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Book 1. (7 results) Tarnsman of Gor

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6 31 I swung back, forcing her from me.
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6 134 Scarcely had she broken into the clearing, splashing through the shallow greenish waters near us, than the fearsome head of a wild tharlarion poked through the reeds, its round, shining eyes gleaming with excitement, its vast arc of a mouth swung open.
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14 135 For a moment I swung between the birds, and then, perhaps a hundred feet in the air, the tarnsmen, at a prearranged signal—a sharp blast of a tarn whistle from the ground—turned their birds in opposite directions.
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14 147 I swung myself up and began to climb one of the two ropes leading to the great bird above me.
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16 37 Within the towers, sweating, naked siege slaves, under the frenzied whips of their overseers, hauled on the great chains that swung the mighty steel rams into the wall and back.
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18 128 I climbed the stairs that led to the portal into the cylinder, turned the valve, and as soon as the portal began to move, raced down to the tarn cot and swung open that barred gate which lay nearest the foot of the stairs.
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20 32 Shimmering strings of bells pealed in the wind, and festive lanterns of a thousand colors swung from the innumerable flower-strewn bridges.
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Book 2. (5 results) Outlaw of Gor

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10 41 There was a sound of sliding bolts and the iron door swung open, revealing nothing but darkness within.
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20 31 A door on one of the sheds, its lock broken, swung loose on its hinges, banging in the wind.
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22 4 The light was furnished by a brass tharlarion-oil lamp which swung on three chains.
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24 257 I leaned against the heavy doors and swung them open.
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26 27 The pendulum in Tharna had swung.
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Book 3. (14 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

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18 44 I swung the transportation disk in a graceful arc to one side of the tunnel to avoid running into a crablike organism covered with overlapping plating and then swung the disk back in another sweeping arc to avoid slicing into a stalking Priest-King who lifted his antennae quizzically as we shot past...
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14 24 I was considering my next insult when the two arms which held me swung me over a metal cage with a double floor, the higher consisting of narrow bars set in a wide mesh and the lower consisting simply of a white plastic tray.
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15 34 I turned the knob and a portion of the wall swung back.
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15 36 Scarcely were we inside when Misk touched a button I could not see several feet over my head and the door swung smoothly closed.
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18 58 "Watch this!" I said, and turning my body I swung the transportation disk in a sudden, abrupt complete circle and continued on in the same direction we had been traveling.
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20 33 Mul-Al-Ka swung the transportation disk suddenly down a side tunnel and, accelerating fiercely, flowed like sound down the tunnel for several portals and then stepped off the accelerator strips and, as the disk slowed and stopped, brought it neatly to rest at a tall steel portal.
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20 99 While the globe did its work, and held the girl's head in place, the attendant at the cylinder unlocked the five latches which held it shut and swung it open.
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21 43 Then, as we crouched in the darkness of the far side of the chamber, the doors opposite us swung open and we observed two long lines of strange men, marching abreast, each of whom carried a Mul-Torch in one hand and in the other by a handle what resembled a deflated wineskin of golden leather.
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22 16 I swung forward and back on the bar and felt it loosen almost entirely in the ceiling but on the next forward swing I released it and seized the next bar.
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29 123 I wrenched the hatch open and it swung wildly out from its locked side and suddenly I hung there, one hand on the rim, one hand on the silver tube, as the ship lay on its side in the air.
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31 117 I swung them open.
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31 171 He swung this lightly, as easily as I might have lifted and moved a stick of wood.
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34 43 I laughed and seized the little fellow by the robes of his caste and swung him about.
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34 45 I swung him about by the hood of his garment twice more.
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Book 4. (5 results) Nomads of Gor

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3 59 He turned his kaiila and in a bound or two swung it about in the midst of his fellows.
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8 474 To my amazement, as I swung the bola in ever faster circles, never taking my eyes off her, she broke the straight running pattern only about fifty yards from the whip circle, and began to dodge, moving always, however, toward the lance.
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16 75 There was an archway leading from the circular well yard, and the two halves of the timbered, arched gate were swung back and fastened on both sides.
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20 75 I struck again and the other rope burst from my stroke and the bridge swung rapidly back against the wall of the building opposite with a clatter of sticks and cries, knocking the remaining, clinging guardsmen from it, dropping them like wood senseless to the foot of the wall.
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20 76 I leaped inside the door of the keep and swung it shut.
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Book 5. (5 results) Assassin of Gor

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5 53 I then swung the door inward.
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5 90 I then untied the knot, slipped the cords through the hole below the latch bar, swung the door shut and set the two beams in place, securing it.
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7 40 I swung myself into the basket, which I shared with two men-at-arms.
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15 393 The first two guards were holding between them a heavy man, with a paunch that swung beneath his robes, wild-eyed, his hands extended to Cernus.
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18 398 I inserted the key into the keyhole and swung back the door.
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Book 6. (5 results) Raiders of Gor

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9 276 "I bring paga!" Thurnock took down the beams from the door, and swung it open.
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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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13 365 In a few strokes the heavy Rena had swung some eight points, by the Gorean compass, to starboard.
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17 437 "Fight!" I drew on the one-strap and the tarn, against the wind, took flight and Chenbar of Kasra, Ubar of Tyros, the Sea Sleen, in the manacles of a common slave, swung free below us, helpless and pendant in the furies of the wind and the sleeting rain, the captive of Bosk, a captain of Port Kar, a...
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18 133 The boy, his feet braced on a knot in the swaying rope, his hands clenched on its fibers, swung below me.
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Book 7. (11 results) Captive of Gor

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1 143 I lay again on top of the sheets and stretched again, then swung my legs over the side of the bed and into my slippers.
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2 130 I swung fearfully in the air.
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2 142 Surely I had not passed it, as I swung about, it then behind me! The sheet would not reach to the next terrace.
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3 199 I swung back a small oil, and fumbled with the dial of the wall safe.
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4 194 The steel ramp swung upward and locked in place, shutting me in the ship.
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8 34 The back flap of the wagon was tied up and the back gate of the wagon swung downward.
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8 246 With a creak, he swung open the gate.
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9 526 But only a hundred arrow points! It was not enough! The door to the hut swung open.
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13 588 The grass rushed swiftly past below me, and I could not touch it with my feet, and then it fled from me, dropping away, and then suddenly, in the rushing air, as I twisted and turned, buffeted in the blasts of wind, a prisoner of the forces, the physics, of the braided leather rope and the accelerat...
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13 593 The tarn then began to wheel, and soar, and I swung below it, dangling and bound, hundreds of feet above the grasses below.
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17 208 Then the basket jerked forward, on its leather runners, and skidded across the clearing, and then, swung below the tarn.
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Book 8. (10 results) Hunters of Gor

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2 27 The yard itself was then swung about, parallel to the ship and, foot by foot, lowered.
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2 31 The oars were now inboard, and the galley, of its own accord, swung, into the wind.
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2 119 I swung over the side, holding my sword, in its sheath, with the sword belt wrapped about the sheath, over my head.
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5 363 The bow of the Tesephone swung upriver.
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11 471 Behind us the gates were swung shut and locked.
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14 5 Its gate had swung in the wind.
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19 99 The gate swung shut behind me.
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20 306 It fell from its loops and, slowly, I swung open the gate.
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21 238 With Thurnock and eight of my men I thrust the longboat back in the water and then, wading, swung it about.
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22 6 At their anchors, fore and aft, some quarter of a pasang from shore, swung the Rhoda, in her yellow, now dim in the grayness of the morning, and the Tesephone, on her flag line, snapping, an ensign bearing the following device, the head of a bosk, in black, over a field of white, marked with broad s...
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Book 9. (8 results) Marauders of Gor

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2 131 Even the tarnhead at the ship's prow had been swung back on the great wooden hinges.
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3 266 The door was swung open.
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9 2 I lifted her and swung her about.
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13 308 From the doors to the hall, swung wide, now approaching, came four figures, Ottar, who had accompanied the Forkbeard to the Thing, two of the Forkbeard's men, with spears, and, between them, clad in rich robes of concealment, such as are worn in the south, even to the veils, the figure of a girl.
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14 248 I swung, wildly.
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15 377 The ax swung again.
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17 158 Four days ago I had seen a girl drive in which several sleen, fanning out over a large area of territory, had scented out scattered, hiding slave girls and, from various points, driven them into a blind canyon, where a waiting Kur had swung shut a wooden gate on them, fastening them inside.
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18 96 Then he swung the pole, striking at me.
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Book 10. (13 results) Tribesmen of Gor

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1 303 It swung open.
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2 361 I swung the light walking chain casually in my hand.
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2 627 I swung the walking chains I had purchased lightly in my hand, not looking back, noting the shadows.
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2 661 Lightly, in my right hand, I swung walking chains.
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7 140 The door swung open.
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7 155 I could see through the door of my cell, now swung open.
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11 564 The bars were withdrawn; the gates swung wide; the burnooses were thrown from the heads of the animals, and the kaiila bolted from the blazing stable yard into the suddenly illuminated street.
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12 592 I then swung open the inner door to the seraglio.
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13 49 The great gate, on its heavy hinges, opening in the middle, slowly swung back.
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22 102 I put my foot in the stirrup and swung into the saddle.
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25 497 We looked through one cell door, swung open.
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25 523 I swung shut the two heavy bands and with the two twist handles tightened them on her thigh.
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26 682 "Tarl?" I swung back the whip.
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Book 11. (14 results) Slave Girl of Gor

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3 285 At the same time that he had cried out this word he had swung the switch and struck Eta a swift, stinging blow below the small of the back, making her cry out, identifying her original position and, with a jangle of bells, starting her into motion.
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9 1316 The remainders of the coils swung in the hands of Bran Loort and one of his cohorts.
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9 1352 He swung the coil of rope which he carried, whiplike, easily in his hand.
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9 1658 It was swung up and then dropped in place, and locked shut.
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12 421 The wire had been cut, with bladed hooks, swung on long lines below tarns, cut, and torn from its posts.
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12 749 I saw below that the great gate of the keep had been swung open.
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12 761 I looked up, seeing the flat door swung shut.
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12 878 When the basket dropped from the parapet toward the courtyard we screamed, frightened, but then it swung below the tarn, and we felt ourselves being lifted high into the air, as though toward the moons of Gor themselves.
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14 36 I stood beneath the sign of the Belled Collar, which swung above me, a large collar, from which hung bells.
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19 35 The doors were swung open by the helmeted guards.
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21 107 White smoke billowed from the platform near the shield pole, from whose height now swung a scarlet disk.
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24 14 The galley swung about and eased to the side of the wreckage.
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27 212 About swung the staff and men tried to struggle backward.
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27 740 A moment later the door swung open.
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Book 12. (3 results) Beasts of Gor

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23 481 He turned about and swung shut the door, and pulled down the hide across it.
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31 61 It sat there for a moment, and then, lightly, swung from one pole to another, and then returned, dropping lightly, for an animal of its weight, to the floor before the platform.
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35 1084 The large, circular hatch, some ten feet in diameter, studded with bolts, swung open.
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Book 13. (15 results) Explorers of Gor

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6 48 Slowly the Palms of Schendi swung half to port, and the great yards above the deck, pulleys creaking, lines adjusted by quick sailors, swung almost parallel to the deck.
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1 349 They then slid back the observation panel in the solid iron door and, after looking through, unlocked the door, and swung it open.
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1 399 The guards, behind us, raised the walkway, secured it in place, and swung shut the door.
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4 665 Lifting her under the stomach he held her ankles near the rack; another guardsman placed her ankles in the semicircular openings in the bottom block and then swung shut the top block, with its matching semicircular openings, over them.
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4 666 He secured the top block, hinged at the left, to the bottom block, with a metal bolt on a chain, thrust through the staple on the lower block, over the hasp, swung down from the upper block.
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6 315 The yards swung on the masts, capitalizing on the wind.
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6 514 She cried out with misery but, in a moment, swung from the tether, through the ring, fastened to her wrists.
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6 518 The girl then swung from the ring.
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6 520 In a few moments Sasi, too, swung from a golden ring, she too suspended over the brownish waters outside Schendi.
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6 536 As the Palms of Schendi, her canvas now taken in and the long yards swung parallel with the deck, oars lifting and sweeping, moved past the wharves many men stopped working, setting down their burdens, to wave us good greetings.
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6 596 The gangplank was run from an opening in the starboard rail, swung open, to the wharf.
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9 10 I had left the paga tavern by a rear door and then swung myself up to a low roof, and then climbed to a higher one.
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11 185 The girl in the slacks and black, buttoned top swung loose the blades of the slave whip she carried.
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11 229 I, and other women, placed in a net, were swung to the deck of the pirate ship.
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48 272 The prow of the canoe swung slowly toward the center of the river.
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Book 14. (8 results) Fighting Slave of Gor

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2 214 I saw the hinged side of the crate swung shut, enclosing Miss Henderson within it, a steel anklet, numbered, apparently an identificatory device, locked on her left ankle.
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2 215 When the side of the crate had swung shut, it had snapped shut.
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3 173 Then it was lifted up and swung, on a set of ropes, over the edge of the barrier and toward the center of the circular, sunken enclosure, whence it was lowered.
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3 224 Then I felt my body, suddenly, swung to the side and drawn upward.
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3 463 She swung shut the door and it closed, with a heavy metallic ring that reverberated in the cells and corridor.
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7 108 He swung open the cell door.
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10 1 I Find Myself Slave in the House of the Lady Tima; I am Recreation for the Lady Tima, After She has Finished Her Work The door of the slave box, behind me, was opened, and swung down.
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10 11 The door, or gate, to the slave box was swung up and shut, the bolts thrown in place.
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Book 15. (3 results) Rogue of Gor

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4 621 I then shut the panel, and swung up the heavy bars on the door.
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31 135 The weights, overhead and to one side, swung on their chains.
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33 103 At five places in the river the chain could be opened, swung open on huge rafts, at which points there were guard stations.
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Book 16. (11 results) Guardsman of Gor

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1 8 Then the whole galley, by its momentum, stopped by the chain, swung abeam.
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1 119 We swung to port, to threaten another longboat.
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4 104 The pirate galleys began to back oars, frantically to extricate themselves, but, clumsily, half swung about, they must accept our fire.
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4 181 The rams of the Voskjard's fleet swung toward the Tais and her sisters.
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6 24 The bow, then, in the current, with men clinging to it, swung toward the chain.
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6 31 We swung to port.
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6 38 She, too, swung to port.
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8 12 I climbed upward, and swung on ornamental grillwork, toward the windows.
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16 83 The bow swung about, eccentrically.
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16 178 I twisted against the blade, my ankles free, and, by the ropes on my wrists, swung myself up and behind the blade, getting my right leg over the upper part of the blade fixture.
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16 307 The hulls then, grinding, swung together.
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Book 17. (1 results) Savages of Gor

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14 1088 I then swung my hands out in a small, upward curve.
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Book 18. (7 results) Blood Brothers of Gor

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12 29 Their ropes swung.
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24 51 Then he swung the lance down and against the side of the kaiila and Cuwignaka lost his balance and the lance, rolling under the paws of the beast.
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40 530 He swung the straps slowly before her eyes.
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42 48 "Go! Go!" Then, remonstrating no further with them, I swung the tarn about.
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42 104 He swung his tarn about and began to flee.
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47 182 I swung the tarn about, for a moment, over the clouds, and then entered them, several hundred feet from where the foe had disappeared.
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48 29 Hci swung coiled ropes in his hand.
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Book 19. (6 results) Kajira of Gor

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6 156 The waistband is closed about her, the left side, its slot penetrated by the staple, over the right side; the flat U-shaped band of iron, contoured to female intimacies, is then swung up on its hinge, between her thighs, where the slot on its end is penetrated by the staple, this keeping the parts o...
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8 59 Then the door swung open.
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8 81 It then swung open and we, the young man, Drusus Rencius and myself, were admitted to the corridor beyond.
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22 99 It swung down on its hinges, striking against the wagon.
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32 16 Sometimes, with a creak of rope, it swung slightly.
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32 223 The rope was then secured, and, miserable and frightened, I swung slowly back and forth in the darkness of the sack until, eventually, there was little more movement than that connected with the tension of the rope, and my own small, occasional movements.
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Book 20. (5 results) Players of Gor

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12 534 She was coming from the stream, bearing on her shoulders a yoke, from which swung two buckets.
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13 140 The chain on my neck swung in front of me, then looped up to his saddle horn.
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16 469 "What is going on?" "Oh!" she cried, now in the first collar, its chain looping back beneath her body, and then looping up to Lady Telitsia's collar, from whose collar, of course, her own chain, passing beneath her body, swung back to keep its own sturdy, linked-steel rendezvous with the ring on the...
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16 780 I wonder in what direction I should go? I shall let my sword decide!" Here he seemingly closed his eyes and swung his sword about in vast, eccentric circles.
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18 368 I swung shut the door after them and tied shut the handles with the silken belt of my robes.
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Book 21. (6 results) Mercenaries of Gor

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5 41 He unsheathed it and swung it about.
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5 372 Hurtha had taken her under the arms and swung her up to the wagon box.
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7 77 How marvelous are slaves! "If you had listened to me," said Boabissia to Mincon, "we would have been on the road more than four Ahn ago!" I swung up to the wagon box.
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10 6 They swung creaking, a few feet off the ground, some turning slowly, backward and forward, at the ropes' terminations.
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16 882 The padlock on the collar swung free.
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16 1622 Boabissia then, holding to the butt of the whip with two hands, swung it back, the lashes separated, free.
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Book 22. (3 results) Dancer of Gor

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9 103 It swung back, against the inside of the shoot.
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10 336 Then, to my astonishment, the object in which I had been placed began to slide rapidly along the ground and then, in a moment, it taking my breath away for an instant, it swung free, and was rising.
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30 172 He went to the slave wagon, climbed the steps and swung open the iron door.
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Book 23. (16 results) Renegades of Gor

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1 485 The lantern to my right, to the side, on its post, at the right side of the bridge, swung wildly in the rain and wind.
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8 42 In opening, they swung back across the landing platform, which was a foot or two above the level of the height of the palisade.
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10 400 I swung wildly, kicking away from the wall, and was then, for a moment, half climbing, half being drawn upward.
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10 405 I swung as I could, too, and kicked away from the wall, that the target of the men in the trench would move in more than one plane.
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17 153 Two swung back on ropes and climbed through the crenelation, almost as though they might have been Cosians.
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17 589 I drew my sword and scrambled up the debris behind the gate to examine it, but, as I approached it, it, in its rhythm, swung back.
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17 594 This time, as it swung back, I could see, along its shaft, the interior of the inclined shed that housed it, and how it was fifty feet long and slung in leather cradles, and the many ropes that controlled it, and the men drawing on the ropes, surely more than a hundred of them under that long shed, ...
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17 635 There was a grinding of iron and rock as it swung back and then reared up, against the top of the rupture, and was still.
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18 205 He had hardly spoken when the interior gate, leading out to the landing, swung inward, and a stream of Cosians waiting within, a moment later, helmeted, with shields, thrusting with spears, slashing with swords, pressed out against the defenders.
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18 222 Sometimes two men seized an end of the rope and swung it out and back against the wall, dashing men from it.
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20 113 "Where is a glass," I cried, "a builder's glass, a glass of the builders!" Even as we watched we saw the sail of the first ship furled to its sloping yard and the yard swung, parallel to the keel, and lowered.
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23 275 Then she descended and he swung the heavy wooden grating back in place and padlocked it shut.
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24 251 Her body, suspended in the harness, swung a bit, and then turned from side to side, over the water.
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24 289 As the bow swung about to enter the harbor I could see the piers were jammed with crowds in their holiday finery.
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24 493 Claudia swung in the harness to face me.
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24 517 She swung about.
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Book 24. (4 results) Vagabonds of Gor

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18 208 He swung the sword about.
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19 761 I swung in the wing, dangling.
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24 111 I then swung the upper board up, on its hinge, and then down and over the lower board.
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48 561 The belt, doubled, swung menacingly, back and forth.
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Book 25. (1 results) Magicians of Gor

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19 137 Also I did not detect, beneath her dampened tunic, any sign of the close-fitting apparatus, no sign of either its horizontal component, usually a bar or metal strap tightly encircling the waist, nor of its vertical component, usually hinged to the horizontal component in front and swung up, then, be...
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Book 26. (15 results) Witness of Gor

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10 399 The bag swung a little on the rope, but the weight of the jailer, below me, muchly steadied it, preventing what might otherwise have been a most frightening swaying of that stout strand.
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10 405 The rope swung a little, moving upward.
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10 513 Above the track of the platform, swung back now, was a double gate.
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10 654 I swung there, waiting, while the jailer completed business at one of the tables.
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11 1890 I swung back and forth.
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12 1 I swung back and forth.
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12 501 The doors of the palanquin swung shut.
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12 781 The net swung.
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13 318 It swung for a moment from the cage.
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15 15 He swung the door open and took back the lamp.
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31 145 The door, after a time, was swung open.
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31 624 It swung on the chain, about six inches from the floor.
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31 629 The peasant suddenly swung the great stone on its chain about his head in a wicked whirling circle.
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37 743 "Find him! Find him! Fire! Fire!" But suddenly, from a place high on the wall, now feet from where the body of Herminius had been thrown, on one of the ropes which were intended to control the movements of the cage, a dark figure swung over the urt pool.
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37 888 There was a sound of chain as the cage swung a little.
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Book 27. (14 results) Prize of Gor

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19 118 Of what need would be a goad?" The officer then went to the cage door and, with two hands, flung up the latch, and, with both hands, swung the gate open a foot.
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19 566 The tarn basket attached to the bird's harness, having slid on its leather runners from the platform, swung darkly on its ropes beneath the bird.
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19 580 Then the basket swung on its ropes.
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19 629 The basket swung on the ropes.
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20 359 "It is coming again!" cried the leading tarnsman who had freed the rope from his pommel, swung about, and set an arrow to a small saddle bow, used for clearing the saddle, firing to either side.
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20 373 Ellen's basket swung wildly on its ropes, and she clung to the wicker with all her strength.
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22 707 Rather the door simply swung out, being opened from the inside.
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25 69 The gate was swung open.
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27 226 Portus Canio swung himself over the side of the wagon, and stood upright beside her for several Ihn, looking backward.
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27 639 The muzzle of the weapon swung toward the weighty, placid beast, browsing in the traces.
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27 1033 The tharlarion swung its head about, bellowing.
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27 1675 The tarn swung about.
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27 2055 He swung the weapon around and pointed it at the officer.
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27 2460 The device is swung shut about the ankles; it is held shut on the left by the hinge; on the right, there are projecting perforations, one on each plate, with matching apertures; the tongue of a padlock is passed through these two apertures; the padlock is then snapped shut, and this closes the devic...
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Book 28. (11 results) Kur of Gor

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9 17 "Forgive me," said Peisistratus, his hands on a portal, half swung open, "I should have warned you, the passageways occasionally lead to open ledges, tiers of caves, and such".
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21 454 He then leapt up, turned, and seized the startled Kur who had struck at him and swung him about before him, to interpose him between himself and the attacker in the vicinity of the platform, who had quickly sped forward, but now stopped, angrily, the bar lifted.
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21 623 Two mighty doors there swung open.
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47 121 Cabot heard the clawed feet of a purple scarf touch the ledge, and then, rather as the two leaves of a mighty gate might swing open, outwardly, the left wing of Lord Grendel, and the right wing of Lord Statius, swung toward their bodies, and Cabot released the first shaft, point-blank, through the c...
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57 1 What Occurred in the Camp of Lord Grendel The gate of the forest camp of Lord Grendel swung open, and an astonished, elated Peisistratus, who had governed the camp in the absence of its lord, rushed forward, stumbling, half-speechless, bewildered.
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70 176 Flavion reached to the weapon, in pain, grimacing, and then swung it to his shoulder, pressing the detonating mechanism twice, once point-blank at the large sleen, once at Cabot.
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75 15 The door was then swung open; she saw the shadows of the bars moving on the wooden floor.
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76 58 He then swung the gate closed.
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77 125 Flavion intercepted her, seizing one arm by which she was swung about, and hurled yards away, tumbling over and over in the dirt.
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77 132 Cabot shrugged, and watched while Flavion went to the gate, swung it shut, and secured it shut.
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77 294 Flavion's great blade again swung in a mighty arc and Cabot caught it on the double head of his own ax, and a blast of sparks burst into the air, and the head of Cabot's ax hung in its bindings, loose, against the haft of his ax.
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Book 29. (5 results) Swordsmen of Gor

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2 438 It swung athwart, however, some yards from shore.
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2 472 The ship had swung about.
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5 13 It could be easily swung about.
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5 399 I now suspected the meaning of the signal smoke near the bow of the round ship, and why she had recalled her longboat, had swung about and unfurled her sail.
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5 407 She had swung parallel to the shore, her bow south.
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Book 30. (19 results) Mariners of Gor

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3 8 The galley was nested within the hull itself, which opened to accommodate her, the galley being lifted and swung inboard by means of lines and davits.
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3 45 Outside the cell, there was a tiny tharlarion-oil lamp, which swung with the motion of the ship.
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3 72 The gate to the cell was open, swung back.
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3 76 The gate would lock, if swung shut.
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3 382 I supposed this would be siege hammer, or possibly a hand ram, swung by one or more men.
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9 337 One of the monsters backed into the cage, beak snapping with menace, and the tarnkeeper at the gate swung it shut, hooking the latch in place.
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12 376 The mast swung with the rolling of the ship, a surprising swell, perhaps from the helmsman's work.
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21 525 The great door, so often secured and locked, was now, the lock broken, swung back.
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21 632 I slid back the bolt, and swung the door open.
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22 71 The galley's bow swung toward the beach, and Cabot, from the helm, called the stroke, and, water running from the lifted and dipping oar blades, the galley crested the night waters, and sped, like a gull, toward the torches and confusion on the beach.
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24 6 These were lowered in nets, swung out by booms, to the wharf.
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24 204 On the other hand, I had heard a fellow remark, as one of the large cargo nets swung out from the rail again and once more began its descent to the wharf, "That is the last ten, the last of the slaves".
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25 6 I had taken Alcinoë by the hair, bent her over, and thrust her into the same small kennel with Adraste, and had then swung shut the gate, it locking with its closure.
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25 109 You, too, are a slave!" It may be recalled that I had taken Alcinoë by the hair, bent her over, and thrust her into same small kennel with Adraste, and had then swung shut the gate, it locking with its closure.
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26 139 Supplies were taken aboard by means of baskets on ropes, or by means of the nets, swung out on booms, and raised and lowered by pulleys.
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27 43 The plateau gate, the trail of which led most directly to the largest of the villages below, was swung open.
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29 33 I broke through the crowd, I think a moment before the four Pani guardsmen would have been rushed, and the first of the three gates swung open.
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31 71 He turned away, angry, and swung his body, a stride at a time, from my presence.
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35 16 A gate in the bulwarks of the ship swung back, and was fastened open.
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Book 31. (7 results) Conspirators of Gor

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6 78 "Curiosity is not becoming in a slave!" The heavy door was swung shut before us.
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6 86 Then suddenly the doors swung back, and I saw light, and smoke billowed into the street.
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15 117 It swung a little.
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29 58 He then backed through the gate and swung it shut.
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39 5 He had thrust me into the cage, and then swung shut the gate, securing me within.
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42 36 The weights on the yoke swung.
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48 217 The large double door to the chamber, leading out to the hall, was unbarred, and swung open.
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Book 32. (2 results) Smugglers of Gor

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15 69 In passing by the open gate, with its two large panels, swung back on each side from the palisade wall, I could see the pavilion within was largely open, rather like an extensive dais.
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52 25 The door was then swung outward, and I could see four or five men outside, with the guard, who held a lamp, upraised.
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Book 33. (7 results) Rebels of Gor

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2 177 "Up!" I cried, leaping to the mounting ladder, which swung beside the saddle, and the tarn screamed, and its mighty wings smote the air, and it ascended, I clinging to the mounting ladder.
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9 76 But a line of Pani interposed themselves and a dozen others cut men away from the threshold and swung shut the gate.
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29 1 We Will Depart from a Yamada Village I swung open the small, rickety, slatted gate of the hut, awry on its wooden hinges, and peered within.
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49 48 I saw the door swung back.
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50 123 The door swung open, heavily.
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55 134 The door was then swung back.
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60 279 Pertinax then thrust at another, who slipped back, screaming, bleeding, his face half cut away, and then Pertinax swung the tool of war to the other side of the bridge, threatening another below, which fellow stumbled back in the muddy water, removing himself from the ambit of the weapon.
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Book 34. (6 results) Plunder of Gor

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5 78 Shortly thereafter I heard a door, I think a wooden door, swung back, and we were led within what I supposed might be a shed.
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9 686 The cage was swung back, and then heaved from the wharf.
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10 336 He undid the locks, and swung it open.
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15 148 Then a door was swung open and it became cooler, chilling the moisture and sweat in the sack, and I was sure they had emerged into the night air.
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15 326 There was suddenly a great crack, as of the smiting of wind, like the crack of sails, like the snapping of a mighty banner, or whip, and the very basket in which I was held shook, and then, suddenly, the ropes were taut, and the basket, as I screamed in fear, thrown back, helpless in my bonds and st...
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68 250 We prepared to proceed when the door to the exchange house swung open, and two fellows emerged.
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Book 35. (3 results) Quarry of Gor

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8 724 "Hear the drum! Sweat! Be strong! Be patient! If they will have us, they must work for it!" The long, inclined yard, creaking, swung about.
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8 763 Our port side, as it was now swung about, was exposed to the bow of the stranger.
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33 460 The belt, doubled, swung from his hand.
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Book 36. (3 results) Avengers of Gor

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31 31 But no sooner had they freed the leaves of the gate and swung them inward than the brush, dried grass and straw which had been heaped up in the threshold was fiercely burning, creating a wall of fire behind which we could scarcely mark dark, moving figures.
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31 42 Within a few Ihn, the corsairs, met with arrows from the front and swords from the sides, withdrew into the village and swung shut the seared leaves of the gate, closing themselves inside, where the blackened huts had now mostly collapsed and the flames were subsiding.
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42 37 When the second beam was moved to the left, fully within its own bracing, the portal would be cleared, and the two heavy leaves of the gate could be swung inward.
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