portion of its roof, but the loose plaster, stone, wood, timbers, rafters, boards, and paneling had all been swept, or carried, aside and five long tables, two of them improvised...
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